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At the Table: Musings from inside the G20 Summit

By Morgan Gabereau

| June 27, 2010

As the storm gathers in the Gulf of Mexico and the washing machine effect begins to swell, we are still at least 30 to 45 days from a relief well being functional to cover the gaping hole left by the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Paradoxically, austere confidence appears to be on the political leaders' menus this Saturday night after the callous optics of lakeside diplomacy.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was the only leader of the G8 courageous enough to actually go for a Deerhurst dunk in the lake, while maternal health took a beating in the name of counter terrorism budgetary profligacy. In Toronto, black clad would-be fence climbers are mingling with torched police cars on Bay Street and the tourism industry shakes it's head in dismay.

The official proclamations of the next 24 hours will be the Fool's 
Gold of Billion-Dollar Summits, and the credibility of informality will 
masquerade on the aging faces of the B20 pensioners
  

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Toronto is burning! Or is it?

By Judy Rebick

| June 27, 2010

For people sitting at home and watching TV news last night, Toronto was burning. The same police car on Queen St W. burned and blew up over and over again. The same image of a young man very violently smashing Starbucks windows appeared over and over again. Windows smashed all along Yonge St. None of us had ever seen Toronto like this. It was shocking.
Lucas Oleniuk, Toronto Star

Most of the 400 protesters arrested last night and others who may have avoided arrest didn't see that violence. From their perspective, they were facing a violent police state. These demonstrations, militant but overwhelming peaceful, were resisting the right of the police to hold them to Queen Street. They think the people have a right to protest in a place where political leaders can hear them. They had nothing to do with torching police cars or trashing windows.

TVO host Steve Paiken was down at the Novotel last night with peaceful protesters. He tweeted his experiences, "Shame on those that ordered peaceful protesters attacked and arrested. that is not consistent with democracy in toronto, G20 or no G20."

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Fourteen hours after the People First March started, police are still making arrests. The following are the tweets gathered by rabble.ca from our journalists, other journalists there, along with activists and other observers.

Stay up-to-date by following us on Twitter here.
Note: the Tweets run backwards from 2:12 am EST.

"10-4, they are going to be arrested" heard over video, as riot cops renege on agreement to let jail solidarity protesters go. #g20 12 minutes ago via web
riot police are refusing to let jail solidarity activists leave - after giving them permission to go

. Watch live: http://bit.ly/aNKBt0 13 minutes ago via web
Watch now: @TOmediacoop is broadcasting, from iPhone, live on Ustream - from jail solidarity http://ustre.am/jCUT #G20 28 minutes ago via web
g20mobilize

over 100 riot cops,on horses are boxing all exits/entrances to jail solidarity action, they can't keep us OUT!still going strong #g20report 33 minutes ago via webRetweeted by rabbleca and 4 others
Thanks tweeps. A producer from TVO got in touch, will make the connection. 32 minutes ago via web

The People First March and the Toronto riot in 600 Tweets | rabble.ca

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__________AnD What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

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What I most detested was Hegelianism and dialectics.

And : The question of speed is important and also very complex. It doesn't mean the first in the race: you can be late through speed. Speed is to be caught in a becoming_ which is not a development or an evolution. One must be like a taxi, queue(ligne d'attente), line of flight, traffic jam, bottleneck, green and red lights, slightly paranoid,brushes with the police. To be an abstract and broken line, a zigzag which glides 'between'. The grass and speed. What you misnamed style just now_ charm or style_ is speed.

And :One only discovers worlds through a long, broken flight.

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As for the method of deconstruction of texts I see clearly what it is, I admire it a lot, but it has nothing to do with my own method. I do not present myself as a commentator on texts.

For me, a text is merely a small cog in an extra-textual practice. It is not a question of commenting on the text by a method of deconstruction, or by a method of textual practice, or by other methods; it is a question of what use it has in an extra-textual practice that prolongs the text ..

Professor D Challanger speaking

in Clinical Critical terms as the hat was in the wind

How else?

How else can one write of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly? It is precisely here that we imagine having something to say. We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms the one to the other.
Only in this manner are we resolved to write. To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow -or rather, to make it impossible. Perhaps writing was a relation to silence altogether more threatening that that, which is supposed to entertain with death.
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Difference and Repetition.

Radio DelEuZe

27.6.10

At the Table: Musings from inside the G20 Summit

Toronto is burning! Or is it?

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