Søren C's blog

Det er fredag eftermiddag/aften, og jeg sider og er forkølet. Gider bare ikke være syg! Der er meget (for meget og for svært?) at læse/regne til skolen og jeg …. NEJ. Dette skal ikke være et blog-indlæg med “øv bøv, jeg har det skidt”.

Det skal dog være et indlæg med lidt forskellige nyheder, som man måske ikke lige støder på hvis man har “mainstream” danske medier som sine primære/eneste nyhedskilder.

• For noget tid siden var der en nati-nazistisk demonstration i Hillerød. Her kan du læse om politiets behandling af deltagerne i demonstrationen:
  http://www.indymedia.dk/newswire.php?story_id=361Specielt syntes jeg denne komentar er så langt ude at det ikke er til at vide om man skal grine eller græde…

  Jo det virkede som om de bare anholdt alle i sort tøj….
  Men en af mine venner er sådan hippie/lidt plipper agtig, bestemt ikke i sort tøj, blev anholdt for at sidde på en taske og snave med en pige…. fuldstændig fucked…. Og det var inden at demoen blev splittet op….

• http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2006/02/24/172946.htm Den nyhed er vist kommet ud til de fleste, men hvis man vil se hvilken tekst det drejer sig om, som altså anses for at være i modstrid med terror lovgivningen, så kan man f.eks. kigge her:
  http://www.ungdomsfront.dk/news.asp?mode=article&cid=195

Det var vist alt jeg kunne finde frem lige nu.

My studies started again last week. Woooh, there is a lot of reading to do. Not that it comes as a surprise. As such the two courses I have for the next block seem interesting (having only interesting courses seem like one of the the advantages of being able to choose what courses to follow), but hard. Lot of reading, lots of new consepts. I’m already a bit behind on some of the reading, but hopefully I will catch up tomorrow (yeah right – like that’s going to happen).

I went to the Dansih Social Forum over the weekend. Friday I went to hear Tina Garnanez, a US vetran from Iraq, talk about her experiences in Iraq and comming home from Iraq. She told some really horrible stories from the war down there. It was a bit strange thinking that someone at my age could have been through the things she talked about. And many of the soldiers (not to talk about the people of Iraq) are even younger.

She was a medic in the army so she had some really horrifying experiences to talk about – mostly involving US-soldiers. I won’t try to repeat any of them here – I would not be able to present them in any way that would do them justice, but hearing her tell about it made a very big impression on me.
She is now done with the army, but has not come out of Iraq without loss. She has not had any physical wounds or hurts while in Iraq – she has all her arms, legs etc. But she told that she does now suffer from ptsd. So she has nightmares and trouble consentrating, among other things.
Besides the personal stories about the war and what it has done to her, she also told us about the anti-war movement in the US (or the pro-peace movement, as she liked to call it), the army recruitment methods and the media coverage. Some of the things she talked about did not come as a surprise to me, but some of it really did surprise me.
It would seem that quite a lot of the US veterans from Iraq are against the war and occupation when they come home, but it is not really a message that the main-stream media in the US likes to cower. Nothing new there, but still interesting to hear from someone a bit more envolved with these things.

Unfortunatly for me I overslept, so I missed some of the other things I would have liked to have seen at the forum saturday.

My blog-entry-writing-client keeps crashing, so I will keep it short, and hope I get to write just a few lines. I’m down with a cold, just passing time, untill classes start at the 6. of February.

I finished my project, it can be seen over here: http://www.math.ku.dk/~m01sbc/opgave/

If I feel better by friday, I also hope to go see the Danmarks Sociale Forum.