From: Andrew Brown (A.Brown@LUBS.LEEDS.AC.UK)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 13:02:08 EDT
Hello from Leeds. Leeds -- like rest of UK -- very different culture from Spain and NY in ways I don't have time, nor knowledge, to analyse. Anyway, there's no need for police occupation - there is, on the other hand, a world press occupation of some previously anonymous backstreets. Andy -----Original Message----- From: OPE-L on behalf of glevy@PRATT.EDU Sent: Thu 14/07/2005 17:28 To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Cc: Subject: Re: [OPE-L] On recent events in London and elsewhere Don't we have a member (or members) in Leeds? What's it like there? Had the 'terrorists' come from my community in New York City, I can tell you that it would be locked-down and under police occupation. But, maybe that's a difference between the situation 'there' and 'here'? To what extent will this event further empower Blair and his 'Labour' (!) agenda? The popular response in London to the events there are quite different -- it seems to me from afar -- to the reaction of people in Madrid after the events there. Why is that? Shouldn't it be obvious to everyone that the events in London are connected to the war against Iraq? In solidarity, Jerry Belfast, Maine
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