If you are in Amsterdam please come, and tell friends that you think will be interested. The video can been viewed on http://www.visualcorrespondents.com from the 15.04.08. Their will also be a nice small interview with me. check it out!

For those of you who read dutch, the video and texts: volkskrant.nl/oog

Visual Foreign Correspondents hereby invites you to come to the launch of the sixth issue during the Globalised Crystal Ball, the international debating program in de Balie Amsterdam On the 15th April 2008

In the old town of Weimar, Ronen Eidelman built an armoured jeep, commonly used by the Israeli border police (magav). A closer look betrays that it is a two-dimensional model, a fake, similar to the historic buildings of Weimar, which through historical manipulations try to recreate the town as the romantic Disneyland of the East, devoid of its questionable World War II past. Like the touristy postcard perfection of Weimar, the ubiquity of security and control mechanisms works as a façade. Both function as cover-ups for what is really underneath….

Ronen is an artist, writer and activist. He has participated in many self-organized exhibitions and festivals, founded and edited over five cultural, art and political journals/magazines and produced many events linking art, culture and grassroots politics. For the past ten years Ronen has been active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist direct action groups.

The Globalised Crystal Ball #6
The Military-Strategic Future Predicted

In 2004 the United Nations published A more secure world: Our shared responsibility, which advised the international community how to tackle common threats. The report suggests that it is time for a new security consensus, one in which “we all share responsibility for each other’s security. And the test of that consensus will be action”.

Speakers are:
Thomas P.M. Barnett is senior Managing Director at Enterra Solutions.
Andrew Small works for the German Marshall Fund in Brussels since 2006 as the co-ordinator of work on China and transatlantic relations.
Awil Mohamoud is a political scientist and the founding director of SAHAN research & advice bureau.

http://www.debalie.nl/

Location
De Balie
Klein Gartmanplantsoen 10
Amsterdam
Tuesday the 15th of April at 20.00