Reykjavík Grapevine - 03.06.2011, Blaðsíða 4

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I want congratulate you and Grapevine for
all articles about Medhi case. Really great!
I hope with all my heart that his case will
be solved soon. It is really so sad! I feel me
bad for him.
When my case will be solved completely
(I still am waiting for my work permit
and for the Parliament decisions- also my
daugther had not the same answers than
me) , when everything will be solved and I
hope it will be until beginning June, I will
turn my page open for support other cases
like Medhi case . It will turn a page for
changes in UTL.
By the way my concerts in June
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Thank you so much,
Best Regards,
Jussanam
Dear Jussanam,
Wow. That’s a nice letter to get, especially on
such a sad occasion. Thank you for writing
it, and for enriching our culture with your
music and your joy.
We look forward to the day your case will be
completely solved, as well as Medhi’s case.
We also yearn for the day Medhi and other
asylum seekers won’t have to suffer UTL
and the government’s seemingly random
and painstakingly slow decision-making
processes (unless they’re dating an MP-
spawn, in which case the decision-making
process quits being random and slow).
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Dear Colleagues of The Reykjavik Grape-
vine
I posted to the essential proof of "world-
wide children are brainwashed", and "cor-
respondings of the United Nations and Ja-
pan." But the article was not normally seen.
I would like to apologize for you.
Please visit the repaired website;
http://st-nagaya.jp/doom1.pdf

Yours sincerely,

Nagaya Osamu
Dear Nagaya,
thank you for your nice letter. Worldwide
children are brainwashed indeed. Those
kids! We can’t really understand your article
as its in Japanese, but maybe some of our
readers do and will write back to inform us?
That would be cool! Japanese speaking read-
ers—do your worst!
Dear Rebecca,
i don't know your direct email address, so i
hope this will find you - somehow.
I have read your piece on how rapes are
treated in Iceland. It was very brave of you to
include your personal experience, to tell the
world that you are one of the victims. Dear,
you don't know how lucky you are: you have
been raped only once, by the person you did
not know. If you decided to make charges, it
would be quite easy to prove it was a rape.
I had been raped by my (ex?) husband
many times before i decided to make charg-
es against him. And so the police did the
questioning - first me, than him. He said i
wanted it every single time, that i was pur-
posely making him horny with perfumes
and that i just made it all up cos i want the
custody. And so my case is standing some-
where (i don't remember the name of it,
some gæsla), and the lawyers need to decide
if it will go to the court or not. That was last
October - nothing had happen since. So ev-
erything is fine (on the paper).
You can imagine what could be said
(made up) about my mental health when i
had let the same man to rape me so many
times. The courts are of course far busier
with more important cases than of one cra-
zy foreigner whom no one believes anyway.
Well, needed to say, the police believed
me, and there were some really wonderful
guys who are on my side, they had even
disciplined my (ex) husband so well he did
not raped me again anymore (for who needs
rape when there are so many other forms of
violence).
Maybe you think i am weird to tell you
my story, but you had inspired me: i just
thought that if you decide to put some vic-
tims together, maybe our voice would be
louder (even louder than your family name)
and maybe we could achieve something. Of
course, i don't expect any miracles.
Anyway, thanks for reading
Dearest you,
reading about your plight and struggle is
hard, as was reading Rebecca’s story, as is
reading every single account out there of the
brutal violence and injustice that our society
for some reason seems to condone.
Our hearts go out to you, and to our Rebecca,
and to everyone else that’s been raped, mo-
lested, harrassed or otherwise abused.
This needs to end. Now.
Thanks for your letter, and for sharing your
experience. Hopefully it will open some
eyes.
LOVE
Re: The Reykjavík Grapevine Newsletter
May 2011
hello grapevine!
i am always very happy to receive news from
you, even though i dont live in Iceland at all.
i guess to me Icelandic news are a good ba-
rometer for some sort of possibilities in this
world.
i wanted to be in touch with you for a
while as i am launching now my nomadic la-
bel, dedicated to various musicians around
the world, this week - its named PETITES
PLANETES - and it's here for you: http://
petitesplanetes.cc/
you might remember someone wrote an
article about my work while i was invited for
the last RIFF, this past september - http://
www.grapevine.is/Art/ReadArticle/Its-
My-Responsibility-To-Focus-on-Unknown-
Bands - and while i was in the country, i
did a few films with local musicians - from
Retro Stefson to Pascal Pinon to Sin Fang to
Gyda & Kria Valtysdottir... and then i met up
with Olof Arnalds in NY, and its the movie
and soundpiece which opens my new proj-
ect http://petitesplanetes.cc/volume/olof-ar-
nalds all the other films will be online soon,
in the next 2 months
so, if you have time to have a look, an ear,
and maybe even mention it on your website
at some point, i would be very happy
i hope you enjoy, and good almost sum-
mer to you
Vincent Moon
Dear Vincent Moon (!),
wow, though. We’re all flattered. An artist
we admire subscribes to our newsletter?
That’s pretty cool! We should subscribe to
yours in turn. Do you have a newsletter?
Anyway, yes, we’ll try our best to help
you publicise your new label. It seems like a
great idea, and the videos we’ve seen thus far
have all been excellent. And thank you for
your nice letter, too. Good almost summer
back!
DO YOU HEAR THAT, READERS? VIN-
CENT MOON SUBSCRIBES TO OUR
NEWSLETTER! WHY DON’T YOU?
When king of universe talk to a person, he
familiars to secret of universe; he knows
what thing belongs to him. He gets calm.
He knows everything belong to him in this
world and the other world. He lives without
any stress in this world. He can talk to king
of universe and enjoy from him. King of
universe loves him and he loves him too.
Mohammad Farnush
http://iccpsew.webs.com
Dear Mohammad,
thank you for your letter. It’s really sort of
wonderful.
re: whaling article
As a vegetarian and animal-rights support-
er I applaud Sigursteinn Másson’s advocacy
against whaling. I do not, however, find it
strange that tourists might go directly from
a whale-watching tour to a feed of whale
meat at a local restaurant. Many tourists
who are thrilled to go horse-riding here are
probably very happy to go off to fill up on
animal protein immediately afterwards,
maybe even colt meat, and people who think
it’s wonderful to enjoy a farm-stay holiday or
to take their kids to the petting zoo wouldn t́
think twice about a steak or hamburger for
dinner.
Unlike the animals in a little fabel I wrote
a few years ago, published in an anthology
by the Svenska institutet, animals in our
all-too real world don t́ share telepathy, don’t
know we are out to kill them, don’t know we
are laying waste to our common biosphere
and can’t fight back. There is no hope for
the whales or any other wild creatures. Or
for us.
Kristófer Jónatansson
Dear Kristófer,
thank you for your letter. Although, it’s kind
of depressing, really. Man, you got us all
bummed out. No hope? Gosh, that’s harsh!
Look, it might seem like humans as a collec-
tive or species have never really solved any
of their mutual problems or reverted from
any of the cruel and barbaric behaviour that
somehow defines us. But we have, though!
Really!
Look at it this way: you are doing it right
now! With your support of animal rights and
vegetarianism! You are a beacon of hope,
you are the change you want to see. Perhaps
the rest of us will catch up with you one day,
perhaps not, but the way to win your cause
support means hyping it to oblivion, not
downplaying it. Right?
Thanks again for your letter. And good luck.
And hope and change and stuff.
Hello.More than 30 years, collect newspa-
pers on paper and I have over 6000 differ-
ent titles.Many would be glad if you send
me a newspaper to my collection.I wish you
much health, happiness and professional
success.My mailing address is;Yordan
Kirilov ,Tzar osvoboditel 14 , Ihtiman 2050
, BULGARIA
Dear Yordan,
thank you for your letter. We will surely send
you something for your collection. And we
return your wishes of health, happiness and
professional success.
If any of you readers reading this have any
cool newspapers or magazines to share with
our friend Yordan, then you should send
him some, too. It would make his day, and
what’s better than making someone’s day?
NOTHING, that’s what.