Former Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Sudan, where he was leading the UN peace keeping operation (UNMIS – www.unmis.org), Pronk was expelled from the country yesterday on the basis of his blog.
TIME TO GO
Across the country people are preparing to travel to Manchester this Saturday to demonstrate at the Labour Party conference which Tony Blair says will be his last. For most of his party, he can’t step down as party leader soon enough. “He should go immediately. He is destroying the party,” is how one Labour official summed up the situation in the Independent newspaper.
There will also be the Military Families Peace Camp, of families who have had loved ones lost under the Bush/Blair wars, and an alternative conference on Sunday 24th organised by Stop The War entitled “After Blair: Time For Change.”
This will be the biggest demonstration in the North of England for decades, for more details visit STOP THE WAR
Coaches are also being organised from all corners of the country to Manchester for details.
The Sunday Times Book Review
by William Dalrymple
In 1817, James Mill wrote a history of India several hundred pages long in which he confidently dismissed the country’s culture as primitive, superstitious, fanatical and degenerate. The fact that Mill had never visited India, knew no Indians and spoke no Indian language gave him no pause for hesitation over his conclusions…
On Saturday 7 October, the first report of the murder of Anna Politkovskaja, the 48-year-old Russian journalist and champion of Chechen victims, came through from Interfax, the Moscow News Agency.
Times interview with her literary agent Toby Eady
October 2006 – February 2007
ICTE, 25 Washington Street, 4th Floor Brooklyn, New York
Stanley Greene, whose book Open Wound, Chechnya 1994-2003 was published by Trolley in 2003, is part of the forthcoming exhibition at the International Center for Tolerance Education in New York on photographs on Chechnya over the years 1994-2005. Heidi Bradner, Thomas Dworzak (Taliban, Trolley 2003), Mikhail Galustov and James Hill are the other photographers forming the exhibition.
Trolley Gallery will be presenting the following artists this year at Zoo Art Fair : David Rickard, Abigail Fallis, Mario Consiglio, Vedovamazzei, Robert Montgomery, David Fryer, Gordon Mcharg, Nina Ghel, Katy Lynton, EJ Major, Sarah Pickstone, Bobo Ivancich.
Above: David Rickard, “One hundred Thousand‘.