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"they are mostly cambodian boys trafficked to the town of aranya prathet by bus. from there, a thai agent takes them to the town of samut sakhon, on the coast of south bangkok. the boys are taken to sea where they are forced to catch fish for twenty hours a day for many months. the ship captains force the boys to take amphetamines so they can work non stop, but the boys are kept on the ship."

"at the end of the fishing season, many are shot and thrown into the sea. this phenomenon has become increasingly common throughout east asia, south asia, eastern europe and africa. ukrainian boys are trafficked for forced labor on russian fishing boats in the black sea and young boys in ghana are forced to work in the deadly fishing operation on lake volta. beyond the fishing runs, forced labor tactics are used throughout the supply chain, from processing to packaging of sea food for distribution in the west, most prevalently in the $1.5 billion shrimp markets of bangladesh and thailand"

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"the next day another prostitute told me if i wanted to eat i should start work. i told her i would rather starve. after four days another woman from the mahato caste tried to convince me. i still refused. after one week a man came. they made an arrangement for me with the man for sixty thousand rupees. ($1,333). they told him i was still a virgin."

"the man stayed with me for two weeks. i was forced to be with him even though the pain was unbearable. four days after the man left another customer came.i was still bleeding so the man went to the gharwali and shouted "why did you send me to a woman who is still on her period?" the gharwali asked me if i was having my period, but i told her the wounds it was from the wounds in my vagina. the malik called the doctor and he stitched up my wounds. i was given rest for three days, then i was forced to be with customers. my stitches opened, and i started bleeding again. this process happened twelve times."

"i do not know how many years i was in kamathipura. i used to be with twenty-five customers a day. if we felt we would faint from the pain, the gharwali gave us medicine. we had to keep making sex with customers no matter what."

 

hi all,
Ohad Meromi (mfa sculpture faculty) sent me this online petition via his wife who is in tel aviv now, calling to stop the israeli bombing now - and asked me to forward to all of you. here's his email: (i hope the image i am sending comes thru, if not let me know. it's a jpg attachment to show english speakers how to fill it out.)

it does not have an english version, so i attach a jpeg to help english speakers know where to fill out their name....
its a very non-radical call, the only one i could find, asking to stop the fire right a way and start talking. since the israeli goverment has been preparing us for a long operation, and is talking about ground troops, any voice should be heard to stop this.

http://www.atzuma.co.il/petition/shame/1/1000/

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Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza have been massacred and wounded today as Israel has launched a massive bombing campaign against the people of Gaza. The bombing rampage took place as thousands of Palestinian children were in the streets on their way home from school. Palestinian parents were running frantically in the streets looking for their children as U.S.-provided F-16s and Apache helicopters rained down more than 100 bombs and missiles on Gaza.

The U.S.-backed Israeli Occupation Force destroyed every security station in Gaza. AFP reported: "There was no space left in the morgue and bodies were piled up in the emergency room and in the corridors, as many of the wounded screamed in pain."

Because of the U.S.-backed Israeli blockade and strangulation of the people of Gaza for the past 18 months there is little or no medicine to treat the wounded, electricity for hospitals, or food or clean water for much of the population.

An Israeli military spokesperson said, "The operation is 'only just beginning'." The Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement: "The action will continue and will widen as much as is demanded according to the evaluation of the situation by the high command of the army."

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Gunness, a spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), said the agency has been unable to get needed medical supplies into Gaza for more than a year, because of Israel's blockade of border crossings.
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"Long, long lists of drugs and other medical supplies which in the U.S. would be considered standard in any hospital -- they're just not available in Gaza," he said. "When people have been turning up for treatment following this massive attack, they are simply being turned away. If you've got things like shattered limbs, broken arms, broken legs, feet blown off, that kind of thing, you're simply not being seen. If you've got very light injuries and you need bandages or aspirins, you'll get seen."

 

 

 

pour molten hate down my throat as an outer body experience is all that can warrant this new ice age of
xiu xiu known as... thee...

10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!









#four with - Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs


1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

 

three years isn't that long... considering we've been in hawaii for over 100 years.


Bill Clinton officially apologizing to Hawaiians:



A copy of the official apology by the first George Bush to the Japanese Americans interned during the second world war:




Who will officially apologize to Iraq?

 

 

so...
we will be in iraq at least until the end of 2011.
unless they ask us to stay longer.
so...
we will still be at war in iraq for at least 3 years of obama's first
4 year term.

Monday 22 December: 6 dead

Ninewa
Mosul: 2 die in drive-by shooting; 1 dies in mortar attack.

Basra
Basra: policeman dies when bomb attached to his car explodes.

Anbar
Falluja: policeman dies in machine-gun attack.

Babil
Hilla: 1 body found in al-Kifil river.

 

 

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j a m i e

 

http://www.mylinhtrieu.com/blog/2008/12/textmessages-books-by-artists/#comment-1160




i put the post here


fuck.
so i wrote this huge long post, and it wouldn't post. but it posted half of it. but not all of it. so i kept trying, and i could post other things, just this thing i wrote just wouldn't work. maybe i accidentally wrote code in it? fuck? i don't know. so i posted the blog as a comment on this other blog.

so, the comment on the other blog is meant to be a blog on the xiuxiu.org blog.

go read it friends and foes and fucks and foxes and freemasons and firemen and frankfurtians and franky and freddy and fiona and filthy frenchman and foreskins.

 

buy a bird pin for someone for xmas made by my friend. buy buy buy by by by bye bye bye bai bai bai bay bay bay east bay east bay east river east river hudson river hudson river metro north metro north leaves in the fall color of the leaves things fall apart and return again, this time they don't return.

http://www.glaciersofnice.com/littleshop
http://www.glaciersofnice.com/littleshop

moo haha

 

this moment calls to the sky for newness in the hot and melted business park that is xiu xiu... it's thee...




10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!




#three with - Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof

1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

The fire engine sound that runs on hyde st in San Francisco.
We live on hyde st and it drives me crazy.


2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

I scratch inside of my ears with soft q-tips.


3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

square water melons (a photo attached)

















4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

I don't do drugs but I am addicted to skin moisturizers. I go to department stores to test newest moisturizers.


5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

Cirrocumulus and butterflies


6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

I want to have shiny and pretty natural permed hair.


7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

tree because they are everywhere.


8 what do you want to be free of?

pollen allergy.

9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

Oliver Sacks-Musicophilia

10 what deformity do you find attractive?

I like unique shapes in general so the answer is everything?

 

sex slave purchase prices: italy (euros)

ORIGIN COUNTRY
PURCHASE PRICE
PRICE OF SEX ACT
brazil 5000 40
china 5000 40
russia 3500 30
moldova 3500 30
bulgaria 3500 30
poland 3500 30
albania 3000 25
ukraine 3000 25
hungary 3000 25
latvia 3000 25
romania 3000 20
nigeria -- 20

 

azukitheme

 

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Someone wrote asking for this. Sorry it took me so long. I've been hecka busy.

houston

 

 

this nano inversion of anti time marks
the next great epoch of xiu xiu , it is.... theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEE

10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!

MICHAEL GIRA of young god records, angels of light and swans

interview NUMBER TWO









1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

The horrible sobbing of my ex wife

2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

I give in to it.

3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

Meat.

4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

Opium.

5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

Infinity.

6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

The aging process.

7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

Beautiful women.


8 what do you want to be free of?

Thought.


9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

The bible.


10 what deformity do you find attractive?

Breasts.

 

the yellow bellied sap sucker
is a real bird.
i had never seen one
until today.
it was in my yard.
this is very very exciting to me.
it transcends cartoonish
merry melody insult.
it lives.
it destroys your shit talking
you jive fuck.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/youonlylivetwice/sets/72157610889192058/

 

10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!




#one with - Mary pearsoN of high places

1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

"Stand clear of the closing doors please...BEEE BUMMMM"

2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

When I was living in Michigan and feeling especially desperate, I would climb this icy fire escape and sit up there shivering for ages. The Midwest lends itself well to totally emo self destruction.

3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

Red cabbage (always and forever)

4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

Advil PM

5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

Aurora borealis

6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

One side of my hair flips out and one side flips in...I've hated it since my kindergarten school photo.

7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

Gasoline. I think oil should be treasured a bit more.

8 what do you want to be free of?

Sarcasm

9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

The Savage Detectives

10 what deformity do you find attractive?

Two-headed kittens

 

 

canada presents

zeitgeist in the mindset

 

 

zoulikha bouabdellah is the artist
"croisee f crossing" is the video
that, over there, is the still

 

darling, you are needed-

Wednesday December 10 2008

Benefit for: Housing Works: "Housing Works is committed to ending the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness. We believe that all people have the right to a rich and empowering life. Since 1990, we have provided the highest quality services for homeless men, women, and children living with HIV and AIDS in New York City and beyond."


Larkin Grimm: 7:45 - 8:15

Michael Gira: 8:30-9:30

Dominick/Prurient: (video projection) 9:40-9:50

Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu: 10:00-11:00

Name of Venue: Housing Works Bookstore Café
Doors open: 7PM

SHOWTIME- 7:45 PM


126 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10012
ph: 212-334-3324
Tickets are $15

 

here

 

 

If you live in or visit Philadelphia you should go here because it is super great:

Juanita and Juan's is a curated bookstore, gallery and performance space in Philadelphia.

They are located on the corner of 11th and Cherry in what was the Megawords storefront. Their hours are 12-8, Wednesday through Sunday.

They are located at 125 N. 11 St, Philadelphia, PA 19107

http://www.myspace.com/juanitaandjuans

Tonight only:

If you look at the moon the two bright star type things next to it are Jupiter and Venus. It is beautiful and if you dont see it now you won't see it for 30 years.