Oppression equals vandalism!
Mike Lane | 12.08.2004 10:44 | Liverpool | London
Liz Gill, the Government Office for Merseyside civil servant who is responsible for reporting back to Whitehall about the Liverpool Kensington £62m New Deal regeneration initiative, is burying her head in the sand. Recently she stated in an email to me quote:
CCTV cameras were discussed at the Board meeting last week - they are
fully operational, they are repaired quickly and they are being given
additional protection, where needed, from vandalism.
Liz Gill
The above email was sent over a week ago and still the cameras are not working and even when they do fix them and apply antivandel piant the kids will still find a way to break them. The Echo article was written last night.
Take a look at the below link to the Liverpool Echo.
The youth who live in my area, which is a joke £62m New Deal for Communities area, are destroying the CCTV cameras.
The Echo states that the community has £300m regeneration funding, but the truth is it is as stated above just £62m, which is now being used to socially cleanse the area of working class RSL tenants so that mass demolition can take place so as to build expensive houses for the upper working classes and the middle classes, in effect the regeneration money is being used to gentrify the area.
Remember though, the Echo is an extremely right wing newspaper, like most of the local newspapers throughout the UK it is owned by the state supporting media group Trinity Publications. Most of the Echo’s mainly middle class, with a few working class turncoat intermingled amongst them, journalists where indoctrinated at the obnoxious right wing John Moor’s University journalism faculty. John Moor owned Littlewoods Pools and shops. The Littlewood's family (about 30 of them, many of them in their early thirties, all have a stake in the family fortune worth about £3b) sold all their business interests off and have now retired to a life of the idle rich.
Whilst one can become disturbed at the behaviour of these vandals one must try to understand why they do what they do. These socially excluded working class kids are indoctrinated at school by a hidden curriculum. This hidden curriculum subtly contains within its centre a neo-liberal ideology, which serves the dictates and agendas of the dominant culture that exists within civic society.
The kids unconsciously react to this subtle indoctrination through vandalism and the people who suffer the most are the working class people who live in the areas were these angry youths live. Just like the vandals, the working class adults were indoctrinated in the same schools that the vandals were. So what can be done? Get shut of the hidden curriculum and introduce a curriculum that contains an empowering emancipation ideology rather than a curriculum and teaching methodology that strives to oppress, indoctrinate, subjugate and domesticate are youth in to becoming compliant automatons.
Link to Echo article:
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=14520881&method=full&siteid=50061
fully operational, they are repaired quickly and they are being given
additional protection, where needed, from vandalism.
Liz Gill
The above email was sent over a week ago and still the cameras are not working and even when they do fix them and apply antivandel piant the kids will still find a way to break them. The Echo article was written last night.
Take a look at the below link to the Liverpool Echo.
The youth who live in my area, which is a joke £62m New Deal for Communities area, are destroying the CCTV cameras.
The Echo states that the community has £300m regeneration funding, but the truth is it is as stated above just £62m, which is now being used to socially cleanse the area of working class RSL tenants so that mass demolition can take place so as to build expensive houses for the upper working classes and the middle classes, in effect the regeneration money is being used to gentrify the area.
Remember though, the Echo is an extremely right wing newspaper, like most of the local newspapers throughout the UK it is owned by the state supporting media group Trinity Publications. Most of the Echo’s mainly middle class, with a few working class turncoat intermingled amongst them, journalists where indoctrinated at the obnoxious right wing John Moor’s University journalism faculty. John Moor owned Littlewoods Pools and shops. The Littlewood's family (about 30 of them, many of them in their early thirties, all have a stake in the family fortune worth about £3b) sold all their business interests off and have now retired to a life of the idle rich.
Whilst one can become disturbed at the behaviour of these vandals one must try to understand why they do what they do. These socially excluded working class kids are indoctrinated at school by a hidden curriculum. This hidden curriculum subtly contains within its centre a neo-liberal ideology, which serves the dictates and agendas of the dominant culture that exists within civic society.
The kids unconsciously react to this subtle indoctrination through vandalism and the people who suffer the most are the working class people who live in the areas were these angry youths live. Just like the vandals, the working class adults were indoctrinated in the same schools that the vandals were. So what can be done? Get shut of the hidden curriculum and introduce a curriculum that contains an empowering emancipation ideology rather than a curriculum and teaching methodology that strives to oppress, indoctrinate, subjugate and domesticate are youth in to becoming compliant automatons.
Link to Echo article:
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=14520881&method=full&siteid=50061
Mike Lane
e-mail:
mickjlane@btinternet.com
Homepage:
http://www.whistleblower.nstemp.com
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Yay! Go scousers!
12.08.2004 15:12
The revolution will not be CCTeleVised!
If any Liverpool (or anywhere else) tykes (or activists) are reading, check this out:
Winston Smith, Enemy of the State
Oh yeah!
16.08.2004 12:24
That's it Mike - a few cliched phrases and absolutely no examples makes it all true doesn't it?
Just what is this hidden curriculum that is making kids vandals?
Funny that the majority of kids are not vandals and do not commit antisocial behaviour or crime. Surely they are receiving the same schooling? Oh, that's right, they are the brainwashed ones!! Ha ha. Ridiculous.
A whole sentence masquerading as an intellectual critique of education and society that actually says sweet FA.
There are many reasons why kids commit vandalism. Partly it is the lack of opportunities, partly the lack of facilities but mainly it is because they make a choice to do it. You can't blame everything on "society". What about the responsibility of the individual? The responsibility of the parents? The right that society has to go about its day without fear of vandalism and antisocial behaviour?
Less reading other people's views Mike, more looking at the world around you!
Jay