Word The Cat

Is it sunny where you are? Here it rains charmingly. Carnival approaches.

Jah Cure’s been out of prison for a couple of weeks now. Here’s his vocal on the Jamdown riddim:

Jah Cure – Sticky (Jamdown) 320k 4.3mb

Gyptian wraps his mouth around ballistic extra syallables in this vocal on the Weed Seed riddim.

Gyptian – Guns and Guns (Weed Seed) 160k 4.4mb

Elsewhere, Alaine soars over the Guardian Angel riddim.

Alaine – Rise in Love (Guardian Angel) 256k 5.2mb

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Up the road from Heathrow airport the Camp for Climate Action has just convened. Workshops and discussion are planned for the week culminating in a day of action on Sunday. Yesterday the Evening Standard newsboards around London lead with the headline – ‘Militants plot to disrupt Heathrow’. The police have been using anti-terrorist legislation to stop, search and detain protesters without charge – words like ‘militants’ and ‘plot’ allow police tactics based around a discourse of terrorism to be acceptable. In the protest leading up to the invasion of Iraq police claimed similar powers to halt 2 coach-loads of people travelling to a legal protest outside RAF Fairford, a move later ruled unlawful. These tactics are, of course, unsuprising – as one of London’s main arteries for transnational capital, one can see the fear when Heathrow takes a knock.

How the day of action proceeds remains to be seen – specific plans will be drawn up in discussion over the course of the week – it would be possible to ground planes in a number of ways. Any sort of distruption has been pre-emptively deemed ‘un-acceptable‘ by the government. Beyond the creeping suspicion that ‘lawful protest’ is an oxymoron, one should also be aware that budget air travel is expanding and that air travel, while not the biggest contributor to climate change, effects people’s lives in ways more drastic than holiday distruption.