friends4Lisa

Contents  Intro   Overview   Timeline   Intro    "These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates."      - Zech. 8:16 (JPS) "The idea according to which life in a democracy is fundamentally peaceful, policed, and violence-free (...) does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. [....] [T]hey have integrated forms of brutality into their culture, forms borne by a range of private institutions acting on top of the state[.]"     - Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics" This timeline was begun in 2019, and published with an online petition concerning the death of my partner, publicly identified as Lisa (not her real name, but a name by which she was known), on Nov 14, 2017, of causes in dispute, while a PhD student at the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. In June 2022, the timeline was significantly expanded and annota...