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"I'm back in New York to try to retrieve my property from the police, who have now seized it for a total of 15 months. Police Property Offices are uncooperative coat check booths for the damned." In order to retrieve his work tools, Nigel Parry returns to a city in which he was incarcerated for two months to negotiate the NYPD and the District Attorney's red tape. Read of Nigel's adventures in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  monkey times blog A letter to Washington Mutual and their debt collecting agency, IC System Nigel Parry, Thursday, May 15th, 2008 
In an economy where everyone is hurting financially, there are record bankruptcies and foreclosures, and city governments are taking financial institutions to court for predatory lending practices, you don't want to be broke. Following an uninsured hospital stay in early 2007, a lost contract, and a subsequent period of illness that resulting in my defaulting on Washington Mutual credit card payments for 4 months, WAMU set their debt collecting dogs on me. In the following letter, I bit back. It is included here as an item of hope to other people suffering from abusive debt collection practices, a model that you can use to get them off your back, and is followed by a series of helpful links.action & events 46664 Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90 - London, June 27th Announcement, Sunday, May 11th, 2008 
Many of the world's most powerful and instantly recognisable figures and a concert audience of 46,664 will pay their tributes to one of the world's most loved leaders, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and icon of freedom, Nelson 'Madiba' Mandela, as he turns 90 later this year. The concert proceeds will go to the 46664 campaign which raises awareness about the impact of AIDS, especially in Africa, and promotes effective HIV prevention measures throughout the world.multimedia blog E-mails: The Kindness of Strangers Various writers from Craigslist, Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 
When the Roo Dog went missing, one of the places I posted LOST DOG notices was on the Minneapolis-St. Paul Craigslist. After discovering later that the little guy had been hit by a car, I posted the news in the same sections and, later, added a link to the Roo Dog's obituary. While I had received a couple of e-mails here and there from people on Craigslist, suggesting things I could do, I was unprepared for an outpouring of 34 e-mails.multimedia blog Saying goodbye to the Roo Dog Nigel Parry, Monday, May 5th, 2008 
"How do you begin to process loss? One of my closest friends, a freakish-looking small red dog, was run over by a car within minutes after escaping from my backyard on April 25th, 2008. The squirrels will miss him. A lot of people will miss him." In this article, a retrospective of the impact of a freakish, small red dog that lived for three years and eight months with Nigel Parry. multimedia blog Art: "Australian Camouflage" Artist: Nigel Parry, Thursday, April 24th, 2008 
Australian Camouflage is a simple piece that speaks of the birth of Australia as a penal colony by Britain in 1788, 220 years ago. Out of sight and out of mind, the prisoners shipped to Australia represented a "camouflaging" of both Britain's incarceration policy and its "undesirables" at a considerable cost to the indigenous Australian population.selected writing From Ramallah to Rikers Island (Part 1) Nigel Parry, Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 
The following series of journal entries were written while I was incarcerated in Rikers Island Correctional Facility from January to February 2007, and have seen minor edits for clarity and the addition of extensive, explanatory footnotes, but have otherwise been unaltered for publication. A Series Epilogue appears at the end, written at the time of publication. "Writing about Palestine was one thing, writing about Palestine within me and how it has played out through me is something I have increasingly begun to consider in depth. And it's about time." |
      
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