I just got back from 2 weeks holiday to find that the West Memphis Three are free!Great news, tinged with sadness at the time they spent inside and that technically they are still marked as guilty. The case was a reminder that youth culture can still provoke horrific backlashes. The metal and alternative music communities mobilised in defence of the Three but how much that was crucial in freeing them I'm not sure.
August 22, 2011
Keith Kahn-Harris
Semi-ambivalent Jew, ambivalent Metaller. Occassionally ambivalent sociologist, researcher and educator. Non-ambivalent husband and father
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