1. 
   Anna-Marie
   January 27th, 2009
   

   Dear Rukus,
   this is such brave work. I’m in awe.In some places there are visible barriers, passport control, barbed wire, searchlights, walls, rivers, oceans. and others, invisible, Post code prisions, worse, as how do you know if you’ve crossed them? “One Darby” seems like a good poem title, as it’s “Whats the beef?”
   have you done any of your own work from these films yet? how can you send them to the government? You and Eerl should be invited up there. good mind to write to Gordon myself.
   annamaria.x

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   Rukus Reply:
   January 30th, 2009 at 2:34 am

   @Anna-Marie, You are right about Post code prisons… thats exactly what they are ’self made prisons’ and they don’t understand that they are creating them… Derby itself is not that big anyway.. so ’sad’ to to hear that some don’t feel they can leave the ‘few’ roads they have grown up around. If only Gordon knew the ‘real’…. lol

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   Natasha Godfrey Reply:
   February 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

   @Rukus,

   Hey Guys,

   Yea-It reminds me of the Bob Marley Lyrics
   ‘Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, non but ourselves can free our minds’…
   Very poignant!

   ..

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2. 
   Ann Wilson
   January 28th, 2009
   

   Hey Rukus

   Great to see your vid, I’m looking forward to part 2. I was wondering if girls are as involved in the gangs ? Did you have any girls along to your sessions ? I know when I was a teenager growing up in Barrow the attacks from other girls were more violent. There didn’t seem to be gun crime problem in Barrow then just stabbings. It seems much worse now all over the country. Do you think the breakdown of families leads to more gang culture ? Keep up the great work.

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   Rukus Reply:
   January 30th, 2009 at 2:41 am

   @Ann Wilson, first and formost I’m loving the picture… did’nt know you played gituar or is it a prop..lol on serious note there are many girls involved in these gangs… and some girls did come to the sessions but weren’t very ‘vocal’ I do need to get some response from them… when I did the school sessions which I will be posting up soon. Breakdown of families are an ‘intergral’ part of this culture to be honest.. not with everyone but it’s that sense of belonging.. we all want to belong to something.. where I’m from depending on age some choose religion others choose gangs…. when it boils down to it.. your joining a family wether it be negative or positive…. Thanks

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   Ann Wilson Reply:
   February 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

   @Rukus, hey Rukus. Thanks I love my guitar , I write songs on it but I’m just a strummer.

   Thanks for your reply. I’m going to read your new posts now, I’ll catch ya soon.

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