AntiWar: Pictures that Protest the Madness.
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Suicide is another thing entirely... It's a private act.
What is currently called "Suicide-Bombing" is an act of indiscriminate and brutal multiple murder murder MURDER MURDER... !!
..and people are supposed to be conned by accepting it as part of their ummm .... "belief System"? .... and be reverent about it?
O My.
How much "education" will it take to undo this twisted belief?
It is as true now as it was then. Putin’s war is one of personal power and vanity. Young people are sent to achieve his goals, and people of all ages have their lives destroyed as a result. This must be stopped. The original image is from an unknown source. Photoleap was used to create this image.
From the Feminist Antiwar Resistance manifesto:
Today feminists are one of the few active political forces in Russia.
For a long time, Russian authorities did not perceive us as a dangerous political movement, and therefore we were temporarily less affected by state repression than other political groups.
Currently more than forty-five different feminist organizations are operating throughout the country, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, from Rostov-on-Don to Ulan-Ude and Murmansk.
We call on Russian feminist groups and individual feminists to join the Feminist Anti-War Resistance and unite forces to actively oppose the war and the government that started it.
We also call on feminists all over the world to join our resistance. We are many, and together we can do a lot:
Over the past ten years, the feminist movement has gained enormous media and cultural power. It is time to turn it into political power.
We are the opposition to war, patriarchy, authoritarianism, and militarism. We are the future that will prevail.
Manifesto is here:
jacobinmag.com/2022/02/russian-feminist-antiwar-resistanc...
This stuff was all totally unnecessary, thankfully. The civil disobedience was very civil, and so were the police. It's all a far cry from Seattle in 1999, or even DC in 2000 or 2001.
Iraqi boys giving peace outside the Amiriya bomb shelter memorial in Baghdad.
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Anti War picture.
notice:they have no gun (almost...)
(Me and "Lo Zio" aka uzi 9mm in Turchia 07 near Kurdistan)
This canvas by Banksy was part of Brian Haw's anti-war protest in Parliament Square. The placards once stretched the entire length of the square, but were removed in a police swoop on 23rd May 2006. He had kept a continuous vigil since June 2001.
Jan 07 - The protest has been reproduced in an installation by Mark Wallinger at Tate Britain, entitled "State Britain". Part of the Tate is within the 1km exclusion zone, and this has been demarcated by a line on the gallery's floor.
Another of the placards here
People demonstrate in Kyoto, against changes in legislation allowing troops to deploy abroad. They do it of course in style, some dressed in mascot costumes. Japan’s national mascot obsession is hard to describe. Municipalities, museums, schools, prisons and even the army, navy and air-force (!) have joined the yuru-kyara craze (from the words yurui (loose or relaxed) and kyara (character)). Kumamon (the rosy-cheeked black bear) the man wears here, represents Kumamoto prefecture in southern Japan. It first appeared in 2010 to promote the Kyushu Shinkansen and according to the Bank of Japan Kumamon’s economic effect on the prefecture amounted to 124.4 billion yen over the past two years.
I have no idea what the woman is wearing. There are now so many mascots that people are losing track of which is which and what it was created to represent in the first place, with the Japanese government starting with mascot population control! The lives of those that have gained international recognition should be spared though!
Today there is an anti-war demo going on. On my way home from work I spotted this. I couldnt help but laugh and snap my pic of this very extravogant piece of 'graffitti'
"Bring Home The Troops" demo, Fayetteville, AR, 3.11.06. Estimated crowd: 500. (Photo: Ted Swedenburg)
United States, the light on the hill, example to the world, Geneva Conventions signator, and more: torturer of enemies, sponsor of dictators, launcher of preemptive wars. somewhere in the Pentagon, some poor flunky with a conscience is frantically hitting ctrl-Z and drinking himself to sleep. somewhere in Arlington, skeletons shed tears.
I thought about joining the protest. I was deterred - on the other corners there was more anti-Israel sentiment, naked and knee-jerk. I support Israel just as I support America, and believe we both have the right to peace within our borders. But I cannot support the hubris and double-standards we have excersized in this so-called War on Terror. The Israeli invasion is causing suffering for innocent Lebanese, and bolstering Hizbollah on the Arab street. It strengthens Hamas, Syria, and Iran, much as our invasion in Iraq has distracted us from the rebuilding of Afghanistan and emboldened tyrants and fundamentalists everywhere.
In the years since 2001.9.11, we have helped realize bin Laden's dream of unmasking the Western ideal: inflame our emotions and we forget our commitments - to Democracy, and worse, to peaceful diplomacy, secular governance, and the universality of Human Rights.
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