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Gurdwara Shahid Ganj, Lahore – a historical perspective
Gurdwara Shaheed Ganj Singh Singhania at Lahore marks the site where, according to historians, over 250,000 men and women lost their lives in the 18th Century. This was the period from 1716, when Banda Singh Bahadur was executed at Delhi in June that year, to 1753, the year when Muin-ul-Mulk, known as Mir Mannu, died.
A historian writes that “Large numbers of them (i.e. Sikhs) were shot down, while many others were brought in chains to Lahore where they were executed at a place near the Nakhas outside the Delhi gate, which afterwards came to be called Shahid Ganj” (Ganesh Das, 198; Tahqiqat-e-Chisthi, 101). When in 1737 Zakariya Khan martyred the revered Bhai Mani Singh, the Sikh scholar and Granthi (priest) at Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, people of all religions were horrified. Detachments of the “gashti fauj” brought hundreds of men and women (with children) daily in chains to Lahore for public executions at the Nakhas (now Shahid Ganj), or, in case of women for imprisonment and hard labour leading to death. This site witnessed the martyrdoms of popular figures like Bhai Taru Singh who served all without discrimination.
Historical background
This was a decisive phase in the people’s war against tyrannical rule in Panjab, most of the area north of Delhi with Lahore as the capital. The cruelty inflicted on the ordinary people had no bounds. The power of the rulers was absolute; more so due to the power struggle between Delhi and the invasions from north-west led by Nadir Shah (January to May 1739) and later by Ahmad Shah Durani (also known as Abdali). Delhi emperors Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah (1719 – 1748) and later Alamgir II were weak while the same Turani family, loyal neither to Delhi nor to the invaders, ruled Panjab: Abdus Samad Khan (1713 – 26) who led the capture of Banda Singh Bahadur, his son Zakariya Khan (1726- 45), and grandson Yahia Khan (1745-47), and Mir Mannu (1748-53) son of Delhi Wazir Qamr-ud-din Khan (who was brother-in-law of Zakariya Khan).
In March 1752 when Mir Mannu was left on his own, he surrendered Lahore to Ahmad Shah Abdali. Later recovery of Panjab by the Moghuls was only symbolic. Complete chaos with no civil government continued with no respite for the people. It was during this period that the “rakhi system” or protectorates under which people paid money to mercenary bands became common. In this power vacuum, with people’s support, Khalsa “jathas” (groups), which formed into larger misls, gained in strength. Later, with the total defeat of the invaders by 1767, the foundation of a popular regime, the Khalsa Raj in which all were equal partners, was laid.
Those like Mir Mannu, used their absolute power to wreak havoc on the ordinary people. Despite hundreds brought in chains, tortured and slaughtered at Lahore daily, the spirit and resolve of the people seeking freedom from tyrannical rule grew stronger each day. These tortures and killings took place in public. Such was the cruelty inflicted by Mannu that his name passed into folklore, “Mannu is our sickle and we are his grass blades; as he cuts us, we grow many times more”.
Historians are unanimous in confirming that in terms of human endurance, this was one of the most remarkable periods in the history of humankind when men, women, young and old refused to give up their struggle for freedom despite extreme forms of torture in captivity. One heroic example of resistence quoted by historians is that of a fifteen years old school boy, Haqiqat Rai’s in 1743, whose martyrdom became part of Panjab’s folklore.
There are hardly any finer examples of the courage and determination shown, especially by women: the housewives, mothers and sisters of the freedom fighters.
Role played by women freedom fighters
Even a casual study of the history of Panjab during this critical period shows that the real sufferers behind the scenes were women. Backing the Khalsa warriors were the Sikh women who walked in the footsteps of Mai Bhag Kaur (“Mai Bhago”), the warrior companion of Guru Gobind Singh. History recalls that each woman in prison was given a maund and a quarter (about 50 kilos) of grain to grind in a day and they were beaten mercilessly when they slowed down through exhaustion. “Exhausted from thirst and hunger they plied their stonemills and sang their Guru’s hymns. Their children, hungry and thirsty, wailed writhed on the ground. The helpless prisoners could do nothing but to solace them with their affection. Wearied from crying the children would at last go to sleep…Children were sometimes hacked to pieces in front of their mothers. Bits of flesh hung on strings were thrown around their necks like garlands…Wherever the Sikhs pray, the fortutude and heroism of those brave women is recalled with reverence.”
It is in this historical context that the word “Singhania” became inseparably attached to “Singh” as part of the Ardaas: “Those Sikh men and women who courted martyrdom….underwent unspeakable suffering but never wavered in their faith…remember them O’Khalsa Ji….” Gurdwara Shahid Ganj Singhania (opposite Shahid Ganj Bhai Taru Singh) is in remembrance of the Khalsa women and children martyrs.
Sikhs survived the most trying period in history because they had the added human-power of their determined mothers, sisters and wives, who, in addition to their domestic roles, became equally good at the plough and the sword (for defence) in the absence of their men freedom fighters in the battlefield. Sikh, Hindu and even Muslim women were also in danger for another reason. Heads of women – even Muslim women - with long hair were cut without discrimination by bounty hunters and presented as heads of “young Sikhs” to seek rewards! Another example showing that all suffer regardless of religion under evil and tyrannical regimes.
Guru Nanak’s ideology
Guru Nanak, “the Guru of the Hindus and the Pir of the Muslims” declared the beginning of popular resistance against despotic cruelty when he wrote that “the rulers are like tigers and the collectors of taxes are like dogs oppressing the public day and night.” Guru Nanak Sahib preached and wrote in the popular language of the people, touring the country extensively. He became the most popular reformer of his time.
Between the huge millstones of tyrannical rulers, bribe taking judges and greedy tax collectors on the one hand, and the corrupt clergy on the other, ordinary men and women of all religions, creeds and castes were being crushed. Kings had forgotten their duty to protect the people; and those in the garb of religion, instead of showing the true path to the people and the rulers, were themselves aiding the oppressive regimes. In fact, as Bhai Gurdas wrote, the hedge meant to protect the field was itself destroying the field.
It is not surprising that popular Muslim and Hindu leaders and saints sided with the “Guru Ghar”, the House of Guru Nanak. Teachings of Muslim and Hindu saints received the seal of the Guru’s approval as the “Revealed Word” and were included in the Sikh Scriptures, Guru Granth Sahib.
Guru Nanak Sahib’s universal movement of true religion and his call to the people to “fear none, frighten none” culminated in the Khalsa Panth by 1699, as a complete spiritual and temporal system. The Khalsa interpreted and defended the universal truths and human values taught in Guru Granth Sahib by sages of many religions – in a sense the parliament of faiths. The common values which the Khalsa promoted and defended were, respect for diversity and for all paths leading to the One Creator Being, and equality of all before the One Creator (e.g. Aadm ki jaat sabhe ekay pehchaanbo – Recognize all human race as one - Guru Gobind Singh).
Flowing from these ideals was the concept of community service (seva) and sharing. “Guru ka Langar” or community kitchen where all are served without discrimination became a popular Khalsa institution - as powerful as the sword to resist and overcome the social and political injustice (therefore, “Degh Teg Fateh”). History records that the local poor Muslims mourned the arrest, torture and death of Bhai Taru Singh, a hard working saintly farmer, who ran a daily “Langar” for all.
Henceforth, the Khalsa, backed by popular support, spearheaded the struggle to establish a rule of the people, by the people, in which all were equal partners. Guru Nanak’s mission was clarified as the establishment of, “a regime in which no one inflicted pain on another as the Will of the Benevolent Lord.” (Guru Arjan Dev Ji).
Khalsa mission was supported by the people of Panjab
Shahid Ganj is a monument to the struggle of all ordinary people against a tyrannical regime and foreign invaders whose only aim was to loot and plunder. The word “Turak” for “Turk” appears to have been used in the sense of the “foreign invaders” from the north in Sikh writings rather than in relation to any religion. Some biased historians misleadingly interpret the popular uprising as some sort of religious conflict between the Hindus (led by the Khalsa) and the Muslims. Yet, the historical evidence, when taken together with the unique Khalsa ideology of Guru Nanak/Gobind Singh mission, is very different indeed.
All were suffering from administrative, religious, social and economic injustices. The rulers, the large landowners (jagirdars) and the clergy, were in collusion with each other. They were all exploiting religion and abusing own power and position for selfish ends. The cruelty inflicted by caste divisions and the superstitious practices used as tools for exploitation by the priestly class, was no less than that inflicted by the sword of the tyrannical rulers and merciless invaders. Guru Nanak’s first rebellion was against the cruelty of the caste system when he refused to wear the sacred thread, which would have signified his high caste. He sided with the “lowliest of the low”.
It needs to be mentioned that some of the greatest injustices were inflicted by the administrators at the time. For example, Chandu Diwan (Minister in Lahore court) may have played a role in the shahidi of Guru Arjan Dev Ji; the Cchota Ghalughara, the lesser in terms of loss of life but more damaging, of the two 18th Century pogroms against the Sikhs, was led by Lakhpat Rai, Diwan of Lahore. The list of treacherous “informers” like Gangu (leading to the death of the young Sahibzadas (Princes) of Guru Gobind Singh, and Mahant Aakldaas of Jandialla, who was behind Bhai Taru Singh’s shahidi, is a long one.
On the other hand the list of Islamic supporters of Guru Nanak’s universal teachings and mission, from Guru Sahib’s childhood to the demise of Guru Gobind Singh, runs parallel with Sikh history. Muslim warriors served with the Khalsa in many battles from Guru Gobind Singh to Maharaja Ranjit Singh – the latter’s artillery was almost entirely in the hands of Muslim generals. Hazrat Mia Mir spoke out against the torture inflicted on the Fifth Guru, Arjan Dev Ji which caused his shahidi (30 May, 1606); Pir Budhu Shah came to Guru Gobind Singh’s aid with his 700 disciples at a most critical time when he was under attack from the Hindu hill rajas at Bhangani (near Paonta Sahib) and his two sons were killed in the battle. Gani Khan and Nabi Khan brothers of Macchiwara gave shelter to Guru Gobind Singh when was being pursued by the Emperor’s army. Nawab Maler Kotla spoke out against the killing of the two Sahibzadas of Guru Gobind Singh by the Nawab of Sahind. Baba Banda Singh Bahadur had 5,000 Muslim soldiers in his army.
Except for some historians with own biases, in no sense can the struggle for freedom of the people in north-western part of the Indian subcontinent be interpreted in terms of some sort of religious conflict. Both, the Muslims and the Hindis had accepted Guru Nanak as a reformer and a revolutionary, and their Pir and Guru respectively. Regardless of religion, all suffered from the excesses of a cruel regime. The sword arm which inflicted cruelty may have been Moghul, Durani, Afghani or Hindu (e.g. hill rajas and divans like Lakhpat Rai, supported by Brahmanical opposition to the liberating ideology of Guru Nanak). People were being crushed between inept Delhi rule and the invaders who descended periodically from the north-west. Guru Nanak Sahib predicted in 1505 AD , “They (the Mughals) shall come in (Vikrami) seventy-eight and depart in ninety seven, when another disciple of the brave Man (Khalsa) shall arise” (“Aavn aatthatre jaan staanvay, hor bhi utthsi mard ka chella” . Babar destroyed the Pathaans in 1578 Vikrami (1521 AD) and Nadir destroyed the Mughals in 1797 Vikrami (1739 AD).
To the people, Banda Singh Bahadur had shown that self government by the people was possible. According to one historian “Banda was a great reformer, He broke down the barriers of caste, creed and religion. He appointed sweepers and cobblers as big officers before whom high caste Hindus, Brahmins and Kshatriyas stood with folded hands awaiting their orders. He believed in socialism. He distributed all his riches among his followers. He abolished the zamindari system and established peasant-proprietorship making actual tillers of the soil its masters.”
Wrote Hari Ram Gupta “Thus, the sturdy, plodding race of hereditary cultivators, whose diligence had built up the agricultural system of the Panjab, became as skilful in the use of the sword as they were in the use of the plough…..Misery, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, privation, distress, are the battlefields which have their heroes, obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the renowned heroes.”
And so, “the hammering of the oppressive regime did not reduce them to pulp. It hardened them to tempered steel”. They resisted local oppression and they relieved the marauders from the north of their loot each time the latter returned with their spoils from Indian towns and countryside. They freed women and children from these raiders who intended to sell them as slaves.
Gurdwara Shahid Ganj Singh Singhania, Lahore, is a monument to the unique feats of courage and the great sacrifices made by ordinary people for human dignity and freedom.
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My thoughts on the new Muslim ban is that it's still very obvious racist propaganda and that it's not keeping Americans safe...if Trump really cared about that, he would look into the gun laws (most notably the one that the GOP just recently signed to allow easier access to guns for people who are mentally ill). Trump doesn't care about democracy or the tenants our very nation was founded on. He's destroying our country with each new day.
It's time to look into his Russian contacts and collusion, his conflict of business interests, his tax forms..all of these things and hold the man accountable. After all, he clearly thinks he can get away with literally destroying our nation and not being held accountable for any of his actions.
This is alternative reality Hell..where a president commits treason and is elected by extremely faulty means and yet we all have to live through him persecuting 90% of those who live within his borders.
I can't go too long without throwing in some politics I suppose. The morning after we landed in NYC, I was calling my senators again and asking them to do everything they could to vote against Trumpcare. In the meantime, I passed a couple of people talking on the street about Trump's collusion with Putin and the Trump Russia scandal, which ended in an emphatic fists raised in the air exclamation from all three of us that if we did not have a democratic election, we as Americans must demand a democratic election. (And I sure don't want Pence after this election was stolen!) And then, not too much farther along I was on the Manhattan Bridge and spotted this declaration.
I think what I am saying here is that I'm always a really fun person to go on a vacation with.
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James Rosenquist's "F-111" at MoMA
The painting is eighty-six feet (about 26 meters) long and consists of twenty-three panels. The painting started in 1964 was inspired by billboards and mural-sized paintings like Monet's "Water Lilies".
The artist chose the F-111 bomber "flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising"
Ok...ok...mi ero ripromesso di allentare un po la presa e di pensare un po a cose più frivole, ma come si fa?
Come si fa a staccare?
Ditemi voi come fate e prenderò volentieri lezioni private a pagamento!
I fatti:
Pietro Maso, pluriomicida di tutta la sua famiglia per motivi di Eredità, seppur in semilibertà, esce dal carcere.
Calogero Mannino, inquisito con una montagna di dichiarazioni e testimonianze su presunte e collusioni di mafia e politica, ottiene l'assoluzione dalla Corte d'appello, dall'accusa di concorso in associazione mafiosa.
Ferdinando Carretta, 19 anni fa trucidò la sua famiglia eredita la casa e i beni della famiglia stessa.
Continuo?
No?
e invece continuo:
Durante la conferenza stampa tenuta oggi a Roma Dal Presidente del Consiglio e dalla ministro Gelmini sul Decreto legge di Contro-riforma della scuola pubblica, Berlusconi ha affermato che non tolererà più le "occupazioni di scuole e atenei, e se necessario ricorrerà all'uso della forza pubblica."
E' notte fonda zomberos, prepariamoci a un autunno al buio, perchè se come diceva Goethe: "...Noi siamo i nostri demoni", abbiamo urgentemente bisogno di un esorcista!
Orrende ombre si allungano sull'asfalto italico, forse non si rendono conto che certe fasi di autoritarismo sono ormai superate, e se ancora abbiamo la forza e soprattutto la coscienza viva per farlo, dissentiamo con tutta la nostra voce contro questo modo da regime centro-americano di stampo anni '70.
Cercano lo scontro per giustificare i loro comportamenti.
Dissentire è uno dei principi della nostra vita sociale, e non c'è mai stato un Governo che non abbia comunque cercato il dialogo con le voci contrarie, prima di agire così pesantemente!
"Il potere", diceva qualcuno, "non sta nel consiglio comunale di Palermo, nè tantomeno nel Parlamento della Repubblica.
Il POTERE è sempre altrove!
Lo Stato per me è la Costitusione, e la Costituzione non esiste più." (L. Sciascia)
Profetico vero?
notte zomberos, e che non sia lunghissima e soprattutto il meno drammatica possibile..!
This may appear to be the kind of shot that any tourist would take. It was however the scene of unspeakable cruelty and one of the places where slaves were incarcerated prior to transportation around the world. Over a period of 300 years tens of millions of Africans passed through locations such as this. Africans in collusion with Europeans plied the population with rum and when their victims were incapacitated they were taken as families to the underground dungeons here. In the same way that we should not forget 9/11 we should not forget those who suffered in those times. Nor should we forget the millions who live in slavery today - child workers held in sweat shops, women trapped into the sex industry and those controlled by people-traffickers.
Oggi, 7 settembre, due giovani, Carlo Acutis e Pier Giorgio Frassati sono proclamati Santi.
Avevo conosciuto la vita di Pier Giorgio Frassati per caso, qualche anno fa. Avevo visto la sua biografia in un vecchio libro ad un mercatino dell'antiquariato. L'avevo letta e mi aveva subito colpito la sua figura : per la sua ardente carità ed anche il suo amore per la natura e la montagna, palestra di vita e specchio della Bellezza di Dio .
'Vivere, non vivacchiare' era uno dei suoi motti.
Quello che non sapevo era che fosse anche attivo nella vita politica e profondamente antifascista.
Come il padre Alfredo, proprietario e direttore del quotidiano La Stampa di Torino, che si dimise da ambasciatore in Germania, in dissenso con le politiche fasciste di quel periodo, così anche Piergiorgio manifesto' la sua opposizione ai nascenti gruppi fascisti e ai gruppi cattolici che frequentava, in collusione con essi.
Il suo impegno non era solo spirituale, di profonda preghiera e carità. Non aveva una posizione neutra nella vita quotidiana, ma anche un grande coinvolgimento, passione politica e antifascista. Contro quei 'guerrafondai', come li definiva il padre.
Non posso non pensare alla posizione di Papa Leone XIV, che ha stretto le mani piene di sangue di Herzog.
Certo Cristo parlava a tutti, era venuto in particolare per salvare i peccatori... Ma aveva profondamente condannato il male.
Era proprio necessario farsi fotografare con quelle strette di mano?
E il silenzio della madre cristiana Giorgia tra gli applausi di certi gruppi Cattolici , è cristiano?
La foto non è mia
Today Carlo Autis e Pier Giorgio Frassati are proclaimed Saints
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This is an iPad painting, made with iColorama and Procreate. It was made for Artistic Anarchy: Mobile Collusion, an AppWhisperer group on Facebook. My partner in this collusion is my friend in Rio de Janeiro, Violet Martins. I started this using, as a source, a photograph from Violet of her fabulous and fierce dog, Joey.
Château de Azay-le-Rideau was built from 1515 to 1527, one of the earliest French Renaissance châteaux. Built on an island in the Indre River at Azay-le-Rideau, its foundations rise straight out of the water.
Gilles Berthelot, Treasurer-General of the Finances of France under King Francis I and mayor of Tours, began reconstructing Azay-le-Rideau's earlier medieval castle, that was part of his wife's inheritance. However, it was his wife, Philippe Lesbahy, who directed the course of the works, including its central internal staircase (escalier d'honneur) that is Azay's greatest most remarkable feature, inspired by the staircase at Châteaudun.
When Berthelot was suspected of collusion in embezzlement he was forced to flee from incomplete Azay-le-Rideau in 1528; he never saw the château again. Instead, the king confiscated the property and gave it as a reward to one of his high-ranking soldiers.
Over the centuries, it changed hands several times until the early part of the twentieth century, when it was purchased by the French government and restored. The interior was completely refurbished with a collection of Renaissance pieces. Today, the château is open to public visits, and is operated by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
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I had no plans to make the long journey north, but some family collusion saw me "volunteering" to take No. One son to Alton Towers as he'd got tickets to some special event.
With a few hours to kill I did a circuit of Alstonefield and arrived here at Peaseland Rocks for lunch. Initially the weather wasn't promising, but for an hour or so at lunch the skies cleared enough to make for some dramatic landscapes. I was hoping for some rainbows but none were forthcoming, but at least I managed to keep fairly dry
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(Ancona, Italy, 24 May 1961 – Mogadishu, Somalia, 20 March 1994)
Ilaria Alpi was an Italian journalist and TG3 correspondent, known for her courage, determination, and commitment to exposing international crimes. Born in Ancona to a family attentive to culture and justice, she earned a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and pursued a journalistic career driven by the pursuit of truth.
In the 1990s, she was sent to Somalia, where she investigated complex and dangerous cases of illegal arms and toxic waste trafficking involving multinational corporations, criminal groups, and corrupt local and international actors. Alpi meticulously documented the collusions between economic interests, political corruption, and human rights violations.
On 20 March 1994, while returning from an assignment in Somalia, she was **assassinated in an ambush in Mogadishu**, along with cameraman Miran Hrovatin, by men linked to interests that wanted to bury the truth. Her death drew international attention to the risks of investigative journalism and the necessity of transparency and justice.
Ilaria Alpi gave her life for truth, denouncing what many wanted to hide. Her courage and example continue to inspire journalists and citizens worldwide to defend justice and human rights.
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The Abbey has many hundreds of monuments and wall plaques commemorating the great and the good. Alexander Champion (d. 1793) was one of them - a military commander of the East India Company and, at the age of 29, wealthy enough to retire. How he or rather his social class wished to see him and themselves symbolically represented, becomes clear in this image. Colonialism is one of the sources of the wealth acquired by the financial elites of the Georgian era, another are slavery and the slave trade. And the Church profited from this too (in fact, it even co-owned a slave plantation on Barbados) and allowed the glorification of exploitation and inhumanity inside the sanctuary. Instead of removing these stone-carved monuments of atrocity, the Diocese decided these days to confront its own collusion with colonialism, Empire and the slave trade by staging an exhibition - inside the Abbey.
It has come to light that Brushtail Mousie Enterprises A.G. incorporated in Vaduz Liechtenstein, is the ultimate owner if the insurance company that insures the BunBun security outfit against theft. Does this leave open the possibility of collusion between Brushtail and the BunBuns for an illegal insurance claim that would benefit both Brushtail and the BunBuns? if such collusion could be proved, what sentence would the courts decide to hand down? Could they get away with this dastardly crime?
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This case is one to follow closely: www.politico.com/story/2017/06/26/supreme-court-agrees-to...
This is what happens when the conservatives push their candidate (Neil Gorsuch) through and of course now they are already allowing a partial Muslim ban...all that talk about freedom...it only extends to the top 400 rich families. They are the only ones who can get health care,access to great schools, and their life liberty, and pursuit of happiness to be protected.
Trumpcare is Wealthcare. Trump even stated that he doesn't want anyone but rich people running the government. We've become a nation only for the few. The rest will suffer.
Here's a great article on why Trump should rethink his statement but I'm sure he's far too arrogant and ignorant to read an entire article.
www.marketwatch.com/story/president-trump-doesnt-want-a-p...
Meanwhile, more comes out about Trump and his collusion with Russia to undermine the democratic American election every day. Our democracy has been stolen and we must demand a new election. If you're in America, look and see if there's an Impeachment March near you on July 2cnd. We need to fight back more than ever:
www.facebook.com/impeachmentmarchworldwide/
We gained out independence from Great Britain in 1776...now it's time to fight for our independence from Russian tyranny.
Strategy: detract from the fact that treason was committed because of collusion with Putin to undermine a so called "democratic" American election with destroying the Earth.
Today, Trump might punch a baby tomorrow for the attention. All of this from a so called "pro lifer" You can't make this stuff up. The nihilists are really showing their colors now more than ever.
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Artistic Anarchy, Mobile Collusion #4, with Jaime Glasser. Her photos, my mess. Made with iColorama and ArtStudio on an iPad Air 2.
This was a collusion made for the App Whisperer page, Artistic Anarchy: Mobile Collusion, Facebook group.
New Abstract Digital Artwork "In Collusion with Sound" StacyYoungArt.com #abstractart #digitalart #visualsound #artprint
I recently took a trip to the Field Museum in Chicago for their Tattoo Exhibit. I've always been really fascinated with tattoos and identity-both physical and metaphysical and it was an interesting cultural and historical learning experience. Tattoos are the kind of scars that can really help define you or at least represent what is important to you. Of course, even more so are the qualities you express every day-an openness towards possibilities, a reliance on honesty, a kind nature, an empathy towards the oppressed, a love of learning....these are all qualities I personally like to show.
Political divisiveness and control of media can fragment your identity if you let it. The idea that Muslims are dangerous, for example, is something that Trump & Co. keep trying to convince Americans of even though it's clear that rich white men are for more dangerous. So, when you keep hearing these thoughts, it's important to dispute them and remember what the truth is...don't believe what you're told...dispute and question what the political motivation behind every message is.
On Tuesday night, Trump gave a televised speech and just because he wasn't raving like a lunatic, it somehow calmed many Americans down while he continues to enact policies that have led to increased hate crimes against all minorities, spout falsehoods about terrorist attacks that never happened, work to eliminate affordable health care, censor the media, ruin the environment and dispute Science and women's rights and...oh yeah....just ignore all the evidence that keeps coming out that pretty much proves Trump and his buddies all committed treason in their collusion with Russia (The latest news being Jeff Sessions, who also committed perjury). Trump is an overpaid TV actor, which makes his far from presidential.
So, it doesn't matter if you dress up nice...you're still ruining America and you're still fascist. If it discriminates like a Trump, lies like a Trump, censors like a Trump, show complete ignorance like a Trump...guess what, it's still a Trump and that Trump should be impeached as soon as possible.
James Rosenquist's "F-111" at MoMA
The painting is eighty-six feet (about 26 meters) long and consists of twenty-three panels. The painting started in 1964 was inspired by billboards and mural-sized paintings like Monet's "Water Lilies".
The artist chose the F-111 bomber "flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising"
This is not my best protest photo but in a city where ICE is cracking down in force, I could not risk outing someone who could be put in a camp/deported just to put a more personal human element into a movement. There's a whole set of photos like that you can refer to if you really want. I'm not posting this because it's a good photo (it isn't) I'm posting this because it's a reminder that we all have a choice to say no to corruption and to say yes to human rights. We must do these both simultaneously and with every molecule in our body.
I wanted to talk a little bit about what is happening in America right now. If you did not already know, there have been even more for profit concentration camps set up for people who have come here fleeing persecution, seeking a better life. This is an abomination paid for by our tax dollars and many of our politicians are invested in these camps, making money to inevitably fund their next campaigns and the viciousness continues and profit over people continues to be the theme. We've lost our souls.
I don't know how to be more hopeful. The good people in this country, the 70% of us are being held hostage against our wills by a hostile treasonous fascist who literally doesn't even know they didn't have airports back in 1776, an idiot who couldn't pass preschool and yet, the fact that he is a serial rapist and a treasonous coward is even worse. He is an unforgivable murderer. If he truly represents America, all I have left instead of my patriotism is true horror for what this country has become.
These deaths are on our hands. Their blood is on our consciousness. It is a gift to receive an immigrant. And all these people who are pro death camps all happen to call themselves "pro life" It's laughable. They just merely want to control women's bodies.
Every day, I wake up a little more hopeless and helpless, I have to be honest. Over the last three years, I've been to protests downtown, in airports, I've called congresspeople in multiple states, donated money to progressives, signed too many petitions to count, done phone banking, and tried to be a genuinely kind person to all in my every day interactions.
Above all is the narrative stream in my mind, is the kindness enough? Is it? I don't know. I really don't know. Is kindness greater than greed, greater than all the blood money? Is it? Because people have been protesting since the 1960s for basic human rights, for an end to racial discrimination and for universal healthcare, for equal rights among the sexes and for the LGBTQ community, for an end to war and look where we are right now. It's hard to believe that anything any of us non billionaires do make a difference.
But I do know this and I believe this...they want us to be as complacent as possible, to get us numbed with constant breaking news, to gaslight us into believe that when Trump says he'd collude again that's totally fine and not surprising at all. They want us to stay at home, do nothing, turn on the tv, have a pint of whiskey to numb our pain-that sort of thing. That's what they are banking on. Whatever you do, live as a light in the darkness. If it makes no difference in the grand scheme, at least you tried.
But, I bet it will make a difference to someone.
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Per non dimenticare le persone che rappresentano l'onore, la giustizia, la dignità, l'onestà, il coraggio.
And the maiden was so fair and delicate that fabric could not touch her skin. Not the finest silk, nor the softest cotton, nor the lightest slinkiest human-made materials. And so she was condemned to live indoors... alone, naked, touching nothing... save for her bed, which was made of pure light, and the long striped stockings that the sun made for her... knitting one, purling two... in collusion with the blinds.
1982: Magoo (dog) and Sabu (parrot) conspired daily to terrorize the condo's human occupants - the owners of the property, no less - two newlyweds. Said human occupants frequently found themselves cowering in the kitchen's corner to avoid the impending assault.
Yes I colluded with Dreamland.
I am as guity as Killary.
After 9 years of intense research;
Reading hundreds of Photomagazines;
Devour Forty or more Photobooks;
Took more than 40.000 picture of which less than 1% made it to Flickr;
Spending Hundreds of hours editing;
I have to confess: I colluded with Dreamland.
You might Impeach me now.... I will wait and see....
Over the last couple of weeks, Vicky Carmichael and I (not in collusion either) have uploaded shots of Mt. Tibrogargan in the Glasshouse Mountains.
Here is Vicki’s - flic.kr/p/2iTgsjA
Here is mine - flic.kr/p/2iRdoZ6
The second photo I wanted to show from the close front angle suited Fence Friday as any view from the old Bruce Highway to the mountain which is close will, almost by necessity involve a fence which protects the main Queensland Rail North Coast railway line which runs across its front. Without it, people tend to cross in front of trains and onto private property (if they make it that far)! As noted in my last photo, there was a large rock fall literally from the face of the “gorilla” nearly 20 years ago which somewhat damaged its visage. You can see it quite clearly in this shot.
For details about the mountain and area, see my previous shot. Happy Fence Friday all.