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In 1992 artist Nick Cave sat in a Chicago park, still reeling from news of the Rodney King beating and ensuing Los Angeles riots. Feeling Vulnerable and that he -- like any African American man -- could be targeted, he gathered Sticks from the ground. At the studio, he turned these sticks into his first Soundsuit, a wearable Sculpture and defensive shell. Often seen as a celebration of movement and material, Cave's Soundsuits mask the body, erasing identity. Now, more than twenty years later, Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with this immersive installation Until -- a play on the phrase "innocent until proven guilty" or, in this case, "guilty until proven innocent." Cave's work began as a protective response to violence, and, with Until, he tackles the recent deaths of African Americans in the United States -- Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant... the list goes on -- eulogizing these victims while providing a platform for civil discourse, debate, and, ultimately, hope.
Until began with a question Cave asked himself: Is there racism in heaven? Instead of providing a direct answer, Cave offers us an experience. Across this space, visitors traverse a sculptural forest of metallic lawn ornaments --punctuated by images of guns, bullets, and targets, positioning us all as culpable, vulnerable, and potentially under attack --before arriving at a crystal cloud topped by a garden of found ceramic birds, metal flowers, and black-face lawn jockeys. By removing the lawn jockeys (cast-iron figurines and racist remnants) from circulation, Cave transforms them into agents for change, placing beaded nets in their hands as dream catchers. Our journey through Until continues to a cliff wall constructed of millions of woven plastic beads, an immersive video, and a metaphoric cleansing in a Mylar waterfall.
Until is also a site for performances and community engagement, with the immersive installation becoming a stage for testimonials, music, dance, poetry, and discussion. In the end, Cave takes off the protective mask his Soundsuits. Once provided, offering an environment to discuss important issues in a space that is at Once Seductive, provocative, and -- ultimately -- optimistic.
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
This survivor of the gas disaster was picked up, assumed dead, and thrown in to the morgue.
He regained consciousness and awoke to a scene of unimaginable horror, amongst the corpses, to discover that his toes were frost-bitten from the freezing cold.
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My uncle Luis and cousin Ruben.....I hadn't seen them in over 25 years. Uncle Luis is a very thougthful, articulate and kind man who among other things was a minister of his faith. Our most recent conversation was so much fun. We talked about Latin American politics.....Fidel, Hugo chavez, Evo Morales, the OAS.............and the disasterous presidency we are having.
Also see RETRATOS: Faces of "Los Pioneros" www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157594337021083/
ARTIST STATEMENT:
These are part of an ongoing series of documentary images that memorialize the faces and lives of Latino elders in various community settings.
It's also a meditative reflection of my own aging process and awareness of normal and abnormal declines in memory. The nature of identity and the daily miracle of waking up in the morning re-remembering who I am.......
Memory is the basic stuff that anchors us to our being in time and space...... It's the link to where we've been. Unique to all other living things, it is the vessel for our existential awareness of what we're all moving toward.......our mortality. Our spiritual journey, our humanity.
With any luck and longevity, impending mortality can become an advisor that sits on our shoulder nudging us towards the better part of wisdom....or sometimes simply stirring us awake to the moment.
In “Tuesdays with Morrie” ( www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/ ) there's a cute story about this.
A little wave bobbing along in the great ocean....having a grand old time.....notices that the waves in front were crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible', the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me! Another wave comes along and says: 'Why do you look so sad? The first wave says: 'you don't understand, we're all going to crash!.....All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't this terrible?' The second wave says: 'No, you don't understand....... You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'.......
This project is about the experience of feeling like a tiny evanescent “wave” in the ocean of humanity. It is a celebration of life in the face of the inevitable losses encountered in our human journey. More to the point, it is a tribute to my Puerto Rican family and the memory of my parents, Genara Santiago Otaño and Juan Martinez Rodriguez
Beyond this, my friend Don Alfonso Rodriguez has been my muse and pivotal wake-up call to do this project. I thank and acknowledge him and all our elder friends and neighbors from the greater Latin American community and beyond. Most importantly, this work acknowledges the children, spouses, professional caretakers and service agencies (i.e., The Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, NORC program) that make it possible for our elders to continue living in their own homes. To say the very least, our elders deserve to live and die with dignity.
The saddest part of all of this is the dearth of resources available to make this happen. The poverty rate in 2002 among US Hispanic elderly (65 and older) was 21.4 percent. Compared to other elderly in the US population), they are twice as likely to be living within the poverty levels. ( USDHHS www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/minority_aging/Facts-on-Hispa... )
Even sadder still, it's actually worse than reported when one thinks about it. This is because the operational definitions of poverty statistics are politically driven and often under-report actual poverty levels on the ground. Whatever the methodological or other reasons may be, they serve to lessen the culpability and shame of the established political and social order for this growing crisis. No surprise there, .....another “white elephant” hidden in plain sight, eh?
In so many ways, known and unknown, our elders are extraordinary, unsung heros, leaders, workers among workers, dreamers, mentors, nurturers....”Pioneros.... Yes, our collective cultural memory. I am living out many of their dreams. I am co-creating new ones into the future......right now.
All those who've been reading my comments and text, you will notice that the overall narrative is developing in response to your: “favoriting”, “views”, comments, conversations and interactions with me about this project. You are all an interctive parts of this creation.......thank you!!!
This long-term documentary project continues grow for yet another year..... Any ideas for project funding proposals.......promoting an exhibition, book or ";show-and-tell"..???... Let me know :~)
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"We were not involved in that awful practice, but the government officials of that day were involved in slavery. For us to express our disapproval of what they did as representatives of the state is very appropriate,"
~ Alabama Senate Rules Committee Chairman Lowell Barron
Should States Apologize for Slavery?
Time Magazine, Mar. 27, 2007
On Monday Maryland became only the second state after Virginia to officially seek atonement for slavery. The state's House of Delegates approved a measure, already passed by the senate and not requiring the governor's signature, expressing "profound regret for the role that Maryland played in instituting and maintaining slavery and for the discrimination that was slavery's legacy."
While the apology for slavery has been grabbing all the headlines, it's the regret for the legacy of slavery that really matters.
Many non-blacks assert that they shouldn't apologize for something they didn't do. There is logic to that thinking: if you didn't own slaves or enable others to own slaves, you aren't culpable. But the U.S. didn't do a very good job of converting its former slaves to full-fledged citizens. Slavery gave way to Jim Crow, lynchings, poll taxes, redlining and educational and job discrimination. Although illegal now, these tools perpetuated a racial hierarchy that affects every American today, no matter how subtly. Just compare any rates of achievement, poverty, imprisonment by race; blacks are nowhere closing to catching up.
No wonder black people were so appalled when Frank Hargrove, a Virginia legislator who is white, said last month "black citizens should get over" slavery. That notion invalidates the black reality. It essentially says: The discrimination you feel and I benefit from is an illusion — or at least has no historical context.
Ultimately, Hargrove voted for Virginia's apology measure, which was passed in February and acknowledges that abolition was followed by "insidious institutions and practices toward Americans of African descent that were rooted in racism, racial bias and racial misunderstanding." Put more simply, the Maryland resolution seems to imply that discrimination against blacks hurts everyone: "Slavery's legacy has afflicted the citizens of our state down to the present."
These aren't easy things to talk about. It's one thing to say that slavery, so long ago, was wrong; quite another to discuss our complicity in its lingering effects. That's why Delegate Michael L. Vaughn, who sponsored the Maryland House measure, says the apology isn't about reparations but opening a dialogue to bridge the racial divide. "Slavery has had a negative effect on relationships between people of color and non-color to this day," Vaughn, who is black, told me. "When we talk about matters of race, people are uncomfortable. I don't think this resolution is the be-all, end-all, but it gets people talking."
Legislators in a handful of states including Missouri and Georgia are considering their own expressions of regret for slavery, and Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, a white Tennessean, just introduced a resolution for a national apology in the U.S. House that reads, in part, "African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow — long after both systems were formally abolished — through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity."
Obviously, not everyone is convinced that the apology is necessary. Maryland Delegate Patrick L. McDonough said he voted against the resolution not only because his ancestors were in Ireland during the time of U.S. slavery, but also because he feels such a stance amounts to meaningless symbolism. "I don't think apologies solve anything," the Baltimore Sun reported McDonough saying. "They're just feel-good superficial measures."
But sometimes feel-good does good. "The first step in healing is to apologize," Vaughn says. "For a young person who is knowledgeable of the effects slavery has had on him and his country — for any of us who have felt discriminated against because of this legacy — you do have a small sense of relief when you hear an apology."
Senate Unanimously Approves Resolution Apologizing for Slavery
Washington Post , June 19, 2009
The Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday apologizing for slavery, making way for a joint congressional resolution and the latest attempt by the federal government to take responsibility for 2 1/2 centuries of slavery.
"You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), lead sponsor of the resolution, said after the unanimous-consent vote. "It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice."
The Senate's apology follows a similar apology passed last year by the House. One key difference is that the Senate version explicitly deals with the long-simmering issue of whether slavery descendants are entitled to reparations, saying that the resolution cannot be used in support of claims for restitution. The House is expected to revisit the issue next week to conform its resolution to the Senate version.
Harkin, who called the Senate's vote an "important and significant milestone," said he wanted the resolution passed yesterday to closely coincide with Juneteenth, a holiday first celebrated by former slaves to mark their emancipation.
Even among proponents of a congressional apology, reaction to yesterday's vote was mixed. Carol M. Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University who had pushed for the Bush administration to issue an apology, called the Democratic-controlled Senate's resolution "meaningless" since the party and federal government are led by a black president and black voters are closely aligned with the Democratic party.
"The Republican Party needed to do it," Swain said. "It would have shed that racist scab on the party."
Republicans, however, were supportive of the resolution. "It doesn't fix everything, but it does go a long way toward acknowledgment and moving us on to the next steps to building a more perfect union, doing the things that Martin Luther King would talk about, like building a colorblind society," said Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.).
As with all congressional apologies -- but especially this one -- concerns about liability for restitution were part of the political calculations, in this case because of the long-running debate about whether the descendants of slaves should be compensated.
TITLE: On A Planet Alien
AUTHOR: Barry N. Malzberg
TYPE: paperback Novel
PUBLISHER: Pocket 77766
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by author
SBN: 671-77766-1
EDITION: not stated
PUB DATE: October 1974
PAGES: 144
COVER PRICE: .95
COVER ARTIST: credited Charles Moll
ISFDB: Yes
RATING: 3
Comments: Although not stated this is the first edition.
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TITLE: Dangerous Visions
EDITOR: Harlan Ellison 1934-
TYPE: paperback anthology
PUBLISHER: Signet 451-J5672
COVER PRICE: $1.95
ISBN: PAGES: 576
COPYRIGHT: 1972 by editior
PUB DATE: November 1973
EDITION: 1st paperback
COVER ARTIST: Ed Emshwiller
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INDEX: 0150 – Again Dangerous Visions Vol 1 - 002 - HE -
CONTENTS:
·ix • An Assault of New Dreamers • (1972) • essay by Harlan Ellison
·1 • The Counterpoint of View • (1977) • essay by John Heidenry
·7 • Ching Witch! • (1972) • shortstory by Ross Rocklynne
·31 • The Word for World Is Forest • [Hainish] • (1972) • novella by Ursula K. Le Guin
·127 • For Value Received • (1972) • shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt
·145 • Mathoms from the Time Closet • (1972) • shortfiction by Gene Wolfe
·157 • Time Travel for Pedestrians • (1972) • shortstory by Ray Nelson
·188 • Christ, Old Student in a New School • (1972) • poem by Ray Bradbury
·197 • King of the Hill • (1972) • shortstory by Chad Oliver
·217 • The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By . . . • (1972) • shortstory by Edward Bryant
·233 • The Funeral • (1972) • novelette by Kate Wilhelm
·261 • Harry the Hare • (1972) • shortstory by James B. Hemesath
·266 • When It Changed • (1972) • shortstory by Joanna Russ
·282 • The Big Space Fuck • (1972) • shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
·293 • Bounty • (1972) • shortstory by T. L. Sherred
·300 • Still-Life • (1972) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell ]
·315 • Stoned Counsel • (1972) • shortstory by H. H. Hollis
·331 • The Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations • (1977) • essay by Bernard Wolfe
·398 • With a Finger in My I • (1972) • shortstory by David Gerrold
·413 • In the Barn • (1972) • novelette by Piers Anthony
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General Sir Beauchamp Duff GCB, GCSI, KCVO, CIE, KStJ (17 February 1855 – 20 January 1918) was a Scottish officer with a distinguished highly decorated military career in the British Indian Army, rising to political ranks ultimately serving as Commander-in-Chief of India during the First World War, he was one of the most senior general officers. His role in the disastrous expedition to Mesopotamia was criticised helping to end a long career at the end of the Victorian era.
Duff was born to an aristocratic family in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. He was destined for the army from an early age. Duff was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond before attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from which he graduated in 1874, and thence being commissioned straight into the Royal Artillery. Two years later Duff married Grace Maria, daughter of Oswald Wood of the Punjab Uncovenanted Civil Service. They had two sons and a daughter.
He served with his regiment in the Afghan War from 1878 to 1880. In 1881, he was transferred to the Indian Staff Corps and, was gazetted to the 9th Bengal Infantry. The change of name to 9th Gurkha Rifles much later was symbolic of the shifting priorities from a land based imperial defence force, to mobile more specialized mountain units. Duff was highly intelligent, brave and diligent leader of men. His abilities and an outstanding officer marked him out for the army's elites. Thence he attended the Staff College from 1887 to 1889 from which he passed out in first place. Immediate transfer to the staff in India as Military Attache.
He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the Indian Army Headquarters from 1891 to 1895, then served as a Brigade Major in the Isazai Expedition in 1892. He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General during the Waziristan Expedition from 1894 to 1895, fighting in the action at Wano, twice mentioned in despatches (MID), and made a Brevet Lieutenant-colonel.
From 1895 to 1899 he was Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief Sir George White in India, to Sir Charles Nairne and then to Sir William Lockhart, before being appointed Assistant Military Secretary for Indian Affairs in the War Office in 1899 to Lord Wolseley. However, in September 1899 he aided Sir George White to Natal to take part in the South African War of 1899 to 1901. He was present at the sieges of Ladysmith, as well as at the actions at Elandslaagte, Rietfontein. He was twice mentioned in despatches for the Boer War, was awarded the CB, and received the Queen's Medal with five clasps.
Upon returning to India, he served as Assistant Adjutant-General on Lord Roberts Staff during the actions at Vet River and Sand River, the surrender of Johannesberg, and then the subsequent occupation of Pretoria. He returned to GHQ at the Indian Army Headquarters from 1901 to 1902, was promoted brigadier, and Adjutant-General in India, before commanding the Allahabad District as a major-general in 1903.
With the appointment of Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief of India in November 1902, Duff quickly rose in ranks, serving first as Adjutant-General, India from June 1903 to March 1906. He was required to file a secret memorandum on the deployment of forces in the event of Russia invading India, as Chief of the General Staff in India from March 1906 to 1909, and promoted Lieutenant-General being created K.C.V.O. In 1907 he became K.C.B. Following Kitchener's departure, Duff served as Secretary in the Military Department of the India Office from 1909, promoted General 1911, and created G.C.B. at the king's coronation. In 1913 he was announced as Commander-in-Chief, India.
On 22 October 1913, Duff reached the top position when replacing General O'Moore Creagh as Commander-in-Chief, India.[1] His appointment was a change to normal practice as the post was normally held by a British Army officer rather than Beauchamp Duff who was part of the Indian Army and it was the first time it had been done. Charles Monro took over the post in June 1917, but remained Colonel of his regiment the 9th Gurkha Rifles.
In 1914, he was appointed as ADC General to HM the King, and was in this significant political role when war broke out on 4 August. Indian Viceroy Lord Hardinge asked Duff to make a military assessment as to the feasibility of an operation in Mesopotamia. Duff decided in short order that it was not possible. The Ottomans had 15,000 badly armed troops that would grow in numbers. A single brigade could if careful, take Baghdad, as long as it had friendly Arab support. He guessed that an occupying force would be at Baghdad for at least a fortnight before river transport could bring reinforcements. A division might garrison Baghdad, so long as the Russians held down the Turks in Armenia. His conclusion was that Baghdad was of little military value. The India Office in London was not keen either. They were sceptical of being holed up in Basra without action for an occupying force into the interior. But the talented Indian political department had a whip hand, were a source of information supplied, and impressive to the cabinet. But the laws of Order of Precedent applied, so any decision had to be vetted by the Imperial government in London. The Mesopotamian Campaign was under the responsibility of the Indian Army, but even after Townshend's brilliant capture of Amara he did know where were his strategic objectives. Falling very sick in summer 1915, he returned to India to recover. Duff entertained the general advising that on no account could a weakened force advance any further beyond Kut, until made up to "adequate strength." General Barrow was also present at these Simla meetings. The question remained however that Townshend wanted to retreat - Aziziyeh, was untenable, and in any event concurred with Duff's instructions, not too over-extend. Yet the chain of command remained confused: responsibility for reinforcements, which Townshend refused from Nixon, would later be blamed on the Indian Commander-in-chief.
The campaign started well with Fao Landing near Basrah in November 1914. Duff was determined that it was an Indian Army operation, advised by Sir Percy Lake, chief of staff, and GOC, Sir John Nixon there were adequate numbers of troops, 35, 000 to carry out all operations. The march on Baghdad began well: 9,000 troops of the 6th Indian Division commanded by Major-General Townshend in 1915 ended in catastrophe when the remnants of the British invasion force, cut down by heatstroke and disease, were defeated at Ctesiphon, and then surrounded in Kut El Amara. Duff set the final date for a possible rescue attempt before the floods, agreed by Lake to be 15 March 1916. But already the two men had fallen out; which was later reflected in the Commission of Inquiry's apportionment of culpability. Duff was reluctant to sack Lake telling Robertson that he was sure he "had his reasons," when Sir Percy finally went in July 1916. But by this time Robertson and the War Office had assumed responsibility for all military commands by-passing India.
Three attempts to relieve the trapped British and Indian troops led by General Aylmer, and then General Gorringe also ended in failure, at the cost of 23,000 lives. The surrender on 29 April 1916 was described as one of the worst military disasters in the history of the British Army. Duff could not have known how bad the prisoners were treated, as news began to filter back in September 1916. Colonel Braddon in The Siege alleged that Duff had ordered returning officers and men to remain silent on their own experiences in captivity; that they lacked food, and sufficient medical attention for the blistering sun of 130 F. He remained sanguine about these conflicting opinions. The Viceroy had asked Duff to investigate the lack of supplies and provisions. As soon as Viscount Chelmsford had replaced Lord Hardinge, he had called on the new Viceroy. Duff promised a rigorous investigation into "the actual facts". Unfortunately the answer came back that everything was going to plan. That was in December 1915, when he embarked on another in inquiry in February 1916: Duff was astutely aware of public opinion, investigating before pushed by London. In July, the reported lack of hospital and transports ships, nominally General Nixon's command responsibility had not been discharged by Duff, as Force D Medical staff were all under India. The political pressure mounted on Duff in the Commons. However Conservative Lord President of the Privy Council, Bonar Law argued that any disclosure of Inquiry details during the war could only help the enemy and undermine morale.
Consequently, Duff was relieved of command on 1 October 1916. The Mesopotamia Commission of Enquiry was damning in its conclusions. While General Townshend was exonerated, the Commission was harsh towards the Government of India and Duff together with the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge. Cmdr Josiah Wedgwood reflected that his condemnatory opinion pushed the general to take his own life. India had not only refused to raise new armies for war, they had given all their rifles to the Imperial army. Duff had declared Indian troops 'quite unfit for frontier work' Kitchener had reported in 1915 "if we lose it will be worse for India than any success of internal revolution or frontier attack... held unpatriotic in a private citizen ... and in men in the positions occupied by Lord Hardinge and Sir Beauchamp Duff it has been a calamity for England." Colonial Secretary Lord Curzon called it "official blundering and incompetence" on a scale not seen since the Crimean War. When finally published 27 June 1917, it had been thoroughly discussed and agonised over by the cabinet, and on 3 July, MPs had their chance to debate.General Nixon, the Commander-in-Chief of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, was also held responsible for the failed campaign "it looked as if India were trying to lay down a policy behind the back of the Secretary of State and the Cabinet." Both men were found in the dissentient [sic?] report from Cmdr Josiah Wedgwood to have shown little desire to help... some desire actually to obstruct the energetic prosecution of the war. Unable to live with the shame, Duff took to drink, committing suicide on 20 January 1918.
He left wife Grace and two sons. Their middle son Evelyn Douglas (1877–97) pre-deceased him. The eldest was Beauchamp Oswald Duff (1880- ), and army officer with 1st Gurkha Rifles, who married Mary Lander; and the youngest son, Douglas Garden Duff (1886- ) who was a solicitor in the London firm Torr & Co.
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London
TITLE: Best of Corwainer Smith
AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-1966
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: Ballantine 24581
COVER PRICE: $ 1.95
ISBN:
PAGES: 377
PUB DATE: Sept 1975
EDITION: 1st paperback edition
COPYRIGHT: 1975 by author's wife
COVER ARTIST: D. Sweet
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INDEX: 0229 - Best of Corwainer Smith - 09 - CS - IFB
CONTENTS:
·viii • The Instrumentality of Mankind (timeline) • (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce (aka Timeline from The Instrumentality of Mankind) [as by J. J. Pierce ]
·xi • Cordwainer Smith: The Shaper of Myths • (1975) • essay by John J. Pierce [as by J. J. Pierce ]
·1 • Scanners Live in Vain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1950) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·40 • The Lady Who Sailed the Soul • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1960) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·67 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·84 • The Burning of the Brain • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1958) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·95 • The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1964) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·114 • Golden the Ship Was - Oh! Oh! Oh! • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1959) • shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
·124 • The Dead Lady of Clown Town • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1964) • novella by Cordwainer Smith
·210 • Under Old Earth • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1966) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·257 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·283 • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·315 • The Ballad of Lost C'Mell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
·338 • A Planet Named Shayol • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
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El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
Union Carbide knocked down Bhopal's finest palace to build their Research and Development facility at the top of the Shamla Hills.
Here is a corporation that really does not care.
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
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What a peaceful place the Falls Forest Retreat is.
Falls Forest Retreat is an idyllic property tucked in under the southern side of Middle Brother Mountain at Johns River on the NSW Mid North Coast just to the north of Taree. The property is surrounded by tall Eucalyptus grandis forest and untouched stands of subtropical rainforest, and has a pristine creek system. 74ha of the total 81ha are under a voluntary conservation agreement (VCA) with National Parks to preserve this wonderful sanctuary of biodiversity.
Other parts of the property are covered by Land for Wildlife and Humane Society International Wildlife Land Trust affiliation.
The main homestead is a 100 plus year-old federation home and there are 6 eco villas to compliment the octagonal conference centre which is fully equipped with an office, commercial kitchen, games room and toilets.
Falls Forest Retreat is both a conference centre and also provides overnight and weekly accommodation and is only 15 minutes off the Pacific Highway.
The Falls Retreat, as it is otherwise known, is owned by Mary E White, noted Paleobotanical author who, commencing in her later years, has written a series of very important books focusing on the perilous state of our planet.
I have visited Falls Forest Retreat several times over the last few years and am always in admiration for Mary White who apart from her inspirational books, has worked tirelessly to tie up all the land around this little piece of paradise in various conservation agreements, sometimes at not inconsiderable personal expense.
Mary believes the property may well be the southern most limit for several rainforest species including Elaeocarpus grandis and Cuttsia viburnea to mention a couple.
Mary E White is now in her mid 80's and I have heard a rumour that this magnificent property may be coming onto the market.
Update - Owing to Mary E White's failing health and age she was, agonizingly, forced to sell the property on 23 Dec 2014 to new owners but as far as I can tell still offers accommodation.
"On 5 August 2018, Mary E White was found dead in her room at the Warrigal aged care complex, apparently as a result of drugs administered without authorization by her daughter, Barbara Eckersley. Eckersley was charged with her mother's murder; at her bail hearing, her barrister maintained that his client had the "belief that the aged-care centre weren't able to deal with Dr White's agitation and pain".[6][7][8] After more than two years' delay, Eckersley was eventually found guilty, not of murder but of the lesser charge of manslaughter and was spared jail time, instead being sentenced to a two year community corrections order on account of what the judge termed her "low moral culpability" due to a "diagnosis of severe depression".
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
This survivor of the gas disaster was picked up, assumed dead, and thrown in to the morgue.
He regained consciousness and awoke to a scene of unimaginable horror, amongst the corpses, to discover that his toes were frost-bitten from the freezing cold.
His damaged toes can be seen in this picture.
comments by CR:
This novel is book four of seven in a series titled "World of Tiers". Farmer wrote these seven books over the period 1965 to 1993. None of the books are in print but are available as used books on the Internet. There have been several collections of the "Tiers" novels published which make it easier for the dedicated fan to obtain all the stories. The question I pose is should you read the books in sequence or what? My answer is read them in sequence if you're truly interested in Phil Farmer's fiction and can track them down. If you have one of the books and need a dose of exciting SF from on the masters read it!
My comments refer to only the novel "Behind the Walls of Terra".
I found this story to be an enjoyable romp through time and space made somewhat logical and reasonably believable by the craftsmanship of Phil Jose Farmer (1918-09). If you have read many of Farmer's book you get the impression that he writes two types of fiction: serious and the stuff just to pays the bills. This is a serious book but you have to "buy in" to his cosmos. The reader is presented with an intriguing, but not original, concept; the universe as we perceive it is an illusion. The Sun and planets are contained within a huge bubble with make believe stars and celestial objects "faked" upon the inside wall of this immense sphere. The Lords [no additional definition is provided] "created" these systems such as the Earth's for their own amusement. The "Lords" in turn come from a universe created by who knows - other higher Lords? We are left with the concept of a shell within a shell etc.
An Earthman, Paul; Finnegan, gets involved with the Lords, the red Orc, the Black Beller and other associated Farmer creations. This reader found the book a very enjoyable tale with a strong foundation of wonder.
Title: Behind The Walls of Terra
Author: Farmer, Philip Jose 1918-2009
Type: paperback, novel
Publisher: Ace Books, Inc.
Copyright: 1970 by author
Pages count: 188
Edition: unknown
Cover artist: Bart Forbes
Publication date: unknown
Cover Price: $1.25
Magazine appearance: none/not listed
Comments: The omission of edition and publication date is typical of many Ace books. Cover shows a blindfolded man immersed in brown stuff with electrodes going into his back…Hmmm Perhaps one of Mr. Forbes earlier efforts.
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by Calwalader Ringgold /\ Weazel. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by Calwalader Ringgold /\ Weazel.
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
TITLE: Clans of the Alphane Moon
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace 11036
COVER PRICE: $.74
ISBN:
PAGES: 189
COPYRIGHT: 1964 by author
PUB DATE: 1972
EDITION: 2nd Ace edition
COVER ARTIST:
INDEX: 0128 - Clans of the Alphane Moon – 018 - Ace - PKD - FB
QUOTE “This is Managing Director Dill,” the teacher said, “The Coordinating Director of the Unity System.” Managing Director Dill is responsible only to Vulcan 3. No human being except Director Dill is permitted to approach the computer banks. “Mr. Dill,” a girl’s voice came. “Can I ask you something?” “Certainly,” Dill said halting briefly at the classroom door. “Director Dill, don’t you feel ashamed of yourself when you let a machine tell you what to do?”…from Vulcan’s Hammer by Philip K. Dick
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
TITLE: Weird of the White Wolf – 3rd Elric Novel
AUTHOR: Michael Moorcock 1939-
TYPE: novel paperback
EDITION: 1st DAW edition
PUBLISHER: DAW UY1286 - DAW Book Collectors No. 233
COVER PRICE: $1.25
ISBN: 0-87997-286-6
PAGES: 159
PUB DATE: Mar 1977
COPYRIGHT: 1967,70 & 77 by author
COVER ARTIST: Michael Whelan
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
INDEX: 0296 - Weird of the White Wolf -15 - MM - DAW 233 - Mar 1977 - IFB
COMMENTS: Partial version of the novel was previously published as The Stealer Of Souls.
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
No entries indicate specific information not available for the book.
QUOTE “Perhaps you have heard of my by another name? By the name of the Soul Thief?” The creature lashed its serrated tale and its bovine nostrils dissented. The horned head swayed on the short neck and the long teeth gleamed in the darkness. It reached out scaly claws and began to lumber towards the Prince of Ruins. From The Vanishing Tower by Michael Moorcock
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
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My Aunt Nona & Uncle Luis.....I hadn't seen them in over 25 years. They are the cutest couple you'll ever want to meet. Nona is my mother's look-alike sister. When I see her I see mom.
Also see RETRATOS: Faces of "Los Pioneros" www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157594337021083/
ARTIST STATEMENT:
These are part of an ongoing series of documentary images that memorialize the faces and lives of Latino elders in various community settings.
It's also a meditative reflection of my own aging process and awareness of normal and abnormal declines in memory. The nature of identity and the daily miracle of waking up in the morning re-remembering who I am.......
Memory is the basic stuff that anchors us to our being in time and space...... It's the link to where we've been. Unique to all other living things, it is the vessel for our existential awareness of what we're all moving toward.......our mortality. Our spiritual journey, our humanity.
With any luck and longevity, impending mortality can become an advisor that sits on our shoulder nudging us towards the better part of wisdom....or sometimes simply stirring us awake to the moment.
In “Tuesdays with Morrie” ( www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/ ) there's a cute story about this.
A little wave bobbing along in the great ocean....having a grand old time.....notices that the waves in front were crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible', the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me! Another wave comes along and says: 'Why do you look so sad? The first wave says: 'you don't understand, we're all going to crash!.....All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't this terrible?' The second wave says: 'No, you don't understand....... You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'.......
This project is about the experience of feeling like a tiny evanescent “wave” in the ocean of humanity. It is a celebration of life in the face of the inevitable losses encountered in our human journey. More to the point, it is a tribute to my Puerto Rican family and the memory of my parents, Genara Santiago Otaño and Juan Martinez Rodriguez
Beyond this, my friend Don Alfonso Rodriguez has been my muse and pivotal wake-up call to do this project. I thank and acknowledge him and all our elder friends and neighbors from the greater Latin American community and beyond. Most importantly, this work acknowledges the children, spouses, professional caretakers and service agencies (i.e., The Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, NORC program) that make it possible for our elders to continue living in their own homes. To say the very least, our elders deserve to live and die with dignity.
The saddest part of all of this is the dearth of resources available to make this happen. The poverty rate in 2002 among US Hispanic elderly (65 and older) was 21.4 percent. Compared to other elderly in the US population), they are twice as likely to be living within the poverty levels. ( USDHHS www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/minority_aging/Facts-on-Hispa... )
Even sadder still, it's actually worse than reported when one thinks about it. This is because the operational definitions of poverty statistics are politically driven and often under-report actual poverty levels on the ground. Whatever the methodological or other reasons may be, they serve to lessen the culpability and shame of the established political and social order for this growing crisis. No surprise there, .....another “white elephant” hidden in plain sight, eh?
In so many ways, known and unknown, our elders are extraordinary, unsung heros, leaders, workers among workers, dreamers, mentors, nurturers....”Pioneros.... Yes, our collective cultural memory. I am living out many of their dreams. I am co-creating new ones into the future......right now.
All those who've been reading my comments and text, you will notice that the overall narrative is developing in response to your: “favoriting”, “views”, comments, conversations and interactions with me about this project. You are all an interctive parts of this creation.......thank you!!!
This long-term documentary project continues grow for yet another year..... Any ideas for project funding proposals.......promoting an exhibition, book or ";show-and-tell"..???... Let me know :~)
© All rights reserved.
My uncle Luis.....I hadn't seen him in over 25 years. Uncle Luis is a very thougthful, articulate and kind man who among other things was a minister of his faith. Our most recent conversation was so much fun. We talked about Latin American politics.....Fidel, Hugo chavez, Evo Morales, the OAS.............and the disasterous presidency we are having.
Also see RETRATOS: Faces of "Los Pioneros" www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157594337021083/
ARTIST STATEMENT:
These are part of an ongoing series of documentary images that memorialize the faces and lives of Latino elders in various community settings.
It's also a meditative reflection of my own aging process and awareness of normal and abnormal declines in memory. The nature of identity and the daily miracle of waking up in the morning re-remembering who I am.......
Memory is the basic stuff that anchors us to our being in time and space...... It's the link to where we've been. Unique to all other living things, it is the vessel for our existential awareness of what we're all moving toward.......our mortality. Our spiritual journey, our humanity.
With any luck and longevity, impending mortality can become an advisor that sits on our shoulder nudging us towards the better part of wisdom....or sometimes simply stirring us awake to the moment.
In “Tuesdays with Morrie” ( www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/ ) there's a cute story about this.
A little wave bobbing along in the great ocean....having a grand old time.....notices that the waves in front were crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible', the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me! Another wave comes along and says: 'Why do you look so sad? The first wave says: 'you don't understand, we're all going to crash!.....All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't this terrible?' The second wave says: 'No, you don't understand....... You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'.......
This project is about the experience of feeling like a tiny evanescent “wave” in the ocean of humanity. It is a celebration of life in the face of the inevitable losses encountered in our human journey. More to the point, it is a tribute to my Puerto Rican family and the memory of my parents, Genara Santiago Otaño and Juan Martinez Rodriguez
Beyond this, my friend Don Alfonso Rodriguez has been my muse and pivotal wake-up call to do this project. I thank and acknowledge him and all our elder friends and neighbors from the greater Latin American community and beyond. Most importantly, this work acknowledges the children, spouses, professional caretakers and service agencies (i.e., The Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, NORC program) that make it possible for our elders to continue living in their own homes. To say the very least, our elders deserve to live and die with dignity.
The saddest part of all of this is the dearth of resources available to make this happen. The poverty rate in 2002 among US Hispanic elderly (65 and older) was 21.4 percent. Compared to other elderly in the US population), they are twice as likely to be living within the poverty levels. ( USDHHS www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/minority_aging/Facts-on-Hispa... )
Even sadder still, it's actually worse than reported when one thinks about it. This is because the operational definitions of poverty statistics are politically driven and often under-report actual poverty levels on the ground. Whatever the methodological or other reasons may be, they serve to lessen the culpability and shame of the established political and social order for this growing crisis. No surprise there, .....another “white elephant” hidden in plain sight, eh?
In so many ways, known and unknown, our elders are extraordinary, unsung heros, leaders, workers among workers, dreamers, mentors, nurturers....”Pioneros.... Yes, our collective cultural memory. I am living out many of their dreams. I am co-creating new ones into the future......right now.
All those who've been reading my comments and text, you will notice that the overall narrative is developing in response to your: “favoriting”, “views”, comments, conversations and interactions with me about this project. You are all an interctive parts of this creation.......thank you!!!
This long-term documentary project continues grow for yet another year..... Any ideas for project funding proposals.......promoting an exhibition, book or ";show-and-tell"..???... Let me know :~)
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
Reviewed by CR:
"Magic in Ithkar 1"
This anthology of shared fantasy world stories consist of 13 tales. Three noteworthy authors are represented in this, the first of four "Magic in Ithkar" collections; authors C.J. Cherryh and Andre Norton contribute a novelette and Lin Carter a short story. The remaining authors were unknown to this reader. The Norton story is the best of the group. To this reader it reads like a chapter out of a novel that was never completed. Now this is just speculation on my parts but I could imagine an author's agent saying something to the effect: "You know there are some great ideas in your story, here is an idea, we hire an editor, have him create a prologue about the fair, Ithkar, the Three Lordly Ones and then advertise in the trade for contributions of stories 10 to 20 pages in length". Just speculation, but writing and publishing is a business after all. Nonetheless I found this an entertaining book to read. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the stories and how closely each author adhered to the world-view set down by the editor in the prologue. If you are interested in this book see my series summary listed below:
PUBLISHING FACTS:
The "Magic in Ithkar" book series consist of 4 titles: "Magic in Ithkar"; "Magic in Ithkar 2"; "Magic in Ithkar 3" and "Magic in Ithkar 4". The first, second and third books in the series were published as a trade paperback; subsequently they were published as a mass-market paperback. Books 4 was only published as a mass-market paperback edition. The books were published during the years 1985-7. The first three volumes had two editions and the last one edition. The last printing of any edition was 1987. Andre Norton and Robert Adams are listed as editors of all 4 books.
THE BOOKS:
All four volumes are anthologies of shared fantasy world stories. That is they all take place with a common background, which is detailed in a prologue. In fact each book starts with an identical 9 pages prologue by Robert Adams. We are informed that The Three Lordly Ones visited over four centuries age. As a result of this visitation and subsequent pilgrimages, a temple was erected and priesthood to services the worshipers evolved. A yearly fair around the temple provides mercantile opportunities for tradesmen and pilgrims alike. The location is earth-like but not our Earth. Having read all four books I can attest that all the stories, 55 in all, closely adhere to the fantasy world described in the prologue.
Each volume includes a useful map of the Fair and the temple environs. At the end of the book is a short paragraph about the authors.
THE AUTHORS:
The vast majority of the authors are women and the leading role, as you would suspect, and mostly young ladies. The majority of the authors have many additional titles listed on their ISFDB page although I did find eight authors who have no other credits other that their Ithkar story.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
This is an interesting concept: create a fantasy world centered around a country fair combined with a pilgrimage, add in magic elements, religious conflicts, no technology, semi-feudal and agrarian elements. Most of the stories are good, and a few almost outstanding. Considering the dates of initial publication, 1985-7, even the 'name" authors were almost rookies. If this is your cup of tea I would recommend the series for your consideration and reading pleasure.
TITLE: Magic In Ithkar
EDITOR: Andre Norton and Robert Adams
TYPE: trade paperback anthology
PUBLISHER: TOR 54740-3
COPYRIGHT: 1985 by editors
ISBN: 0-812-54740-3
EDITION: stated 1st printing
PUB DATE: May 1985
PAGES: 317
COVER PRICE: $6.95
COVER ARTIST: Walter Welez
ISFDB: Y
RATING: 7
Comments: 14 stories by different authors all writing about the events at the Ithkar Fair. Uneven but generally well-done fantasy tales – recommended.
Contents:
·The Prince Out of the Past • shortstory by Nancy Springer
·Swamp Dweller • novelette by Andre Norton
·Cold Spell • shortstory by Elisabeth Waters
·Homecoming • novelette by Susan Shwartz [as by Susan M. Shwartz ]
·Dragon's Horn • novelette by J. W. Schutz
·For Lovers Only • novelette by Roger C. Schlobin
·Qazia and a Ferret-Fetch • shortstory by Judith Sampson
·Esmene's Eyes • shortstory by Ardath Mayhar
·Well Met in Ithkar • novelette by Patricia Mathews
·Fletcher Found • shortstory by Morgan Llywelyn
·Jezeri and Her Beast Go to the Fair and Find More Excitement Than They Want • novelette by Jo Clayton
·To Take a Thief • novelette by C. J. Cherryh
·The Goblinry of Ais • shortstory by Lin Carter
·Biographical Notes • essay by uncredited
·Prologue (Magic in Ithkar) • essay by Robert Adams
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by CW. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by CW. No entry indicates information not available from book. ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base. RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
© All rights reserved.
This photo " is a place holder" till I can post a better image.
Angelica is a dear friend of mine. Angelica Ojeda is special among the extraordinary “Pioneras” I’ve known. She’s the kind of person you want on your side because she’s a brave truth teller. Her courage seems to spring from a deep spiritual nature that is highly intuitive and healing. She’s one of those strong women in our communities who are sought out for advise, blessings and mother loving because of their strong convictions and grounding. There’s a crusty, take no nonsense tough love way about her that belies incredibly tender generosity.
Angelica’s an entertaining story teller brimming with intelligence, mother wit and a bodacious sense of humor. Angelica’s immigrant story is one that is familiar to many first and second generation Puerto Ricans in the US. Angelica has had a long life of struggle and successes as a businesswoman, wife and parent. She’s the mother of one of my best friends, Diana.
Also see RETRATOS: Faces of "Los Pioneros" www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157594337021083/
ARTIST STATEMENT:
These are part of an ongoing series of documentary images that memorialize the faces and lives of Latino elders in various community settings.
It's also a meditative reflection of my own aging process and awareness of normal and abnormal declines in memory. The nature of identity and the daily miracle of waking up in the morning re-remembering who I am.......
Memory is the basic stuff that anchors us to our being in time and space...... It's the link to where we've been. Unique to all other living things, it is the vessel for our existential awareness of what we're all moving toward.......our mortality. Our spiritual journey, our humanity.
With any luck and longevity, impending mortality can become an advisor that sits on our shoulder nudging us towards the better part of wisdom....or sometimes simply stirring us awake to the moment.
In “Tuesdays with Morrie” ( www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/ ) there's a cute story about this.
A little wave bobbing along in the great ocean....having a grand old time.....notices that the waves in front were crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible', the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me! Another wave comes along and says: 'Why do you look so sad? The first wave says: 'you don't understand, we're all going to crash!.....All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't this terrible?' The second wave says: 'No, you don't understand....... You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'.......
This project is about the experience of feeling like a tiny evanescent “wave” in the ocean of humanity. It is a celebration of life in the face of the inevitable losses encountered in our human journey. More to the point, it is a tribute to my Puerto Rican family and the memory of my parents, Genara Santiago Otaño and Juan Martinez Rodriguez
Beyond this, my friend Don Alfonso Rodriguez has been my muse and pivotal wake-up call to do this project. I thank and acknowledge him and all our elder friends and neighbors from the greater Latin American community and beyond. Most importantly, this work acknowledges the children, spouses, professional caretakers and service agencies (i.e., The Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, NORC program) that make it possible for our elders to continue living in their own homes. To say the very least, our elders deserve to live and die with dignity.
The saddest part of all of this is the dearth of resources available to make this happen. The poverty rate in 2002 among US Hispanic elderly (65 and older) was 21.4 percent. Compared to other elderly in the US population), they are twice as likely to be living within the poverty levels. ( USDHHS www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/minority_aging/Facts-on-Hispa... )
Even sadder still, it's actually worse than reported when one thinks about it. This is because the operational definitions of poverty statistics are politically driven and often under-report actual poverty levels on the ground. Whatever the methodological or other reasons may be, they serve to lessen the culpability and shame of the established political and social order for this growing crisis. No surprise there, .....another “white elephant” hidden in plain sight, eh?
In so many ways, known and unknown, our elders are extraordinary, unsung heros, leaders, workers among workers, dreamers, mentors, nurturers....”Pioneros.... Yes, our collective cultural memory. I am living out many of their dreams. I am co-creating new ones into the future......right now.
All those who've been reading my comments and text, you will notice that the overall narrative is developing in response to your: “favoriting”, “views”, comments, conversations and interactions with me about this project. You are all an interctive parts of this creation.......thank you!!!
This long-term documentary project continues grow for yet another year..... Any ideas for project funding proposals.......promoting an exhibition, book or ";show-and-tell"..???... Let me know :~)
The Postcard
A postally unused briefkaart bearing no publisher's name that was printed in Holland. The card has a divided back.
Oude Visscher means 'Old Fisherman'.
Volendam
Volendam is a small town in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. The town has about 22,000 inhabitants (November 2007), and is twinned with Coventry in the UK.
Originally, Volendam was the location of the harbour of the nearby Edam. However in 1357, the inhabitants of Edam dug a shorter canal to the Zuiderzee with its own separate harbour.
This removed the need for Volendam's original harbour, which was then dammed and used for land reclamation. Farmers and local fishermen settled there, forming the new community of Volendam, which literally meant 'Filled dam'.
In the early part of the 20th. century Volendam became an artists' retreat, with both Picasso and Renoir spending time there.
The majority of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, which is deeply connected to the village culture. Historically, many missionaries and bishops grew up in Volendam. Today there is the chapel of Our Lady of the Water, which is located in a village park.
The Volendam Café Fire
The Volendam New Year's café fire occurred during the 2000–2001 New Year's night. The fire began early on New Year's Day 2001 and caused the death of 14 young people. 241 people were admitted to hospital, 200 of whom suffered serious burns.
The fire took place in a building that housed three bars. On New Year's Eve it was packed with more than 350 young people between 13 and 22 years of age when a short blaze happened in the café De Hemel ("Heaven") which was located on the top floor after a sparkler hit Christmas decorations that hung from the ceiling. The temperature in the room reached 400 °C (752 °F). Many of the partygoers were wearing highly flammable synthetic fabrics which clung to their flesh as they melted and burned.
There was great panic and the heat, lack of oxygen and people falling over each other made escaping extremely difficult. There also were bars in front of the windows and there were too few emergency exits, all of which contributed to the high number of injuries.
Survivors stated that shortly after the fire began, all the lights went out, contributing to the panic.
The first report reached the Amsterdam ambulance service at 00:38 local time on the 1st. January. The first fire engine arrived at 00:46.
Mayor Frank IJsselmuiden claimed that the crowd had panicked because all but one of the emergency exits were blocked.
Many of those injured were hurt when they smashed windows and leapt from third and second floor windows in an attempt to escape the fire. Others including 53 injured individuals were admitted due to burns, with some being flown to special burns units in Belgium and Germany.
Investigation Into the Fire
The fire was initially investigated intensively by media and politicians. New rules were introduced for decorations in cafés, nightclubs and other venues. The owner and managers of the building were indicted for culpability.
An inquiry showed that the owner Jan Veerman had been negligent in providing escape routes, as well as failing to soak the Christmas decorations with a fire-resistant substance. Also there were too many people in the building at the time of the incident.
The owner was given a conditional prison sentence and community service. As a result of the inquiry Mayor of Edam-Volendam Frank IJsselmuiden and alderman Wim Visscher resigned their positions.
Tourism in Volendam
Volendam is a popular tourist destination. It is well-known for its old fishing boats and the traditional clothing still worn by some residents.
The women's costume of Volendam, with its high, pointed bonnet, is one of the most recognizable of the Dutch traditional costumes, and is often featured on tourist postcards and posters (although there are believed to be fewer than 50 women now wearing the costume as part of their daily lives, most of them elderly).
There is a regular ferry connection to Marken, a peninsula close by.
Volendam also features a small museum about its history and clothing style, and visitors can have their pictures taken in traditional Dutch costumes.
Volendam on Film
Volendam was a shooting location in Vikas Bahl's 2014 Bollywood film, Queen. The actors established an Indian food shop called Rani's Gol Gappa.
The owner was an Italian, Marco Canadea, as Marcello. The role of Queen was played by Indian actress Kangana Ranaut.
The film follows the story of Rani Mehra, a diffident Punjabi girl from New Delhi who embarks on her honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam by herself after her fiancé calls off their wedding.
Queen is cited as a ground-breaking and an influential feminist film by many scholars. Over the years, the film has built a strong cult following. It was named as one of the best films of the decade (2010's) by multiple publications such as Paste and Film Companion.
Several publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, and Cosmopolitan have named it as one of the best films of Indian Cinema. Shubhra Gupta from The Indian Express named Queen as one of the 75 finest and most iconic films made in India in the last 70 years.
Music in Volendam
Volendam is well known for its distinctive music, which is called Palingsound (literally "Eel Sound") in reference to Volendam's status as fishing village.
During the 1960's, the local group The Cats was a very popular group in the Netherlands and abroad.
Another band from Volendam was BZN, which became popular in the late 1960's and early 1970's. In 1995 BZN performed a duet with the ten-year-old Jan Smit, who quickly became a celebrity in his own right.
The popular music groups 3JS and Nick & Simon are famously from Volendam; their members have all participated in local musical performances through the years.
soy vulnerable a tu lado más amable
soy carcelero de tu lado más grosero
soy el soldado de tu lado más malvado
y el arquitecto de tus lados incorrectos
soy propietario de tu lado más caliente
soy dirigente de tu parte más urgente
soy artesano de tu lado más humano
y el comandante de tu parte de adelante
soy inocente de tu lado más culpable
pero el culpable de tu lado más caliente
soy el custodio de tus ráfagas de odio
y el comandante de tu parte de adelante
Kamera: Nikon FM
Film: Kodacolor II 100
Kjemi: C41 photo store developed
A must see documentary about the horrible situation in Palestine and how it was back in 2002 - that was 21 years ago; and if you think it was bad then, it is many many more times WORSE now:
John Pilger: Palestine is Still the Issue (2002)
Also, I want to promote a great podcast by Ralph Nader; an american with great integrity and a true sense of justice. In his podcast The Ralph Nader Radio Hour, he has had many really great interviews and discussions about the ongoing conflict; among which I will mention and highly recommend:
- The Punishment of Gaza (published 14 October 2023) - where Nader meets with Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy to discuss recent attacks by Hamas and the Israeli military in Israel and Palestine. Then, international law expert Bruce Fein speaks about the recent violence, America's response, and America's historical culpability.
- A Strategy of Annihilation (published 28 October 2023) - where retired U.S. Army Colonel and senior advisor to the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Lawrence Wilkerson, offers his experienced and unsparing perspective. Then constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, weighs in on how in this conflict the United States violates a number of international laws.
- A Genocide Tax (published 4 November 2023) - A truly excellent interview with Craig Mokhiber, who just resigned his post as the director in the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the United Nations over the UN response to the bombing of Gaza. Also, a talk with CODEPINK peace activist, Medea Benjamin, who was recently arrested at a hearing on Capitol Hill, featuring Secretary of State Antony Blinken, for protesting the weapons bill for Israel moving through Congress - a protest worthy of the history books!
- The numbers as per 6 November 2023 -
Killed:
- Gaza: 10,022 killed - including 5,104 children, 2,641 women, 192 paramedics and 79 UN staff
- Israel: 1,449 killed - including 1,033 civilians, 347 IDF soldiers, 59 police officers and 10 Shin Bet operatives
- Hamas fighters killed inside Israel (Oct. 7): 1,000+ (200 captured)
- West Bank: 148
Wounded:
- Gaza: 25,408 - 70% women and children
- Israel: 5,431
- West Bank: 2,200
Hostages:
- Taken: 245 - including 120+ civilians, of whom 52 were foreign or dual-nationals
- Killed: 60 - by Israeli bombing
- Released: 4
- Rescued: 1
Missing:
- Gaza: 2,660
- Israel: 28
Displaced / Refugees:
- Palestinians: 1,500,000
- Israelis: 200,000
Houses in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing:
- 10 October 2023: 1,000 houses
- 19 October 2023: 98,000 houses
- 22 October 2023: 42% of all houses
- * No longer reported on Wikipedia.
Number of Israeli settlers in occupied Palestine since 1967:
- 1972: 10,531
- 1983: 99,795
- 1993: 269,200
- 2004: 423,913
- 2007: 467,478
- 2010: 512,769
- 2018: 645,800
- 2020: 671,700
- 2022: 733,000
- Sources: Wikipedia - Articles '2023 Israel-Hamas War', 'Kidnappings during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war' & ‘Israeli settlement’.
Approximately 45Km north east of Bhopal, the Great Stupa is a part of an extremely important complex of Buddhist monuments and is a World Heritage Site.
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
Sketches from the courtroom of the first trial of the Baltimore police officers accused of being culpable in the death of Freddie Gray. www.washingtonpost.com/news/drawing-dc-together/
TITLE: Space Lords
AUTHOR: Cordwainer Smith (Paul Linebarger) 1913-1966
TYPE: paperback Collection
PUBLISHER: Pyramid X1911
COVER PRICE: $.60
ISBN:
PAGES: 206
PUB DATE: Nov 1968
EDITION: 2nd edition
COPYRIGHT: 1965 by author
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan
ISFDB: Yes
RATING: Not read
INDEX: 0227 - Space Lords - 07 – CS - IFB
CONTENTS:
9 • Prologue (Space Lords) • essay by Cordwainer Smith
11 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
35 • The Dead Lady of Clown Town • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1964) • novella by Cordwainer Smith
114 • Drunkboat • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
146 • The Ballad of Lost C'Mell • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1962) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
167 • A Planet Named Shayol • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
205 • Epilogue (Space Lords) • essay by Cordwainer Smith
QUOTE….“ We were drunk with happiness in those early years. Everybody was, especially the young people. These were the first years of the Rediscovery of Man, when the Instrumentality dug deep in the treasury, reconstructing the old cultures, the old languages, and even the old troubles. The nightmare of perfection had taken our forefathers to the edge of suicide. Now under the leadership of the Lord Jestocost and the Lady Alice More, the ancient civilizations were rising like great land masses out of the sea of the past”….from Alpha Ralpha Boulevard by Cordwainer Smith
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO ENTRY: indicates specific information not available from book.
El lunes 25 de noviembre es el Día Internacional contra la violencia machista y a lo largo y ancho del mundo se celebrarán masivas manifestaciones en respuesta a esta lacra. Como ya hemos hecho en multitud de ocasiones -desde el 8 de marzo, pasando por las movilizaciones masivas contra la justicia patriarcal que amparó a “la Manada” y, ahora a la “Manada de Manresa”- en el Estado español volveremos a exigir el fin de la violencia machista que año tras año nos explota, oprime, humilla y asesina.
No tenemos miedo, sí tenemos rabia
La fuerza arrolladora que ha demostrado el movimiento por los derechos de las mujeres trabajadoras y jóvenes es imparable y sigue siendo un ejemplo muy poderoso. Por eso no es ninguna casualidad que la derecha franquista -PP, Ciudadanos y Vox- ataque e intente desprestigiar la lucha que millones de mujeres, junto con nuestros compañeros, estamos protagonizando.
En el Estado español estas manifestaciones del 25 de noviembre se celebrarán tras las elecciones generales del pasado 10-N, cuyos resultados vuelven a poner encima de la mesa una cuestión fundamental: que la lucha de la clase trabajadora y la juventud en defensa de nuestros derechos y contra los y las culpables de nuestra opresión es nuestra mayor fuerza. Desde Libres y Combativas no minimizamos ni restamos importancia al avance electoral de la extrema derecha de Vox, pero sí queremos resaltar que el bloque reaccionario ha vuelto a fracasar en su objetivo de hacerse con el Gobierno y que la derecha tiene enormes dificultades para seguir ganando apoyos: pierden casi 900.000 votos respecto a las elecciones del 28A.
La derecha y la extrema derecha son una amenaza muy real para todos los derechos que hemos conquistado en base a la movilización y a la lucha en las calles. Por eso sabemos, que la única forma de derrotar la ofensiva que representan es precisamente levantando una izquierda combativa en las calles, que defienda un feminismo revolucionario y de combate, un ecologismo anticapitalista, el fin de los recortes en la educación y la sanidad, el fin de la precariedad y la explotación, que garantice un sistema de pensiones público y digno… todas las reivindicaciones que durante años hemos exigido en las calles.
Conseguir todas estas reivindicaciones no es ninguna utopía. El próximo gobierno de coalición entre el PSOE y Unidas Podemos ha sido recibido por amplios sectores de la juventud y la clase trabajadora como una oportunidad para ello. Eso supone confrontar con los grandes poderes económicos, con los bancos, con la Iglesia Católica y los planes de austeridad de la Unión Europea. No queremos palabras, queremos hechos. Ya tenemos la experiencia de los últimos meses de gobierno del PSOE, que a pesar de considerarse el "gobierno más feminista de la historia", seguía respetando, entre muchas otras cosas, la justicia franquista y patriarcal que deja en libertad a violadores y culpa a las víctimas. No echamos a Rajoy de la Moncloa ni hemos derrotado a la derecha en las urnas dos veces para que todo siga igual. ¡La lucha debe continuar!
Somos feministas y anticapitalistas
La batalla contra la violencia machista es la lucha contra el sistema capitalista que la genera. Es la lucha contra la cosificación y la mercantilización de nuestros cuerpos, contra la trata, los vientres de alquiler, la prostitución y la pornografía. Es la lucha por unos salarios justos y unos puestos de trabajo dignos. Por una educación sexual inclusiva en los centros educativos para educar en el respeto, la igualdad y la inclusión. Contra la LGTBIfobia y la moral podrida de la Iglesia Católica.
El próximo 25 de noviembre tomaremos las calles de nuevo por todo ello. Porque es en las calles donde venceremos a este sistema y construiremos una sociedad nueva donde nadie conozca la explotación, la injusticia ni la miseria.
¡Únete a Libres y Combativas!
¡El 25N todas y todos a las calles contra la violencia machista!
..................................................Monday, November 25 is International Day against sexist violence and massive demonstrations will be held throughout the world in response to this scourge. As we have done on many occasions - from March 8, through the massive mobilizations against patriarchal justice that protected “La Manada” and, now to “Manada de Manresa” - in the Spanish State we will demand the end of the macho violence that year after year exploits us, oppresses, humiliates and murders.
We are not afraid, we are angry
The overwhelming force demonstrated by the movement for the rights of working women and youth is unstoppable and remains a very powerful example. That is why it is no accident that the Francoist right -PP, Citizens and Vox- attack and try to discredit the struggle that millions of women, along with our partners, are leading.
In the Spanish State, these demonstrations on November 25 will be held after the general elections of the past 10-N, whose results once again put a fundamental issue on the table: that the struggle of the working class and youth in defense of our rights and against those guilty of our oppression is our greatest strength. From Free and Combative we do not minimize or downplay the electoral progress of the extreme right of Vox, but we do want to highlight that the reactionary bloc has failed again in its objective of seizing the Government and that the right has enormous difficulties to continue gaining support : they lose almost 900,000 votes regarding the 28A elections.
The right and the extreme right are a very real threat to all the rights we have won based on mobilization and street fighting. That is why we know that the only way to defeat the offensive they represent is precisely by raising a combative left in the streets, defending a revolutionary and combat feminism, an anti-capitalist ecology, the end of cuts in education and health, the end of precariousness and exploitation, which guarantees a public and dignified pension system ... all the demands we have demanded for years on the streets.
Getting all these claims is no utopia. The next coalition government between the PSOE and United We have been received by broad sectors of youth and the working class as an opportunity for this. That means confronting the great economic powers, the banks, the Catholic Church and the austerity plans of the European Union. We don't want words, we want facts. We already have the experience of the last months of the PSOE government, which despite being considered the "most feminist government in history", continued to respect, among many other things, the Franco and patriarchal justice that frees rapists and blames the victims. We do not throw Rajoy de la Moncloa nor have we defeated right at the polls twice so that everything remains the same. The fight must continue!
We are feminists and anti-capitalists
The battle against sexist violence is the fight against the capitalist system that generates it. It is the fight against the reification and commodification of our bodies, against trafficking, rent bellies, prostitution and pornography. It is the fight for fair wages and decent jobs. For an inclusive sexual education in educational centers to educate in respect, equality and inclusion. Against LGBTIphobia and the rotten morals of the Catholic Church.
On November 25 we will take the streets again for all this. Because it is in the streets where we will overcome this system and build a new society where no one knows exploitation, injustice or misery.
Join Free and Combative!
The 25N all and everyone on the streets against sexist violence!
Christmas was plunged into a state of jeopardy when, on Sunday, Santa published this year's naughty list.
However Mr Fox, who had suspected that Santa might have gone senile for some time, had no intention of just sitting back an watching the demise of Christmas. He could never allow his polar bear or friends go present-less!
So the fox and the polar bear set to sea yesterday, bound for the Arctic. And today they paid Mr Claus bit of a visit!
Generally Mr Fox doesn't approve of violence. But when it comes to elves...
Suffice it to say, thanks to the rolling pin of Robin Polar Bear, before long the route to Santa's Grotto was strewn with the unconscious carcasses of splatted pointy shoed chaps of diminutive stature!
Eventually they arrived at Senile Santa's Grotto.
For reasons of criminal culpability it's best not to exactly document what happened next, but approximately one minute after Mrs PB's battle-cry a rather portly fellow was seen fleeing from the scene.
A couple of minutes later, Robin Polar Bear was stood outside prodding some of the previously dispatched elves, and Bat Fox was seen exiting the building.
As they began their way home, in the doorway stood waving, a smiley red man with a white beard and bushy tail...
Everything's going to be OK!
Este bicho y toda su familia son los culpables del deterioro de mis antiguos negativos.
Yo los tenía perfectamente guardados en sus archivadores correspondientes.
Y ellos se han comido el papel cebolla de los archivadores, provocando un verdadero desastre.
TITLE: Mysterious Planet
AUTHOR: Lester del Rey 1915-1993
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ballantine 37121, A Del Rey Book
COPYRIGHT: 1953 by Kenneth Wright
ISBN: 0-345-27121-1
EDITION: 1st Ballantine Book edition
PUB DATE: April 1978
PAGES: 183
COVER PRICE: $1.50
COVER ARTIST: Dean Ellis
ISFDB: Yes
RATING: 5
Comments: First published in 1953 as part of the Winston juvenile science fiction series under the name Kenneth Wright. When reprinted in paperback in 1978 the author used his true name Lester del Rey.
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The Gas Peedhit Rahat Samiti (who described themselves as ‘a coalition of former workers and gas victims’ was formed in July 1985) and received support from the UK in ‘developing an alternative production/employment strategy for the people who have suffered in the tragedy’.
The idea was to focus on developing an alternative production idea, particularly in terms of structures ie ways of creating a co-operative or series of worker/community controlled initiatives which were responsive to local needs.
" Adjutant Karl Höcker's postwar trial documented his culpability in mass murders committed at this camp.
"On 3 May 1989 a district court in the German city of Bielefeld sentenced Höcker to four years imprisonment for his involvement in gassing to death prisoners, primarily Polish Jews, in the concentration camp Majdanek in Poland. Camp records showed that between May 1943 and May 1944 Höcker had acquired at least 3,610 kilograms (7,960 lb) of Zyklon B poisonous gas for use in Majdanek from the Hamburg firm of Tesch & Stabenow."
In addition, Commandant Rudolf Höss of Auschwitz wrote in his memoirs, while awaiting trial in Poland, that one method of murder used at Majdanek (KZ Lublin) was Zyklon-B."