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Massen Die-In und Feier auf dem Gendarmenmarkt,
Extinction Rebellion Berlin, 27. April 2019
Extinction Rebellion hat in Berlin zum Ende der weltweiten Extinction Rebellion Week am 27. April mit mehreren hundert Menschen ein Massen-Die-In und eine We-Rise-Feier auf dem Gedarmenmarkt Berlin veranstaltet.
Extinction Rebellion ist eine gewaltfreie, demokratische und radikale Klimabewegung, die vor fünf Monaten in London, UK entstanden ist und dauerhaft fortgeführt werden soll. Die Exctinction Rebellion fordert den Klimanotstand auszurufen und läuft seit dem 15. April in mehr als 80 Städten und mindestens 33 Ländern.
Die Bewegung hat drei Forderungen:
1. Politische Transparenz über die „tödliche Bedrohung durch die ökologische Krise,
2. Eine Senkung des Ausstoßes der Treibhausgase auf Null bis 2025,
3. Die Einrichtung eines Bürger*innen-Rates zur unabhängigen Kontrolle entsprechender umweltschützender staatlicher Handlungen, um das 1,5-Grad-Ziel zu erreichen und das Massenaussterben beenden.
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Extinction Rebellion Berlin - Aufstand gegen das Aussterben – #BerlinBlockieren ab 7. Oktober 2019.
Tag 3, 09. Oktober. Räumung der Blockade der Mühlendammbrücke.
Gegen 10 Uhr wurde die Mühlendammbrücke, eine Hauptverkehrstrasse in Mitte, von rund 200 meist jungen Menschen besetzt und für den Verkehr blockiert. Ab 13 Uhr begann die Polizei mit der langsamen Räumung. Viele Blockierer ließen sich wegtragen. Die meisten werden friedlich in die benachbarte Fischerstrasse gebracht, wo sie weiter demonstrieren durften.
Die Polizei verwendete bei er Räumung aber auch mehrfach Schmerzgriffe, falls die entsprechenden Personen sich nicht kooperativ verhielten. Ein Mann wurde durch die Anwendung von Schmerzgriffen bewusstlos und musste ins Krankenhaus gefahren werden. Mehrere Gruppen hatten sich mit Lock-Ons an Leitplanken in der Mitte der Straße angeschlossen. Eine kleine Gruppe hatte sich mit Hilfe von 3 Bügelschlössern aneinandergekettet. Alle gelockten Personen wurden von im Laufe von etwa 2 Stunden von Spezialkräften der Polizei aus ihren Blockaden befreit. Diesen Menschen droht eine Anklage wegen schweren Straftaten.
Seit dem 7. Oktober macht die Graswurzelbewegung Extinction Rebellion (Aufstand gegen das Massensterben) mit Straßenblockaden und anderen Aktionen zivilen Ungehorsams in Berlin und rund 60 weiteren Städten, darunter London, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires und Sydney auf die drohende Klimakatastrophe und das Artensterben aufmerksam.
Extinction Rebellion ist eine gewaltfreie, demokratische und radikale Klima- und Umweltbewegung. Die XR Bewegung entstand 2018 in Großbritannien und war laut eigenen Angaben in über 70 Ländern auf 6 Kontinenten mit mehr als 600 Ortsgruppen vertreten.
XR hat drei Forderungen: 1. Politische Transparenz über die „tödliche Bedrohung durch die ökologische Krise“ (Tell the Truth), 2. Eine Senkung des Ausstoßes der Treibhausgase auf Null bis 2025, 3. Die Einrichtung eines Bürger_innen-Rates zur unabhängigen Kontrolle entsprechender umweltschützender staatlicher Handlungen, um das 1,5-Grad-Ziel zu erreichen und das Massenaussterben beenden.
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No idea what this protest was about at Caxton House as the website does not work and I didn't bother to ask the protester who was standing there in silence behind me.
According to news reports this is Extinction Rebellion being prevented from getting on to the M8 motorway by the Police.
Small mammals crawling over a tyrannosaur skull -- could the metaphor be any plainer? P.S.: Dinosaurs aren't extinct.
At the Canadian Museum of Nature's Talisman Energy Fossil Gallery.
Extinction Rebellion stage 2 weeks of protests in London (and cities around the world) to force the government to tell the truth about the threats from climate change and biodiversity loss and declare an emergency, to commit to acting on it and to call a citizens assembly to assess how best to respond. Throughout, the protests were peaceful and good natured, with non-violent direct action a core tactic of Extinction Rebellion. Nonetheless by 19/10/19 the police reported that 1,700+ people had been arrested, many for obstructing the highway (eg lock-ons while lying in the road). As XR publicly say, their strategy aims at maximizing arrests to gain publicity and raise the isse of climate change in the media and public consciousness. Policing was much heavier compared to the April "rebellion", with pre-emptive arrests and raids on storage facilities. On 14/10/19 police expanded an order banning XR protests to include the whole of London. This ban has been widely criticised and may be subject to judicial review.
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Everything for the evolution. But how long can we continue like this?
How long until these animals can only be found in museums?
Natural History Museum,
South Kensington
London
THE WIVES OF THE WIND photo exhibition
Pottery of Kalpurkan
Iranian Pottery is as old as this country's history. Its earliest manifestation, found at ancient sites in Baluchestan,date back to the paleolihic and the prehistory . A remarkable production of pottery items flourished at shahr-e Sukhteh around 3200 BC.
Alas ,after developing in multifarious manners in Various centers across Iran,this industry now appears on the verge of extinction despite its unique character .
Among these , however, the story of the pottery of Kalpurkan is a different one altogether. The Pottery items produced at Kalpurkan bear a great similarity to the specimens unearthed during 3rd millennium archaeological excavations carried out in Sistan, Baluchestan, Kerman , Gillan and parts of Japan and India.
The village of Kalpurkan is a dependency of the township of Saravan and is located 25 kilometers east of this township, in Baluchestan province . Perhaps the most strking particularity of the pottery of kalpurkan concerns its manufacturing technique, which perpetuates ancient methods and models.
This type of pottery is produced using the coil technique . Its products are unglazed and adorned with black patterns. The potters of kalpurkan have ever been women,who thus contribute to the economy of the family. They do not use the wheel. They shape their products with their hands and adorn them with particular geometric patterns that are several thousand years old.
An aqueous mixture of tytok (type of ferrous oxide)and a stone found on Mt. Birak,near the vaillage,is used in this decoration , which is applied using a match- sized stick of daz (wild date) wood. The decoration appears reddish brown at this stage,but turns deep black after the firing . The patterns used consist entirely of abstract symbols and mental images transmitted from generation to generation, which sometimes bespeak the artists' aspiration and at other times draw their inspiration from her religious beliefs or features of her environment.
The majority of these symbols are similar to those found on pottery items belonging to the prehistory and the early historic period. The raw material used in the manufacture of kalpurkan pottery consists of a particular type of earth. The men of the village bring it in from a region known as Mashkotak , two kilometers northeast of kalpurkan , and blend it with a slip – like mixture to prepeare the mud, which they hand over to their nimble – fingered women.
The pottery items produced at kalpurkan consist essentially of bowls , jugs,cups, Pitcers, drinking vessels , etc. Most of these vessels feature a lid which can also be used as an independent vessel. Examples in case are cup- shaped lids also used to cover large bowls.
Another interesting feature of the pottery items produced at kalpurkan is their handles.
Unlike in presenet-day pottery, these handles are even more resistant than the vessels themselves. Each handle is formed out of a thick coil of mud, which the artisan pastes to the moist body of the vessel and gives it the desired shape by means of appropriate tools.
These handles are much better executed than those of the glazed pottery produced in the mid- centuries of the Islamic period . Another interesting characteristic of the pottery produced in this region is its diversity , which manifests itself in the from of vessels shaped as symbolic animal heads, pomegranate-shaped incense burners(used to burn wild rue seeds and locally known as socaky), vessels shaped as camels, dogs… it is not eworthy that the thickness of these vessels varies between 1.0 and 5.5 centimeters.
Their color is gray before firing and reddish brown once they are baked . The Pottery of kalpurkan may also be subdivided into such categories as food containers, toys,water pipes,bowls for keeping milk , sour milk, butter and pickles,large water containers, drinking vessels , flat trays , large jars for keeping detes, etc. which again denotes the diversity of these items and their wide range of use.
Today this pottery is not in great demand. Lightweight Plastic wares appear to have replaced the hand – made products of indigenous artisans, with little regard for the fact that no plastic container can keep liquids as cool as earthenware dose . What is being lost here is not the coolness of water but the irreplaceable art of kalpurkan pottery.
Iranian and foreign researchers have already carried out studies on the extant collections of kalpurkan pottery, and hope is that this art will receive due attention in the near future.
Ali Reza Karimi Saremi
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