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www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-trace/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
The United States Mission and the Institute for Media and Global Governance (IMGG) nominated seven "Internet Freedom Fellows" writers, bloggers and journalists from around the world who are using social media, mobile communications and digital networks to promote human rights. The Fellows will spend two days in Geneva June 9-10, 2011 for discussions with diplomats, ngos and international organizations.
U.S. Mission Photo: Eric Bridiers
A conference organised by the Asia Democracy Network and the East Asia Institute in Seoul on November 24-25. The main aim of the conference was to bring the Community of Democracies together with civil society representatives from Asia in preparations towards the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, to take place in July 2015 in El Salvador.
Participants of the conference discussed different aspects of the Community's work and ways of improving and developing them. The panels deal with different topics, including: challenges in democracy support; enabling and protecting civil society; Community of Democracies governance and effectiveness, and more.
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
"Every one of us is a potential convict."
- Ai WeiWei
See:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-with-wind/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
This caption should be understood as an inevitably subjective interpretation, as I did not see the initial moment of this woman's arrest. There is no definitive evidence of what exactly her suspected "crime" was and it would be even more erroneous to conclude the photograph is evidence that she had deliberately broken any laws.
I've blurred her face because, noticing her mask, I assumed that though the mask might well have been worn purely for medical reasons, she might equally have been nervous of her identity being revealed in any media imagery.
The image highlights the significant scale of the police operation deployed for the protest on September 6th. A single protester, one of hundreds detained that day, is surrounded by numerous officers.
The visual contrast underscores the systematic and resource-intensive nature of the state's response to the pre-announced silent vigil. Each arrest was a component of a vast, coordinated effort to enforce the new legislation against a crowd that had gathered for a peaceful demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action.
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Protest and the Price of Dissent: Palestine Action and the Criminalisation of Conscience
Parliament Square on Saturday, 6 September 2025 was a scene of quiet, almost solemn defiance. The air, usually thick with the noise of London traffic and crowds of tourists, was instead filled with a palpable tension, a shared gravity that emanated from the quiet determination of hundreds of protesters, many of them over 60 years old, some sitting on steps or stools and others lying on the grass.
They held not professionally printed banners, but handwritten cardboard signs, their messages stark against the historic grandeur of their surroundings. This was not a march of chants and slogans, but a silent vigil of civil disobedience, a deliberate and calculated act of defiance against the state.
On that day, my task was to photograph the protest against the proscription of the direct-action group Palestine Action. While not always agreeing entirely with the group’s methods, I could not help but be struck by the profound dedication etched on the faces of the individual protesters.
As they sat in silence, contemplating both the horrific gravity of the situation in Gaza and the enormity of the personal risk they were taking — courting arrest under terror laws for holding a simple placard — their expressions took on a quality not dissimilar to what war photographers once called the “thousand-yard stare.” It was a look of weary but deep and determined resolve, a silent testament to their readiness to face life-changing prosecution in the name of a principle.
This scene poses a profound and unsettling question for modern Britain. How did the United Kingdom, a nation that prides itself on its democratic traditions and the right to protest, arrive at a point where hundreds of its citizens — clergy, doctors, veterans, and the elderly — could be arrested under counter-terrorism legislation for an act of silent, peaceful protest?
The events of that September afternoon were the culmination of a complex and contentious series of developments, but their significance extends far beyond a single organisation or demonstration. The proscription of Palestine Action has become a critical juncture in the nation’s relationship with dissent, a test of the elasticity of free expression, and a stark examination of its obligations under international law in the face of Israel deliberately engineering a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
To understand what is at stake, one must unravel the threads that led to that moment: the identity of the movement, the state’s legal machinery of proscription, the confrontation in Parliament Square, and the political context that compelled so many to risk their liberty.
Direct Action and the State’s Response
Palestine Action, established in 2020, has never hidden its approach. Unlike traditional lobbying groups, it rejected appeals to political elites in favour of disrupting the physical infrastructure of complicity: factories producing parts for Israeli weapons systems, offices of arms manufacturers, and — eventually — military installations themselves.
Its tactics, while non-violent, were disruptive and confrontational. Red paint sprayed across buildings to symbolise blood, occupations that halted production, chains and locks on factory gates. For supporters, these were acts of conscience against a system enabling atrocities in Gaza. For the state, they were criminal disruptions of commerce.
That clash escalated steadily. In Oldham, a persistent campaign against Elbit Systems, a key manufacturer in the Israeli arms supply chain, culminated in the company abandoning its Ferranti site.
Later actions targeted suppliers for F-35 fighter jets and other arms manufacturers. These were no random acts of mindless vandalism but part of a deliberate strategy: to impose costs high enough that complicity in Israel’s war effort would become unsustainable.
The decisive rupture came in June 2025, when activists infiltrated RAF Brize Norton, Britain’s largest airbase, and sprayed red paint into the engines of refuelling aircraft linked to operations over Gaza. For the activists, it was a desperate attempt to interrupt a supply chain of surveillance and logistical support to a state commiting genocide. For the government, it crossed a line: military assets had been attacked. Within days, the Home Secretary announced Palestine Action would be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
Proscription and the Expansion of “Terrorism”
Here lies the heart of the controversy. The Terrorism Act 2000 defines terrorism with unusual breadth, encompassing not only threats to life but also “serious damage to property” carried out for political or ideological aims. In this capacious definition, breaking a factory window or disabling a machine can be legally assimilated to mass murder.
By invoking this law, the government placed Palestine Action on the same legal footing as al-Qaeda or ISIS. Supporting it — even symbolically — became a serious offence.
Since July 2025, merely expressing support for the organization can carry a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
This is based on Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The specific offense is "recklessly expressing support for a proscribed organisation". However, according to Section 13 of the Act, a lower-level offence for actions like displaying hand held placards in support of a proscribed group carries a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment or a fine of five thousand pounds or both.
Civil liberties groups and human rights bodies have denounced the proscription move as disproportionate. Their concern was not primarily whether Palestine Action’s tactics might violate existing criminal law. One might reasonably argue that they did unless they might sometimes be justified in the name of preventing a greater crime.
But reframing those actions as “terrorism” represented a dangerous category error. As many pointed out, terrorism has historically referred to violence against civilians. Expanding it to cover property damage risks draining the term of meaning. Worse, it arms the state with a stigma so powerful that it can delegitimise entire political positions without debate.
The implications go further. Proscription does not simply criminalise acts. It criminalises expressions of allegiance, conscience and even speech. To say “I support Palestine Action” is no longer an opinion but technically a serious crime. The state has moved from punishing deeds to punishing expressions of solidarity — a move with chilling consequences for democratic life.
Parliament Square: Civil Disobedience on Trial
It was this transformation that brought nearly 1,500 people into Parliament Square on 6 September. They knew what awaited them. Organisers announced in advance that protesters would hold signs reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” In doing so, they openly declared their intent to break the law.
The crowd was strikingly diverse. Retired doctors, clergy, war veterans, even an 83-year-old Anglican priest. Disabled activists came in wheelchairs; descendants of Holocaust survivors stood beside young students. This was not a hardened cadre of militants but a cross-section of society, many of whom had never before faced arrest.
At precisely 1 pm, the protesters all sat or lay down silently, cardboard signs raised. There was no chanting, no aggression — only a quiet insistence that they would not accept the criminalisation of conscience.
The police response was equally predictable. Hundreds of officers moved systematically through the crowd, arresting anyone displaying a sign. By the end of the day, nearly 900 people were detained under counter-terrorism law. It was one of the largest mass arrests in modern British history.
Official statements later alleged police were met with violence — officers punched, spat on, objects thrown. Yet independent observers, including Amnesty International, contradicted this. They reported a peaceful assembly disrupted by aggressive policing: batons drawn, protesters shoved, some bloodied.
www.amnesty.org/zh-hans/documents/eur45/0273/2025/en/
Video footage supported at least some of Amnesty's report.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZQGFrqCf5U&t=1283s
The two narratives were irreconcilable, but only one carried the weight and authority of the state.
The entire event unfolded as political theatre. The government proscribed a group, thereby creating a new crime. Protesters, convinced the law was unjust, announced their intent to commit that crime peacefully. The police, forewarned, staged a vast operation. Each side acted out its script. The spectacle allowed the state to present itself as defending order against extremism — while in reality silencing dissent.
The Humanitarian Context: Why Protesters Risked All
To see the Parliament Square protest as a parochial dispute over free speech is to miss its driving force. The demonstrators were not there merely to defend abstract principles. They were responding to what they, and a growing body of international experts, describe as a genocide in Gaza.
By September 2025, Gaza had descended into almost total collapse. Over 63,000 Palestinians had been killed, the majority of them women and children. More than 150,000 had been injured, many maimed for life. Entire neighbourhoods had been flattened. Famine was confirmed in August, with Israel continuing to impose and even tighten deliberate restrictions on food, water, and fuel, a strategy condemned by human rights groups as a major war crime. Hospitals lay in ruins. Ninety percent of the population had been displaced.
It is in this context that the term genocide has been applied. Legal scholars point not only to mass killings but also to the deliberate infliction of life-destroying conditions, accompanied by rhetoric from Israeli officials dehumanising Palestinians as “human animals.” In September 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars declared that Israel’s actions met the legal definition of genocide.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o
Major NGOs, UN experts, and even Israeli human rights groups such as B’Tselem echoed that conclusion.
For the protesters, then, the question was not abstract but immediate: faced with what they saw as a genocide, could they in good conscience remain silent while their own government criminalised resistance to it? Their answer was to risk arrest, their placards making the moral connection explicit: opposing genocide meant supporting those who sought to stop it.
The Price of Dissent
The mass arrests in Parliament Square were not an isolated incident of law enforcement. They were the product of a broader trajectory: escalating tactics by a direct-action movement, a humanitarian catastrophe abroad, and a government determined to suppress dissent at home through the bluntest of instruments.
The official line insists that Palestine Action’s campaign constituted terrorism and thus warranted proscription. On this view, the arrests were simple enforcement of the law. Yet this account obscures the deeper reality: a precedent in which the state redefined non-lethal protest as terrorism, shifting from punishing actions to criminalising expressions of solidarity.
The cost is profound. Once speech and conscience themselves become suspect, dissent is no longer tolerated but pathologised. The chilling effect is already evident: individuals weigh not just whether to join a protest, but whether uttering support might expose them to years in prison. Terror laws, originally justified as a shield against mass violence, are recast as tools of political management.
The protesters understood this. That “thousand-yard stare” captured in their faces was not only the weight of potential arrest, but the knowledge of Gaza’s devastation, the famine and rubble, the deaths mounting daily. It was also the recognition that their own government had chosen to silence them rather than address its complicity.
In a functioning democracy, the question is not why citizens risk arrest for holding a handwritten cardboard sign. It is why a state finds it necessary to treat that act as a terror offence. The answer reveals a narrowing of democratic space, where conscience itself is deemed subversive. And that narrowing, history teaches, carries consequences not just for those arrested, but for the society that allows it.
Staging a Revolution: I'm with the Banned. belarus FREE THEATRE
KOKO Camden: Sunday 18th October 2015, London NW1
The 10th Anniversary celebration of the Belarus Free Theatre.
Sir Mick Jagger reads a prerecorded messsage to the crowd.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger
Watch the full event below from a set point.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035xyzl
#StagingaRevolution
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www.koko.uk.com/listings/staging-revolution-im-banned-18-...
The Space and BBC Arts present Staging a Revolution: I’m with the Banned
Line Up (in order of appearance)
Stephanie Pan
Miles Jupp
Juliet Stevenson and Jeremy Irons
Natalia Kaliada
Sir Mick Jagger
Brutto
Neil Tennant and Nicolai Khalezin
Viktoria Modesta
Sam West
Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova)
Kim Cattrall with Belarus is not Sexy
David Gilmour with Boombox
Michael Daddio has his name and the Chicago skyline on his right arm. Daddio said he is building a Chicago theme on this sleeve.
Post-Exchange/BRAD LASH
In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.
1,000+ people protested against the Government's controversial proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill at Devonshire Green in Sheffield.
The proposed Bill includes proposals that would give police and the Home Secretary increased powers to stop protests on grounds of “serious annoyance or inconvenience” which if you’re a government minister could mean all of them.
It’s a serious erosion of civil liberties and democratic rights.
Album: www.flickr.com/photos/shefftim/albums/72157718795475528
Staging a Revolution: I'm with the Banned. belarus FREE THEATRE
KOKO Camden: Sunday 18th October 2015, London NW1
The 10th Anniversary celebration of the Belarus Free Theatre.
Roadies loading equipment into the venue.
#StagingaRevolution
@bfreetheatre
belarusfreetheatre.com
www.koko.uk.com/listings/staging-revolution-im-banned-18-...
The Space and BBC Arts present Staging a Revolution: I’m with the Banned
Line Up (in order of appearance)
Stephanie Pan
Miles Jupp
Juliet Stevenson and Jeremy Irons
Natalia Kaliada
Sir Mick Jagger
Brutto
Neil Tennant and Nicolai Khalezin
Viktoria Modesta
Sam West
Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova)
Kim Cattrall with Belarus is not Sexy
David Gilmour with Boombox
Staging a Revolution: I'm with the Banned. belarus FREE THEATRE
KOKO Camden: Sunday 18th October 2015, London NW1
The 10th Anniversary celebration of the Belarus Free Theatre.
HD broadcast van for a live stream on the BBC.
#StagingaRevolution
@bfreetheatre
belarusfreetheatre.com
www.koko.uk.com/listings/staging-revolution-im-banned-18-...
The Space and BBC Arts present Staging a Revolution: I’m with the Banned
Line Up (in order of appearance)
Stephanie Pan
Miles Jupp
Juliet Stevenson and Jeremy Irons
Natalia Kaliada
Sir Mick Jagger
Brutto
Neil Tennant and Nicolai Khalezin
Viktoria Modesta
Sam West
Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova)
Kim Cattrall with Belarus is not Sexy
David Gilmour with Boombox
Launch of “Freedom under threat” campaign to shine a light on the crackdown on rights and freedoms in Russia while the world is watching in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics in winter 2014.
The event involved an “Olympic relay” from Ottawa University with a colourful procession with music, costumes, acrobats, relay runners, and more. The relay ended at the Russian Embassy, where activists held a short demonstration holding signs and birthday cake for Putin, wishing for respect for human rights.
'The cry of the imprisoned'. A protest against the journalists, writers, poets, cartoonists and other artists, imprisoned under the draconian Digital Security Act was organised by Baki Billah, Sarwar Tushar and Shaikat Amin. The event featured songs, poetry, drama, illustrations and film at Shahbag Square in Dhaka, the equivalent of Tahrir Square in Bangladesh. A record number of arrests have been made during the COVID-19 period.
Artists Sohan Mahmud performs at the event.
Manila Aug. 19 -- A Filipino protester is punched by a police officer after militant students stormed the gates of the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines on August 19 2009. Some 20 students were arrested, after a group of activists broke through the gates of the Malacanang Palace during a lightning rally. The group launched a protest to express outrage over reported lavish dinners of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo abroad, which they allege were paid with taxpayers' money. (Luis Liwanag)
See:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-trace/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
Panelists including US professors Evelyn Aswad, Professor of Law and Herman G. Kaiser Chair in International Law, University of Oklahoma, and Mr. Turan Kayaoğlu, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Washington, Tacoma participate in an Istanbul Process panel discussion organized by the OIC at the United Nations Office at Geneva June 21. The Istanbul Process addresses implementation of Human Rights Council resolution 16/18 through efforts to combat religious discrimination and intolerance while promoting freedom of speech.
U.S. Mission Geneva Photo by Eric Bridiers
In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.
Durante muchos años en España, esta palabra fue tabú. No tantos años después y desde muchos ámbitos de la sociedad, los encargados de darle sentido, la utilizan con la libertad de denunciar hechos “poco edificantes” con relación a los que caminan enfrente, olvidando o no viendo a los que caminan por su misma acera. El que hoy te pone mesa y mantel, puede que mañana te eche de comer sobre la misma acera por la que no le quisiste ver caminar.
Hay frases históricas recurrentes, como que en vez de preguntar lo que mi país puede hacer por mí, que puedo hacer yo por mi país, y muchos pensaremos ¡coño! ya pago mis impuestos, precisamente eso es lo que se pretende, que pagues y no preguntes. Evitemos que la ventana que nos permite ver la luz, se vaya cerrando poco a poco y nos vuelva a dejar en la más absoluta oscuridad. Añadámoslo a lista de deseos para el año que comienza, con la certeza que ayudará a mejorar la situación actual y la venidera de todos, y no solamente la de unos pocos.
Monumento a la libertad de expresión y al periodismo, obra del escultor Víctor Fernández.
In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.
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In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
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An ink painting after a famous spray painting by Banksy
I dedicate this piece to Muntadar Al-Zaidi, the Iraqi shoe thrower...
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Two Blood Shoes
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Well, it's one for the war,
Two for the woe
Both to get ready
Now go, Bush, go.
But please first try on them two Blood shoes.
You can do anything but first try on them two Blood shoes.
Well, you can push me down,
Kick in my face,
Bomb my place
Many different ways.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Bush, first try on them shoes
Please first try on them two Blood shoes.
You can do anything but first try on them two Blood shoes.
You can bomb each town,
Steal the oil,
Our antics spoil
Confuse and embroil.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Bush, first try on them shoes
Please first try on them two Blood shoes.
You can do anything but first try on them two Blood shoes.
(Parody to "Blue Suede Shoes")
Peter S. Quinn : petersquinn.blogspot.com/
Shiva Nazar Ahari, journalist and human rights activist in Iran. Sentenced to four years in prison starting in 2012 for "waging war against god," "disrupting the public order" and other charges.
See:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz-trace/
From the exhibition @Large: Ai WeiWei on Alcatraz
General information about the exhibition:
www.for-site.org/project/ai-weiwei-alcatraz/
New York Times review:
www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/arts/design/ai-weiwei-takes-hi...
Trailer for "Never Sorry," a film about Ai WeiWei:
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
Launch of “Freedom under threat” campaign to shine a light on the crackdown on rights and freedoms in Russia while the world is watching in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics in winter 2014.
The event involved an “Olympic relay” from Ottawa University with a colourful procession with music, costumes, acrobats, relay runners, and more. The relay ended at the Russian Embassy, where activists held a short demonstration holding signs and birthday cake for Putin, wishing for respect for human rights.
Michael Daddio shows part of his tattoo sleeve, which includes the Chicago Theater and ferris wheel on Navy Pier. Daddio was at the BodyArtExpo at Navy Pier in Chicago in October.
Post-Exchange/BRAD LASH
In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/thousands-call-for-...
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/asia/tens-of-thousands-o...
Staging a Revolution: I'm with the Banned. belarus FREE THEATRE
KOKO Camden: Sunday 18th October 2015, London NW1
The 10th Anniversary celebration of the Belarus Free Theatre.
Miles Jupp is the BBC live stream host for the evening.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Jupp
Watch the full concert below from a set point.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035xyzl
#StagingaRevolution
@bfreetheatre
belarusfreetheatre.com
www.koko.uk.com/listings/staging-revolution-im-banned-18-...
The Space and BBC Arts present Staging a Revolution: I’m with the Banned
Line Up (in order of appearance)
Stephanie Pan
Miles Jupp
Juliet Stevenson and Jeremy Irons
Natalia Kaliada
Sir Mick Jagger
Brutto
Neil Tennant and Nicolai Khalezin
Viktoria Modesta
Sam West
Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova)
Kim Cattrall with Belarus is not Sexy
David Gilmour with Boombox
Launch of “Freedom under threat” campaign to shine a light on the crackdown on rights and freedoms in Russia while the world is watching in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics in winter 2014.
The event involved an “Olympic relay” from Ottawa University with a colourful procession with music, costumes, acrobats, relay runners, and more. The relay ended at the Russian Embassy, where activists held a short demonstration holding signs and birthday cake for Putin, wishing for respect for human rights.
The United States Mission and the Institute for Media and Global Governance (IMGG) nominated seven "Internet Freedom Fellows" writers, bloggers and journalists from around the world who are using social media, mobile communications and digital networks to promote human rights. The Fellows will spend two days in Geneva June 9-10, 2011 for discussions with diplomats, ngos and international organizations.
U.S. Mission Photo: Eric Bridiers
The United States Mission and the Institute for Media and Global Governance (IMGG) nominated seven "Internet Freedom Fellows" writers, bloggers and journalists from around the world who are using social media, mobile communications and digital networks to promote human rights. The Fellows will spend two days in Geneva June 9-10, 2011 for discussions with diplomats, ngos and international organizations.
U.S. Mission Photo: Eric Bridiers
Launch of “Freedom under threat” campaign to shine a light on the crackdown on rights and freedoms in Russia while the world is watching in the build-up to the Sochi Olympics in winter 2014.
The event involved an “Olympic relay” from Ottawa University with a colourful procession with music, costumes, acrobats, relay runners, and more. The relay ended at the Russian Embassy, where activists held a short demonstration holding signs and birthday cake for Putin, wishing for respect for human rights.
"Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysia’s capital on Saturday demanding the resignation of the prime minister, Najib Razak, over his alleged involvement in a multibillion-dollar misappropriation scandal.
Clad in yellow shirts and unfazed by arrests of activists and opposition leaders just hours before the rally, protesters marched from various spots towards the heart of Kuala Lumpur amid tight security."
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My installation, it really ties the room together, in a group art show i curated. The work all relates to fire extinguishers.
My act of patriotism. Acting on the freedom the speech.
Intention is to get the message across, as boldly, quickly and powerfully as possible, provoking you to think.
Simple tactics.
Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke at the UN today for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. In his remarks, Reverend Jackson highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in the fight for human rights and to combat racial discrimination.
U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.
Photograph taken at 06:57am on July 26th 2011 within the skateboard arena on London's South Bank, located underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall and very much a part of the central London scene.
Home to world championships and freedom of expression that is both artistic and refreshing, this vibrant and energetic location has fallen victim sadly to red tape and beaurocratic stupidity which will likely see the arena closed for good in the near future.
Nikon D700 75mm 1/160s f/4.5 iso1600
Nikkor AF 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 1989 35mm film lens. UV filter. Nikon GP-1
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One of numerous images from today's Canadian Combat Coalition National rally in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
An image from today's peaceful rally by the Canadian Combat Coalition across the street from the Public Archives building on Wellington Street.
The rally was held within a fenced enclosure, to separate this group from those opposed to their views under the heavy presence and watchful eyes of the Ottawa Police Service.
A variety of members from various groups were present.
In every country in the Americas, the relationship between democracy and a free press has tensions and complications. In some countries, outright violence, censorship, or indirect restrictions on freedom of information threaten the free exchange of ideas and information, while in others, the threats to a free press are more subtle and pernicious—including disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation. In all cases, the press remains an essential tool to fight corruption and guarantee democratic accountability. As a result, efforts to expand transparency, freedom of expression, and access to information remain critical across the hemisphere.
The Inter-American Dialogue is proud to partner with Fundamedios USA, the Organization of American States, the IACHR Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression, Freedom House, the Pan American Development Foundation, and Colpin for a sustained conversation on the interplay between media and democracy in the Americas. This conference brings together Hispanic journalists in the United States with their counterparts in Latin America to discuss common challenges.