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On 21st October 2011, English PEN took part in a global 'Poetry Protest'. Campaigners around the world read poems by Burma's imprisoned poets. In London, at the Burmese Embassy in Mayfair, acclaimed poet Ruth Padel led the readings with Burmese artist Htein Lin, former political prisoner Zaw Zaw Aung, and Salil Tripathi, Chair of English PEN's Writers in Prison Committee.
Photo: Roslind Izard
This caption should be understood as an inevitably subjective interpretation, as I did not see the initial moment of this man's arrest. There is no definitive evidence of what exactly his suspected "crime" was and it would be even more erroneous to conclude the photograph is evidence that he had deliberately broken any laws.
The photograph shows one of the nearly 900 arrests that took place as the protest continued into the evening. The demonstration was notable for its diverse participants, including many older citizens who felt a moral obligation to engage in this act of civil disobedience despite the significant personal risks. I wanted to capture the physical reality of the state's response, showing the methodical removal of a protester who, like many others that day and whatever the suspected "crime" he was technically arrested for, had evidently refused to remain silent in the face of a law that criminalises conscience.
Peaceful FATA... Peaceful Pakistan - The FATA Committee wants FATA citizens to have access to information, that journalists may report freely on activities in FATA, and that new media opportunities may be established in the tribal areas. The FATA Committee has made 11 recommendations to government to give FATA citizens the same rights and opportunities as other regions of Pakistan. Read more from the Political Parties Joint Committee on FATA Reforms at faceboook.com/FATAparties
Protestas estudiantiles debido al cierre de RCTV y la amenaza en contra de la libertad de expresión en Venezuela. Maracay , Venezuela .
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.
"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...
Amnesty members sign a birthday card for Russian President Putin, using the opporrtunity to send a message that human rights must be respected in Russia.
(Oct 7th was Putin's birthday as well as the day the Olympic flame began its relay leading up to the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.)
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.
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.
"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...
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.
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.
Amnesty activists in Toronto staged a flash mob in a busy downtown intersection to draw attention to human rights concerns in Russia.
Copyright: Eugen-Florin Zamfirescu/AI
Media Release
Palestine Action Group Canberra (PAGC) - campaigning for freedom, justice and equality in Palestine - and Canberra Palestine and Climate Justice Group (CPCJC) are appalled at the censorship of the Palestinian flag in an Indigenous art installation at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and are rallying against it at 1pm today.
The groups say censorship of artwork or any nation’s flag is unacceptable, and censorship of the Palestinian flag while the Palestinian people are enduring a genocide is particularly distasteful.
“Once censorship starts, it is the beginning of the end, because if an institution can censor, particularly on such spurious grounds, there is no logical reason why you would censor one thing and not another,” says CPCJC’s Dr Tamara Kayali Browne.
“Even if you are not passionate about the struggle for Palestinian liberation, everyone has an interest in opposing this censorship, because if this is permitted, it sets a very bad precedent and we could all be censored.
“The NGA’s justification for censorship is patently absurd, as the flag consists of a piece of cloth, and a piece of cloth cannot possibly threaten anyone’s security.”
This censorship goes against the NGA’s own stance that,
“Art is for all of us. It allows us to see the world in ways that expand our minds, provoke our ideas, ignite our imaginations. At the National Gallery we strive for cultural experiences that surprise, that disrupt convention, that deepen our understanding of the human condition and the world we live in.”
It appears the NGA needs to correct its statement to read “except for Palestine”.
The artwork is a celebration of anti-colonial struggles. It is not ethically or logically coherent to allow expression of one anti-colonial struggle and not another.
Link to Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/21/national-g...
The annual International Translation Day conference was held at the British Library on 30 September 2016.
"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...
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.
The Image
• Painter George Grosz's (née Georg Ehrenfried Groß), The Menace, 1934, inscribed: "To my friend Eric Cohn" - watercolor, brush & India ink on paper.
The photo is of a photograph of the painting in a book given to me by my great, dear & most affectionate friend, Mr. Gravyboat, a gentleman residing with his wife & dozens of cameras somewhere in the British Isles: George Grosz, a Ralph Jentsch book (he is managing director of the Grosz estate), texts by Enrico Crispolti & Philippe Dagen, publisher Skira Editore S.p.A., 2008, Italy (ISBN 978-88-6130-294-50).
George Grosz was an altogether uncommon man, & one deserving of being honored not just for his art, but for extraordinary humanity, wisdom & heroism. If alive today & in America he would have been jailed numerous times since 1980 for refusing to be silent about the nation's ever faster growing status as a vulgar, vicious corporatist police state, & he might well be seeking refuge & freedom of expression in today's Social Democratic Germany (for those very reasons Grosz left his native Germany & came to America just before Hitler took control of it, & by 1932 was teaching art in New York).
Grosz said of his work, "My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society....
"My Drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment, I drew drunkards; puking men; men with clenched fists cursing at the moon. . . . I drew a man, face filled with fright, washing blood from his hands. . . . I drew lonely little men fleeing madly through empty streets. I drew a cross-section of tenement house: through one window could be seen a man attacking his wife; through another, two people making love; from a third hung a suicide with body covered by swarming flies. I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms; two medical soldiers putting a violent infantryman into a strait-jacket made of a horse blanket. . . I drew a skeleton dressed as a recruit being examined for military duty. I also wrote poetry.”
Wikipedia biography: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grosz
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Journalist Ahmet Şιk launches Journalism Under Siege, a report on press freedom in Turkey, at the Free Word Centre, London, 23 March 2016.
The launch event was chaired by David Diaz-Jogeix, the Director of Programmes at ARTICLE 19 (left) and interpreted by Milena Buyum.
The report is a project of the Free Word writers in residence programme, jointly administered by ARTICLE 19, English PEN and Free Word, in partnership with the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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.
Panel: "Transparency"
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.
Clearly, it's the owners of small (and cheap) cars who have a lot on their mind, causes they want to promote, institutions they want to debunk, supposedly humorous comments to share, etc., etc. You don't see this stuff on the humongous SUV's, not on the Porsches, certainly not on the Cadillac sedans or the Lincoln Town Cars. No, in those cases about the only sticker you're likely to see is the small but familiar (and infamous) "W" sticker in the rear window.
I asked her to say 'cheese'. She didn't complay. Well, she was not a real marquise, but a member of a historical group impersonating a XVII century noblewoman at the court of the King of Sardinian in Turin. Nice but a little stiffy.
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Una gentile figurante di un gruppo storico di Torino che impersona con molta compostezza un'aristocratica dama alla corte Sabauda del primo '700.
"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...
The annual International Translation Day conference was held at the British Library on 30 September 2016.
Art installation at the old Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. The portraits and white background on the floor are made from small Lego pieces. Artist: Ai Weiwei.
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.
Eniola Bello, Managing Director of Nigeria's THISDAY newspaper speaks at the Gambia Media Forum in Banjul Aug. 1
Special Sessionl: "Seeking a new model of democracy assistance foundation"
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.
Co-Convener of the Asia Democracy Network, Anselmo Lee, welcoming the participants of the conference.
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.
Panel: "Emerging challenges to democracy promotion in Asia and beyond"
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.
Concrete and Glass Exhibition @ 20 Hoxton Square Projects Gallery
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Concluding session, with the participation of Secretary General of the Community of Democracies, Maria Leissner, and co-Convener of the Asia Democracy Network, Anselmo Lee.
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.
Panel: "Freedom of opinion and expression"
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.
Panel: Freedom of Opinion and Expression
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.
Special Session: "Experience of democracy assistance foundation"
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.