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Street Art by Eme Freethinker, Ende Mai 2020.
I CAN'T BREATHE #GeorgeFloyd #IcantBreathe #sayhisname
Der Schwarze George Floyd (* 14. Oktober 1973; † 25. Mai 2020) wurde am 25. Mai 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA durch einen Polizeibeamten getötet. Das einzige Vergehen des jungen Mannes: Er wollte in einem Supermarkt mit einem gefälschten 20 Dollar-Schein bezahlen. Die darauf gerufene Polizei nahm den Mann zu viert mit bis zu ihrem Polizeiwagen. Dort kniete dann der Polizist Derek M. Chauvin über 8 Minuten auf dem Hals von George Floyd, der kurz darauf im Krankenhaus verstarb. George Floyd rief mehrmals „I can’t breathe!“ (Ich kann nicht atmen!), aber weder der Polizist, der auf ihm kniete, noch die drei weiteren Polizisten, die um ihn herumstanden haben ihm geholfen. Der grausame Vorfall wurde bekannt, weil jemand die ganze Szene gefilmt und ins Internet gestellt hatte.
Die Tötung dieses Schwarzen steht in langer trauriger US-Tradition von unbewaffneten Schwarzen, die von Polizeibeamten getötet wurden. Dieser Mord hatte tagelange wütende Aufstände in Minneapolis und anderen US-Städten zur Folge.
Auch in Deutschland gab es schon mehrere Fälle von Tötungen Schwarzer in Polizeigewahrsam, die aber hierzulande nie aufgeklärt wurden, wie z.B. der Fall Oury Jalloh in Dessau.
#GeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloydProtests #IcantBreathe #sayhisname #saytheirnames #blacklivesmatter #blacklivematters #rassismustötet #berlin #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #rassismus #gedenken #justice4georgefloyd #NoJusticeNoPeace #polizeigewalt #StopKillingBlackPeople #ProsecuteKillerCops
#berlin #streetart #urbanart #mauerpark #graffito #graffiti #art #streetartberlin #berlinstreetart #mural #ilovestreetart #streetartphotography
Jessica Ahlquist, gave a moving speech about how, when others alienated her and spouted messages of hate, FFRF stood by her and gave her support at a private FFRF dinner. Here, she addresses the crowd of "evil little things."
Jessica Ahlquist, gave a moving speech about how, when others alienated her and spouted messages of hate, FFRF stood by her and gave her support at a private FFRF dinner. Here, she addresses the crowd of "evil little things."
We need "Free Thinker" pills in this world. Less hate and more acceptance and respect for everyone.We can be at peace and even love people, who are different than we are!
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Born in Townshend, Vermont, the son of Peter Rawson Taft of the powerful Taft family, he graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he also was a tutor 1835-37. At Yale, he and his classmate William Huntington Russell cofounded Skull and Bones, the preeminent senior society. He subsequently studied law at the Yale Law School, was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1838, moved to Cincinnati in 1839 where he was a member of the Cincinnati City Council, and became one of the most influential citizens of Ohio. He was a member of the boards of trustees of the University of Cincinnati and of Yale College.
One of Taft's opinions as a judge, against Bible-reading in public schools, remains meaningful today. Several other local Unitarians, including members of his church, were actors in the drama that led to a landmark decision about church and state.
Since 1829, when the public school system in Cincinnati was founded, daily reading of the King James Bible and the singing of Protestant hymns had been the custom in each schoolroom. This went unchallenged until Archbishop John Baptist Purcell objected on behalf of the thousands of Catholic children in the system. By the late 1860s Archbishop Purcell's protest had been seconded by Rabbis Isaac M. Wise and Max Lilienthal on behalf of Cincinnati's substantial population of Reform Jews. The Board of Education was divided over proposals to end the practice. The only two clergymen on the Board were Unitarian ministers, the ultra-liberal Thomas Vickers of First Congregational Church and conservative Amory Dwight Mayo of the Church of the Redeemer. The former was the leading spokesman for the Unitarians and for Cincinnati's large number of freethinkers; and the latter was equally prominent as an advocate for the pro Bible-reading forces. It is a supreme irony that the leading spokesmen on this contentious issue, in one of the most religiously heterogeneous cities in the country, were two Unitarian ministers. Their combined congregations made up less than two-tenths of one percent of the city's population!
In 1869 the Board of Education voted in favor of excluding Bible-reading from the public schools. Two days after, a large group of prominent citizens successfully petitioned Judge Bellamy Storer, of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, to issue a temporary injunction preventing the Board from implementing its decision. A few weeks later, a trial was held before a three-judge panel of the Superior Court to decide whether the injunction should be vacated or made permanent. The entire controversy and the ensuing trial were covered intensively by the nation's leading newspapers. Two of the three judges were leading conservative Protestant laymen. The third was Alphonso Taft. Among the anti-Bible-reading attorneys was former judge George Hoadly, Cincinnati's leading corporate attorney, a future governor of Ohio, and a longtime member of First Congregational Church. The outcome of the trial was a permanent injunction on the Board of Education allowing continued Bible-reading in the schools.
Taft wrote a significant dissenting opinion on the Bible in the Schools Case. "I can not doubt," he wrote, "that the use of the Bible with the appropriate singing, provided for by the old rule, and as practiced under it, was and is sectarian. It is Protestant worship. And its use is a symbol of Protestant supremacy in the schools, and as such offensive to Catholics and to Jews. They have a constitutional right to object to it, as a legal preference given by the state to the Protestant sects, which is forbidden by the Constitution. . . . When the Board of Education, therefore, which represents the civil power of the State in the schools, finds objection made to the use of the Protestant Bible and Protestant singing of Protestant hymns, on conscientious grounds, and concludes to dispense with the practice in the schools, it is no just ground to charge on the Board hostility to the Bible, or to the Protestant religion, or to religion in general. The Bible is not banished, nor is religion degraded or abused. The Board has simply aimed to free the common schools from any just conscientious objections, by confining them to secular instruction, and moral and intellectual training."
Although Taft's eloquent dissent was of no immediate avail, the controversy continued until the Ohio Supreme Court reversed the ruling in 1873. Its unanimous decision upheld Taft's dissent. This remains an important precedent in Establishment of Religion law.
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
TIRED OF LIFE.
PAINTER'S DETERMINED ACT.
The boarders at Severn House, in Ponsonby-road, were startled last night at about eleven o'clock, by hearing two shots fired somewhere on the premises. A search by the proprietor ended in the room of a man named Frederick Wigglesworth, who was in bed, holding a still smoking revolver. When the man was examined, he was found to be suffering from two wounds, one in the temple and another in the breast. Dr. Knight was at once summoned, and Constable Dunne, of the Ponsonby police, was communicated with. The doctor saw the case was desperate, and ordered the man's immediate removal to the Hospital. Wigglesworth is sixty years of age, and in spite of his desperate wounds he was able to walk downstairs to the cab. His condition, when he got to the Hospital, was too low to allow an operation to be performed. The doctors do not hold out any hope for the unfortunate man. Wigglesworth is a painter and glazier, and has been boarding at Severn House for about two months, he was formerly in business on the Northern Wairoa, and it is understood that he has a son in the district. He was generally bright, and at dinner last night he was quite cheerful. After the meal he went out and returned at about a quarter to eleven, going straight to his room. It is difficult for those who know the man to account for his act, but it is said his domestic affairs were not too happy.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19100405.2.58
PONSONBY ROAD SUICIDE
INQUEST ATHOSPITAL
At the hospital this morning, the Coroner, Mr. T. C. Gresham, held an inquest on the body of Frederick Wigglesworth, who shot himself in a boardinghouse in Ponsonby-road on the evening of Monday last, and who died from his injuries at the hospital yesterday.
Archibald Johnston, boardinghouse keeper of Ponsonby-road, said that the deceased was about 60 years of age and a painter and glazier by trade. He was married but was separated from his wife. Witness had known deceased for about seven years and had had him staying in his boardinghouse for eight weeks. He last spoke to him at about seven clock on Monday evening, and at that time he appeared to be perfectly normal. At about 11 o'clock, witness was called by one of the lodgers who said that he had heard shots fired in deceased's room. The door was unlocked, and on entering deceased was discovered lying in bed with the revolver in his right hand. There was a wound in his right temple and one in his left breast, and the coat of his pyjamas was smouldering. Seeing that the man still lived witness at once brought Dr. Knight, who after dressing the wounds, had the man removed to the hospital.
At this stage the will of the deceased was handed in; on a portion of which had been added in an agitated hand-writing some disconnected remarks about Roman Catholics and freethinkers, and a request that all should be given to his boy and nothing stolen. They were written apparently a few moments before he shot ihimself.
Dr. Knght deposed that he was called in to see the deceased at about 11.15 p.m. on Monday the 4th, and found deceased lying in the position described by the previous witness, he was semi-conscious and was bleeding from wounds in the left breast and right temple. The bullet which had entered his breast, had struck a rib and had not penetrated any vital part; the wound in the head however, was sufficient to cause death, and in his opinion death was due to laceration of the brain caused by a bullet wound.
Dr. Eade, house surgeon at the Auckland Hospital, gave evidence to the effect that deceased was admitted at midnight on March 4 and died yesterday, afternoon without ever regaining consciousness.
The jury then brought in a verdict that deceased came to his death by wounds, self-inflicted whilst temporarily insane.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19100406.2.47
Plot 69a: William Wigglesworth (60) 1910 – Painter & Glazier – Gunshot wounds
To
The Memory Of
FREDERIC WIGGLESWORTH
Died 3rd April 1910
aged 60
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10-24-13 | SUN-e Picture of the Day: Graduate student Robby McCoubrey talks with students about a group he's organizing: Freethinkers at Shenandoah University. McCoubrey says this Leo Tolstoy quote best sums up Freethinkers, “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.” Freethinkers meets at 8 p.m. tonight, Oct. 24, in the Brandt Student Center, Room 120. This week’s topic: “Can you have morality without religion?” Everyone is welcome to join the conversation. Free pizza, too! Contact SUFreethinkers@gmail.com or find the Freethinkers of Shenandoah University group on Facebook. (PHOTO: Cathy Kuehner)
Street Art am Mauerpark in Berlin am Karfreitag während der Corona-Krise.
Artist: Eme Freethinker.
Motiv links: Sean Price.
Text: Rest in Power. Sean Price. P!
Motiv Mitte: The Notourious B.I.G.
Motiv rechts: Tupac Shakur.
Text: Together We Stand - Divided We Fall.
Sean Price (* 17. März 1972 in Brooklyn, New York; † 8. August 2015 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Rapper.
The Notorious B.I.G. (* 21. Mai 1972 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 9. März 1997 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; bürgerlich Christopher George Latore Wallace), auch als Biggie, Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa, B.I.G. und Frank White bekannt, war einer der bedeutendsten US-amerikanischen Rapper der 1990er-Jahre.
Tupac Amaru Shakur (* 16. Juni 1971 als Lesane Parish Crooks in Manhattan, New York; † 13. September 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada), auch bekannt unter seinen Pseudonymen 2Pac und Makaveli, war ein sehr erfolgreicher US-amerikanischer Rapper, Musiker und Schauspieler.
Several members of REALL, the Springfield Area Freethinkers, and the St. Louis Atheists Meetup Group can be seen in this photo.
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
Street Art by Eme Freethinker & Pen Chill, Mauerpark Berlin, Ende Mai 2020.
v.li.n.re:
- Comic-Aliens mit Ufo. Art by @Pen_Chill.
- I CAN'T BREATHE #GeorgeFloyd #IcantBreathe #sayhisname. Art by @Eme_Freethinker.
- BASQUIAT. Art by @Eme_Freethinker + @Pen_Chill.
Foto: Bernd Sauer-Diete
A trip to the tiny Hill Country town of Sisterdale, about an hour northwest of San Antonio. Founded in the mid-1800's by German Freethinkers, Sisterdale is just a couple of houses and businesses along the side of the road with just a few dozen residents. The main attraction to the town is the Sister Creek Winery, located in the old cotton gin. Pictures taken Spring 2008. I plan on adding more detailed descriptions in the future.
FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor passes out Rally stickers. "Out of the Closet Atheist" and "I'm Secular and I vote"
Christopher Hitchens v. John Lennox
Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama
3 March 2009
(taken from second row w/o a flash - obviously not the best...)