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Parliament Square's iconic blue "Peace Box" removed by police - London, UK 03.05.2012
Following a recent High Court ruling that the injunction preventing the removal of the final protester's tent on Parliament Square could be lifted immediately, police and officials from Westminster council arrived with a lorry to clear away the large blue wooden "Peace Box" built by peace campaigner Maria Gallastegui - founder of peacestrike.org - who has been living in a tent on the pavement next to the box which was also used for storing protest materials and making cups of tea, and has held a continual protest on Parliament Square since 2006, much to the dismay and fury of a huge number of supposedly peace-loving MPs and Westminster Council.
Resignedly co-operating fully with the police, a philosophical Ms Gallastegui said that "The box is not the issue. My tent is not the issue. The issue is the ability for people to maintain sustained political protest in Parliament Square, and the critical need to protest against illegal wars waged against foreign countries to serve the predatory needs of the oil companies. Obviously I am very sad that the box has to go, but my protest does not stop because of it. It will continue in a different form." She also explained that she is going directly to the Court of Appeal to apply for another injunction against Westminster Council, and if that is not successful she will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
High Court judge Sir John Thomas, whilst ruling that Westminster Council's by-laws prohibiting protesters from setting up tents or other "sleeping equipment" were legal, added that if Ms. Gallastegui's appeal is successful she would be allowed to place her tent back on the square, however; Justice Thomas refused her grounds for appeal in his court, paving the way for the eviction. Ms. Gallastegui has to take her appeal to the Appeals Court, and if she is unsuccessful she intends to take the matter to the European Courts.
In addition, the court order required that the Peace Box be removed "fully intact", so great care had to be taken by the police in removing it, which caused some wry smiles from the police officer who arrived with a sledge-hammer and a large fire-fighter's crowbar!
An earlier version of the iconic box - christened 'The Peace Plinth' and decorated with collaboration from 'Art Below' with three large white relief panels of an American soldier in battle uniform overlaid with blood-spattered lines from a latin poem by the Roman poet Horace "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which translates as "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country" (also quoted in Wilfred Owen's most famous World War I anti-war poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est') is currently on display in Los Angeles as part of 'The Brit Week T4C (Thanks for Caring)', and the current Parliament Square box is to be auctioned to raise money for an orphanage in Iraq for children orphaned by Western military aggression in the country.
Confusion ensued soon after the arrival of a panel truck when the attending Westminster Council officials and police realised that the vehicle was far too small to contain the box itself, so everyone had to wait until a vehicle-clampers' flatbed lorry with a car hoist was commissioned.
Half way through the eviction there was an astonishing verbal attack on Ms. Gallastegui by activists from the late Brian Haw's protest - sited further along the pavement and still fighting eviction - who accused her of some kind of treachery and insincerity because she wasn't verbally or physically fighting the police. Claiming some kind of ethical and moral superiority as the longest-established protest group on Parliament Square (having been there since 2001) and clutching several pro-Palestinian placards, the Haw camp activists, instead of showing as much as a single shred of support or solidarity with their fellow-protester, continued their criticism of Ms. Gallastegui and also accused her of somehow being a police stooge and collaborator before being moved on by a chief inspector.
Ten minutes later, as the blue box was being moved out onto the pavement prior to being lifted onto the back of a flat-bed lorry, one of the Haw camp activists - notorious for his aggression and relentless paranoia towards all journalists, photojournalists and, in fact, any other protesters and activists who have had any presence on Parliament square which they aggressively consider to be their turf - reappeared with a small sign saying "Police camp" and, suddenly cured of his pathological dislike of being photographed by anyone other than passing tourists or personal friends, overtly tried to insert himself into photos of the eviction process being taken by the assembled photojournalists to reinforce his accusation of Ms. Gallastegui and her supporters of being police agents.
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I can't stop wondering who're these Mr. and Mse. Nobodies standing dead in museum halls. I'd just like to say them "hi buddies we still haven't forgot about you"
Title out of the (in)famous Cypress Hill album;
and well a nice Helvetica Bold Italic for the typomaniacs.
It is the Golden Age of Piracy. Renegade captains command the most powerful weapons on Earth: warships. In Skull & Bones, you are an insatiable, upstart pirate captain who has refused the king’s pardon. Having nothing to lose, you sailed from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, an exotic and untamed frontier full of lavish riches.
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It is the Golden Age of Piracy. Renegade captains command the most powerful weapons on Earth: warships. In Skull & Bones, you are an insatiable, upstart pirate captain who has refused the king’s pardon. Having nothing to lose, you sailed from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, an exotic and untamed frontier full of lavish riches.
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.... The Finale to the Chuck norris parody Week .
" Drummy can slam revolving doors.
Some people wear Superman pajamas.
Superman wears Drummy pajamas.
Drummy can kill two stones with just one bird.
Drummy owns a nightlight.
not because he's afraid of the dark,but
because the dark is afraid if him.
Drummy was walking thru an alleyway late at
night,when he happened upon Batman.
batman Said " I'm Batman."
Drummy said " I'm Drummy."
upon hearing this ,Batmans head exploded. "
there were so many more i could have used,but i got my favorites of
the many i have come across.
thanks for all the comments and faves this
past week,i havent been around much,work has been trying to bury me.
I was going to try and make it an easy week for photos,but i ended
up doing 2 of my best Photo manipulations AND
doing my "drummy facts" for the week.
i dont seem to know when to ease up on myself.
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UXO LAO - Unexploded Ordnance (bombs) - Laos
You often see this sign in Laos. It indicates that an unexploded bomb, bomblet or landmine has been found. UXO LAO is the bomb disposal agency. Check the UXO LAO website.
Between 1969 ans 1973, the United States drops more than 2,000,000 TONS of bombs on Laos during more than 500,000 bombing missions (more that what it had dropped on Germany and Japan during all of World War II) in an effort to defeat the left-leaning Pathet Lao and to destroy North Vietnamese supply lines. The ordnance includes some 90 million cluster bombs (including the notorious BLU-64B), 20%-30% of which do not detonate.
For more information on the secret Laos war, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War.
Unexploded bombs and nasty cluster bomblets still kill and injures thousands of civilians each year in Laos.
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It is the Golden Age of Piracy. Renegade captains command the most powerful weapons on Earth: warships. In Skull & Bones, you are an insatiable, upstart pirate captain who has refused the king’s pardon. Having nothing to lose, you sailed from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, an exotic and untamed frontier full of lavish riches.
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* Crocheted keychain lip balm holder. They come in five sizes, this one is a size A.
* Gehaakte sleutelhanger lipcrèmehouder. Ze zijn er in vijf maten, dit is een maat A.
so today was the big day. i officially decided to begin my 365.
making it coincide with mah birthday seemed not only a smart choice,but a significant one.
the day was full of drunken festivities and i had a blast. almost forgot to
take a photo to kick off the next year with.
so here it is.
I will post more later as to the happenings of the day,because it really needs to be documented. Unfortunately i dont have pictures of my adventure,but i will tell ye the tale anyways.
i am just too drunk at the moment.
oh,also ... i dont know what i did ... but i went from 18 views, to 400+ views in a single day ,and posted NOTHING. wtf,flickr? thanks tho... i will try and keep it much more interesting if people are tuning in to check it outl :P.
naked flaming donkey juggling is coming up soon.
big thanks to eric, toby ,juliet, ,julia, other eric, amina, david, stephy, lauren , val,
dan, caroline,pete , don, and Goldie for makin this the best birthday i have ever had.
you all rock and i deeply love you.
in a non-creepy way of course.
It is the Golden Age of Piracy. Renegade captains command the most powerful weapons on Earth: warships. In Skull & Bones, you are an insatiable, upstart pirate captain who has refused the king’s pardon. Having nothing to lose, you sailed from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, an exotic and untamed frontier full of lavish riches.
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It is the Golden Age of Piracy. Renegade captains command the most powerful weapons on Earth: warships. In Skull & Bones, you are an insatiable, upstart pirate captain who has refused the king’s pardon. Having nothing to lose, you sailed from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, an exotic and untamed frontier full of lavish riches.
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During the video shooting of our first single videoclip :"Dead Space Parasite"
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THE ERSATZ IS:
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[IGGDRAZYL] : [KEYBOARD - Back Vocals - Guitar]
[BOIGA] : [LEAD GUITAR]
[HELLSHEEP] : [DRUMS]
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The skull and then our exit and back in the car park.
Trying to get to look around the PKP Cargo locomotive depot in Skarzysko-Kamienna ended up in the foyer in a stampede of workers finishing their shift, then in the car park an argument with one of the workers say he was going to call the police?! Stern words were had and we were all left alone he got in his car and went. Oh what fun all in a day’s chasing trains.
Shot in Moncton, New Brunswick while staying up all night, drinking, eating and talking with the locals. You can read about it at www.manicamerican.com/?p=689.
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The catacombs in Paris are a result of a plague causing overwhelming numbers of bodies that the Parisian graveyards couldn't handle. The king suggested the use of an old quarry under Paris as a place to store the bodies and has since become the final resting place of the bones.
Shot using Kodak 400tx Professional black and white with my Mamiya M645 1000s.
4 second exposure @ f5.6
Better on Black (press L)
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the masses bow down in ignorance bowing down too the Demigods television who have money bags and weapons the leader has a Sword and a Scepter and is head of the TV demigods the clock of time is broken and shattered the trans of time, a river of blood runs down the masses of people a gate also isolates the people from seeing what is powering the TV demigods the peoples souls are feasted on swirling up word as the TV gods are being hold up by cords and ropes by the creature on the top controlling them sucking up there souls giving him power the vary souls that are being sucked up empower the ropes and cords without them they can not work, so the people themselves help create the madness , the evil sun smiles down at the humans the factory of ideology and book burnings is in the corner the warped mind moving downward the order of TV gods well not allow anyone too escape. this all was a idea I had in high school I have redid this thing many times and I don't think I really Relive in such a simplified view of the world but I do believe in some of this and I may do some of these were the humans actually overtake the TV gods any how this is it so far,
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Set shoot by our friend Lucie Inland : lucie.inland.free.fr/
During the video shooting of our first single videoclip :"Dead Space Parasite"
You can watch it here on youtube in HD: youtu.be/GxWab_d0sUg
THE ERSATZ IS:
[XXVII ERSATZ] : [VOCALS - LYRICS]
[IGGDRAZYL] : [KEYBOARD - Back Vocals - Guitar]
[BOIGA] : [LEAD GUITAR]
[HELLSHEEP] : [DRUMS]
Our websites:
[OFFICIAL WEBSITE]
[FACEBOOK]
[REVERBNATION]
www.reverbnation.com/theersatz
[GROOVESHARK]
[MYSPACE]
[TWITTER]
[YOUTUBE]
www.youtube.com/user/TheErsatzmusic
[SOUNDCLOUD]
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