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All pictures taken at a 'Voices for Lebanon and Palestine' rally that took place today in Trafalgar Square, London.
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Caption: Three Jewish men - members of the controversial Neturei Karta group - at a 'Voices for Lebanon and Palestine' demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, July 2006.
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On Saturday 22 July 2023, protesters gathered outside the Puma Store on Carnaby Street in central London to protest the company's continued sponsorship of the Israeli Football Association (IFA), which includes teams from the Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land and outside Israel's internationally recognised 1967 borders. The ultimate purpose of these settlements is to extend the territory of a greater Israel and render any future independent Palestinian state an impossibility and they have been condemned as illegal by the United Nations under international law.
Protesters have also called on Manchester City FC to end its acceptance of money from Puma while the company continues to sponsor the IFA.
Earlier on 24 June, activists picketed Puma stores during a worldwide Day of Action across the UK in Brighton, Reading, Manchester, Stevenage and Cardiff and also internationally in Paris, Berlin, Strasbourg, Lyon, Dublin, Osaka, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur.
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The latest stencil to be making an appearance around town, seen a few of these around Basing View, this one is in the derelict Canon building.
Solidarity with whom, or with what, I wonder?
Sanarte: Diversity's Pathway
part of a ceramic tile mural installation and walkway
by Juana Alicia
UCSF Campus at Parnassus
San Francisco, CA
A few hundred protesters began walking at noon to complete the four miles from Bourbonnais to the Kankakee County Courthouse. While sitting on the front lawn, they listened to activists talk about their experiences and advice for standing up against what they perceived as injustice. They then returned to their starting point for a round trip walk of about eight miles.
Black Lives Matter March - Bourbonnais, Illinois, USA
#1. basic polyhedron: stellated icosahedron
- 6 paper strips
- strip width: 2.0cm
#2. deco strips
- 2.0* 6.0cm
- 30 strips
Designer: KwangWook Hur
No glue
PRENDO ATTO CHE L'ATMOSFERA DI BELFAST NON SIA DELLE PIU' ALLEGRE E LE RAGIONI SONO BEN NOTE A TUTTI.
UNA SERIE DI MURALES VERAMENTE SPLENDIDI CHE PURTROPPO CONTRIBUISCONO A MANTENERE VIVO IL SENSO DI DISAGIO E SOFFERENZA CHE ORA PROVA IL POPOLO PALESTINESE COINVOLTO NEL CONFLITTO TRA LO STATO DI ISRAELE ED IL BRACCIO ARMATO DI HAMAS.
LGBT Solidarity Rally in front of the Stonewall Inn in solidarity with every immigrant, asylum seeker, refugee and every person impacted by Donald Trump's illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and un-American executive orders.
Matryoshki nesting dolls from Russia. Left from 1990's. Right from 1930's.
The matryoshki demonstrate that their colors fit into July's Orange and Maize theme.
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Saint Martin's Church was established in 1353 together with the adjacent Augustinians cloister and a hospital of the Holy Ghost within the walls by Siemowit III duke of Masovia and his wife Eufemia. After some fires, which destroyed the church in 15th and 17th century, the church was reconstructed
in about 1744.
St. Martin's was used by the Solidarity members who met here in secret before and during martial law. These people deserve great praise in their contribution to the fall of communist rule in Poland.
this is a Little Planet creation of a shot i took around Solidarity Drive in the South Loop of the city...it was captured 2 winters ago and i remember it that day as being really cold even though the sun was out and there was a beautiful blue sky with lovely clouds floating around...in this frame, you can see and recognize roght away all the major skyscrapers of the city, and there is a CTA bus pulling away heading westbound on the drive...hope y'all are having a good weekend...pls. View On Black to appreciate the details here...
About twenty years ago when I arrived in Germany - Dortmund in a rather bleak January - I wondered why people put empty bottles on top of or around garbage cans. Looked kind of disorderly and generally ungermanly. My colleagues explained me there is a fifteen cents deposit on them so poor people collect them. Since you don't want them to have to fish their income from the trash can, rather than carrying your empty bottle to dispose of it in an environment friendly deposit rewarded way, you just leave it in the vicinity of a garbage can, whoever needs the deposit can have it... On warm evenings, every park has a guy going around with a shopping cart to collect empty bottles. There are even associations promoting the installation of dedicated bottle baskets on the side of garbage cans.
Some years ago someone at the University of Münster did a PhD on the question. After many interviews with bottle collectors around Germany, he concluded that the main motivation for collecting bottles is not so much money as a sense of having a role to play in the society, of doing one's part.
Pentax MX and SMC Pentax 50mm f/1.7 , Ilford Delta 100 in Rodinal 1+50 for 13min @ 21°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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A small stand of trees at timberline, braving the elements. Not much more to add than that this morning.
Taken as people began to gather for one of London's largest protests in many years as tens of thousands marched from London's Embankment to Hyde Park. Demonstrators were angry over Israel's illegal occupation, forced evictions, the Gaza blockade, the devastating air strikes including attacks on tower blocks and the international media and the country's continued defiance of international law.
Poet and essayist Azad Ashim Sharma reading to protesters gathered in solidarity with Alaa, who is over 200 days into his hunger strike in prison in Egypt. This photo was taken on the pavement directly opposite Britain's Foreign Office in King Charles Street. Alaa is one of Egypt's leading democracy activists and holds Egyptian-British citizenship.
Alaa Abd El-Fattah has endured much of the last twelve years in some of the worst prison conditions anywhere in the world, on account of his brave work in promoting democracy in Egypt. He was last arrested in September 2019 while attending Cairo's Dokki Police Station and in December last year was sentenced to five years imprisonment for "spreading false news undermining state security." More precisely, he had shared social media posts explaining the hell-hole reality of Egyptian prison conditions.
PROTEST OUTSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE
When this photo was taken Alaa's two sisters, Mona and Sana'a Seif, were staging a protest in London's King Charles Street outside the British Foreign Office in the hope that the Egyptian government can be pressured to release him, as media attention began to focus on the upcoming COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
UPDATE AS OF WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022
Starting from Sunday 6 November, Alaa escalated his hunger strike, and stopped taking water. His sister Sanaa Seif took a flight the same weekend to attend the COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh in a last-minute effort to save Alaa's life.
For the latest on Alaa's situation listen to his sister's Sanaa Seif's speech to journalists attending the conference on Tuesday 8 November - "They are very happy for him to die. The only thing they care about is that it doesn't happen while the world is watching."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqXibJ7PUTY
TORA PRISON - "A DAY HERE, IS LIKE A YEAR IN BELMARSH"
In April, Alaa began his hunger strike in a cell in one of the most secure sections of Cairo's sprawling and notorious Tora Prison - a maze of grim high concrete walls and watch towers, which strike fear into even the thousands of commuters who have to pass daily.
In 2012, one young Londoner confined to one of the least uncomfortable and most survivable wings of Tora prison, contrasted it with his own previous experience at Britain's high security Belmarsh. I can never forget his exact words. "A day here, is like a year at Belmarsh!" A little over 12 months later, he died of TB - the prison authorities had refused to listen to the pleas of his aunt, who fell on her knees during a rare visit, begging that he be admitted to the prison hospital.
ALAA'S HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES AT WADI EL NATRUN PRISON
More than 200 days have passed since Alaa started his hunger strike. He has now been moved to the Wadi El Natrun prison complex in the desert north of Cairo, dubbed by inmates as the "Valley of Hell."
He may not survive much longer. However, as he holds British-Egyptian nationality, one would hope that the British government would be doing everything they could to secure his immediate release and it would be reasonable to suppose that the Foreign Office could get an immediate pledge in this regard, especially given that the British companies, including the likes of British Petroleum and BP, are the biggest investors in Egypt.
NO CONSULAR ACCESS
However, the British government have failed even to get him any consular access - think about that. That's an outrage. Even a convicted mass murderer, if British, would be entitled to consular access while in prison. That meeting would obviously not take place in his cell - but in a designated room in the prison or the highly supervised prison visiting area.
British men and women convicted of drug smuggling and other crimes in Egypt have received consular visits, so why not Alaa? The answer is because Alaa's crime is that he dared to tell the truth about Egypt, and the injustice both inside and outside its many prison walls. Nobody knows exactly how many political prisoners Egypt now has, but the number is estimated to be at least 60,000.
ALAA WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was one of the leaders of arguably the most inspirational democratic revolt the world has seen in the last hundred years. Although the first phase of the 2011 uprising in Egypt lasted just 18 days, and although it followed the toppling of the dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia - the streets and bridges around Tahrir Square became a deadly stage watched by the world, where protesters from every walk of life were pitted against Egypt's feared state security forces. Against all the odds, and at the cost of many lives, Egyptians refused to leave the square, sleeping in front of the tanks and fending off attacks from government militia.
The Egyptian people's initial success in toppling the dictator Mubarak led to further revolts not just across the Middle East (most notably in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria) - the highly organised Tahrir-Square sit-in provided the inspiration for strikes and workplace sit-ins against austerity across the United States and Europe and to the Occupy Movement of the same year. The people of Egypt showed that it does not matter how brutal, feared and authoritarian a government is, it can be toppled if people act collectively.
THE MILITARY BACKLASH
It's true that Egypt's flirtation with the path to greater freedom seemed to be only temporary - the Egyptian authorities deployed the usual divide and rule tactics - encouraging the less committed protesters to return home - and then rushed to elections without allowing time for genuinely democratic opposition parties to develop.
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood won the presidential election in 2012 - the Brotherhood (contrary to the perception many people have here in the West) had genuinely progressive elements within it, but the chance for any transformative radical programme was prevented partly by the corruption and self-interest of some of the main political actors and partly by opposition to its democratic mandate from the deep state (the military, the Interior Ministry, State Security, the police etc.)
The army, seeing its chance, seized power in 2013, superficially in the name of the people, but in reality, to advance the interests of the generals. The new president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, moved quickly to crush all opposition, and ordering his security forces to attack Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had gathered in eastern Cairo at Rabaa al-Adaweya Square, killing at least 800 people - the bloodiest massacre of civilians in Egypt's modern history.
DON'T ALLOW EGYPT TO USE COP27 TO GREENWASH ITS REGIME - AND PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE ALAA
Now COP27 is scheduled to take place in Sharm El-Sheikh and Sisi has been given a golden opportunity to greenwash his murderous regime, which has also seen ever increasing levels inequality and corruption. While British representatives at COP27 will be given accommodation in the most luxurious five star hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh and fall asleep listening to the sound of the waves, another British citizen, Alaa Abdel El-Fatah is near death, on a painful hunger strike in the darkest of places - his dimly lit cell. The only thing he might hear at night is the desperate cry from some prisoner in another cell appealing for medical help which most likely never comes.
If we care for freedom, real democracy and justice, we can't allow the British Foreign Office to forget Alaa - especially if it's simply not to upset the highly profitable relationship British multinationals have with one of the world's most authoritarian and corrupt regimes - a relationship which only benefits the wealthiest of Egyptians.
If you live in London, please show your support at the protest at King Charles Street - and wherever you live please sign the petition -
www.change.org/p/help-free-my-brother-before-it-s-too-lat...
"Black Victorians" - Jeanefer Jean Charles.
Taken at Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF) June 2022.
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Simon
I post this series of photos of an anti-war protest in central London as a neutral observer (more photos will be following soon). I'm no fan of either Russian or Western imperialism and military aggression and I have every sympathy with the Ukrainians who are facing a war of aggression from their more powerful northern neighbour, part of the motive for which seems to be to rebuild the prestige and power of Russia, as a sort of new Russian empire reflecting the former hegemonic influence over Eastern Europe of the Soviet Union. All at an immense cost in lives, and also a clear and grave violation of international law. Putin's decision to escalate the nuclear standoff with the West by publicly placing his nuclear forces on high alert should be another reminder of just how dangerous he is.
However, the West should also share a significant portion of the blame for this war. The Russian invasion is far from "unprovoked" as many media commentators claim. First, we have to remember recent history and how Russia has good reason to fear NATO which was originally set up to combat the threat of the 'Russian hordes.' It is remarkable how in 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, despite his familiarity with Germany's responsibility for having invaded Russia twice during the twentieth century (in 1914 and 1941), agreed to allow East Germany to join West Germany inside a hostile military alliance. There was however a quid pro quo, as promised by President George H. W. Bush (senior) and Secretary of State James Baker that NATO wouldn't move "another inch to the east" but that promise was soon broken as during the Clinton presidency, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joined, and then under President George W. Bush, the NATO alliance was further extended to include Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Baltic States, and further still under Obama to Croatia and Albania.
This means that NATO forces are now frequently deployed right around Russia's western borders (except for Ukraine and Belarus). One can imagine, Washington's paranoia, if say in the 1960s or 1970s, Mexico and Canada had declared their intention to join the Warsaw Pact and many people may be familiar with how Cuba's desire to station Soviet missiles on its territory to deter a feared US invasion (and frequent terror attacks), almost led to a nuclear war, though fortunately Khrushchev saw wisdom and backed down in the face of JFK's terrifying brinkmanship and secretly the United States did agree to withdraw some of its older strategic nuclear missiles from Turkey.
At the same time the United States sees Ukraine as occupying a key space on the strategic chessboard, and has ensured that Ukraine has become increasingly dependent on foreign debt and Washington's goodwill, and has continued to plan for Ukraine's eventual incorporation into NATO. That would mean Ukraine, which occupies a vital strategic position on Russia's southern flank and with its border just 350 miles from Moscow, would also become a potential platform for an assault on Russia and even if no assault ever occurred, the mere fact of NATO's enhanced power, would inevitably greatly diminish any remaining influence Russia had to counterbalance US hegemony in Europe. That's why Ukraine's membership of NATO is something which no Russian leader was ever likely to accept. It is of course easy to see a possible compromise - that Ukraine should remain neutral but that in return all countries should respect its territorial integrity, although allowing some autonomy for the Russian speaking areas in Crimea and the Donbass.
Western media has downplayed the suffering of the Russian population in the Donbass region, which for years has been subjected to constant shelling from government forces, and although Ukrainian civilians have also been killed by Russian backed separatists, the UN figures clearly show that year after year, it was the Russian population which suffered a far higher level of fatalities and serious injuries, including the deaths of many children.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
Western media also holds up Ukraine as a beacon of freedom and democracy, but while there have been some important gains for civil society in recent years, Russians have good reason to be unhappy. The Ukraine government has harassed and detained several opposition and pro-Russian journalists and in February 2017 it banned the commercial importation of books from Russia and a new education law made Ukrainian the sole language of instruction in secondary schools, which obviously discriminated against its Russian population. Fascist militias are also growing in number and corruption is endemic while the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture suspects the Ukrainian government of operating secret prisons.
However, it should be noted that the human rights record of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk have also received intense criticism from the UN OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) and various NGOs for suspected human rights abuses, while Russia's appalling human rights record and its increasing authoritarianism is well known.
To avoid the enormous risk of a nuclear confrontation the West has to start thinking of a way to allow Putin to climb down, without jeopardising European security or sacrificing the freedoms of the Ukrainian people and the obvious way would be to agree to recognise Ukraine as a neutral sovereign state which would remain outside NATO and with a real democratic autonomy for the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
If the West continues to funnel enormous quantities of high tech military equipment into Ukraine, without any attempt to reach a political compromise (by recognising Russia's legitimate security concerns and autonomy for the Donbass region while still guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty) there's a very real risk that an increasingly frustrated Putin will issue an ultimatum for the tactical use of nuclear weapons in order to regain the upper hand on the battlefield, and this will be an incredibly dangerous moment for humankind.
I got some strange looks taking this series of moving branches!
(The round Derwentwater path is a popular route, and I was standing on it.)
Absolutely loved getting to DJ at an event tonight and raise much needed funds in aid of Ukraine.
Thank you so much everyone who came down to party and donated. And of course thank you to my amazing host Cinders who I legit couldn't have done this without.
She put in so much work in getting everyone down to the party,