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Under the Same Sun: A song about the refugee crisis
Amnesty International UK
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiNEEXbnPZk
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Waves crashed rhythmically onto the rocky shore. A mist of cold salt water floated all around filling the lungs of any who were near. Seagulls squawked and called to one another in search of food. Circling, diving, and hovering against the steady winds from the sea. You could hear the faint sound of a dog barking in the distance as Mera and Arthur walked up upon one of the taller cliffs along the shoreline.
Muffled thumps and the grinding sounds of machinery against machinery met their ears as the two caught sight of an oil rig just outside of Amnesty Bay.
"This is what I brought you here to see, Arthur. How dare they pollute our waters! Who gives them the right?!"
"Calm yourself Mera. Our oceans are vast. Can we not share the resources?"
"Sharing or not, that's our home they're defiling! Do you not hear of the casualties that come from their pollution?!"
"It is their own mistakes that cause such incidents"
"Our people are losing their homes, choked out by the Surface Dwellers 'mistakes' and you're contempt with that?"
"I am not keen to their methods, but we must respect one another's society. The only way for peace is to provide it."
"They don't deserve our kindness"
"All life deserves kindness. Even those you may not agree with."
"But our homes!"
"The humans are tying their best to utilize this planet. I've come to understand that they too find this way of life is harmful to all of us."
"But yet they do nothing?!"
"They are trying, to their betterment. Give them patience. Surface Politics are slower than even that of The Atlantis' High Council."
"And in the mean time, we must show them the error in their ways!"
"Not with violence Mera, with patience and respect"
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Here's a quick (dialogue heavy) story written around a build and a new figure :)
Shout out to Rob for hooking me up with Mera! It's a shame he's moving on to other things, but I hope I can give his figs a good home :)
Patreon has about 18 different photos posted, with everything from how I accomplished the Forced Perspective/focused images of the builds, plus the lighting set-ups to the preview image, and a whole bunch of other past and upcoming projects in the works :)
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Do you ever wonder why Aquaman wasn't a supervillan? It's because he'd feel gill-ty! Get it?! Beacuse he's a fish guy! (please laugh) Patreon has better jokes, I promise! The page has early photography, behind the scenes images, and WIPs of upcoming projects! :)
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" - the motto of Amnesty International UK which campaigns worldwide on behalf of prisoners of conscience.
Last night, I joined Mum for a candlelit vigil in her back garden, along with a half dozen other Amnesty volunteers.
You can find out more about Amnesty's work at: www.amnesty.org.uk/
Manif contre la loi Yadan à Nîmes, samedi 11 avril 2026.
La proposition de loi Yadan doit être examinée par l’Assemblée nationale entre les 16 et 17 avril prochains, il faut signer la pétition ...
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-5158
La loi Yadan, officiellement intitulée « Proposition de loi visant à lutter contre les formes renouvelées de l'antisémitisme », est un texte législatif français déposé par la députée macroniste Caroline Yadan, visant à interdire toute critique de la politique menée par l'extrême-droite israélienne au pouvoir en Israël.
I was walking around Melbourne and found this wonderful artwork on a brick wall. I later found out this was the building for Amnesty International. I am really impressed with this work.
Photograph by; Rouben Dickranian
At the east end of Salisbury Cathedral are the striking blue windows of the 'Prisoners of Conscience'.
The designation of these windows speaks of a person being obedient to deeply held conscientious convictions about what is right and true and speaks of the consequences for many who have stood firm in their obedience to their moral convictions, consequences in the form of actual imprisonment, torture and death.
Under the windows, an Amnesty International Candle burns and each morning at 7.30am the Cathedral Community gather in prayer for Amnesty International’s Prisoner of Conscience for that month. Amnesty International work to protect, women, men and children wherever freedom, truth and dignity are denied. With over 3 million members worldwide, they are the worlds’ largest grassroots human rights organization.
Beneath the deep blue 'Prisoners of Conscience' window in the Trinity Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral is the Amnesty Candle (also known as the 'Prisoners of Conscience' candle). Designed by Simon Beer, it burns continuously in ongoing remembrance of all people imprisoned and deprived of human rights at this very moment.
First they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Catholic.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Poem by Martin Niemöller
ODC - Theme (14-08-2013): Quiet
Dutch Amnesty International office in Amsterdam. Beautiful colored windows made for a great nighttime picture. Also called "Coymans House", the building was designed in 1625 by a famous Dutch architect (Jacob van Campen). I didn't know what this building was when I photographed it, though I did recognize the Amnesty logo and a few of the well-known dissident profiles, so I took an educated guess on google and sure enough. I don't know if this is an ongoing display or I just got lucky but a quick search did not turn up any other pictures.
Kaffeine and Adnate for Amnesty International's Write for Rights Campaign. The wall represents one of the campaign's previous success stories. Yorm Bopha was wrongfully imprisoned for peacefully protesting against the forced eviction of her Cambodian community; she was released after 250,000 letters were written to the authorities via the W4R campaign. The simple act of writing a letter can make a huge difference to those currently being denied their human rights. Write a letter to help others who are still wrongfully imprisoned, like Phyoe Phyoe from Myanmar, visit Phyoe #W4R to help.
This impressive and very moving statue, also known as the National Monument against Violence and Aggression, has currently stopped off in Northampton on it's National Tour. It stands in All Saints Plaza right in the middle of the town, The statue is mainly made of knives collected during police amnesties. It is illuminated at night.
The artist is Alfie Bradley.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Angel
www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/show-areas/the-knife-ange...
Sanaa and Mona Seif, sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, an imprisoned Egyptian-British democracy activist on hunger strike, talk to the press outside Britain's Foreign Office.
Alaa is over 200 days into his 100 calorie a day hunger strike in prison in Egypt. A candle-light vigil is planned for this Sunday 6 November at 4 pm opposite 10 Downing Street.
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
Alaa's two sisters, Mona and Sana'a Seif, are currently 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 begins to focus on the upcoming COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
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...
Nessie says - I can stay, right?
A page-turner about the dillema of an illegal Sri Lankan in Australia
The leaflet that came with the Zeiss orange filter said that a factor of 5 (ca. 2.5 EV) should be taken into account, which is what I did despite initial doubts. It looks to me as if this was right after all. The photo was shot using the selenium meter on the camera. This is only the second roll I ever shot with the Contaflex IV and the third I ever shot with any Contaflex. So I qualify as a bona fide novice and I was a bit worried that advanced stuff such as B&W photography with filters might still be over my head.
I have created a new Flickr group dedicated exclusively to the Zeiss Ikon Contaflex line ---> click here
Zeiss Ikon Contaflex IV with Tessar 50mm f/2.8 with original orange filter (5x)
Kodak TMAX 400 B&W negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Ce 20 juin, à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, la section belge d’Amnesty International lance une vidéo réalisée à Bruxelles se basant sur la théorie du psychologue Arthur Aron selon laquelle un contact visuel ininterrompu de quatre minutes accroît l’intimité et rapproche les personnes. Ces rencontres empreintes d’humanité ont été filmées par l’agence DoubleDouble qui en a réalisé un clip de quatre minutes.
Ce 20 juin, à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, la section belge d’Amnesty International lance une vidéo réalisée à Bruxelles se basant sur la théorie du psychologue Arthur Aron selon laquelle un contact visuel ininterrompu de quatre minutes accroît l’intimité et rapproche les personnes. Ces rencontres empreintes d’humanité ont été filmées par l’agence DoubleDouble qui en a réalisé un clip de quatre minutes.
Deputy Police Commissioner Jim Battle with some of the weapons.
Police across the North West received over 800 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition during the ‘Give Up The Gun’ firearms surrender.
The haul includes a number of live and deactivated weapons including rifles, shotguns, handguns and air weapons as well as some imitation and antique firearms. The most unusual items include a replica AK-47, a number of wartime relics and a Smith & Wesson pistol.
The surrender ran from 4 April – 18 April 2016, where six police forces asked members of the public to surrender unlawfully held or unwanted guns and ammunition, to help prevent them getting into the wrong hands.
The surrender gave the public the chance to dispose of firearms or ammunition quickly and anonymously by simply taking it to a local police station and handing it in. During that period, those surrendering firearms did not face prosecution for the illegal possession. A total of 836 weapons were surrendered across all counties.
In Greater Manchester, 221 weapons were handed over, with thousands of rounds of ammunition yet to be counted.
GMP Assistant Chief Constable John O’Hare (pictured) said:
“The 2016 firearm surrender was a remarkable success and I am delighted that we have managed to remove over 220 weapons from the streets of Greater Manchester.
"The surrender may be over, but our commitment to tackle gun crime is not. There will be continued efforts from GMP, our colleagues across the North West and our partners as we work together to safeguard, educate and intervene at the earliest opportunity."
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said:
“Guns bring devastation, causing serious injury, fatalities and misery to families and communities so every weapon and piece of ammunition taken off the street is to be welcomed. These weapons are now in safe hands and out of the hands of criminals.
“I want to thank those people of Greater Manchester who have come forward to surrender weapons and ammunition and play a vital role in making our communities safer.
“The success of the surrender sends out a clear message that guns have no place in our communities and while the surrender may be over, we will continue to work together with local people to achieve our ambition of safer, gun-free streets.”
Greater Manchester Police works closely with the firearms licensing department and license holders to support the hundreds of law abiding citizens who already own firearms safely and legally.
ACC O’Hare added:
“This is about tackling gun crime. If you are a license holder or qualified collector of firearms, please conduct regular checks to ensure your weapons are secured and cannot be tampered with.”
Members of the public can always hand weapons to the police, whether license holders or otherwise. If a weapon is discovered during a house clearance or inherited or found, do not wait for a campaign like this to get it off the streets – trained staff will always be on hand to secure unwanted weapons. Just call your local police enquiry desk or 101 for assistance.
Full breakdown for NW (weapons surrendered, exc ammunition):
Greater Manchester: 221
Merseyside: 140
Lancashire: 139
North Wales: 116
Cheshire: 127
Cumbria: 93
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
An exhibition for Amnesty International
Sabato 8 Marzo dalle ore 18.30
presso il Paradiso Perduto
fond. misericordia Venezia
"IL PARADISO DELLE DONNE"
serata dedicata alla campagna "Mai Più" di Amnesty International, intervengono Liliana Cereda, proiezione documentario Amnesty, mostra fotografica personale di Pat Ferro e Margherita Bertoldo.
Examen de fin d'année
C'est le rituel de fin d'année (ou de début d'année suivante) : avant d'archiver, passer en revue les scans de l'année qui se termine, faire un dernier editing des images laissées de côté, celles restées en format tiff, les exporter en jg et au passage en réhabiliter quelques unes, quitte à pratiquer un recadrage 'massif', radical (je suis de ces amateurs qui n'hésitent pas à recadrer, tant pis pour HCB :) ).
l'scrizione è gratuita.
(stiamo inserendo su flickr tutte le foto dello scorso concorso. Se volete vederle - a parte le vincitrici, stiamo andando in ordine alfabetico - cercate amnestygenova www.flickr.com/photos/78048919@N02/page2/ )