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"γενική απεργία" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
I've been noticing some harrowing graffiti around Sacramento, apparently by the same artist; some seem to be tributes to people who have died on the streets, and others are distress signals, and a few even include a little ray of hope. I'll keep an eye peeled for more of these and chronicle all that I can. I'd love to talk to the artist sometime to learn more about the stories these walls tell.
Silence
Rumors
Gossip
Lies lies
Deceit
Heroin, Class struggle
financial debt, human suffering
All tools used to fuel
Neo-genocide and class, family and social failure
Green "waste"
There were numerous irregularities in the elections in September 2021. German courts have ruled that the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives and the district parliaments must be repeated.
Bei den im September 2021 stattgefundenen Wahlen kam es zu zahlreichen Unregelmäßigkeiten. Deutsche Gerichte entschieden, dass die Wahlen zum Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus und zu den Bezirksparlamenten wiederholt werden müssen.
Berlin-Kreuzberg, Manteuffelstraße
Class War election candidate Adam Clifford canvases in Soho London 11.04.2015
Cross-dressing Class War election candidate for the City of London & Westminster Adam Clifford held a colourful political canvassing parade through the streets of Soho, loudly and humourously condemning the gentrification of Soho which, he claims, is rapidly erasing the proud counter-cultural history of the area with pop-up boutiques, endless hipster cake shops and ownership by faceless foreign corporations. Working class residents, sex workers and many independent traders in Soho are being forced out of the area by evictions and rising rents as landlords and property developers clamour to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor who are being dislocated and purged from London's most vibrant district.
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I got up at stupid-o-clock to catch a coach from Bradford and joined tens of thousands on Saturday 20th June to march against austerity in London. Making the poorest and most vulnerable pay for problems created by the rich is plain wrong and stupid. We should be protecting our people and services, not cutting and culling them.
"GENERALI STRAJK" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"GENERAL STRIKE" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"NO AUSTERITY" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
Haringey Defend Council Housing – Monthly Update
Estate renewal plans: Our rights are at risk
The Council has a new Draft Estate renewal re-housing and payments policy.
This states that the Council will aim to offer secure tenants the option of returning to a new permanent home on their estate 'where possible’. But there are no guarantees. Secure tenants would only be guaranteed another permanent tenancy if they remain council tenants – and we think this would most likely mean moving to a home on another, non-regenerated council estate.
We think that new homes on the renewal estates would most likely be owned by a private registered provider (housing association), in which case new tenancies might be permanent, or fixed-term, depending on the providers’ own policy.
There is no mention of the rents and service charges that would be charged for the new homes, and this is a major issue (see below). There is also no mention of the new Joint Venture company that the council is setting up to run some of the renewal estates, and the type of tenancies that it might offer: these might ‘not be secure tenancies, but rather private rented properties let at secure or affordable rents’ – whatever that may mean.
The Council’s present policy puts our housing rights at risk. Housing Associations are pushing for market-rents and time-limited tenancies, and the developer interests behind these demolition plans are pushing in the same direction.
The draft policy is out for consultation, ending on 17th January, and we will be responding formally.
We need a written guarantee or Charter, with a right to return to new homes on the renewal estates, with new council tenancies, on the same terms as at present, and with no rent or service charge increases.
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For more background on Haringey's proposals to knock down and rebuild council estates at "higher densities", check out 'Recommendations for living at Superdensity' on YouTube. This short film is based on a high-level report by four leading London architectural practices:
Here are some of the problems the film raises for tenants whose homes are to be demolished:
1. ‘High service charges are a significant part of the management plan, and these costs rise rapidly with density'.
2. Poor Doors: ‘Often the affordable homes are in separate blocks, with a different appearance to the private sale homes’. The accompanying report recommends separate entrances for tenants and owners. This is snobbery and social exclusion.
3. There can be Lettings Plans to limit the number of children on the estates, and limit the number of tenants who are unemployed or long-term sick. Inequality and social exclusion yet again.
These schemes are explicitly designed for the benefit and expectations of middle income families.
Councils might be able to limit some of these potential problems, at least for a few years, but sadly there is no indication of Haringey even trying to do so; not yet, anyway.
It is all the very opposite of council housing with its objective of providing housing for the people. We have been warned.
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Exploring extreme options
We made a Freedom of Information request for a Haringey Options Appraisal about the future of the 1,000 homes at the Noel Park estate. The request was refused – because apparently, council officers need to be able to consider the ‘unthinkable’, and ‘explore extreme options’ in private.
This is scandalous, because residents should be involved and have all the facts from an early stage of any process of decision-making about our homes. We are appealing the decision and hope to have more information soon.
Press coverage:
There was some good coverage of our campaign in the Tottenham and Wood Green Independent. We are being listened to in some quarters at least:
"http://www.thetottenhamindependent.co.uk/news/14102854.Campaigners_urge_people_to__stand_up_and_fight_the_Tories__at_council_meeting/"
The Morning Star wrote:
"http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fb42-Councils-plan-for-social-cleansing-sparks-fury"
…and the housing news website 24dash ran the story too:
"http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2015-11-23-Haringey-council-tenants-protest-against-social-cleansing"
Kind regards
Paul Burnham
Secretary
Haringey Defend Council Housing
07847 714 158
haringey_dch@outlook.com
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"PIIGS SAY NO" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"HUELGA GENERAL" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"grève générale" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"SCIOPERO GENERALE" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"FOLGA XERAL" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
"MERCKELonomics?" Protest placard artwork - A2, 300 dpi. 59.4cm x 42.0 cm
For free use on Nov. 14th 2012 European Trade Union Confederation protests and general strike marches.
Original artwork and other political paintings can be seen at www.kayamarart.com
When the weirs are wide open at the 5th Ave Dam and the tide starts rolling out again, the water in Capitol Lake filled with sediments from a swollen Deschutes River really starts moving swiftly.
www.constantinroman.com/continentaldrift/english/preface....
There were only 60 places nation-wide for the school of Architecture in Bucharest, in the "People's Republic (later the Socialist Republic) of Romania, a country of some 20 million people.
Each year the number of applicants were in the upper hundreds, an average of 10 to 15 candidates for each place.
The exams were structured in two groups: a first tier the "technical drawing test" such as this, where the applicant was given five hours to enlarge by 150% a picture showing a classical order (see above) and to draw it to scale in ink.
The second test involved also a classical drawing, this time from a plaster cast and it had to be drawn in pencil on a large piece of paper some 20 inches by 30 inches.
Those who would pass the first two tests were admitted to the second tier of tests which involved both written and oral maths and physics exams.
In addition to the above there was a quantum based on social and political positive discrimination in favour of the children from peasant and working class background and of those children whose parents were part of the communist party apparatus.
In addition, if for example you had a close family member in prison, or exiled in the West, or if your family had their house, land or business nationalised/expropriated, than you might just as well not have a hope in hell to become an architect in Romania!
Note that in secondary schools the national curriculum was not geared to the level required for admission to the School of Architecture in Bucharest, so parents had to pay "blood money" for private tuition, in order to improve their children chance at passing the disqualifying tests. Private tuition was nearly unaffordable in a communist society, where wages were at the survival level (except for the communist fat cats) and it was the privilege of a restricted circle of academics from the school of Architecture to profit financially from such a corrupt system by preparing the candidates for the exams!
The chances of any child whose parents were from the professional middle classes and were not communist party card-holders to be admitted at the school were absolutely NIL.
Finally the privileged few who were admitted to the school, selected on positive discrimination criteria, had later on, during their professional life, the opportunity, at best, to build chicken coops and grain silos for state farms, concrete tenements in the cities for the under dogs and especially the task of razing to the ground historical monuments, churches, city centres and villages in order to make room for the dictator's pharaonic ideas of planning architecture during the dark ages of the 1970s and 1980s.
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"Rebekah Brooks must go" chant protesters at News International HQ - London 08.07.2011
'Class War' anarchist Ian Bone mockingly offers a bribe to bemused-but-self-conscious police outside News International in Wapping
A small-but-dedicated group of protesters descended on the London headquarters of News International in Wapping the day after Rupert Murdoch's News International announced that they were closing down the troubled News of The World newspaper after this coming Sunday's final edition, as their piecemeal response to the phone-hacking scandal which has spectacularly exposed the fact that not only were News of The World (NoTW) journalists at one time commissioning private investigators to obtain thousands of people's mobile phone numbers so their messages and conversations could be spied on, ranging from celebrities, politicians, murdered children and grieving military families to name but a few, but that the NoTW had also been making illegal payments to members of the Metropolitan Police Force to obtain confidential information on the paper's intended victims.
The protesters kept the assembled journalists, photographers and news crews entertained with several light-hearted stunts including waving £10 and £20 notes at the police who had arrived and asking them for confidential information, the handing out of satirical £55 Bank of Wapping banknotes, and handing round Fox's biscuits - a dig at Fox News in the USA.
The activists also demanded an immediate stop to News International's ongoing bid to take 100% ownership of satellite TV company BSkyB. This with came true yesterday after News International announced they were dropping the bid.
Also protesting were several ex-journalists and print-workers who had suffered under Rupert Murdoch's ruthless war with the old Fleet Street print unions in the early 1980's. Others were there to show their disgust at the behaviour of Rupert Murdoch and his family, the destruction of old-style investigative reporting in the print media, and the loss of their pension schemes which happened when a previous Conservative government legislated to allow corporations to raid their employees' pension funds - an exercise in sheer corporate malice which started when the late Robert Maxwell stole the Daily Mirror employees pension fund.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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I got up at stupid-o-clock to catch a coach from Bradford and joined tens of thousands on Saturday 20th June to march against austerity in London. Making the poorest and most vulnerable pay for problems created by the rich is plain wrong and stupid. We should be protecting our people and services, not cutting and culling them.
Class War election candidate Adam Clifford canvases in Soho London 11.04.2015
Cross-dressing Class War election candidate for the City of London & Westminster Adam Clifford held a colourful political canvassing parade through the streets of Soho, loudly and humourously condemning the gentrification of Soho which, he claims, is rapidly erasing the proud counter-cultural history of the area with pop-up boutiques, endless hipster cake shops and ownership by faceless foreign corporations. Working class residents, sex workers and many independent traders in Soho are being forced out of the area by evictions and rising rents as landlords and property developers clamour to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor who are being dislocated and purged from London's most vibrant district.
All photos © 2015 Pete Riches
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On October 14, the "cleaning" of Zuccotti Park by Brookfield and Mayor Bloomberg was postponed by the owners of the plaza. Occupy Wall Street protesters responded with a victorious march through the lower Manhattan area, and emotions ran high throughout the morning.
The F**ck Parade .. 26 Sep 2015
A Protest against the Gentrification of the Shoreditch Area of London.
I got up at stupid-o-clock to catch a coach from Bradford and joined tens of thousands on Saturday 20th June to march against austerity in London. Making the poorest and most vulnerable pay for problems created by the rich is plain wrong and stupid. We should be protecting our people and services, not cutting and culling them.
16/04/2016: An estimated 150,000 people marched through Central London to protest against government austerity policies which are having serious impacts on public health, housing, employment, wages and education. Organised by The People's Assembly, the "March for Health, Homes, Jobs & Education" protesters represented junior doctors, nurses, NHS workers, teachers, students, firefighters, disability rights and welfare rights campaigners, local government employees and a wide cross section of aggrieved citizens who claim that they are being unjustly impoverished by an uncaring Conservative government which is purposefully dismantling public services and handing them to private capital to fund tax relief for the wealthiest.
An extra post-Panama Papers data leak flavour prevailed at the protest with many people carrying "Dodgy Dave" placards - a reference to Prime Minister David Cameron's recent painfully drawn-out admission over four days that he has personally benefitted from the use of offshore tax havens set up by his late father.
All photos © Pete Riches
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Class War election candidate Adam Clifford canvases in Soho London 11.04.2015
Cross-dressing Class War election candidate for the City of London & Westminster Adam Clifford held a colourful political canvassing parade through the streets of Soho, loudly and humourously condemning the gentrification of Soho which, he claims, is rapidly erasing the proud counter-cultural history of the area with pop-up boutiques, endless hipster cake shops and ownership by faceless foreign corporations. Working class residents, sex workers and many independent traders in Soho are being forced out of the area by evictions and rising rents as landlords and property developers clamour to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor who are being dislocated and purged from London's most vibrant district.
All photos © 2015 Pete Riches
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Class War election candidate Adam Clifford canvases in Soho London 11.04.2015
Cross-dressing Class War election candidate for the City of London & Westminster Adam Clifford held a colourful political canvassing parade through the streets of Soho, loudly and humourously condemning the gentrification of Soho which, he claims, is rapidly erasing the proud counter-cultural history of the area with pop-up boutiques, endless hipster cake shops and ownership by faceless foreign corporations. Working class residents, sex workers and many independent traders in Soho are being forced out of the area by evictions and rising rents as landlords and property developers clamour to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor who are being dislocated and purged from London's most vibrant district.
All photos © 2015 Pete Riches
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16/04/2016: An estimated 150,000 people marched through Central London to protest against government austerity policies which are having serious impacts on public health, housing, employment, wages and education. Organised by The People's Assembly, the "March for Health, Homes, Jobs & Education" protesters represented junior doctors, nurses, NHS workers, teachers, students, firefighters, disability rights and welfare rights campaigners, local government employees and a wide cross section of aggrieved citizens who claim that they are being unjustly impoverished by an uncaring Conservative government which is purposefully dismantling public services and handing them to private capital to fund tax relief for the wealthiest.
An extra post-Panama Papers data leak flavour prevailed at the protest with many people carrying "Dodgy Dave" placards - a reference to Prime Minister David Cameron's recent painfully drawn-out admission over four days that he has personally benefitted from the use of offshore tax havens set up by his late father.
All photos © Pete Riches
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These images are now available from International Photo Media picture agency.
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Class War election candidate Adam Clifford canvases in Soho London 11.04.2015
Cross-dressing Class War election candidate for the City of London & Westminster Adam Clifford held a colourful political canvassing parade through the streets of Soho, loudly and humourously condemning the gentrification of Soho which, he claims, is rapidly erasing the proud counter-cultural history of the area with pop-up boutiques, endless hipster cake shops and ownership by faceless foreign corporations. Working class residents, sex workers and many independent traders in Soho are being forced out of the area by evictions and rising rents as landlords and property developers clamour to increase their wealth at the expense of the poor who are being dislocated and purged from London's most vibrant district.
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I got up at stupid-o-clock to catch a coach from Bradford and joined tens of thousands on Saturday 20th June to march against austerity in London. Making the poorest and most vulnerable pay for problems created by the rich is plain wrong and stupid. We should be protecting our people and services, not cutting and culling them.
I got up at stupid-o-clock to catch a coach from Bradford and joined tens of thousands on Saturday 20th June to march against austerity in London. Making the poorest and most vulnerable pay for problems created by the rich is plain wrong and stupid. We should be protecting our people and services, not cutting and culling them.