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A view of modern streets with grafitti on the buildings from a window in Fort San Cristóbal.
Castillo San Cristóbal
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Love these old colonial buildings in Downtown Lima. Taken in Rimac, Lima, Peru, South America.
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Jen leads the way: steady stride, sensible hat, and a backpack that’s probably packed better than your entire life. This isn’t just a jungle walk, it’s a slow-motion encounter with time. The light breaks through in patches, soft and high-contrast. Ahead: Indigenous Kogi families in full white, beachgoers in activewear, and the ghost of colonialism lurking just off frame. Tayrona does not do neutral ground.
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Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast
Why do Russians Support Putin? | Konstantin Kisin
'F--- the war!' Russians defiantly chant against war in St Petersburg concert
Stand with Ukraine!
Stop Putin now!
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Romanian democratic solidarity with Ukraine against Putin autocracy and resentment in the center of Bucharest, on the walls of the former royal palace.
MNAR
National Art Museum of Romania (former Royal Palace)
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Category: Palaces
Period: 1928-1937-1947
Importance: A
LMI code: B-II-m-A-19856
Address: Calea Victoriei 49-53 sector 1
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Romania
Initial plans by architects Paul Gottereau and Karl Liman
Additional works by architects N.N. Nenciulescu, Karl Liman and Arthur Lorentz
Palatul Regal, azi Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României
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Categorie: Palate
Perioada: 1928-1937-1947
Importanta: A
Cod LMI: B-II-m-A-19856
Adresa: Calea Victoriei 49-53 sector 1
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
Romania
Planuri initiale: arh. Paul Gottereau si Karl Liman. Lucrari de reconstructie si extindere dupa incendiul din 1926: arh. N.N. Nenciulescu, Karl Liman si Arthur Lorentz.
One of the many Spanish-era churches in the city of Cusco. The city is essentially the gateway to the Sacred Valley and onto Machu Picchu. The 11,200 ft elevation can bother some people, so you may have to take that into account. Cusco was the center of power for the Incas, and a fascinating city to walk around. The ridiculousness of colonialism comes alive, whereby the churches were built right on top of the foundations of the Inca fortresses.
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The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.
A blog I have written on Gorée Island
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The beautiful Hastings Building (1890) in Port Townsend, WA -- always a pleasure and challenge to photograph
Sunlight flares through the large bronze statue of King Phillip III in the centre of Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
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The building that has been destroyed in front of that with the "Colonialism" art used to have wonderful painting by Guido Van Helten. It was viciously painted over by the people leasing the building, who then left. And now the building has been removed.
Autumn 2022 this mural has been removed.
The colourful St. Michaels Chapel in the centre of Macau.
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The interesting green St. Michaels Chapel (image above) & cemetery we stumbled upon in the centre of centre of Macau.
St. Michaels Chapel
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Pulicat is located on the Coromandel Coast, about 60Km north of Chennai. As a prominent Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century, this small town boats of a vibrant and diverse cultural tradition. However, the history of this region is not limited to the Dutch colonialism alone; the Arabs, the Portuguese and the British established their stronghold in Pulicat at different times.
Apart from the historical and cultural importance, this tiny seashore town has an amazing scenic beauty. Pulicat offers an invigorating and thrilling experience of expedition. Among travelers, Pulicat is best known for two things: Pulicat Lake and Pulicat Bird Sanctuary. The lake in Pulicat is regarded as the second largest brackish water body in India and attracts thousands of tourists every year.
The Santa Lucia hill in downtown Santiago de Chile, a landmark historical site where the city was founded by the Spanish colony in 1541 by the conquistador Pedro de Valdivia as an 8x10 blocks grid.
Shortly after establishing Santiago, Valdivia proceeded to the south of Chile and launched a large scale war against the native people, leaving Santiago unprotected and in the hands of his own mistress, Ines de Suarez.
When on September 11 of 1541 the Picunche natives attacked the city, Suarez ordered the indiscriminate execution of all native prisoners. The Europeans then proceeded to behead them and place their heads on pikes and to throw the heads toward the attacking locals who fled in terror in the face of the barbaric act, similar to what the French would practice in the 20th century in Algeria and Morocco with its Foreign Legion mercenaries, or even more recently by NATO in Syria with its ISIS/Qaeda/Nusra/HTS mercenaries.
The city was saved in this way but one could argue the war against the native Mapuche people continues until this day, a contrast to the swift defeats suffered by the much larger and more technologically equipped Inca and Aztec empires.
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Pulicat is located on the Coromandel Coast, about 60Km north of Chennai. As a prominent Dutch settlement in the seventeenth century, this small town boats of a vibrant and diverse cultural tradition. However, the history of this region is not limited to the Dutch colonialism alone; the Arabs, the Portuguese and the British established their stronghold in Pulicat at different times.
Apart from the historical and cultural importance, this tiny seashore town has an amazing scenic beauty. Pulicat offers an invigorating and thrilling experience of expedition. Among travelers, Pulicat is best known for two things: Pulicat Lake and Pulicat Bird Sanctuary. The lake in Pulicat is regarded as the second largest brackish water body in India and attracts thousands of tourists every year.
Lost beauty is a critical poem written by Jwani Mwaikusa (1952-2010) that clearly depicts the effects both colonialism and neo-colonialism have had on Africans and African culture in general.
LOST BEAUTY
By Jwani Mwaikusa
There are only white women around:
Awful fakes of white females
Reflecting an awful mass of ugliness:
And I want a lady
To mount the rostrum with
And announce to the world:
“Black is beautiful!”
Yes,
I want a black beauty queen
With ebony thighs and huge hips
With skin sweating blackness
And a face dark as the night
And bare breasts bouncing
Vigour and energy.
But my eyes, oh my eyes!
They don’t see anything black;
It’s only white skins and masks
Flashing past and slashing,
Destroying my sight so
I can’t get what I want.
I cry and sing to them
The inbred tune of our people,
I shout to them in the black tongue
But no black sister hears me;
Only white masks I see.
I turn and weep upon myself
And then, only then I realize:
I am not black either.
The conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was a small but significant victory in our struggle for police accountability, justice and equality. Real social change in America can only begin with an honest analysis of the history of settler colonialism, systemic racism and white supremacy, and its toxic legacy of chronic poverty, inequality and social despair. While the trial of Chauvin is over, our struggle for justice and social equality is not. We will continue to move forward until justice truly prevails. Rest in Power, George Floyd!
Born in Nigeria and now based in Antwerp, Otobong Nkanga explores the contested social and political histories of colonialism, with a particular focus on the relationship between Africa and the Western world. She does this through performance, drawing, photography, and installation—examining how raw minerals are transported through various covert economies and how they are transformed into desirable consumer objects.
Nkanga is fascinated with what she has referred to as “glimmer” and “shine,” the surface qualities of natural resources such as mica, a mineral that is used in makeup and turned into an object of seduction. This interest has led the artist far and wide, studying the intense mining of the world’s natural resources since the rise of late capitalism. One of the primary means by which the artist’s interest manifests is through the body. In Nkanga’s works on paper and her tapestries, the body becomes a border implicated within the field of mining.
Nkanga acts as a cultural anthropologist—tracing the violent means by which contested minerals and objects are exhumed from their natural environments, such as Nigeria and Namibia—and considers how they are transported to the West. Through her work, the artist re-imagines our relationship to our everyday environment.
The iconic nine arches Bridge in Ella, Sri Lanka. The Nine Arch Bridge also called the Bridge in the Sky, is a bridge in Sri Lanka. It is one of the best examples of colonial-era railway construction in the country.
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Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast
Why do Russians Support Putin? | Konstantin Kisin
'F--- the war!' Russians defiantly chant against war in St Petersburg concert
Stand with Ukraine!
Stop Putin now!
.
photo:
Romanian democratic solidarity with Ukraine against Putin autocracy and resentment in the center of Bucharest, on the walls of the former royal palace.
MNAR
National Art Museum of Romania (former Royal Palace)
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Na...
Category: Palaces
Period: 1928-1937-1947
Importance: A
LMI code: B-II-m-A-19856
Address: Calea Victoriei 49-53 sector 1
Location: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
District: Bucuresti
Region: Muntenia
Romania
Initial plans by architects Paul Gottereau and Karl Liman
Additional works by architects N.N. Nenciulescu, Karl Liman and Arthur Lorentz
Palatul Regal, azi Muzeul Naţional de Artă al României
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/ro/Pa...
Categorie: Palate
Perioada: 1928-1937-1947
Importanta: A
Cod LMI: B-II-m-A-19856
Adresa: Calea Victoriei 49-53 sector 1
Localitate: municipiul BUCUREŞTI
Judet: Bucuresti
Regiune: Muntenia
Romania
Planuri initiale: arh. Paul Gottereau si Karl Liman. Lucrari de reconstructie si extindere dupa incendiul din 1926: arh. N.N. Nenciulescu, Karl Liman si Arthur Lorentz.
Japanese decorative teapot decorated in the style of Satsuma Ware.
A whole mess of colonialism wrapped up in one teapot.
Bark Hut Inn Bat Woman Arrives
Brutally dispossessed
Placed onto a reserve
Promised rations
To deter the minority
From becoming the majority
All stand-down when Batwoman enters the room
Imagined realities
Perspective from darkness
Obsessions, failure, and virtue
Anxieties, fear, and panic
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I went to see Hew Locke’s The Procession at the Tate Britain a few days ago - it was wonderful! It was inspired by the processions that we take part in as part of the cycle of life to protest, celebrate, mourn, and escape but was also a comment and critique on Henry Tate a sugar baron who was the founder of Tate Britain.
Grande manifestation contre l'Extrême-droite et le racisme, à Paris (d'autres manifestations avaient lieu dans toute la France)
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Major demonstration against the extreme right and racism, in Paris (other demonstrations took place throughout France)
This museum, founded in the early twentieth century to preserve Khmer art, houses many of the extraordinary Khmer Empire treasures that somehow survived the six or twelve centuries since their creation, including the modern looting and smuggling that grew out of colonialism followed by the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge. No photos are allowed of the exhibits, but the building, which barely survived this latter menace, is itself a work of art. National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.
After the black niggers of Leopold II, the white niggers of Albert II
---- I am a white nigger ! ----
(acrylic on canvas - 2000, 70 x 100 cm)"
white niggers" by Jan Theuninck, 2000
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Paul Bilhaud.(1854-1933) :
« Combat de nègres dans une cave pendant la nuit. »
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this is NOT against Belgium or the King or black people
doorbraak.be/zietdaar-zwarte-broeders-het-lot-dat-u-te-wa... anno 1885
het koloniale mo(nu)ment - Marte Van Hassel
www.academia.edu/36283895/Het_Koloniale_Mo_nu_ment
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PAPIRAC
The real post-war power
is still the one of the "Uebermenschen"
and this "democracy" can’t be realized
but on the back of the "Untermenschen" !
© by Jan Theuninck
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
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Berlin. 2018.
"Black lives matter".
Thorsten Strasas. - Wien | Berlin. - Photographers in Solidarity.
Mount TBR shrunk a bit in November, though some were quick reads.
The one that gave me most cause for reflection was Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, a childhood in Africa, lent to me by a friend who spent her childhood in Zimbabwe.
The English version of the Paasilinna is The Best Village in the World, it is set in the future but which in this case ends in 2023.
Faulks took me to parts of Paris that I'm not familiar with: next time I go I must visit the Butte-aux-Cailles.
The Botanist's Daughter reminded me of the long-ago days when I worked on scientific journals and among them, The Journal of Ethnopharmacology, which was always fascinating.
My second monthly reading photo explored, which I don't understand, I have much better photos!
Many years ago, I was influenced by OIF-Retread's figbarf called "Stepsons of the Empire" (www.flickr.com/photos/18757534@N05/16484084873/in/photoli...), and it opened my eyes as to what was possible within the world of Lego Pirates.
So here is my own take, based on the colonial troops of the British Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
From left to right: soldiers of the West India Regiments, Sepoys of the British Raj, Highlanders, and Iroquois warriors.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian people take to the streets of Tehran and millions nationwide annually to express support for their country's Islamic Revolution, a national day of emancipation from East and West and putting an end to the unfair and racist monarchic system.
Some quotes from Moorhead Kennedy, one of the 53 American hostages of the US Embassy in Tehran, from his book "The Ayatollah in the Cathedral":
"I felt caught up in the euphoria of the Revolution, of people not only free of the oppression of the Shah, but after decades of enforced Westernization, free to be Iranians again, and to make all things new."
"A retired teacher berated us for condoning the conduct of our captors. Barry Rosen replied, "We are not making excuses for them, but there is reason to think that the Iranians have had a social revolution of great profundity. It was clearly one of the most broad-range revolutions of the twentieth century."
Our experience was [indeed] a side product of a social revolution of "great profundity". It induced in a number of us an equally profound psychological revolution. Even in captivity, I had begun to wonder by what means a similar and overdue revolution might be induced in the thinking of our fellow Americans."
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Join us for a discussion on the Indigenous heritage of T’karonto and Turtle Island, and learn about the inherent rights and intimate relationships of First Nations peoples to these ecosystems. This land-based educational session will be led by a critical Indigenous perspective on the impact of colonialism.
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The beautiful Loretto Convent building sitting atop Catholic Hill in downtown Guelph dates back to 1853 when the original section was completed. An addition added in 1872 and finally two additional floors and a new roof in 1896. The building houses a Catholic School, the first in the country in the early days run by the nuns. With the girls taking classes in the convent while the boys took their classes in the Rectory. The school became so popular that two proper schools were errected, St. Agnes (previous photo) and St. Stanislaus (Demolished and replaced in 1977). The convent would close in 1996 and in 2012 reopen after extensive restoration and renovation as the Guelph Civic Museum. The sisters of Loretto still maintain a presence in Guelph.
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LegacyPro Mic-X (Stock) 10:45 @ 20C (Constant Rotation)
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Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
The third and final installment in the trilogy of videos from The Holy Beauty Project is finally online, one year after its production and official presentation at Saint Claire’s Church Museum in Bogotá, Colombia, and one month after being showcased at the third annual Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, which took place at the iconic Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. Watch it here: vimeo.com/44985274.
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**ESPAÑOL: El tercero y último de la trilogía de videos The Holy Beauty Project ya está en linea, un año después de su realización y presentación oficial en el Museo Iglesia Santa Clara de Bogotá, y un mes después de haber sido presentado en el tercer Festival de Video Arte & Experimental, que tuvo lugar en el reconocido Tribeca Cinemas de Nueva York. Ya pueden ver la versión completa del video aquí: vimeo.com/44985274
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This is one of the many iconic guard towers along the city walls of San Juan. On this particular day, a rain storm was rolling in so I got these magnificent clouds behind the fortress walls.
Castillo San Cristóbal
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Description: Stanley, a newspaper reporter and tireless self-promoter, was hired by the New York Herald to find the missing Livingstone in 1871, winning himself wealth and reputation.
Creator/Photographer: London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
Medium: Carte-de-visite
Dimensions: 4 in x 2.5 in
Date: 1872
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: Russell E. Train Africana Collection - The Russell E. Train Africana Collection includes approximately 2,000 books and an extensive array of manuscripts, photographs, watercolors, sketches, maps, newspaper clippings, artifacts and other ephemera ranging from the late 18th to mid-20th centuries, with a concentration on items relating to early British and American explorers. The famous missionary David Livingstone and journalist Henry Stanley, as well as President Theodore Roosevelt, a renowned conservationist of his time, are well represented with numerous books by and about them, manuscript letters, privately printed materials, dozens of photographs and other ephemera. Some of the published books in the collection are presentation copies autographed by the author, while others have original artwork or engravings.
Gift line: Gift of Russell E. Train
Accession number: SIL28-277-01
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