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Big Daddy Weave, Mark Schultz and Building 429 came to our church for a "Reclaim Our Culture Kentuckiana" Concert. It was to raise the level of decency in our community and to stand together against the growing porn industry.
News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them and link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them without big watermarks on them.
Eagles Of Death Metal w/QOTSA @ OC Fair, Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, CA
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
Look up in the sky overhead in the daylight
And see the clouds formin, somethin doesn't seem right
It's the time for the world to see
A supreme being of extreme delinquency
Of fast pace and idiosyncracy
Of demented measures and tired decency
Of amazing grace, a powerful face
Better than the beings of the human race
During his working visit to Chernivtsi, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with students of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Bukovinian State Medical University and Chernivtsi Institute of Trade and Economic of State University of Trade and Economics.
The Head of State spoke with Ukrainian youth about our country, its future, and the work on the analogy of the Marshall Plan for Ukraine. The President said that the main issue of this plan is the restoration of Ukraine: its energy, technology, and economy. According to preliminary estimates, this will require about $700 billion. However, the amount is not final.
"We do not know the real amounts because the war is not over yet. When it is over, we will analyze everything. Basically, the partners agree that everyone will help rebuild Ukraine, that the amounts are, let's say, understandable and affordable. Let's believe in the decency of our partners and hope that they will accept what they say and not just say it," he noted.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also confident that Ukraine will become a member of the EU and NATO in the coming years.
"NATO is our external defense and, of course, the best security commitment. But I am also convinced that we will strengthen our internal defense. We will strengthen our security at the borders, in the cities, in the communities. In the future, there will be a completely different approach to both security and construction," the President of Ukraine said.
The Head of State added that once the war is over, our country will also pursue the development of various areas of education: medicine, psychology, security, and construction.
Ukraine will need specialists in these fields.
You know when someone annoys you... but beyond reason and need and human decency ... And you tolerate them just to see how far they can (or will) go...
Strobist.
For my face just shoot thru umbrella on camera right. Little above. For her shot, just one bare flash bounced of ceiling. Triggered by rf 602.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sheba Welters, a beautiful African American woman, was stalemated by the 'glass ceiling' after doing battle with corrupt individuals within Mega City's largest civil service agency. She had finally reached the highest administrative position she could attain on her own merits through exams. After that, there were the political appointments.
At the next level, all was fair, no standards of morality, except there wasn't any deed 'too low to go', including murder.
Sheba, hardworking and decent, seemed to be an entity unto herself at work until she meets Bob Dunn, the love of her life. You will meet Agatha Fluddrucker and Violet Gray (Sheba's worst enemies), Emmaline Spenser (miserable from birth to demise), Ilene (who would do anything to get her way), Steve Beck (The boss who grossly abuses his absolute power), Ethel (one of Steve's mistresses), Paul (one of Sheba's admirers) Pearl and Evelyn (vengeful and vicious), Edith and Patricia (Both felt threatened by Sheba's intelligence and decency
Catching up on some back shots from the beginning of the year
On a walk around the Addington Cemetery with a wonderful Flickr friend. February 13, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
There is so much damaged in the cemetery because of the earthquake we have had. It is such a pity as I don' think it will ever be fully repaired.
The Addington Cemetery was established in 1858 when the Scottish Presbyterians of St Andrew’s Church purchased land for a cemetery in Selwyn Street. Although not the first cemetery in Christchurch, Addington was in fact the first “public” cemetery, “being open to all persons of any religious community” and allowing the performance of any religious service “not contrary to public decency”.
The first burial took place on the 10th of November 1858. The cemetery has several persons of note buried within its grounds including activist Kate Sheppard, Christchurch Mayor Tommy Taylor and members of the pioneer family, the Deans.
For More Info:http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/addington-cemetery/
Today i got a feedback. My data analysis is not good. Has to be redone. Thesis has to be submitted in one month. This picture expresses the way i feel. The part of the desk where that pencil wrote actual (bad)words to express the way i feel, has not been included in the photo for the sake of decency. A BIT NERVOUS.
JOURNEY OF THE JEDI #13 OF 25
When Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side, his inherent instincts for decency and mercy became completely submerged. With grim finality, he sought out his fellow Jedi and slaughtered them without a second thought. These dramatic actions created a keenly-felt imbalance in the Force, a sense of elemental disruption that could only be quelled by Anakin's eventual redemption. Luke Skywalker provided the emotional impetus for that years later, restoring galactic balance once again.
NORTHERN DECENCY
Container Ship IMO 9253296 built 2003 Liberia flag
Terminal Maersk port of Algeciras
Spain
Dr. Robert Kolb
Professor of Finance and Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied
Ethics
Loyola University Chicago
Incentive Structures, Duties, and Decency in the Financial Crisis of 2007 and Beyond
A solo piece I photographed for a college project at age 16.
Inspired by the coral reef and mermaid fairy-tales. To create this image I used blue dye in a bath of water, with multi-colour silk clothes for decency. My light source was one flash light directly above and facing the subject.
Model | Alice
A shot I took during the cold snap in January at St Stephen's Green
Constance Georgine Markiewicz, Countess Markiewicz (4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. She was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons, though she did not take her seat and along with the other Sinn Féin TDs formed the first Dáil Éireann. She was also the first woman in Europe to hold a cabinet position (Minister of Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922).
During the Easter Rising of 1916, a group of insurgents made up mainly of members of the Irish Citizen Army, under the command of Commandant Michael Mallin and his second-in-command Constance Markiewicz, established a position in St Stephen's Green. After the failure of the rising, they were taken to Kilmainham Gaol. At her court-martial she told the court, "I did what was right and I stand by it." She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to life in prison on; "account of the prisoner's sex." She told the court, "I do wish your lot had the decency to shoot me".
The Countess was released from prison in 1917 after a general amnesty.
A picture tells a thousand stories.
Film editor Sid Levin wrote in to Morning Stories to express his appreciation for our podcast, and enclosed his mug shot. The Producer and Director of Morning Stories, Tony Kahn, was surprised and delighted.
Dear Tony and Gary,
Because of podcasting, I've been allowed to share some of your experiences and I've grown fond of you both. What a strange and wonderful world we live in.
May I tell you why I sent in my donation to MORNING STORIES?
When I was about five years old, in the late thirties, my older sister and I listened to our favorite radio shows together. We gave ourselves completely to the experience . Eyes wide, we searched each other's faces during the scary parts. It was so much fun to hear these stories on my bedside radio,
Well, MORNING STORIES has brought back that particular pleasure for me. Earlier this week, when I saw George Bush the elder, being moved to tears as he talked about his son, Jeb's, decency I was reminded of a 60 MINUTES interview I saw with the great cartoonist, Charles Shulz shortly before he died. In it, he too was moved to tears by a tender remembrance. And I recognized that I, now in my autumn years, am more easily moved by the decency and reclaimed innocence of those around me. Perhaps it, like puberty, is a requisite stage of life. Which may explain, in part, my passion for MORNING STORIES.
The MORNING STORIES and their construction display the decency and compassion I now find so compelling. The money that I've sent you, a yearly tithe Lord willing, is a token of my appreciation of MORNING STORIES.
Sid Levin
With a week or two of Putin's invasion of Ukraine this message, "No War; Speak Up," appeared on the back of this car window. Now 6 weeks later the letters are fading a bit, but the message about #PutinWarCriminal is just as vivid.
Without talking to the person who wrote the message, it is hard to know if there is a personal connection to Ukraine or Russia, or if a universal feeling of human decency triggered this response advocating "speaking up": to family, neighbors, friends, workmates, elected officials, members of the press, and by using one's own presence in social media, too.
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News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
This is a detail from a group photo which British Intelligence used to identify Seán Treacy. Treacy (pronounced Tracy, like Dick Tracy) was a member of the Irish Volunteers, a militia that was set up in 1914. He and his friend Dan Breen were radicals who worked directly for Michael Collins as salaried gunmen in the intelligence war of 1919 to 1921. They were also leaders in their own rights. Some of their exploits were recounted in western movies by Sergio Leone: the explosives expert, Seán, played by James Coburn in A Fistful of Dynamite was based on him; and the scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly where the bandit Tuco is being mistreated by a thuggish Sergeant Wallace, escorting him to prison on a train, reflects a real incident when one of Treacy's men was being escorted to prison by a Sergeant Wallace...with the exception that Treacy and some men stormed the train and rescued their friend.
Dan Breen described Treacy as both a cool killer and in one particularly funny incident (from before they worked for Collins) as an incredibly softhearted individual:
'During our stay in the new premises [rebel munitions factory], our living conditions were far from happy. Of bodily comforts we had none. We had neither bed nor coverings; worse still, we had no money wherewith to buy them. We got the loan of a couple of blankets from neighbours, spread straw on the ground, and covered it with a blanket. Over this we placed a layer of newspapers, and used a second blanket as a coverlet. The sheets of paper kept us warm, provided we did not shift our position. In this way we were able to get about three hours' sleep. If we moved during the night, the paper got torn and the cold penetrated to our bones.
'Still greater discomfort was caused by the plague of mice! On many a night we were wakened by their nibbling at our hair. Whenever I protested, Seán would plead: "Ah, the poor little creatures! They might as well be happy when we can't. Don't be vexed with them, Dan, even if they take a lock of your black hair." I argued that it was enough to have the Peelers after us, and if the mice had any decency they ought to leave us alone.'
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard with a divided back.
The Korean Gat
The man in the photograph is wearing the traditional Korean gat (Korean: Hunminjeongeum 갓)
A gat is a traditional hat worn by men along with hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) during the Joseon period. It is made from bamboo or horsehair with a bamboo frame, and is partly transparent.
Most gats are cylindrical in shape with a wide brim on a bamboo frame. Before the late 19th. century, only noble class men could wear gat, which represented their social status and protected their topknots.
Robert Neff of the Korean Times has written the following about Korean male headware:
'One of the most important articles of clothing for Koreans in the late 19th. century was the hat. The elderly man with his majestic black horse hair hat, often seen in pictures, is the iconic image of Korean male society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910).
According to Percival Lowell, an American who stayed in Seoul in the winter of 1883-84:
"No Korean can in decency appear
without it [hat], except only to make
room for some other hat."
It was a sign of manhood, "the most essential of attributes," and a badge of one's position in Korean society.
Lowell seemed amused with the difference between Korean and American culture. In the United States it was considered poor manners to wear a hat indoors, and one would rarely remove one's shoes, but the opposite was true in Korea:
"A man would part with any or all of
his clothing sooner than take off his
hat. On entering a house, he leaves
his shoes outside to await his return,
but he and his hat go in together.
As he sits down to eat, he divests
himself of his outer garments that he
may eat with greater freedom, but his
hat stays on; and so it sticks to him
through life ― a permanent black halo."
There were many types of hats. The iconic hat, the gat, was made from horse hair and bamboo and was black and somewhat transparent.
It had a fairly wide brim that in the past, according to popular legend, was much wider as a means of preventing unrest. Because of its wide brim, conspirators were kept apart, and were unable to whisper their plans to one another.
There was also a large mourning hat made from bamboo. It was designed to hide the face of mourners from others they might encounter on the streets. It was considered a grievous breach of etiquette to look into the face of the mourner.
Early French missionaries used the mourning hat to disguise themselves as they traveled the Korean peninsula before the 1880's. They were able to move about in relative secrecy for no one would attempt to communicate with a mourner.
Court officials' hats had slightly bent-forward ear-shaped horizontal wings. It was said they symbolized the wearer's attentiveness and willingness to "catch every word of command that the King may utter."
As Korea entered the 20th. century, there were many reforms forced on the population. Some were readily accepted and appreciated, but others, especially those that dealt with hair styles and hats, were vehemently opposed.
"A man is much more firmly bound to
his hat than he is attached to his wife.
He may put away the latter; without
the hat, life becomes a hollow mockery,
for the hat makes the man. Without it
he remains forever a boy."
Hats remained a part of male culture throughout the first half of the 20th. century, but have since disappeared. The only exceptions are those worn by elderly males in the Jongno area, or the bright colorful caps that young teens and adults wear while out with their friends. The "permanent black halo" is no more.'
How Japan Took Control of Korea
Erin Blakemore has written the following for history.com in 2018, and updated it in 2023:
In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945. In order to establish control over its new protectorate, the Empire of Japan waged an all-out war on Korean culture.
Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean, and emphasized manual labor and loyalty to the Emperor. Public places adopted Japanese, too, and an edict to make films in Japanese soon followed.
Topographical and other postcards of Korea were published with descriptions in Japanese text.
It also became a crime to teach history from non-approved texts, and authorities burned over 200,000 Korean historical documents, essentially wiping out the historical memory of Korea.
During the occupation, Japan took over Korea’s labor and land. Nearly 100,000 Japanese families settled in Korea with the land they had been given; they chopped down trees by the million and planted non-native species, transforming a familiar landscape into something many Koreans didn’t recognize.
Nearly 725,000 Korean workers were made to work in Japan and its other colonies, and as World War II loomed, Japan forced hundreds of thousands of Korean women into life as “comfort women”—sexual slaves who served in military brothels.
Korea’s people weren’t the only thing that was plundered during Japan’s colonization—its cultural symbols were considered fair game, too. One of the most powerful symbols of Korean sovereignty and independence was its royal palace, Gyeongbokgung, which was built in Seoul in 1395 by the mighty Joseon dynasty.
Soon after assuming power, the Japanese colonial government tore down over a third of the complex’s historic buildings, and the remaining structures were turned into tourist attractions for Japanese visitors.
As historian Heejung Kang notes, the imperial government also attempted to preserve treasures of Korean art history and culture—but then used them to uphold imperial Japan’s image of itself as a civilizing and modern force.
This view of Korea as backward and primitive compared to Japan made it into textbooks, museums and even Koreans’ own perceptions of themselves.
The occupation government also worked to assimilate Koreans with the help of language, religion and education. Shinto shrines originally intended for Japanese families became places of forced worship.
Historian Donald N. Clark explains:
"The colonial government made Koreans
worship the gods of imperial Japan,
including dead emperors and the spirits
of war heroes who had helped them
conquer Korea earlier in the century.”
This forced worship was viewed as an act of cultural genocide by many Koreans, but for the colonists, it was seen as evidence that Koreans and Japanese were a single, unified people.
Though some families got around the Shinto edict by simply visiting the shrines and not praying there, others grudgingly adopted the new religious practices out of fear.
By the end of its occupation of Korea, Japan had even waged war on people’s family names. At first, the colonial government made it illegal for people to adopt Japanese-style names, ostensibly to prevent confusion in family registries.
But in 1939, the government made changing names an official policy. Under the law, Korean families were “graciously allowed” to choose Japanese surnames.
At least 84 percent of all Koreans took on the names since people who lacked Japanese names were not recognized by the colonial bureaucracy, and were shut out of everything from mail delivery to ration cards. Historian Hildi Kang writes:
“The whole point was for the government
to be able to say that the people had
changed their names ‘voluntarily.’”
The Plundering of Korea by Japan
(a) Historic Korean Artifacts
Koreans accuse the Japanese of plundering hundreds of thousands of ancient Korean artifacts, mostly during their 36-year occupation of the peninsula. Most Japanese consider the issue a dead one, resolved by the 1965 Japan-Korea Treaty, which led to the return of some 1,400 items.
However the treaty was not definitive, as it neglected artifacts in Japanese private collections, as well as those originating in North Korea.
The size of the haul is astounding. Eighty percent of all Korean Buddhist paintings are believed to be in Japan. And, says Seoul art historian Kwon Cheeyun:
"35,000 Korean art objects and
30,000 rare books have been
confirmed to be there, too."
However that is only the tip of the iceberg: vastly more is believed to be hidden away in private collections.
Determining legal ownership is far more difficult than with the art looted by the Nazis. Toshiyuki Kono, a law professor at Kyushu University. states:
"It's almost impossible to trace the
provenance of centuries-old artifacts."
Besides, the Japanese annexation was internationally recognized in 1910, meaning that relocating Korean artifacts within "Japanese territory" was lawful at the time.
To Korea's annoyance, Japan holds many items of particular value. More than 1,000 bronze, gold and celadon pieces owned by the late businessman Takenosuke Ogura now make up the core of the Tokyo National Museum's Korean section.
A lot of precious Korean artifacts are now owned by private Japanese citizens or organizations, which means that the Japanese government can’t just acquire them and hand them back to Korea. So, unless the Korean government offers to actually spend millions of dollars to buy back the artifacts, it is unlikely they will ever be returned.
As well as removing cultural artifacts to Japan, the Japanese also burned countless Korean government buildings and palaces.
(b) Natural Resources
The Japanese also removed vast amounts of Korea's natural resources, including lumber, rice, coal, iron ore and many other minerals.
The land itself was also appropriated by the Japanese; by 1910 an estimated 8% of all arable land in Korea had come under Japanese control. This ratio increased steadily, and by 1932, the ratio of Japanese land ownership had grown to 53%.
Japanese landlords included both individuals and corporations. Many former Korean landowners became tenant farmers, having lost their entitlements almost overnight because they could not pay for the land reclamation and irrigation improvements forced upon them. As often occurred in Japan itself, tenants had to pay over half their crop in rent.
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
This package of Sunflower seeds was given to me at the LGBT Pride festival last year by the mother of Sean Kennedy. He was murdered in a hate crime against him because his sexual orientation. I spoke at length with this courageous woman, Elke Kennedy who spends most of her time now spreading her sons tragic story and educating people about hate crimes. www.seanslastwish.org/ She gives out the sunflower seed packets as a tangible symbol of hope for a future free of hate. It is my wish that she doesnt have to crusade for what I would consider "common decency" anymore.
The fact that I had to take these pictures pisses me off beyond belief. We were walking to the car to run some errands and do some wedding registry stuff (Yay!)
However when we were walking by the swimming pool area we saw these two chairs situated as a step-stool for people to get over the fence and either into or out of the pool area. In the past we have also seen the gate jimmied in such a way that it won’t latch. There are children that live/play in our complex. The last thing that needs to happen is one of these children to get into the pool area and have some sort of accident. It bothers me that people just don’t have common sense or enough respect to follow the posted rules or the law of common sense to latch the gate and not place items close to the fence line.
What is our world coming to?
When did people lose self respect and common decency?
We have mentioned it to the office. We were glad to know that we we’re the only ones to say something. Only time will what will happen with these people.
I was sat with Val eating our pre-booked breakfast after a very early start to go and see the Datchet Morris Men at the historic site of Runnymede.
I’d parked my camera safely on the edge of the table we were sitting at. Eventually I noticed that the early morning light in the Runnymede café was rather good. This gentleman was sat about three or four metres away with some of his friends (minding his own business, unlike me!) Instinctively I picked up my camera and took his picture.
I only wish I’d had the decency to approach him and mention that I’d taken these two photos of him. They were taken quickly and I put my camera down again. (Sometimes Val gets a bit anxious when I do this, and I can understand why, but if she’s uncomfortable with it I have to live with that!).
I have slightly cropped the two photos to try and get the balance right… and also to get rid of a small bit of the photo on the left that was a distraction.
Again, as is my wont, I’ve also done monochrome versions too.
I can’t add this either of these pictures to my 100 Strangers Project, which is a pity really. I could cheat and not play by the rules of the group, but I’d prefer to stick to them as it would always be on my conscience that I’d broken them!
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a recent instance of CPI(M)'s willingness to use rape as a weapon against a people's struggle. Later, CPI(M).
systematically spread the theories that she had in fact been killed by her lover, her father or her brother. At.
the time, the West Bengal CM fromCPI(M) ordered a CBI enquiry, promising that it would punish the guilty.
if indeed anyone was found guilty. But now the CBI enquiry has accused CPI(M)'s own local leaders of.
having masterminded the rape. Yet CPI(M) continues to defend the rapists and deny the rape itself..
In Nandigram also, CPI(M) cadres and police indulged in brutal sexual violence on women..
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CPI(M)'s top most leadership - such as its CC member Benoy Konar, resorted to obscene threats against.
women activists who were speaking out against the land grab at Singur and Nandigram. Konar threatened.
"When Medha Patkar visits here next time, we'll ask our women cadres to show her their backsides.".
When Medha Patkar went to Nandigram, not women, but CPI(M) men did in fact pull down their pants and.
show their behinds..
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In 1993, Shubhankar Chakravarty, Principal of Ashutosh College, Kolkata, punished a girl student for wearing.
a salwar-kameez, which he said went against `Bengali culture'. Inspite of such anti-woman attitudes, he.
was rewarded with a Vice-Chancellorship of Rabindra Bharati University as well as a high-profile Lok Sabha.
ticket against Mamata Banerjee from the CPI(M)..
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SFI assaulted girl students in Rabindra Bharati University in 2002 while attempting to enforce a dress.
code of `sarees only' on the girl students of the Visual Arts Department. (Times of India, 22 and 24 July,.
2002)..
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After the infamous Birati rape case in 1991, Shyamali Gupta, the General Secretary of the CPI(M)'s West.
Bengal women's wing, said about the 3 Bangladeshi refugee victims: "Many women of that area, including.
Shanti Das (a victim), the mistress of a notorious anti-social, were involved in foul professions and such.
honeymoons of these women with the anti-socials were an open secret, that day's events appeared to.
be a sequel to the rivalry between these anti-socials", and this statement was published in full by the.
CPI(M)'s party organ, People's Democracy! (cited in Tanika Sarkar, `Reflections on Birati Rape Case', Gender Ideology.
in Bengal, EPW, Feb 21, 1991.).
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CPI(M)'s former Kerala CM from CPI(M), the late EK Nayanar, asked about the rash of rape cases in the.
state, had replied: `In the US, rape is as common as drinking tea or coffee; rape is as old as time and.
will continue as long as there are women.' (The Hindu, April 30, 2004).
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After the Kozhikode sex scandal in Kerala, Nayanar again said, "wherever there are women, there will.
be a sex racket. Sex rackets occur naturally." (Outlook, 22 Dec, 1997).
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The Left-oriented women's movement has a well-deserved reputation for commitment to women's struggles. In.
order to retain and consolidate this legitimacy and combat the fascist and patriarchal forces, the Left groups need to.
prove that they are willing to acknowledge and consciously combat patriarchal `common sense' within their own ranks..
When a CPI(M) Government refuses to dismiss a police officer who openly denies women's rights and expresses.
communal views, when Left leaders defend `dress codes' in the name feminine `decency', or imply that a woman's.
sexual behaviour can justify rape, do they not do grievous harm to women's struggles against such patriarchal.
ideology? Do they not end up giving a boost to the fascist Right-wing, that quotes the CPI(M)'s anti-woman.
statements to defend itself?.
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When SFI and CPI(M) display double standards by refusing to condemn the anti-woman words and deeds of their.
own comrades on the issue of gender, when they refuse to question the patriarchal stances and distorted gender.
ideology of their own party, they only end up strengthening the patriarchal and anti-woman agenda of the right-wing.
forces..
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In this JNUSU elections, AISA appeals to you to stand by those who consistently defend gender justice.
and women's rights, and reject the political proponents of patriarchy and their representatives on campus!.
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Central Panel.
President : Sandeep Singh.
Vice- President : Shephalika Shekhar.
Gen. Secy. : Pallavi Deka.
Jt. Secy. : Md Mobeen Alam.
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SIS SAA S. Karmegam SSS.
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Arvind Kumar Ashok Kumar K.C..
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Khalid Abdalla Abdelwahab Javed Iqbal Wani.
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Monalisa Adhikari SLL&CS.
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Convenor,Campaign Committee, AISA, JNU.
Vishal Kumar.
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News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.
If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.
p.s. if you are gonna post my copyrighted images elsewhere on the internet at least have the decency to credit me with them or link them back to here, or i'll probably stop posting them or at least start putting big watermarks on them.
Imagine a future so technologically advanced, culturally advanced in respect and peaceful harmony. This is a future possible where not one civilization has not tried to take over the other and that cultural influences have not been surpressed. This is a future where everybody is free spirited just not to live free but to think free beyond the limitless bounds of their infinite imaginations. Where not any society will try to surpress who you are when you step out of your own society. A future where you will be free to dress, eat, listen to music with no intimidation from any society that will abound on it's own incredible moral respect, decency and modesty in the most caring ways you could ever dream of. A future where everything is created in the most beautiful means imaginable from music, fashion, science, art and love for what the Universe has abounded in so many diverse possibilities. I see this has the next level of evolution since humanity is no longer a baby anymore but a child that has out grown it's crib and preparing to step it's way into the vast unknown through exploration. You are looking 50 years into the future where ancient meets advance and technology meets nature all in harmony.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard. The card has a divided back.
The Korean Gat
The man in the photograph is wearing a mourning hat.
Robert Neff of the Korean Times has written the following about Korean male headware:
'One of the most important articles of clothing for Koreans in the late 19th. century was the hat. The elderly man with his majestic black horse hair hat, often seen in pictures, is the iconic image of Korean male society during the Joseon Dynasty (1392 - 1910).
According to Percival Lowell, an American who stayed in Seoul in the winter of 1883-84:
"No Korean can in decency appear
without it [hat], except only to make
room for some other hat."
It was a sign of manhood, "the most essential of attributes," and a badge of one's position in Korean society.
Lowell seemed amused with the difference between Korean and American culture. In the United States it was considered poor manners to wear a hat indoors, and one would rarely remove one's shoes, but the opposite was true in Korea:
"A man would part with any or all of
his clothing sooner than take off his
hat. On entering a house, he leaves
his shoes outside to await his return,
but he and his hat go in together.
As he sits down to eat, he divests
himself of his outer garments that he
may eat with greater freedom, but his
hat stays on; and so it sticks to him
through life ― a permanent black halo."
There were many types of hats. The iconic hat, the gat, was made from horse hair and bamboo and was black and somewhat transparent.
It had a fairly wide brim that in the past, according to popular legend, was much wider as a means of preventing unrest. Because of its wide brim, conspirators were kept apart, and were unable to whisper their plans to one another.
There was also a large mourning hat made from bamboo. It was designed to hide the face of mourners from others they might encounter on the streets. It was considered a grievous breach of etiquette to look into the face of the mourner.
Early French missionaries used the mourning hat to disguise themselves as they traveled the Korean peninsula before the 1880's. They were able to move about in relative secrecy for no one would attempt to communicate with a mourner.
Court officials' hats had slightly bent-forward ear-shaped horizontal wings. It was said they symbolized the wearer's attentiveness and willingness to "catch every word of command that the King may utter."
As Korea entered the 20th. century, there were many reforms forced on the population. Some were readily accepted and appreciated, but others, especially those that dealt with hair styles and hats, were vehemently opposed.
"A man is much more firmly bound to
his hat than he is attached to his wife.
He may put away the latter; without
the hat, life becomes a hollow mockery,
for the hat makes the man. Without it
he remains forever a boy."
Hats remained a part of male culture throughout the first half of the 20th. century, but have since disappeared. The only exceptions are those worn by elderly males in the Jongno area, or the bright colorful caps that young teens and adults wear while out with their friends. The "permanent black halo" is no more.'
How Japan Took Control of Korea
Erin Blakemore has written the following for history.com in 2018, and updated it in 2023:
In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until 1945. In order to establish control over its new protectorate, the Empire of Japan waged an all-out war on Korean culture.
Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean, and emphasized manual labor and loyalty to the Emperor. Public places adopted Japanese, too, and an edict to make films in Japanese soon followed.
Topographical and other postcards of Korea were published with descriptions in Japanese text.
It also became a crime to teach history from non-approved texts, and authorities burned over 200,000 Korean historical documents, essentially wiping out the historical memory of Korea.
During the occupation, Japan took over Korea’s labor and land. Nearly 100,000 Japanese families settled in Korea with the land they had been given; they chopped down trees by the million and planted non-native species, transforming a familiar landscape into something many Koreans didn’t recognize.
Nearly 725,000 Korean workers were made to work in Japan and its other colonies, and as World War II loomed, Japan forced hundreds of thousands of Korean women into life as “comfort women”—sexual slaves who served in military brothels.
Korea’s people weren’t the only thing that was plundered during Japan’s colonization—its cultural symbols were considered fair game, too. One of the most powerful symbols of Korean sovereignty and independence was its royal palace, Gyeongbokgung, which was built in Seoul in 1395 by the mighty Joseon dynasty.
Soon after assuming power, the Japanese colonial government tore down over a third of the complex’s historic buildings, and the remaining structures were turned into tourist attractions for Japanese visitors.
As historian Heejung Kang notes, the imperial government also attempted to preserve treasures of Korean art history and culture—but then used them to uphold imperial Japan’s image of itself as a civilizing and modern force.
This view of Korea as backward and primitive compared to Japan made it into textbooks, museums and even Koreans’ own perceptions of themselves.
The occupation government also worked to assimilate Koreans with the help of language, religion and education. Shinto shrines originally intended for Japanese families became places of forced worship.
Historian Donald N. Clark explains:
"The colonial government made Koreans
worship the gods of imperial Japan,
including dead emperors and the spirits
of war heroes who had helped them
conquer Korea earlier in the century.”
This forced worship was viewed as an act of cultural genocide by many Koreans, but for the colonists, it was seen as evidence that Koreans and Japanese were a single, unified people.
Though some families got around the Shinto edict by simply visiting the shrines and not praying there, others grudgingly adopted the new religious practices out of fear.
By the end of its occupation of Korea, Japan had even waged war on people’s family names. At first, the colonial government made it illegal for people to adopt Japanese-style names, ostensibly to prevent confusion in family registries.
But in 1939, the government made changing names an official policy. Under the law, Korean families were “graciously allowed” to choose Japanese surnames.
At least 84 percent of all Koreans took on the names since people who lacked Japanese names were not recognized by the colonial bureaucracy, and were shut out of everything from mail delivery to ration cards. Historian Hildi Kang writes:
“The whole point was for the government
to be able to say that the people had
changed their names ‘voluntarily.’”
The Plundering of Korea by Japan
(a) Historic Korean Artifacts
Koreans accuse the Japanese of plundering hundreds of thousands of ancient Korean artifacts, mostly during their 36-year occupation of the peninsula. Most Japanese consider the issue a dead one, resolved by the 1965 Japan-Korea Treaty, which led to the return of some 1,400 items.
However the treaty was not definitive, as it neglected artifacts in Japanese private collections, as well as those originating in North Korea.
The size of the haul is astounding. Eighty percent of all Korean Buddhist paintings are believed to be in Japan. And, says Seoul art historian Kwon Cheeyun:
"35,000 Korean art objects and
30,000 rare books have been
confirmed to be there, too."
However that is only the tip of the iceberg: vastly more is believed to be hidden away in private collections.
Determining legal ownership is far more difficult than with the art looted by the Nazis. Toshiyuki Kono, a law professor at Kyushu University. states:
"It's almost impossible to trace the
provenance of centuries-old artifacts."
Besides, the Japanese annexation was internationally recognized in 1910, meaning that relocating Korean artifacts within "Japanese territory" was lawful at the time.
To Korea's annoyance, Japan holds many items of particular value. More than 1,000 bronze, gold and celadon pieces owned by the late businessman Takenosuke Ogura now make up the core of the Tokyo National Museum's Korean section.
A lot of precious Korean artifacts are now owned by private Japanese citizens or organizations, which means that the Japanese government can’t just acquire them and hand them back to Korea. So, unless the Korean government offers to actually spend millions of dollars to buy back the artifacts, it is unlikely they will ever be returned.
As well as removing cultural artifacts to Japan, the Japanese also burned countless Korean government buildings and palaces.
(b) Natural Resources
The Japanese also removed vast amounts of Korea's natural resources, including lumber, rice, coal, iron ore and many other minerals.
The land itself was also appropriated by the Japanese; by 1910 an estimated 8% of all arable land in Korea had come under Japanese control. This ratio increased steadily, and by 1932, the ratio of Japanese land ownership had grown to 53%.
Japanese landlords included both individuals and corporations. Many former Korean landowners became tenant farmers, having lost their entitlements almost overnight because they could not pay for the land reclamation and irrigation improvements forced upon them. As often occurred in Japan itself, tenants had to pay over half their crop in rent.
Union Square East, Manhattan
The Everett Building is a sixteen-story commercial structure located on the northwest corner of East 17th Street and Park Avenue South. Named for Union Square's nineteenth-century Everett Hotel, and builtin 1908 for the Everett Investing Company, it was designed by Goldwin Starrett & Van Vleck, a firm known for its commercial architecture. It is a quintessential example of a building type defined by A. C. David (writing in Architectural Record in 1910): functional, fireproof, speedy to construct, while also demonstrating a concern for "architectural decency;" as such, this building is a uniquely American architectural expression. In its design, the Everett Building synthesizes classical elements with key aspects of both the New York and the Chicago styles; Goldwin Starrett was familiar with the Chicago style as a result of his years in Daniel Burnham's Chicago office. The building reflects its structure in its cladding, while employing a design vocabulary that includes classical motifs. The Everett Building is prominently located on a site on the north side of Union Square and, together with the monumental Germania (now Guardian) Life Insurance Company Building directly across the avenue, forms an imposing terminus to Park Avenue South.
The Everett Building is a quintessential example of the new commercial style of architecture built around 1910 in New York and concentrated on Fourth Avenue from Union Square to 30th Street. Its design was considered innovative when it was illustrated in the Architectural Record (Dec. 1910), as part of a tribute to the new corridor of commercial buildings in what is now Park Avenue South. 32 These buildings termed "thoroughly contemporary" and "strictly commercial" were erected with exceptional rapidity; the Everett Building "was ready for occupants within four months from the time the first column shoe was set.,,33 In "The New Architecture," A. C. David specified a tall order for architects of these loft and commercial buildings, one which Starrett & Van Vleck fulfilled. Tenants required a maximum amount of clear, preferably square or rectangular, floor space so that large numbers of employees could be supervised by a floor manager. In order to secure the greatest amount of natural light, a corner site, large windows, and high ceilings were imperative.
In addition, the planning of building services affected the 4 amount of "clear and available" floor space. These new structures had to meet the specifications of the insurance companies and of the building laws for fireproofing, in order to obtain the lowest insurance rates (as the Everett Building did). 34 Combining the stairway and fire escape provisions of the building law and omission of power plants in the building were additional ways to cut costs. At the same time, the building must be economical to operate. Speedy construction, a goal facilitated by granolithic or concrete floors, the use of metal trim, the omission of ornamental plastering, and the standardization of detail, was also essential.
In his article, David also suggested that attention to the building's design was necessary because "a structure which presents a good appearance sells better. ,,35 The Everett Building fulfilled these specifications as well. Like the Everett Building, the ideal loft and commercial structure was to consist of "a frame work, usually about sixteen stories high of piers and floors, the lines of both of which are separated by fixed distances, and both of which cannot be disguised by much ornamentation.,,36 An ornamental cornice was not merely permitted but encouraged, even if the natural light on the top floor was impaired. The employment of glazed orange and green terra-cotta panels and medallions brings this desired attention to the Everett Building's crown.
According to David, windows should be grouped in order to emphasize the corners and to convey an impression of solidity; a building could thus be made to resemble a tower rather than a cage. 37 Face brick, laid in patterns, and architectural terra cotta were recommended for the cladding of the shaft. In other instances, exemplified by the Everett Building, "white glazed terra cotta decorated with superficial ornamental patterns has been effectively employed. ,,38 David continues that these buildings were a specific and original American type, "the only genuine commercial architecture in the world.,,39 These characteristics constitute what may be called a New York style.
Classical Aspects of the Building's Design The Everett Building incorporates many classical elements in its design. As in other nearby skyscrapers including Bruce Price's Bank of the Metropolis, a designated New York City Landmark, the tripartite skyscraper elevation inspired by the parts of a classical column is employed in the Everett Building.
A rusticated base is surmounted by a decorative transitional story; an eleven-story shaft leads to yet another transitional story, which is capped by a two-story attic crowned by an elaborate bracketed cornice. The two-story base is articulated by rusticated piers which carry a classically-derived entablature that is embellished with stylized triglyphs and metopes. The building's two-story crown evokes a giant order; the elements of cotta elements. The doorway as built was pedimented with acroteria at center and sides. 40 William H. Jordy has observed that such commercial buildings retain "something of the blocky quality of the Renaissance palace format" which permitted the anonymity and interchangeability of functions. 41 Real Estate Record & Guide concluded that the building "an investor might expect for $900,000," would be a structure "not ... gaudy ••• the whole with its straight, Renaissance architecture giving the impression of commercial utility.
- From the 1988 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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0 Tl1c Snbnrimalo Tomplo in l{:rala sornc rlmo ?a_ck sougl1tpunisltmcnt for lHt actress who allegedly ~lo-lutcd' the shaine'~ anti-womnn custom cf banmng worn en from cnl(!ring the shrine. Tim CPJ(M) Go;.ot. 's Temple Development (Devaswom) Minister, G Sudhuk~n~n, snid that it is up to the Temple Bonrd to decide and upho!d its "customs", and to punish (he l<antutulua uctrcss If she b l'~;ulfty" of "de-filing" tho shriu('l (BBC N~w~. 3 July 06.} Further, the President of the CPI{M) women's wing AIDWA's Kcrnln Unit, K K Shaylaja, said tunt no action sl1ould IJc tukcn against the temple, as .
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jiilly legitimate victim.\." l'anika Sarkar argues that "The aftl.!rmuth of tlte Btrali gang rapes .. u1tder/ines, even more .Hm;tgi;\ 11 aiticu/failure,....in geud::r ideology. And rn caw: the tllo.\1 hc.\olh'd lu.:lt.:t'<.'r in !he Lt:{l Front\· ~cneral pmgn.:,,·. .\il'l! {mtuntit!l could ht~ve .\<.'1.!11 ill 11 a pa111ju!!y distort~d yel indi~iJuol op111ion uftusf one tJt.:r.lon in rite: p(Jr/y, the party moutltpicc.:e ils<'/f, the P D ufJu(1 29. JIJ!/0, proudl,v cr:rrtt'S tlte en/ire st(Jiement in a separate box. The CPJ(M) /SIOI'es H'ii/J brutal C:(ltU/OUr, J'fttgg/ng up (l/15pC!CCS for Optimism.../, .
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After being crushed against a wire fence by Italian Police (women, children and all) before gaining entry to the ground and literally having to carry people over our heads who were injured. After being pelted with coins and bottles by Italian fans whilst the Italian police looked on. After being kept in the ground for two hours after the game ended - the tables turned.
Let me get this straight - in no way do I condone the behaviour of those people who threw objects at the Italian Police. It was wrong, plain and simple. However, it gave me an insight in to why this can happen. Previously I'd wondered - why do people behave like this when they surely know that it's wrong? This experience gave me a better appreciation of why they do. Further, it underlined my belief that if you treat people with respect and decency, they will return in kind. And vice versa.
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