Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

(standing, center) Sergio Osmeña, Manuel Roxas, Pedro Guevara, Benigno Aquino Sr. with the American legislators (seated) including Harry B. Hawes and Bronson Cutting.

The Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act was the first US law passed for the decolonization of the Philippines. It was the result of the OsRox Mission led by Sergio Osmeña and Manuel Roxas.

(Photo from The National Library)

Set 3, Thu Apr 17, 2014, 8:58:42 AM, 8C, 5254x7818, (488+144), 100%, Default Settin, 1/25 s, R55.0, G44.2, B84.9

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

No DAPL, Berlin November 2016

Protest-Kundgebung gegen die DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) vor der US-Botschaft in der Clayallee 170 am 16. November 2016 mit rund 40 Teilnehmer*innen.

Die Veranstaltung war Teil des International Day of Action (Nov 15 #NoDAPL Day of Action at Army Corps of Engineers), zu dem das Indigenous Environmental Network aufgerufen hatte. Sie fand in berlin am 16. November statt, da an diesem Tag US-Präsident Obama Berlin besucht.

Die Dakota Access Pipeline (kurz: DAPL), auch Bakken Pipeline genannt, ist eine im Bau befindliche Erdölpipeline zwischen der erdölreichen Bakken-Formation in North Dakota und dem Pipelineknotenpunkt Patoka in Illinois. Die Pipeline soll eine Länge von 1.880 km haben und durch die US-Bundesstaaten North Dakota, South Dakota und Iowa bis nach Illinois führen. Ihr Bau wird von US-weiten Protesten begleitet und wurde mehrmals gerichtlich gestoppt.

Initiator des rund 3,8 Milliarden US-Dollar teuren Projekt ist der Pipelinebetreiber Energy Transfer Partners.

Dabei werden 200 Wasserläufe überquert ( "water-crossings" ). Vor allem im Gebiet des sich aus einem weit verzweigten Netz von Zuflüssen speisenden Missouri River verläuft die Pipeline durch eine große Flusslandschaft.

Der Protest gegen die Dakota Access Pipeline ist eine der größten Umweltbewegungen der 2000er Jahre in den USA. Der Protest führte zur größten Zusammenkunft von Indianer Nordamerikas seit 1920.

Die Sioux von Standing Rock wehren sich gegen den Bau der Pipeline über Grabstätten und heiligem Land ihrer Vorfahren. Viele ihrer Grabstätten und heilige Orte wurden bereits zerstört, weitere Zerstörungen wurden angekündigt…

Seit Ende August 2016 kamen immer mehr Menschen in das Gebiet von Cannon Ball südlich von Bismarck, um den Kampf der Standing Rock Sioux Nation gegen die Pipeline zu unterstützen. Im September 2016 lebten rund 3000 Menschen im "Red Warrior Camp" am Zusammenfluss des Missouri und des Cannonball Rivers.

© B. Sauer-Diete/bsd-photo-archiv

Introduction to the Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution, which took place on April 25, 1974, was a historic milestone for Portugal and had far-reaching consequences that shaped the country in the following decades.

Also known as April 25, this revolution was a military movement that put an end to a long period of dictatorship in Portugal.

Historical context until April 25, 1974

To fully understand the importance and impact of the Carnation Revolution, it is essential to examine the historical context in which it occurred.

Portugal was under the dictatorial regime of António de Oliveira Salazar since 1933.

Salazar established an authoritarian Estado Novo, characterized by censorship, political repression and lack of civil liberties.

During its government, Portugal was also involved in colonial conflicts in African colonies.

This political oppression and war in the African colonies led to growing discontent among the Portuguese people.

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The events of April 25, 1974

On April 25, 1974, a group of Portuguese soldiers led by the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) carried out a military coup to overthrow Salazar's dictatorial regime.

The coup was planned in secret and executed quickly and efficiently.

The military occupied strategic points in Lisbon and other important cities, deposing the existing government.

The Portuguese population, tired of the dictatorship, took to the streets in support of the military, offering them red carnations as a symbol of peace and freedom.

This image of civilians and military united with red carnations in their weapons became an icon of the Carnation Revolution.

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The main figures and their roles in the revolution

The Carnation Revolution saw the participation of several important figures who played crucial roles in the unfolding of events.

Standing out are General António de Spínola, who became the first president of Portugal after the revolution, and Captain Salgueiro Maia, one of the military leaders of the MFA.

Spínola played a fundamental role in the transition to democracy, while Maia was an emblematic figure during the events of April 25, leading the troops that occupied strategic points in Lisbon.

In addition to these figures, many other courageous soldiers and civilians also contributed to the success of the revolution.

The immediate consequences and the transition to democracy

After the Carnation Revolution, Portugal went through a period of political transition that led to the establishment of a democratic regime.

The provisional government was formed to administer the country until democratic elections could be held.

This transition period was marked by intense political debates, a new constitution and the release of political prisoners.

Democracy was eventually established in Portugal, with free elections and fundamental rights guaranteed.

The transition to democracy was an important milestone in the history of Portugal and one of the main legacies of the Carnation Revolution.

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The lasting consequences of the Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution had lasting consequences in Portugal, which lasted for decades.

Politically, the revolution paved the way for democracy and the end of the dictatorial regime.

Socially, it brought greater freedom of expression, equal rights and a renewed sense of national identity.

Culturally, the revolution stimulated an artistic and cultural flourishing, with creative expressions that reflected the new era of freedom and openness.

Furthermore, African colonies were granted independence, resulting in decolonization and the end of the war.

The Carnation Revolution also had an international impact, inspiring democratic movements in other countries and receiving diverse reactions from the international community.

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Annual celebrations and celebrations on April 25

Annually, on April 25, Portugal celebrates the Carnation Revolution as a national holiday.

On this day, several ceremonies and events are held to honor the heroes of the revolution and remember the historical significance of that moment.

Celebrations include parades, political speeches, concerts and exhibitions that highlight the importance of freedom and democracy.

The Portuguese people come together to celebrate the achievement of freedom and to reaffirm their commitment to the democratic values ​​that the Carnation Revolution represented.

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Conclusion: The Lasting Legacy of the Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution, which took place on April 25, 1974, was a historic milestone for Portugal.

It put an end to decades of dictatorship and paved the way for democracy, freedom and equal rights.

The consequences of this revolution extended throughout this half century, shaping Portugal's politics, society and culture.

The Carnation Revolution also had an international impact, inspiring democratic movements in other countries.

The annual April 25th celebrations reaffirm Portugal's commitment to democratic values ​​and remember the historical significance of this achievement.

The Carnation Revolution is a lasting legacy that should be cherished and preserved for future generations.

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Text & Painting: ©MárioSilva

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Proud Breastfeeding moms

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Wolfgang Schneider (Department of Cultural Policy, University of Hildesheim,

Germany), Basma El Husseiny (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy, Cairo, Egypt), Antanas Mockus (Former mayor of Bogota, Colombia), Michelangelo Pistoletto (Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Italy), Bisi Silva (Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria), Alessandro Petti (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residence (DAAR), Bethlehem,

Palestine)

Foto: Stephan Röhl

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Braga is a name of a street, a small street, in the center of Bandung, Indonesia, which was famous in the 1920s as a promenade street. Chic cafes, boutiques and restaurants with European ambiance along the street had made the city to attain the Paris of Java nickname.

And lots of stuffs and heritages of the old days of colonialism times can be found here.

Like this corner, for example, stood Kasoem Optical and the legendary Antara News Agency.

Antara is an Indonesian news agency organized as a private company under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. It is the country's national news agency, supplying news reports to the many domestic media organization. It is the only organization authorized to distribute news material created by foreign news agencies.

The news agency was founded in 1937, when the country was still a colony in the Dutch Empire, by independence activists dissatisfied with the lack of local coverage by the Dutch-owned Aneta news agency. Antara's operation was absorbed into the Domei Tsushin news network following invasion by the Japanese in 1942. Its staff played a key role in the broadcast of Indonesia's proclamation of independence and assumed control of the Domei facilities in the region at the end of the war. The agency remained under private management until it was placed under the control of the presidency in the 1960s when the government shifted its focus from decolonization to nation-building. Antara became an institution through which the state could promote its policies.

Following a wave of political reforms in the late 1990s, Antara began to produce its reporting independently of the government and was reorganized as a state-owned enterprise in 2007. However, media scholars argue that a lengthy relationship with the government makes it difficult for the agency to become an unbiased news organization.

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

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cultmontreal.com/2014/10/decolonizing-street-art/

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

watercolor on paper, 2020, by Nancy Polo.

"When birds fly together, they cut the wind for each other—all except for the one at the front. That one has to bear the full force of the wind. That one has to stick his nose out. That one has to lead the way forward despite the discomfort. At the same time, one of the great lessons of migrating birds is that they take turns occupying that tough position at the front, which allows for greater resilience for the whole group. By working together, a flock of birds is greater than the sum of its parts."

-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth

#decolonizingwealth #edgarvillanueva #northernbaldibis #triangleformation #migratorybirds

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF TATARSTAN

20 December, 2008

The Tatar people have already spent 456 years in slavery to Russian colonialism, which was as brutal as ever was known in the history of humankind. During this time many rulers of Russia came to power, as czars, emperors, first secretaries and presidents. Also, the social structure of this country changed: feudalism, capitalism, socialism, etc. Only one thing remained unchanged during all this time: a policy of forced conversion to Christianity, Russification, inhuman exploitation and physical elimination of the Tatar through permanent and goal-oriented genocide. At the beginning of the 18th century, according to a Census taken by Peter the Great, there were 5.5 million Russians and 5.5 million Tatars, and yet by the end of the 20th century there are 120 million Russians and the same 5.5 million Tatars.

At the end of the 1990s, Tatars in their final despair rose up to struggle with Russian colonialism and adopted a Declaration of Tatar State Sovereignty. They organized a referendum with supervision of foreign observers, including some form the USA, during which 61.4% of Tatarstan's population approved a claim for independence from Russia. Moreover, Tatarstan refused to participate in the referendum on the modern Constitution of Russia and to sign the Federative Agreement on the creation of the Russian Federation, confirming by this its illegitimacy. There are not any legal treaties whatsoever on the joining of the later to the Russian Federation.

The first president of Russia B. Yeltsin agreed to give to the Tatars as much liberty as they could handle. Unfortunately, this was the same kind of deceit as before, aimed only at pacifying Tatars and buying time. Whereas Russia was forced to agree to the escape of 14 colonies from their domination, it categorically refused to recognize the independence of Tatarstan, and it made its rule over this colony more severe, by the destruction of elementary rights of its people, including the right to have local legislative bodies and to select the president of Tatarstan. Right now, the Kremlin is appointing its Vice Roy from Moscow. Moreover, the Kremlin has deprived Tatars of the right to use the Latin alphabet as their own and has forced them to use the Cyrillic alphabet which is entirely unsuitable for the Tatar language. Recently it has deprived the Tatars of the opportunity to teach their children in Tatar.

Muslim Tatars are subject to severe prosecution, torture and many years of prison for refusal to worship in the mosques that are under the supervision of mullahs appointed by the Vice Roy administration, and for having Muslim books written in Arabic in their homes. At the same time the merciless robbery of the national resources of Tatarstan is continuing. The Kremlin is taking 85% of all the revenues from the sale of Tatarstan's oil for itself, and by this way depriving Tatarstan of their vital means for survival.

All of this is happening at the same time that the Russian Federation cynically and hypocritically recognized the independence of the Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. One can only ask what is the difference between the rights of the aforementioned republics and Tatarstan - a Russian colony? It is absolutely clear - there is no difference. The truth is that Russia practically enslaved the people of these republics by converting them into their citizens. Consequently, for Tatars there is no hope any more for the good will of the Russian colonizers to accomplish any kind of decolonization whatsoever.

Expressing the will of the Tatar People and in order to save them from entire elimination the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) of the Tatar People is:

1. Declaring support for the Declaration of State Sovereignty of August 30, 1990 and confirming the illegitimacy of including the Republic of Tatarstan into the Russian Federation without its consent.

2. Asking all governments and the United Nations to recognize the Independence of Tatarstan.

3. Creating the Government of Tatarstan in Exile for the protection of the interests of the Tatar People.

4. Calling all Tatars around the world to organize a permanent mass campaign in support of the Independence of Tatarstan before their governments and societies.

Adopted at a Special Meeting of the Milli Mejlis of the Tatar People on December 20, 2008.

Getting down with the activists in Manhattan - the sign hidden by my head really grooved me, it featured a native American with the slogan Decolonize Wall Street! Photo by Gavin Everall.

Last year, the city of Seattle officially changed Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples' Day (time.com/3476651/seattle-indigenous-peoples-day/).

Native folks and non-native folks came together on Duwamish land for a peaceful march from Westlake to Native Park. To raise awareness that Christopher Columbus was no hero and should not be celebrated.

#ColumbusWasNoHero

Event pages:

lastrealindians.com/rise-and-decolonize-abolish-columbus-...

www.facebook.com/events/509831819179656/

Seattle, Washington

October 2015

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Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

Kazan, Tatarstan

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF TATARSTAN

20 December, 2008

The Tatar people have already spent 456 years in slavery to Russian colonialism, which was as brutal as ever was known in the history of humankind. During this time many rulers of Russia came to power, as czars, emperors, first secretaries and presidents. Also, the social structure of this country changed: feudalism, capitalism, socialism, etc. Only one thing remained unchanged during all this time: a policy of forced conversion to Christianity, Russification, inhuman exploitation and physical elimination of the Tatar through permanent and goal-oriented genocide. At the beginning of the 18th century, according to a Census taken by Peter the Great, there were 5.5 million Russians and 5.5 million Tatars, and yet by the end of the 20th century there are 120 million Russians and the same 5.5 million Tatars.

At the end of the 1990s, Tatars in their final despair rose up to struggle with Russian colonialism and adopted a Declaration of Tatar State Sovereignty. They organized a referendum with supervision of foreign observers, including some form the USA, during which 61.4% of Tatarstan's population approved a claim for independence from Russia. Moreover, Tatarstan refused to participate in the referendum on the modern Constitution of Russia and to sign the Federative Agreement on the creation of the Russian Federation, confirming by this its illegitimacy. There are not any legal treaties whatsoever on the joining of the later to the Russian Federation.

The first president of Russia B. Yeltsin agreed to give to the Tatars as much liberty as they could handle. Unfortunately, this was the same kind of deceit as before, aimed only at pacifying Tatars and buying time. Whereas Russia was forced to agree to the escape of 14 colonies from their domination, it categorically refused to recognize the independence of Tatarstan, and it made its rule over this colony more severe, by the destruction of elementary rights of its people, including the right to have local legislative bodies and to select the president of Tatarstan. Right now, the Kremlin is appointing its Vice Roy from Moscow. Moreover, the Kremlin has deprived Tatars of the right to use the Latin alphabet as their own and has forced them to use the Cyrillic alphabet which is entirely unsuitable for the Tatar language. Recently it has deprived the Tatars of the opportunity to teach their children in Tatar.

Muslim Tatars are subject to severe prosecution, torture and many years of prison for refusal to worship in the mosques that are under the supervision of mullahs appointed by the Vice Roy administration, and for having Muslim books written in Arabic in their homes. At the same time the merciless robbery of the national resources of Tatarstan is continuing. The Kremlin is taking 85% of all the revenues from the sale of Tatarstan's oil for itself, and by this way depriving Tatarstan of their vital means for survival.

All of this is happening at the same time that the Russian Federation cynically and hypocritically recognized the independence of the Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. One can only ask what is the difference between the rights of the aforementioned republics and Tatarstan - a Russian colony? It is absolutely clear - there is no difference. The truth is that Russia practically enslaved the people of these republics by converting them into their citizens. Consequently, for Tatars there is no hope any more for the good will of the Russian colonizers to accomplish any kind of decolonization whatsoever.

Expressing the will of the Tatar People and in order to save them from entire elimination the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) of the Tatar People is:

1. Declaring support for the Declaration of State Sovereignty of August 30, 1990 and confirming the illegitimacy of including the Republic of Tatarstan into the Russian Federation without its consent.

2. Asking all governments and the United Nations to recognize the Independence of Tatarstan.

3. Creating the Government of Tatarstan in Exile for the protection of the interests of the Tatar People.

4. Calling all Tatars around the world to organize a permanent mass campaign in support of the Independence of Tatarstan before their governments and societies.

Adopted at a Special Meeting of the Milli Mejlis of the Tatar People on December 20, 2008.

Please see decolonizeoakland.org/ for more information.

Was happy to drive by this the other day and find a new mural here for everyone to see and drive by. Respect.

CRP artists Mike 360, Raven, Release, Beats 737, Desi, Rate, Abacus, Pancho, Yesenia, and Dora

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

Rioting youths organized by the Veterans Council of Peekskill, N.Y. break up chairs at a picnic ground there August 27, 1949 where Paul Robeson was scheduled to give a concert sponsored by the Civil Rights Congress.

The concert was scheduled to take place on August 27 in Lakeland Acres, just north of Peekskill. Before Robeson arrived, a mob of locals attacked concert-goers with baseball bats and rocks in assaults that lasted three hours before police intervened--some of whom joined the rioters.

This was in the period where the second Red Scare was sweeping the country. The trial of 11 Communist Party leaders was well underway and moves to expel communist-led or influenced unions from the CIO had already begun.

Though Robeson had performed in Peekskill before without incident, the climate had changed.

In recent years Robeson had been increasingly vocal against the Ku Klux Klan and other forces of white supremacy, both domestically and internationally.

Robeson specifically made a transformation from someone who was primarily a singer into a political persona with a vocal support for the decolonization of Africa, anti-Jim Crow legislation, and peace with the USSR.

Robeson had also appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to oppose a bill that would require communists to register as foreign agents

The local police arrived hours later and did little to intervene sometimes joining in the rioting. Thirteen people were seriously injured, Robeson was lynched in effigy and a cross seen burning on an adjacent hillside.

The rioters formed a phalanx on the one road leading to the grounds and forced concert-goers who attempted to leave the venue to run a gauntlet.

Robeson drove with Helen Rosen, a Peekskill resident, and two others to the concert site and saw marauding groups of young people, a burning cross on a nearby hill and a jeering crowd throwing rocks and chanting "Dirty Commie" and "Dirty Kikes."

Robeson made more than one attempt to get out of the car and confront the mob but was restrained by his friends.

The Joint Veterans Council of Peekskill refused to admit any involvement, describing its activities as a "protest parade... held without disorder and... perfectly disbanded."

Peekskill police officials said the picnic grounds had been outside their jurisdiction; a state police spokesman said there had never been a request for state troopers.

The commander of Peekskill Post 274 of the American Legion stated: "Our objective was to prevent the Paul Robeson concert and I think our objective was reached."

Following the riot, protest meetings were held around the country including Washington, D.C. and another concert was organized for Peekskill.

The rescheduled September 4, 1949 concert itself was free from violence, though marred by the presence of a police helicopter overhead and the flushing out of at least one sniper's nest.

The concert was located on the grounds of the old Hollow Brook Golf Course in Cortlandt Manor, near the site of the original concert. Twenty thousand people showed up. Security was organized by the Communist Party and Communist dominated labor unions.

The men were directed by the Communist Party and some unions to form a line around the outer edge of the concert area and were sitting with Robeson on the stage.

They were there to fight any protestors who objected to Robeson's presence. They effectively kept the local police from the concert area. Robeson and the musicians performed without incident.

--description partially excerpted from Wikipedia

For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm8P6hXn

The photographer is unknown. The image source is unidentified, but likely a news service. It is housed at the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

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Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and winner of the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union in 1962.

After twelve early years abroad pursuing higher education, developing his political philosophy, and organizing with other diasporic pan-Africanists, Nkrumah returned to the Gold Coast to begin his political career as an advocate of national independence. He formed the Convention People's Party, which achieved rapid success through its unprecedented appeal to the common voter. He became Prime Minister in 1952 and retained the position when he led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957, a first in sub-Saharan Africa at the time. In 1960, Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah as president.

His administration was primarily socialist as well as nationalist. It funded national industrial and energy projects, developed a strong national education system and promoted a pan-Africanist culture. Under Nkrumah, Ghana played a leading role in African international relations and the pan-africanist movement during Africa's decolonization period, supporting numerous liberation struggles.

After an alleged assassination plot against him, coupled with increasingly difficult local economic conditions, Nkrumah's government became authoritarian in the 1960s, as he repressed political opposition and conducted elections that were neither free nor fair. In 1964, a constitutional amendment made Ghana a one-party state, with Nkrumah as president for life of both the nation and its party. He fostered a personality cult, forming ideological institutes and adopting the title of 'Osagyefo Dr.' Nkrumah was deposed in 1966 in a coup d'état by the National Liberation Council. Claims of CIA involvement in his overthrow have never been verified. Nkrumah lived the rest of his life in Guinea, where he was named honorary co-president. In 1999, he was voted BBC African of the millennium.

Nkrumah died on 27 April 1972, in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, of an unknown but apparently incurable sickness. Since the coup, he had been living in the Guinean capital of Conakry, lying low.

LINK to video - Kwame Nkrumah Speech that Predicted the Current African Awakening - www.youtube.com/watch?v=41t-cKJ5wjA

LINK to video - The Untold Story of Kwame Nkrumah (Full Documentary) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKkGJk1v6os

Rally and March starting at City Hall, marching to Joe Fresh to demand justice for Bangladeshi garment workers and ending at Little Norway Park in solidarity with striking workers at Porter (Queens Quay and Bathurst)

Videos: bit.ly/MayDayTOVids

More info with links: www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay

Poster series imagining a Solidarity City: on.fb.me/12HV9DO

For seven years, you have marched on May Day to celebrate and invigorate migrant justice struggles in Toronto. On International Workers Day, we march to build a Solidarity City. Solidarity City is a unified struggle for: Respect for Indigenous Sovereignty, Status for All, an End to Imperialism and Environmental Destruction, an End to Austerity and Attacks on the Poor and Working class, continued resistance against Patriarchy, Racism, Ableism and Homophobia and Transphobia

Pipelines, tankers, mines, and so-called development projects are being forced onto the lands of Indigenous nations. Harper, like every Prime Minister who came before him, refuses to respect the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and continues to neglect his treaty obligations, as seen in Omnibus Bill C-45. In the face of this and more, land defenders across Turtle Island continue to resist in powerful and inspiring ways. As we look towards an exciting summer of action and resistance fueled by the Idle No More movement, this May Day let us honor all ongoing decolonization struggles and commit to continuing our support for Indigenous sovereignty.

The past year has seen the implementation of C-31, dubbed the Refugee Exclusion Act, further criminalizing migrants and expanding the detention and deportation machine. Jason Kenney announced the creation of a designated countries of origin, a racist, two tiered system under which refugees get fewer rights based on their place of birth. This past November, many of us honored our communities and confronted Minister Kenney when he showed up in Toronto. On May 1st, let us take to the streets to build community alliances and resistance once again.

Exploitative temporary worker programs continue to expand and many migrant workers continue to meet deportation, injuries and in some cases death. Workers are being forced to pay thousands of dollars to get jobs in Canada for which entire families go in to debt, yet no provisions exist for status on landing. Since Harper came into power, over 72,000 people have been locked up in immigration detention. In December we rallied in solidarity with security certificate detainees Mohammad Mahjoub, Mohamed Harkat and Mahmoud Jaballah and all those locked up in immigration detention. This May Day let us take to the streets to end detentions and deportations and to call for freedom to move, freedom to stay and freedom to return!

On February 21st, Toronto City Hall reaffirmed its promise to providing services to residents without full immigration status. We will continue to build a Solidarity City where communities work together to ensure justice and dignity for all residents. The history of Access Without Fear in Toronto is a long one and on May Day let us march to celebrate our victories and commit to continued struggle.

In the face of austerity, climate destruction, colonial and capitalist wars and interventions here and across the world that push people out of their homes, let us fight for status for all. Status for All is the struggle for self-determination, just livelihood, housing, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, justice and dignity for all people, with or without immigration status.

Coordinated by a coalition of community groups including Afghans United for Justice, AIDS ACTION NOW!, Anakbayan Toronto, Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), Camp Sis, Casa Salvador Allende, Cinema Politica, Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Common Cause Toronto,Common Causes, CUPE local 1281,CUPE Local 4772, CUPE 3906 Executive, CUPE 3906 Political Action Committee, CUPE 4308, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee, Educators for Peace and Justice, Faculty for Palestine (F4P), Grassroots Ontario Animal Liberation (GOAL) Network, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, Health for All, Independent Jewish Voices, Toronto, Injured Workers Action for Justice, International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Canada, International Socialists, Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty [JFAAP], Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, Law Union of Ontario, maggie's: toronto sex workers action project, May 1st Movement, No One Is Illegal - Toronto,Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,OPIRG York, Refugees without Border, Revolutionary Women's Collective-women united against imperialism, Rhythms of Resistance - Toronto,Rising Tide Toronto, Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste. Socialist Party of Ontario,Socialist Project, Student Christian Movement, The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, The Sanctuary Network, Student Christian Movement, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Toronto New Socialists, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto Young New Democrats, Trans Film Series,United Food and Commercial Workers, Women's Coordinating Committe for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto], Workers' Action Centre, York Federation of Students, Local 68 Canadian Federation of Students and more. To endorse the event, fill out this form bit.ly/ZDRwKU

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Director of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, addressed the "Goa: 1961 & Beyond" co-organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla-India, Goa University, Goa and Centro de Estudos Socais, Universidade de Coimbra, in Goa from December 18-20, 2011. He discussed "Development of Self-determnation? How to decolonize the past without recolonising the future?"

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

Troubling Ireland - A Cross-Borders Think Tank for Artists and Curators with Kuratorisk Aktion

Poster Campaign: 12th- 23rdSept 2011

Public Hearing: 16th Sept 2011, 2- 4.30pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

Troubling Ireland Campaign

This campaign will have its initial manifestation in September 2011 with the launch of the website www.troublingireland.com (website forthcoming) and a two week public poster campaign in Dublin city centre and related sites running from 12th– 23rd September 2011. In addition it will run from 12th -19th September at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. Each poster is an initial response from the participants to the concept of Troubling Ireland from their individual artistic and curatorial perspectives. It is envisaged that further work will be developed by participants in 2012 on related themes, with a view to realising and exhibiting work in 2013. The website will be ongoing and evolve, providing documentation of the think tank process, posters and campaign, as well as containing some critical texts and reflections.

Public Hearing

To coincide with the poster campaign and as a conclusion to the Think Tank programme, there is a Public Hearing in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1 on Friday 16th September from 2-4.30pm 2011, where all involved discussed their experience of the Think Tank and participants talked thought their individual poster responses to the idea of troubling Ireland. The public will be invited to respond to issues raised. Free admission and all welcome. No booking required.

Kuratorisk Aktion

Kuratorisk Aktion (KA) is an independent curators’ collective, formed in 2005 by Danish independent curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen. Collaborating with artists, theorists, and activists from all over the world, KA produces cross disciplinary exhibitions, publications, and discussions that investigate the complex relations between historical colonialism, capitalist globalization, and neo colonial forms of exploitation on the one hand and postcolonial forms of conviviality on the other. KA’s projects include: Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006), The Road to Mental Decolonization (2008), and Metropolitan Repressions (2009). Their most recent project is Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity and Colonialism, 1981-2006, the first comprehensive examination of the work and legacy of Pia Arke, the Greenlandic-Danish artist who died in 2007. It was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2009 and toured Greenland and Sweden in 2010.

‘Sunni’ means tradition or trodden path.

Mesquita Central de Lisboa

Since 1974, and as a result of the Portuguese decolonization movement and the civil war that followed in the former Portuguese colonies, the number of Muslims increased in Portugal, and these were largely derived from the Portuguese-speaking African countries.

Although the construction of the mosque was only started in 1966, the construction of the mosque began only in 1979, with a project by the architects António Braga and João Paulo Conceição. The mosque would be inaugurated on March 29, 1985.

Its construction was the result of the contribution of Islamic countries, with Saudi Arabia (US $ 1 million) ahead of them, followed by Kuwait, Libya, the United Arab Emirates and Oman

Last year, the city of Seattle officially changed Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples' Day (time.com/3476651/seattle-indigenous-peoples-day/).

Native folks and non-native folks came together on Duwamish land for a peaceful march from Westlake to Native Park. To raise awareness that Christopher Columbus was no hero and should not be celebrated.

#ColumbusWasNoHero

Event pages:

lastrealindians.com/rise-and-decolonize-abolish-columbus-...

www.facebook.com/events/509831819179656/

Seattle, Washington

October 2015

Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic

Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (expired November 2009)

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Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert singer, recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and pioneering activism in both the human rights and civil rights movements. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro spirituals and was the first black actor of the 20th century to portray Shakespeare's Othello on Broadway.

Described as the "greatest football player of his era", Robeson was an All-American athlete, Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate during his years at Rutgers University. In 1923, Robeson drifted into amateur theater work and within a decade he had become a world famous star of stage, screen, radio and film. Robeson would go on to be a recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, the Stalin Peace Prize and of honorary memberships in over half a dozen trade unions. Robeson's lead roles in both the US and British film industries were the first to display dignity for blacks, paving the way for Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. Though one of the most internationally famous people of the 20th century, persecution by the U.S. government and blacklisting by the media due to his vocal support of civil rights, Communist countries and the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War, has largely kept Paul Robeson out of mainstream interpretations of history including Black history.

At the height of his career, Paul Robeson chose to become a political artist. In 1950, Robeson's passport was revoked under the McCarran Act over his work in the Anti-imperialism movement and what the U.S. State department called Robeson's "frequent criticism while abroad of the treatment of blacks in the US."Under heavy and daily surveillance by both the FBI and the CIA and publicly condemned for his beliefs by both the United States Congress and mainstream black organizations including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Robeson was denied the opportunity to work as an entertainer in the US and abroad.

Robeson's right to travel was restored in 1958 and his already faltering health broke down under controversial circumstances during a visit to Moscow in 1963. By 1965, he was forced into permanent retirement. He would spend his final years in seclusion living with family, remaining unapologetic about his political views and career. Present day advocates and historians of Paul Robeson's legacy have worked successfully to restore his name to numerous history books and sports records, while honoring his memory globally with posthumous events and recognitions.

Wikipedia

The photographic portfolio entitled “GLOBALIZING CONTAMINATIONS” was among the finalists at the PORTFOLIO SIFEST 2018 international award (Italy). This photography project is the result of a one-month period lived in Africa from Kenya to Tanzania. In the 1950s and 1960s, the European colonial powers gradually ceased to administer their African territories. The process of “apparent decolonization” led to the gradual departure of all the expatriate personnel of the colonizing nations: administrators, soldiers and all those who had settled in the “colony”. This process favored the creation of independent states and paved the way for new foreign influences over those of the colonial powers. Therefore, after some years living in Africa, I came to ask myself: “How has the influence, after decolonization, of European countries evolved in the face of the emancipation of African countries and the competition of new powers?”

This is the first time I've been in a museum that is in the throes of a decolonization. There's a lot of drama occurring in the background that's been reported in the press, but the museum doesn't let visitors in on the story at all. Instead, entire galleries are simply closed and hidden away without so much as a sign explaining why.

There is a Soviet-like vibe to it all, specifically the way high party officials who'd been purged would be removed from official photographs taken years earlier.

The victims of the woke purge (so far) are the First Peoples Gallery and all of modern history as told in the now-repudiated Becoming BC / Old Town galleries.

For sure, sacred objects and human remains must be offered to descendant communities for repatriation. What's not needed is a tit-for-tat in which "settlers" get the dehumanizing pseudoscientific treatment they once dealt to indigenous peoples.

The status of the Jonathan Hunt House was the most baffling of all the traces of the cultural revolution being waged out of sight of museum goers.

Most of the space formerly occupied by the First Peoples Gallery is now devoted to a traveling exhibit of truly spectacular natural history photography. Totem Hall is gone, replaced by a highly informative and creative exhibit on the languages of Canada's First Peoples. Visitors to that exhibit pass by an opening in the wall that reveals the vast interior of a First Peoples Big House with hand-adzed cedar walls and spectacular carved and painted totemic sculptures in classic Northwest Coast style.

Visitors will search in vain in the Big House and on the walls next to the entrance for information about it. There is not a single word to be found where museums would customarily post signs about installations of this size and inescapable importance. I had to search the Web for quite a while before I found the Big House hidden away under "Past Exhibitions" inside the "First Peoples Gallery" link. www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/first-peoples-g...

Now, as a whole the First Peoples Gallery may be way too problematic to be seen by the public, but a vestige remains in full view. Having been to the First Peoples Gallery page, I now know that the anonymous Big House actually has a name: The Jonathan Hunt House. Would it have killed the Museum to have posted the same information about the Jonathan Hunt House outside its entrance that persistent visitors can find on the Museum's own web site?

In any case, I took copious photos there, and I will be posting them here with as much information as I can find.

The fate of modern history at the Royal BC Museum is unclear. Last year a local news source announced that the "beloved Old Town exhibit at Royal BC Museum" would reopen on July 29, 2023, after having been closed for the purging of all traces of settler colonialism in 2022. vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/we-have-heard-you-beloved-old-...

However, unless I my eyes were playing tricks on me today, Old Town is as hidden as Tut's tomb was before Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter were bitten by the Egyptology bug. At the Museum's web site, the Becoming BC Gallery has been demoted to "Past Exhibition" status. If it's true that it's the victor who writes the history, it looks like B.C.'s post-European contact past is still too noninclusive for public consumption.

52 Weeks Project

A walk around the KNSM Eiland...

Location: Surinamekade, Amsterdam (NL)

Coordinates: 52°22'39.9"N 4°56'48.1"E (Google Maps)

Reason: I was searching for the work Bird House of Streetart Frankey and combined that with a walk (Ommetje) around the KNSM eiland which was 2.1 kilometers from Azartplein to Venetiëstraat and back.

That was my 2388th Ommetje with the app.

KNSM Eiland: The KNSM Island is a man-made peninsula in the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam. It is named for the Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij (KNSM), the Royal Dutch Steamboat Shipping company which used to have its headquarters and its docks on the island. It is now a large residential area containing modern architecture with a mostly well-off population.

Originally, the island was a breakwater for the Oostelijke Handelskade, just like the adjacent Java Island. Later its level was raised with soil dredged from the North Sea Canal. The ensuing harbor terrain was occupied in 1903 by the KNSM, which covered most of the island. In 1956 the KNSM celebrated its centennial, but the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies and the growth of cargo transport spelled the end of the company, which merged into Nedlloyd in 1981. KNSM moved some of its to the Western Docklands of Amsterdam and stopped others, and finally left the area in 1977. In the 1980s, squatters, artists, and urban nomads took over the area. In the 1990s, these groups that occupied what had come to be known as "sloaps" ("sites left over after [or before] planning") and had originally been tolerated, were slowly ordered out by the city.

In the 1990s the entire area was reshaped into a housing area, based on a 1988 blueprint by Jo Coenen, his first big project. He envisioned a mixed use of the space, and planned "super blocks," big buildings containing lots of individual homes and apartments, along a central avenue, mimicking the organization of the island's former warehouses and storage buildings. The redevelopment of the island was part of a masterplan that would turn the entire Eastern Docklands into modern residential areas to allow the city to expand. Many of the old buildings on the KNSM Island were preserved by order of the city, such as the old cafeteria, the houses of the medical doctors, a storage building ("Loods 6"), a customs building, and the office of the Rijn Scheepvaart Maatschappij. While plans initially called for a rather exclusive neighborhood of home owners, the city mandated that a significant portion of the homes were to be built as rentals, to attract a more diverse population. Still, the island is known as a place for yuppies; the English paper The Telegraph called it "Dockland chic."

Wikipedia - KNSM Island

Another 52 close by here: [2016] 23/52 Slippery When Wet

Weather: Cloudy, 12° C

To Listen ♫: L_DG - Sailing the Sunset (Original Mix) (Youtube)

Self-portrait technics: Joby portable gorillapod on my crossover bag on a staircase, timer on 10 seconds).

Ana Sofia Pinedo Toguchi (Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru)

, Antanas Mockus (Former mayor of Bogota, Colombia), Rania Sabbah (Talbiyeh Camp, Jordan), Alessandro Petti (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residence (DAAR), Bethlehem,

Palestine), Peter Hauschnik (Programmee Manager Cooperación entre Estado y Sociedad

Civil para el Desarrollo de la Paz (CERCAPAZ), GIZ, Colombia)

Foto: Stephan Röhl

Paste-up street art in San Francisco, California urging us to "Decolonize Indigenous Land".