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Recently two small civil society organisatons, the SA Faith Communities' Environmental Institute (SAFCEI) and Earthlife Africa sued the South African government for doing a secret (and probably corrupt) multimillion dollar deal with Russia around nuclear energy. The court ruled in April that the deal was unconstitutional because it was done in secret, and set it aside [ie nullified it]. This photo shows 2 activists outside the High Court on April 26, immediately before the court ruling.
Leica MP; Kentmere 100 film; Ilfotec HC developer 1+31; Heiland split grade print on Ilford MGIVRC paper; print scanned with Canon flatbed scanner; dust spots removed with Lightroom.
This section of normally traffic choked Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue stretching from Phan Fah Bridge to Democracy Monument has been left as an effective demilitarized zone since the deadly 18 February 2014 clashes between police and (armed) demonstrators.
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The objective was to create a poster about democracy. This is our entry. It is entitled: Reliance. It is based on the idea that understanding and compromise keep a democracy afloat.
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http://www.createdemocracy.com/submissions/144
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Thailand's protest at Democracy Monument against the government at Ratchadamnoen road on December 2, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand.
The situation in Burma (Myanmar)
Burma is ruled by an illegitimate military dictatorship - one of the most tyrannical and secretive the modern era has seen - a regime that refuses any democratisation of the political system, that systematically violates the most fundamental human rights, and that oppresses and exploits its population. It is a regime engaged in the perpetuation of relentless misery. This brutal regime continues to take violent action to suppress legitimate protest, using tear gas and raiding Buddhist monasteries and there are now reports of protesters being shot. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7015751.stm
You can find out more about The Burma Campaign and the National League for Democracy in Burma and its efforts to free democratically elected Aung San Suu Kyi (who has been under house arrest for 12 years), here. Join the call for her release by sending an email to Senior General Than Shwe, Burma's dictator calling for her release, click here.
(This photo has nothing to do with Burma but it does remind me of how lucky I am to live in a peaceful democracy where I have the right to air my views and take part in peaceful demonstrations without fear of police or military violence)
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The Future of Democracy - February 3, 2020 Issue
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died
Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.
By Jill Lepore
January 27, 2020
The last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once, Americans argued about it, and then they tried to fix it. “The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated discussion going on all over America,” a contributor to the New York Times wrote in 1937. “In the Legislatures, over the radio, at the luncheon table, in the drawing rooms, at meetings of forums and in all kinds of groups of citizens everywhere, people are talking about the democratic way of life.” People bickered and people hollered, and they also made rules. “You are a liar!” one guy shouted from the audience during a political debate heard on the radio by ten million Americans, from Missoula to Tallahassee. “Now, now, we don’t allow that,” the moderator said, calmly, and asked him to leave.
In the nineteen-thirties, you could count on the Yankees winning the World Series, dust storms plaguing the prairies, evangelicals preaching on the radio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt residing in the White House, people lining up for blocks to get scraps of food, and democracies dying, from the Andes to the Urals and the Alps.
In 1917, Woodrow Wilson’s Administration had promised that winning the Great War would “make the world safe for democracy.” The peace carved nearly a dozen new states out of the former Russian, Ottoman, and Austrian empires. The number of democracies in the world rose; the spread of liberal-democratic governance began to appear inevitable. But this was no more than a reverie. Infant democracies grew, toddled, wobbled, and fell: Hungary, Albania, Poland, Lithuania, Yugoslavia. In older states, too, the desperate masses turned to authoritarianism. Benito Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922. It had taken a century and a half for European monarchs who ruled by divine right and brute force to be replaced by constitutional democracies and the rule of law. Now Fascism and Communism toppled these governments in a matter of months, even before the stock-market crash of 1929 and the misery that ensued.
“Epitaphs for democracy are the fashion of the day,” the soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, dismally, in 1930. The annus horribilis that followed differed from every other year in the history of the world, according to the British historian Arnold Toynbee: “In 1931, men and women all over the world were seriously contemplating and frankly discussing the possibility that the Western system of Society might break down and cease to work.” When Japan invaded Manchuria, the League of Nations condemned the annexation, to no avail. “The liberal state is destined to perish,” Mussolini predicted in 1932. “All the political experiments of our day are anti-liberal.”
By 1933, the year Adolf Hitler came to power, the American political commentator Walter Lippmann was telling an audience of students at Berkeley that “the old relationships among the great masses of the people of the earth have disappeared.” What next? More epitaphs: Greece, Romania, Estonia, and Latvia. Authoritarians multiplied in Portugal, Uruguay, Spain. Japan invaded Shanghai. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. “The present century is the century of authority,” he declared, “a century of the Right, a Fascist century.”
At the official opening of Vancouver’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. There were deliberate no-shows from some local politicians and community leaders.
Despite what the maps shows, the tower is on Georgia Street near Bute, not Robson Street, Vancouver, BC.
November 4, 2020. Day Two of the 2020 Presidential Election. Several hundred people gathered at the Wayne Lyman Morse Federal Courthouse, in Eugene. The mood was festive, with no signs of post election trauma.
Democracy Spring protesters being processed for arrest by US Capitol PD after they blocked a north-side entrance to the US Capitol as an act of civil disobedience.
Washington, DC / April 14, 2016
With everyone talking about the fall of American Democracy I figured I'd pull out this volume I read over 30 years ago in my 19th century political philosophy class. The biggest issues of that century, I think, was how to balance liberty, freedom and social order in the shadow of the French Revolution. With the decline of the Ancien régime in the late 18th century, European society was wrestling with how to govern societies with a modicum of democracy, balancing the competing interests of the lower classes, the increasingly powerful middle-class bourgeoisie, and the upper-class aristocracy and nobility hoping to preserve social order. The American experience with a democratic form of government provided Europe with a prescriptive model.
Cayman Islands National Museum
George Town, Grand Cayman.
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Maker: John Jabez Mayall (1813-1901)
Born: UK
Active: USA/UK
Medium: albumen carte de viste
Size: 2.25" x 4"
Location: UK
Object No. 2018.368
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Notes: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth and the first person from an ethnic minority background to hold one of the Great Offices of State. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister. (source: Wikipedia)
Mayall was born Jabez Meal in Oldham near Lancashire in 1813 . After serving as the proprietor of a daguerreotype studio and a chemistry lecturer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John Jabez Edwin Mayall relocated to London in 1846. In April 1847 Mayall opened the American Daguerreotype Institution in London at 433 West Strand, explicitly naming it American because American daguerreotypes were known for greater clarity and polish and were of a larger size. He opened a second studio in 1852 at 224 Regent Street, and maintained both studios for between two and three years, selling his Strand studio to his assistant Jabez Hughes in 1855. Mayall became renowned as a portraitist; within his first three years in England, he photographed Sir John Herschel, Sir David Brewster, and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. At the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in the Crystal Palace in 1851, he introduced a technique he had perfected: the popular vignetted portrait, in which the sitter's head appears in focus while the surroundings gradually become less distinct. In 1855 Mayall sold the American Daguerreotype Institution and began to mass produce cartes-de-visite, small, calling-card-size photographs that were inexpensive to make, easily exchanged, and extremely popular. In 1860 Mayall published a carte-de-visite album of the British Royal Family; he reportedly sold 60,000 sets of these photographs. (source: Getty Museum)
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It has been said that Julia Gillard ended democracy in Australia when she stabbed Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, in the back to steal his elected role. If that is so, is this spot on Russell Island, Queensland, where she did the dirty deed.
Democracy is a political form of government where governing power is derived from the people, either by direct referendum (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The term comes from the Greek: δημοκρατία - (dēmokratía) "rule of the people", which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (krátos) "power", in the middle of the fifth-fourth century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC. Even though there is no specific, universally accepted definition of 'democracy', equality and freedom have been identified as important characteristics of democracy since ancient times. These principles are reflected in all citizens being equal before the law and having equal access to power. For example, in a representative democracy, every vote has equal weight, no restrictions can apply to anyone wanting to become a representative, and the freedom of its citizens is secured by legitimized rights and liberties which are generally protected by a constitution.
source and more info @ wikipedia
"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."
Will Durant
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
~ ~ Aristotle ~ ~
i hide my fleshy soul
in black clothes
i am naked in the
eyes of my inner
angst my camera
both ..i am happy
to be unhappy too
much happiness
would kill my creativity
a life without pain
i would loathe ,
i am hardly human
in a degraded world
of crass commercialism
calumny sycophancy
that only treats man
as a sacrificial goat
democracy decimated the soul
of man with a single vote
“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
a rumi quote
a poem dedicated to my very dear friend davidseibold
ek fakir jisne khaie hai dil pe gehri chot...sukhe hot ..
Democracy Spring protester on Capitol Hill as the movement rallied for another afternoon of mass arrests by US Capitol Police for civil disobedience.
Washington, DC / April 12, 2016
From the China's Tibet collection. See the link for all photos and the book.
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Tibetan man at a pass near Nyalam in Tsang. Whenever you cross a high pass like this one (probably about 5000m or so) there are huge amounts of prayer flags draped all over the place, something of a thank you to the gods (tibetan buddhism is much more shamanistic than I had realised!) for allowing safe passage.
It's also worth noting that Tibetan men are usually stereotypical cowboys, they wear these fantastic wide brimmed hats during the summer. It took me about 3 days to realise how burnt my lips were getting in the dry, thin air and the glaring high sun and buy one. Even if it made me look like Indiana Jones.