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On this Memorial Day Weekend, let us be reminded of the importance of the freedom in this Country and what sets us apart from all others. It is freedom that grants us the potential to be whatever we want to be.......
On this Saturday May 27, 2023….The Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana, Chapter 1 and the Gold Star Families of Louisiana again put on their Annual Memorial Day "Garden of Flags" and Ceremony in Baton Rouge, LA.
This is a solemn event where the fallen Louisiana heroes from 9/11 to present day are honored and remembered. The bell (shown here) is tolled for every one of those fallen heroes as their names are individually announced.
After the ceremony, the BSM and many volunteers plant over 11,000 American flags. Each flag represents a fallen hero from the American Revolutionary War to present day.
This Memorial Day Weekend, make it more than just a cookout and gathering of friends.....
Truly take the time to pay tribute to our fallen heroes……
And for those currently serving......Please thank them for their service to this Great Country.
May God Bless America !
Vitrine, Book store, Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, France
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We went back Memorial Day morning to photograph the completed display of the 11,000+ flags honoring the memory of all the fallen heroes of the Armed Services.
With the Louisiana State Capitol in the background, this annual display is sponsored by the Gold Star Families of Louisiana and the Blue Star Mothers of Louisiana - Chapter 1.
Each flag represents a fallen hero from the American Revolutionary War to present day.
Let us remember the sacrifices they made for us to have the freedom we enjoy today.
Let us remember that they defended our right to freedom of expression as well.
Thanks for taking a look and as always, and for your wonderful comments.
I hope everyone has a Blessed and solemn Memorial Day.
Freedom of speech = nobody has the last word
At AROS museum of modern art in Århus Denmark. New Nordic exhibition. Wall art by Jari Leinonen (FI).
Two goats' silhouettes on a cliff. Minimalist shot into the sun, inspired by a lay clerk's recent show.
November 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
25. November - Internationaler Tag gegen Gewalt an Frauen
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Spread the word, keep our freedom of speech, diversity and come together to embrace our differences! We do not want to go backwards with feelings of hate, indifference and superiority. We are all human beings, all equal in make and identity and that is the way we should treat one another as equals, with respect, friendship, compassion, understanding and work together in harmony and unity now and always! Lets come together with love and in peace, together, we achieve mountains alone, we are weak! Stop the pain start the healing!
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Giving my shout out to Elizabeth Warren and to all of the strong women before her. Thank you for your persistence! I challenge you to use your voice today, fight for what you believe is right.
ODC - the best things in life are free. Freedom of speech!!
Notre-Dame de Paris
Nous sommes Charlie
Je ne suis d'accord avec ce que vous avez à dire, mais je me battrai jusqu'à la mort votre droit de le dire.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Non sono d'accordo con quello che dici, ma difenderò fino alla morte il tuo diritto a dirlo.
Voltaire
Judaism is a faith. Zionism is a lie.
Being Jewish is sacred. Being Zionist is criminal.
Telling the truth is not antisemitism. It is justice.
This phrase is not against a faith.
It is not against a people.
It is against an ideology of power that has exploited
a sacred history, a real pain, a deep spirituality.
Distinguishing between Judaism and Zionism is not hatred.
It is a necessary act.
This has been said by philosophers, rabbis, historians,
Jews and non-Jews alike.
“The Blackboard of Truth”,
where words are acts, and acts are resistance.
“The term (political correctness) first appeared in Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time it was used to describe adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (that is, the party line).” – Encyclopedia Britannica
The communists killed millions and millions of their people in order to create a utopian society based on equality. In communism, one must be “politically correct.” If you say something wrong you might disappear in the night, never to be seen again. Of course, self-censorship and voluntary compliance are preferred by the regime. Indoctrination keeps an individual within the proper ideological bounds of the state.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William Douglas
Many cannot recognize the threat of censorship, because they are ignorant of the crimes of communism. The public is more aware of the atrocities of the Nazis, as opposed to the atrocities of the communists. This is what happens when universities are bastions of Marxism, and professors are fond of Karl Marx. (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto). My grandpa, who went through the Great Depression, used to say, “People go to university to become socialists.” So this stuff is nothing new! This is what leftists call the “long march through the institutions.” The plan was to infiltrate the institutions of the West in order to transform them from the inside out. The Long March of the 1960s sowed the doctrines of critical theory (neo-Marxism). (Critical theory came out of the Frankfurt School). These seeds produced various kinds of critical theory: critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, feminist theory, critical environmental theory, and critical pedagogy. Our children are being taught these subversive ideologies, even though they are rooted in evil. The fruits of these ideologies have produced mass death and misery. They gave us Stalin’s Great Purges and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Indeed, the communists regulated speech, and millions died.
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” – Potter Stewart
Regulating hate speech is undemocratic; it is rooted in totalitarianism. Regulating hate speech is a way of enforcing the politically correct doctrine of the day. It suppresses free speech, and it suppresses open dialogue. It suppresses critical thinking, and it suppresses creativity. And it will eventually lead to the criminalization of ideological opposition.
“Misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and other risks to the information ecosystem are fueling conflict, threatening democracy and human rights, and undermining public health and climate action.” – United Nations
The West is losing its freedom of speech. People in England are being arrested for social media posts. In Germany, they are trying to ban a political party. We saw Western governments colluding with big tech to censor dissenting views during COVID-19. Various politicians want to fight misinformation and disinformation. The European Union also wants to crackdown on what it deems as misinformation and disinformation. What they are doing, however, is fighting against freedom of speech—against freedom.
“The proliferation of misinformation and disinformation threatens to erode the credibility of public institutions and limit their capacity to implement policies that enhance public well-being.” – World Bank
When central bank digital currencies and social credit scores are implemented, you better watch what you say or do. If you say or do the wrong thing, you will have your money frozen. You will be like the Canadian truckers, who had their bank accounts frozen during COVID-19. With quantum computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven technologies, a surveillance apparatus is being built. This Beast system will be an authoritarian dystopia like the world has never known.
“In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total number of the beast, because it is a human total number, and the sum of the number is 666.” – Revelation 13:18
On Monday, 15th March is the last day before the terrifying bill surrounding protest in the U.K. is likely to be passed. The UK government is rushing through legislation to criminalise all protest. Any action that is likely to cause unease, serious annoyance or inconvenience can be deemed illegal.
This is abhorrent and clear contempt of democratic rights.
Has 'Democracy' becomes 'demon crazy' !
Ten (10) years behind bars just for doing this ?
Brighton 🇬🇧
13th February 2021
Hands Off! Protest in Vero Beach, Florida on April 5, 2025. A large crowd of over 2000 showed up to protest Trump and Elon Musk policies and the havoc caused by DOGE. This was one of 1200 locations where people raised their voices across the nation with more than 5 million participating. Resist!
National Flag of Ukraine by Government of Ukraine
Stop Putin - Stop War
National Flag of Ukraine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ukraine
Ukraine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine
Sovereignty: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty
Independence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence
Democracy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Freedom of Speech: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Peace: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace
Solidarity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity
Putin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
UN General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Res...
Russians (by Sting): www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59SRiSW9t8
Give Peace a Chance (by John Lennon): youtu.be/D0WwjWdzV_I
Nowrūz (Persian language: نوروز [noʊruːz]), meaning 'New Day') is the traditional ancient Iranian festival and also the start day of Iranian "New Year".
Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia.
Nowruz marks the first day of Spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians, the same time is celebrated in the Indian sub-continent as the new year. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Iranian families gather together to observe the rituals.
The term Nowruz in writing, first appeared in Persian records in the second century AD, but it was also an important day during the time of the Achaemenids (c. 648-330 BC), where kings from different nations under the Persian empire used to bring gifts to the emperor also called King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Persia on Nowruz.
The UN's General Assembly in 2010 recognized the International Day of Nowruz, describing it a spring festival of Persian origin which has been celebrated for over 3,000 years.In 2009 Nowrūz was officially registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognizes March 21 as the "International Day of Nowruz".
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
Thinking about the terrorist attack in France that killed 12 persons because of their Muhammad caricatures. Sad sad sad....
Where they have burned books, they wiil end in burning human beings.
Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856
This is dedicated to MOCA Los Angeles after the giant antiwar mural was erased by the museum staff just after it was finished. Jeffrey Deitch, the MOCA director claimed it was potentially offensive to the community. Can there be a more perfect example of censorship?
I did not renew my membership to MOCA LA
I just created a group called FLICKR UNITED. Everybody is free to join!
It is meant to be for the artists of Flickr united by a creative spirit and willing to share their images with the world (photography and design).
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Street portrait from the Anti-Trump demonstration in Glasgow, Scotland. A face that has graced the pages of BBC News since last night and an American woman who, in an interview, said that she was glad to be living in Scotland at the moment. Captured at a high ISO and large aperture to fight the very low light as I forgot to take my flash along to the rally.
".... Protest. Die Opposition stellt ihre parlamentarische Arbeit ein, Journalisten werden verfolgt, Kritiker mundtot gemacht - Der Kurier protestiert gegen diese Praktiken der türkischen Führung und solidarisiert sich mit allen, die für Freiheit stehen."
Kurier: Bote, Überbringer einer Botschaft
English translation of the name of the newspaper "Kurier": courier, messenger
Erdogan`s populistisch demagogische Rede in Wien 2014 fahnenschwingende, jubelnde Fans in der Halle, Gegendemonstranten vor der Halle: "Erdogan speech in Vienna 2014" (youtube)
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Nowrūz (Persian language: نوروز [noʊruːz]), meaning 'New Day') is the traditional ancient Iranian festival and also the start day of Iranian "New Year".
Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia.
Nowruz marks the first day of Spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians, the same time is celebrated in the Indian sub-continent as the new year. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Iranian families gather together to observe the rituals.
The term Nowruz in writing, first appeared in Persian records in the second century AD, but it was also an important day during the time of the Achaemenids (c. 648-330 BC), where kings from different nations under the Persian empire used to bring gifts to the emperor also called King of Kings (Shahanshah) of Persia on Nowruz.
The UN's General Assembly in 2010 recognized the International Day of Nowruz, describing it a spring festival of Persian origin which has been celebrated for over 3,000 years.In 2009 Nowrūz was officially registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Since 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognizes March 21 as the "International Day of Nowruz".
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
It is common knowledge that most people in America just want Bush & Cheney gone, period! I mean, you invite a coupla guys in your house and them and their buddies proceed to just wreck the place (while you really weren't looking...as closely as you probably shoulda been.) Righteously, you scream "get the fuck out"...."just get out, now"!!!
Well, everyone does not have your mild mannered temperament, or spread the other cheek philosophy. Some people, who cherish their house greatly, and take great pride in what they acquired and built, want much more than to just let them saunter out the door.
Those people want them out, but they want them carried out...in cuffs! Because on closer examination, them and their buddies did much more damage than was initially realized...and goddamnit, somebody needs to held accountable for this mess!!!
Tonight I had the honor and pleasure of meeting three women who are part of the latter group, and they are not joking in the least. I tip my hat to them and the spirit of true patriotism. They'll be downtown Tuesday in full force.
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Cathedral Plaza, at the south end of High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Sunday 6th March 2022, at around 2pm to 4pm.
About the photograph.
Those shots were in colour, I converted those two into black and white.
This photograph shows a man taking his turn to speak of his option on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is seen standing next to the Edward Elgar statue, at the Cathedral Plaza, the direction of the photograph is facing north.
The last time I attended a protest to try to do some photojournalism kind of photography, was back in 1987-89 during my college days.
Since then, been trying to get a job in photography or graphic design. Got married, started having kids, then got a divorce and became a very busy single parent and full-time carer. Now that my kids are older and left home, I’m free and independent, so I decided to try to get back into doing photography. I need to refresh my skills anyway.
In the first week of March, 2022, I heard that there was a planned protest in Worcester which is the nearest city, so the night before, I charged up my Nikon’s batteries, formatted the memory cards to make sure I have plenty of storage space left for more photos, and made sure my photography kit bag is ready.
On the afternoon of Sunday, I drove to Worcester, parked my car at the car park, and walked over to the Cathedral Plaza, which is where the protests were due to start. At that time (March 2022), the Knife Angel, a 27 feet tall sculpture made out of knives seized by the police, was on display.
As the 2pm start was approaching, more and more people arrived there, I would say there was around about between 50 to 75 people, or something like that. The protest was really more like a Speaker’s Corner kind of protest, with many people just standing around, rather than a march. At least 4 or 5 different guys took turns to speak out their statements, while some people held up their placards. There wasn’t much of a protest, but then again, it is because Worcester is a small city compared to other major cities where protests were taking part on massive scale.
I tried my best to do a photo-journalism kind of photography, I went around the crowd and took as many photos as I could. Those are just the few good photos I could find out of the approximately 400 photos I managed to take.
About the overall subject.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on the 24th of February 2022, and in a short space of time, many Europeans, Americans, mostly and mainly anyone of “Western” lifestyle, people living in free countries, with freedom of speech, of choice, of votes, many of them started taking to streets to protest against the Russian invasion.
There were so many signs in various languages, often advising that Russia should leave Ukraine, stop the war, Putin being a war criminal, and so on.
This protest that I attended to take the photos, was organised by the Worcester Trades Union Council, and was listed on the Stop the War Coalition website, under the No to War in Ukraine protests section. This was just one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of protests happening all around the world on Sunday 6th March, in respond to President Putin‘s decision to attack Ukraine.
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I was feeling uninspired by the typical Seattle weather, but all that changed when I saw a heck ton of droplets clinging on grass at our front yard... This involved some crawling! *LOL* My tripod just couldn't go low enough for this shot.
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I'm not even 100% sure what this young lady was protesting, but she should be a vision of beauty to anyone who celebrates America and our freedom of speech. The camouflage, the megaphone, the hair, the smile.. standing up for what she believes in! She's not interested in conforming. She's not interested in shutting up and taking it. She stands proudly and fights for her beliefs! She is the spirit of freedom.
She is America.
So, thanks to all the veterans who have kept us free, and who have kept the fire of freedom burning in many places across the globe.
Happy Veterans Day!
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Taken at the San Antonio, Texas Tea Party on April 15, 2009. I was there to photograph the event and not to protest or support. I call my self a neutralist... I'm just the Photographer. The Photos in this series don't necessarily represent my personal values or beliefs. I'm just a photojournalist in this case.. something that if hard to find these days... I true journalist that isn't slanted.
Taken with Canon 50D, EF-S 10-22 and Speedlite 550EX off camera.
MPR Photography - San Antonio,Texas