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Kurdes, de l'ombre à la lumière

Région autonome depuis 2003, le Kurdistan irakien, longtemps en proie à la guerre, est peu connu des occidentaux. À travers un travail inscrit dans la tradition de la photographie humaniste, Emmanuel Smague nous invite à découvrir un peuple chaleureux, au lendemain de son oppression sous le régime de Saddam Hussein. Il nous dévoile ainsi les multiples facettes de cet endroit du monde dont les habitants représentent la première richesse et nous ouvre les yeux sur une humanité réfugiée sur ses propres terres, celles de ses ancêtres. Le témoignage d’Emmanuel Smague renvoie les regards des Kurdes à nos propres indifférences, pour mieux les graver dans nos mémoires.

Parution en septembre 2009

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Kurds, from darkness to light

An independent region since 2003, Iraqi Kurdistan, war-torn for many years, is little known among Westerners. Through his work in the humanist photographic tradition, Emmanuel Smague invites us to discover a warm people as it emerges from the oppression of Saddam Hussein’s regime. He reveals to us the many faces of this part of the world where people constitute the main wealth and he opens our eyes to people who are refugees on their own land -- the land of their ancestors. Through Emmanuel Smague’s testimonial, our eyes meet the gaze of the Kurds’ eyes lifting the veil of our indifference and indelibly engraving images deep into our memories.

Publication date: September 2009

Price: 20 €

Format: 20 cms x 20 cms

Soft cover

French language

oppression and discrimination half a block from home :-(

Carl T. Rowan

HBM!! Vote!! Resist!!

eastern swallowtail butterfly, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

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As hell rains down from the skies,

Ukrainian heroes return in trains to defend their homeland.

For tyrants do not stop at one war, one country.

Tomorrow they will come for another.

We stand together against Russia’s attacks on our freedoms

We stand together against tyranny and oppression.

I Stand With Ukraine

PRAY FOR UKRAINE!!

Amsterdam - Spuistraat

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There were men that died young

But aware that their ideas will last for centuries

As important words, unbroken and real as little miracles

Ideas of equality, ideas of education

Against every man that exercises oppression

Against everyone against a weaker one

Against he who buries his conscience in the cement

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P E N S A

Sometimes I still dream of how we used to stand up to the oppression

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[...] Ma fino da allora cominciò la Resistenza contro l’oppressione fascista che voleva ridurre l’uomo a cosa, l’antifascismo significò la Resistenza della persona umana che si rifiutava di diventare cosa e voleva restare persona e voleva che tutti gli uomini restassero persone e sentiva che bastava offendere in un uomo questa dignità della persona, perché nello stesso tempo in tutti gli altri uomini questa stessa dignità rimanesse umiliata e ferita. Cominciò così, quando il fascismo si fu impadronito dello Stato, la Resistenza che durò venti anni. Il ventennio fascista non fu, come oggi qualche sciagurato immemore figura di credere, un ventennio di ordine e di grandezza nazionale fu un ventennio di sconcio illegalismo, di umiliazione, di corrosione morale, di soffocazione quotidiana, di sorda e sotterranea disgregazione civile. [...]

P. Calamandrei

Bastille metro station with a strange autumn sky.

This photo could symbolize many things. Suppression of little people; Dictatorship; Deep State; Big Brother; oppression against women. In fact, it represents the opposite. Jan Žižka led an army of peasants, little people against the powerful Roman Empire and they were victorious due his clever military tactics for many years (1419-1434) even after his death in 1424. Equipped with simple modified farming tools, his small army demonstrated the Power of People. The monumental bronze statue was sculpted by B. Kafka in 1931-1941 and is part of Vítkov National Monument. Žižka historical heroics are always on the mind of the Czech folk, when their freedoms are in jeopardy.

875. Prague 2014- no.12. Nov. Taken 2014-May 25; P1240922; Uploaded Nov 21, 2021. Lmx -ZS5

"I Rise"

We cannot let ourselves be changed by hatred.

We can change the oppression of women if we speak up, stand together, and rise.

You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren’t alone.

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Abstract

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At my last autumnal life,my feet finally had touched that land where no more time to oppression nor oppressors. A man who used to live in the dictatorships of east, could witnessed and grasped that light, an autumnal light raised up again from west .

Soundtrack: Flesh Field - "voice of dissent"

"...So just give in

And follow the drones

A nation of consumption

Shouldnt challenge its role

Just believe, and fall in line

Freedom is a privilege

Thats been left behind ..."

in an age of terrorism, violence, hate and ignorance, people seem to think about protecting our freedom by taking it away piece by piece for the sake of "security". Mesmerized and numb amidst the endless stream of entertainment provided by mass media, we watch in apathy how people turn our society of freedom into a society of oppression, control, surveillance and fear. And so far, we do not really care... Some days ago, German government has agreed upon a law to force telecommunication companies into long-term retention of all sorts of communication data for the sake of "fighting terrorism", and the next steps already are clearly outlined: Preventive surveillance, a "trojan horse" software developed by government and security services in order to have hidden access to personal computers while they're online, massive use of biometrical data (fingerprints, ...) in personal ID cards and passports and so on... we're merrily building "1984"...

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The Trees - Rush

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There is unrest in the forest

Trouble with the trees

For the maples want more sunlight

And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples

(And they're quite convinced they're right)

They say the oaks are just too lofty

And they grab up all the light

But the oaks can't help their feelings

If they like the way they're made

And they wonder why the maples

Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest

And the creatures all have fled

As the maples scream, "Oppression"

And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union

And demanded equal rights

They say, "The oaks are just too greedy

We will make them give us light"

Now there's no more oak oppression

For they passed a noble law

And the trees are all kept equal

By hatchet, axe, and saw

In the weekend of September 11-12, participants in the Netherlands will walk through the night for people who are fleeing war, conflict and oppression worldwide. They want to raise as much money as possible for emergency aid.

Dopo l'oppressione del buio, ci sarà una visione. Irrompera' improvvisa, come una luce che rischiara l'anima, e il cuore sarà leggero e felice....

Una fitta nebbia nella faggeta . Sembrava di vagare nei gironi dell'inferno, senza un orizzonte, una prospettiva .

Poi, all'improvviso, inaspettato, di nuovo il sole filtro' tra le fronde, con giochi di luce.

Come un miracolo

( Sembra il film 'Miracolo a Milano', qualcuno ha detto )

Faggeta di Rezzo, Liguria

There will be

Rays of sun in the wood after the fog

Abstract

They will make you suffer.

They pretend it’s just a tickling game

But they won’t stop.

They will say you don’t matter

or they are just trying stuff out

They say “just be cool” and relax

It’s all your fault

You should just calm down.

W’ere only playing with you!

When you want to run away

They chide you and call you a coward.

Even when it is your own self preservation.

They claim they aren’t poison

and that you must sacrifice like your life isn’t worth anything and

as if you deserve to suffer.

And you must say no.

And you must reject the negative self concept they impose.

And yes, you must run.

Not everyone is kind.

Not everyone can be converted.

They will eat you alive….in one big gulp.

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Sometimes you just want to see where things go, what lies at the end of the road or up that alley, over the mountain around that bend and sometimes you just want to capture that thought. Some of my most favorite scenes while traveling though maybe not my most popular come from the absolute opposite direction that everyone else is looking.

Speaking of opposite directions during WWII the town was vocally anti-fascist making it a target for Mussolini’s death squads resulting in the assassination of its Mayor but the citizens were undeterred and continued their protests of Fascism and civil disobedience until the end of the war. After the fall of Fascism in Aug 1945 the townspeople began to exile the landowners tied to the failed regime and repatriate all lands seized by Mussolini’s operations

Ferrandina has lived through many occupations over the millennia and tolerated them only as far as justice was observed, finding its rebellious soul awakened when necessary if oppression reared its ugly head. Most of the time the city is a sleepy beautiful place perched above the Basimento river valley its small white houses nestled together in cozy peaceful scene just don’t wake the dragon.

I took this on Oct 6th, 2018 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 Lens at 100mm 1/100s f`11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , and DXO

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

Oswaldo Guayasamin is an Ecuadorian artist of the second half of the XXᵉ century, designated as an expressionist painter of social realism. Strongly inspired by South American art, he devoted much of his life to painting misery, exploitation, oppression, dictatorship and racism.

Forever is composed of nows.

by Emily Dickinson

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAekTz6nBV0

In My C World ... no one will be oppressed nor oppressive .. the Cranes & crocodiles will sing together in the air of peaCe

So it's Sydney harbour, photographed from a courtyard on the corner of Harbourview Street and Lavender Street, at Lavender Bay.

Just near the Kirribilli Club and Wendy's Secret Garden.

And this photograph was taken in Autumn. My favourite season!! And, of-course, it is now Autumn in Sydney with its mercifully cooler temperatures.

And there is also the promise of winter with its glorious sunny weather and nice cold days of 21 degrees celsius. Such a magical relief from the oppression of summer.

I have used my zoom lens (the dodgy non IS one, lol) so you can zoom in to see the wharves at Walsh Bay, and all the people at Observatory Hill Park waiting to catch the sunset.

My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6L zoom lens.

Processed in Adobe Lightroom.

Libecccio, is a so-called wind, known in the Mediterranean, which generally derives from SO and almost always arrives in gusts. Although southern, and humid for having crossed the sea, when it reaches Italy it does not produce that particular oppression that gives the sirocco. The Libeccio, can manifest itself almost suddenly and with considerable violence and the consequences of a "libecciata", can sometimes be very serious. They know it very well, the coastal populations, especially those of the Tyrrhenian coasts, which due to the particular disposition of Italy, are the most exposed to the libeccio.

Our government / president is bringing me down. And I’m not one of 800,000-plus hurt by the US government shutdown.

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

Mary Oliver

(September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019)

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I would guess there will be people who don't agree with what I'm about to say, but I feel compelled to say it anyway.

Roe vs Wade has been overturned.

My thoughts are these, for whatever it matters.

I believe in the right to life.....an independent life.

I understand those who feel the fetus is a living being, a person in the making.

But then, what person has the right to live inside another person's body without their consent?

Not just to live there, but to use that person's body and all their organs and systems as their own.

Until born, the fetus is literally an extension of the mother's own body. She is making it.

How can that not require her consent?

How can anyone else tell her what she wants is irrelevant?

Tell her, "I" make the decision, not you and I believe you must do this, so you will.

Nobody has the authority to do that.

Once born, the baby is an independent person with all the same rights as everyone else.

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Peace.

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Oswaldo Guayasamin is an Ecuadorian artist of the second half of the XXᵉ century, designated as an expressionist painter of social realism. Strongly inspired by South American art, he devoted much of his life to painting misery, exploitation, oppression, dictatorship and racism.

Our government / president is bringing me down. And I’m not one of 800,000-plus hurt by the US government shutdown.

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

Mary Oliver

(September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019)

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" I've seen the blood

I've seen the broken

The lost and the sights unseen

I want a flood

I want an ocean

To wash my confusion clean

I can't resolve this empty story

I can't repair the damage done

We are the fortunate ones

Who've never faced oppression's gun

We are the fortunate ones

Imitations of rebellion

We act it out

We wear the colors

Defined by the things we own

We're not without

We're like each other

Pretending we're here alone

And far away, they burn their buildings

Right in the face of the damage done

We are the fortunate ones

Who've never faced oppression's gun

We are the fortunate ones

Imitations of rebellion (Rebellion, rebellion)

Rebellion, rebellion

We lost before the start

Rebellion, rebellion

One by…"

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Wars are not against enemies, but against Life

Someone asked:

what do you mean with this title?".

My answer:

"When I was 20 it happened on one side that a young man of the same age in Czechoslovakia set himself on fire and died as the only defense against Soviet tanks; on the other hand, thousands of young people of my age were sent to be killed and to kill in Vietnam.

The enemy is always an invention of the aggressor.

War, all wars, are destruction of life, in the interest of few.

At least so it seemed to me when I was young and still today.

World PEACEful Sincere Team

♫These immoral questions

Trial of faith

That we go through

The fuel of our oppressions

Is the fuel of freedom too♪

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and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance :-)

Robert F. Kennedy, 1966

HBW!! Justice Matters!

j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

sOME MORE FROM MY IRANIAN SERIES.

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The city of Yazd was definitely a Zoroastrian centre during Sassanid times.

After the Arab Islamic conquest of Persia, people periodically faced extreme religious oppression including forced conversions, massacres, harassment, and other forms of discrimination, and then many fled to Yazd from neighbouring provinces. By paying a levy, Yazd remained Zoroastrian even after its conquest, and Islam only gradually became the dominant religion in the city.

Discussing The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace with my feathered friends Åse and Håvard over a cup tea ...

Moral Philosophy of Global Peace as a Supreme Ideal

Today, humankind is suffering from multidimensional crises such as terrorism,population-explosion,denial of human rights, economic inequality,racial discrimination,ideological extremism, religious intolerance,social injustice,ecological imbalance, consumerism, oppression of weak ... All are Peace-related issues and a matter of Ethics."Have you realised your role and your duties regarding Global Peace ?" They asked me ... Pause

Åse and Håvard have ... Us ? Pause ... Where are our United efforts ?

I felt embarrassed ... They had so much to teach me ... over a cup of tea and while awaiting the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize ... They also knew the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO ...

"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed ... "

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CU soon in the Oslo City Hall with the monumental large scale murals and in the Vigeland Sculpture Park where art speaks "For the Peace and Brotherhood of men".

Gare de Noisy-le-Sec, Seine-Saint-Denis/iphone6

Hiyako National Historic Preserved District, Hagi, Yamaguchi.

You see a couple of sharp turns on this street. They were created in order to prevent enemies from invading. It is named kai (means key) magari (taking turns). The corners may look like a dead end when seen from a distance. When you are near, you'll find that the street continues after bending to a right angle twice. If you go ahead for another 100 feet, there is another sharp corner that bends twice. The whole street is sided with sand-colored earthen walls on both sides. The walls are tall enough to give enemies a sense of oppression as well as to rob them of the sense of direction. If local warriors had lain in ambush at both ends of the street, I guess the enemy would have had no choice but to surrender.

長州の小京都(萩市)

You know the words...

RIP Jamie Reid, 1947-2023

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Best Gospel Hymns | 2019 Gospel Song With Lyrics "What the Young Must Pursue" | Videos Gospel

I

Prejudiced eyes and deceit are not what the youth should have.

Awful and destructive ways are not how the youth should act.

They should have aspirations, ardently strive to advance,

not lose heart over their prospects,

keep faith in life, the future.

Youth should have resolve in discernment, seeking justice and the truth.

Pursue all things beautiful,

gain reality of positive things.

Be responsible towards life.

You must not take this lightly. You must not take this lightly.

II

Youth should persist in the path of truth,

thus expend their lives for God.

They should not lack the truth,

nor harbor falseness, unrighteousness.

They should take the proper stance.

They shouldn’t just drift along.

They should dare to sacrifice, fight for justice and the truth.

Youth should have resolve in discernment, seeking justice and the truth.

Pursue all things beautiful,

gain reality of positive things.

Be responsible towards life.

You must not take this lightly. You must not take this lightly.

III

Young people should not give in to oppression of dark force.

They must have the courage to change the meaning of their lives.

Young people shouldn’t resign themselves to adversity,

they should be open and frank, forgive fellow believers.

Youth should have resolve in discernment, seeking justice and the truth.

Pursue all things beautiful,

gain reality of positive things.

Be responsible towards life.

You must not take this lightly. You must not take this lightly.

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs

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a long journey from home to tomb.

d' crossed over all scenes , miles and sorrows

starting with suppression & abuse in homelands

ending with racism & revenge in promised-Lands

at the fringes of life a kid was sailed towards the canopy

whence no more trepidation or oppression ..

War has rules, it's never cute, it's not a sports match we can watch on tele and root for our favourite team, it's more complex than that, there are variables and people involved, innocents thrust into a game of bombs (and finances) lead by people who will never bat an eyelash at the ringing of shells and the zip of each bag....

As a soldier of this universe I feel compelled to stand for justice. I also know that just following orders is never an excuse for perpetuating the system of violence.

Oftentimes when the Press is muzzled, (don't even get me started on intergalactic communciations systems right now) we are blinded to the 'full story'. However, greed and oppression never sit well will me so I'm compelled to be somewhat emotionally invested with the underdog... plus I really, really despise that other guy.

Lets remember to stay in touch, tell your story.

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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

"I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings."

John Burroughs

P.S I know the love runs deep because I pick up other people's toilet paper. Wish people were more respectful of this sacred land. Taken from my Yak ;-)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed people can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls

of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to

participate in the process of change.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people,

can transform the world.

Howard Zinn (Historian)

(Author of: "A People's History of the United States" & "and Terrorism and War"

Also featured in documentary: "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train")

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I've heard a lot of arguments about how movements should be separate because they might have different histories, have different goals, or different means of arising at these goals.

But all of those arguments ignore something extremely crucial that I don't want any one of you to miss: Some people don't have a choice. For some, the very notion of acceptance of their full existence is in jeopardy. How can we ask any human to give up a part of themselves or prioritize? Would we do that? We are the sum of many identities and all should be celebrated.

I also strongly believe that working together will accomplish a lot more. If you support LGBTQ rights, you should also absolutely support Black Lives Matter and vice versa. The oppression of the masses is controlled by a powerful few. It is their agenda to get different races and oppressed groups to fight against each other.

So, if you are saying, for instance: "Well, I support gender equality but I don't support Black Lives Matter" then you're wrong. Those two statements cannot exist in reality without a terrible combustion. We all must fight for this movement and put aside our own personal agendas that are poisoning our spirits.

If you do not stand with the oppressed, you do not stand with humanity.

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

- Vladimir Nabokov

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Willpower is like this stubborn tuft of grass, it seemed impossible but was released from the oppression of the asphalt to rise above the road surface.

overlooked underbelly, information oppression, entropy intrusion, open sky avoidance mechanism, dirge ...

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*Working Towards a Better World

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others,

or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,

and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring,

these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls

of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to

participate in the process of change.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people,

can transform the world.

Howard Zinn (Historian)

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️ ❤️ ❤️