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Sharp to North Korea: Halt Provocations, Nuclear Program
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 15, 2010 - The top U.S. and U.N. commander here marked the 60th anniversary of a major Korean War amphibious operation by calling on North Korea to abandon its nuclear program and halt provocations against South Korea.
Army Gen. Walter L. "Skip" Sharp, commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea, vowed during Sept. 15, 2010, ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Inchon Landing to honor the sacrifices of those who freed South Korea by remaining prepared to deter future provocations and aggression.
Army Gen. Walter L. "Skip" Sharp paid tribute to South Korean, U.S. and U.N. forces for their role 60 years ago today in the famed Inchon Landing, and pledged to ensure their sacrifices endure.
"We honor the past sacrifices of our fallen heroes and veterans by remembering and remaining prepared to deter future provocations and aggressions," Sharp told about 2,500 Korean War veterans, government officials and local residents gathered along the Inchon shoreline.
Sharp noted North Korea's sinking of the South Korean navy frigate Cheonan in March that left 46 sailors dead.
"As the recent North Korean attack on the Cheonan reminds us, we must always remain strong and vigilant to ensure that what you brave men and women and those who made the ultimate sacrifice fought for will be protected for the future generations," he told the audience.
Earlier today, Sharp joined South Korean and U.N. military and political leaders in casting floral wreaths honoring those sacrifices from the bow of the South Korean amphibious landing ship Dokdo.
Sharp pledged that United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and the South Korean-U.S. alliance will "redouble our efforts to be prepared to deter and to defeat any type of provocation from North Korea."
Sharp paid tribute to the Korean War veterans who repelled the North Korean attack 60 years ago, paving the way for South Korea to become a democracy and "one of the great economic successes of our time."
"Fighting shoulder to shoulder, Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen from the Republic of Korea and the United Nations sending states stopped the North Korean attack and turned them back," he said at a dinner the South Korean government hosted last night to honor veterans attending 60th anniversary commemorations.
"Tonight we commemorate one of the boldest operations conducted in U.S. military history: the Inchon Landing," he said. "This history-making operation not only helped to turn the tide of the war, but it highlighted the kind of cooperation between our services and between the nations that continue to help keep the Republic of Korea free today.
"We are all honored to be in your presence here tonight," he continued. "The real guests of honor tonight are those of you from the many nations who have returned to this land that you fought for 60 years ago. The sacrifices that you and your fallen comrades made are the real reason the people of the Republic of Korea enjoy the freedom that we all share today."
Sharp also praised the "strong, dedicated, professional" South Korean military, and said he's confident the South Korean-U.S. alliance "is prepared to defeat any future provocation."
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U.S. Army Gen. Walter Sharp, commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea, vowed during ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Inchon Landing to honor the sacrifices of those who freed South Korea by remaining prepared to deter future provocations and aggression, Sept. 15, 2010.
DoD photo by Donna Miles
New bus design for London by Thomas Heatherwick Studio in exhibit at Nasher Sculpture Center designed by architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Dallas, Texas.
Cette photo fait partie de l'album "Salon international de l'automobile de Genève 2013"
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Let your very lovely lady go shopping here with your platinum VISA credit card and perhaps she will find something nice and sinfully slinky to help her be just as notorious as Bettie Page. Can You Dig It!!
From the archives of the Voina group "Cock In the Ass" oi! concert on May 29 '09 in the Taganskiy district court of Moscow - a punk interruption of the hearing of the Yerofeev-Samodurov case. See the full flickr set.
Holyrood Abbey and Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland
Second pier from East end of South Aisle
Obdurandum adversus vrgentia (not yielding to provocation)
"Here lies interred a most noble man, Lord Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney and Zetland, Commendator of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, Senator of the College of Justice, and one of the lords of His Majesty's Privy Council; who died in the 67th year of his age, 23rd day the month of August in the year of Our Lord 1593."
Adam Bothwell was born in 1527 to Francis Bothwell, Lord of sessions and either his first wife Janet Richardson, or second Katherine Bellenden.
He was trained and educated in both Canon and Civil law.
1558 he was a Commissioner at the wedding of Mary Queen of Scots and Francis the Dauphin.
Oct 1559 he was given temporary custody of the See of Orkney. He was fully elected and confirmed Bishop by Queen Mary on 8 Oct 1592.
14 January 1563 he was made an Extraordinary Lord of Session, and began to take part in ecclesiastical affairs.
At the 1563 Edinburgh General Assembly he was commissioned to revise the Book of Discipline.
3 Nov 1565 he was promoted to Ordinary Lord f Session.
15 May 1567 he married Queen Mary to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and Duke of Orckney, against his will.
17 December after the abdication he crowned and anointed Charles James.
After this and being shipwrecked, he grow tired or Orckney and managed to secure the Abbacy of Holyrood for himself.
5 September 1571 he was present at the election of John, Earl of Mar as Regent at the Stirling Parliament.
3 Nov 1572 he was created Archbishop of Glasgow.
1578 he was imprisoned at Stirling Castle for protesting against the Regents measures, but was shortly released and became one of the twelve councilors of the Provisional Government.
Oct 1582 was removed as Bishop of Orckney due to ill health.
May 1584 - one of the Lords of the Articles at Parliament.
By Royal charter he received the Baronies of Whitekirk on 11 march 1587 and Brighthouse on 3 Aug 1592.
He died 23 August 1593 and was buried near the high Altar at Holyrood.
He was married to Margaret Murray, daughter of John Murray of Touchadam, with whom he had 4 children.
OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets of London on Saturday 26th March. They were marching against the Con-Dem government’s cuts. It was one of the biggest protests this country has ever seen. Every single trade union was represented on the protest and they were joined by anti cuts campaigners, pensioners, students and the unemployed.
No amount of police provocation against peaceful protesters or headlines in papers about violence can obscure that this was a massive working class demonstration.
And its power came from numbers and the social power they represent. It was a determined but angry protest. Millions of workers fear for their jobs and millions more are right to believe that the Tories are out to destroy their communities.
Magnificent
This government, held up by it’s Lib Dem collaborators, knows and cares nothing about the pain it causes, after all the majority of the cabinet are millionaires and two thirds went to private school.
The marchers’ message was clear—not one cut and not one job loss. And they are right: why should workers and the poorest in society pay for a crisis they did not create?
There doesn’t have to be a single cut or job loss. Greg Philo published an important article in the Guardian newspaper recently. He highlighted the fact that the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the population in Britain is £4,000 billion.
A one off tax of 20% on the wealth of this group would raise £800 billion and would wipe off Britain’s debt in one fell swoop.
With this in mind it’s crazy that Ed Miliband and New Labour are arguing that some cuts are necessary and that it’s the pace of the cuts that’s the problem. There’s no need to make cuts at all!
Saturday’s demonstration was magnificent, but it alone will not be enough to force Cameron and his cronies to make a U-turn. The Socialist Workers Party believes that if we are going to stop the Tories in their tracks, we will need further mass protests—and more importantly, strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
And we are not alone. On Saturday the leader of Unite (Britain’s biggest union), Len McCluskey, told those at the rally “This is only the start. We need a plan of resistance including coordinated strike action.”
Strike
Again when Mark Serwotka (the general secretary of the PCS) addressed the march he said, “Imagine what a difference it would make if we didn’t only march together but took strike action together.”
It’s time to turn those words into action. Already some unions, including the NUT, PCS and UCU are moving to joint action on pensions at the end of June—this could see 700,000 teachers, civil servants and lecturers on strike together.
That would be a good start, and would put pressure on the government, but we could really finish Cameron if the GMB, Unison and Unite also called their members out. We would see 5 million on strike—that would signal the end of Cameron.
Now we are all back at work, there is no time to waste. Union meetings need to be called as soon as possible and every union section/branch/region needs to be passing motions calling on their unions to call joint strike action now.
The message is simply that we marched together, now it’s time to strike together.
Article: Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.co.uk
It's common for the classic work of Shakespeare to be re-skinned with contemporary costumes or, in fact, with costumes from any given period.
Shakespeare's own work tends toward the temporally indeterminate, with clocks striking in the age of Julius Caesar, Hamlet's University of Wittenburg, past royal histories recast for contemporary political effect, and many loosely-placed and loosely-dated fantasy scenarios.
The perception of "anachronism" varies widely with historical periods. Some cultural epochs are quite happy to recast the past in their own image. Others seem keen to impose a revived past upon themselves.
Couverture du magazine HARA-KIRI. Journal satyrique se réclamant bête et méchant et usant sans modération de la provocation.
Primera y Ruiz [R1] -
Ensenada, Baja California
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Couverture du magazine HARA-KIRI. Journal satyrique se réclamant bête et méchant et usant sans modération de la provocation.
Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheatpasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art. Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.
The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts.[1] Traditional spray-painted graffiti artwork itself is often included in this category, excluding territorial graffiti or pure vandalism.
Street art is often motivated by a preference on the part of the artist to communicate directly with the public at large, free from perceived confines of the formal art world.[2] Street artists sometimes present socially relevant content infused with esthetic value, to attract attention to a cause or as a form of "art provocation".[3]
Street artists often travel between countries to spread their designs. Some artists have gained cult-followings, media and art world attention, and have gone on to work commercially in the styles which made their work known on the streets.
Whoever is doing this is openly mocking Realise.
Done to promote Googly Eyes. Why it's a little clunky.
Font, source, fuente, burim: from Internet. Credit photo.
La liberté d'un Peuple, d'une Nation, est une chose grave et nécessite une lutte permanente contre toutes les provocations, d'où qu'elles viennent.
La libertad de un Pueblo, de una Nacion, son cosas muy serias y necesitan una lucha permanente contra todas las provocaciones, de donde vengan.
La llibertat d'un Poble, d'una Nacio son coses molt gravissimes y necessitan, sempre una lluïta permanent contra totes les provocacions, de qualsevol part de on puguin sortir.
Liria e një kombi është një luftë serioze dhe e përhershme kundër të gjitha provokimeve, manipulimeve, nga kudo.
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
If you take your lovely lady to dinner at Spago by Wolfgang Puck and then you take her to the Elton John Show headlining in the Caesars Palace Colosseum -- your lovely lady may afterwards reward you by letting you take her shopping here. What do you think...
A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees with his hands clasped is causing controversy in Warsaw, Poland. The Simon Wiesenthal Center calls the statue, entitled “HIM” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan “a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims.”
The work is one piece in Cattelan’s retrospective show “Amen” which the artist says explores the subject of “life, death, good and evil.”
The statue, which is on display in a former Warsaw ghetto, is visible only from a distance through a hole in a wooden gate. Viewers only see the back of the small figure, which appears to be a harmless schoolboy, praying in a courtyard.
Commenting on the Hitler praying statue, the Wiesenthal Center’s Israel director Efraim Zuroff said “As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.”
Fabio Cavallucci, the director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, who oversaw the installation, said, "There is no intention from the side of the artist or the centre to insult Jewish memory,” but to make people reflect on the nature of evil.
“It's an artwork that tries to speak about the situation of hidden evil everywhere,” he says, and to remind those who see it that “every criminal was once a tender, innocent and defenseless child.”
Organizers of the display also raised eyebrows by placing the statue in the former ghetto, an area of Warsaw that the Nazis sealed off after invading Poland.
It was there that many Jews live in cramped and inhuman conditions while waiting to be deported to concentration camps. Many didn’t survive the brutal conditions at the ghetto and died from hunger or disease or were executed by German soldiers.
While artists sometimes utilize graphic or disturbing images to provoke viewers and stir up controversy, they occasionally cross the bounds of good taste and spark moral outrage over the message they’re trying to convey.
Such appears to be the case with the praying Hitler statue, which critics say attempts to soften the image of the Nazi despot.
To Jews, Adolf Hitler represents a modern-day Haman, who plotted to destroy the Jews during the days of Queen Esther (Esther 3).
Pray that the memories of Nazi atrocities will never be forgotten and that civilized people everywhere will learn the lessons of history, or be doomed to repeat it.
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Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
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OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets of London on Saturday 26th March. They were marching against the Con-Dem government’s cuts. It was one of the biggest protests this country has ever seen. Every single trade union was represented on the protest and they were joined by anti cuts campaigners, pensioners, students and the unemployed.
No amount of police provocation against peaceful protesters or headlines in papers about violence can obscure that this was a massive working class demonstration.
And its power came from numbers and the social power they represent. It was a determined but angry protest. Millions of workers fear for their jobs and millions more are right to believe that the Tories are out to destroy their communities.
Magnificent
This government, held up by it’s Lib Dem collaborators, knows and cares nothing about the pain it causes, after all the majority of the cabinet are millionaires and two thirds went to private school.
The marchers’ message was clear—not one cut and not one job loss. And they are right: why should workers and the poorest in society pay for a crisis they did not create?
There doesn’t have to be a single cut or job loss. Greg Philo published an important article in the Guardian newspaper recently. He highlighted the fact that the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the population in Britain is £4,000 billion.
A one off tax of 20% on the wealth of this group would raise £800 billion and would wipe off Britain’s debt in one fell swoop.
With this in mind it’s crazy that Ed Miliband and New Labour are arguing that some cuts are necessary and that it’s the pace of the cuts that’s the problem. There’s no need to make cuts at all!
Saturday’s demonstration was magnificent, but it alone will not be enough to force Cameron and his cronies to make a U-turn. The Socialist Workers Party believes that if we are going to stop the Tories in their tracks, we will need further mass protests—and more importantly, strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
And we are not alone. On Saturday the leader of Unite (Britain’s biggest union), Len McCluskey, told those at the rally “This is only the start. We need a plan of resistance including coordinated strike action.”
Strike
Again when Mark Serwotka (the general secretary of the PCS) addressed the march he said, “Imagine what a difference it would make if we didn’t only march together but took strike action together.”
It’s time to turn those words into action. Already some unions, including the NUT, PCS and UCU are moving to joint action on pensions at the end of June—this could see 700,000 teachers, civil servants and lecturers on strike together.
That would be a good start, and would put pressure on the government, but we could really finish Cameron if the GMB, Unison and Unite also called their members out. We would see 5 million on strike—that would signal the end of Cameron.
Now we are all back at work, there is no time to waste. Union meetings need to be called as soon as possible and every union section/branch/region needs to be passing motions calling on their unions to call joint strike action now.
The message is simply that we marched together, now it’s time to strike together.
Article: Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.co.uk
OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets of London on Saturday 26th March. They were marching against the Con-Dem government’s cuts. It was one of the biggest protests this country has ever seen. Every single trade union was represented on the protest and they were joined by anti cuts campaigners, pensioners, students and the unemployed.
No amount of police provocation against peaceful protesters or headlines in papers about violence can obscure that this was a massive working class demonstration.
And its power came from numbers and the social power they represent. It was a determined but angry protest. Millions of workers fear for their jobs and millions more are right to believe that the Tories are out to destroy their communities.
Magnificent
This government, held up by it’s Lib Dem collaborators, knows and cares nothing about the pain it causes, after all the majority of the cabinet are millionaires and two thirds went to private school.
The marchers’ message was clear—not one cut and not one job loss. And they are right: why should workers and the poorest in society pay for a crisis they did not create?
There doesn’t have to be a single cut or job loss. Greg Philo published an important article in the Guardian newspaper recently. He highlighted the fact that the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the population in Britain is £4,000 billion.
A one off tax of 20% on the wealth of this group would raise £800 billion and would wipe off Britain’s debt in one fell swoop.
With this in mind it’s crazy that Ed Miliband and New Labour are arguing that some cuts are necessary and that it’s the pace of the cuts that’s the problem. There’s no need to make cuts at all!
Saturday’s demonstration was magnificent, but it alone will not be enough to force Cameron and his cronies to make a U-turn. The Socialist Workers Party believes that if we are going to stop the Tories in their tracks, we will need further mass protests—and more importantly, strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
And we are not alone. On Saturday the leader of Unite (Britain’s biggest union), Len McCluskey, told those at the rally “This is only the start. We need a plan of resistance including coordinated strike action.”
Strike
Again when Mark Serwotka (the general secretary of the PCS) addressed the march he said, “Imagine what a difference it would make if we didn’t only march together but took strike action together.”
It’s time to turn those words into action. Already some unions, including the NUT, PCS and UCU are moving to joint action on pensions at the end of June—this could see 700,000 teachers, civil servants and lecturers on strike together.
That would be a good start, and would put pressure on the government, but we could really finish Cameron if the GMB, Unison and Unite also called their members out. We would see 5 million on strike—that would signal the end of Cameron.
Now we are all back at work, there is no time to waste. Union meetings need to be called as soon as possible and every union section/branch/region needs to be passing motions calling on their unions to call joint strike action now.
The message is simply that we marched together, now it’s time to strike together.
Article: Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.co.uk
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
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OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets of London on Saturday 26th March. They were marching against the Con-Dem government’s cuts. It was one of the biggest protests this country has ever seen. Every single trade union was represented on the protest and they were joined by anti cuts campaigners, pensioners, students and the unemployed.
No amount of police provocation against peaceful protesters or headlines in papers about violence can obscure that this was a massive working class demonstration.
And its power came from numbers and the social power they represent. It was a determined but angry protest. Millions of workers fear for their jobs and millions more are right to believe that the Tories are out to destroy their communities.
Magnificent
This government, held up by it’s Lib Dem collaborators, knows and cares nothing about the pain it causes, after all the majority of the cabinet are millionaires and two thirds went to private school.
The marchers’ message was clear—not one cut and not one job loss. And they are right: why should workers and the poorest in society pay for a crisis they did not create?
There doesn’t have to be a single cut or job loss. Greg Philo published an important article in the Guardian newspaper recently. He highlighted the fact that the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the population in Britain is £4,000 billion.
A one off tax of 20% on the wealth of this group would raise £800 billion and would wipe off Britain’s debt in one fell swoop.
With this in mind it’s crazy that Ed Miliband and New Labour are arguing that some cuts are necessary and that it’s the pace of the cuts that’s the problem. There’s no need to make cuts at all!
Saturday’s demonstration was magnificent, but it alone will not be enough to force Cameron and his cronies to make a U-turn. The Socialist Workers Party believes that if we are going to stop the Tories in their tracks, we will need further mass protests—and more importantly, strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
And we are not alone. On Saturday the leader of Unite (Britain’s biggest union), Len McCluskey, told those at the rally “This is only the start. We need a plan of resistance including coordinated strike action.”
Strike
Again when Mark Serwotka (the general secretary of the PCS) addressed the march he said, “Imagine what a difference it would make if we didn’t only march together but took strike action together.”
It’s time to turn those words into action. Already some unions, including the NUT, PCS and UCU are moving to joint action on pensions at the end of June—this could see 700,000 teachers, civil servants and lecturers on strike together.
That would be a good start, and would put pressure on the government, but we could really finish Cameron if the GMB, Unison and Unite also called their members out. We would see 5 million on strike—that would signal the end of Cameron.
Now we are all back at work, there is no time to waste. Union meetings need to be called as soon as possible and every union section/branch/region needs to be passing motions calling on their unions to call joint strike action now.
The message is simply that we marched together, now it’s time to strike together.
Article: Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.co.uk
Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.
Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization
Computational architecture and design course
Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.
Instructors:
Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]
Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]
Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]
MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]
Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]
Gen. James D. Thurman, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea and Gen. Jeong Sung Jo, Chairman of the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff, sign a counter provocation plan at the JCS headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Mar. 22, 2013. U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Brian Gibbons
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OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE took to the streets of London on Saturday 26th March. They were marching against the Con-Dem government’s cuts. It was one of the biggest protests this country has ever seen. Every single trade union was represented on the protest and they were joined by anti cuts campaigners, pensioners, students and the unemployed.
No amount of police provocation against peaceful protesters or headlines in papers about violence can obscure that this was a massive working class demonstration.
And its power came from numbers and the social power they represent. It was a determined but angry protest. Millions of workers fear for their jobs and millions more are right to believe that the Tories are out to destroy their communities.
Magnificent
This government, held up by it’s Lib Dem collaborators, knows and cares nothing about the pain it causes, after all the majority of the cabinet are millionaires and two thirds went to private school.
The marchers’ message was clear—not one cut and not one job loss. And they are right: why should workers and the poorest in society pay for a crisis they did not create?
There doesn’t have to be a single cut or job loss. Greg Philo published an important article in the Guardian newspaper recently. He highlighted the fact that the personal wealth of the richest 10% of the population in Britain is £4,000 billion.
A one off tax of 20% on the wealth of this group would raise £800 billion and would wipe off Britain’s debt in one fell swoop.
With this in mind it’s crazy that Ed Miliband and New Labour are arguing that some cuts are necessary and that it’s the pace of the cuts that’s the problem. There’s no need to make cuts at all!
Saturday’s demonstration was magnificent, but it alone will not be enough to force Cameron and his cronies to make a U-turn. The Socialist Workers Party believes that if we are going to stop the Tories in their tracks, we will need further mass protests—and more importantly, strikes involving hundreds of thousands of workers.
And we are not alone. On Saturday the leader of Unite (Britain’s biggest union), Len McCluskey, told those at the rally “This is only the start. We need a plan of resistance including coordinated strike action.”
Strike
Again when Mark Serwotka (the general secretary of the PCS) addressed the march he said, “Imagine what a difference it would make if we didn’t only march together but took strike action together.”
It’s time to turn those words into action. Already some unions, including the NUT, PCS and UCU are moving to joint action on pensions at the end of June—this could see 700,000 teachers, civil servants and lecturers on strike together.
That would be a good start, and would put pressure on the government, but we could really finish Cameron if the GMB, Unison and Unite also called their members out. We would see 5 million on strike—that would signal the end of Cameron.
Now we are all back at work, there is no time to waste. Union meetings need to be called as soon as possible and every union section/branch/region needs to be passing motions calling on their unions to call joint strike action now.
The message is simply that we marched together, now it’s time to strike together.
Article: Socialist Worker www.socialistworker.co.uk