1. 21 Apr


    Ubuntu: “I am what I am because of who we all are.”

    Ubuntu: “I am what I am because of who we all are.”

     

  2. 13 Apr


     

  3. 11 Apr


    Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917–24 March 1980) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in El Salvador.  Romero was shot on 24 March 1980 while celebrating Mass, one day after a sermon in which he had called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God’s higher order and to stop carrying out the government’s repression and violations of basic human rights. No persons were ever prosecuted for the assassination.

    Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917–24 March 1980) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. 

    Romero was shot on 24 March 1980 while celebrating Mass, one day after a sermon in which he had called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God’s higher order and to stop carrying out the government’s repression and violations of basic human rights.

    No persons were ever prosecuted for the assassination.

     

  4. 1 Apr


    Iggy Pop

    Iggy Pop

     

  5. 23 Mar


    Private Kimberly Rivera (born c. 1982) is a U.S. Army deserter and an Iraq War resister who went AWOL in February 2007 after a year of service. She was the first female U.S. military deserter to flee to Canada. She served her first tour of duty in Iraq in 2006 and worked primarily as a gate guard. She soon became disillusioned with the mission, later stating that she was particularly influenced by seeing a crying two-year-old Iraqi girl coming with her family to claim compensation for bombing by coalition forces. Though she had been initially interested in supporting democracy for the Iraqi people, she stated that she felt she found only “lies” in Iraq and felt betrayed by the U.S. government. While on leave in early 2007, Rivera was told she would serve another tour of duty overseas. She and her husband made contact with the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign, and on February 18, 2007, fled across the border to Canada with their children. Rivera then applied for refugee status. In January 2009, the Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that Rivera must leave the country. In August 2012, five years after her arrival in Canada, Rivera received another deportation order ordering her to return to the United States. Amnesty International stated that it considered Rivera a conscientious objector and would consider her a prisoner of conscience if she were detained. Upon her return to the United States, she was taken into custody.

    Private Kimberly Rivera (born c. 1982) is a U.S. Army deserter and an Iraq War resister who went AWOL in February 2007 after a year of service. She was the first female U.S. military deserter to flee to Canada.

    She served her first tour of duty in Iraq in 2006 and worked primarily as a gate guard. She soon became disillusioned with the mission, later stating that she was particularly influenced by seeing a crying two-year-old Iraqi girl coming with her family to claim compensation for bombing by coalition forces. Though she had been initially interested in supporting democracy for the Iraqi people, she stated that she felt she found only “lies” in Iraq and felt betrayed by the U.S. government.

    While on leave in early 2007, Rivera was told she would serve another tour of duty overseas. She and her husband made contact with the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign, and on February 18, 2007, fled across the border to Canada with their children. Rivera then applied for refugee status.

    In January 2009, the Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that Rivera must leave the country. In August 2012, five years after her arrival in Canada, Rivera received another deportation order ordering her to return to the United States. Amnesty International stated that it considered Rivera a conscientious objector and would consider her a prisoner of conscience if she were detained. Upon her return to the United States, she was taken into custody.

     

  6. 16 Mar


    The Hoerengracht (1983–8), by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz

    The Hoerengracht (1983–8), by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz

     

  7. 16 Mar


    Ed Kienholz, 1966

    Ed Kienholz, 1966

     

  8. 15 Mar


    Owen Maseko is a Zimbabwean artist. In March 2010, he was arrested less than 24 hours after his new exhibition opened at the National Gallery in Bulawayo. His works referred to the massacres of Ndebele civilians during the Gukurahundi in the 1980s, carried out by forces loyal to Robert Mugabe. The exhbition, called “Sibathontisele” (“Let’s Drip On Them”), consisted in “three installations and twelve paintings”. Maseko was charged, under the Public Order and Security Act, with “undermining the authority” of President Robert Mugabe. He was also charged with “causing offence to persons of a particular race or religion”. The charges carried a possible twenty-year prison sentence. He was granted bail. In September, his trial was postponed pending consideration by the Supreme Court as to “whether criminalising creative arts infringes on the freedom of expression and freedom of conscience”, as guaranteed by the Constitution. A magistrate granted an application to the Supreme Court on constitutional grounds, and on the grounds that Maseko’s art depicted events which had unquestionably happened. Maseko was second runner up for the Freedom to Create Prize in 2010, for his exhbition on the Gukurahundi killings.

    Owen Maseko is a Zimbabwean artist.

    In March 2010, he was arrested less than 24 hours after his new exhibition opened at the National Gallery in Bulawayo. His works referred to the massacres of Ndebele civilians during the Gukurahundi in the 1980s, carried out by forces loyal to Robert Mugabe. The exhbition, called “Sibathontisele” (“Let’s Drip On Them”), consisted in “three installations and twelve paintings”. Maseko was charged, under the Public Order and Security Act, with “undermining the authority” of President Robert Mugabe. He was also charged with “causing offence to persons of a particular race or religion”. The charges carried a possible twenty-year prison sentence.

    He was granted bail. In September, his trial was postponed pending consideration by the Supreme Court as to “whether criminalising creative arts infringes on the freedom of expression and freedom of conscience”, as guaranteed by the Constitution. A magistrate granted an application to the Supreme Court on constitutional grounds, and on the grounds that Maseko’s art depicted events which had unquestionably happened.

    Maseko was second runner up for the Freedom to Create Prize in 2010, for his exhbition on the Gukurahundi killings.

     

  9. 15 Mar


    Laika, the Soviet space dog, was the first terrestrial creature to orbit the earth.

    Laika, the Soviet space dog, was the first terrestrial creature to orbit the earth.

     

  10. 3 Mar


    Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    Adam Curtis, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace