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2012: The year in sexism

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2012: The year in sexism

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Corban Wilkin-But I can’t

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:14:22 +0000

Corban Wilkin-But I can’t

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Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:00:51 +0000

Defying Racial Profiling in Germany

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:57:32 +0000

Defying Racial Profiling in Germany:

He was born in Germany, and he is black. A 26-year-old student who won a landmark court case against police for racial profiling this week speaks with SPIEGEL ONLINE about his moment of civil disobedience and whether he thinks the legal victory will change things for others like him.

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descentintotyranny: Germany unveils Roma Holocaust...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:42:32 +0100

descentintotyranny:

Germany unveils Roma Holocaust memorial

Oct. 24 2012

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened a memorial in Berlin to the Roma victims of the Nazi Holocaust. Up to 500,000 Roma Gypsies were murdered by the Nazis during during World War II. Wednesday’s unveiling comes after years of delays and disputes over the memorial’s design and its cost. The long-delayed monument, consisting of a round pool of water and stele on which a single fresh flower will rest each day, sits opposite the Reichstag parliament building in central Berlin. Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports from Berlin.

picturesofwar: This day in history: Amid protests across...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:05:50 +0100

picturesofwar:

This day in history:

Amid protests across Soviet-dominated Hungary, violence erupts, sparking the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Soon after the revolution began the Soviet Union planned to give in to demands and withdraw forces from the country. However they quickly changed plans and sent in a large military force to quash the rebellion and regain control.

Revolutionaries made quick and large gains up to the end of October, but stood no chance against the superior Soviet military. The rebellion eventually ended on November 10, two and a half weeks after it began.

Despite calls for help to western countries (especially the USA), the revolutionaries received no support during the conflict, and Hungary was dominated by Soviet oppression until 1989.

October 23, 1956 - 56 years ago today

theatlantic: Scenes from World War II Photoshopped Onto Today’s...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:46:45 +0100

theatlantic:

Scenes from World War II Photoshopped Onto Today’s Streets

“It is a bit like painting with history,” Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse says of her project “Ghosts of History.”

She got the idea a few years ago when she found some old negatives at a flea market in Amsterdam, where she lives. “I was very curious about these mysterious photos and wanted to find out who took them and where. So I started to walk around Amsterdam and made photos in the same spot where the old photos were made and combined them on the computer.”

See more. [Images: Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, Unknown, Tom Timmermans]

laughingsquid: Ghosts of War, Then and Now Composite Photos of...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:02:46 +0100

laughingsquid:

Ghosts of War, Then and Now Composite Photos of World War II

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov: First days of the occupation of...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:25:40 +0100

georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov:

First days of the occupation of Berlin.

machistado: Is it a Nazi? Use this handy guide to find out.

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:20:53 +0100

machistado:

Is it a Nazi? Use this handy guide to find out.

Author fury at blackface casting at German theatre

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:51:30 +0100

Author fury at blackface casting at German theatre:

The author of the award-winning play Clybourne Park has refused permission to a Berlin theatre company to perform the play after learning that a lead character would appear blacked up.

Managers at the Deutsches Theatre said a female African-American character in the play was being performed by a white actress and producers would “experiment with make-up”.

In a letter to the Dramatists Guild, US playwright Bruce Norris said he was taking a “zero tolerance position” on what he termed an “asinine tradition”.

“Normally I don’t meddle in the cultural politics of other countries,” wrote Norris “but when my work and the work of my colleagues — other playwrights — is misrepresented, I do. A zero-tolerance position is the only position to take.”

He urged fellow playwrights “to boycott productions of your own work by German theatres that continue this asinine tradition”.

In January this year, German director Thomas Schendel came under fire after allowing a white actor to paint his face black and take on the role of an elderly African-American in the Schlosspark Theatre’s production of I’m Not Rappaport.

In a long letter to the Dramatists Guild, Norris condemned the ongoing use of blacked up actors in German language productions.The theatre group vehemently denied claims of racism, saying they could not find “an elderly black actor” who could fulfil the role. Schendel also claimed that “blackface is part of a theatre tradition” in Germany.

“After much evasion, justification and rationalising of their reasons,” he said, producers at the Deutsches Theatre “finally informed me that the colour of the actress’s skin would ultimately be irrelevant, since they intended to ‘experiment with make-up.’ At this point, I retracted the rights to the production.”

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park - a satire about race and class - won a Tony and an Olivier earlier this year, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama last year.

The play debuted off-Broadway in February 2010, before making its UK premiere at London’s Royal Court later that year. A sell-out run saw it transfer to the West End for a four-month run in 2011.

The action unfolds in Chicago in 1959, and then revisits the same location in 2009. Cast members play different characters in each half of the play.

BBC

xombiedirge: Quentin Tarantino Movies by Massimo Carnevale

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:19:03 +0100

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

Death Proof

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Jackie Brown

Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs

xombiedirge:

Quentin Tarantino Movies by Massimo Carnevale

Nick Griffin tweets gay couple’s address, incites...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:38:37 +0100

Nick Griffin tweets gay couple’s address, incites homophobic mob

Tarantino

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:24:50 +0100

Tarantino

2spookynipples: extraterrestrialarachnid: tumbledore-: Finally...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:09:45 +0100

2spookynipples:

extraterrestrialarachnid:

tumbledore-:

Finally, a political movement we can all agree upon.

What are you talking about? Supreme executive power should derive from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

The best post on tumblr.

Greek anti-fascist protesters 'tortured by police' after Golden Dawn clash

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:00:07 +0100

Greek anti-fascist protesters 'tortured by police' after Golden Dawn clash:

Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate (GADA) – the Athens equivalent of Scotland Yard – and subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation.

Members of a second group of 25 who were arrested after demonstrating in support of their fellow anti-fascists the next day said they were beaten and made to strip naked and bend over in front of officers and other protesters inside the same police station.

Several of the protesters arrested after the first demonstration on Sunday 30 September told the Guardian they were slapped and hit by a police officer while five or six others watched, were spat on and “used as ashtrays” because they “stank”, and were kept awake all night with torches and lasers being shone in their eyes.

Golden Dawn’s popularity has surged since the June election, when it won 18 seats in parliament; it recently came third in several opinion polls, behind the conservative New Democracy and the leftwing party Syriza. Some said they were burned on the arms with a cigarette lighter, and they said police officers videoed them on their mobile phones and threatened to post the pictures on the internet and give their home addresses to Golden Dawn, which has a track record of political violence.

Last month the Guardian reported that victims of crime have been told by police officers to seek help from Golden Dawn, who then felt obliged to make donations to the group.

One of the two women among them said the officers used crude sexual insults and pulled her head back by the hair when she tried to avoid being filmed. The protesters said they were denied drinking water and access to lawyers for 19 hours. “We were so thirsty we drank water from the toilets,” she said.

One man with a bleeding head wound and a broken arm that he said had been sustained during his arrest alleged the police continued to beat him in GADA and refused him medical treatment until the next morning. Another said the police forced his legs apart and kicked him in the testicles during the arrest.

“They spat on me and said we would die like our grandfathers in the civil war,” he said.

A third said he was hit on the spine with a Taser as he tried to run away; the burn mark is still visible. “It’s like an electric shock,” he said. “My legs were paralysed for a few minutes and I fell. They handcuffed me behind my back and started hitting and kicking me in the ribs and the head. Then they told me to stand up, but I couldn’t, so they pulled me up by the chain while standing on my shin. They kept kicking and punching me for five blocks to the patrol car.”

The protesters asked that their names not be published, for fear of reprisals from the police or Golden Dawn.

A second group of protesters also said they were “tortured” at GADA. “We all had to go past an officer who made us strip naked in the corridor, bend over and open our back passage in front of everyone else who was there,” one of them told the Guardian. “He did whatever he wanted with us – slapped us, hit us, told us not to look at him, not to sit cross-legged. Other officers who came by did nothing.

“All we could do was look at each other out of the corners of our eyes to give each other courage. He had us there for more than two hours. He would take phone calls on his mobile and say, ‘I’m at work and I’m fucking them, I’m fucking them up well’. In the end only four of us were charged, with resisting arrest. It was a day out of the past, out of the colonels’ junta.”

In response to the allegations, Christos Manouras, press spokesman for the Hellenic police, said: “There was no use of force by police officers against anyone in GADA. The Greek police examine and investigate in depth every single report regarding the use of violence by police officers; if there are any responsibilities arising, the police take the imposed disciplinary action against the officers responsible. There is no doubt that the Greek police always respect human rights and don’t use violence.”

rcruzniemiec: Meagan’s Movie Alphabet

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:08:34 +0100

rcruzniemiec:

Meagan’s Movie Alphabet

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