ICAHD Peace Center ‘Beit Arabiya’ Demolished for the Fifth Time |Israeli authorities demolished Beit Arabiya (“Arabiya’s House”) last night (Monday, January 23rd) for the fifth time, along with structures in the East Anata Bedouin compound.  Beit Arabiya, Located in the West Bank town of Anata (Area C) just to the northeast of Jerusalem, is a living symbol of resistance to Occupation and the desire for justice and peace.

See also an art project I want to develop around this.

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I don’t normally watch TED but maybe this has value….
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10 June 2011

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Found this through a Jewish blogger JBlog Central at this ATLAS SHRUGS

“I have written often of the irrational violent cauldron of vicious hate that Sarah Palin’s goodness (and very existence) elicits from the forces of evil the left.

A new low (is that even possible/) was reached today when the elite media, the NY TImes and theWashington Post, begged readers to help them go through the soon-to-be released email messages to and from Sarah Palin during her time as Governor. Wow.

Think about that. Such naked hate is without equal. If America is paying attention, this could serve to be an aha moment. An indication of just how over the line and over the edge the left has gone to destroy anyone that poses a threat to their plan to dismantle this once great nation. That is what they are doing. The more righteous and patriotic the person, the more vile and debased the attacks.

The idea that we should stay away from Palin as a possible Presidential candidate because the enemy within (the left) hate her so much is the quintessence of defeatism and stupidity. If the right takes such a tact we are rewarding the vile politics of destruction. The left, smelling blood, will ramp up the violent language and smear campaign against any effective leader on the right.

Why should the party of hate and destruction decide who our candidate is? They did it last election with McCain, they propped up that RINO only to make a knock out punch easy-peasy. The only thing that made the 2008 Presidential election competitive and interesting was Palin.

Ann Coulter said again today that Sarah should not run. She has joined a chorus of naysayers.  Coulter is wrong. The old guard and standard issues of the Weekly Standard are wrong. America loves Sarah. She is one of us. The moochers hate her. The looters hate her. The second handers hate her. The elites hate her. But the good, the decent and the fine love her.”

Stateless Immigrants Pavilion.

We, the Anonymous Stateless Immigrants, will construct a “Stateless Immigrant’s Pavilion” by occupying the Giardini during the Venice Biennale (June 4-?), pirate style, and we need your help! Contact:: statelessimmigrantspavilion[at]riseup.net

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Iraq’s experimental contemporary artists have never had a chance to present their work for an Iraq Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; the first and last major appearance in 1976 outlined only some of their “modern” artists. The Iraq Pavilion for 2011 will indeed show the world an exciting professionally-curated selection of 6 Iraqi artists from two generations, including various artistic media (painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture/installation).

A video installation by Azad Nanakeli, titled Destnuej (Purification), also from the Iraqi Pavilion at Venice Biennale. Highly ritualistic yet the political nature of the work is strongly evident. (their first and last major appearance was in 1976).

See more on the Iraqi artists represented

 

HALIM AL-KARIM | ‘Hidden War’ (1985), a triptych by the U.S.-based photographer.

27 April 2011

Pompous Mormon symmetry. Everywhere marble: flawless, funereal (the Capitol, the organ in the Visitor Center). Yet a Los-Angeleic modernity, too- all the requisite gadgetry for a minimalist, extraterrestrial comfort. The Christ-topped dome (all the Christs here are copied from Thorwaldsen’s and look like Bjorn Borg) straight out of Close Encounters: religion as special effects. In fact the whole city has the transparency and supernatural, otherworldly cleanness of a thing from outer space.

via Jean Baudrillard – AMERICA – Excerpts 2.