Vitro Nasu

Sting sings Russians for Ukraine refuges

Body Armor Ukraine – fight Russia to the last drop of Ukrainian blood

“Even the smallest of voices need to be heard” a placard held by the young Lego artist.
(She will be 15 years old in a few days)

Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

Wall street waltz

Looking back…

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Occupy Wall St

Wall street Anti- Captitalist Protest Picture Gallery slideshow (Guardian)

LiveStream Global Revolution

A line from Salvador Allende

Balancing between abstract
expressionism & futurism
the calm metal instrument
of my voice tweaks the once-

sacred double-helix to create
pyramids in bold colors &
textures. Exquisite tropes. The
great avenues will open again.

Mike Gravel

Mike Gravel who read Pentagon Papers into Congressional record dies at 91

Mike Gravel was on the right side of history (Jacobin)

Artforum obit

Sicilian sculptor Arturo Di Modica died on February 19 in his hometown of Vittoria, Italy, at the age of eighty, following a years-long battle with cancer, his dealer Jacob Harmer confirmed. Di Modica, who operated outside the confines of the traditional art world for most of his career, is most widely known for his massive bronze 1989 sculpture Charging Bull, which has greeted passersby in New York’s Bowling Green for more than thirty years.

Early Days At The Studio Di Modica On Crosby Street, Which Arturo Built From The Ground Up With His Own Hands.

Charging Bull

Arthur Di Modica wiki

Di Modica received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1999.

(Arturo Di Modica 1970, Henry Moore Inspired Bronze)

(via -Wikiwand)

(The Village Sun Obit)

Lee, who was a gentle soul, went by the whimsical moniker the “undisputed unofficial Asian American photographer laureate.” For 50 years, starting in the 1970s, he documented Manhattan’s Chinatown and the city’s Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities.

(Photo by Corky Lee)
Throwing a hook: Japanese American teacher was secret women’s boxing trailblazer

Corky Lee wiki

Corky Lee (born as Lĭ Yángguó; 1947 – January 27, 2021) was an American journalistic photographer. His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture overlooked by mainstream media and made sure Asian American history was included as a part of American history

Photographic Justice
See photo of Grace Lee Boggs and Mr. Mirikitani (Previous post, The Cats of Mirikitani)

Corky Lee poses with his 1982 photograph of striking garment workers, featured in the New York Historical Society’s exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. “It was the largest Chinese garment worker rally in the history of NYC. 15,000 showed up to lobby for a new contract – it was pretty monumental. Fifteen, twenty years after that, the garment industry is no longer a viable employment source for the Chinese immigrant community, but back in the day, at least one person in the family had to work for the union, because that was the source of health insurance. Because there was absolutely no health insurance in the laundries and restaurants.” Corky was still in high school when he began noticing the absence of Chinese Americans in the media and newspapers around him – even the historic photograph of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, built by Chinese labor, didn’t have any Chinese workers in it. He has been committed to making his community visible ever since, photographing not only Chinatown but Asian America for more than four decades. The 68 y.o. Queens native has been the country’s self-appointed, undisputed, Unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate for so long that even the post office agrees: a letter addressed to just this title in “Elmhurst, Queens” actually found its way to the photographer.

(Ralph Fiennes and Pete Postlethwaite from the Constant Gardner)

In the Name of Pete Postlethwaite
(See and read more from here, enjoy!)

Bread And Puppet Theater presents: A celebration of the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

We are (still) the 99 percent

Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

Vox –

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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

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Photo by Fung Lin Hall (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Carla
Carla Fernandez via Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Double Agents: Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes
Oct 27 – Feb 3, 2019

Mexian artists are transforming gun violence into arts.

Two of Mexico’s most prominent artists, Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes, have created a joint exhibit to promote social change in Mexico.

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Gladys West receives Air Force Honor (Mental Floss)

Decades after she helped develop Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, 87-year-old Gladys West has received one of the Air Force space program’s highest distinctions, First Coast News reports.

West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. The honor was given in recognition of the work she did as one of the agency’s “human computers” in the era predating high-powered data processors. When West joined the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Virginia in 1956, she was one of just four black employees, two of whom were men. One of those men, Ira West, would later become her husband.

Early in her career, West contributed to an astronomical study that proved the regularity of Pluto’s rotation relative to Neptune. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, she programmed a computer to come up with a super-accurate model of the Earth, accounting for variations in the planet’s shape caused by gravitational, tidal, and other forces. This model laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System (GPS) that’s ubiquitous in the military, smartphones, and cars today.

West retired from the military in 1998, but she hasn’t stopped her pursuit of knowledge. In 2018, she completed her Ph.D. through a remote program with Virginia Tech.

Happy birthday Adam Rippon! and the birthday boy responded.

USAToday nominates Adam Rippon for political office

On Adam Rippon – by Cher (Time Magazine)

All figure skaters are beautiful, but Adam Rippon is different. He isn’t just a beautiful skater. He has humility, grace and an incredible sense of humor.
You could see in the leather-harness suit he wore to the Academy Awards that he isn’t afraid to take chances. It wasn’t about the suit, really. It was about the fact that he dares to be different in a world where being different always comes with a cost. I thought it was fabulous, of course.

Adam Rippon made a speech at Boston Rally with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Boston Rally protest against Kavanaugh)

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Rippon looks like Gore Vidal.

Viet Thanh Nguyen
and Ariel Dorfman wiki

Displaced: Refugee Writers Ariel Dorfman & Viet Thanh Nguyen on Migration, US Wars & Resistance
(Democracy Now- Amy Goodman)

Happy birthday Ariel Dorfman!

Guardian – on Dorman, not to belong anywhere is not a bad thing for a writer.

Roman Polanski adapted Death and the Maiden

A. D. Homepage

When Mandela Became Real to Me
By Ariel Dorfman

(Portrait of John Kiriakou by Andres Serrano)
Torture, Andres Serrano
June 3 – October 8, 2017
Station Museum Alabama

“It’s easy to torture people when you have power over them.” – Andres Serrano

Torture
(Photo by Andres Serrano)

Democracy Now – Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama’s War on Leaks

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Jay Leto interviewed John Kiriakou who was Jay’s High school teacher.

Kiriakou on Snowded at Democracy Now (youtube)