The Enthusiastic and Damned. Digging Up The Dirt, and Throwing Some Seeds In. Alvaro Castagnet is one of the world’s most highly respected watercolor artists.
He has been recognized with top international honors for his painting and his art graces the walls of many private and corporate collectors worldwide.Alvaro is in constant demand for solo exhibitions, workshops and instruction. His expert eye is highly sought after as a juror of prestigious art shows. The art of Alvaro Castagnet captures the very soul of his subjects with passion, boldness and elegance.Alvaro currently living and working in Montevideo, Uruguay.web I FacebookWe’re Unknown Editors. Check us out on Facebook & Instagram. America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. Black and unarmed.Remember the names of unarmed Black men who were killed by police or vigilantes.
This is only a short list, please reply with other names so we may remember these men.Trayvon Martin.The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Martin was a 17-year-old African American high school student. He was unarmed and headed home after buying skittles and sweet tea from a gas station close to his home.
George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old multi-racial Hispanic American was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily staying and where the shooting took place. Phoebe bird. Juliannabrion: A few new paintings.The two dog pieces are my contributions to Best in Show, a dog-themed exhibition at Double Punch, put together by Alison Dubois!
(via waldeinsamkeiten) phoebewahl: A newly finished mobile! Wool felt, wire, yarn, thrifted fabric & mixed media. Freshly finished mobile! Untitled. Culture of Resistance. SAFI, Morocco (AP) — As a prisoner in Guantanamo, Younis Chekkouri learned about the new group of Islamic extremists advancing through Syria and Iraq.Released after 13 years without charges, and free in his home country for the first time in two decades, the 46-year-old vows not to be among the estimated 2,000 Moroccans who have chosen to join the Islamic State group.
“Islam is innocent of this group and its actions,” he says. Little V a g r a n c i e s. Frolicing in the Forest. HOME SWEET HOME. Strike At The Root. Dirty Squatter. We in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) have been approached by a group of hundreds of people currently incarcerated in Alabama who are launching a nonviolent prison strike beginning this Sunday April 20th to demand an end to slave labor, the massive overcrowding and horrifying health and human rights violations found in Alabama Prisons, and the passage of legislation they have drafted.This is the second peaceful and nonviolent protest initiated by the brave men and women of the Free Alabama Movement (F.A.M.) this year building on the recent Hunger Strikes in Pelican Bay and the Georgia Prison Strike in 2010.
They aim to build a mass movement inside and outside of prisons to earn their freedom, and end the racist, capitalist system of mass incarceration called The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and others. Fuck Yeah Green Anarchy. My Law, by Tieme Ranapiri (ancient Maori poem).
The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun Will sweep on its course till the Cycle is run. And when into chaos the system is hurled Again shall the Builder reshape a new world Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal: Move on - for your orbit is fixed to your soul. And though it may lead into darkness of night The torch of the Builder shall give it new light. You were. Your spirit has travelled both long and afar. It came from the Source, to the Source it returns - The spark which was lighted eternally burns.
It slept in a jewel. It roamed in a forest. It took on strange garbs for aeons of years And now in the soul of yourself It appears. From body to body your spirit speeds on. Voices of Collapse. The Marie Mason benefit show is on Saturday July 16th and it’s approaching quickly!
I need people to really push this information so we can get as many people to come out as possible. Please repost this and more importantly if you can make it come out, show support, GET INVOLVED! WHEN: Saturday, July 16th 2011, 5-11PM *(time may change - check Facebook event page for updates) WHERE: Copycat Space, 1511 Guilford Suite B40, Baltimore, MD WHAT’S HAPPENING:We will have a night of music, speakers on topics like the Green Scare, a screening of the new documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, and a silent auction/raffle.
Asking for donation of $5-$10 at the door, but no one will be turne d away for lack of funds. WHO IS MARIE MASON:From her support page:“Marie Mason is a loving mother of two and a long-time activist in the environmental and labor movements. Mason was sentenced on February 5, 2009 in federal court in Lansing, Michigan. Marie Mason’s support group: rg/