caption (image above): Self-published box – The Memory of History, by Lewis Bush, 2012. I’ve recently arrive at Lewis Bush virtual sphere (aka blog) and am coming out with that feeling of content and surprise that is often too rare. A friend had sent me a message with a text about Don McCullin’s retrospective @…
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© Giovanni Troilo, J. keeps his gun hidden in a box in the woods of Bois du Cazier. This is more secure than keeping them at home since he regularly gets visits from the police., from the series The Dark Heart of Europe, 2014. © Giovanni Troilo, Gas supply tubes run along the houses built…
Read More┐ Can a symbolic image become a code? └
This image is from yesterday’s official communication by the Portuguese PM about new austerity measures. It shows a reporter wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt. I know it is symbolic but I like to imagine it could be a code, a message given to rise a sort of underground army. Yes, I know, sci-fi, maybe I’ve…
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as published in the front cover of the Portuguese newspaper I. video of the happening here: “Celebrations to mark Portugal’s Republic Day took on an extra symbolic relevance when President Cavaco Silva unknowingly raised the country’s flag upside down. The internationally recognised signal of distress came on the last time October 5 will be deemed…
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Yesterday, September 26th, in the Streets of Greece during general strike day
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© Susana Vera (Reuters) After midningh, the Basques and the Greeks go on general strike!
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© Sérgio Pérez (Reuters) live streaming of the protests of the 25S movement in Spain, surrounding the Congress update, live also here, via El Pais
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photo by © Javier Barbancho LEADERS of a workers’ union in southern Spain staged a massive raid on two supermarkets on Tuesday, filling at least 30 trolleys with staple foodstuffs to give to the poor. They gave their entire haul to local ‘food banks’ which supply hampers to families who no longer have any income…
Read More┐ Slavoj Zizek: all we are saying is give Greece a chance└
You come home in the evening, tired, you put on tv some stupid show like Cheers or Friends and you just sit and the tv even laughs for you. And, unfortunately, it works That’s how those in power, the European establishment, want to see – not only Greek people but all of us – just…
Read More┐ Blockupy – Frankfurt └
Transnational call to action in Frankfurt, May 16-19 * International solidarity in our common struggle * We are calling for massive protests in Frankfurt this May against the crisis regime of the European Union. We are activists representing a multitude of movements and struggles from different European countries and elsewhere, who have risen up in…
Read More║ Bert Teunissen – Domestic Landscapes ║
© Bert Teunissen, Felgueiras de Algarbom #1, Portugal, 2002 © Bert Teunissen, Minas de São Domingos #2, Portugal, 2001 There’s really no way to resume this work… so here is the link to it.
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