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• Thursday 21 May 2009

  kettle the met

  I’m a bad blogger. Set up a blog, drop a link in the wrong place somewhere, take the site down in a tearing hurry, go away for a couple of weeks before you can do the repairs and then get home and find the internet connection’s died…
  Oh well.
  I’m back. This demo is where I’ll [...]

  posted by red at 11:23 pm in civil liberties, resistance | 5 comments

• Saturday 2 May 2009

  may day protests

  This is France. The BBC has a slideshow of May Day protests around the world, mainly focused on the economic crisis. The police look the same everywhere…
  Diam’s offers a take on France here – one that’s multiracial and anti-Sarko. If you want a rough translation drop me a line. But your French may be better [...]

  posted by red at 1:58 am in capitalism, class, resistance | 1 comment

• Friday 1 May 2009

  happy international workers’ day

  Strikers’ rally in Union Square, New York, on May Day, 1913. Check out the multi-lingual signs – two in Italian and a couple that I assume are in Yiddish. The one in English says:
  ALFRED BENJAMIN’S EMPLOYEES
  Our boss claims we are satisfied
  We are here to prove the contrary
  More info – and more historic 1 May pics [...]

  posted by red at 12:37 am in class, resistance | 2 comments

• Monday 13 April 2009

  a pair of boots

  I hopped on the bus yesterday to see this at the Whitechapel Gallery. It is the tapestry version of Picasso’s Guernica, made by weaver Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach in 1955.
  I’ve never seen the 1937 original painting, which Picasso made in response to the devastating arial bombardment on the town of Guernica – by [...]

  posted by red at 11:54 pm in anti-war, capitalism, class, culture, resistance | 6 comments