Showing posts with label killing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label killing. Show all posts
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Florida mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots? He KILLS an unarmed teenager and is found innocent?
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
24th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre
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| This file photo taken 24 years ago shows some of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathering around a 10-meter replica of the Statue of Liberty (center), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters were killed by China's military on June 3 and 4, 1989, as communist leaders ordered an end to six weeks of unprecedented democracy protests in the heart of the Chinese capital. (CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images) |
Great photos of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests (but also of the horrible massacre that ended it)!
some of my earlier posts on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and democracy protests:
Jun 04, 2009
June 4, 1989 ...I was 21 and just coming into my own ...just moving out of my parents' home, just taking on my own ideas about politics, religion, war, life, love and everything... since I was young, every time I had uttered even ...
Jun 06, 2009
Previously unseen pictures obtained by the Guardian show how the violence centred on Tiananmen Square played out in surrounding areas... Posted by William Andersen at 4:58 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to ...
Jun 04, 2009
meeting a former soldier that fired shoots in Tiananmen... ...very strange that I met this artist, Chen Guang, in the summer of 2007 at an art exhibit of the most shocking art that I've ever seen... I had a very difficult time with his art ...
Jun 04, 2011
China's 22nd anniversary of Tiananmen Square | Video | Reuters.com. Twenty-two years after China's infamous Tiananmen Square crackdown, not much progress on political dissidents.
Jun 06, 2009
Mike Licht said... Tank Man lives. New versions of this iconic image are all over the Web. Here, for example: http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/20th-anniversary-of-tiananmen-square/. June 5, 2009 at 4:57 PM ...
Apr 12, 2011
Ai Weiwei and the Artist's Role in China. Ai Weiwei in Tiananmen Square in 2009 (the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre). Ai Weiwei and the Artist's Role in China - Room for Debate ... 12 Apr 2011 .
Feb 10, 2012
-Tibet Post International. Hong Kong Residents to Hold Vigil Marking Tiananmen... - Bloomberg. Tiananmen Square Anniversary: 22 Years Later - Huffington Post. Tiananmen legacy: Crush any hint of dissent - Vancouver .
May 21, 2011
Ai Weiwei in Tiananmen Square in 2009 on the 20th anniversary of the massacre. Dear friends, Have you seen Mary Louise Schumacher's article: Should the Milwaukee Art Museum protest Ai Weiwei's detention? - Art City ...
Jul 09, 2010
In February, those artists joined forces with artists from another Beijing neighborhood to march down Chang'an Jie, a wide ceremonial avenue that runs past the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Chinese leaders are ...
Nov 28, 2009
But after 1989, and the silencing of protesters at Tiananmen Square, he had decided that “the world became different.” And so he returned to China in 1993, reckoning that one day he might face something like his father's fate.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
WHERE IS THE PANCHEN LAMA?
The present (11th) incarnation of the Panchen Lama is a matter of controversy: the People's Republic of China asserts it is Gyancain Norbu, while the 14th Dalai Lama asserted it was Gedhun Choekyi Nyima on May 14, 1995. The latter vanished from public eye shortly after being named, aged six. Chinese authorities stated that Gedhun had been taken into protective custody from those that would spirit him into exile. However, most believe he is now held in captivity against the wishes of the Tibetan people. Tibetans and human rights groups continue to campaign for his release.
Today:
The Panchen Lamas 24th birthday.
WHERE IS THE PANCHEN LAMA?
What you can do today:
1, share this post
2. use the picture as profile pic
3. CALL THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN YOUR COUNTRY
yes, a bit of an effort, finding phone numbers, but please MAKE that effort..we need to speak up for what we believe in, not just *like* pictures and photos..
Please
take action today.
Even one call.....
Saturday, December 22, 2012
What Sandy Hook taught us about teachers
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| Link to original post by Chan Lowe (click here) |
Never has the dedication of the people who practice the teaching profession been spotlighted in the way it has over the past few days. We were shown, in dramatic terms, to what lengths teachers are willing to go to fulfill the crucial mandate they have been given: the education and welfare of the most precious members of our society. Yet they are so often treated with disdain.
Teaching is a calling. Not everyone has the will or the stamina to do it well. It takes love, pride, and an almost sacred commitment that can't be explained in words. In America, teachers have traditionally been underpaid, because in America's early communities, "schoolmarms" were always spinsters who were not expected to support families.
In other countries, the teaching profession is considered so noble that it is well paid in comparison to many other professions, as it should be. In this country, politicians—acting as proxies for taxpayers—haggle with, lowball, denigrate and harass teachers as if their demands for job security and decent pay are unreasonable and selfish.
A teacher invests in the future, student by student, and his or her legacy consists of the product of those students' fertile minds. Occasionally, teachers are even called upon to throw themselves into harm's way to protect the lives of their charges as if they were their own children—and last week six of them demonstrated most profoundly that they do not shrink from the task. About this, no one can argue.
So, who deserves to be paid more, and what does the reality tell us about our priorities?"
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Crazy Guy + Gun = 26 Dead vs. Crazy Guy + Knife = No Dead
So many right wingers have been trying to use the example of the school attack in China as a reason to say, "Attacks will happen anyway, so what difference does it make whether or not we have stricter gun laws?"
I guess they don't see any difference between children who are alive and children who are not.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Please join Solidarity with Tibet
Please join us as we stand in Solidarity with Tibet on the occasion of Human Rights Day, on 10 December 2012. Everyone around the world can attend this virtual event, so invite your friends. https://www.facebook.com/
The situation in Tibet is worsening daily under the oppressive grip of the government of the People’s Republic of China. It is time to stand in solidarity with
Tibetans and their struggle for human rights. www.solidaritywithtibet.or
How to attend the virtual event on 10 December 2012:
(1) Update your profile picture on Facebook to the "Solidarity with Tibet 10 DEC 2012" image, which you can find below.
(2) Post a status on Facebook containing the words “Solidarity with Tibet” and set the location of your status to Lhasa, Tibet: Potala Palace, Lhasa.
(3) Join our Thunderclap! We have partnered with Thunderclap, so that our message will be heard loud and clear around the world on 10 December 2012 (Human Rights Day). Please support our Thunderclap with your Facebook and/or Twitter account(s), and we will all share a synchronized message of #SolidarityWithTibet on 10 Dec. Help us reach our goal of 500 supporters by signing up now at https://
How to attend the virtual event on 10 December 2012:
(1) Update your profile picture on Facebook to the "Solidarity with Tibet 10 DEC 2012" image, which you can find below.
(2) Post a status on Facebook containing the words “Solidarity with Tibet” and set the location of your status to Lhasa, Tibet: Potala Palace, Lhasa.
(3) Join our Thunderclap! We have partnered with Thunderclap, so that our message will be heard loud and clear around the world on 10 December 2012 (Human Rights Day). Please support our Thunderclap with your Facebook and/or Twitter account(s), and we will all share a synchronized message of #SolidarityWithTibet on 10 Dec. Help us reach our goal of 500 supporters by signing up now at https://
Two new self-immolations in Tibet today, December 8, 2012
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| Two new self-immolations in Tibet today, December 8, 2012 : First, in Luchu, Gansu province in Amdo, his name is Pedma Dorje, and he is 23 years old. སྤྱི་ལོ༢༠༡༢ལོའི་ཧོར་ཟླ༡༠པའི་ཚེ |
Breaking: Burning Tibetan calls for independence, Two self-immolations in a day...
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| Two new self-immolations today, December 8, 2012 : The second is a monk Kunchok Phelgye, who self-immolated in Ngaba at arrond 3-4 PM local time asking to allow
the retourn of HH Dalai Lama to Tibet.
གཞན་དེ་རིང་བོད་ནང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་༤ |
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| Kunchok Phelgye, a 24-year-old-monk from the Sumdo Monastery in Dzoege region of eastern Tibet passed away in his self-immolation protest today. The exile base
of the Kirti Monastery in Dharamshala, in a release, said that Kunchok Phelgye set himself on fire in front of the main assembly hall of the Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery at around 5:20 pm (local time). “Kunchok Phelgye was enveloped in flames and his hands were joined in prayers as he raised slogans for the long life and return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kyabje Kirti Rinpoche, the exiled head of Kirti Monastery,” the release said citing sources in the region. “He also raised slogans calling for the return and reunification of Tibetans.” Kunchok Phelgye succumbed to his injuries at the site of his protest. Monks of the Monastery surrounded Kunchok Phelgye’s burning body and began to recite the prayer, “Losang Gyalwa Kungi Nyingje Ter…” (usually recited in Kirti Rinpoche’s honour). Later, Kunchok Phelgye’s body was carried to his quarters in the Monastery where hundreds of monks and local Tibetans continue to visit to offer their last respects and prayers.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
85th self-immolation protest in Tibet - WORLD WAKE UP!
Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ
BREAKING: Kelsang Kyab set himself on fire today, November 27, 2012 at 7 PM in Kyangtsa township, Amdo Dzoge, Ngaba district.
་ཕྱི་ཚེས་༢༧་ད་ལྟ་རང་མདོ་སྨ
Four Tibetans self-immolate as protest breaks out at school ...
www.telegraph.co.uk › ... › World News › Asia › Tibet
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8 hours ago – Tuesday 27 November 2012 ... China Congress: teenageTibetan monks self- |
Four Tibetan students self-immolate in clash with Chinese police
By Associated Press on November 27, 2012 ... Four more ethnicTibetans have self-immolated to protest Chinese rule and at least 20 were hospitalised after ...
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Some of us did not make it to see another sunrise or sunset...
"Some of us did not make it to see another sunrise or sunset... You survived... Be happy. Be grateful. Live and let live. COEXIST."
text and collage by Layza Quintz
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
I'm on the side of peace.
I have been struggling with what, if anything, to post about Gaza the last few days knowing that whatever I post friends on either side are going to be upset, but these two good natured friends encapsulate exactly my feelings.
This is not a football game where you should be cheering for one side or the other. As Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier known to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, said, "War is organized murder, and nothing else."
Thanks Charlez and Jeanine!
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Kuwait breaks another world record (this time for traffic deaths)!
Last week Kuwait broke the world record for fireworks, this week Kuwait breaks the world record for traffic deaths:
Kuwait broken world record in number of traffic deaths
Posted on 11/18/2012
Kuwait has broken world record in number of traffic deaths, with 17 deaths recorded in every 100000 cases on the average, local daily reported quoting Chairperson of Traffic safety society Bader Al Matar. He added that Kuwait roads have the capacity to accommodate 700000 vehicles and almost 1.6 million vehicles ply on the road. He also said the current traffic lights are failed and government must implement online system to manage traffic.
Read more at http://www.indiansinkuwait.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=20780&SECTION=0#ixzz2Caj4vlMX
Kuwait broken world record in number of traffic deaths
Posted on 11/18/2012
Read more at http://www.indiansinkuwait.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=20780&SECTION=0#ixzz2Caj4vlMX
Sunday, November 11, 2012
This Veterans Day remember...
"This Veterans Day remember - the best way to honor vets is to stop making so many new ones."
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Tibetan deaths continue under China's policies...
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| Tibetans’ are forced to bow down as they are taken away by Chinese security forces. (From a Chinese military forum) |
As many as 1,000 people demonstrated against mining operations in an
environmentally fragile part of Tibet on Wednesday, Radio Free Asia
reported.
Two young Tibetan men set themselves on fire on Monday in a Tibetan region of western China to protest Chinese rule.
Monday, August 6, 2012
My heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to the Sikh community of Wisconsin...
My heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to the Sikh community of Wisconsin... very sad day... I may be half way around the world but I am with you in spirit...
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