Freedom Always !!!

Freedom Always !!!
Originally uploaded by luisa brehm

 
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today is the commemoration of the portuguese Carnations’ Revolution in 1974, after 48 years of fascism.

this photo is dedicated to all oppressed people of the world and all the ones who stand up to say Enough !!!
go on fighting for your rights, against all kinds of injustice, don’t give up of hope, Ever !!!
one day, the children of our grandchildren will know, at least, we have struggled to create a better one for them .....
and i want to cry right now, as i cried 33 years ago on the streets and cried before in the shadows and go on crying,
Liberdade Sempre !!! Freedom Always !!!

For a Better World without Death Penalty !!!
with Love
me

Drugs Used in Executions May Cause Paralysis, Pain for Conscious Inmates

check out this article from The Washington Post

grandpa’s pansies

i always thought pansies are the most beautiful flowers of the world .....
may be because i grew up surrounded by and my grandpa Hanns
collected them as leaves and other wild flowers and so did i .....

these pansies are inside a book a long long ago, more than 70 years,
i guess .....
i can smell my memory !!!
Ich liebe dich, Opa !!!

we call them here Amor-perfeito, what means perfect love.

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set me free !!!

i got sad news today, Babe .....
my cry of revolt is hurting me
hold strong my hand !!!
i only am hoping hope, see .....

Kill Death Penalty Now !!!
Set All Prisoners Free !!!

self ....

Mom & dad

still dating and all was perfect - 1949

if my hurts had a name
they would have my father's one .....

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And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

Dead, did I say? - There is no death, only a change of worlds.

- Chief Seattle -

sunset of dead

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archaeological site of Mitla - Place of the Dead
Oaxaca

old photos from 1982

Sonnet 38

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since, it grew more clean and white,
Slow to world-greetings, quick with its 'Oh, list,'
When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst
I could not wear here, plainer to my sight,
Than that first kiss. The second passed in height
The first, and sought the forehead, and half missed,
Half falling on the hair. O beyond meed!
That was the chrism of love, which love's own crown,
With sanctifying sweetness, did precede.
The third upon my lips was folded down
In perfect, purple state; since when, indeed,
I have been proud and said, 'My love, my own.'

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -

gentle kiss

 
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this is

for you
and the hopeless world !!!
the oppressed the prisoners the lost kids from misery and wars
the homeless the elders the other ones abandoned in crazy places .....
even the little dog i didn't bring home .....

This is my Love !!!

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Kiwi !

winner of animation - 2006

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result
of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

- D.H. Lawrence -

looking for dreams

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Home Thoughts

The sea rocks have a green moss.
The pine rocks have red berries.
I have memories of you.

Speak to me of how you miss me.
Tell me the hours go long and slow.

Speak to me of the drag on your heart,
The iron drag of the long days.

I know hours empty as a beggar's tin cup on a rainy day,
empty as a soldier's sleeve with an arm lost.

Speak to me ...

- Carl Sandburg -

hold

 
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One World

"The worlds in which we live are two
The world 'I am' and the world 'I do.'"

The worlds in which we live at heart are one,
The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done";
And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit,
The world "I love,"--the only living root.

- Henry Van Dyke -

new world

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i made this surprise for you, João ;-)))))))))))
my painter of the universe shhhhhhhhhhh
just to wish looooooots of inspiration to create fantastic new worlds !!!
love youuuuuuuuuu, brother !!!!!

(digital collage )

Ya Basta IV

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Gas Chamber (cyanide gas)

USA is the only country to use this method of execution as alternative to lethal injection in Arizona, California, Maryland, Missouri and Wyoming.

The gas chamber of San Quentin, California, was converted to a lethal injection’ chamber, after a federal court declared this method as cruel and unusual punishment.

The only other users of lethal gas were the Nazis, during the Holocaust.

The last person to be murdered in USA by this method was Walter LaGrang, a German citizen in 1999, Arizona, by his request, as a protest to death penalty.
He took 18 minutes to die.

USA – scheduled executions
April 2007

11 - James Clark - murdered by the state of Texas
24 - James Filiaggi - murdered by the state of Ohio
26 - Ryan Dickson - murdered by the state of Texas

and all over the World ???
please be alert and ACT !!!
Kill Death Penalty NOW !!!