Cities for Life 2008

Cities for Life - Cities against the Death Penalty

today November 30, cities around the world celebrate the first abolition of the death penalty by a European state in 1786, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

once more it is a great honor for me to participate with my photos in the event of Amnistía Internacional - Madrid.

Muchas gracias, Compañeros !!!!

see » Community of Sant'Egidio

Amnistía Internacional convoca una concentración contra la pena de muerte
© Madridpress.com

Our Spirits Don't Speak English

an excerpt from the film "Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School." released date spring 2008 from Rich-Heape Films, Inc.

Final Solution

 

more info: »

Americanization (of Native Americans)

The American Holocaust

American Holocaust - David Stannard
excerpts from the book

National Day of Mourning 2008

Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians
© Workers World

Iran Nobel winner seeks end to juvenile execution
© Reuters
Rights advocates renew calls on Iran to stop child execution
© AFP

great exhibit in Pakistan

Art and Activism: NO to Violence Against Women... تشدّد نا منظور
Originally uploaded by *abro*

Art and Activism: NO to Violence Against Women... تشدّد نا منظور
Originally uploaded by *abro*

Nomad Gallery & UNIFEM-Pakistan

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
November 25t – December 10, 2008
Exhibition of Graphics and Photography by
K. B. Abro & Altamash Kamal

for more info click on the photos ....
wishing lots of success, my dear Abro !!! you both deserve it !!!
big hugssssssssss for today

Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
just as doing nothing is an act.
Let who you are ring out & resonate
in every word & every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being
or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.
You are your own comeuppance.
You become your own message.
You are the message.

In the spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier

from My Life is my Sundance

Thank you so much !!!!!

to Henry Lee Hunt with Love

you loved the ocean, my Friend, do you remember ???
when you were free you loved to go there to fish …. and enjoy life.
now you are free again and i want to give you today this ocean between us full of fishes and the most wonderful stars,
because today is a good day to live, not to die.
and Henry, you live in my heart forever.
you are a warrior and warriors don’t disappear like that.

in your last letter, you said
"Continue to fight never give up."
i’m trying, Henry, even in the darkest days i’m trying hard.
all these years you are here right in front giving me strenght.
i look into your eyes and i can hear a whisper,
don't stop, let's go .... let's freedom ring ....

this is my modest tribute to you.
i don’t speak Lumbee so, in my Indian way i say
Cante etanhan owoglake (speaking from the heart),
Until we meet again !!!!
With my Love, Always !!!!
lu

Henry Lee Hunt
22 November 1944 - 12 September 2003

the first American Indian murdered by the state of North Carolina

Pvt. Ronald Gray - set for Human Rights Day !!!

updated Nov. 23
Veterans Call First Military Execution Approved in 50 Years Illegal
©2008 Salem-News

First military execution since 1961 scheduled next month

Bush approves execution of Army private
posted July 28, 2008
© CNN
When Do Soldiers Face Execution?
© State Magazine
more info:
» Capital punishment by the United States - military
» US Disciplinary Barracks

UN vote shows growing support of death penalty ban
© Associated Press

Nature′s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,
Her early leaf′s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

- Robert Frost -

more 2 great books

I am back.....!
Originally uploaded by [ SUD ] Bertil Hansson

New book " Watercolours " - BERTIL HANSSON
Originally uploaded by [ SUD ] Bertil Hansson

by Bertil Hansson

New Paintings - 2008 and Watercolours

i like sooooo much your art !!! lots of success, Bertil !!!!
t'embrasse bien

Guantanamo Closure Called Obama Priority
© The Washington Post

Activists reveal Japan's death row to the world
© JCA-NET
UN rights panel urges Japan to scrap death penalty
Oct. 31
© AFP

ACLU Transition Plan
First Day, First Hundred Days, First Year
Actions for Restoring America

sign the Pledge !!!

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning,
they can always act so that their own lives have one.

- Albert Camus -

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Universal Soldier

for Remembrance Day ....

Buffy Sainte-Marie - official site

War as seen by the camera - photo gallery
© Los Angeles Times

Otis Redding - I've been loving you...

just a tribute …. the first time i heard this song it made me cry !!!
love you, Freedom !!!!

Musarium: Without Sanctuary:
Lynching Photography in America

©2005 Collection of James Allen and John Littlefield

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

- Martin Luther King -

okkkkk can't resist .... i was singing all day !!!

Photo Gallery: Obama's Historic Triumph
© Der Spiegel

this is History !!!

Obama Makes History
Obama Secures Historic Presidential Victory
© The Washington Post

this is History !!!!!
the world turned a dark page to read a new one at last !!!!
for the first time i'm proud of you, US of America !!!!

sabu & lulu

since i can't make beautiful photos i decided to put here my pets too.
this is me with Sabu, my first dog, who is gone with a brain tumour.
i was 9 months old .... cool, right ??? right ;-))))))))))))))))-;

I'm nothing.
I'll always be nothing.
I can't want to be something.
But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

- Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa) -
The Tobacco Shop