wowww already 3 ;-)))))))))))

© luisa brehm

wowwwwwwwwww already 3 months with mom lulu ;-)))))))))))))))))))

oi, supersonic friends, we come back the weekend, naaaaa,
we are not traveling in space ;-(((((((((((((((((((((((((((
lulu has a building's meeting tonight, yesssss, she is a great administrator and it has been a really busy week making accounts
and cleanings ....
sure i'm helping and playing a looooooooot !!! i tell her be Zen, concentrate concentrate !!! i love to eat the corners of plastic bags,
you know, so, the trash comes in and gets out at the same time ....
lulu calls it a trick of magic ;-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

do you be good ??? me tooooooo, promise !!!
lots of licksssssssssssssssssssssssss
yours Flora

lulu sends loooooooooooooooooots of love, as always !!!
she is a wild darling, right ??? exactly like me !!!!

tribute to Ivone

just to say João and i are starting a blog - tribute to our aunt.
due to the amount of her art, writings and so one, it will be a great
and wonderful job !!!

Ivone Balette

Death sentences and executions in 2008
Amnesty International Report 2008
© AI

Minha Voninha

my aunt Ivone, Mom’s younger sister
1927 - 1995

today is your birthday, querida Voninha !!!
since a long ago i was thinking about this and i decided to do it now.

amazing writer and illustrator for kids, painter and teacher, political activist, dreamer and romantic, you were a Great woman with stunning eyes !!!

João was for you the son you never had, i was the daughter and,
oh yes, you were nuts about cats just like me ....
you always said my laughs hided my fragility, even when i was caring of you those painful days, i liked to sing and tell my stories to make you smile, remember ???
somehow, i guess my fascination in writing stories and illustrate them comes from you, may be may be not ....

Amoooooooo-te muito, minha querida Voninha !!!!
Loveeeeeeeeeee you very much !!!!
Bé

photo by Victor Palla, my uncle



illustration with lace’s collage by Ivone Balette - detail

© luisa brehm

Dreams do not Die

Dreams do not die.

Dreams are not hearts, nor eyes or breath
Which shattered, will scatter (or)
Die with the death of the body.

Dreams do not die.
Dreams are light, voice, wind,
Which can not be stopped by mountains black,
Which do not burn in the hells of cruelty,
Ensigns of light and voice and wind, they
Bow not, even in graveyards.

Dreams are letters,
Dreams are illumination,
Dreams are Socrates,

Dreams are Mansur!

- Ahmed Faraz -
1931 - 2008

revolutionary Pakistani poet

Mansur means » victory by divine aid

با آرزوي شادي و خوشبختي در سال نو براي همه دوستان من

با آرزوي شادي و خوشبختي در سال نو براي همه دوستان من
Originally uploaded by *abro*

Happy New Year
Originally uploaded by HORIZON

Happyyyyyyyyyyy Nowruz, my dear Abbas and Abro !!!!
lots of love and kissessssssssssssss !!!

Norouz - Persian New Year

catch you, spring ;-))))))))))

© luisa brehm

oi, my friends !!!
i’m sooooooooooo excited ;-)))))))))))))))))
today i was developing my photos at the shopping centre, i have no digital camera, remember and look what i found .... my spaceship !!! they are coming for me !!!!
no need to tell Flora is already packing and i go pack myself in a while ;-)))))))))))))))))))))))
see ??? bigger below ....
i just hope my Aliens are beautiful like me ;-((((((((((((((((((((((((-;
now, seriously, i’m really good shooting ships, noooooooo ??? ooppssssssssss i must tell NASA about ;-))))))))))))))))
wait for me !!!

magicccccccccccccccc spring !!!
lots of love and kissessssssssssssssssss
Flora and lulu

New Mexico governor repeals death penalty in state
© CNN

Press Release from Richardson's Office
© New Mexico Office of the Governor

March 18 - New Mexico becomes the 15th state
to ban capital punishment !!!

los Voladores

© luisa brehm

on top
Volador Águila
dance of Eagle’s flyers
Nahua Indians - Puebla, Mexico

below
Volador de Papantla
dance of Papantla’s flyers
Totonaca Indians - Vera Cruz, Mexico

traditional clothing - drawings from my essay

Danza de los Voladores de Papantla

Wall-E: define dancing

Academy Award for best Animated Feature 2008

this part is sooooooo cool ;-)))))))))))))))))

Wall-E » official site

The Dream Keeper

Bring me all of your dreams,
you dreamers,
Bring me all your heart melodies,
that I may wrap them in a blue cloud cloth,
Away from the too rough fingers of the world.

- Langston Hughes -

Flora dreaming

Flora dreaming
Originally uploaded by luisa brehm

 
© luisa brehm

The thing which was waiting was on alert, it pounced on me, it flows through me. I'm filled with it. It's nothing: I am the Thing.
Existence, liberated, detached, floods over me. I exist.

- Jean-Paul Sartre -
from On Existence

friday 13 & ;-((((((((((((((-;

© luisa brehm

i have been tagged on flickr by my friend Des, oh boy !!!
to read what i wrote just clik on the photo ;-(((((((((((((((((((((((-;

Free Tibet

March 10th Statement of H. H. the Dalai Lama
© International Campaign for Tibet

today marks the 50th anniversary of Tibetan National Uprising Day.

Women’s Day

image source


the 1932 Soviet poster dedicated to March 8 holiday.
 
the red text says:
8th of March is the day of the rebellion of the working women against the kitchen slavery.

the grey text below says:
Say NO to the oppression and Babbittry of the household work! 

more a cause to join
Women Thrive Worldwide

some events & info:
» International Women’s Day 2009
© Aurora
» Int’l Working Women’s Month: Activists unite struggles 
© Workers World
» A History of International Women's Day in words and images

resting time

© luisa brehm

traditional fishing boat
Purepecha Indians, Michoacán - Mexico

old photo from 1981

Live from Death Row!

LIVE FROM DEATH ROW!
 
with Pam Africa, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Tuesday, March 10 - 7 PM
 
City College - 137th St. & Amsterdam, NY - NAC Ballroom

These are America's condemned, who bear a stigma far worse than "prisoner." These are America's death row residents: men and women who walk the razor's edge between half-life and certain death.

- Mumia Abu-Jamal - 
Pennsylvania death row prisoner,
from his book 'Live from Death Row'

Over 3,500 men and women sit on death row across this country.
This national tour will bring you their voices and their struggles.

sponsored by: 
Campaign to End the Death Penalty & the Free Mumia Coalition-NYC

for more info »
Campaign to End the Death Penalty

International Women's Day Celebration

International Women's Day Celebration
Originally uploaded by *abro*

International Women's Day Celebration
Originally uploaded by *abro*

International Women's Day Celebration
March 6, 7 & 8, 2009

The Women's Building
3543 18th Street, San Francisco

1 in 3 Art Exhibit
In Solidarity with Every 1 of us who Experiences Violence

Amnesty International has teamed up with local and international artists to tell the stories of women facing and overcoming violence.

Opening reception: Friday, March 6 at 6PM
Exhibit hours: Saturday, March 7 Noon - 8PM
Sunday, March 7 Noon - 4PM

ARTISTS:
Evan Bissell
Bill Talbot
Beth Grossman
Skowmon Hastanan
Angel Danials
Anahi DeCanio
Anna Schier
Cecilia Risquez
Smith Patrick
Khudo Bux Abro
Kate Ransohoff
Nancy Cato

for more info clik on the photos

Obama releases internal Bush Justice Department memos

Court papers: 92 interrogation tapes destroyed by CIA
© CNN

Irish Hungerstrike Memorial Video

28 years ago - Irish Hunger Strike

 

images source
on top
middle
and below

Tribute to Bobby Sands
and to the 9 Irish Hungerstrikers who died in 1981:
Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee and Michael Devine
 
Bobby Sands began the strike 1 March 1981


They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

- Bobby Sands -
1954 - 1981

more info

» Bobby Sands Trust
» The Diary of Bobby Sands
© Bobby Sands Trust
» Irish Hunger Strike 1981
© Irishhungerstrike.com 
» HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE WEB PROJECT
© Lark Spirit