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Places Where You Can Experience African Lifestyle in New York

Whether it's visiting a significant historical landmark, a famed restaurant, an influential music venue, or a well-known museum, there are numerous opportunities to engage with the contemporary African lifestyle in New York.

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"The Flower and I" by Ralph Kuznitzki

Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the InteriorSeries: Central Classified FilesFile Unit: 1-5 Refugees (Pt. 1)

This is an English composition written by Ralph Kuznitzki, a 15 year old refugee living in the Fort Ontario refugee camp in Oswego, New York.

The flower and I

The fresh and rather cold morning breeze blew directly in my face, making my ears and the and the tip of my nose, red. I had passed the houses which protected me against it, and now I was crossing a wet lawn. I hurried to pass it. But when I arrived at the next block of houses, I noticed that a small part of it had come along with me. It was stuck in my shoes, that small flower. After having picked it up, I was about to throw it away, when I suddenly came to think of a strange fact. How greatly likely was the flower's life with mine! It may be a stupid idea, but there is something true with it.

Born far away, it stayed in it calm life only for a short time. Where was it born? I don't know. It didn't answer me when I asked it. In its youngest years the wind of nature brought it and the tornado of Nazis brought me away from our mother place. Many things we saw; we passed many strange spots on this earth, I imagine. Then comes the difference between our lives. After a long time it found its place, where to settle down, where to stay for all its life, till the cruel feet of a boy came to take it away. I found a place too; but will this place be my fatherland, my place where I can settle down, develop and finally -- die? I hope so, because I like it and feel the liberty which is here, as the medicine for my illness. The illness of terror and supressed [sic] nights of a man And then when the foot was bones will strike me, I'll be satisfied with my life and my work.

The shrill blast of the sirens awoke me from my dreams. I didn't throw the flower away. I kept it and now it hangs on the wall of my room, as a symbol of hope for a home for myself and a fatherland for me and my descendants.

Robert Kuznitzki

[kafkasapartment]

John Albok. The Artist, Central Park, New York, 1933. Gelatin silver.

"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.

[leftistfeminista]

The Real Life Handmaid's Tale of Pinochet's Chile

Nieves Ayress Moreno, a MIRista militant after being severely tortured at Villa Grimaldi, was transferred to a prison run by Catholic Nuns. She had become pregnant from repeated rapes by Junta guards. "Dr. Mery, a military doctor who practiced at the Catholic University, and who told me that I should be proud to have a "son of the fatherland." Despite her health being in danger, her only hope of an abortion, under Chile's ultra-strict "pro-life laws" was to appeal to the Pope himself. A revolutionary feminist woman, in a prison run by Catholic nuns, forced to give birth. It is a nightmare out of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale come to life.

STATEMENT OF LUZ DE LAS NIEVES AYRESS MORENO

In New York, State of New York, United States of America, on ____ days of the month of August of the year two thousand, Mrs. Luz de las

Nieves Ayress Moreno (born in Chile under the name Luz de las Nieves Ayress Moreno, Chilean citizen, legal profession, domiciled in New York, New York, USA, passport No. 6.347.871-7) of legal age, who demonstrated her identity with your passport, and states:

I make this statement to be presented as evidence in the cases pending against General Augusto Pinochet and his subordinates in Chile. I make this statement under oath and with full knowledge of the crime of perjury.

The facts are the following: I was born in Santiago, Chile on October 5, 1948. I joined the Bolivian National Liberation Army, an arm of the Socialist Party in Chile, in 1968, and in 1973 I was still a militant and ELN activist, working with women and children in the towns. I was also an art and journalism student at the University of Chile. After 1973, I was a member of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left of Chile (MIR).

A few weeks after the coup, I was at the house of the mother of a friend of mine who was in prison, when, around 10 pm, a group of police officers arrived and arrested me. They handcuffed me and took me first to the Carabineros NCO School, and, after two or three days, to the National Stadium. (At the stadium, the carabinieri would tell me that my friend's mother had named me in the hope of saving her own daughter.) At the NCO School, they beat me and slapped me. They also touched my body, threatened me with sexual advances, and insulted me. The prisoners were kept in some cells that were in the back of the School, in the stables.

In March 1974 I was transferred to the Women's Prison on Vicuña Mackenna Street, in Santiago, which was under the administration of an order of jailer nuns. Here I was in free conversation, and I stayed in a patio with the other political prisoners; they kept political prisoners apart.

In April I found out that I was pregnant, and this was confirmed by Dr. Mery, a military doctor who practiced at the Catholic University, and who told me that I should be proud to have a "son of the country." My pregnancy caused great controversy. By now my case was internationally known, due to the efforts of my mother and family to denounce what was happening to me, and also because a woman who was imprisoned with me in the Vicuña Mackenna women's prison had managed to get a my statement I was interviewed by the International Red Cross, the Kennedy Commission, Amnesty International, the International Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations High Commissioner, by Bishop Aristía of Santiago, a Dr. Phillippe , and by Cardinal Raul Silva Henríquez, who came to see his niece, who was also in prison. A group of military wives came to visit me, and they promised me my freedom if I didn't make any more statements about my pregnancy and my torture, and they threatened to take away my son once he was born.

The nuns offered to help me request permission for an abortion. I was not a religious, but because I was in a prison run by religious, I had to submit a request to the cardinal, and from the cardinal to the Pope. In Chile, abortion is punishable by law for five years and one day. I was physically very ill, and if I had a clandestine abortion in prison I could die, and for this reason I decided to have the child. After having survived months of torture and detention, I was not going to give the military the pleasure of killing me. However, in April or May, I started having a lot of pain in my belly, and losing blood clots. I miscarried spontaneously. I received no medical care during the pregnancy or miscarriage.

I never had a legal process. General Bonilla, who took an interest in my case, sent an officer to interview me in jail about my pregnancy and the sexual abuse and other torture I had suffered. In this interview, the officer told me that at one point there were three different lawsuits against me, but that the lawsuits were so contradictory to each other that the military courts declared themselves incompetent in my case. Later there was an order to transfer me to the Pisagua concentration camp, with the penalty of firing squad, but General Bonilla blocked it; he did not agree with the treatment of male and female prisoners. However, I was sentenced to imprisonment "by virtue of the state of siege."

Two dams, M .D. and María Emilia Tijaux, were with me in the women's prison, and they are witnesses of the weak state in which I found myself. Eventually my case got too complicated because of all the controversy it was causing, and since I had no official conviction from the court, in March of 1975 I was transferred to Tres Alamos.

In Tres Alamos, where I remained until December 1976, I was again subjected to rape, threats, insults, and other psychological torture. Comandante Pacheco, who was in charge of Tres Alamos, constantly abused me, subjecting me to sexual harassment for almost two years. He liked to walk around the concentration camp with me next to him. I was very weak, and I fainted frequently. I stayed in a cell with eight other companions. Another prisoner, Marcia Scantlebury, was also badly abused by Comandante Pacheco.

In the spring, I don't remember what month, they transferred us prisoners from Tres Alamos for a month to Pirque, in the mountains, because a group from the UN Human Rights Commission was coming to Chile, and they wanted to avoid a visit to Tres Alamos. It was to give a good image before the UN delegation. I was very depressed, and I felt anxious. He ate and cried a lot. The beauty of the place somehow broke me psychologically.

After a month they took us back to Tres Alamos. We continue to organize ourselves to do craft work to sell abroad. Three babies were born, and we all took care of them. My mother and my aunts would visit me in Tres Alamos. At this time my mother was making arrangements for me to go to Germany.

In December, I was expelled from Chile by the dictatorship with 17 compañeros and compañeras. The dictatorship published a special decree to expel us, leaving us with no right of return. On this list were Gladys Díaz, Víctor Toro, Luis Corbalán, and 15 other colleagues. Many international organizations, such as the Red Cross, the United Nations High Commissioner, and "CIME", UN HIGH COMMISSIONER and the solidarity of the peoples of the world, helped to get me out. In Berlin I had acquaintances, and I stayed with Nuria Nuñez, and also with Gilde Botay. During this time I was dedicated to publicly denouncing what was happening in Chile, and I traveled a lot.

[nodynasty4us]

Speaking of word choices, the ones I would use to describe the New York Times would be "enablers" and "collaborators," worthy of any Vichy state. I'm certain that if Trump wins, [executive editor Joe] Kahn and his fellow editors will be lined up on the street as Trump in his motorcade whizzes past, streams of tears falling down their proud faces as they wave their little MAGA flags. If Trump is feeling benign, he might let the Times continue to operate as Le Petit Journal filled with his propaganda of "Work, Family and Fatherland;" but more than likely given Trump's obsession with revenge, another of his deficiencies I guess, he'll most likely shut the "Great Gray Lady" down and send its employees to Trump Re-Education Relocation Camp/Gulag. Mr. Kahn, if we're sent to the same Camp/Gulag, I'll be sure to stop by and say "Hi." Perhaps you can regale me about how fair and balanced you were with your coverage of the election.

D.E. in Lancaster, PA, in Electoral-vote.com

[reidio-silence]

When news of the 1903 Kishinev massacre and subsequent pogroms in Russia reached New York, 100,000 paraded the streets, and emotion was deep well beyond the boundaries of the Jewish ghetto. The Friends of Russian Freedom, a section of the Narodnaya Volya (the Socialist-Revolutionary Party), was already active in the area, and when its most famous militant, Catherine "Babushka" Breshkoskaya, arrived in New York, a meeting was called at the Cooper Union to welcome her. Shortly after, news of the 1905 Russian Revolution arrived, and again the Lower East Side 'lived in a delirium, spending almost all of its time at monster meetings and brought into close comradeship by the glorious events happening in the fatherland' [Emma Goldman]. And when Bloody Sunday followed, and revolution was crushed in terror and repression, such a virulent anti-Russian sentiment developed in the neighborhood that the Orleneff Theatre on East 3rd Street, performing mainly Russian plays, had to close down. The first anniversary of the 1905 Revolution was celebrated in Union Square, with "Mother" Jones and Jack London among the speakers. Meanwhile, the veritable semi-civil war raging in the Western coal-mining regions was being followed with great passion, and the attempt to frame Western Federation of Miners's officials William "Big Bill" Haywood, Charles Moyer, and George A. Pettibone again stirred the neighborhood into action. "Mother" Jones, the miners' beloved activist, was asked to speak on several occasions, while, after the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905 and above all during the 1913 Paterson strike, "Big Bill" often spent time on the Lower East Side, staying at Emma Goldman's place at 210 East 13th Street (the 'home of lost dogs', as it was termed by writer and bohemian Hutchins Hapgood). And Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a young IWW militant who played a major rôle in the 1912 Lawrence strike, came to be well-known for her eloquent and passionate street-corner speeches. Anger once again exploded, this time in 1914, when miners and their families were shot and burned to death in Ludlow (Colorado) by the Rockefeller Company's private police. Stormy meetings were held at the Cooper Union, and several demonstrations at Union Square broke into violent rioting. Militants from nearby IWW headquarters on East 4th Street called for action and left for the West by bumming rides on freight-trains. "Sweet" Marie Ganz even tried to reach and shoot John D. Rockefeller in his office. The whole Lower East Side was literally seething with revolt. The prospects of a war with Mexico, the news of the February and October revolutions in Russia (with the emotion they provoked among such exiled revolutionaries as Leon Trotzky, who was in New York at the time), and the United States's entry into World War I — all were occasions of great turmoil.

— Mario Maffi, Gateway to the Promised Land (1995)

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My fatherland...

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? Alaska Greek Island London New York Namibia Namibia Love to visit all those places. I rather stay where I am at unless I am redirected.

[frontmezzjunkies]

Fountain Theatre's "Fatherland" Literally Talks Its Way Through Without Unpacking All That Baggage

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #FountainTheatre's #FatherlandPlay conceived & directed by #StephenSachs w/ #RonBottitta #PatrickKeleher #AnnaKhaja #LarryPoindexter @fatherlandplay @nycitycenter stage II

Ron Bottitta and Patrick Keleher in FATHERLAND. Photo by Maria Baranova. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: Fountain Theatre’s Fatherland By Ross “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” is pledged within the first few moments of The Fountain Theatre‘s verbatim theater production of Fatherland, now playing at the New York City Center’s Stage II theatre. And it is something of a…

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American Heroes!

Philippians 4:6-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about[a] these things. 9 As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.

    Some key virtues that made Elizabeth Ann Seton, a great saint and (unofficial saints)  Martin Luther King Jr., and Sister Helen Prejean happen to be American ideals.  On July 4th, it’s good to remember what those American virtues are, because they stem from the Declaration of Independence.

    As Pope Francis put it when he spoke at Independence Hall in 2015, “The history of this nation is also the tale of a constant effort, lasting to our own day, to embody those lofty principles.”

All three were and are pioneers, willing to go outside what’s comfortable.

    Americans—from the Native peoples who lived on what God’s providence provided to the settlers and immigrants who came from distant lands—have always been people who journey and build.

        In recent years we've celebrated anniversaries that show this willingness on our part—75 years since we went to Normandy; 50 years since we went to the moon. There have also been anniversaries of American business pioneers: pop art innovator Marvel Comics turned 80 and fashion brand The Gap turned 50.

    Elizabeth Ann Seton’s, Martin Luther King Jr.'s, and Sr. Helen Prejean's lives are marked by this same willingness to journey and create. 

    At age 29, St. Elizabeth left New York for Italy, and that led to her conversion to Catholicism upon her return. At age 31, she started a school for young women in New York. At age 34 she was ready to leave the country for Canada but went to Baltimore instead. From there, she settled a year later in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she founded the first free school for girls run by Catholic Sisters, and the first congregation of women religious founded in the United States, as well.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the leader of the Civil Rights movement that began the journey to equality for all minority citizens; Sr. Helen Prejean is presently leading a movement to abolish the death penalty, a movement of life and healing. Both left the safety of the status quo and have moved onto the line of the margins.

    That also shows another American virtue.

St. Elizabeth Ann, Dr. King, and Sr. Helen have the American ability to turn a “land of exile” into a home.

    Americans are also people of exile. The first Europeans who moved here were all fleeing something—religious persecution, political despotisms, and economic dead ends. Ironically, of course, we turned American Indians’ native land into a land of exile for them as we expanded west.

    Religious pilgrims understand living in exile. We long for “that blessed fatherland from which we are all exiles,” while we call down blessings on our earthly homes.

Especially after her conversion to Catholicism, Elizabeth understood how America was both her home and a place of exile.

“Oh joy joy joy a Captain B will take us to America!” she wrote when planning to return home from Italy. Her daughter, she said, was “wild with joy'— yet often whispers to me ‘Ma is there no Catholics in America? Ma won’t we go to the Catholic Church when we go home?’”

Years after becoming Catholic, she still found herself a stranger in her homeland. “I am gently, quietly and silently a good Catholic,” she wrote. “The rubs, etc., are all past … only a few knotty hearts that must talk of something — and the worst they say is ‘so much trouble has turned her brain.’ Well … I kiss my Crucifix which I have loved for so many years and say they are only mistaken.”

    Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"; and Sr. Helen continues to live out: "I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it; I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it; I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up living my prayer."

    Being American allowed all three to change their identities.

    Changing identities has become a cliché—from Taylor Swift’s new personae on every new album to our own new personas in our profile pictures. But there is also a praiseworthy aspect to this flexibility.

    Forging yourself anew with no foundations comes from rootlessness or narcissism. Forging yourself anew in Christ comes from authentic freedom and humility.

    The virtue of daily conversion requires that we stretch our definition of ourselves, getting rid of what holds us back from Christ. St. John Paul II called this “becoming who you are.”

Elizabeth, of course, embraced conversion in her own life. She went from Episcopalian to Catholic, from wife and mother to religious sister, from sister to Mother, from Mother to foundress.

    Dr. King left the security and prestige of being a Black pastor, to one who proclaimed justice for all; Sr. Helen went from simply being a praying nun, to a nun on her feet fighting for true justice in seeking to abolish the death penalty.

    All of these are very Christian and American. As John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

    Self-government only works for moral people who can improve themselves and don’t require others to intervene.

St. Elizabeth Ann, Dr. King, and Sr. Helen are big thinkers.

    Americans have always had a genius for thinking bigger and bolder, from the desire to build a new nation from scratch in the wilderness, to modern America where everything is big compared to the rest of the world: Our houses are bigger, our washing machines are bigger, and our stores are bigger. This is a mixed blessing. Thinking big often shows a lack of humility and an insensitivity to the weak and vulnerable.      

    But Christianity and other religious expressions are a beautiful marriage of the big and the small. The same reality enlivens the strive for justice in our Capitols, and serving in soup kitchens and on the streets.

    Thinking small, but focused on the immensity of God, lands us in a big place. St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way leads to big change. Small contributions have led to changes in civil rights for all and in all contributions to the homeless.

    St. Elizabeth Ann embraced this paradox. a“We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity,” she said. “This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.”

Her formula was simple: “The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God;” she wrote, “secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”

So, how to sum up St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sister Helen Prejean?

    They have adventurous spirits, they made a home in hard circumstances, “became all things to all” for Christ, and have left a giant legacy. They embodied many of the best virtues of being American, and all three American citizens. Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

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"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend. — Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness”

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PRAYER

THAT ALL PEOPLE—BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS-UNITE IN PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH

OF THE NONVIOLENT JESUS AND HIS WAY OF NONVIOLENT LOVE OF

FRIENDS AND ENEMIES.

Abba, in the name of Jesus

we ask you to send the Holy Spirit

to gather the Churches together,

so that with one heart, one mind, and one voice

they may proclaim as God’s Way

Jesus’ Way of Nonviolent Love of all people

—friends and enemies—

and thereby proclaim that

violence is not the Christian Way,

violence is not the Holy Way,

violence is not the Gospels’ Way,

violence is not the Apostolic Way,

violence is not the Way of Jesus,

violence is not the Way of God,

and thus set Christians free forever

from bondage to the unholy,

unapostolic, un-Christlike ways

of the false gods and theologies

of violence and enmity.

We plead this grace

so that the Nonviolent Lamb

may be our Lord in deed,

as well as, in word and sacrament.

We request this gift

so that the Christian Community may be

—for afflicted humanity—

a faithful witness to Jesus’ Way of overcoming evil.

We implore this healing

so that the Church may be an authentic extension in time and space

of the Way of the Lamb of God, of the Way of the Nonviolent Jesus,

which is the Way to renew the face of the earth and to Eternal Salvation for each and all.

Our Lamb has conquered! Let us follow Him!

SAME ENERGY!

Put me in jail, then. Throw me behind your religious bars since you have dubbed me a breaker of your law. I live my days in the courtroom of your criticism. I move unbothered under the gaze of your gavel. I have no interest in defending myself before your bench. Go on, clench your fists, raise your voice to make your point. Type the rebuke that you must make on my page. Who asked you to come through anyway? Is this rage your duty? We operate under a different set of obligations and get worked up to frustration for different reasons, even though we both claim fidelity to God. If you were interested, which I doubt, here is where my passion lies: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, defend the rights of the orphan, plead the widow’s cause, and woe to you who unjustly enforce God’s Law. Why spend your energy policing me when that same energy could be used to love, fiercely? Justice, mercy, and humility. Go learn what this means. Drew Jackson

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Fatherland New York - Enjoy the African Experience

Fatherland New York, a mission-driven global enterprise that fosters vibrant economic, social, and culture to increase opportunity for people of Africans worldwide. We are creating global economic opportunities for the African and African Descendants, yielding significant revenue for the governments via tax payments from the enterprises, tourists, residents, and employees.

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Holidays 1.27

Holidays

Big Snow Day

Birth of Uncanny Conjectures Day

Cavadee (Mauritius)

Ceasefire Day (Vietnam War; 1973)

Day of Fatherland Defenders (Turkmenistan)

Day of the Lifting of the Siege of Leningrad (Russia)

Discovery Day (Antarctica)

e-Day

Everyones Unbirthday

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc Day

Family Literacy Day (Canada)

Fats Domino Day

Festival of Root Vibrations

Flag Day (Indonesia)

International Outer Space Day

Ka Moloka'i Makahiki (Molokai, Hawaii)

Kids & Vaccines Day (Canada)

Let There Be Light Day

Liberation of the Remaining Inmates of Auschwitz  (a.k.a. ... 

Auschwitz Day of Holocaust and Genocide Remembrance (Denmark)

Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism (Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus; Germany)

Day for Holocaust Remembrance and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity (Spain)

Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism

Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity (Croatia)

Day of the Tragedy and Heroism of the Jews (Azerbaijan)

Dzien Pamieci Ofiar Nazizmu (The Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism; Poland)

Holocaust Memorial Day (Luxembourg, Norway, UK, Ukraine)

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Estonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden)

Holocaust Remembrance Day and the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity" (Bulgaria)

Il Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day; Italy)

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (Europe)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UN)

Memorial Day (Italy)

Memorial Day against Violence and Racism in Memory on the Victims of National Socialism (Austria)

Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism (Germany)

National Day of Commemorating he Holocaust (Romania)

National Holocaust Memorial Day (Greece, UK)

大屠殺陣亡將士紀念日 (Dà túshā zhènwáng jiàngshì jìniàn rì; Taiwan)

Lightbulb Day

Listen to Classical Music During Lunch Day

Mad Tea Party Day

Memorial Day of Purges (Finland)

Mézéréon Day (French Republic)

Mozart Day

National Activity Professionals Day

National Boat Day (Australia)

National Costello Syndrome Awareness Day

National Kazoo Day

National Geographic Day

National Toilet Day (a.k.a. Thomas Crapper Day)

127 Day (South Korea)

Parent Mental Health Day (UK)

Perfect Fool Day

Public Employment Service Worker’s Day (Poland)

Punch the Clock Day

Rabbit Hole Day

Spirituality Day (Monaco)

Thomas Crapper Day

Vietnam Peace Day (Vietnam)

Water Conservation Day

World Breast Pumping Day

World Day WITHOUT Internet (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brussels Lace Day

International Port Wine Day

National Chocolate Cake Day

4th & Last Saturday in January

Great Fruitcake Toss (Manitou Springs, Colorado) [Last Saturday]

KidFilm Festival begins [Last Saturday]

National Seed Swap Day [Last Saturday]

Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day [4th Saturday]

Winter Brew Fest (Denver, Colorado) [Last Saturday]

Yay Day (Sam & Cat TV Show) [Last Saturday]

Independence & Related Days

Aysellant (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Greece (Declared; 1822)

Kingdom of Liahonia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning January 27, 2024

Bayou King Cake Festival (Thibodaux, Louisiana)

Carnival of Venice (Venice, Italy) [thru 13]

Carnival of Acireale (Acireale, Italy) [thru 2.13]

The Chocolate Expo (Wilmington, Massachusetts) [thru 1.28]

Cordova Iceworm Festival (Cordova, Alaska) [thru 2.3]

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire (Gainesville, Florida) [thru 1.28]

Kumquat Festival (Date City, Florida)

Lemon Ball (Springfield, Pennsylvania)

Lollapalooza (Mumbai, India) [thru 1.28]

Malta Whisky Festival (Attard, Malta)

Miami Brickell Art Festival (Miami, Florida) [thru 1.28]

New York Craft Brewers Festival (Albany, New York)

One Love Festival New Zealand (Tauranga, New Zealand) [thru 1.28]

Port St. Lucie Seafood Festival (Port St. Lucie, Florida) [thru 1.28]

Sunshine State Steak Cook-Off (Ave Maria, Florida)

Winterfest (Amana Colonies, Iowa)

Feast Days

Angela Merici (Christian; Virgin)

Arkhip Kuindzhi (Artology)

Arlene the Aardvark (Muppetism)

Свети Сава (St. Sava’s Day a.k.a. Spirituality Day; Serbia)

Chrysostom (Christian; Saint)

Day of Ishtar (Assyrian/Babylonian Goddess of Love; Everyday Wicca)

Day of the Dioscuri (Pagan)

Dévote’s Day (a.k.a. Devota; Christian; Saint) [Monaco]

Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló (Christian; Saint)

Feast Day of Thoth, the Magician’s Magician (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feast of Castor and Pollux (Ancient Rome)

Feast of the Translation of the Relics of Saint John Chrysostom (Christian)

Haroun-al-Raschid (Positivist; Saint)

Hendrick Avercamp (Artology)

Iroquois Mid-Winter Ceremony (Native American)

Jacques Hnizdovsky (Artology)

John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)

John Collier (Artology)

Julian of Le Mans (Christian; Saint)

Llama Day (Pastafarian)

Lewis Carrol (Humanism; Writerism)

Lydia, Dorcas and Phoebe, Helpers of the Apostles (Lutheran)

Marius (Christian; Saint)

Michael Jackson Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Michiel van Musscher (Artology)

Mordecai Richler (Writerism)

Nino, Enlightener of Georgia (Christian; Saint)

Paul Joseph Nardini (Christian; Blessed)

Samaleswari Temple Inauguration (Odisha, India)

Samuel Palmer (Artology)

Sarkis the Warrior (Armenian Church)

Sava (Serbia)

Seison Maeda (Artology)

Vitalian, pope (Christian; Saint)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Humanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [5 of 53]

Premieres

Before Sunrise (Film; 1995)

Boris Godunov, by Modest Mussorgsky (Opera; 1874)

The Castle, Franz Kafka (Novel; 1926)

The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke (Novel; 1956)

Customers Wanted (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1962)

Elementary, My Dear [#2] (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

The Fighting 69th (Film; 1940)

The Flying Sorceress (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1956)

The Grey (Film; 2012)

Heartbreak Hotel, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

How Green Is My Spinach (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Instant Karma, written and recorded by John Lennon (Song; 1970)

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (WB Animated Film; 2015)

Last Tango in Paris (Film; 1973)

Laverne & Shirley (TV Series; 1976)

The Man, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2020)

Man on a Ledge (Film; 2012)

Mississippi Burning (Film; 1989)

Moondance, by Van Morrison (Album; 1970)

Nanny McPhee (Film; 2006)

Nightwing and Robin (WB Animated Film; 2015)

One For the Money (Film; 2012)

One Gun Gary in Nick of Time (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Operation Paciific (Film; 1951)

Pettin’ in the Park (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

Piano Sonata in B Minor, by Franz Liszt (Piano Sonata; 1857)

Resident Alien (TV Series; 2021)

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Film; 2017)

The Seeds of Time, by John Wyndham (Short Stories; 1956)

Shōgun, by James Clavell (Novel; 1975)

Shrinking (TV Series; 2023)

Silkwood (Film; 1984)

Soft Ball Game (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

The Subterraneans, by Jack Kerouac (Novel; 1958)

Tom-ic Energy (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Novel; 1898)

Wide Open Spaces, by The Dixie Chicks (Album; 1998)

Today’s Name Days

Angela, Julian (Austria)

Anđela, Anđelka, Julijan (Croatia)

Ingrid (Czech Republic)

Chrysostomus (Denmark)

Vilja, Vilje (Estonia)

Viljo (Finland)

Angèle (France)

Alrun, Angela, Gerd (Germany)

Chrysostomos (Greece)

Angelika (Hungary)

Angela, Elvira (Italy)

Ildze, Ilze, Izolde (Latvia)

Ilona, Jogundas, Jogundė, Natalis, Vytenis (Lithuania)

Gaute, Gry, Gurli (Norway)

Angelika, Ilona, Jan Chryzostom, Julian, Przybysław (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Nina (Russia)

Bohuš (Slovakia)

Ángela (Spain)

Göta, Göte (Sweden)

Buck, Buckley, Floyd, Keith, Lloyd, Logan (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 27 of 2024; 339 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 4 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 17 (Geng-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 17 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 16 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 27 White; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 14 January 2024

Moon: 96%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Moses (1st Month) [Haroun-al-Raschid)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 38 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 6 of 28)

[ravenkings]

Anti-Western invective has attained phantasmagorical proportions. It is part of an emergent state ideology that is setting a course for possibly decades of confrontation.

Thirty years after Russia — in the midst of the ardent liberal hopes of the 1990s — adopted a Constitution whose Article 13 said, “No ideology shall be proclaimed as State ideology,” Mr. Putin’s Russia is hurtling toward a new official ideology of conservative values.

The possibility of an amendment rescinding Article 13 has been raised by the justice minister, Konstantin Chuychenko, among others.

This anti-Western ideology is based around the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “priority of the spiritual over the material,” as laid out in Mr. Putin’s decree on spiritual and moral values issued in November.

The enemy, it proclaims, is the United States and “other unfriendly foreign states,” intent on the cultivation of “selfishness, permissiveness, immorality, the denial of the ideals of patriotism” and “destruction of the traditional family through the promotion of nontraditional sexual relations.”

If the West was portrayed during the Cold War as the nightmarish home of ruthless capitalism, it is now, as Russia sees it, the home of sex changes, the rampages of drag queens, barbaric gender debates and an L.G.B.T.Q. takeover.

“For how long should Russia tolerate open warfare from the West using Ukrainian meat?” Sergei Karaganov, a well-connected Russian foreign policy expert, asked in an interview.

“There is a high risk of nuclear war, and it is increasing,” he said. “The war is a prolonged Cuban missile crisis, but this time with Western leaders who reject normal values of motherhood, parenthood, gender, love of country, faith, God.”

–Roger Cohen, “Putin’s Forever War,” The New York Times, August 6, 2023

[brookston]

Holidays 7.27

Holidays

Bagpipe Appreciation Day

Barbie-In-A-Blender Day

Blackberry Day (French Republic)

Bugs Bunny Day

Conmemoración del Asalto a Moncada (Cuba)

Cross-Atlantic Communication Day

Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (North Korea)

Dodge City Days begin (Kansas)

Expose Lying Ministers Day

Form A Company Quartet Day

Gary Gygax Day

Iglesia Ni Cristo Day (Philippines)

José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)

Love is Kind Day

Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers Day (Vietnam)

Miracle Treat Day

National Blunt Object Day

National Carson Day

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day

National Nancy Day

National New Jersey Day

National Renée Day

National Roanoke Community Beautification Day

National Sheila Day

National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)

Norfolk Day (UK)

Over the Moon Night (Cows and Spoons)

Pediatrics Day (Brazil)

Remembrance Fay of the Children-Victims of War in Donbass (Donetsk People’s Republic)

Seven Sleepers Day (Ancient Latvia)

Siebenschläfer (if it rains today, 7 more weeks of rain; Germany)

Stargate SG-1 Day

Take Your Houseplants For A Walk Day

Take Your Pants For A Walk Day

Tasoua Hosseini (Iram)

Victory Day (North Korea)

Walk On Stilts Day

War Martyrs’ and Invalids’ Day (Vietnam)

World Head & Neck Cancer Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Crème Brûlée Day (also 7.21)

National Chicken Tender Day (a.k.a. National Chicken Finger Day)

National Scotch Day (a.k.a. Scotch Whisky Day)

National Seltzer Day

Single Malt Day

4th & Last Thursday in July

Berne Swiss Festival begins (ends Saturday; Indiana) [4th Thursday

Great Texas Mosquito Festival begins (ends Saturday) [4th Thursday]

International Digital Adoption Professionals Day [Last Thursday]

National Chili Dog Day [Last Thursday]

National Intern Day [Last Thursday]

National Refreshment Day [4th Thursday]

Shiraz Day [4th Thursday]

Independence Days

Domolica (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Guanduania (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anansi’s Day (Pagan)

Arethas (Western Christianity)

Aurelius and Natalia and companions of the Martyrs of Córdoba (Christian; Martyrs)

Birthday of Osiris (Ancient Egypt)

Bob Mortmorkson (Muppetism)

Confuse a Cat Day (Pastafarian)

Congall, Abbot of Iabhnallivin, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Day of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

Feast of Hanseath (Dwarven God of Alcohol, Dungeons & Dragons)

Festival of the Seven Sleepers

Ipip Festival (Ancient Egypt)

Joseph Anton Koch (Artology)

Lucian of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Madonna Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Maurus, Pantalemon, and Sergius (Christian; Saint)

Maximian, Malthus, Martinian, Dionysius, John, Serapion, and Constantine (The Seven Sleepers)

Pantaleon (Christian; Saint)

Say No to Negativity Day (Pastafarian)

Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (Roman Martyrology)

Theobald of Marly (Christian; Saint)

Titus Brandsma, Blessed (Order of the Carmelites)

Velasquez (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (WB Animated Film; 2021)

Batman: Under the Red Hood (WB Animated Film; 2010)

Colombiana (Film; 2011)

Dream A Little Dream of Me, by Mama Cass Elliot (Song; 1968)

The Flying Jalopy (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Highway to Hell, by AC/DC (Album; 1979)

In the Bag (Disney Cartoon; 1956)

Jumping’ Jack Flash, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1968)

KooKoo, by Debbie Harry (Album; 1981)

Little Shop of Horrors (Off-Broadway Musical; 1982)

Madonna, by Madonna (Album; 1983)

Magic Bus, by The Who (Song; 1968)

Mission Impossible: Fallout (Film; 2018)

Never Gonna Give You Up, by Rock Astley (Song; 1987)

New York Dolls, by the New York Dolls (Album; 1973)

People Got To Be Free, by The Rascals (Song; 1968)

Planet of the Apes (Film; 2001)

Presumed Innocent (Film; 1990)

Purple Rain, by Prince (Album; 1984)

Purple Rain (Film; 1984)

Ride the Lightning, by Metallica (Album; 1984)

Searching for Sugar Man (Documentary Film; 2012)

Sex & Religion, by Steve Van (Album; 1993)

Siamese Dream, by Smashing Pumpkins (Album; 1993)

The Simpsons Movie (Animated Film; 2007)

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (Animated Film; 2018)

The Watch (Film; 2012)

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

Why Don’t You Do Right, recorded by Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee (Song; 1942)

Wild Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 1940) [1st Bug Bunny]

The Wild Party, by Joseph Moncure March (Poem; 1926)

Today’s Name Days

Berthold, Natalie, Pantaleon, Rudolf (Austria)

Dobra, Dobri, Dobrina, Dobrinka, Pancho, Panka (Bulgaria)

Celestin, Klement, Ljerka, Ljiljana (Croatia)

Věroslav (Czech Republic)

Marta, Martha (Denmark)

Marta, Marve, Marvi (Estonia)

Heidi (Finland)

Aurèle, Nathalie (France)

Berthold (Germany)

Pantelis (Greece)

Liliána, Olga (Hungary)

Celestino, Pantaleone (Italy)

Dita, Mariona, Marta (Latvia)

Natalija, Sergijus, Svalia, Žintautas (Lithuania)

Marita, Rita (Norway)

Alfons, Alfonsyna, Aureli, Julia, Laurenty, Lilla, Marta, Natalia, Natalis, Pantaleon, Rudolf, Rudolfa, Rudolfina, Wszebor (Poland)

Božena (Slovakia)

Natalia, Pantaleón (Spain)

Marta (Sweden)

Joy, Joyce, Lila, Lilac, Liliana, Lillian, Lillie, Lilly, Lily (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 208 of 2024; 157 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 30 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 10 (Bing-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Av 5783

Islamic: 9 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 28 Lux; Sevenday [28 of 30]

Julian: 14 July 2023

Moon: 69%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 12 Dante (8th Month) [Velasquez]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 37 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 6 of 31)

[spectaculardistractions]

To Ricardo Urgoiti New York, 19 July 1940 Dear Ricardo, Just a few lines to which you are under no obligation to reply, to let you know the following: 1) In their wisdom and mercy, the ever-bountiful and fertile heavens have sent another heir to my vast fortune. Although as the little one is a second-born, I shall make him a soldier, which will always bring great glory, if not to him, to the Fatherland and the Faith. He and his mother are in rude health. 2) Before the end of the summer, I shall discover whether, yea or nay, I will find the capital to produce films over there. If it is a yea, collaborative proposals will be forwarded to you. But they will be tyrannical, because I intend to abuse my financial superiority. I shall require shares of at least 51 per cent in order to be able to boss everyone around. 3) I have a job, temporary, but well paid, on The March of Time. Also more interesting things on the horizon. We shall see. 4) I dare not inquire about your business or your life, as I have already given you permission not to reply. Nevertheless, you know how happy I would be to hear your news. 5) Polaty, the ‘ex-Ulargui employee’ has secured a contract for distribution from United Artists and is going to produce in Cuba. We are in negotiations. My best wishes to Aurora (is she happy in that tango-dancing country?) and your four little ones, who must be young men already. I remain more a friend than ever, your Luis PS My new address: 244 East 86th Street, New York.

Jo Evans & Breixo Viejo, Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters