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'Men's Adventure Quarterly - Vol 1 No 3' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Men's Adventure Quarterly - Vol 1 No 3' Book Review By Ron Fortier

MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY Vol 1 No 3 Edited by Robert Deis & Bill Cunningham Pulp 2.0 153 pgs

We came home from Vietnam in July of 1968. We were only too happy to return to civilian life and put that last year behind us. By March of 1969, we were working in a shoe factory and attending college at night. Sometime that month, we picked up a paperback novel called “The Executioner – War against The Mafia” by Don Pendleton. It was to be the first in a series from a new publisher named Pinnacle. A few weeks later they released, “The Destroyer” by Richard Sapir and Warren Murphy. After reading both of these initial adventures, we had one thought – the pulps were back! After having been a comic book readers since childhood, we eventually picked up some knowledge of those 30s and 40s yellow paged magazines that had entertained folks during the Great Depression. Reading Mack Bolan and Remo Williams, it was only too evident that they were new, modern “pulp” heroes for a new generation.

Sure enough, within months, the drugstore racks were overflowing with new “hero” series ala the Death Merchant by Joseph Rosenberger, Piers Anthony’s Judomaster, Marc Olden’s Black Samurai, Paul Kenyon’s The Baroness. It seemed every possible classic pulp genre was covered to even including the occult ala Frank Lauria’s Doctor Orient books. Oh yeah, for the next decade, we readers would be the benefactors of the newest incarnation of pulps, which had morphed from the classic 40s volumes into the MAMs of the 50s and 60s and now the paperback boom of the 70s. We loved the stuff.

Whereas The Executioner books were by far our favorites and we followed them loyally from Pinnacle to Gold Eagle. Even enjoying the spin-off series as they emerged. At one point we actually corresponded with one of the ghostwriters on Able Team. In the end, we’d amassed well over two hundred paperbacks with the name Pendleton painted across the covers before selling the lot in a yard sale to an employee of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire, whose purpose was to divvy them up amongst his co-workers there. So we were delighted they’d found a new and worthy home.

Now Bill Cunningham and Bob Deis have turned their magnificent creative spotlight on The Executioner phenomenon with the third issue of their “Men’s Adventure Quarterly” and it is by far their best issue so far. The volume is jammed packed with not only the history of this fantastic ground-breaking series and its creator but includes several excellent articles and pictorials. The piece on action-adventure writer Chuck Dixon is great and details his own work on such iconic characters as the Punisher and Batman in the comics to his own Levon Cade paperback adventures. There are also several short stories in the same vein such as the over-the-top “The Amputee Vengeance Squad’s Mafia Wipeout” by Jack Tyler. They also feature not one, but two “book bonus” reprints of the first two Executioner novels in their entirety as they appeared in two different MAMs.

As always Cunningham has an artist touch with his beautiful layouts; our favorites being the spread of Gil Cohen cover paintings and further into the issue the reproduction of the first dozen Executioner covers from Pinnacle. Seeing those unleashed a flood of great memories for this reviewer. Linda Pendleton’s memoir of her life with Don relives the early days when Mack Bolan was just an idea that had to be born. Wrap this all up with a little Bettie Page spread and you end up with one of the slickest, expertly produced magazine packages ever assembled. Kudos to the Deis – Cunningham team. You boys are 3 for 3 at bat. Now that’s a damn impressive record.

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» [RusseEurope-en-Exil] Marc Ferro, in Memoriam, par Jacques Sapir

» [RusseEurope-en-Exil] Marc Ferro, in Memoriam, par Jacques Sapir

2021-04-23 06:30:32 Les Crises Marc Ferro vient de mourir. Il avait 96 ans. Avec lui disparaît un immense historien, aux intérêts multiples. On œuvre couvre l’histoire de la révolution russe et de nombreux livres l’attestent[1], l’histoire du cinéma (et le rôle d cinéma dans l’histoire), mais aussi la politique française avec un Pétain qui est certainement la biographie la plus achevée du héros…

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Adolygiad gan Alex Greene o lyfr "Y Dydd Olaf" (Owain Owain, 1976)

Nofel ffuglen wyddonol yw "Y Dydd Olaf" a ysgrifennwyd gan Owain Owain, ac a gyhoeddwyd ym 1976. Mae'r nofel yn digwydd yn y gorffennol, ar ddiwedd y 1940au, ac mae'n disgrifio byd erchyll dystopaidd tebyg i "Brave New World" gan Aldous Huxley a "Nineteen Eighty Four" gan George Orwell.

Wedi'i gyflwyno fel cofnod o ddyddiau olaf dynoliaeth, nofel epistolaidd yw "Y Dydd Olaf" - hynny yw, cyflwynir y stori o safbwynt dogfennau a ysgrifennwyd gan y gwahanol gymeriadau yn y stori, megis cofnodion dyddiadur a llythyrau (wedi'u hysgrifennu â llaw, neu wedi'u teipio, ar bapur).

Mae'r cyfryngau i'w gweld bron yn rhyfedd y dyddiau hyn. Pe bai Owain wedi byw i fwynhau'r 21ain ganrif (bu farw ym 1993), byddai wedi gweld cynnydd yn y cyfryngau cyfan nad oedd erioed wedi eu dychmygu, megis e-byst, tudalennau gwe, ag ystafelloedd sgwrsio trwy sain a fideo.

Fodd bynnag, mae themâu'r stori - colli hunaniaeth, colli organau yn llythrennol, seiberneteg, sglodion mewnblaniad ymennydd - yn gydwybodol. Y themâu yw'r hyn a fyddai wedyn yn cael ei alw'n "cyberpunk," yn hytrach na ffuglen wyddonol syml. Rhaid i "cyberpunk" gynnwys elfen wrthdroadol sy'n digwydd pasio o dan sylw'r grymoedd monolithig helaeth sy'n gwrthdaro ymdrechion y prif gymeriadau i oroesi - ac elfen wrthdroadol Owain oedd y Gymraeg.

Yr hanes a adroddir yw stori Marc, dyn saith deg oed sy'n ysgrifennu ei gofnod olaf cyn i'r antagonwyr, Nhw, fynd ag ef er mwyn cynaeafu ei organau yn llythrennol, fel rhan o gynllun Nhw i symud dynoliaeth yn seiberneteg helaeth cyfunol - elfen a archwiliodd yr Athro Kit Pedler ar ffurf y Cybermen o'r rhaglen teledu Doctor Who, ac a archwiliwyd ym 1988 ar ffurf y Borg yn Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Mae'r gelynion, Nhw, yn tarddu yn y stori fel gyfeillion Marc, Cyngor y Frawdoliaeth, a gymerodd nofel dystopaidd Aldous Huxley fel eu Beibl, gan drawsnewid eu hunain yn gasgliad seibernetig tebyg i'r Borg, gan gymryd drosodd y byd, a chynaeafu cnawd dynoliaeth er mwyn goroesi. Mae'r ymwybyddiaeth ar y cyd, peiriant o'r enw yr Uchel Gyfrifydd, yw ateb y llyfr hwn i "Big Brother" gan Orwell.

Yr elfen sy'n gwneud y stori hon yn nofel "cyberpunk," yn fwy na nofel ffuglen wyddonol syth, yw gwyrdroi'r Uchel Gyfrifydd gan bobl a wrthododd gymathu, ac a ganfu y gallent gyfathrebu â'i gilydd trwy'r Gymraeg: iaith na allent ei deall na'i chyfieithu. Yn y pen draw, bu farw'r Uchel Gyfrifydd o orlwytho gwybodaeth sy'n gwasgu'r ymwybyddiaeth o dan bwysau ei ddiffygion meddalwedd ei hun.

Yn gymaint â'r stori am bobl yn goroesi mewn dyfodol erchyllterau lle mae peiriant yn ystyried nad yw cnawd dynol yn ddim mwy na thanwydd defnyddiol - thema a archwiliwyd yn ffilmiau Matrix ym 1999 a 2003 - ni fyddai stori Owain yn llawer mwy na ffansïol stori heb ei chyd-destun: ac mae'r is-destun yn ymwneud â chynnal yr iaith Gymraeg nid dim ond rhywfaint o ymarfer academaidd sych mewn ieithyddiaeth, ond yn hytrach am warchod rhan hanfodol o'r enaid dynol.

Ysgrifennodd Ursula K leGuin nofel am estroniaid a oresgynnodd ddynoliaeth trwy ddefnyddio iaith estron fel arf. Fel credwr yn Rhagdybiaeth Sapir-Whorf, credai LeGuin y gallai datblygiad dealltwriaeth o iaith heintio meddyliau'r cyfathrebwyr â diwylliant y bobl hynny - ac roedd yr iaith estron yn ei nofelau ffuglen wyddonol yn cyflyru ymddygiad ei darllenwyr, gan eu troi yn erbyn eu rhywogaeth eu hunain.

Yn "Y Dydd Olaf," mae Owain Owain yn dysgu'r gwrthwyneb - y gellir defnyddio'r Gymraeg ar gyfer gwyrdroi i'r cyfeiriad arall, trwy gadw'r rhan fwyaf hanfodol o hunaniaeth Gymraeg yn erbyn y Seisnigeiddio ymgripiol o Loegr, wedi'i symboleiddio gan Nhw.

Yn hynny o beth, mae gan "Y Dydd Olaf" lawer i'w ddysgu i bobl Cymru o hyd. Mae straeon ffuglen wyddonol naill ai'n lasbrintiau ar gyfer y dyfodol, neu'n rhybuddion - ac mae gan "Y Dydd Olaf" elfennau o'r ddau, sy'n gwneud y nofel hon yn llyfr teilwng, yn sefyll wrth ochr nofelau Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Olaf Stapledon ac Ursula K LeGuin: llyfr y dylid ei roi ar y maes llafur addysg.

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Here’s what tenants are paying at SL Green & PGIM’s 11 Madison Ave

When SL Green acquired 11 Madison Avenue for $2.6 billion from the Sapir Organization and CIM Group in 2015, CEO Marc Holliday called the full-block office property a “serious, serious office building” that would establish the firm as a major landlord in Midtown South. The 2.3 million-square-foot Art Deco tower next to Madison Square Park, built in phases between 1932 and 1952, was at one point designed to be the world’s tallest building before the

Source: https://therealdeal.com/2020/09/25/heres-what-tenants-are-paying-at-sl-green-pgims-11-madison-ave/

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2481 - Le Lab Eco, épisode 5 : Privatisations et cash ... Jean-Marc Sylvestre & Jacques Sapir ...

2481 – Le Lab Eco, épisode 5 : Privatisations et cash … Jean-Marc Sylvestre & Jacques Sapir …

RT France –Ajoutée le 25 janv. 2018 – Durée 26’31 Au sommaire de ce Lab Eco : le plan du gouvernement de privatiser des fleurons comme ADP ou la Française des Jeux, et la disparition programmée de l’argent liquide. (note 4 milliard de personnes n’ont pas accès aux services des banques)Abonnez-vous à la chaîne YouTube de RT France :

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200 Words: ERIC ARN

(In 200 Words, we highlight a new record we like a lot, via a 200-word review by Marc Masters and 200 words (or so) from the artist about whatever they choose.)

ERIC ARN - Orphic Resonance LP (Feeding Tube)

It’s pretty criminal that this is Eric Arn’s first solo vinyl release, and only (according to Discogs) his third solo record of any kind. After so many years of great playing with Crystallized Movements and the Primordial Undermind, you’d imagine he would have solo albums falling out of his pockets. But the blessing in disguise is that the scarcity means there has been no chance of wearing out ideas – if such a thing were even possible – and Arn packs a lot of them into Orphic Resonance, an album as comfortable with precise finger-picked acoustics as it is with big, daunting drones.

Those two modes work as a continuum rather than multiple personalities because Arn infuses every track with a sneaky combination of patience and disorientation. Everything on Orphic Resonance feels calm and measured, yet there’s always something subversive going on, a weird note or an odd timbre that pushes and pulls the music’s equilibrium. Even when Arn settles into a sunny strumfest to close the album out, there’s a sense of probing asymmetry, a sense that he’s not just gonna let time fly by passively. It makes Orphic Resonance a beautifully tense experience, even when it’s just beautiful.

– Marc Masters

ERIC ARN on Orphic Resonance

I hope that everything I had to say on this album is already there in the grooves, I would only add one suggestion - try listening in the dark. But I thought I might take the opportunity to get ahead of some questions that have already begun to crop up.

1. No, I didn’t forget the ‘m’. 2. Orpheus, man, Orpheus 3. It’s mostly guitars. At least a majority.  ⅝ of the pieces (if you’re quantitative) are just guitars, even if it doesn’t seem like it. 4. No electronic effects or amplification at all in the recording - except for the piece that’s only amplified electronics 4. Because I do believe the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. 5. Whatever you’re hearing, you can assume it’s intentional. (rant/) There seems to be a trend these days in reviewing guitar music to use ‘clean’ as a complement.  It isn’t so much in my estimation.  In my struggles with the guitar, I tend to try and squeeze out every drop of sound I can wrench from the thing.  Each extra overtone, difference tone, harmonic, buzz, rattle and squeak is a reward, from where I’m sitting.(/off)  Someone once called me a ‘guitar wrestler’ in print (sorry, I can’t remember who). I try to embrace that. 6. From watching Genghis Blues and then just working out what I could on my own. 7. If you expected it to sound like John Fahey, then I’m afraid you didn’t read Byron’s blurb very carefully. 8. Yes, I would love a hug.

Orphic Resonance is out now on Feeding Tube. Buy it here.

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Here’s what real estate players heading to Art Basel need to know

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Real estate and art converge this week, as developers, brokerages and architects capitalize on the well-heeled crowd descending on Miami to boost the visibility of their luxury projects.

Brokerage firms are sponsoring art fairs, condo projects are hosting lavish parties and exhibits, architects and designers are holding book signings, and museums are offering art-studded VIP soirees during Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Week — all geared to lure the artsy set.

Christie’s International Real Estate, along with EWM Realty International, is a marquee sponsor of Art Miami and its sister event, CONTEXT Art Miami, for the eighth consecutive year.  Christie’s and its affiliates will host an interactive booth at the main entrance of Art Miami, displaying luxury residential properties from around the world.

Art Miami’s works on display will include Peter Anton’s CHOCO TOWER, a 10-foot tall sculpture of five chocolates stacked on top of each other that weighs more than 1,000 pounds. Made from painted aluminum, the sculpture will be on display at Stuttgart-based Galerie von Braunbehrens’s booth, part of an edition of three works, each painted in different colors.

The developers of the Ritz-Carlton Residences, Sunny Isles Beach, which just topped off, will be the official sponsor of the 17th annual ArtNexus Party in Wynwood. Developed by Fortune International Group and Château Group, The Ritz-Carlton Residences will be hosting the VIP lounge during the party, with a scale model of the condo tower.

The event will also unveil Uruguayan artist Pablo Atchugarry sculpture for the exterior of the project’s Oceanside tower. Atchugarry will debut a sketch of his piece, and guests will celebrate the opening of his family gallery in Wynwood, the Atchugarry Art Center.

Acqualina Resort & Spa’s AQ Bar is hosting an event on Thursday, in partnership with Fine Art Mia. AQ bar will be adorned with a collection of original contemporary masterpieces by famous American artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and Jeff Koons and British contemporary artist Damien Hirst. Among them: Liz by Andy Warhol painted in 1964 and Alfred Hitchcock from 1983 and Damien Hirst’s Mickey in blue glitter from 2016.

Art Basel show partner Douglas Elliman is hosting a series of events, beginning with a property showcase in the Collectors Lounge of the art fair. Elliman is working with Artefacto, which is furnishing the New York brokerage’s new development gallery, and including a virtual reality presentation of new developments.

Elliman is also hosting a tour of “architecturally significant” new projects currently on the market in Miami Beach for Elliman and Knight Frank agents in town. On Thursday, the company is unveiling its fifth annual Elliman Magazine Art Issue at 1 Hotel & Homes South Beach.

Italian architect Antonio Citterio will be giving a talk at Design Miami on Wednesday with the home and design editor of Departures, discussing luxury architecture and design. Citterio is designing Arte, a 12-story, 16-unit condo building in Surfside being developed by Alex Sapir.

Arte is also placing an art installation through Sunday featuring a video by Sophia Hanover and Stuart Parr projected onto the building at 8995 Collins Avenue. And on Thursday, Sapir, Özlem Önal and Giovanni Fasciano are also hosting a private cocktail party with previously unseen art by Australian designer Marc Newson.

Cervera Real Estate is sponsoring Red Dot Miami and Spectrum Miami for the second year in a row. Cervera’s hosting “The Art of Living” collection at Red Dot Miami, beginning with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday and ending on Sunday at Mana Wynwood. The collection will showcase some of Cervera’s exclusive projects, including Aston Martin Residences Miami, Aria on the Bay and Elysee Miami.

Oppenheim Architecture’s Ilona Oppenheim and the Related Group’s Jorge Pérez on Tuesday evening will celebrate their new book “Island in the Light,” which features 35 artists and 30 writers celebrating contemporary Cuban art, music and literature.

TRA Publishing is launching the book at a private event at Two Park Grove, a luxury condo building developed by Pérez and David Martin’s Terra. Cuban musician Pavel Urkiza will compose original scores inspired by the book’s selection.

In Edgewater, Pérez is unveiling the Paraiso District, a group of condo towers the Related Group recently completed. Artists Santiago Parra, Omar Barquet and Pablo Atchugarry will be at the event on Friday morning. Pérez and his wife, Darlene, are also hosting an invitation-only private breakfast and stroll through their art collection at his home in Coconut Grove this week.

The Bass Museum in Miami Beach is hosting a VIP reception Wednesday to celebrate the opening of The Haas Brothers: Ferngully during Miami Art Week. Also on view, Paola Pivi: Art with a view and Aaron Curry: Tune Yer Head.

In addition to hosting a number of offshoot art events and fairs in Wynwood and downtown Miami, real estate investor and developer Moishe Mana is having a birthday bash at his Wynwood complex on Tuesday. Mana and InList are hosting the party, starting at 9 p.m. and ending at 4 a.m. Lance Bass will MC the event, which is featuring performances by Cedric Gervais and others.

Nearby, broker and developer Tony Cho will have a pop-up experience at the Wynwood Gateway building called “Ignition.” The event, on Thursday evening, will feature artwork by Olivia Steele, Tyler Goldflower, J. Margulis and Dino Urpi in rooms of an on-site hotel, which will then be listed on Airbnb. The event will benefit the nonprofit Path of the Panther.

The nonprofit Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation is hosting a preview party for its new art-inspired building in Edgewater, where the foundation will showcase its art collection.

The project, designed by Rene Gonzalez Architects, will display Richard Serra’s “Passage of Time,” a 218-foot-long sculpture that will be installed in the courtyard. The 45,000-square-foot building was designed to incorporate an 80-foot-tall light installation by James Turrell’s “Aten Reign.” The building is slated to be completed in 2023.

Gonzalez also designed Sotheby’s (RED) Auction exhibition. Artist Theaster Gates and architect Sir David Adjaye are hosting an event Wednesday in the Moore Building in the Miami Design District, which will auction works of art by Jeff Koons, Pierre Jeanneret, Zaha Hadid and more, with proceeds benefiting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and the Rebuild Foundation.

On Friday, Valli Art Gallery is hosting a private event in Miami Beach’s Star Island. Valli Art Gallery is collaborating with Techrin Hijazi of William Raveis Real Estate to showcase post-war and contemporary Italian art aboard a 140-foot luxury yacht docked at 44 Star Island Drive. The estate is on the market for $18.4 million. The event will be hosted by Italy’s Radio 105.

Swire Properties’ Brickell City Centre is hosting its annual all-female art fair, free to the public, from Thursday through Sunday. Featured works were curated and produced by Anthony Spinello in partnership with Swire Properties. Artists include Hank Willis Thomas, Emily Shur and Genevieve Gaignard.

CASACOR Miami is also being held at Brickell City Centre for the second straight year. The visual design exhibition, a partnership between Swire Properties and COSENTINO CASACO, features architecture, interior and landscaping design exhibits.

Miami is getting a rare look inside the world of Banksy at the planned site of the Magic City Innovation District. The Little Haiti site just opened an exhibit with over 80 original works by the artist. The Art of Banksy is curated by Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s former business partner, and displays the world’s largest collection of the artist’s works, including the “Balloon Girl” and the “Flag Wall.”

Lexus held a kickoff cocktail for Design Miami at Le Sirenuse at Fort Partner’s Four Seasons Residences at The Surf Club on Monday, unveiling its luxury crossover vehicle, LF-1 Limitless, designed by Japanese architect Socha Ichikawa. Lexus is the official automotive partner of Design Miami.

Last week, even before Art Basel, some developers began celebrating art and design. Jade Signature in Sunny Isles Beach’s developers Edgardo and Cristina Defortuna held a book signing of Pierre Yves Rochon’s Interior Splendor. Rochon designed the common areas of Jade Signature, including the lobby, library, and Club Room, and also designed the interiors of London’s Savoy, the Four Seasons George V in Paris and the Waldorf Astoria, now under construction in New York.

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UK Independent: Episode 19 is now here on YouTube https://youtu.be/2iIvq8EXs20 This episode is featuring 1. Sapir Alexandra Englard - Everything’s Grey 2. CHOICE NOT CHANCE - Stupidity Of Man 3. Sonz of Thunder UK - No Weapons 4. Elstow- She’s Lying 5. Rosegarden Funeral Party - Horror Music 6. The Tearaways - Name That Tune 7. Marc Platt - High Road 8. Indigo Sixteen - Bring On The Rain 9. Plamen De La Bona - How Lucky I Am 10. Saskia Vese - Good Girl 11. Flahoola - Frankenstein’s Hell 12. SOMBRE Moon - Blurred Reality 13. Secret Shine - All In Your Head 14. Hooligan Dublin feat Christy Dignam - Teenage Rebel Don't forget an Episode of UK Independent is broadcast on Sword Radio UK www.swordradiouk.com every Wednesday at 9pm! Remember to use our exclusive voucher code "UK Independent" for 10% off at Poppy Apparel https://poppyapparel.com today! Also can now support UK Independent via our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/UKIndependent ALSO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT AND UNSIGNED MUSICIANS - PLEASE BUY THEIR MUSIC - KEEP THE SCENE ALIVE! #radio #submission #uk #ukradio #internetradio #internetradioshow #internetfriends #internetradioshows #online #onlineradio #onlineradioshow #onlineradioshows #youtube #youtuber #ukindependent #ukindie #ukindies #independentartist #independentmusic #indie #indiemusic #indieartist #indieartists #unsigned #unsignedartist #unsignedartists #unsignedartistspotlight #unsignedartistshowcase (at Wickford, Essex)

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Statements of Support for Aug 14 SHU Installation at Capitol

A number of people who were not able to be present at the SHU Installation and Press Conference in Sacramento send statements of support for the day, which we are putting here, in hopes that they will be widely read.

August 14, 2013 “The indiscriminate use of solitary confinement is not only inhumane and a direct violation of internationally recognized human rights, but is ultimately a self-defeating practice. It has been clearly established that prolonged isolation increases the risk of mental illness, self-harm, and likelihood of reoffending.  In order to combat the rampant abuse of this failed policy, I am carrying SB 61 in the hopes of curbing its use on children.  Because while subjecting adults to solitary confinement is damaging and backwards, to do so to children is absolutely reprehensible.  It is time for California to face the reality of our justice system and force it to move in a direction that is more moral, effective, and just.” Dan Lieberman Press Secretary Office of Leland Y. Yee,  PH.D. California State Senate Capitol Office – Room 4074, Sacramento, CA 95814 ***************** Excerpts of Ammiano comments at Press Conference: “When you get a letter that says to incarcerate someone in solitary confinement for longer than a very short period is torture, you know the whole world is watching...There has been some very bad press on this—demonizing us for being activists for human rights for prisoners.  We know that there are some people who have committed some very egregious crimes but that’s not the issue… looking at everyone as if they are a gang member and isolating them. We don’t support that.  We want appropriate steps to be taken.” ************** Here in New Orleans, the incarceration capital of the world, every day we see our friends, our husbands, our sisters, our children and our neighbors go to prison and be subjected to horrible, inhumane and unlawful conditions. In a former slave plantation called Angola, Herman Wallace has spent 41 years in solitary confinement and is now dying of liver cancer as we lie in wait for the state to rule on his humanity. These are the realities of our criminal justice system that seeks to break our communities rather than serve them. Herman Wallace and the Angola 3 have dedicated their lives to spreading the word that SOLITARY IS TORTURE. The hunger strikers in California are doing the same: risking their lives to tell the world that living in that cage is worse than dying of starvation. Enough is enough! All of us at Herman’s House lend our solidarity to the California Hunger Strikers as they demand dignity and respect for the rights of the incarcerated! We will fast every Friday in solidarity until their 5 core demands are addressed, acknowledged and met. Jeffery Beard and Jerry Brown, its time for you to come out and explain how being forced to live in this cage is anything less than a state sanctioned form of torture! Hillary Donnell and the Herman’s House Team www.hermanshouse.org @_HermansHouse     info@hermanshouse.org **************** As a physician who has worked with a highly addicted and oft-jailed population, I can attest that mass incarceration and solitary confinement neither help to rehabilitate individuals nor help protect society. As a world-authority on trauma, psychiatrist Dr. Bessel van der Kolk of Boston University has pointed out, the vast majority of people inhabiting criminal justice facilities were traumatized as children. This is what science shows and my experience attests. People so hurt need compassion, support, counseling, and healing. Solitary confinement in particular damages key brain circuits that make future dysfunctional behavior more likely and rehabilitation more difficult, increasing criminality and social and financial costs. Humanity, science and social self-interest all dictate that such practices must stop. California, a state that has contributed so much positive to world culture, instead of disgracing itself with punitive medievalism, could take the lead in establishing an enlightened approach. Gabor Maté M.D. Vancouver, B.C. Canada   *****************  "The isolation practices of the CDCR (California Prison System) are cruel, brutal and inhumane.  The SHUs have been used by the authorities to actually increase prisoner violence and racism and to try and destroy any cohesiveness among prisoners.  The policy of locking people away for 10, 20, 30 years in solitary with the only possibility of relief being to finger someone as being a gang member is reminiscent of the practice of torturing people until they give names.  Likewise, these practices violate human rights, are outlawed by international covenants, are aimed at breaking down peoples' personalities, and are notoriously good at reproducing lies and violent gang activity when prisoners single out each other.  These actions by the authorities themselves are behaviors like those of the very gangs they purport to weaken.   The only difference is that the authorities can cloth their behaviors in the legal sanction and can act with impunity and imperial disdain for the powerless prisoners.  Mr. Beard's crass lying about the cruel practices in solitary confinement, such as claims the prisoners have skylights and that keeping people decades in solitary reduces gang violence, reveal that he is not fit to be in a position of authority over California's prisons and prisoners.  Beard's behavior is a stain on the sitting governor who allows this charade to continue when the State should be negotiating with the non-violent strikers, united across racial divisions against the cruel practices.  If the goal were really to end violence in the prisons, the authorities would be pleased to talk with the leaders and mediators of a non-violent and collaborative prisoner movement."  Marc Sapir, MD, MPH one of the organizers of the Health Professional's Letter on the CA Prisoners' Hunger Strike.  *************** "It is an abomination in violation of the Constitution's solemn prohibition against 'cruel and unusual punishment' for California's prison system to condemn 4,000 prisoners to solitary confinement, some for decades, a barbaric practice fit for the Dark Ages.  We applaud the brave hunger strikers for forcing this inhumane horror onto the front pages and we demand that Governor Brown halt this unspeakable punishment immediately."   Stephen Rohde, Vice-Chair, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace. *****************   I add my voice to the multitude calling for an immediate end to the barbaric conditions in California prisons. Governor Jerry Brown and the CDCR must put an end to their inhumane treatment of the souls trapped in their prisons, which they have literally turned into hellholes. Stop the torture! Jack Gerson Ph.D., MPH ******************* Christina Garcia-Aguilera whose brother, a Pelican Bay SHU hunger striker, has been in prison for 19 years and in solitary for the last 10. She said he was moved to Folsom during the hunger strike, supposedly because of medical facilities at Folsom: So overwhelmed.... How do I begin. Chris Garcia, J93559. Is loved. He has family that cares for him. We are not happy about the conditions that are taking place at Pelican Bay. He is now at Folsom due to a larger medical ward. ? We want to let the Governor know that things need to change. The prisoners are being treated very unfairly. We as humans need human interaction. We would all go crazy without that. Fresh air, outside yard, adequate meals and medical attention. Please negotiate and make some changes before more humans DIE. Thank you, in behalf of Chris Garcia j93559 family members, Christina Garcia Aguilera, Lopez family, Guzman family. ************************ Karen King Modjeski    7:11am Aug 14 If you can, please read this today. Thank you! My husband has been in the SHU for over 10 years. On our last visit in July he said to me, "I just want to be able to touch you and to give my kids a hug and kiss." To me, that says it all. He is a human being, not a rabid animal. How is keeping him in solitary confinement rehabilitative? And why os he still there? The last time anything wss found in his cell to keep him "validated" was in April of 2008! And that was some Aztec art. Over 5 years later, he's still there. Why? How is that justifiable? Security Housing Units are death camps. The CDC puts men in there so everyone can forget about them. Well, guess what? They are not forgotten. My husband is alive, he is strong, he is loved and he gives love. He is a man of integrity, intelligence and forgiveness. Governor Brown, Secretary Beard and all others in power, you must end long term solitary confinement NOW!!! This practice is barbaric and inhumane. *************** Words from a Jewish Lawyer about the Prisoners' Hunger Strike     I write here to support a change in the ways our society deals with the people we imprison.  As I begin to write these words, I think about how many letters and papers have been submitted over scores of years to the same end-- with no penetration.  I'm not surprised that little has changed.  It's an old story.  Who wants to listen?     What I say is not new insight; I just want, once again, to remind us of what seems so simply clear and true:  U.S. American culture projects our dark shadow directly onto "dark" people.  We get rid of our violence, greed, nastiness, abandon, and addiction first by placing those parts of ourselves into criminals, and second by stuffing the criminals into prisons.  In so doing, we have arranged to put 50% of undesirable and scary young men of color into the court and prison systems.  Easy.  Are we educating?  Are we training?  Offering jobs?  Creating citizens?  Showing ways toward integrity?  No, of course not.  We are, instead, leaving the generations alone, except when we arrest and convict them.  And after arrest and conviction, we leave them alone in prison.      Is not the question of race still the central rot at the heart?  Are we not turning our back on the wounded, who themselves, unfortunately, wound?  Can we not acknowledge that slavery still haunts our dreams?  Jews, every Passover, enjoin ourselves to remember that we were slaves in Egypt.  The Jewish sense of justice and obligation to others stems from that early wound.  Can we not imagine the present and sharp suffering of a people hardly out of slavery (compared, certainly, with 3000 years or so for Jews)?  Isn't it clear that Nazis did the same kind of projecting onto Jews, among other others?     What it comes down to-- for me-- is humanitas.  Respect for humans.  The value of the individual, no matter what his or her sins and omissions.  We are all suffering a hard struggle in this life.  The suffering, redemption, evil, error-- all of the parts of our own shadows-- must, I think, be reclaimed by each of us;  we must take back the mask we placed on the faces of prisoners.  The mask is our own shadow.  Let's deal with real and full humans inside and outside the walls.  Let's pay real and human attention to what our brothers and sisters are saying and what they reveal.     - Steven Rood, Esq. **************         "It is an abomination in violation of the Constitution's solemn prohibition against 'cruel and unusual punishment' for California's prison system to condemn 4,000 prisoners to solitary confinement, some for decades, a barbaric practice fit for the Dark Ages.  We applaud the brave hunger strikers for forcing this inhumane horror onto the front pages and we demand that Governor Brown halt this unspeakable punishment immediately." Rev. George F. Regas, Convener and Founder, Interfaith Communities United For Justice and Peace; Stephen Rohde, Vice-Chair, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace.

***************** Kudos to Tom Ammiano and the Stop Mass Incarceration Network for this creative, audacious plan to demonstrate just how oppressive and torturous the SHU really is.  A similar mock cell was set up in Union Square, SF, last month; when I stepped inside and felt the walled-in, closet-size space w/pics on the wall of the actual SHU cells, it was difficult to hold back tears. We must do everything we can, individually and collectively to pressure Gov. Brown to grant the demands of the hunger strikers before we lose still more lives. Kiilu Nyasha - ************** Statement from Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund By Executive Director Mike Holman In solidarity with the SHU Isolation Unit Installation, Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund is sharing this letter from a California prisoner, written 3 weeks ago, about the reality of solitary confinement. As you hear this, think about what CDC’s Jeffrey Beard claims about solitary confinement. In a shining example of torturers censoring news exposing the torture they commit in California prisons, CDC has recently censored at least two issues of Revolution sent to Pelican Bay prisoners by Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund. Revolution is covering, and continuing to cover, the courageous and inspiring stand that hunger-striking California prisoners are taking to end the inhumane conditions they face, including what is in fact torture under international law. Revolution reports this from the larger context of exposing a whole system of exploitation and oppression. The prison authorities allege that this news is “unauthorized correspondence between inmates”, and that Revolution incites “…participation in a mass disturbance (which) is a serious threat to the safety and security of this institution”. Their claims are outrageous and bogus. Hundreds of mainstream and other news sources are covering the hunger strike and prison conditions from different perspectives… Can prison authorities be allowed to ONLY permit prisoners to read news coverage that does not expose and challenge their lies, and censor anything else on the basis that it is “inciting participation in a mass disturbance”? This logic is chilling and illegal and must not stand. In the 1974 case of Pell v. Procunier, the US Supreme Court found that “the conditions in this Nation’s prisons are a matter that is both newsworthy and of great public importance”. Similarly, the 1987 McCabe v Arave case ruled that the presentation of ideas that some may find controversial does not constitute a plan to breach the security of an institution. Pelican Bay prison authorities are trying to isolate, demoralize and further torture prisoners through denying them revolutionary sustenance, including news of growing support beyond the prison walls for the prisoners’ just demands. Prisoners have a right to the life of the mind, which is a key part of being human. Through sending Revolution, BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian and other literature to about 800 prisoners in state and federal hellholes throughout the US, PRLF provides them with an educational opportunity to engage with world events and key political, cultural, and philosophical questions of the day from a unique revolutionary perspective… and to critically think about and dissect the current state of society as well as search for an alternative. Censorship of this is yet another intolerable and inhumane form of torture, and must not stand! There are two things people can do right now to oppose this censorship. Go to our website, PRLF.org, and 1) Sign the statement to End Censorship of Revolution at Pelican Bay Prison; and 2) Donate funds generously at PRLF.org to keep this revolutionary literature flowing to prisoners – in California and across the US. Numerous family members and friends of prisoners have reported retaliation by prison authorities against prisoners throughout the state. Less than a year ago, Governor Brown vetoed AB 1270, which would have restored media access to prisons to the level it was at in 1996. Several other periodicals that support the prisoners and the hunger strike have had issues of their periodicals censored. Censorship of Revolution and other periodicals that expose and oppose prison conditions could create conditions in which prison authorities are free to commit all kinds of abuses behind thick walls of concrete and of enforced silence. End the censorship of Revolution and other periodicals at all California prisons! ###

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2480 - Le Lab Eco, épisode 4 : Loi travail et robotisation ... Jacques Sapir & Jean-Marc Sylvestre

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