CHIROT ZERO ZINE--ANNOUNCING NEW BLOG

Dear Followers, Friends, fellow Workers:

I have just begun a new blog/zine called
Chirot Zero Zine A Heap of Rubble--
Anarkeyology of hand eye ear notations
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http://chirotzerozine.blogspot.com
the blog is more exusively concerned than this one with presenting essays, reviews (inc. "bad reviews") , Visual Poetry, Sound Poetry, Event Scores, Manifestos, Manifotofestos, rantin' & raving, rock'roll, music all sorts--by myself and others--if you are interested in being a contributor, please feel free to contact me at david.chirot@gmail.com
as with this blog, the arts are investigated as a part of rather than apart from the historical, economic, political actualities of yesterday, today, & tomorrow
as with al my blogs--
contributions in any language are welcome

Free Leonard Peltier

Free Leonard Peltier
The government under pretext of security and progress, liberated us from our land, resources, culture, dignity and future. They violated every treaty they ever made with us. I use the word “liberated” loosely and sarcastically, in the same vein that I view the use of the words “collateral damage” when they kill innocent men, women and children. They describe people defending their homelands as terrorists, savages and hostiles . . . My words reach out to the non-Indian: Look now before it is too late—see what is being done to others in your name and see what destruction you sanction when you say nothing. --Leonard Peltier, Annual Message January 2004 (Leonard Peltier is now serving 31st year as an internationally recognized Political Prisoner of the United States Government)

Injustice Continues: Leonard Peltier Again Denied Parole

# Injustice continues: Leonard Peltier denied parole‎ - By Mahtowin A wave of outrage swept the progressive community worldwide at the news that Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole on Aug. ... Workers World - 2 related articles » US denies parole to American Indian activist Leonard Peltier‎ - AFP - 312 related articles » # Free Leonard Peltier 2009 PRISON WRITINGS...My Life Is My Sun Dance Leonard Peltier © 1999. # Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance - by Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden - 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 272 pages Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. In 1977, Leonard Peltier... books.google.com/books?isbn=0312263805... - # Leonard Peltier, American Indian Activist, Denied Parole And Won't ... Aug 21, 2009 ... BISMARCK, ND — American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the deaths of two FBI agents, has been denied parole ... www.huffingtonpost.com/.../leonard-peltier-american_n_265764.html - Cached - Similar - #

Gaza--War Crime: Collective Punishment of 1.5 Million Persons--Recognized as "The World's Largest Concentration Camp"

Number of Iraquis Killed Since USA 2003 Invasion began

Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

US & International Personnel losses in Iraq &Afghanistan; Costs of the 2 Wars to US


Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,667
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,453
http://icasualties.org/oef/


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Cost of War in Iraq

$691,188,637,164

Cost of War in Afghanistan
$229,137,844,021

The cost in your community

www.nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

flickr: DEATH FROM THIS WINDOW/DOORS OF GUANTANAMO--Essays, Links, Video-- US use of Torture

VISUAL POETRY/MAIL ART CALL Cracking World’s Walls & Codes Concrete & Virtual

Cracking World’s Walls & Codes Concrete & Virtual


VISUAL POETRY/MAIL ART CALL
No Sieges, Tortures, Starvation & Surveillance
GAZA-GUANTANAMO-ABU GHRAIB—THE GLOBE
Deadline/Fecha Limite: SinsLimite/ongoing
Size: No limit/Sin Limite
No Limit on Number of Works sent
No Limit on Number of Times New Works Are Sent
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Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo: 'A Loooot Of Fun!'



Miss Universe Visits Guantanamo: 'A Loooot Of Fun!'


The current 'Miss Universe' Dayana Mendoza (formerly Miss Venezuela) and 'Miss America' Crystal Stewart visited US troops stationed in Guantanamo Bay on March 20th, the New York Times reports. Here's Mendoza's account of the visit from her pageant blog last Friday. She says the trip "was a loooot of fun!"

This week, Guantánamo!!! It was an incredible experience...All the guys from the Army were amazing with us. We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting. We took a ride with the Marines around the land to see the division of Gitmo and Cuba while they were informed us with a little bit of history.


The water in Guantánamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable, we were able to enjoy it for at least an hour. We went to the glass beach, and realized the name of it comes from the little pieces of broken glass from hundred of years ago. It is pretty to see all the colors shining with the sun. That day we met a beautiful lady named Rebeca who does wonders with the glasses from the beach. She creates jewelry with it and of course I bought a necklace from her that will remind me of Guantánamo Bay :)

I didn't want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

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TATE ETC. Issue 16
Visiting and Revisiting Art, etcetera

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Highlights include…
Claire Bishop
and Boris Groys on Futurism and participation
Kurt Forster on Armin Linke
Robert Macfarlane and Carl Andre on Richard Long
Colour Chart: David Batchelor on monochromes
Christoph Grunenberg interviews Ellsworth Kelly
ARTIST ROOMS: Anthony d'Offay, Ed Ruscha, Gerhard Richter, Vija Celmins, Alex Katz and others
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith on Eva Rothschild
Robert Storr on Per Kirkeby
Private View: Geoff Dyer
Vincent Katz on art & poetry
Travis Elborough in the Tate Archive


John Cage famously sad that musicians in the post-war world had to learn from visual artists, while Frank O'Hara called himself a "sweeper-up after artists". Collaboration, interaction or simple conversations between artists and poets have a fruitful history. What is it, Vincent Katz asks, that fascinates artists about those in other fields, drawing them across the lines to work together?

Last year one of the largest donations of art in Britain was made by Anthony d'Offay. This year Tate sites, the National Galleries of Scotland and thirteen museums and galleries across the UK are showing more than 30 ARTIST ROOMS in what is the first tour of this collection. TATE ETC. talks to Anthony d'Offay about the impetus behind the project, and also to a selection of the artists on display.

Boris Groys: "One of [the Futurists'] most famous declarations was "War, the World's only Hygiene". Better to antagonise the audience than let it remain neutral." They led the way for participatory art, from Dada, Situationism and Allan Kaprow's happenings, to the present. To coincide with Tate Modern's 'Futurism' exhibition, TATE ETC. brings together two art professionals to explore this history.

As a year-long season of exhibitions focusing on Polish art begins across the country, TATE ETC. brings together four Polish art professionals to discuss the reasons why the visual arts produced after 1945 in Poland are not better known abroad.

"Lust, conceived beyond moral preconceptions and as an essential element of the dynamism of life, is a force." As written by Valentine de Saint-Point, a former model for Alphonse Mucha and Rodin, in her Futurist Manifesto of Lust. Adrien Sina and Sarah Wilson celebrate the work of this unsing hero of Futurism.

Gigantic construction sites, mining pits, hydroelectric dams, polar regions, Soviet cosmodromes and Chinese cities… Kurt Forster discusses Armin Linke's recent documentation of the Alps and the influence of Italian painter Giovanni Segantini in their common gravitation towards the sublime.

Tate Liverpool's exhibition 'Colour Chart; Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today' explores the moment in twentieth-century art when a group of artists began to perceive colour as "readymade" rather than purely scientific or expressive. The gallery's director talks to one of its leading practitioners.

"In a seaside town, pleasure, or at least its less blatantly sensual cousin, leisure, is the business." A photograph of two unidentified men by the seaside found amid Francis Bacon's archives sets Travis Elborough's mind pleasantly adrift.

"Why stop skimming stones when you grow up?" Richard Long, p.56.


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  1. ADL completely disappears 25% of Israel's population- joining efforts with Avigdor Lieberman?
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ADL completely disappears 25% of Israel's population- joining efforts with Avigdor Lieberman?

This is stunning. In their press release titled "New BESA Center/ADL Poll: Attitudes of Israelis [Muzzlewatch emphasis] Toward the U.S. Remain Strongly Positive", Abe Foxman's Anti-Defamation League writes:
The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA Center) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released results of a comprehensive poll (.pdf) of Israeli opinions on a number of issues involving U.S.-Israel and Israel-Diaspora relations.
The poll is a follow up to the 2007 BESA Center-ADL survey on these issues.
Nowhere in their lengthy release does it mention what you can only find by reading the actual report, under Methodology, where it says:
The poll was conducted as a telephone survey…constituting a representative sample of the adult Jewish population (aged 18 and higher) in Israel.
So in the eyes of the ADL, if you are not Jewish, you are not Israeli. Some 25% of Israelis are not Jews- they include Muslims, Druze, Christians and the nearly 5% who identify as "other". So while Jews compromise just about 75% of Israel's population, the ADL feels that theirs are the only voices that matter. Actually, Jews are Israelis, non-Jews are other. They are not citizens. (Imagine, if you will, a survey of "American attitudes" that in the fine print mentions that it only includes Christians, also some 75% of the US population.)
Sounds just like "anti-Arab demagogue" Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who thinks of non-Jewish Israeli Arabs, whose families lived in Jaffa and Hebron long before most Jewish Israelis made Aliyah, as a fifth column. Some choose to think Lieberman's open racism is an exception, but it's not. The kind of thinking which only recognizes Jews as citizens and denies full rights to others has long pervaded Israel and the Jewish Diaspora here.
What's remarkable about this is that a Jewish anti-bigotry group, which knows all too well the price we Jews paid for not being considered citizens of our home countries, is committing the exact same sin. There is simply no excuse: this is precisely how groups and individuals are complicit in building support for the terrible kind of ethnic cleansing supported by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. The two work hand in hand. Shame on the ADL.



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