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Vive the peasants of Hinche, Haiti. Corruption out! Sweep it out!

5/31/2018

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Long Live the Peasants of Hinche!
​3' x 5' oil on canvas
Dechoukaj means to sweep out corruption, to get it by its roots. The branches are for sweeping out the corruption. 
Haitians are continually protesting the corruption of the government which came to power via a corrupt election process approved by the US and international community in both 2010 and 2015.
Peasants from Hinche are part of these protests.  
For more info about the issues impacting Haiti's 99% read "A Call for Solidarity from Haiti's Popular Movement,' made available through the solidarity work of Haiti Action of Oakland, Oregon. 

...Six years after the earthquake that jolted the country, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Haitian, we Haitian organizations, in the context of reflection, take our hats off and humbly say to the people all over the planet who opened their hearts to us, “we have not forgotten your acts of solidarity.” The sharing impulse manifested by people the world over, should have helped the Haitian people to rebuild their environment, rebuild their lives. Pity! To this day, the people’s lot has not changed. Adding insult to injury, shameless characters, local slave owners, empowered by various international organizations, hijacked the reconstruction funds.
Right after the earthquake, the internationals took advantage of our momentary state of helplessness to occupy the political space.Today,the Haitian people are engaged in an all out struggle to reclaim that space and to exercise their right to vote. The very ones who hijacked the reconstruction money want to prevent the people from choosing their government, in a wide scale conspiracy to continue the looting of the country’s resources. Subsequent to  many schemes designed to remove the people from the political equation, local colonialists joined forces with international colonialists to force the people to accept choices against their best interests. Illegitimate officials implemented urban removal plans and land grabs, assaulting both the middle-class as well as the poorer classes, putting the country on the brink of collapse. The people’s resistance slowed down the “terror apparatus,” preventing it from completing this program. Now they want to put more false officials at the helm of the government to continue their assault.
...Today, confronted by the danger presented by local and international colonialists, the Haitian people have started a RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE movement. They ask for people to people solidarity from everywhere on the planet. The local and international colonialists plan is not an earthquake, yet it has caused far more damage to the country.
         -A Call for Solidarity from Haiti's Popular Movement, Haiti Action 


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Tea with Bridie and Ned Deegan

5/7/2018

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Tea with Bridie and Ned Deegan
Oil on board, 12" x 16"

​My 91 year old Irish uncle Ned died suddenly a few weeks after xmas, January 2018. I had just spoken to him. A few days or a week afterwards a biscuit appeared in my aunt Bridie's kitchen but she didn't know where it came from. She asked family and friends but no one could explain the arrival of the mysterious biscuit. Bridie began to think perhaps Ned had placed it there from the afterlife. It became a funny story. Last Friday I mailed the painting and 10 prints to my Aunt. It will be a surprise. :-) 
UPDATE: My aunt called. She loves it. I sent 10 copies of a print of the painting and she's sent copies to France, Ireland and all over England. 
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Frida Kahlo.

11/5/2017

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One of my favorite painters.
A quote of hers, "They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted my dreams. I painted my reality." 
It's about the tragedy I feel about the murder of the ecological fabric that sustains us. 
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10th Anniversary of the Disappearance of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine.

8/17/2017

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Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, February 2007. 
Lovinsky was last seen August 12, 2007 after leaving a meeting with a human rights delegation from the
United States and Canada. His abandoned vehicle was found the next morning and he has not been heard from since.
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"Lovinsky dedicated his life to fighting against the restoration of the Haitian Army.  Today and into the future, we honor his work with victims of the Haitian Military, police forces and of the United Nations troops, who have occupied Haiti since 2004.  We must hold the UN occupying force accountable for the disappearance of Lovinsky under their watch and for all the crimes it has committed against the Haitian people." 

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine – 10 years since his kidnapping and disappearance 
statement by the Haiti Action Committee, August 12, 2017
www.haitisolidarity.net

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Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti - February 18, 2007
by Darren Ell
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Feb 18, 2007
Part 2 of interview with Lovinsky Pierre Antoine before he was disappearance in UN/US occupied Haiti. - 
Sovereignty and Justice in Haiti - February 18, 2007
Part 1 of interview with Lovinsky Pierre Antoine before he was disappearance in UN/US occupied Haiti. - 
Haiti Under Occupation: What happened to Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine?

Darren Ell (DE): Why did you choose the name September 30th Foundation"?
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine (LPA): It's a matter of working with memory, of preserving in a very vivid way the memory of the horrifying things the population experienced during the first coup d'état. We felt obligated to preserve this aspect of our history in the memory of the population. We chose the name "30th of September" because the first coup d'état against President Aristide took place on September 30th 1991.
DE: You fled Haiti in 2004. Explain the reasons.
LPA: I left Haiti not only because my organization was very politically active, but also because I had led a relentless campaign against the return of the former Haitian army with an exhibition of 200 photographs, a traveling exhibition that I took around the country to remind people of the horrors committed by the former military, and to show that we were against the return of this military. Since the US government - via the CIA - used this same former army to carry out murderous actions against the Haitian population in 2003, followed by the coup of February 29th 2004, they were looking for me. I had to hide for several days...

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Seth Rich, DNC employee and suspected DNC leaker, was murdered July 10, 2016. Unsolved.

7/10/2017

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Oil on board, 10" x 10" 
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Timeline:
July 10, 2016.

Rich, 27, was shot to death in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, DC.  'He was shot several times including at least once in the back just after 4 am. Police said at the time of the murder they believed Rich was murdered after resisting an attempted robbery. ...The fact that the valuables Rich was carrying were not taken in the attempted robbery are seen as the key to the conspiracy, although it could also be because the robbery was botched.'
July 22, 2016: 
WikiLeaks releases more than 19,000 DNC emails obtained via a [*]hack. A few of the emails paint DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz as dismissive of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, confirming what many Sanders'  supporters had long believed. (Wasserman Schultz is later forced to resign.)  
(Artist's note: *It is disputed whether the DNC was hacked or the emails were acquired via a leak. Many suspect Seth Rich was the DNC leaker). 

Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large:
"The tragic death and horrible politicization of Seth Rich, explained," , 
August 2, 2017

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS):
"All signs point to leaking, not hacking. If hacking were involved, the National Security Agency would know it – and know both sender and recipient. In short, since leaking requires physically removing data – on a thumb drive, for example – the only way such data can be copied and removed, with no electronic trace of what has left the server, is via a physical storage device."
William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.), Mike Gravel, former Adjutant, top secret control officer, Communications Intelligence Service; special agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps and former United States Senator, Larry Johnson, former CIA Intelligence Officer & former State Department Counter-Terrorism Official, Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.), Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East, CIA (ret.), Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA (ret.).
US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims, December 12, 2016


Craig Murray, Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan: 
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NO LNG export pipeline through Oregon.

5/3/2017

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Oil on board. From a photograph of attendees at an "No LNG" organizing event in 2015. 
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"Twice already, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has said that a fracked gas pipeline and export project in Southern Oregon, proposed by a Canadian corporation, is not in the public interest. Once in March 2016, and again inDecember 2016. 
But Veresen, the company proposing the Pacific Connector Pipeline and the Jordan Cove LNG Export Terminal, is hoping that the influence of huge campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry in the 2016 elections will push Congress, the White House, and Oregon state agencies to allow this zombie pipeline project to come back from the dead.
In December 2017, Veresen announced that they planned to try again and in January 2017, started the pre-filing process to ask FERC to consider the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export project again."
Stand up for Oregon. No LNG. No Pipeline,  
On Facebook: No LNG Exports, Stop Jordan Cove, Rogue Climate
On Twitter: @NoLNGExports
Upcoming Events: Rogue Climate Upcoming events 
Our Coalition Website: www.nolngexports.org
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Text of Avery's speech from OurChildrensTrust.org press conference,  Sep 13, 2016, Eugene, Oregon.

12/18/2016

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12 x 18 poster for Avery and friends. 
Following the judicial review hearing with Judge Ann Aiken, the 21 Youth Plaintiffs,
Dr James Hansen, and the lead Attorneys in the Landmark Climate Lawsuit, conduct
​a press conference on the steps of the Federal District Court in Eugene, Oregon.
Avery, at 13:47
ourchildrenstrust.org
Sep 13, 2016, Eugene, Oregon.

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Stop the Dakota Access pipeline, "Our Only Weapon is Prayer." 

9/7/2016

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Apache Naelyn Pike with Standing Rock Sioux Chair Dave Archambault II in North Dakota and
​Robert Greywolf who demonstrated in SF against the Dakota Access pipeline.
18 x 24 acylic on canvas

“The U.S. government is wiping out our most important cultural and spiritual areas,” 
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, whose great-great grandmother survived the Whitestone Massacre, wrote this week. “And as it erases our footprint from the world, it erases us as a people. These sites must be protected, or our world will end, it is that simple. Our young people have a right to know who they are. They have a right to language, to culture, to tradition. The way they learn these things is through connection to our lands and our history.”

A PIPELINE FIGHT AND AMERICA’S DARK PAST by Bill McKibben, September 6, 2016

What Dakota Access Destroyed: Standing Rock Former Historic Preservation Officer, Tim Menz, Explains What Was Lost [Video]
Oil Company Destroys Burial Sites in Holiday Sneak Attack September 6, 2016 

Did the Dakota Access Pipeline Company Deliberately Destroy Sacred Sioux Burial Sites? September 6, 2016
Solar Innovator Says Pipeline Debate Shows This As the Ideal Time to Transition to Renewable Energy by Mark Trahan

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Kok Kalite Lavalas (Lavalas is a strong chicken)

4/19/2016

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This is a digital sketch made with some free software I found. It's Evans Paul who used to be a radical militant (activist) leader in the grassroots Haitian Lavalas party. He was part of the movement that toppled former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. He was arrested and tortured in prison under the military government of Prosper Aril. Evans Paul split with the Lavalas party and became a critic and worse. 
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San Carlos Apache women lead protest into Oak Flat against John McCain's Resolution Copper Apache land grab.

3/10/2016

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“Water is life. We have to protect what we have,
​and we have to protect our water.”

"The swap — which will trade 5,300 acres of private parcels owned by the company to the Forest Service and give 2,400 acres including Oak Flat to Resolution so that it can mine the land without oversight — had been attempted multiple times by Arizona members of Congress on behalf of the company…. This time, the giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed public scrutiny."  -"Selling Off Apache Holy Land," Lydia Millet, May 29, 2015

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18" x 24," acrylic on canvas paper, gifted to Naelyn and Wendsler (Her grandfather).
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Apache women lead protest into Oak Flat. One woman is carrying one of the sacred staffs  
​which is not to enter a vehicle and is to be carried the entire way to Oak Flat.

In the “Copper Triangle” of Arizona, the Apache are fighting to protect their sacred land from mining giant Rio Tinto and Arizona Republicans. One major concern among the Apache community is that mining could contaminate the reservation’s aquifer.

The neighboring mining towns of Miami and Globe receive their water from the Apache Reservation aquifer. The Apache report many hostile attitudes from the predominantly white populations of Globe and Miami, however, construction of the Oak Flat mine puts both those communities at risk of water contamination. “Coming back to this water tank, this is the whole message,” Standing Fox says. “Water is life. We have to protect what we have, and we have to protect our water.” 
"The Apache Way: The March To Oak Flat," popularresistance.org, March 5, 2015
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Signing up to Protect Oak Flat. 
​They have a Facebook page, Apache Stronghold
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Wendsler (Naelyn's grandfather) and Naelyn taught me the "Protect Oak Flat" salute. 
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Naelyn, after speaking at the PIELC.org conference this year at the University of Oregon Law School (March 3-6, 2016). 
Naelyn: 
" For so long Native people have been put in the dark and silenced. The fact that a U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate has chosen to focus on protecting Oak Flat give hope for my people and my generation, and more importantly for the next generation. Despite all the bad that has happened, good can come out of this by uniting to protect our culture and way of life. Hopefully this encourages more Members of Congress and individuals nationwide to fight and engage on this issue. It brings me hope not just for native people and native youth, but for the future of our Country.”
Resolution Copper has chosen to mine the copper using the highly destructive block cave mining technique. By Resolution Copper’s own admission, this will result in collapsing the surface of the land, destroying forever our place of worship."
Bernie Sanders Introduces Senate Companion Bill to Save Oak Flat, The Bernie Report, November 5, 2015

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"Naelyn Pike, a 16-year-old member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, demonstrated in Times Square on Friday against a land swap between the federal government and a copper company that could affect land the protestors hold sacred."
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Credit Standing Fox
​"From Times Square to the Capitol, Apache Protestors Fight U.S. Land Swap with Mining Company," NYTimes, May 29, 2015
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    The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) based in Oakland, California  places funds directly into the hands of the people in Haiti who need it most. This is Haitian-directed aid, an important distinction. HERF acts immediately to assist Haitians with the cholera epidemic, health care, education, human rights, women's organizing, local food production and more. 

    Me and dance. 

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    Ashland, Oregon 
    November 2013
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    "Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love." 
       -Rumi

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    "Let us fall in love again
    and scatter gold dust all over the world." ---Rumi 
    Stinson Beach 1998

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    Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. 
    -  Kurt Vonnegut"

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    Stinson Beach, 
    California 2012 
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    Mill Valley, California 2011
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    Marin Headlands, 
    August 2011
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