On Contact: Public Monuments And Racism August 30, 2020 On Contact: Public Monuments And Racism2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/oncontact-e1598805555902.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges, in his second interview with Professor James W Loewen, discusses public monuments and statues, who puts them up and why, and what may replace them. Prof Loewen is the author of ‘Lies Across America: What Our Historical Markers and Monuments Get Wrong’. “The […]
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ROME—The crypt holding the remains of Benito Mussolini in his hometown of Predappio in northern Italy has for years drawn neofascists and other sympathizers who come to pay their ill-guided respects to Italy’s father of Fascism. And even while images from across the world have shown that old monuments to worse times are being torn down, in Italy things are very different. Just this month, Mussolini’s […]
The Andrew Jackson Monument vandalized by the American left.Speaker Pelosi refused to condemn this action. This should be making national headlines.But it won’t because the mainstream fake news media is so toxic today. President Trump announced on Friday he will donate $100,000 of his annual salary to the National Park Service to aid the restoration of monuments. President Trump tweeted: “I promised YOU I would not […]
Jackie Robinson and Daniel Boone President Donald. J. Trump’s Executive Order on the building of a garden park with statutes of American heroes. Last night on July 3rd, 2020, President Trump delivered an unforgettable speech on a Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Park in South Dakota. The president defined the current battle between good and evil in America today. President Trump vowed to defend America, […]
As the trend of statue-toppling gains traction worldwide, RT takes a look at a special German museum where outdated sculptures go to rest in peace – even though many hark back to war. From the 19th-century colonial conquests in Africa to Prussian militarism and Nazism, German history is full of troubles and tragedies. But Germany’s way of handling its uneasy past might provide an example for […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/17/1079741740_0:232:3072:1960_1200x675_80_0_0_2f80ad07af57ae0ff88af5b3e16fc0f8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006281079741948-trump-says-vandalism-of-monuments-stopped-after-executive-order-threatening-jail-terms/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On Friday, Trump signed an executive order on the protection of the country’s monuments, which have become a major target for protesters during a month of violent clashes following the death of George Floyd. According to the order, those found guilty of vandalising statues and monuments could face 10 years in jail. US President Donald Trump on […]
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to protect American monuments, after calling off a weekend trip to New Jersey to remain in DC amid ongoing protests, insisting “agitators” will be “brought to justice.” I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues – and combatting recent Criminal Violence. Long prison terms for these lawless […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006261079731956-trump-signs-executive-order-protecting-us-monuments/ US President Donald Trump has announced via social media that he has signed “a very strong Executive Order” that is intended to protect US monuments, memorials and statues. Source link
Painfully woke white people yanking TV shows off the air and tearing down statues aren’t helping the racial justice cause, according to the founder of Black Entertainment Television. He says black people “laugh at” these displays. Removing Confederate statues does nothing for black people, billionaire TV magnate Robert Johnson told Fox News on Wednesday. “It’s not going to give a kid whose parents can’t afford college, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107954/33/1079543340_0:79:1280:799_1200x675_80_0_0_c634acd9e94ed1e55cedc642e2ccfbbd.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006251079713740-national-guard-in-us-capital-ready-to-help-police-protect-monuments-pentagon-says/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – About 400 US National Guardsmen in the nation’s capital are prepared to help support the police in their mission to protect federal monuments from being destroyed by protesters, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Chris Mitchell said. “On 23 June, at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, and with the approval of the Secretary of Defence, […]
Some 400 National Guard troops have been activated in the nation’s capital to protect historical monuments from vandalism, following a failed attempt by protesters to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson near the White House. The guardsmen, who would be unarmed if deployed, were placed on standby Wednesday afternoon as heated demonstrations against police brutality and racism rage on around the country, driving calls for the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107970/23/1079702317_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_5f60f7dc310541ef58f42ebd75a927b3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/202006241079702447-statutory-statuary/ US President Donald Trump is authorizing the arrest and criminal prosecution of individuals who attempt to take down monuments amid nationwide protests. Following days of unrest that have seen the destruction of monuments viewed as historically oppressive towards minority groups amid nationwide protests for social justice, Trump vowed that the federal government would jail and prosecute anyone who participated […]
In the wake of protests against deeply entrenched racism, statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being torn town and toppled both in the U.S. and abroad. The dismantling of Confederate statues in this particular moment are not spontaneous acts of destruction; they follow decades of debate and peaceful protest about the significance and messaging around the public display of symbols of the Confederacy. Some, […]
Jill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. She is also an investor in early-stage startups with Slow Ventures. There was a practice in Ancient Rome called damnatio memoriae. Literally “the condemnation of memory,” this referred to the removal of a person’s name and visage from […]
Earlier, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan was slammed by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel for a decision to cover up the monument to Winston Churchill in Parliament Square and accused of “surrendering” the capital’s streets “to the mob” ahead of anti-racism protests slated for Saturday. According to new plans being considered by UK MPs, demonstrators who vandalise war memorials could be slapped with prison sentences of up […]
Group Behind Confederate Monuments Also Built A Memorial To The Klan By Greg Huffman, Facing South. June 13, 2020 Group Behind Confederate Monuments Also Built A Memorial To The Klan2020-06-132020-06-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/statues-e1592061427869.jpg200px200px Above photo: 2018. Student protesters march in the Circle to demand the removal of the Confederate monument on Wednesday. Photo by Reed Jones. It was a Saturday. The mailman never comes to my door, but there […]
On today’s episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik News analysts and producers Walter Smolarek and Nicole Roussell. Friday is Loud & Clear’s weekly hour-long segment The Week in Review, about the week in politics, policy, and international affairs. Today they focus on the ongoing protest movement sweeping the country, the victories against racist monuments and memorials, divisions between […]
Confederate Monuments In Richmond Coming Down By The Virginia Defender. June 8, 2020 Confederate Monuments In Richmond Coming Down2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/statue-honoring-the-slavery-defending-robert-e.-lee-was-the-first-and-is-the-largest-of-monument-avenues-monuments.-from-the-virginia-defender-e1591636381516.jpg200px200px Statement by the Virginia Defenders on the Impending Removal of Richmond’s Confederate Monuments. Richmond, VA, June 3 — The Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, an all-volunteer, grassroots organization that since 2007, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of the slavery-defending Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, […]
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor and Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Parcak was so moved by the rioters and looters this past weekend that she posted instructions on how to topple government monuments. Sarah Parcak was a guest on the Colbert Late Show. Parcak posted instructions this past weekend on how to rip down and destroy government monuments. She felt this was her civic duty. TRENDING: PURE […]
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor and Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Parcak was so moved by the rioters and looters this past weekend that she posted instructions on how to topple government monuments. Advertisement – story continues below Sarah Parcak was a guest on the Colbert Late Show. Parcak posted instructions this past weekend on how to rip down and destroy government monuments. She felt this was […]