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Paisner portrays the experience of the oppression tradition in black and white portraits and directorial self-portraits.
Paisner is a photography grad student at CalArts and a 2006 graduate of the University of New Mexico, B.F.A., summa cum laude in Photography.
Paisner photographs the people of Northern New Mexico, South Dakota and rural and urban America with compassion and precision.
www.myspace.com/burningsagepress
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Young American Photographer Sage Paisner portrays the experience of the Oppression Tradition in black and white portraits and directorial self-portraits.
Paisner is a Photography Grad Student at CalArts and a 2006 graduate of the University of New Mexico, B.F.A., summa cum laude in Photography.
Artist statement
"My work stems from tradition and is inspired by historical and contemporary events addressing literal or metaphysical confinement. The oppressed are fearful. Terror stems from the thought of oppression or actual physical captivity. Minorities are oppressed and controlled. My Jewish, French Canadian Indian, history is filled with subjugation. During my early childhood, I lived on a Navajo reservation where my family practiced Judaism and Native religion. My father represented the Navajo Relocatees, helping them to obtain land and homes. For me, these experiences were seminal influences.
My ideas are rooted in the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the European Conquest of America and other countries in which Jews and Native people were persecuted. Fear of capture, persecution and torture forced them to hide or live in small secret places. In these confined places, religious practice, ritual, and the fight to preserve traditions continued. This body of work combines photography and sculpture to express the idea of confinement including contemporary events such as the conflict in Israel, Abu-Graib and Guantanamo Bay. These horrific events of the past and present are connected to my childhood and families history and evoke strong emotions. I am overwhelmed, and frustrated by the state of oppression. I am trapped. I hope there is some way out."
Sage Paisner
www.myspace.com/burningsagepress
sagepaisner@aol.com
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.comYoung American Photographer Sage Paisner portrays the experience of the Oppression... more
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Rape is being used as an ethnic cleansing in Darfur. An estimated 100% of women and children as young as four, have been raped by militia. Some even more than once a day while gathering firewood.
Over 20 babies per month are abandoned by their victim mothers, who are not speaking up and claiming their rapes or abandoned children.
Men are afraid of speaking up, defending or accompanying the women in going out and doing chores in fear of being killed for doing so.
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I hope that these babies are finding good homes through adoption and something is done soon.
The less that these women say, the worse it will become. I understand that it must be terrifying and painful and degrading, but it's so scary and sad to know that the women of Darfur have come to accept this as their life ...Rape is being used as an ethnic cleansing in Darfur. An estimated 100% of women and... more
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Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the waterWestern Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the... more
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Subcomandante Marcos comes to the United States with the plans for a trickle-up democratic reform to empower the downtrodden. Subcomandante Marcos comes to the United States with the plans for a trickle-up... more
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The goal of the Cannabis Consumers Campaign is to create public policy changes by: 1) dispelling the myths and negative stereotypes that perpetuate marijuana prohibition and all its harsh consequences and 2) providing a more positive and accurate image of adults who consume cannabis. By coming out of the closet, we demonstrate to the general public, the media, and our political leaders that pot smokers are good, responsible, contributing members of society who deserve equal status and treatment before the law and in society as a whole. Come on out with us, Stop being afraid.The goal of the Cannabis Consumers Campaign is to create public policy changes by: 1)... more
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In a decision that could bring the question of whether drug possession is legal or not in Argentina to that country's Supreme Court, a judge in the in the province of Buenos Aires has ruled that a tough provincial law penalizing drug possession violates the South American republic's constitution. Penalizing drug possession for personal use is barred under the constitution's privacy provisions, Court of Guarantees Judge Luis Estaban Nitti ruled in the last week of January. A second provincial judge has since followed in Nitti's footsteps.
While drug laws have traditionally been the bailiwick of the federal justice system in Argentina, a move last year toward "defederalization" allowed provincial governments (and their police forces) to get involved in the drug war. In Buenos Aires province, which surrounds the capital city, hard-line provincial Gov. Felipe Sola engineered a tough provincial drug law that went into effect in December. That law was passed in the context of an anti-rave campaign conducted by provincial Health Minister and sub-secretary for the Prevention of Addiction Claudio Mate. It was also apparently aimed at the hordes of young people who visit the province's Atlantic Coast beaches in the Argentine equivalent of spring break. Since December, police in one provincial town alone, Pinamar, have arrested at least 180 young people on drug possession charges, according to the Buenos Aires newspaper Pagina 12. According to figures released this week by the provincial Supreme Court, more than 1,700 people have been arrested province-wide on the new drug law.
"Up until last year, drug crimes were punished only under federal law," said Silvia Inchaurraga of the Argentine Harm Reduction Network (ARDA), which has been a leading force pushing for drug law reform in the country. "But in Buenos Aires province, they decided to create their own provincial drug law. ARDA demonstrated against this law last year, saying it would only increase the repressive power of the state and lead to corruption in the police force, which is already known to be corrupt. We also said that this law would only broaden the persecution of drug users."
The provincial Supreme Court statistics suggest that Inchaurraga and ARDA were correct. In its review of Buenos Aires province drug arrests, the court found that 84% were for simple drug possession and 86% were busted for marijuana. "This evidence shows that it's not true that the law is helping police catch the big drug dealers, just punishing more drug users," she said.
Follow link for the full story.In a decision that could bring the question of whether drug possession is legal or not... more
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that Myanmar's military government has agreed to let all international disaster assistance into its cyclone-ravaged country.
Ban's announcement came after a crucial two-hour meeting today with the junta's leader, Senior General Than Shwe, the country's most powerful figure.
It's about time ain't it?
Check out an interesting video on this story at the associated link.UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that Myanmar's military government... more
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Home to Medicine Mountain is the story of two young brothers who are separated from their family and sent to live in a government-run Indian residential school in the 1930s—an experience shared by generations of Native American children throughout North America. At these schools, children were forbidden to speak their Indian languages and made to unlearn their Indian ways. Sadly, they were often not able to go home to their families for summer vacation.
Native American artist Judith Lowry based this personal account on the stories her father and Uncle Stanley told her. With beautiful art, and a lyrical, moving narrative, Lowry and author Chiori Santiago tenderly relate how Stanley and Benny Len find a way home by train one summer. Inspired by their dreams of home and the memories of their grandmother's stories, the boys embark on an adventurous journey from the harsh residential school to their triumphant welcome home at Susanville, California, in the shadow of Yo-Tim Yamne (Medicine Mountain)...
Click link for more on this moving children's book.
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from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com where Artist Charleen Touchette has worked with Indian Artists in North America since the mid-1970s.Home to Medicine Mountain is the story of two young brothers who are separated from... more
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The horror of the genocide in Canada's Indian Residential Schools became public, as the locations of 28 mass graves of Indian children were revealed.
An unknown number of Indian children died in captivity at Indian Residential Schools in Canada.
The murders included children killed in electric chairs. Some of the bodies were incinerated in the school furnaces, while others were buried in mass graves.
Eyewitness Sylvester Greene described how he helped bury a young Inuit boy at the United Church's Edmonton residential school in 1953.
"We were told never to tell anyone by Jim Ludford, the Principal, who got me and three other boys to bury him. But a lot more kids got buried all the time in that big grave next to the school."
The location of mass graves of residential school children was revealed by the Independent Tribunal Established Squamish Nation Territory ("Vancouver, Canada") on April 10.
At a public ceremony and press conference held outside the colonial "Indian Affairs" building in downtown Vancouver, the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) released a list of twenty eight mass graves across Canada holding the remains of untold numbers of aboriginal children who died in Indian Residential Schools.
The list was distributed to the world media and to United Nations agencies, as the first act of the newly-formed International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada (IHRTGC), a non-governmental body established by indigenous elders....
Read more at link.
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Photo - Book cover art for "Home to Medicine Mountain" about Indian children and Indian Schools by California Indian Artist Judith Lowry.
http://www.childrensbookpress.org/ob/home.html
Home to Medicine Mountain is the story of two young brothers who are separated from their family and sent to live in a government-run Indian residential school in the 1930s—an experience shared by generations of Native American children throughout North America. At these schools, children were forbidden to speak their Indian languages and made to unlearn their Indian ways. Sadly, they were often not able to go home to their families for summer vacation.
Native American artist Judith Lowry based this personal account on the stories her father and Uncle Stanley told her. With beautiful art, and a lyrical, moving narrative, Lowry and author Chiori Santiago tenderly relate how Stanley and Benny Len find a way home by train one summer. Inspired by their dreams of home and the memories of their grandmother's stories, the boys embark on an adventurous journey from the harsh residential school to their triumphant welcome home at Susanville, California, in the shadow of Yo-Tim Yamne (Medicine Mountain).
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Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 18, 2008 at 9:57 pm
The horror of the genocide in Canada's Indian Residential Schools became public,... more
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Artist: David Dj James
Featured Artist: Senistar
Directed by Senistar
Cameras: Pdadon
Music: Bobby Ruckuss
This song addresses the strong issues of poverty, oppression and world suffering. We intend to share this with the world for the best of societies gain under a flag of unity and peace!
Artist: David Dj James
Featured Artist: Senistar
Directed by Senistar
Cameras:... more
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Please sign it. If you don't help people just because you're not faced with their situation, you may be next.
That's not a threat, it's reality.
Stand up for the oppressed!
PEACE!Please sign it. If you don't help people just because you're not faced with... more
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Or, as another friend of mine said when talking about the proper role for the United States in resolving (with justice) the conflict: "Friends don't let friends drive drunk".
Excerpt: For years the same old dance has been going on in which the Americans scold and the Israelis promise, as though the Israelis have decided to make every effort to thwart the solution that everyone knows is the only solution. Time is running out and the self-deception is continuing. Not the Americans, but rather the Israelis will bear the results of this continued disorder.
Or, as another friend of mine said when talking about the proper role for the United... more
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When I was a teenager, I became a born-again Christian and an avid reader of the "Late Great Planet Earth" the endtimes book that preceded the "Left Behind" series popular today among those who think the end is near. One of the signs of the second coming of Christ, according to interpreters of the Revelations (like the authors of books above) is the creation of the State of Israel.
When the Yom Kippur War hit, I was on the phone with my born again girlfriends, all of us excited that this was it.... the Rapture was surely going to happen soon.
When it didn't, I wasn't worried, no problem, I'll just go live in Israel and volunteer on a kibbutz and help my Jewish brothers and sisters make the desert bloom.
As I grew up, reality kicked in and the fervor of adolescence faded. What remained was a fondness for Israel - and the belief that it was besieged on all sides. The Palestinians? Nothing but irrational terrorists who raised their children to hate and kill Jews.
Then, my husband was offered a short term assignment through his groundwater engineering job in Gaza, and we, my four-year old daughter and I went along too.
And thus began my permanent detour off my own Road Map.
The detour involved for awhile a profound internal struggle as I tried to reconcile my previous bias with the reality of occupation and oppression I was witnessing. Everyday I saw the result of the fear when the once fearful become the powerful. Someday, if Israel doesn't change its policies in time (and many Israelis I know are concerned that it is too late now) the backlash will be devastating.
Now we are back in the US and I work hard at my second job - to raise awareness among Americans in general, my Presbyterians co-congregants in particular that the key to Israel's survival is the United States, but not in the way most commonly thought. Rather, we must hold Israel accountable (as we do the Palestinians) to the international code of conduct accepted by all nation-states. That attacks on civilians is illegal, that an occupying state may not establish civilian settlements on occupied land, that separation barrier ("security fence") must be on the Green Line, not within the Palestinian Territories..... all these violations (and more), must stop.
But when the US restricts its admonitions to a mere slap on the wrist, the Israelis know they can keep on keeping on.
My church, the Presbyterians will be considering a resolution this summer calling the US government to enforce our nation's own Arms Export and Foreign Assistance laws that prohibit US aid be used in violations of international human rights law. It's a beginning. And our church is not the only one. Across the country, individuals and groups small and large are joining voices in opposition to continued, uninterrupted flow of our tax dollars to Israel. Even a temporary suspension can have an impact.
At the very least, we should consider that nothing our country has done to date has ended the conflict. Time for something new. When I was a teenager, I became a born-again Christian and an avid reader of the... more
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Imagine life where your entire country is prevented from importing the food, fuel, medicine it needed. That all that you and your neighbors needed was in the town on the other side of the border, but that the border had a 7 mile long fence/wall/barrier built not by you, not by that country on the other side of the border, but by a third nation. That the third nation told your nation’s leaders and the leaders of the neighboring nation that the border must remain shut.
Now, watch the slide show.
Imagine life where your entire country is prevented from importing the food, fuel,... more
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Inspiring film.... saw it two weeks ago. Look for the full film and share it..... more Americans need to see this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynTOY04Ac8
Inspiring film.... saw it two weeks ago. Look for the full film and share it........ more
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the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights condemn the ISraeli security forces for preventing the baby and parents from traveling to Israel for treatment for a heart defect. the Israeli Physicians for Human Rights condemn the ISraeli security forces for... more
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Time to call the bluff? Time for Palestinians around the world to return to their homeland. the Palestinian National Authority is calling for Palestinians to assert their universal human rights - not wait for a diluted version generated at the negotiation table. May 14th, the day Israel wants the world to see its 60th anniversery of "independence" it's time the world (USA) sees it as the Nakba. When one googles the headline for news, only the Jerusalem Post reported it. Time to call the bluff? Time for Palestinians around the world to return to their... more
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A one year old baby, born in Gaza with a heart defect was being treated in Israel (even doctors in Gaza know better care is available there). But the Shin Bet (Israeli security) refused to allow the baby`s parents to return with her - "SECURITY". They missed that appointment and made another and arranged other family family (not the parents) to take her. She died three days prior to the appointment.
A one year old baby, born in Gaza with a heart defect was being treated in Israel... more
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This is a startling and devastating story about the fact that WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY to FIX OUR FOSSIL FUEL ADDICTION and to stop feeling guilty about one of the most human and healthy things in the world - travel. With these cars, WE COULD REACH ZERO EMISSIONS (by using solar and wind and hydrothermal energy) to fuel them electrically.
Who is the culprit for keeping these cars away from us? - The oil companies and automakers who do not want to live up to standards.
Watch the trailer and please, watch the movie. It's inspiringThis is a startling and devastating story about the fact that WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY... more
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