Bonza viewpoint(s)

Josh Bowes has left another drawing on the chair by the front door. 

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Tibetan Children...

                       

Shocking new information has come to light that as many as one million Tibetan children & youth – as young as 6 years old – are being held in China's colonial boarding schools, removed from their parents, families, culture, and religion, and faced with intense political indoctrination.

Please take action to demand Chinese leaders stop the use of colonial boarding schools in occupied Tibet.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Tibet Action Institute's report shares heartbreaking stories from survivors and witnesses about the brutal impact of China's colonial boarding schools.

One anonymous witness told them, "I know of children aged four to five who don’t want to be separated from their mothers. They are forced to go to boarding schools. In some cases, the children cry for days, sticking to their mother’s laps, begging not to be sent away."

This spine-chilling practice is similar to historic residential schools for indigenous children in Canada, the US, and Australia that aimed to destroy their indigenous language, culture, and identity. We can’t let this happen again.

Please take a few minutes to email China’s Vice Premier and Minister of Education to demand this practice is stopped?

We're now developing plans and resources for Tibet groups to build more urgent action about China's colonial boarding schools to ensure Tibetan children are not forgotten.

Thanks for all that you do to support Tibet.

Mandie, Lobsang, Pema, Terluz and the team at Tibet Network

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Read more about China's Colonial Boarding Schools:
Separated From Their Families, Hidden From The World
Tibet Action Institute

The horrors of Canada’s residential schools are being repeated in Tibet
Globe And Mail - Tsering Yangzo Lama

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- in defense of freedom of press and human rights for all.

Ai Weiwei

https://www.instagram.com/aiww/

The high court in the UK overturned a ruling earlier this year and judged in favor of the US in appeal to extradite Julian Assange. Since 2012 he has lived under asylum and imprisonment, and his health has deteriorated. He suffered a stroke in prison and would not be able to survive the conditions he would be held under if sentenced to 175 years in prison in the US.

Today, freedom of press is under attack and journalists’ safety is at stake, as the powerholders circle and suppress those who provide real information in defense of social justice. Assange represents the fairness of press, which is the most important foundation to guarantee the development of a healthy society. It is only with this foundation that we can measure human rights in a society. Without freedom of press, the entire society’s human rights will be damaged.

In October 2016 Julian Assange gave me a treadmill as a present when he was at the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Today I decided to make a video of myself running on the treadmill and would like to call for everyone’s involvement through uploading short videos of running on a treadmill on the Internet. With this performance, we can show our concern with human rights and freedom of press, as well as our pursuit of social justice. Please upload your videos with #RunForOurRights and #Treadmill.

#RunForOurRights

- in defense of freedom of press and human rights for all.

@aiww

treadmill runner at Bonzaview

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX-UlKctNws/

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within within

First visit to Chartres Cathedral, with forecourt clear(ed) 

Démolition de la salle saint-Côme de l’Hôtel-Dieu

click to enlarge (Jacques Amédée Beaujoint, 1868) 

for our clear viewing ...

photo from Pinterest 

Second visit. Surprise and revelation! Preparations for an underground car park had uncovered the remains of a Roman administration building ...

photo by FIAPCE (-1992-) 

Inside the Cathedral of Chartres, the labyrinth of Chartres, viewed ... 

photo from Stock 

from within the great labyrinth ...

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Later, returning from Uluru, Chris described it as "like a church turned inside-out".

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slice + dice

Santilla Chingaipe : Are ‘race’ and ‘caste’ synonymous, or are they mutually exclusive?

Isabel Wilkerson : In the ways that I am hoping and urging us to see past what we are accustomed to seeing and to recognise that we can learn so much when we look from the perspective of the infrastructure of the society, to recognise that a society, or a hierarchy, a caste system, can use any number of metrics in determining the arbitrary nature of division. These things are arbitrary; this is not real. I mean, this is like, you choose a particular characteristic and you need to get the work done and you use this characteristic as a thing that will assign an entire group to the bottom and lift up another group to the very top. And so, the idea of race, one way of looking at it, is that caste is the bones of the infrastructure of a society, it is more of a universal impulse to rank and divide and to keep people in a fixed place to have a hierarchy to have a ladder of value assigned to people in a particular society, and you can use any number of metrics in doing that. It just so happened that this was the metric that was convenient for European colonists, and I’m speaking about the United States and the English colonists in particular. Of course, this also created, between colonisation and enslavement, created essentially a global caste system that was based upon the standards that were set by those who had the power to colonise and to enslave. And that’s what we all have inherited as a species.

'Caste' (extract)

Recorded 1 May 2021 Sydney Writers Festival

Broadcast on Big Ideas ABC.RN - 10 June 2021

   Skylight guillotine at Sinclair Gallery, Castlemaine Art Museum

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Yosa Buson & specific-bonding detail

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ABC chair Ita Buttrose writes letter to Communications Minister day after job cuts announced

What would Australia look like without the ABC?

The ABC has not only helped shape Australia, we are the national voice that unites us.

It’s about democracy. Without the ABC we would have a balkanised and parochial bunch of broadcasters that are in danger of being compromised by profit and more intent on dividing than unifying.

Imagine what it would be like during the bushfire season if we had to rely only on state-based or even regionally based media outlets. When we are in the middle of bushfires, don’t we want to know that they are being covered by a knowledgeable and experienced network of journalists with all the supporting infrastructure of a large national network?

The ABC, funded by all of us, regardless of our creed – race, age, political beliefs – is us. It’s the way we build cross-cultural understanding, the way we help each other in times of need. It’s who we are collectively. Why would anyone want to diminish that and make us less than who we are?

This has been a devastating week for the ABC. With unemployment at an all-time high to have to inform up to 250 people they no longer had a job has been an incredibly difficult task.

Cuts to services caused by the ongoing reduction in our budget forced this action upon us and although we knew what had to be done, our hearts were with our employees.

Let me clarify the cuts because there seems to be some confusion in Government circles about them. The 2018 Budget papers clearly state that the Government’s savings measures reduce funding to the ABC by $14.623 million in 2019-20, $27.842 million in 2020-21, and $41.284 million in 2021-22. This reduction totals $83.75 million on our operational base.

It is true that over the three years the ABC budget does still increase but by a reduced amount, due to indexation on the fixed cost of transmission and distribution services. Previously, it was rising by a further $83.75 million over the same three years for indexation on our operational base. This is the funding that has been cut and considered a saving by the government.

These funding cuts are unsustainable if we are to provide the media services that Australians expect of us. Indexation must be renewed.

The strength of the ABC and its relationship with the nation comes from the very people who work for us. They are passionate about public broadcasting and are prepared to work for less than they would be paid by commercial media to deliver it. The creativity in the programs they produce, the dogged and independent journalism they pursue and the connection with communities everywhere they provide through conversations is at the very heart of what the ABC delivers to our audiences.

The ABC has a statutory requirement to operate as efficiently as possible. We have a strong track record in identifying savings and reinvesting them in services. This is how we created ABC News 24, ABC iview and a range of packages to boost services in rural and regional Australia.

There is no other authority better placed to manage the ABC than the ABC itself. We know our business and we are determined to honour our commitment to independence. All Australians expect this of us just as they expect the Government to provide the appropriate funds to allow us to do so.

The ABC is essential in generating and preserving Australia’s democratic culture. An independent, well-funded national broadcaster allows Australians, wherever they live, to connect. It is how we share our identity, how we tell our stories, how we listen to each other, how we ask for help and how we give it.

Ita Buttrose AC OBE

ABC Chair

Posted 26th June 2020

Same as it ever was. ABC supporters, including Kerry O’Brien, left, and Allan Hogan, make their feelings known in 1976. 

photograph by Binna Burra Media 

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Statu[ )es of limitation : Thou shalt have no other gods before me

As mass protests continue after the world stage killing of handcuffed Afro-American George Floyd by a white US policeman, persons and symbols of black oppression (#blacklivesmatter) are named and shamed. Publicly brought-down.



In the US, statues of Robert E Lee and Confederate generals are being removed, and today Columbus. 

Yesterday (above) in the UK, down came the so-called philanthropist (lover of human beings) slave-trader Edward Colston. White supremacist Cecil Rhodes appears to be next. 

In Belgium, it's the monstrous King Leopold II. 

In Australia, Cook is under review, again.

SMH photo (2018)  

This theme of over-throw (impermanence sub-set) struck home when your correspondent first visited The Vatican, in 1984, and encountered the Sala di Costantino, the War Room ('In this sign, conquer') painted by assistants of Raphael.
   
On that ceiling is Tommaso Laureti Siciliano's mundane and naked 'The Triumph of Christianity over Paganism' of 1585. 

It remains ] as ( a core reference.

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music of the hemispheres

The human brain is divided into two hemispheres – left and right. Scientists continue to explore how some cognitive functions tend to be dominated by one side or the other; that is, how they are lateralised. - Wikipedia

TARists of binary matters and matrix studies continue to observe Re. subject matter regarding object matter

 Self-Portrait with Two Circles, Rembrandt, painted c.1665–1669

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Isolation TAR Dance

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a SIGN FIELD Symphony

Jen Bray (at lectern) presents the list of amendments sought : 
see previous post


Hepburn Shire Mayor, Councillor Licia Kokocinski counts the votes.

LOCAL LAW 2 enacted

Those in favour (Local Law 2 )
   Cr Licia Kokocinski (Mayor) – Coliban Ward
   Cr Kate Redwood AM – Birch Ward
   Cr Don Henderson – Creswick Ward
   Cr John Cottrell (Deputy Mayor) – Holcombe Ward
   Cr Greg May – Creswick Ward

Those against (Local Law 2)
   Cr Fiona Robson – Birch Ward
   Cr Neil Newitt – Cameron Ward

SIGN FIELD  enacts

SIGN

SIGN

SIGN

RESIGN

RESIGN

RESIGN

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'A Symphony 'O' Signs'

after Charles Ives

'Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)'

orchesTAR 1 : Theatre of the enActors of Regulation

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orchesTAR 2 : Theatre of the Actors of disRespect

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Mouth of the See

Rosalind Park Cascade, Bendigo : Joel Bramley Photography

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Parliament Returns to New Climate Facade

This is coal. 

Do not be afraid. 

Do not be scared. 

It will not hurt you.
Scott Morrison 

Parliament House : Feb 2017

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photo ABC | Nick Haggerty  

While Scott Morrison and the COALition were on their summer holidays, while Australia burned,

TARchitects oversaw the Parliament face redesign.

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Australia Day/Invasion Day

 Daisy by Pond click to play

 Like, what about the empire? What about the cross?

[Intro]
It's spring and the cherry blossoms sprout
The legs are out and the bronzed chests
And fires bejeweling the southwest
Thank you, darling, for these silver gelatin echoes of me, 

    with you
Smiling like he has to for the cause
For the tribe, for the boys, for the lie

[Verse 1]
Nobody heard me crying in my sleep
Me and the men of the frontier stack the bodies in a heap
Jimmy grabs a beer and we wash our hands in the creek
Ooh, talk is cheap
Frangipanis growing back home
And they're shading the bottle-o line
Once we were dreaming of pearls
Now me and my sons all dream of iron

[Chorus]
Well, Daisy, baby, are you drivin' home?
'Cause this baby doesn't wanna walk alone
She said "Ooh" as she grabbed my tongue
Sometimes you gotta rock the cradle, baby, on your own

[Verse 2]
Ooh, is that boogoo with the big chain?
Is that Annie with the white dress?
Is that granny with the white man
With the no name and the no stress?
Like, what about the empire? What about the cross?
What about the halos? Are the angels inside with the Xbox?
Ooh, that's a dollar for any can
And on Thursdays, I'll be headin' back to see my man

[Chorus]
Well, Daisy, baby, are you drivin' home?
'Cause this baby doesn't wanna walk alone
She said "Ooh" as she grabbed my tongue
Sometimes you gotta rock the cradle, baby, on your own

[Bridge]
Damn, it's cool on the bathroom floor
Well, Daisy doesn't have a babe no more
Damn, it's cool on the bathroom floor
Daisy doesn't have a babe no more

[Outro]
Did seeing real blood remind you that I had a heart?
That was the last kiss, that was a real one
When I see you next year I'll be perfect, yeah
I'll be perfect for you, babe

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Hazard Reduction? Yes, ScoMo Must Go!

  

 Scott Morrison in Australian Parliament - photo by Mike Bowers

Experts slam Morrison’s false equivalence between emissions targets and hazard reduction

Michael Mazengarb / RenewEconomy

22 January 2020 

  

Climate and fire experts have slammed prime minister Scott Morrison’s claims that hazard reduction burns carry equal importance to that of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, saying it shows Morrison still does not understand the link between bushfires and climate change.

In an interview with former chief of staff to Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin, Morrison told Sky News that he was keen to avoid a focus on his government’s climate change targets, and instead sought to focus on the ongoing debate about hazard reduction burns.

“Hazard reduction is as important as emissions reduction and many would argue, I think, even more so because it has even more direct practical impact on the safety of a person going into a bushfire season,” Morrison said in an interview with Peta Credlin on Sky News.

“There’s been plenty of chat about emissions reduction, and that’s fine. Hazard reduction, though, is the thing that is going to take a more practical effect on how safe people are in future fire seasons.”

Following a summer that has been dominated by an unprecedented bushfire season in Australia, the Morrison government has refused to commit to doing more to reduce Australia’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.

(read full article HERE)

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Australian PM Scott Morrison to curb ‘selfish’ climate action

The Times (UK) / Bernard Lagan, Sydney

2 November 2019

The prime minister of Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, has vowed to punish climate protesters after days of clashes outside a mining conference.

Scott Morrison accused environmental activists of “economic sabotage” and warned that Canberra was drawing up laws to limit damage to businesses.

“A new breed of radical activism is on the march,” he said. “Apocalyptic in tone — brooks no compromise — all or nothing. Alternative views — not permitted.” In 2017 Mr Morrison brandished a lump of coal in parliament, telling MPs not to be “afraid” of it.

 

As Australia Burns, Its Leaders Trade Insults
The New York Times / Damien Cave
Published 13 Nov. 2019 - Updated 2 Jan. 2020

Credit...

Matthew Abbott for The New York Times 

Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom.

Richard Flanagan / New York Times (Opinion)
3 Jan. 2020

BRUNY ISLAND, Australia — Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen ...

... “Australia is a burning nation led by cowards,” wrote the leading broadcaster Hugh Riminton, speaking for many. To which he might have added “idiots,” after Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack blamed the fires on exploding horse manure.

Such are those who would open the gates of hell and lead a nation to commit climate suicide...

Matthew Abbott for The New York Times 

GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

TAR banner / Schools Climate Strike #4

21 Sept. 2019 

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