of course, this is illegal. Defacing US money is illegal. but the 3D printing tech is legal and in the USA is so legal that you can print a gun. But perhaps using this technology to spread images of black people will finally criminalise the gun making? This is #Murica
/jd
‘…Frustrated that the US Treasury Department is walking back plans to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, Dano Wall created a 3D-printed stamp that can be used to transform Jacksons into Tubmans on the twenties in your pocketbook.
[….] If you have access to a 3D printer (perhaps at your local library or you can also use a online 3D printing service), you can download the print files at Thingiverse and make your own stamp for use at home…’
https://kottke.org/18/09/the-harriet-tubman-20-stamp
Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing
Matt Taibbi writes:
‘…The bank-state merger brokered 10 years ago this week socialized the risks of the financial sector, and essentially converted Wall Street into a vehicle for annually privatizing a big chunk of America’s GDP into the hands of a few executives. The same people who were minutes from being (deservedly) destitute 10 years ago are now a permanent aristocracy [….]
The “merger” committed the governments of Europe and America to unwavering overt and covert support of the finance sector. Scandals of worsening gravity kept popping up after 2008 – from the flash crash to LIBOR to HSBC’s $850 million drug money-laundering fiasco – and regulators kept quietly making them go away. Just like actual aristocrats, employees of these firms do not go to jail, even for serious crimes they admit committing…’
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=494200254428447&id=100015154297338
Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s
‘Doy Gorton, a son of the Mississippi Delta who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, returned to Mississippi to embark on a project photographing his fellow white Southerners.’
see the photos: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/lens/photographing-the-white-south-in-the-turbulence-of-the-1960s.html
Mariem Hassan
‘Mariem Hassan (Arabic: مريم حسن; 31 May 1958 – 22 August 2015) was a Sahrawi singer and lyricist from Western Sahara. She usually sang in Hassaniyya, an Arabic dialect spoken mostly in Western Sahara and Mauritania, and occasionally in Spanish. Her use of the Spanish language was related to the former status of Western Sahara as a Spanish colony…’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariem_Hassan
https://www.facebook.com/MariemHassanSoySaharaui/
‘Characterististics of decentralisation:
The key characteristic I propose is that a system is decentralised to the extent it distributes power. Specifically, the distribution of control, knowledge and capability between many users. What does this look like?…’
https://medium.com/@shevski/how-decentralised-are-you-a6539eeb27ff
Rainbow gatherings happen far away from Babylon – the problem of #failbook
‘…Yet for the last 10 years they have been increasingly/largely organized on Facebook, this is having an affect on the gatherings. Facebook being a #dotcon is strong Babylon energy and this energy is overflowing into the Rainbow Gatherings.
For #rainbow to have most of its organizing and communication in/on #failbook is a clear bringing Babylon into Rainbow disaster. You can see this in the illness/eco disaster’s at European gatherings over the last 5 years. The regional one I was at for 3 weeks in Serbia this summer was such, though worked hard on the ground in circles to heal this…’
Diana Buttu writes:
I Advised the Palestinian Negotiating Team. It Was a Mistake to Have Negotiated With Israel at All
‘Buoyed by the Oslo Accords, I moved to the West Bank as a legal adviser to the PLO team. I was wrong. 25 years since that iconic Arafat-Rabin handshake, it’s clear talks are futile – and Palestinians are no closer to freedom [….]
25 years later, Palestinians are no closer to freedom, as Israel has further entrenched, rather than lessened, its now 51-year military occupation [….]
To demand that Palestinians – living under Israeli military rule – negotiate with their occupier and oppressor is akin to demanding that a hostage negotiate with their hostage taker. It is repugnant that the world demands that Palestinians negotiate their freedom, while Israel continues to steal Palestinian land. Instead, Israel should have faced sanctions for continuing to deny Palestinians their freedom while building illegal settlements…’
No Paywall: https://archive.fo/Th5g7
via https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/oslo-accords-25-years/.premium-we-palestinians-should-never-have-negotiated-with-israel-at-all-1.6467921
#ACAB
/jd
