#memorials — Public Fediverse posts

…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.

#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.

#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.

#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.

#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

…Compared with the giant banners of Trump’s glowering image hanging on federal office buildings, including the once-independent #DOJ, & the renaming for #Trump of public #landmarks & #memorials such as the #KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts, these banners are a relatively small #authoritarian incursion into the public realm.

#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing

Racket MN: MN Ice Abduction Memorials, Mapped . “If you spent any time in a city or town impacted by Operation Metro Surge this past winter, then you probably came across a few ICE abduction alerts…. These memorials weren’t created to last, but a group of public historians at the University of Minnesota have sought to document and preserve the tributes via a user-generated online archive.”

As the cardinals flit about my garden, I always remember those I've lost and it comforts me.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/still-near-red-cardinal-bird-bereavement-condolences-sympathy-gift-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #cardinals #cardinal #grief #loss #lossofalovedone #condolences #sympathy #celebrationoflife #death #spring #springtime #memorials #memorial #inmemory #memories #memory #SharonCummingsArt #buyintoart

International Fire & Safety Journal: Peers approve funding for Grenfell Tower archive and preservation works. “The House of Lords has passed the Grenfell Tower Memorial (Expenditure) Bill to provide statutory authority for the construction and long-term management of a permanent memorial at the tower site.”

A Name Too Many: When Ego Tries to Rebrand History

https://jtwb7689.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/kennedy-cntr-renaming/

"Indigenous people here speak of the lack of memorials on this land.
But every bordered property is a site for dark tourism in Australia.
Dark tourism is the effort to seek out destinations of violence and devastation, but it is not hard to see genocide from our front door in this country...Tim Rowse has called the “ongoing colonial encounter sometimes called ‘Australia’”
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https://theconversation.com/dark-tourism-is-attracting-visitors-to-war-zones-and-sites-of-atrocities-in-israel-and-ukraine-why-240119

Gumbaynggirr Country is located on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. It is also known as the Bellingen/ Gleniffer Valley and has curated three reserves in the 21st century with memorials which are all named after white settlers:

The Arthur Keough Reserve (Never Never River) is named after the first settler pioneer families to arrive in the Gleniffer Valley.
http://www.bellingennow.com/about/index.html

Angel Gabriel Capararo 'modernised' the Promised land.
http://www.bellingennow.com/Angel_Gabriel_Capararo/index.html

Earl Preston reserve was named after a settler who arrived in 1929
http://www.bellingennow.com/Earl_Preston/index.html

Nothing about the massacres and the poisoning to death of local Aboriginal people.

Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788 to 1930
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php
https://howlinginfinite.com/2021/03/22/dark-deeds-in-
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189773560
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poisonings_of_Aboriginal_Australians
#GumbaynggirrCountry #Bellingen #Fernmount #Gleniffer #TheDrive #MidNorthCoast #IndigenousPeoples #massacres #memorials #tourism #DarkTourism #violence #TuthTelling #denial #SettlerSociety #colonialism

I find these little memorial cobbles very moving. They are from the heart, and direct. They are next to a beach in Wales. What's also lovely is that they stay there. #memorials #cobbles #cymru

I find these little memorial cobbles very moving. They are from the heart, and direct. They are next to a beach in Wales. What's also lovely is that they stay there. #memorials #cobbles #cymru

I find these little memorial cobbles very moving. They are from the heart, and direct. They are next to a beach in Wales. What's also lovely is that they stay there. #memorials #cobbles #cymru

I find these little memorial cobbles very moving. They are from the heart, and direct. They are next to a beach in Wales. What's also lovely is that they stay there. #memorials #cobbles #cymru

I find these little memorial cobbles very moving. They are from the heart, and direct. They are next to a beach in Wales. What's also lovely is that they stay there. #memorials #cobbles #cymru

https://archive.org/details/azania-woman

Azania Woman: Comrade Boniswa Ncukana by Pan Africanist Congress of Azania; Christine Doubts Qunta; John Nyati Pokela; Motshabi Moleko

Topics
#PAC, #BoniswaNcukana, #PanAfricanistCongressofAzania, #PanAfricanistCongress, #antiapartheidmovement, #antiapartheid, #PanAfricanism, #Azanianwomen, #womenofAzania, #armedstruggle, #memorials, #tributes, #exilesinAfrica, #Africanexiles, #Africanexile

"BORN 20 NOVEMBER 1949 - KILLED 10 MARCH 1985 - SHE DIED FOR ALL AZANIAN WOMEN"