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jaywink@jasonrobinson.me
Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻

Last day of Love and Anarchy film festival for me! Was a good bunch of films and documentaries. Many of them sad stories, of places and people with little hope for a future. It's important to see these kind of stories to remind oneself of how a privileged life one is living.

Tatami

Leila is a judoka in the Iran national team, participating in the Judo world championships in Georgia. Everything starts going out well and it looks like there is a strong chance for a gold medal. When there is a possibility she will have to face an athlete from Israel in the final, politics comes into play and things start going wrong.

A touching story of willpower and fighting for your rights as a human being. Includes lots of tatami action.

The Shameless

After killing a police chief customer in a Delhi brothel she works at, Renuka is forced to flee to a smaller town. There in a community of sex workers she meets 17 year old girl Devika, who has yet to have been initiated into the trade. They fall in love, fighting both against Devika's family but also the patriarchy which not only wont accept them, but wants to destroy them.

To a land unknown

Two Palestinian migrants on their way to Germany end up stuck in Athens after their smuggler ripped them off. Needing money for passports, they steal, rob and eventually end up in more and more dangerous schemes.

A story of struggling to keep your humanity when all has been taken away from you.

#hiff #films #judo #iran #sexwork #india #migrants #athens

mudflap@diaspora.psyco.fr
mudflap

Add #Sylacauga ("SILL-ah-KA-gah") #Alabama to the list of towns where #Haitian #immigrants were brought in and dumped in the middle of the night:

https://www.al.com/news/2024/09/sylacauga-council-member-fears-civil-unrest-over-haitian-migrants-when-is-enough-enough.html

Sylacauga City council member Laura Barlow Heath, in a video interview, said the city officials have no answers from federal authorities to give to their constituents.
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“There is a fear here of becoming the next #Springfield, #Ohio, you know,” she said.
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“When is enough enough? When do they stop coming in? How many are there going to be? There’s no answers. We have none. The unknown and uncertainty is scary. We have 12,236 people in our community, and we just do not have the adequate resources to handle an influx of migrants. It’s going to take away from resources that are already struggling here.”
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Heath has served on the council since 2020.
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The council dismissed a meeting earlier this month after only 20 minutes following questions from several residents about recent Haitian immigration to the area.
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Several residents said they wanted to know how the city knew workers coming there were legal immigrants, who had determined this, and what effect they were having on #crime and #housing.

Also add #Athens Alabama and #Albertville Alabama to the list with an immigrant dumping problem: https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/busing-of-migrant-workers-to-alabama-poultry-plant-sparks-baseless-accusations-and-hurtful-rhetoric.html?_sp=9a39c6be-6aac-4c4f-88fa-453976aa825c.1725304070871

Last week, photographs of people entering and exiting charter buses in Albertville were shared on Facebook, with users questioning what purpose the buses served, who was on them, and where they were coming from.
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Albertville police notified the public through Facebook late last week that the buses were transporting workers.
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“We have contacted the bus company in question and they advised us that they have been contracted by a local company to transport workers to and from work,” the department stated.
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Albertville city leaders also released a statement, saying they wanted to “make it abundantly clear that Albertville is not a #sanctuarycity, has never received funding to harbor individuals from any country, nor have any of our elected officials been involved in such activities.”
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Immigration for years has a hot-button issue in Albertville, a Marshall County city of almost 23,000 according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which lists four poultry processing businesses on its city website as its largest employers, with almost 4,000 workers total among them. Approximately 6,400 residents of Albertville are identified as Hispanic, as of 2022 census figures.

In Athens Alabama: https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/local/city-athens-police-respond-community-comments-haitian-immigrants/525-d40a7cf8-f214-4ee1-aebb-05151d67033d

This comes from a statement from the city of #Athens in response to some residents taking to social media and city council meetings to express their thoughts on the recent arrival of immigrants from #Haiti in North Alabama.
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City officials say that federal officials have told them that that there are new immigrants from Haiti with federal work permits in the area, and they are here working legally in Alabama. Businesses in North Alabama have hired them and, in some cases, have hired buses to take them to work sites.

#2024-09 #trump #EatingDogs #EatingCats #ImportTheThirdWorld #BecomeTheThirdWorld

Sylacauga council member fears ‘civil unrest’ over Haitian migrants: ‘When is enough enough?’

“There is a fear here of becoming the next Springfield, Ohio," council member Laura Barlow Heath told Fox News Digital.

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berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

Oppenheimer | Οπενχάιμερ

Foto van poster voor film Oppenheimer aan lantaarnpaal.

Athene (Griekenland) 2023

Ook in Griekenland draaide de film Oppenheimer (Οπενχάιμερ in het Grieks) over Robert Oppenheimer en de andere makers van de atoombom.

De dreiging van een nucleaire oorlog is groter dan de meeste mensen denken, zeker nu Rusland oorlog voert tegen Europa. De gevolgen van zo’n oorlog zouden desastreus zijn.

#athene #athens #bioscoop #cinema #film #foto #fotografie #greece #griekenland #movie #photo #photography

Originally posted at: https://blog.ernste.net/2024/02/14/oppenheimer-%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%b5%ce%bd%cf%87%ce%ac%ce%b9%ce%bc%ce%b5%cf%81/

berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

Openluchtbioscoop Thision | Θησειον

Foto van ingang bioscoop

Athene (Griekenland) 2023

Deze openluchtbioscoop, Thision, was gesloten, toen ik er langs kwam. Op hun site vond ik een foto van het interieur (hieronder). Verder ontdekte ik dat Athene vele openluchtbioscopen telt.

Foto van stoelen en scherm van openluchtbioscoop Thision met uitzicht op het Parthenon

Athene (Griekenland)

#athene #athens #bioscoop #cinema #film #foto #fotografie #greece #griekenland #movie #photo #photography

Originally posted at: https://blog.ernste.net/2024/02/13/openluchtbioscoop-thision-%ce%b8%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b5%ce%b9%ce%bf%ce%bd/

berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

Man en paard

Foto van beeld van paardenhoofd en liggende man

Athene (Griekenland) 2023

Beelden op het Parthenon in Athene.

2 spreekwoorden en uitdrukkingen bevatten man en paard noemen

  1. man en paard noemen (= niets verzwijgen)
  2. man en paard noemen. (= duidelijke taal spreken)

Bron

#architecture #architectuur #athene #athens #beeldhouwer #foto #fotografie #greece #griekenland #photo #photography #sculptor #standbeeld #statue

Originally posted at: https://blog.ernste.net/2024/02/12/man-en-paard-2/