The Wrongs of Counter-Violence
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-wrongs-of-counterviolence
"A few months before the 7/7 attacks in London in July 2005, and in the wake of the Madrid bombings, I went to a meeting that the Bishop of Bradford had convened to try and think through how a...
Nick Hedges
The people behind the pictures: Search begins to find children raised in England’s 1960s slums
▻http://stories.shelter.org.uk
▻http://scotland.shelter.org.uk
“Shelter commissioned photographer Nick Hedges to capture images, over a period of three years from 1968, of some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the UK, to help expose the appalling state of housing that was “home” to large sections of the working class. Hedges took photos in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Glasgow and other locations.To mark 50 years since its founding, Shelter has been holding a series of exhibitions in UK cities, including Sheffield, Birmingham and Manchester, displaying the pictures taken by Hedges. These photographs entitled “Make Life Worth Living” had not seen by the public until 2014, to protect the anonymity of their subjects. They were first displayed at London’s Science Museum.”
England
▻http://england.shelter.org.uk/shelter_50
http://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/image/0007/1232836/Mr_Owen_and_his_family_living_in_a_semi_derelict_house,_1969_12-10.jpg 
http://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/image/0004/1232860/Family_in_slum_property_Saltley,_1969_96-23.jpg Scottland
▻http://www.shelterscotland.org/lifeworthliving
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http://www.shelterscotland.org/assets/img/lifeworthliving/mother-and-toddler-crossing-tenement-wasteland-edinburgh-1972/_imgTransform/Mother-and-toddler-crossing-tenement-wasteland-Edinburgh-1972-435-22.jpg 
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A Bigger Book, la monographie de #David_Hockney éditée par #TASCHEN en format SUMO, est aussi spectaculaire par sa taille que par son ampleur. L’artiste y revient sur plus de soixante années de travail, son adolescence à l’école d’art de Bradford, sa percée dans le Swinging London des années 1960, sa vie au bord des piscines de Los Angeles dans les années 1970, sa récente série de portraits, de dessins sur iPad, et les paysages du Yorkshire.
Jamais jusqu’alors l’œuvre de Hockney n’avait été publiée à une échelle si saisissante et propice à l’immersion. À mesure que les pages se tournent et révèlent des explosions fulgurantes de bleu, de rose, de vert et d’orange, on est ensorcelé par le talent de coloriste de l’artiste autant que par son extraordinaire sens de l’état du monde qui nous entoure. À travers son éternelle interrogation sur la perception et la représentation, on admire le reflet velouté de la lumière à la surface boueuse d’une flaque du Yorkshire, les immensités ocres de A Bigger Grand Canyon, la majesté simple de The Bigger Trees near Warter, et bien sûr A Bigger Splash et l’éclat exquis d’une piscine turquoise sous un ciel californien iridescent. Ces toiles majeures s’accompagnent des dessins, photomontages, collages à perspectives multiples, décors de théâtre, murs vidéo et dessins sur iPad, soit une panoplie de styles et de médiums par lesquels il regarde et donne à voir.
▻http://www.taschen.com/pages/fr/catalogue/art/all/02641/facts.david_hockney_a_bigger_book.htm
Rhââââ ! 2 000 € et des œuvres coupées par le pli central ! Avec des moyens pareils on aurait pu imaginer un format à l’italienne correspondant à une double page et un carré collé sur le haut.
En effet, le prix est dans la catégorie sumo, aussi. J’ai emprunté récemment dans une médiathèque Dennis Hopper. Photographs (1961-1967) ▻http://www.taschen.com/pages/fr/catalogue/photography/all/01070/facts.dennis_hopper_photographs_19611967.htm
Catégorie #poids_lourd également, à 1500 €. Si je trouve la monographie de David Hockney, j’y vais avec une brouette.
C’est un comble ! Taschen : des livres qu’on ne peut même pas voler. @odilon
▻http://www.taschen.com/slideshow/hockney
▻https://youtu.be/MVZxtfEgNJs
Au cours d’une rencontre mémorable à la Foire du livre de Francfort, David Hockney a révélé pour la première fois son SUMO signé, A Bigger Book, édité par TASCHEN. Plusieurs centaines de journalistes et de passionnés de l’art se sont rassemblés en masse sur le stand de TASCHEN pour avoir un premier aperçu du #livre, monument de 500 pages jugé par Artnet comme « la vitrine parfaite pour les œuvres aux couleurs éclatantes, superbement justes de Hockney ».
L’événement fut l’occasion d’une visite privée inoubliable à travers l’œuvre de Hockney, puisque l’artiste a feuilleté les pages du SUMO et a partagé ses souvenirs à propos de chaque œuvre présentée. S’attardant sur certaines doubles pages et pages dépliantes du livre, il a salué le rendu visuel et la qualité d’image, affirmant que « les reproductions sont absolument merveilleuses, les meilleures qu’[il] ai[t] jamais vues ».
Conçu comme une #autobiographie_visuelle, le SUMO retrace soixante années de l’art de Hockney. Il a été personnellement composé par l’artiste durant les quinze derniers mois, en collaboration avec Benedikt Taschen et le directeur d’ouvrage Hans Werner Holzwarth. Le livre est accompagné d’un lutrin créé par Marc Newson et son tirage est limité à 10 000 exemplaires signés, dont une Édition collector (no 1 001 à 10 000) et quatre Éditions d’art de 250 exemplaires chacune, comprenant un tirage imprimé par jet d’encre d’un dessin de Hockney sur iPad. Les deux premières #Éditions_d’art sont déjà épuisées.
Breaking out | The Economist
▻http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21644155-britain-bangladeshis-have-overtaken-pakistanis-credit-poor-job-m
MOST parts of Britain are doing better than Bradford, a smokestack town in West Yorkshire that has struggled since the collapse of the wool industry. But one comparison stings. Fatima Patel, the editor of Asian Sunday, a local newspaper, says Bradford’s leaders look ruefully at Tower Hamlets, a poor borough of London 200 miles to the south. And that comparison has an ethnic tinge, because Bradford is heavily Pakistani, whereas Tower Hamlets is the heart of Bangladeshi Britain (see maps).
Deerhunter : « Fading Frontier », la chronique : Tant qu’il y aura du son
▻http://musique.blogs.lavoixdunord.fr/archive/2015/10/20/deerhunter-fading-frontier-la-chronique-14296.html
Deerhunter : « Fading Frontier », la chronique
« What’s wrong with me ? » (« Qu’est-ce qui cloche chez moi ? ») répète jusqu’à l’épuisement l’incorrigible Bradley Cox sur Carrion, ultime chanson de ce septième album. Rien ! Ou plutôt, si cet animal tourmenté continue de pondre de tels bijoux en allant si mal, pourvu que ça dure !
Après un Monomaniac très noisy, le génie malade d’Atlanta et ses acolytes nous offrent un rêve éveillé digne de leur déjà grand Halcyon Digest.
Mélodies imparables, arrangements troublants, rupture rythmique parfaite entre le lancinant Leather and Wood et le survolté Snakeskin, au cœur de chansons pop lumineuses qui tranchent avec la noirceur abyssale des textes coxiens. A coup sûr, un des albums de l’année.
B.M.
... et au Grand Mix (Tourcoing) le lundi 9 novembre !
Une soirée Bradford Cox d’ailleurs, avec Atlas Sound, son projet solo, en 1re partie
Le député travailliste George Galloway a perdu son siège au profit d’une femme, Naz Shah, elle aussi démocrate
Outspoken Israel critic Galloway loses UK seat - Israel News, Ynetnews
▻http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4655201,00.html
Outspoken Israel critic Galloway loses UK seat
Respect Party politician loses Bradford to Labour’s Naz Shah; Galloway previously declared his constituency an ’Israel-free zone’.
Un Noël d’austérité en 1930
▻http://www.larevuedesressources.org/un-noel-d-austerite-en-1930,2776.html
Vous savez, vous pensez qu’après Dickens la crise de #1930_mena à la seconde guerre mondiale ; on évoque la misère qui précéda mais rarement en l’exprimant. Beaucoup de vies disparurent. Telle Mary, la petite sœur de #Harry_Leslie_Smith, que l’on retrouve ici allant avec son frère alors âgé de sept ans à la cérémonie du Noël pour les pauvres, à Bradford, Royaume Uni. Terrassée par la Tuberculose elle mourut quelques années plus tard dans un hospice pour mendiants ; son souvenir plus que d’autres accompagne (...)
/ UK (Royaume Uni), Harry Leslie Smith, #2014, 1930
Are we going to be allowed to stay here? How government anti-immigration communications are infiltrating everyday life of British citizens
http://mappingimmigrationcontroversy.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/studying-in-the-uk-have-your-papers-ready.jpg?w=670 
http://mappingimmigrationcontroversy.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/tougher-checks-can-take-longer.jpg?w=670 
http://mappingimmigrationcontroversy.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/nhs-hospital-treatment-is-not-free-for-everyone.jpg?w=670 This type of communication can only contribute to the anxiety described by one of our interviewees, an advice worker and activist in Bradford, where he has been asked by second- and third-generation British Asians – i.e. people who are British, born and bred, and whose parents are too – “Are we going to be allowed to stay here?”
#Angleterre #UK #campagne #affiche #migration #campagne_anti-immigration #communication
Gay Nigerian risks death by being deported | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-nigerian-risks-death-being-deported021012
Gay Nigerian risks death by being deported
UK authorities are insisting on deporting a gay Nigerian asylum seeker, despite him facing a possible death sentence and a campaign to let him stay in Bradford
02 October 2012 | By Dan Littauer
Picture of Ayelokun at Bradford pride, now at risk being deported to Nigeria which in some cases punishes homosexuality by death by stoning
UK authorities are insisting on deporting a gay Nigerian asylum seeker, despite him facing a possible death sentence and a campaign to let him stay in Bradford.
Olalekan M Ayelokun fled from Nigeria eight years ago to escape persecution because of his sexuality.
UPDATE: 6.30pm GMT, 2 October GSN has just been informed that UK authorities plans to deport Ayelokun on Charter flight PVT090, flying from Heathrew tonight at 11.27pm GMT.
A judge at Bradford’s Immigration Court stated he was not convinced Ayelokun was a gay and ordered his deportation tonight (2 October).
Ayelokun was detained last Tuesday after a routine appointment at the UK Border Agency’s Waterside Court offices in Leeds.
Jason Feather, a friend of Ayelokun told Gay Star News: ‘He was arrested with only the clothes he was wearing, since then he did not have a change of clothes.
’Yesterday he was moved to Collingbrook detention center in London, which is near the airport so he can be deported to Nigeria in only four days.’
Ayelokun told Gay Star News and Feather that the Home Office have brought the deportation forward to tonight, Ayelokun is to be put on a charter flight at 11.27pm GMT to Nigeria.
Feather and other friends of Ayelokun have set up a Facebook group, an online petition and a sample letter to MPs, to try and stop him from being forced onto a plane.
His solicitor, Mark Taylor, appealing to the High Court in a bid to get the judge’s decision reversed.
However, a UK Border Agency (UKBA) spokesman told the daily Telegraph and Argus that Ayelokun had lived in the UK illegally, having overstayed a visit visa that expired in 2003.
The spokesman said: ‘He did not claim asylum until 2011, after he was arrested by UK Border Agency officers for using false documents to gain employment.
‘At no point has he been able to provide sufficient evidence of his sexuality and our decision not to grant him asylum has been upheld by an independent immigration judge.’
Taylor, Ayelokun’s solicitor, branded the judge’s decision in as ‘extraordinary’, claiming three former sexual partners and other friends from the gay scene gave evidence on oath that his client was gay.
He said: ‘This young man is undoubtedly gay. The reality is he will die if he goes back to Nigeria. Homosexuality is an offence there and there is Sharia law in some places, so the reality is that he will die.’
Jason Feather told GSN: ‘My friend Ola Ayelokun may face death if he is deported to Nigera.
‘It is also contradiction of David Cameron’s pledge in 2010 who said that: “those Africans seeking asylum on the basis of sexual orientation and at real risk of persecution in their home countries should be allowed to stay in the UK".
’We are hoping the Prime Minister will step in and keep his word.’
Homosexuality is illegal in the federal system of Nigeria and is punished in different states in varying degrees of severity.
Southern states punishes same-sex acts with up to 14 years imprisonment.
While northern states punish same-sex acts with a minimum of 14 years imprisonment as well as a fine, and in twelve of the northern states punishments include flogging and death by stoning.
Omar Kuddus, chair of the British charity organization GayAsylumUK slammed the UK authorities telling GSN: ‘To what length does a person have to go to prove he is gay?
‘The UKBA needs to understand that to be gay in Nigeria is a death sentence and as such how can they justify sending him back to his possible death?
‘The UKBA must realize that they are playing with lives and as such must show compassion and understanding.’
Kuddus and Feather urge readers ’to call the the UKBA (+44 (0)870 606 7766) to demand this deportation is terminated.
’Contact the Home Secretary Theresa May, who has ultimate responsibility for asylum, on (+44 (0)20 7219 5206 or mayt@parliament.uk) to ask her to show compassion to Ayelokun.
’Email the new Minister of State for Immigration, Mark Harper (fod@gloucestershireconservatives.com or +44 (0)1452 371 630) to ask him to intervene.’