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Coronavirus alarm bells ring in Africa
Rising infection rates and governments in denial stoking fears that health systems will be overwhelmed
A quarter of a billion people across the African continent are likely to be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus over the next year, a new World Health Organization report warns.
And health experts predict that while low rates of obesity and a youthful population will result in “a lower rate of transmission and viral spread” than in Europe, Africa’s death toll may reach up to 190,000.
After escaping the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, several African countries are now recording a steady increase in Covid-19 infection rates.
Although Tanzania has not reported figures for infections or deaths since 29 April, alarming reports are emerging from the country’s biggest city.
The “risk of contracting Covid-19 in Dar es Salaam is extremely high”, with evidence of “exponential growth of the epidemic” in the city and beyond, the US embassy in Tanzania said in a statement posted on Twitter earlier this week.
“Many hospitals in Dar es Salaam have been overwhelmed,” the embassy added.
Tanzania’s president has accused journalists of exaggerating the threat, but “videos of night burials have emerged on social media and triggered panic”, The Times reports. “Senior members of the cabinet are also suspected to have died after contracting the virus.”
In South Africa, the picture is very different. “A combination of mass screening, targeted testing and a draconian lockdown” have kept infections in check, says Nigeria’s Business Day newspaper.
In fact, South Africa’s tally of Covid-19 deaths so far has been “more than compensated for” by steep drops in homicides and road traffic fatalities, adds Australia’s News.com.au.
The Covid-19 death toll now stands at 238, in a country with roughly the same population as Italy and the UK - but daily deaths are creeping up and lockdown fatigue is growing. “A wave of infections at some point this year is almost inevitable,” says The Guardian. “All the state can do is delay it.”
Elsewhere on the continent, the outlook is mixed.
Botswana and Namibia have reported just one death between them. But in Nigeria, where the official death toll is 167, “scores of mysterious deaths” in the north of the country “have sparked speculation that coronavirus may be moving untracked through Africa’s most populous nation”, the Financial Times reports.
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Concerns about the use of plastic in food-related products have intensified globally as the environmental and health impacts of plastic consumption become more apparent. Plastic, a ubiquitous material in our daily lives, has found its way into various aspects of the food industry, raising alarm bells among consumers, environmentalists, and health experts alike. One of the primary concerns revolves around the potential leaching of harmful chemicals from plastic packaging and containers into the food they hold. Bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates are among the chemicals associated with plastics that have raised health concerns. These substances, known as endocrine disruptors, can interfere with hormonal systems in the body, leading to various health issues, especially when ingested through contaminated food.
Moreover, the environmental impact of single-use plastic packaging has sparked a global movement to reduce plastic waste. Plastics, when not properly disposed of, contribute significantly to pollution, harming ecosystems and marine life. Microplastics, resulting from the breakdown of larger plastic items, have been detected in water sources, soil, and even in the food chain, posing potential health risks.
The issue extends beyond packaging. Plastic microfibers used in tea bags, plastic additives in certain food products, and the microplastics found in salt and seafood have all added to the growing apprehension about the pervasiveness of plastic in our food supply.
Governments, businesses, and consumers are now grappling with the challenge of finding alternatives to plastic in food-related applications. Biodegradable and compostable packaging, as well as innovations in sustainable materials, are being explored to mitigate the environmental impact. Additionally, there is a growing call for clearer labeling and regulations to inform consumers about the potential risks associated with plastic in food products.
In essence, the world’s concern about plastic in food reflects a broader awareness of the intricate connections between environmental sustainability, public health, and the choices we make in our daily lives. As discussions continue and efforts to reduce plastic use gain momentum, the hope is to create a more sustainable and healthy future for both our planet and the food we consume.

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Cycling in Sydney Australia
I have had a vision and the turning point for the golden era of cycling is almost upon us.
I was out running on Sunday evening, on the way home I got to the intersection of Bourke & Cowper Wharf Roadway and having overdone it a bit I paused and looked up at the new cycle signage. Through the perspiration pouring down my face the words on the sign that said “Taylor Square” started to waiver and they became “The Future” and in the clouds I could see what appeared to be the faces of Bob Brown & Clover Moore, and a vision started to unfold in a series of events over the next few months.
5 March – Clover announces the finishing of Bourke St cycleway and says she is fed up with RTA & State Govt restrictions preventing greater cycling in SoC, she will instruct council staff to immediately remove anything that impedes cyclists in the council area.
6 March – State Govt says Clover cannot do this and will send police to prevent council staff implementing measures; local police commander short of resources sends bicycle, dog and mounted squads as only ones available; Clover makes impassioned plea for support, horses, dogs and bicycles and their human companions come over to Clovers side and will assist.
7 March – Immediate 1000% increase in cyclists coming into the city, streets awash with cyclists; Clover’s police convert half the traffic lanes to cycleways.
12 March – 250,000 cyclists turn up for the Rally for Safe Cycling, after chasing all motorised traffic out of the city they declare they will not leave until safe cycling & sustainable future is won. State Govt says it will send in the NRMA militia sworn in as “special” police. Clover declares the city a vehicle free soviet and the cyclists, using only bicycle tyre levers & a few multi-tools start ripping up the Cahill Expressway, Western & Eastern Distributors to form barricades around the city; State Govt says it will cut off power & water to the city; Clover unveils the secretly completed water recycling and Trigeneration facilities and declares the city self sufficient. Population of the City of Villages pours onto streets; feeding the cyclists and calling for Clover to take control of the State. Sailors at Garden Island declare support for Clover and will defend the city.
13 March – State Govt declares state of emergency and cancels election, Governor says it has been a State of Disaster for long enough and dismisses State Govt, appoints Clover as Premier till the election; a previous premier seen at Mascot boarding a black executive jet (with Air America faintly visible on the tail), clutching a very small case containing the remains of the state treasury, “thank god I don’t have to pretend to like cycling anymore, those helmets ruined my hair, I am returning to there the car is king”.
26 March – election, Labor & Liberal parties don’t win a single seat, Adam Butler elected to Drummoyne; independents & Greens form government with Clover as permier and Adam Butler as minister for bicycles & sustainable transport. Clover says Premiers office is within the city and state seat of Sydney boundaries so she will have no trouble performing all her current duties.
28 March – Adam declares M2 , M4, M5, M7 and all other expressways to be cycleways, motor vehicles will be allowed to use the breakdown lanes as long as they don’t exceed 10kph or impede bicycles, registration increased to $10,000 and congestion charge of $500 per day, 4 lanes on SHB for cycles, 2 for buses and two for our Chinese Amway friends (as a buffer between buses & cycle).
01 April – credit rating agencies so impressed with new state govt that they give NSW the first and only AAAAA+++ credit rating, overseas funds race to give loans to NSW and offer to pay 10% interest to the state if it will take their money; state borrows $500 billion to fund infrastructure spending and thereby generates $50 billion in revenue, abolishes all state taxes and charges, except motor vehicle related ones.
07 April – Federal Members for Sydney & Reid resign to spend more time with family; Clover says she will run for Sydney and Adam Butler for Reid; both win 95% of vote at by-elections; Clover says that as both the State & Federal seats are called Sydney as is the Council and Sydney is in NSW she will have no problems to carry out all her current duties, Adam says he lives in both his electorates so will keep both.
15 May – Clover & Adam sworn in as Federal members; make speeches on the joys of cycling; 80% of Labor party and 60% of Liberals defect to Greens; Bob Brown forms sustainable govt; elected Prime Minister, Clover deputy, Adam, Federal Minister for bicycles & sustainable transport; Clover says that as ....
At this point a car load of grossly overweight yobs start blowing horn, throwing Maccas containers at some cyclists waiting at the red light, “ why don’t you run the red” they yell, “pay some taxes...”, “get a job...”
The vision is gone and I don’t know the ending......
Damien might ask what this has got to do with bicycles. All I can say is that it is about time some of us put our money or time where our mouth is and did a bit to make some of the vision come true.
I have offered Clover & Adam a half day each on State Election Day as a start. Time for more doing and less talking, now only 2 months till 26 March election day.


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Dr. Kushins grew up, was educated, and taught high school on the East coast before making her way to the Midwest for doctoral studies in art education at The Ohio State University. In previous faculty positions she taught courses on a range of contemporary issues in art education, supervised pre-service art educators in and around Cincinnati, and introduced elementary classroom teachers to arts-based learning. She has also worked as an educational consultant in a variety of cultural organizations around Columbus including The Columbus Museum of Art, the Dublin Arts Council, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Little Minyan, and Ohio Wesleyan University.
Jodi’s passions lie in art education outside school walls; in museums, community centers, home studios, gardens, and laundromats. In such endeavors she finds synergy between her interests in socially engaged and participatory creative practices, the artist as public intellectual, and the art educator as community activist. She is also engaged in explorations of artful parenting, the picturebook as art object, and the convergence of contemporary craft and social networking.
Teaching online has had a profound impact on Jodi’s understanding of what it means to work as a scholar in the 21st century. She writes regularly about her discoveries on her professional blog: Art Education Outside the Lines. Additional publications easily accessible online include: Pedagogical Souvenirs: An Art Educators Reflections on Field Trips as Professional Development, Recognizing Artists as Public Intellectuals and I’m Not Really a Chaplain, I Just Play One to Pay the Bills. Jodi serves on the review board for the Journal of Social Theory and Art Education.
Jodi lives in Columbus, OH and practices creative placemaking at Over the Fence Urban Farm. The project has roots in conceptual and activist art and education for social and enivornmental reconstruction. She recently wrote about how the farm relates to her work for Artezein -Art Education in My Backyard: Creative Placemaking on an Urban Farm.
Jodi believes that being an art educator isn’t just a job; it’s a lifestyle which she embraces equally in her work typing Socratic-style questions in response to student work and in leading friends and family in creative activities.

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Dennis Dwamena, better known by his stage name Kidi, and his son, Zane, have created a stir on social media with a fresh father-son moment.
Kidi and his son were seen spending quality time together in a new video.
The son of the ‘Say Cheese’ hitmaker, Zane in the video, showed his father a sketching project that he had been working on for a long time.
According to Zane, the colorful drawing was his duplicate on paper, and he was quite pleased with his work when he presented it to his father.
Kidi was taken aback when he saw his son’s artwork and screamed “wow” to convey his awe at the fact that he had made an effort to depict himself.
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(Editor's note: MSU Billings Athletics release.)
PORTLAND, Ore. — Following a week where the Montana State University Billings women's basketball team finished with a pair of victories over in-state schools, forward Kola Bad Bear was recognized Monday as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference's women's basketball player of the week.
It the first player of the week award for Bad Bear since joining the Yellowjackets this past year following four years at Montana State. The Billings Senior High School alum previously received player of the week honors twice in her career at Montana State.
"Kola is having an outstanding season and continues to improve each week," said MSUB head coach Kevin Woodin. "She is getting more comfortable with her teammates on the court and has fit in very well to our program.
"Kola is an unselfish player with a great understanding of the game and is impacting the game on both ends for us. I have been so impressed with her versatility, leadership, and team first attitude."
Bad Bear kicked off the week in a win over Montana Western by setting a new career high in assists, collecting seven in the game. Bad Bear also totaled 17 points and four rebounds, going 6 of 8 from the field and 5 of 6 from the free throw line.
She followed that performance by leading the Yellowjackets in scoring in the team's second game in two days, with her 21 points helping guide MSUB to a season sweep of crosstown rival Rocky Mountain College in the second iteration of the Rimrock Rivalry this season.
Bad Bear also added 12 rebounds to earn her fourth double-double of the season. In total, Bad Bear averaged 19 points for the week on 60% shooting, along with eight rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, adding a pair of steals and a block over the two games.
Bad Bear and the Yellowjackets are set to finish off their non-conference slate with a pair of games in Florida — Saturday against West Texas A&M and Monday against St. Mary's University.

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1. Standard journal article
Up to six authors, list all the authors.
- Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
More than six authors, list the first six authors, followed by et al.
- Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6.
Optional addition of a databaseâs unique identifier for the citation: [Edited 12 May 2009]
- Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7. PubMed PMID: 12140307.
- Forooghian F, Yeh S, Faia LJ, Nussenblatt RB. Uveitic foveal atrophy: clinical features and associations. Arch Ophthalmol. 2009 Feb;127(2):179-86. PubMed PMID: 19204236; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2653214.
Optional addition of a clinical trial registration number: [Added 12 May 2009]
- Trachtenberg F, Maserejian NN, Soncini JA, Hayes C, Tavares M. Does fluoride in compomers prevent future caries in children? J Dent Res. 2009 Mar;88(3):276-9. PubMed PMID: 19329464. ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT00065988.
As an option, if a journal carries continuous pagination throughout a volume (as many medical journals do) the month and issue number may be omitted.
- Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347:284-7.
2. Chapter in a book
Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.
3. Homepage/Web site [Edited 12 May 2009]
Cancer-Pain.org [Internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.; c2000-01 [updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul 9]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.
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Needless to say, fans at the event voiced their worries at the actor's injury, particularly because he had fractured his cheekbone in a car accident in 2011.
Yoo Seung Ho agency assured everyone that the actor's injury was nothing major or life-threatening, saying, "Yoo Seung Ho hurt his mouth area recently due to personal matters and he is currently in the process of healing. It's definitely not a serious injury to be concerned about. He just wore the mask to cover up the injury."
Thank goodness Yoo Seung Ho is okay! Let's hope his injury heals up quickly!


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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Then, boil the pasta - I used the brand Banza - it’s made pasta made from garbanzo beans!
Blend 3/4 cup of cashews, 1/4 cup of almonds, 1/4 cup of fresh basil leaves, 1-2 cloves of garlic, 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast, a few sprinkles of turmeric, with a pinch of Himalayan salt, with water until you reach your desired consistency in a blender or ninja for the sauce. Once pasta is cooked, strain and place in a oiled baking dish with the sauce and mix together until each noodle is coated. Place in oven for 5-10 minutes until warm. Be careful not to leave it in too long - the sauce will harden quickly!
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The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is profoundly saddened by the news that North Korea has carried out its third nuclear test on Feb. 12. As longtime activists against the use of nuclear weapons, we urge South Korea, the United States, Japan and others to respond with intensified diplomatic efforts to address this crisis and its underlying causes.
Since mere days after the first nuclear bomb was dropped in 1945, AFSC has worked ceaselessly for the elimination of nuclear weapons, which are inherently genocidal. Developing, stockpiling and making use of these weapons takes a catastrophic toll—in human and fiscal costs—on individual nations and on the world.
Nuclear weapons deplete countries’ vital resources for human development, resources needed for education, agriculture, health, infrastructure and environmental protection. Nuclear arsenals also feed an endless cycle of mistrust and hostility, as advances in any nation’s nuclear weapons program only spur proliferation by others.
Since 1997, AFSC has worked with and in North Korea on agricultural and economic issues. We know from our own experience that Americans and North Koreans can communicate and work together productively, from a basis of mutual respect.
The cycle of hostility in the Korean peninsula has gone on for over 60 years, with the U.S., South Korea, and North Korea locked in a war mentality. Nuclear weapons tests by North Korea and war games by the U.S. and South Korea only feed this tragic and dangerous cycle. Like all previous U.S. administrations during these decades, the Obama Administration has missed numerous opportunities to explore constructive diplomacy on the Korean peninsula.
To break this cycle, reduce the unthinkable danger of nuclear war in northeast Asia, and achieve peace on the Korean peninsula, AFSC continues to urge that:
All parties involved rely on diplomacy, not military threats. Diplomacy can and should be pursued at all levels: inter-Korean, via the Six Party talks, and bilaterally.
All parties resist further provocations and military build-up. North Korea should suspend its nuclear weapons program. The U.S. should cease its nuclear weapons modernization, eliminate its first-strike doctrine, and move to fulfill its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. South Korea and the U.S. should cancel annual war games that include live fire drills and mock invasions of the north.
All parties address humanitarian concerns in North Korea by building up trade and exchange programs that forge relationships and nurture peaceful change.
2013 marks 60 years since an armistice ended direct fighting with a ceasefire on the Korean peninsula. Let it also be the year all parties involved find the courage to stop the cycle of military threats and start building new paths to peace.


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As a GP trainee, I have been fortunate to see the many facets of the patient journey as they navigate primary, acute and secondary care service. My project was inspired from my time as a Paediatric SHO, where I helped run a prolonged jaundice clinic, but found a lack of standardisation in investigations, dedicated clinic slots, and poor communication with primary care referrers (highlighted to me as a GP SHO), and guidance for juniors. I noticed first-hand the anxiety this caused parents and their families – many of them resulting in unnecessary A&E waits and visits, repeat attendances, and increased parental distress.
I wanted to help standardise this care, better integrate these services and improve the patient experience, and thus reviewed audit data collected from A&E and Paediatrics over a 6 month period. More importantly, PICH taught me not to forget the patient and their families at the heart of the project and thus spent time shadowing families on their “Prolonged Jaundice Clinic Journey” from time of their referral, waiting room and clinic experience, and used emotional mapping to understand user stories.
From this, we have been able to implement a dedicated Prolonged Jaundice clinic morning, consensus for investigations, and an agreed pathway of A&E and community triage. We have also utilised the electronic patient shared record system for clinic proforma summaries to communicate with GPs. Based on parental feedback, we have parental information leaflets from the “Yellow Alert” charity and clinician resources distributed to doctors. We also used these as an educational tool for families at a recent community fair stall for members of the local public. From qualitative feedback, parents and colleagues have responded well to the changes.
My PICH project is still a work in progress and in the midst of our re-audit – with preliminary findings highlighting a further need to engage with our community midwifery and health visiting team, and thus my PICH project is still very much evolving!
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Use your opportunity as a PICH participant to attend meetings and find out what is happening in your local area. Following the PICH talk on integrated care by Dr Eugenia Lee, I was able to attend a Healthy London Partnership Children’s and Young Person GP leadership meeting hearing about innovative integrated care projects and developments. I then attended my local CCG meeting, and finding out about projects co-designed by children and young people in my borough.
If I could do it all again…
Spend time thinking about all the stakeholders in the project – there may be many more than you think! Try see if you can arrange to speak to stakeholders directly, especially if emails are not proving any response.
Have a constant contact in your department to give you ground feedback– helpful for trainees who rotate departments, hence having a PICH champion is very helpful in this respect. There are many children charity organisations that will send you free patient and clinician information packs, and useful when needing resources or patient friendly material.

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The Opec+ group of crude exporters opted for a token production cut of 100,000 barrels per day on Monday in a move calculated to keep prices stable in October.
While the price of Brent futures spiked by close to 2.9% to $95.74 a barrel in the immediate aftermath of the oil cartel’s decision to marginally cut output, it weakened again when trading resumed on Tuesday as the potential significance faded.
Opec said the “higher volatility and increased uncertainties require the continuous assessment of market conditions and a readiness to make immediate adjustments to production in different forms if needed”.
The group claimed that existing mechanisms of its prevailing declaration of co-operation offered the “commitment, flexibility, and means… to deal with these challenges and provide guidance to the market”.
The Opec+ agreement puts the combined production target of the 10 Opec members and their nine non-Opec collaborators at 42.1 million bpd for October, the same level as August, as the group reached a full unwinding of the cuts that were imposed in response to the collapse in demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vandana Hari, the founder of Vanda Insights, a Singapore-based global energy market intelligence provider, told Upstream that while markets had “shrugged off” the token 100,000 bpd cut in the Opec+ target, they would “likely hold on to the bigger message the alliance and its de facto leader Saudi Arabia has delivered over the past fortnight — that the producers stand ready to curtail output to put a floor under prices”.
“That floor is widely regarded to be around $90 [per barrel] for Brent,” she noted.
Defying Western calls
The decision by the Opec+ grouping to cut output defies calls from Western nations to boost their output to curb inflation, as the world faces a widening energy crisis.
Saudi Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Monday that the Opec+ decision is an “expression of will”, and that the group will use all of the tools in its kit.
“The simple tweak shows that we will be attentive, pre-emptive and proactive in terms of supporting the stability and the efficient functioning of the market to the benefit of market participants and the industry”, he told the media.
As the market looks for fresh direction in the coming days, the latest weekly US oil stocks and demand data on Thursday will be keenly watched out.
While challenges around Opec+ maintaining its production targets and the lack of upstream investments are likely to provide momentum in oil prices, fears of a global economic recession and a likely Iran deal with western powers could unleash extra barrels and keep oil prices in stable territory, industry experts believe.


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Teachers’ constitutional rights: out with a whimper
I wrote about today’s Supreme Court affirmance-by-tie-vote in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association for Forbes.com. The bottom line is that today’s decision is a profound disappointment to non-union public employees who were this close to prevailing over the unions’ ability to garnish their wages for politicking in the guise of collective bargaining. Today’s decision is a setback, but hardly the end of the road. The constitutional issues are significant, and enduring, and the issue will undoubtedly return to the High Court. Read the whole Forbes piece here.
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Ores, Mine And Ours: Mining And The Environment In Minnesota
Minnesota is a land of beautiful lakes and gorgeous landscapes. It’s a natural magnet to nature-seeking tourists. But the geology that created the wonder of the lakes also houses rich deposits of nickel, iron, copper and other valuable minerals. This has stirred a fierce debate over who these rare natural resources are for.
Mining these lakes could bring jobs. So can tourism. And demand for scenic vistas as well as copper will only increase as each becomes more rare.
Should Minnesota’s lakes remain as they are, or is it what’s underneath that counts?
Dan Kraker, Reporter, Minnesota Public Radio
Nancy Norr, Chair, Jobs for Minnesotans
Steve Morse, Executive Director, Minnesota Environmental Partnership
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The latest shipping delays at Wizards of the Coast even as we learn more about Fizban's Treasury of Dragons and the return of gem dragons to the game, a fantastic charity bundle deal, Fragged Empire and Osprey's Sigil & Shadow.
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How the farmer protest in Karnal ended
At 9.30 am on September 10, police and paramilitary men were barricading the road leading to the Mini Secretariat in Haryana’s Karnal.
“There should be a smile on your face,” one Rapid Action Force officer told his men as they shut off the road, which protesting farmers planned to march on later in the day.
It was the fourth day of the protests, triggered by the police’s August 28 attack on farmers at the Bastara toll plaza in Karnal.
The farmers have been demanding compensation for the family of Sushil Kajal, a farmer who died from injuries sustained in the attack, action against the police officers responsible for it, and suspension of Karnal’s former sub divisional magistrate Ayush Sinha.
In a viral from August 28, Sinha is heard directing a group of policemen to “smash the heads of farmers in case they try to breach the cordon” around the Bastara toll plaza where farmers have been protesting against the Narendra Modi government’s new farm laws since last November. The cordon was put in place to keep the farmers from entering Karnal city where chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar was set to address a meeting. When the farmers tried to push through it, they were lathicharged by the police and at least 10 were , including Sushil Kajal.
Following public outrage over the police brutality, the Khattar government Sinha out to Chandigarh, positing him as an additional secretary in the Citizen Resource Information Department. But it wouldn’t accept the other demands of the farmers.
On September 11, however, the government ordered a judicial inquiry into the August 28 attack and sent Sinha on leave for a month, with the farmers.
‘Reminded of Jallianwala Bagh’
At the protest camp across from the police barricades, Gurjant Singh Khalsa, 29, a social activist from Karnal, was the centre of attention, with the farmers crowding him for selfies. He was one of the people injured on August 28 and still carries the scars: his right eye is covered by a handkerchief, his nose by a bandage. He has lost about 60 percent vision in his eye and a bone in his nose is displaced and needs corrective surgery.
“We wanted to show black flags to the chief minister at the Prem Plaza hotel that day. There were about 250 of us. The policemen came and after telling us not to proceed started raining hurling lathis on us,” Gurjant said. “They could have tried dissuading us by throwing teargas shells or using water cannons. But what they did reminded us of Jallianwala Bagh. It seemed as if General Dyer was inside those policemen.”
A picture from the attack which went viral on social media showed a man covered in blood from a head injury. He was Mahindra Singh Poonia, who had been serving food at the Bastara protest camp for nine months.
“Five policemen were thrashing my younger brother with lathis. I got hurt trying to protect him. He got twelve stitches, I received nine,” Mahindra said, his head still bandaged.
Another protester, also named Gurjant Singh, fractured his hand in the attack. “Just like we Khattar’s helicopter to land in Kaimla village, we simply wanted to stall his meeting,” he said. “When I saw policemen from my Sikh community beating up elderly farmers, I went to them with folded hands, ‘Brother, what are you doing?’ They attacked me as well.”
His medicolegal report from Karnal’s Civil Hospital states the “gist of incident” as “beaten by police at Bastara toll plaza”. It lists six injuries, including a lacerated wound in right arm and contusions in left arm, left leg and back.
Sudesh, 45, widow of Sushil Kajal, was also among the protesters near Mini Secretariat on September 11. A relative accompanying her told Newslaundry that Sushil’s “entire body was swollen and bruised from the lathicharge. He was in great pain because of a blow on his head.”
The family couldn’t take Sushil to a hospital as the police had blocked the entire city. “We thought we would let him rest at home,” Sudesh said. “All I want now is for the government to take back these black laws.”
Prepared for the long haul
Until the Khattar government actually accepted their demands in the afternoon, the farmers seemed to have dim hopes of the standoff being resolved.
One of the leaders of the protest, Bhartiya Kisan Union’s Gurnam Singh Chaduni, on September 10 about “enduring pain in order to shake up the inner soul.” Later, talking to the local media, Chaduni had said, “All of us are ready with our heads”, indicating that the farmers weren’t ready to give in.
Indeed, they had started preparations to stay for the long haul, planning mini townships in Karnal like the ones that sprang up along Delhi’s Singhu and Tikri borders after the farmers began their protests late last year. Already, stalls set up by the Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee had started distributing meals, crates of bottled water had been stacked up near the main stage of the protest camp, and counters distributing free medicine had been erected near the secretariat to ensure heat and humidity didn't take a toll on the protesters.
A worker with Pind California, a volunteer organization, told Newslaundry they had already got iron rods needed to erect stable tents.
The preparations, it turned out, weren’t needed.
Addressing a press conference after meeting with the Khattar government’s representatives, Chaduni announced the end of the standoff. “On the issue of suspending Ayush Sinha and filing an FIR against him, we had consulted lawyers who suggested an FIR may get quashed in court. So we agreed with the decision of judicial inquiry.”
Chaduni was flanked by Haryana’s additional chief secretary, Devinder Singh, who told the journalists that both sides had agreed on an inquiry led by a retired judge and a government job for a family member of Sushil Kajal.
So it was over, the protest sparked by the August 28 police assault on the farmers. The protests against the farm laws, however, continue.
“The protest in Karnal and the protests along the Delhi border were different,” farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar explained. "While the protest in Haryana was about a local issue, our protests since November have been about a pro-corporate policy."
Pictures by Akanksha Kumar.
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Speech from Ekmel Ertan, September 1st 2016 – Paris.
Art as Emergency
Dismeasure & Minority
I want to start with two concepts by sociologist Pascal Gielen. The first is “dismeasurement” actually introduced by Virno and put in context by Gielen. The second is art as minority. Referring to the words of cultural sociologist Pierre Bourdieu Gielen says that: “[…] contemporary art always tries to introduce a ‘dismeasure’ (Virno, 2009) in the ordinary measure of a culture we are used to live in. […] Precisely because it seeks a dismeasure in both the art world and society, contemporary art always occupies the position of the minority or heterodoxy” (Gielen 2013).
Later on, Gielen recalls sociologist Niklas Luhmann’s notion of art and writes: ”When Luhmann asks himself what role art plays in contemporary society […] Luhmann concludes that art creates a ‘sense of possibility’. ‘Nothing is either necessary or impossible’ or ‘Everything that is, can also always be otherwise’, is the message that art brings to contemporary society (Luhmann, 1995).” We can assume that this ‘sense of possibility’ is the dismeasure that art creates.
Art is political
In our contemporary culture we assume that art is political. Today the world globally politicized like never before; ecological activism, political activism, local revolts related to actual problems, debates around transnational crisis alongside the many wars and terrorist acts. Therefore we would expect the dismeasure that art creates would be political.
Here comes my questions initiated by these to concepts by Gielen. Can art has such a dismeasuring power in the current global chaos we live in? Is art really political, should it be and can it be political? Especially considering the other activist movement and local grass-rooted revolts, what weight art has among them or in collaboration with them? If the definition of art is firmly related to “dismeasure” than are the others that also dismeasure –point to other possibilities- art or is there a relation between art and others closer then we assume? And relatedly; Is art a minority? Which art is minority; can it be an advantage or is it an apparent disadvantage in order to have a desirable effect in society?
My quick answers to those questions are: currently, no, art cannot dismeasure and yes, it is minority! I will not try to deeper answers to them, instead try to draw an image that leads me to my quick answers.
Let us lay out some fundamentals. The very essential requirement for art and culture is the public domain. Even before the discussions around dismeasure or minority, art has to be seen, shared and discussed. Hence public domain is the ontological ground for art. It has to be public.
Public domain is also where the democracy is formed. Without an open and free public domain, where minorities can find legal frameworks to obtain participatory power we cannot safeguard democracy.
Neoliberal and neo-national ideologies
Pascal Gielen states “democracy has no foundation; neither god, ideology nor scientific positivism can be foundation for it” (Gielen 2013). But today our democracies based on both neo-liberal and neo-national ideologies. Gielen explains how these two work together perfectly covering each other’s undemocratic tendencies and, even strengthen them.
State of emergency
While we already have a democracy problem through the foundational presumptions of neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism, another political tool “the state of emergency” enters the scene inevitably and legitimizes them.
The state of emergency is the situation that the politics overwrite the law with the law and paradoxically stays legal and still democracy. According to political theorist Carl Schmitt it is temporary, not normal therefore legal; but Agamben specifies that the state of emergency is the new state, the new norm and it is permanent.
Therefore the current state of the capitalism, where neoliberalism and neo-nationalism as the ideologies and the state of emergency as the political tool frames the condition that we have to work in is not temporary or will not change for better at least in a visible future.
Democracy as an ideal
Today democracy remains an ideal; by this I do not mean a “utopia” but an “ideal” that has been achieved at different levels in different places and times and to be achieved again.
But it is not possible to find a democracy even close to the weakest definition of perfection. European democracy showed its imperfect face when it confronted the refugee. Like the conditions that create refugees, how they are welcomed is also a democracy problem. Once more through the refugees we understand that the democracy should be considered as a global concept, a global ideal. This ideal is under threat in such a world connected in every means; not only by communication technologies but also effectually by neo-liberal politics, which actually create the treat.
We are assuming a strong relation among neoliberal and neo-national ideologies, state of emergency on one side democracy, public domain and cultural commons on the other. As the neoliberal and neo-national ideologies gain power we lose the democratic ground and essentially the public domain.
Public domain: public space
In the countries where a wild capitalism rules, The state is shrinking in accordance with the neoliberal principals and reduces its operations and effect in general and especially in the contemporary art and culture field where the dismeasuring features of art could have been cultivated. Eventually corporations and wealthy families enter in this field that the state left. Privatization in cultural field created hegemony with the new lifestyle and habits that is programmatically introduced and form a cultural scene -so called- above classes, politics and ideologies, which is a reflection of global authoritarian populist politics. Therefore they supposed that the art is not political; the taking over the art from the states domination was rescuing it from the politics and frees it. But eventually that handed it over to control of the market where neoliberal logic rules. This happened in ex-soviet countries or in the countries that switched to new liberal policies with sudden socio-political changes.
The public domain is under siege by neoliberalism and being privatized step by step for decades. We are loosing access to the cultural commons as well as the natural ones through the privatization of the public domain. This case is not as visible in Europe yet as in other many places where neoliberalism rules within weak or non-existent social infrastructures. Ex-Soviet countries in Balkans are among those places; Vesna Copic, (then Head of the Cultural Policy Department at the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovania) writes in 1999 “Introduction of market principals and privatization encouraged individualism while at the same time it damaged social cohesion and social responsibility” (Copic, 1999) After the regime-change, these countries lived a quick liberalization which had visible effects in the field of art and culture as well. But if even the privatization of Louvre put into words then it is not a misestimation to expect further privatization initiatives in EU countries too. On the other hand principals of privatization is in operation by other means as well like forcing public institutions to create income. That is another form of privatization and surrender to neoliberal logic, where audience turns into client and culture object or service into commodity.
On one side the terror caused by global imperialism, which is also another aspect of neo-liberalism and neo-national discourses and security politics on the other, also narrow the public domain and support the privatization that creates controlled –and paid- security islands.
Privatized public spaces, where interactions among people as well as people and environment controlled and regulated naturalize the state of emergency policies. Those places are in a constant state of control for your physical and cultural safety!.
Public space has always its own limitations regarding the societal and political context, be it religious, traditional or ideological. Nevertheless the artist herself can decide the tone and form of her criticism in the –modernist- public space. Private public spaces on the contrary are controlled by possessor; the artist can act only in an explicitly given frame. Although private cultural institutions try to be more flexible and liberal since they want to be respected internationally, they also have to go along with the local authorities and the public opinion which is the figure of majority.
One other mission of privatized cultural spaces is to tame the art and culture scene and frame the expectations. They are not meeting the fundamental principal of the public space, which is bringing diversities together. Those cultural venues are sharing a certain class identity. The architecture, interior design, graphical identity and their self-representation as well as chic and expensive cafes inside, draws a frame that defines what an art institution should be. Those institutions became the mediums for art consumption and they define the way as well as the type of the art to consume. I believe in most case artworks loose their individual stories, social importance and true artistic meaning, but turn out as objects of a temporal art history in which they can only find a context to let them meaningful
Let the institutions function as they know and as they permitted. That is necessary of course to keep upper middle and wealthy classes still in touch with art and of course for keeping some sort of bases accessible and available like keeping the notion of art still discussed. But especially private institutions are not reliable actors for defending democracy and democratic rights of the minorities, because their priority is not to keep the public domain open and free but creating social capital through such a simulacra. If we believe that art dismeasures and is political, we should look somewhere else.
The other components of public domain: public money
Public domain is primary for democracy as well as for art and culture. Public domain covers many; including pubic spaces of course but also public opinion and public money among others. The Public domain in which art may dismeasure consists and needs all those. Take the flow of the money, which is actually controlled by neo-liberalism where the market logic rules. With the requirements of fitting into the market, how can artist produce a dismeasuring effect? An Artist needs money to create, to produce, to distribute her work but not only this she also needs money to live a decent life. But we all know as operators in the art and culture scene, in the given conditions of today’s neo liberal policies the entire corpus artists who are not part of the market are leading a precarious life.
The other components of public domain: public money and institutions
On the other hand when public or semi-public money intervene through foundations, national or multi-national institutions, the rules are very similar to the market within the logic of neo-liberalism. Artist has to compete to get granted in the Darwinist approach of neo-liberalism. She has to prepare her work, application or project while she is also working in either the world’s least paid sector –namely art and culture sector- or teach at a university part time or do other things to live. The artists, who can maintain these conditions, can indeed become minorities!
The other components of public domain: public opinion
Secondly take the public opinion; neo-nationalist policies shape the domain, where certain discourses be it identity-based discriminations, conservative and belief-based discourses or covert or evident hate speeches dominates. Artists should raise their voice in the midst of such a threatening climate of opinions, unfortunately in the majority of the world today. Europe might be in a better shape today but should be ready for the worse to come because the democracy crisis is global one, like ecological crisis. The rise of right wing populist discourses in all around Europe is a signifier of this threatening climate of public opinions.
When we were young communists once upon a time, we used to discuss if complications -take any from gender relations, ethical issues to education or others- should have been solved before or after the revolution. In our case there is no visible revolution so we have to solve them now. Then to create a global, transnational art and culture scene out of the market seems to be a solution. That means, creating a global and transnational public domain out of neo-liberal and neo-national threats and emergency states. This I believe means “out of capitalism”. I do not know what is the other to replace it but including the financial models we have to look other options or find the other means out of market. May be we should start using bitcoin! There I understand the technology, which connects us as well as creates other possibilities, as a part of the solution: by considering the technology not as a tool of capitalism but as the knowledge of the commons.
Hence we come to independents: independent artists, activists, artist groups, independent institutions, and any forms of autonomy, which are the only chances to dismeasure life for an open and truly free public domain. The mood in these fields varies between two ends. Under the ongoing state of emergency as the events become more and more dramatic even the artists find what they do irrelevant and useless! They feel impotent and think that what ever they do will not dismeasure anything. But in principal, artists deeply believe what can save us and the society is the dismeasure that only art can create to reveal the reality.
Postmodern is an understanding of the current state of capitalism with a discourse, which also lays the stones for its further steps. Therefore post-modern condition where we find the problems is also where we should look for the solutions. The distribution, decentralization, fragmentation, autonomy, network and communication are some of the keywords that define the state as they may the keywords of the possible solution as well!
In the art and culture scene we need to increase the number of local small groupings that penetrate in the society and develop the networking channels to increase the discussion and co-working platforms. We should think of the new public domain as a web of transnationally connected local nodes, that overlaps and extends the existing one as a new layer over it. To provide this what is more important then talking the same “language” is the protocols that make the communication possible and continue among the minorities over the network channels. Art and culture workers should create new protocols to understand each other and more importantly the people and societies in their diversity, as well as new protocols to collaborate and to make.
But should not we also give a new voice to our old modernist expectations as an opposition to a pure postmodernist acceptance? Because isn’t what we are expecting art to achieve, a modernist ideal? We still believe as Saul Bellow said in his Nobel lecture in 1976, before we were postmodern, that “Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. »(Bellow,1976).
We should claim the cultural commons beside the natural ones. We should force the transforming institutions to protect the fundamental values of modernism that we still need. We should force the private institutions to serve people and put the ethics in front of market values. We should reject what the logic of neoliberalism and privatization force us to accept but claim the art and culture cannot be privatized, art and culture are our commons!
Art is emergency.
Acknowledgement: Ekmel Ertan like to thank Nafiz Akşehirlioğlu for the discussions and final editing of the text.
Ekmel Ertan works as artist, curator and educator. He is the founder and artistic director of İstanbul based amberPlatform, which is a research and production platform on art and new technologies.
Ertan received his BSc degree in Electronics / Communication Engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul and his MA degree on Interactive Media Design from Yıldız Technical University. He worked as a design and test engineer on telecommunication systems in Turkey, Germany and Belgium. Since 2006 he has been teaching at Sabancı University.
All drawings by Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes.
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