The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday June 4th, 2022 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a United Nations observance held on June 4 every year. It was established on 19 August 1982. Originally focused on victims of the 1982 Lebanon War, its purpose expanded to “acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse. This day affirms the UN’s commitment to protecting the rights of children.”
Facing In and Facing Out by Jan Sand
A good many animals have tails and I consider it a personal tragedy that I am missing one. A well-articulated prehensile tail could be a very useful addition to my physiology. While I’m typing at my word processor I would very much appreciate a tail that could handle my mouse or lift a hot cup of coffee to my dry lips while I am skittering around a few new concepts.
But, in some form of compensation, we humans have developed several capabilities that seem to have, at best, only vague, peripheral and indirect connection to the prime directives of survival and reproduction.
There are the arts, graphic and three-dimensional, music, the theater, dance, and many of those odd in-between activities that produce some of the strangest, most cryptic actions and objects I have ever encountered.
And then there is religion and then there is science
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Poet Meets Snake Man #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“My poems – laid hidden
beneath a colorful Turtle cover
(they speak of turtles,
-yet not really;
they were placed in random
yet strategically
aligned
ready
& waiting
to hold captive
their audience,”
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The Goddess of Democracy: 4 June 1989 by Rene Wadlow
The uprising of Chinese students, soon joined by workers, peasants, and those who called themselves shimin (citizens) started a new era of « reform from below » with the symbol of the Goddess of Democracy. Students from colleges and universities in China’s capital initiated protests after the death on 15 April 1989 of the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, the reformist Hu Yaobang. The movement then spread over a number of weeks to other major cities such as Chengdu, Xian and Changsha.
The students made numerous demands for reforms : among them were calls for an end to corruption in government, increased funding for education, greater freedom of expression, and increased democratic participation in decision-making which was already being put into practice within student organizations. On 4 May 1989, these student-led demands were structured into a written text and read out in Tiananmen Square. Intellectuals approved of the text and made the demands of reform their own.
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Ephemera #058 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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