América

Charles C. Ebbets

A imagem acima intitulada "Almoço no topo de um arranha-céu" é a histórica fotografia feita por Charles C. Ebbets em 1932, no 69° andar do edifício Rockefeller Center em Nova York.

Fascina-nos a tranquilidade desses homens suspensos sem qualquer protecção numa viga de aço.
Mêdo era o vocábulo que não existia no diccionário destes operários.
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caganda montagem

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 
after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system on December 21st, 1956.

Man sitting behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a reporter for United Press International out of Atlanta.

United Press Association photo - New York World-Telegram & the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in…. When I declined to give up my seat, it was not that day or bus in particular. I just wanted to be free, like everybody else.” – Rosa Parks.

Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat in the front of a bus.

Naquela manhã, Rosa estava farta... fartinha... percebem o que quero dizer?

Iconic Photos

100 Suns

 8.9 Megatons atom bomb ‘Oak’, tested at Enewetak Atoll on June 29th 1958 

as the part of Operation Hardtack.

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Bhagavad Gita

retirado dos textos védicos e citado na altura por Oppenheimer

Entre julho 1945 e Novembro de 1962, os Estados Unidos realizaram mais de 200 testes nucleares subaquaticos no pacifico
                 o resto está aqui contado

1 imagem = 1000 palavras... ou mais

"At the Time of the Louisville Flood" - Margaret Bourke-White, 1937

"O mais alto nível de vida do Mundo"

Um retrato da grande depressão. 

Uma fila de pretos para receber o pão e a indiferença branca que os atropela.

"Não há maneira melhor que a maneira americana"

a America e o sonho americano

Strange Fruit grows on southern trees

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,

And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit - download mp3

“Strange Fruit“

This is one part of many parts of our black history

100 Years of Lynching Have We Forgotten?

Strange Fruit... Billie Holiday later told the story by David Margolick

Once upon a Time

Ku Klux Klan, Washington, E.U.A (1925)
The Rise of American Fascism

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Os verdadeiros Bonnie e Clyde
A verdadeira história

Num período de dois anos, entre 1932-34, durante a "Great Depression" na America, Bonnie & Clyde foram o par mais procurado e perseguido nos Estados Unidos da America.

Ficaram conhecidos por diversos assaltos a bancos, o assassinato de cerca de 13 pessoas, em legítima defesa segundo alguns historiadores da época. Acabaram chacinados pela polícia americana a 23 de Maio de 1934, dentro do carro. Estariam perdidos de Amores?