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Lewis The Koala Will Have A Memorial
“Ellenborough Lewis” made headlines worldwide after a video of a grandmother rescuing the small koala from the devasting bushfires of Australia went viral.
Due to the severe burns received from the massive bushfires, the marsupial was euthanized on November 25, 2019.
The story of his rescue and death has impacted the world and serves as a reminder that climate change is severely affecting the planet’s flora and fauna.
As a small tribute to Lewis, Australian artists Gillie and Marc gifted the city of New York a memorial of him. The artists are known for their creative bronze animal sculptures placed all over the world.
The sculpture is still under construction and should be done over the next six months. Gillie and Marc have decided to place the memorial right outside of the United Nations.
“The UN is where all the nations can come together to act on climate change” says Jessie Schattner the spokeswoman for Gillie and Marc, on why the UN is the ideal place for the memorial.
Another bronze sculpture of Lewis will be placed at the Port Central shopping center in Port Macquarie, where Lewis was originally from.
Read more of Lewis The Koala memorial of him HERE
And you can donate to help the Koalas just like Lewis HERE
A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America.
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‘The Slaves Dread New Year’s Day the Worst’: The Grim History of January 1
Americans are likely to think of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as a time to celebrate the fresh start that a new year represents, but there is also a troubling side to the holiday’s history. In the years before the Civil War, the first day of the new year was often a heartbreaking one for enslaved people in the United States.
In the African-American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African-American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families. The renting out of slave labor was a relatively common practice in the antebellum South, and a profitable practice for white slave owners and hirers.
“‘Hiring Day’ was part of the larger economic cycle in which most debts were collected and settled on New Year’s Day,” says Alexis McCrossen, an expert on the history of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and a professor of history at Southern Methodist University, who writes about Hiring Day in her forthcoming book Time’s Touchstone: The New Year in American Life.
Read the rest of the article HERE
Leah Schrager’s Cam-Girl Instagram Project Coming To An End
In all her artistic guises, Leah Schrager is a beautiful woman. In the tradition of feminist artists like Hannah Wilke, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Katharina Sieverding, and Andrea Fraser, Schrager knows her beauty’s impact when exploring its effects. Whether harnessing her beauty to create art as her Instagram cam-girl identity, Ona; as Sarah White (The Naked Therapist); or under her own name, Schrager confronts the power, privileges, pitfalls, and prejudices of being a sex-positive, confident woman in command of her own sexual pull.
Schrager launched Ona in 2015 as an active cam-worker and conceptual art-project pushing cam-girl aesthetics and the boundaries between sex work and the artists who sell postmodern self-objectification and creative intimacy. Ona nimbly straddles lines between aesthetic and sexual arousal. Her feed is a constantly creative and arousing blend of artful angles, witty captions, seductive expressions, and tantalizing near-nudity. Instagram, as the completely contemporary (not retro) itineration of classic burlesque, is where Ona (alongside other digital sex workers) performs a strip-tease through poses, edited-in digital pasties, and cheeky comments. Her work exists within and comments on the toxic irony of online culture’s relationship with pro-sex empowerment.
As she said on Instagram last year, “Sure, it’s trendy to support female empowerment via ‘you go, girl’ and ‘be proud of your body,’ yet a digital ‘art world’ is being built on purified platforms like FB, IG, and Drip that censor out nudity and limit, to a huge degree, how some girls (and artists) wish to express pride, and, yes, even profit off their bodies.” In accordance with her designs, Schrager plans to retire Ona in 2020, having amassed 3 million Instagram followers, recognition in Artforum and Playboy, and insights into online culture’s values, priorities, and changing perspectives.
Read more of this article on Lana Schrager HERE
Tiger Woods reacts after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. on April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
A Look Back At 2019
Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as firefighters tackle the blaze on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on an Indian police armored vehicle as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir on
May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Demonstrators in Hong Kong march on the streets on June 16, 2019, to protest an extradition bill that would allow suspects to be sent for trials in mainland China, which many saw as infringing of Hong Kong’s judicial freedoms and other rights that were guaranteed when the former British colony returned to China in 1997.
(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
United States’ Megan Rapinoe, right, celebrates with Alex Morgan after Rapinoe scored the opening goal from the penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup final soccer match between the U.S. and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, on July 7, 2019.
(AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A demonstrator wearing a Puerto Rican flag joins thousands of others in a march to the governor’s residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 17, 2019. The protesters chanted demands for Gov. Ricardo Rossello to resign after the leak of online chats that showed him making misogynistic slurs and mocking his constituents.
(AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)
A large Iceberg floats away as the sun sets near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 15, 2019.
(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Firefighters battle the Marsh Fire near the town of Brentwood, Calif., in Contra Costa County, on Aug. 3, 2019.
(AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Find more epic photos from 2019 HERE
Church Separation Over Gay Marriage
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — United Methodist Church leaders from around the world and across ideological divides unveiled a plan Friday for a new conservative denomination that would split from the church in an attempt to resolve a decades-long dispute over gay marriage and gay clergy.
The proposal, called “A Protocol of Reconciliation & Grace Through Separation,” envisions an amicable separation in which conservative churches forming a new denomination would retain their assets. The new denomination also would receive $25 million.
The proposal was signed in December by a 16-member panel, who worked with a mediator and began meeting in October. The panel was formed after it became clear the impasse over LGBTQ issues was irreconcilable. The next step could come at the church’s General Conference in May.
In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.
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