I can close my eyes and just listen to the noises of all the work that goes into repairing shoes. The machines pressing down, the cutting of the sole, the sanding, the stitching, the brushing of the glue. It’s a symphony of satisfying noises. It’s the only soundtrack you need.
Governments aren’t usually quick to react to changes in demographics. They frequently have to take surveys that are not only slow, but don’t always paint a complete picture of what’s going on. Researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid have…
In the middle ages, tapestries depicted sprawling battles between gods and monsters, human beings and mythical beasts, precarious moments on the divide between the mortal world and eternal hell. Fast forward some sixteen hundred years to Christina Forrer‘s variation on the theme, in which epic battles are replaced with carnivalesque caricatures engaged in exaggerated power clashes.
Forrer’s protagonists, who seem to be wearing makeup on their masks, are immortalized in moments that, in some way, toy with dominance and submission. Sometimes the power abuse comes at the hand of another person, or perhaps an idea, or a system, or even a misplaced projection of emotion. Her characters strangle one another, decapitate, breathe fire and pose for the viewer, in a grotesque display that’s part classical mythology, part reality television meltdown.
“Two People Fighting”
Each of Forrer’s tapestries begins with a drawing, and from there, she creates a template. The Zurich-born, Los Angeles-based artist selects her colors as she goes, yielding a beautifully incoherent mishmash with all the accidental beauty of a crowded circus tent. “I let the colors decide themselves,” the artist told to The Huffington Post, estimating that a single tapestry takes approximately 200 hours of work. At first glance, the works recall James Ensor’s taste for the macabre, Niagara’s gothic femininity and Nina Chanel Abney’s flattened all-at-once-ness. But Forrer cites Ernst Kirchner, who also worked in tapestries, as her primary inspiration.
The bulky cast of characters takes shape from a wide range of incongruous sources, from an Aretha Franklin album cover to a medieval ritual. In a piece titled “Procession,” a man holds his dead lover’s head in his hands as surrounding townspeople begin stirring up a racket with her kitchen utensils, banging them as loud as possible to get rid of the bad spirits so the soon-to-be-widower can move on. Another work, titled “Polka Dots,” features only a gargantuan torso, all dolled up in a blue polka-dotted dress, the oversized proportions recalling Robert Crumb’s amazon women. While some tableaux have specific origin stories, others are more opaque.
“I feel better if I don’t know everything,” Forrer responds when pressed on specifics.
“Procession”
This instinctual artistic approach sometimes borders on mystical. “My grandparents had a house in the Italian part of Switzerland,” Forrer explained. “I hadn’t been since I was four years old. The first tapestry I made, my grandparents said it looked exactly like something, a piece they had hanging in that house.”
The works themselves often seem influenced by fairy tales or folklore, containing both the whimsy and sinister undertones of the Brother’s Grimm. Although Forrer doesn’t have a huge interest in either fairy tales or folklore, she acknowledges her upbringing may account for her work’s sense of mystique. “It’s in the forests there. It’s just there. I’m starting to realize that more and more.”
From far away, the two-dimensional images look like the hybrid of a colorful children’s storybook and a grotesque outsider comic book. Yet as you get closer, the chunks of wool, cotton and linen manifest themselves in every glitch and the tapestry blossoms into a kind of glorious bruise. Dangling there on the walls, the tapestries permit you to catch a glimpse of their undersides, where knots and threads of uncut yarn hang wildly. Gazing upon the vibrant scraps feels like sneaking a peek at a human’s insides.
If Forrer ever makes a mistake along the way, she points out, she prefers to leave it in there.
Witches, pigs, skeletons, horses, clowns, tank tops and bling are just some of the oddities spun from Forrer’s loom. Her tapestries conjure an alternate world where expressions are exaggerated, colors are intensified and power plays on just the same. Forrer’s exhibition runs until December 13, 2014 at Grice Bench gallery in Los Angeles. See a preview of the work below.
As the nation awaits the grand jury’s decision of whether to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, President Obama said that Ferguson should not be used as an “excuse for violence.”
In an interview with ABC News George Stephanopoulos that aired Friday night, Obama acknowledged the right to protest over the killing of Brown, but urged that demonstrations remain peaceful.
“This is a country that allows everybody to express their views,” Obama said. “But using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law and contrary to who we are.”
Obama’s interview from Las Vegas was an excerpt of a longer version set to air Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Watch the video excerpt above.
Wilson shot Brown on Aug. 9, under disputed circumstances, sparking fierce protests in and around Ferguson, and a larger debate about race and police tactics.
The grand jury’s decision on possibly indicting Wilson has been expected for weeks and may come soon. Guardian reporter Jon Swaine tweeted on Friday night that media had received information about official press conferences and other events after the grand jury makes its decision.
On Monday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon activated the National Guard in advance of the grand jury decision. The FBI sent 100 agents to the area on Friday. Ferguson protesters were arrested on Thursday and Friday, as tension has mounted again. In advance of Obama’s interview, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released a video to advise police and protesters of how to avoid confrontation.
When Congress wouldn’t pass a bill, the president had to act on immigration and deportation policy, to keep families intact — a measure that affected 40 percent of the undocumented immigrants in the United States. The president in question was George H. W. Bush, and the year was 1990. Congress, at the time, was run by the opposition party. What did they do in response? They passed a bill, which Bush later signed.
Last night, President Obama announced he’s acting on immigration and deportation policy, to keep families intact, which will affect the same 40 percent of undocumented immigrants here. Congress is soon to be run completely by Obama’s opposition party. What will they do in response?
There are a lot of possible answers to that question, but very far down on the list would be “pass a bill which Obama can sign.” That was never going to happen — it wouldn’t have happened if Obama hadn’t acted, it wouldn’t have happened before the end of the year, it wouldn’t have happened next year with a new Congress. And now it is definitely not going to happen. Nothing has changed on that front.
What is different is that this time Obama realizes this fact. Ever since his re-election, Obama has been coming around to the position that Republicans in Congress are simply not good-faith negotiators, because no matter what deal he hammers out with John Boehner, Boehner can never produce the votes from within his caucus to pass such a deal. So Obama has largely stopped banging his head against this brick wall.
Instead, he is setting the agenda in Washington in a breathtaking way. Since the midterm election, Obama has come out strongly for net neutrality, sealed the first deal that China has ever agreed to on curbing emissions, and now he’s announced a new immigration and deportation policy which will affect the lives of millions of families for the better.
Republicans react to each of these presidential announcements, but they have already lost all the momentum they gained in their midterm electoral victory. Instead of setting the agenda themselves, on their own terms, they are reduced to reactionary moves each time Obama acts. The one thing for certain: nobody’s arguing whether Obama is “relevant,” the way they normally do at the start of a president’s seventh year in office. Obama is more relevant than ever. In fact, if the tough negotiations don’t fall apart this weekend, Obama may have a new treaty which curbs Iran’s nuclear ambitions as early as next Monday to announce, as well (this is a longshot, admittedly). Obama is rolling out new initiatives by the week, and Republicans have been caught flatfooted.
Obama’s move on immigration was certainly provocative, in the literal sense of “provoking a reaction.” His speech was short and to the point, and he tossed down a few gauntlets in front of congressional Republicans, defying them to act on their own. He knows full well they won’t, because their leaders cannot control the wilder factionalists within their ranks. “Pass a bill,” Obama challenged, secure in the knowledge that they won’t be able to.
This is because Republicans don’t have a policy of their own. As a party, they cannot agree on what America should do to solve the immigration problem. About the only thing they come close to agreeing on is to “secure the border,” but the House can’t even get its act together to pass a bill which does that. Obama has now shifted the debate to what should be done about the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are already here — a subject the Republicans aren’t even close to agreeing on any particular plan or action. Self-deportation? Round everyone up and ship them back to their country of origin? Allow them to stay and work, but never become citizens? A path to citizenship? Anything? Republicans have no plan — they don’t even have a bad plan, they simply have nothing.
The biggest question hanging over Washington right now is how crazy the Republican response is going to be. The Republican leaders are desperately trying to head off any radicals from making odious and offensive statements in public, but my guess is they won’t be successful in this effort. It won’t take long before some Republican officeholder somewhere says something incredibly offensive, at least if recent history is any guide.
What else (other than exposing their extremism on the issue) will Republicans attempt to do? Well, there’s always the “shut down the government in a temper tantrum” route. Again, Republican leaders are desperately trying to nip this knee-jerk action in the bud, as well as any even-more-extreme reactions (like impeachment). “We’re suing him in court!” John Boehner offers up to the Tea Party, but that may not be red enough meat for them, at the end of the day.
The redder the meat for Tea Partiers, though, the more it looks to the middle-of-the-road American like nothing short of petulance and whining. Rather than attempting to set their own agenda in Congress next year, Republicans will be consumed with rage, caught in a loop of reacting to President Obama’s actions.
Obama’s gutsy move on immigration places the issue front and center, right at the earliest beginnings of the 2016 presidential campaign. An issue the Republicans would have much preferred to merely issue platitudes and bromides about will now have to be addressed in a lot more detail. If Republicans hate Obama’s plan so much, then what are they for, instead? What would they do differently? What is their solution to the problem? Instead of being able to dodge the tough questions, Republicans (especially those contemplating a run for the White House) are going to have to come up with real answers to those questions, for better or for worse. If Obama had failed to act, this would not have been true.
Let’s see… was there any one Democrat who stood out in any particular way this week?
We are joking, of course. Because this week belonged to President Barack Obama. Obama decided to provide some leadership in an area sorely needing some, he decided to do what he thought was right, and he decided that he had had enough of the warnings of political implications of his action. What happens next is anyone’s guess, but in one way or another this will be one of the more notable weeks of his entire presidency. Later, looking back, both historians and average Americans will put immigration reform within the top three most meaningful policies Obama ever achieved (the health care law and saving the economy from ruin would likely be the other two). Whether you are cheering Obama’s action or howling in disagreement, you have to admit this is a big deal.
We’re in the cheering section, just to be clear. Which is why there are absolutely no other candidates this week for our Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award. President Obama just made the lives of millions of American families a lot better. The question of which party is more friendly to the wants and needs of Latino voters is now crystal clear. The question of which political party still has racist elements within it and actively works against the hopes of Latinos is about to also be definitively answered.
President Obama could have taken his midterm defeat hard, and begun another round of “offering a hand to the other side” (only to have it slapped down, once again). He chose not to do so, this time. He chose to chart his own course. Which will indeed be remembered in the future, one way or another. For his bold and gutsy action on immigration and deportation policy this week (and for introducing it in one of the snappiest speeches he’s ever given on any subject), Obama is hereby awarded his forty-fourth Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week. Stay strong, Mister President.
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We’re pretty sure that Obama will see some defections in the ranks on his new immigration policy. There will doubtless be a handful of senators and representatives from deep-red (and mostly-white) districts who will see a bigger political benefit to opposing Obama’s new plan.
But, so far, we’re unaware of any who have jumped in front of television cameras to do so. Partly this was due to Obama’s timing — he announced his new plan right after all of Congress had gone home for the Thanksgiving holiday (because they’re so special, they all get to take an extra week off to celebrate). This greatly diminished the immediate reaction.
But, like we said, we’re pretty sure it’ll happen. Since it hasn’t yet, we are not going to award a Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week this week. No other Democrats were notably disappointing this week (on other subjects), and it’s too early to see if some Democrats are going to be disappointing on immigration reform. So, for now, no MDDOTW award. As always, if you think someone obvious was ignored, let everyone know about it in the comments.
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President Obama already made the moral case for taking action, in his speech (which I wrote about last night, in a “snap reaction” column on Obama’s speech). He laid out the reasons why he thought what he did was both imperative and the right thing to do. He directly challenged Republicans to “pass a bill” if they disagreed with him, knowing they will likely be incapable of doing so both for the rest of this year and in the new Congress next year.
Democrats interested in taking this high moral road and explaining their support for the president in such terms have no further to look than the text of Obama’s speech, in fact. Which is why we’re taking a slightly different tack for today’s talking points. Because while Obama is free to take the high moral road, other Democrats are going to have to fight in the political arena, where such tactics aren’t going to be sufficient to match Republican wrath at (as they now call him) “Emperor Obama.”
So here are some suggestions for how Democrats should make the political case to support Obama’s actions. These can be used by both politicians on a Sunday morning television chatfest, or by Americans who have to go home for Thanksgiving and argue politics with Cousin Earl or Uncle Jasper. Enjoy, and use responsibly, as always.
The door should be open
Americans United For Change really deserves a lot of credit for digging this one out, and for how fast off the mark they got their new ad out.
“On the subject of immigration, allow me to quote President Ronald Reagan. [Pause for a few seconds.] OK, was that enough time for conservatives to properly genuflect? Didn’t want to interfere with anyone’s religious practices, there. Saint Ronnie was speaking about one of his favorite metaphors — the ‘shining city on a hill’ — and he said the following (and I quote): ‘I’ve spoken of a shining city, all my political life… in my mind it was a tall, proud city… and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors. And the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.’ Americans United For Change has a great new ad up contrasting Reagan’s statements with Obama’s speech, in fact. So I’d like to ask you, point-blank: do you support what Ronald Reagan said, or not?”
Forty percent is forty percent
This one’s not as snarky, but it’s probably the best historical parallel to draw, for obvious reasons.
“In 1990, President George H. W. Bush used his executive power to defer deportations to keep family members together. His action affected forty percent of undocumented immigrants in the country at that time. This week, President Barack Obama did exactly the same thing for exactly the same reason — Congress wouldn’t act. Obama, like Bush, is deferring deportation for family members of legal residents. Obama, like Bush, is acting solely within his executive responsibility. Obama, like Bush, will better the lives of exactly the same percentage of undocumented immigrants — forty percent of them. At the time, however, nobody — Democrat or Republican — threw a temper tantrum and started using words like ‘king’ or ’emperor’ to describe Bush. Democrats in Congress actually passed the bill Bush wanted, and the problem was resolved. Why is what Obama just did any different than what Bush did? Why are conservatives reacting differently now then they did then? Forty percent is forty percent, folks.”
Unitary executive
I’m surprised more of the media have to be reminded about this one — it wasn’t all that long ago, after all.
“Remember George W. Bush’s administration? They certainly weren’t shy about deciding which laws passed by Congress they were going to change or ignore. All you have to do is to do a web search on ‘unitary executive’ or ‘signing statement’ along with Bush’s name, and you’ll find hundreds of instances where Bush and Vice President Cheney strenuously argued that what the president did within the executive branch was simply not the business of Congress or the courts — because, according to them, that’s what the Constitution intended. All the media would have to do, really, is go back a decade and start searching for what Republicans had to say at the time about the ‘unitary executive’ theory. You’ll find plenty of quotes justifying presidents acting without the approval of Congress. So why is now any different, to them?”
Where is the Republican plan?
Republicans have gotten by with having no plan at all for lots of issues, but that is all changing fast (and will even more when they take control of the Senate in January).
“Ask any Republican about what their plans are for immigration reform, and they’ll always try to run out the clock talking about border security. Border security, secure the border, build a giant wall, put in a moat with alligators — they fall all over themselves in a frenzy of one-upmanship. But they refuse to talk about anything else. Because they have no plan. What is the GOP plan for the 11 million people here? What should America do about them? Should they stay or should they go, and if so, how? The 11 million is a subject that Republicans just won’t address in any way whatsoever, especially after Romney’s ‘self-deportation’ idea went over like a lead balloon. But now that the president’s acted, Republicans are going to be forced to deal with the question one way or another. What is the Republican plan for the 11 million? If they have one, I certainly haven’t heard it yet. The president’s got a plan, which he announced. What is the Republican plan? Anyone?”
Do your job
Keep these short and punchy.
“Republicans in Congress need to do their job. President Obama has done his. If Republicans don’t like it, then they need to pass a bill. Next year they will have absolutely no excuse not to, since they’ll control Congress completely. So pass a bill! Where are the Republican plans for immigration reform? Write them into bills and pass them! Refusing to do so is no longer an option, if you want to stop Obama’s actions. Instead of whining about Obama, how about Republicans actually do their jobs, for once? Pass a bill! Do your jobs — Obama’s doing his.”
Not one thin dime
This is deliciously ironic, so get all the amusement from it you can.
“Republicans in Congress all wanted to use their famous ‘power of the purse’ to stop Obama’s new immigration policy. They were going to de-fund the agency responsible for doing all the paperwork to implement Obama’s new policy. There’s only one problem — the agency is entirely self-financed, meaning Congress has no control over their budget at all. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are funded by the fees immigrants pay. This was intentionally done by Congress so that taxpayers wouldn’t have to pay one thin dime for the immigration service. No taxpayer money is used at all — just filing fees from immigrants. It’s pretty funny when you think about it — congressional Republicans can’t de-fund the agency responsible because they don’t fund it in the first place. So what are Republicans going to de-fund? The whole Homeland Security Department, including the Border Patrol? I seriously doubt it.”
Not the first…
The Washington Post has a great look back through the ages at how many different presidents were on the receiving end of strikingly similar language. I was going to use this image anyway today, but have to tip my hat to them for being so thorough, rather than just looking for the earliest instance.
“This isn’t the first time a president has been called ‘king,’ and it certainly won’t be the last. Americans as a whole have always disapproved of monarchy, going all the way back to when we overthrew one. Since then, it’s been a common refrain for many presidents. Here is what we’d call an editorial cartoon of Andrew Jackson, for example:
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“This image, from the Library of Congress, shows ‘King Andrew The First’ standing in the robes of royalty, trampling on: the U.S. Constitution, ‘Internal Improvements,’ and the U.S. Bank. Discarded on the ground is also a book titled ‘Judiciary of the U. States.’ He holds in his hand the veto, which enraged the Congress of his day. Here is just one tiny part of what Senator Henry Clay had to say about Jackson, in a thundering floor speech:
The eyes and the hopes of the American people are anxiously turned to Congress. They feel that they have been deceived and insulted; their confidence abused; their interests betrayed; and their liberties in danger. They see a rapid and alarming concentration of all power in one man’s hands. They see that, by the exercise of the positive authority of the executive, and his negative power exerted over Congress, the will of one man alone prevails, and governs the Republic. The question is no longer what laws will Congress pass, but what will the executive not veto?
“In fact, the language Clay used in this speech was so anti-monarchical that the anti-Jackson faction coalesced into a new political party, which named itself for the most anti-monarchical party in England at the time of the Revolution: the Whigs. The very name Whig signifies what they thought of ‘King Andrew The First.’ In other words, tossing around terms like ‘tyranny’ and ‘despot’ and ‘king’ and ’emperor’ is nothing new in American politics. Obama’s got plenty of company, considering how many other presidents have had the same charges flung at them.”
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MEXICO CITY — It was a sweet, prolonged honeymoon. During his first 18 months in office President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico signed a political agreement with the country’s top three political parties, something unheard of in a country known for its acrimonious, highly partisan politics. He proceeded to get 11 major reforms approved by a divided Congress. Peña Nieto moved Mexico from the crime sections to the business pages of international newspapers. His energy reform opened up Mexico’s oil, gas and electricity industries to private investment. The telecommunications reform has tackled powerful local business empires. In his annual state of the union report, on Sept. 1, a confident Peña Nieto claimed that, after a long paralysis, “Mexico [is] on the move.”
MEXICO WAS MOVING
But the movement has turned into an earthquake. On the evening of Sept. 26 a group of first-year students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College arrived in Iguala, a city in the southern state of Guerrero. They had been ordered by their school “Struggle Committee,” the radical leftist group that rules life at the college, to disrupt a celebration organized by María de los Ángeles Pineda, the wife of Iguala’s mayor, José Luis Abarca, who had plans to succeed her husband.
The students had stolen buses. Mayor Abarca ordered the Iguala police to “stop” the students. When the police intercepted them, the students apparently threw stones at the police, who then reportedly responded with live bullets. According to eyewitness accounts, three students were killed right there. Forty-four others were taken away by the police. The others are presumed to have been taken to Cocula, a small town, and handed over to a drug organization known as Guerreros Unidos or United Warriors. The drug traffickers allegedly killed them and burned their bodies. The government claims the mayor and his wife had links with this drug organization.
Mexico is used to violence. President Felipe Calderón, Peña Nieto’s predecessor, launched a war against drugs in 2006 and saw an increase in murders from 8 per 100,000 people in 2007 to 24 in 2011. A slow decline in homicides began in 2012. In 2013, the first year of President Peña Nieto’s government, there were 19 homicides per 100,000 people. The reduction prompted Peña Nieto to promote the idea that violence was a thing of the past.
No more. The disappearance and apparent murder of the Ayotzinapa students has horrified Mexico and the world. Other acts of violence have also become public knowledge. When searching for the Ayotzinapa students, government investigators uncovered a number of clandestine burial sites in the state of Guerrero. They thought at first they were the Ayotzinapa students, but were proven wrong. Dozens of bodies have been recovered and are now painfully and slowly being identified.
CHE STILL HERO OF THE STUDENTS
The Iguala affair has turned into a political crisis for President Peña Nieto. The Ayotzinapa school is known for its Marxist bent. Instead of having pictures of the nation’s heroes, it is decorated with portraits of Che Guevara and Subcomandante Marcos. Its classes are used for indoctrinating students on revolutionary struggle. Lucio Cabañas, a famous guerrilla fighter of the 1970s, was a graduate of the college — and remains the most admired alumnus.
Dozens of left-wing organizations have now joined the Ayotzinapa Struggle Committee in a movement that openly seeks the resignation of Peña Nieto. This would appear strange. Neither the president nor his party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, had anything to do with the events in Iguala. The mayor was a member of the moderate leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution.
Peña Nieto’s attorney general has pretty much solved the crime, which is unusual in a country with a 98 percent impunity rate, and has detained more than 70 people, including the mayor and his wife. Many of the accused have confessed to the mass kidnapping and the executions of the students. Still, the leaders of the movement claim that this was “a state crime” and thus the head of the Mexican state must resign.
The president’s public image has been further tarnished by information that his wife owns a $7 million residential compound in Mexico City’s posh Lomas district. Images of the luxurious home have circulated widely. A former successful television soap opera star, Angélica Rivera issued an emotional video explaining that she purchased the property with her own resources. Part of the compound, however, was bought on credit from a government contractor. The first lady claims that she is repaying the loan with interest.
On Nov. 20, the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of Mexico City demanding Peña Nieto’s resignation. At this point there is no indication that the president is even considering the move. His administration is constitutionally scheduled to end in November 2018.
But the government is now afraid to use public force to prevent demonstrators from blockading roads and streets, stealing buses and trucks, ransacking supermarkets and torching government buildings. President Peña Nieto has claimed that his patience has limits, but so far the Ayotzinapa movement appears to have forced him into a corner.
REMEMBERING A VIOLENT REVOLUTION
Many of the demonstrators on Revolution Day threatened President Peña Nieto with a revolution if he does not resign. Paradoxically, Peña Nieto said on that very same day, in a ceremony to commemorate the 1910 Revolution, that violence is not acceptable. Apparently he was not aware of the fact that the Mexican Revolution was a violent affair that cost the lives of perhaps 1 million Mexicans, one tenth of the population at the time. Perhaps he should have remembered the words often attributed to Porfirio Díaz, the president who after 30 years in power resigned in 1911 at the start of the revolution: “In Mexico nothing ever happens — until it happens.”
Sergio Sarmiento is a columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma and a TV and radio commentator.
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