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Thursday 9 March 2017

Exodus (Precarity) / Clean Sheets: Brecht: On the Joy of Beginning

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SYRIA - Displaced Syrians gather at a makeshift camp for displaced people near the northern town of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 March 2017


#Syria: women displaced by the war gather at a makeshift camp near Manbij, by @Delilsouleman: image via David Vujanovic @DavidVujanovic, 8 March 2017



SYRIA - Children in the makeshift camp in Jab al-Tur (also known as Ukuz Quy) on the southern outskirts of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 March 2017




SYRIA - Children in the makeshift camp in Jab al-Tur (also known as Ukuz Quy) on the southern outskirts of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 March 2017



SYRIA - Children in the makeshift camp in Jab al-Tur (also known as Ukuz Quy) on the southern outskirts of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 March 2017

A Syrian man moving his mother to safety carried on a handwagon south #Manbij More 50k #IDPs reached #MMC area this week. Ph: @DelilSouleman: image via Jack Shahine @jackshahine, 8 March 2017


IRAQ - Iraqi government forces advance in Badush, some 15 kilometres northwest of Mosul during #MosulOffensive Photo @mo_sawaf #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 March 2017


Three roadside bombs laid by the Islamic State group explode in western #Mosul killing an Iraqi engineer attempting to diffuse the devices.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 8 March 2017


#Iraq Families flee as Iraqi forces advance into west #Mosul, part of the offensive to retake the city from ISIS. By @martyn_aim Getty: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 6 March 2017


#Iraq A donkey spray-painted with the word Daesh (Arabic for Islamic State), stands on a hill outside #Mosul By @ArisMessinis @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 7 March 2017


Assyrians archeological findings inside an underground tunnel dug by the IS troops in east #Mosul on March 6, 2017. @ArisMessinis @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instnatmatch, 8 March 2017


IRAQ - Iraqi forces patrol in west Mosul as they advance inside the city during fighting against IS fighters. Photo @ArisMessinis #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8 March 2017  

 
#Iraq. Displaced residents of #mosul flee the city as the fight of the Iraqi forces against ISIS continues. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 8 March 2017

 
#Iraq. Displaced residents of #mosul flee the city as the fight of the Iraqi forces against ISIS continues. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 8 March 2017

 
#Iraq. Displaced residents of #mosul flee the city as the fight of the Iraqi forces against ISIS continues. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 8 March 2017

 
#Iraq. Displaced residents of #mosul flee the city as the fight of the Iraqi forces against ISIS continues. #MosulOffensive: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 8 March 2017


IRAQ - Displaced Iraqis sit near barbed wire as Iraqi government forces advance in Badush near Mosul during #MosulOffensive. Photo @mo_sawaf: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 March 2017


#Iraq   K. Ali Abdullah, 90, is embraced while she flees her home as gov. forces battle with ISIS in W. #Mosul on Feb. 27. By @bzohra @Reuters: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 8 March 2017



Through the freezing mud and rain displaced #Iraqis flee the battle with #IslamicState in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 4 March 2017

 


Through the freezing mud and rain displaced #Iraqis flee the battle with #IslamicState in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 4 March 2017 




Through the freezing mud and rain displaced #Iraqis flee the battle with #IslamicState in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 4 March 2017 



Through the freezing mud and rain displaced #Iraqis flee the battle with #IslamicState in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 4 March 2017

 

Civilians caught in #IslamicState mortar attacks are treated by medics at a field clinic in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 2 March 2017 

 

Civilians caught in #IslamicState mortar attacks are treated by medics at a field clinic in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 2 March 2017 

 

Civilians caught in #IslamicState mortar attacks are treated by medics at a field clinic in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 2 March 2017 



Civilians caught in #IslamicState mortar attacks are treated by medics at a field clinic in western #Mosul #Iraq Photo @bzohra @reuterspictures: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 2 March 2017


SYRIA - A displaced child, who fled due to clashes between regime forces and IS group, eats outside a tent in Kharufiyah. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 March 2017  



"North Syria exodus as families flee assault on IS" #AFP Displaced Syrians gather in Kharufiyah, south of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 March 2017




"North Syria exodus as families flee assault on IS" #AFP Displaced Syrians gather in Kharufiyah, south of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 March 2017



"North Syria exodus as families flee assault on IS" #AFP Displaced Syrians gather in Kharufiyah, south of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 March 2017



SYRIA - At least 30,000 civilians have fled fighting between regime forces and IS group in Aleppo province over the past week. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 5 March 2017 
 


SYRIA - Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians found safety at the makeshift camp for displaced people near Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 March 2017 



SYRIA - Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians found safety at the makeshift camp for displaced people near Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 March 2017 

 

SYRIA - Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians found safety at the makeshift camp for displaced people near Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 March 2017 


 SYRIA - A displaced Syrian family unload their belongings at a makeshift camp for displaced people near the town of Manbij. Photo @Delilsouleman: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 7 March 2017

Clean Sheets: Brecht: On the Joy of Beginning

Untitled | by Md. Imam Hasan

  [Untitled, Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 4 March 2017
 
Bertolt Brecht: On the Joy of Beginning

Oh joy of beginning! Oh early morning!
First grass, when none remembers
What grass looks like. Oh first page of the book
Long awaited, the surprise of it. Read it
Slowly, all too soon the unread part
Will be too thin for you. And the first splash of water
On a sweaty face! The fresh
Cool shirt. Oh the beginning of love! Oh wandering glance!
Oh the beginning of work! Pouring oil
Into the cold machine. First touch and first hum
Of the engine springing to life! And first drag
Of smoke filling the lungs! And you too
New thought!

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956): On the Joy of Beginning (O Lust des Beginnens), c. 1940, English version by Humphrey Milnes in Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim with the co-operation of Eric Fried, 1976

Untitled | by Soumyendra Saha

  [Untitled, Kolkata]: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 15 September 2016

DSC03217 | by kanrapee.chok

DSC03217: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 1 November 2016

DSC03217 | by kanrapee.chok

DSC03217: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 1 November 2016

DSC03217 | by kanrapee.chok

DSC03217: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 1 November 2016

Untitled | by kanrapee.chok

[halloween parade, new york]: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 1 November 2016

Untitled | by kanrapee.chok

[halloween parade, new york]: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 1 November 2016

Untitled | by kanrapee.chok

[halloween parade, new york]: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 1 November 2016

DSC01280 | by kanrapee.chok

DSC01280: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 7 February 2017

DSC01280 | by kanrapee.chok

DSC01280: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 7 February 2017

DSC01280 | by kanrapee.chok

DSC01280: photo by Kanrapee Chokpaiboon, 7 February 2017 

2 comments:

Maureen said...

The depth of sadness I feel for the Syrian people has no bounds. What is happening to them is criminal. That the U.S. turns aside and away is also criminal.

TC said...

Amen to that.