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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)
“What is Called Vagrancy” (1854)
Oil on canvas
Realism
Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris France
Thispainting is representative of the early part of Stevens’ career when he was keen on representing the squalor of the time.
Emperor Napoleon III thought the contents so shocking (a woman giving a beggar money to prevent her being locked up with her children by the police, which was the fate of vagrants without income) that he asked to have it removed.
The 1810 Penal Code considered begging a crime and vagrancy likewise. While beggars were not clearly defined, vagrants were clearly identified as “unscrupulous people [i.e.] those who have no certain place of residence or means of subsistence and who do not exercise any trade or profession.”
During the Second Rep1ublic, the electoral law of May 31, 1850 further alienated beggars and vagabonds, separating the homeless from the rest of society by prolonging the period of residence required in order to be able to vote in a particular commune or canton, from six months (law of March 15, 1849) to three years.
Reblog. Retweet. Repost. Share. Print out and hang up around town, at work, at the laundromat, at the gym, in the grocery store, at Starbucks. Get the word out.
If you’re white make sure you run interference. If you see ICE or any cop harassing people of color stop and record. Make sure the individuals know they don’t have to answer questions. Use that “I want to speak to the manager” voice white people are known for. Make their jobs impossible. People who have chosen a career in harassing and arresting and imprisoning and deporting people should be made to answer for their crimes against humanity.
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John Downing. A policeman carries away a fan injured in the crush to see members of The Osmonds pop group on the balcony of a hotel in Belgravia, London. 27 May 1975
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SO TRUE #SCOOBYDOO #riprobertgodwin #MEME #MEMES #POLICE #funnypicture #funnypicture #FUNNYMEME #FUNNYMEMES #VELMA #cops #cleveland #stevenstephen
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Certainly a hot topic right now.
“The End of Policing” by Alex S. Vitale
“The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last forty years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself.”
Again, hand in hand with a lot of the other books currently added to my bookshelves. The need to study intersectionality and how it affects all aspects of our lives from the way we conduct business, to the way we socialize, to the way we’ve allowed the police to evolve into a borderline military industrial complex. We border on living in a police run state.
The problem with that is the origins on the police force and basically how it never really evolved, it just learned to cover its tracks. And boy did it cover its tracks POORLY.
Dressed to…
#oneweek100people2022 scarvenger hunt.
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#oneweek100people caccia al tesoro.
Ma come ti vesti!
Dalle forze dell'ordine ai postini le divise da lavoro, da sera e da vivere
100 человек за неделю.
Охота на людей (это совсем не то, что вы думаете).
Скажи как ты одет и я скажу, где ты работаешь.
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