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João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦

PETITION: expel #Russia from the International Council of Museums

"their version of #history is not purely rhetorical: it fuels a campaign aiming to systematically erase #Ukraine's centuries-old cultural identity"

"In February 2025, UNESCO counted 485 sites destroyed or damaged since 24 Feb 2022, including 149 religious buildings, 249 historic buildings, 33 #monuments (including those commemorating the #Holocaust), 18 libraries, 32 #museums and 2 archaeological sites."

pourlukraine.com/en/post/expel

Pour l'Ukraine · Let's Expel Russia from the International Council of MuseumsRussia's systematic destruction and appropriation of Ukrainian cultural heritage demands action from the International Council of Museums. With 485 heritage sites damaged since 2022 and thousands of artworks looted from occupied territories, ICOM must uphold its ethical standards by expelling Russian institutions involved in these violations of international law.
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Orkney Riddler

In “Beside the Ocean of Time: a chronology of Neolithic #burial, #Monuments and houses in Orkney”, Seren Griffiths lists the carbon dates of human bones from 10 Orkney cairns. The cumulative data for these skeletal remains demonstrates that about 75% of the people lain in the cairns died roughly before 3000BC, the rest of them died later, mostly through the 3rd millennium BC. Similar findings are suggested by dating of #skeletons in Scotland and England, and it is likely that the fall in numbers of bodies in cairns is, as much as anything, because after a couple of hundred years of existence the cairns were in poor condition, and often collapsing, making them sometimes risky places to enter.
Personally, I could never believe that the purpose of cairns was for the storage of corpses. Clearly in later millennia they were regarded as suitable sites for depositing cremated remains and the like.
Later burials seem to be dug into the perifery of the monuments, or a later addition.
In the few examples of funerary monuments that I've seen it's only special sites like Sutton Hoo that are obviously built with the intention of burying bodies.
See more in the Orkney Riddle blog:- orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/202
#Orkney #Neolithic ##prehistory #archaeology #cairns

orkneyriddler.blogspot.comThe Orkney Riddle  Orkney Riddle   By Jeffery Nicholls  How did Neolithic Orcadians travel to Orkney in large numbers to build the cairns, henges, and settle...
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DoomsdaysCW

State by State Pending and Recently Passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Arkansas

HB 1508: New penalties for #protesters who block #traffic, "#riot", or damage #monuments

As enacted, the law increases the penalty for obstructing a "public passage", from a Class C to a Class A misdemeanor. As such, an individual in a protest that makes a sidewalk "impassable to pedestrian... traffic" could face up to one year in jail. The law also creates a new mandatory minimum sentence of 30 days in jail for "rioting", and requires restitution for any injury or damage as a result of the offense. Rioting is defined in Arkansas to include engaging with two or more persons in "tumultuous" conduct that creates a "substantial risk" of "public alarm." The law requires that a person convicted of inciting a riot likewise pay restitution for any injury or damage as a result of the offense. The law provides that the state Attorney General may initiate an investigation into cases of riot, inciting riot, and obstructing a highway or other public passage. Finally, the law amends the definition of "act of terrorism" under Arkansas law, to include any act that causes "substantial damage" to a public "monument." It is not clear whether graffiti or other painting applied to a monument as part of a protest could comprise a terrorist act under the new law.
Full text of bill: arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detai

Status: enacted

Introduced 22 Feb 2021; Approved by House 19 April 2021; Approved by Senate 22 April 2021; Signed by Governor Hutchinson 29 April 2021

Issue(s): Riot, Terrorism, #TrafficInterference

HB 1321: New penalties for protests near gas and oil pipelines

Introduces harsh new penalties for protestors around gas and oil pipelines and other "critical infrastructure." The law broadly defines "critical infrastructure" to include a range of posted or fenced-off areas associated with natural gas and crude oil production, storage, and distribution, including above and below ground pipelines as well as #pipeline construction sites and equipment. Under the law, purposely entering or remaining on any "#CriticalInfrastructure" is a Class D felony, punishable by up to 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Separately, the law provides that trespassing on property outside of a city or town, regardless of whether it is posted, is a Class D felony if the property is "critical infrastructure." In nearly all other cases, trespass is a misdemeanor or minor violation. The law also creates a felony offense for anyone who purposely and unlawfully "causes damage" to critical infrastructure. Any amount of "damage," which the law does not define is a Class B felony under the law, punishable by 20 years in prison and a $15,000 fine. Under the law, protesters who hold a peaceful sit-in at a pipeline construction site and paint protest slogans on construction material, for instance, could face lengthy prison sentences.

Full text of bill: arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detai

Status: enacted

Introduced 27 Jan 2021; Approved by House 9 March 2021; Approved by Senate 1 April 2021; Signed by Governor Hutchinson 14 April 2021

Issue(s): Infrastructure, Trespass

HB 1578: Expanded Civil Liability for Those Who Incite a Riot and Criminal Penalties for Obstructing First Responders

Creates a civil cause of action for a person who is injured or has property damaged as a "direct or indirect" result of a "riot" against a person who commits "riot" or a person or entity who incites a riot. Arkansas law defines both "riot" and "incitement" broadly, creating potential liability for protesters or organizations who are interpreted to have urged others to have engaged in tumultuous or violent conduct.

Full text of bill: arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detai

Status: enacted

Introduced 17 Feb 2017; Passed by House 2 March 2017; Passed by Senate 27 March 2017; Signed by Governor 6 April 2017.

Issue(s): Civil Liability, Protest Supporters or Funders, Riot

#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #CriminalizingDissent #AntiProtestLaws #CivilWarMonuments #Racism

www.arkleg.state.ar.usHB1508 Bill InformationThis site is maintained by the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research, Information Systems Dept., and is the official website of the Arkansas General Assembly.
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