Saturday, 20 April 2013

Break of dawn



Morning
2013, Acrylic paint on canvas, 40x55 cms




Free Birds
2012, Acrylic paint and graphite on paper, 31,2x43,8 cms




Red house
2011, Acrylic paint on canvas (detail), 95x110 cms









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© by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2013.

All Rights Reserved.

Monday, 21 January 2013

End sexual harassment


updated 28 January 2013


Testimony from a Survival of Gang Rape on Tahrir Square Vicinity 

bit.ly/Wt44V9
posted
26 Jan 2013 by @NazraEgypt
via twitter

سأحكي حكايتي التي تشبه الكثير من الحكايات، حكايتي أنا وأنتي، أنا وأنتي نعرف إننا انتهكنا، إننا اغتصبنا
http://bit.ly/WnqIBw
posted
26 Jan 2013 by @NazraEgypt
via twitter

NAZRA for Feminist Studies, Egypt
homepage: http://nazra.org/
Nazra at twitter @NazraEgypt





Why Not ? | ليه لأ ؟   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lzD-2hTfsA&list=UUrAiOV1-D1us3caNLfXN10Q&index=2%20%E2%80%A6 

Imprint movement, Cairo, Egypt 
http://zaghaleel.wordpress.com/
at twitter: @Imprint_Mov 


 


HARASSmap
mapping sexual harassment
in Egypt through SMS reporting, Cairo, Egypt.
http://harassmap.org/
http://blog.harassmap.org/about/
at twitter: @harassmap





Harassment Exhibition

 Enough / كفايه

30 june - 20 august 2012
at Darb 1718, Contemporary Art & Culture Center,
in collaboration with HarassMap, Cairo, Egypt.





#ENDsh
18-19-06-2012, MonotypePainting on paper, 100x70 cms.
Darb 1718, Contemporary Art & Culture Center, Cairo.


16 artists from Egypt, Tunisia, Serbia and Germany participated in this Exhibition.
With our works we speak out to bring an end to the daily sexual harassment.

After the exhibition my works remain in Cairo as a donation.



 Respect us!
18-19-06-2012, MonotypePainting on paper, 100x70 cms.
Darb 1718, Contemporary Art & Culture Center, Cairo.



"... an egyptian man tweeted that it would not be the right time for the women in Egypt to go to the streets and demand their rights. I do not agree with this guy. 
And I remember a woman's reply, saying HOW LONG shall we wait when we listen to others?, and she said that the women do not wait - and the women and mothers took the streets for demand their rights !

This exhibition did not wait, we artists did not wait, in these election times of choosing between the One or the Other, with no clear statement for future regards all the political prisoners and in face of the continuing crimes against women, girls, in view of the daily sexual harassment. We did not wait - and we do not wait - we go on - together, women and men, sons, daugthers, mothers and fathers.


This exhibition is one step in our long march for to bring an end to sexual harassment - it is a long and stony road, with many walls, but we go it together and we will not give up! ..."

(Excerpt from my greetings to the visitors of the exhibition opening.)
The streets are our's, too!
 19-06-2012, MonotypePainting on paper, 70x100 cms.
Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt.



NAZRA
for Feminist Studies


Nazra for Feminist Studies, is a women's rights research organization based in Cairo.
Nazra aims to build an Egyptian feminist movement.
homepage: http://nazra.org/
Nazra at twitter @NazraEgypt


Testimonies on the Recent Sexual Assaults on Tahrir Square Vicinity
"... Nazra for Feminist Studies is publishing three testimonies of women who were sexually assaulted by a mob on Mohammed Mahmoud Street on Saturday, 2 June. The collective sexual assault and harassment that took place on the vicinity of Tahrir Square on June 2 and 8, 2012 shed light on the gravity of sexual harassment and assault on Egyptian streets. Although the three testimonies do not account for the entirety of the brutality that many women experienced on that Saturday and the Friday after, they are one example that offers a window to the dynamics of mob sexual assault and harassment on those two days, which are not the first of its kind."

Source: http://nazra.org/en/2012/06/testimonies-recent-sexual-assaults-tahrir-square-vicinity

At the homepage of Nazra you'll find the links to read the whole testimonies in Arabic and in English.




End sexual harassment! 
23-24-06-2012, MonotypePainting on paper, 70x100 cms.
Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt.
Logo Nazra: Courtesy of Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt, www.nazra.org



About Egyptian Women Engagement in the Revolution.
by Mozn Hassan


Mozn Hassan's speech at Hampshire College, March 2012. Eqbal Ahmad Lecture Series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvNAwsApEGM&feature=relmfu via YouTube
Mozn Hassan is a lawyer, a Women Human Rights Defender, and director of Nazra.
Mozn Hassan at twitter: @Mozn 


Copyright © Nazra for Feminist Studies, Cairo, Egypt.
Courtesy: Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt, www.nazra.org



Enough! 
19-20-06-2012, MonotypePainting on paper, 100x70 cms. 
Nazra for Feminist Studies, Egypt.




Slide-show of the Harassment-Exhibition
http://www.darb1718.com/activities/exhibitions/exhibitions-2012-2/harassment/
Copyright © by Darb 1718, Contemporary Art & Culture Centre,
Cairo, Egypt 2012. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Darb 1718. 


Video "Vocalising sexual harassment in Egypt",
incl. the Harassment Exhibition at Darb 1718 in Cairo,
by Al Jazeera English, 3 june 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxYGYl0q4C0 
via YouTube



Darb 1718
Contemporary Art and Culture Center

Kasr El Sham3 Street, Al Fakhareen – Old Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. Nearest Metro Station : Mary Girgis
Opening Hours: Saturday – Thursday 10:00–22:00 and Friday 16:00 – 22:00 

www.darb1718.com  








Copyright
© by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2012, 2013.

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Unforgotten!




  For Shahd 
2011, MonotypePainting on paper, 100x70 cms


Shahd
Little Yemeni girl, 5 years old, killed during the uprising, 2011.
Rest in Peace, Shahd!





For Hamza
4 june 2011, pastel-crayon on paper, 31,4x22 cms

 
Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb
Oct 24 1997 - May 2011


Hamza, a 13 year old Syrian boy, was detained on April 29, 2011,
during a protest march in Daraa. After he was brutally tortured and killed,
his dead body was send to his family on May 25, 2011.


It was told, that Hamza was not interested in politics.
But for the rally for freedom, to break the siege of Daraa,
he had accompanied his family.

Hamza enjoyed swimming and he loved watching his homing pigeons fly.

Rest in Peace, Hamza!









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© by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2013.

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Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Solidarity with the People of the island Al Qursaya



لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين .. الحرية لأهالي القرصاية‬

No to military trials for civilians .. Freedom for the people of Al Qursaya





Courtesy of NoMilTrials group, Egypt. Copyright © by NoMilTrials group, Egypt, 2013.
All rights reserved by NoMilTrials group.



updated 28 January 2013


متضامنين مع اهالي جزيرة القرصاية 
Solidarity with the people of island Al Qursaya
http://youtu.be/Xt1C44lw8WU  

published by NoMilTrials Group Egypt, 27 Jan. 2013 via YouTube 

فيديو جديد: الحرية لاهالي القرصاية. لا لعنف العسكر
New Video: Freedom people Alqrsaah.
No to violence of the military

youtu.be/bJoYzJmmJlk
published by Mosireen 27 Jan. 2013 via YouTube 




EGYPT INDEPENDENT panorama:

الصراع على جزيرة القرصاية
The battle over Qursaya Island (2007-2012)
http://panorama.egyptindependent.com/2013/the-battle-over-qorsaya-island/
published Monday 28 January 2013



أطفال «القرصاية» يرسمون من أجل عودة آبائهم المعتقلين 
Children from island «Alqrsaah» draw for the return
of their detained parents

http://youtu.be/poDQrFGFff8   
published 19 Jan. 2013 by AlMasryAlYoum via YouTube


Interview with Dr. Rasha Abdulla
on military trials for island Al Qursaya: 

http://youtu.be/k3mPU3ZEtXg 
published 7 Jan. 2013 by Rasha Abdulla, via YouTube
Dr. Rasha Abdulla speaks about military trials in Egypt
and the case of the Qursaya Island on CBC. Jan 6, 2013.
 


 

Arabic / English

‫لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين .. الحرية لأهالي القرصاية‬
 

8. Januar, 18:00 – 21:00
المنشية - نصب الجندي المجهول - اسكندرية
دستور الاخوان الجديد اللي كانوا مكويين قبل الثورة بنار الامحاكمات العسكرية بيبيح المحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين , حاجة كان الاخوان قبل الثورة بيطالبوا بالغائها.. المحاكمات العسكرية دي بتطول الغلابة و منهم أهالي القرصاية اللي بس متمسكين بحقهم في أرضهم يوم التلات 8 يناير فيه وقفة في القاهرة تضامنا معاهم و احنا في اسكندرية حنتضامن معاهم في نفس الوقت كبداية حملة لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين القصة من الأول : يوم 18 نوفمبر 2012 هاجمت قوات الجيش جزيرة القرصاية، و حاولت طرد السكان بالقوة بزعم ان الجزيرة ملك الجيش، و استشهد محمد عبد الموجود برصاص الجيش و احيل 26 من سكان الجزيرة لمحاكمة عسكريّة. الحقيقة ان اللي بينتهك القانون في الحالة دي هم الجيش لأنهم تجاهلوا حكم نهائي من الادارية العليا في 2010 بيقر حق أهل الجزيرة في الأرض. أهالي جزيرة القرصاية بيتحاكموا عسكري عشان رفضوا يتخلوا عن أرضهم و سكنهم و كمان ال26 المقبوض عليهم مش كلهم من ساكني الجزيرة, فيهم صيادين بيشتغلوا باليومية هناك و فجاة لقوا نفسهم محبوسين و بيتحاكموا عسكري بسبب صراع هم مش طرف أصلا به. النطق بالحكم في القضية يوم 14 يناير ... تضامنكم مهم, و الضمان الوحيد لانصاف أهالي جزيرة القرصاية تسلسل الأحداث: -في 2007 أصدر مجلس الوزراء قرارا بإخلاء جزيرة القرصاية من سكانها بدعوى تحويل أرضها إلى محمية طبيعية. - و نشرت بعض الصحف وقتها خطط الحكومة في استثمار االجزيرة و تحويلها لمنشآة سياحية. - طعن أهالى الجزيرة على القرار الصادر من مجلس الوزراء، فحكمت محكمة القضاء الإدارى لصالحهم و أقرت أحقية سكان الجزيرة فى البقاء بمساكنهم. - طعن مجلس الوزراء ووزارة الزراعة ومحافظة الجيزة على الحكم في نفس السنة -في 2007 حاول الجيش بالفعل اخلاء الجزيرة بالقوة لكن الأهالي تصدوا لهم و قامت حركة شعبية للتضامن معهم فجمدت خطط الجيش و الحكومة للجزيرة "مؤقتا" - في 6 فبراير 2010 حكمت محكمة القضاء الإداري على مجلس الوزراء وزارة الزراعة بعدم إخلاء جزيرة القرصاية وأكدت أحقيّة أهالى الجزيرة فى البقاء بمساكنهم - حكم نهائي و ملزم للاطلاع على نص الحكم

https://www.facebook.com/ecesr/posts/465711336805766 

-و اخيرا اعتداء الجيش على أهالي الجزيرة يوم 18 نوفمبر 2012 و قتل محمد عبد الموجود و احالة 26 لمحاكمة عسكرية فيديو عن تفاصيل الاعتداء :  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PZcY6Qtu8 
http://www.facebook.com/events/144750912345364/

Source: Mosireen Independent Media Collective in Cairo, at twitter: @mosireen
https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=mosireen.org_7ujkkhu9704k4honpov6g8ip1s@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Africa/Cairo&gsessionid=bg2e6bZaNzD7mITdxnWEcw



Please notice (Note from Pit Becker paintmyblues):
The following translation from Arabic into English is not perfect, it's done
with use of translater machines, which can not translate as good as human beings.
So I beg your indulgence. Shukran, Thank you!

 

No to military trials for civilians .. Freedom for the people of Alqrsaah

Tuesday, 8 January, 18:00 - 21:00
Where: Mansheya - Monument of the Unknown Soldier - Alex (Card)

Description:

Brotherhood's new constitution who were Mkoyen Before the fire Alamhakmat Revolution military Bibih military trials for civilians, need Brotherhood before Bitalbwa Revolution abolished .. Military trials de Pttoul trodden and their families Alqrsaah who ČÓ clinging right to land on hills January 8 when a pause in Cairo in solidarity with them and we in Alexandria Hantdhamn with them at the same time start a campaign not to military trials for civilians story of the first: on November 18, 2012 forces attacked the island Alqrsaah army, and tried to expel the population by force, claiming that the island has the army, and cited Mohammed Abdul existing army bullets and referred 26 of the island's population for a military trial. The truth is that, who law Penthec at the situation De are the army because they ignored the final judgment of the Supreme Administrative 2010 Baiqr right people of the island in the ground. Island residents Alqrsaah Pethakmoa Ashan military refused to give up their land and residence, violin, 26 arrested, not all of the inhabitants of the island, including fishermen Bastglua day laborers there and suddenly were themselves locked up and the military Pethakmoa because they struggle not originally party. Verdict in the case on Jan. 14 ... Solidarity is important, and the only guarantee of justice to the people of the island of Alqrsaah sequence of events: - In 2007, the Council of Ministers issued a decision to evacuate islands Alqrsaah residents claiming to convert land into a nature reserve. - And some newspapers published the time the government's plans in invest Aaldzerh and converted to a smoke. - Challenged people of the island on the decision of the Council of Ministers, sentenced Administrative Court in their favor and approved the eligibility of the island's population to stay housing. - Challenged the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Agriculture and the governorate of Giza on the judgment in the same year - in 2007 the army tried already evacuated the island by force but parents confronted them and the Popular Movement of Solidarity with them froze military plans and government of the island "temporarily" - 6 February 2010 Administrative Court ruled the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Agriculture not to evacuate island Alqrsaah and confirmed the eligibility of people of the island survive their shelters - Ruling final and binding for the text governance 
https://www.facebook.com/ecesr/posts/465711336805766 

- and finally a military assault on the people of the island on 18 November 2012 and killed Mohammed Abdel located and assignment of 26 video for a military trial for assault details: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PZcY6Qtu8 
http://www.facebook.com/events/144750912345364/

____

"انقذوا أهالي القرصاية من إعتداء الجيش" Army vs Qursaya

http://youtu.be/g6PZcY6Qtu8   
by Mosireen Independent Media Collective in Cairo, via @youtube



Quorsaya residents and army trade blame for violence on Island
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/58615/Egypt/Politics-/Quorsaya-residents-and-army-trade-blame-for-violen.aspx
by ahramonline english, Egypt





Dr. Rasha Abdulla, Cairo, Egypt
at twitter https://twitter.com/RashaAbdulla @RashaAbdulla 

No Military Trials for Civilians
NoMilTrials Group, Egypt, at twitter www.twitter.com/nomiltrials @NoMilTrials 
No Military Trials for Civilians https://en.nomiltrials.com/      
DIARIES UNDER MILITARY RULE, in Arabic and English tahrirdiaries.wordpress.com/  
NoMilTrials Group at fb www.facebook.com/NoMilTrials


Mosireen
Mosireen Independent Media Collective, Cairo, Egypt
http://mosireen.org








Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2013.




Wednesday, 26 December 2012

I'm against military trials for Civilians!


Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Shoura Council 24 & Alaa Abd El Fattah to Face Criminal Charges
http://en.nomiltrials.com/2013/12/press-release-shoura-council-24-alaa.html



Free Alaa, 2014, MonotypePainting, 80x60 cms

Logo NoMilTrials: Copyright © by NoMilTrials group, Egypt. 
All rights reserved by NoMilTrials group.





: لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين

ارفضوا محاكمة المدنيين أمام المحاكم العسكرية 

http://www.nomiltrials.com/2013/11/174-2012.html?spref=tw

by NoMilTrials-Group, Egypt
at twitter: @NoMilTrials 

No to military trials for civilians:  
Reject the trial of civilians before military courts


I am against military trials for Civilians, Var. 1, 2013
MonotypePainting/Collage, 42x29,7 cms



____________ I share the demand:
_______________________ Constitution of Egypt WITHOUT military trials for civilians!  
 

 

1 August 2013
Press Release by NoMilTrials group, Egypt

http://www.nomiltrials.com/2013/08/blog-post.html?spref=tw
by @NoMilTrials




I am against military trials for Civilians, Var. 3, 2013
MonotypePainting/Collage, 42x29,7 cms




I am against military trials for Civilians, Var. 2, 2013
MonotypePainting/Collage, 42x29,7 cms




YES, I support NoMilTrials-Group in Egypt!
WHY? Because I am a Civilian
and I do NOT accept, in no case, NEVER,
to be taken to a military court!
No Civilian should be taken to a military court!
 
 

NoMilTrials-sticker
Courtesy of NoMilTrials group, Egypt.
Copyright © by NoMilTrials group, Egypt. 
All rights reserved by NoMilTrials group.


7 January 2013
Egyptian journalist facing military trial must be released
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/egyptian-blogger-facing-military-trial-must-be-released-2013-01-07 
by Amnesty International
 

 

23 December 2012
Press Release by NoMilTrials group, Egypt

http://fb.me/2kb49ozoO  



No Military Trials For Civilians!

In Egypt more than 12.000 humans, including children, faced unfair military trials
by the military regime scaf since the downfall of dictator mubarak - and the new government
has not stopped this, it continues.


Peaceful protestors were detained and imprisoned. Many of them were convicted on false accusations.
Family members, friends, lawyers, when they asked for the detained, they got also detained and imprisoned.
Also passers-by who were in the area, and had not at all the intention of joining a protest or demonstration
- even children - were beaten, arrested, tortured, kidnapped, detained, sentenced to long prison terms
or even got killed.


The Rights of Freedom of opinion and expression,
the freedom of speech,
the freedom of blogging,
the freedom of peaceful meetings
and peaceful protests, 

all human rights must be guarantee - and respected !

I support NoMilTrials-Group in Egypt!
I am a Civilian and I do NOT accept, in no case, NEVER,
to be taken to a military court!
No Civilian should be taken to a military court!


I say NO to military trials for civilians!

All political prisoners must be released immediately!

military trials for Civilians must DISAPPEAR
in EVERY country on this planet!




NoMilTrials Group, Egypt, at twitter www.twitter.com/nomiltrials  @NoMilTrials 
No Military Trials for Civilians http://en.nomiltrials.com/      
DIARIES UNDER MILITARY RULE, in Arabic and English tahrirdiaries.wordpress.com/  
NoMilTrials Group at fb www.facebook.com/NoMilTrials



Stop the Killing!


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml



Copyright / Sources:
 
NoMilTrials-sticker 

Courtesy of NoMilTrials group, Egypt.
Copyright © by NoMilTrials group, Egypt. 
All rights reserved by NoMilTrials group.


"Stop the killing!" (detail)
Collage, MonotypePainting, 1994-2003 

Copyright © by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2012.

All Rights Reserved. 


Thanks:

Shukran, NoMilTrials-Group!
My special thanks go to Rasha Abdulla.



Monday, 24 December 2012

Liberdade



Liberdade
O espírito de liberdade é como o vento livre, nada e ninguém pode detê-lo!

Freedom
The spirit of freedom is like the free wind, nothing and nobody can stop him!

Liberté 
L'esprit de liberté est comme le vent libre, rien ni personne ne peut l'arrêter!

Libertad 
El espíritu de la libertad es libre como el viento, nada ni nadie puede detenerlo!

Libertà 
Lo spirito della libertà è come il vento libero, niente e nessuno lo può fermare!



Liberdade 
23 dec 2012, Acrylic paint and coloured pencil on paper, 42x60 cms
Freedom
22 june 2013, MonotypePainting on paper, 100x70 cms


Copyright
© by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork, 2012.

All Rights Reserved. 

For you



For your support
!!! GRÀCIES !!! GRACIAS !!! GRAZIE !!! MERCI !!!
!!! شكرا جزيلا !!!
!!! PILAMAYA !!! OBRIGADO !!! DANKE !!!
!!! THANK YOU !!!
  

 Pit Becker 
paintmyblues





A Green Sun is rising ... the Sun of Hope.
23 dec 2012, MonotypePainting on paper, 25x25 cms
 




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© by Pit Becker paintmyblues,
PIT BECKER ARTwork.
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Sunday, 2 December 2012

paintmyblues



paintmyblues for Amazonia, detail, 2008-2013
MonotypePainting on paper, 139x78,5 cms




There is hope, 2009
MonotypePainting on paper, 70x100 cms




Ocean, 1992
Acrylic paint on canvas, 40x55 cms


 
Blossoms, 30 November 2012
Acrylic paint and pencil on paper, 44x64 cms





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All Rights Reserved.