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The event took place in San José de Ocoa in the street on February 27 as to develop strong protests against blackouts.
The police today presented the Attorney
While highlighting the criminal nature of police assault against the physical integrity of our comrade, MC ocoeño joins the clamor for his immediate release.
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NARCISO ISA CONDE
June 14, 2010, Sto. Dgo.
Warning: Reading this article may be (yet?) Drier than usual. This is because, in essence, its goal is to make a synopsis of the greatest possible amount of information about the paintings and their history. Apologies in advance.
Reconstruction of the room with the paintings
Note: the vault does not match the original roof, probably of wood.
post In this and the next talk Romanesque paintings of San Pedro de Arlanza, a masterpiece of late Romanesque English painting and tragic example of institutional neglect and marketing of our history ... but for now we'll leave that part aside, and focus on the art itself.
San Pedro de Arlanza. Ruins
The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, dating back probably to the tenth century was one of the most important monasteries and historic Castilla. Linked to Count Fernan Gonzalez founder, who was buried there, his relationship with the English monarchy was strong during the Middle Ages. In the second half of the XI is undertaken the complete renovation of the building in what will be one of the first great Romanesque buildings in Castile.
The paintings in question were originally occupying the top floor of a two storey building attached to the cloister, the lower was the chapter house. Surely decorate the four walls, but the west wall was lost to be replaced by a baroque arcade.
San Pedro de Arlanza. In red, the paint room
It's a rare painting by its frame and secular themes, the only similar set in Spain seems to be to the chapter house of Villanueva de Sigena (Huesca). In both cases, the context seems to have been similar: a room used by the dignitaries who visited the monastery, favored by the nobility and the kings, although in the case of Arlanza lack of data does not allow secure.
Another reconstruction of the arrangement of the paintings in the room
The paintings were distributed by the three original walls preserved in the unit. In each of them is a central span on the sides of which are distributed key scenes. These are divided into four bands. The bottom is smooth maroon; on it is a frieze with scenes and different figures, white on red or blue. Above it are the main panels of large dimensions, they show, faced on either side of the span, an individual animal on a background plant or architectural decoration, are the most attractive parts of better quality. In the spandrels of the arches have small figures, mostly birds and castles. Crowning it all and uniting all the scenes ran a frieze with geometric and plant barely remains.
Wall by wall, the decor is arranged as follows:
North wall. Reconstruction North wall: it starts with a scene fragment decorated with plant, which then would be destroyed by the reform of the Baroque room that opened three arches on the west wall. Keep a door surmounted by the arms of Castile, a beautiful castle in gold on a red field. Then, the main panels. On the left, a kind of bird of long necks and legs, and under it a frieze of birds. On the right is not preserved, although a fragment contains drawings of the wing that could indicate another similar bird, facing the same direction. Between the two panels was a window arch resting on late-looking decorative capitals difficult to recognize. Is preserved the painting of one of the spandrels of the window, a fantastic creature.
east wall. this: in the center of this wall was the main entrance to the room, segmental arch-shaped with small birds in the spandrels of the south are being preserved. The two lions flanking faced with architectural scenes, the northern Islamist element (or simply Mozarabic tradition) and the southern Romanesque appearance. The best preserved is the south, the north is missing. Has retained only the south frieze with figures of fish.
Wall south. Wall Reconstruction South, is the best was preserved. Was centered around a double window with a castle painted between the two arches. The two main panels are retained: the left with a tap and the law imposing a no less spectacular dragon. Behind both, plant elements. The lower frieze is the most varied of the whole, shows a variety of animal figures, human or interacting fantastic almost seem as representations of fables, an idea reinforced by the anthropomorphizing of animals.
We can see in these paintings a distant influence of Moorish lighting, evident in the treatment of architectural motifs and, above all, in the use of bands of flat color as the background of the figures. However, are more like thumbnails much later manuscripts. There are, in particular, remarkable similarities to some of the miniatures of Tumbo A de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela (1) (2) , especially in the expression of the lions whiskers. This would put them in the transition from Romanesque to Gothic, the known as "Art 1200". The authors of the work, and also the thumbnails above, could be of British origin.
A chronicle of 1563 says that by the year 1138 the teacher or Endestens Gudesteus made the paintings of the chapter house and church and galleries, in some cases it has been assumed that it was these that we talked. However, it seems unreasonable to assign a chronology to these paintings as early, so we think that the work involved the decoration Gudesteo, now defunct, of another agency, perhaps the ground floor of this.
reconstructions Credits: Compiled J. drawings Sureda and J. Gudiol and photographs of various authors. Aerial Photography: Prepared SigPac
take seriously Policy
For Hecmilio Galván
Email: triunfaremos@gmail.com
May 31, 2010
If a concrete and clear lesson we can draw from the recent "victory" of the LDP in past elections is that this party, and the group that represents power, seem to have developed a structured long-range plan to keep anyway.
Given the dispersion and moral deterioration and organizational the rest of the social fabric of the country, efforts to move them out of power, to them as the most developed and enriched by the right-hander, will be a compromise that will require willpower, discipline and sacrifice, but most seriously.
The job has been improvised, or superficial, or no goals. Everything indicates that the government of Leonel Fernandez is laying the economic, social and political to stay.
They advance their agenda, while opponents criticize the branches and we called a vacuum.
They build and oiled machinery for power and fraud, desahogarnos we settle in newspapers and on radio, a buzz that becomes so common and predictable, fully functional and safe.
have their "leader", its Constitution, consistent and disciplined party, the Supreme Court of Justice, a rising economic group, a battery of journalists focus, the Chamber of Auditors, the Congress of progress, all or almost all unions, associations or "forces" and m s important to a strange hegemony and control over the main opposition party which seems to pull the strings.
course strategic warfare is not against the LDP as a hegemonic force of the right-hander, but against poor latecomers to this instrument serves strengthened, but the struggle for political power, begins to overcome the instruments used by the enemy to control.
Beating PRD, and especially the LDP and the industries they support, will require patience, discipline, dedication, but most will, the latter only shows taking things seriously.
In my language, take politics seriously, involve start building a project and a long-term process. Is actually seeding. But planting means planning, working, monitor and protect. This is not throw the seeds and wait, this is the site look carefully, so that our conuco of the fruits that we expect.
involves thinking in the long term. First, build the instrument, the social and political tools to work. This may arise from different pathways and structural forms, but should lead to a convergent process institutionally democratic features. To express the trends and shapes, under the democratic discipline.
Second, a speech must be agreed based on a set of proposals to share and express different vision of country we want. This effort, the first stretch (the formulation) is advanced, but should be strengthened by a process of rapprochement, reflection and discussion groups so that the converging not only share visions, but above all tune into the same frequency .
work to confuse us, to divide, to disorient, to face, had the precision of a scalpel and the sharpness of a craft. It was an impeccable job in which they have taken pains since 1965. It was perhaps as serious as the corrupting process, which has become the PLD, PRD and other organizations into real political mafias
On the electoral level, for example, take politics seriously implies a steady job, with target dates, but out of time limits. We can not remove a candidate or a new and different party in every election. You have to earn and build applications and processes.
work will have to be concentrated and dispersed at once. Focus resources on areas most likely without neglecting the country's geopolitical vision. Progress in building local concrete examples to irradiate the national.
Taking politics seriously is to abandon forever the improvisation and avant-garde. What will be decided collectively and contribute to the extent of the possibilities to develop collective and individual projects.
take politics seriously is to take the training seriously political theory and create mechanisms to propel her in the center of a new political action.
also take seriously the organization and the national growth as a key priority. The old slogan to the masses is always current and real.
Two issues that we take seriously in building a political alternative are funding the fight and communications. Without resources and without a proper and successful policy and specific communication tools, there is no way to win the fight.
Another issue that we take seriously is the construction of political positions on social issues, for example, the position on Haitian immigration, the position on domestic producers against abortion position, the position on TLC, etc.
Taking politics seriously also implies, lay attitudes that emphasize the things that divide us. Participate in this process different expressions, and involve serious mature enough to understand and tolerate.
take seriously the policy, means abandoning the positions and discourses that we isolated from the population that still sees us as subjects "rare" in the environment. We speak in the language and themes that connect us with the society in its various strata and sectors.
urgeswhy leave the chapel, in the trenches, chairs, classrooms and the media (and stay out say) to reach the houses, street corners, the conucos, markets , parks, street corners hot to colmadones to beauty salons and churches, to preach the message of change and build the structure to make it happen.
The task is difficult, but that the enhances.
Tomorrow is too late.
