W as walking

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Walking is important in my life, even if I am quite a lazy character.
There is this song by Gaber that says the road is the only salvation.
Several times I felt that way.  That going on the road could help to redefine its own objectives or help overcoming difficult periods.
I walked a lot with the scouts, normally going up somewhere. It was before the use of the ‘trekking’ vocabulary, before decathlon, when the equipment was rather bought second-hand from old military stuff.
I didn’t reach any exciting destination, several times stopped before getting the top of a mountain but this is not really the point. Not for me, at least.
Doing less road since I am working in offices, but also going from country to country for the job was a sort of walking exercise.
Still, starting, getting into action has never been simple and I need indeed a clear goal to get into motion; I am never tempted by wandering without a plan.
I described elsewhere how after the fifties I got back to a tour with rucksack and tent and my try at Camino de Santiago.
Hope to have time and energy to do more.

V as Vegetarian

The vegetarian T-shirts are my last invention.
Actually the last to be produced because the idea is a very old one.
I finally went for them as my two goddaughters became both vegetarian.
This gave me the occasion to discover a completely different version of my drawings that shocked me at first but eventually won me over.
Bernie, who produces the shirts for me, took some of the drawings and transformed them with a software in order to make them more fit for printing.
The result is sometimes better than the original.
Below few examples.

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Another collapsed bridge

There is no image showing more effectively how this movement repudiated its founding principles.
A 5stars minister going to the tv. To the emblematic PortaAPorta programme. Behind a scale model of the future new bridge in Genova.
The homogenisation is now completed. They have become the same.
It was fast and it was sad. We did not have many hopes but did not expect the process to be so swift and smooth. Very little internal opposition. No protest.
“One counts one” “Critical debates in streaming” “Far from the show of politics“, everything betrayed in the most radical manner. Even the transfer of part of the salary and benefits disappeared, while staff is recruited in the classical way, no public vacancies publication but ‘tell to a friend’ old system.
Homo homini lupus.
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Photo La Repubblica

We need a new karlmarx

Trip on Ryanair.  Ashamed for the stewards transformed in peddlers and obliged to fill any minute with recommendations to buy something.  A new ‘proletariat’ is emerging, made of precarious job, intermittent contracts, freedom to fire workers, ridicoulous salaries, migrants exploitation.  We need a new karlmarx to explain what’s happening. And I hope this time will be a woman.

20180820_142850Original image from peopleworld.com