is a Canadian Parliamentary petition I have crafted to get the Government to change rules to allow refugee petitions from American LBGTQ+ citizens.
Only Canadians can sign, so please my Fellow Canadian Peeps, sign share and get this out there!!!!
And all my non-Canadian Peeps - share share share!!!
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7195
War in Middle East and its effects
March 2026
Although war reporting generates a lot of commentary on the deaths of those caught up in the conflicts, the effects on refugees and those displaced receives much less attention. With the new war(s) in the Middle East, refugees are again in the news. So far, most displaced people have been moved within the countries of Iran and Lebanon, but Turkey in…
Yara Said (b1991) Syria & The Refugee Nation, USA
The Refugee Flag (2016) nylon
exhibited: Ian Potter Centre, NGV, Melbourne
Ana (@anaborland on telegram) is in quite a dire need for money. If anybody could send a dollar, that would help.
She’s a Ukrainian refugee in Poland, trying to find a job as a Project Manager.
She is admin of this channel @herebroadcast on telegram.
On the Charles Bridge
instead of a passion play
hordes of tourists with short-term memory loss
unknowingly enact the role of refugees.
There is no more space for genuine puppeteers.
In souvenir shops the Good Soldier Švejk is rarely represented.
He has been replaced by Hello Kitty.
At The Black Ox a skinhead is serving beer,
mostly to foreigners.
To this day there is nobody in this city
who would grant Marina Tsvetaeva
spare room for a memorial space
so her soul could find peace at last.
Despite all the crosses and saints on the bridge
city authorities keep closing doors in the face of her fan,
Bethlehem-style.
After walking a Way of Sorrow,
a local official in the Všenory district takes pity on her
and directs her to the Information Point
in a tourist-less village
where Tsvetaeva once sank in mud to her knees.
The train ride takes time.
In a little room in a white soc-realist building
on a newly carpeted floor
on which Tsvetaeva would likely not have stepped,
huge pictures stand.
As I leave I feel at my back her perplexing stare
imploring me:
“Does your epoch also have no humanism to spare?”
If we don’t support THEM then they’ll call us racist anti-Semitic. We don’t want that do we? Therefore it’s OUR best interest to support their cause especially Rabbi Rachel Greene’s cause (2015) and let the Black Americans get the brunt of the globalism. All the funds meant for the Black Americans ARE being shifted to the refugees and illegal immigrants …
Painting: deep blue ocean, traversed by sailing ships.
Title: Lines of Water: Between the Truth of Yesterday and the Reality of Today
Technique/Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 100cm x 100cm
Year: 2025
Current Exhibition: “Forging Harmony
