http://www.graphicinstallers.com/GSI_PROD.html Wall Murals can bring any room alive. You can use wall murals in your home or business
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Wall Murals
UT Brownsville President on how Border Wall will hurt UTB
On April 28th the The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, led by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans, led by Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU), held a joint oversight field hearing on “Walls and Waivers: Expedited Construction of the Southern Border Wall and the Collateral Impacts on Communities and the Environment” at UT Brownsville.
This is the Testimony of Juliet V. Garcia, Ph.D, President, University of Texas at Brownsville and Southmost College on the negative impact that the US Mexico border wall will have on their campus.
http://houston.indymedia.org
http://deletetheborder.org
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Congressional Border Wall Hearing Part 1
A Joint Congressional Subcommittee oversight field hearing of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (Chairman Grijalva), and the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans (Chairwoman Bordallo), met on April 28, 2008 at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. The title of the hearing was “Walls and Waivers: Expedited Construction of the Southern Border Wall and Collateral Impacts on Communities and the Environment.” Clips of the Congressmen’s opening statements, and the first panel of witnesses, are shown in this edition. The purpose of the hearing was to investigate environmental and community impacts of the expediting of the southern border wall and the related laws which Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has waived.
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How to Paint Wall Murals : Fresco Painting for a Wall Mural
History of fresco wall mural painting and about the style and how it has impacted the art of wall murals; learn this and more in this free online painting video about wall murals taught by expert artist Ian Loveall.
Expert: Ian Loveall
Bio: Ian Loveall is a professional artist who studied with Deborah Kunic and Jay Wegter. He teaches private drawing classes and paints murals in California.
Filmmaker: Louis Nathan
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The DDR border at Hötensleben
Hötensleben is a small town around 15km to the south of Helmstedt just inside the border of Middle Saxony. No trouble getting there today but before 19 November 1989 it was much more difficult.
This was a border town but not a border crossing and the remains of the wall that divided Germany for more than forty years can clearly be seen here.
This is the first part of a film I made on 1 May 2008.
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The first border crossing | 20 years after the fall of the wall
Annemarie Reffert went straight down to the Marienborn checkpoint after watching live coverage of the SED press conference. She and her daughter arrived in the West at around 9.15pm. She said she had just wanted to see if the border was open.
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The Road To The Wall / Berlin Wall Documentary Film Video
The Road To The Wall / Berlin Wall Documentary Film Video. Public domain video.
Directorate of Armed Forces Information and Education. The Road to the Wall. 1962. The Road to the Wall is a 1962 short documentary film produced by Robert Saudek. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. This program has been declared obsolete for use within the sponsoring agency, but may have content value for educational use. Producer: Department of Defense. Creative Commons license: Public Domain.
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a physical barrier completely encircling West Berlin, separating it from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany), including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany. Both borders came to symbolize the Iron Curtain between Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc.
The wall separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter of a century, from the day construction began on 13 August 1961 until the Wall was brought down on 9 November 1989. During this period, at least 98 people were confirmed killed trying to cross the Wall into West Berlin, according to official figures. However, a prominent victims’ group claims that more than 200 people were killed trying to flee from East to West Berlin.[2] The East German government issued shooting orders to border guards dealing with defectors, though such orders are not the same as shoot to kill orders which GDR officials denied ever issuing.
When the East German government announced on 9 November 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin, crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were chipped away by a euphoric public and by souvenir hunters; industrial equipment was later used to remove almost all of the rest of it.
The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990.
By the early 1950s, the Soviet approach to controlling national movement, restricting emigration, was emulated by most of the rest of the Eastern Bloc, including East Germany. The restrictions presented a quandary for some Eastern Bloc states that had been more economically advanced and open than the Soviet Union, such that crossing borders seemed more natural—especially between where no prior border existed between East and West Germany.
Up until 1952, the lines between East Germany and the western occupied zones could be easily crossed in most places. On April 1, 1952, East German leaders met the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in Moscow; during the discussions Stalin’s foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed that the East Germans should “introduce a system of passes for visits of West Berlin residents to the territory of East Berlin [so as to stop] free movement of Western agents” in the GDR. Stalin agreed, calling the situation “intolerable”. He advised the East Germans to build up their border defenses, telling them that “The demarcation line between East and West Germany should be considered a border and not just any border, but a dangerous one … The Germans will guard the line of defense with their lives.”
Consequently, the Inner German border between the two German states was closed, and a barbed-wire fence erected. The border between the Western and Eastern sectors of Berlin, however, remained open, although traffic between the Soviet and the Western sectors was somewhat restricted. This resulted in Berlin becoming a magnet for East Germans desperate to escape life in the GDR, and also a flashpoint for tension between the superpowers–the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1955, the Soviets passed a law transferring control over civilian access in Berlin to East Germany, which officially abdicated them for direct responsibility of matters therein, while passing control to a regime not recognized in the west. When large numbers of East Germans then defected under the guise of “visits”, the new East German state essentially eliminated all travel to the west in 1956. Soviet East German ambassador Mikhail Pervukhin observed that “the presence in Berlin of an open and essentially uncontrolled border between the socialist and capitalist worlds unwittingly prompts the population to make a comparison between both parts of the city, which unfortunately, does not always turn out in favor of the Democratic [East] Berlin.
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Across The Border – Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris/Neil Young
The Bruce Springsteen song “Across The Border” from the CD “Western Wall/The Tucson Sessions” by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. Neil Young joins in on harmony vocals and a mean harmonica (my favorite harmonica solo next to Stevie Wonder in “Isn’t She Lovely”). Bernie Leadon (an original Eagle) on mandocello. This was a really underrated CD in my opinion. The Jackson Browne song “For A Dancer” was another highlight.
Most of the beautiful desert photography comes from a guy named mtflyer2005 on webshots.com. Thanks mtflyer2005, tried to contact you but couldn’t figure it out.
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Bleeding Borders – Movie about the US Mexico Border
This is a short clip of a documentary that will soon be completed.
http://www.bleedingborders.com
We are in post production of a documentary about the US/MX border. Originally, we went down to the border to make my film to embarrass the US Government into doing their job. What we found is they are doing their job. The border is much more secure than it was in 1995. Now, they are building too many fences.
http://www.bleedingborders.com
Our film crew traveled the entire border from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, filming and interviewing on BOTH sides of the border. After compiling all of the interviews from folks working and living on both sides of the US/MX border, the conclusion is inescapable. The walls we have, don’t really work, and are only a “Speed Bump.” New walls will not work. (Except as a multi-billion dollar speed bump) All the walls in Tijuana have done is drive up the death rate of undocumented workers.
http://www.bleedingborders.com
BLEEDING BORDERS is a fresh look at the US/MX border issues. While the border is not completely secure right now, it is much more secure than back in 1995 when thousands of people streamed across nightly. You cannot completely secure a 2,000 mile long border, it would take an Army of at least 200,000 soldiers, and we are not at war with Mexico, they are our second largest trading partner.
http://www.bleedingborders.com
One thing stands clear after all of our interviews. It is STUPID to build a wall on any River Section of the Border. The river itself is a natural barrier. It is easier to put a ladder over a wall, than make it across the river without drowning. Undocumented workers from all over the world drown in the river all the time.
http://www.bleedingborders.com
As they say in Mexico, “La Frontera Una LLaga Abierto” Mexico is our second largest trading partner in the world.
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Jackie and Dunlap on the border wall