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Workers remove the “Emancipation Group” statue from its pedestal in Park Square. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It s not a sight you see every day. On Tuesday morning, a towering crane lifted an approximately 2,800-pound statue off the granite pedestal it s occupied since 1879. Inch by inch, its two bronze, human forms rose above Boston s Park Square swaddled in bright blue movers blankets. Wrapped over the figures heads, the coverings resembled executioner s hoods. A small crowd gathered on the sidewalk below to witness the city of Boston following through with its promise to remove the historic piece, titled “Emancipation Group,” before the end of 2020. The decision, made in June, followed hours of public deliberation hosted by the Boston Art Commission and was catalyzed by a video campaign and petition by Boston artist Tory Bullock. In the end the commission s members voted unanimously to remove the depiction of a Black man breaking free of the chains of slavery kneeling ....
Updated Dec 29, 2020 Boston Removes Statue Of Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln The statue was to be placed in storage until the city decides whether to display it in a museum. William J. Cole A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879. City officials had agreed in late June to take down the memorial after complaints and a bitter debate over the design. Mayor Marty Walsh acknowledged at the time that the statue made residents and visitors alike “uncomfortable.” ....
Funding distribution I READ the D&S article “One town focus on PM’s cycle funding” (D&S Times, Dec 4) about North Yorkshire County Council’s decision to allocate the vast majority of its £2bn funding for walking and cycling in one town with growing incredulity and mounting anger, echoing Cllr Parson’s view this decision is “absolutely appalling “ and “beggars belief on a number of counts. The decision to go ahead with such a maldistribution of public funds represents blatant inequity and clearly negates the council’s responsibility to ensure parity of infrastructure across all communities in the county. ....
By Jenna Garrett on March 27, 2014 Jennifer Layton, Devon. Developed severe tinnitus and then insomnia and heart palpitations after a next door neighbor in her terrace had wi-fi set up in their home. She is photographed at a friend’s home on the edge town. She felt more at ease here away from the ‘electro-smog’. Damian May, Reading, Berkshire. May is a skilled cabinet maker and runs a property maintenance company. He discovered he suffered from EHS after buying a Nintendo Wii for Christmas. His electrosensitivity has made it very difficult for him to run his company as he finds it painful to work in areas with wi-fi or a strong mobile phone signal. He is photographed in his office, which he has insulated against EMF’s. He is actively campaigning to have wi-fi removed from his son’s school. ....
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