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Old New York Evening Post Building
Old New York Evening Post Building
|20 Vesey Street,
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|40°42′43″N 74°0′36″W / 40.71194°N 74.01000°WCoordinates: 40°42′43″N 74°0′36″W / 40.71194°N 74.01000°W
|Robert D. Kohn
|Architectural style
|Art Nouveau
|Governing body
|NRHP Reference #
|Significant dates
|Added to NRHP
|August 16, 1977
|Designated NYCL
|November 13, 1965
The Old New York Evening Post Building is the former office and printing plant of the New York Evening Post newspaper located at 20 Vesey Street between Church Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1906-07 and was designed by architect Robert D. Kohn for Oswald Garrison Villard, who owned the Post at the time, and is considered to be "one of the few outstanding Art nouveau buildings" ever constructed in the United States.[2]
The fourteen-story, stone-veneer building is "reminiscent of the buildings that line the boulevards of Paris", and was not copied from an existing building.[3] It features three tall bays of cast-iron framed bow windows, separated by pale limestone piers. There is an elaborate copper-covered mansard roof, two stories high and four elaborate sculpted figures.[2] The statues depict the Four Periods of Publicity; two are by Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, and two by the architect's wife, Estelle Rumbold Kohn.[4]
The building, which was later called the Garrison Building,[5] was designated a New York City landmark in 1965,[2] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission was headquartered in the building from 1980 to 1987.[2]
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- List of New York City Landmarks
- National Register of Historic Places listings in New York County, New York
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ^ a b c d Diamonstein, Barbarlee, The Landmarks of New York III, Harry Abrams, 1998, p. 283
- ^ "Old New York Evening Post Building Designation Report" New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (November 23, 1965)
- ^ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Postal, Matthew A. (ed. and text); Dolkart, Andrew S. (text). (2009) Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, p.23
- ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.67
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To evaluate the association between maternal medication use during pregnancy and cerebral white matter damage and cerebral palsy (CP) among very preterm infants.
This analysis of data from the ELGAN Study included 877 infants born <28 weeks gestation. Mothers were interviewed, charts reviewed, placentas were cultured and assessed histologically, and children evaluated at 24 months corrected age. A diagnostic algorithm classified neurologic findings as quadriparetic CP, diparetic CP, hemiparetic CP, or no CP.
After adjustment for the potential confounding of disorders for which medications might have been indicated, the risk of quadraparetic CP remained elevated among the infants of mothers who consumed aspirin (OR=3.0, 95% CI 1.3,6.9) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) (OR=2.4, 95% CI 1.04,5.8). The risk of diparetic CP was also associated with maternal consumption of an NSAID, but only if the consumption was not approved by a physician (OR=3.5, 95% CI 1.1,11.0)
The possibility that aspirin and NSAID use in pregnancy could lead to perinatal brain damage cannot be excluded.
Some obstetricians prescribe aspirin for recurrent miscarriage in the setting of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome [1], and to reduce the risk of preeclampsia [2, 3], while others have used indomethacin, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAID), to stop preterm uterine contractions or as a tocolytic to prevent preterm delivery[4].
In response to a 2007 survey conducted by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, only 28% of clinicians considered aspirin safe for first trimester consumption, while only 31% considered ibuprofen safe; in contrast, 94% considered acetaminophen safe [5]. Most research on drug safety has focused on fetal malformations,. Due to the association of inflammatory phenomena and markedly preterm birth, and the relationships between preterm birth and brain damage [6–8], we sought to determine if there is an association between over the counter NSAIDs and perinatal brain damage in these infants born well before term. Maternal consumption of NSAIDS to reduce symptoms of inflammatory processes may indicate the existence of such processes which might themselves contribute to brain damage, or they may independently lead to brain damage. [9–12].
In this paper, we assess to what extent maternal consumption of medications often used to minimize symptoms of inflammation and infection are associated with white matter lesions recognized on neonatal cranial ultrasound scans. We also assess the extent to which these medications are associated with cerebral palsy (CP) subtypes two years later.
The ELGAN study was designed to identify characteristics and exposures that increase the risk of structural and functional neurologic disorders in ELGANs (the acronym for Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns) [13]. During the years 2002–2004, women who delivered before the 28th post-menstrual week at 14 participating institutions in 11 cities in 5 states were asked to enroll in the study. The enrollment and consent processes were approved by the institutional review boards of the participating institutions.
Mothers were approached for consent either upon antenatal admission or shortly after delivery, depending on clinical circumstance and institutional preference. 1,249 mothers of 1,506 infants consented. Approximately 260 women were either missed or did not consent to participate. Of the 1,205 infants who survived to age two, 1,056 (88%) had a neurologic examination at approximately 24-months corrected age. Fully 877 children had complete information on variables of interest and are the subjects of our analyses.
After delivery, a trained research nurse interviewed each mother in her native language about her socio-demographic, anthropometric, reproductive, and medical history (e.g., conditions and medications) using a structured data collection form. The mother's report of her own characteristics and exposures during pregnancy, as well as the sequence of events leading to delivery were taken as valid, even when her medical record provided discrepant information. Women who acknowledged consuming a medication were questioned as to whether the medication was taken under the direction of her physician; these responses were tabulated.
Shortly after the mother's discharge, the research nurse reviewed the maternal chart using a second structured data collection form. The medical record was relied on for establishing the validity of events whose occurrence followed maternal admission to hospital.
The clinical circumstances that led to preterm delivery were operationally defined using data from the maternal interview and data abstracted from the medical record [14]. Each mother/infant pair was assigned to the category that described the primary reason for preterm delivery.
Gestational age estimates were based on a hierarchy of the quality of available information. Most desirable were estimates based on the dates of embryo retrieval, intrauterine insemination, or fetal ultrasound before the 14th week (62%). When these were not available, reliance was placed sequentially on a fetal ultrasound at 14 or more weeks (29%), last menstrual period without fetal ultrasound (7%), and gestational age recorded in the log of the neonatal intensive care unit (1%).
To describe fetal growth, we used the birth weight Z-score, defined as the number of standard deviations the infant's birthweight was above or below the median weight of infants at the same gestational age in a standard data set.[15]
Placentas were handled in a sterile manner from time of collection to biopsy. Eighty-two percent of the samples were obtained within 1 hour of delivery. The microbiologic procedures are described in detail elsewhere [16]. Briefly, the frozen samples were allowed to thaw at room temperature, a portion approximately 1 cm squared was removed and weighed, then diluted 1:10 with sterile phosphate buffered saline (PBS), homogenized and aliquots plated on selective and non-selective media, including pre-reduced brucella-base agar with 5% sheep blood enriched with hemin and vitamin K1, tryptic soy agar with 5% sheep blood, chocolate agar, and A-7 agar. After incubation, the various colony types were enumerated, isolated and identified by established criteria [17].
In keeping with the guidelines of the 1991 CAP Conference [18], representative sections were taken from all abnormal areas as well as routine sections of the umbilical cord and a membrane roll, and full thickness sections from the center and a paracentral zone of the placental disc. After training to minimize observer variability, study pathologists examined the slides for histologic characteristics listed on a standardized data form they helped create [19, 20]. Placental inflammation consisted of any of the following: inflammation of the chorionic plate of grade 3 (neutrophils up to amnionic epithelium) or stage 3 (>20 neutrophils/20x), moderate/severe chorioamnionitis (numerous large or confluent foci of neutrophils), inflammation of umbilical cord (neutrophils in perivascular Wharton's jelly). Infarcts were searched for, while syncytial knots in the chorionic villi were scored as increased or not.
Routine scans were performed by technicians at all study hospitals using digitized high frequency transducers (7.5 and 10 MHz). Ultrasound scans included the six standard quasi-coronal views and five sagittal views using the anterior fontanel as the sonographic window.[21] The three sets of protocol scans were defined by the postnatal day on which they were obtained (1: days 1–4; 2: days 5–14; 3: day 15-week 40). After creation of a manual and data collection form, efforts to minimize observer variability included conference calls to discuss aspects of images prone to different interpretations.[22] Templates of multiple levels of ventriculomegaly were included in the manual. All ultrasound scans were read by two independent readers, each at a separate institution, who were not provided clinical information. The images, usually as electronic images on a CD imbedded in the software eFilm Workstation™ (Merge Healthcare/Merge eMed, Milwaukee, WI), were sent to a sonologist at another ELGAN study institution for a second reading. The eFilm program allowed the second reader to see what the first reader saw, and provided options to zoom and alter gains. When the two readers differed in their recognition of moderate/severe ventriculomegaly or an echolucent (hypoechoic) lesion, the films were sent to a third (tie-breaking) reader who did not know what the earlier readers reported.
To standardize neurological examinations at all sites, a stand-alone, multimedia-training video/CD-ROM was developed, based on elements of a standard neurological exam.[23] The video/CD-ROM program had audiovisual teaching sequences, voice-over commentary, graphics and text to organize the training and amplify key teaching points. The training video provided instruction in the proper method of performing each item of the examination and illustrated all possible findings. Additionally, the CD contained 6 sets of 20 video clips for inter-observer testing purposes. Repeated testing resulted in 96% agreement with the gold-standard pediatric neurologist assessment.
A diagnostic algorithm that assigned children to CP sub-types demonstrated how an experienced pediatric neurologist might go about making a CP diagnosis in a young child [24].
We evaluated the hypothesis that very preterm newborns whose mother consumed an NSAID or acetaminophen during pregnancy were not at increased or decreased risk of white matter lesions recognized on neonatal cranial ultrasound scans or of a CP sub-type at age 2 years. Although aspirin is an NSAID, we evaluated aspirin separately from other NSAIDs.
We did not know the specific indication for each medication consumed although we collected information regarding disorders of pregnancy that might have prompted their use. Our including antibiotics among the drugs consumed allows us to explore the contribution of confounding by indication [25]. In essence, if consumption of an NSAID was merely a marker of antenatal inflammation, and not in itself a brain-damaging exposure, then the risks of brain damage following NSAID exposure could be compared to the risks of brain damage following antibiotic consumption.
Similarly, we included acetaminophen among the drugs of interest because it provides symptomatic relief comparable to that provided by NSAIDs, but unlike NSAIDs, acetaminophen has no known anti-inflammatory capabilities. Consequently, comparing the risks of brain damage following NSAID consumption to the risks following acetaminophen consumption allows an assessment of the potential contribution of diminishing inflammation.
In this sample, multi-fetal gestations did not have a higher risk of any CP diagnosis. Data were therefore analyzed with the infant, rather than the mother, as the unit of analysis. Thus, a mother of twins was counted twice, once for each newborn. Additional analyses to determine the effect of including multiple infants from the same mother on variance estimates did not significantly influence our findings.
We created Tables I through throughIVIV to help identify potential confounders. For example, were women who consumed a medication more likely to have an inflamed placenta than women who did not?, And similarly, were the newborns who developed ventriculomegaly more likely to have an inflamed placenta than infants who did not? We calculated the probabilities (Fisher's exact test) that column percents on the same line in adjacent columns occurred randomly.
We created multivariable logistic regression models to identify the contribution of maternal medication consumption to the infant's risk of brain damage. We selected variables as potential confounders if they were associated with both the exposure and the outcome in our data with probabilities ≤ .30 [26]. We used multinomial (i.e., polytomous or polychotomous) logistic regression to model the risk of the CP-subtype diagnosis because these diagnoses are mutually exclusive and each is compared to the same referent group of children without any CP diagnosis. The contributions of relevant variables are presented as adjusted odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results are presented overall and stratified by physician approval, in an effort to address the potential for confounding by indication.
Overall, 25.9% of women in our sample consumed an antibiotic, 5.6% consumed aspirin, 7.2% consumed a NSAID, and 50.4% consumed acetaminophen during pregnancy. Compared to their peers, women who were prescribed an antibiotic during pregnancy were more likely to identify as Black, single, receiving Medicaid, and having a history of vaginitis or a urinary tract infection. Women who consumed aspirin reported a lower prevalence of being single, and receiving Medicaid than women who did not consume aspirin. Women who consumed other NSAIDs were more likely to identify as Black, single, receiving Medicaid, smoking, having less than a high school education, ingesting an antibiotic and having a history of vaginitis during pregnancy than women who did not consume other NSAIDs. Compared to women who did not consume acetaminophen during pregnancy those who did reported a higher prevalence of consuming an antibiotic, and having a fever during pregnancy. Women who were prescribed antibiotics during pregnancy were more likely to be black, single, on Medicaid and to have had a history of vaginitis or a urinary tract infection (UTI). Women who had taken aspirin were less likely to be single or on Medicaid tha those who did not take aspirin. Women who had taken other NSAIDS were more likely to be black, single, on Medicaid, and to have less than a high school education. In addition they were more likely to have ingested antibiotics and to have had a history of vaginitis than those who did not take other Women who had taken acetaminophen had also more commonly taken an antibiotic during pregnancy and to have had a fever.
Women who consumed an antibiotic and who consumed aspirin during pregnancy each reported a higher prevalence of cervical insufficiency than their counterparts. The placentas of women who consumed aspirin had a lower prevalence of Mycoplasma but a higher prevalence of histologic inflammation than the placentas of women who did not consume aspirin. The placentas of women who took other NSAIDs had a higher prevalence of infarct than the placentas of women who did not take NSAIDS.
Children who developed quadriparetic CP were more likely to have prenatal exposure to an antibiotic, aspirin, and other NSAIDs. Children who developed diparetic CP were also more likely than others to have been exposed to a non-aspirin NSAID.
Children who developed ventriculomegaly or an echolucent lesion were more likely than others to have been delivered following preterm labor and less likely to have been born to women who had preeclampsia or placenta abruption. Children who developed an echolucent lesion, quadriparetic CP, or diparetic CP were more likely than others to have had a placenta that was more likely to be infected aerobe or an anaerobe. Only children who developed diparetic CP were more likely have had a placenta that harbored Mycoplasma species. The placentas of children who developed an echolucent lesion or developed diparetic CP were more likely to be inflamed than the placentas of other children.
After adjusting for potential confounders (identified at the bottom of Table V), none of the four drug exposures were associated with increased risk of cerebral white matter damage, or of hemiparetic CP. Children were at increased risk of quadriparetic CP if exposed to aspirin (OR=3.0, 95% CI, 1.3–6.9) and if exposed to other NSAIDs (OR=2.4, 95% CI 1.04–5.8). The risk of diparetic CP was increased only among children whose mother consumed an NSAID without approval from a medical care provider (OR=3.5, 95% CI 1.1–11.0).
The purpose of this analysis was to examine the relationship between maternal medication use and the risk of cerebral white matter damage and CP diagnosis among children born before the 28th post-menstrual week. We found that the risk of quadriparetic and diparetic CP was elevated among infants whose mother consumed NSAIDs during pregnancy, even after adjustment for potential confounders. To our knowledge, we are the first to identify these associations in a well characterized population, with a large sample of extremely low gestational age infants.
Aspirin and other NSAIDs might be surrogates for pregnancy correlates that increase the risk of CP diagnoses. Alternatively, these drugs might contribute to fetal brain damage. We consider both possibilities.
In this sample, gravidas who consumed aspirin were more likely than other women to have had a placenta that was inflamed and harbored an anaerobe, while women who consumed other NSAIDs were more likely than others to have had vaginitis during the pregnancy. These observations prompt the view that consumption of NSAIDs in our sample is merely a surrogate for inflammatory phenomena capable of damaging the fetal brain, and not in the causal chain. Despite our efforts to minimize such confounding, we recognize that residual confounding may have occurred, and therefore might account for some of what we found.
In contrast to our findings, a recent study found that low dose aspirin was not significantly associated with cerebral lesions or CP among infants born before 33 weeks gestation [27]. Additionally, the randomized CLASP study found that antenatal aspirin had no effect on neurologic outcomes [28].
The basic science literature provides support for brain-damaging effects of NSAIDs, as well as for brain-protection effects. By decreasing the availability of anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-4 and IL-10 [10]. NSAIDs have the potential to exacerbate inflammation. In addition, ibuprofen significantly increased the size of the cerebral infarct in a rat model of stroke [11] while, indomethacin increased the proportion of animals displaying neuronal damage in a rat model of cerebral hypoperfusion [12].
In contrast, NSAIDs might be beneficial. Prostaglandin synthesis results in compounds that have the capacity to exacerbate brain-damaging processes [27,31,32,33]. By virtue of their ability to interfere with prostaglandin synthesis, NSAIDs have the capacity to minimize such potential damage. NSAIDs also have the capacity to diminish damage associated with excitotoxicity [36]. In humans, low-dose aspirin given prenatally to women with a history of placental vascular disease was not followed by an increased risk of brain damage in the very preterm newborn, and the reduced risk of neurobehavioral outcomes approached statistical significance [27].
While some may view CP as a homogeneous entity [34,35], we do not. In the ELGAN Study sample, the clinical correlates [24], as well as some antecedents differ among the three phenotypes [6 and 7]. Thus, our finding that maternal consumption of NSAIDs is associated with just one phenotype (i.e., quadriparetic CP) is not surprising.
We recommend caution in drawing inferences based on our one study, as unpublished studies might have found that NSAID consumption by gravidas is not associated with any increase in perinatal brain damage.
Our study is subject to several limitations. Although our sample consisted of 877 newborns, it included only 88 children who developed ventriculomegaly, 59 with an echolucent lesion, 52 with an eventual diagnosis of quadriparetic CP, 31 with a diagnosis of diparetic CP, and only 16 considered to have hemiparetic CP. The second limitation is that as this is an observational study, we cannot distinguish between association and causation. Third, the consumption of a medication for a symptom that might have been associated with a disorder in the causal chain leading to perinatal brain damage makes our study prone to confounding by indication. Despite our best efforts to minimize this confounding, we might not have eliminated it entirely [25]. Perhaps equally important is our not having assessed the timing, indication, or dosage of over-the-counter medications.
On the other hand, our study has several strengths. First, we evaluated both sonographically-defined diffuse and focal perinatal brain damage, as well as multiple CP phenotypes. Second, attrition in the first two years was modest, with 88% of eligible children having a diagnostic neurologic examination. Third, we selected infants based on gestational age, not birth weight, in order to minimize confounding due to factors related to processes associated with fetal growth restriction (and the relative absence of inflammation) [29]. Fourth, we collected all of our data prospectively. Fifth, examiners were not aware of the medical histories of the children they examined, thereby minimizing "diagnostic suspicion bias"[30]. Sixth, we minimized observer variability as best we could in the interpretation of ultrasound scans [22], and the conduct of the neurologic exam [24]. Seventh, we used an algorithm to classify the CP phenotypes uniformly [23].
In conclusion, we found that maternal consumption of aspirin and NSAIDs during pregnancy were associated with increased risk of quadriparetic CP among infants born before the 28th post-menstrual week. Since, to our knowledge, we are the first to identify this association, we encourage others to search for confirmation or refutation of our findings.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our subjects and their families.
This study was supported by a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (5U01NS040069-05) and by a center grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH-P30-HD-18655). The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of their subjects, and their subjects' families, as well as those of their colleagues.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA (Camilia R. Martin, Jane Share)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA (Linda J. Van Marter, Sara Durfee)
Children's Hospital, Boston MA (Alan Leviton, Kirsten Ecklund, Janet S. Soul, Adré Duplessis, Cecil Hahn, Haim Bassan)
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA (Robert Insoft, Sjirk Westra, Kalpathy Krishnamoorthy)
New England Medical Center, Boston MA (Cynthia Cole/John Fiascone, Roy McCauley, Paige T. Church, Cecelia Keller, Karen Miller)
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Throughout the years Israel has tried to neutralize the pressure of more enlightened people by hiding its brute racism and murderous activities by recruiting the memory of the Holocaust as justification for all its heinous acts when revealed. However, as the masquerade has been exposed in recent years and more and more are disillusioned from the "Zionist dream", the restraints are being loosened fast. The rightists preach their extreme racist ideology in the open. The "paramilitarist" settlers get a freer hand. The transfer of Palestinians both within the 1948 borders and these occupied in 1967 is being done in the open. Though it is still restricted mainly to the Israeli area of the Bedouins in the south and the C agricultural regions of the 1967 borders, the "gloves" have been removed. In the same new mode, repression of the non-armed popular struggles has intensified in the last few weeks and we cannot guess what the limit of the new repression mode will be - if at all. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / press release Saturday October 25, 2014 - 19:52 byMelbourne Anarchist Communist Group 2 images
Leaflet distributed today at a rally and march in Melbourne in solidarity to the Kurdish struggle. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / press release Sunday October 19, 2014 - 05:36 byJohnny 2 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2014 - 18:13) 1 image
For some years now the Kurdish movement has been moving in the direction of libertarian ideas. While not an anarchist movement, this move is a sign that anarchist ideas of freedom and equality through solidarity, our ideas of horizontality and radical direct democracy and our radical critique against the State are not only valid and strong, but are also necessary for movements in order to break away from the authoritarian legacy within the left. It is our duty to express our solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish movement, because they represent hope in this region and because they are the oppressed fighting the oppressors. Real struggles are never perfect but they carry diverse degrees of potential to being about a free society. Expressing our solidarity with the revolutionary movement in Rojava means we understand our role is to continue developing the core tenets of our ideas in order to inspire revolutions and revolutionaries all over the world. - Anarkismo.net Editorial Group [Italiano] [Ελληνικά] [Castellano] [Français] ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / anarchist movement / news report Thursday October 16, 2014 - 22:04 byAndrew
The Workers Solidarity Movement had out conference last weekend at which many of the conclusions from the collections education and discussion process we have had over the last 2-3 years were formalised as policies. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / indigenous struggles / news report Monday October 13, 2014 - 05:15 byIlan S.
A physical confrontation between between the Israeli armed forces (and settlers) and a joint crowd of Israeli Jews and Palestinian activists in the 1967 occupied territories is so common that people do not sense its unique nature. In addition to PR disaster for the Zionist transfer project it also forced Israel to mostly exclude shooting with life ammunition fire to kill non armed Palestinian demonstrators whenever Israelis might participate. In addition to the usual locations of joint struggles, addition places Palestinians start protests we learn of from the media. The Israeli media to which the agreement with the Hamas about the end of the rocketing was not revealed, come again and again with facts and generals opinions which can only be explained as rationalization to changes forced on Israel in the agreement. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / news report Thursday October 09, 2014 - 15:41 byDAF 1 image
Its the 24th day of ISIS attacks on Kobanê. While peoples defending forces in all border villages are on human shield sentry for Kobanê against attacks, everyone, everywhere in the region we live, rised up not to let Kobanê fall. [Français] [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / news report Saturday October 04, 2014 - 20:35 byDAF 3 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2014 - 20:52) 5 images
The Turkish state that is preparing to interfere to avoid the ISIS danger, is at the same time neglecting the offensive made by ISIS supporters within its borders, showing its politics of hypocrisy. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / indigenous struggles / news report Wednesday October 01, 2014 - 05:28 byIlan S.
Arkib (1948 Bedouins), Bil'in, Dahams (Ramla 1948 village), East Jerusalem (occupied 1967 mainly Sheikh Jarah, Shuafat, and the Bedouins of the region) Ma'asarah, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Qaddum, South of Hebron Hills - the main locations of the joint struggles the anarchists against the wall are involved in. As the Israeli pretending of striving for any kind of peace was exposed, the transfer efforts are intensified. It seems the hazards taking and gambling of Israel on the continuation of the occupation is increasing. The Israeli government count on the pro Israeli lobby of the US right and the strategic value of Israel in the present troubled time and recklessly disregard the mounting international pressure... though the Israeli officials and the public keep worrying in public about the economic and political pressures. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / news report Saturday September 27, 2014 - 15:37 byWorkers Solidarity Movement 5 comments (last - monday october 06, 2014 - 06:53) 1 image
Istanbul anarchists along other leftists, feminists, and 'Gezi park types' have managed to cross over into Syria and the northern town of Kobane which is currently threatened by ISIS. [italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / press release Friday September 26, 2014 - 20:35 byDevrimci Anarşist Faaliyet 10 images
In Kurdistan, people are fighting against ISIS, the procreated violence given birth by capitalism and the states that start wars for their own benefits. ISIS, subcontractor of the states that pursue income strategies on the region, is attacking people while yelling islamic state! and holy war, jihad!. People are suffering from hunger and thirst, getting ill, getting injured; migrating ad dying. They are still fighting in that struggle for existence. People are fighting not for the schemes and strategies around meeting tables, not for income, but for their freedom. ... read full story / add a comment
Palestine-Israel: The joint struggle confront the transfer efforts of the Israeli settler colonialist project*
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / news report Sunday September 21, 2014 - 15:49 byIlan S.
Though Israel failed in its last open assault on the Gaza Strip, it still succeed in its transfer efforts. The drowning of a refugee ship with 450 mainly Gaza people reflect the partial success of Israel transfer efforts that for the never ended efforts since 1948. The siege on Gaza join the pressure on both Palestinians within the 1948 borders and that of the 1967. The big masses were driven out during the 1948 and 1967 wars, but efforts continued with all means possible. Some expelled by force some were moved within the border as pressure to "voluntary transfer". Within the 1967 borders, the Israeli efforts are targeted on the villages and Bedouins living in area C where the joint struggle to resist it is mainly focused in the South of Hebron Hills. And the joint struggle in Arkib, Dahamsh (1948 borders), and Bil'in, Ma'asara, Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Qaddum, Sheikh Jarah (East Jerusalem) continue "as usual". [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continues with lower intensity: last Friday only 3 Israelis came to Bil'in demo*
mashriq / arabia / iraq / indigenous struggles / news report Sunday September 07, 2014 - 22:10 byIlan S.
The 50-day war on Gaza ended, after Israel begged for a ceasefire and yielded to major demands from Hamas (some kept in secret even from Israeli government ministers). A majority of Israelis admit that Israel did not win the war but with difficulty admit that Hamas had the upper hand. Ministers passed two weeks ago a classified Cabinet document containing a proposal to place an international force in Gaza, which may mean the end of Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and the opening of the Ghetto... and may be a precedent to what could be the end of the occupation of the West Bank). In Israel, the "radical" left is back to "normal"... though many more activists are contemplating joining the comrades who had already lost hope and emigrated. It seems the international pressures of the imperial powers and the advances of the boycott movement are bringing the end of the 1967 occupation sooner than expected. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment
greece / turkey / cyprus / workplace struggles / news report Saturday September 06, 2014 - 17:24 byDmitri (republishing) 1 image
The European Network of Alternative and Base Unions expresses its support and solidarity with 595 cleaning workers of the Greek Finance Ministry who were dismissed on September 17 2013 to put the cleaning service in the hands of private subcontractors. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / anarchist movement / press release Monday September 01, 2014 - 16:03 byNobyhle Dube 1 image
Comrade Lawrence was born on 7 July 1969 in Kliptown before moving to Ceza in KwaZulu-Natal. He attended Ceza Primary and Nghunghunyone Secondary, matriculating in 1986 with exemption (excellent at that time).
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central america / caribbean / anarchist movement / press release Monday September 01, 2014 - 08:10 byTaller Libertario Alfredo Lopez
For all this we propose a constitutive meeting of the F.A.C.-C [-Central American] (Caribbean and Central American Anarchist Federation) in the Dominican Republic in March of 2015. We call individuals and delegates of anarchist collectives in the region to join us in this meeting that will be an initial decisive moment to compare and coordinate actions, ideas and supplies based on the topics/themes that would emerge from each collective according to their location. [Castellano] ... read full story / add a comment
international / indigenous struggles / press release Thursday August 28, 2014 - 19:00 byCommission international 1 image
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To the EZLN,
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Palestine-Israel, The B.D.S. collect momentum and the fear of its future development frighten the Is... 18:19 Sun 14 Jun 0 comments
The damage to the Israeli economy seems to be yet only marginal... but the margin expand now faster. Some of the firm already yield to the pressure targeted at areas in the settlements of the 1967 occupation and regroup back to the Israeli areas of 1948, in spite of the loss in government bribes and cheaper work force. The Israeli media is full with warning and even beginning of fear mongering. The connection between the joint struggle in the demos and the B.D.S. and the development of the boycott is acknowledged. Mean time the efforts to transfer of the Palestinians from key areas - the Bedouins in the south of the 1948 areas and in area C of the 1967 occupation intensify, as if they know that the opportunities to do it will end soon. Mean time, the non armed Friday demos are suppressed inconsistently with special treatment to Qadum. [Italiano]
A Bad Day for the Master Race 21:33 Thu 11 Jun 0 comments
The United Patriots Front, which is a Fascist split-off from the far Right Reclaim Australia, held a rally in Richmond on Sunday 31 May. They wanted to rally in front of the Richmond Town Hall, but were opposed by the Campaign Against Racism & Fascism*. The Fascists came off second best.
Prairie Struggle is Dead and the Struggle Continues 14:47 Wed 03 Jun 0 comments
As much as this pains those who have participated in the anarchist communist experience between 2011 and 2014 in the Canadian prairies, today, Prairie Struggle announces its official secession and subsequent disbandment. To this day, Prairie Struggle was the only specific platformist organization in the Canadians prairies. Though some may recall the existence of an anarchist communist group in Regina affiliated to the ACF (Anarchist Communist Federation of North America) in the 80s, organized anarchism in the prairies has had many difficulties, some of which the Prairie Struggle Project has failed to overcome. Despite its downfall, Prairie Struggle, for one last time, offers a look into the organization, its failures and its small victories.
Palestine-Israel, the joint struggle which enhance the B.D.S. suffer lately more punishments then ev... 04:57 Tue 02 Jun 0 comments
The non armed joint actions - mainly few Friday demos, do not cause the Israeli armed forces much load. However, the focusing of the media on these, and more so the international activist participating in them who enhance the international struggle when they return home, really worry the Israeli authorities. Their borders screening which succeed to prevent the entry of activists is not much effective. The Israeli ruling elite is not in panic yet, but lately they worry a lot. The president of Israel warn that the development of the B.D.S. must cause a real concern. The threat of the expulsion from the FIFA cause Israel to make concession to prevent the voting and even agreed to a special monitoring comity. The subject of the B.D.S. is more and more in the media and many of the speaker admit their fear from its intensifying. [Italiano]
Palestine-Israel, As the split in the elite, a part of which is already suffering, threatens Prime m... 23:57 Fri 22 May 0 comments
The election which was a response to rebellion in the elite - threatening to restrict his daily newspaper - resulted in a partial defeat. He is dependant now on the support of the center-right party and the orthodox parties,and now he is trying desperately to regain control. The mounting pressure on Israel threatens to take a fast escalation. It is already expressed in the threat to expel Israel from FIFA and of intervention of the Hague Court. The French initiative in the UN security council is approaching. The escalation in transfer actions - both within Israel and the West Bank is an effort to recruit at least the support of orthodox parties and the extreme right. In spite of harsher efforts to repress the Palestinian struggle - both in occupied east Jerusalem and the popular non-armed struggle the struggle continues. The very optimistic activists already feel the approaching victory. [Italiano]
Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle enhance the B.D.S. which intensify the international pressure w... 00:20 Fri 08 May 0 comments
The B.D.S. which intensify the pressure not only worry the Israeli elite - it already caused a split in it. The split expressed in the initiation of law against the Netaniahu daily caused him to dismantle his coalition and call for election. The result was even worse for him. He lost the majority of the hard core right. The 61 (versus 59) coalition was achieved only with Kakhlon center-right that already blocked the main rightist moves and some of the extreme neoliberal tendency. A new power balance in the Israeli elite may result with a near future coalition with the pseudo left party Zionist List or even entirely different coalition without Netaniahu or even without the Licud party. With this back ground, transfer of Palestinians intensify - both citizens of Israel and in the occupy west bank... And the repression and struggle continue in Bil'in, Ni'ilin, Nebi Saleh, Qadoom, Ma'asarah, Sheikh Jarrah, South Hebron Hills and sporadicly in other places. [Italiano]
End ANZAC Day 20:18 Sun 26 Apr 0 comments
Instead of glorifying the military prowess of the Anzacs, we should be building the working class movement which can sweep away all capitalist States. We need a revolution that will establish libertarian communism, a world of liberty, equality and solidarity, where war and militarism exist no more, except as exhibits in museums and lessons from history.
Anarkismo message of support to 1st Congress of Columna Libertaria Joaquín Penina 17:47 Wed 22 Apr 0 comments
We are very pleased to be able to congratulate you on the realisation of your First Congress as a specific anarchist political organisation. In light of the disbanding of the Federación Anarco-Comunista Argentina we believe that this is a very important step both for our shared especifista tendency as well as for the development of anarchism in general, both in Argentina and the region.
Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continues with fresh conviction that it is a fulcrum of the int... 18:56 Sat 18 Apr 0 comments
With the conviction that our main contribution is not so much in changes on the ground but in the spirit of the struggle of the participants and the fulcrum we provide to the international lever. The gradual increase in international pressure which the Israeli high court verdict is that is a criminal act for Israeli to promote causing already much of damages in the economy of occupation and concern of the Zionist-colonialist Israeli ruling Elite. We see here again how small number of activists can initiate a turn in the course of history when it is applied in the ripe cross-road. It started in a small joint camp in Masha 2003 for struggle against the separation fence, after the idea raised half a year earlier in the European People Global Action conference in Leiden - in which activists from the East of the Mediterranean region participated too. The camp initiated struggles in various villages that riped at 2005 in the Bil'in struggle... which expanded and expanded...
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The 10th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair which will take place Saturday 25th of April around Smithfield square. If you live in Ireland come along and meet anarchists and hundreds of people curious about anarchism in what is the biggest annual gathering of any radical left event.
Greece: Creditors and States are nothing ... Jul 04 0 comments
Therefore there are not dilemmas. If the broader class, base, social movement in Greece can gradually and through perseverance and faith in the struggle to oppose resolutely and practically the confide of the lives of workers, unemployed, pensioners, immigrants in the hands of State, governments and authority generally wherever it comes from, and put into immediate operation and extend grass-roots structures like those cited above, this will be a great victory, a huge (re)starting forward, especially now, these critical moments for everybody - now that the masks have been fallen.
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We must go a few steps further, therefore, than just engaging in anti-racist and antifascist organising. We must fight the ongoing displacement of Aboriginal people from their homelands in Western Australia. We must fight the mass incarceration and illegalisation of people seeking asylum in this country. We must confront all of these single issues. They are part of an entire against the working class and our communities, by the Government, capital and the State.
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English translation of the overview of early Italian anarchists in Egypt, from Leonardo Bettini, "Bibliografia dell'anarchismo, volume 2, tomo 2: periodici e numeri unici anarchici in lingua italiana pubblicati all'estero (1872-1971)" (CP editrice, Firenze, 1976), translation by Nestor McNab. Via Lucien van der Walt. Lucien van der Walt note: This is NOT a history of anarchism in Egypt as a whole, least of all of its important impact on the Arabic-speaking and Greek population, which can be found in work by writers like Tony Gorman. Nonetheless it is valuable, and not previously widely available in English. Worth noting for contemporary reflection is the destructive role of I. Parrini's [aka "Un vecchio aka L'Orso /"the Bear"],"anti-organizationalism in disorienting the movement in the late 1800s. This was overcome in the 1900s, a period of great advance for the movement in the country. There is also much of interest, even if incomplete, on the role in the unions and popular education, although it grossly underestimates the successes, especially among the indigenous.
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Instead of glorifying the military prowess of the Anzacs, we should be building the working class movement which can sweep away all capitalist States. We need a revolution that will establish libertarian communism, a world of liberty, equality and solidarity, where war and militarism exist no more, except as exhibits in museums and lessons from history.
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We are very pleased to be able to congratulate you on the realisation of your First Congress as a specific anarchist political organisation. In light of the disbanding of the Federación Anarco-Comunista Argentina we believe that this is a very important step both for our shared especifista tendency as well as for the development of anarchism in general, both in Argentina and the region.
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The documentary Palikari: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre (2014, Nickos Ventouras) narrates one of the bleakest and blackest chapters in American labor history, the Ludlow Massacre.
Rally Against Racism Sat 4 April Mar 29 Anarkismo 0 comments
The far Right Reclaim Australia plans to hold an anti-Muslim rally in Melbourne and also at other places around Australia. They want people to believe theyre just ordinary Australians who are worried about radical Islam. What theyre NOT telling you is that they are Fascists yes, actual far Right, Hitler-loving racists who have decided its a tactical advantage to wrap themselves in Australian flags. [Italiano]more >>


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Lucina's First Day
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BATMAN v SUPERMAN final showdown
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Lymph Node Retrieval and Assessment after Colorectal Cancer Resection: Are Pathologists Doing an Adequate Job?
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: Retrieval of the appropriate number of lymph nodes is important in staging colorectal cancer. Inadequate retrieval may result in understaging and inappropriate treatment. This study aimed to examine node retrieval and assessment in colorectal cancer resections performed by a single colorectal surgeon at two different institutions. METHODS: From 2000 to 2005, in a single colorectal surgeon's practice, 123 consecutive patients were identified who were undergoing open colectomies or proctectomies for colorectal cancer. Patients' demographic and surgical data were extracted from records for analysis. RESULTS: Forty patients underwent operations at Hospital A and 83 at Hospital B. No statistical difference in specimen length, tumor size, or stage was found between institutions. For colectomy and proctectomy specimens, Hospital A identified 9.6 and 6.1 nodes and Hospital B, 14.5 and 15 nodes, respectively. Significantly more nodes were identified at Hospital B (P < .001) particularly for proctectomy specimens (P < .001). Only 23 percent of colectomy and 7 percent of proctectomy specimens at Hospital A met American Joint Committee On Cancer guidelines of 12 or more nodes examined, whereas at Hospital B, 63 percent of each specimen type met guidelines (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Assessment of nodes varied significantly between institutions, which could lead to inadequate treatment. Lymph node retrieval efficiency should be known, and more successful techniques should be standardized.
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Article: Diferença entre hospitais privado e universitário na taxa de linfonodos de peça cirúrgica de câncer colorretal: o papel do patologistaRevista Brasileira de Coloproctologia 01/2010; 30(1). DOI:10.1590/S0101-98802010000100009
Article: Difference between university and private hospitals on lymph nodes harvest of surgical colorectal cancer specimens: the role of the pathologist[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: It has been demonstrated that lymph nodes harvest from surgical specimens of colorectal cancer is one of the most important features for appropriate staging of the disease and to plain the best treatment. The perception of differences in the number of harvest lymph nodes in surgical specimens of colorectal cancer by the same surgeons in different hospitals motivated this investigation. The aims of this study was to assess whether there is difference in the number of lymph nodes and some histopathological features in surgical specimens of colorectal cancer obtained by two surgeons who work both in a university hospital and in a private one. METHODS: We retrospectively evaluated 122 patients, obtaining data on the type of institution (university or private), demographic features, staging, tumor site, histological type, open or laparoscopic access, indication of radiotherapy, number of harvest lymph nodes, presence of vascular, lymphatic and neural invasions. RESULTS: Sixty-five patients were operated in a university institution and 57 in two private institutions. There was no difference between groups in terms of age, stage, tumor site, details of radiotherapy and type of operation. The laparoscopic route was more common in the university institution. The median of lymph nodes harvested was 25 (P25-75: 15-34) in the university institution and 15 in the private ones (P25-75, 12-17) (p <.0001). The finding of 12 or more lymph nodes was more common in academic institution (55/65 versus 40/57, p =. 024). The presence of information of lymphatic, vascular and perineural invasion was more common in the university institution. CONCLUSION: Keeping the same surgical technique and with comparable population of patients, there was considerable difference in the number of lymph nodes harvested between university and private institutions, as like as the report of other relevant data for the histopathological staging, which impacts indication for adjuvant therapies. The relationship between the surgical team and the pathologist should occur in all types of institutions, and the improvement of the quality of the pathological examination should occur in non-university institutions.Revista Brasileira de Coloproctologia 03/2010; 30(1):68-73.


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