Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli (1928 - 1969) was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist who fell to his death on this day in 1969 while being detained by Italian police. His death became the subject of the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo.
Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist association named "Ponte della Ghisolfa", and was also the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross. He organized young anarchists in the "Gioventu Libertaria" (Libertarian Youth) in 1962 and helped found the "Sacco and Vanzetti anarchist association" in 1965.
A few days before Pinelli's death, Italian fascists from the "Ordine Nuovo" orchestrated a bombing campaign in Milan; one bomb in Piazza Fontana killed 17 people and injured 88. The bombing was blamed on Italian anarchists, and Pinelli was detained along with many other leftists, including Pietro Valpreda, who was falsely convicted and served eighteen years in prison.
Just before midnight on December 15th, 1969, Pinelli fell to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death, but legal proceedings concluded it was due to accidental causes.
Calabresi was later gunned down at his home in 1972, for which left-wing journalist Adriano Sofri was convicted in 1997.
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Ok so I bought a drawing guide book because I want to learn anatomy, and it really annoys me that the majority of the faces and body features are male, but the majority of the nudes (lile 90%) are female. I'm trying to draw all people why are only men treated as people with features worth drawing and women treated as only worth drawing when nude.
If I read this entire book and took everything I learned from it I could draw detailed white men and naked white women Except it doesn't even explain much, it just shows sketches and is like "draw this". The illustrator uses cross hatching all the time but never explains how to properly do that
Ya pretty creepy, tbh. So sorry that society is this weird.
You don't have to apologize it probably isn't your fault that the patriarchy exists. It's probably on me for buying a book written by an Italian
I have this bad habit of saying "I'm sorry" when I should say "damn that's fucked".
It's annoying that sorry is used for both empathy and apology, I definitely have to emphasize one over the other when appropriate as well. I blame the entire English language
I seem to recall Loomis having men and women in equal proportion in his torture method (books). The reason I being it up is to say that joke and it made me think of, perhaps by way of conflating something someone else said, that you're going to struggle drawing clothes if you can't comprehend what's underneath. I thought that was interesting and ultimately unhelpful for your observation.
Yeah I mean I would definitely like to be able to draw naked men, the nudity is not the problem. Although actually I don't think this book has a section on clothes either. Nobody buys Giovanni Civardi's Drawing: a Complete Guide, it is infact incomplete