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Activists from the #DecolonizeThisPlace movement stormed New York's Museum of Natural History and covered the Theodore Roosevelt statue on Columbus Day, which was this Monday, and dozens of people gathered around the entrance to the museum in front of the statue to denounce America's colonial past. Americans used to celebrate the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492 as a special event that opened what was then called the 'New World' to European migration. However, a growing movement is denouncing this as a celebration of colonialism, and is calling for the day to be renamed as “Indigenous Peoples Day”. 26 US cities have chosen to focus on Native Americans. New York however has not joined those efforts yet, and activists voiced their anger by organizing the #DecolonizeThisPlace protest. Theodore Roosevelt’s statue was covered, as the activists consider it to be a “stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted”, according to their open letter. They also marched through the Natural History museum and took to the streets, chanting "Allen Locke" and anti-police slogans. The action coincided with the weekly Monday protest organized by ‘NYC Shut It Down’, which focuses on a different victim of police brutality in every demontration. This week the protesters called for justice for Native American man Allen Locke who was killed by a police officer in December 2014.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he cancelled a meeting with Kyriakos Mitsotakis because his Greek counterpart failed to keep a "commitment" not to publicly dispute ownership of the Parthenon Marbles. An angry Mitsotakis cut short his three-day visit and headed back to Greece, according the Greek leader's office, after the meeting scheduled for Tuesday was pulled. "When it was clear that the purpose of the meeting was not to discuss substantive issues for the future, but rather to grandstand and relitigate issues of the past, it wasn't appropriate," Sunak tells the House of Commons as he addresses a diplomatic row against a backdrop of ownership claims to ancient sculptures on display at the British Museum. SOUNDBITE
Speaking at the re-opening of the National Maritime Museum in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron asserts France's investments in the Sea "with to the two latest laws on military programming and with the scientific and industrial programmes that we want to safeguard". (COMPLETE VID344Z97T_FR) SOUNDBITE
The history of Hispano Suiza is showcased, for the very first time, in the Peralada Castle Museum (Girona, Spain) where visitors will be able to contemplate the past and present of the legendary car brand founded in 1904 by Damián Mateu and Mark Birkigt.The Hispano Suiza Room will close the usual tour of the Peralada Castle Museum. After years of researching to gather the largest number of pieces and objects related to its history, Hispano Suiza becomes part of this important collection.The Hispano Suiza exhibition encompasses a journey through various decades: from the beginning of the 20th century, when Hispano Suiza was founded, to the present day. After passing through a luxurious hall, the public will be able to visit a recreation of the offices of Damián Mateu and Mark Birkigt, where countless business and technical ideas, emerged and took shape, turning Hispano Suiza into a point of reference, for luxury, comfort and technical solutions. In this area, the original painting 'Dame with a mink' by Ramon Casas takes pride of place: it was used as an illustration on the company's original shares.
Vienna (Austria), Oct 1 (EFE) .- (Camera: Alejandro Giménez) The woman in Titian's painting is a symbol of sacred and profane love, eroticism and also the purest ideal of beauty. This representation, which has had an enormous influence on European art, is analyzed in Vienna in a large exhibition dedicated to the Venetian master.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION IN VIENNA
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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