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New York Times
6 hours ago
- Business
- New York Times
Iran's Supreme Leader Calls U.S. Nuclear Deal Proposal ‘Nonsense'
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that abandoning uranium enrichment was '100 percent' against Tehran's interests, effectively rejecting a key U.S. demand in weeks of tense negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. The Trump administration over the weekend proposed the outline of a deal that would seem to allow Iran to continue enriching uranium, which had been a sticking point in talks — but only temporarily. With talks at an impasse, the proposal was seen as a potential concession that could open a path to compromise. In his first public remarks since the proposal was reported on, Ayatollah Khamenei said that Iran's 'response to the U.S. government's nonsense is clear.' He said in a speech that it would be 'useless' for Iran to build nuclear power plants without being able to enrich uranium over the long term, framing the U.S. proposal as an attempt to obstruct Iran's nuclear industry and self-reliance. 'The recent nuclear plan that the Americans have prepared is 100 percent against 'We Can Do It,'' he said, referring to one of his most prominent slogans, a nod to Iranian independence. 'The rude and arrogant leaders of America repeatedly demand that we should not have a nuclear program,' Mr. Khamenei continued, adding, 'They cannot do anything about this.' The outline of the potential deal, which Iranian and European officials described on the condition of anonymity, was handed to Iran over the weekend. It proposed an arrangement that would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while the United States and other countries work out a more detailed plan intended to block Tehran's path to a nuclear weapon but give it access to fuel for new nuclear power plants. Top Iranian officials have rejected the idea of completely abandoning uranium enrichment on Iranian soil. 'Without respecting our right to enrich uranium,' Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday in response to the U.S. proposal, 'there will be no agreement.' Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the last word on all key state matters, was less explicit in his critique of the U.S. demands. He also did not order a halt to the negotiations with the United States, though he did say whether they would continue. In his speech on Wednesday, he argued that Iran has a right to develop technologies without permission from other countries. 'We've told the Americans: 'What business is it of yours whether Iran pursues enrichment or not?'' he said. 'The Americans want us to abandon our progress,' he said, adding, 'They oppose Iran's progress and the enrichment of our nation.'
Winnipeg Free Press
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Patriotic passion: Winnipeg artist Kal Barteski's collaboration supports a free press
Well before women's lib put her to good work, 'We Can Do It' Rosie the Riveter was flexing in a different setting: America's Second World War home-front mobilization. And decades before 'Keep Calm and Carry On' started popping up on coffee mugs and Facebook profiles as a 'daily affirmation' in the face of the 2008 global recession, Britain's most iconically British slogan covered the streets of London after threats of mass German air attacks. Canada's trade war with the United States is not an actual war. But it's inspiring some chest-thumping slogans and popular memes, from 'Elbows Up' to Winnipeg artist Kal Barteski's viral visual satires of the Tariffer-in-Chief south of the border. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Artist Kal Barteski has been creating poignant patriotic work in the wake of the U.S. trade war with Canada. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Much of her recent work in this patriotic vein has been less pointed and more poignant. 'I've been feeling passionate about how much I love Canada and Winnipeg,' says Barteski. 'And I thought, wouldn't it be cool if this (sentiment) was something the Free Press could take — and just go for it.' Show your Canadian pride and strengthen Canadian journalism. Buy stickers, mugs, t-shirts and tote bags in the Free Press Shop. Free Press subscribers receive 35% off. Not yet a subscriber? Take advantage of our 'Elbows Up' offer. Barteski tapped the Free Press with a design idea and the project evolved from there. Tote bags, mugs and stickers bearing her 'Canada Proud, Manitoba Strong — My Free Press' design are now part of an offer to new subscribers and are available at a discount for existing paid readers. 'I believe in a free press,' says Barteski. 'And to me, there's something that will always be important and magical about tactile news. I have very fond memories of sitting at the breakfast table with my dad turning pages.' Tactility is a big part of Barteski's esthetic. The unruly brushstrokes of her #kbscript — which she paints by hand — have become one of Winnipeg's most recognizable typefaces, swathing campaigns and projects around the city and well beyond. She's worked with Lonely Whale, Lululemon, the Winnipeg Jets, Virgin Radio, United Way and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to mention a few. The recipient of the King's Coronation Medal also recently worked with Murray Sinclair's family on a series of prints, cards and posters celebrating the words and legacy of the late senator. (Proceeds go directly to the Murray Sinclair Memorial Fund at the Winnipeg Foundation.) MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS Barteski's works, which she paints by hand, have become one of Winnipeg's most recognizable typefaces, now featured on new Free Press tote bags and mugs. MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS 'To know the truth, we must begin by telling it,' reads one of the pieces, a well-known quote by Sinclair from his time leading the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Barteski's engagement with topical Canadian themes often sends her out of her Wolseley home and into the North. Just as regionally iconic as #kbscript are her paintings of polar bears. Winnipeggers may recognize her work from Back Alley Arctic, a series of garage-door paintings along the back alleys of Canora and Ethelbert streets in Wolseley. Barteski says these unconventional murals were practice runs for the SeaWalls Churchill mural fest. Organized by Barteski in 2017, with contributions from 18 other muralists, the project was the subject of the CBC Gem documentary, Know I'm Here, currently watchable at Started, as its website describes, with the 'intention to educate and inspire a community to protect the oceans,' SeaWalls Churchill became as much an exercise in civic and Manitoba pride after disaster hit the community. That year, Churchill's railway washed out, cutting off the town's only land access, and railway owners OmniTRAX announced they would not repair the flooded and damaged line. By the fall of 2017, the town's famous 'Miss Piggy' plane wreck was transformed into Pat Perry's heart-rending Mayday piece, an ode to the town's perseverance. Vivid scenes of port workers and arctic creatures — some in a social realist vein, others whimsical and cartoony — now blanket the town's pump house, old military radar bases and buildings. Especially striking is Barteski's massive polar bear mural on the town's Polar Bear Holding Facility, which greets visitors soon after they get off the plane. 'As an artist, I feel excited and proud that images… bring people together. And I think when you bring people together, you amplify the feeling (of the work),' says Barteski. It's an attitude that colours her current projects, such as her collaboration with the Free Press. 'I think that all of the stuff that's coming up in the news has really inspired people,' she says. 'Inspired us to shop local, to love local, to appreciate where we are and what we have.' Conrad SweatmanReporter Conrad Sweatman is an arts reporter and feature writer. Before joining the Free Press full-time in 2024, he worked in the U.K. and Canadian cultural sectors, freelanced for outlets including The Walrus, VICE and Prairie Fire. Read more about Conrad. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. 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Yahoo
08-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Meet the real Rosie the Riveter, who was unknown until a yearslong investigation revealed her identity
Rosie the Riveter is one of the most iconic images in pop culture history. For 30 years, Geraldine Hoff Doyle was believed to be the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter. An investigation in the 2000s found that another worker, Naomi Parker Fraley, inspired the image. Rosie the Riveter is one of the most famous symbols of the feminist movement, but it took years to accurately identify the worker who inspired the iconic image of a woman flexing her bicep. For three decades, Geraldine Hoff Doyle was widely acknowledged as the inspiration behind Rosie the Riveter. However, an investigation conducted in the 2000s revealed that Naomi Parker Fraley, who worked at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, was the true inspiration behind the image. This International Women's Day, here's the story of the real-life Rosie the Riveter and how her identity was eventually uncovered. During World War II, women assisted in manufacturing wartime products like gas masks. Before the war, women were in traditionally "female" fields such as nursing and teaching. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, women joined the armed forces at remarkable rates. By 1943, over 310,000 women were employed in the US aircraft industry, comprising 65% of the industry's workforce, a stark contrast to the mere 1% representation before the outbreak of war, per the Defense Logistics Agency. Forbes reported that between 1940 and 1945, female participation in the US workforce increased from 27% to nearly 37%. By 1945, a quarter of married women worked in jobs outside the home. Many women working in military factories were photographed wearing bandanas to tie back their hair. One photo, taken in 1942 by a photographer touring the Naval Air Station to show what life was like for women working in the aircraft industry, appeared to catch the attention of a Pittsburgh artist named J. Howard Miller. The New York Times reported that Miller created a 1943 poster for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation that became one of the most iconic images in history. The woman in Miller's poster soon came to be known as Rosie the Riveter. The image featured a "Rosie," as female factory workers were known at the time, flexing her bicep, wearing a red polka-dot bandana and a riveter's uniform. Above her were the inspiring words "We Can Do It!" The woman in Miller's poster soon came to be known as "Rosie the Riveter" after musicians Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb released a popular song with the same title in 1943. The New York Times reported that the poster was initially only displayed in the Westinghouse Electric Corporation plant to deter women from not showing up to work and strikes among female workers. However, once the poster was published and gained national exposure in the early 1980s, it evolved into an emblem of the feminist movement and emerged as one of the most iconic images in pop culture. The inspiration for the iconic Rosie the Riveter image was initially believed to be Geraldine Hoff Doyle, a Michigan factory worker. Geraldine Hoff Doyle, who worked in a Navy plant in Michigan, was long considered to be the inspiration behind the iconic image. The New York Times reported that Doyle came forward in the 1980s and claimed to be the woman in a photo believed to have inspired Miller's famous poster. Doyle had seen the photo, which was published without its original caption and the correct names of the women in the photograph. She mistakenly identified herself as the woman in the photo, and since she bore a striking resemblance to the woman, she was widely accepted as the real-life Rosie the Riveter. The true inspiration for Rosie the Riveter was later identified as Naomi Parker Fraley, a waitress from California who worked at the Naval Air Station in Alameda. In 2009, during a reunion of war-era Rosies, 88-year-old Naomi Parker Fraley (pictured) attended a reunion of war-era Rosies, where she spied a photo of herself working at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, in a historical display — and saw another woman's name listed underneath the image as the inspiration for Miller's famous "We Can Do It!" poster. The photo in question showed a then-20-year-old Naomi Parker Fraley wearing a red-and-white-polka-dot bandana and working on a turret lathe. "I couldn't believe it because it was me in the photo, but there was somebody else's name in the caption: Geraldine," Parker Fraley told People in 2016. "I was amazed." After learning another woman had been misidentified as her for over 30 years, Naomi Parker Fraley tried to set the record straight. People reported that Parker Fraley contacted the World War II Home Front National Historical Park with her saved newspaper clipping, which included the original caption that listed her as the woman in the photo. "I just wanted my own identity," she said. "I didn't want fame or fortune, but I did want my own identity." However, Parker Fraley, then 95, would not be able to correct the record for another six years. In 2015, she was approached by Seton Hall University professor James J. Kimble, who had been on a quest to discover Rosie the Riveter's true identity for six years. After Parker Fraley showed Kimble the evidence that she had been Miller's inspiration, he published an article in an academic journal, "Rosie's Secret Identity," in 2016. People then published a feature about the discovery, and Parker Fraley was finally recognized by the media at large as the inspiration behind Rosie the Riveter. "She had been robbed of her part of history," Kimble told People. "It's so hurtful to be misidentified like that. It's like the train has left the station and you're standing there and there's nothing you can do because you're 95 and no one listens to your story." Rosie the Riveter is now considered an icon of the feminist movement. Parker Fraley told People that after she was identified as the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter, she began receiving fan mail. Miller's illustration of Rosie the Riveter has come to embody the tenacity and strength of women. "The women of this country these days need some icons," Parker Fraley told People. "If they think I'm one, I'm happy about that." Naomi Parker Fraley died on January 20, 2018, at the age of 96. Read the original article on Business Insider
