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Pierre J.M.M. Mertens
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Artist, writer, activist: After the passing of Japanese artist On Kawara in 2014, I continued his work with Daily News Quotes on social media. https://pierremertens.be/en/covers/
12/12/2025: Thai Prime Minister dissolves parliament to “return power to the people”

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#Covers #CoversProject #DailyDrawing #ArtAndNews #PierreMertens
#Politics #Thailand #Democracy #PowerAndPeople #MassVsIndividual
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
11/12/2025: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appears in Oslo after months in hiding, following her Nobel Peace Prize win.

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#ContemporaryArt
#Venezuela #MariaCorinaMachado #Oslo #NobelPeacePrize
#Politics #GlobalNews #ArtAndPolitics #MassVsIndividual
December 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
09/12/2025: Tens of thousands of women have marched in cities across Brazil, denouncing femicide and gender-based violence, after a series of high-profile cases that shocked the country.⁠

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#Brazil #Femicide #GenderBasedViolence #WomenRise #GlobalNews
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
08/12/2025: The World Food Programme warns #Sudan is facing a “massive” humanitarian crisis, with millions of starving people being denied access to vital food supplies as the war continues.⁠

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#MassVsIndividual #Sudan #HumanitarianCrisis #WFP #Starvation #War
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
05/12/2025: More than 200 cultural and public figures are calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader held by Israel since the early 2000s, after he was not released in the October prisoner exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal.

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December 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
04/12/2025: The world’s largest sculpture of the markhor, #Pakistan’s national animal, has been unveiled in the country’s Kaghan Valley.⁠

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#ContemporaryArt
#Pakistan #Markhor #KaghanValley #GlobalNews #ArtAndPolitics #MassVsIndividual
December 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
03/12/2025: As the #Philippines grapples with its biggest corruption scandal in history, Filipino youth are taking matters into their own hands.

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#DailyDrawing #ArtAndNews
#Philippines #Corruption #YouthMovement #GlobalNews #ArtAndPolitics #MassVsIndividual
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
02/12/2025: Zelenskyy, after talks with Macron, voiced optimism about revising the Trump-era plan to end the war with Russia.⁠

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#ContemporaryArt
#Ukraine #Russia #Macron #Zelenskyy #Geopolitics #GlobalNews
#ArtAndPolitics #MassVsIndividual
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
01/12/2025: Israel killed at least 13 people, including two children, in the Syrian town of Beit Jinn after locals resisted an Israeli military incursion into the city.

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#DailyDrawing #ArtAndNews #ArtAsWitness
#PierreMertens #ContemporaryArt #OnKawara
#Syria #BeitJinn
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
28/11/2025: Myanmar’s military rulers have pardoned or dropped charges against 8,665 people locked up for opposing the army rule as the country prepares for next month’s elections, according to state media

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#Myanmar #Politics #HumanRights #GlobalNews
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 AM
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
26/11/2025: An art installation in northern Italy pays tribute to children killed in war, with thousands of white stripes bearing their names.⁠

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#PierreMertens
#ContemporaryArt #ArtAsWitness #ArtAndPolitics
#Italy #War #Children #Memory #MassVsIndividual
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
25/11/2025: Israeli intelligence forces were seen storming the Palestinian National Theatre in occupied East Jerusalem
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#PierreMertens
#ArtAsWitness #ContemporaryArt #OnKawara
#Politics #Palestine #EastJerusalem #ArtAndPolitics #MassVsIndividual
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 AM