#david keeling

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"The Road Ahead" by David Keeling, 2022. Oil on linen, 71.5 x 76.5 cm. Bett Gallery. Australian artist born 1951. Based in Hobart Tasmania.

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David Keeling (b.1951. Tasmania)

‘Afternoon Walk’ 2015

Oil on linen. 123 x 122cm

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Project 2025 laid a foundation for Trump’s attacks on workplace safety

John Knefel at MMFA:

The Trump administration has reportedly destroyed 18 workplace safety publications as part of a broader attack on diversity initiatives, a development that is largely in line with recommendations made by the sprawling and unpopular presidential transition plan known as Project 2025.

According to Popular Information, 17 of the destroyed workplace guidelines — issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — appeared to have nothing to do with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs and instead seem to have been selected because “they include a DEIA-related keyword used in a completely different context.” OSHA is part of the Labor Department and is tasked with making sure U.S. workers “have safe and healthful working conditions free from unlawful retaliation,” according to its official website. The Trump administration has been targeting diversity programs across the federal government, in some instances using the existence of DEI efforts as a justification for essentially shuttering entire agencies, as in the case of the U.S. Agency for International Development.  The administration’s anti-DEI approach mirrors recommendations made in Project 2025’s nearly 900-page policy book, Mandate for Leadership, which called for the elimination of federal DEI programs and for the Department of Justice to investigate private sector programs that promote diversity. 

In addition to its direct attacks on DEI, Project 2025 — organized by The Heritage Foundation in collaboration with more than 100 partner groups — proposed drastic rollbacks of labor laws, including dismantling overtime regulations and creating exemptions to the National Labor Relations Act, which protects workers’ rights to collectively bargain and to form a union.  Although the Trump administration’s memo calling for the 18 safety guidelines to be “disposed of or recycled” appears to be a hamfisted and failed attempt to root out DEI programs, it nevertheless fits in with Mandate’s broader approach to dismantling worker protections.  For example, Mandate recommends carve outs to OSHA’s workplace safety regulations, calling on Congress and the Department of Labor to “exempt small business, first-time, non-willful violators from fines issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.”  Mandate further argues that “national employment laws,” like the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, “set out one-size-fits-all ‘floors’ regulating the employment relationship,” and that the protections the law provides could instead be “treated as negotiable defaults rather than non-negotiable floors.” If enacted, this recommendation could allow employers to use safety measures as leverage in contract negotiations, thus increasing the already stark asymmetry in power between workers and bosses. And U.S. workplaces are already deadly; according to the AFL-CIO, in 2022: “344 workers died each day from hazardous working conditions,” and “5,486 workers were killed on the job in the United States.” [...] Many of the Trump administration’s opening salvos against the working class have followed the Project 2025 roadmap and targeted DEI programs. These measures are already making workers’ positions more precarious and less safe, just as Project 2025 recommended. 

Tyrant 47’s plans to weaken workplace safety come straight from the Project 2025 playbook.

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David Keeling, Two Paths (2015). (Larger).

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David Keeling (b.1951) - Duckboard Circuit. 2014.

[kestarren]

"That Sweet Moment" by David Keeling, 2024. Oil on linen, 107 x 97 cm. Bett Gallery. Australian artist born 1951. Based in Hobart Tasmania.

[kestarren]

"End of the Road" by David Keeling, 2003. Artist's words, via Bett Gallery, 2024: "When I reflect on my painting over these years I think what stands out for me is my maturing relationship to place, how slowly the landscape moved from 'object' to 'subject' in the paintings. This coincides with a growing love of the particular, such as Narawntapu National Park, the Cornelian Bay walk or the seascapes of Greens Beach or the Freycinet Peninsula. Familiar, often overlooked places have become for me subjects of transcendence through the agency of the distinctive Tasmanian light. For me now painting has become all about light." Australian artist born 1951. Based in Hobart Tasmania.

[briery]

David Keeling, Small Parkland, Parkland and A Way Out (2015). (Larger 1, 2, 3).