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Profession: Ambiguity
Study reveals complexity of the identity of low-income transvestites
Carlos Haag
BARRY MICHAEL WOLFEThreatened with destruction by a silver zeppelin, the town, on its knees, was saved by the transvestite Geni. In return, the "proper" citizens of the town rewarded her with more of the same: "Throw stones at Geni/ She was made to be struck / She was made to be spat at / Damnable Geni", wrote composer Chico Buarque in his Ópera do malandro. Recently, the press printed headlines about actors from the TV Globo network who had allegedly gone to a motel with two transvestites and, when they realized the mistake, they threatened to kill the transvestites. "Made to be beaten", other transvestites get much more than mere threats. "Considered 'abject' and 'monstrous' figures, they are not empowered by the established systems of knowledge and power, which stimulates the desire to eliminate them; this results in the frequent murders of transvestites, the consequence of the so-called 'transphobia'. Because they do not fit into the classifications of gender and sexuality established by our society, they challenge us, they de-construct us and provoke the desire of death, much like the monstrous figures described by Foucault", explains psychologist Marcos Garcia, author of the doctorate thesis Dragões: gênero, corpo, trabalho e violência na formação da identidade entre travestis de baixa renda (Dragons: gender, body, work and violence in the shaping of the identity of low-income transvestites) presented this year to the doctorate program committee of the University of São Paulo's Institute of Psychology.
Garcia spent four years attending weekly meetings of transvestites, held at a public institution. He was looking for a common factor that would identify them. Instead of a simple duality of genders, he came across a complex "patchwork quilt", in permanent construction, which brings together, in a single person, a number of different and contradictory figures, partially incorporated by the transvestite, which shape his/her identity: the "submissive woman", the "prostitute", the "super-seductress", all of which are related to females, and the "fairy", the "con man", and the "bandit", related to males. "They are transvestites because they take on all these persona. The synthesis of contradictory elements in a single person can be compared metaphorically to the mythical figure of the dragon, the same word transvestites use to describe low-income transvestites or transvestites whose appearance is more masculine (in contrast to the "goddesses", such as Roberta Close etc.)", the author points out. "The common characteristic attributed to the dragon is a mixture of the features of different animals and the dragon is viewed as a representative of the "good" or of the "evil"
powers, another analogy of the transvestites, who are viewed as persons to be eliminated while at the same time attracting the erotic desires of many, even sometimes of those who want to hurt them." "Like the mythological being", he adds, "they 'contradict' the laws of nature and of society, combining the impossible with the forbidden, that which is not against the law, only insofar as no such provision is established. The transvestite is unthinkable, an outlaw, stimulating not the imposition of the law, but elimination."
Garcia believes that the violence directed at them is partially determined by the fact that they do not occupy a place defined in the identity "catalogues" acknowledged in Brazilian society. "They are persecuted not because they occupy a female position, but because of their pretension to be transvestites and because they escape from any social classification." In Brazil, until the sixties, the word "transvestite" was only used to describe cross-dressers, whether in carnival parodies or in shows, without the connotation of prostitution. "In those times, it was almost impossible to be a transvestite in Brazil. They had no means of walking on the streets, because society would not accept this", says anthropologist Hélio Silva, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and author of Travestis: entre o espelho e a rua (published by Rocco), a classic study, which was recently re-printed. In one decade, the "cross-dressers", as they were called, transformed themselves in the seventies, says Garcia, into the current transvestites, a word which from the seventies onwards was used to describe someone who prostituted herself, not only wearing by female clothes, but also by having long hair, painted nails and a "modified body", through hormones or silicone, in the search of an image similar to the female image.
The anthropologist's research study unveiled some stories in common among them; most of them came from low-income families and were discriminated against and attacked early on, because of their "effeminate" ways. The solution was the standard one – run away to the big city to look for better living conditions and social acceptance – the outcome of which was prostitution, an alternative to the lack of space in the work market and the impossibility of counting on help from the family. In fact, this rupture is responsible for the transvestites' social isolation, which strengthens the new identity, as close contact with other homosexuals is the alternative social network to exclusion from the family. These ties of friendship and protection, says the researcher, even led to the creation of a specific jargon spoken by transvestites. This jargon is permeated by words stemming from African dialects, and are a manifestation "of belonging to a select group and a protection from those who are outside the frontiers defined by these forms of worship." This specific kind of language, Garcia points out, is explained by "the historical association between Afro-Brazilian cults and homosexuality."
The most noteworthy "patch" in the "identity" of the transvestites' patchwork quilt is their emotional and sexual relationship with their companions, their "husbands". "They embodied the submissive female, taking on a passive attitude in relation to these men, who very often exploited them economically. The transvestites often associate femininity with suffering." They accepted their "no-good" husbands; however, in their relationship with clients, they were the "no-goods", maintaining the clients in a complementary position (the "suckers" ),and rebelling against those clients who wanted to put them in a submissive position. According to the anthropologist, they feel contempt towards clients who want to take on passive positions during the "dates", as, although the "dates" guaranteed the transvestites´ financial needs, they did not satisfy their desire to be treated like "women". The passive role however, could often be a source of satisfaction, as the transvestite was acknowledged, "flirted with", thus developing her self-esteem and making money.
BARRY MICHAEL WOLFEAunt
But happiness is never complete. "Transvestites do not value the proceeds from prostitution, viewing the money as being "dirty". The same description is applied to bearers of HIV (referred to as "aunts", and viewed as an undesired form of "masculinization", which increases the suffering of those who are HIV-positive), whose blood is also "dirty". The two cases shows the contempt they feel for the activities they engage in, viewed as being "moral filth"; this involves everything in an environment of shame and guilt", says the researcher. Poverty unveiled in them another "patch", the "bandit". By robbing and threatening their clients to get money from them, they turned the clients into objects of financial exploitation. This is mad worse by the transvestites' involvement in drug dealing or drug consumption, especially crack, which brings them closer to the "world of crime".
But what about the clients? Unfortunately, says Garcia, there is virtually no research on the other end of the relationship, because of the obvious fear of the clients to present themselves as such. "But some researchers relate the search for transvestites as a search for an ideal form of stereotyped femininity, associated with the seduction that "real" women are not willing to indulge in because of women's emancipation, which leads them to refuse to be considered "an object". This "ideal woman" would be more easily invented by a man, because the man is thoroughly familiar with masculine desires". Although the psychologist emphasizes the danger of generalizing this argument, he explains another "patch": the "femme fatale", the ideal persona of many transvestites. "Their attitude towards their bodies includes a perception of the ambiguous nature of their bodies, which suggests that they do not perceive it as simply a female or a male body. Hence the concern in relation to body transformation, by means of definitive methods, such as hormone therapy or the use of silicone (often applied inadequately and dangerously by "bombers", colleagues that inject industrial silicone)." The search for a seductive, voluptuous body goes back to the figure of the seductive woman, based on movie stereotypes. This is also evidenced by the choice of pseudonyms, which are often in the form of "foreign-sounding" names (or directly inspired by celebrities' names), a way of emphasizing the transvestites' desire to resemble movie stars.
In Garcia's opinion, all this complexity must be taken into account when attempting to define an identity for transvestites. "Perhaps the patches of material are not the only bits that fill up the 'quilt' and each patch can be of a different size. This implies the recognition of an identity subject to evident tensions between the masculine and the feminine, between masculinity and femininity." As for example, the contradiction between the submission of the – rascal's woman – and the desire to dominate the "femme fatale", or the discrepancy between being desired and being used, in the case of the "prostitute". In terms of masculinity, there is the tension between the persona of the "rascal" and the "bandit" regarding practices they accept in relation to their clients, and the discrepancy of a virile "bandit" compared to a gay one, this being seen as "passive and cowardly". "Being a transvestite means experiencing these contradictions every day, in the body, in self-representation, in permanent and temporary relationships, and being punished for this every day". After all, it's easy to throw stones and spit at Geni.

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BARRY MICHAEL WOLFEThreatened with destruction by a silver zeppelin, the town, on its knees, was saved by the transvestite Geni. In return, the "proper" citizens of the town rewarded her with more of the same: "Throw stones at Geni/ She was made to be struck / She was made to be spat at / Damnable Geni", wrote composer Chico Buarque in his Ópera do malandro. Recently, the press printed headlines about actors from the TV Globo network who had allegedly gone to a motel with two transvestites and, when they realized the mistake, they threatened to kill the transvestites. "Made to be beaten", other transvestites get much more than mere threats. "Considered 'abject' and 'monstrous' figures, they are not empowered by the established systems of knowledge and power, which stimulates the desire to eliminate them; this results in the frequent murders of transvestites, the consequence of the so-called 'transphobia'. Because they do not fit into the classifications of gender and sexuality established by our society, they challenge us, they de-construct us and provoke the desire of death, much like the monstrous figures described by Foucault", explains psychologist Marcos Garcia, author of the doctorate thesis Dragões: gênero, corpo, trabalho e violência na formação da identidade entre travestis de baixa renda (Dragons: gender, body, work and violence in the shaping of the identity of low-income transvestites) presented this year to the doctorate program committee of the University of São Paulo's Institute of Psychology. Garcia spent four years attending weekly meetings of transvestites, held at a public institution. He was looking for a common factor that would identify them. Instead of a simple duality of genders, he came across a complex "patchwork quilt", in permanent construction, which brings together, in a single person, a number of different and contradictory figures, partially incorporated by the transvestite, which shape his/her identity: the "submissive woman", the "prostitute", the "super-seductress", all of which are related to females, and the "fairy", the "con man", and the "bandit", related to males. "They are transvestites because they take on all these persona. The synthesis of contradictory elements in a single person can be compared metaphorically to the mythical figure of the dragon, the same word transvestites use to describe low-income transvestites or transvestites whose appearance is more masculine (in contrast to the "goddesses", such as Roberta Close etc.)", the author points out. "The common characteristic attributed to the dragon is a mixture of the features of different animals and the dragon is viewed as a representative of the "good" or of the "evil" powers, another analogy of the transvestites, who are viewed as persons to be eliminated while at the same time attracting the erotic desires of many, even sometimes of those who want to hurt them." "Like the mythological being", he adds, "they 'contradict' the laws of nature and of society, combining the impossible with the forbidden, that which is not against the law, only insofar as no such provision is established. The transvestite is unthinkable, an outlaw, stimulating not the imposition of the law, but elimination." Garcia believes that the violence directed at them is partially determined by the fact that they do not occupy a place defined in the identity "catalogues" acknowledged in Brazilian society. "They are persecuted not because they occupy a female position, but because of their pretension to be transvestites and because they escape from any social classification." In Brazil, until the sixties, the word "transvestite" was only used to describe cross-dressers, whether in carnival parodies or in shows, without the connotation of prostitution. "In those times, it was almost impossible to be a transvestite in Brazil. They had no means of walking on the streets, because society would not accept this", says anthropologist Hélio Silva, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and author of Travestis: entre o espelho e a rua (published by Rocco), a classic study, which was recently re-printed. In one decade, the "cross-dressers", as they were called, transformed themselves in the seventies, says Garcia, into the current transvestites, a word which from the seventies onwards was used to describe someone who prostituted herself, not only wearing by female clothes, but also by having long hair, painted nails and a "modified body", through hormones or silicone, in the search of an image similar to the female image. The anthropologist's research study unveiled some stories in common among them; most of them came from low-income families and were discriminated against and attacked early on, because of their "effeminate" ways. The solution was the standard one – run away to the big city to look for better living conditions and social acceptance – the outcome of which was prostitution, an alternative to the lack of space in the work market and the impossibility of counting on help from the family. In fact, this rupture is responsible for the transvestites' social isolation, which strengthens the new identity, as close contact with other homosexuals is the alternative social network to exclusion from the family. These ties of friendship and protection, says the researcher, even led to the creation of a specific jargon spoken by transvestites. This jargon is permeated by words stemming from African dialects, and are a manifestation "of belonging to a select group and a protection from those who are outside the frontiers defined by these forms of worship." This specific kind of language, Garcia points out, is explained by "the historical association between Afro-Brazilian cults and homosexuality." The most noteworthy "patch" in the "identity" of the transvestites' patchwork quilt is their emotional and sexual relationship with their companions, their "husbands". "They embodied the submissive female, taking on a passive attitude in relation to these men, who very often exploited them economically. The transvestites often associate femininity with suffering." They accepted their "no-good" husbands; however, in their relationship with clients, they were the "no-goods", maintaining the clients in a complementary position (the "suckers" ),and rebelling against those clients who wanted to put them in a submissive position. According to the anthropologist, they feel contempt towards clients who want to take on passive positions during the "dates", as, although the "dates" guaranteed the transvestites´ financial needs, they did not satisfy their desire to be treated like "women". The passive role however, could often be a source of satisfaction, as the transvestite was acknowledged, "flirted with", thus developing her self-esteem and making money. BARRY MICHAEL WOLFEAunt But happiness is never complete. "Transvestites do not value the proceeds from prostitution, viewing the money as being "dirty". The same description is applied to bearers of HIV (referred to as "aunts", and viewed as an undesired form of "masculinization", which increases the suffering of those who are HIV-positive), whose blood is also "dirty". The two cases shows the contempt they feel for the activities they engage in, viewed as being "moral filth"; this involves everything in an environment of shame and guilt", says the researcher. Poverty unveiled in them another "patch", the "bandit". By robbing and threatening their clients to get money from them, they turned the clients into objects of financial exploitation. This is mad worse by the transvestites' involvement in drug dealing or drug consumption, especially crack, which brings them closer to the "world of crime". But what about the clients? Unfortunately, says Garcia, there is virtually no research on the other end of the relationship, because of the obvious fear of the clients to present themselves as such. "But some researchers relate the search for transvestites as a search for an ideal form of stereotyped femininity, associated with the seduction that "real" women are not willing to indulge in because of women's emancipation, which leads them to refuse to be considered "an object". This "ideal woman" would be more easily invented by a man, because the man is thoroughly familiar with masculine desires". Although the psychologist emphasizes the danger of generalizing this argument, he explains another "patch": the "femme fatale", the ideal persona of many transvestites. "Their attitude towards their bodies includes a perception of the ambiguous nature of their bodies, which suggests that they do not perceive it as simply a female or a male body. Hence the concern in relation to body transformation, by means of definitive methods, such as hormone therapy or the use of silicone (often applied inadequately and dangerously by "bombers", colleagues that inject industrial silicone)." The search for a seductive, voluptuous body goes back to the figure of the seductive woman, based on movie stereotypes. This is also evidenced by the choice of pseudonyms, which are often in the form of "foreign-sounding" names (or directly inspired by celebrities' names), a way of emphasizing the transvestites' desire to resemble movie stars. In Garcia's opinion, all this complexity must be taken into account when attempting to define an identity for transvestites. "Perhaps the patches of material are not the only bits that fill up the 'quilt' and each patch can be of a different size. This implies the recognition of an identity subject to evident tensions between the masculine and the feminine, between masculinity and femininity." As for example, the contradiction between the submission of the – rascal's woman – and the desire to dominate the "femme fatale", or the discrepancy between being desired and being used, in the case of the "prostitute". In terms of masculinity, there is the tension between the persona of the "rascal" and the "bandit" regarding practices they accept in relation to their clients, and the discrepancy of a virile "bandit" compared to a gay one, this being seen as "passive and cowardly". "Being a transvestite means experiencing these contradictions every day, in the body, in self-representation, in permanent and temporary relationships, and being punished for this every day". After all, it's easy to throw stones and spit at Geni.


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Rachel MacDonald: Librarian to Henry Ford
January 9, 2014 Archive Insight
Did you know Henry Ford had his own personal librarian? Rachel MacDonald joined Ford Motor Company in 1925 to catalog objects acquired by Henry Ford for the educational center and history museum he envisioned--the Edison Institute, what we know today as The Henry Ford. She stayed on to build up a library of 25,000 volumes, including a complete set of the Little Orphan Annie comic strip, a favorite of her boss. She also collected, on Henry's behalf, volumes of Noah Webster's dictionaries and the McGuffey readers, and she started a compilation of verified Henry Ford quotations, among other useful resources. Many of these materials were transferred to the archives shortly after Henry Ford's death. These materials, which became part of the Ford Motor Company Archives, were later donated by the company to The Henry Ford, in 1964, and form part of our collection today.
Actor Mickey Rooney and Henry Ford at Menlo Park Laboratory, Greenfield Village, 1940. (Object ID P.188.27104.A, Image ID THF98671.)
MacDonald's first library at Ford was in the Highland Park plant. There she met visiting friends of Henry Ford including Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, actor Mickey Rooney, and author Damon Runyon, when they paid calls on Henry, who thirsted after interesting conversation. Mickey Rooney, who came to Dearborn to film a movie about Edison's life, was a particular favorite of Henry's, who enjoyed the young actor's energy and high spirits.
Ford Engineering Laboratory Layout, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1924.This building was completed in December 1924 and still stands today on Oakwood Boulevard in Dearborn. Note the space for the "Dance Room" in the bottom right corner of the building plan.(Object ID P.O.9757, Image ID THF98510.)
As time went on, Ford's aides increasingly limited access to the mogul, even going so far as to call ahead to places they knew Henry was going to be visiting--including the library--warning employees to hide. (By this time MacDonald was working at the Engine and Electrical Engineering or "EEE" Building now known as the POEE building, where the library had moved.) As the isolation and formality around Henry increased, he became a very lonely man, MacDonald recalled feeling. Henry turned to square dancing as a social outlet, with dances in the library every Wednesday. MacDonald often danced with Henry and observed that he would chat with her the whole time they were dancing.
Besides notable visitors from around the country and the world, the Ford grandchildren were frequent visitors to the library. MacDonald remembered that Henry II and Benson liked to slide around on the highly polished floors (Henry always liked to keep things in fine finish) as though they were at a skating rink.
Clara Ford and Henry Ford birdwatching at "The Bungalow," Dearborn, Michigan, 1910-1915. Henry and Clara soon selected this secluded site for their Fair Lane estate. (Object ID P.O.701, Image ID THF96013.)
Both Henry and Clara Ford were avid birders, and they created a bird sanctuary on their Dearborn estate, Fair Lane. One of MacDonald's favorite anecdotes to relate about her days at Ford was the time Henry called her with an urgent request for information on the "correct size for a hole in a wren house." She found the answer (⅞ of an inch) and promptly informed him. She later learned that Henry had been inspecting the wren houses built on his grounds by his staff and thought that the holes were too large. A larger hole would allow other bird species, including the ubiquitous sparrow, to invade. Upon learning that the holes were not the correct size, Henry, ever the stickler, had them all recut.
In an interview with the Detroit Free Press given around her retirement, MacDonald had more recollections about Henry Ford and the library she helped him amass. Ford was not popularly thought to have had much use for books, but MacDonald countered that he was in fact very interested in them. Henry wanted have a collection of books on hand on all manner of subjects should the need arise for him--or his staff--to look something up. He was, according to MacDonald, a frequent visitor to her library and would spend time there skimming through books, often walking off with one in his pocket. (According to her and others at Ford Motor Company, it was at Henry's insistence that many company publications were pocket-sized, reflecting his preference for portable reading material. Think what he might have done with a smartphone or an e-reader today!) Another useful resource that she and other Engineering Library staff created and kept available at the library for their knowledge-hungry boss was a vertical file on the many topics he was interested in. It is still available for research today as the Engineering Library Vertical File, in many ways a window into Henry Ford's mind.
As an interesting aside, though MacDonald was her married name, Rachel MacDonald was always referred to within the company as "Miss"--perhaps a reflection of different times and moeurs, when a married woman was not expected to remain in the workforce (or indeed, was expected not to remain there).
MacDonald, who had studied library science in Massachusetts before moving to Michigan, kept active professionally and was a charter member and president of the Michigan chapter of the Special Libraries Association. She retired in 1963 after long career as a librarian at Ford (37 years). MacDonald died at the age of 83 in 1981, in Florida, where she had moved after she retired.
As Neil Gaiman has famously noted (to the extent that it has become an Internet meme), "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." While today, the answer to the "wren question," and many others, is available at our fingertips, Rachel MacDonald's work at the Ford Engineering Library shows how important both amassing a wealth of resources and deploying the expert knowledge to use those resources were in the time before online search. Today, the field is more democratized in terms of the knowledge and resources that are available, but experts (like my colleagues in the archives, library, and museum professions) are still needed to help identify, collect, preserve, and promote access to important information and artifacts--and in this digital age, to ensure that more and more resources are made available online for all.
Newspaper clippings for MacDonald, Rachel, in the Ford Biographical Vertical File, Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford.
Noble, William T., "Librarian Remembers Henry Ford as 'Lonely,'" Detroit Free Press, January 6, 1963, pp. 1E-2E.
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*Note: This recipe was tested using sucralose-based sugar substitute.
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La Ligue de justice d'Amérique (Justice League of America ou JLA en version originale) est une équipe de fiction regroupant les principaux super-héros de l'éditeur DC Comics.

Histoire du groupe
Avant Crisis on Infinite Earths, la JLA était l'équipe de super-héros qui protégeait Terre-I.

Après Crisis, il a été établi que la Ligue a succédé à la Société de justice d'Amérique, après un long hiatus.

À la suite de la destruction de leur satellite orbital, narrée dans JLA vol. 4  1, c'est depuis leur « Tour de guet » (Watchtower, apparue dans JLA vol. 4  4) basée sur la Lune, que ces justiciers luttent contre les différents dangers (invasions extra-terrestres, savants fous, mégalomanes…) qui menacent la quiétude de la Terre.

Membres

Selon les époques, sa constitution varie mais ses membres les plus récurrents sont : Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, J'onn J'onzz (Martian Manhunter), Aquaman, Hawkman, Green Arrow…

Personnages associés

Alliés
 Adam Strange
 Outsiders
 Teen Titans
 Ultramarines
 Young Justice

Ennemis

 Amazo
 Amos Fortune
 La Clé
 Crime Syndicate of America
 Darkseid
 Despero
 Docteur Destinée
 Brainiac
 Docteur Light
 Doomsday
 Felix Faust
 Gorilla Grodd
 Injustice Gang
 Joker
 Kanjar Ro
 Lex Luthor
 Maggedon
 Martiens blancs
 Maxwell Lord
 Prof. Ivo
 Prometheus
 Queen Bee
 Royal Flush Gang
 Shaggy Man / Général Eiling
 Starro
 T.O. Morrow

Histoire éditoriale

DC Comics
La Ligue de justice a connu plusieurs incarnations, ainsi que plusieurs séries dérivées (Justice League Europe, Justice League Task Force, etc.)

Après un galop d'essai dans la revue anthologique The Brave and the Bold (#28 à 30, février-), le groupe eut droit à son propre titre en . Nommée Justice League of America, la revue comptera 261 numéros jusqu'en . Démarrée sous l'égide du scénariste Gardner Fox et du dessinateur Mike Sekowsky, elle sera marquée par la longue présence du dessinateur Dick Dillin qui succédera à Sekowsky au #64 et qui dessinera la bande jusqu'à son décès (Justice League of America #183). C'est George Pérez qui le remplacera durant quelques numéros avant de céder la place à Chuck Patton. Sur le plan scénaristique, de nombreux auteurs succèderont à Fox, parmi lesquels on pourrait citer Len Wein, Denny O'Neil, Cary Bates ou Steve Englehart. On retiendra surtout la prestation de Gerry Conway qui, du #151 au #255, prévaudra à la destinée du groupe. C'est à lui qu'on devra la création de la Justice League de Détroit, tentative décriée de redynamiser une série qui s'essoufflait. Mais l'apport de nouveaux personnages peu charismatiques et la disparition des grandes figures du groupe signent l'arrêt de mort du magazine. J.M. DeMatteis et Luke McDonnell seront chargés des derniers numéros, qui prennent place au sein de deux grandes sagas : Crisis on Infinite Earths et Legends. On y assiste à la dissolution de la ligue de Détroit et à la mort de certains personnages, laissant la place à une refonte complète de l'équipe.

En  parait le premier numéro de Justice League qui voit le renouveau du groupe. Sous l'impulsion du responsable éditorial Andrew Helfer, les scénaristes Keith Giffen et J.M. DeMatteis injectent une forte dose d'humour, qui se caractérise par la présence de nouveaux membres comme le duo Blue Beetle-Booster Gold ou un Green Lantern caractériel, Guy Gardner. Un ton sitcom se fait jour, marqué par la prépondérance de dialogues comiques et l'accent mis sur les interactions entre les personnages plutôt que sur les menaces auxquelles doit faire face l'équipe. Cette ambiance est renforcée par le dessin du jeune artiste Kevin Maguire dont les personnages aux expressions faciales réalistes servent à merveille la nouvelle direction de la série. Il sera suivi en cela par plusieurs de ses successeurs comme Mike McKone, Adam Hughes ou Chris Wozniak. Durant ce temps, le titre est renommé deux fois. Au numéro 7 (), il devient Justice League International, établissant l'affiliation à l'ONU de l'équipe avant de devenir Justice League America au numéro 26 (), permettant la création d'une revue sœur, Justice League Europe. Le duo Giffen/DeMatteis quitte le magazine au #60 (), laissant la place au scénariste et dessinateur Dan Jurgens. Son court passage sera marqué par l'implication de la Justice League dans la saga Death of Superman qui voit la mort du célèbre héros kryptonien. Au #78 (), le scénariste Dan Vado prend la relève, accompagné des dessinateurs Mike Collins, Kevin West et Mark Campos. Cette période verra une lente et durable dégradation de la bande que le remplacement de Vado par Gerard Jones et l'adjonction du dessinateur Chuck Wojtkiewicz au #93 () ne parviendra pas à endiguer. La série s'arrête au numéro 113 d'août 1996 dans l'indifférence du lectorat.

Décidé à redonner à son équipe-phare ses lettres de noblesse, DC Comics choisit de faire revenir au sein du groupe tous les héros principaux de la firme, à savoir Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Martian Manhunter et Aquaman. De septembre à , la mini série  permet aux « big guns », comme on les appelle, de se réunir à nouveau. Leur rassemblement sera entériné par le lancement d'une nouvelle série.

Le volume 3 est lancé en 1997 par Grant Morrison et Howard Porter, qui prennent le parti pris de refaire de la JLA le groupe des plus grands héros, ce qu'il n'était plus vraiment dans ses dernières incarnations. Ils n'hésitent pas à faire un parallèle appuyé avec la mythologie des dieux de l'Olympe. Morrison introduit de nouvelles menaces, Maggedon, les Martiens blancs, Prometheus, des personnages comme les Ultramarines ou Zauriel, et réactualise certains personnages comme le Shaggy Man ou La Clé. Plusieurs autres équipes d'artistes se sont ensuite succédé, tels Mark Waid et Bryan Hitch, Joe Kelly et Doug Mahnke ou l'équipe mythique Chris Claremont / John Byrne. À l'instar du premier volume, cette série s'éteindra dans le cadre d'une maxi-saga, Infinite Crisis qui verra le groupe s'autodétruire à la suite de nombreuses dissensions.

Le succès de la version imaginée par Morrison conduira à la création de nombreux autres projets estampillés JLA. Parmi les nombreux albums et séries limitées, on n'en citera que quelques-uns, marquants par leur qualité. Ainsi du graphic novel JLA: Earth 2 signé Morrison et Frank Quitely qui voit l'équipe affronter une réplique malfaisante d'elle-même. Dans la même veine, l'album JLA: Heaven's Ladder de Waid et Hitch relate son combat épique contre une race extraterrestre qui s'apparente à des dieux. En 1998, Waid toujours, accompagné de Barry Kitson, retrace la première année d'existence de la ligue au sein des douze numéros de la série limitée JLA: Year One. La même année, Alan Davis livre un elseworlds intitulé The Nail (Le Clou en français) qui raconte la vie de la JLA si Superman n'était pas là… Une histoire qui connaitra même une suite sous le titre Another Nail en 2004. Fin 2003, le crossover JLA/Avengers, attendu depuis plus de 20 ans par les fans, est enfin publié, réalisé par Kurt Busiek et George Perez. En 2005, Alex Ross initie une maxi-série de 12 épisodes baptisée Justice, qu'il peint sur des crayonnés de Doug Braithwaite, tandis qu'apparaît la série JLA Classified mettant en scène des histoires situées à différentes époques par des équipes artistiques changeant à chaque fois.

The New 52
En septembre 2011, DC Comics décide de relancer la quasi-totalité de son univers lors de l'événement New 52. La Ligue de Justice d'Amérique est éditée de 2013 à 2014 puis de 2015 à novembre 2016.

L' événement New 52 prend fin en mai 2016 avec la parution du nouvel événement DC Rebirth.

DC Rebirth
Le titre Justice League of America (JLA) fait partie de la deuxième vague de publications de l'Univers DC lors de l'événement DC Rebirth. Ce titre est lancé par Justice League of America : Rebirth, qui comprend les histoires Rebirth de Vixen, Killer Frost, The Ray et Atom. Lobo rejoint l'équipe à la suite des événements de Justice League vs Suicide Squad.

Depuis DC Rebirth, la JLA est composée de super-héros secondaires, recrutés par Batman dans l'ombre de la Justice League principale. Cette équipe se veut plus proche du peuple, elle sera la première équipe de l'ère Rebirth à ouvrir un Hall de Justice.

Publications

Éditions françaises

Arédit/Artima

Collection « Artima color DC Super star » (Justice League of America vol.1 #183-202)
La Ligue de justice (1982)
La Menace de Darkseid (1982)
Les Imposteurs (1983)
L'Étoile conquérante (1983)
 (1983)
 (1983)
Complot cosmique (1983)
Les Prisonniers du temps (1984)
Une ligue divisée (1984)
Nom de code : Ultra (1984)

Collection « DC Arédit color » (Justice League of America vol.1 #203-209, 221-232)
5 Cartes à abattre (1985)
3 Démons de plus (1985)
L'Empereur du temps (1985)
La Menace (1986)
 (1986)
Les Bêtes (1986)
 (1986)
 (1987)
 (1987)
 (1987)
 (1987)

Bethy
L'Odyssée cosmique (1998)

Soleil
Terre 2 (2000)
Ascension (2001)
Seule contre tous (2001)

Semic
Revues
Strange 325 à 335 (1997-1998) (JLA vol.3 #1-10)
JLA 1 à 12 (1998-2000) (JLA vol.3 #11-33)
WildC.A.T.s hors-série 2 : JLA/WildC.A.T.s (1998)
Spécial DC 5 : JLA/Teen Titans (1999)
Spécial DC 11 : JLA/Witchblade (2001)
JLA/Avengers 1 à 4 (2004)

Albums
L'Encyclopédie de la Ligue de Justice (2003)
Vice et vertu (2003)
Légendes (2004)
Justice et liberté (2004)
Tour de Babel (2004)
Extinction (2005)
Fable - Une équipe de rêve (2005)

Panini
Le Clou T1 et T2 (2006)
Justice T1 à T4 (2006-2008)
DC Universe 1 à… (2006-)
L'Odyssée cosmique (2008)
Legends (2008)
 collection « DC Anthologie »
 Nouvel ordre mondial (2008) (JLA vol.3 #1-9)
 La Fin des temps (2010) (JLA vol.3 #10-17)

Urban Comics
Justice League of America
Année Un
Le Nouvel Ordre Mondial
La Fin des Temps
Monde Futur
Troisième Guerre Mondiale
La Tour de Babel
Ascension
Justice League
Aux origines
L'autre terre
l'Odyssée du mal
Le Trône d'Atlantis
La Ligue de Justice d'Amérique
La Guerre des Ligues
Le Règne du Mal - 1re Partie
Le Règne du Mal - 2e Partie
La Ligue d'Injustice
La Guerre de Darkseid - 1re Partie
La Guerre de Darkseid - 2e partie
Justice League Rebirth
2017 : 1. Les Machines du Chaos (The Extinction Machine, contient Justice League Rebirth  + Justice League )
2017 : 2. État de Terreur (Outbreak, contient Justice League )
2018 : Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad (contient Justice League , crossover avec la série Suicide Squad)
2018 : 3. Intemporel (Timeless, contient Justice League )
2018 : 4. Interminable (Endless, contient Justice League )
2018 : 5. Héritage (Legacy, contient Justice League )
2019 : 6. Le Procès de la Ligue de Justice (The People vs. the Justice League, contient Justice League )
Justice League : No Justice
Justice League, New Justice
La Totalité
Terre Noyée
Retour au Mur Source
La Sixième Dimension

Adaptations

Films
Le projet d'adapter la Ligue de justice au cinéma est envisagé depuis plusieurs années par Warner Bros et DC Comics, mais avec un gros budget, contrairement au téléfilm de CBS. George Miller (Mad Max) a été approché pour la mise en scène en 2006, mais il a fini par se désister. En 2012, le scénariste Will Beall a été engagé.

Le projet devait être tourné en 2007, mais il est interrompu après la grève des scénaristes d'Hollywood. Warner décide de repousser la production pour se concentrer sur la production des Batman de Christopher Nolan, de très gros succès critiques et commerciaux. Warner adapte également par deux fois un autre super-héros : Superman Returns (2006) de Bryan Singer, au succès mitigé, et Green Lantern (2011) de Martin Campbell, qui fut une catastrophe critique et commerciale. Mais le succès des films du concurrent Marvel fit que DC n'allait pas en rester à ces échecs.

Le studio Warner Bros tient ensuite un nouveau projet : la création de franchises d'adaptations de super-héros de DC Comics, notamment pour chaque personnage qui composerait la Justice League : Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Shazzam ou Cyborg. Cette nouvelle franchise prend le nom d'Univers cinématographique DC, similaire à l'univers cinématographique Marvel de Disney. Ainsi la méthode employée fonctionne comme pour le film Marvel  Avengers sorti en 2012, en créant un univers partagé dans chaque film individuel.

Le film inaugural de cet univers, sorti en 2013, est consacré à Superman : Man of Steel, réalisé par Zack Snyder. Christopher Nolan également sollicité, a refusé cette offre plusieurs fois (il reste producteur). Man of Steel étant un succès, on annonça dans la foulée sa suite, avec Batman (l'univers Batman étant différent des films de Nolan), pour  : Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, toujours réalisé par Zack Snyder. Le film introduit en particulier Wonder Woman. La distribution inclut Henry Cavill dans le rôle de Superman, Ben Affleck dans le rôle de Batman et Gal Gadot dans celui de Wonder Woman. Zack Snyder a déjà anticipé son usage en introduisant la ville de Gotham City dans Man of Steel.

Le , la société Warner Bros. conclut un contrat commercial pour les produits dérivés de la Ligue des Justiciers qui inclut notamment les personnages de Cyborg et Aquaman.

Le film Justice League est officialisé le , avec Zack Snyder à la réalisation. Il sort en . Le film est écrit par Chris Terrio, déjà auteur du film précédent. Il introduit des personnages ayant fait une courte apparition dans Dawn of Justice : Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) et Flash (Ezra Miller). Une suite est envisagée, sans date de sortie annoncée.

Films d'animations

Note : cette liste ne contient que les films centrés sur la Ligue, ce qui exclut les films où elle n'apparaît que de manière secondaire.

 La Ligue des justiciers : Nouvelle Frontière (Justice League: The New Frontier, Dave Bullock, 2008)
 La Ligue des justiciers : Conflit sur les deux Terres (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earth, Sam Liu et Lauren Montgomery, 2010)
 La Ligue des justiciers : Échec (Justice League: Doom, Lauren Montgomery, 2012)
 La Ligue des justiciers : Le Paradoxe Flashpoint (Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Jay Oliva, 2013)
 La Ligue des justiciers : Guerre (Justice League: War, Jay Oliva, 2014)
 Les Aventures de la Ligue des justiciers : Piège temporel (JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time, Giancarlo Volpe, 2014)
 La Ligue des justiciers : Le Trône de l'Atlantide (Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Ethan Spaulding, 2015)
 La Ligue des justiciers vs. les Teen Titans (Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Sam Liu, 2016)
 Lego DC Comics Super Heroes - La Ligue des justiciers : S'évader de Gotham City (Lego DC Comics Super Heroes - Justice League: Gotham City Breakout, Matt Peters et Melchior Zwyer, 2016)
 Justice League Dark (Jay Oliva, 2017)
 Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (Matt Peters et Christina Sotta, 2020)

Séries animées

Le Plein de Super

Durant les années 1970-1980, Hanna-Barbera produit une série animée rassemblant les héros de DC sous le nom de Super Friends (titre décliné selon les saisons). Le dessin animé reprend les personnages de Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, HawkGirl… Les saisons 4 et 5 ont été diffusées en clair sur Canal+ dès le , sous le titre français Le Plein de Super

La Ligue des justiciers

En 2001, Bruce Timm (à qui l'on doit déjà des adaptations animées de Batman et Superman) crée la série animée La Ligue des justiciers (Justice League en V.O.) qui réunit sept super-héros : Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Hawkgirl et J'onn J'onzz. Après deux saisons, la série modifie quelque peu son concept et la Ligue s'ouvre à une cinquantaine de nouveaux héros (Green Arrow, Supergirl, Captain Atom, Question, Huntress, The Atom, Captain Marvel). La série change alors de nom et devient La Nouvelle Ligue des justiciers (Justice League Unlimited).

La Ligue des justiciers : Action
Une nouvelle série d'animation basée sur l'équipe, La Ligue des justiciers : Action, est diffusée à partir du  aux États-Unis sur Cartoon Network. En France, elle est diffusée sur  à partir du .

La Ligue des justiciers : Nouvelle Génération
Cette série est principalement centrée sur l'équipe constituée de jeunes héros, pour la plupart équipiers et apprentis des membres de la Ligue. Ces derniers font néanmoins plusieurs apparitions. Ses membres sont nombreux, mais les plus récurrents sont: Batman (mentor de Robin), Aquaman (mentor d'Aqualad), Martian Manhunter (oncle de Miss Martian), Flash (mentor de Kid Flash), Green Arrow (mentor de Red Arrow et d'Artemis), Superman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Red Tornado (chargé de surveiller la jeune équipe), Black Canary (entraîneuse de jeunes héros), Captain Atom (leader de la Ligue durant la saison 2) et Zatara (père de Zatanna, qui deviendra le Docteur Fate).

La Ligue est fondée avant le début de la série par Superman (Clark Kent), Batman (Bruce Wayne), Wonder Woman (Diana Prince), Flash (Barry Allen), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Aquaman (Arthur Curry) et Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz), afin de lutter contre une attaque extra-terrestre. Les statues des fondateurs sont d'ailleurs disposées à l'entrée du Hall de Justice, QG officiel de la Ligue (le grand public ignorant en effet l'existence de la Tour de Guet, véritable lieu de réunion de la Ligue, située dans l'espace). La Ligue s'agrandira encore par la suite et accueillera d'autres héros entre les saisons 1 et 2, ainsi qu'entre les saisons 2 et 3.

Dans la saison 2, plusieurs membres de la Ligue (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, John Stewart, Hawkwoman, Hawkman et Icon) quittent la Terre temporairement, laissant Captain Atom diriger la Ligue.

Dans la saison 3, la Ligue se divise: si plusieurs membres se montrent satisfaits de son fonctionnement et estiment que l'équipe reste un symbole de justice pour le monde entier, d'autres, menés par Batman et Green Arrow, considèrent que leur marge de manœuvre est réduite par leurs accords avec les Nations-Unies (notamment à cause du secrétaire général Lex Luthor) et qu'ils ne peuvent plus exercer leurs activités super-héroïques aussi efficacement qu'auparavant. Ils décident alors de démissionner et de fonder une nouvelle équipe. Les héros se réunissent à la fin de la saison et réintègrent la Ligue avec de nouveaux membres.

Batman (série télévisée d'animation, 2004)
Dans cette série (centrée avant tout sur Batman), la Ligue est formée sur l'initiative de Martian Manhunter (dans le dernier épisode de la saison 4). Ses premiers membres sont: Martian Manhunter, Batman, Green Arrow, Flash, Hawkman et Green Lantern. Superman rejoindra la Ligue dans la saison 5.

Téléfilm de 1997
En 1997, un téléfilm Justice League of America fut diffusé sur CBS. Cela devait être le pilote d'une possible série télévisée, mais la qualité médiocre du téléfilm mit fin à ce projet. L'équipe comprenait Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), Ice (Tori Olafsdotter), the Atom (Ray Palmer), Fire (B.B. DaCosta), The Flash (Barry Allen) et Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz).

Jeux vidéo

 Justice League Task Force
 Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
 DC Universe Online
 Justice League: Earth's Final Defense
 Injustice: Gods Among Us
 Injustice 2
 Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
 Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
 Lego DC Super-Villains

Parodies et pastiches
 L'Escadron suprême (Squadron Supreme) a été créé par Marvel Comics à la fois comme un hommage et une parodie aux bandes dessinées de superhéros de la ligue des justiciers d'Amérique.
 En 1991, dans la même veine que Décode pas Bunny, Kayenta produit La Grande Supercherie pour Canal+. Diffusée tous les samedis à 20h00, en lieu et place des Simpson, il s'agit d'une série de détournement de 18 x 26 min, reprenant des épisodes redoublés du Plein de Super (Super Friends).
 Dans un des épisodes de la série télévisée The Big Bang Theory, les héros revêtent les déguisements de différents membres de la JLA.

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Scott Beaty (trad. Jérôme Wicky), JLA : l'encyclopédie de la Ligue de Justice, Paris : Semic, 2003, 96 p. Parution originale JLA : the ultimate guide to the Justice league of America, Dorling Kindersley, 2002.
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Liens externes

  Page Justice League of America sur Comics-db
  Fiche de la série sur La Tour des héros

Personnage créé par Gardner Fox
Équipe de super-héros DC

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The request was for peachy colours and as luck would have it we had loads in stock including french tulips, poppies ,gladioli , and soft peach throated daffodils.
Although they held their wedding in a restaurant in Smith St Fitzroy , Victoria and Aaron opted for an informal country feel for the bouquet and buttonholes. Astilbe, andromeda and seaholly lend the peachy roses an unstructured rusticity.
This winter bride chose double tulips, freesias and sweet peas in creamy, greeny whites for both herself and her matron -of- honour, so to create a difference between the two we made the Matron's bouquet as an elegant arm sheaf. A lovely alternative to the usual " smaller version" of the Bride's bouquet.
These frilly beauties are French tulips……..So chic!
According to Greek mythology the beautiful river nymph Daphne, fleeing from the passionate pursuit of amorous Apollo, cried out to her mother Gaia for rescue and was swallowed up into the ground leaving only a small fragrant tree in her place.
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Petfood manufacturer Nestle Purina is teaming up with Jenny Craig in a new online program that aims to help pet owners and their pets lose weight.
The program, "Project: Pet Slim Down," lets pet owners that sign up obtain tips for exercising with their pet, record exercise performed, track weight loss and share photos with other users.
"The obesity epidemic is not limited to people," said Lisa Talamini, vice president of research and program innovation at Jenny Craig, in a statement. "Two-thirds of adults in the US are overweight or obese, and more than half of all pets in the country are also battling the bulge."


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Gully Boys Bagged 4 stars with feisty Alia Bhatt and Killer Ranveer Singh
Zoya Akhtar aced it all with the release of Gully Boys. She has managed to get together a perfect script along with best actors in Bollywood under a single name. We are not saying this but everyone is talking about it only. The cast includes Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Kapoor, Amruta Subhash, Vijay Raaz, Sheeba Chaddha, Kalki Koechlin and Vijay Verma. The story is everything that an artist goes through – adversity, heartbreak and a society that never understand the passion of an artist. A person who has no privilege or was born with a silver spoon struggles to reach the top.Ranveer arranged a special screening for Deepika .
Story of Gully Boy
It's a story of how the lonely and hard long road of Murad (Ranveer Singh) makes it through all the odds and reach the top. Well, not entirely like Slumdog millionaires but from Dharavi Slum to the storyteller through raps can be oddly amazing. Murad with his talent was able to convert all of his life frustration into the rap. Due to the bleakness and poverty that he faced, Murad was prepared for his life on a new end. He believed that the ticket out of the Slum hellhole is rap.
However, his father (Vijay Raaz) who is a chauffeur wants his son to be educated. However, Murad followed a different route when he is not busy with beautiful yet possessive and fiercely girlfriend Safeena Firdausi that is played by Alia Bhatt. Apart from this, his life journey showed two of his friends Salman played by Nakul Sachdev and Moin played by Vijay Verma.
Ranveer Singh Performance
The actors put their cent percent in the film from the Kohl in Ranveer's eyes to the mind-blowing performance of Alia's end. They both have to dig up the whole move in an ultimate awe-aspiring. Ranveer Singh is already considered as the top actor in the Bollywood with the bag full of talent. Especially after his amazing performance as Alauddin Khilji has made him at the top. His second best performance is going to be Murad with perfect accent and screen space that is worth remembering.
Alia Bhatt Performance In Gully Boy
Even Alia Bhatt managed to put herself in the new light after some of the amazing performance on her end. The charming voice and accent made her worth the role. However, it's a shame that she wasn't able to do much even after such a big talent with limited time on screen. Her feisty side was the sight to behold and her Muslim girl avatar took over every other performance. After all, she beat up girls that were flirting with Murad.
Apart those, Sheeba Chaddha was seen as the mother of our feisty lady and Vijay Raaz, Ranveer's father in the movie along with Sher played by Siddhant Chaturvedi stole the limelight perfectly. Zoya character could have done much better with a better screen that put the movie on hinges. Also, a good story is said to be amazing when it goes at a good pace. But with Gully Boys, it managed to kill off due to the slow pace with an abrupt end. That after win glory was surely missing out in the whole movie that was all it takes to steal that single star.
However, with the theme of music, this movie managed to do amazingly well in the field with some amazing soundtrack. Also, the music is the heart of the whole movie with scream revolutions in the lyrics. When the whole Bollywood is working on the demagoguery, Gully Boys is something that we all needed. This whole-heartily nature of the movie will win all the energy at the right time.
I think you should watch Gully Boy kyuki "Apna Time Ayega".Best wishes to Ranveer and Alia for a good opening of the movie.
Gully Boys is something that we all needed. This whole-heartily nature of the movie will win all the energy at the right time.
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[…] 'Gully Boy' stands using a total of $32.50 crores and since the film will see a four day weekend, can attain a total $50 crores in its first weekend. Gully Boy' is Ranveer Singh's opening after'simmba' and one of her movies its the most significant day bringing in also for Alia Bhatt. Zoya Akhtar directs the movie, an undergod narrative about a bad man from Dharavi called Murad (Ranveer), whose dreams are more substantial than his truth. He defeats the chances to become a rapper. The film puts a light on the emerging rap civilization of India and is motivated by the lives of rappers Naezy and Divine. […]
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OCP Group, A Company With A Mission On The Front Line Against COVID-19
As individuals and as a society, there is a need for not only resilience but, crucially, solidarity in the face of the many challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic. OCP Group, the world leader in phosphates, acted decisively when the outbreak unleashed itself on Morocco taking a frontline role in the battle to keep the nation's economy moving and its communities safe.
OCP Group is not only a large national employer, with just under 21,000 direct staff, it has significant reach within the Moroccan non-profit landscape. Through a combination of charitable initiatives, support programs, and agricultural guidance schemes, the group touches the lives of around 350,000 people.
With operations at this scale, OCP was uniquely placed to support the moroccan Covid-19 response. with the group's Covid-19 task force coordinating a multitude of business continuity plans and resiliency strategies around the country, OCP has substantially reinforced the government's efforts.
The commitment to economic resilience started with a $300 million contribution from OCP to the government-led coronavirus fund, capital raised for the purpose of supporting people put out of work due to consequences of the outbreak as well as reinforcing health services. This was followed by steps by OCP to enhance the equipment and facilities of local hospitals, along with volunteer-led medical outreach strategies, preparing people and infrastructure for the shock of the crisis.
The group quickly put in place a number of protocols designed to limit disruption to its own operations. Given the fertiliser producer's critical role in global food security, safe and continued production is vital not only to Morocco but to its many international partners as well, who use the group's fertiliser in their food production.
Remote work was clearly one solution. More than half of the group's employees are now working from home, with only those with roles that absolutely require them to be on-site still continuing to do so. As well as taking on all of the necessary coronavirus hygiene and safety measures in its own operations, the group also looked to its partners, customers, and suppliers to ensure that they too were positioned to endure and to succeed despite the crisis.
Digital Inclusion And Distribution
By removing the issue of reduced mobility for businesses and maximising their visibility within their respective local markets, OCP empowered them to greatly enhance their online sales in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.
The goal was to offer artisans and other members of the solidarity economy the opportunity for continued activity, equipping them with online sales tools.
The Act4Cooperatives program has been supporting cooperatives through technical and managerial training, as well as through the creation of catalogues listing their products and helping them to set up home delivery systems.
Cooperatives at OCP's Jorf Lasfar site have successfully switched to these processes. For the Gantour sites, a catalog of local products is available on the Act4Community Facebook page. For Safi-Based cooperatives, there is an e-commerce platform for their products available with delivery options.
Each of these initiatives enables local groups to access customers in their community. Part of the strategy is to shorten the circuits of sales, reducing value lost to distribution costs. At the same time, with greater visibility at a time when people increasingly shop online, the cooperatives reach customers that they might otherwise have not.
Resilience Through Agility
OCP Group has also been helping small enterprises to adapt their operations to the new business environment in other ways. its volunteers have been providing training in soft skills to assist companies in making the needed adjustments. The program aims to guarantee fixed incomes for these cooperatives, thereby supporting a resilient economy.
An encouraging example, among many, are the 300 fishermen in el jadida who received hygiene and awareness training from group volunteers. This in turn gave them the knowledge and confidence to get back to work and continue earning during the outbreak.
OCP also helped a small business focused on gardening to become a delivery service. Currently, this business now operates in conjunction with the same fishermen, delivering their catch to local customers and charging for the service.
OCP employees are the primary customers of these types of cooperatives. More than 5,000 group employees have been encouraged through internal communication to make their purchases from the cooperatives in their communities, keeping these businesses afloat. This is just one more way that OCP is contributing to the national solidarity effort.
Another two cooperatives, operating sewing businesses at the Jorf Lasfar site, were able to pivot their production to medical facemasks. They were among the large number of different cooperatives who benefitted from technical and managerial support from OCP group volunteers. The Act4Community initiative also made thirty sewing machines available to them to reinforce their production capacities.
Subsequently, they received orders from several towns, together coming to 100,000 ordered units. In collaboration with two separate industry authorities, the masks produced by these two cooperatives obtained quality certification, compliant with the technical requirements of sanitary authorities.
Not only were these workers kept in employment by this change of their operations, but the national capacity to produce vital protective equipment was significantly strengthened.
OCP Group has contributed to the Moroccan health crisis response through large contributions to government funds, through reinforcing its own operations, by protecting its employees and extending the services of its medical teams to partners.
The story of how it has supported the ongoing activities of smaller, local businesses, however, is even more inspiring. It is these insightful, big-picture ideas that make the difference in enduring tests such as the global pandemic.


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Burton Albion v Leeds United: Whites look to follow example of Howard Wilkinson's glory boys
'˜DO you want to win?' is a new documentary film about Leeds United's re-birth under Howard Wilkinson that receives its premiere in the city on Monday.
Saturday, 22nd April 2017, 12:01 am
Champions: Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson holds aloft the championship trophy in front of thousands of adoring fans in May, 1992. Picture: YPN
The title relates to the challenge laid down to not just the players and supporters by Wilkinson on taking charge at Elland Road in October, 1988, but Leeds itself.
At the time, United were fourth-bottom in the old Second Division and in grave danger of slipping into the third tier for the first time in history. Leeds, Wilkinson felt at the time, resembled a "beaten up old picture of the glory days under Don Revie". Three-and-a-half years later, Leeds were back at the summit of English football.
Fast-forward a quarter of a century and the 17th manager to try and fill the huge footballing shoes of Wilkinson must be tempted to issue a similar challenge of his own.
After nigh on five months occupying a play-off place, Garry Monk's Leeds are suddenly on the outside looking in ahead of today's first competitive visit to Burton Albion.
All is far from lost, however, with a quirk of the fixture list that sends Fulham, the team who deposed Leeds in the top six last Monday, to Sheffield Wednesday on the final day of the regular season, meaning United's fate is still in their own hands.
Take a maximum nine points from their three remaining games and the West Yorkshire club's dreams of a Premier League return via the play-offs will very much be alive.
For Monk, this is a challenge to embrace and one the 38-year-old believes his players will rise to.
LEVEL-HEADED: Leeds UniteD boss Garry Monk. Picture: Simon Hulme
"This season's Championship has been hugely competitive," said the United head coach. "The quality that we have faced and that we have had to produce ourselves to put ourselves in this position has been huge.
"I think the players should be very proud of what they have done, I think everyone should be proud of it. But now the objective is to get into the play-offs, to make this final push.
"We are determined and I am sure that everyone connected, including our fans, are ready for it.
"I know that this club, when it has a challenge put in front of it, comes together. I also know they (the supporters) will be ready to support the boys and give everything, just as the players will be.
"The key is to leave everything out on the pitch. Give our maximum, as we know that, more often than not, when we do that it is good enough. And if it isn't, then it won't be for a lack of effort."
Leeds's stumbles during the run-in – Monk's side have won just twice in eight games – are similar to those suffered by the club when it last truly tasted glory via that title win of 1992.
Four-goal thrashings at QPR and Manchester City for Wilkinson's men during that Spring seemed to have handed the initiative to Alex Ferguson's Manchester United. Then, though, Wilkinson went back to basics and the team that had got Leeds into such a promising position in the first place.
His reward was a 13-point haul from those final five games and a title triumph that, 25 years on, will next week be immortalised in film.
Monk's task is to get the current crop sporting the famous white jersey similarly refocused ahead of away trips to struggling duo Burton and Wigan Athletic that sandwich next week's home encounter with Norwich City.
"Our mindset is to take care of our own business," said the United head coach. "We are not going to be sat there looking, watching and hoping for anything else.
"We have to take care of our own business. Our mindset is to win our three games. It has to be that way and we have proven that we can win three games in a row already this season, we just have to go and do it again.
"Is it easy? No. But it is it achievable? For sure, 100 per cent."
In nine of the past 10 seasons, 74 points has been enough to clinch a place in the play-offs – albeit in a couple of those years on goal difference.
If Leeds can win at the Pirelli Stadium today, Monk's men would move on to 76 points and yet still be far from certain that their season can be extended beyond May 7.
Monk added: "The cynical part of you just thinks that 73 points, which we have already achieved, has been the average for the last 20 years.
"The fact that we might finish on 82 points and only just get in there just shows you how competitive it is.
"But, inside, we are thinking about the three games and that we need to win all three. That won't change, no matter what the situation is."


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Note: No pigeons were harmed in the making of this game.
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The European Cycling Industry employs around 650,000 people, substantially more than even the United States 'Big Three' automotive companies, which employ 510,000 between them.
According to the European Cyclists' Federation – which earlier today released a report on the state of cycling in Europe – sectors including tourism, retail, manufacturing employ the huge number. The potential for further recruitment would grow substantially if there were a shift in cycling's modal share too.
According to the study, if cycling's modal share doubled, a further 400,000 jobs could be created, taking the figure north of one million. As it stands, around three per cent of Europe's journeys are carried out by bike, though that figure obviously varies hugely between the UK and Denmark, for example.
Further trumping other transport sectors, the study suggests that cycling has a higher employment intensity per million of turnover, thus offering greater potential for job creation.
The same study also concluded that the economic benefit to the 27 European countries studied is worth €217 billion.
If you're on the lookout for a job in the cycling industry, BikeBiz's jobs board has several vacancies the length and breadth of the UK.


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NITDA Strengthens Collaboration With Local Stakeholders to Exchange Thoughts on Closing the Digital Divide
Ugochi Emmanuel November 22, 2022
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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has reemphasized the value of collaboration to bridge the digital divide. The agency also demonstrated its commitment to closing the digital gaps across the country by organising a one-day stakeholders' engagement programme in Ibadan, Oyo state.
The state's ICT ecosystem had difficulties that needed to be identified, and co-created through the sharing of knowledge and experience, and NITDA's services extended to grassroots stakeholders.
"As the needs of the digital economy ecosystem grow, the agency has striven to respond appropriately. This has been demonstrated in the strategic actions the NITDA has taken in the implementation of critical areas of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS)", said NITDA's Director General, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, while giving his opening remarks at the event with the theme: 'Creating Opportunities, Breaking Boundaries: Towards Digitalisation and Entrepreneurial Evolution.'
Abdullahi who was represented by the agency's Director, Zonal Offices Directorate, Mr Babajide Ajayi said the quest to deliver outstanding customer services has continually driven the agency in developing strategies and initiatives to boost digital inclusion in the country.
Highlighting some of the people-oriented programmes that have been implemented in consultation with stakeholders, he said the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA), the National Adopted School for Smart Education (NASSE), Digital Literacy Capacity Training for Persons Living with Disabilities, ICT Innovation Hubs and a host of other activities have had a direct impact on the citizens of the country.
He maintained that through the constant reset and invigoration of the "agency's vision and mission, it has evolved from a highly centralised organisation to a functionally decentralised one with the foundational aspiration of always being close to its stakeholders."
He further stated that "the objectives of the programme are to offer stakeholders the opportunity to express their views on matters related to the agency's implementation of its mandate, establish sustainable collaborations and consistent channels for feedback and share with stakeholders our vision, regulatory instruments for national development and our journey so far".
Giving his keynote address, the Special Adviser to the Executive Governor of Oyo State on ICT and e-Governance, Mr Adebayo Akande appreciated NITDA for putting together the stakeholder engagement programme.
He described the initiative as invaluable and expressed his conviction that the programme would enable stakeholders to share ideas together rather than work in silos.
Acknowledging the several policies, regulations and frameworks rolled out by NITDA in the last few years, Mr Akande stated that the Oyo State Strategic Roadmap follows the same pattern as NITDA's Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan (SRAP).
He said: "When we came in new, we had to create our ICT policy and then move on to digital literacy. We also had to constantly train and retrain a lot of civil servants and a lot of digital transformation has taken place with regards to providing the right ICT infrastructure which led to digital innovation with regards to government processes in the state."
Stressing the importance of collaborations, especially between the federal and state governments, he assured NITDA of the state's support.
The Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, Seye Oluseye in his goodwill message appreciated NITDA for bringing the initiative down to the grassroots.
Describing ICT as the next oil in the country, Mr. Oluseye called for collaborations between the agency and the DAWN Commission.
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Digital Skills: DG NITDA Makes Case for ICT-Academia Partnership to Empower Nigerian Students
Share, like and CommentThe need for Nigeria to deepen the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) – Academia partnership has again been emphasised by the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa at the Huawei Education Summit 2022 (THES2022) which took place at the International Conference Centre, Abuja. Inuwa […]
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