Though this is only one of many monuments under consideration, the overwhelming support delivered through the public comment period should send a clear signal to the administration about changing past monument designations.
The occupation of the Place de la République, an already emotionally charged spot with its spontaneous and ever-changing monument to the victims of the 13 November terrorist attacks, has been going on since 31 March, and still attracts large crowds.
"Whoever's in charge of managing the monument will come up with some places for people to visit, and visit respectfully". Even less clear is whether changing the monuments' boundaries will spur extractive activities.
As we move into the next 100 years, my hope is that all young women growing up in our society will never tire from consciously taking courageous steps that can lead to life changing decisions; The Suffragette monument in Parliament square reminds me not all women's voices were being heard.
In "Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies," an account of today's battles over Civil War monuments and memorials, Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, explains why even the most egregiously offensive Confederate memorials are essentially immovable: affection for the familiar mingles with defensiveness about the past.
Making aggresive use of pseudoscientific methods and the Internet, New Agers are changing the way Egyptian monuments are seen by hundreds of thousands of tourists.
Changing the way these monuments are managed, as well as their size, is likely to spur a range of legal challenges.
The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Sanford Levinson's Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Duke Univ. Press, Oct. 5, 2018).
Zinke submitted a report to the White House in late August that proposed decreasing the size of at least four existing national monuments, plus changing the way a half-dozen more are managed, to allow for activities such as logging in forests where that is now off limits and commercial fishing in marine protected areas.
Laid out with precision beside an artificial lake on a green landscaped plain, engulfed by distant horizons and a vast, always changing sky, Brasilia is a monument to dreams -the generations-old dream of moving Brazil's capital inland and the dream of President Juscelino Kubitschek to build a city in just three years.
