Occupy Wall Street? …Um, Look Again.
It only takes an instant to absorb the basic elements of this picture for you to think, "Oh, one more #OccupyWallStreet photo, right?
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NYPD Occupy Wall Street Pepper-Gate: White Shirts Gone Wild
The images from the pepper spray confrontation reveal more than just police brutality -- they capture the specific overreaction of high-ranking police officers in the fray.
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: Nights at Camp Hashtag
If the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Hippie Kooks
The best thing you can say about big media's token coverage of "Occupy Wall Street?" At least it's artful.
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What Keystone White House Protest?
If the Keystone protest has been going on for weeks in front of the White House while hardly earning a blip on the media radar, yesterday was a different story.
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Thuggish Cameron Thinks Graffiti's Got His Back
Don't they get that graffiti, symbolic of the alienation, frustration, and yearning for identity and expression that underpins it, is the exact thing Cameron is denying?
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About The Iconic London Riots Photo
Who can't relate right now to the the world on fire, or the sense of free fall?
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David Degner & Alia Malek in Cairo: Permanent Revolution
As Revolution has become a permanent part of daily life, so has Tahrir Square acquired vendors, barbers, siphoned electricity ... and mint tea.
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Euro Swastika
Financial distress is producing ugly cultural cracks. Is the EU coming unglued?
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Catch-22 2011: Robbed Bank to Get Medical Care in Jail
Wouldn’t logic dictate that the medical, societal and legal systems that conspired to put a rational man in jail are in fact themselves illogical? Within the fabric of our society, there exists a vast gulf between the ways people interface with services and institutions. To me, that is crazy.
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Mark Ovaska in West Virginia: "Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires"
Outside activists meet local hostility (partly from the union) as battle over mountaintop mining continues.
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GOP Home For Recess. Media: Where's the Blood?
Hmm, two stories, one by the LA Times and other by Politico, about the same Pennsylvania Congressman with trouble in his backyard. If House Republicans were getting chainsawed back home for threatening Medicare, Social Security and the like, though, this photo -- accompanying the LAT story --was the only...
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Race-y Pictures
I'm wondering if this guy was that bad at laying out the sign, or if he didn't actually telegraph one of the primary underlying fears/motivators behind the Tea Party movement.
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David Degner in Cairo: The Revolution Continues
David Degner updates from Cairo: If photographers aren't present, the story doesn't exist -- or at least it is much harder to pin down.
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Scott Walker: The Factory Photo-Op
Here's the photo of Scott Walker addressing factory workers that got picked up by the AP, and which also ran in yesterday's NYT update article. Great visual, right? ...By design, that's true.
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Tearing Down a Middle East Dictator Statue – Chapter 2
If these dramatic scenes from Deraa, Syria, on Friday were reminiscent of anything here in the West, it was the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square. (With some key modifications.)
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Alan Chin on the Middle East: Ghosts of Suez and Srebrenica
In this momentous period in the Middle East, Alan Chin reflects on military interventions that didn't happen, concerns for the one that has, and the emotional forces at play for a photojournalist now back home, while friends and colleagues remain at risk.
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