G-20 Inside Out
I'm looking at the painting, the curtains, the panelling, the chandelier -- in other words, the aristocratic and opulent quality surrounding this conclave ... especially in relation to the street (and the world-wide economic hurt).
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Sexing Up The G-20
Looking at these "Girls of the G20 Summit protest" shots brings a few things to mind.
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Oh, Christmas Tree
After weeks of violence in Athens following the shooting death of a teenager by Greek police, protesters have been persistently trying to defile the city's Christmas tree in Syntagma Square. I find these images brilliantly unsettling, the fanciful lights and ornaments juxtaposed with officers of the state.
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STOPPT MENSCHENHANDEL
Somehow, or maybe it's because of this era of guerilla or viral marketing, I seem to see less protest this crisp and visually arresting.
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Karl Escapes Citizen’s Arrest, Natch
of Rove being accosted on stage on Tuesday at a mortgage bankers convention in San Francisco. (It's the pic the NYT ran, and which nearly everyone else seemed to use.) My first take had to do with the visual media fronting for Karl once more, avoiding the instant where...
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Spirit Of The Games
I give credit to the NYT for returning several times to the key symbol of hypocricy in these Olympic games. No, not Misty May's behind, but the unused "official protest zones."
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(NPR) Over Bush
In an NPR radio report from London last night, reporter Don Ganye, traveling with 43, echoed the same point he's been offering for several days. In Dubya's last tour on the continent, the non-story is that Europeans are so over Bush that couldn't be bothered to come out and...
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Gitmo Sixth Anniversary/Bringing Suits
Witness Against Torture: A Campaign To Shut Down Guantanamo (Non-violent direct action campaign) Guantanamo: A Look Back at Six Years of Imprisonment, Torture and Suicide (Democracy Now) Six Years Of Guantánamo: Enough Is Enough (Andy Worthington -- author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in...
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Destiny And Fate
Listening to special coverage while spending most of yesterday on the road, one commenter likened the killing -- in terms of the impact on the Pakistani people -- to the assassination of JFK.
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Iraq Still There
Sign of the times, here's another shot from Michael Kamber, taken in Ramadi on December 8th. He writes: "Found hanging on the wall of the marine base here--an old bare cold dirty building wtih no furniture, just bare brick walls." War Is Over--Say the Pundits (FAIR) In a Force...
Continue ReadingAja, Aja, Aja, Aja, OBollywood
What you have to like about the OBollywood video is the possibility that America -- after years of xenophobia -- might possibly find a way to embrace diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism.
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N.O. Demolition
On Thursday, over intense public opposition, the NO city council approved HUD's plan to demolish 4500 units of public housing and replace them with "mixed income development." Photographer Mario Tama -- who has been documenting one of the existing projects on and off for the past 6 months...
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Bridge World In An Uproar
Here's the photo of the "incident" that, according to the NYT, "has the bridge world in an uproar."
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Window On Jena
At this point, the sight of the raised fist -- the Sixties symbol of black power -- seems mostly ironic.
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The Soldier Referendum: Watch The Hand
The conventional wisdom I keep reading about says the Dems will not stand up to Bush, and that the country will still engaged in Iraq when Bush leaves office.... I believe the soldier has become the symbol and the conduit for expressing, from day to day, the conflict over...
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Looking More Like It
Compared to the demonstration in Washington this past February, this protest this weekend was considerably smaller. Reading the images, however, this one seemed much more significant. What was evident this time around was the parallel between Iraq and Vietnam, as well as the nation's growing anger about it.
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