SHOW ME THE FACE OF PROTEST ***
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09.01.2004 |
09.02.2004
[2004.08.26 - 2004.08.27]
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: protest signs
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: authority
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: faces
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: lenses, coverage
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: bikes (2004.08.26)
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: critical mass bike-ride (2004.08.27)
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: puppet state
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: protest is real and it is real
[2004.08.28]
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: Books not Bombs, St. Mark's Church
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: free Palestine, Union Square
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: signs
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: faces
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: bomb scare, Union Square, north side
[2004.08.29, United For Peace March]
*Brief notes on the march after the march:
It would have helped to wear sunscreen and bring more bottled water
today while joining the several hundred thousand other protesters that
gathered at 14 & 7th avenue starting at 10 a.m. Estimates of 400,000
were there, give or take X00,000. The crowd was excited and rowdy and
sweaty and energized and noisy and after running through the masses, climbing up police barriers
and ducking under drummers' drums, these are the photos that resulted. Thanks to the cameraman
who let me borrow his exacto knife to open compact flash card packaging. It was fun and seemed
purposeful and you should GO REGISTER TO VOTE.
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: signs
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: the masses
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: children of protest
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: media
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: faces
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: free palestine
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: Code Pink
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: Billionaires for Bush
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: flags
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: authority
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: and all the rest
[2004.08.31, Protests Continue]
*Tuesday night protest notes:
Armed with music and dancing as protest tools, marching bands and drummers and singers took to Union Square. Somehow,
street performance and playing music in public parks is now reason enough for the police to come over and break up some
innocent fun. GOD forbid you create a CROWD! Around 7:15, the
Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a radical big-brass marching band, arrived in Union Square with grandeur and style. An audience
developed and shortly, as they left, the audience followed them to the streets. Spontaneously, the masses of people
in the park flooded onto Broadway. The police blockaded the band and their followers into a city block, then arrested them (reportedly
BREAKING some of their instruments), and then took them to holding cells on the West Side Highway where the
approximately 900 others or so arrested today are locked up with them.
This is all the more reason to GO
REGISTER TO VOTE. PLEASE!
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: Falun Gong protest group
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: A conservative arrives in Union Square
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: Street performers broken up
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: faces
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: musicians return
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: signs
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: ROM, Rude Mechanical Orchestra
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: ROM-led protest, cornered in by NYPD, arrests
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:Night protest
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:Billionaires for Bush, reprise
[2004.09.01, Union Square activity, Corporate Media protest]
*Wednesday night protest notes:
Protests continued throughout the day (Updates by the minute at Indymedia.) Took shots
in Union Square during lunch break, then there again in the evening, catching passerby mourning the losses of the civilians and soldiers lost in the
war with Iraq. Hundreds
of pairs of shoes, soldiers' boots and children's shoes, filled the south side of Union Square. Later on, took off for the
March on the media, which converged at 52nd & 6th, in front of CBS.
OH, and GO REGISTER TO VOTE.
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: Shoe memorial/demonstration, Union Square
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: Evening protest activity, Union Square
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: Evening protest activity, Union Square
[2004.09.01, Union Square, evening and by candlelight]
*Thursday night protest notes:
Stuck it out for a fatigued last night in Union Square; tonight, the
RNC came to a close. Thousands filled the park as the evening went on,
playing music, lighting peace signs of candles, chanting, holding signs,
dancings, shouting, snapping pictures, and recording videos. When a
FOX news van showed up around 8:30 p.m., the crowd in the park repeated,
"Shame on Fox" until the van hurriedly drove away (to reverberating
cheers). Energy seemed at a high and comments like, "This reminds me
of the sixties" were heard a throughout the night.
AND SO, as the RNC ends, so does this series of photos. This is the
last installment of protest photos and, as always, it's been fun. I'm
off to bed now, for tonight and for a while, but send me an email,
leave a comment, and come back and visit this site for it's
other photos and sketches
soon.
g'night,
YP
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: signs and flags, Union Square
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: from 2 sides
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: faces
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: things started to get silly
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: patterns & textures
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: on white
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: flags for peace -- together, united
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: on white
[take me back home]
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