Malika Baouya and Scott Moreau, two members of the Global Sumud Flotilla who were detained by Israeli forces in international waters last week, returned home to Nice Tuesday evening (26 May), where a large group of friends, family and supporters welcomed them home.
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At the Amnesty International office in Nice. 17 May 2025.
A dozen shots from yesterday’s Justice for Palestine Protest in Massena Square, Nice; demonstrations have been ongoing on an almost weekly basis. For regular updates on actions and events in the area, check out the Association Amis de la Palestine 06 Instagram page. As of this morning, more than 900 Palestinians have been killed since… Continue reading
David Joyce is the Republican representative for Ohio’s 14th Congressional District. You know who Musk is.
I spotted this at a small plaza at the intersection of Bishop and Chardon Roads in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. It’s a solidly conservative area so I decided it would be an instructive exercise to watch its evolution over the following days.
Day 1 – stapled to a utility wall, facing west; day 2 – laying on the ground (as pictured), either torn or ripped from the pole; and day 3 – gone. Either thrown away or blown away.
Thousands of people in Ljubljana, Slovenia, mostly riding bicycles, protested for the fifth (or sixth?) straight Friday against the center-right government of Prime Minister Janez Janša, demonstrations that began at the height of the coronavirus outbreak in late March. Bikes were used in the early protests to align with restrictions on public gatherings and the… Continue reading
International condemnation of last week’s massacre in Gaza by Israeli Defense Forces continues. Sixty Palestinians were killed, including eight children and one health worker, and another 2,771 injured by live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas used by Israeli forces who were targeting demonstrators, marking May 14 as the deadliest in Gaza since 2014. Of those… Continue reading
This is Injustice Case (1970) by David Hammons From the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” at the Tate Modern in London, an examination and celebration of the work of black artists produced from 1963 to 1983.
The piece, painted in 1970, was created in response to Chicago 8 trial of Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, who was gagged and chained to his chair for much of the courtroom proceedings.
Eye-catching and eye-opening, and most importantly, still very fresh and relevant.
London, August 2017
This is Miha Turšič, a Slovenian artist who today spent his 15th day on a hunger strike to protest what he calls the “bureaucratization of culture” and the lack of state funding for the arts in this small alpine nation. In my experience –mainly through the stories of exasperation shared by colleagues and friends who… Continue reading
Below are a dozen shots from a growing memorial for Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was holding a toy airsoft gun when he was shot by a Cleveland police officer at Cudell Commons, a community park on the city’s west side, on November 22, 2014. He died early the next day. Video footage of… Continue reading