Prickly Pear [Hollywood Hills]: photo by Andrew Murr, 26 September 2017
A billboard calling for the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump appears along Interstate 80 next to the @BayBridgeinfo in #Oakland: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 25 September 2017
Republicans are coalescing on a plan to deliver "the lowest tax rates on business in modern history.": image via NYT Politics @nytpolitics, 26 September 2017
Trees are reflected in the water in the Buena Vista community in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 24 September 2017
San Juan, after Maria: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 25 September 2017
San Juan, after Maria: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 25 September 2017
People sit in an apartment with the windows blown out by #HurrricaneMaria in #PuertoRico Photo: @jraedle: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 25 September 2017
Residents at La Perla
community in Old San Juan comfort one another as the community recovers
from Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017.
The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in
the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 25 September 2017
La Perla resident Ramon Marrero, 76, stands in his battered residence after Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 25 September 2017
La Perla resident Ramon Marrero, 76, stands in his battered residence after Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 25 September 2017
"The Cotton Bowl" (2011) by @hankwthomas #TakeAKnee: image via The Black Aesthetic @blck_aesthetic, 26 September 2017
Members of the Oakland Unified School District Honor Band kneel while performing the national anthem at the ballpark last night: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 September 2017
Here is the #TrumpBillboard you can find in Phoenix at Grand Ave. and Taylor Street... hmmmm, what does it say to you? @JoeHuizenga @KTAR923: image via Monica Lindstrom @monicalindstrom, 19 March 2017
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho accused Trump of declaring war". Photo taken in New York as Ri leaves his hotel by @jewelsamad: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 September 2017
"Palestinian gunman kills three Israelis at settlement: police" #AFP Photo taken at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Har Adar.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 September 2017
Woodlawn Neighborhood. May Peace Prevail on Earth. Phoenix, Arizona.: : photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 June 2017
Woodlawn Neighborhood. May Peace Prevail on Earth. Phoenix, Arizona.: : photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 June 2017
Woodlawn Neighborhood. May Peace Prevail on Earth. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 June 2017
Republicans are coalescing on a plan to deliver "the lowest tax rates on business in modern history.": image via NYT Politics @nytpolitics, 26 September 2017
Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin to @ThisWeekABC: NFL players can have "free speech on their own time.": image via ABC News Politics @ABCpolitics, 25 September 2017
A St. Croix homeowner uses a lawn to send a message to President Trump, asking for hurricane relief: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 September 2017
All downhill from there? Photo @winmc "Cheney bust covered in protective plastic during US Capitol renovations.": image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 26 September 2017
Justina Escamilla, 88, holds her wedding dress at home in San Juan Pilcaya, at the epicenter of Mexico's earthquake: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 September 2017
#Brazil "Rio favela back under control after army incursion: officials" Photo #AFP @mauropimentel: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 September 2017
Justina Escamilla, 88, holds her wedding dress at home in San Juan Pilcaya, at the epicenter of Mexico's earthquake: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 September 2017
#Brazil "Rio favela back under control after army incursion: officials" Photo #AFP @mauropimentel: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 September 2017
#Brazil "Rio favela back under control after army incursion: officials" Photo #AFP @CarldeSouza1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 September 2017
From Ascot to Glyndebourne - Take a look back at the 2017 #British Social Season Photo: @JackWynTaylor: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 September 2017
From Ascot to Glyndebourne - Take a look back at the 2017 #British Social Season Photo: @JackWynTaylor: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 September 2017
Untitled [Red Arrows, Fowey): photo by Fabian Schreyer / shooting candid, 13 September 2017
From Ascot to Glyndebourne - Take a look back at the 2017 #British Social Season Photo: @JackWynTaylor: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 September 2017
From Ascot to Glyndebourne - Take a look back at the 2017 #British Social Season Photo: @JackWynTaylor: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 September 2017
From Ascot to Glyndebourne - Take a look back at the 2017 #British Social Season Photo: @JackWynTaylor: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 September 2017
From Ascot to Glyndebourne - Take a look back at the 2017 #British Social Season Photo: @JackWynTaylor: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 September 2017
Prince Harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle make their first public appearance together at the Invictus Games: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 25 September 2017
Untitled [Red Arrows, Fowey): photo by Fabian Schreyer / shooting candid, 13 September 2017
Trees are reflected in the water in the Buena Vista community in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 24 September 2017
San Juan, after Maria: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 25 September 2017
San Juan, after Maria: photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, 25 September 2017
People sit in an apartment with the windows blown out by #HurrricaneMaria in #PuertoRico Photo: @jraedle: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 25 September 2017
La Perla resident Ramon Marrero, 76, stands in his battered residence after Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 25 September 2017
La Perla resident Ramon Marrero, 76, stands in his battered residence after Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria.: photo by Carlos Giusti/AP, 25 September 2017
"The Cotton Bowl" (2011) by @hankwthomas #TakeAKnee: image via The Black Aesthetic @blck_aesthetic, 26 September 2017
Members of the Oakland Unified School District Honor Band kneel while performing the national anthem at the ballpark last night: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 September 2017
Today Republican voters in AL will select a replacement for the seat vacated by Atty Gen Jeff Sessions. #gettyimagesnews: image via scott olson @olsongetty, 26 September 2017
Here is the #TrumpBillboard you can find in Phoenix at Grand Ave. and Taylor Street... hmmmm, what does it say to you? @JoeHuizenga @KTAR923: image via Monica Lindstrom @monicalindstrom, 19 March 2017
"Palestinian gunman kills three Israelis at settlement: police" #AFP Photo taken at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Har Adar.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 26 September 2017
Woodlawn Neighborhood. May Peace Prevail on Earth. Phoenix, Arizona.: : photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 June 2017
Woodlawn Neighborhood. May Peace Prevail on Earth. Phoenix, Arizona.: : photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 June 2017
Woodlawn Neighborhood. May Peace Prevail on Earth. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 1 June 2017
What's left of Reese [4th St and MLK, Clarksdale, MS]: photo by Andrew Murr. 25 September 2017
Aging beauty [McLemore, Memphis]: photo by Andrew Murr. 23 September 2017
Golden hour at the power company [Inglewood, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr. 25 September 2017
Fade [Inglewood, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr. 24 September 2017
Iconography on Olympic Blvd [Koreatown, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr. 24 September 2017
Catholic Church [Desert Center, CA]: photo by susan catherine. 25 September 2017
Freshly cleaned and decorated graves at Graveyard Hill, Memorial Day Weekend, Shumate's Branch, West Virginia. Graveyard Hill is the site of an African American cemetery on the hillside above the sludge pond ("coal refuse impoundment") now filling Shumate's Branch. Each year former residents of the African American settlement at the mining town of Edwight return with their children and grandchildren to tend the graves of their relatives and hold a family reunion at the former home of Belle Wilson, a family ancestor. This is the one weekend of the year that Performance Coal Company (a subsidiary of A.T. Massey) opens the road into the mountains around Shumate's Branch to allow public access to this cemetery: photo by Terry Eiler, May 1996 (Coal River Folklife Collection/Archive of American Folk Culture, Library of Congress)
Daisy Ross cleaning and decorating a grave on Memorial Day Weekend, Graveyard Hill, Shumate's Branch, West Virginia. Graveyard Hill is the site of an African American cemetery on the hillside above the sludge pond ("coal refuse impoundment") now filling Shumate's Branch. Each year former residents of the African American settlement at the mining town of Edwight return with their children and grandchildren to tend the graves of their relatives and hold a family reunion at the former home of Belle Wilson, a family ancestor. This is the one weekend of the year that Performance Coal Company (a subsidiary of A.T. Massey) opens the road into the mountains around Shumate's Branch to allow public access to this cemetery: photo by Terry Eiler, May 1996 (Coal River Folklife Collection/Archive of American Folk Culture, Library of Congress)
Tending graves on Graveyard Hill, Shumate's Branch, West Virginia, on
Memorial Day Weekend.
Graveyard
Hill is the site of an African American cemetery on the hillside above
the sludge pond ("coal refuse impoundment") now filling Shumate's
Branch. Each year former residents of the African American settlement
at the mining town of Edwight return with their children and
grandchildren to tend the graves of their relatives and hold a family
reunion at the former home of Belle Wilson, a family ancestor. This
is the one weekend of the year that Performance Coal Company (a
subsidiary of A.T. Massey) opens the road into the mountains around
Shumate's Branch to allow public access to this cemetery: photo by Terry Eiler, May 1996 (Coal River Folklife Collection/Archive of American Folk Culture, Library of Congress)
Sunrise [Montreal]: photo by navejo, 19 August 2017
Sunrise [Montreal]: photo by navejo, 19 August 2017
Sunrise [Montreal]: photo by navejo, 19 August 2017
When You Live in the Shadow of His House [Polish Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 14 July 2017
When You Live in the Shadow of His House [Polish Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 14 July 2017
When You Live in the Shadow of His House [Polish Hill, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 14 July 2017
Sunday morning you sure looked fine [San Francisco CA]: photo by Robert Ogilvie. 25 September 2017
Old School [San Francisco CA]: photo by Robert Ogilvie. 25 September 2017
Kansas City, MO: photo by Tory Garcia, 7 September 2017
Kansas City, MO: photo by Tory Garcia, 7 September 2017
Kansas City, MO: photo by Tory Garcia, 7 September 2017
Los Angeles, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 2 September 2017
Los Angeles, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 2 September 2017
Los Angeles, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 2 September 2017
Indiana wants me (Indiana state prison). Michigan City, IN.: photo by curtis locke, 23 September 2017
Indiana wants me (Indiana state prison). Michigan City, IN.: photo by curtis locke, 23 September 2017
Indiana wants me (Indiana state prison). Michigan City, IN.: photo by curtis locke, 23 September 2017
North from Hanksille, Utah *A.Ola Schmidt | Utah: photo by ankeola schmidt, 22 April 2013
North from Hanksille, Utah *A.Ola Schmidt | Utah: photo by ankeola schmidt, 22 April 2013
North from Hanksille, Utah *A.Ola Schmidt | Utah: photo by ankeola schmidt, 22 April 2013
Washington Heights, NYC | 2017. Bird's eye view..: photo by BautistaNY, 24 August 2017
Washington Heights, NYC | 2017. Bird's eye view..: photo by BautistaNY, 24 August 2017
Washington Heights, NYC | 2017. Bird's eye view..: photo by BautistaNY, 24 August 2017
Edwin Denby: The Street
A woman and her dog in the Harlem section, New York, New York: photo by Gordon Parks, May 1943
Edwin Denby (1903-1983): "The street is where people meet according to law...": from In Public, In Private, 1948
The street is where people meet according to law
Organize their natures to twenty-four hours
Say what to eat, take advantage of what they saw
And continue exercising daily powers.
Take one of these buildings, when standing awhile
The architect's headaches have been written right off
Just as a father's headaches amount to a smile
Like a cipher, when he gets a client to laugh.
So a million people are a public secret
(As night is a quieter portion of the day)
These are their private lives tearing down the street
Stepping past mouldings and and past 'Special Today'.
Running they see each other without looking,
Love has not stopped, has not started by fucking.
Organize their natures to twenty-four hours
Say what to eat, take advantage of what they saw
And continue exercising daily powers.
Take one of these buildings, when standing awhile
The architect's headaches have been written right off
Just as a father's headaches amount to a smile
Like a cipher, when he gets a client to laugh.
So a million people are a public secret
(As night is a quieter portion of the day)
These are their private lives tearing down the street
Stepping past mouldings and and past 'Special Today'.
Running they see each other without looking,
Love has not stopped, has not started by fucking.
Edwin Denby (1903-1983): "The street is where people meet according to law...": from In Public, In Private, 1948
Apartment house, Harlem: photo by Gordon Parks, May 1943
Forty-ninth Street near Sixth Avenue, New York, New York: photo by Arthur Rothstein, December 1937
A Harlem street scene, New York, New York: photo by Gordon Parks, May/June 1943
Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress
In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, Bangladeshis crowd a tuk-tuk on a street with a billboard in appreciation of Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sheltering Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims walk past bundles of bamboo poles used to make tents at Lambashia, near Kutupalong, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
For Rohingya Muslim child refugees, too many losses to count: Muneeza Naqvi, AP, 22 September 2017
BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (AP) — Abdul Hamid has the
wide-open smile of a child and the eyes of an adult. By age 12, the
Rohingya Muslim boy has seen more than anyone should have to see in a
lifetime.
He saw his father shot by “Burma soldiers,” he volunteers in a calm
yet deeply unsettling tone, lifting two fingers of his right hand to
illustrate the act. When his father didn’t die right away, he saw the
soldiers slash his throat.
His mother fled their home in Myanmar with Hamid and four younger
siblings. They hid in forests for days and then walked for two days to
reach the safety of Bangladesh.
Now he is the “elder” of his family, he says. So he tries to provide
for them — as best he can in a place where hundreds of thousands of
people share his family’s desperation. He stands on one edge of a vast,
muddy field with a group of other boys, hoping that a passing aid truck
will throw him some packets of food.
Children make up about 60 percent of more than 420,000 people who
have poured in to Bangladesh over the last four weeks— Rohingya Muslims
fleeing terrible persecution in Myanmar.
They have seen family members killed and homes set on fire. They have
known fear and terror. And they have endured dangerous journeys through
forests and on rickety boats.
Sometimes they’ve done it alone. UNICEF has so far counted more than
1,400 children who have crossed the border with neither parent.
Now they’ve traded the fear and terror of Myanmar’s northern Rakhine
state for the chaos of refugee camps in Bangladesh. Tens of thousands of
strangers live cheek by jowl in normally uninhabitable places are
hardly the safe havens that nurture a childhood.
Hunger is a constant and most children have to beg at some point if
they are to eat. To do that, they have to leave their tents. Their
parents, who are simply too overwhelmed and impoverished themselves,
cannot chaperone them.
Most of the babies are sick, burning with fevers or suffering from
diarrhea. Clean water and toilets are so rare as to be nonexistent.
“These children have been through a terrible experience. They are
heavily traumatized,” says Fatema Khyrunnahar, a child protection
officer with UNICEF who is working to set up what the agency calls
“child friendly spaces” within the squalor and misery of the Rohingya
camps.
These are rare spaces where these children can be around each other. Play and sing and shout and have books read to them.
And in a small room that was built just a week ago in this refugee camp, they seem to do just that — at first.
But of course the children of Balukhali and other refugee camps need
more. And you only need to look closely at the children in the small
room to see the wariness and sadness. Their bodies are tense. Their eyes
dart around.
“They are under so much stress,” Khyrunnahar says. She has worked
with children in distress before but says the tragedy of the children in
these refugee camps sometimes overwhelms her.
They need counseling — first to express their trauma and perhaps later, if they are lucky, to let it go.
There’s a 10-year-old boy who crossed the border clutching his
6-year-old sister.
A neighbor brought the two children after both their
parents were killed.
“For many days he did not speak,” Khyrunnahar says.
Finally, he said, “The family he stays with does not love me.”
“He loves to be held and hugged. He clearly missing that,” she says,
but she also understands the problems of the family that brought him to
safety. They’re struggling too.
The problems are enormous. Aid agencies like UNICEF and MSF who are
working with children in these camps say they’re barely scratching the
surface when it comes to addressing their mental and physical
well-being.
“We’re very worried about the scale of the crisis and the gap there
is” between the need and available aid, says MSF’s project coordinator
for emergency response in Cox’s Bazar, Arunn Jegan.
“Such a large number of children without caretakers are extremely vulnerable,” Jegan says.
Trafficking, servitude, sexual abuse and getting separated from their
families are some of the fears that lurk here for children.
Their circumstances have turned them into adults well before their
time. Eight or 10-year-olds are caregivers and guardians for their
toddler and infant siblings. They stand on the roadside, babies on their
hips and in their arms, waiting endlessly for the trucks that
distribute food aid.
It doesn’t take long for a chaotic scene to break out. A van of local
volunteers may drive by, tossing out packets of biscuits or water
bottles or even money.
Large groups of Rohingya standing along the road
start running after it, men, women and children.
It’s easy for children to wander too far away from home. They get
confused about direction, simply following other groups of kids or
adults to places where they think they might get some food or other
relief material being handed out.
That’s what happened to sisters Majidia and Jasminara, who appeared
to be about 10 and 6. As aid trucks pulled into a food delivery area
they lost track of their sister Dilnawaz. She is younger than Jasminara,
the older girl said as she sobbed inconsolably.
“I told her not to go. I told her not to go,” she kept repeating as tears poured down both their faces.
But the little girl, likely hungry, just vanished into the crowd:
easily more than 5,000 people corralled by police and soldiers.
The sobbing girls waited surrounded by a growing crowd. Public announcements were made. More announcements were made.
The once somewhat organized crowd that was waiting for food became chaotic as people walked away with bundles of rice.
Darkness fell.
Little Dilnawaz didn’t make her way back to her sisters.
.
In this Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslim
girl Majidia stands surrounded by a crowd after her little sister
Dilnawaz got lost near a food distribution area near Balukhali refugee
camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It’s easy for children wander too far
away from home confused about direction, simply following other groups
of kids or adults to places where they think they might get some food or
other relief material being handed out. That’s what happened to sisters
Majidia and Jasminara. As aid trucks pulled into a food delivery area,
they lost track of their baby sister. Little Dilnawaz didn’t make her
way back to her sisters.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 19 September 2017
In this Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 photo,
Rohingya Muslim boys, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, cry
as Bangladeshi men push them away during distribution of food aid near
Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Children make up about 60 percent of
the sea of humanity that has poured in to Bangladesh over the last four
weeks fleeing terrible persecution in Myanmar. And the UN’s child
rights agency UNICEF has so far counted about 1,400 children who have
crossed the border without their parents.: photo by Dar Yasin/AP, 20 September 2017
In this Sept. 1, 2017, file photo, a young Rohingya
Muslim boy from Myanmar carries a child on his back and walks through
rice fields after crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border
near Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf area. Children make up about 60 percent of the
sea of humanity that has poured in to Bangladesh over the last four
weeks. These Rohingya Muslim children have endured dangerous journeys
through forests and on rickety boats. Escaping to Bangladesh has meant
safety from that violence. But the chaotic refugee camps, with tens of
thousands of strangers living cheek by jowl in normally uninhabitable
places are hardly the safe havens that nurture a childhood.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 1 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23,
2017 photo, Bangladeshis crowd a tuk-tuk on a street with a billboard in
appreciation of Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for
sheltering Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, Bangladeshis crowd a tuk-tuk on a street with a billboard in appreciation of Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sheltering Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23,
2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims beg on the road between
Kutupalong and Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims beg on the road between Kutupalong and Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims beg on the road between Kutupalong and Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims walk past bundles of bamboo poles used to make tents at Lambashia, near Kutupalong, Bangladesh.: photo by Bernat Armangue/AP, 23 September 2017
Neil Young: Campaigner (Even Richard Nixon has got soul), live, Bridge Concert 1996
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ReplyDeleteNeil Young: Don't Let It Bring You Down (live 1971)
I've been hanging out on the rooftops with Batman lately - reading W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson and Keats
ReplyDeleteBen! Lovely to hear from you. Contributor of an unforgettable bit of critical vocabulary: "own-world". Something we need now, more than ever... ground or rooftop, either would do.
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ReplyDeleteLove has not stopped, has not started by fucking.".....genial!