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Saturday 23 June 2018

Th'Emp Strikes back | We Make Kids Disappear | Nitrogen

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๐๐ | by UsedNapkins

oo: photo by Jakapong Kanjanajetane, 7 January 2014

๐๐ | by UsedNapkins

oo: photo by Jakapong Kanjanajetane, 7 January 2014

๐๐ | by UsedNapkins

oo: photo by Jakapong Kanjanajetane, 7 January 2014

Untitled | by samrodgers2

Untitled [fox, London Bridge]: photo by Sam Rodgers, 26 May 2018

Untitled | by samrodgers2

Untitled [fox, London Bridge]: photo by Sam Rodgers, 26 May 2018

Untitled | by samrodgers2
Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··

Untitled [pachuco, metro, México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 17 June 2018

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··

Untitled [pachuco, metro, México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 17 June 2018

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··

Untitled [pachuco, metro, México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 17 June 2018

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··
 
Untitled [Nezahualcoyotl, Estado de México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 18 May 2018

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··
 
Untitled [Nezahualcoyotl, Estado de México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 18 May 2018

Untitled | by ··Sonia Carolina··
 
Untitled [Nezahualcoyotl, Estado de México]: photo by **Sonia Carolina**, 18 May 2018
 
Buena noticias | by michaelj1998

Buena noticias | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 22 June 2018

Buena noticias | by michaelj1998

Buena noticias | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 22 June 2018

Buena noticias | by michaelj1998

Buena noticias | Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 22 June 2018

#9 | by michaelj1998

 #9 | Sunset Beach, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 18 June 2018

Traffic control | by efo

Traffic Control [The Arlington, Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, CA]: photo by efo, 22 June 2018

Traffic control | by efo

Traffic Control [The Arlington, Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, CA]: photo by efo, 22 June 2018

Traffic control | by efo

Traffic Control [The Arlington, Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, CA]: photo by efo, 22 June 2018

There are more cars than ever now, and the cars there are now are bigger than cars ever were before, even back in the day, when cars were notoriously too big. To step out into the streets now may not be as scary as doing photojournalism but it is to take a direct adrenalin heart shot. Every time I cross the street I stop breathing. And having been mown down the once it takes me forever now to tap tap tap my slow way across, while the serenade of honking grows. As in a dream. They're bearing down. I close my eyes. I start breathing. Would you like to be my neighbor?

This guy in Eben's very cool picture reminds me a little bit of me. One-issue guy, and same issue. This is just up the way from us. There's so much traffic now, the neighborhood people who have kids are beginning to resort to interesting defensive measures. Feeble, ineffectual, but the clown theatre aspect of this helps to lighten things up, while usefully signaling, while indicating awareness. An ally. If there were to be a civil society a small poetic act like this might help. But in truth there is no civil society, just cars, cars are deeply uncivil, they make the people in them uncivil, and war simply isn't all that funny. The war of cars on people I mean. 

We're older and don't have small kids but we too have reason to fear these streets. We must cross them. We have no car. We are vulnerable. I know the spot where Eben took this shot, have passed it on foot many times, but after losing my spine to a Jetta not too far from here - in fact quite close to home here, but on a much busier street, at a spot where an amusing shot like this could not have been staged as this one was, for one would be risking one's life in the staging of it - will not ever again pass it, or GO, or collect $200.

But no worries, though, if the word around the trashbins on the street regarding the big nitrogen shipment can be trusted - those photojournalists, where there's improperly secured nitrogen, trust it, they're there! - and why would it not be, unless it isn't. 

Nitrogen | by efo

Nitrogen | Berkeley: photo by efo, 22 May 2018

Nitrogen | by efo

Nitrogen | Berkeley: photo by efo, 22 May 2018

Nitrogen | by efo

Nitrogen | Berkeley: photo by efo, 22 May 2018

. | by gumanow

* | Portland, OR - June 2017: photo by gumanow, 10 May 2018

. | by gumanow

* | Portland, OR - June 2017: photo by gumanow, 10 May 2018

. | by gumanow
 
* | Portland, OR - June 2017: photo by gumanow, 10 May 2018

011717 GW690 Fuji T64 14d (1 of 1) | by patrickjoust

0117717 GW690 Fuji T64 14d (1 of 1) [Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, 22 June 2018

011717 GW690 Fuji T64 14d (1 of 1) | by patrickjoust

0117717 GW690 Fuji T64 14d (1 of 1) [Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, 22 June 2018

011717 GW690 Fuji T64 14d (1 of 1) | by patrickjoust

0117717 GW690 Fuji T64 14d (1 of 1) [Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, 22 June 2018

011717 GW690 Fuji T64 8d (1 of 1) | by patrickjoust

0117717 GW690 Fuji T64 8d (1 of 1) [Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, 22 June 2018

011717 GW690 Fuji T64 8d (1 of 1) | by patrickjoust

0117717 GW690 Fuji T64 8d (1 of 1) [Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, 22 June 2018

011717 GW690 Fuji T64 8d (1 of 1) | by patrickjoust

0117717 GW690 Fuji T64 8d (1 of 1) [Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, 22 June 2018

We Make Children Disappear  




Activists vandalized a @1800GOTJUNK billboard in #emeryville, ca with a message aimed at @ICEgov and their participation in separating children from their parents when trying to enter the #US from Mexico. #KeepingFamiliesTogether: image via Justin Sullivan @JustinSullivan, 21 June 2018


Looks like the people who altered the billboard in #Emeryville are hateful, homophobic right-wing AnCaps.: image via tree@treekisser, 21 June 2018


Appearing over Shellmound Street today in #Emeryville. Regardless of how it got there, it reflects our community’s belief that #FamiliesBelongTogether: image via John J. Bauters @JohnBauter, 21 June 2018

Why are there Blackhawk helicopters circling over #Emeryville: tweet via Robert Surenbroek @Square1Pilates, 19 June 2018  


Activism or vandalism? The political message on an #Emeryville billboard that attracted a lot of attention today @nbcbayarea: image via Anaoushah Rasta @Anousha_Rasta, 21 June 2018


"We make kids disappear" - ICE Today in #Emeryville, seen from I-80. #FortressBayArea #DeportICE: image via Fortress Bay Area @FortressBayArea, 2 June 2018

Cloud Stacking | by pixelmama

Cloud Stacking [Emery Cove, Emeryville, CA]: photo by pixelmama, 5 February 2017

Baretables East | by imartin92

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