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Friday 8 July 2016

On the roads and in the streets of life

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About 2,000 rally in #Oakland in reaction to #policeshootings. via @JennaJourno: image via SF Chronicle Verified account @sfchronicle, 7 July 2016


if you're in Bay Area and protesting tonight please stay safe. #blacklivesmatter #oakland: image via chelsea @arianaeras, 7 July 2016

 

if you're in Bay Area and protesting tonight please stay safe. #blacklivesmatter #oakland: image via chelsea @arianaeras, 7 July 2016


if you're in Bay Area and protesting tonight please stay safe. #blacklivesmatter #oakland: image via chelsea @arianaeras, 7 July 2016


#blacklivesmatter projected onto truck as protesters continue to hold fwy in #Oakland: image via Gabrielle Canon @Gabrielle Canon, 7 July 2016


fam. projecting our lost ones on the very cars we're blocking. #Oakland: image via Aurielle Marie @Ellevation, 7 July 2016


#Oakland: image via Jenny @shelovesdresses, 7 June 2016 


We shutting it down #oakland #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile: image via APTP First Response@aptprespnse, 7 July 201


Clergy on the 80 Freeway. #Oakland #BlackLivesMatter #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile: image via Joel Federman @JoelFederman, 7 July 2016



Business as usual is officially disrupted. #Oakland #BlackLivesMatter: image via Maisha Z. Johnson @mzjwords, 7 July 2016



Business as usual is officially disrupted. #Oakland #BlackLivesMatter: image via Maisha Z. Johnson @mzjwords, 7 July 2016
 

Huge crowd clogs traffic on 880 as helicopter spotlights beam down #ShutItDown #Oakland: image via Beau Evans @beauevans, 7 July 2016
 


 #Protestors stage sit-in on ALL lanes of I-880 in #Oakland at Broadway: image via ABC7 News Verified account @abc7newsbayarea, 7 July 2016

 


#Protestors stage sit-in on ALL lanes of I-880 in #Oakland at Broadway: image via ABC7 News Verified account @abc7newsbayarea, 7 July 2016


 #Protestors stage sit-in on ALL lanes of I-880 in #Oakland at Broadway: image via ABC7 News Verified account @abc7newsbayarea, 7 July 2016



Red paint representing blood splattered on the front doors of OPD. Powerful. #Oakland #BLACKLivesMatter: image via syd.@sydlandia, 7 July 2016


No justice no peace! #OAKLANDisReady #BlackLivesMatter #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile #Oakland: image via Raquel Willis @RaquelWillis, 7 July 2016   Oakland, CA


Currently on 880 in #Oakland: image via 997 NOW Verified account @now, 7 July 2016 



These people are going to be on the freeway for a while. #oakland
: image via Steve Jaspar @ste3ve, 7 July 2016


BREAKING: All lanes closed 880 by protesters downtown #Oakland: image via Ken Wayne Verified account @KenWayneKTVU, 7 July 2016

Hidden Place Nº 1 | by efo

 Hidden Place No. 1 (El Cerrito, California): photo by efo, 21 July 2012

Underscore | by efo

 Underscore (Hercules, California): photo by efo, 2 August 2012

Teasel | by efo  
Teasel (Hercules, California): photo by efo, 22 July 2012


Syrian army fire cuts only road into rebel-held Aleppo: rebels: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 7 July 2016


Syrian army says it is observing a 72-hour ceasefire coinciding with the end of Ramadan: image via AFP News agency @AFP, 7 July 2016



 #Syria Children play on a street with plastic toy guns in #Aleppo #AFP Photo by @AmeerAlhalbi: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016



 #Syria Children play on a street with plastic toy guns in #Aleppo #AFP Photo by @AmeerAlhalbi: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016



 #Syria Children play on a street with plastic toy guns in #Aleppo #AFP Photo by @AmeerAlhalbi: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016


 #Syria Children play on a street with plastic toy guns in #Aleppo #AFP Photo by @AmeerAlhalbi: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016


THAILAND - A reflection of girl waiting with her scooter outside of Tonson Mosque in Bangkok #AFP
: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016


INDIA - A Rohingya Muslim child poses outside her shanty at a slum in New Delhi. By @Money_Sharma #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016


An Indian Muslim girl stands in the Feroz Shah Kotla mosque ahead of Eid prayers in New Delhi. By @Chandanphoto
: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016


Indian Muslims watch as a Hindu Sadhu performs a ritual during Eid-al-Fitr prayers in Jodhpur, by Sunil Verma: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016
 

Brexit opens up bank fault line from Milan to Lisbon
: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 7 July 2016


 #SanFermines2016: Spectators watch from balconies as participants run ahead of fighting bulls. Photo @PedroArmestre: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 7 July 2016

PAMPLONA, SPAIN - JULY 07:  Revellers run with Fuente Ymbro's fighting bulls along Estafeta Street during the second day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival on July 7, 2016 in Pamplona, Spain. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the 1926 novel of US writer Ernest Hemmingway entitled 'The Sun Also Rises', involves the daily running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona to the bull ring.  (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Revellers run with Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls along Estafeta Street during the second day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain: photo by via Blazquez Dominguez, 7 July 2016

PAMPLONA, SPAIN - JULY 07:  Revellers run with Fuente Ymbro's fighting bulls along Estafeta Street during the second day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival on July 7, 2016 in Pamplona, Spain. The annual Fiesta de San Fermin, made famous by the 1926 novel of US writer Ernest Hemmingway entitled 'The Sun Also Rises', involves the daily running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona to the bull ring.  (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Revellers run with Fuente Ymbro’s fighting bulls along Estafeta Street during the second day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain: photo by via Blazquez Dominguez, 7 July 2016

3 comments:

Curtis Faville said...

There are critics who say Hemingway never ran with the bulls, but there are photos showing him in the street in Barcelona, the bulls close on his heels.

Writers should be given enough artistic license to make good fiction.

A lived life is worth more than a mililion pictures.

Sandra said...

desgraciados los que hacen turismo con el sufrimiento de los animales!

TC said...

Yesterday the Second Running of the Bulls (pictured here) was quite a party.

Hundreds of drunken humanoids taunting and provoking a pack of terrified captive animals in a narrow street as they charged to their inevitable death in the bullring.

Seven people were gored, six of them tourists. (There were also seven sexual assaults.)

A 53 year old woman from Arizona said she was scared and turned her ankle in escaping but is still glad she did it because it was so thrilling it almost made her feel real.

"The nine-day fiesta became world famous with Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises and attracts thousands of foreign tourists."

A video of this obscene spectacle of touristical atavism:
Segundo Encierro San Fermín 2016 (Completo) - Largo y Peligroso | Viernes 8 de Julio | Running of the Bulls

Some comments from viewers on the video:

Lamentable tradicion.

Sanferminos, donde los hombres escapan de las vacas y las mujeres de los violadores.

De verdad estamos en el primer mundo?

sobra mucho giri borracho... mi opinion

gallegos putos

All in all, one supposes the event will cause next year's version to draw more drunken American turistas than ever before, and perhaps there will even be a new edition of that piece of trash the fake tough guy from the snow white suburban Midwest wrote about it.