Thursday, December 15th, 2011
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
OCCUPYWALLST – EVICTED
In the early morning of November 15th peaceful protestors occupying Zuccotti Park were forcibly removed from their encampment. 140 people inside the two-month-old camp were arrested. The police tore down tents destroyed equipment and confiscated 5,000 books in the ‘people’s library.
During the action the mayor’s office ordered the Brooklyn Bridge to be closed, the subways near the park shutdown, the airspace above the park to be cleared of all press helicopters. Dressed in riot gear, hundreds of police barred the press entry to the park, and evicted the protestors with help of bulldozers and pepper spray.
The next morning, exhausted from the previous night’s ordeal, protestors regrouped near Canal and 6th Avenue. Hundreds of them marched to Zuccotti Park where the found a new set of occupiers barring entry to the park, the NYPD. The police and private security contractors barricaded themselves in the park refusing entry to anyone despite a court order ruling that must be open to the public.
Eventually Judge Michael Stallman ruled in favour of Mayor Bloomberg, New York City and Brookfield Office Properties against Occupy Wall Street. Police eventually reopened Zuccotti Park, after occupying it for many hours, letting protestors back in.
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Friday, October 7th, 2011
#OCCUPYWALLST | FOLEY SQ
After more than twenty labor groups and unions pledged solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, thousands and thousands of protestors met on October 05 at 4:30 to march from Folly Square to the Financial district.
Together they protested the injustices of corporate control, the ineptitude of the current government, lack of working class representation, and the damning financial and moral burdens of imperialism.
What was once a small group of highly educated, mostly white, students and youth occupiers numbering in the hundreds, transformed into a massive democratic demonstration representing a huge variety of races, ages and classes numbering in the thousands.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
On October 1st 3,000 – 4,000 people gathered to attended the SlutWalk NYC rally and march. The diverse crowd, primarily made up of young men and women, marched from Union Square through the East Village and past the 9th Precinct (former home of the alleged NYPD rapists Moreno and Mata) chanting; ‘Hey Rapists Go Fuck Yourself’ and ‘No means no – however we dress, where-ever we go!” The march coincided the day after the Wall Street Journal posted a story on Brooklyn cops telling women to ‘cover it up’ in response to ongoing series of sexual attacks in the Park Slope neighborhood.
SlutWalk NYC is a grassroots movement that challenges rape culture and victim-blaming, which works to end sexual and domestic violence.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
On September 17, an impassioned group of students, activists and veterans descended on Wall Street to set up a peaceful encampment and hold a people’s assembly in nonviolent civil disobedience to the commodification of contemporary society and the bank bailouts.
On September 30th rumor spread over twitter that an impromptu concert by the band Radiohead was going to take place at approximately 4pm in Zuccotti Park. Thousands showed up to see the concert, and although the rumor turned out to be false, hundreds of spectators joined the preexisting occupation and marched to occupy 1 Police Plaza in protest of the brutal arrest of some 80 protestors the day before.
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Friday, September 23rd, 2011
On September 22nd, 2011, hundreds of demonstrators met at 5pm on the steps of Union Square to speak out against the the execution of Troy Davis. The impassioned group listened to speakers and shouted slogans such as; “I am Troy Davis” and “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” attracting many onlookers. The group formed into an impromptu march which spilled into the streets, blocking traffic and traveling west on 14th Street and down 5th Avenue. The police, completely overwhelmed, tried to head off and block the march on 5th Avenue, near Washington Square Park, on Broadway, and others. In a game of cat and mouse, the protestors continuously escaped the NYPD, which eventually lead to a confrontation in Soho on Thompson and Broome. Where dozens of police officers barricaded the streets and blocked the demonstration. The marchers quickly rerouted to Broadway and headed south toward the financial district, eventually meeting with the #OCCUPYWALLST protestors in Zucotti Park, where another confrontation with the Police occurred. There the march disbanded.
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Troy Davis was an American death row inmate convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail. During Davis’ 1991 trial, witnesses testified they had seen Davis shoot MacPhail, and two others testified that Davis confessed to them. The murder weapon was never found. Seven of nine eyewitnesses signed affidavits changed or recanted all or part of their testimony.
Troy Davis was executed at approximately 11:10pm September 21st, 2011.
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Dozens of impassioned demonstrators congregated at 6pm in Harlem at the State Building on 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. They gathered on a rainy night in support of a reprieve of the execution of Troy Davis set to take place 7pm September 21st, 2011. The demonstrators marched along 125th Street to Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church where a vigil was held.
Troy Davis was an American death row inmate convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail. During Davis’ 1991 trial, witnesses testified they had seen Davis shoot MacPhail, and two others testified that Davis confessed to them. The murder weapon was never found. Seven of nine eyewitnesses signed affidavits changed or recanted all or part of their testimony.
Troy Davis was executed at approximately 11:10pm September 21st, 2011.
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET – NYC
On September 17, an impassioned group of students, activists and veterans descended on Wall Street to set up a peaceful encampment and hold a people’s assembly in nonviolent civil disobedience to the commodification of contemporary society and the bank bailouts. Protestors originally planned to occupy Chase 1 Plaza but were rerouted to Zacuto Park after the initial location was barricaded by the police.
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
The Charbonnière are the workers who sort, transport and sell the charcoal in Haiti. Outcast by Haitian society, because of the lowly status of the job, they are considered bottom of the ranks in the Haitian working class. Their ages range from younger than 10 to as old as 80. The workers at the market spend 12 hours a day, in the blistering sun, on their hands and knees sorting charcoal into various sizes. This is then bagged and transported into Port-au-Prince (and other places around the country) on open back trucks. The Charbonnière ride on top of the charcoal bags and the trucks travel on disheveled roads at speeds in excess of 70mph. It is not uncommon to see the carcasses of trucks discarded on the side of the road after the many fatal crashes. This is video is a test, shot at the charcoal distribution market on the coast in Les Arcahaie, and is meant to be a small vignette or portrait of the Charbonnière. Shot on a basic handheld DV Cam (generously lent to me by my friend, and talented photographer in his own right, Enrique de la Huelga) it was graded with Magic Bullet Looks.
If you are interested, and want to know more, see the complete photo story here: Wasteland – Charcoal in Haiti.
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