Occupy Stands up to NATO

To everyone back home who may be eagerly awaiting photos... here they are.  I have more on the way but they're stowed on different drive.

 

A member of the black bloc offers a flower to passing riot police

Scott Olson, a veteran struck in the head by a tear-gas canister in Oakland marches on the NATO summit to return his combat medals and ribbons

 A veteran drops to his knees with emotion during a medal returning ceremony

Occupiers march in the evening to bring downtown Chicago to a rowdy stand-still

A police officer laughs as protesters are beaten a few feet away

Street Medics

Occupiers gather at the hallowed site of the Haymarket bombing

Protesters run for their lives as they are charged by riot police

Heavily armored riot police move in against Occupiers

Now engaged to be married, two anarchists embrace after the proposal

Dispatches from Occupy Wall St

The following images are from Occupy Wall St as they camped at City Hall as well as demonstrating on behalf of Wyckoff Hospital in Bushwick, New York. Click here to read the companion article.

May Day 2012!

May Day!  The following images are from the 2012 May Day celebration in Montpelier.  Despite the rainy Tuesday that this workers' holiday fell on the wonderful organizations who managed to attend were Occupy Central Vermont, Occupy Burlington, Vermont Workers' Center, United Healthcare Professionals, Migrant Justice, Bread and Puppet Theater, and a variety of others.

Marchers rally in front of the Capitol on Tuesday for the international workers' holiday

Bread and Puppet Theater Company performing on the steps of Montpelier City Hall

A drummer and marcher plays to the photographer while warming up

Members and supporters of Migrant Justice rally on the steps of City Hall

Red Clover Climate Collective performs their "False Solutions Circus"

A supporter of the Put People First campaign

 Musicians march in the streets of the state capital

"Capitalism" has its hands bound after being tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity

Student Strike at BHS

On the morning of Thursday, April 19th, a group of English Language Learner (ELL) students from Sub-Saharan Africa went on strike to protest rampant racism, discriminatory discipline, and the "Outlier Policy" of evaluating standardized test scores. They organized themselves and made their own decisions. In the process, they shattered the silence hanging over the great shame of the Green Mountain State: institutional racism in Chittenden County schools. Here are the photographs.

Occupy Union Square

A recent sojourn to New York led me, once again, into the realm of Occupy Wall St and Union Square. No major events to grab the headlines this time around, however, the images I've returned with will hopefully illuminate yet another facet of the Occupy movement.

A member of the "Burqa Bloc", an affinity group that believes in thwarting the objectification and hypersexualization of women via traditional islamic dress

An Occupy medic questions police about their decision to "stop and frisk" an unarmed black youth who happened to be walking past the occupation.

The police responded "He doesn't deserve an apology for us doing our job."

Occupiers engage in a fierce pillow-fight to let off some steam

Two occupiers engage in a small "kiss-in" to show their "passionate anger" at the NYPD; attracting the attention of a Japanese television crew