Posts Tagged “politics”

Looks like my studio

March 15, 2013

Trove of Irish Historical Artifacts in County Mayo – NYTimes.com

Facebook photo of Barack Obama hugging Michelle is most-liked, most-retweeted of all time.

November 7, 2012

  Facebook photo of Barack Obama hugging Michelle is most-liked, most-retweeted of all time.. Another story on Phaidon – about the photographer Scout Tufankjian

Happy Day

November 7, 2012

Front Pages via the Newsmuseum/Huff Post

Malcolm X’s Passionate Engagement With Photography – NYTimes.com

September 19, 2012

great piece by Maurice Berger in the lens blog today Malcolm X’s Passionate Engagement With Photography Malcolm X often carried a camera, his way of “collecting evidence,” as Gordon Parks once observed. He relied on photographs to provide the visual (…)

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I HAVE A DREAM

January 16, 2012

In honor in MLK day 2012> The Complete 1963 Speech aDuring The March On Washington via “I HAVE A DREAM” – Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – YouTube.

Watching Thugs With Razors and Clubs at Tahrir Sq. – NYTimes.com

February 3, 2011

from Nicholas Kristof in Cairo Watching Thugs With Razors and Clubs at Tahrir Sq. – NYTimes.com. Pro-government thugs at Tahrir Square used clubs, machetes, swords and straight razors on Wednesday to try to crush Egypt’s democracy movement, but, for me, (…)

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EGYPT – conflict, anger, unrest, protest, on the Edge

January 30, 2011

Can’t stop watching/listening to Al Jazeera Live Stream from Egypt. The revolution will not be televised, but it is being streamed and tweeted at least to those of us outside Egypt. I read the paper for perspective and putting everything (…)

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Regret

January 21, 2011

Sometimes snippets from online news headlines are too good not to capture. BBC 12:35pm

Blogging Conflict on the Street

January 7, 2011

photo above from September 22, 2010, 6:11 PM- a twit pic from the blogger/activist Joseph Dana. Found it as I was reading the Lede blog this morning and following links from more current stories [link] His site led me to (…)

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‘The fear of loosing the I in me”

November 27, 2010

Zainab Salbi Founder and Director,  Women for Women International Women, wartime and the dream of peace TED talk, July 2010