Posts Tagged “war”
world is watching
February 26, 2012
Inspired (again) by Nicholas Kristoff article = this one about Ryan Boyette and his citizen journalism project earsandeysnuba.org. It hasn’t launched yet but looking around led me to other witness projects. Satellite Sentinel Project: George Clooney initiated the Satellite Sentinel Project (…)
Marie Colvin – Remi Ochlik
February 24, 2012
Looking at the coverage of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik’s deaths in Syria. Marie Colvin: War Reports, The Sunday Times American Reporter Marie Colvin’s Final Dispatches From Homs [Lede Blog] Ghastly Images Flow from Shattered Syrian City [NY Times] (…)
Holding Photos – Presence of Absence
March 26, 2011
It’s a Saturday night and I am in my studio. With my new printer, I have been getting inspired to print from all the various little projects I have going. Since I started clipping/saving images from the newspaper, I have (…)
War is Over
January 3, 2011
Flipping through yesterday’s NY Times came across this gift from Yoko on page A7. It is the 40th year of the campaign. www.IMAGINEPEACE.com
‘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
West Bank Flotilla and protests
June 6, 2010
Eyewitness video from protest on Monday, 5-31, against the commando raid on the flotilla at a West Bank check point just after Emily Henochowicz, a student from Cooper Union, was wounded showed her being carried away for treatment by fellow (…)
Collateral Murder
April 6, 2010
Video Shows U.S. Attack That Killed Reuters EmployeesBy ELISABETH BUMILLERPublished: April 5, 2010 – NYTWikileaks.org released a video of a U.S. helicopter killing a Reuters photographer and driver in 2007 in Baghdad. Collateral Murder Great followup report from Democracy Now, (…)
Memorializing and Gifting – Michael Reagan
February 19, 2010
great slideshowDrawn portraits of British, US and Canadian service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan – created by artist Michael Reagan. A Vietnam War veteran himself, he has produced more than 2,000 drawings for the soldiers’ families free of charge. (…)
passport photos
February 18, 2010
Police in Dubai are to issue arrest warrants for 11 “agents with European passports” suspected of assassinating a top Hamas official last month. – BBC Feb. 16 A slideshow and more info on Huff Post
TODAY
January 18, 2010
It’s Martin Luther King Day, a day of reflection and sadness. Larry’s Memorial is today. Kabul is getting blown up. videos on BBC and Haiti
