Occupy: Weathering the Early Phase
Given its fortitude and creativity, I'm pretty sure Occupy will survive this first chapter. And despite the bitterness of the past few weeks, I believe the gonzo will survive also.
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Occupy Oblivion
Following Occupy's eviction from Zuccotti Park just 36 hours before, and in light of similar evictions across the country, nerves were raw as protesters marked the two month anniversary of the movement.
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Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: Magnetism on the Upper West Side
If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been born out of alienation and deep political cynicism, this first image is a hopeful and welcome sight.
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Julie Turkewitz at Occupy Wall Street: Love, Hope, and Economic and Social Violence
Given the surge of hope Obama inspired in America's youth four years ago, especially among African-Americans, that OWS represents the capacity to re-engage that spirit with so much positive energy is truly a cause for optimism.
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Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: Sweeping Victory
Really, if Bloomberg and Brookfield wanted a fight, the issues of hygiene and the consideration for public quality of life were some really odd values to try and hinge it on.
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Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: The Statue of Liberty Re-Imagined
What I see is the Statue of Liberty beautifully re-imagined in a young face with brown skin (consistent with the country's demographic trend line).
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All Assumptions Will be Contested
The fact a progressive activist would unfurl the Gadsden flag right here, right now, in such a high-profile way provides a dramatic statement.
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Wall Street Occupation: Looking Down on Mr. Tambourine Man
To the surprise of just about everyone now, however, what both sides are realizing, more so with each passing day, is how much each has skin in the game.
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: The Human Microphone
"Perhaps not remarkable, but telling, is how the protesters remain upbeat and positive, embracing idealism without irony." -- Alan Chin's latest "photo op-ed" from Zucotti Park.
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Nina Berman at Occupy Wall Street: Beyond the Hula Hoop
If you can avoid rolling your eyes, what you'll be able to see is the hip-shaking arrival of New York City's "first responders" to the utter collapse of economic justice.
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: Nights at Camp Hashtag
If the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Our 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Portrait … Going the Other Way
Thankfully, friend and brilliant photographer, Mario Tama, sent me this a couple days ago, a photo unique out of the 9/11-remembrance constellation, if for one thing, by simply managing not to take itself too seriously.
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Reconstructing 9/11 with Nina Berman — The Still-Shattering Beehive
The argument is that the free market proved the main catalyst for the destruction that day.
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Reconstructing 9/11 with Nina Berman: Windows on the World
What's impressively prescient is how much the juxtaposition captures the equally blunt, hysterical and binary thinking of the Bush Administration's reaction to the 9/11 attacks.
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Hurricane Irene: For New York City, The Storm That Wasn't
Dodging a bullet, and crying wolf: Hurricane Irene in New York City.
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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya. Next Stop: Qadaffi's Hometown
Nicole Tung in eastern Libya where the eastern front presses on towards the Qaddafi stronghold of Sirte, and fierce fighting may yet be in the cards.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: T-Paw on Ice
can't decide how much I think T-Paw was battered by media group think, versus how much Pawlenty just plain couldn't clear that classic bar of "having enough sizzle."
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