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Police hauled off protesters after the protesters were repeatedly doused with pepper spray.
Police were forced haul some of the protesters out of the roadway in order to clear the road for military cargoes. Protesters were dropped on the side of the road and no attempt was made to make arrests of the nonviolent protesters. There was also no effort made by the police to wash off, or offer medical assistance to, the protesters after they were repeatedly sprayed with OC pepper spray, a chemical weapon.
This mural is in the parking lot of a firm of litigators so this is where my imagination took me– a pack of lovely lady lawyers spray a serpent away. Serpent=bad actors? The colors, art and subtle symbolisms are the kind of street art that I like.
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After finding an article about this mural in the Cincinnati Enquirer, apparently, that serpent represents our President, President Donald Trump. The article says that his name is hidden in this street art. Huh?!? Where?
Oh, I see. It's next to the serpent. The letters "*UC* DO**L*" are all that I can make out. It's quite hard to see. I cannot see the word "Trump" at all.
That takes a whole new spin– e.g. since these are all young ladies– sexual assault?!? But these ladies are not painted to look like victims. They look powerful. One has a spray can in her hand. Lady lawyers? Wait, does the lady with a can in her hand have a shiner? A shiner would be evidence of assault. But in art that black eye could be a sign of metaphorical abuse. So, maybe this is more about– Facing a government that is degrading their lives, women voters spray Trump away.
In defense of the artist, ELLE, the anti-Trump obscenity was to show under UV light only. That's according to her Instagram message. Unfortunately, it turned out to be somewhat visible under the sun, which is a source of UV light, of course.
The Cincinnati news article said that a stranger was seen at night spraying over the offensive words. They did a good job. Although the words have somewhat disappeared, the illustration has been preserved, which is something one would not expect from an angry partisan hovering over a political art work they didn't like with a spray can in hand.
Speaking of spray cans, the can in the image has to represent litigation in repelling that serpent pest. Hmm, or maybe the can is the power of the polling station in casting one's vote.
According to the same article, artist Elle replied on Instagram about her serpent message being sprayed over. "Free speech isn't a thing in Trump Territory," she wrote.
What she is referring to with the term "Trump Territory" is that Kentuckians overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Polls say they favor him again in 2020.
I understand that the artist really does not like Trump. I get it. I do. However, I would remind her that very few businesses can afford to overtly alienate nearly half of their customer base, whether Democrat or Republican. And even if a single business could afford it, a business district cannot.
Maybe an orange-tanned snake? No need for a hair piece. Forget the spelled-out name calling.
Ahh, the behind-the-image stories that one discovers in post processing can be fascinating.
Artist: ELLE (aka ELLE Street Art)
Artist's title of the artwork: The Devil is in the Details
Pose habituelle du président Evo Morales, lors de son discours pour "el dia de la revolución agraria, productiva y comunitaria" (jour de la révolution agraire, productive et communautaire), le 2 août à Tarabuco, département de Chuquisaca, Bolivie.
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Have a look at my photographic project Du Monde Dans L'Objectif.
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)
Image paired with the article:
Many Americans Don't Know It, but Their Employers Can Censor Their Political Speech
www.truth-out.org/news/item/40820-speak-no-evil-many-amer...
This rare footage, shot by Oldham Borough Police in the 1950s, formed part of a film and photography project that documented the life of the force and the town at this time.
The films sets out to explain the principles on which British policing was, and remains, based and how the Oldham force formed an integral part of the area it policed.
This section shows election campaigning and polling in the town during the period.
The main speaker featured may be Anthony Eden MP, who held the office of Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957.
To see more images from the Oldham Borough Police collection please click the link below.
Oldham Borough Police Collection
We will be posting further extracts from this unique production, which features a wide range of policing subjects and images of the people and landmarks of Oldham, over the coming months.
The Oldham Borough Police area is now policed by Greater Manchester Police.
From the collection of the Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives.
For more information about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
Description: 89-2825.37, 1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, at Lincoln Memorial, from 35mm color negative.
Creator/Photographer: Jeff Tinsley
Medium: C-type print
Culture: American
Date: 1989
Persistent URL: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_308439
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives/Smithsonian Photographic Services
Accession number: 89-2825.37
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Spoiler: this photo contains political speech. I lean to the right. If you are upset at that very thought, chances are that you will wish you hadn't read what I am writing. Ergo, hit back on your browser and move to your next contact. Or hit the next photo in my stream.
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In recent days I have been witness to some pretty amazing political photos. I don't want to comment on them, because I don't share the views expressed. It isn't that I don't want to engage the posters in discussion, because that isn't it. I simply don't want to put a negative vibe in their photostream. I don't own their stream so I don't feel I have the right to pollute it.
Thing is, these are people that I like and want to have as friends. The last thing I want to do is make them angry, but that's what happens when you challenge someone's religion.
And make no mistake, the views they express can properly be called a religion. Why? Because it takes real faith to adopt the positions expressed. You have to actively ignore evidence to the contrary or perhaps fall under the giddy spell of a political evangelist. You have to feel more than you think to hold many of these positions.
Like I said, I lean to the right, but it isn't because I am a fundamentalist Christian wacko — although I am. I lean to the right because I have made considered decisions as to what my positions are, and then discovered that the right is more closely aligned with me than the left.
I am just saying, dear friends, that I am sometimes frustrated and disheartened by your photos. I see them, but I won't comment because your comment box is not where I want to engage you. If you see your view count tick up without comments being left, maybe it is me coming to visit.
Yes, I still love your art, but I don't want to validate your views by saying "great photo".
This is my one hundred fifty second photo for 365 Days.
20 April 2007
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
The T-shirt reads:
Persist like Elizabeth, Inspire like Malala, Speak like Maya, Influence like Sonia, Defy like Rosa, Fight like Hillary, Empower like Gloria, Focus like Michelle, Rule like Ruth
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
Sunday, 2019-01-27. Kamala Harris held her campaign launch rally for the 2020 presidential election in Downtown Oakland at the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Estimated over 20,000 people came out to see the event. Queues to enter the plaza snaked around multiple blocks.
President George W. Bush discusses progress in the Global War on Terror, Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7, 2006. © Joeff Davis-All Rights Reserved-www.Joeff.com
President George W. Bush discusses progress in the Global War on Terror, Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7, 2006. © Joeff Davis-All Rights Reserved-www.Joeff.com
Just when #things were starting to look #grim and #wintry, our #architecture #students suggest to build this. #now what?! #fsm #ucberkerkeley #ced #architecturestudent #designbuild #politicalspeech @tearableheart #tearableheart
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United States Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking at the 2008 Jefferson-Jackson dinner at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, January 30, 2008. © Joeff Davis-All Rights Reserved-www.Joeff.com
In times of need, we set our differences aside, get together, and help one another.
While the wildfires are affecting the whole province, people here in BC are staying strong and working together.
Thank you to Cathy McLeod and to everyone from the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo area who donated last night to help those affected by the wildfires. Great to see donations of money and non-perishable food.
Seeing people rally around each other like this truly makes me proud to be Canadian.
En période de besoin, nous mettons nos différences de côté, nous nous rassemblons et nous aidons les uns les autres.
Alors que les feux de forêt touchent toute la province, les gens de la Colombie-Britannique restent forts et travaillent ensemble.
Merci Cathy McLeod MP Kamloops Thompson Cariboo et tout le monde de la région de Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo d’avoir fait un don hier soir pour aider les gens touchés par les feux de forêt. C'était super de voir des dons d’argent et d’aliments non périssables.
Voir les gens se rassembler comme ça me rend vraiment fier d’être Canadien.
President George W. Bush discusses progress in the Global War on Terror, Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7, 2006. © Joeff Davis-All Rights Reserved-www.Joeff.com
President George W. Bush discusses progress in the Global War on Terror, Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7, 2006. © Joeff Davis-All Rights Reserved-www.Joeff.com
President George W. Bush discusses progress in the Global War on Terror, Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, Georgia, September 7, 2006. © Joeff Davis-All Rights Reserved-www.Joeff.com
On May 1st, 2025, Helsinki’s streets were filled with the spirit of Vappu as Antti Lindtman, chair of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), addressed supporters following the party’s significant victories in the recent municipal and regional elections.
Lindtman emphasized the SDP’s commitment to improving access to healthcare and education, stating, “We will work so that people can get the care they need when they need it. Illnesses don’t heal in queues.”
He also highlighted the public’s desire for change, noting that the election results sent a strong message to the current government.
Lindtman highlighted the SDP’s recent electoral successes, stating, “Olemme tehneet historiallisen tuloksen, historiallisen nousun” (“We have achieved a historic result, a historic rise”) .
He also criticized the current government’s policies, asserting, “Jo riittää hyvinvointiyhteiskunnan romuttaminen ja palkansaajien kyykyttäminen” (“Enough dismantling the welfare society and oppressing wage earners”) .