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Occupy Oakland Rally + March in Solidarity with South Africa Miners - 08-24-2012
"On Friday, August 24, Occupy Oakland was out in the streets, rallying in support of the striking Marikana miners, gunned down recently by South African police.
Digital Journal's contact at Occupy Oakland reports that a group of around 100 Occupy Oakland members turned out in Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland, CA on Friday, carrying banners and placards and handing out pamphlets to the public, about the recent shooting of striking miners at the Lonmin PLC Marikana platinum mine in South Africa.
Digital Journal reported recently on the police shooting of the Marikana mine workers in South Africa, which resulted in the deaths of 45 people and the injury of an additional 78.
Miners were striking for a decent living wage on August 16, 2012 at a platinum mine owned by Lonmin in the Marikana area, close to Rustenburg, South Africa.
This violent incident is the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of the apartheid era...."
Read more: www.digitaljournal.com/article/331514
Guest workers in Novosibirsk. They had destroyed two-storied building of Metro Planning office. Man with hammer observed me and called his friend ))) Good luck, guys!
Novosibirsk, Russia. Vladimir Shibanov, Nikon FM3a, Nikor 135/2.8, Ilford Pan 400
More shots in Street/Novosibirsk set:
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
Sriatik Anggraeni, aged 29. From Indonesia, abused in Taiwan.
This photo was taken as part of the domestic workers’ rights advocacy project “No one should have to work this way”. Copyright of all photos in this project remains with the photographer, Steve McCurry, not the ILO . The ILO is free to use the images worldwide, without further charge or licence, for its work related to campaigning and advocacy on issues of domestic workers or fundamental labour standards. However, please contact RCOMM/ROAP before you use any photos in this series. High resolution in TIF and thumbnail (small size/resolution versions) are also available on request.
Photo: ©Steve McCurry/ILO
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
other title: Four Figures. Gene Cauthen, 1986, Sennott Park, The Port, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, sculpture
City workers preparing explosive charges to break up the ice on the Rideau River on approach to the Rideau Falls in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Their work is required to prevent an ice dam from restricting the flow of water which increases as milder weather creates extra run-off into the Rideau River, thus potentially causing flooding along its shorelines.
If one zooms in at the foot of the third fence post on the right, one will see an Instantel (Canadian company) manufactured device used to record blast information for analysis. This one seems designed to capture in real time both blast pressure (waves) both in the direction where it is pointed but also blasts' vibrations upon the metal fence.
AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
A truck full of Mozambican road workers. The Chinese are building roads in Mozambique in exchange for fishing rights in Mozambican waters, home to 30% of the world's population of whale sharks.
As far as I can tell these were employees of my Great Grand Parents. Most likely taken in Proctorsville Vermont, they may have worked at the Eagle Hotel or another one of the hotels or restaurants my family ran back then.
I think the building in the rear my be the old bank building that is still standing in Proctorsville.
New photo of bank building. flickr.com/photos/23666799@N04/2769442808/
A worker takes a break on a construction site. / Un travailleur sur un chantier de construction.
Photo : Ahmad Wasiq Taheer
A Polish construction worker. One of the objectives of the project Empowering Polish construction workers is to improve the language skills of the participants to avoid misunderstandings and misinformation.