A Call for a New Congress

Photos and text by: Danielle Corcione On September 16th and 17th, the People’s Congress of Resistance project – a call to form a new congress – met at Howard University. Their message was that the US Congress no longer represented them:  The United States Congress does not represent the people who live and work in the…

Trump Climbs the Mountain of Conflict at the UNGA

text by Sarah Kay It is the first time I am not attending the United Nations’ General Assembly in 12 years or more. It seems what I am missing is a memorable circus of incompetence and a nightmare of public relations. Or was it? Trump addressing the annual gathering of international diplomats and experts in their opening…

Remembering Charlottesville One Month Later

It was a long weekend for all of us. The story of Charlottesville wasn’t supposed to be like this. Most of us journalists expected to be on our way home soon after the ‘Unite the Right’ rally. Very few had booked hotels for Saturday night. It was supposed to be yet another face-off between the…

It’s Time to Bring Back The Yes Men’s SURVIVABALL

With two record breaking hurricanes, one  right each other it made me think about getting a Survivaball. If you’ve seen The Yes Men‘s fantastic documentary/mockumentary The Yes Men Fix the World, then you’re familiar with their SurvivaBalls. Originally created as a prank that targeted Halliburton’s disaster profiteering, The Yes Men went with it and continued…

Law Enforcement is AWOL in Charlottesville

Originally written and photographed for NationofChange.org This is part two of a two part series (at least for now) questioning the motives and intentions of the law enforcement agencies surrounding the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia in August. Read part one here. If you’ve read my previous pieces for NationofChange, you’d know I was on the ground…