According to media reports, Trump will take down the over one mile of fencing that has been surrounding the White House for the last week. That’s a positive. But unfortunately that means that the signs and art that has been covering the ‘wall’ will also have to be taken down. In my experience that usually…
PHOTOS: Washington DC #BLM Still in the Streets
The White House seems to keep moving the fence father and father back, now taking over the entirety of Lafayette Park pushing the protests literally into the streets. The big protest happens on Saturday where they expect huge numbers of people gathering along the road now painted in huge yellow letters that spell out BLACK…
Photos from Lancaster, PA’s Protest Against Police Violence
Lancaster, PA – May 31, 2020 Text by Zach D Roberts, Photos by Paige Durborow Most of the coverage of the protests that have sprung up across the nation after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officers while in their custody have been of larger cities. But even smaller towns have seen incredible…
‘Rally to Free NY’ in Syracuse
Taking a page from the reopen America events, a set of similar rallies were held around New York State. It is rare to have a conservative tinged rally or event in Syracuse (outside of a private fundraiser) even though currently the mayor is a Republican as is the congressman. Back when the tea party was…
COVID-19 Behind Bars – Interview w/ Adryan Corcione & Eli Sadoff
This week on the Visu.News podcast I chat with the creators of the website tracking cases of COVID-19 in people who are incarcerated. Around the time we recorded this interview in April, Chicago’s Cook County Jail had the highest concentration of cases of coronavirus in the US… and that’s with the majority of inmates not…
ReOpen America rally-goers are members of Trump’s death cult
Originally published in NationofChange The protests across the country this past week calling for a ‘reopening of America’ is the obvious conclusion to the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency. Roughly a thousand people rallied in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this week in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that has so far taken over 45,000 American…
Covering the ReOpen Protests with John Rudoff
This week for Aroundthelens.com and Visu.News I spoke to photojournalist John Rudoff. John is a photojournalist who has been working in the industry for several decades covering activism, music and theater, and many foreign stories such as refugees in Greece. You can find his work at RudoffPhoto.com.
WATCH LIVE: Greg Palast on Vote Theft
Part Two: This Saturday, April 18 we’ll be hosting a special Facebook LIVE Event to preview Palast’s new book, How Trump Stole 2020, which reveals how Trump’s already got the November election in the bag — unless we snatch it back! The event will feature exclusive reports from the scene of the crime — plus interviews…
Terms and Conditions DO Apply – Instagram for Photojournalists
Become a Patron! Award-winning photographer Yunghi Kim has been warning photographers of posting on Instagram for about a decade now. We should have listened to her. Over the years the photo-sharing site’s terms and conditions have evolved as corporate expectations change. Several years ago, the Facebook-owned Instagram changed their terms and conditions to include specifics…
A Pandemic Might’ve Been Inevitable. How We Respond Can Help Ameliorate Future Crises
Monday night I peered out my window at the little Mexican restaurant across the street as the sunset in Chicago. There were a couple of kids hanging out on the corner in front of the place, but not a single soul inside. Like every other restaurant across Illinois, they shut the lights out later that…