It all started out with a hilariously bad social media post. It was a graphic that was just too oddly made. I won’t say bad, but I certainly won’t say good – either way, it certainly wasn’t made the way that an antifascist would. “ANTIFA PRESENTS” should have been the first sign… before you even…
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Chiseling Away at America’s Racist History
On the night of June 18th, 2020 I was standing with a handful of photographers on the outside of the protests that were happening at the monument to disgraced Confederate general Robert E Lee in Richmond Virginia. Not much was happening but as a photographer, you end up sticking around into the late-night just in…
General Lee Loses Again.
Thursday morning we’ll have a better idea if the monument to America’s greatest traitor will fall over the weekend or allies of the Confederacy will once again ride in the streets of Richmond. But for now we have the beauty of the people’s voice in the form of graffiti all over the base of the…
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…
Visu.News Co-Founder on Democracy Now!
Co-founder of Visu.News, Zach D Roberts, appeared on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! discussing his work in Charlottesville, VA. Democracy Now! Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Another suspect in the brutal beating of a young African-American man during the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,…
Tiki Torches And The Silent Resistance
A group of 30 or so skinny anarchists, and BLM activists stood to confront hundreds of white supremacists holding torches. They were pepper sprayed and his with fuel from the torches that the “alt-right” protesters were carrying. No members of political parties were there that I could see. I heard Cornel West was in…