Travels behind the headlines, under the radar and back into toxic history

NYPD Estimated 25,000 March for May Day

May Day activities kicked off soggy and grey but well before noon it turned into a perfectly beautiful day.  This is the first batch of pics that run from about noon to five and follow the police, gatherers and marchers from Bryant Park at 42nd Street down Fifth Avenue t …

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American Spring Training ~ Occupy Central Park

We barely had a winter this year and springtime has been gorgeous.  Saturday was especially beautiful and Central Park was filled as it is most nice days with an assortment of residents and visitors, horse drawn buggies, bicycles, blankets on the lawns and small numbers of …

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#Anonymous Calls for the Legalization of Marijuana #OpCannibis Engaged

  If you're not familiar with Anonymous, they are the cyber-skilled activists who have become a global political player in the seismic social shift of the information age.  The idea of legalizing hemp in all forms is as old as the laws criminalizing it; but this might  …

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Red Carpet Profiteers Driving #SOPA #PIPA #ACTA #CISPA Internet Censorship Train

One of the great gifts of NYC living is that it makes you acutely aware that every breath you take and step you make is an opportunity for someone to try to sell you something so you develop a radar like response to getting hustled.  Very often it's dozens of appeals per se …

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Trayvon Martin 1,000,000 Hoodies March ~ NYC Union Square

The day had somewhat solemn overtones as rightly it should and since pictures tell the story for a thousand words a pop here's my collection from the gathering about five until the march cross town which began pouring out of Union Square just after 7:30 and cleared the intersect …

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How to film a Revolution ~ Tutorial for Citizen Journalism

Type your comment here ...For six months I've tried to capture some of the Occupy NYC images on film and this really helps to identify strategies and situations where positioning is key. If you like photojournalism and can capture images with a hand held device you'll be empower …

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#Chalkupy Images Occupy Wall Street St. Paddy's Day Anniversary

Happy Anniversary Occupy Spirit captured by chalkupation!!   Big hugs and thanks to all who Occupy open spaces and thoughtful places, with Truth & Justice for All as the goal and transparent, accountable government by the people by the peaceful means of freedom of info …

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Threat of Free Speech ~ St. Patrick's Day Anniversary for Occupy Wall Street

  Yesterday was the six month anniversary of the Occupy movement here in NYC and it's been a long road from day one to now.  What hasn't changed from the beginning is the overwhelming number of police that are deployed to keep peaceful protesters contained and the rati …

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The Relaunch of ARTgallery and ARTguild

Years ago, way back in 2006 CE,  I started a group for Viners who are also artists to exhibit their work. It took some time, but I was finally able to get ownership of the group transferred from my first account to this one.

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Rootworms Are Eating Their Way Through Bt Corn

On November 28, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a memo which identified the failure of Monsanto's Bt corn to prevent "unexpected" rootworm damage to the corn crop.

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Did paid trolls get article removed on Newsvine exposing corruption in Walker's Wisconsin?

NOTE TO GROUP MODERATORS: I'm not sure about the protocol for posting an article like this, so if I have put this on your group inappropriately, please remove and advise me via NV message.  Thanks, and sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused. ------------------------- …

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#OccupyCongress - #Jan17 RT! EXPECT US!

Why January 17th you ask? The U.S. House of Representatives convenes for the first time in 2012 on January 17th. We can’t wait until the weather gets nice and everybody has the day off.

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2012 NDAA: Criminalizing Free Speech - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death - Videos

Text Originally Posted in Washington's Blog on January 4, 2012 by Carl Herman The following “artistic liberty” is from Patrick Henry’s 1775 speech after ten years of his government’s violations of constitutional rights.

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TIME edits Occupy Wall Street Support from Person of the Year Cover

Old habits die hard and MSM has been selectively editing material for generations so it is no surprise that a photo as visible as their person of the year cover was editorialized to change the facts we see with our own eyes into something vaguer that might be foreign to American …

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Happy Birthday Bradley Manning & Happy Anniversary Occupy Wall Street

It's been a busy week with Congress rushing to add to the secret powers of Government before they jet off to their luxurious 1% holiday breaks.  They passed the National Defense Authorization Act, because apparently we need more than Patriot Act that restricts unquestioned  …

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#OccupyFood brings American Farmers & Food Lovers to #OccupyWallStreet

Sunday December 4 was Occupy Food Day here in the Big Apple and it was one of the most heart warming experiences in this happy journey of #OccupyWallStreet thus far.  While I have watched OWS grow from its first day, there have been soo many years of battling the destructiv …

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Patagonia Nails Millennium Equivalent of Macy's Miracle on 34th Street

    Patagonia has been a leader in redefining the business model so that doing good compliments doing well to help make everyone winners.  This ad below, ran along with the copied text like my own letter to Santa!  

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Retrospective Happy Anniversary #OccupyWallStreet

  It's a chance to get a foto-Friday post up at its proper day and to mark the distance the Occupy Movement has come since September 17.  They are in chronological order and the whole collection are at flicker and anyone is welcome to share.

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Pardon me? Who keeps public space from NYC public use?

The past 24 hours have been  traumatic for the protesters in Liberty Park and for freedom loving supporters worldwide.  Being a liberal, free speech loving NYer, there was a also a horrible feeling of betrayal in the NYPD actions at the behest of Mayor Bloomberg, the fa …

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Anonymous Night Of A Thousand Masks 11.11.11

            The immortal words of Charlie Chaplin's final speech in The Great Dictator are revisited on this 11.11.11.inverted palindrome of a Veterans Day, by the enigma of our age, Anonymous.

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#Occupy & WikiLeaks Put Faces on America's Enemies

When you listen to TV News in the USA, one of the issues that becomes clear very quickly is that we have a lot of enemies to worry about.  Even tin foil hat apocalypse is given air time as well as dramatic events like anthrax and shoe bombs, Osama and Muslims, sometimes mor …

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Sons of Fortune & Armies of Poor Movin' Money & Movin' On

      My starting point can get lost by the end, especially when so many facts and links tempt me down other paths.  My keep in your heart point is that the power shift is well underway and we the people with our voces occupying public space, our money saved  …

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The Empty Honeycomb

It is hard to overestimate the importance of bees in the food chain. Almonds, carrots, melons, apricots, cherries, pears, apples, prunes, plums, cantaloupe, onions, avocados, kiwi, blueberries, cranberries and many more fruits and vegetables depend on honeybee pollination.

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