| Week 399 |
New York University Bobst Library 2008. Photo by Barry Weiser. |
| Week 398 |
Working with bricks, Delhi, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 397 |
Naples, Italy, 1962. Photo by Barry Weiser.
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| Week 396 |
Merle Hansen, past president of the North American Farm Alliance on his farm in Nebraska, 1993. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 395 |
Marta Cumbe at a community meeting with FENOCIN in Shagalpud to discuss plans for a milk cooperative. Shagalpud, Cañar province, in the Andes Mountains, Ecuador. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 394 |
At the main entrance to the presidential palace. Quito, Ecuador. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 393 |
Maria de Jesus Dulcelina Nicolalde Navarette in Cayambi, Ecuador. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 392 |
38th Anniversary of the Massacre at Tlatelolco taken in Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. October 2, 2006. Photo by Barry Weiser. |
| Week 391 |
San Francisco May Day, 2007. Immigrants Rights Demo. Photo by Bruce Akizuki. |
| Week 390 |
Goats in a corral in the countryside of Pichincha province, Ecuador. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 389 |
Rosa Rueda and her daughter Kelly Vara Rueda (grandson David Alexandro Morón tagging along) bring out family-grown organic food to be loaded on to a pick-up truck for a trip to the market. Rosa Rueda is a member of the Salao community women's group "The 26th of April" in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To read more: Interview with Miguel Angel Crespo of PROBIOMA, A Contribution To Agroecology: Biological Control, Certified Forest, Local Control, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. |
| Week 388 |
Isidro Sanchez, a member of the Fundo Zamorano San Miguel Cooperative, cutting yuca. Near Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 387 |
Vicente Calle, a member of the Shagapud community in the Andes Mountains, transporting corn by horse. Cañar province, southern Ecuador. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 386 |
Speaking out with music. The first United States Social Forum (USSF) took place from June 27-July 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. 10,000 people, members and supporters of grassroots organizations and movements from all over the United States, marched through downtown Atlanta to open the Forum. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 385 |
President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, after delivering a speech on poverty, August 30, 2007. Quito, Ecuador. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 384 |
Rev. Joseph Lowery delivered the keynote address at a rally on the steps of the state capitol in Atlanta at the start of United States Social Forum. 10,000 people then marched through downtown Atlanta to open the United States Social Forum. The Forum took place from June 27-July 1. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 383 |
Bromeliad bloom. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 382 |
10,000 people, members and supporters of grassroots organizations and movements from all over the United States, marched through downtown Atlanta to open the United States Social Forum. The Forum took place from June 27-July 1. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 381 |
New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, one and 1/2 years after Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Alice Lovelace.
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| Week 380 |
A vicuña in Sajama National Park, Oruro department, Bolivia. The vicuña is an endangered species. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 379 |
This photo accompanies the article "For the Love of Family" by Tonia Leon. Photo by Barry Weiser. To read "For the Love of Family", click here |
| Week 378 |
Dolphins in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawai'i's Big Island. Photo by Annie Rockwell. |
| Week 377 |
48-Hour "Fast for Peace". March 27 was the 4-year anniversary of the death of Jesus Alberto Suarez del Solar, USMC Lance Corporal. "Two days to symbolize the two hours that it took before my son received medical aid as a U.S. Marine slowly bleeding to death after he stepped on a U.S.-made cluster bomb." -- Fernando Suarez del Solar. The fast took place in front of the federal building in San Diego. Along with Fernando Suarez del Solar, three others fasted: Jeeni Criscenzo, Janice Jordan, and Rio Mezta. Community members kept the fasting people company with songs and prayer (includes more photos below main image). Photos by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 376 |
"Minero Crucificado" (1998-1999) by Bolivian sculptor Hans Hoffman, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Plaza, La Paz, Bolivia. Composed of bolts, nuts, and a miner's helmet in commemoration of the IMF-inspired lay-offs of 20,000 miners and closing of many tin mines in the mid-'80s. Many of the residents of El Alto moved there after the mine closings. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To read an interview which includes history of modern Bolivia: Interview with Bertha Blanco of Bartolina Sisa / National Federation of Campesina Women of Bolivia / Part 1: Defense of the Peoples / Part 2: The History of Our Ancestors / Time to Take Responsibility for Political Decisions, La Paz, Bolivia
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| Week 375 |
Bertha Blanco in the office of the National Federation of Campesina Women of Bolivia / Bartolina Sisa, in La Paz, Bolivia. In the background is a portrait of Bartolina Sisa. She is holding the indigenous Wiphala flag. Further in the background is Tiwanaku art. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To read an interview with Bertha Blanco: Part 1 (English) | primera parte (español) | Part 2 (English) | segunda parte (español)
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| Week 374 |
Korogocho, Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by Alice Lovelace. (Scroll down for two more photos). While attending the 2007 World Social Forum, Alice Lovelace writes, "The Korogocho slum (over 200,000 people) is 30 years old (read more) |
| Week 373 |
Snow branches in the Rocky Mountains. Steamboat Springs, northern Colorado. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 372 |
Snow shadows. Lakewood, Colorado. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 371 |
Mount Sajama and the bell tower in the courtyard of the 17th century church Comarapi Virgen Rosario, Oruro, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 370 |
During a march/dancing through downtown La Paz, Bolivia, people from different communities support women's and children's rights to education, to read, to write, to overcome poverty. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 369 |
A three-toed sloth, in the Plaza 24 de Septiembre, Santa Cruz. Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 368 |
Heading for home after school, Santa Cruz department, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 367 |
Dancing during a religious festival in the small mountain community of Sajama, by the snow-covered Mount Sajama, Oruro department, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 366 |
A statue (thought to be of a priest) of the ancient Tiwanaku civilization. Kalasasaya, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 365 |
On Kala Uta island in Lake Titicaca looking towards the Cordillera Real range of the Andes, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 364 |
Alpacas and Mount Sajama on the Altiplano in the Oruro department, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 363 |
Dancing and marching through downtown La Paz, women from different neighborhoods of El Alto and La Paz support women's rights to education, to read, to write, to overcome poverty. The flag being waved is the indigenous Wiphala flag. La Paz, Bolivia. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 362 |
Camouflage, Lake Ontario, Canada. Photo by Dolores Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 361 |
A Great Blue Heron, Galveston, Texas. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 360 |
After bloom. Rose Canyon, San Diego, California. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 359 |
A house finch drifts in the grass. Rose Canyon, San Diego, California. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 358 |
A pelican preening. Galveston, Texas. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 357 |
Pablo Paredes discussing a "241 mile quest for peace starting in Tijuana, Mexico, going through the Marine Corps Depot at Camp Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA, culminating in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial ceremony and blood drive". Starting March 12, ending March 27, 2006 and inspired by Gandhi's Salt March (also 241 miles in length) to free India from the British, the walk brought out community support in small and large communities. This photo was taken in Los Angeles at the South Central Farm following a large rally against the Iraq war in downtown L.A. 1n 2004, Navy Petty Officer Pablo Paredes refused orders to board the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard and was court-martialed for his resistance to the war (read more here). Along with Pablo Paredes on the walk were Fernando Suarez del Solar, Camilo Mejia, and Aidan Delgado. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 356 |
Gustavo Esteva at the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. Gustavo Esteva is an author, a local and international “grassroots activist and de-professionalized intellectual”, and a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico. He is also a former corporate executive, a former guerrilla, a former high-ranking official in the government of President Echeverría, and an advisor with the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas for the negotiations with the government. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Interview with Gustavo Esteva: The Society of the Different |
| Week 355 |
Over 50,000 march in San Diego for "Dignity, Respect & Hope" for immigrants, April 9, 2006. The following day, hundreds of thousands marched in other cities around the U.S. Photos by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 354 |
Thousands of high school students in Los Angeles, California march over 13 miles for equal rights for immigrants and against U.S. House of Representatives Bill 4437. Many students walked out of school and went from school to school gathering support (March 27, 2006). In photo below, Hollenbeck Sheriffs Department cruiser follows marchers. According to eyewitnesses the police at times simply followed, at others they attempted to intimidate the marchers. Both photos by Cynthia Flores.
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| Week 353 |
Fulgencia Paniagua, a farmer at the South Central Farm, takes a short break from care of her family's plot. Over 300 families grow vegetables, fruits and other plants on 14 acres in South Central Los Angeles. Thought to be the largest urban farm in the U.S., the South Central Farm was established in 1992 after the city acquired the land by eminent domain then did not use the land as they had planned and transferred the land to a local food bank. Currently, though, the farmers face an eviction notice (posted 3/1/2006). For a complete history visit the South Central Farmers' web site at www.southcentralfarmers.com. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 352 |
Fernando Suarez del Solar, at the South Central Farm in Los Angeles. Stopping here after a March 18 downtown march against the war in Iraq, Fernando Suarez del Solar (along with Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia and Aidan Delgado) is leading a "coalition of the willing" on a "241 mile quest for peace starting in Tijuana, Mexico, going through Marine Corps Depot Camp Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA, culminating in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial ceremony and blood drive", March 27, 2006. Fernando Suarez del Solar is the father of one of the first Latinos to die in Iraq. His son Jesus stepped on an unexploded U.S. cluster bomb (see interview). Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 351 |
Co-op members load food (bought by subscription) for delivery. The food is grown on a cooperative organic farm called Agricoltura Nuova / Cooperativa Sociale Integrata, outside Rome, Italy. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 350 |
Shopping. Oakland Chinatown. Photo by Bruce Akizuki. |
| Week 349 |
Inside the National Palace. Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 348 |
Raymundo Sánchez Barraza, general coordinator of CIDECI (Centro Indígena de Capacitación Integral) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. "It’s an Indigenous Center. This is what makes it significant and what gives it its unique characteristics. It’s not a center that’s just for, but it’s also by, the indigenous. It’s an indigenous center in its work, in its definition, in its method of operating, in its components, in those who make it up. -- Raymundo Sánchez Barraza. Click here to read an interview with Raymundo Sánchez Barraza A University Without Shoes
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| Week 347 |
Four people in Rome. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 346 |
Gloriadalva Diaz Hernandez (former CIDECI student and now teacher) and Josefina Gomez Perez. CIDECI (Centro Indígena de Capacitación Integral) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. "CIDECI Las Casas. What does CIDECI Las Casas mean? It means the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Comprehensive Indigenous Training Center. It’s an Indigenous Center. This is what makes it significant and what gives it its unique characteristics. It’s not a center that’s just for, but it’s also by, the indigenous. It’s an indigenous center in its work, in its definition, in its method of operating, in its components, in those who make it up. -- Raymundo Sánchez Barraza. Click here to read an interview with Raymundo Sánchez Barraza A University Without Shoes
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| Week 345 |
Pax/peace. An altar and grafitti in a passageway in Rome, Italy. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 344 |
Preparing green beans for sale in the Campo di Fiori market, Rome, Italy. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 343 |
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 342 |
On the Metro. Mexico City, D.F. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 341 |
Anti-war protests in Oakland. This September 23 event in Oakland was organized as part of a growing “people’s power” movement in opposition to the war in Iraq. Organized in part by the group Courage To Resist, and composed to a large extent of students from Oakland High Schools (McClymonds, Oakland Tech, Skyline), over 400 people took over this Chevron gas station then moved on to, and shut down, the Oakland Armed Forces Career Center. Photos by Paul Rockwell.To read more click here: Recruiting Center Shut Down: “The Power Of The People Is Now” by Paul Rockwell
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| Week 340 |
Sister Ruth Montrichard, executive director of SERVOL, with children at a community early childhood center, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 339 |
Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005. Interfaith clergy walk by nearly 2,000 wooden crosses along the side of Prairie Chapel Road leading towards Camp Casey. Camp Casey is named after Cindy Sheehan's son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan is asking to meet with President Bush to discuss her loss and the war in Iraq. President Bush is on vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch. Photo by Jeff Paterson.
To see more photos by Jeff Paterson of the protest in Crawford, Texas visit here (off-site) |
| Week 338 |
More than 300 people arrive in Portland, Oregon for the culmination of the Walk for Truth, Justice, and Community. Lasting from June 12th to June 18th, 2005, the Walk for Truth, Justice, and Community was organized by the Rural Organizing Project (ROP) and co-sponsored by the Oregon farmworkers union, PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste / Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United). The Rural Organizing Project is a coalition of 60 human rights organizations in rural areas across the state of Oregon. Photo by Jerry Atkin. To read more: We Make the Road by Walking by Jerry Atkin
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| Week 337 |
Feeling Blue or Orange? San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. October 2004. Photo (c) by Roshani Kothari. To see more: Colors of Chiapas by Roshani Kothari (off-site). |
| Week 336 |
Blowing In the Wind. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. October 2004. Photo (c) by Roshani Kothari. To see more: Colors of Chiapas by Roshani Kothari (off-site). |
| Week 335 |
A farmer makes a point about the new land reform laws during a discussion during a workshop on land reform held in San Felipe, Yaracuy, in western Venezuela. Over 800 hundred people attended. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To read more about Land Reform: Interview with Peter Rosset, of CECCAM and Land Research Action Network, San Felipe, Yaracuy, Venezuela
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| Week 334 |
Gusevio Urvina Suarez -- a member of the Aracal cooperative, near Urachiche, Yaracuy, Venezuela. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 333 |
The Venezuelan national orchestra, plays before President Hugo Chávez Frías speaks, April 13, 2005. Caracas, Venezuela. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 332 |
Members of MST (The Landless Rural Workers. Movement) (center) from Brazil visit the Santa Lucia Cooperative JA1, near San Felipe, Yaracuy, Venezuela, April 2005, This discussion was part of an international information-exchange workshop on land reform attended by at least 800 people in and around San Felipe. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 331 |
Seamstress Denise Obregon in her home in the Bello Monte neighborhood of Caracas. With micro-credit from the Women's Development Bank, Denise Obregon purchased a new sewing machine which greatly increased her output of women's beach clothing and men's leather belts. Denise Obregon works in a cooperative with four other people who sell what she produces. Caracas, Venezuela. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To read more about the Women's Development Bank, see:Interview with Nora Castañeda
President of the Women’s Development Bank, Caracas, Venezuela
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| Week 330 |
President Hugo Chávez Frías of Venezuela, April 13, 2005. Caracas, Venezuela. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Also see: ¿Chavez En Busqueda Del Nuevo Socialismo Para El Tropico? (In Spanish) por Miguel Angel Nuñez, Barinas, Venezuela
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| Week 329 |
Sebastião Vieira, a regional co-coordinator, in his family's home in the joint MST (Landless Rural Workers' Movement) camps, Dom Pedro Casussaudale and Camilo Torres near São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Also see: Interview with Geraldo Fontes of the MST / The Landless Rural Workers' Movement “Without depending on power or having to take power” Part 1 -- Building the New Society Now / Part 2 -- Agrarian Reform / Agribusiness,
São Paulo, Brazil |
| Week 328 |
In the aftermath of the tsunami. S. Jemy of Rajamangalamthurai, Kanyakumari dt, Tamil Nadu, India, talking about how she has received a form asking whether she is ready to leave the sea-shore or not. She along with 99% of the other people said NO. Photo taken while filming the documentary "Twice Evicted" by AREDS. Also see:Cynical Exploitation of Tsunami Victims (Privatization, Commercialization, and Protests On the S.E. India Coast) by L.A. Samy, Renganathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India
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| Week 327 |
Sheep on the McMillen farm. Callaway County, Missouri. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 326 |
Roger Allison prepares hay for cattle to eat on the Allison-Perry farm. Armstrong, Missouri. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 325 |
On the Allison-Perry farm. Armstrong, Missouri. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 324 |
The impact of the tsunami on coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by the AREDS Team. Also see: Tsunami Tragedy in Tamil Nadu: An Appeal For Help To Rehabilitate 2000 Families by L.A. Samy, Renganathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India and Tsunami, Mangroves and Market Economy by Devinder Sharma, New Delhi, India
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| Week 323 |
Taparo sculptor Pedro Reyes Millan in his studio in Barinas, Venezuela. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Click here for more photos and to read: Interview with Pedro Reyes Millan From Guerrilla Commander to Taparo Sculptor: Art and production models which transfer knowledge, "Learning means dignity", Barinas, Venezuela
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| Week 322 |
Sleeping boy in a train, Kobe, Japan. Photo by Otake Rie. Click here to see more photos by Otake Rie: Sakura / Shrines / Kobe University (6 photographs)
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| Week 321 |
In a village of the Malayali tribe in the Servarayan Hills in western Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Click here to (see more photos and) read: Adivasi Community in South India: Historically Marginalised and Forgotten by L.A. Samy, Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Week 320 |
Cattle raised using agroecological methods on the Rubio Lara Cooperativa in Los Pajueles, Barinas state, Venezuela. In the background (on the right) farmer Carlos Enrique Jimenez. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Click here to (see more photos and) read an interview with: Miguel Angel Nuñez, the international relationship coordinator for IPIAT (Instituto para la Produccion e Investigacion de la Agricultura Tropical) and an advisor to the presidential office of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
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| Week 319 |
A villager taking a break from building the AREDS (Association of Rural Education and Development Service) theater and children's swimming pool in Renganathapuram, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.Click here to (see more photos and) read an interview with: L. A. Samy, the director of AREDS and Christina Samy, the program coordinator of AREDS who also works with SWATE (Society of Women in Action for Total Empowerment). |
| Week 318 |
Ivani Kovalek, a farmer and FETRAF union member, milks one of her cows on her farm near Chapeco, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 317 |
Roberto Corminarez, a farmer who works with IPIAT, with corn grown using agroecological methods. Cremolino community, near Sabaneta, Barinas state, Venezuela. IPIAT (Instituto para la Produccion e Investigacion de la Agricultural Tropical). Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 316 |
Watering the community garden in an MST (Landless Workers' Movement -- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) encampment near Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. According to the MST, "more than 250,000 families have won land titles to over 15 million acres after MST land takeovers" of unused land. There are over 71,000 families in encampments awaiting government recognition. |
| Week 315 |
Sienna Lewis enjoys a refreshing late-afternoon coconut in Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 314 |
A giraffe in Pilanesberg National Park, Northern Province, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 313 |
Dance Against Violence. Photo by Judith Williams Sandoval. Click here to see other photos by Judith Williams Sandoval from the photography exhibition "In Search of Community", San Francisco, California. Also see photographs by Tiffany Eng, Pauline Liang, Rebecca Peng, Judith Williams Sandoval, Al Sugano. |
| Week 312 |
In the Hopi Nation, south of Kykotsmovi. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.Click to read: Interview with Wahleah Johns and Lilian Hill
of Black Mesa Water Coalition “We don’t have to be the battery for America” / Sustainable Development: It’s Old But It’s New |
| Week 311 |
Looking out the door of a cob house under construction in Kykotsmovi, Hopi Nation. Cob is a mixture of sand, clay, straw and water. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Click to read: Interview with Wahleah Johns and Lilian Hill
of Black Mesa Water Coalition “We don’t have to be the battery for America” / Sustainable Development: It’s Old But It’s New |
| Week 310 |
"In December 2003, Fernando Suarez traveled to Iraq. He visited the site where his son died, and he brought back thousands of letters of peace from Iraqi children." Photo by Medea Benjamin.
Click here to read: From Grief To Protest: How Peace Loving Fathers Honor Their Fallen Sons by Paul Rockwell. |
| Week 309 |
Untitled. (In China). Photo by Rebecca Peng. |
| Week 308 |
U.S. Marine, fuel-tank truck. Iraq. (From private collection of Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey. Used with permission.) To read An interview with Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey -- Back From Iraq: "I Killed Innocent People for Our Government"
by Paul Rockwell, click here.
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| Week 307 |
Busy traffic on Old Delhi's Chadni Chowk. Delhi, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 306 |
The drummer of "Hang On The Box", a Beijing punk band. Berkeley, California. Photo by Lawton Chan. To see a series of five photos of "Hang On The Box" in the Community Images gallery - click here. |
| Week 305 |
Students at the Adi Dravidar Welfare School in the countryside near Madurai where human rights is taught in class. Teaching human rights to children in public and private schools is an experimental program initiated by the Insitute of Human Rights Education, a project of People's Watch - Tamil Nadu. These students came into class after younger students described their experiences with the human rights class. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.Interview with Henri Tiphagne of People's Watch -Tamil Nadu |
| Week 304 |
A villager fetching water from a well near Dingidul, Tamil Nadu, India. Click here to read an Interview with Backiam of CEDA Trust / Women Organize in Tamil Nadu Villages. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 303 |
John Leguizamo, comedian, actor, director, producer at the 11th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. San Diego, California. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 302 |
Mariluz Sanchez, filmmaker. As a participant in the Tu Voz-TV program, a project of the Teen Producer's Project of the Media Arts Center San Diego, Mariluz Sanchez has made two films with her sister, Puri Sanchez. In the film en "En El Tercero Espacio" (In the Third Space) the two sisters tell of their father's migration to the U.S. In "Un Soldado Mexicano" they tell of Jesus Suarez, a marine killed in battle in Iraq, in 2003. In the film, Jesus’ father, Fernando, talks about his son’s childhood, his reasons for joining the military, and why he, Fernando, opposes the war. "Un Soldado Mexicano" is being shown at this week's 11th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. San Diego, California. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 301 |
On the streets of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 300 |
Children in front of the train station in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 299 |
Making rice cake. Photo by Yumiko Asada.
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| Week 298 |
Ground Zero. Photo by Yumiko Asada. |
| Week 297 |
Self-employed bidi roller and member of SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, SEWA is the largest single trade union in the country with a membership of 687,000 women. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 296 |
Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and was SEWA’s first general-secretary. Based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, SEWA is the largest single trade union in the country with a membership of 687,000 women. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.To read an interview with Ela Bhatt - click here.
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| Week 295 |
A detail on the outside of the Madurai Temple, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 294 |
Member of a picket team on the picket line to defend their families' healthcare benefits. Members of the UFCW (United Food & Commercial Workers) Local 135 picket team at Albertson's store # 6703 in San Diego spend Saturday afternoon on the picket line. At the time of this photo, the picket team is about to enter the sixth week of Albertsons' lockout of its workers. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 293 |
Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi's working room. The Harijan Ashram by the Sabarmati River, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 292 |
Cutting sugar cane in the village of Rengathapurem in western Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 291 |
Workers and their camel. Ahmedabad, India. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 290 |
At the Adi Dravidar Welfare School in the countryside near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, a student talks about her class on human rights. She was one of several students who spoke movingly of their understanding of human rights and the impact of the class on their daily lives.Teaching human rights to children in public and private schools is an experimental program initiated by the Insitute of Human Rights Education, a project of People's Watch - Tamil Nadu. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 289 |
A village of the Malayali tribe in western Tamil Nadu, India. It is the working area of the Village Reconstruction and Development Project in Salem, Tamil Nadu. The Tamizhaga Aadivasigal Iyakkam (TAI-Tribal Movement) is organizing tribals for tribal self-rule under the 5th Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The issues of concern are land alienation (e.g. loss of land to coffee estates), violence against women, and extremely low wages for the tribals in the coffee estates.This village is in the Servarayan Hills. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
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SEWA. The Self-Employed Women's Assocation, centered here in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, is the largest single trade union in the country with a membership of 687,000 women. They are vegetable and garment vendors, in-home seamstresses, head-loaders, bidi rollers, paper pickers, construction workers, incense stick makers, and agricultural workers. They come from India's "unorganized sector" and organize for their just dues and rights. 96% of all women workers in India are in this sector. Among their achievements is the SEWA Bank whose capital is made up entirely of their own contributions. The bank was founded in 1974 by 4,000 women each contributing ten Rupees. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.Click here to see Self-Employed Vegetable Sellers (8 Photographs). |
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Rotation. A rowing boat of the Elissa sail ship. Galveston, Texas. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
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An elephant in Pilanesberg National Park, Northern Province, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
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Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) by Otake Rie. "The first ten days of April, cherry blossoms are so beautiful in Japan!" To see more photos by Otake Rie and other Community Images photographers -- click here. |
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A resident of Alexandra township waves to a passing civil society march heading towards Sandton, the primary site of the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 - September 4, 2002). Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 283 |
School children in Zinancantan, Chiapas, Mexico. Photo by Roberto Flores.
To read -- "From Disillusionment and Abandonment to Autonomy: Zapatista Bilingual Indigenous Education in Chiapas, Mexico -- A Case Study in Alternative Meanings of 'Development' by Roberto Flores -- click here. |
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Soweto Mountain of Hope (SOMOHO) member Zakhele Mbokane. Soweto, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
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A Purepecha vendor selling her flowers in the central plaza, Paracho, Michoacan, Mexico. Photo by Roberto Flores. |
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Gumboot Dance. Young Sowetans perform a gumboot dance for visiting United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (behind table) at the Soweto Mountain of Hope (SOMOHO). Kofi Annan came to Soweto (August 2, 2002) while attending the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.(To read about the hsitory of the Gumboot Dance click to this off-site page)
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| Week 279 |
Justice for Janitors. Janitors and their union (Service Employees International Union) rally with Rev. Jesse Jackson, May 1, 2003 in East Palo Alto, "Silicon Valley", California asking that several Silicon Valley hi-tech companies engage in dialogue to help avert an impending healthcare crisis. The janitors are faced with losing their health insurance coverage when their contract expires and premiums increase beyond their ability to pay and still meet basic family expenses. The dilemma faced by workers in Silicon Valley is part of larger looming health care crisis nationwide. Over 50,000 janitors across the country are facing similar situations. Photo by Butch Wing.
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| Week 278 |
Adobe. Shionoe, Japan. Photo by Bruce Akizuki. |
| Week 277 |
Community members at the Valley Trust Clinic, in the Valley of 1000 Hills, Kwazulu- Natal, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 276 |
Freedom of speech. Michelle Doty Cabrera and Gina Kowerko Diaz in front of the Federal Building in San Diego at a rally against the war in Iraq, March 22, 2003. Earlier in the day, they sat down as paying customers to eat in the restaurant at the nearby Westin Hotel. Because of the signs on their backs they were asked to leave. When they objected, the manager was called and he too demanded they leave or remove their signs. He then called the police. They decided to leave. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 275 |
Landry Smith reading a poem he has just written. This photo was taken at Horizon School in Atlanta, Georgia during a class to learn about, write, and read poetry. The class is part of the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning. The class was taught by In Motion Magazine co-editor Alice Lovelace. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To read "Building Artistic Communities" click here. |
| Week 274 |
Vandana Shiva in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Vandana Shiva is founder of both the Research Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology, an independent public industry research group, and Navdanya a grassroots conservation movement in India. This photo was taken at the time of an In Motion Magazine interview conducted on September 1, 2002 at St Stithians, site of the People's Earth Summit, a parallel event to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 273 |
In San Diego, California, 5,000 marched to oppose a war on Iraq. Part of the world-wide protests of millions on the weekend of February 15-16, 2003, the march was one of two in San Diego. Above, marchers gather in downtown San Diego in front of the Federal Building. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 272 |
In San Diego, California, 5,000 marched to oppose a war on Iraq. Part of the world-wide protests of millions on the weekend of February 15-16, 2003, the march was one of two in San Diego. The above march was in downtown San Diego. The other march went by the San Diego Naval Station. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. To see more photos of these marches, Images of No War -- click here.
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| Week 271 |
Mandla Mentoor, founder of the Mountain of Hope and Jane Goodall, a United Nations "Messenger of Peace." Both were waiting for the arrival of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, September 2, 2002. Soweto, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 270 |
Running on the Mountain of Hope. Soweto, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 269 |
One of the largest peace demonstrations in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area took place Saturday, January 18, 2003. (350,000 according to Lisa Rein, who did a thorough on-line video account.). Photo by Paul Rockwell. |
| Week 268 |
Wetlands on Galveston Island, Texas. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 267 |
Yuri Kochiyama. Yuri Kochiyama @ Resist the Silence program at San Francisco Women’s Building. 9-14-02. Photo by Bruce Akizuki. |
| Week 266 |
A billboard in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, contributes to a campaign about HIV/AIDS. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 265 |
Joshua Sena Alouka, the national coordinator of the youth NGO (non-governmental organization) Jeunes Voluntaires por L’Environment (Young Volunteers for the Environment) from Lomé, Togo, West Africa attending the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26, 2002. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 264 |
“Asian War Resisters”. 4-20-02 March and Rally Against the War. San Francisco. Photo by Bruce Akizuki. |
| Week 263 |
President of France, Jacques Chirac, meets with reporters after a press conference during the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 - September 4, 2002) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 262 |
South African President Thabo Mbeki speaks to the press at the closing of the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 - September 4, 2002) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke.
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| Week 261 |
Frans Mdhluli, a food service worker at Ubuntu Village, one of the meeting sites at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 - September 4, 2002) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 260 |
A sculpture set up by the international NGO Friends of the Earth at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 - September 4, 2002) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 259 |
Three children watch as a civil society march passes along their street in the township of Alexandra while world leaders meet in Johannesburg, South Africa at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 - September 4, 2002). Founded in 1912 and now with a population of 350,000, the Alexandra township is part of the greater Johannesburg area. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 258 |
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan while visiting the Soweto Mountain of Hope (SOMOHO) during the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development. Soweto, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 257 |
Community members / volunteers in one of the circles used for discussion and poetry readings on the Soweto Mountain of Hope (SOMOHO).Soweto, South Africa. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
| Week 256 |
“Visitacion Valley Neighborhood Day”, San Francisco, 2001. From the series "Faces of the Neighborhood." Photo by Judith Williams Sandoval. |
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"Visitacion Valley”, San Francisco, 2001. From the series "Faces of the Neighborhood." Photo by Judith Williams Sandoval. |
| Week 254 |
Grackle. Galveston, Texas. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
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At the 2002 San Diego County Fair. Del Mar, California. Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. |
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Cristobal a la Torre and Jose Hernandez ta |