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May 23, 2012
Kayayei girls help each other to carry a heavy load of cassava at Kejetia market in Kumasi, Ghana.
May 23, 2012
Girls playing a game after school.
Taken atTriumph School and Orphanage. A private primary school just outside the city of Kumasi in Ghana.
I did a little bit of adjusting with the colors, not sure how natural it looks, but I think its a fun picture :)
May 21, 2012
I know I posted this already in a photo set about the NATO protests. But I think this man deserves his own post. He stood there for a very long time and didn’t move out of the way when the cops started shoving him.
May 21, 2012
Police use shoving and other violent tactics to move Protesters west from the corner of Cermak and Michigan, away from where the NATO summit is taking place to the east at the McCormick center. Police loudspeakers continually sent the message “You are unlawfully assembling” and that protesters who chose not to leave were subject to tactics such as tear gas, pepper spray, sound weapons, less lethal ammunition, and physical detainment and arrest.
Protesters stood their ground for about two hours, invoking their first amendment rights to assemble and to practice free speech and dissent.
May 21, 2012
Protesters try to stand their ground at Cermak and Michigan, a few blocks west of where the NATO summit is taking place at the McCormick center.
May 21, 2012
Protesting the actions of NATO and the ongoing war on terror in Chicago. The permitted march went on for 2 miles where protesters rallied to support IVAW veterans who returned their medals in a gesture to urge the leaders of NATO to reclaim their humanity the same way that moral deliberation had helped them to reclaim their own humanity. The speakers at the rally shared their visions for a more just foreign policy.
May 18, 2012
For several harrowing months, the residents of West Africa’s once flourishing metropolis in Abidjan of Cote d’Ivoire went through the hell of civil war.
http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/19/crisis-in-ivory-coast
In this photo a man waits to cross the street in order to get to work in recovering Abidjan.
I think we see a lot of images of Africa in war on the news and in popular culture. I hope that people don’t let those stereotypes color their perception of the region and its people as either evil warlords or victims. The reactions are the same no matter where you go, people that are afraid of the conflict and hope to God it doesn’t harm them and their loved ones, people who are hoping to get their lives back on track, and people who will graciously help out a stranger (me) in need, even if they have just been through a few months of hell.
May 18, 2012
Kayayo girls doing some heavy lifting in Kumasi.
The Kayayo girls do backbreaking work for hours every day in the hot sun for little pay.
May 18, 2012
New adventures, new mission.
I have co-founded and am working on a project in Ghana, West Africa to help protect homeless Kayayo girls. These are girls as young as 12 who migrate from their villages to the big cities in order to find work and often find themselves homeless and vulnerable.
My good friend Edward Oduro is the director of the project. We both see this situation as a problem in terms of women’s rights and health due to the girls vulnerability to sexual assault. We would like to create a space to provide protection and access to health care for them.
For more information visit www.PMFghana.org.
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Hello, my name is Bing and I will post photos that I have taken whenever the fancy strikes me to do so (which may not be that often). Occasionally I will also pull up something that I've written in the past to accompany the photo, or just write a new caption.
The subjects of these photos range from: Palestine, North America, West Africa, South India, and Balad, Iraq.
I am a full time pre med student and a part time sergeant in the Army National Guard. I co-founded the this NGO www.PMFGhana.org. I also draw a webcomic at www.leafscar.com Subscribe via RSS.
Hello, my name is Bing and I will post photos that I have taken whenever the fancy strikes me to do so (which may not be that often). Occasionally I will also pull up something that I've written in the past to accompany the photo, or just write a new caption.
The subjects of these photos range from: Palestine, North America, West Africa, South India, and Balad, Iraq.
I am a full time pre med student and a part time sergeant in the Army National Guard. I co-founded the this NGO www.PMFGhana.org. I also draw a webcomic at www.leafscar.com Subscribe via RSS.
