On Tuesday, June 5, Republican Governor Scott Walker held onto his seat in Wisconsin’s special recall election, beating his Democratic challenger Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee. With 53% of the vote, it was a comfortable victory. Facing Change photographers Andrew Lichtenstein and Carlos Javier Ortiz share their images and observations: Protesters crowding the Capitol grounds [...]
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Wisconsin Recall 2012photographer |
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Chicago’s NATO Protest 2012photographer |
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Chicago police and protesters clashed at demonstrations against the NATO war in Afghanistan, marring otherwise peaceful gatherings. |
Occupy May Day 2012photographer |
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Facing Change documents May Day Occupy rallies and marches in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and Oakland as tens of thousands of people took to the streets. |
Facing Change: Documenting America 2011photographer |
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This week we present our final update for 2011, a suite of diverse images taken along our journeys this year on the American road. We feel that these photographs speak to the heart of this moment in our country. |
Migrant Workers in Illinois and North Carolinaphotographer |
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Carlos Javier Ortiz documents Mexican migrant workers in the fields of Illinois and North Carolina. He says: “I remember being a kid and watching old black-and-white footage of migrant workers picking fruits and vegetables and working the fields…” |
Occupy Wall Street – the Growing Movement 2011photographer |
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As Occupy Wall Street” grows daily both nationally and internationally authorities’ patience with the protests is wearing thin. The New York movement narrowly avoid a police stand off on Friday morning but this was not the case in Denver. The hard question is what next? |
Occupy Wall Street 2011photographer |
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Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park”. The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement (particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution) and from the Spanish Indignants. |
Losing A Generation “Too Young To Die” 2011photographer |
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A war is underway in the United States today, with the nation’s youth suffering its most devastating consequences. It is an undeclared war, but it is as real and savage as any of the wars that claim the lives of soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. The casualties of this war come from a thousand bloody battles being waged nightly on the neighborhood streets of cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Los Angeles. |
Fourth of July by FCDA photographersphotographer |
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n 1775, people in New England began fighting the British for their independence. On July 2, 1776, the Congress secretly voted for independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was first published two days later on July 4, 1776. |
Madison Protests 2011photographer |
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As the streets of Madison, Wisconsin and inside the capitol fill with protesters the country’s eyes are glued to the high emotions that started last Tuesday. |
Moving America Forward 2010photographer |
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People attend a rally “Moving America Forward” for Democratic candidates as the November elections come to a close. President Barack Obama. |
Arizona Immigration Bill 2010photographer |
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Controversy over the Arizona Immigration Bill, which would require police to determine the status of people they stopped and suspected were in the country illegally. |
Changing Landscapesphotographer |
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American Landscapes |
Combating Violence 2010photographer |
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Pastor Phil Jackson walks the streets with his young church members who volunteer to talk to teens and young men on the west side of Chicago. |
Workers Day March Turns Anti-Arizona Immigration Event 2010photographer |
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An annual Workers Day march in Chicago turned into an anti-Arizona event as participants railed against that state’s new immigration law. |
Chicago Housing Projects 2009photographer |
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In 2009 President Barack Obama allocated $13.6 billion to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for affordable housing and community development. |
Robeson High 50-50 2008photographer |
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Students at Robeson High live in one of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods, Englewood. It is also one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city with a median income of $18,955. |
Too Young to Diephotographer |
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Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Nearly seven years to the day that Fakhur Uddin came to America from Bangladesh, he was slain and found bound with duct tape and string, shot in the head, and left in the back room of the East Germantown gift and sundry store that he was minding for his ailing father. Here, [...] |
