People power in the streets, jazz music on the sheets.
So when you see bright, neon green along the edges of a march, or sticking out of a tear gas cloud, know there’s someone with pen and paper, keeping score, and giving power to the rule of law, while it still can. Thank god for the green hats.
From the hyper-simple, to the hyperbolic, this is a personal photo collection of art at the protest, in defiance of a world falling apart.
“I'll never forget those aimless years./Street sounds swirling through my mind./Trouble was often in the air,/so we fought to forget our despair./I'm a street player,/and I'll play you a song.”
"The only thing ICE needs is accountability. Trials."
In a world on fire, we only have each other. We were all we ever needed.
Dr. Nida Bajwa spoke plainly on the situation. “[ICE's] existence is a threat to health, and its abolishment and closure of all its camps is the only path to a truly healthy society."
All at once, the room becomes a cacophony of style and character, of pride with no prejudice, steeped in color and music, joyous in its many blended acts of singular daring.
About 30 to 40 federal agents, about half marked as ICE agents, deployed at least six tear gas canisters, pepper balls, and foam rounds at over 200 protesters in a residential neighborhood on Maple Lane in Elgin.
“When they sign a blank check and send it over to Israel to kill Palestinian babies. You know what they say? ‘It’s business as usual!’ They look at us when we say ‘fund our schools. Fund our communities. ‘When we say ‘community control of the police.’ Guess what they tell us? ‘It’s business as usual!’”
Partners is, first and foremost...labor propaganda. It’s worker biased. It’s union slanted. It’s meant to be mass consumed by a wide audience...And in a world exponentially terrorized by billionaires and their hoarded gold, it’s what’s desperately needed. [For StevePulaski.com]
Blue Collar Jazz 