Seething on the Third Rock

2007-04-19 Korean Condolences

Above: Koreans in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul last night remember the victims of Monday’s shooting.

*Condolences and concern after massacre, Joong Ang Ilbo, April 19, 2007.

2006-03-19 Anti-war Protest in Toronto

he US Embassy in Toronto was also the terminus of a peaceful Antiwar Protest.  Canada has 2,300 troops in the insurgency-plagued south of Afghanistan.  Polls taken shortly after the election of Conservative Prime Minister Steven Harper showed that 62 per cent of respondents were opposed to the mission. [1]

Adriane, Geoey and myself went down to observe and take a few snaps.  <CLICK> on the images to enlarge.

2006-02-27 From negatives to positives

Discovery in News archives leads to publication of unseen photographs tracing progress of civil rights movement through Birmingham.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

By BARNETT WRIGHT, News staff writer, The Birmingham News

Above: March 1965: Thousands of marchers walk 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to bring attention to the low numbers of black registered voters in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers had been trying to register more voters.

Minutes after the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963, Tom Self was on the scene taking pictures.

The photographs, published in The Birmingham News, were among hundreds that appeared in print during the civil rights struggle in Alabama. Self, who retired as chief photographer in 1998, remembers many of those images.

Hundreds of photos from that era were lost, sold, stolen or stored in archives. Some of those pictures appear today for the first time in the newspaper, in an eight-page special section titled "Unseen. Unforgotten."

The section is the result of research by Alexander Cohn, a 30-year-old former photo intern at The News. In November 2004, Cohn went through an equipment closet at the newspaper in search of a lens and saw a cardboard box full of negatives marked, "Keep. Do Not Sell."

Cohn, who grew up in Mountain Brook and is a master's candidate at the University of Missouri, researched the images and discovered that many had never been published.

In all, Cohn said, he found 5,000 images from 1950 to 1965 in the cardboard box. He examined 2,000 and estimated that most had not been published.  More...

See all the photos -> <here>.

2005-09-05 Looting vs. Finding: Part I

Above: "A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday." (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Above: "Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana." (AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)

Above: "A woman walks through chest-deep water as she heads to loot a grocery store in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, as floodwaters continue to rise after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday." (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Above: "Looters make their way into a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, as floodwaters continue to rise after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday." (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Readers Note:  All of these photos and captions from various news agencies were displayed on Yahoo News before being censored due to the rising controversy. (1)

Ireland, Israel and the IRA

Soccer or Football?
Potato and Tomato.
Who will play Israel?

The Republic of Ireland was left frustrated on Saturday night finishing 2-all in a draw with Israel at the famous Lansdowne Road stadium in a World Cup qualifier in Dublin (1).  Lansdowne Road is where Irish rugby and international soccer matches are played.

Above: Lansdowne Road, Dublin, Ireland

As might have been expected, there was a Pro-Palestine rally organized by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and Sinn Féin in downtown Dublin.  Sinn Féin is the political arm of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) umbrella of paramilitary groups.  After the rally, protesters marched to the Israeli Embassy down the street from Lansdowne Road.  I rode my bike over just to take a few photos.

Above: I just loved this photo.

Above: Some Israelis showed up to voice their opinion on the subject.  After a brief scuffle, they were escorted away by police.