i was downtown today, taking pictures of courthouses for a web campaign, and decided to see what city hall was looking like post-occupy. it was an overcast, cold afternoon, which makes downtown's sterile grey concrete architecture look downright dull, if not a smidge sinister. city hall, like many other public spaces downtown, is surrounded by newly-erected industrial fencing and barricades. the park around the building looks like the bastard death star child of post-woodstock. no people, lots of mud, and the kind of quiet that comes after something epochal has happened to many people at once.
on november 30th, 292 protesters were arrested in the city hall camp shutdown. there is a disturbing account of that experience
here. it seems i've captured echoes of the voices of those citizens who stood together against grievous injustices in order to protect our rights and secure our fleeting freedoms. it is the very least i can do.
for a primer of the occupation, go
here.
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| DISCENT IS PATRIOTIC. i would like to think that this glorious poetic mashup of dissent and descent on the city hall steps was deliberate. |
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| FORGIVENESS IS FREEDOM. (the engraved quotes under the arch read "RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A PEOPLE" - Solomon and "LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT" - LINCOLN |
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| crime scene body outlines at the entrance to city hall |
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| there were broken pieces of pink and blue toy soldiers scattered around the chalk outlines |
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| barricade communication |
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