Come To Standing Rock!
Inspired by veterans at the site I wrote this song tonight. My gift. Feel free to add, subtract, change, whatever it takes to make this a great song. We […]
Tag Archives: Activism
Binoculars and Beaches
Social Housing on Gaetan-Laberge
Members of the comite d’action des citoyennes et citoyens de Verdun (CACV) met with the public on Saturday to raise awareness of the situation about development of the land along […]
Dirt – Overstating The Obvious
First image in a promised series. Would love to hear your feedback.
9 Years.
Yep, been 9 years since I started this blog today! Had no idea where it was going when it started but I did get to participate in the largest ongoing […]
Samana — Palm Plantations of Death
Photographs and text by Jan Smith On the road from Santo Domingo to Samaná there is stretch with many miles of oil palm plantations on each side of the highway. Within […]
Citizen’s Party Growing In Spain – Podemos (We Can)
“It’s citizens doing politics. If the citizens don’t get involved in politics, others will. And that opens the door to them robbing you of democracy, your rights and your wallet.” […]
Turcot “neighbourliness” Meeting on April 23 in Saint Henri
Info Citoyens Comité de bon voisinage Dans le but de faciliter les échanges avec les riverains des secteurs touchés par les travaux de Turcot, le ministère des Transports met en place […]
Slogans For The Interim
Katie Rentzke
Excellent street photographer who works for social change. Urban Voice Youth Photographic Project is a program that gives an artistic voice to underprivileged youth by teaching them basic photography skills. […]
Courage, Neil Young, And The Future
Neil Young doesn’t have to do what he is doing, there are many, many reasons why he shouldn’t, but he is, and he is showing us courage that most of […]
Person Of The Year
And now it’s time to make the long awaited announcement! Neath Turcot’s Person Of The Year *gnaws open envelope* And the winner is…for making something artful, for bringing sublime elegance […]
Water – Edward Burtynsky
One of my favorite photographers, and a Canadian, eh? “While trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal […]
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was murdered 50 years ago. Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation […]
Only art can save us now
The world needs creative interpretations of global issues, not better descriptions of things people are accustomed to. by Santiago Zabala Perhaps rather than God, as Martin Heidegger once said, […]
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