Black & white photo of "Ascension" or "Man in Flag" by Tom E Walters. A nude man is wrapped in an American flag, which he wears like a shroud. He has his eyes open and is looking upwards. Only his head, with his hair looking like a wreath, and part of his left shoulder is visible. The background is pure white with the image floating in space. In embossed white is the text "United States of America 250", below that in smaller text is "Fight for OUR democracy. End war and oligarchy NOW!" Model Lee Stewart / 1968 / Charlotte, NC, USA / © Tom E Walters / feel free to distribute for non-commercial use only / All rights reserved

Releasing this poster today. My father took this photo in 1968 and it's time for it to have a life. Please fight to end this war and for our democracy!

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Jesse Jackson head and shoulders, black and white portrait. Jackson looks directly into the camera. He is dressed in an African, semi faux zebra striped shirt and has a moderate Afro. He is speaking and gesturing with his right raised beside his face, his thumb is up and his 1st & 2nd fingers are extended. An early 1970's portrait during Operation Push in Chicago, that in its totality says "Black Power & Strength".

Jesse Jackson. Photograph by Michael Mauney michaelmauney.com, in Chicago during Jackson's Operation Push in the early 1970's. I love seeing the Black Power evident in this great photo. The afro, the African shirt, the hand gesture, it's a compelling portrait.

Snow and ice swirling down after a healthy snow storm in Western North Carolina.

(HC Richardson) "We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Hold your congressional reps accountable with @5calls.org Impeach the psychopath now: 5calls.org

Maga turd

11am -1pm Saturday, April 5th, 2025 - Downtown AVL - Pack Square

It's time for my taxpayer dollars to quit going to Israel. Sick of their civilian carnage, the genocide and their f-ing settlements.

My wife has the ROAR pink sign, and I have the Celebrate women sign!

This is what our river floodplains look like in the Western North Carolina region. Helene is the gift that keeps on giving.

It was great!

View of Women's Day March in Downtown Asheville, NC 03-08-25 with the crowd stretching down the middle of Patton Avenue from Pack Square all the way to Pritchard Park. People holding signs and an elderly women with a walker makes the trek.

March from Pack Square to Broadway to College to Haywood to Patton and back to Pack Square. Get up, stand up!

In camera panoramic stitch, complete with jitters. Woman in foreground dressed from The Handmaids' Tale. 600-700 people attended.

In camera stitch of Women's Day Rally, 03-08-2025 in downtown Asheville, NC. Around 600-700 people were there.🙂

MORE COWBELL!
Asheville Protest Tuesday March 4th (Tomorrow)

9:30am-11am
Federal Building
151 Patton Ave
Downtown Asheville near the Grove Arcade

Support the US Forest Service, NOAA, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, & the Park Service!

Raise your voice to protect Democracy and the Constitution.

Took down my FB for 2morrows boycott. This is probably a prelude to ditching it all together. I like blogs better anyway!

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Nice book. Gotten several off the Internet Archive.

Great minds, 1st trying every non-violent method available. But not giving up!

WHAT TO DO? Change all your passwords. Get survival manual texts. Change all personal communications to encrypted communications ie SIGNAL. Prepare for non-violence but also continued widespread chaos. Join with friends to form phone trees. How far will you go for your country and freedoms?

A low key head and shoulders image of John H White, the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1982. John looks into the camera with a smile, he has a short Afro, a nice mustache and a Nikon F camera around his neck.

John H. White, the first Black American photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize in photography in 1982.

No matter their race, creed, ethnicity, or immigration status, your neighbors are not - and never have been - your enemy.

The villains in the American story have always been the wealthy and powerful interests seeking to turn you against your neighbor in order to maintain their place at the top.

Other symptoms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD):

Inappropriate social behavior.
Loss of empathy.
Lack of judgment.
Loss of inhibition.
Increasing trouble using and understanding written and spoken language.
Trouble naming things.

An unforgettable morning in Patagonia's Torres del Paine National Park. Gale force winds transform the calm turquoise waters of Lago Pehoe into a raging sea, blowing away crashing waves and literally lifting the water off the surface!

Patagonia truly is wilderness untamed! Furious winds transform the turquoise waters of lago Pehoe into a raging sea, blowing crashing waves side ways & literally lifting the water off the surface!

#bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #sunrise

Garth Hudson, One-Man Band Within the Band, Dies at 87 A multifaceted musician, he was the last surviving original member of an influential group that mixed rock, r&b and an Americana sound.

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The inequities of the failures of the US justice system have never more apparent, than in today's headline events, on 01/20/2025.

Top body shot of fiddler Bobby Hicks (1933-2024, Madison County, NC) with a smile on his face, mid-bow stroke at Merlefest 2011.

Here goes something! Life long lib with social democratic vals. Musician, photographer, environmentalist, small land steward. Recouping from Helene & a vicious hailstorm. NC mtns. Between CA, two disasters and the election, what can I say? I'll insert a pretty picture to lively up this gathering.