B&W. Day. A tightly packed crowd. Backs of a few MPD police officers. Several faces looking earnest at and between the officers. A USA flag, partly rising above the crowd beside a sign: "We Have Beaten Nazis Before"
Trying to reason with the reasonless. Justin Pearson, JB Smiley, and KeShaun Pearson at No Kings Memphis. #nokings #freethe901 #defundthepolice
Color. Day. A tightly packed crowd. At center, Officer "Repeatedly Disciplined" Penny's head, in left profile, with his stupid buzz cut and glasses. Just to the right, in near left profile, Officer "Three Percenter" Gray's face, under his stupid black beanie. Signs above the crowd's head in the background: (in white calligraphy on black posterboard) "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union... will not put up with this shit!"; (black lettering on white posterboard) "STOP PRETENDING YOUR RACISM IS PATRIOTISM"
Meet two of the problems in Memphis: Officer "Repeatedly Disciplined" Penny and Officer "Three Percenter" Gray. #nokings #freethe901 #defundthepolice
Color. Day. A tightly packed crowd of marchers on Beale Street. Out in front, a person in glasses and a yellow t-shirt raises two arms triumphantly. A sign on the right offers a list of words from top to bottom: "TRAITOR, RAPIST, UGLY, MORON, PEDOPHILE"
Color. Day. A tightly packed crowd of No Kings marchers. Several signs read: "FREE THE 901." A person in the foreground wears dark sunglasses and a white t-shirt on which is black lettering: "FUCK DONALD TRUMP."
Color. Day. A tightly packed crowd of No Kings marchers. Several signs read: "FREE THE 901." A sign at center, partly obscured by other signs, refers to Nazi Germany. A person on the right wears a blue shirt on which part of the white lettering reads: "FIGHT BACK."
Color. Day. A crod of people, many of whom are raising fists in the air. Many seem to be shouting. At center, a person in a white cap, glasses and a red jacket raises both arms triumphantly. In their left hand is a sign: "Martinez, Porter, Good, Pretti; NO MORE; NO ICE; NO KINGS"
Some joyous views of No Kings in Memphis this past Saturday. #nokings #abolishICE #freethe901 #impeachandremove
Color. Day. A wide street in downtown Memphis. Tall buildings in the background. A large, tightly packed crowd, marching in the street. Many signs, including: "TELL OUR SHERIFF TO END THE CONTRACT WITH ICE!"; "KINGS FALL WHEN PEOPLE RISE"; "IF YOU REALLY LOVE GOD, YOU'LL LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN!"; "RESIST"; "FREE THE 901"
No Kings in Memphis on Saturday. Peaceful protestors of a lawless, cruel, regime. #nokings #abolishICE #freethe901 #impeachandremove
Color. Day. Ahead of the light of a setting sun, a large, tightly packed crowd of peaceful demonstrators, passing through an intersection in front of a large church.
Officer Dip$%@& Wetzel, crushing a woman into the pavement of a street.
Screenshot of an MPD Facebook post, in which two MPD police officers are marching on Beale Street alongside other marchers. Among the signs that people are carrying: "REAL MEN DON'T HURT WOMEN." One of the MPD officers carries this sign: "No More DV."
No Kings Memphis, just before MPD officers inexplicably go bonkers. The Male Fragility Award goes to Off. Dip%$&@ Wetzel, who dashed past several marchers to brutally blindside a woman. And MPD's own post, lauding officers for marching against domestic violence. #nokings #freethe901 #defundthepolice
Color. Day. A suburban avenue running up the right side of the frame. A couple of cars in the distance. In the foreground: a woman in sunglasses holding a black sign, on which is purple, orange, yellow, and green lettering, as well as the blue outline of a guitar. "LUCILLE says you're no KING." On the right and a bit behind, a person in a white hat and sunglasses holding a white sign on which is blue and red lettering: "Flip me off if You <heart> Pedophiles."
Good morning. Still, today, there are no kings in the USA. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nokings
Color. Day. Bright sunlight. A tightly packed crowd of people with signs. A telephone pole runs up the far right side. As a whole, the crowd is actively shouting and moving—pumping their fists, waving their signs, etc. At center-foreground, a person in a black suit coat and shirt holding a sign in both hands: "ICE ARE MURDERERS." The sign has several red hand prints on it.
Not metaphorically. #abolishICE #freethe901
B&W. Day. Bright sunlight. A broad suburban avenue rising from the lower right to the center in the distance, where a few cars are stopped at a traffic light. A grassy knoll rolls from the street, occupying the lower quarter of the frame. A line of people standing on the grass, facing the street. At left, in the foreground, turned toward the viewer, a smiling person with dark hair and glasses. They hold a sign over their head with their right arm. The sign is composed of 3 white cut-outs pasted on a black background. (1) A 1950's-style illustration of a white housewife wearing an apron and holding a large bowl. (2) A word balloon: "Let me serve you up a big ol' steaming bowl of..." (3) "FUCK OFF!" White lettering allon the bottom of the sign: "Been there. Done that. Ain't going back!!" White letters on the person's black t-shirt: "FUCK I.C.E." The lettering is Fraktur-style, alluding to Nazi Germany.
It comes with ketchup. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. . Bright sunshine. A broad suburban street fllowing a slow curve from the lower left towards center and back to the left, mid-way up on the left. A sidewalk running on the right side of the street, from lower left into the center. A pale blue light pole just inside the sidewalk, right of center. In the foreground, in sharp focus, a man with dark hair. He carries a bullhorn in his left-side hand. He wears a black t-shirt on which is written in red-white-and-blue: "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND." The word "illegal" is colored in the manner of a USA flag. An image of Mexico, colored in the manner of the Mexican flag is on the shirt, below and to the left of the lettering. In his right-side hand, the man grips a metal pole that rests on his right-side shoulder. A larg flag on the pole lazily waves in the center of the frame. In red-whie-and-blue: "FUCK TRUMP." Out of focus in the background, to the left of the man: the back end of a TN state trooper SUV, parked on the street. Out of focus in the distance on the far right of the frame: A TN state trooper in that stupid hat and two HSI agents in those stupid vests.
No one is illegal on stolen land. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Day. A broad suburban avenue. A crowd of activists in the street. A police car, on the right. Two activists in orange vests stand in front of the police car. At center, a person with dark hair. He holds what appears to be a curved piece of sheet metal and he is banging on it with a stick. He wears a black t-shirt on which is printed: "FUCK ICE."
Color. Day. A crowd of activists, out of focus, in the lower foreground. In focus in the upper background, activists at the top of a green hillside. Blue sky behind them. One sign held prominently above the crowd: "I AM A NATION/MAN."
Color. Day. A broad suburban avenue rising from the bottom of the frame towards the left. A crowd of activists approaches on the street. In the near foreground, a person in a dark hat and sunglasses holding a white sign with black text and two small images of the USA flag: "ANTI-FASCISM PRO-AMERICAN"
Color. Day. A broad suburban avenue, rising from the bottom of the frame towards the right. In the distance, a tightly packed crowd of people behind a large banner: "DUMP TRUMP." Two side-by-side TN state trooper SUVs are pointed, from the lower foreground, toward the crowd. Just left of center, a small group of troopers stands between the SUV's and the crowd behind the banner.
Memphis, yesterday. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Evening. Following a diagonal from the top left corner to the bottom right corner, the top half is in golden-hour light, the bottom half in darkness. A tightly packed crowd of people in winter wear, moving, it seems, from right to left. At center, just emerging from the darkness below it, a person's face, turned back towards the right, with dark hair and glasses. On the right, a person in yarn gloves holds a white sign in front of their face and upper body: "ICE IS EVIL." Over the heads of the crowd in the background, another sign, out of focus, but just legible: "IF WE DO NOT MEET THEM HERE, WHERE WILL YOU MEET 'EM NEXT?"
At airports and everywhere else. #iceisevil #abolishICE #freethe901 #impeachandremove
Memphis Peeps!
Come out and join us as we SHUT THE CITY DOWN!
We say:
No Trump!
No ICE!
No occupation!
#sheshed
#Freethe901
#Memphis
#StoptheOccupation
Color. Bright sunlight. A suburban avenue, crossing left-right. Red-brick houses in the background, on the other side of the avenue. In the foreground, just right of center, the upper body of an older person whose back is to the viewer. They wear a black t-shirt. They have gray/black hair that is cut above their shoulders. Their left arm is aised above their head, giving a thumbs-up, apparently to a passing car. Their right hand holds a stick to which is affixed a sign—a thick white border around a black rectangle. In the black rectangle are white block letters: "DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES"; Below the white block letters are red block letters: "ABOLISH ICE"
I give it _two_ thumbs up. #abolishICE #freethe901
B&W. Day. Bright sunlight. View from down low, nearly in the grass that rolls out from the lower edge. As a backdrop, the "I AM A MAN" sculpture at Clayborn Temple: Fifteen-feet bronze/stainless steel block letters on which are imprinted MLK jr's "Mountaintop" speech. In front of this backdrop: seven people standing more-or-less shoulder-to-shoulder. From left to right: (1) A Black woman wearing sunglasses and holding a bottle of water; (2) A white person with long hair wearing a white tank-top; (3) A Black person wearing glasses and a black "Free the 901" t-shirt; (4) An older Black man wearing a white cap, sunglasses, and knee-length shorts. He holds a microphone to his mouth; (5) A Black woman in a large, white fedora holding a sign: "I MARCHED IN 1968: STILL MARCHING IN 2022; Vote 1968 - Civil Rights; Vote 2018 - Human Rights"; (6) A tall Black man in a black "Free the 901" t-shirt; (7) a Black person wearing a headband and a sleeveless t-shirt on which is printed: "GET OUT OF MEMPHIS."
The regime's own, militarized police force serves several dastardly purposes. One of those purposes is to end voting. #abolishICE #freethe901 #impeachandremove
B&W. Day. Suburban street. Two people walking toward the viewer. On the left, a short person wearing a piece of material wrapped around the back of their head, a light coat, and some kind of I.D. badge on a lanyard hanging from their shoulders. They hold up a small cardboard sign in their right hand: "ABOLISH ICE." On the right, a tll person in a dark, long-sleeved shirt and denim jeans. A bullhorn dangles from their right hand.
Sooner rather than later. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Night. A TN state trooper's car fills most of the frame. Its blue emergency lights color everything. Between the viewer and the car: four men, their backs turned, wearing caps and coats and those stupid vests. On the backs of the vests: "DEA."
An apparently routine traffic stop twenty yards from my house and four DEA agents jump out of a truck. (For the uninitiated: In Memphis, DEA... and ERO and HSI and FBI and US marshals and DSS and IRS and ATF in addition to BP and state troopers... operate as ICE.) #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Day. City greenspace. Bright sunlight. Trees in the background. In the midground, center, a man crosses from right to left holding a giant balloon that floats above him. The balloon is in the shape of the USA president as a whining baby in a diaper. In the foreground, three people. On the left, a woman dressed as a handmaid, with red robe and white bonnet, holding a sign: "No Dictator; No Kings; No Clowns." In the center of the sign is an image of the USA president wearing a clown nose. To the right of the handmaid, a man wearing a black cap holding a sign: "PROTECT IMMIGRANTS." Just to his right and a bit behind him, a tall man. Only his face is visible from inside the giant, poofy costume of the UDE president as a whining baby in a diaper.
And no pdfs. #abolishICE #freethe901 #impeachandremove
B&W. Day. A city park. In the lower left, an older man sits in a folding chair. He wears a dark yarn cap, a heavy coat and glasses. His arms are folded across his chest. At center, stands a man dressed similarly. His coat is a bit lighter and he wears gloves. In his right hand he holds up a cardboard sign: "Vets Against Racial Profiling." On the right stands another person, partly obscured by the sign they hold, but they wear a dark, yarn cap. Their sign: "Wets for Peace."
Against the regime's global application of its violent racism. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nowar #impeachandremove
B&W. Night. A suburban street. Top half of the image is the black sky of night. In the lower left is the back end of a white truck. It's extended-cab doors are open, on both sides. On the left of the truck stands a federal agent with a giant beard. On the far right stands another federal agent. by the truck's open passenger-side doors stands another federal agent. Passing across the back of the truck is yet another federal agent gripping, by the upper arm, a short man with dark hair, a white shirt, and knee-length shorts. The short man's hands are gathered in front of him in a zip-tie.
"Wait... it's not his name on the warrant? Ahh, %#&$ it, we'll take him, anyway." #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Day. A crowd of people wearing coats and hats. In the foreground, on the right, a woman with dark hair and glasses stands behind a podium, holding a cordless mic. Behind her, on the left, two people in the crowd hold a yellow sign on which is red lettering: "NINGÚN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL"
Solid. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Day. A brick-lined public plaza. Pale masonry of a building in the background. Pale green lamppost in the foreground, just right of center. At center stands a woman in profile, facing to the right. She wears blue and black. Her upstage hand holds a slightly curved stick, about three feet long, pointing toward the sky. Furling to the left behind the woman's head, is a USA flag, attached upside-down to the stick. A child—perhaps five years old—sits crosslegged at the woman's feet, in profile to the left, his face curled over a phone in his hands.
In distress. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nowar #impeachandremove
B&W. Night. A parking area covered with wet leaves. Brick buildings in the background. At center, two women, standing with their backs to the viewer.The woman on the left wears a yarn cap and a long gray raincoat. She holds a sign in her left hand: "The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The woman on the right has long, black hair and wears a dark winter coat. Between the two women and just a bit upstage, is a man, facing forward. He has short hair and stubble on his face. He wears a stupid tactical vest on which is printed: "HSI." He looks slightly down towards the ground and his mouth is hanging open.
You can just hear this genius saying, "duhhh..." #abolishICE #freethe901
B&W. Night. A broad, suburban avenue, running into the distance from the lower foreground to upper right. On the left of the avenue, a line of TN state trooper vehicles, emergency lights flashing. On the right, people walking down the avenue, holding signs. In the foreground, a woman with dark hair, holding a megaphone to her face, tilted toward the line of trooper vehicles.
Increasingly, state troopers and sheriffs across the country debase themselves by fighting citizens on behalf of ICE. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Day. A wall of densely packed people. Almost all are women. They wear glasses and sunglasses and coats and hats. Many of them hold up signs: "ICE IS THE NEW GESTAPO"; "ICE KILLS"; "NO ICE" (the "C" in the word "ICE" on this sign is made with two jagged "S"'s, schutzstaffel-style)
No lies. Which is more than can be said for the white house. #abolishICE #freethe901
No war on Iran. Not in our name. The Constitution is clear: Congress — not the president — has the power to declare war. If this administration wants to drag our country into another catastrophic conflict in the Middle East, they must face the American people and get authorization through a War Powers Resolution. We’ve seen what endless war brings: • lives lost • communities destroyed • billions wasted while our own people struggle at home Memphians are standing up and demanding accountability. 🕊 NO WAR ON IRAN 📍 Poplar & S Highland 📅 Friday, March 13 ⏰ 4–6 PM Bring your voice. Bring your signs. Bring your commitment to peace. #NoWarOnIran #WarPowersResolution #MemphisForPeace #FreeThe901 #IndivisibleMemphis
🕊 NO WAR ON IRAN
📍 Poplar & S Highland
📅 Friday, March 13
⏰ 4–6 PM
Bring your voice. Bring your signs. Bring your commitment to peace.
#NoWarOnIran #WarPowersResolution #MemphisForPeace #FreeThe901 #IndivisibleMemphis
B&W. Day. A dense crowd of people, all with dark hair, moving toward and beneath the viewer, whose POV is a bit above the crowd's heads. In the upper right quarter, a large white sign with black lettering, held above the passign people: "Donald Trump Is a Ra_ist." On the sign below the lettering is a stick figure with a confused look on its face. The stick figure's hands are up, holding on either side a "C" and a "P".
B&W. Night. High contrast. Two men, facing opposite directions, outward from the middle of the frame. The manon the left is partly turned away. He has very close-cut hair, a dark shirt and one of those stupid vests. The man on the right is partly turned toward the viewer. He wears a dark cap, a light shirt, and one of those stupid vests. On the back of his vest is printed: "Police HSI"
This is what crawls out of the storm drain at a Kavanaugh stop. #abolishICE #freethe901
Color. Day. The intersection of two suburban streets, viewed diagonally from one corner. The front end of a large, maroon pickup truck occupies the lower-left near-foreground—about 1/4 of the frame. At the front of the truck and a little further back, the top half of a woman wearing a yarn cap, glasses, dark coat, and bright orange vest, of the sort that road construction crews wear. Her upstage hand is up, as a gesture to hold traffic. Her head is turned toward the right side of the frame. She is in the moment of pulling down her facemask and calling to someone who is out-of frame. To the left, and further back, a man in a winter cap, plaid-patterned coat, and brigh orange vest holds his arms straight out, holding traffic at the intersection. Across the far side of the intersection, a dense crowd of people cross the intersection, from left to right. Held up by people in the crowd are two Mexican flags and a wide variety of signs, including, "FUCK TRUMP" and "malICE, cowardICE, disservICE, prejudICE, injustICE"
B&W. Day. The heads of a dense crowd. At center, a white sign with black lettering held above the heads of the crowd: "NO SIGN IS BIG ENOUGH TO LIST ALL OF THE REASONS WE'RE HERE!!"
And think about how bad it is that that statement is so true. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nowar #impeachandremove
Color. Day. A suburban sidewalk from the other side of a suburban street. Behind the sidewalk, a vista of hills and trees, bisected by a line of giant electrical pylons, running from the mid-ground on the left to the distance on the right, and then doubling back towards center in the far distance. Walking on the sidewalk, in profile, from right to left at the right side of the frame is a man in a white hat and dark jacket. His downstage hand holds a sign: "NO MORE OIL WAR"
Epstein wars are bad, too. #abolishICE #freethe901 #nowar #impeachandremove
