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Solidarity with MSP – Ice Out for Good!!

Philly hit the streets last night in solidarity with the January 23 Minneapolis strike to kick Ice out.

When we fight eachother for crumbs off the table it only makes the bosses stronger. We need to stop the deportations now! Full legal status for all!

We need a job for everyone who wants to work with union wages and working conditions. We need safe and reliable public transit. We need fully funded schools and city services. We need improved Medicare for all free at point of service, not massive cuts to Medicaid and medieval work requirements.

We don’t need masked and strapped thugs snatching our friends, neighbors and coworkers off the street. If we let them get away with it, this occupying army will be snatching us off picket lines next.

It’s time to get organized before Ice comes to Philly in force. Join an existing neighborhood response group or organize one on your block. Get trained up and know your rights. Support local orgs already doing this work:

NoIcePhilly

Juntos

New Sanctuary

Both Dems and Republicans have failed us. Both parties take the bosses money and keep us arguing with each other. It’s long past time to build a new working class party to fight for what need now instead of what the boss tells us is ‘reasonable’.

Shot with Fuji XT-5 w/Fujinon 16-80 f4

Twilight Into Night

A winters evening stroll through Center City Philadelphia. There’s always magic in the twilight. The city changes shape and sound. The sharp winter air cuts through and the debris of the day hides in the shadows. The night slowly comes to life.

Philly Vigil for Renee Good – NoIcePhilly

Federal IcE agents shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week. While there have been peaceful mass protests in MSP and across the US since, in Minneapolis armed federal agents are chasing school buses and knocking on doors demanding access to homes to ‘verify citizenship’.

There was a vigil for Renee Good at City Hall last Thursday evening and about 2000 of us showed up to pay respects and put Trump on notice that the brutal tactics of iCE agents will not be tolerated in our city. We don’t need masked armed gunmen in unmarked cars snatching people off the streets, we need full funding for SEPTA, Schools, affordable housing, improved Medicare for All and a living wage job with union rights and working conditions for anyone who wants to work.

Renee Good is the 4th person to be shot and killed by IcE over the past year, 32 people have died in custody and in addition to the thousands of documented and undocumented immigrants arrested, 100’s of US citizens – including minors – have been detained by federal agents, in some cases for days and weeks with no contact with families or legal defense. Contact NOICEPhilly to get connected

Alienation and Connection

A series of Silver Gelatin prints. Higher Grounds Cafe 631 N 3rd St in Philly

Go Birds! Fly Eagles Fly!

NorthEast Philly Super Bowl LIX victory street party!

NorthEast Philly Superbowl LIX street party

60 Degrees and Mummers – New Years Day 2023

It was a beautiful spring day….. In January.

A Bakers Dozen…

Best Laid Plans….

I started out giving myself a project of picking my 12 favorite shots from 2017 because…. well its that time of year… Anyway, that quickly got out of hand, so I gave up on that and changed the self assignment to pick 12 shots from 2017 that I like but hadn’t posted. That morphed into putting together a cross section of shots from 2017 that represented some experiments, diverse content, cameras and medium (35mm and Medium Format film, and digital). 12 grew to 13… Cuz I wanted the Meek Mill pic in there… So here it is.