Category Archives: Photo of the Month
April Photo of the Month: Kent State Massacre Protests in 1972
Orin Langelle is co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project and Board Chair. He has been shooting photos of the movement for social change for forty years. Langelle’s first professional photo assignment (St. Louis Outlaw) was covering the 1972 Republican National … Continue reading
March Photo of the Month: GMO Protest, Sacramento, CA 2003
Protest in Sacramento, California during a meeting of the WTO’s Agricultural Ministers, hosted by the USDA in June 2003 in preparation for the WTO summit in Cancun that fall. Global Justice Ecology Project co-founder Orin Langelle joined allies at this … Continue reading
GJEP February Photo of the Month: Protests at the World Water Forum in Mexico City
March 8th, 2012 is International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. … Continue reading
Short video from Durban while the Wastepickers were in town
This short video was sent from the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives‘ Mariel Vilella. Mariel included a thanks to all those who supported and showed solidarity for GAIA and the courageous people from the Global Alliance of Wastepickers. Find out … Continue reading
Photo of the month: Waste pickers’ protest in Durban, South Africa
Photo: Langelle/GJEP One of the millions of people who globally make a living from waste picking during a demonstration in Durban, South Africa On 5 December 2011, during the UN climate conference in Durban South Africa, the Global Alliance of … Continue reading
September Photo of the Month: World Bank-Sponsored “Forest Protection” in Indonesia
Benoit Bosquet, Coordinator of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, defends the bank’s role in “forest conservation” in Indonesia, where forest-based communities have been forcibly evicted at gunpoint, and their homes burned to the ground. Behind him is a … Continue reading
Photo Essay from Vermont: The Recovery from Hurricane Irene Begins
As of Tuesday, 30 August 2011, there were still thirteen towns in the U.S. state of Vermont that were completely cut off from the outside world due to the torrential rains of Hurricane Irene. This was because roads like Route … Continue reading
July Photo of the Month: Cree Women, Whapmagoostui Quebec 1993
First Nations Gathering, Whapmagoostui, Quebec, Canada 1993 Photo: Langelle Eighteen years ago, in July of 1993, Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle were invited by Cree Chief Mathew Mukash to visit Cree territory to document the effects of, and resistance to, … Continue reading
GJEP Photo of the Month: Freight train derails on same tracks used for Three Mile Island nuclear waste transport
Photo: Langelle On 26 January 1988, twenty-one cars from a Union Pacific freight train derailed near the dioxin contaminated ghost town of Times Beach, Missouri (US). Some of the cars plunged off a forty-foot trestle and onto the banks of the Meremec … Continue reading
Photo of the Month: Clash of Cultures
In 1972, at the height of the Vietnam War and the youth counter-culture, the gap between the generations and cultures seemed insurmountable. This photograph was shot on assignment for the St. Louis Outlaw during the anti-war protests of the 1972 … Continue reading
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