Patrick deHahn

• 2013-06-11

  The lady in the red dress

  “It shows one peaceful protester, dressed as if for a summer garden party, standing up for basic human and green values against an arrogant and mighty state.”

• 2013-06-04

  fotojournalismus:

  Istanbul today

  1. A pedestrian walks in front of a banner featuring an owl with a gas mask at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

  2. A protester sleeps at a bus stop sprayed with graffiti at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

  3. A protester holds a placard that reads “Police, How we will forgive you?” during clashes with riot police near Taksim Square in Istanbul, early Tuesday, June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

  4. Seyfi Yasar, a waiter, pauses while smoking next to barricades outside of a hotel which he works for, near Taksim Square in central Istanbul June 4, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

  5. Guy Fawkes masks are seen on the ground as anti-government protesters gather in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on June 4, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

  6. Demonstrators stand at a wall with graffities between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

  7. A volunteer places food donated by people for protesters at Gezi Park in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

  8. A man leaves from clash site between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

  9. A couple wearing gas masks walk at a street between Taksim and Besiktas in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

  10. A protester sleeps in Gezi Park in Istanbul on June 4, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

  (via nslayton)

  Source: fotojournalismus

• 2013-06-02

  

  Turkey update from reuters: Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan accused opposition parties on Sunday of provoking protests across the country.

  Erdogan made a defiant call for an end to the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years on Saturday. He is accused of authoritarianism and abusing privacy and secularism. There were more than 90 separate demonstrations around the country on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, tens of thousands gathered in Taksim Square.
  
  More than 1,000 people were reported injured in Istanbul and several hundred in Ankara.

  [Photo: A man is hit by a jet of water as riot police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a central Ankara protest June 1, 2013. REUTERS/Umit Bektas]

  Source: reuters

• 2013-05-06

  

  From Reuters:

  Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak may have to step down by the end of the year after his coalition extended its 56-year rule but recorded its worst-ever election performance.

  Follow live coverage from Reuters here.

  [Photo: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak and party leaders celebrate at headquarters in Kuala Lumpur by REUTERS/Stringer]

  Source: reuters

• 2013-04-10

  How to provoke national unrest with a Facebook photo

  Yes, it can be done. See how a Tunisian girl did it on Facebook. 

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  Investigators found that armed military intelligence officers with cameras booked rooms in a major hotel adjacent to the square on 25 January, the first day of protests, and observed and recorded subsequent events

  — Guardian exclusive on Egypt’s governmental investigation of actions by the nation’s army during the 2011 revolution 

• 2013-03-03

  

  From reuters:

  American leaders unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks on Wednesday, briefly setting aside political differences to honor the civil rights heroine, who became the first black woman to have a monument inside the U.S. Capitol.

  Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus for a white passenger in 1955 sparked a boycott that galvanized the movement for equal rights for blacks in Montgomery and nationwide.

  Black men and women stayed off the buses, walking or arranging other rides to work for more than a year to fight for desegregation. 

  Read on: U.S. leaders honor civil rights activist Rosa Parks with statue

  Source: reuters

• 2013-02-01

  Photos: Four nights in Cairo

  The ongoing revolution, only this year is 2013

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  The use of drones domestically will raise significant new privacy issues which cannot be addressed by current law,” says Becky Straus, legislative director of ACLU’s Oregon office. “We are not and should not be a surveillance state. Drones should never be used for mass surveillance. Law enforcement should only use them when there is individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.

  — Oregon drone bill would claim the ‘airspace’ above your shoestrings, via usnews

  Source: usnews

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  ‎53% in new Pew poll say the U.S. government poses a threat to their "personal rights and freedoms."

• 2013-01-29

  Things to keep an eye on: Zimbabwe elections

  Dewa Mavhinga writes for The Guardian, stating that the country’s upcoming elections in 2013 have a “sense of impending doom.” But, overreaching goal is to hold peaceful, fair and free elections - in the past, that has failed - and they’re aiming to do that this year. 

• 2013-01-26

  This summary of recent events in Egypt by news organization Ahram Online is on point - Two days of protests, violence leave Egypt on edge

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  Reactionary or apathetic general publics aren’t essential in the great scheme of things, since it is always a minority that initiates change, but questions have to be asked about the effectiveness of these unchanging tactics, which are beautiful when they work but risk becoming staid, like coursing water that manages to wear an indent in a rock but then becomes trapped in a path of its own creation.

  — Sarah Carr, independent journalist, writes on the last two days of the Egyptian demonstrations, with the complicated two year revolution history in mind. 

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  Video: Footage of families, friends of the accused in Port Said verdict just after they heard the official court decision.

  People are seen around cars, hearing the verdict from vehicular radios. After it is announced, emotions rise and chaos spills into the streets. Gunshots can be heard, 30 were shot dead after families tried to storm the prison. Clashes then continued for the rest of the day and 300 have been reported injured. 

• 2013-01-25

  As grand and magnificent as the Egyptian revolution’s aims have been (reaching for the skies), it seemed to be at a loss as to how to go about achieving them.

  — Hani Shukrallah writes after today’s events in Egypt marking the second anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, January 25th.