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Las Fronteras: Sueños Comadres y Manos
Ephemera from the Las Fronteras: Sueños, Commadres y Manos or The Borders: Dreams, Godmothers and Hands exhibit I curated for the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, at a young age. It was such an honor to work with this group of talented Latina Artists, depicting their lives, culture, memories and relationships with one another, hence Commadres. The glyphs beside the text are from Mayan culture, the land my father was born.
Have you received your postcard yet?
Photograph of the postcard rack at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Many thanks to the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo for licensing permission. photocopyright ana elisa fuentes
Legend People
The Legend PeopleThe dynamic rock formations, spires or Hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah were recognized by the Native American Paiutes as the ‘Legend People’ who turned to stone . An ever evolving Rorschach test, facial impressions or rock sculpted figures can been seen and are designated by name throughout the park. According to the National Park Service these unique rock formations, sculpted by the forces of ice and wind erosion, were born 30 to 40 millions years ago when a lake once covered much of Western Utah.
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Hiroshima Peace Declaration
To that end, the city of Hiroshima and the more than 5,700 cities that comprise Mayors for Peace, in collaboration with the UN and like-minded NGOs, seek to abolish nuclear weapons by 2020 and throw our full weight behind the early achievement of a nuclear weapons convention.
[The Mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, issued the following declaration today, August 6, 2013, the 68th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima.]
We greet the morning of the 68th return of “that day.” At 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb erased an entire family. “The baby boy was safely born. Just as the family was celebrating, the atomic bomb exploded. Showing no mercy, it took all that joy and hope along with the new life.”
A little boy managed somehow to survive but the atomic bomb took his entire family. This A-bomb orphan lived through hardship, isolation, and illness, but was never able to have a family of his own. Today, he is a lonely old hibakusha. “I have never once been glad I survived,” he says, looking back. After all these years of terrible suffering, the deep hurt remains.
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Little Boy of 1945
American airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August. Read more here
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A Line in the Sand: 100 City Trayvon
Location: Seattle, the question: “Why Are You Here Today”Trayvon Gilliam of Seattle, “I’m here to show support for Trayvon. For justice” When I asked him if he had anything else to say or if he wanted to add anything else, Trayvon replied “Isn’t that enough.”
(l-r) Father and son, Glenn and Jennar, of Redmond, Washington: “This is my son’s first rally. We attended President Obama’s inauguration.” Jennar: “I don’t think it’s fair, what happened to Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander fired a warning shot and she got jail. Her husband should have gone to jail. George Zimmerman should have gone to jail. It’s good that people came here to show they care.”
(l-r) Son and mother Myles and Vanessa of Edmonds Washington: Vanessa: “It’s my opportunity to come and participate. We need our justice system revamped. I think the verdict is just another statement of this. Young black men are profiled because of the color of their skin. It’s unjust. I want justice for everyone. I don’t want my son to be another statistic. I am here to represent who I am”
Myles: “Don’t visualize me as a wrong person just because of the color of my skin. Don’t profile me”
(l-r) Two friends speaking: Ahoua of Seattle: I’m here to demand justice for Trayvon. To keep his name alive. I have two young boys of my own. Trayvon did nothing wrong. I do not want him to be forgotten” Holding the flag is Gwen of Seattle” “I’m here because we need accountability. He is dead. This child did nothing wrong. I have granchildren. Are they next? We are all the same. We’ve all come together, sorry we here again.”
At front, is Cheryl of Seattle: “I have black people in my family. I have black grandchildren. We talk about race all the time. All the time. They tell me whats really going on. 70 percent of black men have been, are in, or will be put in jail. My family is humiliated. Humiliated every day. They are terrified. They are frightened to leave the house. Afraid they are going to be the next to get killed. Last week my grandson was blowing kisses from the parking garage to his wife on the sidewalk below. The police stopped him and her, and asked her if that man was bothering her. My grandchildren ask me to take them downtown because they know I will protect them.”
Cheryl of Seattle, above left.
A Line in the Sand. What’s it all about?
If you draw a line in the sand, as the saying goes, you draw distinction, sets boundaries, throw the proverbial gauntlet. Simply say, enough is enough.
This column aims to address the tantamount concerns facing our environment, culture, society, and ethos. There is no better way, in my humble opinion other than to record the visual and opinion of the person on the street.
Think of it as a visual cross section of Americans.
I really love people. It is the joy of my profession is to speak, engage and converse with other people. I really do, love to listen and hear what people have to say.
My method is simple.
I ask a question. Write down the answer. Speak back what I’ve heard.
This keeps me in balance as a journalist, and gives the participant the space to add, ameliorate or subtract from the sum total of our conversation.
My twitter paper, also titled A Line in the Sand, may be found here
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Turning Point: The Voting Rights Act, Then and Now
1994 Ephemera: Turning Point – The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Published by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington D.C. Authored by Frank R. Parker. Photograph taken in 1994 to commemorate Freedom Summer also known as the Summer of ‘64. This was a freelance assignment for the Washington Post.
This post in honor of the life of Trayvon Benjamin Martin
You can watch the webcast here via the Senate Judiciary website or here via Cspan
1994 Ephemera: Turning Point – The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Published by The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington D.C. Authored by Frank R. Parker. Photograph taken in 1994 to commemorate Freedom Summer also known as the Summer of ‘64. This was a freelance assignment for the Washington Post.
This post in honor of the life of Trayvon Benjamin Martin
The Senate Judiciary Hearing will meet on Wednesday July 17th to conduct a hearing on the Voting Rights Act in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in a case from Alabama.
You can watch the webcast here via the Senate Judiciary website or here via Cspan
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These photographs recorded in Santa Maria, California on assignment. Published in the Santa Barbara News-Press and syndicated to the Associated Press, CNN and other print and broadcast outlets.
Yesterday Today: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Building my website has been an exercise in many disciplines.
Apart from viewing my professional history through my photographs, more and more I realize them for what they are: a record, a document and a mirror of our society.
One of the questions I have been asking myself recently is, how much have we grown as a nation? How forward thinking, have we become as a country?
We call ourselves the greatest democracy in the world, yet we are willing to destroy our natural resources, sell our democracy to lobbyists whose only consideration is their own profit, and undermine our constitution, all in the name of progress?
Progress for whom?
This progress guarantees no future for our children and in the name of this progress we give permission to take their lives prematurely in an epidemic called gun violence.
Not only is Congress giving permission and guaranteeing a shorter life span for children they are starving our children and working families while feeding the insatiable belly of corporations. Corporate greed and religious intolerance galvanizes and energizes the chasm dividing our nation, through a violence that especially targets the most vulnerable populations, children. As George Zimmerman said: “I was doing God’s plan.” His justification rooted in a moral ethic that is supported by lobby espoused religious zeal, dressed up as law, entitling him to take the life of Trayvon Benjamin Martin.
Have we really become a nation that settles for watching “reality TV” while dismissing, denying and refusing to participate in our own democracy?
Why are these same themes repeating themselves?
The life of an African-American males continues to be devalued and discounted, around the country and especially in the very same regions that would take our right to vote.
Women are still fighting, clamoring for our right to own our bodies, to choose, to access healthcare.
The sentinels screaming the religious indignation of ‘Right to Life‘ are the very same guardians obstructing health care outside the womb. The very same group body opposing the collective body of citizens in the right to vote, in equality for all people, of all colors and races, in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and in our inalienable right in freedom of speech.
In love thy neighbor as thyself, where is the love to feed those who do not have enough to eat because the appetite of corporate greed exceeded their neighbors?
These guardians, the very same sentinels whose right to bear arms will stand their ground in ‘Right to Life.’ Right to whose life?
We are in peril of losing one of our most precious pillars of democracy, and that is our right to vote. It is our collective voice. Our mandate. The navigation that guarantees our waters of democracy.
Our guarantee of an even keel for all, not just the few.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then I have written a few toward this sum today.
These photographs, my copyright, were recorded while on assignment for the Los Angeles Times and will be available via my archive
Electronic Lynching: A Memoir Part II
This is an update to my Electronic Lynching: A Memoir post
Looking through my http://anaelisafoto.blogspot.com webmaster tools, I went into my stats to view who was coming to my site and from where. Looking at the keyword search, I noticed the word “attack.” I took the next logical step, searched my name ana elisa fuentes, added the word “attack” and found the citations below via the Google search engine. They were not found on yahoo! or bing or any other search engine, only Google.
What am I to make of this?
I followed the necessary steps. I had already contacted police authorities. Did anyone bother to contact me? Reply to me?
Did anyone bother to contact me to offer protection?
Bother, to keep me informed? To offer reassurances of any kind?
NO THEY DID NOT.
GOOGLE CERTAINLY DID NOT. NOT EVEN AN APOLOGY OR REPLY SAYING THAT THEY WERE LOOKING INTO THIS.
Not one agency, authority, individual bothered to contact me.
Or perhaps, as an afterthought thank me.
In addition to my previous complaints filed against Google with ICANN, Interpol I also contacted the German Court of the Constitution
in addition to many other support groups and agencies.
So for those individuals who believe that women have come a long way, and that feminism is an outdated concept, think again. I stand firmly and absolutely with a resounding NO! According to this report by Scientific American, Violence Against Women is Epidemic
Protections for women are needed now more than ever. Misogyny and VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN is unfortunately on the rise, despite the laws we have on the books.
A few days ago I found additional abuse via the Google search engine. I attempted to file a defamation violation with the Google search engine but it proved unsuccessful. I tried three-times to file and it was blocked.
My digital signature is clear and the correct box ticked but it was refused by Google. Another example of Google’s selective and discriminatory algorithm.
Here are the screen captures which confirm blocked access from filing. So Google, consider this another formal complaint.
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