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Pictures from Standing Rock

On December 4, 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers announced that it would not grant an easement to allow the 1,172 mile long Dakota Access Pipeline to be completed until a thorough environmental impact survey was conducted. Water protectors celebrated with drumming, song, prayer and fireworks.

travel, north dakotacheree francoApril 13, 2017standing rock, water protectors, VICE, north dakota, DAPL, dakota access, pipelines, Natives, native Americans, Indians, no DAPLComment

PSA from Nikki Giovanni

i wanted to write
a poem
that rhymes
but revolution doesn't lend
itself to be-bopping

photography, mississippicheree francoJanuary 26, 2017Nikki Giovanni, Womens March, Jackson MS, Mississippi, Womens March Mississippi, poetry, Trump, anti-Trump, fascism, dark times, feminism, black lives matter, revolutionComment

Iceland: Reykjavik Arts Festival and clubbing

You wander through woods, coming first to a small fishing boat lined with hay and fur that you curl up inside (it's so cozy and sweet-smelling), listening to birdsong. You leave reluctantly and stumble upon a hut. Inside the hut, you smell and hear fire and burning sage, but it's nearly pitch black. As your eyes adjust, you see a woman swathed in cloth, but for her eyes.

photography, icelandcheree francoJanuary 17, 2017Iceland, Reykjavik, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Phoenix, performance art, installation art, Icelandic artComment