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Subject: [Leica] Iraq occupation protest - Chicago 3/19/05
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Mon Mar 21 13:51:17 2005
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:38:22 +0100, Didier Ludwig
<rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote:
> I think I must have misunderstood the statement "For you
> neo-con-death-cult-members you will..." as I understood "you" means me, the
> reader of your post. I'm not a death-cultist but have my own opinion (which
> does not matter on this list) about the situation in middle east. And as
> you wrote about the "good people who do oppose..." I concluded "This
> people=good, all others=neo-con-death-cult-members". But I must admit
> english is my 3rd language only and I do sometimes not understand certain
> subtle distinctions in your language.
> 

I am certainly not known as a writer - my intention was to show the
non-troublemakers who come to protests - unfortunately the general
impression (which is well deserved) is that of the people trying to
turn the focus toward the police and their duty to keep those not in
the protest safe and free to move about the city as they should.
However there are other people who are there to show their opinion - I
labeled the "good" - they might be crap people for all I know, but
they were my focus. I think protests in regard to *any* issue would be
more contructive if it were a calm show of support as the classic
Civil Rights march on Washington D.C. was - protests these days
involve yelling at those there in opposition, yelling at police
officers, yelling at the press, and even yelling at each other. What's
the point? I don't know - I wanted to explore it myself though.


> Seen this way, you succeeded, if your aim was just to make demonstrant
> portraits. Ok, 033 and 036 are decent. But trash the others :-)
 

Fair enough! - though I don't typically trash any photos :)

Cheers,

Dave

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