People here know by now that I am just a lurking photographer, who works with a dinosaur camera and doesn't know how to do anything fast enough. That means I am too late for anything new to say or post. But as I promised to share my photos I hereby do. I had no time to read all the diaries and news articles and therefore will say nothing to the march itself and how I feel about it.
Enjoy.
This one photo below I am most proud of. If you are not credentialed official press, you couldn't enter the whole area directly at the front line of the march. I sneaked in behind a credentialed photographer, who was let in late by a police officer. I presented myself in my mind as her assistant, if asked. It worked, pure luck. I got the so-called official beauty-shot of the front marchers unobstructed like the professionals got their chance. Thank God.
This photo shows better how the area was "protected" by "Security Marshalls of the Poeple's Climate March" (in green T-shirts), by other security personel (in orange), all inside the barricades. In addition there were police officers outside the barricades.
So, very hard to find a way in or out. At a certain moment everybody was asked to sit down. A first I thought somethin dangerous must have happened causing the police to ask everyone to sit down, but it was for a benign reason: to give the credentialed press an opportunity to get their photo from the front line of the march unobstructed. How nice.
Security Marshalls of the People's Climate March were everywhere throughout the whole length of the march, I would guess way over 500 hundred, working inside the barricades to let nobody in and nobody out.
Following are photos that barely show the footwork involved to get them. The march was much longer than expected and ended much later than announced. It dissolved in a way, because people just ran out of physical strength.
Arriving around 9 am near the starting point of the march (near Trump Tower at 1 Central Park West), I saw press trucks, hundreds of People's Climate March Security Marshalls, People's Climate March Peace Marshalls and People's Climate March Guides, barricades over barricades and police officers. All were very friendly, asked if someone needed help and it looked as if everybody was so happy to meet the arriving marchers.
I couldn't go straight forward to our dailykos meeting point and you couldn't go inside the area, where later on the front line of the march would gather. We were not allowed to go on Central Park West sideways. You had to take a detour. The first photos were taken on my way to meet the Dailykos folks at 69th Street, between 9 am and 10 pm
The second batch was taken before all the different groups of the march started moving, but were waiting at their designated locations. After finding Sidnora and the Dailykos Banner at 69th Street, I walked up to 74th Street searching for the anti-fracking groups, but couldn't find them, went back to 69th, and explained to the kossacks that I wanted to make myself independent to take photos.
I ran back to the front line of the march to 59th Street, I think, where I took above photos. That was around 11:30 am. Then I walked back to 7th Street, always outside the barricades, and waited for more than two and half hours, til I saw the dailykos group pass by. The photos should give you an impression of who was marching by for around two to three hours.
My back and feet gave me some serious trouble, my arms couldn't hold the camera anymore high enough and I had a headache from all the noise. I almost gave up to see the kossacks. But then luck struck me at the last moment and I detected them in the crowd of marchers. I think that was around 2:30 pm.
After that I sat down in a kind of deli shop and watched from the comfort of my table at the window facing the street, sitting down for another hour or so. The march went on and on and on. Towards the end obviously many more non-organized marchers who came out on their own. The people of NYC supported this march. At the sidelines applause broke out from time to time. Happy faces all around. At around 3:30 I started to think about how I would meet the NYC Kossacks at Spitzer's Corner. This happened to be a very big challenge, but I made it. At around 5:30 to 6 pm I joined them late.
I will post photos that are related to dailykos in a separate diary, because I have too many to fit in one diary. There you will also find some photos from the NYC post-march meet-up at Spitzer's corner.
The photos are ordered more by subject category. Please note that NYC is foreign territory to me. I could have made mistakes concerning the exact street corners. If someone can identify exactly specific groups on the photos from outside NY, please mention it in the comment.
Women on the march:
Women for Climate Justice:
1.
2.
Women for Clean Air en force - Moms Clean Air Force:
3.
4.
Women getting serious: but sign hold by a man
5.
6.
Women wiser with age:
7.
8.
Solidarity:
9.
10.
Nice car, nice fuel, nice people:
10.a
Raging Grannies:
11.
12.
Unions:
13.
14.
14.a
14.b
14.c
Now we are talking:
14.c
Sierra Club:
15.
16.
Anti-Nuclear Protest:
17.
17.a
17.b
17.c
End the fossil fuel era:
17.d
17.e
17.f
17.g
17.h
yep, bikes for social change, of course, also for profit, pretty expensive to use:
Health Care is a Human Right:
18.
19.
20.
20.a
20.b
20.c
Senator Whitehouse rescueing the Miami delegation from drowning:
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Hot issues - Housing Issues:
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
Houseless - Homeless - Hopeless:
40.
41.
42.
43.
Solidarity:
44.
45.
46.
47.
Political Stuff:
48.
Some support for some politician:
49.
50.
51.
Global Demands from the Native Peoples of the World:
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
Something with Obama:
60.
61.
The Native American and Native Canadian Indians:
62.
63.
64.
People from Yasuni Park:
63.
Lakota People:
64.
The Common Sense People:
65.
No More Wars - Climate Justice :
66.
California Coast Delegation:
67.
Flooding ? No Problem! We have it under control:
68.
69.
Thoughts about Food:
70.
71.
72.
Meatless Mondays:
73.
NYPD:
74.
75.
76.
Bulletproof Protection:
77.
Well, this one wanted to be on the safe side:
78.
Barricades:
79.
80.
Funny?
81
Is that true, funny or serious?
82.
83.
84.
Do you see green? Makes me seeing red:
85.
This one makes me dreaming of greens though:
86.
Serious:
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
Science and Schools:
94.
95.
96.
Common Sense People:
97.
Geez, do you know these people? :
I am tired of photos now
Some sugar candy before I go. I fell almost in his arms and had the wrong lens on the camera. Couldn't fit him in the frame. Then I somehow managed it at the second attempt:
You can see the dailykos photos in another diary that is to follow at a later day.
My videos didn't turn too well, they just add sound to the atmosphere. When I get them formatted correctly, I update the diary and post them here.
