tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post7904034734237775589..comments2024-03-28T11:30:46.101-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Women Stand UpOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-57864671655339466762016-07-15T03:42:33.698-04:002016-07-15T03:42:33.698-04:00I have seen Iesha Adams' photo around the Inte...I have seen Iesha Adams' photo around the Internet, but didn't know her name. She came in peace, obviously calm and with no weapons -- and yet the police in riot gear thought her a threat.<br /><br />The other photos I know and are in my memory, as Annamaria says. <br /><br />There were also so many photos of women in many countries during the Arab Spring and commemorating International Women's Day on March 8. Very moving photos showing courage and strength.<br /><br />Women are playing leading roles in important movements today in this country. <br /><br />What knocks me over is the strength that mothers show after their sons are killed by police. They speak out and have so much strength and convey it through their anguish.<br /><br />However, as Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown, killed in Ferguson, Mo., two years ago, wrote in a New York Times op-ed on July 8, she goes to bed and wakes up in pain, thinking of her son.<br /><br />She will be there for other parents who experience what she has, but she asks, when will justice happen? That has yet to occur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-710037667577393422016-07-13T15:18:37.417-04:002016-07-13T15:18:37.417-04:00When I see these iconic photographs, Sujata, I'...When I see these iconic photographs, Sujata, I'm reminded that freedom demands eternal vigilance and commitment, for they show how far our world's progressed, fallen back, and has yet to travel. Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-65425858242317316782016-07-13T14:56:14.210-04:002016-07-13T14:56:14.210-04:00How timely, how powerful. Right now I am reading T...How timely, how powerful. Right now I am reading The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust, by Noam Chayut, founder of Breaking The Silence. At the heart of this memoir is a wordless encounter between Chayut and a young Palestinian girl, and his later reflections on that moment. Ulimately, it's a hopeful story of the transformation and reconcilliation possible when we learn to see, really and completely, the faces of others.Eljay Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16254330250399913681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-31737903330897371142016-07-13T09:31:29.529-04:002016-07-13T09:31:29.529-04:00Brilliant, Sujata, on so many levels. I wish Blog...Brilliant, Sujata, on so many levels. I wish Blogspot gave us way to post more pictures in our comments.<br /><br />I had not seen the image of Ieshia. I have long been unable to look at the images that go with our heartrending news. Except for that first one, the rest of these are burned into my memory. As is the one Michael describes above. Reading his words, I can feel myself standing and looking at image at the entrance to the museum in Soweto.<br />And I have one to add: the one of the lone man facing a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. True, it is of a man, but alone and so small in comparison to the force pitted against him. Very like Ieshsia above.<br />One day we have to start another discussion here about why so many of the victims in crime novels are young women. But maybe the answer to that is obvious based on this post. These photos portray the very people that we know we must, as a species, protect. Thank you for this today!Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-10250412981080250102016-07-13T08:45:12.796-04:002016-07-13T08:45:12.796-04:00I can't resist mentioning one more, Sujata. It...I can't resist mentioning one more, Sujata. It became iconic in South Africa at the time of the Soweto school demonstrations. In it Hector Pieterson - a school boy shot and killed at the demonstration -is carried from the scene. But it is the grieving schoolgirl - his sister - next to him that tears our hearts.<br />Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.com