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Protest in Azerbaijan
News is always happening around the world. However, due to resource limitations, news organizations aren’t always able to cover everything. But with the advent of citizen journalism, ordinary people can step in and help fill the gaps, whether it’s in countries that have been heavy in the news like Iran, or ones not quite on the radar like this photo in Azerbaijan.
Your View contributor Abbas Atilay captured a dramatic moment during a protest for free parliament elections in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, a country located in the Caucus mountains region in Asia. There is determination both in the face of the protester and in the faces of the police who’re arresting him.
Looking Thailand in the eyes
The tense standoff in Bangkok continues to produce some memorable photos, including this one by Seila Montes of an injured anti-government “red-shirt” protester. The light captured in the man’s eye gives the photo a focal point and a point of connection with the audience.
Dear political scientists
A lack of measurement has occurred in the political science. In order to understanding this argument, it is necessary to answer these questions.
1. Data is goods, isn’t it?
2. How does the mechanism of the data market work?
3. Is there the relationship among the stability, the development and the mechanism of the data market?
4. Does the social phenomenon like the recently Thailand crisis involve the mechanism of the data market?
A lack of measurement is the condition that there are some variables and propositions out of the area of measurement. Re-framing is required.
Sincerely,
Re-framer Panpetia
Show of commitment
Sometimes news events can drag on longer than a photographer plans. Just ask Reuters Honduras photographer Edgard Garrido, who has been in the Brazilian embassy holed up with the ousted President for more than 10 days. Your View contributor Edin Tuzlak has been following the story of Bosnian veterans protesting on the streets of Sarajevo for two days. Edin has managed to capture both sides, the police and the protesters, to give viewers an insight into the news event.
The US now sees Karzai as the legit prez of Afghanistan. They also dropped the demand that the Jews stop expanding their settlements, as a precondition of peace talks. And despite constant chest thumping rhetoric about not negotiating with terrorists, it looks like that one will go too. Barry is bleating about the “need” for dialogue with people who blow up women and children. Rather than talking to them, I thought that the notion of wiping them (Taliban) from the face of the planet was the go.
It looks like the US administration has decided that it is all too hard, and the easy way out is the easiest. I thought that Barry would be a good Prez of the US, but I no longer think of him or them in this way. I am trying not to think about them at all.
Drama in the details
Sometimes pictures need to be seen big. This week’s picture of soccer fans clashing with police in the Czech Republic is one of those pictures. Click here to see the full size image.
The more you look at this picture the more the details of the scene become visible – from the look of horror on the woman’s face to the overturned potted plant. The soccer fan’s eyes are what draw you into the frame but it is the details that keep you looking at it.
Gray day in Jerusalem
Be waiting until the main action of the protest had died down and using a low angle, Oded Gal has created a moody street scene of the aftermath of a demonstration in Jerusalem.
wow! amazing photo. looks like an Apocalypsekeep on posting
Images of a democracy icon
Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the most difficult people for journalists to photograph as access to the democracy icon is severely limited. Often the only way to see an image of Suu Kyi is on the posters and placards of demonstrators protesting her detention, or in the case above against fresh charges brought against her.
First, i am conveying thanks to you for publishing of my comments.
i am a regular commentator of various subjects to this website.
Again, i am requesting all great,prominent world leaders sit together and find that democracy is restored in Myanmar.
This is very long due to Myanmar people.
Through the flag lies the protest
Your View contributor Balint Fejer has waited for the moment that a flag is lowered into his frame in this scene from a protest in Hungary.
A shoe hold up
Since Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi hurled his shoes at President Bush, footwear has become an integral part of rallies around the world. You Witness contributor Roshan Norouzi shows us the shoe effect during a protest in Tehran against Israeli air strikes on Gaza.
View this week’s You Witness showcase here.
Love it – throwing shows at a president – how simple! Think Bush will ever forget that moment? No. Bush will forget or does not know how many people died in Iraq because of his decision to go to war. Bush will forget or does not know how many Americans died in Iraq. The man who threw the shoes made his point. The Iraqi people are suffering GREATLY because of Bush’s decision to go to war and the because of the willing presence of the U.S. military in Iraq, still fighting and killing innocent people.Wonder what Bush thinks of every morning he puts on a pair of shoes and every night him he takes them off.Throwing a pair of shoes at a “leader” – terrific!
Mayhem in Mexico
It’s a rare moment for us to get so many great pictures from one event. Diego Uriarte managed to get up close and personal with these protesters in Mexico, close enough to capture the faces of the police as they reacted to the demonstrators.
View this week’s You Witness slideshow here .
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