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Activist prevents Israeli officer from arresting Palestinian child

During Sunday’s Jerusalem Day events, a Palestinian boy, perhaps 10 years old, was chased down an East Jerusalem street by a very angry officer of the Border Police. The boy tripped and fell, then picked himself up just as the Border Police officer reached him and tried to grab him. But a 22 year-old female Israeli activist prevented the boy’s arrest by throwing herself between the two, allowing the Palestinian boy to flee.

Jerusalem Day is meant to be a celebration of the city’s ‘reunification’ following Israel’s victory in the 1967 war. In practice, it is a day for Israeli nationalists, draped in flags, dancing in circles, singing and chanting (including the popular Israeli nationalist chant, ‘death to Arabs’) as they march through the streets of East Jerusalem and the Old City. Many of the Jewish demonstrators are bused in from right-wing yeshivas in Israel and the West Bank

This year, an Orthodox Jewish man grabbed the Palestinian flag from the hands of a 10 year-old boy and refused to return it. The boy, enraged, tried to prise it out of the Jewish man’s hands. A Border Police officer, seeing the struggle between a 10 year-old Palestinian boy and a fully grown Jewish man, chased the Palestinian boy rather than ordering the Jewish man to return the flag. Someone made a montage of the incident and posted it on Facebook, with commentary. Note the expression of rage in the Border Police officer’s eyes, as seen in the second photo.

In the end the boy got away, due to the intervention of a 22 year-old Israeli activist from Jerusalem named Sahar Vardi, who threw herself in front of the Border Police officer just as he was about to grab the child. Photojournalist Haim Schwarczenberg caught the incident.

The incident was also filmed and the clip posted on Youtube.

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Pain and sorrow is so raw on the faces of woman and child, relatives of Thai Muslim men killed by paramilitaries in Thailand’s restive southern province of Pattani on January 30, 2012. Thai paramilitaries shot dead four people in the kingdom’s violence-torn far south because they feared they were under attack, police said on January 30. The victims were male Muslim relatives returning from a funeral in a truck, the driver of the vehicle told police in Pattani, one of three southernmost provinces plagued by a long-running insurgency.

[Credit : Tuwaedaniya Meringing/AFP/Getty Images]

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Moscow, 1960. The queue at the Lenin’s Mau­soleum in Red Square. At that time, it also hosted Stalin’s body and was renamed as The Mausoleum of Lenin and Stalin.

[Credit : Marc Riboud]

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Artists and their most iconic pieces

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Muslim bride Fatme Kichukova had her makeup applied in Ribnovo, Bulgaria, Sunday. The remote village has kept the tradition alive, despite decades of Communist persecution. Pomaks, Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule, resurrected the practice.

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The Kiss Of Life by Rocco Morabito, 1968 Pulitzer Prize.

Jacksonville Journal photographer Rocco Morabito is on his way to photograph a railroad strike when he notices Jacksonville Electric Authority linemen high up on the poles. “I passed these men working and went on to my assignment,” says Morabito. “I took eight pictures at the strike. I thought I’d go back and see if I could rind another picture.”

But when Morabito gets back to the linemen, “I heard screaming. I looked up and I saw this man hanging down. Oh my God. I didn’t know what to do.” The linemen. Randall Champion, is dangling upside down in his safety belt — felled bv 4,160 volts of electricity.

“I took a picture right quick.” says Morabito. “J.D. Thompson (another lineman) was running toward the pole. I went to my car and called an ambulance. I got back to the pole and J.D. was breathing into Champion.” Cradling the stricken lineman in his arms, Thompson rhythmically pushes air into Champion’s lungs. Below. Morabito makes pictures — and prays.

“I backed off. way off until I hit a house and I couldn’t go any farther. I took another picture”, it is a prize-winning photograph, but Morahito’s real concern is the injured lineman. Thompson finally shouts down: “He’s breathing.” Champion survives.

I will reblog this forever.

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Baby Coal Miners (by John McNab)

“Breaker boys in #9 Breaker, Pennsylvania Coal Company mine at Hughestown Borough near Pittston, January 1911.”

Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

“American photographer and sociologist Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 -1940) used his camera as a tool for social reform. His child labour pictures educated the public on the use of children as laborers, leading to changes in child labour laws in the United States.”

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Ishwori Sapkota arranges books at her book store in Kathmandu December 18, 2011. She has been selling and buying second hand books for the past eighteen years.

[Credit : Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]