#79: At the March
Here are some photos from yesterday’s march in Buenos Aires (La Marcha Federal de Orgullo Antifascista and Antiracista), organized by the LGBTQ+ community, human rights organizations, student groups, and unions. It was put together in response to President Milei’s screed last week in Davos, in which he made reference to “the unjust, sinister and aberrant idea of social justice” (yes, he means the very idea of social justice, any and all of it), and equated homosexuality with pedophilia. And that doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I hear he’s now distancing himself from certain aspects of the speech. But we all heard it loud and clear. Luckily some very agile, resourceful organizers got right on the case. A week later there were 100,000 people in the streets of Buenos Aires. Protests sprang up in other cities throughout Argentina.
It was good to be among them, therapeutic even. These past few months have been brutal. My, how stupefaction can set in. Like a dense, gray, creeping fog. So a loud, colorful, irreverent, in-your-face, love-fest of a protest isn’t just a reminder to the powers that be that opposition is alive and kicking. It’s how we remind ourselves and each other that we’re not alone in this.
But first, please accept my apologies for being absent these months. I have an excuse, if not a very good one. But all is well. And if anyone’s wondering, payments have been on hold since sometime in October. Anyway, here are a few black-and-white shots from yesterday’s protest. I hope they capture a little bit of the spirit in the streets. But what was I thinking? It was a PRIDE march. I should’ve been shooting color!
In other news, I’ve been working on a single, to be released first via Bandcamp and then elsewhere. Stay tuned. Also, there are tour dates coming up in the April/May range.
Thanks David.
Good for you! We were protesting here in Geneva, New York, yesterday, nominally in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors who are under siege, but more generally against the abrupt fascist shift in our country.