Originally Posted By: Ultimate Jaburg53
 Originally Posted By: Prometheus
 Originally Posted By: Ultimate Jaburg53
 Originally Posted By: Prometheus
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Occupy’s 84-year-old pepper spray victim
By Maura Judkis

When Occupy marched in downtown Seattle on Tuesday night, a priest, a pregnant teenager and an 84-year-old community activist were doused in pepper spray. Although there have been many striking images of violence and peace in Occupy encampments, and many faces of the movement, none may be as immediately striking as this image of Dorli Rainey, taken by Joshua Trujillo.



Rainey’s direct gaze at the camera as her face drips with pepper spray is a haunting, cinematic image of brutality, emphasized even more by the chiaroscuro of dark gloved hands holding her head up to lead her to safety. Dashiell Bennett of the Atlantic has speculated that this image may become the defining one of Occupy unrest.

Rainey, a community activist since the ’60s, decided to walk by the protest on her way to a transportation meeting in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle. As she told the Stranger, Seattle’s alt-weekly paper, “Cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd . . . If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled.”

When Philip Kennicott wrote in 2005 about the lack of iconic images from the Iraq war, he spoke to the qualities that make a photograph emblematic of a movement or era in history. Until now, many of the photos of Occupy focused on the signs carried by protesters, rather than the clashes with police. This is partially due to access — by many accounts, press were shut out from Monday night’s eviction of protesters from Zucottti Park. Yet, even though Occupy Wall Street and its branches across the country are not analogous to the war, the visual language of iconic imagery is the same.

Too often, Kennicott writes, photographers of conflict focus on objects — a sign, a tent, a mangled car — as a stand-in for people: “The sum total of these substitutions feels, at times, like a theater without actors, a set of props and costumes and extras milling about, without hint of what the real drama is meant to be.”

Rainey has now been unwittingly thrust into that starring role. Protest images that become iconic show us faces in anguish, such as John Filo’s Pulitzer-winning image of the shooting at Kent State. Thankfully, no image or incident quite as violent has emerged from Occupy. Nevertheless, wrote one commenter on the Stranger, “This is exactly the sort of picture that changes things.”


Anyone who thinks attacking citizens like this is justifiable is, literally, a traitor to the United States of America. And, in my opinion, human scum whose passing, while I would not celebrate, I would neither mourn...


It's a damn damn that these hippies are using this poor woman to spin their "agenda". Look at them holding up that poor ladies' head for a photo instead of getting her help. I bet the police wouldn't have been that cruel. They are just men doing their job. Many of these police were heroes on 9/11. Shame on these children for taking their teen angst out on them.


If you're being serious here, then you're an uninformed fool and we have nothing left to talk about. Enjoy ignorance.


You have yet to respond to anything with talk. You just spam and ignore peoples messages.


No Jake, I have actually. Unfortunately, no one here is willing to talk. They only want to scramble and try and find some fantasy way of discrediting The Movement. Therefore, I'm not going to waste my time on The Pussy and The Shills. They've already made their mind up before it even started.

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That picture was taken as a promotional tool for these children to use against the very police who in fact are protecting them.


\:lol\: That's a laughable opinion, at best. The facts are obvious and presented. Like I said, don't believe the truth? Fine. Be a member of the opposition, spin everything you can to talk The Movement down, and I will ignore you like the rest of the sheep.

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All you do is copy and paste and try to be "louder" instead of having a discussion.


I copy & paste to maintain the points on page. Opponents like The Shills will do their best to ignore anything that doesn't fall within their pre-existing belief system, and thus spam what they can to try and bury any points made. I respond in kind.

BTW, when you add something more than "I don't like it" I'll take notice and have a conversation with you. But, like I said, you're not interested in that. I tried that with you, and you just deny any point made, factual or not. So, again, I don't have time to walk you through the entire thing. You want to actually learn the truth? Do your own research. I do my own. I protest downtown almost every day, and support the other Movements online whenever possible. Guys like you crying from your computer screen because you happen to arbitrarily dislike The Movement, you don't understand it and are just going by whatever media tells you, or you're simply incapable of understanding the concept of the Movement......I don't know. All I know is, the facts are presented as they happen. Truth is truth. Spin it how you like, in whatever fashion makes you feel good about your life.

Me? I've picked my side.