The Photo of the Year
December 28th, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Environment, Indigenous Populations, Mass Violence, Media, New Wars, Sustainability
A Palestinian boy from Gaza flinches as other boys scare him with toy guns. Compare the level of media attention given to the assault on Gaza by the Israeli army to that of the repression of the movement in Iran.
See the whole collection here. As with the Boston Globe year in photos, a lot of natural disasters and low-attention conflicts as well as attention to indigenous peoples.
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December 28th, 2009 at 2:42 am
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