Archive for February 2009
Varanasi. India
Some pictures from Varanasi, regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.
Varanasi. India. 2008.12
Morning Puja. Varanasi. India. 2007.10
Sadu baba. Varanasi. India. 2008.12
Holy River Ganga. Varanasi. India. 2007.10
Wedding ceremony on the Ghats. Varanasi. India. 2008.12
Morning time on the river Ganga. Varanasi. 2008.12
On the Ghats. Varanasi. India. 2008.12
Boatman on the river Ganga. Varanasi. India. 2007.10
Varanasi. India. 2007.10
Sugarcane production in Burkina Faso
Bérégadougou-Burkina Faso ( february-2008 )
In 1998, the SN-SOSUCO (Société sucrière de la Comoé) as been privatised and since, work conditions tend to get worse and worse. With decreasing wages and temporary hiring process, that whole industry turn to a machine that is violating Humans Right every day. With a wage of 435Fcfa (About 1usd) per ton of cane that is cutted, workers are getting poorer than ever and almost the whole village of Bérégadougou is facing poverty…
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- Cutter’s hands after a couple hours of work. The man had about 25 years old and hes hand were telling me 50.
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- Worker hunting rats while the burning of the fields.
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- Cooking a dead agoutti, hunted a couple minutes ago.
Sub commendant Marcos hosting the conference ‘’Planeta tierra, movimientos antisistémicos’’ (Planet Earth: anti-system mouvements) in San Cristobal De Las Casas. Mexico. 13 – 17 december 2007
Photos and texte: Philippe Ruel
Over the years, the zapatista mouvement has show not only he can make war and resist to the Mexicain Army in the jungle, but also organise many peaceful events and conferences like this one in Sancristobal de las casas. For 5 days, thinkers, philosophers, poets, historians, architects, journalists and psychologists speaks freely at the rate of two conférences a day.
The primary objective of the conference is the study and understanding of the systeme set up by the big capitalist actors of this world. Understand to denonce this system which arm terribly the least affluent in Mexico and in many others countrys throughout the world.
Immanuel Wallerstein from United States paints the picture of a irreversible declining American power, but whose dangerosity for the rest of the world increses. Ricardo Gebrim from Brazil speak about the theretical and pratical elements allowing to better understand the mouvement of the ‘’Without land’’ in Brazil. The british poet Jonh Berger makes vibrate then assistance by the reading of a tale militant on Palestine. Naomie Klen from Canada explains why Iraq is at the same time a military defeat and a stock exchange victory. Because the insecurity on a worldwide scale benefits new technologie from protection and monitoring.
In conclusion, what is coming out from this conference organized by the Zapatista movement of Mexico, by the contrahistoria review and by the University of San cristobal de las casas, it is that the change can be imposed neither from the top, nor from outside. The man and women who suffer can speak and knows theirs problems well. It is necessary for us to listen.
African refugees in Israel
Since 2005, Israel has a major problem of incoming African refugees. The flow is growing every year since then and the government his responding with expulsion, the construction of a new wall with Egypt and the distribution of few work permits.
Those permits give them a one year probation in a restricted working zone.(Eilat and Haifa)
This was a work permit distribution session in Tel-Aviv in marsh 2008.
Kalighat Under Water. Kolkata. India
À Kalighat, un quartier défavorisé de Kolkata situé au bord d’un canal d’évacuation des eaux, les inondations sont loin d’être finie deux semaines après la fin des dernières pluies. À cause de la saturation des cours d’eau et de la proximité du Delta du Gange, le canal entourant Kalighat subi quotidiennement l’effet des marées. De jour comme de nuit, deux fois par jour, le sens du courant change subitement et l’eau commence à monter, inondant toutes les ruelles et demeures du quartier. Chaque année les moussons sont de plus en plus fortes. En 2007 les habitants de Kalighat auront passé plus de trois semaines avec de l’eau mi-hanche, chaque jour, deux fois par jour. Actuellement, rien n’est envisagé pour régler cette situation
24.09.2007/Kolkata/Inde/ Des pluies diluviennes s'abattent dans tout le Bengale Occidental. Kolkata, la capitale, est rapidement prisonnière des eaux. La majorité des rues et ruelles sont inondées et pratiquement impraticables. Seuls les Rickshaws humains se déplacent encore. Kalighat Under Water. Kolkata. India
29.09.2007/Kolkata/West Bengal/Inde L'eau envahit rapidement toutes les ruelles de Kalighat. certains en profite pour y prendre leur bain. Mais la salubrité de cette eau est loin d'être sans problème. Le canal est une division de la Hoogly River, elle-même une division du Gange.
25.09.2007/Kolkata/west Bengal/Inde Et la vie continue... Un homme tient comme si de rien n'était son étalage de fruits et légumes dans la rue principale de Kalighat.
29.09.2007/Kolkata/West Bengal/Inde Aux pires moments, aux pires endroits, l'eau peut monter à un niveau qui rend impossible tous les déplacements. Cela est particulièrement vrai pour les gens âgés ou malades qui restent alors, de jour comme de nuit, enfermés chez eux.
30.09.2007/Kolkata/West Bengal/India. Dans la rue principale, coupée à toute circulation, des jeunes utilisent comme ils le peuvent le ballon se soccer...
06.10.2007/Kolkata/West Bengal/Inde Une fillette attend un traitement. Chaque année lorsque ce phénomène se produit, énormément d'enfants sont admis tous les jours dans la seule clinique de Kalighat, Newlight, une ONG locale pour les enfants de la prostitution.
29.09.2007/Kolkata/West Bengal/Inde Le temps s'arrête pendant que le quartier est emprisonné des eaux. Partie de carte sur un toit, attendant que le niveau redescende.
30.09.2007/Kolkata/West Bengal/Inde Sieste d'après-midi au moment fort de l'inondation. Cet homme dit préférer être bloqué ici qu'enfermé chez lui à attendre que l'eau ne redescende.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao greeted by Pro-Tibet protests
The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was greeted by Pro-Tibet protests on February 1st in London, UK. Jiabao was welcomed at the Chinese embassy in London around midday by pro Tibet protestors, five of whom were later arrested. The Chinese premier was due to give a talk at the Natural History Museum in London later in the evening were a smaller group of protestors had gathered by 6PM. Jiabao arrived on Chinese (Lunar) New Year in London, a full day of celebration around Leicester and Trafalgar Square, where China Town was overwhelmed by tourists and local alike, braving rather freezing conditions. The Chinese premier will be in London for 3 days on a busy schedule, which should coincidently be followed by protest along his route, as reported by demonstrators.
