Ferguson Non-Indict Decision: Protests in New York City

Activists assembled at Union Square at

 

 7pm and marches branched out in several directions. 7th AVe & 49th St around 10:30pm on Tuesday Nov 25, the day after the Grand Jury decision not to indict Darrell Wilson in the killing by gunfire of 18-year-old high-school graduate Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. as the result of an altercation in which Brown was unarmed. Photos: Liza Bear

Danette Chavis: Stop Police Brutality

New York, October 22--Danette Chavis tells it 
like it is at a Union Square rally, part of 
the National Day of Action to Stop Police Brutality. 
At least 261 people have been killed by NYPD 
since Amadou Diallo; 129 since Sean Bell. 
After the rally, a permitted march 
proceeded westwards along 14th Street 
to Sixth Avenue and north to Times Square.. 

Sam Ross, Ilka Scobie, Timothy Liu, Yuko Otomo At ENCLAVE

The Circle's Ernst Ostertag and Robi Rapp at the Swiss Consulate, New York

New York, November 12 2014--A reception was held this morning for award-winning film The Circle, directed by Stefan Haupt, at the Swiss Consulate. The film, a blend of documentary and re-enactment, is about the lives of Ernst Ostertag (Matthias Hungerbühler), a teacher, and Robi Rapp (Sven Schelker), a cabaret dancer and female impersonator, and their fight for gay rights in Switzerland throughout decades of repression. Ostertag met Rapp in the mid-fifties when he joined the then secret gay organization DER KREIS (The Circle). By the age of 73, in 2003--the year the film was made-- they were to become the first gay couple to form a civil union in Switzerland. The Circle is Switzerland's nomination for the Oscar Foreign Film category, and opens theatrically in New York on November 21. Photos: Liza Béar

Robi Rapp, cabaret dancer ; female impersonator, The Circle

Ernst Ostertag, teacher, The Circle

Stefan Haupt, director, The Circle

Capoeira Angola Quintal

Vicky Gholson [Dr G.] Life Celebration (Excerpts)

New York Sculptors Jackie Winsor and Mary Miss

October 19, 2014--Jackie Winsor and Mary Miss outside the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,  Ridgefield  Ct, at the opening of Winsor's mini-retrospective, one of several shows celebrating the Aldrich's 50th anniversary.
Photo: Liza Béar