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Line with the book passage, thanks for coming out tonight. I was a child during the vietnam war living in turkey while my dad was reporting for the armed forces radio. He remembers it much more vividly than i do but for my dads generation and for mine, the war is preserved for our reflection and study it history and words and images captured by some of the most impressive journalists on the planet, the Associated Press. Over the period of the vietnam war, the month of the surprises for their cov...

The All Eyes on Rafah image has been criticised as being overly sanitised. How does it compare to other war images? And where is the line between performative solidarity and moral responsibility?

Over the past few days, one image has been shared at least 45 million times on Instagram. It shows an aerial landscape with hundreds of thousands of

It has become clear in recent years that not all protests have been imbued with the same sense of righteousness.  

A scholar examines recent public self-burnings in the U.S. and the response

Protest demands an audience. It is the common goal of every boycott, sit-in, march and petition.

What Aaron Bushnell did was something else entirely.

One of the most iconic images of the 20th century is the photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death on the streets of Saigon. The

Bushnell died in February 2024 after setting himself on fire to protest Israels military actions against Palestinians in Gaza.

Aaron Bushnell killed himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington shouting "Free Palestine". He declared he would no longer be "complicit in [the Israeli] genocide [in Gaza]". Here's a brief history of self-immolation as a tool of protest.