Paris Review, and many other journals. He s published eight books of photos. Yet at first one might mistake his pictures for snapshots.
Hank at Dougrey s Hall shows a man and his dog on scaffolding next to a building in Troy with a huge Biden banner. The handmade sign is reminiscent of a castaway on a desert island writing HELP! in giant letters, for a stray airplane to see. Many of us felt this sort of desperation during the last election. The rickety wooden platform emphasizes the precariousness of Hank s plight. (In fact, this platform is a homemade balcony. Hank is an artist who has lived in this house which was once an Irish social club for 25 years.)
Jane Shim is a senior policy attorney with the
Immigrant Defense Project in New York, which seeks broad changes in how the state and federal government directs its energies against immigrants. She points out that when local prisons work with ICE, they open themselves up to lawsuits when they allegedly restrict people s rights on behalf of ICE. There have been many across the country, both against prisons and local police, such as a $14 million payment LA County had to make late last year. Currently there s a class action lawsuit against the Orange County Correctional Facility and the Orange County Sheriff for unlawfully detaining people who, the suit argues, pose almost no danger if they were released back into their communities and asked to appear for hearings.
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Josephine Occhiogrossi being vaccinated in February at the Theodore D. Young Community Center in Greenburgh. She turned 100 on March 21. There s nothing special about Greenburgh, a suburban town of about 88,000 in Westchester County, to suggest that it would be the incubator for one of the state s most ambitious pandemic volunteer projects. Unless you count Paul Feiner, the town s indefatigable supervisor. Feiner has helmed town government in Greenburgh for 30 years, re-elected again and again on the strength of an old-fashioned belief: that government ought to fix people s problems. It s easy to spot Feiner s car around town: It s the one with a taxi-style roof sign on top, printed with Feiner s cell phone number and the slogan Mobile Problem Solver. He s like the ice cream man, but for community outreach, says Kenny Herzog, a volunteer with Greenburgh s COVID Angels. In January, the group was barely an idea. By March, it was a national model,
click to enlarge The Moon passing through the closest distance to the Earth. Regardless of the weather, emotional springtime is here. The Sun in exuberant Aries through April 18 makes you want to run maskless through the streets crying Free at last! Free at last! Fighting impatience while gauging the risk/reward ratio takes a lot of energy. With Mercury in assertive Aries April 3–18, patience is in short supply. Last Quarter Moon in Capricorn April 4 soberly reminds us: We ve come this far why blow it when the end is in sight? 2021 s theme of radicalized traditionalism is on display with the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Uranus in Taurus, squared by Saturn and Jupiter in Aquarius, from April 20 through May 3. Grid-optional lifestyles become respectable choices. After Mars enters Cancer on April 23, Herculean efforts are expended to secure the homestead, be th
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Sun in Aries through April 18 is your annual period of spiritual renewal. The Sun sextile Mars, and Jupiter April 13–15 supports powerfully enhanced understandings of your own transcendent energy; but does this idealistic vision of yourself hold up under ego stressors when the Sun squares Pluto on April 16? Sun conjunct Mercury on April 18 creates combustible communications. Sun enters Venus-ruled Taurus April 19, followed by First Quarter Moon in Leo April 20. This turns up the heat in anticipation of the Sun/Uranus conjunction April 30, sparking originality. Genius loves company so prepare to win a plethora of popularity contests.