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For the insatiably curious, my Flickr album for this event contains almost 90 additional photos from Lafayette Square, today.
by AnacharsisClootz
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on Sat Jun 30, 2018 at 05:39 PM PDT
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by AnacharsisClootz
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on Sat Jun 23, 2018 at 01:58 PM PDT
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I was downtown in D.C. early this morning, hours before the March for Our Lives officially started. Of the more than 100 photos I took of marchers arriving along Pennsylvania Avenue, these are my ten personal favorites:
by AnacharsisClootz
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on Sat Mar 24, 2018 at 01:57 PM PDT
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Some four score individuals participated in a silent “Blackout March” in downtown Harrisonburg, Virginia (pop. 50,000 - county seat of deeply Red, mainly agricultural Rockingham County in the central Shenandoah Valley), yesterday, in support of Black...
by AnacharsisClootz
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on Sun Jul 17, 2016 at 05:51 AM PDT
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Just a brief departure from the interminable primary wars to refresh the spirit in the glories of Spring.
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on Wed Mar 30, 2016 at 11:50 AM PDT
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A random image or eight from rural Elkton, Virginia, today, in the wake of our recent visit from Jonas.
Massanutten Mountain from Elk Run Cemetery
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on Sun Jan 24, 2016 at 12:11 PM PST
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