I stumbled across my first opportunity for photojournalism yesterday. I was out with some friends (Dan, Richard, and Donna) from my photography group shooting photos in the downtown area and after we all split up, Donna and I walked around the Market District shooting random shots for practice. Donna spotted a protest march forming up at City Hall, and she and I went to shoot some photos of it. Here are a few of the photos I took.
Ethiopian Protest March:
Go to the gallery (click this photo) to see the full size image – it is very, very wide – a composite of 4 photographs).
Ethiopian Protest March:
Ethiopian Protest March:
Ethiopian Protest March:
More to come!
I found a blurb on an Ethiopian News site about this rally which I will repost here:
We had the biggest and successful second rally in Winnipeg Manitoba. Hundreds of residents of the Ethiopia community in Winnipeg were fully participated in this rally.
They were all in black and carrying a coffin in remembering those innocent people who lost their life in the peaceful struggle for a fair election in Ethiopia.
Government officials, Party leaders, University Student Association Presidents and major news media were all attended this big rally. The guest speakers made their words clear to support the peaceful struggle going on in Ethiopia and influence their respective team to put the necessary measures to ensure democracy and freedom in Ethiopia. Mr. Bidhu Jha, MLA for Radisson ,legislation Assistance to Premium of Manitoba, Dr. Garrard MLA, for River Height ,leader of Liberal of Manitoba, Amanda Aziz, president of University of Manitoba Students Union ,and Kate ,President of University of Winnipeg Student Association reflected their strong solidarity with the Ethiopian Community in Winnipeg and promised to address the issue of violation of human right ,arrest and harassment still going on in Ethiopia. More over the guest speakers promised to address this issue to the higher government bodies in Canada.
The rally was broadcasted at 6:00PM news on Global TV. The [...] Ethiopian Community was addressing the seriousness of this problem in Ethiopia through their slogans as follows:
- Canada stands for Justice!
- Canada stands for democracy!
- Canada stands for Peace!
- We need no massacre!
- We need no dictator!
- We need no terror!
- We want Justice!
- We want democracy!
- We want Peace!
This rally is believed to continue until the fulfillment of justice and democracy for the people of Ethiopia.
I am glad to see the pics you took at the demonstration. I am saying so because I was one of them. I came across with your site when I am looking for news. Concerning the blurb you got from an Ethiopian web site (I think it might be from Ethiopiafirst.com) there is a minor error on edition. In the last paragraph it says “… the agressive Ethiopian community…”, well that word doesn’t identify the crowd as far as I know. Basically it is not intentional putting that way as the content of the writing speaks, but I wish you could make that correction if you can; and the other thing I can assure you is that the news is not from the organizing body, better to say an eye-witness account.
Actually I appreciate your pics, they are nice.
Comment by Muluneh Zelege — 2005-06-28 @ 10:53 pm
Muluneh,
Thanks for dropping by my blog and leaving your comment. I have edited the word “agressive” out of the release, and replaced it with squared elipses [...].
I’m glad you liked the photos. I have a couple more from that rally that I might put up on my site in the next week or so if I have time.
Again, thanks for dropping by!
Cheers!
Comment by youngka — 2005-06-29 @ 11:18 am