Here's some photos of the Days of Resistance actions that occured today. More with a reportback soon to follow.

It's really great to see photos from this action, thanks for putting them up. But it's pretty sketchy to post photos in which you can see the faces of protestors at the different targets, especially if they are engaged in different kinds of civil disobedience or militant actions. Why did you blur one activist's face in one photo but let it slide very visibily in the photo before?

this is really a comment not just to you, J.H., but to lots of people who post photos on Indymedia. In other countries, activists have much more developed security culture and as a rule you just do NOT post photos from actions where peoples' faces are visible, including if they are wearing distinguishable clothes where you might identify them from one photo to the next, more compromising picture.

Please folks, let's be more careful with each other's safety. If you haven't gotten the explicit permission of the people whose faces are clearly visible (and my apologies to you if you actually did check with them first, but like I said, it's not just you who puts up pictures like this), then don't compromise their safety. Yes, I understand they weren't wearing masks, but let's try to have each other's backs and just do a little blurring before posting. Even though they obviously weren't doing property destruction (redistributing flyers doesn't count), it's still unacceptable in times when the government is cracking down on dissent.

Thanks for reading, we're all in this together so let's protect each other on and off the street, so we can have a culture where people are able to take action safely.

Love, activist@

If you have to hide while making your views known then what is the point of making your views known at all? If I have a personal opinion then I am more than willing to stand behind it, be it in private and especially in public, like these images show. To dredge up some conspiratorial notion that people pictured here will be arrested for their views shows a lack of understanding between the majority of protests in the US and the authoritarian examples you hint at. If anyone is breaking the law, then they should be prepared to accept the consequences as they are making a stand out of principle, not out of wanting to get caught or be cool on some insider-activist website.

Also, as a photographer, I am not going to ask you for permission to take your photo if you are involved in a public action. There are times when identities need to be concealed for various reasons, but this is most certainly not one of them. This protest is not one of them. Sorry, it is the way the profession works.

I'm all for standing for what I believe in.

Activists have been jailed, fired and murdered for standing for what they believe in.

It's kinda like the condom rule, though - If you're gonna engage in risky behavior, assume there's the risk of being documented. Wear a mask. Or accept the risk.

I guess I should respond to the criticisms that have been pointed to in the first comment.

First off, I would like to point out that I put alot of time and energy into documenting these actions and recently have been perplexed by the amount of criticisms as to my work and contribution to this movement/community. I am getting tired of all these criticisms flying towards me as I feel they are criticisms on my judgement as to what I feel is in/appropriate. Also, if we are of the hypercritical inclination, I would hope that our criticisms are constructive and the energy put towards them be concentrated more on self-evaluative level. (for instance, why are our actions populated with less and less people?, where is all of this action leading us to?, what direction are we headed - whatever your theory of a/the movement is, etc.)

That being said, I stand by my decision to mask one of the participants and not the other. My decision was based on the fact that the person in the first post was doing nothing illegal, whereas the second photo could be construed as being against the law. I do respect both folks rights to be anononymous/autonomous and the rules of security culture.

However, I do believe these things should be practised on a personal level. For instance: If I plan to do illegal things and do not wish my identity be known, I will do everything that I know that works to conceal my identity. Also, If I know someone who did or was involved in something illegal, I would not post or distribute (talk about) any information pertaining to that illegality. This is security culture.

On a side note: This was a PUBLIC action whereby there were many folks taking photos and witnessing the events (some of which I am sure have malicious intentions - and I can refer to one person who definately came off as an undercover in our midst). If someone did not want to be ID'ed, it is their responsibility to practice this security culture.

Finally, I chose to take down these 2 photos in question and the community is left to wonder the context of what happened yesterday at the recruitment center.

solidarity!
-janky

I also took photos at the action (see: http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/04/1679054.php), and I struggled a bit over what to publish. Ultimately I choose not to publish any photos of people with their faces visible while they were carrying out actions that could be construed as illegal.

The event was newsworthy, and since there were very few witnesses to the action, I thought that telling the story (with words and images) was the right thing to do.

Generally, I have to assume that if someone does not mask themselves then they are aware that they can be identified and are making a choice to carry out their actions in full public view.

This, of course, doesn't mean that I will publish photos were people can be identified. It simply means that I will absolutely publish photos of newsworthy actions. After all, if you can't report on actions then what exactly is the point of them?

Basically, if you don't want to be identified please make sure that you take reasonable actions so that you can't be. I don't think anyone wants to stop reporting on direct actions because people aren't being careful.

Like those in the solemn procession, I feel at a loss for words.

Nevertheless, I want to record my gratitude to all who organized, enacted, and recorded these (very meaningful even experienced at a remove not only in time but in actuality) days of Mourning and Resistance.