Comments on: World Press Photo Awards/Your Turn: Now War Is Coming Into People’s Houses Because They Can’t Pay Their Mortgages

By: AssangeFef

AssangeFef — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:32:23 +0000

Did you downloaded Wikileaks docs? Give me link plz
Hope for no silence
bye bye )

By: LorencoHef

LorencoHef — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:52:37 +0000

How I can download documents from WikiLeaks?
Thank you

By: indir

indir — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:32:32 +0000

nice topics and ideas

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:25:49 +0000

The mattress on the floor bespeaks squatters. Drug users/dealers are quick to make use of vacant dwellings. When they get desparate, they have been known to rip out furnishings (toilets, sinks) to sell. A recent spate of stolen copper piping is more evidence of the havoc resulting from unemployment and evictions.
This photo may depict an overly agressive cop, but I suspect a neighbor has reported strange noises or activity within the house and the cop doesn’t know what lies beyong his flashlight/gun/laser.
Evidence of the former inhabitant are the empty picture frames left behind, the books, the chairs that were too bulky for the pickup.

By: joe shikspack

joe shikspack — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:48:41 +0000

The shock troops of capitalism wear many uniforms.
The current war, a war that will continue for the foreseeable future, is a difficult one to be sure. It is a global war fought on many battlefields against determined foes. The enemy resorts to demanding higher wages than we prefer, failing to sell their resources on terms favorable to us and the tactics of pure shiftlessness if all else fails. Our enemies fight ruthlessly against our new world order and our financial demands.
The war is fought on many battlefields from the teeming ghettoes of the third world to the living rooms of middle class americans.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:05:30 +0000

I’ve noticed that some posters have said that the image fails and the jurors fail because it’s not “war”. The conceptual problem that you’re having is that (and I’m making a bit of an assumption here) most people outside the US see class war as war, just as much (and generally more so) than other “wars” like the war on drugs etc. This is in part because of history… class war has a much more violent history in Europe dating back to the Dark Ages and up until just a decade or so ago… and there is a recognition that the state engages in class warfare just as much as other actors do.
This picture was used because it clearly shows the class war that is ongoing and gaining in ferocity in the US as the upper classes protect their property, privileges, and perquisites from damage (to the extent possible) in the financial crisis that is gripping your country. It is part of the ongoing efforts to ensure that they remain the upper classes at the end of your country’s troubles…

By: Augie

Augie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:40:30 +0000

I await the award winning photo of armed police entering the homes of SEC staff members, CEO’s, bankers, Wall Street-ers, hedge fund managers, GW’s cabinet appointees and the plethora of ponzi schemers – who one and all blamed their clients and the working citizenry for the economic collapses curried under deregulating the laws that protected all of us from the criminals among their ranks.
Not holding breath for that ‘award winning’ photo.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:13:38 +0000

I see it as the intrusive arm of the law, not a war image. And I wonder, who trashed the house?

By: philoking

philoking — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:17:36 +0000

The officer seems to be “Barney Fife” like in his stance moving through the house given the way he’s holding his weapon. Were it not for the written description, I’d think he is an uneasy rookie making his way through a crime scene.

By: yg

yg — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:51:28 +0000

looking through the world press photo site of competing entries, there were other photos that were much more dramatic, much more vivid. i wondered why this one was picked over the others. only after contrasting did it hit me how flat and unsentimental this scene is presented. perhaps that is the point.
there are sectors of society who react dispassionately to such scenes. and as foreclosures become more commonplace, people grow more inured to it. whatever
negative reactions, or discomfort, this photo may of provoked (sometimes that’s the point) there is no denying it’s a statement of the times and culture we are living in.