coffee stained
deadly
water
grist from the gold mine
in the incan mountains
people bleed land and dirtied water
while greed runs like ever open faucet
and the rest, absorbed with gold on their fingers and toes,
act
disinterested as a cat on a hot, human-rights invaded day
Inspired by a piece on The World – a co-operation between NPR, PRI and BBC global (broadcast June 5) on one woman’s battle (physical, spiritual, social activism, generational relationship to the land) against the American backed-mine turning her green world into deadly, dirty coffeed coloured grounds.
image: Brooke Shaden
writing in the raw for mlmm photo challenge # 227
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June 7, 2018 at 6:18 pm
pure, unfiltered – raw –
and it works for the image and the words ….
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June 7, 2018 at 8:50 pm
yes, this came out as it flooded my mind — no editing, no thinking, just raw reaction to both the image and the story.
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June 7, 2018 at 9:03 pm
nothing wrong with this process at all :D
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June 7, 2018 at 1:49 am
This is s very hard hitting post and the photo is very disconcerting. 💜
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June 7, 2018 at 8:39 pm
Yes, it is a distributing image, and went so well with the NPR report about gold mining in Peru, and the efforts of one family to stay on their land. The reporter described the water as looking like coffee and being deadly.
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June 8, 2018 at 4:52 am
It was so powerful it made me think 💜💜
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June 11, 2018 at 5:31 pm
Thanks. The radio program was so powerful, and when I saw the image, with a coffee-coloured liquid, it made me think of how the reporter described what the mine had done to the water supply and how deadly it had become.
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June 11, 2018 at 5:42 pm
Dreadful!
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