Gainesville rocked out in a whirl of rainbows and smiles for the PRIDE Festival celebrations downtown on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, with a March starting at 7th Street and ending at Bo Diddley Plaza. Photos by Rachel Jones.
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Category Archives: Protests
Peace March
The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding held a Peace March on September 21. The March began at the Hippodrome Theatre in downtown Gainesville and ended at Bo Diddley Plaza. Photo by Rachel Jones.
March For Our Lives in Washington D.C.
Protesters Outnumbered the White Supremacists who came to see Richard Spencer at UF
Protesters holds signs in front Richard Spencer event at the Philips Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on University of Florida campus on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Rachel Jones
- Juelius Long, Gainesville resident, talks with a man who entered the protest zone with two Swastikas on his shirt, as he is escorted by protesters off University of Florida campus on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Rachel Jones)
- Tatonya Speed from Columbus, Ohio, and Cyntay Matthews from Burlington, New Jersey, protest in front of the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on University of Florida campus where the Richard Spencer event was held on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. “It’s 2017, these types of issues should not still exist,” Speed said, “Racism should be a part of the DSM-IV, making it a mental health issue. If someone thinks they’re better than other people, that’s an illness.” Matthews’s said, “Five generations honorably served, protected foreign and domestic from terrorism.” (Photo by Rachel Jones)
- A woman holds sign that reads “UF faculty against hate” at the Richard Spencer event at the Philips Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on University of Florida campus on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Rachel Jones)
- Protester shouts in front Richard Spencer event at the Philips Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on University of Florida campus on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Rachel Jones)
From the Ground Up: Voices with Standing Rock
10 Minute Documentary By Rachel Jones: https://youtu.be/85XUKgJm_TU
Insight from the veterans, natives, mothers, historians, sustainable energy advocates and others who came to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and protect the water. Each person was filmed on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, a significant day in Standing Rock history.
“Florida’s Own STANDING ROCK” — Folio Weekly, Jan. 4, 2017
One of my photos from the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests was published in print and online in a local-to-Jacksonville magazine, Folio Weekly, on Wednesday, January 4, 2017, in an article correlating the fight against the Sabal Trail pipeline, a pipeline posed to go through 13 Florida counties and threaten local water supply and wildlife, with the camps and protests ongoing in North Dakota. Click here for a direct link to the article.
