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USA: New York City Taxicabs
By Rafael Ben-Ari
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 20 November 2009
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The taxicabs of New York City, with their distinctive yellow paint, are a widely recognized icon of the city. There are more than 13,000 taxis operating in the city, not including over 40,000 other for-hire vehicles.Taxicabs are operated by private companies and licensed by the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), a New York City government [...]

Canada: Caring In The Shadow
By Marc-André Pauzé
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 20 September 2009
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With a lack of doctors and nurses, province of Quebec health centers go through very difficult times. Both of these health professionals has less and less time with their patients. But the daily chores of helping, comforting and watching over fragile and sick person go to a unknown group of workers. Nursing assistant are there, [...]

Canada: The Law Of Silence, Starting To Weaken
By Marc-André Pauzé
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 7 July 2009
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Text and Photos Marc-André Pauzé
Whereas we are witnesses of the slow disintegration of the Amer-Indian communities, marked by a very high infant mortality, a chronic unemployment and self-destroying violence, some portions of hope appears on the horizon.
Photojournalist and nurse specialized in backcountry medecine, Marc-Andre Pauzé will report from various canadians indigenous communities in a [...]

Canada: Family Farms - Living On An Endangered List.
By Mark Spowart
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 26 February 2009
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The Canadian Family Farm has been a way of life for as long as Canada has been a nation.  It has fed a country and the world through a variety of international relief agencies.  Yet this longstanding noble profession is too facing an uncertain future.
Rising input costs, in seed, fuel, fertilzer and declining prices for [...]

USA: Tompkins Square Park
By Q. Sakamaki
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 16 February 2009
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You better hold on, something’s happening here.
You better hold on, meet you in Tompkins Square.
— Lou Reed, Hold On (1989)
Tompkins Square Park is about the resistance and struggle of people in the Lower East Side, literally to exist as the community faced drastic gentrification in the late 1980s and mid-1990s. This story focuses [...]

Global: Galician Diaspora 1989-2009
By Delmi Alvarez
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, features, central & south america, features, europe, features, greater middle east, features, north america, news & global, slides on 2 February 2009
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“Galegos na Diáspora” (”Galician diaspora”) is a long term documentary project started in 1989 and finished in 2009 about the exodus of thousands of Galicians, now based around the world. The author wants to give a tribute with his personal idea to the emigrants of Galicia. The journeys he covered includes: Europe, Américas, Asia and [...]