This week’s Photograph of the week: Activists Drop a banner at General Dynamics to protest the sale of weapons to Colombian death squads.
General Dynamics made Gatling guns sent to Colombia for military helicopters, amid escalating U.S. involvement in the country’s civil war.
U.S. support for Plan Colombia began under the Clinton administration in 2000. Promoted as a counternarcotics effort, it expanded military assistance; in 2002, Congress authorized its broader use against insurgent groups, including the FARC.
Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP
New Archive Photo of the Week: People fighting for their land. Their sovereignty. Their right to exist.
One photograph. Five decades of struggle, resistance and memory.
Each week, as hundreds of photographs are digitized from Orin Langelle’s five-decade archive, one image is selected, newly edited, and brought back into public view.
Archive Photo of the Week revisits moments of social, ecological and economic struggle that might otherwise disappear from collective memory—along with the people, places and stories behind them.
From the archive, back into history.