Sniff, no auroras for me...
Or if there are I can't distinguish them from city glow...
Night view from my fire escape looking north, slightly northwest. #UptownChicago
Man pulled over tonight for driving while non-white by 3 police SUVs and a tow truck. He is handcuffed for 'his own safety'. Later let go without a ticket. #UptownChicago
The windows of my corner store at Sheridan Rd./Wilson Ave. were boarded up for #BlackLivesMatter protests. This one has artwork of Breonna Taylor on it. June 2020 #UptownChicago#BreonnaTaylor
Chicago Police giving out police swag and collecting names at the anti-homeless people Uptown Church Chicago church festival in 2021.
Recently in 2024 this church opposed the rezoning for a homeless shelter, leading to a zoning denial that prevented the shelter from opening and housing unhoused people. #Gentrifiers#NIMBY#Police#UptownChicago
Police FAIL to shut down homeless rights protest!
When adults with legal advice plan a protest location.
2015 - Portion of a video my friend Andy of the Gay Liberation Network shot. This was the first overnight protest of a grassroots group I co-founded, where protesters joined the people living under the viaducts and in the park overnight which is illegal. We pitched tents, held our ground against the police and successfully asserted our rights to protest. #Homeless#UptownChicago
@Tzipporah with their Eighth Generation "Two Spirit" wool blanket by Two Spirit artist Ryan Young (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) that calls out to their community's traditional story about crows.
Timmie Jack, my great-Grandfather Pleasant Luther "Duke" Berryhill's best friend . Like my great-Grandfather he was also Creek Lighthorse. Timmie Jack had been sentenced to death, and custom was you could choose your executioner. He chose his best friend, my great-Grandfather because he didn't want to give his enemies the satisfaction.
Image 1 - A photo of a wall in my apartment illuminated by the lights 10 city blocks away at Wrigley Field (aka Cubs Park) with a shadow of me taking a photo of the wall.
Image 2 - The lights 10 city blocks away #LightPollution#Baseball#MLB
She went to see her ancestors 34 years ago. October 25, 1989 when I was 33.
She was born in the #MvskokeNation before the establishment of the so called State of Oklahoma in 1904. She was the youngest member of our family on the Dawes Rolls when she was 1 year old. Roll #814.
My mother was her first child. I am my mother's first child.
A picture of my great-Grandmother Jeanetta Grayson Berryhill & my great-Grandfather Pleasant Luther "Duke" Berryhill that was displayed in the Creek Council House in Okmulgee, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Capitol.
Dawes Rolls from the Indian Territory land allotment tragedy.
The 1st one with my great-Grandfather Pleasant Luther "Duke" Berryhill #117 & the 2nd with my great-Grandmother Jeanetta Grayson Berryhill #7144.
This is why I say Native-Americans are stamped and numbered, among the most documented people in history. "Native" people with no documented history or Tribal connections are highly suspect.