Poland teaches us about Pretty Protests

the end of the world is ugly - saving it can be beautiful

We are looking for images to inform the Eco Disaster Act in The End is Nigh.

The most recent photo essay to be assigned that tag on Magnum documents a protest in Warsaw after a mass die-off in the Orda/Oder river. The protest is a funeral march. in Poland. Of course there is a tuba.

Some places do very poignant protests…with elegant signage!

This is that beautiful kind of hopeful protest. What a beautiful blue! so beautifully painted. The rivers that are not dead, whose fish still swim. There are so many! I like the uniformity and equality inherent in clear graphic design. I wonder if the black ribbons symbolize peril.

That blue and the three wavy lines are the dominant visual of this event. A funeral march that is about protecting the living. I like it.

Only a smattering of dead fish.

but the position of the fish do make them…kind of alive. Imagine them moving down the street with the march, those river-ribbons trailing behind their bodies. Especially if your vantage is the one in the…