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Legal Nomads: Red Shirt Rallies – Thailand 2010 Day 2
A Picasaweb collection from Legal Nomads, who spent the last two days turning progressively more red. No, I don’t think her experience has transformed her politics. Rather, her last two days have been a triumph of energy and bravura over a lack of sun screen, as she traipsed around Royal Plaza and hitched rides with protesters up Paholyothin under the blazing Bangkok sun.
You can also follow this world traveler, marshmallow enthusiast, writer & former lawyer’s blog.
GregToDiffer: Some Thoughts on the Red Shirts
Greg at the GregtoDiffer.com blog lays down some of his thoughts of and photos from his last few days observing and documenting the main mass of the rally in Bangkok.
Newley Purnell: Red shirt protests: images from Sun. and Mon.
The work of Bangkok-based journalist Newley Purnell has appeared in the New York Times, been carried by AFP, broadcast by ABC News Radio, and published by ABCNews.com.
Here, Newley Purnell runs a nice series of images captured over the last two days of political rallies in Bangkok. You can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to his RSS feed.
New Mandala: Red soi, Red city: A brief commentary from the streets
At New Mandala, Marc Askew, a Senior Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne’s School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, has posted a lengthy article in which he sets aside the analytical discourse characteristic of so much coverage of recent political events in Thailand and focuses instead on exploring the picture that results from speaking to the real people involved in the real protest on the streets of Bangkok.
EverythingEverywhere: Daily Travel Photo
EverythingEverywhere.com’s Gary Arendt, one of the world’s biggest fans of National Geographic magazine, puts that accomplishment in the shade by running the most popular travelogue on the internet. When he’s not travelling the world, shifting tall piles of classic magazines into storage, or debating a variety of subjects, he’s hopefully finding time to edit the photographs he’s shot at today’s political rallies.
Follow him on Twitter to find out when today’s photos are ready and in the meantime, enjoy EverythingEverywhere’s Daily Travel Photo, shot yesterday at the Bangkok rally. It’s a doozy!
Thanks for the mention, Nick. Was definitely an interesting few days.
-Jodi
Posted by Legal Nomads on March 16th, 2010.
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