#orlando protest

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Hundreds rallied and marched at the National March to Protect Trans Youth in Orlando, Florida, on October 7.

'DeSantis says get back, we say fight back!'

Photos: Struggle-La Lucha, Workers Voice Socialist Movement

#protecttranskids #trans youth march #Florida #protest #orlando #transrightarehumanrights #miss Major #lgbtq #solidarity #communist #wvsm #struggle la lucha

[transfloridaresources]

April 15, 2024 Florida Strikes for Gaza: Tampa, 8am. Lykes Gaslight Square Park. Orlando, 11:30am-1pm. Downtown Post Office. 51 E Jefferson St. Miami, 1pm. 600 Biscayne Blvd. NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SPENDING.

#florida #palestine #free palestine #tampa #orlando #miami #protesting #strike4gaza #april 15 #tax day #undescribed

[im-a-fan-of-things]

We had a march through Orlando yesterday, still demanding a ceasefire and freedom for Palestine. We’re gonna keep marching.

Keep protesting, calling, emailing, signing, and sharing. Don’t stop.

HERE’S the organizers’ insta so you can hear the speeches that were given, look at their resources, and sign their petition to demand ceasefire (if you live in Orlando).

Thanks!

#free palestine #free gaza #palestine protest #march for palestine #rally for palestine #florida palestine network #orlando florida

[melodiousoblivionao3]

I assume they go to the same places because they know the stadiums have grass fields (I think that's a requirement) and that they're cheap to book. Those are the only explanations I have lol

Yeah but there has to be other places with grass that also aren’t the places we’ve been to a million times. I also have concerns with the fact that these games are being played in TX and FL, which are extremely hostile to the queer community.

Idk if this will improve in the Hayes era, given Chelsea’s attendance numbers.

#mel answers #uswnt #many thoughts #like the SD Wave girlies (and probably others but I’m just remembering them) wore shirts in protest to Orlando games #players are well aware of the political climates in FL and TX #and do not like it

[username-that-isnt-my-name]

There's a rally going on at the Orlando City Hall to helped people find community and link up to find resources. Both to help people meet the local grassroots people who are organizing direct action in Orlando, and help anyone who needs more information about what to do to be involved.

Downtown at the city hall, starting at 5, going to 9

#orlando #abortion #community organizing #protest #grassroots

[bloghrexach]

💥💥 — THIS!! — I was 17 years old!! — 💥💥

@hrexach …

#dr rex equality news information education #graphic source #graphic #graphics #hortyrex © #horty #quote #it is what it is #facebook #lgbt community orlando florida we all are one #history #on repeat #universities #college student #college #students #protest

[love-elizabeth]

If anybody is interested in the time I had a faceoff with my anxiety and also accidentally attended the March for Science, I wrote a thing; link in bio. 🌏 💚 ✌️ #earthday #earthday2017 #marchforscience #science #protest #marchforscienceorlando #explorida #roamflorida #igersflorida #orlando #igersorlando #pureflorida #florida #fun_in_florida #LoveFL #sky #clouds #lakeeola (at Lake Eola Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BTT1p7OFuOH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#earthday #earthday2017 #marchforscience #science #protest #marchforscienceorlando #explorida #roamflorida #igersflorida #orlando #igersorlando #pureflorida #florida #fun_in_florida #lovefl #sky #clouds #lakeeola

[dvckssauce]

URGENT!! Abortion Rights Rally in Downtown Orlando tomorrow!! Be there, take action!

Edit: In case you’re out of state, Planned Parenthood has a map! https://map.wewontgoback.com/?source=ppfa&startDate=2022-06-25&endDate=2022-07-31

#orlando #abortion #roe v wade #roe versus wade #demonstration #protest #spread #signal boost

[zvaigzdelasas]

Protesters demanding a cease-fire in the Israeli war in Gaza blocked a U.S. military supply ship leaving the Port of Oakland for hours Friday by locking themselves to the vessel. The protesters also blocked the entrance to Berth 20 where the container carrier Cape Orlando is moored. Protest groups say the ship is bound for Israel after being loaded with weapons and military equipment in Tacoma, Washington.

The protest was organized by the San Francisco-based Arab Resource Organizing Center. Police were at the scene of the protest which appeared to number about 200 people, many holding Palestinian flags and signs demanding an end to U.S. military aid to Israel[...]

Three Palestinian supporters were holding on to a rope ladder and refusing to let workers close a door to the military ship. A U.S. Coast Guard negotiator tried to convince them to get off the ship, but protestors refused..[...] Abushamala was one of many demonstrators that blocked a port entrance to the ship. She said she lost several relatives in the war. "One missile killed three generations. An uncle, their son, and their child," said Abushamala. "I'm enraged that our government is still sending aid, missiles to Israel."

Another Palestinian protestor, Noura Khouri, said she also lost a relative in a bombing last week. "It's literally impossible for any of us to sleep, to eat, to work, to carry on with our lives," said Khouri.

Some Jewish people also joined in the protest. "I'm here as a Jewish person, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. And I grew up hearing the stories of my grandmother surviving the Nazi's Holocaust, losing her entire family. And today, Israel is weaponizing my history, the history of my family that was killed, to kill Palestinian families in Gaza," said Alameda resident Anna Baltzer.

Just before 3 p.m., authorities removed the three protesters who held onto the rope ladder, and the ship made its way out of the port. Abushamala and other protestors were disappointed. They hope their action will have a lasting impact on lawmakers.

"No more U.S. military aid to Israel. It is within your power. Do not let the fear stop you," said Abushamala.[...]

According to a release from AROC, three protesters who climbed onto the vessel were detained by the U.S. Coast Guard -- the federal agency with jurisdiction on the water. As it is an ongoing investigation, Coast Guard Petty Officer Hunter Schnabel said Friday evening that he could not provide specifics but confirmed "multiple individuals are currently under investigation." The release from AROC called on "communities in cities around the country and across the world to be on alert for vessels carrying similar cargo."

3 Nov 23

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Melinda Butterfield

We aren’t alone in our struggle. Many other communities are being targeted. We have to work to create unity, solidarity, cooperation.

We are health care workers, service workers, teachers, tech workers, sex workers. We are Teamsters and Auto Workers, actors and writers, and all too often, underpaid and unemployed workers. We live the reality of intersectionality every day. 

Standing up for trans people is an act of self-defense for all workers. An injury to one is an injury to all.

#ProtectTransKids #TransRightsAreHumanRights #transyouthmarch #redguard #protest #orlando #florida #Cuba #communist #revolutionary #capitalism #socialism #class struggle #workers #civil rights #Women in Struggle #Struggle La Lucha

[transfloridaresources]

January 26, 2024. 4-6pm Apopka, FL

[Photo ID: Red background with an image of Rep. Bankson inside a sparkling oval line. Text reads: 'Trans can't be erased! protest. Identification for all! Bankson: Kill HB 1639! Not one step back! Orlando for Gender Equality. 4pm. Friday, Jan 26th. 10. N Park Ave, Apopka.' /End ID]

Even though #HB1639 or the Trans Erasure Bill has passed through it’s first committee, we cannot stop fighting! Join OGE for a protest this Friday at Rep. Bankson’s Apopka office to demand he rescind HB1639! Changing gender markers to sex markers on official identification is a clear attack on the queer and trans community. Identification is a right for all! Stop the attacks on queer and trans people! #NotOneStepBack

Source

#florida #apopka #trans #transgender #lgbt #protesting #hb 1639 #trans erasure bill #rep doug bankson #florida house of representatives #orlando for gender equality #described

[im-a-fan-of-things]

There’s a date for a city meeting attached. Pls go if you live in the area.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #orlando florida #opd #palestine protests #gaza protests #Instagram

[sirfrogsworth]

Photo Restoration Project - Part 1

A long time ago, Katrina sent me some old photos of her family I could restore. Her parents have been helping me from afar for years and I really wanted to do something nice for them. Unfortunately my dad got much worse and I pretty much forgot about this project for quite some time.

But then I decided to visit Katrina in Orlando and we discussed having dinner with her parents and I remembered these photos. So I thought I would fix them up so I could present them as a gift in person.

The first and most important photo was from her parents wedding.

Old photo prints can fade over time due to UV light exposure. From what I understand, different colors fade at different rates and red/orange tones tend to be the least susceptible to this fading. Thankfully all of the color information is still there, it's just that the darks are not as dark and the lights are not as light. The dynamic range got squeezed like an accordion. However, if you do a levels adjustment on the red, blue, and green channels individually, you can unsqueeze the accordion and balance everything back to the way it was.

But you can't always save everything and there may be other damage that needs fixing. If something becomes pure white, there is no way to restore that detail. Thankfully I was able to use the new generative fill feature to bring back detail in the dress, the flowers, and the tuxedo shirt.

And because I hate front facing flash and how it makes colors look ugly and sterile, I may have also added a marble floor and pillars.

Next up was a photo of Anastasia, Katrina's mom, protesting Henry Kissinger on behalf of her home country of Greece. This suffered from the same color fading issues.

What made this one a little more tricky was an uneven fading. The left side had to be adjusted independently and the top was even more faded. I had to isolate the trees to bring back their color. And the protest signs were difficult to read, so I enhanced those as well.

Next we have this lovely photo of Anastasia tending to some house plants.

This photo was actually in decent shape. It lost a little contrast, had a little bit of fading, and her top retained almost no detail I could recover. Recovering accurate skin tones is probably one of the most important skills I learned when restoring these photos. I wanted to keep that filmic look of the era while avoiding making people look jaundiced or pale. Lightroom's new masking feature that let's you isolate every aspect of the people it detects in a photo. This made fixing skin tones much easier. I could isolate just her face or her lips or her hair or her eyes and make precise individual adjustments. This process could have taken a great deal longer without this feature. But, I brought back proper contrast and color, added a little bit of detail to her top with gen fill, and hopefully got fairly accurate skin tones as well.

Next up, forward facing flash strikes again in a photo of Mike and Anastasia during Christmas.

Film did not do well in low light. If it was indoors and nighttime, you pretty much had no choice but to use flash. But a flash is a very small, bright light source and this causes a very unflattering result on humans. Today we have much more powerful flashes with rotating heads. We can bounce the light into the ceiling or off a wall and increase the size of the light source to get a more flattering result.

In this photo I wasn't able to do much, so I just balanced the skin tones and brought out some hidden detail and called it a day. It's still a lovely memory and thankfully film has such character that it negates a lot of the unflattering aspects of direct flash.

Next up is some cuteness...

A big priority when editing photos is to make sure the subjects are the star of the photo. And in this one their faces were a bit obscured in shadow. There was also a lot of haze in the background hiding the beautiful vista. Not to mention when I cleared that haze, there was this super faint hint of something in the sky. I can't tell if it was a rainbow, but I decided to believe it was a rainbow. The only thing that I am still struggling with, and this seems to be common with a lot of old photos, is green. Getting a good, saturated, natural green to look right has been very difficult. Everything I try ends up looking toxic or fake. The only thing that ends up looking right with the rest of the photo is more of a yellow-y brown. It's something I'll have to work on as I learn, but as long as the overall photo looks balanced and natural, I'm okay with not perfectly nailing the greens.

Up next we have a lovely scene on a Greek dock...

As far as editing goes, this was pretty basic. I just undid the fading, adjusted the skin tones, replaced the blown-out sky, and made the colors pop. But I think this is actually one of my favorite before and after shots. I just love how such a simple fix brought this scene to life.

A new car is a big deal and Anastasia looks so proud here...

This image has another common issue in addition to the typical fading of colors. It has a yellowish orange color cast. This could have been an issue with the film used or the development process or a chemical reaction on the print. A color cast is a lot like looking through colored glasses. It's like a translucent color material was put on top of the image. This can be a little trickier to deal with, but if you know your color theory, you might already know the solution. Blue is the opposite of yellow/orange on the color wheel, so if you introduce blue to the image it should balance out. Also, add a sky if it was missing.

Next up we have a landscaping project...

This one wasn't too tricky, but there was one interesting issue I had to address. All light has a color temperature. Daylight has a temperature of around 5500K. But the inside of the garage was being lit by reflected light and so that light took on the color temperature of the things it was bouncing off of. So I had to mask out the people and the car and address the color temperature inside the garage to make everything look balanced. Also, the green fought me hard on this one. And with the theme of this picture being plants, I felt I really needed to find a tone that worked. I think I finally got there, but I spent way too much time in the color picker doing trial and error of green tones. Also, new sky.

With this next one I actually did a pretty thorough explanation of how I edited it. But this was probably my favorite puzzle to solve from this collection of photos.

I'll do the abridged explanation...

The physical photograph was printed on a paper with a very heavy texture. And when it was scanned, the light from the scanner bounced off that texture and created a pattern of unwanted highlights.

I was worried this was impossible to fix and I almost gave up on this photo. But after one final Google search I discovered something called "Fast Fourier Transform." It's a mathematical formula that can be used to detect patterns. And the image editing software Affinity Photo, just so happens to have a filter called FFT denoise that helps you remove unwanted patterns from scanned photos.

And thanks to that filter, I was able to remove a substantial amount of that pattern...

Then I did my standard clean up techniques...

Oh, and I decided to try learning how to colorize.

Photoshop has a new set of experimental filters and a colorization tool is one of them. It is not great yet, but it is a great starting place. Instead of having to hand paint every single thing in the photo, Photoshop gave me a base to work with and I could take it from there with traditional techniques.

That's all I have the energy for today, but there are a bunch of cool restorations to talk about. Hopefully you all find this interesting. It was such a great gift to give to Katrina's parents. And spending that time with them and making them happy felt like I was with my own parents again. So we all got a gift in that wonderful evening.

Part 2 coming as soon as I have the energy!

#photography #photo restoration

[juneteenthprojectcoalition]

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#bbc news uk #news #afrolatina #worldwide #civil rights movement #blacklivesmatter #culture #missouri #protest #orlando #icon park #petition

[sayruq]

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza

[odinsblog]

Nazis, openly waving Swastikas and doing the Sieg Heil salute in Orlando, Florida

Not a single uniformed police officer in sight. I say “uniformed” because the odds are that some of the people doing the Nazi salute are probably in law enforcement.

Now, contrast that to how overly militarized police have routinely shown up at peaceful Black Lives Matter protests

Or how the police treat peaceful college students protesting for free higher education

Or how the authorities treated Black people simply walking in our own communities, after the murder of Mike Brown

Oh, and how about six months before the January 6, 2021 white supremacist riots, when National Guard troops were deployed to the Lincoln Memorial on June 2, 2020, during George Floyd protests held in Washington, DC? Where was this overwhelming presence on January 6, 2021??

And finally, Ron DeSantis, a leading Republican candidate for President of The United States(!), has a large following of Neo-Nazis, but he has yet to explicitly denounce them. I guess maybe he’s too busy banning books, or making sure drag queens aren’t reading books to children, or making sure that accurate Black history—aka American history—isn’t being taught in schools.

I could go on and on and on, but the police never seem to have that same energy for actual fucking Nazis, or the Proud Boys, or Oath Keepers, etc etc etc

Domestic terrorism by white nationalists is the biggest threat to social stability, justice, democracy and to America itself.

👉🏿 https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/orlando-florida-nazis-march-blood-tribe/

👉🏿 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna103186

#t/w swastikas #politics #republicans #florida #ron desantis #nazis #blacklivesmatter #defund the police #racism #goyim defense league and blood tribe #two americas #white supremacy #hate speech #hate groups #neo nazis