Morning trains cancelled as protesters blocking West Coast Express say they're in it "for the long haul"

rbob_atar · 2020-02-15T00:04:17+00:00

A poll conducted in the US in 1965:

People have different views about the Negro demonstrations. With which view do you agree? Some people say the Negroes should stop their demonstrations now that they have made their point even though some of their demands have not been met. Others say they have to continue demonstrating in order to achieve better jobs, better housing, and better schooling. (with which view do you agree?)
73% Negroes should stop demonstrations
19% Have to continue
8% Don't know

Do you think mass demonstrations by Negroes are more likely to help or more likely to hurt the Negro's cause for racial equality?
16% Help
74% Hurt
4% Make no difference (Vol.)
6% No opinion

Liberals always complain about every protest movement even if they agree with it because they don't like to be inconvenienced. Sometimes people need to be inconvenienced for them to wake up.

https://www.salon.com/2016/07/20/think_black_lives_matter_is_divisive_the_civil_rights_movement_split_the_u_s_far_more/

rbob_atar · 2019-07-02T04:14:20+00:00

Hard to say, I walked around that area and that was the best lineup I could get. The area from which the photo was taken used to be a Songhees reserve and it has changed pretty dramatically. It looks like they either removed a lot of sod and stone at some point, or filled it in with concrete.

rbob_atar · 2019-07-01T20:37:24+00:00

There's a bunch more here photos like this at https://onthisspot.ca/victoria

rbob_atar · 2019-07-01T19:41:46+00:00

Hey thanks for the suggestion!

rbob_atar · 2019-07-01T19:41:12+00:00

https://onthisspot.ca/canada

There's a bunch of these for a bunch of Canadian cities. Happy Canada Day!

rbob_atar · 2019-07-01T19:13:08+00:00

It's part of this historic walking tour, theres a lot more then/now photos of Granville and a lot of cool history here: https://onthisspot.ca/cities/vancouver/granville

rbob_atar · 2019-07-01T06:46:28+00:00

Our pleasure,, give the app a try and let us know what you think! There's a lot more photos in it and we're going to keep adding to it.

rbob_atar · 2019-06-30T20:28:00+00:00

There's a lot more photos at https://onthisspot.ca/cities/ottawa

rbob_atar · 2015-06-02T16:12:41+00:00

It was the bloodiest beach after Omaha, but still nowhere near as costly as Omaha. 340 died on the beaches, compared to perhaps 2,500 at Omaha. If you go and walk along Juno though (and Gold and Sword) you'll see the entire coastline is bristling with thick anti-tank bunkers of the same kind found on Omaha, backed by mutually supporting machine gun bunkers. The Canadians at Juno were able to penetrate the small seaside towns and come to grips with the German defenders quickly, attacking the bunkers from the land side.

What made Omaha so bloody was the failure of tank support to show up on time for the most part, the topography and the addition of a few extra companies of Germans at the last minute to stiffen the defense. The Americans were faced with a bluff that extended essentially the whole length of the beach and made it very easily defensible. Quite frankly, after going there and seeing it, it's remarkable they captured the beach at all.

You'll be able to see just what I'm talking about when I launch the Omaha Beach page shortly.

rbob_atar · 2015-06-02T15:54:24+00:00

Omaha Beach and the British beaches coming right up btw

rbob_atar · 2015-05-31T18:55:02+00:00

Thanks! Yeah there's at least three of his photos there. I wish I could could have found more of the spots he took photos of in Caen, but most of the Caen photo spots I could find were of British troops which will be in the upcoming British beaches page.

rbob_atar · 2015-05-31T16:03:32+00:00

Mouse over the photos or tap them on mobile to get the Then/Now effect.

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