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Social Issues
Abortion
"Pro-choice" and "right-to-life" demonstrators
Planned Parenthood candlelight vigil against Parental Consent law
Alcohol and Drugs
Half-empty liquor bottle and glass on table
Street demonstrations against drugs
Olympia Brewery--Tumwater, Washington
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) members demonstration
Apartheid
Protests (in U.S.) of South Africa's apartheid system
Nelson Mandela--visit to Detroit--1990
The Arts
Mosaic Youth Theatre - theatre and music training for teens in Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts
Heidelberg Street Art Project-Detroit
Automobiles
North American International Auto Show--Detroit
Use of sex to sell cars
Solar car, electric car
Volkswagen's new Beetle at 1998 show
Auto factories
Shopping center parking lot filled with cars
Closed auto plants
Traffic jam on freeway
Serious auto accident--car split in half by collision with tree
Wrecked truck along freeway
Auto company executives
Religious leaders' anti-SUV campaign ("What Would Jesus Drive?")
DaimlerChrysler Technical Center: clay models, wind tunnel, vehicle
testing
Men work on hot rods for display in Autorama Hot Rod show
[See also: Labor--Auto Workers]
Central America
Demonstrations against U.S. intervention in Central America
Refugees from El Salvador
Census
Census Bureau counts homeless people in Detroit
Child Care
Child care center (good mix of racial groups)
Child care at Methodist Community House
High school students learn child care in school's "nursery lab"
Children work on computer at child care center
Children
Children of all ages in various situations
Conservation
Volunteers build/maintain trails and campsites in national parks and
forests
Volunteer campground hosts in state campgrounds
Volunteer park rangers working through Student Conservation Association
Abandoned railroad coverted to hiking trail
Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps--1990s revival of FDR's CCC
Consumerism
Families shopping at mall
Child in toy store
Criminal Justice
Prisoner under house arrest wearing electronic monitoring device
Released prisoners given new suits of clothes for job interviews
Disabled people
Summer day camp for disabled children
Computer class, recreation, arts, occupational therapy
One-armed major league baseball pitcher Jim Abbott
Truck driver born with deformed hands and arms, with his 42-wheel rig
Disabled athletes, including children, participate in Michigan Wheelchair Games
Ford-UAW training for deaf workers
Sign language interpreters at work
Hiking trail for disabled persons
Disabled rights group opposes doctor-assisted suicide
Volunteer carpenters build wheelchair ramp for disabled child
Children with cancer at World Oncology Camp
Blind instructor teaches computer class
Disasters
Hurricane Katrina - victims and volunteers
Detroit residents protest slow government response to Hurricane Katrina
Urban search and rescue worker training
Residents clean up after tornado--Highland Park, Mich.
Domestic Violence
Shelter for domestic violence victims
Education
Students in K-12 classrooms--private and public schools
Abandoned school, boarded up
School for students at risk for dropping out
Child care center in school
Teachers oppose charter schools
Vocational classes
Students taking standardized test
University graduation
Detroit public schools' Malcolm X Academy
Children paint mural on wall of school
Striking teachers
Closed school with "For Sale" sign on it
School-sponsored "cash for guns" program
Edison Project: for-profit company runs public school
Chris Whittle--founder of the Edison Project
Univ. of Michigan students support affirmative action
Rally promotes graduate employee unionism
Retired teacher volunteers to tutor 15-year-old in math
Home schoolers convention--exhibits stress religious instruction
Parents string wires to link school classrooms to the Internet
Rally against school layoffs in Detroit
Elementary students learn capitalism through school's "Microsociety"
First and second graders using computers
Teachers ask for adequate supplies and smaller class sizes
University student sit-in, opposing sweatshops
School violence prevention program
Catholic students protest closing of their schools
College students at dinner in cooperative housing--Ann Arbor, Mich.
Drywall repair class for low-income home owners
Special education students
Energy
Gas station
Hydrogen filling station
Ethanol gas pump
Solar electric power station in desert
Electric generating plants
Wind turbines
Old-fashioned windmills
Nonprofit organization teachers energy conservation in Detroit
Environment and Pollution
Tire recycling--machinery shreds discarded tires
Mandatory curbside recycling program--Southfield, Mich.
Hydrogen-fueled vehicles: UPS delivery vehicle; Ford experimental passenger car
Park closed to due soil contamination
High school students--immigrants from Bangladesh--study ecology of Rouge River
Plastics recycling plant recycles soft drink bottles
Hazardous waste cleanup--workers wearing protective clothing
Children play in park next to coal-fired power plant
Demonstrators protest acid rain
Asbestos insulation deteriorating on pipes
Close-up of industrial smokestack
Coal-burning power plant emitting smoke
Citizens protest construction of incinerator
Trucks dumping garbage at Detroit city incinerator
Construction workers add air pollution control equipment to Detroit
incinerator
City street contaminated by PCB spill
Volunteers hunt for stoneflies in stream
Experimental crops growing to produce bio-fuel on Superfund site
Billboard warning about radon gas--Pruntytown, W. Va.
Chemical-filled barrels stacked in residential neighborhood
Tailings pond of Climax Molybdenum mine scars Colorado mountain
Greenpeace rallies at Dow Chemical annual meeting over Bhopal, India
disaster
Signs warn of toxic contamination on former industrial site
Detroit children plant trees for Earth Day/Arbor Week
Volunteers plant trees in poor Detroit neighborhood
Volunteers clean up Rouge River--southeast Michigan
Urban community gardening
Children grow produce and sell it at city sidewalk market
Cell phone recycling plant
Tires dumped in alley
Teenagers remove rubble from empty lot to make playground
Timber clear-cuts
Multiple billboards along Interstate highway
Michigan residents oppose Ice Mountain bottled water plant
Oil spill cleanup--Rouge River and Detroit River, Michigan
Residents protest "environmental racism"
Times Beach, Missouri--fence enclosing PCB-contaminated town
Trucks dump garbage in landfill
Peregrine Falcons
Scientists band chicks hatched on city high-rise building
Fish & Wildlife Service releases lake trout fingerlings into Lake
Michigan
Artificial wetlands mitigate wetland destruction in airport expansion
Neighborhood group collects abandoned tires
Tires are recycled into a playground surfacing material
Zebra mussels
Residents protest pollution and ordors from industrial facility
Students monitor water quality in rivers
Housing developments on North Carolina beach - vulnerable to hurricanes
Families
Parents and/or children of varying ages in many different situations
Railroad worker forced to live apart from family because of job
Grandmother raises grandchildren in Detroit
Child in toy store
Eight-year-old gets her ears pierced
Pure Love Alliance promotes marital fidelity and opposes divorce
Young child eating health and unhealthy food
Farmers and Farmworkers
Michigan farmers rally at state capitol to protest farm policy
Farmer feeding cows
Heifer Project animals on Maryland farm
Child feeds, hugs, goats on family farm
Bailing hay on vacant city lot for animals at urban school
Farmers with animals at state fair
Hispanic farmworkers harvest blueberries, grapes in Michigan
Coalition of Immokalee Workers boycotts McDonalds
Farmworkers harvest oranges in Belize
Gambling
Gamblers at Detroit casino
Las Vegas - exterior shots of hotel/casinos
Gamblers in the President Casino on riverboat at St. Louis
Convenience store clerk sells lottery tickets to customer
Rally against proposed casino--Detroit
Thousands stand in line to apply for jobs at proposed casino
Casino/hotel complex under construction on Michigan Indian reservation
Gambling at Junior League charity fundraiser
Gangs
Neighbors march against gang activity in their area
Gang graffiti
People painting over gang graffiti on store and garage
Former gang member at work in small manufacturing plant
Gay & Lesbian Issues
Gay marriage - demonstrators for and against
The AIDS quilt, bearing names of victims
Picket line at Cracker Barrel restaurant, protesting discrimination
Anti-gay violence--candlelight vigil for murder victim--Dearborn Hts,
MI
Gay wedding--Royal Oak, MI
Gay fraternity members at Eastern Michigan University
Anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church pickets soldier's funeral and V.A. rehab hospital
Guns and Violence
People turn in guns at "cash for guns" exchange
"Gunstock 95"--pro-gun rally in Macomb County, Michigan
The Michigan Militia: rallies, swearing-in of new members
Firearms manufacturers display their products
Detroit residents mourn the death of children killed by gunfire
Anti-gun vigil
Postal workers mark anniversary of fatal shooting
Firemen wash blood off street where two people were killed
Protests against trying 13-year-old for murder as an adult
Million Mom March for gun control - Washington
Second Amendment Sisters oppose gun control - Washington
Girls in self-defense workshop
Fatal shooting of first grader in classroom - Mt. Morris Twp., Michigan
Violence prevention program in Southfield, Michigan elementary school
Kids with signs: "End the Killing of Our Youth"
Health Care
Dentists give free services to low-income children
Teenager prepared for surgery in hospital
Woman donates a kidney to a stranger
Hospital closed and boarded up
Nursing home workers rally for better pay and more staff
Nursing home residents
Senior citizens travel to Canada for cheaper prescription drugs
Bottles of medicines, with retired couple worried about costs in background
Patients being examined at free clinic
Miners health clinic - test for Black Lung disease
Childbirth in hospital setting
Two-year-old in hospital with IV
Canadian single-payer health care system
Ontario Health Insurance Plan card
Person using OHIP card at emergency room in Ontario hospital
U.S. unionists visiting Canadian hospital to inspect health services
Doctor examines worker in occupational health clinic
Worker gets hearing exam in occupational health clinic
Blue Cross workers strike to protest cuts in their health benefits
Children get injections at immunization fair
Elderly woman holding her medicines
Close-up of pills, inlcuding Prozac
Nurses on strike over inadequate staffing
Jack Kevorkian campaigning for doctor-assisted suicide
Disabled rights group pickets against Kevorkian
Protest against closing of mental health clinic
Disabled group advocates home care instead of nursing homes
Child with asthma using breathing treatment and inhaler
AIDS drugs
Nurse holds drugs she must take after accidental needle stick
Nurse, social worker talk to teen moms in Healthy Steps program
Residents and workers at group home for the severely disabled
Hospice--staff and residents
Hospice home care
Four-year-old on psychoactive drugs
Blood donors
Doctors discuss health issues with elementary school children
Hospital resident doctors picket over low pay, long hours
AARP rallies to legalize drug imports from Canada
Chiropractor doing back adjustment
Chiropractor looking at x-rays
Nurse with patient
Nurse and doctor review patient records
Housing and Homelessness
Home foreclosure auction
Habitat for Humanity
Renovation of former drug house--Detroit
Renovation of public housing for the homeless--Detroit
Blitz Build--five houses in one week
Women volunteers build Habitat for Humanity home
Homeless individuals
Homeless protests and demonstrations
Tent city
People carrying "Will Work for Food" signs
Volunteers paint houses for elderly Detroit residents
Volunteers board up empty houses to prevent crime & vandalism
Homeless shelter
Americorps participants help Habitat for Humanity with home renovation
"YouthBuild" programs trains unemployed youth for construction jobs
Demolition of run-down public housing project--Detroit
High quality low-income housing development
Homeless veterans--weekend "Stand Down" provides services
Urban sprawl--new construction in fast-growing suburb
Candlelight vigil for homeless youth
Hunger
Long lines of people waiting for distribution of surplus foods
Children work in soup kitchen's garden
People with "Will work for food" signs
Volunteers pack boxes of food at community food bank
Children eating at soup kitchen; volunteer staff serving
Boy Scouts collect canned goods for food banks
Church distributes food before Christmas
Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless
Volunteers plant garden on city lot for Gleaners Food Bank
Empty Bowls symbolize hungry people
Immigration
Swearing-in of new U.S. citizens
Immigrants working in the U.S.
Anti-immigration Minuteman Project rally in Washington
English as a Second Language (ESL) class for immigrants
Man paints dome of mosque in Dearborn, Mich.
Arab-Americans in Dearborn, Mich.
Farm union organizer talks with undocumented immigrant worker in Ohio
Catholic mass in Polish for immigrants from Poland
Palestinian studies dentistry at University of Michigan
Demonstration against INS raids in Detroit's Latino community
Refugees from central America
Mexican-American apple packinghouse workers in Wenatchee, Wash.
Arab Americans in Dearborn, Michigan
Arab American voters at polls on election day
Memorial march for Mexicans who died trying to cross border
Border Patrol random checkpoints near Canadian border
Protest against Border Patrol checkpoints
Mexican-Americans pick blueberries in Michigan
Mexican-Americans harvesting grapes in Michigan vineyards
Immigrants rights march
Iran
Americans burning Iranian flag (1979)
Iraq
Iraqis in America vote in 2005 Iraq national election
Rallies oppose, support war with Iraq
Middle East
Arab-Americans demonstrate in Dearborn, Mich. against Israeli occupation
of Palestinian cities
Arab-American Resource Corps youth volunteers
Pro- and anti-Israel demonstrations during Israel-Lebanon war
Iraqi-Americans celebrate the hanging of Saddam Hussein
Militarism and War
Opposition to and support for wars in Persian Gulf, Afghanistan
Demonstrators oppose military recruiting
Aircraft maintenance at Air National Guard base
Protest against Guantanamo Detention Center at DC Court of Appeals
Air show at Air National Guard base
Army M-1 tank production plant--Warren, Mich. (now closed)
Auto parts production on site of former Army tank plant - Warren, Mich.
Wurtsmith Air Force Base--Oscoda, Mich. (Subsequently closed)
B-52 bombers and KC135 tankers
Children admire military recruiter's weapons
Children play with toy guns
Arlington National Cemetery
Rallies (in early 80s) for Nuclear Weapons Freeze
High school and college ROTC participants
Women cadets newly admitted to Virginia Military Institute (1997)
Homeless veterans
Rallies oppose Iraq war
Children's peace march
Native Americans/Canadians
Mohawk Indians Confront Canadian Army--Quebec
Crazy Horse Memorial--Custer, South Dakota
Little Bighorn Battlefield--Montana
Columbus Day protest: "We Were Here First"
Nuclear Power
Yucca Mountain Project, Nevada - Workers in tunnels intended for storage
of high-level nuclear waste
Davis-Besse nuclear power plant (Ohio)
Graveyard with nuclear power plant in background
Houses and condos near nuclear plant
Demonstrations and arrests protesting Detroit Edison's Fermi II plant
Workers inside nuclear power plant being decommissioned
Penions
Rank & file Teamsters protest abuse of pension funds
Auto workers demand cost-of-living allowance on pensions
Police
Secret service agents protect the President
Police on horseback, motorcycles
Confrontations and arrests
Police search youth
Protests in Detroit, Cincinnati against police shootings of civilians
Police attack peaceful labor protest with pepper gas
Firemen wash blood off street where policeman was killed in shootout
ATF agents with dogs screening for explosives
Politics
Various national, state, & local candidates campaigning, including:
Barack Obama
Hillary Rodham Clinton
John Edwards
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
John Kerry
Howard Dean
Al Gore
Jesse Jackson
George H.W. Bush
Ralph Nader
Rally alleges cheating in 2004 Presidential election
Labor union support for Democratic Party
Voters at the polls on election day
Teenager voting in her first election
Arab-Americans voting in Dearborn, Michigan
Democratic Caucus voting in Michigan
"Kids Voting"--School children cast mock ballots
Religious groups picket Congressman to protest budget cuts
Pregnancy and Child Birth
Pregnant woman
Woman in labor, surrounded by friend and medical personnel
Fetal monitoring equipment
Newborn baby
Private Property
"Private: Keep Off" sign on beach
Race Relations
Rally against police killing of unarmed African-American - Cincinnati
Ku Klux Klan rallies
Nazi rallies and protests against Nazi rallies
Black and white kids from Detroit and suburbs paint mural
Protest against killing of an African-American shopper at suburban
mall
African-Americans picket Warren, Mich. mayor's home to protest racial
harassment
Death of Vincent Chin--beaten to death because of anti-Asian racism
Detroit auto workers protest import of Japanese cars
"Environmental racism" protests
Latino- and African-American-owned manufacturing plants
Rallies for and against affirmative action
Slave cemetery near Stuart, Virginia--graves marked only by rocks
Monument marks end of Underground Railroad on U.S.-Canada border
Arson at African-American doctor's new home in affluent community
March on Washington for Jobs, Peace & Freedom - Aug. 27, 1983
Attempt to integrate Methodist Church in Mississippi - 1966
Rosa Parks bus from Montgomery bus boycott - now at Henry Ford Museum
Wall built in 1940s to segregate Detroit neighborhoods
Prayer vigil for racial unity
Mourners after Rosa Parks' death
Students get to know those of other races at "Mix It Up" Day
Religion
Ramadan meal, shared by Moslems, Jews & Christians
Mosque under construction - Detroit
Christian, Jewish, and Islamic leaders join hands to protest mosque vandalism
Santa Claus visits mostly-Moslem students at elementary school
Capuchin monks give away winter coats to the poor
Fundamentalist street preacher
Children praying at National Day of Prayer
Pentacostal church service
Street preachers
Teen Mania Battle Cry rally
Easter pageant
Anti-gay Christians picket Marine's funeral and V.A. rehab hospital
National Day of Prayer
American followers of Falun Gong
Sisters in convent pray
Religious groups picket Wal-Mart
Child care and lunch for seniors at Methodist Community House
Youth works with the poor in church-run volunteer program
Pure Love Alliance marches for marital fidelity and against divorse
Union shop steward holds rosary--he prays before every grievance meeting
Promise Keepers rally
Ten Commandments monument from Alabama Supreme Court on display in Michigan
Catholic students protest closing of their schools
Cross standing above wreckage of a building
Distribution of food to the hungry
Religious opposition to intervention in Central America
Catholic Church - mass; adult baptism & confirmation; ordination
Pope John Paul II visits Detroit
Church volunteers process donated clothing for disaster victims
Peace activists walk the Stations of the Cross in downtown Detroit
Bar mitzvah
Radio talk shows
Mark Koernke, advocate of right-wing paramilitary movement, on talk
show
Jim Hightower, pro-labor radio commentator
Senior Citizens
Elderly persons working in industrial and service jobs
Elderly persons with grandchildren
Nursing home residents
Elderly person holding her medicines
Elderly person in wheelchair at top of decaying ramp
Lunch program for seniors at Methodist Community House
Senior citizens involved in sports
Senior citizens dancing--Seattle
"Pet-a-Pet"--Pets visit a nursing home
77-year-old man playing softball
September 11: Aftermath of Attacks on NY, Washington
Woman sells Detroit News extra edition: "U.S. Attacked"
Arab-Americans donate blood for victims - Dearborn, Mich.
Arab-American store owner displays American flag
World Trade Center architects
Candlelight vigil for victims
Anti-war rally
Pro-war rally
Memorial near United Flt 93 crash site in Pennsylvania
Soldiers erect barbed wire fence around sole U.S. anthrax vaccine manufacturer
Security around New York Stock Exchange
First anniversary: Children write names of 9/11 victims on studs of
house being built by Habitat for Humanity
Rally for Muslim cleric Rabih Haddad, imprisoned after 9/11
Sex
Hooters dancers entertain at Easyriders Bike Show
Workers at Hooters restaurant
Demonstrators favor sexual abstinence before marriage
Smoking
Very large ash tray filled with cigarette butts
Smoker's Hub: a store devoted solely to tobacco products
Workers smoking outside office door
Social Security
Five-week-old infant with his new Social Security card
Rally against privatization of Social Security
Space
National Radio Astronomy Observatory--Green Bank, WV
(site of search for extra-terrestrial intelligence)
Sports
Seven- and eight-year-olds playing football in Police Athletic League
Fans rally to save Tiger Stadium
Arena football
Soccer fans at international match--Pontiac, Mich.
School children in soccer match
Professional gives soccer clinic for school children
Volunteers renovate inner-city ball diamond
Fishing
Ice fishing
Rafting
Canoeing and kayaking
Senior citizens involved in track and field competitions
Senior citizen ice skating
Track & field: youth competition
High school football players sign Letters of Intent for college scholarships
Karate
Girls wrestling
Bike riders
Injured recreational softball player
Football manufacturing at Wilson Sports factory
Gold Cup hydroplane races on Detroit River
77-year-old softball player
Grosse Pointe Hunt Club pony show
High school Powderpuff girls football game
Pick up football game in the snow
Taxes
Union members rally against Pres. Bush's "tax cut for the rich"
Peace activists protest use of tax dollars for military spending
Federal tax forms
Volunteers prepare tax returns for low-income seniors
Technology
Workers learning/operating advanced machinery
Volunteers work on Y2K computer problem at school library
Trade
Opposition to North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Flags of U.S., Canada, & Mexico at G.M. Technical Center
Protests against World Bank/International Monetary Fund
Protests against Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
Unemployment
Thousands reach for job applications at post office
Unemployed stand in line to apply for jobs at proposed casino
City job fair: thousands apply
Rallies against plant closings
Soup line - Detroit
"We Need Jobs" demonstrations
Unemployed groups lobby for jobs legislation in Washington
Detroit community group marches for jobs
Food stamp line
Man with sign on city street: "Will Work for Food"
Urban Decay
Vacant lots with weeds & garbage
Abandoned factories
Abandoned and vandalized hospital
Abandoned housing
Urban Renewal
Demolition of Detroit community to make way for an auto plant
Residents of Toledo neighborhood evicted for Jeep plant
Detroit's "empowerment zone"
Low-wage manufacturing on site of closed auto plants
Volunteers working on community improvement projects
Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Washington, D.C.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial--Angel Fire, New Mexico
Volunteers
Volunteers clean city parks, paint homes, renovate houses,
pack clothing, build trails, work in gardens, plant trees,
erase gang graffiti, prepare tax returns, shovel snow, serve lunch to the poor, clean trash, fix up playgrounds
Water
California water projects (canals and pipelines through desert)
Irrigation of crops in Mohave Desert
Water displays in Las Vegas
Great Lakes
Students monitor stream quality
Hurricane Katrina destruction
Welfare
Welfare recipient, holding infant, fills out job application
Welfare recipient lobbies Detroit mayor for a city job
Demonstrators oppose social service cuts in "Contract with America"
Job fair for welfare recipients
Former welfare recipients working in small manufacturing plants
Protest against food stamp cuts
Mich. politician proposes one-way out-of-state bus ticket for welfare
recipients
Poor Peoples March opposes welfare cuts: "Enron reform--not welfare
reform"
Youth
Teens working in various low-wage jobs
Teenagers in Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Teen using ATM to withdraw cash
Teenager gets ready for high school prom
Teenager cooking
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