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January 25

Denise Poloyac

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January 25
2024: Resist. Taken at Patagonia on Fulton Market in Chicago.

As part of the campaign to shutdown Line 5, the aging oil pipeline that runs through Wisconsin and Michigan, the Great Lakes Business Network hosted what was supposed to be a showing of the documentary Troubled Waters. Because of a nearby accident the power was out – so there was no projector. Instead we got to hear about the campaign and the actions of the pipeline company Embridge that threaten the waters of the Straits of Mackinac and the Great Lakes and that trespass and ignore the sovereign rights of the Bad River Band. Nathan Wright is pictured here speaking about the water protectors who are defending their land and resisting Embridge.

2020: Sharing a story at dinner. Taken on Warren Ave. in Morton Grove, IL
2018: My Church. Taken at Unabridged Bookstore on Broadway just north of Melrose in Chicago. Had I not gone to the bookstore, the dentist would have been the best thing that happened today, which gives you some idea of the kind of day that it was. But a bookstore calms me, it makes me feel better – even when the featured books are “How Democracy Dies”, “It Is Even Worse Than You Think”, and “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”.
2016: Installing a window. Taken on Lawrence between Hamlin and Pulaski. Rogers Glass was installing a window and they let me take a bunch of photos while they did it. I didn’t get the name of the owner. When I asked him if I could take photos while they worked, I asked him his name and said it must be Roger since he was the owner and that was the name of his company. But he said that Roger was his son (the one on the right of the photo) and he named his company that because the name was good luck. He made sure I took some photos of his truck -- so if anyone needs to replace a glass storefront -- I have the number.
2012: Street Painter. Taken on Decatur Street in New Orleans

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