7/13/89 – 12/28/10 Katie Simianer had a premonition she would die young, her mother Marty Goslee Jaramillo said, but no one thought that day would come before she turned 22. Katie was finishing her high school degree in the welding program at the Pine Ridge Job Corps near the Black Hills in 2009 when she … Katie Simianer
Jonathan Guerrero was a generous guy, an old soul in a young body, his aunt Tammy Watson said. He had a big heart for the down and out, the people who had no food, nor any place to stay. When he was 14, his mom Karen Guerrero started taking him to the Atlanta Bread Company … Jonathan Guerrero
3/16/87 – 12/28/10 Nikki Pack talked fast, so fast that when she got excited, it was hard to understand what she was saying. She was spontaneous too, ready to go off to the next adventure at the slightest suggestion of fun and, according to friends, a great traveling companion. It was pretty hard to dampen … Nikki Pack
“There was something about Justin, he would just draw you in,” said Jamie Hogshooter, Justin Lutz’s four-months-younger cousin. They spent their summers and many weekends together on the family farm in Rolla, Missouri next to the Ozark Mountains in the Eastern part of the state. “I didn’t like to play army or Indians, but Justin … Justin Lutz
In the leaderless chaos of the General Strike in Oakland, the crowd maintained its own order and a unique way of expressing frustrations.
Last night’s bloody Occupy Oakland demonstration proved to me the vital importance of Twitter in bearing witness in real time, a time when the conventional media often turns off the camera, looks away or refuses to report.