Tiananmen Square In Beijing On June 4, 1989, Was The Stage Of A Massive Government Crackdown On Pro-democracy

Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989, was the stage of a massive government crackdown on pro-democracy student protesters. The worst thing is, a quarter of a century later people are still afraid to talk about it. Chinese textbooks don't mention it. You can't Google it. The newest generation of children growing up in the PRC have no idea. Members of the diaspora demonstrating in commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre get blacklisted, and so it goes.

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again."

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

The fundrager on Mt. Everest.

Captured at a dry as hell environmental summit on campus I was contracted to cover.

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The Peckish Pig, Evanston’s first microbrewery, in the 8th Ward just prior to its ribbon cutting.