The photo section for chapter 4 is full of images, sometimes shot with sophisticated drone techniques, of mass movement protests stemming from the explosion of resistance and activism from all over the world in 2019.
There were five full-fledged MDM case studies of mass movements in this chapter with photos appearing in the book of both “unworthy” movements (that is, unworthy according to the coverage tendencies of elite, mainstream news media) as well as “worthy” ones: Hong Kong (worthy), Venezuela (worthy), Puerto Rico (unworthy), Chile (unworthy) and Ecuador (unworthy). Iran is also briefly surveyed and will eventually have online-only photos uploaded as well.
Chapter 5 on climate change, similar to Chapter 3 on immigration, is another chapter which has Word Press award-winning photos featured in it. Several shot by Matthew Abbott for the New York Times capture the horrifying moments during the Australian bushfires of 2020, widely seen by scientists as having been exacerbated to record-breaking levels by climate change. Other memorable images pepper both the print edition’s chapter, as well as online-only selected images for the site, of just how extensively the #ClimateStrike and Thunberg-led-struggle has grown into a truly global resistance movement.
Interrupted by the pandemic, the movement has recently managed to insert itself onto the 2022 mainstream political agenda of COP 27. Nevertheless, an enormous propaganda achievement has been garnered by the polluter-funded public relations industry having managed to successfully avoid the mainstream news media covering closely the worst industrial polluter in the world: the U.S. military. Outpacing pollution levels by entire countries, the U.S. military was found to top the charts of industrial polluters by no less than three different scholarly studies in 2019. The captivating photos in this section show what the #ClimateStrike movement had to say about that matter and other related ones too.
This is one of two photo sections and book chapters focusing on immigration and is thus chock full of exceptional photojournalism. Both pending online-only images and print-edition photos comprise an array of captivating and award-winning photography, including from the largest, non-election-covered, MSM-story at the turn-of-the-century, outpacing even coverage given to the O.J. Simpson trial and the death of Princess Diana: that, of course, of the Elian Gonzalez saga. There are not, at least as of now, any images – even online-only ones – of any of the nine “Elian” equivalent who were all but ignored by the mainstream news media in spite of having similarly dramatic circumstances and being unaccompanied minors as well.