After a homicide, what do others leave behind to memorialize the victim?
This site displays photos of makeshift memorials that spontaneously arise after individuals are killed by violence in Oakland.Each site of a killing is photographed whether or not a memorial is found there....
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Rigoberto Aleman, #122
Rigoberto Aleman, 32 Killed 12/26/07 10 pm 4400 block of Jensen St Vehicular
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Nic:
I originally learned of your blog a few months ago. I am a high school teacher in Oakland and too many of my students have had their lives damaged by violence. I think your blog is very powerful; although it is simple, listing only a few facts it also says so much more and it is also a testament to and of the violence that has taken our community hostage. Each person lost is a like another psychic wound. The entire city is suffering from PTSD, but there can be no healing as this wound is ripped open many times each month.
I think your blog shows honor to the victims; memorializes their lives and their deaths. Thank you for the time and effort and emotion that must go into such a labor, which is truly a labor of love.
Rigoberto Aleman, 32
2 comments:
Nic:
I originally learned of your blog a few months ago. I am a high school teacher in Oakland and too many of my students have had their lives damaged by violence. I think your blog is very powerful; although it is simple, listing only a few facts it also says so much more and it is also a testament to and of the violence that has taken our community hostage. Each person lost is a like another psychic wound. The entire city is suffering from PTSD, but there can be no healing as this wound is ripped open many times each month.
I think your blog shows honor to the victims; memorializes their lives and their deaths. Thank you for the time and effort and emotion that must go into such a labor, which is truly a labor of love.
Deb
Deb:
Your words of encouragement are appreciated, and I agree with your PTSD comment.
As a teacher in Oakland, you are part of the solution!
Nic
Post a Comment