On Nov. 17 the Palestinian Youth Movement teamed with Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return (SUPER UW), a group based out of the University of Washington, to march through the campus to protest the…
Posts published by “Jordan Somers”
Jordan Somers is currently in his second year of Visual Media at Seattle Central College. He specializes in photojournalism and documentary work, with a particular emphasis on social movements happening throughout the city. His 2020 documentary, Hope is Not Cancelled, was an official selection at the Local Sightings Film Festival, and won an award for best editing at the Oregon Documentary Film Festival. Jordan is an avid traveler when granted the opportunity, and has a keen interest in psychology and existential philosophy.
On Saturday, June 19, thousands of Seattle residents gathered and marched to celebrate Juneteenth, acknowledging and commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Performers, vendors and school graduates representing the BIPOC and LGBTQ+…
Remembering lives lost: Seattle murals and vigils honor those lost since George Floyd’s murder
Jordan SomersMay 25, 2021, marked the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis police department. The anniversary sparked protests and vigils nationwide honoring Floyd and those who have lost their…
1 Year later: Protesters march to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
Jordan SomersOn May 29, 2021, protesters met at Occidental Park in Pioneer Square to commemorate George Floyd, who was murdered by Minneapolis police one year ago. Seattle residents marched to decry the continued systematic violence and…
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost When I first spoke to Carlos Hernandez, I knew…
Just one day after it was reported that the Biden Administration approved the sale of $735 million in missile guided weapons to Israel, a Seattle rally was held to protest the Israeli occupation and deadly…
Just as Seattle Central had preemptively closed its doors amid the COVID outbreak, artist and Seattle Central student Myron Curry had completed two murals for the bottom floor of the Mitchell Activity Center (MAC). The…
After my second reading of Seattle-based artist and educator Chelsey Richardson’s book, All Water Has Perfect Memory, the conscious act of parsing her words had become an unconsciously raw, bitter, eerily lucid emotional transcendence. These…
In the initial months of the COVID-19 outbreak, over 4,500 Seattle-based businesses had shut down both temporarily and permanently. Of those who found remarkable ways to stay open, newfound business operations, as well as strategies…
Protestors assembled en masse on Saturday, March 7, demanding the protection of Black trans women’s lives and decrying the violence against all trans women. The rally began at the Cal Anderson Park playfield, where a…