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Climate Strike; Madison, WI 2019; © 2020 Jason Houge, All Rights Reserved; VoTP_118

Yes We Can and Together We Will When a protest has ended, is that the end of the movement? A photograph lives on, it keeps the conversation going. Voice of The People is a look at more than a decade of protests, marches and actions in the U.S. from 2009-2019. I was raised by a predominantly Republican and Catholic family. Growing up, the children in my family were often not allowed to be present during political conversations or news broadcasts. We never discussed or were told about the historic protests, rallies, and marches that helped shaped our home country, the United States. In short, weRead More →

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Occupy Chicago; Chicago, IL 2011-2012; © 2020 Jason Houge, All Rights Reserved; VoTP_074

Occupy Chicago Part of the Occupy Movement that swept the country in 2011 after Occupy Wall Street began in New York City. Protests focused on corporate greed and self-interested corporate influence within Government. Occupy Chicago positioned themselves in the heart of Chicago’s financial center, on the corner beside Bank of America (formerly the Continental Illinois building, origin of the term “Too big to fail”), and across the street from the Federal Reserve and Chicago Board of Trade. Protestors occupied this corner day and night, no matter the weather and marches/demonstrations happened regularly. Just prior to a NATO and G8 summit in the city in 2012,Read More →

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Cats on Ice; New Franken, WI 2014; © 2021 Jason Houge, All Rights Reserved; MFF_036

Discover the photography by Artist and Social Documentarian, Jason Houge; Small Edition Prints AvailableRead More →