What were your impressions of Cheri Honkala and the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights protest?
I found what they were doing really, really moving. I think Cheri Honkala is this incredible character. What’s interesting is that when you’re with them, and they’re kind of doing this march and undergoing these hardships it feels as if – it’s very intense and, I don’t know how to put it – it feels like it should be an event. It feels like it should be garnering some kind of attention because they put themselves through so much. But what was interesting to me, and kind of sad, is that barely anybody paid attention to it. They’re out there suffering in some kind of run down neighborhood in New Jersey, but if nobody’s there to photograph them, then it might as well not have even happened. Part of it, too, was that there were all kinds of much more glamorous protests going on. There was Billionaires for Bush and different kinds of anarchist groups and all kinds of things. I found it really inspiring. I thought that what they were trying to do was really, really important, especially how [
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