Thousands of protesters, many of whom skipped school and work, marched to the U.S. Capitol Friday, Oct. 20, 2019, to protest government inaction on climate change as part of D.C.’s Youth Climate Strike. I shot photos on one of our office’s DSLRs and shot and produced a video package. Click on the photos for caption information.
Read the story here by my colleagues Wissam Melhem and James Carr.
Protesters hold up signs during D.C.’s Youth Climate Strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Kailey Broussard/Cronkite News)
Protesters march toward the Capitol building during D.C.’s Youth Climate Strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Kailey Broussard/Cronkite News)
Protesters filter into the rally viewing area in front of the Capitol building during D.C.’s Youth Climate Strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Kailey Broussard/Cronkite News)
Amritha Karthikeyan, a senior BASIS Phoenix student and member of Arizona Youth Climate Strike, holds her sign in front of the Capitol building Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Photo by Kailey Broussard)
Amritha Karthikeyan, a senior BASIS Phoenix student and member of Arizona Youth Climate Strike, said she was happy to join the strike in D.C. on Sept. 20, 2019, because she couldn’t attend the protest she helped plan in Phoenix. (Photo by Kailey Broussard)
Layal Rabat, a Phoenix volunteer, joined Karthikeyan for a conference in D.C. She ended up protesting with her. “If things keep going the way that they are going, Nobody is going to be able to go to school at all.” (Kailey Broussard/Cronkite News)
Amritha Karthikeyan, a senior BASIS Phoenix student and member of Arizona Youth Climate Strike, holds her sign in front of the Capitol building Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Photo by Kailey Broussard)
Protesters hold up signs during D.C.’s Youth Climate Strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (Kailey Broussard/Cronkite News)
Julia Lorena Campos Noguera, 22, sells water and lemonade in San Juan de Lurigancho. (Photo by Kailey Broussard)
LIMA, Peru – Federal authorities face the daunting task of assessing how Peru’s economy and labor market can absorb the more than 700,000 Venezuelans who have fled their country and resettled here in the past few years.
“We understand, and we understood, this is one crisis – a human crisis,” said Roxana del Aguila Tuesta, superintendent of the Ministry of Migration. “We cannot close our eyes, close our ears or close our mouths.”
Peru’s nearly two decades of economic growth – along with lenient immigration requirements that include a temporary residency permit, known as a PTP, that allows refugees to legally work – have made the country the second most popular destination for Venezuelan migrants behind neighboring Colombia. Read more.
For rural San Diegans, neighborhood design and building can make a world of difference in an emergency.
Harmony Grove Drive winds through the community it’s named after. The road is the main road in and out of Elfin Forest Harmony Grove. Proposed developments would add over 700 homes along the areas’ escape route. (Kailey Broussard/News21)
As officials and developers eye real estate in rural areas as solutions to the area’s housing crises, some residents fear increasingly dense neighborhoods will put them and their families in danger when — not if — the next wildfire burns. Many of these photos originally appeared in a News21 project by Anna Huntsman and Jake Steinberg, along with more pictures and contributed reporting by Ellen O’Brien.
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Lali Mitchell — Harmony Grove, Calif.
The Cocos Fire completely destroyed Lali Mitchell’s home in rural California. Now living adjacent to her old property, Mitchell views proposed developments near her as a “death trap.”
Lali Mitchell‘s first home in Harmony Grove, California, where she had lived since moving to the area in 1976, was destroyed in the 2014 Cocos Fire. She said the fire destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of art, as well as family mementos, such as her father’s typewriter. “She was her own beautiful thing,” Mitchell said of her burned house. (Kailey Broussard/News21)
Lali Mitchell lives along Country Club Road, a winding, dead-end street in Harmony Grove, California. In the 2014 Cocos Fire, traffic snarled as residents fled their homes. Mitchell said the road would not support increased traffic from new residents. “There’s no way you could be safe here,” she warned. (Kailey Broussard/News21)
Lali Mitchell lives with her 1-year-old dog, Sita. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Lali Mitchell unwraps her father’s typewriter. The machine is one of the few things she salvaged from the fire. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Lali Mitchell‘s first home in Harmony Grove, California, where she had lived since moving to the area in 1976, was destroyed in the 2014 Cocos Fire. She said the fire destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of art, as well as family mementos, such as her father’s typewriter. “She was her own beautiful thing,” Mitchell said of her burned house. (Kailey Broussard/News21)
In the studio attached to her house, Lali Mitchell houses art pieces that incorporate the community. Mitchell lost much of her art in the 2014 Cocos Fire, including a $10,000 stained glass art collection. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Flowers are just starting to return five years after Lali Mitchell’s house burned down. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Lali Mitchell said the fire stopped at the 100-year-old mother oak tree on her property. She says there’s “something mystical” about the fire’s quashed path. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Allyson Watson and Family — Valley Center, Calif.
When they were told to evacuate during the 2003 Paradise Fire, Allyson Watson and her family were ready to go. However, after two of the cars in which they were evacuating crashed. Watson’s sister, Ashleigh Roach, died at 16, and Watson suffered burns on over 80 percent of her body. The family has since turned to advocacy, hoping to get through to even just one person of the dangers of wildfires.
Lori Roach, Allyson Watson and John Roach reminisce over photos of their original home in Valley Center, Calif. that burned in the 2003 Paradise Fire. Although she, her husband and children live in Escondido, Watson said they’re able to visit and enroll their children in Valley Center schools. “Valley Center is every bit my community and always will be,” she said. (Kailey Broussard/News21)
Lori Roach and Allyson Watson laughingly try to remember standard piano tunes. The piano in the Roach’s home was picked with Ashleigh Roach, Watson’s younger sister, in mind. Ashleigh, however, died before playing that piano. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Allyson Watson plays a tune with her mother in her parents’ house in Valley Center, California, July 26. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Lori Roach and Allyson Watson look over at a portrait of Ashleigh Roach, who died at 16 in the 2003 fires outside her parents’ home in Valley Center. Ashleigh loved Irish step dance. (Photo by Kailey Broussard / News21)
Van Collinsworth — Santee, Calif.
A longtime California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection volunteer, Van Collinsworth walked us showed us the proposed site of Fanita Ranch, a development approved in Santee.
Van Collinsworth, a longtime California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection firefighter, maps the proposed layout of Fanita Ranch, a development approved in Santee, California. The development has gone back and forth between planning and legal battles for around a decade. Initially approved in 2007, but its environmental impact reports were found inadequate in 2013. (Kailey Broussard/News21)
The Hartmans — Elfin Forest, Calif.
Some five years after her family’s garage burned down in the 2014 Cocos fire, Angelique Hartman is weary of new development near her neighborhood that would call for “shelter in place” procedures in case of fire. “The idea of actually asking families to stay in place, to shelter in place, is absurd,” she said. “It is human instinct to leave as soon as you see a threat coming. You’re not going to sit there for a moment’s notice — you’re going to get out as quickly as you can.”
Angelique Hartman (left) and her family, Lily, Cole and Gus Hartman, moved to Elfin Forest from Vermont in 2013 with the dream of owning their own land. Around a year later, their garage burned down in the Cocos fire. “To be honest with you, I really didn’t think that the fire could possibly consume so much of the neighborhood,” Angelique Hartman said. “It really didn’t seem believable.” (Kailey Broussard/News21)
Angelique Hartman, left, and Lily, right, move about in their shed in Elfin Forest, Calif., June 30, 2019. The shed has been rebuilt since the 2014 Cocos fire burned it down. (Kailey Broussard)
Cole admires the skin of a snake he killed with a shovel in his parents’ yard. (Kailey Broussard)
Cole looks away as he prepares one of his arrows. His family’s shed and patio area doubles as his shooting range and practice hockey rink. (Kailey Broussard)
