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From the ❤️: “good trouble” imagery, in the presence of Justice. It is Martin Luther King, Jr. who said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” I had the pleasure of being in the presence of Justice yesterday. Justice is his name. He will soon be 12 years old and starting school again next week. He has been homeless for about a month. His dad Roque has been homeless for a couple of years (second image). According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, a staggering 2.5 million children are now homeless each year in America. This historic high represents one in every 30 children in the United States. A 2020 UCLA report found that there were at least 269,000 K-12 students in California experiencing homelessness at the end of the 2018-19 school year, and that number was likely a gross underestimate. The power of photography, observed photojournalist Gordon Parks, is that the camera can be used as a weapon against injustice. In his 2020 State of the State address, California Governor Gavin Newsom said, “Let’s call it what it is, a disgrace, that the richest state in the richest nation — succeeding across so many sectors — is failing to properly house, heal, and humanely treat so many of its own people. Every day, the California Dream is dimmed by the wrenching reality of families, children and seniors living unfed on a concrete bed.” Everybody counts or nobody counts. Better days for Justice. Through photography and acts of kindness we can expand and strengthen our possibilities and make the world a better place. “Sooner or later we all discover that kindness is the only strength there is,” Father Greg Boyle. #mercypedalers #loavesfishes #encounterchurch_sacramento #showupsac #sacramento #California #photojournalism #streetphotography #streetlife #kindness #survival #homeless #gratitude #socialjustice #poverty #streetportrait #environment #compassion #hope #love #hunger #hardtimes #justice #mercy #916 #injustice #children #homelesschildren