, Saturday, May 25, 2013
The group Let Us Vote DC (or L.U.V. DC) held a tattoo flash mob in Dupont Circle Thursday to raise awareness of D.C.'s lack of voting rights in Congress.
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On Flag Day, D.C. residents rallied for voting
rights in Congress and for statehood. The group
Let Us Vote DC or L.U.V. DC held a tattoo flash
mob in Dupont Circle. Participants showed off
their inked stars and bars. Ally Behnke, co-
founder of L.U.V. DC, displays her arm
tattoo bearing the symbol from D.C.'s flag.
(Special to WTOP/Will Friedman)
Adam Eidinger of Adams Morgan in D.C. shows off
his shoulder tattoo, featuring the D.C. flag in a
shield. (Special to WTOP/Will Friedman)
Jeremy Plesser, a D.C. resident, has the flag
tattooed on his shoulderblade. (Special to
WTOP/Emily Stern)
Plesser won a D.C. flag. (Special to WTOP/Emily
Stern)
"This is the real American flag," said Delegate
Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been championing
D.C. voting rights issue for years.
(Special to WTOP/Emily Stern)
D.C. advocacy organizations applied fake tattoos
of the D.C. flag to participants who gathered for
the Second Annual D.C. Flag Celebration. (Special
to WTOP/Emily Stern)
D.C. advocacy organizations applied fake tattoos
of the D.C. flag to participants attending the
Second
Annual D.C. Flag Celebration in Dupont Circle.
(Special to
WTOP/Emily Stern)
A baby plays below a D.C. flag with the words "No
taxation without representation" printed on it.
D.C. residents pay taxes but have no voting
representation in Congress.
(Special to WTOP/Emily Stern)
The D.C. flag was raised high over Dupont Circle.
(Special to WTOP/Will Friedman)
Eugene Kinlow, public affairs director for DC
Vote, spoke to people in Dupont Circle. (Special
to WTOP/Emily Stern)
Albert Eisenberg, a student from Philadelphia,
gets a fake tattoo from a L.U.V. DC volunteer.
(Special to WTOP/Emily Stern)
A young woman from Silver Spring crouches at the
base of
a sculpted hand to add her artistic mark.
(Special to WTOP/Emily Stern)
A hand offered passersby the chance to express
themselves artistically. (Special to WTOP/Emily
Stern)
A shirt from L.U.V. DC, an advocacy organization
for
the District, is seen. L.U.V. DC works to raise
awareness about the fact the District's budget
must be approved by Congress. The city has no
budget autonomy. (Special to WTOP/Will Friedman)
Kevin Lewis, who lives in Columbia Heights, and
Danny Allgeier from West Virginia display their
shoulder tattoos of the D.C. flag. (Special to
WTOP/Will Friedman)
Albert Eisenberg, a student from Philadelphia,
talks with a L.U.V. DC volunteer.
(Special to WTOP/Emily Stern)
"Where's my star?" asks a tattoo on the shoulder
of Nicole McLaughlin, who lives in Adams Morgan.
The tattoo remarks on the absence of D.C.'s
statehood and therefore its lack of representation
by a star on the American flag. (Special to
WTOP/Will Friedman)
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