Exhibit # 51

11 February 2008 –11 March 2008

Lillie Paquette

MALD 2008

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

-- Voltaire

During 2005 through 2007 I documented U.S. citizens exercising their freedom of speech and assembly at various protest actions in Washington, D.C. I set out to not only hear what they had to say but also how they said it. My goal was to capture participants from of all walks of life, all ages and all backgrounds. Their one commonality was a belief in their right to both demonstrate and freely express their views in the streets of the nation’s capital.

This exhibit captures their signs, slogans, art and intensity of their emotions on a range of issues including: the Iraq war, the lack of democratic process in selecting the World Bank president, the United States’ inaction in Darfur, the occupation of Palestine and the inauguration of President Bush’s second term in office.

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.”

--Thomas Jefferson