This is Chico Mendes, the Brazilian organizer and environmental champion,
who was murdered in 1988. The photo is by Miranda Smith, who documented some of his activities that were instrumental in setting up reserves where the rubber tappers in the Amazon rain forest could live and work.
His death was a tragedy, but he is an example to us all of what a few good men and women can do when they buck the odds.
We're going to need many more like him (who, one hopes, will not meet the same end) in the coming four years.
As other protester said, keep the faith, baby!
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