Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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Band Invoices US Government for Using their Music at Guantanamo
Read more: Band Invoices US Government for Using their Music at GuantanamoVeteran Industrial band Skinny Puppy have objected to their disturbingly dark music being played to discombobulate inmates at Guantanamo, and plan to “charge” the government for doing so. They are not the first band to express such objections. “We heard…
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FreeAJStaff
Read more: FreeAJStaffAll over the world, journalists and rights groups are protesting the detainment and muzzling of four Al Jazeera staff members in Egypt. Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and correspondent Peter Greste, were detained December 29. The trio, who are accused of…
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Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh Ardavan
Read more: Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh ArdavanCharged with participating in demonstrations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soudabeh Ardavan was held for eight years (1981-1989) in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. She found sanity and solace through the forbidden activities of drawing and painting, secretly producing paint…
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Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act
Read more: Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM ActThe federal DREAM Act is back. This week Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the longtime champion of the bill, chaired the first ever Senate hearing on the narrow legalization effort that would allow a select population of undocumented youth a pathway…
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Gangnam for Freedom
Read more: Gangnam for FreedomEarlier this year Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei recorded a gangnam style video, dancing handcuffed, sending a message to the Chinese authorities who responded by banning the video as soon as it came online. British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor made a…
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Photo Requests from Solitary
Read more: Photo Requests from SolitaryFeaturing photographs that represent a unique collaboration between men held in supermax prisons and the photographers who fulfilled their requests. Curated by Laurie Jo Reynolds, Tamms Year Ten, Jeanine Oleson, Parsons The New School for Design, and Jean Casella, Solitary…
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Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional Vote
Read more: Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional VoteThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to defend the domestic spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA). On July 23, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged a billboard at Bayshore Boulevard…
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FACELESS
Read more: FACELESSFACELESS was produced under the rules of the ‘Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers’. The manifesto states, amongst other things, that additional cameras are not permitted at filming locations, as the omnipresent existing video surveillance (CCTV) is already in operation. The UK…
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Every Step You Take
Read more: Every Step You TakeWith an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. Every Londoner is on camera about 300 times a day. How could this come about in George Orwell’s mother country? What were the ignition…
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Riot grrrl MANIFESTO
Read more: Riot grrrl MANIFESTORiot grrrl is a feminist punk rock movement started in the early 90’s, particularly in Washington DC, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Bands that follow the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Adickdid, The Butchies, Heavens to…