Projects tagged
Police & Prisons
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Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”
Read more: Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history. For Nick Cave, the…
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Asian and black communities square off over cop prosecution
Read more: Asian and black communities square off over cop prosecutionNearly 15,000 mostly Asian-American protesters rallied in Brooklyn Saturday for former NYPD Officer Peter Liang, claiming that the rookie cop was a “pawn” of anti-police politics and was wrongly prosecuted for a tragic accident.The crowd filled Cadman Plaza Park, with…
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Visions from the Inside
Read more: Visions from the InsideVisions from the Inside is a project enlisting 15 artists from across the country to create a piece of art based off letters from women in detention. The initiative, a collaboration between CultureStrike, Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention,…
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Mayday Space
Read more: Mayday SpaceMayday is a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together. As an organizing center as well…
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Play Safe
Read more: Play SafePlay Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted…
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The Art of Heroin Bags
Read more: The Art of Heroin BagsHeroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique “stamp” on said baggie sold to a user. Used for branding purposes,…
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Read more: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful. The vicious slaying of Mike Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police has once again…
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The Police are Present
Read more: The Police are PresentIf you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid’s Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight. Flanking the Marqués de Casa Riera stood 30 neatly parked cars equipped with flashing police lights. But…
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Negrotown
Read more: NegrotownThe video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA From Flavorwire: “Another world is possible!” — so goes the popular activist chant at rallies and marches. Yet one of the most difficult aspects of sustaining a grassroots political movement can be imagining that other world and…
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Manifest Justice
Read more: Manifest JusticeLast August, as protesters marched in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed teen shot by a police officer, another group of activists began thinking about how to incorporate the creative community into the movement. The…