Projects tagged
Police & Prisons
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Multiple perspectives of protest turning violent, into riots
Read more: Multiple perspectives of protest turning violent, into riotsThe two sources linked in this post are separate reviews of the incident currently occurring in Baltimore. It illustrates the factor of hindsight…. what supposedly began as a peaceful protest, in one article, is portrayed as clearly intended to fight…
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Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay
Read more: Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo BayFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco, California Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to assist the U.S. Navy with transparency at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. On March…
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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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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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New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / Blackmail
Read more: New Prints / Newsprints * Black Male / BlackmailThe prints exhibited June 2013 at Firestorm in Asheville NC, will comprise two separate bodies of work; Chelsea Ragan’s combination screen print / woodblock print / painting / drawings graphically detail police shootings of young black males from across the…
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NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear Threats
Read more: NYC Mock Posters Detail Police Terror Drills, Nuclear ThreatsIn an effort to prepare against chemical, biological and radiological attacks in the New York subway, the New York Police Department has announced plans to release harmless gases into the city’s streets and subway stations to better understand the pathways…
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American Prison Perpestives
Read more: American Prison PerpestivesWith American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions. There are many insightful conclusions…
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A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin
Read more: A Million Hoodie March for Trayvon MartinA march took place Wednesday evening in Manhattan calling for justice in the case of Trayvon Martin. He was an unarmed black teenager who was shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month. In New York,…