Projects tagged
Police & Prisons
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‘They Lied to us’: Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murder
Read more: ‘They Lied to us’: Mom says police deceived her to get her DNA and charge her son with murderVALDOSTA, Ga. — On an October morning in 2018, Eleanor Holmes and her husband left home to run an errand and found two men inside their front gate. They introduced themselves as detectives from Orlando, Florida, and said they needed…
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Protesters Block Access to Private Prison Company’s South Florida Headquarters
Read more: Protesters Block Access to Private Prison Company’s South Florida HeadquartersAt least nine protesters were arrested during a protest Tuesday at Geo Group headquarters — a Florida-based private prison company that operates facilities nationwide. The Geo Group, which also runs adult detention centers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is…
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Problem Air Drop
Read more: Problem Air DropIn 2013, Ghana ThinkTank received a Creative Capital Award for Emerging Fields, enabling them to begin the multi-year ThinkTank at the Border project. In this project, they are collecting problems from civilian border patrols like the Minutemen, “Patriot” groups, and…
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Tamms Year Ten
Read more: Tamms Year TenTamms Year Ten is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition of artists, prisoners, men formerly incarcerated in Tamms, family members and other people of conscience. In 2008, at the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Tamms supermax prison, the group launched…
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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container
Read more: Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs ContainerForeigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container), alternately named “Wien-Aktion”, “Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week”, or “Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights”, is an art project and television show from 2000 that took place within the scope of the…
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Guide for Youth Protestors
Read more: Guide for Youth ProtestorsThe project consists of a double-sided, hand-drawn 8.5″ x 11″ quarter-fold sheet available to print and distribute freely. It features such topics as basic information on police tactics (kettling, LRADS, tear gas or pepper spray), ways cops might try to…
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The People’s Prison
Read more: The People’s PrisonFor one day, a group of artists known as the INDECLINE Artist Collective turned a hotel room in New York City’s Trump International Hotel into a single jail cell for Donald Trump without the hotel’s knowledge. The inside the jail…
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No Humans Involved: After Sylvia Wynter
Read more: No Humans Involved: After Sylvia WynterIn this series featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, artist Alexandra Bell edited headline pages from the New York Daily News in 1989 concerning the case of the Central Park 5. Through redaction, highlighting, and censoring, Bell shows how the…
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#NoKidsInCages Artists Install 20 Cages With Models of Children Inside Across NYC
Read more: #NoKidsInCages Artists Install 20 Cages With Models of Children Inside Across NYCThe ad agency Badger & Winters in collaboration with immigrant rights nonprofit organization Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) installed 20 cages with mannequins representing immigrant children inside across New York City. Each cage had a…
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Artist cages Boston’s “Make Way for Duckings” statue
Read more: Artist cages Boston’s “Make Way for Duckings” statueAlzayer put cages around Boston’s “Make Way for Ducklngs” statues, separating the baby duckling statues from the mother. The original statues were created in 1987 by Nancy Schon and the mallard family is based on the children’s book by Robert…