tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4896359844131817522024-02-06T21:20:19.238-08:00Project Processes: for DRESS CODES, RTTG, etc.i started this blog, thinking that maybe it would help streamline communications for those of us working on specific projects that i direct.
also, i am interested in keeping up with our process: how we interact, what themes and issues arise for us; how we grow within this project; and how we're inspired by ideas, images, and by one another.
a document for posterity.
to remind me what worked and why.Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-88664942761673865602016-10-17T20:23:00.003-07:002016-10-17T20:23:20.339-07:00"Police Group Apologizes for Mistreatment of Minorities" - October 17, 2016<br />
<a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-group-apologizes-for-mistreatment-of-minorities/ar-AAj4y0V?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout">http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-group-apologizes-for-mistreatment-of-minorities/ar-AAj4y0V?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout</a><br />
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"The first step in this process is for law enforcement and the IACP to
acknowledge and apologize for the actions of the past and the role that
our profession has played in society's historical mistreatment of
communities of color." -- Terrence Cunningham, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and police chief for Welleseley, Massachusetts. Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-86106457946056019072016-06-30T17:23:00.000-07:002016-06-30T17:23:18.058-07:00Many people, many bodies in "installation art" otherwise categorized as spectacle and performance art/photography - work of Spencer Tunick<a href="http://spencertunick.com/installations">http://spencertunick.com/installations</a><br />
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"<strong>In July 1994, Spencer Tunick phoned all the people who had expressed</strong><br />
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<strong> interest in posing nude individually for his public street photographs</strong><br />
<strong> and asked them to come together as a group. Of all the locations in</strong><br />
<strong> New York the artist could have chosen for this first group work, he</strong><br />
<strong> decided to pick the epicenter of world politics, the United Nations. A</strong><br />
<strong> total of 25 people showed up to pose on that remarkable early</strong><br />
<strong> morning, naked and brave in front of the General Assembly building.</strong><br />
<strong> This day launched Tunick’s Reaction Zone series.</strong><br />
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<strong>The book Reaction Zone presents the definitive collection of Tunick’s</strong><br />
<strong> early New York City photographic assemblages of nude bodies. The</strong><br />
<strong> artworks included combine risk and urgency as Tunick uses</strong><br />
<strong> gestural splashes of flesh like an action painter uses paint.</strong><br />
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<strong>In his introduction for Reaction Zone, Carlo McCormick relays the feel</strong><br />
<strong> of making work on the city streets and the pressure of creating</strong><br />
<strong> “human graffiti” under the radar of the authorities."</strong><br />
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<strong>Registering volunteer participants:</strong><br />
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<strong><a href="https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/seaofhull/">https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/seaofhull/</a></strong><br />
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<img alt="Paddle8: Non-Violence Sculpture / Spencer Tunick - Spencer Tunick" id="yui_3_10_0_1_1467332405132_1260" src="https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/t0eUCtGzzY7_hSMVQXdHIA--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9MzQ3O3E9OTU7dz01MjA-/https://assets.paddle8.com/972/611/36199/36199-1406588091-DSC02354-large.jpg" style="height: 347px; width: 520px;" /><br />
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photo-montage by Spencer Tunick<br />
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What Tunick plans for the upcoming Natl. Republican Convention:<br />
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<a href="http://www.papermag.com/naked-women-protest-rnc-with-artist-spencer-tunick-1894101971.html">http://www.papermag.com/naked-women-protest-rnc-with-artist-spencer-tunick-1894101971.html</a></div>
Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-57015262575888777682016-06-27T13:32:00.003-07:002016-06-27T13:32:26.219-07:00The Jesse Williams BET Speech - June 26, 2016<h4 class="story-subheading story-content" data-para-count="25" data-total-count="2724">
<em>Read His Speech in Full: </em></h4>
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“This
award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the
country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling
parents, the families, the teachers, the students, that are realizing
that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand
if we do.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="312" data-total-count="3335">
All
right? It’s kind of basic mathematics:, the more we learn about who we
are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in
particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their
lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and
will do better for you.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="294" data-total-count="3629">
Now,
what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police
somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every
day. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and
justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and
ours.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="485" data-total-count="4114" id="story-continues-2">
Now
— I’ve got more, y’all. Yesterday would’ve been young Tamir Rice’s 14th
birthday, so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when
paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone
in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going
home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live
in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to
Sandra Bland. Tell that to Darrien Hunt.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="319" data-total-count="4433">
Now
the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t
going to stop this. All right? Now dedicating our lives to get money
just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, when we
spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies and now we pray to get
paid for brands on our bodies.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="365" data-total-count="4798">
There
has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of.
There has been no job we haven’t done, there’s been no tax they haven’t
levied against us, and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow
always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she
would’ve been alive if she hadn’t acted so… “free.”</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="552" data-total-count="5350">
Now,
freedom is always coming in the hereafter. But, you know what though?
The hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get a couple of
things straight, just a little side note: The burden of the brutalized
is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right, stop
with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our
resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of
our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people
then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="574" data-total-count="5924">
We’ve
been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done
watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and
abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while
extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black
gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them,
gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before
discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though,
the thing is that just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we’re not
real.”</div>
Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-9620903682503209832016-04-21T09:56:00.002-07:002016-04-21T09:56:27.359-07:00Claude McKay poem<div class="MsoNormal">
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs </div>
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Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, </div>
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While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, </div>
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Making their mock at our accursèd lot. </div>
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If we must die, O let us nobly die, </div>
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So that our precious blood may not be shed </div>
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In vain; then even the monsters we defy </div>
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Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! </div>
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O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! </div>
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Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, </div>
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And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! </div>
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What though before us lies the open grave? </div>
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Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, </div>
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Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!</div>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-43904094810868640332016-04-12T22:26:00.004-07:002016-04-12T22:26:33.430-07:00Two artivists working on race issues in NYC<a href="http://blavity.com/artivists-using-art-bring-awareness-racial-injustice/">http://blavity.com/artivists-using-art-bring-awareness-racial-injustice/</a>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-57809123043225197582016-04-10T13:26:00.002-07:002016-04-10T13:26:51.908-07:00Digital Storytelling<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7fZ-c1DQndBOdYlYq9NGb4fDtM4iWGyg">Digital Storytelling on Race - at Univ. of OK at Norman</a>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-39915069806663054152016-02-24T16:47:00.003-08:002016-02-24T16:47:37.775-08:00revisioning! <!--[if !mso]>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-66394711923701891562016-02-17T10:10:00.000-08:002016-02-17T10:10:15.915-08:00#GraceLeeTaughtMe is being used to honor the life and work of Grace Lee Boggs on Twitterhttp://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/americanrevolutionary/<a href="http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/americanrevolutionary/">http://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/americanrevolutionary/</a>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-54149879470643542982016-02-17T10:08:00.003-08:002016-02-17T10:08:56.134-08:00Bricks & Bones- Race, Erasure and Resistance in Dallashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNX3FugHMMQ<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNX3FugHMMQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNX3FugHMMQ</a>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-90085268039452789712016-02-15T12:39:00.002-08:002016-02-15T12:39:27.858-08:00"Are you racist?" video by Marlon James<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jan/13/marlon-james-are-you-racist-video">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jan/13/marlon-james-are-you-racist-video</a>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-44824238070031859222016-02-15T12:30:00.001-08:002016-02-15T12:30:55.740-08:00Tarrant Co. Commissioner Roy Charles Brooks<a href="http://nobco.org/inc/commissioner-roy-charles-brooks/">http://nobco.org/inc/commissioner-roy-charles-brooks/</a><br />
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https://twitter.com/roycbrooks<br />
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Roy Charles Brooks, NOBCO Chairman stands at the forefront of one of the fastest growing urban counties in the United States. Located in the north central part of Texas, Tarrant County serves a population of approximately 1.8 million citizens. Known for his strong leadership, ability to forge collaborations and influential voice not just in Tarrant County, but in the State and the Country, Roy fights for the rights of those he serves.</h5>
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For over 30 years, Roy has represented his community, as a community volunteer, a city elected official, and now as County Commissioner. He embraces the core values of integrity, innovation and growth.</h5>
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Roy is committed to the health and welfare of the people. Since entering office in 2004, he is continuously addressing the healthcare issues in his community. He has worked diligently to provide Tarrant County constituents with numerous opportunities to sign up for healthcare through the Affordable Care Act. In the last six years, he has taken on issues such as: Healthcare for the Homeless, Infant Mortality, Obesity, Access of Care, Health Disparities, and Aids Education. Roy is aggressively involved in the State and Federal levels of government to assist in developing programs that create and shape healthcare policy in this Nation’s counties. Commissioner Brooks spearheaded many programs in Tarrant County including: The Tarrant County Ex-Offender Re-Entry Program (TCRI), representing a community-inspired effort to address concerns regarding the successful re-entry and reintegration of ex-inmates returning to Tarrant County, Texas. Nurse Family Partnership - an evidence-based nurse home visitation program for first-time mothers and their children, and a Blue Ribbon Task Force on Health Care for the Homeless - promoting well-being and improved quality of life among homeless persons in Tarrant County by assuring access to high-quality, comprehensive health care and support services to facilitate transition out of homelessness.</h5>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-76221707589705076372016-02-08T17:48:00.000-08:002016-02-08T17:48:02.791-08:00Fathers Incorporated<a href="http://www.fathersincorporated.com/about-me.html">http://www.fathersincorporated.com/about-me.html</a><br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.2px;">With more than 24 years of community development experience, Braswell is the Executive Director of Fathers incorporated (FI) www.fathersincorporated.com, a not-for-profit organization that serves as a leader in the promotion of Responsible Fatherhood and Mentoring.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.2px;"><a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/02/father_pens_book_to_explain_protest_to_kids_in_the_time_of_black_lives_matter.2.html">http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/02/father_pens_book_to_explain_protest_to_kids_in_the_time_of_black_lives_matter.2.html</a></span><br />
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Book title: Daddy, There's a Noise Outside<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Returning to his own book, Braswell said, “[And] while this book is critically important for black parents to have, it is just as important for all parents, no matter what your race, religion, creed or color is. It is critically important for all parents to have conversations with children about what’s happening in the world today so that they have a better understanding about what’s taking place [and] that, hopefully and prayerfully, they are better-equipped to come up with better solutions.”</span>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-72988055110440367652016-02-08T17:31:00.001-08:002016-02-15T12:10:30.893-08:00Trinity High School (Euless, TX) - football team does the Maori ritual Haka dance<br />
Introduced to the team by Tongan students (Pacific Islanders) in 2005 or so.<br />
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Illaiasi Ofa, producer of "Voice of Tonga" tv program.<br />
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"reassurance that we are part of this community...that they accept us as we are." - Ofa<br />
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http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/pumping-up-with-a-war-dance/<br />
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/pumping-up-with-a-war-dance/">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/pumping-up-with-a-war-dance</a><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/pumping-up-with-a-war-dance/">/</a><br />
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_High_School_%28Euless,_Texas%29<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.12px;">Moses Vakalahi - staff at Trinity HS</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.12px;">left a message on 2/15/2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.12px;">more info: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Many ex-players come back every June to give a free football camp for young Trojans (The Ikuna Camp directed by former Trinity HS All-American, Moses Vakalahi). ~ He is currently an assistant football coach.</span></div>
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In the spring of 2005 in the A325 computer lab, three
Trinity football players surfed the web looking for stock tips, but they
somehow wound up on a web site of a world famous New Zealand rugby team. At first,
the boys were scolded for not checking out a stock market web site. Then one of
them said, “Coach, check this out; you guys ought to do this. It would be
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The instructor agreed, and the idea was presented to some of
the boys who danced with the Polynesian Club. The Tongan community was
consulted, and the idea was brought to the head football coach. During the
off-season, an instructional video was made. The team was taught the words,
moves and the meaning of the original Haka which means “to ignite the
breath.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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On a rainy day before spring football, the Trojans met in
the weight room to do the Haka for the first time as a team. From the very
beginning, it was special. Having never
practiced as a group, the team became one moving in unison. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Trojans practiced all spring and into the fall of
2005. The Haka was introduced to
Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD at Pennington Field before the first game against
DeSoto. The first team to do the Haka
went on to win the 5A Division I State Championship. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Trinity practices the Haka to “ignite the breath”, energize the body and
inspire the spirit. It is a collective
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It is a moral outrage and national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.</div>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-17282817612049580782016-02-06T16:30:00.002-08:002016-02-06T16:31:19.558-08:00https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays/<br />
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February 6, 2016</h1>
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Radical Black History</div>
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Dasan Ahanu and Tai Allen present<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Originals</i>, a live mix-tape that honors the progressive music and poetry of legends Gil Scott-Heron and Oscar Brown, Jr.</div>
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Use our new ASK app to chat with experts in real time, get your questions answered, and explore the Museum in a completely personalized way. Must have an iPhone to participate.</div>
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<a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/interactive_space_fsat_museum_of_impact_february_2016/2016/02/06" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00aff0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4 class="orange-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #eaa047; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0.7em 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">
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INTERACTIVE SPACE</div>
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Explore the past, present, and future of black radicalism with the Museum of Impact through interactive activities. At 8 p.m. the #VeryBlack Project and #TeamMelanin host a celebration that honors our predecessors and inspires us to fight for the futures we want.</div>
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The New Black Fest presents<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">HANDS UP: 7 Testaments</i>, a series of monologues by emerging black playwrights exploring their experiences with racial profiling and policing. Followed by a Q&A with the performers and playwrights.</div>
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<a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/workshop_fsat_joshua_allen_february_2016/2016/02/06" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00aff0; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><h4 class="orange-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #eaa047; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: 900; letter-spacing: 0.05em; margin: 0.7em 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">
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Participate in a workshop led by organizer, abolitionist, and freedom fighter Joshua Allen exploring the important intersection between organizing around Black Lives Matter and gender justice.<br />
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<a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays/">https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays/</a> </div>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-87247206686932744812016-01-31T16:45:00.002-08:002016-01-31T16:45:27.373-08:00Storytelling as Organizing: How to Rescue the Left from its Crisis of Imagination by Adam Kader - January 2011<div class="Textbody">
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Storytelling as Organizing: How to Rescue the Left from its Crisis of
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In an <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/print/article/5030/its_the_message_stupid/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">editorial</span></a>
in <em>In These Times</em>'
November 2009 issue, reflecting on the right’s success at re-framing the
healthcare reform debate in its favor, Kevin O’Donnell wrote, “When it comes to
messaging, Republicans believe in science. Democrats don’t.” To their
detriment, “Democrats cling to the idea, disproved by science and electoral
experience, that if you present the facts, people will reason their way to the
right conclusion.” Republicans, on the other hand, know to use “simple words,
short sentences and a heavy dose of repetition.” <br />
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Must one be this cynical in order to win a campaign or a policy battle? Is the
way to beat conservatives on important issues to “race to the bottom,” debasing
rhetoric, and treating the public as imbeciles? Fortunately, for those looking
for a more generous understanding of public discourse, there’s <a href="https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=199"><em><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to
Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World</span></em></a> (PM Press,
2010), by Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning. <br />
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Reinsborough and Canning provide another way of looking at “the battle of the
narrative.” Like O’Donnell, any experienced activist knows that framing the
issue matters to any campaign's success. But rather than “dumbing down”
progressive campaign messaging, Reinsborough and Canning argue for a
story-based strategy that deconstructs dominant narratives and constructs new ones
that challenge assumptions and move citizens to action. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The authors encourage readers to re-imagine both how change
can happen and what can be changed. They introduce a series of concepts “to win
campaigns, build movements, and change the world” based on Marxist philosopher
Antonio Gramsci’s notion of hegemony, which posits that powerful interests
exert control through dominant culture so that the status-quo becomes “common
sense.” If campaigns are to change the status-quo, the authors argue, they must
be communicated in ways that fall outside the narrative categories created by
the status quo. <br />
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Just as a successful campaign can change the material conditions of society,
Reinsborough and Canning argue, so can it change the way society thinks—it
creates change on the level of meaning. In the same way that a direct action
physically interrupts a target’s business-as-usual, a campaign has a deeper
impact when it also interrupts the dominant narrative about the campaign
issue. <br />
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Consider <em>Re:Imagining Change</em>’s
example of Greenpeace’s Save the Whales Campaign. When Greenpeace activists
took action by literally placing themselves between whaling ships and the
whales, it “showed it was the activists, not the whalers, who were the
courageous people on small boats risking their lives—not to kill whales, but to
save them. In this new narrative, whales were not big and evil; rather it was
the giant whaling ships that were the dangerous monsters. The whales were the
helpless victims and became sympathetic and worthy of protection...The story
changed and the roles of hero, victim, and villain shifted.”<br />
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Successful campaigns utilize a “meme,” or a unit of “self-replicating cultural
information such as slogans (Just Do It!), iconic images (Abu Ghraib torture),
catch phrases (“wardrobe malfunction”) or symbols (the peace sign). Just as
engines of dominant culture create memes, so can social change groups.<br />
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<em>Re:Imagining Change</em>'s
accessible language and hands-on exercises make it ideal for busy community and
political organizers. My favorite feature of the book is the “Reflections” box
included in each chapter. An example:<o:p></o:p></div>
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What are some assumptions in the dominant culture you think
need to be changed? Make a list. You can carry this assumption list
with you and keep a running tab of times when they show up, or when you surface
new ones. Choose one assumption to work with for the moment...Are there
institutions where it lives? Are there ways it is felt in popular
culture? Now think about actions you could take to challenge that
assumption and change the story. Are there physical points of intervention that
could expose this assumption?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The exercise pushed me to step back and consider a campaign
that my organization, <a href="http://arisechicago.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Arise Chicago</span></a>,
and other worker centers around the country are engaged in. The fight against
the exploitation of low-wage earners is not new, but our “anti-wage theft
campaign” is because of its use of the “wage theft” meme. Before, institutions
like the Department of Labor and the mainstream media referred to the phenomena
of worker exploitation as “non-payment of wages.” <br />
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Several years ago, however, worker centers designed the “wage theft”
meme. This meme overthrows the dominant assumption that wages are the
property of the boss, to be shared with workers. Rather, in this new
narrative, wages are the property of workers that have been stolen by the
boss. <br />
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The wage theft meme is deeply effective, because a common defense narrative
spun by an employer caught for not paying his workers is that these are hard
economic times; that in a difficult business climate everyone has to tighten
their belts—that the boss is doing everything he can to keep things
running. <br />
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The public is sympathetic to this defense. The employer is understood as
benevolent; he is the job provider, the one who can save our economy—the
workers, protesting, are ungrateful! They should be thankful to be employed at
all in this bad economy! The audience of this dominant narrative will identify
with the employer, who is the one struggling to stay alive in this
economy. The workers are troublemakers, trying to take wages away from
the employer, a property owner, just like you and me! <br />
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But through the wage theft meme, workers, not employers, become the victims of
the bad economic climate. The boss, not the workers, becomes the unreasonable
one. The self-respecting public will identify with the righteous worker
who is trying to stand up for their right to recover their private
property. Using the wage theft meme, when my organization fights an
employer who is not paying minimum wage, overtime wage, or wage at all, we also
are fighting some of the assumptions embedded in the dominant narrative about
labor. Accordingly, the media has begun to use the meme when they report on our
campaigns and legislators have incorporated the phrase “wage theft” in the
names of bills. <br />
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All of this is to say that <em>Re:Imagining
Change</em> has inspired me to evaluate the choices we’re making in
designing and communicating our organizing campaigns. Other progressive
organizers should strive to do the same. The left is losing the battle over
narrative, which means we often lose the larger war over legislation and fiscal
policy. Think of common current rhetoric surrounding climate change legislation
(“it kills jobs”), public sector jobs (“we have to cut back to decrease the
deficit”), gender parity (“it will result in frivolous lawsuits”), etc. <br />
<br />
Indeed, Sally Kohn of Movement Vision Lab writes: “Over the past year, much of
the left has jealously ogled the Tea Party and its apparently up-out-of-nowhere
grassroots movement energy.” Kohn locates the origin of this energy in the
proliferation of “an attractive story of power and vision—a story in which
everyday activists can see themselves and engage.” <br />
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That the left needs to develop strong, compelling, narratives is clear. <em>Re:Imagining Change</em> is the
resource that can show us exactly how to do so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-23344486419433367562016-01-31T16:44:00.000-08:002016-01-31T16:44:02.681-08:00"In Protest, the Power of Place" by Michael KimmelmanNews Analysis<br />
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In Protest,
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United Press International<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="StrongEmphasis">OHIO, 1970</span> Tear gas against
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Published: October 15, 2011<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="toolsList"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="linkedin_item"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="linkedin_button"></a><o:p></o:p></h6>
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<span class="StrongEmphasis">NEW YORK, 1967</span> Central Park
protest against the Vietnam War<o:p></o:p></div>
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THE ever expanding <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/occupy_wall_street/index.html?inline=nyt-org"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Occupy Wall
Street</span></a> movement, with encampments now not only in Lower Manhattan
but also in Washington, London and other cities, proves among other things that
no matter how instrumental new media have become in spreading protest these
days, nothing replaces people taking to the streets.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another reminder came late last week when the landlord of
Zuccotti Park, where the demonstrators in New York City have settled, at the
last minute withdrew a request for police assistance in cleaning up the park.
This, at least temporarily, averted a confrontation in front of the global
media over what protesters regarded as just a pretext to evict them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We tend to underestimate the political power of physical
places. Then Tahrir Square comes along. Now it’s Zuccotti Park, until four
weeks ago an utterly obscure city-block-size downtown plaza with a few trees
and concrete benches, around the corner from ground zero and two blocks north
of Wall Street on Broadway. A few hundred people with ponchos and sleeping bags
have put it on the map.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kent State, Tiananmen Square, the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/berlin_wall/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Berlin Wall</span></a>:
we clearly use locales, edifices, architecture to house our memories and
political energy. Politics troubles our consciences. But places haunt our
imaginations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So we check in on Facebook and Twitter, but make pilgrimages
to Antietam, Auschwitz and to the Acropolis, to gaze at rubble from the days of
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I thought of Aristotle, of all people, while I watched the
Zuccotti Park demonstrators hold one of their “general assemblies” the other
day. In his “Politics,” Aristotle argued that the size of an ideal polis
extended to the limits of a herald’s cry. He believed that the human voice was
directly linked to civic order. A healthy citizenry in a proper city required
face-to-face conversation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It so happens that near the start of the protest, when the
police banned megaphones at Zuccotti Park, they obliged demonstrators to come
up with an alternative. “<a href="http://mobile.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/10/occupy_wall_street_and_the_creation_of_the_post_obama_left_.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mic checks</span></a>”
became the consensus method of circulating announcements, spread through the
crowd by people repeating, phrase by phrase, what a speaker had said to others
around them, compelling everyone, as it were, to speak in one voice. It’s like
the old game of telephone, and it is painstakingly slow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But so is democracy,” as Jay Gaussoin, a 46-year-old
unemployed actor and carpenter, put it to me. “We’re so distracted these days,
people have forgotten how to focus. But the ‘mic check’ demands not just that
we listen to other people’s opinions but that we really hear what they’re
saying because we have to repeat their words exactly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It requires an architecture of consciousness,” was Mr.
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Much as it can look at a glance like a refugee camp in the
early morning, when the protesters are just emerging from their sleeping bags,
Zuccotti Park has in fact become a miniature polis, a little city in the
making. That it happens also to be a private park is one of the most revealing
subtexts of the story. Formerly Liberty Park, the site was renamed in 2006
after John E. Zuccotti, chairman of Brookfield Office Properties, the park’s
owner. A zoning variance granted to Brookfield years ago requires that the
park, unlike a public, city-owned one, remain open day and night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This peculiarity of zoning law has turned an unexpected
spotlight on the bankruptcy of so much of what in the last couple of
generations has passed for public space in America. Most of it is token
gestures by developers in return for erecting bigger, taller buildings. Think
of the atrium of the I.B.M. tower on Madison Avenue and countless other places
like it: “public” spaces that are not really public at all but quasi-public,
controlled by their landlords. Zuccotti in principle is subject to Brookfield’s
rules prohibiting tarps, sleeping bags and the storage of personal property on
the site. The whole situation illustrates just how far we have allowed the
ancient civic ideal of public space to drift from an arena of public expression
and public assembly (Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, say) to a commercial sop
(the foyer of the Time Warner Center).<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by the few. He is an esteemed legal scholar and thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial anguish and longings. Race is relational, he reminds us. It’s as much about whiteness as about color. And it largely plays out, as we’re learning through new science, in our unconscious minds. john powell is steeped in this new learning and offers it to us, as a form of everyday power, to animate our belonging to others that is already real. But we must claim it.</div>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-4394299303909995902016-01-10T22:25:00.001-08:002016-01-10T22:26:18.837-08:00image<img src="http://www.onbeing.org/sites/default/files/styles/width668/public/brandon-kidwell_man-three.jpg?itok=054iAPnE" height="400" width="399" />Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-63700424606169915862015-12-15T20:08:00.000-08:002015-12-15T20:08:02.183-08:00OMM Church in E. Fort Worth selected as church of "special significance" during the Year of Mercy<br />
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Local Catholics celebrate opening of Door of Mercy at Our Mother of Mercy Church - December 14, 2015</h2>
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<a href="http://www.northtexascatholic.org/local-news-article?r=W07Q5RDOGX&send_to=%2Flocal-news">http://www.northtexascatholic.org/local-news-article?r=W07Q5RDOGX&send_to=%2Flocal-news</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Pope Francis proclaimed an
Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy that began Dec. 8, the Solemnity of the
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. “From the heart of the
Trinity, from the depths of the mystery of God, the great river of
mercy wells up and overflows unceasingly. It is a spring that will never
run dry, no matter how many people draw from it. Every time someone is
in need, he or she can approach it because the mercy of God never ends,”
wrote Pope Francis in <em>Misericordiae Vultus</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">The pope opened the Holy Door of St.
Peter’s Basilica in Rome and announced that each diocese would designate
a church of special significance during the Year of Mercy, to be opened
Dec. 13.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Bishop Olson selected Our Mother of
Mercy, stating “Since its establishment in 1929, the parishioners,
religious sisters, and priests of Our Mother of Mercy have faithfully
serviced and witnessed to God’s abundant mercy most fully expressed
through the gift of his Son, Jesus Christ. They have done this through
service in education and outreach to the Catholic and broader
African-American communities with a spirit of inclusion of all people.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14px;">Floyd Ware, a parishioner and musician
at Our Mother of Mercy, said, “The announcement that we were chosen as
the principal church for the Year of Mercy was unexpected, but we are
honored and we welcome visitors with open arms. Opening the Door of
Mercy today was a good start, and we look forward to bigger things.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Our Mother of Mercy parishioner Marie
Guidry said, “Bishop Olson opening the Door of Mercy was a blessed
experience. It was symbolic, but I hope we internalize it and turn it
toward more goodness in the world. We need to understand that our own
point of view is not the most important. We need to seek to understand
those who are different from us. This can bring hope to the whole
world.”</span> </span>Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-43679488830264331452015-12-15T20:03:00.004-08:002015-12-15T20:03:56.663-08:00"My America Too" - produced by Baltimore Center StageMy America Too<br />
"Baltimore Center Stage's CS Digital program
commissioned 10 American writers to create plays set around the kitchen
table, inspired by recent events in communities like Sanford, FL;
Cleveland, OH; Ferguson, MO; Staten Island, NY; Baltimore, MD; and
Charleston, SC. Six of the plays were filmed as pieces of street
theater, guerrilla-style, at pivotal locations across the country. The
videos are now online." ~ These are quite moving theater works, and I
hope that you will consider engaging in discussion with others about the
ideas and issues broached by them. Highly recommended. ~<br />
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<a href="http://www.centerstage.org/ShowsandEvents/CSDigital.aspx">http://www.centerstage.org/ShowsandEvents/CSDigital.aspx</a><br />
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-19346067075931496082015-11-21T16:15:00.000-08:002015-11-21T16:15:45.349-08:00Art exhibit--"The Strangest Fruit"<a href="http://vincentvaldezart.com/previous-work/the-strangest-fruit/1">"The Strangest Fruit" by Vincent Valdez of SA, TX</a><br />
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Says Vincent Valdez:<br />
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"The Strangest Fruit is a series of large paintings that is inspired
by the lost/erased history of lynched Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in
the United States from the late 1800's well into the 1930's. The title
is borrowed from the poem Strange Fruit (Abel Meripool) that was made
famous by Billie Holiday’s recording in the 1930's. The poem/song lyrics
present haunting visuals of black Americans, using the metaphor of
“strange fruit” to describe the victims who were hanged from trees. </div>
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adapted the lyrics and slightly altered the text to describe a Texas
landscape, which sprouts "brown bodies” instead of "black bodies.” The
title, The Strangest Fruit, suggests that this sinister portion of
American history goes much further than we have been told. The subject
of Latino lynchings is almost entirely unknown, unheard of, and unspoken
in the United States."</div>
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"Presenting this historical subject in a contemporary context
enables me to present the noose as metaphor and suggest that the threat
of the noose still looms. The noose has been disguised and resold to the
American public as mass incarceration and for-profit prison industries,
the endless American drug war, the war on terror, the military
industrial complex, the criminalization of poverty, broken educational
systems and biased justice systems, stop and frisk programs and racial
profiling, mass deportation and nationalism, police brutality, all of
which lend themselves to a fearful and forgetful America.<div>
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the erased bodies of the past, these paintings depict present-day
individuals who face the threat of a similar fate in America, the more
that they struggle to break free, the tighter the noose will choke." </div>
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Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-489635984413181752.post-24699116320352173052015-11-19T09:53:00.000-08:002015-11-19T09:53:00.088-08:00Towards a logo design (centering image) for RTTG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was suggested by Brian P. M.Tammy Gomezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04347136751812666305noreply@blogger.com0