Arts

Rally To Save 5 Pointz: “Graffiti Mecca Of The World”

November 16, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Arts

A rally is being held today, Saturday, November 16, 2013, to save 5 Pointz Aerosal Art Center, a building in Long Island City, New York. Below is are photos from Four Square. There are various petitions online to sign, and follow the issue at #5Pointz or the Save 5 Pointz Facebook page. [nggallery id="89"] The situation is described by NY1 News: A group of street artists fighting to preserve the warehouse complex known as the "5 Pointz" suffered a defeat in court Tuesday. A federal judge in Brooklyn lifted a temporary restraining order that was preventing the building's owner from tearing it down. The structure in Long Island City has been called the "graffiti mecca of the world." The owner wants to replace it with a residential development. The plan includes two rental towers, a park and 12,000 square feet of artist's space and galleries. The Court Square Diner has been in the area for 23 years and has seen an increase in business from tourists coming to 5 Pointz.

John Pilger, Utopia

November 10, 2013 Andreas Wiseman, www.screendaily.com Educate! Arts, Australia, Indigenous Rights, Movies

John Pilger, who has reported discrimination against Australia’s first people since the 1970s, describes his new film as “a journey into a secret country” describing “not only the uniqueness of the first Australians, but their trail of tears and betrayal and resistance – from one utopia to another.” Interviewees include Aboriginal leaders, human-rights campaigners, academics and politicians, among them former prime minister John Howard. Never one to shy away from controversy, the film will be released in Australia on Australia Day (or ‘invasion day’, as Pilger also calls it) and will play at indigenous festivals including Sydney’s Yabun Festival. Executive producer Christopher Hird of Dartmouth Films, also producer of Pilger’s last documentary The War You Don’t See, praised the role of UK distributor Network Releasing in getting the film made: “Utopia would not have been possible without the very, very substantial support of Network.”

Upcoming Book: An Activist Armed With A Camera

November 9, 2013 Jenna Pope, www.indiegogo.com Educate! Arts, Climate Change, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Occupy, Türkiye

One of the great photojournalists to come out of the Occupy Movement is Jenna Pope, she is crowd-funding her book. We urge you to support Jenna's efforts. "In February of 2011, the massive protests against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker awoke me from my slumber and changed my life completely. I immersed myself within the front lines of the fight for justice and equality, and I haven't looked back even once. Fast forward two years and nine months and I am now living in New York City, traveling all over the US and internationally to stand with others who are striving for a better world. In the process, I have been arrested, pepper sprayed, tear gassed, hit with water cannons, and shot at with plastic bullets. I have slept on planes, trains, and buses, outside in the rain and snow, and on strangers' couches. And, everywhere I go, I have my camera in my hands. It has been an exciting, intense, and unpredictable journey where I am constantly being inspired by the people and movements I capture through the lens of my camera."

Reading Tonight From The Dandelion Insurrection

November 8, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Arts, Revolution

Tonight is the official kick-off of a new novel about revolution, "The Dandelion Rebellion." The story is about the looming death of U.S. democracy and a firebrand writer "The Man From the North" and his experience with Zadie Byrd Gray as they foment revolution against growing tyranny. As the author, Rivera Sun writes in a preface it takes place "In a time that looms around the corner of toda, in a place on the edge of our nation, it is a crime to dissent, a crime to assemble, a crime to stand up for one's life. Despite all of this - or perhaps because of it - the Dandelion Insurrection began . . . " Their rallying cry is "life, liberty and love." Tonight the author will be doing a reading from the book. The show starts at 7:30pm EST and is about 45mins long.

Peace, Love, And Pepper Spray Book

November 5, 2013 Staff, www.peaceloveandpepperspray.com Educate! Arts, Book Review, Occupy

Peace, Love, and Pepper Spray, a new coffee table book by Emmy Award-winning journalist and photographer Amber Lyon, chronicles modern protesting in America with more than 200 photographs of activists at the heart of recent protests across the country. The book’s 12 chapters and individual activist profiles cover an array of recent protests with a focus on immigrant rights, Anonymous, women’s right to go topless, the Chicago Teacher’s Strike, online protest, attacks on press freedom, home foreclosure barricades, Keystone XL Pipeline demonstrations, Chicago NATO protests, Trayvon Martin, Anaheim police brutality and many, many more…

Banksy Remixed To Protest Cops’ Alleged Role In Motorcycle Rampage Assault

October 30, 2013 John D, el Signore, By, www.gothamist.com Resist! Arts, Police abuse

This piece is located on the corner of 178th St and St Nick's, where Alexis Lien was beaten by a group of motorcyclists, one of whom was an undercover cop that spied on Occupy Wall Street Protestors. This is the first piece in Banksy's New York residency where he has altered one of his previous works, the Protestor, depicting him as the under cover cop who smashed Alexis Lien's window. He seems to be saying that your typical violent protestor, is probably a cop. The gang of motorcyclist is replaced by scooter cops, notorious for harrassing peaceful critical mass bike rides, looks on smilingly, fully supportive of this violent behavior This particular piece seems to be commenting on the NYPDs active roll in traffic violence, which kills more than 250 New Yorkers every year. When undercover police officers take up helmets and smash windshields and off-duty cops drive drunk and kill pedestrians on sidewalks, it should be no surprise that they show up to the scene of children being run over by reckless drivers and declare No Criminality Suspected.

Picturing A World Without Prisons An Inside/Outside Exhibit (Nov 11-Dec 6)

October 25, 2013 James Ball, www.usprisonculture.com/ Create! Arts, Criminal Justice and Prisons

The U.S. is a prison nation. There is no other society in the history of humanity that has imprisoned more people. Over 2.2 million people are incarcerated in this country; representing an over 500% increase since 1970. This number excludes those we imprison in hundreds of immigrant detention centers. Our obsession with locking people up isn’t cheap. States spend over $50 billion a year just on their prison systems. The Federal government also spends tens of billions to police, prosecute, and imprison people. Yet research and anecdotal evidence show that incarceration makes people worse and does not improve public safety. Through this exhibit which brings together the visions of incarcerated youth and people on the outside, we want to engage the public in imagining a world without prisons with us.

Video: The Amazing Landfill Harmonic Orchestra

July 22, 2013 Staff, www.kickstarter.com Create! Arts, Poverty

This is an amazing video that will grab at your heart. It is about people in Cateuri, Paraguay, a slum built on a landfill, without any hope of escaping. The Landfill Harmonic reveals a mind-boggling, inventive effort to change that - musical instruments made from trash. In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials - and a youth orchestra is born. Music arises and children find new dreams. "Landfill Harmonic shows how trash and recycled materials can be transformed into beautiful sounding musical instruments, but more importantly, it brings witness to the transformation of precious human beings."

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