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Mission Icons in a Time of Change
Location: San Francisco, CA
This exhibition opening culminates a furious week of printmaking at the Workshop by local artists Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Juan Fuentes, Txutxo Perez, Ivan Lopez, Rachel A...
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Migration: prints, posters and photography
Location: San Francisco, CA
A collection of prints, posters and photography visually illustrating the human face of migration. Experience the movement which these works convey made artists from different wal...
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Signs of the Times & La Grafica Politica An Exhibition of Politi
Location: Sylmar, CA
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural presents a two-part exhibit of political graphics, in commemoration of the Mexico's Bicentennial, and the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1910 Revolut...
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Out of the Closet and Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggle
Location: West Hollywood, CA 90069, CA
Opening Reception: July 3, 5-8 pm Gallery Hours: Friday: 4:30-8:30 Saturday & Sunday: 1-5 Despite decades of...
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August 21, 2010, 8:00 PM to August 21, 2010, 10:00 PM
Place: Levis WorkshopLocation: San Francisco, CA
This exhibition opening culminates a furious week of printmaking at the Workshop by local artists Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Juan Fuentes, Txutxo Perez, Ivan Lopez, Rachel A...
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Migration: prints, posters and photography
August 13, 2010, 6:00 PM to September 11, 2010, 2:00 PM
Place: MIssion Grafica, Galeria ZapatistaLocation: San Francisco, CA
A collection of prints, posters and photography visually illustrating the human face of migration. Experience the movement which these works convey made artists from different wal...
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Signs of the Times & La Grafica Politica An Exhibition of Politi
August 1, 2010, 12:00 AM to August 31, 2010, 8:00 PM
Place: Tia Chucha's Centro CulturalLocation: Sylmar, CA
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural presents a two-part exhibit of political graphics, in commemoration of the Mexico's Bicentennial, and the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1910 Revolut...
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Out of the Closet and Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggle
July 3, 2010, 5:00 PM to September 26, 2010, 5:00 PM
Place: ONE Archives Gallery & MuseumLocation: West Hollywood, CA 90069, CA
Opening Reception: July 3, 5-8 pm Gallery Hours: Friday: 4:30-8:30 Saturday & Sunday: 1-5 Despite decades of...
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Justice for Oscar Grant! Justice for Gaza!
Tags: oscar grant , murder , zionism , racism
Posted on January 6, 2009
by melanie |
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Early New Year's Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22 -year old, Oscar Grant III by pushing him face down to the ground and shooting him in the back. After he was shot he was handcuffed. The shooting was fatal.
Having come of age in Los Angeles during the uprisings that followed the Rodney King verdict- this incidence of violence enacted by the State rings eerily familiar.
For me this is a crystal clear example of how racism is alive and well in the United States. People would like to think that because Barack Obama has been elected president that some how we, as a nation, are "post-race". What really irritates me about this line of thinking it the conflation of race and racism. One is a category another is an active force that impacts real people's lives.
The fact that racism probably had a huge role in Oscar Grant's death chills my bones.
The practices of the police continue to demonstrate this: the way they are trained, the way stereotypes and profiling are reinforced institutionally and how little-to-no accountability the police have with communities of color. These communities are instead terrorized by the police.
Jesus Barraza and I (Melanie Cervantes) collaboratively developed this poster and drew a connection between the violence enacted domestically by transit police in Oakland and Israeli occupying forces (and their attacks which have kiiled hundreds of Gazans including many women and children.)
JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT!
JUSTICE FOR GAZA!
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posted by: on January 9, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Could you please elaborate on the connection you're drawing between the violence by BART police in Oakland and the war in Gaza? I'm not seeing the connectio...read more