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May 10, 2007
Center for the Study of Political Graphics in LA: POSTERS WANTED! Stop Racism! Stop Police Violence!
POSTERS WANTED! Stop Racism! Stop Police Violence!
Stop Racism! Stop Police Violence! is the slogan on a poster made in response to the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police. It could just as easily describe the LAPD assault on peaceful demonstrators and journalists at the immigrants' rights rally on May 1, 2007. Police abuse in Los Angeles has been making headlines for decades.
Police brutality creates national and international crises. And posters document the consistency and severity of the problem. The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is seeking posters about police abuse for a new online exhibition. From any time and any place. Posters about the May 1 attacks are especially requested.
If your institution, organization or gallery is interested in hosting this or any of CSPG's powerful traveling exhibitions, please contact cspg@politicalgraphics.org
Posters Wanted. No to 53,000 new prison beds!
Protest AB900
AB900 equals 53, 000 new prison beds for California citizens at the cost of 7.4 billion dollars.
This is a call to encourage artists and activists to create new posters protesting the recent deal cut by Legislative leadership and Schwarzenegger to build 53,000 new prison and jail beds.
Social justice groups throughout the state say NO WAY! This is outrageous! It will be totally devastating to communities of color already torn apart by the mass incarceration system in California.
Núñez & the Democrats in Sacramento betrayed the people of California.
In secret meetings with Schwarzenegger they decided to build 53,000 more prison and jail cells.
No public hearings. No public input. No voice for the voters on whether to borrow $7.4 billion to build more prison cells.
Tell Fabian Núñez we don't want to lock up 53,000 more people.
Tell Fabian Núñez we want our tax dollars spent for education, health care & housing not to build and operate 53,000 new prison beds.
Selected digital submissions will be posted on CSPG's website.
New posters submissions may be selected to be a apart of CSPG's Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex.
The posters in Prison Nation cover many of the critical issues surrounding the system of mass incarceration including: the death penalty, the Three Strikes law, racism, women's right to self defense, access to education and health care, the growing rate of incarceration, slave labor, divestment, privatization, torture, and re-entry into the community. They show the power of art to educate and inspire.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Cultural Affairs Department, City of Los Angeles
Criteria for posters CSPG collects:
1). It must be produced in multiples such as silkscreen, offset, stencil, litho, digital output etc.
2). Please submit both digital and hard copy if possible.
3). The poster must have overt political content. If you would like to to donate posters, please contact
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
8124 West Third Street, Suite 211
Los Angeles, CA 90048-4039
tel: 323.653.4662 · fax: 323.653.6991
email: cspg@politicalgraphics.org
Posted by lois at May 10, 2007 10:03 PM