Chase Iron Eyes: Trump’s Mocking of Native Americans Gives License to Others to Denigrate My People
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Democracy Now: As we continue to look at the video that has gone viral showing a group of Catholic high school students apparently mocking an indigenous tribal elder near the Lincoln Memorial, we...
Chase Iron Eyes on Native American Land Rights, Identity
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Everyone’s talking about that incident on the Lincoln Memorial — But here’s what the Indigenous People’s March actually wanted the public to know. CGTN’s Lisa Chiu talked to Chase Iron Eyes, an...
Our Dangerous Impulse to Demonize the Other Side
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/our-dangerous-impulse-to-demonize-the-other-side
I felt it, too. Millions of people experienced a thrill of outrage watching the viral video of protesters outside the Lincoln Memorial last week. The smug, smiling white boy in a “Make America...
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Reigniting The Activist Tradition
The tradition of activism among America’s artistic and cultural leaders goes back to the early days of social justice movements. In 1939, Marion Anderson staged a defiant outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial, having been barred from Constitution Hall on account of her race. Paul Robeson, one of America’s most prominent African American actors in the 40’s, spoke openly for equality and encouraged his peers to do the same. “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery” he said, “I have made my choice.” The 1960’s ushered in a wave of artist-activists, from Joan Baez to Harry Belafonte to Bob Dylan. In the 1970’s there was Marvin Gaye to Bob Marley, whose politically charged work added cultural resonance to the words and actions of Martin Luther King Jr. and other social justice leaders. More recently in the 1980’s, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie along with dozens of other artists staged “We Are the World,” conceived by Harry Belafonte, which delivered powerful testament to the power of artists to drive attention, resources, and action towards the world’s injustices. Artists such as Stevie Wonder, The Dixie Chicks, Alicia Keys, Public Enemy and Macklemore have carried this same spirit of progressive change into the present day.
Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue
▻http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/bringing-guantanamo-to-park-avenue
For the past six months, I’ve been collaborating with a former Guantánamo detainee, Mohammed el Gharani, preparing a work of art that we are making together. From October 2nd through the 4th, we will be streaming the image of Mohammed into the Park Avenue Armory. He will be sitting in a chair in a studio in West Africa, and his live image will be broadcast to New York City and wrapped onto a large three-dimensional cast of his body. His figure—more than three times life size, inspired by the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C.—will sit in the cavernous drill hall. Source: The New Yorker
J’adore ce passage, un peu d’humour dans un texte poignant:
I had temporarily unplugged my “tweedar”—the detector I use to measure the nauseatingly mannered content of art works. Projects like “My art is counting all the steps I took from here to the gallery and then assigning them corresponding musical notes and then playing them through the buttonholes of the shirt of my dead father.” I’ve done enough of these myself to be able to identify them pretty quickly.
Rosa Parks Didn’t Act Alone : Meet Claudette Colvin
▻http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/01/rosa-parks-didnt-act-alone-meet-claudette-colvin
In his warm-up for the first-ever inauguration of a black American president, the actor Samuel L. Jackson stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial, speaking of the sacrifices of everyday people to bring about the event we all witnessed this morning, including the well-worn story of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus. Jackson told the story as the old history books do, more or less the way my child, then six years old, had learned it at school: Parks, a department store (...)
Google Doodle Celebrates Martin Luther King Day
►http://mashable.com/2012/01/16/google-doodle-celebrates-martin-luther-king-day
The illustrated logo depicts Dr. King surrounded by young faces. It includes a line from the famous “I Have a Dream” speech he gave from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to 250,000 civil rights marchers on August 28, 1963: “I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by their color of their skin … I have a dream today.”