By Alleen Brown Remy, left, an artist from the Navajo Nation in Black Mesa, Ariz., and Wiyaka Eagleman, who is from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, Hilton Kelley of Port Arthur, Texas are in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 27 for Saturday’s People’s Climate March. Photo: Lexey Swall/GRAIN for The Intercept Thousands of…
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by Brian Daffron Artists such as Remy, bring attention to issues of social justice in a variety of forms. Picasso painted Guernica in response to the bombing of a Basque village in 1937, showing the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. The multiple contributors to the AIDS Memorial Quilt place a visual, human face on the numbers of…
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President Obama recently opened 43 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling at a lease sale in New Orleans. As an Indigenous Movement Artist, I was given the opportunity to work with directly impacted People of Color from the Gulf in the lead-up to an oil and gas auction. This particular target…