🎨✊🏿#ArtIsAWeapon
Shout out to these and all artists who use their art practices and platforms to fight against oppression and injustice around the world!
And fuck @instagram for preventing me from reposting this information from @ajplusenglish-blog . The platform logged me out of my own account and "warned" me that it could be permanently removed.
#ArtistActivists #CeasefireNow #Gaza #Sudan
Reposted @ajplus A group of anonymous artists hacked advertisements on dozens of New York City subway trains to bring attention to U.S. tax dollars being used to fund Israel’s attacks in Gaza.
The guerrilla artists visually mimicked ads typically seen on the subway and replaced them with commentary on Israel’s attacks or quotes from Palestinians. One poster looks like a hospital ad, but features images of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden, and New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, with text reading, “Looking to kill healthcare workers? Look no further.”
The act of public disruption came the night before New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she’d be sending members of the National Guard to the busiest MTA locations in response to a handful of recent violent incidents at stations.
“The subway is a space for, and occupied by, normal working New Yorkers. In this time where public services are being cut and money is being sent overseas to fund war in our names, we want to take back that public space,” one of the hackers said in a press release.
“Our daily lives and commutes should not — in fact cannot — continue as usual.”
Writers Against the War on Gaza, Art Against Displacement and the Palestinian Youth Movement cross-posted a video about the ad hacks on Instagram and asked people who spot the ads to snap photos and share them with hashtags #MTAArts and #FreePalestine.
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Producer: Emily Barger
#News #Gaza #Palestinian #Activism #NYC #Subway #Palestine #Israel #Protest #MTAArts #Resist #Disrupt
