Someone dropped at thumbdrive at our door in the middle of the night, it had this .txt file, and a movie of some rad lookin' stuff...
Shadow People Project was inspired by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, where thousands of people were blown away, leaving only their shadows printed by heat on streets, bridges, walls, and granite steps. These shadow people were the first to be rendered faceless and nameless by a nuclear weapon, but they were neither the first nor the last people rendered shadows by a great power.
The Shadow People Project is designed to bring shadow people out of the shadows....
shadowpeopleproject.org
Ciudad de Juarez has endured a decade of extreme violence, fueled by the War on Drugs, endemic border corruption, and its position as a gateway city to the USA. As the restrictions/control/surveillance on the border have
increased, counter-intuitively it has fueled greater violence, greater iniquity, and significant injustices to people on both sides of the border. Oddly, through all of this El Paso is one of the safest cities in the USA, but this plastic peace is kept with America's own Gulag archipelago, the largely privatised prison, and border security industrial complexes. These vast and corrupt bureaucracies have been created by the very people who speak of limited government, and freedom.
We know that history repeats itself, but as a joke the second time around. And so we invoke St Ronnie, destroyer of the unions and the US middle class to say: "Mr. President tear down that wall!" We must take the money we are spending on our very own societal panopticon and instead invest in a Marshall Plan for Mexico. The funny thing about the border, the actual river on the border: it's really beautiful. It should be a park. Let us join hands with all of our norteamericanos (yes, Quebec too, but not those Albertans), and create an equitable continent wide society.
With Great Love,
sub-commandante sterling
Cast: peter bill
Tags: Peter Bill, Yorch Otte, Victor Z, Juarez, frontera, el paso, borderlands, timelapse, graffiti, street art and violencia
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