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“Concerned Citizens" exhibition
“Concerned Citizens" exhibition
Controversial “dole
artist” Tao Wells, local provocateur Arlo Edwards,
and
several other artists will join forces to raise funds
and public
awarenessfor arrestees in the 2007 October 15
“Terror Raids” this
weekend.
The exhibition, titled
*Concerned Citizens*, will open with karakia
from
arrestee Moana Winitana at *Garrett Street
exhibition space *on *Friday June
3rd at 4:30pm.* The
opening will be followed by a screening of Errol
Wright
and Abi King-Jones’ documentary, “Operation 8:
Deep in the Forest”.
*Concerned Citizens* is a public
response to the 2007 arrests, and the
subsequent handling
of the legal case against arrestees. “The police seem
to
be equating legitimate political and environmental
activism with terrorism,"
says artist and organizer Lance
Ravenswood, “why have these people been
denied a trial
by jury? Why is there so much secrecy surrounding the
legal
proceedings?” Prominent figures, including civil
rights lawyer Moana Jackson
and Professor Jane Kelsey
have also spoken out against the handling of
the
case.
Exhibited works will range from paintings,
sculptures and animation to a
reproduction of a device
police claim arrestees planned to use - a
catapult
designed to launch a bus onto the head of former
US president George
Bush.
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