Lesego Rampolokeng (Soweto)
contact Lesego Rampolokeng
		Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet whose work reflects multiple influences: the writings of the Black Consciousness poets, Caribbean dub poetry, the early rap of The Last Poets and Gill Scott Heron, US and British Hip Hop, 1960s Soweto street poetry, SeSotho song- poems of South Africa and Lesotho. He lives in Soweto. As a student, he was deeply engaged in the anti-Apartheid politics of COSATU and related movements. He has been writing and performing since a very young age and is considered one of South Africa's finest and most original poets. He has toured Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Brazil and the UK.
		more info about Lesego Rampolokeng

		David Thorne (Los Angeles)
contact David Thorne
		David Thorne attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and is known for his artist's books that address political subjects in a poetic manner. "Ready to Start Overnights Right Away" is a large-scale text and photo installation that looks at the police killing of a homeless man in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, in the context of the well-publicized overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom.
		more info about David Thorne

		Dread Scott (Brooklyn)
contact Dread Scott
		Dread Scott received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work deals with social injustice, with an emphasis on racism, the death penalty and police violence. Last year he and Jenny Polak were artists-in-residence at the New Museum in New York City, where they helped develop a year-long educational program on the subject of police violence for public school students. The most recent installation, "Jasper the Ghost," deals with the brutal death of an African-American man in Jasper, TX. He was a resident at the Institute on Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard, where he worked on a project involving photographing and interviewing people in prison in the state of New Jersey. Scott has the distinction of having had his work publicly denounced by George Bush.
		more info about Dread Scott

		Stolen Lives Project (USA)
contact The Stolen Lives Project
		The Stolen Lives Project is a joint project of The Anthony Baez Foundation, The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation and the National Lawyers Guild. There is a nationwide epidemic of police brutality in the United States. The victims are overwhelmingly African American, Latino and other people of color. Stolen Lives provides important and compelling exposures of the nationwide epidemic of police brutality and murder. People who‘ve been killed, their families and loved ones, and communities under the gun speak through the pages and tell theirstories. And they get a platform to speak out even more broadly. Among people who don‘t deal with police brutality in their daily lives, this book shows that it‘s more than just a “few bad apples” or some “isolated incidents.” Many such people will be moved to join the struggle against police brutality and stand with those under the gun when they see the shocking scope of this epidemic.
		more info about The Stolen Lives Project

		Brad McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry (Brooklyn)
contact Brad McCallum
		Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry were artist-in-residence at Harvard's Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, with Anna Devere Smith to develop their artwork "Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence," and previewed "Witness" in Boston in summer 1999. Later that year they presented an installation that encompassed the sanctuary of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. The public installation of Witness on the sidewalks of New York City took place in the fall 2000 with the support of The Bronx Museum of the Arts. For twenty consecutive days the "Witness" call boxes were installed as a group at locations where incidents of police misconduct took place and in front of civic buildings where accountability for these acts were determined. On January 31st, 2001 the call boxes and documentation of the public installations were presented at The Bronx Museum marking the culmination of this project.
		more info about Brad McCallum

.::Right2Fight ReadMe Message Forum Join List Serve Contributors (1) Contributors (2) Contributors (3) Contributors (4) Directions to SLC

...next

...