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/3 - Alabama Prison Strike 2022

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Carol Crooks was an American prison rights activist. Womens Lib & PAIGC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral Womens Lib & PAIGC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral

Womens Lib & PAIGC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%ADlcar_Cabral

Steve Whitman & Nancy Kurshan PP work

"as he also drew attention to police brutality and prison conditions" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-steven-whitman-obituary-met-20140727-story.html

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/77756-who-wrote-a-raisin-in-the-sun-imani-perry-knows.html

https://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?s=steve+whitman

https://azinelibrary.org/trash/Breif_History_of_the_New_Afrikan_Prison_Struggle.pdf

http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC3_scans/3.kurshan.whitman.book.introduction.8.18.1990.pdf

Najee Dorsey - add section about BAIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najee_Dorsey

In 2010, Najee and Seteria Dorsey founded Black Art in America (BAIA) as an online repository of information about Black artists in the United States. [occurrences since founding]. In 2020, BAIA donated fifteen art objects from fifteen different African American artists to the Columbus Museum. In 2022, BAIA expanded with the opening of a physical gallery in East Point, GA.

any info about BAIA collections (Dugger has BAIA listed on her CV)

[pdf saved on desktop] https://www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2021/12/29/black-art-in-america-thrives-with-zadig--voltaire-collaboration-museum-gifts-and-founders-solo-show/?sh=a1598fd36700

https://www.artsatl.org/black-art-in-america-booming-online-is-building-an-art-center-in-east-point/

The result was the online portal Black Art in America (BAIA), designed to document, preserve and promote the contributions of the African American arts community. Since founding the virtual hub in 2010, with Dorsey as CEO and his wife Seteria as CFO, their fan base has grown to encompass over 100 countries, 145,000 followers on Instagram and about half a million visitors to a host of social media pages including Black Art In America™, Garden Art for the Soul, Everythang Black and Do You Basel?™

Thanks to a glut of commercial properties that flooded the Atlanta real estate market at the outset of the pandemic, the Dorseys were able to buy a former church at a reduced price in a cash transaction. Corporate donations poured in, despite BAIA’s status as a for-profit entity, because local business leaders understood the value of art as a generator of commerce and community pride. City Hall granted a permit for the new headquarters without the usual bureaucratic delays. And the East Point location, which occupies an entire block, sits at what Dorsey describes as “a crossroads of black art and culture.” Greenbriar Mall is a couple miles away, the Hartsfield-Jackson airport three miles away, and Tyler Perry Studios just two miles away.

(The organization publishes a print magazine six times a year. Copies will be provided free of charge at BAIA’s headquarters, and are currently available at partners across metro Atlanta, including all HBCUs, the Slutty Vegan and For Keeps Bookstore on Auburn Avenue.)

Victoria Dugger (born 1991, Columbus, GA) is a visual artist.

https://hyperallergic.com/661854/victoria-dugger-out-of-body-sargents-daughters/

https://www.frieze.com/article/best-shows-see-right-now-atlanta-april-2023

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/victoria-dugger-new-work-2021-1234605936/

https://artdaily.cc/news/137048/Sargent-s-Daughters-opens-the-first-solo-presentation-of-the-work-of-Victoria-Dugger

https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/body-at-sargent-s-daughters/5056

https://saportareport.com/south-arts-announces-2023-fellowship-class/sections/reports/hannah/

http://www.victoriadugger.studio/about-ishimoto

Orisanmi Burton is an American social anthropologist. He is the author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt.

Burton holds a MLIS from Palmer and a PhD in Anthropology from UNC Chapel Hill. He is an assistant professor of Anthropology at American University. He is a Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar (2021) and was the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2020-2021

His research interests...

https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/oburton.cfm

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885428/50-years-after-the-attica-prison-rebellion-the-struggle-for-prison-reform-continues

Publications

https://spectrejournal.com/revolution-is-illegal/

https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/12-racialized-incarceration/podcast-transcripts-racialized-criminalization-prison-uprisings-united-states-orisanmi-burton

https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/resisting-state-violence/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/08/eddie-ellis-and-the-struggle-for-black-freedom/

Garrett Bradley
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2021/02/19/filmmaker-garrett-bradley-captures-love-as-the-radical-thing-it-is

America: 12 vignettes; " In making this contemporary silent film, she chose 35mm not only because it was the standard at the beginning of the 20th century, but because “it’s also, still to this day, in 2021, the most reliable form of archiving something. The lifespan of 35mm film is 500 years, which surpasses any hard drive that exists right now.” (The average hard drive lasts three-to-five years.) "

biography: "Her father toured the world with Miles Davis, sent his daughter gifts from far-flung places. Though she grew up surrounded by artists and musicians, “filmmaker” and “artist” were never aspirations. “I thought I wanted to be a judge or a race-car driver,” she says."

"The future filmmaker struggled with reading, due to what she calls an extreme case of dyslexia. Bradley didn’t start making art until she was in high school. She submitted her first film to a festival for students at Quaker schools—and won. “I was like, ‘Oh, I’m good at something,’” Bradley reflects. “I found a way to communicate that felt effective and nourishing.” "

music in her films: "Time’s Southern Gothic drone shots of Angola and slow zooms onto Louisianan oil rigs are set to a soundtrack by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the 97-years-old Ethiopian pianist and composer whose bluesy, liturgical music Bradley found through YouTube’s algorithm. The soundtrack for America is by Trevor Mathison, a member of the Black Audio Film Collective, who was suggested to the director by artist Glenn Ligon, an executive producer of the film. Mathison’s use of loops and reverb evoke a sentiment aptly described by Bradley as “a nostalgia for our future selves,” complimenting the film’s gauzy veils and oblique shots of industrial machinery in repetitive motion."

"black female and feminist perspective" https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2020/03/03/garrett-bradley < more on 35mm and early life

IAV Episodes
Ep 3 Flora and Cootie are out on their first date when Cootie sees The Hero through the window. Unbeknownst to the couple, he's on his way to the eviction defense that Jones organized. As Jones is informing the defenders and tenants of their rights, The Hero arrives and announces that the eviction is legal and that the crowd should disperse. Back on their date, Cootie and Flora share differing views on the Hero, with Flora describing his slogan, "get your mind right halfwits," as a dog whistle. Flora implies that she is willing to tolerate this difference because she is "a fan of" Cootie.

Flora takes Cootie to another restaurant. She talks about her personal goals as a chef and shares about her childhood, how she grew up moving at the speed she does and how that was a challenge both in her relationship with her parents and their relationship with each other. Cootie gets sick from the food and vomits.

The next day at work, Cootie tells Felix about the date. Felix tells him to prepare to have sex on the next date. Scat arrives and invites them to the comic book shop. They don't join him and Dreads says he'll see them later. Cootie's agent tells him to take a break from posing. Cootie says he thinks he's getting a rash. Elsewhere, Jones and Cooties mom are making posters for an eviction defense. They debate about leadership, hierarchies, and organizing strategies. Cootie prepares for his second date with Flora. In the bathroom, he uses his father's cologne (episode title). Felix drives Cootie to his date and gives him advice for his first sexual experience. Flora explains her process of navigating the world as a form of translation, making conscious efforts around how she speaks, walks, and her facial expressions. She explains why she brought Cootie to the xxx yard and creates a sonic experience by banging on an empty xxx. She then nods to the parked cars, to imply that she also brought him there for sex. Flora initiates a kiss. She pulls out her journal to show all the calculations she's made about probable outcomes of their romance. She's concluded that the most probable ones are good. The best possible outcome is if they go have sex

When Scat leaves Felix and Cootie at the mall, he heads to the comic book shop. He is momentarily entranced by an animated show. When he finds the figure he intends to gift Cootie, he checks out and the cashier shows him a DVD, it's a copy of a lost TV episode. Scat takes the DVD. On his ride back, he crashes into a pile of trash and ends up stabbed by a piece of metal. Without insurance, he struggles to get medical attention. Eventually Felix comes across Scat losing consciousness at a bus stop and drives him to an emergency room.

Implied that Flora like Cooties mom doesn't like the Hero but "is a fan of" Cootie and willing to tolerate his admiration of the Hero

Cootie gets sick at the second restaurant and vomits. He leaves the restaurant with his head still in the trashcan he vomited in.

Ep 6
Jay Whittle is having trouble getting out of bed in the morning. But once's he's up, he starts with a dance routine before fending off an assassin who's been hiding in his apartment. His apartment is in the same building as the offices of Cannon Comics (publisher of The Hero comic), his mother's home, (a replica of) his childhood bedroom, amongst other xxx for his easy access. To access each floor in the building, Whittle stands in one place and instructs his AI (voice assistant) to move the building until he on the floor he needs. Throughout the day he has a conversation with Cannon Comics staff about art and propaganda; discusses a hardware issue affecting his public image with a technologist on his team, Marvin; talks to his assistant, Edwin, who is preparing to pre-date a woman on his behalf; and talks to his mother about the seeming existential crisis that is making it hard to get up in the mornings. The Hero gives him purpose, but he stills feels lacking.

While The Hero is moving though his day, Cootie is embracing his villainhood. First, he shares with Jones his plan to stage a heist. Jones doesn't think it's a good idea and tells him so. Insistent, he organizes a planning meeting which is attended by Felix, Flora, Bear, and Bear's neighbors from the Lower Bottoms.

After Edwin reveals another failed date, Whittle returns to his apartment and once again faces the assassin. Once he's trapped the assassin, he removes her mask and reveals that he's hired her, as he has with other assasins to keep him on his toes until his "actual super villain comes."

The power goes out across the city. Cootie and the crew are waiting outside of the power station, their heist target.

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The Hero has trouble getting out of bed. Finally up, he slaps himself, does a dance and begins to battle a masked assassin. The assassin sets off a gas canister and escapes. The Hero, finally dressed affirms that today will be a great day then instructs his voice assistant to move the building so that he moves from his apartment floor to the floor where Cannon Comics offices are.

He can instruct his voice assistant to move the building to bring any floor to him: his apartment floor, the floor where Cannon Comics offices are, a replica of his childhood home.

At Cannon Comics, staff are meeting. A black staffer is talking about the twap monster and saying their comic not too long ago was referred to as propaganda.

The Hero interrupts a meeting where one attendee is disucssing the twamp monster and perception of the comic as propaganda.

The Hero says the Twamp Monster (i.e. Cootie) is bound to become the symbol for the opposite of what the Hero represents. The windows get shot up...

Cootie is talking to Jones about how's he's accepted that he's the villain and is planning to do a heist. He thinks that this is in line with what Jones advocates for. Jones clarifies that the goal is to get people to work together and that the general strike is the way. Cootie thinks Jones's process is too long.

Cootie is battling different perceptions of himself - whether people see him as a "villain"  a "clown"

Jones is committed to a scientific process Cootie thinks Jones is too narrow.

the hero goes to another floor and consults with Marvin about a hardware issue affecting his image

He also mentions that his "AI" voice assistant has been sounding like Bill Cosby

The Hero give his assistant a hug, affirms him, then tests him with a game of slap hand. The assistant tells him about the woman he's going on a date with. The Hero says this could be the one. The Hero then asks him to diffuse a bomb that's been place by the assassin.

Cootie is hosting his first heist planning meeting with Felix, Flora, Bear, and Bear's Low Bottoms' neighbors. Their first target is the power station's regulator. Cootie's mom hands out clothing for them to wear. They discuss names and strategies for executing the heist

The Hero flies over to an execution of someone he captured. The Hero seems to be having a difficult time watching hte execution.

Flora expressing her worries about Cootie's heist plan when they are just to themselves. Flora clarifies her boredom is not about her life moving slow but about people's predictability.

On the date, The Hero's assistant is asking the woman very direct questions but she keeps making sexual references. He gets her to play a game of slap hands. When she fails this test of loyalty, he tells her so. The date was actually a pre-date to see if she would be a good fit for the Hero.

The Hero is in the replica of his childhood bedroom. His mother arrives.he expresses that he has trouble getting out of bed in the morning. but being the hero is his purpose. She asks why he is obsessed with the law when he comes from a family that has power, one that the laws were made for.

His assitant, Edwin is waiting for him with a gift. He reveals that the date didn't go well but he is looking for more candidates. The Hero tearfully insults Edwin and moves the building to his apartment floor. He resumes the music and the assassin returns. Once the assassin is trapped he removes her mask and reveals that he's hired her, as he has with other assasins to keep him on his toes until his "actual super villain comes."

The power goes out across the city. Cootie and the crew are waiting outside of the power station.

Ep 7
power across the city has been turned back on. Cootie instructs thte crew to meet him back at his house. when he arrives Cootie's dad is singing congratulations. there is some debate and celebration amongst the group. the hero begins to attack the house. the low bottom crew and felix excape through an underground ... that Cootie's dad built. Cootie tells Flora to go with them. Eventually after debating with his parents. Cootie also escapes through and heads to where Jones is. The Hero finds him there. At first Cootie is able to subdue the Hero and begins to drag him in the street. As the converse, the hero begins to convince Cootie that they can work together. As he distracts Cootie, he also physically overpowers him with the help of his bill cosby technology. Jones intervenes and begins a conversation with the hero. she goes into a spiel about the connection between capitalism, poverty, and violence, explaining that capitalism necesitates poverty and that the crime that the hero has committed himself to combatting is only a product of... Jones asserts if The Hero was really... he would be a revolutionary. The Hero releases Cootie and saunters away as the demonstrators, still outside of Krown HQ jeer at him. Cootie, Jones, Felix, Flora, and the ghost of Scat all watch as the hero disappears, defeated. Cootie begins scratching the side of his abdomen. He opens up his shirt and reveals the rash has gotten worse, his skin bubbles until it splits open