>From: "Clemente Padin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Clemente Pad�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: To Networking, a la red...
>Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:46:33 -0400
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>Friends:
> Again the threat of the censorship and the jail for the artists that they don't agree with the official culture and they have the courage of expressing it. According these informations would be been about to stating explicitly another abuse against the competitors to the one which the curators call, the "Axis of Evil", although in this case, they only denounce the sexual abuse of Fathers of the Catholic Roman Church to the children, the murderous politics of Bush in Iraq, including the tortures to political prisoners in Abu Ghraid and Guant�namo.
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> Until the moment there is not other news that had been advanced in the repression of the liberty of _expression_ but, like Michael Hernandez of Luna says, this could be the commencement of an increase in the subjection of the human laws with the military command of State�s terrorism.
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>Fraternally,
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>PD.- Information gotten thanks to Jack Lattermann
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>Amigas/amigos:
> Nuevamente la amenaza de la censura y la c�rcel para los artistas que no est�n de acuerdo con la cultura oficial y tienen el valor de expresarlo. De acuerdo a estas informaciones se estar�a a punto de concretar otro abuso contra los opositores a lo que los organizadores llaman, el "Eje del Mal", aunque en este caso, s�lo denuncien el abuso sexual de los Padres de la Iglesia Cat�lica Romana a los ni�os, la politica asesina de Bush en Irak, incluyendo las torturas a presos pol�ticos en Abu Ghraid y Guant�namo.
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> Hasta el momento no hay otras noticias que se haya avanzado en la represi�n de la libertad de expresi�n pero, como bien dice Michael Hernandez de Luna, esto puede ser el comienzo de una escalada en el sometimiento de los derechos humanos bajo la �gida del terrorismo de Estado.
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>Fraternalmente,
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>PD.- Informaci�n obtenida gracias a Jack Lattermann
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>Tuesday, April 12, 2005
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>Art exhibit featuring Bush stamp probed
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>By TARA BURGHART
>ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
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> An artwork containing mock 37-cent stamps showing President Bush with a revolver pointed at his head is part of an exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery titled "Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin" Tuesday, April, 12, 2005 in Chicago. The exhibit captured the attention of the Secret Service who sent agents to inspect the works last week according to gallery officials. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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>CHICAGO -- The Secret Service sent agents to investigate a college art gallery exhibit of mock postage stamps, one depicting President Bush with a gun pointed at his head.
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>The exhibit, called "Axis of Evil: The Secret History of Sin," opened last week at Columbia College in Chicago. It features stamps designed by 47 artists addressing issues such as the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal, racism and the war in Iraq.
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>None of the artists is tied to the college.
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>Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur would not say Tuesday whether the inquiry had been completed or whom the Secret Service had interviewed, but he said no artwork had been confiscated.
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>The investigation began after authorities received a call from a Chicago resident.
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>"We need to ensure, as best we can, that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement," Mazur said.
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>Two federal agents arrived at the exhibit's opening night Thursday, took photos of some of the works and asked for the artists' contact information, said CarolAnn Brown, the gallery's director.
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>Brown said the agents were most interested in Chicago artist Al Brandtner's work titled "Patriot Act," which depicted a sheet of mock 37-cent red, white and blue stamps showing a revolver pointed at Bush's head.
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>Brandtner did not return a call to his design studio Tuesday.
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>The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry "frightens" him.
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>"It starts questioning all rights, not only my rights or the artists' rights in this room, but questioning the rights of any artist who creates - any writer, any visual artist, any performance artist. It seems like we're being watched," he said.
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>Last spring, Secret Service agents in Washington state questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which depicted Bush's head on a stick.
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>Martes, 12 de abril de 2005
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>Exhibici�n de Arte parece que us� la imagen de Bush
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>Por TARA BURGHART
>Escritora de ASSOCIATED PRESS
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> Un obra de arte conteniendo artistamps (sellos ap�crifos de Arte Correo) de 37 centavos con la imagen del presidente Bush con un rev�lver apuntando a su cabeza es parte de una exhibici�n en la Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery, llamada "Eje del Mal, la Historia Confidencial del Pecado" abierta el martes 12 de abril, 2005, en Chicago. La exhibici�n llam� la atenci�n del Servicio Secreto quien envi� a sus agentes a inspeccionar las obras la semana pasada, seg�n fuentes de la galer�a.
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>CHICAGO--El Servicio Secreto envi� a agentes a que investigaran una galer�a de arte de la universidad que exhibe una estampilla ficticia, en la que se muestra al presidente Bush con un arma apuntando a su cabeza.
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>La exhibici�n, llamada "Eje del Mal: La Secreta Historia del Pecado", abri� la semana pasada en la Columbia College de Chicago. Los "sellos" dise�ados por 47 artistas comentan aspectos como el esc�ndalo de abuso sexual infantil de los Padres de la Iglesia Apost�lica-Romana, el racismo y la guerra en Irak.
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>Ninguno de los artistas est� relacionado con la Universidad.
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>Un portavoz del Servicio Secreto, Tom Mazur, no dijo si se hab�a completado la investigaci�n el martes o con quien se hab�a entrevistado el Servicio Secreto, pero afirm� que no se ha confiscado ninguna obra.
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>La investigaci�n comenz� luego que las autoridades recibieron una llamada de un residente de Chicago.
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> "Necesitamos asegurarnos, como mejor se pueda, que �sto no es m�s que una obra con una declaraci�n pol�tica", asever� Mazur.
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>CarolAnn Brown, directora de la galer�a, dijo que dos agentes federales llegaron a la inauguraci�n de la exposici�n el jueves de noche, tomaron fotograf�as de algunas de las obras y solicitaron informaci�n sobre los artistas. Brown dijo que los agentes se interesaron en el trabajo del artistacorreo de Chicago Al Brandtner, titulado "Patriot Act" ("Patriota Act�a") que dibuj�, en una hoja de sellos ficticios de 37 centavos, a Bush con u rev�lver apuntando a su cabeza, en colores rojo, blanco y azul.
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>Brandtner no le devolvi� una llamada a su estudio de dise�o, el martes.
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>El curador del exhibici�n, Michael Hernandez de Luna, dijo que la investigaci�n le "asusta".
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> "Se comienza cuestionando los derechos, no s�lo mis derechos o los derechos de los artistas en esta exposici�n, sino de los derechos de cualquier artista que crea -cualquier escritor, cualquier artista visual, cualquier "performer". Parece que es as� c�mo estamos siendo controlados", dijo.
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>La primavera pasada, agentes del Servicio Secreto en Washington declaran haber preguntado a un estudiante de la escuela secundaria acerca de los dibujos antib�licos que hizo en la clase de arte, en uno de los cuales pint� a Bush con su cabeza en un palo.
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