Rob-- Thanks for putting this one up. It's an important reminder that artists involved in quiet social action can be considered a threat by people who have a stake in maintaining whatever it is that the artists are protesting. What was not taken up in this article -- and what concerns me a lot -- is that the blatant forms of surveillance used by police in this case make it very clear that a primary purpose of the surveillance is to intimidate would-be protesters and to keep them away.
The amazing part of this article is that the Catts' actually obtained access to the information police had gathered. Martha The Lost Shoe http://www.chapbookpublisher.com/shop.html The Lost Shoe video http://www.sporkworld.org/Deed/lostshoe.mov this is visual poetry by Millie Niss http://thisisvisualpoetry.com 27 March 2010 release Rob Myers wrote: > http://bit.ly/d7MXMB > > "Catt's artistic endeavours received particular scrutiny. "John Catt sat > on a folding chair by the southern most gate of EDO MBM and appeared to > be sketching," states one of several logs. "He was using his drawing pad > to sketch a picture of the protest and police presence," said another > from 10 March 2006. A separate report, about his sketch of a Guantánamo > Bay detainee, noted: "John Catt was very quiet and was holding a board > with orange people on it."" > > (via @tregeagle on Identi.ca.) > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
