Inciting Violence
“On June 1st, 2020, we witnessed how far this administration is willing to go, using violence against peaceful demonstrators merely in the service of a photo opportunity for Donald Trump. These are difficult images to look at, and yet I believe it is so important that we continue to see, process, and understand the magnitude of the violation of human rights represented by this moment – and that we take the lesson by removing such a violent and irresponsible leader from power.“
-Swoon
Learn the Facts About Donald Trump’s Inciting of Violence In America
Donald Trump incited violence and excessive use of force against his fellow Americans and used racist and white supremacist language to talk about the protests taking place in communities of all shapes and sizes across our country. Trump described protestors as “thugs” and the communities in which we live as “under siege” and in need of militarization. In perhaps his most brazen attack on peaceful protesters, President Trump sent in US Park Police and US Secret service to use force to break up a peaceful protest of police brutality outside the White House so he could pose for a photograph in front of a church.
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Secret Service and US Park police used tear gas, pepper spray, and stinger balls against peaceful protesters in order to clear the area for Trump’s own photo opportunity. – Source: NPR
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Trump has taken sides on every cultural symbol of the Movement for Black Lives, using the platform of the White House to insult and harass icons like Colin Kaepernick. – Source: SI
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Trump regularly using dehumanizing language like “Low IQ,” “crazed, crying lowlife,” “wounded animal,” and “dog” to describe black people – Source: NPR
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Trump’s hate speech is so constant that Twitter had to enact new rules and warning labels for the platform, and delete some of his tweets entirely. – Source: NYTimes
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Artist Info
Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides of buildings with the goal of making art and the public space of the city more accessible.
Today, Callie’s work can be found on the sides of buildings worldwide and has been given both permanent and transient homes in more classical institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Tate Modern, and the São Paulo Museum of Art. She is also invested in social endeavors, including a long-term community revitalization project in Braddock, Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh and her efforts to build earthquake-resistant homes in Haiti through Konbit Shelter. Most recently, she has begun using film animation to explore the boundaries of visual storytelling.
