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After publicly declaring they would burn the Confederate and American flags, a group of protesters set both symbols on fire Wednesday evening, but it was the torching of the latter — the Stars and Stripes — that ended up creating a chaotic scene. Just after 7:30PM, about 20 demonstrators, some of whom were from Disarm […]
Fuck the Police (State): Artists Protest Removal of Edward Snowden Sculpture With Ghostly Projection
Inspired by the Edward Snowden bust that guerrilla artists erected atop a Brooklyn war monument on Monday morning, a different group of artists returned to the site hours after officials dismantled the illegal statue. They deployed the Illuminator to project an eerie blue image over the column where the 100-pound bust had stood earlier. In […]
Artists snuck a 100-pound bust of Edward Snowden into Fort Greene Park just before dawn on Monday morning. By the afternoon, NYC Parks Department workers and NYPD had removed the sculpture. RIP Edward Snowden’s bust. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
