Artists United for Change

                                              Encouraging Police Brutality
“My art piece is a reminder that while the American public was protesting in the streets, in record numbers, against racism and police brutality, Donald Trump was encouraging police brutality against the protesters, reinforcing the very same problems within law enforcement and the criminal justice systems the protesters were demanding to be reformed.” —Shepard Fairey

—from a May 29 Trump tweet, quoting Walter E. Headley, Miami police chief, in 1967: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Thursday, nine different billboards went up in Cleveland featuring the art work of several graffiti artists. “Remember What They Did” is a project by Artists United for Change, Scott Goodstein, and Robin Bell.  These signs have already been seen in a few cities, the first four:  Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Phoenix. The impetus to place them in Cleveland is the Tuesday night meeting between Joe Biden and Trumpenfuehrer at Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve University. Parts of Chester and Euclid have been closed. Most people avoid Euclid anyway. So, more traffic has been moved to Carnegie; and these two signs were on Carnegie.

“I chose to use this quote because this thinking is mythical and dangerous. Discord continues to be sewn regarding a global pandemic and countless lives will continue to be lost due to a non-unified message with profit and politics over people.”  —Nate Lewis

Lewis was an ICU nurse in Washington DC. He used a CT scan of a covid patient, “it’s an eyewitness account… about how real this virus is.”