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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Anathema Art show to be in Kansas City

 
The Anathema Art project is about artwork for long term prisoners serving time in the U.S. This Friday The Clothes Pin Art Show will be presented by Anathema Art at the Pop Up Art Gallery, 2100 Grand Blvd., 3rd Floor, Kansas City, Missouri.
According to Anathema’s web site:
Anathema Art is more than a website slinging prison art. We believe in reality; our art is not served with wine and hors d’oeuvres, but instead with the harsher aspects of life.
Anathema is comprised of one attorney that believes in justice, one artist that believes in freedom of expression, and 20 convicts that claim their innocence or have made a choice of murder, arson, kidnapping, and robbery – some with all combined and more.
This is your gateway to the expression and voice of the ones who remain inside confining walls, and they have chosen to create productive change and contribute to society. -
http://www.anathemaart.com/
I will also be speaking on a panel at the show. My focus will be on drug laws and how they have pushed our prison system out of control. I have the following article posted on the Anathema web site:
The “land of the free” now has the highest prison population in the world
In the last 30 years the U.S. has a prison population which has mushroomed until this country has the distinction of having the highest population of prisoners in the world. For a country that holds itself up as “The land of the free” and “a beacon of hope” for those who want their freedom, having this high a prison population makes those claims suspicious.
While the U.S. complains about prisoners in (Democratic People’s Republic of) North Korea, it may actually have more of its own citizens incarcerated.
Over the last 30 years, politicians have enacted new mandatory minimum sentences and a number of new laws to prove they are not “soft on crime,” “soft on terrorism” or “soft on drugs.” In addition to new laws, there has been an increase in police, the power of the DEA, expansion of the FBI and decreases in the rights of the accused. Rights to spy on our citizens have increased, with privacy rights being chiseled away from most of us.
And most obvious is the expansion of prisons in this country. This country now spends more money on prisons than it does on education. According to Time;
“According to a report out today from the NAACP, states are spending increasingly large sums of money on prisons, at the expense of public education.
Its research shows states spend more than $50 billion annually on government-run correction programs. In the last 20 years, state spending on prisons has grown at six times the rate of spending on higher education. And one in 31 Americans is under some form of corrections control.

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