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The Frisco Five Protest Moves Bay Area Artists
5/11/2016 | 2m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Bay Area musicians, performers and visual artists support the Frisco Five hunger strike.
In the long tradition of art activism in the Bay Area, local musicians, performers and visual artists have been supporting the Frisco Five hunger strike and ongoing street mobilizations against police shootings.
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Represent is a local public television program presented by KQED
Represent
The Frisco Five Protest Moves Bay Area Artists
5/11/2016 | 2m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
In the long tradition of art activism in the Bay Area, local musicians, performers and visual artists have been supporting the Frisco Five hunger strike and ongoing street mobilizations against police shootings.
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- Mario!
- Woods!
- Alex!
- Nieto!
- This is the type of stance that we wanna take, as far as a hunger strike to the front door of the San Francisco Police Department.
In the last year and a half, there's been over five murders, unaccountable, with no consequence.
(somber guitar music) - Do you see yourself in others?
Do you see yourself connected?
(speaks Spanish) Art is a very strong reflection of who we are.
(guitar music continues) - [Interviewee] It's a really important time for artists to really activate their creativity towards something greater.
(conch blowing) - In so many areas of our society, institutionally, economically, there's this racism and violence that happens, whether it's structural violence or overt violence of people being shot in the street within 30 seconds of encounter.
- Music and social justice have always been together, for hundreds if not thousands of years, and I don't see how you can just play commercial music .. and be in the midst of all this and to think that that's okay.
You're blind, you know?
That's sitting in silence.
That's being complicit.
(guitar music continues) In this process of globalization, you gotta take the good, the bad, and the ugly!
With amber waves of immigration!
Ha!
- As people from the Mission District, we have to continue to tell our stories, to let people know how we got here, what happened, who we are, what we care about, what our values are.
This tech gentrification will erase everything, and the idea will be, San Francisco is about innovation, innovati.. Come be a coder, a coder, a coder!
Not come be an artist.
(guitar music continues) - This is our city, and we have control over what happen..
It's really cool to see the freedom within it and the self-expression that's coming from the struggle of the city.
(guitar music continues) - Historically and herstorically, artists have been the ones to basically reflect back what is happening in the world in that moment or call forth what has happened previously and what can happen.
(crowd chanting) - What do we want?
- Justice!
- When we do want it?
- Now!
- What kind of city do we want?
(guitar music continues)
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