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It
is not cynicism, it is not hatred that is demoralizing
us:
no, it is only the state of false ignorance in which we are made to live and which we ourselves contribute to maintaining. To ensure our peace of mind, the solicitude of our leaders goes as far as quietly to undermine freedom of expression: they hide or filter the truth. --Jean-Paul Sartre [read more] |
This ongoing series of graphic design projects -- posters, pamphlets, and stickers -- intervenes in a cycle of ignorance, denial and inaction that helps maintain American empire. On the one hand, evidence of American atrocities vanishes below people's perception in the avalanche of corporate media, and below people's belief as they dismiss opposition reports as not credible. On the other hand, a psychological mechanism is at work: what John Paul Sartre called a false ignorance.
"If we refuse to investigate the … truth ourselves, it is because we are afraid. Afraid of seeing our true faces naked. That is where the lie is — and the excuse for the lie: yes, we lack evidence, so we cannot believe anything; but we do not seek this evidence because, in spite of ourselves, we know."The projects in this series attempt to penetrate this false ignorance from three sides. Evidence, stories, and photos documenting the reality of imperial atrocities. Exposing the mechanisms of cover-up and denial from the mass media to our own minds. And an invitation to humane outrage and rebellion.
What follows is a toolkit of posters, each available in pdf format. Use them as you will.
![["They Won't Forget" poster on Abu Ghraib]](TheyWontForget-prev.gif) |
Abu
Ghraib:
One Year Later
One Year Later
Haj Ali al-Shalal (right)
was the man in the infamous picture of a detainee tortured by attaching
electrodes to his arms. Now his voice is finally being heard in the
press, describing his experiences and his struggle for justice. Nur
al-Cubicle | Indymedia
UK | Vanity
Fairposters
Riverbend: Just Go... reaction from the Baghdad blogger of Baghdad Burning
They Won't Forget (pictured left)
CACI: Corporate Torturers CACI Internation made interrogating at Abu Ghraib a profitable enterprise. May 2005 protest in SF | June 2004 protest (video)
News Under Seige 9: School kids shot by Israeli Army in Rafah, June 2004
News Under Seige 8: Fallujah is bleeding under U.S. attack, April 2004
News Under Seige 7: Direct action confronts Israel's apartheid wall, December 2003
News Under Seige 6: Iraqi Resistance is Homegrown, September 2003
News Under Seige 4: Arab Deaths Don't Make the News
News Under Seige 3: Nablus Still Under Curfew, September 11, 2002
Who pays and how?
Their Homes: Chagos Islanders Ethnically Cleansed for US/UK Bases
Freedom is at Risk: War-time repression in Egypt and the US
Fireworks: How human lives are turned into weapons
Between Democracy and National Extinction
Resistance Begins at Home
Creature of Resistance: A communique from & to the resistant multitudes
A Ransom Note: for hundreds of thousands of lives and the possibilities of freedom
Oakland Resists: corporate rule, police brutality, and the violence of power
R is for Revolution, E is for Everybody
