“Global capital has reached such a point that
both the physical and intellectual landscape have been completely purchased. To
exist today means to tread on the property of others. The city has increasingly
become a space completely built around consumerism.  The freedom of expression
has come to mean the freedom to advertise.  Like a minefield of manipulative
codes, urban space has been designed to maneuver us from one point of sale to
the next.  Racist and classist anti-loitering and anti-gang laws have been
instituted across the country as increasingly individuals and cultures are
illegalized to protect rising property values.”
-The Department of Space
and Land Reclamation

this quote of the day was sent to me by my pal
josh in chicago (who you can learn more about tomorrow), this is what he had to
say about it :

it doesn’t come out and say it, but i think the last
sentence is just as applicable to graf and other street art, in chicago
especially it’s criminalization is clearly due to an attempt to shift blame for
crime, failing infrastructure, lack of social programs on “visable” problems
like graffiti and off of “invisable” problems like govt. corruption, real
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