Daniel Chung, Nahome Lantyderu, Helena Lee, Brian Thevenot
Mixed Media on Panel
Our piece represents the continuation of the Black community’s struggle against capitalism and institutional oppression. A fist rises from the center of our piece, both chained and breaking through rocks that lay at the bottom of the mural. The crumbling stone — labeled with the mechanisms of oppression, such as mass incarceration, ideologies and actualities of white supremacy, and institutional racism — represents the foundation of American repression of the working class, for the goal of accumulating profit. Prison abolitionists spell out how mass incarceration and the terrorizing of the Black community functions as a continuation of enslavement: incarcerated folks are used as cheap, exploitable labor for institutions like universities — for example in college furniture, much of which comes from incarcerated labor. However, the fist persists and represents that it is people that have the power to resist the greed of capitalism. These images appropriate and transform street art from the Memorialize the Movement Gallery with the intention of expanding the ideas contained in the original work created during the George Floyd Murder Protests, 2020. Memorialize the Movement Media Gallery.