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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:58:41 -0600

(Photo: Amnesty International ) Cantu's last meal: Fried chicken, rice, plantains, soda. His last request -- for a piece of bubble gum -- was reportedly denied.

(Photo: Amnesty International ) Jones' last meal: Steak and eggs, baked potatoes, toast.

(Photo: Amnesty International ) Jones' last meal: Steak, fried eggs, toast with jam, milk.

(Photo: Amnesty International ) Spence's last meal: Fried chicken, french fries, chocolate ice cream, soda, tea and coffee.

(Photo: Amnesty International ) Willingham's last meal: Ribs, onion rings, tater tots, enchiladas, two slices of pie.

lovenerdeen:

lovenerdeen:

The Last Meals Of Innocent Men

An emotional new ad campaign from Amnesty International asks its viewers to stomach a hard truth — images of the last meals of wrongly executed American prisoners.

As part of an initiative to abolish capital punishment completely, the influential human rights group has highlighted the unintended consequences of imposing the death penalty by focusing on a handful of prisoners who were eventually presumed innocent after they were executed. Since 1973, 142 death row inmates have been exonerated of the crimes for which they were sentenced to die, the Death Penalty Information Center reports. Some of those people spent decades in prison before their innocence was proven.

Meal 1: Ruben Cantu (Texas) was charged with capital murder at 17 years old for shooting a man during a robbery. The one witness to this crime admitted later on that he was pressured by police to identify Cantu as the criminal. He told the police twice that Cantu was not the shooter. However, Cantu was still executed in 1993.

Meal 2: Leo Jones (Florida) was charged with the murder of a police officer in Florida. Although he said that said he was coerced into confession after hours of interrogation. The police officer and the detective involved in his case, were forced out of uniform for ethical violations a few years after his’ conviction.

Jones was executed in 1998.

Meal 3: Claude Howard Jones (Texas) was sentenced to death in 1989 for shooting and killing Texas liquor store owner. However, the recent DNA tests on the strand of hair that was used as the only physical evidence against him was proved not to belong to him.

“Knowing that these DNA results support his innocence means so much to me, my son in the military and the rest of my family. I hope these results will serve as a wake-up call to everyone that serious problems exist in the criminal justice system that must be fixed if our society is to continue using the death penalty,” - Jones’ son, Duane Jones

Jones was executed in 2000.

Meal 4: David Spence (Texas) was charged and sentenced to execution for the murder of three Texas teenagers. There was no physical evidence against him and both the homicide detective and police lieutenant that were on his case did not believe Spence to be the criminal. The prosecution solely relied on the testimony of other prison inmates in their case against Spence,

He was executed in 1997.

Meal 5: Cameron Willingham (Texas) was convicted of murdering his three children in a 1991 house fire . Four national arson experts have concluded that the original investigation in the case was flawed, while an independent investigation into the case concluded that the prosecution centered its argument on arson theories that have since been repudiated by scientific studies.

Willingham was executed in Texas in 2004

I remember how many notes the last meals of the guilty men got because it’s interesting to look at that but apparently hardly anyone cares when the men are actually innocent. End capital punishment.

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:37:19 -0600

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angelblaines: The (not-so) subtle messages in Futurama are the...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:34:11 -0600

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:33:31 -0600

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spring has sprung

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Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:29:41 -0600

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Working on 4 new mirrors for my series “Camouflage as a Metaphor for Passing”

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feministdisney: “This is what a Disney Princess could look...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:28:07 -0600

feministdisney:

“This is what a Disney Princess could look like”

This was interesting because when I first saw the challenge my thoughts were, “Oh, that’s a really nice idea but hey let’s face it- I’m not Disney princess material.”

Oh, wait I get it now.

That’s exactly what I’ve been led to believe after growing up and having zero Disney princesses/females that look/act like me.

I want a multi-racial american queer princess who cut her hair short because she wanted to! I want a princess whose neck and head aren’t larger than her waist. Yeah, she can have big boobs but can’t the rest of her body match as well? Why not 130 lbs? Why not 180 lbs? She should have visible hair on her arms and she doesn’t mind!

She wears pants, shorts, skirts and dresses because she wants to. Just because she likes to wear dark colors doesn’t mean that she is supposed to be a bad character! She loves that she’s a woman but doesn’t have to adhere to the gender roles established by the time she lives in. :)

-regionsbeyond

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Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:31:34 -0600

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selahvibe: For the past 7 months, I’ve been organizing the...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:49:34 -0600

selahvibe:

For the past 7 months, I’ve been organizing the group exhibition Mythologies, which opens tomorrow (Friday the 7th). It all began as an idea amongst my friends and fellow members of Black at SAIC, of which I am the co-chair. When discussing our work with each other, we began to see that many topics considered passé by the art world (identity politics, feminism, collectivism, historical revision) are of particular interest to many of us, as young emerging artists of color. Apparently, not everyone has bought into the high modernism white-cubing of contemporary art nor the post-black agenda, and we immediately set about finding a space to recognize and celebrate that. Next semester, we hope to program more events that expand upon our collective efforts.

Mythologies: Challenging “Otherness ” and Other Tropes of American Pop Culture
Curated by Rashayla Marie Brown

Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor, Chicago, IL
Reception: Friday, December 7, 4:30 –7:00 p.m.
Exhibition open from December 7 –January 4

This exhibition explores the work of artists compelled to locate themselves within the identity-based mythologies of popular culture and mass media. Including a range of references as broad as Trayvon Martin and Malcolm X to cheerleading squads and movie trailers, Mythologies navigates the vernacular of pop iconography in a variety of media including photo, video, painting, and fibers. Mythologies was organized through a jury selection process initiated by current students at the School of the Art Institute.

Jury: James Britt, Simone Jelics (Co-organizer), Shahrazad Shareef
Artists: David Alekhuogie, Rashayla Marie Brown, Alexandria Eregbu, Christina A. Long, Hannah Rodriguez, Cameron Welch

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Courbet vs. Orlan The Origin of the World (1866) The Origin of...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:59:09 -0600

The Origin of the World, Gustave Courbet (1866)

The Origin of War, Orlan (1989)

Courbet vs. Orlan

The Origin of the World (1866)
The Origin of War (1989)

nothing more that i desire: How to change your gender settings to neutral with Facebook Timeline

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:11:07 -0600

nothing more that i desire: How to change your gender settings to neutral with Facebook Timeline:

phenominel:

Instructional post.

Problem: Once you set a gender on your Facebook profile, you can’t reset it to neutral. Although you can choose to hide your gender from your info page, it still appears when referencing you, as in “X changed his profile picture”.

Solution: As seen…

"The War on Men" by Suzanne Venker for Fox News. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll recapture your femininity and tie down a marriageable man.

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"The War on Men" by Suzanne Venker for Fox News. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll recapture your femininity and tie down a marriageable man.

Sadie Magazine: I Want to Thank My American Girl Doll

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:54:34 -0600

Sadie Magazine: I Want to Thank My American Girl Doll:

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This weekend my friends and I spent a particularly touristy day in the city, which involved a trip to Rockefeller center. As we approached the plaza, we passed some familiar red awnings that indicate the mecca a of our childhoods, and were struck by a wave of nostalgia. That’s right,…

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