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Decolonize This Place
April 5, 2019 protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons.
Date
2016 to present (2016 to present)
Location
New York, NY
Caused by
Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, Free Palestine, global wage workers, de-gentrification, dismantling patriarchy
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Decolonize This Place is an art collective based in New York City that organizes around Indigenous rights, black liberation, Palestinian nationalism, de-gentrification, and economic inequality.[1][2] Their actions often take place at museums and cultural institutions and focus on claimed colonialist tendencies within the art world.[3]
^"Decolonize This Place". www.decolonizethisplace.org. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
^Greenberger, Alex (April 30, 2018). "'Brooklyn Is Not for Sale': Decolonize This Place Leads Protest at Brooklyn Museum". ARTnews. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
^Sholette, Gregory. “What do Artists Want?, Re-reading Carol Duncan’s 1983 essay Who Rules the Art World” in 2017” in Who Runs the Artworld: Money, Power & Ethics, Brad Buckley & John Conomos eds., Libri Publishing, 2018. pp 57-73.
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