[Lekooks] Fwd: Project Update #8: We the People: public art for the inauguration and beyond by Amplifier Foundation

Wed Jan 25 23:33:26 CST 2017

Hello everyone, 

I contributed to this Kickstarter campaign for the production of the We the People artwork for the Women's March so I am getting further information. The creating organization The Amplifier Foundation wants to keep these images and what they represent in the forefront. Here is their plea from the middle of the attached email,

"Here is what we need your help with now: 
We are looking for airplanes too wrap if you have one. Preferably commercial. Yes, you read that right, and I won’t rest until I have it. 
We are looking for visible walls in high traffic areas in our biggest cities, for banners or murals. 
We are looking for the owners of advertising space in rural areas and billboards on rural highways and interstates. 
We are looking for advertising partners that are willing to give us a percentage of their corporate social responsibility budget for the year to make space available for this work. 
We are looking for printers who will work with us at cost to print for schools that want this work. 
If you can do these things please contact us at partners at theamplifierfoundation.org.  If you aren’t these people and you cannot do these things, but you know people who can please connect us."

If you can help please contact them. Or share this email any way you'd like as far and wide as possible.

If you aren't familiar, here is something about the art.
https://qz.com/887358/the-story-behind-shepard-faireys-powerful-posters-for-donald-trumps-inauguration/
You can download high res versions of the Women's March art and more here.
http://theamplifierfoundation.org/wethepeople/
None of the four co-founders of the Women's March modeled for the We The People artwork but you'd be forgiven for thinking they did. He's an interview they did and I attached a picture.
http://prospect.org/article/who%E2%80%99s-behind-women%E2%80%99s-march
(Unfortunately Linda Sarsour is being trolled, bullied and threatened https://mic.com/articles/166497/womens-march-co-organizer-linda-sarsour-has-the-perfect-response-to-her-critics#.5ogUV8wyR)

Thanks for any help.

Liz

These are the three March co-founders often incorrectly believed to be the basis for the We the People artwork.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Kickstarter" <no-reply at kickstarter.com>
Date: Jan 25, 2017 2:19 PM
Subject: Project Update #8: We the People: public art for the inauguration and beyond by Amplifier Foundation
To: <lizkreml at gmail.com>
Cc: 

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YOU DID THIS!!!
Posted by Amplifier Foundation (Creator)
Friends!   
We hope you've seen the fruits of this campaign, but if you haven't we have updates!  Ive been meaning to send this for days but have been overwhelmed by literally thousands of calls and emails and am just now digging myself out!  
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THIS is what you made:

via @juxtapozmag

as seen in the New York Times

photo by @bashakalakha
Through YOUR participation in this campaign, and through YOUR vote of confidence in these new symbols of hope, we have begun to take back the narrative about who WE the PEOPLE really are. 
Because of YOU, on January 20th, we launched full-page advertisements in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA today, spreading 2.2 million pieces of this art across every state in America. We also distributed over 30,000 placards of the art that you carried through the streets of Washington DC and Los Angeles. And in the places we couldn’t print in time, you found a way to print it yourselves. Through our website we offered free art that was downloaded over 500,000 times in just 3 days and then printed and carried into the streets or hung on doors and windows across the nation. We saw the message spread not just across this country but across the world, with it appearing somewhere in nearly every photo and video we saw of protests from every corner of the globe. 

as seen in the New York Times

Jackson Hole, WY (photo by Andy Bardon)

as seen in The New York Times
We built this campaign, but YOU made it move. You gave it a power we could never have imagined. You made our eyes tear up again and again as we watched it cross oceans and ice and all the borders that divide us. In the days surrounding the inauguration we saw people download this art in 205 countries! 
The first signs of its global reach were images of it surrounding the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in the early morning hours of Jan 21st, and then it quickly spread to gatherings in Italy, Sweden, Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Columbia, and beyond. 
You carried it in the Women’s Marches across America and the world with your sisters, and mothers, and daughters, and with all of those men who value the power that is WOMAN, the life givers that we must protect at all cost.  And through the millions that marched we proved that WE the PEOPLE are mobilized and peaceful. 
We are Resilient. We are Indivisible. We are Greater Than Fear. We will Defend Dignity, and we will Protect Each Other. This rallying cry is just the beginning. Let it be a reminder to us all to stay vigilant and mobilized. 
These images and this project "appeal to the higher angles of our nature,” we were told by President Obama, when he called after this project funded.  And we will need them to remind us of those higher angles again as this road passes through dark times ahead. 
We will continue to move these message throughout the country, with a program to give free art to any school or library that wants it in America. And we will expand this series of images with Shepard, Ernesto, and Jessica, but also with dozens of new artists and photographers over the coming year through a series of grants that YOU made possible. And we will find even more ways to distribute these messages from stickers and billboards to street projections. 
Here is what we need your help with now: 
We are looking for airplanes too wrap if you have one. Preferably commercial. Yes, you read that right, and I won’t rest until I have it. 
We are looking for visible walls in high traffic areas in our biggest cities, for banners or murals. 
We are looking for the owners of advertising space in rural areas and billboards on rural highways and interstates. 
We are looking for advertising partners that are willing to give us a percentage of their corporate social responsibility budget for the year to make space available for this work. 
We are looking for printers who will work with us at cost to print for schools that want this work. 
If you can do these things please contact us at partners at theamplifierfoundation.org.  If you aren’t these people and you cannot do these things, but you know people who can please connect us. 
We want these images to be EVERYWHERE, to be a compass, reminding us of our strength when we come together, reminding us of our duty as we march on. 
Now the marathon begins.  We are ready again today to fight for this, and we will be ready the day after that, and the day after that too.   We vow to use every platform we can find, make, or hack to continue this work you helped us start.  So keep your heads up and your voices loud!
See you in the streets!
Aaron Huey 
Executive Director of The Amplifier Foundation 

Los Angeles Women's March

Washington, DC

Leadership of the Women's March

Meaghan Delmonico in a dress designed by Steve Ryan

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