http://www.c-drew.com/blog Chicago photographs, community art, artists Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:01:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi Chris, Thank you for talking with me last week! Hopefully we'll see some changes in this law soon. This story will be all over the place, here's the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/06/national/a124612S79.DTL Shannon McFarland - Associated Press http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/02/07/ap-covers-the-eavesdropping-issue/ Valentines Day Protest at my Court Hearing. At long last we are moving rapidly toward a trial. It will still not come until late spring or early summer but it will be upon us swiftly. This next court date is our opportunity to begin to organize to make this trial ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/01/30/1651/ In court today on my class 1 felony charge for audio-recording my arrest for selling art for $1 in Chicago judge Sacks asked my attorney, Josh Kutnick, if he knew if a result from the Illinois Supreme Court on the Allison case was imminent and Josh responded due to complications ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/01/24/1641/ I will be in court at 26th and California room 602 again tomorrow morning (1/24/12) regarding my class 1 felony charge for audio-recording my arrest for selling art for $1. We will receive the response from the State's Attorney to our motion to dismiss for First Amendment reasons. Then we ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/01/24/fighting-for-your-right-to-audio-record-police/ Bill would let people record audio of cops http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-eavesdropping-bill-20120113,0,4634735.story Democratic state representative from Northbrook has filed the bill. "I believe that the existing statute is a significant intrusion into First Amendment rights...this is a problem in need of a swift solution," Rep. Elaine Nekritz said. In the last few ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/01/15/1592/ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-eavesdropping-bill-20120113,0,4634735.story Democratic state representative from Northbrook has filed the bill. "I believe that the existing statute is a significant intrusion into First Amendment rights...this is a problem in need of a swift solution," Rep. Elaine Nekritz said. [caption id="attachment_1585" align="aligncenter" width="464" caption="Art Patch by Jeneba Koroma from the Art Patch Project http://www.art-teez.org/free-speech-movement/fs-art-patch-project-instructions.htm"][/caption] http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/01/13/1584/ Another sad illustration of police trying to violate a citizen's right to video-record their public misdeeds. In a disturbing note, Youtube apparently participated in censoring the original video. We will be very watchful of Youtube in the future to determine a trend if they repeatedly censor police critical videos. http://boingboing.net/2012/01/12/sheriff-deputy-punches.html [caption id="attachment_1558" ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2012/01/13/1559/ Thanks to Nancy Bechtol for use of her photos (all by the last art-patch) from the Milwaukee Avenue Art Fest. She promises to post a video soon which we will link to here once it is up on Youtube. [caption id="attachment_1548" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Jenny Rotten's art-patch quilts were admired by all ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2011/08/09/milwaukee-avenue-art-fest/ [caption id="attachment_1510" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Welcome to Chicago - get a free anti-war patch printed on the spot by C Drew. photo by Ron Grenko"][/caption] More to come shortly (15 more photos in this essay). [caption id="attachment_1509" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Protest mural Chicago peace march photo by Ron Grenko"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1511" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="C Drew ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2011/03/23/protest-photo-essay/ [caption id="attachment_1493" align="alignleft" width="522" caption="Police Brutality during the Civil Rights Movement by Carlos Cortez (an Art Patch Project design)"][/caption] The Nikita Biddle Story In 2009 Nikita Biddle was a young courageous single woman struggling to emerge into her adult life. Nikita and her sister stayed in public housing in Kane County. They ... http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2011/03/14/1494/