Archives and Link Lists
Archive of our Free Speech Artists' Movement Newsletter
http://community.icontact.com/p/community1112
Press Releases from the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center
http://www.art-teez.org/pr.htm
C Drew Writes and Speaks
Video: C Drew on Chicago cable TV (7/9/07)
Explaining
artists' speech rights with a screen printing
demo
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1838238050552647653
A Modest Proposal – Give us our First Amendment Rights to Sell Art in Public (8/18/10)
http://www.art-teez.org/free-speech-movement/100818-right-to-sell-art-chicago-speech-violations.pdf
Video By Artists
John Sheehan Interviews C Drew Part 1 (8/31/2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHT2OvzTjw John Sheehan Interviews C Drew Part 2 (8/31/2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10O2kJWQOOo
Nancy Bechtol: Update from the Chicago Critical Mass (8/11/10) http://youtu.be/PCNz59hj9kg
Nancy Bechtol: CHRIS DREW Street Artist Awaits Legal Decision on
Felony Eavesdropping charges (7/18/2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmJk9b87ex0
John Sheehan Captures C Drew printing in public (3/23/2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFOd5r9dU5w
Nancy Bechtol: Free Chris Drew (1/26/2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoeMWVwu90U
Nancy Bechtol enters 5 minute video documentary on Chicago's violation
of artists' rights and C Drew's protests. (1/10/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pa9qTwWeIs
Nancy Bechtol video: C Drew
Answers Eavesdropping Charges
(12/29/09)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-K_dTlzs5M
Nancy Bechtol: Showing the arrest of C Drew (12/2/09)
You judge if a felony was
committed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72_ZzJCfESc
Nancy Bechtol: Video from Friday November 13th
When I challenged the City and received
a ticket (standing into Federal Court)
(11/13/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDT336Jw3Vs&feature=email
TV & Radio Coverage
WGN Nick Digilio Show
Nick Digilio interviews C Drew on eavesdropping charge (11/6/2010)
http://bit.ly/azrGdqJerry Mead-Lucerno reports for Free Speech Radio News (10/15/10)
http://fsrn.org/audio/states-crackdown-public’s-recording-police-action/7665
The Ministry of Truth: Interview with Chicago artist and political activist Chris Drew (9/23/2010) http://www.szcz.org/audio/tmot_2010-09-23.mp3
National Public Radio strikes: You can Film Cops, just don't record them! (9/1/10)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129553748
Michael Stephen - Outside the Loop Radio 201
Chris Drew Fights Continues the Eavesdropping Law Fight (7/29/10)
http://www.outsidetheloopradio.com/2010/07/29/otl-episode-201-update-on-fighting-the-eavesdropping-law-printers-ball-2010-preview-inside-felony-franks-hotdogs/
Michael Stephen – Outside the Loop Radio 172
C Drew Fights 1st Class
Eavesdropping Charge (1/6/10)
http://www.outsidetheloopradio.com/2010/01/07/otl-episode-172-standees-is-gone-steve-rhodes-on-ethics-in-journalism-chris-drew-fights-the-evesdropping-law/
Print/Online Media Coverage
The Accidental Poster Child - Courting arrest to protest street-art laws, Chris Drew stumbled into a more serious fight. (9/22/10)
Gizmodo: Are Cameras the New Guns? (6/2/2010)
http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns?utm_source=feedburner
In These Times: Free
Speech, for Art’s Sake
(12/22/09)
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5325/free_speech_for_arts_sake/
Chicago Tribune on the ACLU suing Cook County State's Attorney, Anita Alvarez (8/19/10)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-aclu-privacy-lawsuit-20100819,0,2296176.story
Tribune editorial by their editorial board in support of our view
of the audio-recording of police issue. (8/27/10)
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-08-27/news/ct-edit-recording-20100827_1_police-officers-chicago-police-vehicles-law-enforcement
Patrick Smith - Columbia Chronicle - Artists on the march (2/8/10)
http://columbiachronicle.com/artists-on-the-march/
Curtis Black, Newstips Editor - Community Media Workshop
A First Amendment two-fer (1/27/10)
http://communitymediaworkshop.org/newstips/?p=1232
Patrick Smith - Columbia Chronicle
Legal battle begins for freedom of speech(1/25/10)
http://columbiachronicle.com/legal-battle-begins-for-freedom-of-speech/
The Urban Coaster - Rogers Park Community Newspaper
Prints my response to 1st class felony
charge.(1/7/10)
http://theurbancoaster.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=560
Jake Malooley - TimeOut Chicago Magazine
Free Speech Activist Fights Eavesdropping Law (1/4/10)
http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/museums-culture/82496/free-speech-activist-fights-eavesdropping-law
Chicago's Thick Blue Wall - Radley
Balko writes for Reason.com on C Drew's arrest
(12/14/10)
http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/14/chicagos-thick-blue-wall
SunTimes: Felony
Charges filed against Artist Activist (12/3/09)
Comments
published below (Suntimes repeats police report without
investigation)
http://www.c-drew.com/blog/comments-on-suntimes-article-creative-felony/
Streetwise article: Explains
first attempt at arrest
(10/28/09)
Http://www.art-teez.org/pr/091028-4-Streetwise.pdf
Lee Klawans The San Francisco Examiner
Chris Drew fights for Artists' Rights on Patch at a Time (7/29/09)
Deanna Isaacs – the Chicago
Reader. Do you have a permit
for that painting?
(7/24/08)
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/080724/
Links to Legal Cases and Background Resources
National Coalition Against Censorship: Art Law Library – Public Forum Defined
(includes list of links to legal cases)
http://www.ncac.org/art-law/top-pubforum.cfm
Which leads you to New York's precedent setting case - Artists win.
*East Coast Case:* BERY v. CITY
OF NEW YORK, 97 F.3d 689 (2nd Cir. 1996)
http://www.ncac.org/art-law/op-bery.cfm
*West Coast Case:*
Perry v. Los Angles Police Dept,, 121 F3d 1368 (9th Cir 1997)
http://www.buskersadvocates.org/saalegalCtPerryappeal.html
Artist wins.
*Nevada Case:* Steven White v. City
of Sparks (Nevada) Artist wins.
In /White v. City of
Sparks/, painter Steven White challenged the
constitutionality
of a city ordinance that required him to obtain a permit
before
selling his paintings in public parks.
http://www.art-teez.org/free-speech-movement/white-v-city-of-sparks-opinion.pdf
*Florida law suit won by
artist* - Celli v. City of St. Augustine, Florida - decided 2000.
http://www.art-teez.org/free-speech-movement/celli-v-city-of-st-augustine-opinion.pdf
Since
this time artists in St. Augustine have continued to fight for their
rights against stiff government opposition from big-money
interests.
http://artinthemarket.blogspot.com/2009/04/artists-vs-st-augustine.html
*Weinberg v. City of
Chicago* (when all the National Sports Leagues
joined with the City to appeal and lost when the Supreme Court
refused to hear their appeal.) Weinberg - the Chicago author - won.
http://www.ahcuah.com/lawsuit/federal/weinberg1.htm
*Berger v. City of Seattle* A
federal judge in Seattle ruled in 2005 in favor of a balloon-artist
that the Seattle regulations violated the First Amendment,
considering that Seattle Center's outdoor space is a public park. A
12-member panel of the appeals court agreed
8-3.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2009/berg062509.htm
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0535752pv3.pdf
* Santa Monica, California modifies its street
performer ordinances to allow the activity to take place on public
sidewalks without a permit.
http://www.smdp.com/Articles-c-2009-10-14-63540.113116_Council_relaxes_street_performer_rules.html
* ACLU sues the City of Fort
Lauderdale for a street artist. (more to
come)
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2009/07/aclu_sues_fort_lauderdale_on_b.html
*NY Artist and Organizer* -
Robert Lederman, president of A.R.T.I.S.T.,
or Artists’
Response To Illegal State Tactics – This Yahoo Groups page
links to ten years of messages about all the New York City actions
and court cases over the years.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCStreetArtists/
*
NYC Street Artist Freedom Videos
Check out these videos about
how NYC artists won our rights in NYC
see:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=artistpres
Moscow Treats its artists better than Chicago. There is not one free open-air art market in Chicago.
* “Free Speech in an Open Society” by Rodney A. Smolla is a great primer toward understanding First Amendment case law. Google it for a great read on the topic.