 
T-shirt Art, Art Patch Project & Musicians Jam Weekend
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Party for freedom at the "T-shirt Art Harvest Festival", September 24-26th with art and music all weekend long at the American Indian Center, 1630 W. Wilson Avenue. Fest founder, artist C. Drew, is fighting for his freedom and yours. The State of Illinois intends to make a political prisoner of the artist for testing the peddlers license law by selling art for $1 on State Street in Chicago. The State has charged him with a 1st class felony (4-15 years in prison) for audio-recording his own arrest for selling art in public. Mr. Drew seeks the freedom of artists to develop an audience in public and to survive by selling their art, as is their First Amendment right in the U.S.A. Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has decided Mr. Drew must first fight for your freedom to gather information (audio record) on how your public servants (police) treat you in public while on duty so that you can offer evidence in court to protect yourself from abuse, as is your First Amendment right in the U.S.A. The ACLU-IL is suing Anita Alvarez for prosecuting citizens who audio-record police in public while they are on duty and Mr. Drew is countering these police state tactics with the Art Patch Project. The Art Patch Project is a community art program in which artists, supporting their First Amendment right to sell art in public without a license, submit art which is printed and given away free to the public to promote the creation of public art scenes. Volunteers are committed to printing and giving away Art Patch Project art to march this art around the legal barriers locking artists out of public spaces until these legal walls crumble from the pressure of public opinion. Art Patch Project art will be featured alongside 22 years of T-shirt art at the 22nd annual T-shirt Art Harvest Festival. Bands will play free all weekend. Come pick-up Art Patch Project art-patches and boogie-down. Also displayed will be comments by people from around Chicago and the Nation in reaction to the actions of the States of Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts to incarcerate citizens for exercising their First Amendment right to audio-record their public servants in public. Thirty-eight States recognize this right but nine are wavering and three are very bad actors attempting to take your rights away. Tell them what you think! All who attend will be invited to add their own comments on this pressing issue confronting our Nation today. Your comments will be posted online to illustrate the decision of the Court of Public Opinion. Your voices are powerful. You can fight for your own freedom at this year's T-shirt Art Harvest Festival. Stand up for your rights. Party free for Freedom all weekend! - 30 -
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