Party for freedom at the "T-shirt Art Harvest Festival", September 30th through October
2nd 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 class 1 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. His fight does not stop there. 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. You need this right so that you can offer evidence in court to protect yourself from abuse
from an out of control patrolman. 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. Come to this
festival and get free art-patches!
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. Also featured on
Saturday afternoon are your voices on the unfairness of the Illinois Eavesdropping law. You
are invited to speak and hear others speak to this important human rights issues. Bands will
play free all weekend. Come pick-up Art Patch Project art-patches, speakout 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 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!
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