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< Scans of my La Lucha Continua
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/ The Struggle Continues, photos.
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Taken of the project in 1985,
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as they were being painted on the Lower East Side.
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The largest and most ambitious
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community mural project in the country at the time.
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Consisted of a large, central collaborative mural,
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created by 12 artists; the 25 smaller murals.
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Then black graffiti artist Michael Stewart
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was arrested and strangled to death by New York police.
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Political street art in New York City protesting his murder
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mushroomed almost overnight.
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Michael Stewart's slaying emerged as one of several
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interconnected themes engaged by the mural project,
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apartheid,
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evictions,
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US intervention in Central America,
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the disappeared in Guatemala,
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homelessness and
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the power of grassroots community organizing.
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If anyone can identify
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the artists