{"id":1119,"date":"2012-10-01T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T09:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2012-12-24T21:53:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T10:53:46","slug":"chalk-power-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2012\/10\/01\/chalk-power-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk power. Part 2."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chalked tributes to Canadian politician Jack Layton in August 2011. Randy Risling\/ Toronto Star.<\/p><\/div>\n

In July, when I launched my Pavement Appreciation<\/em><\/strong><\/a> website, many people emailed to tell me about their own work, suggest references, or alert me to websites and pavement occurrences. My thanks to you all. A number of you told me about recent events where acts of defiance or public memorialization had been accompanied by pavement chalking.<\/p>\n

For example, in July Occupy L.A. used the popular Downtown L.A. Art Walk as a stage for their own \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcChalk Walk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> but things got out of hand the moment the first chalker was arrested.<\/p>\n

Some weeks later Los Angeles artist Alex Schaefer deliberately chose to chalk protests<\/a> against the collusion between banks and the state as an act of civil disobedience, and ended up in handcuffs.<\/p>\n

Such events reminded Jacob Miller of the time in 2009 when he was arrested for protesting<\/a> about the commercialization of higher education by chalking on University of Arizona sidewalks where he was a graduate student.<\/p>\n

A quite different event occurred in Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, after the death of Jack Layton, well-respected and much-liked leader of the left-leaning federal National Democratic Party in August 2011. What began with a single chalked tribute<\/a> on a wall became a spontaneous outpouring of public grief<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And in an act of memorialization, on 25 March each year in New York volunteers fan out across the city to inscribe in chalk<\/a> the names and ages of the 146 victims of the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in front of their former homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July, when I launched my Pavement Appreciation website, many people emailed to tell me about their own work, suggest references, or alert me to websites and pavement occurrences. My thanks to you all. A number of you told me about recent events where acts of defiance or public memorialization had been accompanied by pavement <\/p>\n

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