RECYCLED PROPAGANDA
Mural koji prikazuje njujorški Kip slobode, no sada vezanu lisicama te prikovanu za haubu vozila službe za državljanstvo i imigracijsku, osvanuo je u donjem dijelu grada Las Vegasa.
Mural je nastao dan nakon što je američki direktor za državljanstvo i imigracijske službe Ken Cuccinelli (strani mediji prenose – u šali) predložio izmjenu uklesanog stiha pjesme The New Colossus, pjesnikinje Emme Lazarus.
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
… u “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”
Mural potpisuje Recycled Propaganda, pseudonim je to britanskog umjetnika i imigranta Izaaca Zevalkinga. Izaac Zevalking je ovim potezom htio skrenuti pažnju na američku historiju i kako je ona nastala te kako je većina američke povijesti sazdana od imigranata. Ovaj mural je direktna reakcija na Cuccinellijevu izjavu koji imigranti su dobrodošli u SAD – “All immigrants who can stand on their own two feet, self-sufficient, pull themselves up by their boot straps – as in the American tradition.” – Tvrdnja koja implicira negativnu reakciju države na sve one siromašnijeg statusa.
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