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|date_of_action=April-June 2018 | |date_of_action=April-June 2018 | ||
|location=San Diego-Tijuana border | |location=San Diego-Tijuana border | ||
|description_of_content= | |description_of_content='The Distress Flag Mural' was created by Amos Gregory, a San Francisco-based muralist, community activist and disabled Navy veteran. This was part of the Veterans Mural Project, or Veterans Alley, in attempts to highlight the adversities of US veterans. | ||
In 2013, the artist collaborated with a group of 20 deported veterans to design a mural on the south side of the San Diego-Tijuana border wall, referred to as the 'Friendship Circle'. Occasionally opened by the US Border, this area has become a meeting point for seperated families. | |||
The painting depicts a distressed (inverted) US flag with crosses, representing the upsetting reality of nearly 70 veterans in Tijuana, Mexico. Following their discharge from the military, several veterans were convicted of crimes and subsequently deported. With this artwork, Gregory aimed to encapsulate the emotional, psychological and medical damages of these deported veterans, which cannot be treated adequately in Mexico. | The painting depicts a distressed (inverted) US flag with crosses, representing the upsetting reality of nearly 70 veterans in Tijuana, Mexico. Following their discharge from the military, several veterans were convicted of crimes and subsequently deported. With this artwork, Gregory aimed to encapsulate the emotional, psychological and medical damages of these deported veterans, which cannot be treated adequately in Mexico. | ||