https://wiki.ncac.org/index.php?title=Distress_Flag_Mural_(public_art)&feed=atom&action=historyDistress Flag Mural (public art) - Revision history2024-03-29T12:39:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.6https://wiki.ncac.org/index.php?title=Distress_Flag_Mural_(public_art)&diff=13251&oldid=prevIrinaT at 19:32, 2 August 20182018-08-02T19:32:14Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequently, Gregory refused to change the painting, asserting that his aim was to "raise awareness around the issue of deported veterans. It's not about us trying to take on our own government or us trying to create imagery that's hostile toward the United States of America" (Gregory, April 2018). </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Subsequently, Gregory refused to change the painting, asserting that his aim was to "raise awareness around the issue of deported veterans. It's not about us trying to take on our own government or us trying to create imagery that's hostile toward the United States of America" (Gregory, April 2018). </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|description_of_content=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>'The Distress Flag Mural<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>' 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.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>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 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>'Friendship Circle<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>'. Occasionally opened by the US Border, this area has become a meeting point for seperated families. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|description_of_content='''The Distress Flag Mural''' was created by Amos Gregory, a San Francisco-based muralist, community activist and disabled Navy veteran. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He established </del>the Veterans Mural Project, or Veterans Alley, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the Tenderloin District </del>in attempts to highlight the adversities of US veterans.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|description_of_content='''The Distress Flag Mural''' was created by Amos Gregory, a San Francisco-based muralist, community activist and disabled Navy veteran. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This was part of </ins>the Veterans Mural Project, or Veterans Alley, in attempts to highlight the adversities of US veterans.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> 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, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which is </del>referred to as the '''Friendship Circle'''. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Here, San Diego is separated from Tijuana by a pair of parallel running fences that are about 12-15 feet high and 40-50 feet apart. Friendship Circle, which is occasionally </del>opened by the US Border, has become a meeting point for seperated families. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> 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'''. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Occasionally </ins>opened by the US Border, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this area </ins>has become a meeting point for seperated families. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">issues </del>of these deported veterans, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who </del>cannot <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">receive adequate treatment </del>in Mexico.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">damages </ins>of these deported veterans, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which </ins>cannot <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be treated adequately </ins>in Mexico.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thereafter, Daniel Kitzman, a supervisory border agent for the San Diego Sector of the US Border Patrol, contacted Hector Lopez, co-founder of the US Deported Veterans support house, obliging Gregory to remove or alter the painted flag. This was the first objection made since the creation of the mural five years ago, insinuating political disagreements and an attempt by the federal government to squelch free speech. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> complaints prompted the </del>USCBP to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">open </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">review </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">year</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old mural</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) advised </ins>USCBP<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">respect the artistic expression of deported US military veterans and artists, who are protected by federal acts and the First Amendment. NCAC wrote </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">letter to the San Diego Sector of USCBP on this basis.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/us/paintings-us-mexico-border-fence/index.html Deported vets helped paint this upside-down US flag on the border. Will they have to remove it?], CNN, April 20, 2018. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Now, they say they are being told by the US government </del>-- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which owns the fence and the grounds near it </del>-- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to remove or alter the painted </del>flag<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The US Border Patrol said it has received complaints about some of </del>the border <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">art and is trying to decide whether they are graffiti or "intentional" murals. It says the paintings were applied without permission.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nation/wp/2018/05/16/for</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">years</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a</ins>-flag<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-mural-at-</ins>the<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>border-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has-honored</ins>-deported<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-u-</ins>s-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">military-</ins>veterans<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-after-trump-visit-agents-are-looking-into-taking-it-down/?noredirect=</ins>on<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&utm_term=</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">0f6a722e31c8 For years a flag mural at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">border has honored </ins>deported <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">U.S</ins>. military veterans. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After Trump </ins>visit, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">agents are looking into taking </ins>it down.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">], The Washington Post</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">May 16</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2018</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While questions arise over whether there is room for compromise, the man who first conceived of the design says he is refusing to change it. He says the federal government is trying to squelch free speech </del>-- <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">after five years of no formal objection.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"What we want to do is raise awareness around the issue of </del>deported <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">veterans. It'</del>s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not about us trying to take on our own government or us trying to create imagery that's hostile toward the United States of America," said Amos Gregory, a San Francisco</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">based visual artist and a disabled US Navy veteran. He is a US citizen, and while he does not live in Tijuana, he periodically goes there to assist the </del>veterans on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other paintings</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> He believes that </del>the deported <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">veterans mural is being intentionally targeted by USCBP because of its political message</del>.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is urging United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) to respect the artistic expression of deported US </del>military veterans <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and of a recognized public artist</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">USCBP is considering removing a protest mural on the border wall dividing San Diego and Tijuana, following a </del>visit <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to the area by President Trump.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The flag painting is their distress signal</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they say. But while they see </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a legitimate form of protest, displaying the American flag upside </del>down <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is controversial</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It can be interpreted as un-American and disrespectful.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NCAC has written to the San Diego Sector of USCBP to caution the agency against silencing veterans’ voices and censoring public art based solely on the work’s political message.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Joy Garnett of NCAC’s Arts Advocacy Program said</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“This move is clearly politically-motivated and based on discomfort with the artwork’s message. All of the artists involved have served in the US military and chose to express themselves through this legitimate form of peaceful protest. To paint over this mural would effectively cover up a cogent reminder of deported veterans’ plight</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">removing an opportunity for public debate around this important issue</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">”</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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|confronting_bodies=United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) and Daniel Kitzman, a supervisory border agent for the San Diego Sector of the US Border Patrol<br />
|medium=Public Art<br />
|date_of_action=April-June 2018<br />
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|description_of_content='''The Distress Flag Mural''' was created by Amos Gregory, a San Francisco-based muralist, community activist and disabled Navy veteran. He established the Veterans Mural Project, or Veterans Alley, in the Tenderloin District in attempts to highlight the adversities of US veterans.<br />
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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, which is referred to as the '''Friendship Circle'''. Here, San Diego is separated from Tijuana by a pair of parallel running fences that are about 12-15 feet high and 40-50 feet apart. Friendship Circle, which is occasionally opened by the US Border, has become a meeting point for seperated families. <br />
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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 issues of these deported veterans, who cannot receive adequate treatment in Mexico.<br />
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Now, they say they are being told by the US government -- which owns the fence and the grounds near it -- to remove or alter the painted flag. The US Border Patrol said it has received complaints about some of the border art and is trying to decide whether they are graffiti or "intentional" murals. It says the paintings were applied without permission.<br />
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While questions arise over whether there is room for compromise, the man who first conceived of the design says he is refusing to change it. He says the federal government is trying to squelch free speech -- after five years of no formal objection.<br />
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"What we want to do is raise awareness around the issue of deported veterans. It's not about us trying to take on our own government or us trying to create imagery that's hostile toward the United States of America," said Amos Gregory, a San Francisco-based visual artist and a disabled US Navy veteran. He is a US citizen, and while he does not live in Tijuana, he periodically goes there to assist the veterans on other paintings.<br />
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He believes that the deported veterans mural is being intentionally targeted by USCBP because of its political message.<br />
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) is urging United States Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) to respect the artistic expression of deported US military veterans and of a recognized public artist. USCBP is considering removing a protest mural on the border wall dividing San Diego and Tijuana, following a visit to the area by President Trump.<br />
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The flag painting is their distress signal, they say. But while they see it as a legitimate form of protest, displaying the American flag upside down is controversial. It can be interpreted as un-American and disrespectful.<br />
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NCAC has written to the San Diego Sector of USCBP to caution the agency against silencing veterans’ voices and censoring public art based solely on the work’s political message.<br />
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Joy Garnett of NCAC’s Arts Advocacy Program said, “This move is clearly politically-motivated and based on discomfort with the artwork’s message. All of the artists involved have served in the US military and chose to express themselves through this legitimate form of peaceful protest. To paint over this mural would effectively cover up a cogent reminder of deported veterans’ plight, removing an opportunity for public debate around this important issue.”<br />
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