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BART rejected the "Tiny Loca" panel due to the use of the word "bitch" and "overall demeaning message." The agency, which is still developing a public art policy, allegedly applied its advertising policy when evaluating the work. | BART rejected the "Tiny Loca" panel due to the use of the word "bitch" and "overall demeaning message." The agency, which is still developing a public art policy, allegedly applied its advertising policy when evaluating the work. | ||
|description_of_result=BART offered to feature the other three panels. De la Rosa viewed the fourth panel as integral to the work and refused. In late October, in a guerilla action, De la Rosa and supporters placed copies of the panels on the plaza display cases at the 16th St. station and spoke with local residents about the work. | |||
On December 4, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the National Coalition Against Censorship submitted an open letter to BART, arguing that the refusal to place one of the four panels of La Gente De Tu Barrio because some official may have subjectively found it "demeaning" was viewpoint discrimination and violated the First Amendment. | |||
As of December 2015, La Gente De Tu Barrio / The People of Your Neighborhood [The Mission Suite] has not been placed in the plaza of the San Francisco 16th St. BART station. | |||
|image=Tumblr nw0wtuekNl1szfav0o1 1280.jpg | |image=Tumblr nw0wtuekNl1szfav0o1 1280.jpg | ||
|source=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-rejects-Mission-gentrification-art-6682500.php, | |source=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-rejects-Mission-gentrification-art-6682500.php, http://www.scribd.com/doc/292160799/Letter-to-BART-Censored-Art, | ||
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