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Series III. Artist Network, 1990-2004, inclusive

Extent

4 Linear Feet in 4 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize flat boxes, and 1 small flat box

Scope and Contents

This series contains material related to Refuse & Resist!'s Artists Network, a collective of artists desiring to connect with each other through issues supported by Refuse & Resist!. This series includes the initial written proposal to create the Artists Network, meeting notes, event promotional material, and posters created by various artists for the network's Speak Truth to Power project. This series also includes a significant number of files on Refuse & Resist!'s participation and planning for Mumia 911, a national day of art with over 100 events nationwide on September 11, 1999, to stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Mumia 911 files contain planning material, event schedules, promotional posters and fliers, t-shirt, stickers, mailers, newsletters, press clippings, and fact sheets about Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Address and Contact Lists, Information Fliers, Fundraising, Poster, 1990-1997, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 6-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 38, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Artists Network Newsletter, 1998-2001, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Artists Working Group Meeting Notes, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence, 1987-2000, undated, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Announcements and Fliers, 1996-2001, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Day of Art for Mumia Abu-Jamal, December 4, 1997

Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Art Speaks! Concert, September 19, 1998

Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Giuliani-im!: A Quality of Life Crime, October 15, 1998

Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Danny Hoch, November, 1, 1998

Box: 6, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- A Tribute to the Life and Music of Horace Tapscott, June 15, 1999

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Brooklyn Museum of Art Protest, October 1, 1999

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Just Think Discussion, January 29, 2000

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Events -- Unconventional Heroes / Courageous Resisters, August 26, 2004

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 38, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General Information and Membership Fliers, circa 1999, undated, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Logos, Graphics, circa 1997-2001, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Meeting Announcements, Notes, 1997-1999, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- Album, Promotional Material, Event Planning, Exhibitions, 1999

Box: 7, Folder: 8-15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- Event Posters (in German), 1999

Box: 43, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Flat-File-Folder: Temp 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- Letters, 1999

Box: 8, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- Logos, Website Planning, Newsletter, Meeting Notes, Post-Event Reports, 1999

Box: 8, Folder: 5-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- Press Clippings, Venue Files, Visual Artists for Mumia Planning, 1999

Box: 9, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 38, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- Poster and Photographic Negative of Poster Art for National Day of Art Event, 1999

Box: 38, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mumia 911 -- T-shirt, 1999

Box: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proposal to Establish Artists Network, July 1997

Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public Statements, 1999

Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rage Against the Machine (Band) -- Benefit Concert Controversy, 1997-1999, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reproductive Freedom -- National Day of Appreciation Poster, circa 1999

Box: 38, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Speak Truth to Power Project -- Posters, 1998-1999, inclusive

Box: 43, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Website Notes, 2000

Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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