#wearenotissuedbygovernment

WE ARE NOT GOVERNMENT ISSUED mural was painted by 13 young Brooklyn women. The mural, located at the corner of 23rd Street and 3rd Avenue, is painted on the side of a building that was restored by the Fifth Avenue Committed and contains six affordable housing units. The mural can be seen from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and makes a powerful statement against the war and the targeting of low-income minorities, especially young women, by military recruiters.

The project was envisioned during a four-month pilot of the leadership program Voices Her’d Visionaries, and is part of the Groundswell Community Mural Project.

The young women choose “women in the military,” with a focus on health issues that specifically affect women in the military.

In the mural, three young women are featured, armed not with weapons, but with the tools of creativity and education. The top figure in the painting holds a paintbrush from which a banner flows, reading, “We Are Not Government Issued.” Another section of banner reads, “Arm Yourself with the Knowledge to Think for Yourself.”

Parachutes fill the sky. The largest reads “Keep Your Illegal War Off…” along with many smaller parachutes with the words “Our Schools,” “Our Families,” “Our Neighborhoods,” “Our Futures,” “Our Bodies,” “Our Humanity,” “Our Morality,” “Our Taxes” and “Our Dreams” that drift through the mural.

Source:https://socialistworker.org

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