Graffiti Depicting Hanging Figures With Political Messages Investigated as Felony Vandalism
‘This was never their land to extract from’ is painted below a series of hanged figures holding flowers. [Crop of EPD image]
According to the Eureka Police Department (EPD), multiple buildings were tagged overnight, with officers determining the markings to be consistent across all locations. At one site, the phrase “This was never their land to extract from” was scrawled beneath a row of hanged silhouettes. At another, the words “The death of greed” were painted beside the figure. Police said the case is being investigated as felony vandalism.
The Death of Greed. [Crop of EPD image]
In one mural, rows of brightly colored cartoon-like characters appear under the silhouette, a contrast between playful and stark imagery. [EPD image]
Good old Amerikkka right here in Humboldt!
I just had to deal with ignroant comments towards my 12 year old daughter last night and then wakeup to this shit in Eureka. Racism is alive and rampant and we see the blind eyes turned and hear the silence loud and clear. One thing is for sure… we are NOT going back!
However, Chief Stephens said investigators do not believe the graffiti targets a specific group or race, but emphasized in any case EPD’s commitment to ensuring Eureka “remains a safe and welcoming city for all.”
A hanged man has been painted below each window against a colorful pastel. [Photo by EPD]
EPD is asking anyone with information about the graffiti or those responsible to contact its Criminal Investigations Unit at 707-441-4300
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Graffiti on public or private property IS vandalism and it’s a felony if the damage to repair it exceeds $400, which this clearly does.
But anyone seeing it as racist has an active imagination and is very easily triggered.
If anything the images and comments could be interpreted as anti-corporate or anti-corporate greed.
I agree. Nothing to see. The offender will get caught and likely be convicted of a felony, have a huge fine and a bunch of community service. I bet it’s a young knucklehead.
I bet these social justice warriors are also involved with antifa. And antifa is a terrorist organization. The damage clearly shows business men being hanged. The FBI should be involved with this. Brian Thompson would appreciate it.
Yes they are probably anti-fascist which is what antifa means. There is no group, there are no meetings, it is not a club, it’s a mindset and MAGA has lied about it from the beginning. Most Democrats are “antifa”. I am antifa. The false narrative from the right continues. Lies, lies and more lies, every day promoted by a bunch of self serving idiots on the right.
“Most democrats are Antifa”… good! Let’s round up Democrat Antifa terrorists!
If a group claims to be anti-cruelty but spends it’s time torturing puppies, are they really against cruelty?
No matter the name, the actions of Antifa merit the classification as a terrorist group.
Your description of ANTIFA and aligning ANTIFA as the democrat party and then claiming the “right” to be idiots that have lied about ANTIFA shows you did not think your reply out.
If ANTIFA is a “mindset” doesn’t that make “MAGA” the same thing. They are not a club, they don’t hold meetings, and you could say they are also the product of a false narrative of the self serving left.
So sounds kinda like “politics as usual”, each placing the blame on the other.
Maybe if the people actually engaged in open discussion instead of name calling, misinformation, disinformation, and cowardly acts of violence and vandalism, we could actually work at unity and respect for each other. That would make for a better America than the hate and division we have now.
Let’s upgrade to rpg’s?
My father was Antifa in 1944 in the Philipines.
If you really study history you would know what antifa is for.
And my grandfathers were antifa in Nazi germany in 1945 true Americans not blind “patriots”
Nope, clearly an act of terror. Antifa hates capitalists. As ”business-suited individuals” hanging from a rope, is a threat. Antifa is now investigated as a terrorist organization.
Im gonna be a billionaire soon. I am manifesting with intention. So… Obviously taking this extremely personally. Many, if not most of us billionaires, and soon to be billionaires are actually melanin CHALLENGED. Let that sink in. Racists. It’s gonna be hard for us to overcome this trauma.
You cracked me up. Thank you for the humor.
Oh you’re too funny. THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION. None, zip, zero. It’s a lie man, don’t fall for it. Don’t drink the poison from the T-Rump regime. It’s all BS and propaganda. Sadly SOME people fall for it.
You sound worried.
“It’s all BS and propaganda”…that is the definition of todays politics. “THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION”… A group of people working together in an organized fashion. Wearing same clothing, same equipment, following same tactics, training in a group, attempting to achieve the same goal. Sounds like ANTIFA and MAGA both qualify as an organizations.
Only question left is to determine which “organization” uses violence to achieve their goal to be considered a “terrorist organization”.
I am just curious what is the organized fashion of Antifa, I know MAGA has the red hat, the proud boys wear masks, the Nazis have a swastika, the KKK has a hood, what identifies someone as Antifa? This is a copy and paste of the definition of Antifa…..Antifa, short for anti-fascist, is a decentralized political movement primarily active in the United States that opposes fascism and far-right ideologies. Composed of various groups with no central leadership, Antifa activists engage in direct action, which can range from peaceful protests to confrontational tactics, including property damage and physical altercations. The movement primarily targets groups associated with white supremacy, neo-Nazism, and other forms of extremism. Antifa members are generally left-leaning, with some adhering to far-left ideologies like anarchism and anti-capitalism, but they do not typically align with the Democratic Party.
Here is a definition of the Proud Boys copy and pasted, you can decide for yourself which one probably engages in more political violence…..The Proud Boys is an American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence.The group’s leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the federal government of the United States, including its constitutionally prescribed transfer of presidential power.It has been called a street gang and was designated as a terrorist group in Canada and New Zealand. The Proud Boys are opposed to left-wing and progressive groups and support President Donald Trump. While Proud Boys leadership has denied being a white supremacist organization, the group and some of its members have been connected to white supremacist events, ideologies, and other white-power groups throughout its existence.
Amateurs
We have easygoing tacti-casual, denim or khaki, baby armour and masking encouraged!
You liberals don’t give credit where credit is due. I credit Kristi Gnome and that demure fashionista Stephen Miller for unleashing the best dressed (they have these beautiful nice new cars!)best paid, and easiest to organization to get involved with on your patriotic path to vengeance.
ICE is Icy FRESH!
Don’t forget the Democrats wardrobe…
The women often sport blue, gray, or multicolored hair and if any way possible comedically large eye glasses and if you are a teacher, or student, you must have nose ring. The males have it much easier they just wear what they are told to.
The Kimmel wannabes are easy to recognize they are usually found sitting in a chair eagerly awaiting indoctrination by a fake laugh track and an absurdly rich white dude. Who it’s well documented, on film, wearing black-face and grabbing random women inappropriately.
20,000 year old graffiti
It was their cave — which makes it cave art — not graffiti.
Woosh
Actually it was a public cave.
No — it was the cave of the people who lived in it — it was not open to the public.
They were special use caves not lived in.
It varied – there appear to be examples of both – but there is little that we truly know.
Different times so there was no correlate to public displays that would reach and accost so many others unless large outdoor rocks to paint on where masses passed by. . Hieroglyphs are general wall ancient paintings parietal art is cave all art. THE POINT THOUGH here is what is being erased in above image (Bansky’s perhaps?) is not a call to murder!!!! Just some friggen animals out in nature and YES That would be stupid to erase as is public commentary in some graffiti which signals oppressed view points bubbling to the surface (or some random nothingness). AGAIN what is depicted in article is a call for MURDER of a type and with a history and the figures could have been outlines but NO they are black “Faced”
No, they stole the cave from the Neanderthals that were there first
This was never their land… they only lived on it temporarily until a larger, more technologically advanced invader occupied it. Been happening all over the world for millennia.
Ok so then not yours either by that logic; good luck to ya. You’ll be just another toppled/crumbled Roman – history and people will say oh well, “Been happening all over the World for millennia.”
Hmmm, i thought they only used silenced ghost guns.
”Good old Amerikkka right here in Humboldt!
I just had to deal with ignroant comments towards my 12 year old daughter last night and then wakeup to this shit in Eureka. Racism is alive and rampant and we see the blind eyes turned and hear the silence loud and clear. One thing is for sure… we are NOT going back!”
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Wrong. LOL, This post is ridiculous. But the hangees are black. You got me there.
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‘‘However, Chief Stephens said investigators do not believe the graffiti targets a specific group”
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Well it is targeting a specific group. Capitalists.Business men. Remember Brian Thompson? So you can call the FBI to investigate this act of terror, chief.
You’re not very clear AND targeting capitalism as a disguise for open and horrific racist imagery works on a subliminal level and clearly went over or under your head.
Did you read my post? How was i targeting capitalism? The terrorists did in their vandalism.
Maybe you are not very clear. Try punctuation.
Are they terrorists or vandals? Maybe you are not very clear about basic English. Try learning what those words actually mean.
More aware, not more away..4th line since editing not allowed now. BTW in case i wasnt clear the shoe laces were a deflection to try and make it look like a black person did the murder..lest we forget how absurd people can be when entitled and especially when arrogant.
After seeing photo with words about “Not their land to extract from” I bet it is an indigenous artist AND STILL not ok to put totally black figures hanging like that ..just not OK. Don’t want “Chiefs” to be used as football team name etc. etc etc? Then check yourself and be modest and model humility to correct your blind spots as you want others to also do.
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V, lines 17–28
‘The Constitution limps along, a walking shadow.”
Jill Lepore, The Atlantic, October 2025
Yeah, right. The Constitution, the document that has been a tool of expanding inclusion for 230 years, doesn’t create perfect right now. So what? Throw it out? As if Jill Lepore, speaking in an article (supposedly as no actual link is given and is from next month anyway) has a better idea?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/10/constitutional-originalism-amendment/683961/
In my mailbox delivered yesterday. She’s an historian. You might learn something 😊
You might link to your favorite source or at least be accurate in attribution if you want someone to read something. Her book comes out in October 2025. The article came out this month. Certainly leaving off the snark when you screw up would be wise.
But to the article, it was one long screed to diminish the value of a constitution that can’t be easily amended because a divided county? Well good for it. If the country can’t unite behind a constitutional amendment maybe that’s a criticism of political divisiveness that offers more division in the form amending the Constitution than it is of the process. Maybe her screed should focus on that.
>”… can’t unite behind a constitutional amendment maybe that’s a criticism of political divisiveness”
Hmm… Maybe it is a statement of a country that is too big with incontrovertible differences between the regional populations ?
— web stuff
The U.S. Constitution does not include a provision for states to secede from the Union, and the Supreme Court has ruled that unilateral secession is unconstitutional. The legal and historical consensus is that the Union is “indestructible”.
Yeah, heck why not… Athens, Sparta, Rome, Constantinople, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Go figure.
Talk about snark. Get over yourself.
Yes OK AND for some they are strutting and fretting with a bit more, or a whole lot more autonomy, safety etc with which to have some fun and do engaging work and connect with community while causing others toil away in fear and slavery etc.
Not the best images for children to see, rude and inconsiderate.
I agree with you
Next i fully expect too see one of my brothers an sisters hanging from an bridge. They have been hanging us for the last200 years. No reason too think they will stop now. Racism is alive an will in the707.
Where’s the racism? They’re holding flowers, not watermelons. It’s pretty hard to draw a white silhouette on a white wall.
“Where’s the racism? They’re holding flowers, not watermelons.”
You don’t think that’s a racist statement?
The flowers could even be a symbol taken from Josh Johnson who is a comedian with social and political commentary slightly hidden or layered in his work and who uses flowers in names of his shows etc. YOU HAVE TO BE EXPOSED TO VARIOUS SOURCES to begin to judge with any hope of accuracy what is going on here and I will say it is sophisticated and surprises me though shouldn’t because I worked in marketing and there were such tactics used there. Read my comment above about being in Fortuna for a week and the flyer I found on a telephone pole….very sneaky and scary…ignorance is bliss till the compound interest comes due.
maybe you use too much weed…….
No i don’t smoke it or eat it ext. and unlike some people I can self correct when wrong; well with help of a commenter who noted likely indigenous artist I was curious and not arrogant and went back and then saw photo with worlds “Not their land to extract from….” And see the flowers were likely a symbol of how the greedy kill what they hold on too tightly to. NONE THE LESS the all black figures are wrong and should be corrected. If indigenous want others to be sensitive to their triggers (modern art perhaps which they painted over as modern life also defaced their indigenous original art and culture) and not having “Chiefs” or whatever as a football team’s name with “Headdress logo” then likewise don’t put fully black figures hanging all over town…go fix it! Walk the talk.
Easily could have made the figures mere outlines like done at crime scenes . THE BLACK PART WAS INTENTIONAL and the rest meant to throw off criticism and distract and works for some who are (as I once was, ignorant of the lengths some racist locals will go to…they are all over humboldt and oddly and more scary really is that many focus more or entirely on blacks than on either natives or Hispanics or Asians.
so it was not antifa?
Ok i don’t now think it was intentional (thanks to commenter here who mentioned indigenous artists possibility ..I went curiously looking and saw the wording about extracting from land and the flowers too made sense). ALSO still wrong to have painted all black figures just wrong…goes to show ANY ethnicity can have blind spots…question is which people can humbly be curious and grow and change and adjust?
In this case I don’t think it is racism. I think it is people in suits that are being depicted. But yes, two people have been lynched in the last few weeks, and it is really concerning. Lynching has been on the rise in this country. Its terrifying and we should all be very aware of the support of white nationalism and its current rise. Fuck Nazis
Yes we all agree the nazis are bad. White nationalist? I support my White European heritage. Stop calling White Americans (nazis) It makes you look stupid.
Saying anything less is disrespectful in this Univeral Perioid of Morning.
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If there hadn’t been ethnicities heinously attacked for nothing more than their looks and the goal of scapegoating then no one would be bothering with “Pride” about whatever their heritage was, they’d be enjoying memories perhaps but otherwise not caring anymore about their heritage than you do about being a specific type of “White”. Whites have already blended to the point you can’t tell an Irish person from a welsh one or whatever and THAT my friend IS THE FUTURE for us all. The only reason people of color have had to grasp on to pride is because they were being denied basic humanity due to their ethnicity; it is a defense mechanism against attack. Whites are NOT being attacked; we simple are being asked to acknowledge historical practices that have resulted in vast disparities of access to basic human rights and that we have benefited from (some much less so than others) and/or can’t be enjoyed by others AND THAT IS NOT AN ATTACK anymore than asking people whose grandparents dumped DDT everywhere to aknowledge it happened and if funds available help with health repercussions…likely better analogies but point is there.
It’s impossible to argue that any lynching was the result of actions by honorable and civil minded men. But it’s also true that there are about 60 lynchings every year in the US, have you any sources that say there’s been a recent increase? Or that race was the reason?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/two-men-found-hanging-trees-141557508.html
Obviously, these are not civil-minded men, which is why their actions should be rebuked by all who are. I firmly believe that good men are the majority, and I’m proud to be an American because of that.
And Mr. Clark, white nationalism and pride in one’s heritage are two completely different things. I hope you always remain proud of your culture and who you are but that pride should never include the subjugation of others.
It dose not. Never has.
Are you a parody account?
DOES NOT MATTER. A bunch of black hanging bodies is unacceptable. They could have made outlines of even just the head but they did not.
KK’s website does not show who down voted and would be very interesting to see.
60 lynchings per year? Do you have a source for that. In the article cited, neither case is yet closed and at least one appears to have been a suicide.
Figures you’d think that being a farmer..and i like farmers! The heads did not need to be black and could have been outlines. We must be careful cause some sick people count on the disbelief of innocents to postpone general public awareness of the atrocities. Read my comment above about the flyer I found in Fortuna…absolutely bizarre and sort of sophisticated or convoluted tactics; sloppy versions of the sort of subliminal or bait and switch tactics used in marketing forever.
I will consider what you have to say because my initial reaction was similar to yours.
Thank you. Please do. No one is answering my question: why did they not just paint the heads as outlines with the insides being whatever color the wall was originally? Why not go back and correct when standing back for a second the obvious gut impact is horrific?
I can truely understand how people in their own bubble (I have had mine though not privledged to have much or I nor doubt would have gladly) might miss what is going on here. Also that only age and experience (much of which I’d not wish on anyone) has helped me see so clearly (in this area, not in many others) I feel obliged to speak up and out about it.
OK I now think i was partially wrong. A commenter pointed out it could be indigenous artist and didn’t say why. I took the time and went back to look at the photos and saw the one with “Not their land to extract from …” and realized too it made sense it is an indigenous artist or one that is supporting that viewpoint and then made sense they defaced modern art just like “Modernity” defaced (a euphamism) their culture and the dead flowers symbols of the irony that greedily gripping too hard kills what one feels entitled to or whatever. AND STILL the all black figures just wrong and should be corrected by artists. If indigenous want others to be sensitve to their triggers (headdresses used as football team logos etc.) then walk the talk. Goes to show any and every ethnicity can be, in their hurry to claim their own suffering, be blind to significant suffering and triggers of others.
I meant that farmers might easily not be suspecting as are also busy and living away from some of the atrocities of which are therefore hard to be aware of. It takes some privilege (not an accusation just reality) also for most these days to farm ..to have any dirt; many work very hard there whole lives and nonetheless no chance of ever owning a farm.
“two people have been lynched in the last few weeks,”
Kym, will you as the owner/operator of Kymkemp.com, for public record purposes, decline to moderate the above language? Posted by guest “Farmer” in quotations that reads as follows “two people have been lynched in the last few weeks,”
Family is asking for independent investigation. While offical report says no foul play family believes differently . Very sad story. But its something we need to be very aware of. Again white nationalism and rising violence against minorities is as old as this country
https://www-nbcwashington-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/trey-reed-family-delta-state/3989794/?amp=1&_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17584663096579&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
“JACKSON, Miss. — Since 2000, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teenagers in Mississippi, according to court records and police reports.
“The last recorded lynching in the United States was in 1981,” said Jill Collen Jefferson, a lawyer and founder of Julian, a civil rights organization named after the late civil rights leader Julian Bond. “But the thing is, lynchings never stopped in the United States. Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped. The evil bastards just stopped taking photographs and passing them around like baseball cards.
“In 2017, Jefferson began compiling records of Black people found hanging or mutilated across the country. In 2019, Jefferson began focusing her investigation on Mississippi. In each case she investigated, law enforcement officials ruled the deaths suicides, but the families said the victims had been lynched.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/
If making the hanging figures black was a mistake the graffiti artists should go back and paint it so that they are outlines with whatever color the wall behind them already is. If it was a mistake then fix it. It is horrifying and the “Liberals” in this comment section are just about as oblivious as those who are rigorously ignorant.
Relax folks, it’s just some Banksy wannabe.
I see the resemblance as well. I appreciate it as a reflection of our current situation. The billionaire class has its shoe on all of our necks. Class war is only being delayed with the rift narrative. Soon we will all realize we are brother and sister in this oppression. Help your neighbors and be kind it’s the only way through
For as hard as the American working class work we should have something to show for it. When we blame other victims of the system, we do harm to ourselves. We as the American people must unite. Come on people stop reading a fiction of history and actually educate yourselves.
Yes AND along with the billionaire class we are also responsible for neglecting our role as citizens in governement to do a lot more than just vote which we barely do. Adults these days (not farmers, BTW) are playing video games and feeling entitled to oversized vehicles, and fake fingernails and hair and to going to Disneyland for vacation and eating tortured fast food burgers many times a week as their over sized vehicle (sparkling clean, no dirt from hard work) spews into the air in the long line at In And Out. If people were living the more modest (and healthier) lives of most small farmers in Humboldt (some are from moneyed roots and share some 1% attitudes and even they are at least working hard and not over consuming material goods etc)
Damn, dude! We used to fight. But we seem to be on the same page about this much bigger issue. I am no commie- I’d just like to return to a capitalism that works…not end-stage where it then becomes a corporate fascist state ( yes we are heading there thanks to both parties)
Capitalism in its true form drives innovation. What we have now is not that. Respect Bro!
It is currently unbalanced and unchecked, run rampant as our top priority rather than to serve the health of our social and physical ecosystems, correct?
I agree every -ism is rooted in goal of creating and enforcing resource disparity. AND ignoring the means of class warfare is not helpful; for some the means ore the ends for just getting out their rage in general (small town young men with pent up energy no longer working in fields and building shelter etc and eating sugar and energy drinks while sitting playing video games about violence for example) and we must call them out if we are to really be earnest in calling those who have suffered from those means in ways many of us have not, our “Brothers and sisters” – they have suffered and their grandmothers have suffered in ways unimaginable experientially to most white Americans. Ask a vet to see Vietnam as just another Country and not see the faces of their victims and same for some more recent wars; that is asking blacks not to see totally black figures hanging all over town as just representative of any human or the billionaire class.
NO way ..how could it be an accident that they didn’t simply make the head’s outlines? Bansky has not and would not make such an “Error”. If he did he’d own up to it pronto; humility is like that.
If you are disturbed, the artist was successful.
The artist appears to be Indigenous …
Why do you say that? Even if so they should get their indigenous artistic butts up their and make some changes just like they ask the rest of us to do in being aware, educated and actively sensitive to the injustices they have suffered. In general Asians and Hispanic have not been treated in US as terribly as blacks and indigenous so they might want to be humble and realize they made an error and demonstrate the ability to get woke by correcting the unintended and nonetheless disturbing result please. Put money in the hands of the dead and make their heads not all black please. Please. I am not black and I am asking you to please do the right thing.
Ok i get it now..indigenous artist likely and the flowers symbolize the sad irony that the greedy end up killing that which they grasp too much of too tightly. AND still wrong/blind/ignorant to paint hanging figures all black, just wrong and if you don’t want headdresses used as football team logos etc then walk the talk and be aware, yes woke, to massive triggers of others….its not a little thing to paint figures all black and hanging by a noose…really shocked people with apparent concerns for justice would make that mistake but hey we’re all human. How about go fix it please?
Oh saw other photo now. Also if the words “Extract from” from points to indigenous folks doing this Ok well that makes sense and STILL go back and make those heads outlines please. The intent was not wrong and the result was none the less.
Ok come on now…not true nor real. What you define as “Art” or “Success” is not the reality for everyone BTW. Their message likely misconstrued cause they now that I saw the other photo may in fact be indigenous and yet made the mistake of making all the figures being entirely black.
No, the artist appears to be an idiot…
True.
True because of the internet. Otherwise… it wouldn’t have made the ‘news’.
I am bored by it. It conveys no message. Probably the product of a confused empty head.
“Bored” means emotionally not engaged…maybe video games vs community health gets you feeling something?
Propaganda is “Successful” in the short run and not in the long run.
Hey Chief, have you happened to glance at a TV set any time in the past 50 or 60 years?
The most offensive thing about this is that they defaced a mural.
That’s not cool.
Really? That’s it? It defaced artwork?
The most offensive thing.
Not the only offensive thing.
I generally disagree with vandalism as a means of speech.
And, although I don’t believe that these images were an actual call to harm anyone, I much prefer a more positive and unifying message.
But the murals generally create a more positive atmosphere around here,
and to deface one does a disservice to our community.
You’re not going to find many to agree… oh wait! You found two people to agree that defacing a mural is more important than any possible meaning.
Likely a point that modern “civilization” defaced (that’s a euphemism for murdered slowly) the art of existing cultures and no one cared
The first picture is obviously being ironic for hanging their preposition at the end of the sentence.
Social commentary on poor grammar, obviously.
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!
And obviously the stance of the Indigenous population …
If the words “Extract from” points to indigenous folks doing this Ok that makes sense and still go back and make those heads outlines please. The intent was not wrong and the result was none the less.
If you see a businessman or woman please stop and thank them for the good they create for our area. Political activists and most artist(unless they too are businessmen),do not create jobs. Without them we have a system run by the ilk you see in a lot of these comments. BTW,Antifa is a real organization and they have had organized meetings in Eureka in public buildings.
I disagree. I lived in the Bay Area before during and after the.com crash. Rent got so high that artists’ studios were converted to rentals for the up-and-coming .comers. The artists were priced out and San Francisco became a shell of its former self. I moved to Kansas City, Missouri and the blown out areas that used to be thriving in industrial areas were being infiltrated by artists for the cheap rents. Then came hip restaurants and such. Fast-forward and those became the areas that gentrified. Artists bring a desirable element that can bring on gentrification. Left to its own devices capitalism will hollow out the “there” that is there.
So well said, especially that last sentence “Left to its own devices”.
Well the government has done wonders in increasing jobs in government in the last few years and a share of those were indeed the result of social activists.
EXACTLY! As an astute businessman I have done MORE than my share to prop up Thomas Kincaid and his ilk.
This is why I’ve volunteered my wives to create basic, no-no sense campaign paraphernalia for my upcoming grubruinatorial run. Sorry fartists! Go get a job!
“wives” … interesting. I prefer to call mine “High Priestesses”
While out walking this afternoon, I saw a Beware of Wife sign on a house. I happen know her. She’s someone to be reckoned with.
Once you let them vote…
And so it begins….The youth uprising against the corporate greed that has poisoned our country in it’s evil grip. Mega- wealthy hoarders who have been worshipped as heroes will be revealed as the selfish sociopaths that they are…and they must be brought to heel. Not encouraged. Perhaps not lynched or executed. But reined in. The American Dream is gone…as wealth has been increasingly directed into the stuffed pockets of the 1% and their sympathizers. Politics are sold to the highest bidders. Is there a way out of this closing trap that does not involve bloodshed? I sure hope so! Praying for our own ” Velvet Revolution” and not the classic resets we have seen throughout history …But first- we need to have honest discussion about the tremendous inequity of wealth distribution and it’s deleterious effects on a democratic system. That has been kept out of mainstream media. Hmmm?? And when discussion is censored then street protest begins….
Thank you for your insight. I appreciate it. Odd enough, I keep finding myself agreeing with you. What horrific times we are going through at the moment.
I am horrified with the attacks on free speech, both through the killing of that man & the firings of anyone that repeated or embellished that individual’s speeches on TV or radio.
We can’t have a 2nd Amendment w/o the 1st. They are chipping away the People’s rights. The People seem to be OK with it because the People is being manipulated & divided into R & L by the 1% holding the power.
We need to unite & fight to keep equal rights for ALL – not for some, because we disagree with their skin color, religion, or politics.
Sheesh. No these are not “horrific times.” Horrific times were the Great Depression, the riots of the 60s, WWII, the fires in Canada, the Cold War, the Civil War, the Irish Famine, the Cultural Revolution, the Plague, etc etc etc. These are the times of Dissatisfaction. It is not “horrific” to be dissatisfied.
When we agree. Know your history folks
it’s no longer sides
We can do better than that.
And…maybe not.
Each of those were modern versions, new to the people who experienced them and sadly I think we are heading to a modern version of Horrific time already being expereinced around the world and have been in certain neighborhoods and areas of this country while citizens not in those places ignored the growing problems.
“that man” !?! Say his name … He can’t breathe!
You ain’t seen nothin yet.
BTO
that sound like some commy propaganda right there.
Yes it might be heard that way. It will certainly be categorized and discredited as such. Can there be any criticism of the 1% and the vast inequity of wealth that does not have a hint of “commie”? We live in enlightened times where we can recall historic failings and strive to avoid them. Communism starved millions to death. Unbridled wealth inequities led to 3rd world repressive states. Can we recognize the danger where our country’s economic distribution is leading us and respond with a course correction between right wing fascism and left wing totalitarianism? I grew up in a strong middle class household. That middle class has been hollowed out. There is a serious problem and it will not end well if we do not act. Even Warren Buffett agrees that his fellow billionaires are not paying their fair share and that mass wealth inequity leads to unstable economy….
I am not a commie. But unbridled capitalism also leads to dark places. And that there are sociopath hoarders grabbing all they can via the present system while many decent working people are being pushed into poverty and homelessness.I believe we can do much better than we are presently.
You’re trying to reason with Mr. Clark?
One can hope.
Ok FINE AND make the heads outlines NOT BLACK. I think even you have fallen for what I would have too . Read my earlier comment about fliers on telephone polls in Fortuna using tactics to subliminally (for some, not for blacks of course) hide their true intent. Things are getting a tad more sophisticated..just like we lost in part cause we called the GOP stupid..they are not stupid…wish they were as then they’d not have gotten so far.
You may have a point via that black lynching stigma. I hate me the racists who did those murders Old game of division where the poor stupid whites were conned into hating the blacks. They have much in common when drawn against the apex predator ruling class.
The current propaganda techniques to divide us are quite sophisticated. I agree we must be aware and not just meet the old boss same as the old boss. We won’t be fooled again! Hopefully….
I now realize i was wrong (not about flyers when I was in Fortuna) and that it was likely unintended that the figures were all black AND if indigenous want some sensitivity and acknowledgement around their triggers (headdresses as football team logos etc) then walk the talk and go fix those terribly triggering figures hanging all over town. Just goes to show when we have a little power it is easy to get carried away and ignore others’ suffering while proclaiming our own and in this case blacks and indigenous were treated absolutely the worst generally of all people of color and would do well to be more woke about that “imagery”.
Typically when an incident involves any type of noose, people fall all over themselves to call it a racist act.
Understandably.
If you really want to get off, the planet’s rotation is your friend. You get your 1st 1,000 mph for free.
Had the heads at least and hands been mere outlines in maybe grey or orange or purple ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WOULD HAVE called it racists. You’re falling all over yourself in denial…you’re privileged enough to afford that ignorance until compound interest comes due.
If it was an accident, which i now believe it likely was by an indigenous or indigenous supporting artist it should still be corrected as it is a far too familiar and horrible image. Goes to show any ethnicity/person can have blind spots and with privilege comes responsibility to self check (be willing to consider others might initiate that self-check process) and self correct… (hey artists you all have some time and means and confidence to pursue your art whereas many do not so yeah you got some privilege you might want to be aware of and more careful with). Can’t afford to go putting art up in middle night if working a bunch of McJobs your whole life and trying to support a family meanwhile. Glad you have some means…use them responsibly please.
How did ” they,them,him,her,it” do all that ( vandalizing) “artwork” in one night without being seen?
Where were all the ” up_all_nighters”? (Witnesses)
I find the art work interesting. The message is debatable and political junkies will have a field day commenting ad nauseam.
The message is “leftist” in it’s ideology.
All they would have had to do is make the hands and heads and feet outlines not filled in with black. They could have used purple out lines or something. It is absolutely racism and violent and the capitalism verbiage is just a deflection/distraction so they can still communicate their point and try to hide it from nay sayers at the same time. They are laughing so hard right now that so much debate is happening when they know EXACTLY their point. OR they are just bizzarely unaware..not possible.
Ok i see now since i hadn’t seen photo of words “Not their land to extract from” I took it as intentional…however even if artist is indigenous or indigenous supporting with those words it was absolutely wrong to paint a bunch of entirely black figures hanging. Indigenous want sensitivity aabout triggers such as a headdress used as a football logo? Ok well walk the talk and fix your mistake no matter unintentional the result was clearly bad and also detracted from your own message.
Is this Freedom of expression? Is this Political art. I’ve traveled around this Country and every place I have visited this is everywhere. New York on Subways. Detroit EVERYWHERE! Bridges, old buildings, railroad cars. Graffiti is an American art form. It’s about the message most times. Some of it is amazing. But who should have the authority to tell everyone what art should be? ART is what art is! You either like it or you don’t. For music the individual choses it. For art it’s the same. There are buildings in Eureka that entire sides of buildings are considered art. I like some of them. There are others I don’t like.
I love renegade graffiti with a message, and the words underscore the point(s) being made, imo…
HOWEVER, doing said activism on top of a beautiful mural — already defaced by new construction that hides most of it from view outside of the alley were it was painted — is an absolute no-no, & I condemn our local “banksy” for that affront!
I now think it was an indigenous artists and makes sense that they painted over only one mural..that of modern art similarly to how modern “civilization” defaced (a euphemism for slowly and torturously murdered) indigenous art and culture and life. So the mural they chose was to give us the feeling, a tiny bit of the feeling and here we go getting all upset so can you imagine your whole family and all you love and know being desecrated ? I get their point and think it valid and worth the sacrifice of one mural. Being blind to the horrible imagery of making the figures all black though while understandable (see what the privilege will do? LOL..a comfortable artist’s bubble and voila!) should be humbly fixed just like headdresses should not be used as football team logos.
Under the conditions trump has created, people are feeling desperate! This is more than likely one (or several) person’s expression of that. And it is far far FAR less scary than what ICE and this administration is doing. FAR LESS!
ICE is winning!
What do you use to quantify that “win”?
FOUR SIGNS many are missing (understandably so AND please think/feel about it and reconsider): Anti imperialistic anti capitalistic folk would not do all first three or even most of them first three and would do the 4th:
not paint over art. Plenty of other options including billionare big box chain stores or near them. Think about it folks. Consider it amidst the “See no evile, hear no evil, speak no evil” denial going on in this comment thread even by those against the abuse leveled by the top3% of wealth hoarders.would not go to the extra time and energy to paint the entire head black when an outline and background color would have sufficed for their supposed goal.could have easily put money not flowers in the hands of the dead and/or corporate logos on the suits. Why flowers folks? Ask yourselves why flowers?would correct the obvious error of black figures hanging dead all over town once they had a minute to step back and see what they’d done.
Came back to edit and “Too late” so second line: most of the first three not them first three. And “see no evil not “evile”…
Also if the word “Extract” from points to indigenous folks doing this Ok well go back and make those heads outlines please. The intent was not wrong and the result was none the less.
If indigenous artist did this then Ok makes sense to have done it over modern art (I saw the photo where they wrote “Not their land to extract from” after most of my other comments so now see it could very well have been indigenous artist and the flowers a symbol of what happens when we greedily clench mother nature’s gifts. ANd still then go back and fix the mistake of the figures all being totally black or don’t expect others to be sensitive to your losses and suffering when you are blind to theirs.
I just noticed that the captions on the 1st 2 pieces were written by different people.
The beauty of art is interpretation is left to the individual. Perhaps the artist is drawing attention to the fact that precious public lands including those nearby are on the chopping block to be soon ravaged by mining and logging extraction industries. What will you do now before the damage is done? Humboldt Country tourism thrives because of the beauty of what has been preserved. Tourists do not come to see a clearcut or mine pit. Continual destruction of the earth is suicidal death for all life. To me that is what the mural portrays. Even the corporate CEOs will suffer the same fate no matter how much money and power posessed when the temperature is unbearable, air unbreathable, water undrinkable, and soil contaminated.
World situation will improve when the consciousness that projects it does. So long as we are angsty and angry, aggressive and competitive, needy and greedy, our world will be too.
Racism? No. It is an anti capitalist threats. In light of the shooting of Kirk it threatens others. Terrorism at a low level ie striking fear into others. In spite of speeches and accusations it is the left shooting people not the right. If you look at history NAZI’s were the left not the right revisionist history is not correct. Its in the Name National Socialist Workers Party.