WE WILL BE HEARD
TEN YEARS LATER 2006-2016

Ten years ago, a small group of artists and activists, members of Artists Against The War and The Critical Voice, carried a flag throughout New York City emblazoned with the words No Allegiance To War, Torture And Lies.

On that day in March 2006, inspired by The White Rose, an underground student resistance movement active in Nazi Germany, these NY activists embodied the message We Will Not Be Silent on shirts which would soon inspire tens of thousands of people throughout the world to join this rallying call, not to remain silent in the face of abuse of power.

In a nation with racism, slavery and the destruction of indigenous populations at its foundation, and predicated on perpetuating terror leading us into endless war and plunder, for all that, we will not be silent.

SAVE THE DATES:
March 18th & 19th, 2016


We will not forget that nearly thirteen years ago, on the evening of March 19, 2003 the United States Military, under the command of George W. Bush, began the catastrophic military operation "Shock and Awe", to the horror of many people throughout the United States and the world, illegally invading and occupying Iraq, murdering people of a sovereign nation that posed no imminent danger or caused any harm to the people of the United States. This was a grave and blatant crime against all our humanity, that has never been prosecuted.

We will not forget that within the borders of the U.S., racist crimes against all our humanity are perpetrated every day by militarized police forces, and go un-prosecuted. We will amplify a message of resistance to the pervasive racism embedded throughout U.S. policies, foreign and domestic. 

On March 19th it is all peoples' struggle for justice and liberation across all borders and within the United States, waged with a radical love, that is the great force in the world to be celebrated.



Without you we will not be heard. Silence is not an option.


(Top photo credit Carole Ashley, Second photo credit Andrew Kelly,
Third photo credit Spencer Platt, Bottom photo credit Susan Watts)
WE WILL NOT BE SILENT is an artist/activist collaborative language project that has been in existence since 2006. Through the creative use of language embodied on shirts and emboldened on signs held up in public spaces, we respond to current social issues, encouraging creative, direct public-actions where many people can participate.