MIKE ALEWITZ: AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL
Date
1993
Location
Communication Workers of America
5855 Venice Blvd. (just east of Fairfax)
Media Notes
Acrylic
Description
The mural came out of the artist's desire to acknowledge East Coast solidarity with the workers of L.A. in the wake of the 1992 post-Rodney King verdict violence. The image is of a muscled worker triumphantly emerging from a computer screen to stop a beating, while crushing a Klan opponent with her foot. There is also a weasel-like judge with a maggot crawling out of his judicial robe. Two verses of the radical labor song, Solidarity Forever, are painted on factory smokestacks.
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