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Sidewalk art about inmates fighting California's fires

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Sidewalk art about inmates fighting California's fires

Description (Dublin Core)

There have been over 8,000 fires in California during 2020, and CalFire has been short staffed due to COVID-19 lockdowns at prison facilities. Inmates and typically make up 40% of the CA's firefighters, and this piece of sidewalk art drew attention to the incarcerated people risking their lives to stop the fires.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 25, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kelly Lindemann

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Kelly Lindemann

Type (Dublin Core)

Image

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Art & Design
English Social Class
English Labor

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

inmate
prison
lockdown
chalk art

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

prison labor
California
San Francisco Bay Area
CalFire
wildfire
sidewalk art

Collection (Dublin Core)

San Francisco Bay Area

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/08/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/08/2020
03/22/2022

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This item was submitted on October 8, 2020 by Kelly Lindemann using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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