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Sidewalk art about inmates fighting California's fires
Title (Dublin Core)
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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