NYC Benefit Art Show for Daniel McGowan

If They Come for You in the Morning

Benefit Art Show for Daniel McGowan

The show:

Thursday, July 27 & Friday, July 28, 2006, 5-10pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, Lower East Side, NYC

Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel  McGowan
Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com

On Thursday, July 27 and Friday, July 28, Visual Resistance will 
present If they come for you in the morning, a benefit gallery show 
featuring over 70 renowned and emerging artists at ABC No Rio in New 
York´s Lower East Side.

The show will feature some of the most respected and prolific street 
artists working today, including the Barnstormer´s David Ellis, 
Banksy, Swoon, Borf, Chris Stain, Arofish, Kelly Burns, GoreB, Josh 
MacPhee, and MOMO, as well as veterans of the landmark political 
comics journal World War 3 Illustrated, including Eric Drooker, Seth 
Tobocman, Peter Kuper, Nicole Schulman, and Christopher Cardinale, as
 well as dozens of other participating artists.

All proceeds from the show will benefit the legal fund of local 
environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan, who 
currently faces life plus 335 years in prison on federal charges of 
arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. Daniel was arrested 
during Operation Backfire, a multi-state sweep of environmental 
activists who have now been charged with virtually every unsolved 
earth and animal liberation case in the Northwest. Daniel has pled 
not guilty to all charges.
All artwork in the show will be reasonably priced, with selected 
prints starting at $5. Don't go home empty-handed!
Previews:

You can preview selected pieces from the show on our blog. Current 
features include: Swoon, Nicolas Lampert, BORF, Erik Ruin, Colin 
Matthes, Doug Minkler, and GoreB.


Participating artists:

Arofish * Icky A. * Erok Alrededor * Arrielle * Banksy * The 
Barnstormers * Brandon Bauer * The Beehive Collective * Thomas 
Blanchard * V Blanco * Victoria Booth * Borf * Dianne Bowen * Scott 
Boylston * Breakfast * Kelly Burns * JN Cantor * Christopher 
Cardinale * Celso * Etta Cetera * Angela Coppola * Alison Corrie * 
Aya Dan * DarkClouds * Blackjack Davey * Eric Drooker * Eelus * Elbow
 Toe * David Ellis * Endless Love Crew * Benjamin Ferguson * Karen 
Fiorito * Flower Face Killah * Julia Garder * GoreB * Lynn Hassan * 
Eric Hauser * Art Hazelwood * Cody Hudson * Infinity * Influenza * 
Ryan Inzana * Tim Keating * Klutch * Andalusia Knoll * Peter Kuper * 
Nicolas Lampert * James Leonard * David Lester * Merry Mack * Josh 
MacPhee * Magmo the Destroyer * Colin Matthes * Keith McHenry * 
Dennis McNett * Saiya Miller * Douglas Minkler * Claude Moller * MOMO
 * Nik Moore * Ricardo Levins Morales * Shannon Muegge * Math-You 
Namie * Brandon Neubauer * Barry Newman * Laura Parker * Roger Peet *
 Peripheral Media Projects * Bill Pierce * Kevin Pyle * RB827 * Ally
 Reeves * Leon Reid (aka Darius Jones) * Aaron Resen * Asante 
Riverwind * Cristy Road * Andrew Rodman * Melina Rodrigo * Eliot 
Rosewater * Erik Ruin * Jennifer Salerno * Fabio Sassi * Nicole 
Schulman * Tod Seelie * Erin Siegal * Andy Singer * Jetta Sky * 
Dustin Spagnola * Chris Stain * Meredith Stern * Mitja Stragapede * 
Judith Supine * Swoon * The 62 * Seth Tobocman * Edwin Vazquez * 
vegankid * Kristine Virsis * Colin White * Pete Yahnke


The cause:

Daniel McGowan is an environmental and social justice activist, 
unjustly arrested and charged in federal court on multiple counts of 
arson, property destruction, and conspiracy, relating to two 
incidents that occurred in Oregon in 2001. Daniel has asserted his 
innocence by pleading not guilty to all charges. He is facing a 
minimum of life in prison if convicted.

Daniel is from New York, and has been an active member of the 
community, working on diverse projects such as military counter-
recruitment, demonstrations against the Republican National 
Convention, Really Really Free Markets, and supporting political 
prisoners such as Jeff "Free" Luers and others. Daniel was a graduate
 student earning a Master's degree in acupuncture and was working at
 WomensLaw.org, a nonprofit group that helps women in domestic abuse
 situations navigate the legal system, which is where he was
arrested  by federal marshals on December 7, 2005.

Daniel had originally been indicted separately, but his arrest comes 
in the context of a well-coordinated, multi-state sweep of numerous 
activists by the federal government, who has charged the individuals 
with practically every earth and animal liberation case left unsolved
 in the Northwest. Many of the charges, including Daniel's, are for 
cases whose statute of limitations were about to expire.