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Please retweet! Billboards are officially up across the nation as part of the #50StateInitiative. We're spotlighting one billboard a day leading up to Election Day on November 6. Go to ForFreedoms.org to learn more and get involved!
Kicking off our #50StateInitiative billboard spotlight series is @For_Freedoms co-founder, @hankwthomas. ‘ALL LIES MATTER’ is located on I-70 near St. Charles, Missouri, not far from Ferguson, where 18-year-old Mike Brown was shot to death by police on August 9, 2014.
Actions speak louder than words. @pahc’s #50StateInitiative billboard, 'Thoughts & Prayers,' is located in Cheyenne, WY (I-80 Service Rd & E Pershing Blvd) and in Chicago, IL (W Jackson Blvd & S Jefferson St and E Illinois S & N State St). Collaboration with @21cHotels.
Climate change is real, not a hoax. @wyattgallery’s billboard drives home that there is no time left to lose when it comes to our climate. See AN EXPENSIVE HOAX in Olympia, WA (Martin Way E & Chehalis Western Trail). Images c/o Loewyn Young. #ForFreedoms #50StateInitiative
Never again is now. @ehmomohara’s #50StateInitiative billboards in Cincinnati, OH & Boise, ID pair this chilling message with archival photos of Japanese Americans detained during WWII. Collaboration with @21cHotels.
Yo soy válida. @stacey_l_kirby’s #50StateInitiative billboard can be spotted in Durham, NC (Durham Fwy & Ellis R). Collaboration with @21cHotels. Images courtesy of @rachjessen.
YOUR BODY YOUR BUSINESS. Find Swedish-American artist @MichelePred’s #50StateInitiative billboard in St. Louis (I-44 @ Mackland Street overpass), courtesy of @projectsplusg.
ROMANS 13:10. “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” Find this #50StateInitiative billboard by #RichardMisrach soaring in the skies of Las Cruces, New Mexico (CanAM Hwy & El Suspiro Ct). Image courtesy of Alex Nipper.
THIS STORY HASN’T BEEN WRITTEN YET. Find this #50StateInitiative billboard by #JeffreyGibson in Raleigh, NC (I-95 & Red Oak Brattleboro Rd). Image courtesy of Tianran Qin.
THE AMERICAN WAY by @for_freedoms co-founder, @ericgottesman, in Montgomery, AL (@ 380 Arba St.). Photo by Bianca Cameron-Schwiesow. #50StateInitiative
BEHIND THE MYTH OF BENEVOLENCE. Find this billboard by 2018 @macfound fellow #TitusKaphar in Louisville, KY (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Expy & Preston Hwy). Collaboration with @21chotels. Image courtesy of Mary Ann Carothers.
Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the border, Tecate, Mexico - U.S.A., 2017. Find this #50StateInitiative billboard by photographer and installation artist @JR in Phoenix, AZ (I-10 & Vicksburg Rd). Image courtesy of Joshua Haunschild.
Look out for a #50StateInitiative FOUR FREEDOMS billboards in a state near you: Los Angeles, CA; Des Moines, IA; Topeka, KS; New Orleans, LA and Goldsboro, NC. Billboard by @hankwthomas & @EmilyShur. Photo: John Miller Ludlam.
NOV. 6TH, 2018. Eight more days until the midterm elections. Are you ready? Find this billboard by @trevorpaglen in Hartford, CT (US-6 & Pope Park Hwy).
Inspired by #OnKawara’s Date Paintings, Paglen uses a similar typeface to draw attention to the date. Photo: @EricGottesman.
AHLAN WA SAHLAN. #50StateInitiative billboard by artist #MichaelRakowitz translates the Arabic phrase for “Welcome.” Find this billboard in St. Paul, MN (I-94 & Co Rd 186). Image courtesy of William Glaser.
VOTE! YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. Find this #50StateInitiative billboard by @deborahkass in Wilmington, DE (I-95 North, 1m North of Chapel). Billboard design by pulp, ink. Image courtesy of @EvanBlaiseWalsh.
VOTE AND CONTINUE TO DREAM. Thanks to our partners on the east and west coast, you can find @WEEMSCarrie's #50StateInitiative billboard in Sarasota, FL at @theringling and Portland, OR at @PDXArtMuseum. Image courtesy of Sean Harris.
TRAYVON MARTIN WOULD HAVE BEEN 23 YEARS OLD & COULD HAVE VOTED. Find #ShaunLeonardo’s #50StateInitiative billboard in Tallahassee, FL (W Tennessee St & Aster Lake Blvd), not far from Sanford, FL where George Zimmerman shot 17 year old #TrayvonMartin in 2012.
📷: @bldgfotog.
We are represented by those who show up and turn out! Find @derrickadamsny’s #50StateInitiative billboard ODE TO BAYARD RUSTIN in St. Louis, MO. Curated by @modoudieng for CRY OF VICTORY AND SHORT WALKS TO FREEDOM at @projectsplusg. Image courtesy of the gallery.
Find GLORY by #MichelangeloLovelace as part of the #50StateInitiative in Columbus, OH (Dublin Rd & Grandview Ave). Image courtesy of Dale Clark.
LOVE OVER RULES. Find @hankwthomas#50StateInitiaitve billboard in Nashville, TN (I-24 & Cowan St). Image courtesy of @Cliffordpickett and Alyssa Meadows. Collaboration with @21chotels.
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