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Activist Chaz Stevens is addressing the challenge to separate church from state and keep religion out of the classroom.

An activist plans to test Texas’ ‘In God We Trust’ law with signs in Arabic, Wynne Davis, NPR, August 26, 2022

There are those who heed the warning “don’t mess with Texas,” and then there are those who do the exact opposite.

Activist Chaz Stevens is in the second group.

He’s taking on a Texas law that requires public schools to display signs and posters with the national motto “In God We Trust” in “conspicuous places.” The law requires that the signs were either donated or purchased from private donations to the school. Read the rest of this story here.

Street Artists Infiltrate “˜Homeland” With Subversive Graffiti
by Dan Bilefsky and Mona Boshnaq
The New York Times
October 15, 2015

On TV’s “Homeland,” artists hired to add authenticity to a Syrian refugee-camp set scrawled Arabic graffiti messages declaring the show “racist.”

LONDON “” In a recent episode of Showtime”s hit series “Homeland,” the former C.I.A. officer Carrie Mathison is escorted by a Hezbollah militant past a wall in a fictional Syrian refugee camp covered with Arabic graffiti.

Attentive viewers who read Arabic, however, might have noticed something awry. Among the messages spray-painted on the walls: ” “˜Homeland” is racist,” “There is no “˜Homeland” ” and ” “˜Homeland” is not a show.”

The subversive messages seemingly escaped the notice of the producers of the television series.

On Wednesday, an Egyptian artist, Heba Y. Amin, and two other artists, Caram Kapp and Stone, took credit for the graffiti, saying it was a subtle protest of false and misleading stereotypes in the series, which has been heavily criticized for its portrayals of Muslims. Continue reading “Arabic Graffiti on TV’s Homeland: The Writing’s on the Wall”

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Arabic Graffiti on TV’s Homeland: The Writing’s on the Wall