>Dough
TYB
PB
>>24552632 MSM Is Hiding Cole Allen's Ties To A Far-Left Group That Advised Biden; Now Evidence Is Vanishing From Their Website
muh cape
Fashion
The Wide Awakes Are the Civil War–Era Activist Group Making a Comeback in Bold, Joyful Style
By Brooke Bobb
October 2,2020
Cape designed by Dionne Fraser-Carter and Steve LockePhoto: Tom Taylor
In 1860, two diametrically opposed foes ran against each other for the president of the United States. The candidates were Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, and John C. Breckinridge, a Southern Democrat. The election took place during a time when the country was deeply divided over slavery, territorial borders, and workers rights. After Lincoln was elected, the Civil War began.
Fast-forward to 2020, and we’re on the precipice of another contentious, terrifying election with two deeply divided sides of the country—one that puts God and country first and the other that puts human liberties and social justice first. But aside from drawing parallels between the perils of a discombobulated democracy then and now, there are also similarities between the two eras when it comes to advocacy and activism.
Tomorrow, an 1860s-era youth organization called the Wide Awakes will make a timely return. The Wide Awakes were, back in that day, a diverse group of young Republicans who supported Lincoln and the abolition of slavery. They represented a youthful, hopeful generation that believed strongly in democracy, civil liberties, and basic human rights. It began with five store clerks who marched behind Lincoln after a rallying campaign speech he gave in Hartford, Connecticut. They provided him with a parade and torch-lit escort, and they wore oilcloth capes in order to protect their clothing and skin from the dripping wax of the torches. The movement then gained momentum in the Northern states, and on October 3, 1860, 10,000 Wide Awakes marched three miles through the city of Chicago. By the time Lincoln was elected, the group counted some 500,000 members.
The Wide Awakes of 2020, however, look a little bit different. Cofounded by the artist Hank Willis Thomas, photographer Eric Gottesman, Michelle Woo, and Wyatt Gallery, the group includes hip-hop king Fab 5 Freddy, the Roots’ Tariq Trotter, and artist José Parlá, among many others. The new Wide Awakes group was born out of Thomas’s political organizationFor Freedoms, which he founded just before the election in 2016.Since December 2019, they’ve been planning this year’s October 3rd march from their home base in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The processions are set to take place around the country, beginning at locations that include the Brooklyn Museum, Times Square, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Alabama Contemporary Art Center, and more. In addition to spotlighting these starting points for tomorrow’s nationwide marches, the 2020 Wide Awakes website also provides information for those who would like to start their own activations in their local communities.
Members of the founding group in Brooklyn will pay homage to the original Wide Awakes and their protest fashion by wearing bold, handmade capes designed by a range of BIPOC designers. These designers include Michelle Obama’s New York City-based tailor Christy Rilling and artist Wildcat Ebony Brown. The vibrant capes are a far cry from the oilcloth styles of centuries past: There are kaleidoscopic prints, colorful embellishments, and symbolic nods to the designers’ heritage and the history of the Wide Awakes movement.
Below, the designers explain the meaning behind their creations and how tomorrow’s march can inspire a new generation to throw on a bold, beautiful cape and fight for freedom with joy.
>muh cape
All four of these cape designs were inspired by carnival culture.The intent was to blur the lines between ready-to-wear clothing and festival wear. My label, Wyld Flwr, was born from a love for bothCarnival and Burning Man, as well as the idea that fashion is a conduit for one’s radical imagination. Joy as an act of resistance is at the root of the Trinidad Carnival. For me, this new iteration of the Wide Awakes advances the movement beyond traditional protest to a form of protest well-known to Caribbean people, where we boldly proclaim our freedom through acts of celebration. —Anya Ayoung-Chee
I hope the presence of all the cloaks in the October 3rd procession will inspire a sense of unity, not through uniformity, but through multiplicity. The many fabrics and designs mirror the variety of people and ideas that come together to shape the Wide Awakes and the larger social movements of our times. —Kambui Olujimi
Image may contain Clothing Apparel Human Person and Face
Capes designed by Coby Kennedy Photo: Jeff Vespa
The original Wide Awakes wore their capes as protection. Today, we face so much danger in the public sphere, through institutional persecution and overzealous police tactics, that I want my cloak designs to embody a forward-thinking look and functionality of military and medical protective garments and equipment. In my own life as an artist, internationally active in life situations that can “get out of hand” and have been called “unconventional,” this kind of clothing and equipment has been essential. Whether it’s being accosted by throngs of unhinged riot police in Central Park or fighting my way out of an angry mob in central Cairo, my fashion choice of elegantly brutal clothes and equipment has always played a part in making it out in one piece.
Retroreflective material is something we’ve played around with, artwise, for a while. It glows with direct light, and when I mix it with vibrant colored patterns, the dual effect can be mesmerizing. Thematically, I’m lining them with vibrant African wax prints which is a callout to our past and future, and at the same time is interestingly problematic in terms of their origins involving Indonesia and the Dutch. —Coby Kennedy
Most Popular
Alana Haim Had to Put Her People-Pleasing on Ice to Make The Drama
TV & Movies
Alana Haim Had to Put Her People-Pleasing on Ice to Make The Drama
By Chelsea Daniel
Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz Are Engaged!
Living
Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz Are Engaged!
By Anna Grace Lee
Bye, Brunette! Dakota Johnson Is Now a “Dirty Blonde”
Beauty
Bye, Brunette! Dakota Johnson Is Now a “Dirty Blonde”
By Margaux Anbouba
Image may contain Clothing Apparel Fashion Robe and Scarf
Capes designed by Dionne Fraser-Carter and Steve Locke Photo: Tom Taylor
I chose to use black faux leather, inspired by the unofficial uniform of the former Black Panthers. I also chose denim to symbolize the all-American blue jean, which symbolizes unity. The various Ankara prints are used to acknowledge African heritage and the struggle for persons of color who are most often disenfranchised and politically and socially suppressed. We are living in an unprecedented socioeconomic climate to which millions of people of all backgrounds have been affected. Historically though, it has always been the descendants of the diaspora who have had to fight for their voices to be heard and their existence to be acknowledged as valuable. —Dionne Fraser-Carter
The fabric I created has an image of Fred Hampton, who was a key member of the Chicago Black Panther Party and was murdered by the Chicago Police Department with the assistance of the FBI during their COINTELPRO program. The blue is to mimic police light and the image of Hampton is tessellated to make him readable from any direction. He is there to protect the wearer from state violence. —Steve Locke
https://www.vogue.com/article/wide-awakes-capes
>muh cape
>muh cape
> https://wideawakes.com/participate
ARISE!
Join us for a global participatory event as we revive and remix the Wide Awakes Grand Procession. There will be activations both online and across the globe where we will gather in joyful collaboration to pursue liberation of mind, body, and spirit.
Please use any and all of the open-source tools and programming suggestions below to activate your community in collective joy on Wide Awakes Day, October 3, 2025.
Together, we will:
Create a joyful, mindful, aesthetically vibrant and music-filled atmosphere
Facilitate safe, respectful, social-distanced demonstration
Encourage the exercise of one’s civic duties & participationthrough voter registration and mobilization
The Wide Awakes are everywhere. See how the network is activating.
Initiate one with any of the tools or programs found within this Toolkit!
Submit your activations to be added to the map here
Create a Processional Route to Circle Specific Locations for Big Moments.
On October 3 of 1860 the Wide Awakes marched in the name of emancipation. They held torchlight parades around the country; in Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, and through lower Manhattan, all carrying lanterns and clad in oilcloth cloaks. Revive and remix this tradition with a Grand Procession of your own.
Tune In
@wideawakes on Instagram
A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes
In 1860, the Wide Awakes mobilized against slavery and for Abraham Lincoln. A new collective is tapping into their spirit today.
Credit…Sean Pressley for The New York Times
By Matt Dellinger
Published Sept. 15, 2020Updated Sept. 16, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/style/wide-awakes-civil-war-activists.html
Members of the present-day Wide Awakes at the Community Carnival on Labor Day Weekend in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. Top row: Jasmine Wahi, Helena Metaferia, Wildcat Ebony Brown, Rujeko Hockley, Niama Safia Sandy, Stefan Ruiz, Kaze Myers, Yashua Klos, Christopher Myers and daughter. Bottom row: Christina Caputo, Hank Willis Thomas, José Parlá and Craig Dykers. Credit…Sean Pressley for The New York Times
>muh cape
>nthrough voter registration and mobilization
>How do you make the eye an ownable
>brand asset when it is such a commonly
>used visual symbol?
Claudia Pena: How has the recent Black Lives Matter upsurge shifted or refined what we’re doing as Wide Awakes?
Tony Patrick (worldbuilder, writer and founder of the TenfoldGaming Initiative): For Freedoms hada congress in LAat the end of February which was a convergence point of years of work, political engagement and transformational political discussion. This wasalso the moment the 2020 Wide Awakes were announced. So there was a procession and we started to talk about who and what we were. Well, two weeks later Covid-19 hit, so there was a pause, rightfully so, as everyone tried to acclimatise. Months later, centred around the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and countless others, we found ourselves (focused on) the original pandemic, which we could call supremacy. So as we found ourselves battling these twin pandemics, it became an opportunity to get on the ground and start our work, and that started with the Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) celebration. We see ourselves as a kind of excavation continuum, which means we have to look at decolonising a lot of the terminology, holidays and practices in our society, so that we stop ourselves from being stuck in what seems like a finite game and start to play an infinite game of liberation for all.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/read-up-act-up-autumn-2020/article/50410/1/read-up-act-up-autumn-2020-wide-awakes-guest-edit
> https://www.today.com/tmrw/how-wide-awakes-are-bringing-joy-2020-lessons-1800s-t194879
How the Wide Awakes are bringing joy to 2020 with lessons from the 1800s
Inspired by a group of revolutionaries in Abraham Lincoln's time, the revived Wide Awakes movement considers joy a political act.
Oct. 20, 2020, 6:04 PM EDT / Source: TMRW
Erica Chayes Wida
>muh cape
>muh cape
>muh cape
> https://vimeo.com/user125145307
Hypermodern - Pete Ippel
Hypermodern - Pete IppelVentura, CALIFORNIA
Added 2 years ago
Videos / Channels / Groups / Albums / Following
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in
Julianne Hughes
Julianne Hughes Berkeley, CA
Added 4 years ago
Videos / Channels / Groups / Albums / Following
An artist that works Interdisciplinary as Teaching Artist / Arts Educator / Social Practice /
Kurosh ValaNejad
Kurosh ValaNejadLos Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Added 4 years ago
Videos / Channels / Groups / Albums / Following
Kurosh ValaNejad builds emotionally evocative virtual environments. From 2001-2016 Kurosh helped develop well-meaning computer applications at USC research labs supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USC Annenberg
XinJeisan
XinJeisan San Diego, CA
Added 1 year ago
Videos / Channels / Groups / Albums / Following
> https://vimeo.com/user125145307/following/followers/sort:alphabetical/format:detail
Not often when faggots like these avoid anon scrutiny
Search for: "wide awakes" (7 Results)
NEW ON QRESEAR.CH: WEF-members are available now. Not all members yet, but the number will increase in next few days and weeks.
8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
endchan qrbunker Posts (3)
>The HMS Trump (P333) was a British T-class submarine launched in 1944 that featured a specific badge typical of Royal Navy vessels, which included a depiction of a playing card - specifically, the Ace of Spades, often interpreted as a "trump card"
1201
Q!xowAT4Z3VQ04/20/2018 13:48:56 ID: 5a1150
8chan/qresearch: 1116344
Anonymous 04/20/2018 13:47:20 ID:e193d6
8chan/qresearch: 1116307
>>1116248
Trap card played…nice work Q
>>1116307
TRUMP card coming.
Q
>key challenge
>How do you make the eye an ownable
>brand asset when it is such a commonly
>used visual symbol?
>> https://vimeo.com/user125145307
>Kurosh ValaNejadLos Angeles, California, U.S.A.
>Added 4 years ago
Kurosh ValaNejad
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
he/him
Kurosh ValaNejad builds emotionally evocative virtual environments.
From 2001-2016 Kurosh helped develop well-meaning computer applications at USC research labssupported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USC Annenberg Center, and the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
He served as lead artist and art director on “The ReDistricting Game,” a simulation of Gerrymandering that launched at the United States Capitol Building, “The Night Journey,” an interactive museum installation about spiritual enlightenment directed by media artist Bill Viola, and "The Cat andthe Coup", a documentary video game about Iranwhich was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
As emerging technologies push Cinema back towards its roots in the theater, Kurosh has shifted his focus to the live performance. His Body Scrub device adapts real-time rendering and motion capture technologies used in video games to amplify body language and empower stage performers and dancers. And when used in Art installation, his series of virtual fun-house mirrors encourage spectators to become the spectacle. In 2016 “Body Scrub, Lego” the first Body Scrub filter he made was added to "Field of Play", a long-term exhibit at The Strong National Museum of Play.
kurosh@gmail.com
Portfolio, Research ArtDirector
https://www.youtube.com/
> https://vimeo.com/kurosh