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In August the National Endowment for the Arts hurriedly withdrew funding it had granted to three California artists after it came under criticism in the New York Times. Artists David Avalos, Elizabeth Sisco, and Louis Hock were participants in La Frontera/The Border, a project that consisted of passing out signed $10 bills to illegal immigrants to demonstrate the impact they have on the economy. Said one recipient, “People don’t usually give us money.”
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In July Sacramento police began a crackdown on the city’s homeless, writing numerous citations for illegal camping. But almost as fast as the citations came to court, the court clerk–following official procedures–voided them because they lacked home addresses for the accused.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
