A “Know Your Rights” Mural…
From Project Attica:
Background: Make The Road New York (MRNY), a community organization focused on promoting economic justice through education, organization, and direct services, helped sponsor and coordinate the creation of a Know Your Rights Mural (KYR) in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The mural incorporates criminal defense tips for dealing with encounters with the police. Aware of the community from which it springs, the mural includes portions in Spanish, clearly visible to the predominant Latino/a population in that area.
The Artist: Cekis aka Nelson Rivas, originally from Santiago Chile, belongs to the first generation of graffiti writers/artist in Chile in the early nineties. Cekis currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY since 2004.
