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REPORT 01

REPORT 01

Kaia is composing poem comprised of sentences and phrases located in the files that begin with the word “she,” cataloguing the diverse lives of women encountering in these files.

REPORT 02

REPORT 02

Police investigators surveilled this feminist march, part of the People’s Army Jamboree, in 1970. Surveillance of feminists was a strong current: Scan down the list of groups the police investigators listed for surveillance, and you’ll discover the 16 groups with the word “women” or “feminist” in the title.

REPORT 03

REPORT 03

Lloyd Marbet attended the Trojan hearings in 1972 to learn more about nuclear technologies and share his concerns about the dangers. He had no idea that the police were surveilling him, or that they were asserting that he had the ingredients to build a bomb.

REPORT 04

REPORT 04

Lloyd Marbet strove for decades to limit the damage of nuclear technology through a range of activist tactics, which the Portland Police tracked through surveillance, including these slides of Marbet selling the Willamette Bridge newspaper. He told what happened after these photos were snapped.

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Watcher Files Project exhibition

October 24, 2013 - January 31, 2014
Watcher Files Project exhibit in the Antena Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, through May 10

January 14, 2014
Watcher Files Project exhibit in the Antena Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, through May 10

February 1, 2014
February 13-16, 2014, Encuentro, Antena Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum

February 13, 2014
Watcher Files Project exhibit in the Antena Exhibition, Blaffer Art Museum, through May 10

March 1, 2014

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