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REPORT 07

REPORT 07

Occasionally we find maps of protest routes, which inform an expanding series of cabinets Garrick is building.

REPORT 06

REPORT 06

The police investigators kept boxes of index cards on individuals and groups. Card after card, typed, sometimes marked with a pen. This indexing informs the poem “She Had Her Own Reason for Participating”

REPORT 05

REPORT 05

The Women’s Night Watch published Lavinia Press, a tabloid newspaper, in 1979. This bilingual (Spanish and English) issue was devoted to the theme of fashion

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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