about 8 months ago (02/06/2024)
Organizers Handing Out Flyers Thrown Out of Brooklyn Museum Skip to content While being escorted out of the museum, two organizers from For Our Liberation continued to distribute their flyers to visitors during the First Saturdays event. (all images courtesy For Our Liberation) Last weekend, two community organizers were thrown out of the Brooklyn Museum by security for distributing flyers to other visitors in the galleries during the institution’s First Saturdays event. The activists were handing out material criticizing institutional practices and connecting the Black and Palestinian liberation movements in light of the museum’s programming around Black History Month and the last days of an exhibition focused on African-American film director Spike Lee.