Overview

• Initiated by Dread Scott and Lynn Nottage, the campaign invites museums, libraries, theaters and community venues to stage readings, performances, exhibitions and workshops under the Fall of Freedom banner.
• A public toolkit and national digital map will offer branding, media resources and event registration to coordinate locally organized actions.
• Early institutional participants include the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the University of Southern California and the Maysles Documentary Center.
• Confirmed plans feature ICA Los Angeles’s “Wear Your Rights” silk-screening workshop on Nov. 21 and a Leslie-Lohman gallery reconfigured as a library on queer art and censorship.
• Supporters named in announcements include Michael Moore, Ava DuVernay, Amanda Palmer, John Legend, Marilyn Minter and Robert Longo, as organizers cite rising threats to free expression and efforts to criminalize dissent under President Trump.