Between The Bars

Between The Bars

A poster about political prisoners used in the Chicago anti apartheid movement.

After the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, there were over 3,000 South African citizens still imprisoned. This is equivalent to the entire population of Cape Cod Massachusetts. The same number of people completely fills Carnegie Hall and is nearly half of the student population at Columbia College Chicago. The poster tells us that even with the release of Nelson Mandela, the affects of apartheid ravaged on. While the victims of apartheid had faced a major victory, there were still many losses that they would have to overcome. They would have to free their friends and family who were knowingly imprisoned and those who were lost...those who had disappeared in the middle of the night and imprisoned without anyone knowing. In the article “Kent State/May 4 and Post War Memory” John Fitzgerald O’Hara talks about memorials and how we use them to acknowledge, commemorate, and cope with the affects of a tragedy’s such as Kent State. He says “Every act of remembering, it is said, is at once an act of forgetting.” While some people would prefer to forget that this event happened, this poster forces us remember the people who weren’t free. The poster does not want us to move on. The poster wants us to know that the incarceration of South Africans is still an issue and we have to do something about it.

Columbia College Chicago Students

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