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🗓️ 22 October 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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They do it under the cover of darkness, on buildings and storefronts and the walls of alleyways. Can breaking one law help change another? This week, we hear from street artists about graffiti as political protest, as art, and as an addictive, inimitable high.
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0:00.0 | A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life. You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail. |
0:08.0 | Have I ever gone to jail? Yeah, I just got out, actually. |
0:10.0 | If he doesn't show up to court, we've got to pay the $50,000. |
0:13.4 | No green exchange, no kiss the bride. |
0:16.1 | There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding. |
0:19.4 | Off the block. |
0:20.4 | All six episodes tracing the path from city block to Jailblock and back are now available on KCLW.RW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional. A program of true stories and functional. |
0:43.0 | A program of true stories and intimate documentaries. |
0:48.0 | On this episode, we examine grime-covered buildings and walls to find messages. and Prodoser Steve Erkett returns to unfictional and meets street artists who are risking their freedom and their lives to write political graffiti. |
1:10.0 | Why do they do it and what do they actually achieve? |
1:14.0 | You're off on a trip to the streets of Paris and Barcelona |
1:18.0 | and then on to Brazil from KCRW.com |
1:21.0 | It's unfictional and graffiti paint and protest. I really like Sundays. |
1:35.0 | Sunday is a very good day because all the shops are closed. |
1:40.0 | So there's less people on the street and people who are on the street they're not stressed |
1:45.0 | They're just walking around so Sunday mornings and afternoon |
1:49.4 | It's the best time because at night you have to be very quiet and you can be suspect if someone see someone everyone's afraid of everyone. |
2:00.0 | There's like attention. So Sunday is more chill. |
2:07.0 | Sometimes. Sometimes people would yell at you from a window when you're painting or pasting. |
2:20.0 | Like saying they're calling the cops and everything, but I just stop doing what I'm doing I come back later. |
2:29.6 | It is actually really addictive you get all this adrenaline rush when you're out on the streets and you're doing something that you know is legal, but it's your way of expressing yourself. |
2:42.0 | You know the walls are there and they should speak. |
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