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and grew to include high profile artists including Dread Scott, Barbara Kruger, Cameron Rowland, Nan Goldin, Yvonne Rainer, Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser and Laura Poitras, began protesting Kanders' role in the Whitey last year. They mobilized after it came to light that Safariland tear gas, which Kanders purchased in 2012,on migrants at the US/Mexico border, as well as against activists at Standing Rock, in Ferguson, Oakland, Palestine, Puerto Rico and Egypt, and to arm the NYPD.
The coalition published an open letter demanding Kanders resignation or removal, on the basis that the Whitney can't be an ethical or credible cultural institution, while funded and run by a weapons manufacturer."We felt not annoyed, not intellectually upset—we felt sick to our stomachs, we shed tears, we felt unsafe...
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