Mural depicting Labor in Maine ordered removed from Dept. of Labor Building

[kpete]

Tue Mar 22, 2011 at 08:10 PM EDT
Mural depicting Labor in Maine ordered removed from Dept. of Labor Building

by Spud1

In 2007, Judy Taylor, an artist based on Mount Desert, won a competition to create a mural for the lobby of the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL). The work was to depict the "History of Labor in the State of Maine," and was commissioned by the Maine Arts Commission. Taylor's work is of 11 panels which you can find here; here are what panels 7-9 look like:


Today staff of the MDOL learned that this mural would be removed. In an email, Acting Commissioner Laura Boyett made the announcement, along with news that some of the names of meeting rooms would be changed, names like the "Perkins Room." Frances Perkins was, of course, FDR's Secretary of Labor.

The email is below. I have not been able to reach Boyett for her comment, nor has my query to Dan Demeritt been answered.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/22/959164/-Mural-depicting-Labor-in-Maine-ordered-removed-from-Dept-of-Labor-Building

[SpiralHawk]

1. This is like when Colin Powell (R) had the Picasso covered up at the UN

when he went there at the bidding of Commander AWOL (R) and Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R) to tell deliberate Republicon lies to the whole world and get the Iraq oil-profits Crusade going. Powell and his Republicon cronies & allied liars could not bear to face the truth as so powerfully depicted by a great artist in the famous Guernica painting -- showing the sheer horror of war.

Republicons want to hide anything that reveals reality. That's why they have introduced a bill to demand that the mathematical reality of Pi be redefined to '3' Republicons cannot handle the truth, and they don't want anyone else to catch a glimpse of it.

[PA Democrat]

2. What will replace these pieces of history?

Portraits of robber barons? Wall Street CEOs?

[Tippy]

12. Probably will use the , Don't tread on me ...snake....

[Octafish]

3. This is like when Nelson Rockefeller (R) had the Diego Rivera covered up at Rockefeller Center.

http://www.diego-rivera.org/rockefellercontroversy.html

EDIT: Nelson.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Wow - we've got a major pattern here

Smacks of Orwell's 1984.

[Octafish]

6. Don't recognized the name, but the face rings a bell.

More from the Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery Department:

Bell Ringer

The bishop decided that he would conduct the interviews personally and went up into the belfry to begin the screening process. After observing several applicants demonstrate their skills, he had just about decided to call it a day. But just then, an armless man approached him and announced that he was there to apply for the bell ringer`s job.

Incredulously, the bishop blurted out, "But. . .you have no arms!"

"No matter," said the man: "Observe!"

And he began striking the bells with his face, producing a beautiful melody on the carillon. The bishop listened in astonishment, convinced he had finally found a suitable replacement for Quasimodo.

But suddenly, rushing forward to strike a bell, the armless man tripped and plunged headlong out of the belfry window, falling to his death in the street below. The stunned bishop rushed to his side. When he reached the street, a crowd had gathered around the fallen figure, drawn by the beautiful music they had heard only moments before.

As they silently parted to let the bishop through, one of them asked, "Bishop, who was this man?" "I don`t know his name," the bishop sadly replied, "but his face rings a bell."

{WAIT! WAIT! Not through yet}

The following day, despite the sadness that weighed heavily on his heart due to the unfortunate death of the armless campanologist (now there`s a word-of-the-day...), the bishop continued his interviews for a new bell ringer of Notre Dame.

The first man to approach him said, "Your Excellency, I am the brother of the poor armless wretch who fell to his death from this very belfry yesterday. I pray that you honor his life by allowing me to replace him in this duty."

The bishop agreed to give the man an audition, and, as the armless man`s brother stooped to pick up a mallet to strike the first bell, he groaned, clutched at his chest, and died on the spot.

Two monks, hearing the bishop`s cries of grief at this second tragedy, rushed up the stairs to his side.

"What has happened? Who is this man?" the first monk asked breathlessly.

"I don`t know his name," sighed the distraught bishop...

"....but he`s a dead ringer for his brother."

SOURCE: http://www.michaelclark.name/jokes/puns/bell_ringer.shtml

[SpiralHawk]

10. LOL

eom

[KittyWampus]

5. Another one- Ashcroft covered the stature of Justice

[SpiralHawk]

11. Ding ding ding - yes

Meanwhile, Ashcroft (R) had in his barn a replica of the Statue of Liberty made from barbed wire -- symbolizing the strangulation of liberty that is at the heart of the Republcon crusade.

[krispos42]

7. Soon to be replaced by murals...

...of poverty-stricken business owners working frantically into the night while well-dressed union workers tour the French Riviera during their 9th week of paid vacation.

[bvar22]

13. Or maybe a mural....

...of the Secret Workshop where RICH people "create jobs" when they get a BIG Tax Cut!!!!!

...like Santa's Workshop!






Who will STAND and represent THIS American Majority?
Rhetoric, broken promises, and excuses mean NOTHING now.
This is NOT all Joe Lieberman's fault.


"By their WORKS you will know them,"
and by their WORKS they will be counted.

[Stevenmarc]

14. Or a Mural of Reagan firing Air Traffic Controllers in the newly named Koch Room

[krispos42]

16. The Kochpit?

:rofl:

[Scuba]

8. I understand it will be replaced with a picture...

...of Donald Trump, entrepreneuer, creator of jobs.

[Angry Dragon]

9. Gee, I wonder who was complaining.......

If you read the email you will notice she always uses business first before she mentions anything about workers.

[Solly Mack]

15. K&R

[blindpig]

17. Sometimes it's hard to tell the petty from the Orwellian. n/t

[Starry Messenger]

18. k&r