Fronteristxs Against Private Prisons

New artist/activist collective creates a visible and physical online presence to protest mass incarceration in the time of COVID-19

A new artist/activist collective in Albuquerque has joined the fight to divest the state's educator retirement fund from private prisons and detention centers.

Fronteristxs launched #NMERBdivest last week with a digital billboard on East I-40 in Albuquerque near Carlisle Boulevard and continued with projections of images and text on the former county jail in downtown Albuquerque.

The campaign is part of the collective's larger efforts to abolish prisons, made urgent by the rapid spread of COVID-19 in prisons, using visual and performance techniques to reach a digital media audience during the pandemic.

Published in the Santa Fe Reporter.