Posted on 09/08/2009 5:28:02 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues.
Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com, posted her experience with a meeting that occurred on August 27th and confessed that she also felt “uneasy” about the government’s arts effort. The meeting invitation (viewable here) went out to all “member local, state, and regional arts agencies, community-based arts organizations, and national partners of Americans for Arts.” Americans for Arts is a non-profit arts organization that has received substantial grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
As with my conference call, the art group was invited to the meeting to work together to “tackle some of the nation’s toughest issues: education; health; energy and the environment; community renewal; and safety and security.” Also like my call, it included a private citizen moderating the phone call with key White House representatives participating. Kalpen Modi, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, was to represent the White House and key representatives from the National Endowment for the Arts were also to participate.
Even more disturbing than learning that the White House and NEA are using the arts to address specific issues, is to learn what was discussed on this new conference call. Rosenbaum mentions that there was much talk of “leveraging federal dollars” to get artists and cultural organizations involved in social-service projects.
Leveraging federal dollars? This is the problem with marrying issue specific topics, like health care and energy, with a group that is funded by tax dollars; it increases the potential of taxpayer-funded propaganda.
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lol they got more stimulas money than small business. and the constitution says “useful arts” not political.
Another story for the MSM to ignore and the new media to pursue. Go for it!
'Round here we just call it stealing.
You are probably not in Chicago (or Detroit for that matter).
EVERYTHING is used for the corrupt machine.
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Who is Kalpen Modi? And why does the WH have an office that sounds like a combination Ministry of Propaganda/Ministry of Fear?
Both of his parents are Hindi Gujarati immigrants. ("Gujarati" is an Indo/Aryan language native to the Indian State of Gujarat).
He alleges his grandparents marched with Gandhi.
In his role with the Great Uniter's administration, Modi serves as liaison with the Asian communities and the Pacific Island communities.
On the set, Modi, a vegetarian, would eat soy patties instead of hamburgers.
Leni
Well, that’s certainly interesting! Thanks! Someone here mentioned that Obama had been courting the “Desi” community and apparently has a lot of support from Indians; I guess Modi may be involved with that.
I can’t imagine why, considering Obama’s hostile attitude towards India and favoring of Pakistan, but I imagine reason has little to do with it. As Obama has found, propaganda is all. Image trumps reality.
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