RESBAK!

ARTS & RESISTANCE AGAINST THE DRUG KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES

This exhibition and showcase coincides with CCNY’s Third 2024 Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference, April 17-19, 2024, which aims to explore the contested legacy of human rights in increasingly uncertain times.



RESBAK
RESBAK (RESpond and Break the Silence Against the Killings) is an interdisciplinary alliance of artists, media practitioners, and cultural workers. The primary goal of RESBAK is to advance social awareness with regards to the killings brought forth by the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs.” “Resbak” is also a slang term for gathering reinforcements to get even with someone who did something wrong. Through various art forms and platforms, RESBAK seeks to give voice to and empower the most vulnerable sectors targeted by the state-endorsed killings. 

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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
Economic inequality, racism, sexism, and multiple refugee crises have engendered and exacerbated the rise of political extremism.  Addressing such issues, as well as many others, the Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference aims to explore the contested legacy of human rights in increasingly uncertain times.  It seeks to foster dialogue and scholarship from a wide range of perspectives. Some conference presenters are scholars and activists who continue to view the human rights project as a moral and ethical challenge to power; others see it as an enabler of political and economic domination.
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participants seek to reassess the origins, foundations, and contemporary forms of human rights discourse, ideas, and practice today, seventy-five years on. The Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference is part of a larger initiative at The City College of New York, CUNY, shared between the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and the President’s Office dedicated to human rights studies, public programming, and scholarship.

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The SUNY/CUNY SEAC is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities. The Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) aims to develop institutional infrastructure and robust connections across New York’s public university systems—the 64-campus, 370,000-student State University of New York (SUNY) and 25-campus, 270,000-student City University of New York (CUNY)—with the wider New York public and policy community, and with counterparts in Southeast Asia. The statewide SEAC links faculty, students, alumni, and surrounding communities.

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RESBAK! Arts & Resistance Against the Drug Killings


ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
WEDESDAY, APRIL 17, 2024 through SUMMER 2024

City College of New York
25 Broadway, 7th Floor, NY, NY
Resbak! Arts and Resistance to the Drug Killings is an art exhibition focusing on the realities of the drug killings in the Philippines under the Duterte administration. Featuring the work of RESBAK (RESpond and Break the Silence Against the Killings), a global, Philippines-based alliance of artists and cultural workers, the exhibition presents photography, visual art, and multimedia that confront the consequences and aftermath of Duterte's “war on drugs,” particularly its impact on poor and marginalized communities. This exhibition serves as both a tribute to the victims and a call for justice, encouraging viewers to consider the human cost of political actions.


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BASILIO H. SEPE

AIE BALAGTAS SEE


BROTHER CIRIACO SANTIAGO III

VINCENT GO
ELOISA LOPEZ
BASILIO H. SEPE

KIMBERLY DELA CRUZ

RAFFY LERMA
EZRA ACAYAN




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