American "Graffiti Research Labs" Head James Powderly Detained in Beijing: Wherabouts Unknown.

[Fred]

American conceptual artist and co-founder of Graffiti Research Labs James Po... has gone missing in Beijing, for PLANNING to exercise his free speech RIGHTS.

There are no news articles listed on Google. No mention is the Western press, no outrage from our leaders. We get the world we ACCEPT.

Please pass along to others.

[shooting an elephant]

no shit, yeah, this is a big one. evidently, it takes three days for China to confirm detention, but news is on

Boing Boing


and Free Tibet

twittered to Students for a Free Tibet, one of the few groups that's actually held protests in Beijing.

[Fred]

Google News now shows NY Times, Fox, WSJ and others reporting this. Still no new info really...