John Craig Freeman based on the work of Gustav Klutsis, including his designs for Screen-radio Orators, Rostrums, and Propaganda Stands from 1922. Each of four virtual orators displays a black and white animation from a contemporary mass uprising: Tank Man near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989; the assassination of Neda Agha-Soltan, who was gunned down in the streets of Tehran during the 2009 Iranian election protests; scenes from Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 Arab Spring; and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street uprising. Each of these images is juxtaposed, in montage, with frames from the Odessa Steps scene of Sergei Eisenstein‘s
Tragic City Rollers Apprentice Program in October 2010, and became a full member of the WFTDA in March 2012. Tragic City Rollers The Tragic City Rollers is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded in 2005, the league consists of two teams, and two mixed teams which compete against teams from other leagues. Tragic City is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). The league was founded in December 2005 by Dixie Thrash, after hearing about the Texas Rollergirls, and training with the Dixie Derby Girls for two months. The league's first bout was also