Photo is CPD officer taking a photo, and I in return.©2012 nancy bechtol. Recording audio was illegal in 2009 in Ill. but no one knew! https://www.youtube.com/user/madpalX

the film (2014, release TBA soon) “Free Speech & Transcendent Journey of Chris Drew, Street Artist” is the story of how it was. Significant contribution of probono attorneys first constitutional law Attorney Weinberg; challenge, then Attorney Kutnick who won the case VS Ill State Attorney Alvarez. Illinois Eavesdropping law finally struck down with Ill. Supreme Court ruled Unconstitutional March 2014.

Chris Drew’s case with Attorney Kutnick preceeded this final decision in which Judge Sach’s ruled in March 2, 2012. the Illinois Eavesdropping Law to be unconstitutional, based on “wholly innocent conduct”. Which set precedent for the final victory.

Illinois Supreme Court decision was on March 20, 2014, which finally abolished the law. New article : Eavesdropping In Illinois: You Can Do What Now? by The National Law Review  http://www.natlawreview.com/article/eavesdropping-illinois-you-can-do-what-now

©2012 NATO. first time legal to audio record police in public in Illinois

At some point all the dots are connecting…”Right now, you are saying to yourself “yeah, right, I find that hard to believe” Well I also found it hard to believe, but realities change, don’t they?’ Life, long journey…..Chris Drew not a terrorist – but an artist, and the release of my long awaited…more http://lnkd.in/b_ChiVa

Nancy Bechtol: On Free Speech, Journalism and the Arts

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Nancy Bechtol: On Free Speech, Journalism and the Arts By Max Eternity In 2009, a Chicago artist named Chris Drew…

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this is the album they gave to the film courtesy and available at link above

Silkscreen images below by Carlos Cortez(arrest) and Diane Berek,(No Justice..) members of the Uptown Mult-Cultural Arts Center

Hey Now Records comments on “Free Speech & the Transcendent Journey of Chris Drew, Street Artist” (release 2014)  a film by Nancy Bechtol
 
“The music of Behind The Sun, a duo consisting of Andy Alton and David Mansfield, will be featured in a 99 minute movie documenting the legal struggle of Chris Drew, Patron Saint of Street Artists. Chris Drew was arrested on a bogus eavesdropping charge, but fought until the day he died to clear his name. Needing that one last element for her movie, filmmaker Nancy Bechtol got in touch with us to see if she could use songs from Behind The Sun’s debut release “Paper Airplane” to help give the Chris Drew story the musical backdrop that would help convey one of the most inspirational stories you’ll ever hear.”

– David Mansfield