Alliance for the Arts building vandalized again

The Alliance for the Arts building has been vandalized again.

It’s the second time this year after some of the Volodymyr Zelensky murals were vandalized in April.

This time, whoever did it hung up homemade signs.

Attacking President Biden, Ukraine, and even put some symbols in there that look like swastikas. The signs also claim that they are “fake presidents.”

As to if these two crimes are related? Fort Myers police said it’s too hard to tell.

“They don’t have any leads or information about who might have vandalized this place,” FMPD said.

The suspects hooked the signs up on the top of the amphitheater, which is about 20 feet high.

But hateful signs won’t stop the heart of the Alliance.

Jordan Jameson, Director of Operations at Alliance for the Arts said, “I don’t think we are fearful, we are so proud of what we do and what we stand for here that we are just going to keep doing what we do because we believe that it transforms lives and improves the community.”

The signs that were put up over the holiday weekend have the words Nesara and Gesara written on them.

Nesara is an acronym for a set of proposed economic reforms from the 1990s, the National Economic Security and Recovery Act.

Gesara stands for the Global Economic Security Reform Act and it aims to make gold the worldwide currency.

Many of the other signs include slurs against Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
And the people at the Alliance for the Arts said there’s no place for that here.

“We just need to make sure that we are putting forth what we believe in as an organization and taking down what is not okay and leaving up and really valuing that and getting the community behind what we do stand for is it’s important,” Jameson said.

Jameson pours her heart and soul into making the alliance for the arts a safe space. A space Where anything can be a canvas to spread love.

“It just really is a frustrating thing because we really appreciate the right to expression,” Jameson said.

After the first act of vandalism in April, the Alliance got artists together to paint murals for Ukraine.

Jameson said she doesn’t if there will be another event to bring people together. But hopes the community will find ways to come together.

Fundraising was in the works for a camera security system. And now the Alliance is expediting that process and getting cameras up as fast as possible.

So if this ever happens again the person or people will be caught on camera.