"31 Days in July" (2010) This page features paintings from Dana Ellyn's "31 Days in July" project. Started in July of 2003, Dana creates one new painting per day in response to the daily news capturing each day of the month in a total of 31 unique paintings. New paintings will be posted to this page as they are completed each day.

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	July 26, 2010: Spoon Fed Wikileaks released tens of thousonds of classified documents related to the war in Afghanistan. These documents were given to the New York Times, the British newspaper the Guardian and the German magazine Der Spiegel. In an interview on Democracy Now with Wikileaks' Julian Assange, he was asked why the Washington Post was not included in the list of papers he released the documents to. He answered: "...we have seen other things that are a bit disturbing. For example, Dana Priest's article on the CIA black sites had all the names of the countries removed from it after a request by the White House to the editors of the Post. Similarly, it is standard Washington Post practice, whenever Dana Priest is to reveal a new story showing significant allegations of abuse, say, by the CIA, to call up the press office the night before to give them the heads-up, as a courtesy move. That doesn't seem like independent journalism to us. It seems to us that a journalist's relationship should be with the public, on the one hand, and with their sources, on the other hand, who are providing them with information to give to the public. It seems that the Post is engaging in a sort of an unclear cooperation with the very organizations that it's meant to be policing. So we're a little bit hesitant about dealing with them. Spoon Fed 18"x24" acrylic on canvas 7/26/10 CLICK HERE for previous years '31 Days in July' PAINTINGS