Activism and art: In a good world, never shall the twain shall meet. But we do not live in a good world; some of us even live in California, where the two are intersecting on the taxpayer’s dime.

The California Arts Council (CAC), a taxpayer-funded state agency, has been forking money over to left-wing activist groups for years. This first came to my attention while researching the relationship between the city of San Francisco and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, which helped plan the Nov. 16 Bay Bridge shutdown (read my piece on this here). As it turns out, AROC received a $16,200 grant from CAC in 2019. It isn’t clear what art project, if any, this grant funded, given that the application doesn’t provide a description of the project. Instead, it has a description of the organization applying for the grant under the heading “Project Description.”