1. »  Help Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance Get to California! Chip In

    This link takes you to the chip-in site where we are working on fundraising efforts…Even if you can’t donate please help spread the word!…Read more:

    FIRMEprocess’ Winter Campecine Youth Academy is happening in the Eastern Coachella Valley of California JANUARY 2-12TH,2012!

    The Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance would like to send 7 of our members to participate in the program, which equips youth with the resources to tell the stories of their communities through media projects! 

    We need YOUR help to get there! We are hoping to drive from Indiana to California after Christmas, please help us take part in the experience of building solidarity in community. 

    We are looking forward to building networks with scholars all over the US and appreciate your donations! :) 

    -IUYA

    More about the Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance:

    Indiana Undocumented Youth Alliance (IUYA) is a youth-led community organization that seeks to empower young immigrants to achieve higher education and with the support of our allies demand more just and humane local, state and federal policies that affect directly undocumented families in our community. 

    We’re mainly working out of central Indianapolis right now. We want to learn how to facilitate a youth media program by actually participating in and helping facilitate the program in California with FIRMEprocess. We believe that through experiential learning with the Eastern Coachella Valley community we can build up our tools, resources, knowledge, and energy to bring back to our community in Indianapolis.

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    More about F.I.R.M.E.process:

    FIRME equips youth as organic intellectuals through critical pedagogy, youth led participatory action research, varriomentario film making, and direct action.

    What F.I.R.M.E. says about the Winter Academy:
    We are lucky to be hosting some amazing youth this winter break at DMHS. In the next two weeks we will be having our winter session of FIRME technology workshops. From Facilitation to Technical Aspects of Editing we will be covering it all. Youth from TX, Indiana, and all over the Coachella Valley will participate. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sas7HNqJxTE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1285C0v5uJ0&NR=1&feature=endscreen

    This will be the first time that many of our Youth from Indiana will be crossing state lines freely. With the implemenation of Deferred Action our youth have one less challenge for now. However they and all of us collectively have only begun as we are not at the proverbial mountain top yet. Our families, friends and neighbors are still fighting, searching, struggling for equity.From Issues of Documentation, Ecology, Health, Race, Class, Gender, LGTBQ and all around Equity. 

    These are just a few of the discussions that we will begin to articulate through technology in the 2 weeks time. If you can spare a buck or two it would go a very long way in helping offset our youths travel cost. Please Click below and share a few dollars and help our youth share their stories…..     


  2. Although I had seen the sign many times before, both in it’s original format or changed for resistance art, I never really knew what the sign was from exactly. Finally looked it up, and read this article about the sign, its location, and designer. Does anyone know if these signs are still up on San Diego interstates?


    PHOTOS (starting top left to bottom right:)

    1) The original sign

    2) I saw this sign when I was driving around in DC this week for the DREAM graduation. It was on a residential street, right in the heart of the capitol. It immediately struck me as resembling the “caution” sign—exact same family structure: man, woman, and little girl—but instead this family was some kind of polite bourgeois family that drivers needed to be warned was crossing the street in DC??

    3) This is Banksy’s kite flying version. He put it up in California, around the time of the 2011 Oscars according to this article.

    4) I really wish I could credit this version, I will keep looking for the original poster of this, but I had just found it on tumblr, really liked it, and saved it to my computer. If anyone knows who made it, let me know.  This is a Zapatista family, and it says “They won’t stop us, not here nor there.”

    UPDATE: Remembered the blog i got it from: http://todos-somos-marcos.tumblr.com/ Abajo y a la izquierda. So could be made by the person who runs that blog, they didn’t credit anyone else. 

    5) “Los Angeles painter Rosa M. Huerta-Williamson depicted them as a modern-day Jesus, Mary and Joseph in 1994 when she painted ‘La Sagrada Familia en Aztlan,’ which features the characters running beneath a flaming sacred heart and cross.

    ‘What I was trying to do was indicate that this could be the sacred family and we wouldn’t recognize them,’ said Huerta-Williamson, who sold the painting to a Mexican-American professor and his wife. ‘As long as these people don’t have faces, white Americans don’t have to think about the fact that they have feelings.’”

    6) I found this here. It was also mentioned in the above article, and has been designed a couple different ways.

    7) This one is from this article. It’s by Luis Genaro Garcia.

    8) This photo is a cropped version of a photo from this photo set:   Photo: Yue Wu, The Chronicle / SF. It is from the West Coast DREAM Graduation that happened Saturday June 30th, 2012 in San Francisco. Cap is from the Orange County Dream Team logo (Thanks whereismimente!) See more of this design on their website!

    9) Lalo Alcaraz !!

  3. my first oil painting

    my first oil painting

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i'm an earlham college student.
My majors are Spanish and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

I dig activism, community, art, feminism, anti-racism, decolonization, performance, border studies, and positive sexuality.

I like to eat (macaroni and) cheese, falafel, toad in a hole, veggie burgers, pasta, spinach, burritos, and pizza.

I’d like to be a bad-ass teacher one day all up in that radical pedagogy and education as the practice of liberation.

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