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 !!

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  5. These are 5 connections I learned about when visiting the Border Patrol facilities in Nogales, AZ. 1. Reading is FUNdamental http://www.nogalesinternational.com/community/bp-agents-take-time-to-read-to-rd-graders/article_a6f50452-46a2-11e1-a40f-001871e3ce6c.html Why would Border Patrol agents participate in Reading is FUNdamental?  I was told by my tour guide that they don’t want kids to be afraid of them. It’s also obviously community service as a publicity stunt. Should Border Patrol be allowed into school when in uniform?  Most Border Patrol agents consider themselves agents even when they are off duty or plain-clothes.  It is illegal for schools to inquire into children’s immigration status. The tour guide told me that one child at a school told him “You deported my uncle.”  Schools are not safe spaces if Border Patrol is visiting in my opinion, even if they would not inquire into a child’s status. 2. McDonalds…or Burger King…(both tour guides said something different) brings in a truckload of lunches for the young people being detained at the facilities. I don’t know if Border Patrol thinks that we will think that is some kind of special treat for the children but I see it as nutritional torture techniques.  These children have most likely gone weeks without a full meal, are not used to eating greasy, fatty fast food burgers in their places of origin, and their stomachs will probably not be able to handle these lunches. Part of degrading someone can be deteriorating their health. 3. Fords makes many of the vehicles used by Border Patrol. 4.Border Patrol uses Google Earth for training and in their surveillance facilities. They have a contract with Google Earth 5. AT&T is called for an interpreter when someone who is being detained cannot speak English or Spanish. If a Border Patrol agent can speak a language other than English or Spanish, such as Chinese, then they are constantly being called to do interpretations. Also, btw, detainees are sorted by Mexican and OTMS=Other than Mexicans, and then are sorted by country.

    These are 5 connections I learned about when visiting the Border Patrol facilities in Nogales, AZ.

    1. Reading is FUNdamental

    http://www.nogalesinternational.com/community/bp-agents-take-time-to-read-to-rd-graders/article_a6f50452-46a2-11e1-a40f-001871e3ce6c.html

    Why would Border Patrol agents participate in Reading is FUNdamental?  I was told by my tour guide that they don’t want kids to be afraid of them. It’s also obviously community service as a publicity stunt.

    Should Border Patrol be allowed into school when in uniform?  Most Border Patrol agents consider themselves agents even when they are off duty or plain-clothes.  It is illegal for schools to inquire into children’s immigration status. The tour guide told me that one child at a school told him “You deported my uncle.”  Schools are not safe spaces if Border Patrol is visiting in my opinion, even if they would not inquire into a child’s status.

    2. McDonalds…or Burger King…(both tour guides said something different) brings in a truckload of lunches for the young people being detained at the facilities. I don’t know if Border Patrol thinks that we will think that is some kind of special treat for the children but I see it as nutritional torture techniques.  These children have most likely gone weeks without a full meal, are not used to eating greasy, fatty fast food burgers in their places of origin, and their stomachs will probably not be able to handle these lunches. Part of degrading someone can be deteriorating their health.

    3. Fords makes many of the vehicles used by Border Patrol.

    4.Border Patrol uses Google Earth for training and in their surveillance facilities. They have a contract with Google Earth

    5. AT&T is called for an interpreter when someone who is being detained cannot speak English or Spanish. If a Border Patrol agent can speak a language other than English or Spanish, such as Chinese, then they are constantly being called to do interpretations. Also, btw, detainees are sorted by Mexican and OTMS=Other than Mexicans, and then are sorted by country.

  6. Many people I have met in Tucson say “as goes the border…goes the rest of the country” and that the border can be seen a laboratory. For example, SB1070 was passed in AZ, then what happened? The same legislation popped up in Indiana, Georgia, and Alabama. Read more on Operation Streamline: http://www.borderbybicycle.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-streamline.html

    Many people I have met in Tucson say “as goes the border…goes the rest of the country” and that the border can be seen a laboratory. For example, SB1070 was passed in AZ, then what happened? The same legislation popped up in Indiana, Georgia, and Alabama.

    Read more on Operation Streamline:

    http://www.borderbybicycle.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-streamline.html


  7. "Strong movements that achieve greater victories are those that stand in solidarity with all oppressed people of the world and never gain access to rights at the expense of other oppressed groups."

    -Raúl Alcaraz Ochoa, A Letter to the DREAM Movement

    https://nacla.org/article/letter-dream-movement

  8. "Once you find your shoulders dropping
    And your speech gets slow and hazy
    You better change your way of being
    Before you found your brain got lazy
    You can build a better future when you join the winning team
    If you desire a bright tomorrow, you must build a brighter dream
    Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you
    Know that history holds more than it seems
    We are here alive today because our ancestors dared to dream
    From Africa they lay in the bilge of slave ships
    And stood half naked on auction blocks
    From eastern-Europe they crowded in vessels overloaded with immigrants
    And were mis-named on Ellis island
    From South America and Mexico, from Asia, they labored in sweat shops
    From all over the world, they came to America
    Many shivering in rags, and still they dared to dream
    Let us dream for today and for tomorrow
    Let us dare to dream"
    Maya Angelou (via nysylc)
  9. foreignsands: by superk8nyc 

    foreignsands:

    by superk8nyc 

  10. from SB590 protest in Bloomington, and from some news source…i dont remember, it’s just been saved on my lappy.

    from SB590 protest in Bloomington, and from some news source…i dont remember, it’s just been saved on my lappy.

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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.

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