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Day May 5, 2011

How To Start A Cultural Movement Where Art & Culture Meet – Immigrant Movement

How To Start A Cultural MovementWhere Art & Culture Meet – Immigrant Movement

Know Your Rights! Cre8tive YouTH*ink and Tania Bruguera’s Immigration Movement International

Know Your Rights! Cre8tive Youthink and Tania Bruguera’s Immigration Movement International

Artists, activism, and political realities

Artists, activism, and political realities

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Laurie Jo Reynolds – Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel

 

Laurie Jo Reynolds - Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel

Two years ago this November, President Obama appeared on “60 Minutes” and reiterated his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.  This promise was seen by many as a first step to ending interrogation and torture methods employed by the United States government.  But as of July 2010, detainees remain at Guantanamo and little has been done to change U.S. interrogation policy. With the growth of supermax prisons, rising incarceration rates, and the influence of prison guard unions in states like California, prison reform is an issue the U.S. has only begun to come to terms with, both economically and legislatively…

el-instituto

 

 

el-instituto

el instituto, currently headquartered in Mexico City, is a not-for-profit organization that generates exhibitions, conferences, workshops, courses and platforms for other events. el instituto is committed to the exploration of the overlap between art, culture, politics, activism and human rights theory and practice, both locally and internationally. Having no physical site of its own, el instituto functions symbiotically, hosted by cultural or academic institutions, while also operating in less official spaces and capacities…

Film: Which Way Home

Which Way Home

SYNOPSIS

As the United States continues to build a wall between itself and Mexico, Which Way Home shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the United States.

Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid $11.2B in taxes last year, unlike GE, which paid zero

STUDY ESTIMATES THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS PAID $11.2B IN TAXES LAST YEAR, UNLIKE GE, WHICH PAID ZERO

I bet most of you didn’t know undocumented immigrants contributed more – much more – to the national treasury last year than General Electric. Surprised? Yet it’s true.While GE – which earned a whopping $14 billion last year – is reported to have paid nothing, nada, zero in taxes (GE denies it), the undocumented paid billions in state and local taxes in 2010…

 

 

 

Film: ADAMA

ADAMA

ADAMA is an hour long documentary film that will be broadcast on PBS in September 2011. The film follows the story of Adama Bah, a 16-year-old Muslim girl growing up in Harlem, who was detained by the FBI after she was accused of being a “potential suicide bomber”.