Women in Egypt are turning to graffiti as they demand more rights and freedoms and try to change the traditional perception of women there. (March 16)
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Video Graffiti, Artivism & Feminism in North Africa - Egypt
Women in Egypt are turning to graffiti as they demand more rights and freedoms and try to change the traditional perception of women there. (March 16)
Art and Pictogram - European Values XXI Century
A new works about XXI century values of European area. With deportation centers as Lamperdusa, Lesvos or Malta we need to think about Human Rights facts in European socities. Because Forteress Europe still rising walls, perscute imigrant & refugees we need to open our mind in a XXI Century globalisation construction.
US - 1 Million of Deportations soon with S-Comm program
From Just seeds : Artists cooperative
"the administration has moved to ramp up deportations, expanding the brutal efficiency of a system that Mr. Obama has acknowledged is broken, arbitrary and unjust." - New York Times, Aug 15. 2011
After hitting a record 1 MILLION deportations, the Obama administration just did the unthinkable: Forcing states and police departments to comply with a controversial program called Secure Communities or S-Comm – a move guaranteed to deport many more millions of people.
S-Comm is a highly criticized federal program that is deporting immigrants who have done nothing wrong, encouraging racial profiling, devastating communities around the country, and making us all less safe. In fact, under S-Comm authorities can deport a woman reporting domestic violence, instead of protecting her. Huge immigrant states like Illinois and New York opted out of the program because it breeds distrust of the police – and now President Obama is forcing them to comply.
We need a massive outcry—and fast—if we are to stop this disastrous program. Since Thursday, the organization I helped found, Presente.org, began a petition to end S-Comm, and since then, more than 20,000 people have signed on!! Will you help us get to 30,000 signatures?
Click here to sign the petition asking President Obama to end S-Comm
Under the Obama Administration, ICE and DHS have gone out of their way to mislead the public about Secure Communities. And despite rhetoric about supporting fair immigration reform and relief for our communities, their actions are speaking much louder than their words.
Now they are poised to force local officials to make this situation even worse. Until recently, the Obama Administration used to sign agreements with states, cities, and towns regarding whether or not these localities wanted to enroll in S-Comm. But when local governments started to say they didn’t want the program, the Obama administration changed their own rules. On Friday, August 5th, they ended agreements with 42 states, claiming that local permission wasn’t needed to force every local police department into the program by 2013.
If we don’t do something about it, S-Comm will come to every neighborhood in the country—including yours! The Obama administration has already deported more than 1 MILLION people, more than any other administration in history. S-Comm will bring about even more devastating consequences.
We’ll start by compiling these signatures and delivering them to the President and the media. We’ll work with immigrant rights organizations, state-based groups, and law enforcement to educate the public and help organize a major pushback on the administration’s dangerous move.
Click here to sign the petition asking President Obama to end S-Comm
SPOTLIGHT - INVISIBLE BORDERS 2009
In 2009, 10 Nigerian photographers came together and embarked on a project called INVISIBLE BORDERS 2009 – a trip from Lagos to Bamako by road. The project was inspired by the 8th edition of the Festival of photography in Bamako.
This initiative arose as a result of an urgent need to address the notion of dividing borders between countries in the African continent. It was an attempt to acquire a more realistic sense of the similarities and difference between peoples suggested by cultural and geographical divides. The mission of the Initiative is to tell Africa’s stories, by Africans, through photography and inspiring artistic interventions; to encourage exposure of upcoming African photographers towards art and photography as practiced in other parts of the continent.; to establish a platform that encourages and embraces trans- African artistic relationships within the continent, and to contribute towards the socio-political discourse shaping Africa of the 21st Century.
Later, it was decided that it becomes an annual event which will anchor itself to the different cultural and artistic events taking place all over the continent, thereby forming a cultural and artistic network between cities and countries in Africa from its departure point Lagos, Nigeria.
http://invisible-borders.com/
EUROPEAN BORDERS - AFRICAN MISERY
This is the complet catalog of my work with pictogram and visual arts :
PHOTOGRAPHY - GO NO GO - AD VAN DENDEREN
Between 1988 and 2003 Ad van Denderen photographed migrants and refugees who were under way to the rich West. He lodged for weeks in filthy pensions in Istanbul where Pakistanis waited for human traffickers who would take them to Greece. He joined police patrols along the borders between Greece and Turkey, where particularly Sri Lankans were arrested, and watched how at night men and women disembarked soaking wet from small boats at Tarifa in Spain, after their difficult travel by sea from Morocco.
Following you can see the photobook about the project :
Go No Go project here http://www.go-no-go.nl/gonogo.php
MIGRANTAS | A VISUAL LANGUAGE OF MIGRATION
Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who have left their own country and now live in a new one. Mobility, migration and transculturality are not the exception in our world, but are instead becoming the rule. Nevertheless, migrant women and their experiences remain often invisible to the majority of our society. Migrantas works with issues of migration, identity and intercultural dialogue. Their work incorporates tools from the visual arts, graphic design and social sciences. Members of the collective (Marula Di Como, Florencia Young, Alejandra López, Irma Leinauer), mostly women who have themselves immigrated to Germany, develop the projects with other migrant women in a horizontal dialogue.
Migrantas meets with migrant women in their own collective spaces, organizations, community centers, cultural groups and organizes workshops to reflect together on issues of migration. Workshops are about visual expression of one’s own story. Women from very different national, cultural and social backgrounds, also with different residency statuses, exchange their experiences and express these in simple drawings.From drawing to pictogram and after a careful analysis of all the drawings from different workshops, migrantas calls key elements and common themes from the drawings and translates these central motifs visually and artistically into pictograms, a visual language and a language accessible to everyone.
Pictograms reflect implicity and strength of expression, they are the visual language of migrantas. Their simple, universally understandable images stir emotions: people from different backgrounds recognize themselves in the representations, while others gain new insights or modify their own perspectives. The results are better recognition and visibility.All migrantas projects end with an exhibition. The participants now see their drawings presented in public and experience public recognition of their voices and social participation. Visitors to the exhibition receive an opportunity to become better acquainted with the experiences of migrant women. Urban actions: Being a part of the city landscape One of migrantas’ major goals is to make the pictograms visible in public urban spaces.
They appear as posters where there is normally advertising, as projected digital animations on public screens, as flyers or postcards or shopping bags. Migrant womens’ perspectives and lived realities are taken out of the individual private space and made visible in the public space, thus creating an encounter which triggers reactions and self-reflection in the passerby.
http://www.migrantas.org
DREAM ACT - VISUAL ARTS FOR DIGNITY
Art and Activism Come Together to Make DREAM a Reality
visual activism has played an important role throughout history. From civil rights, labor unions, women’s rights, migrant’s rights and any other injustice we’ve fought for, artists have carried the voice of millions through a single poster, flier or composition of music. Through campaigns such as Alto Arizona, Wordstrike and Soundstrike, artists were able to engage creatively in fighting the unlawful treatment of immigrants. And even though much activism has moved online, the power of the poster is never going away—it’s.
More recently, we see artists coming out to support the DREAM Act. The proposed bill would allow undocumented youth with a clean criminal record who were brought to the country before the age of 16 the right to apply for permanent residency if they commit two years to the military or higher education.
Favianna Rodriguez
Julio Salgado
Santiago Uceda
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