MICHELLE CHEN
Art against ICE
Artists in Tucson are breaking the ice on immigrants’ rights by portraying life the shadows of the detention system.
Tagged: art, Arts/Poetry, Julio Salgado, Tucson
NEWS
May 21, 2013Immigrant Death Rate Rises on Illegal Crossings - NYTimes.com
May 18, 2013A Focus on Border Security and Temporary Visas as Senators Return to Immigration - NYTimes.com
May 14, 2013Excluding 'criminals' from comprehensive immigration reform - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
May 12, 2013First Steps to a Better Immigration Bill - NYTimes.com
RT @theprogressive: Spotlight on Hidden Immigrant Struggles http://t.co/UarsNTVs20 via @meeshellchen #cir13 #aapi
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@LaundromatProj thanks for the shout out! Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
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Via @kantrowitz: @Joseiswriting on Using Social Media to Change Perceptions & Policy http://t.co/SkoaT36l6r #cir13 #nptech
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Diary of a Dreamer by Alberto Ledesma http://t.co/Vf9GXKnJ1Y #art4 #daca #cir13
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TUCSON YOUTH POETRY SLAM
Poetic Politics at Pima Community College
Posted in Education, Video/Media
Tagged: Arts/Poetry, Logan Phillips, Tucson
JEFF BIGGERS
The Bigger the Ban, the Better the Read
Read between the lines of the Tucson school authorities’ spin: banned is banned.
Posted in Education, Nonfiction
Tagged: Arizona, education, Jeff Biggers, Tucson
JEFF BIGGERS, MICHELLE CHEN
Rogue State
Author Jeff Biggers on right-wing yahoos, the immigrant struggle, and the Arizonification of America.
Posted in Nonfiction, Politics
Tagged: Arizona, education, Jeff Biggers, Mexican American Studies, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
JULIO SALGADO
Printing for Tucson Freedom
DREAMer Julio Salgado on the printmaking workshops that help the Tucson community fight migrant injustice.
Tagged: Arts/Poetry, Dreamers Adrift, Favianna Rodriguez, Julio Salgado, Tucson, undocumented youth
CULTURESTRIKE
Writers Condemn Crackdown on Ethnic Studies
Voices from Edinburgh Writers’ Conference on Arizona’s ethnic studies battle.
Posted in Activism, Fiction/Poetry
Tagged: ethnic studies, Junot Diaz, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson, writers, Yiyun Li
MICHELLE CHEN
Cultural Miseducation
Knowledge, Power and Ethnic Studies: The borderline between embracing difference and segregating it.
Posted in Education, Nonfiction
Tagged: education, ethnic studies, Mexican American Studies, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
UNIDOS TUCSON
Get Your Banned Books Now
Posted in Education, Video/Media
Tagged: ethnic studies, Mexican American Studies, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
JEFF BIGGERS
An Ethnic Studies Origin Story
A Tucson teaching: “How We Won in the 1990s,” a program on the origins of TUSD’s Mexican American Studies.
Posted in Education, Nonfiction
Tagged: Arizona, ethnic studies, Jeff Biggers, Mexican American Studies, Saving Ethnic Studies, Tucson
JAVIER RAYA
Dissentiments of the Nation
http://vimeo.com/45743366
Posted in Culture, Fiction/Poetry
Tagged: border, civil rights, Logan Phillips, Tucson