Urgent: Please TELL CONGRESS WE NEED #DREAMACTNOW: 478-488-8059

This September 9, 2017 piece is so incredibly beautiful and moving.  I view this art installation this evening as a prayer for what we need right now.  We need greater understanding, appreciation and respect toward the immigrant experience, especially immigrant children and how they are persecuted and used as pawns in political games that heartless leaders are playing at their expense.

Please TELL CONGRESS WE NEED #DREAMACTNOW: 478-488-8059

Congress is currently debating the DREAM Act.  They are being asked by DREAMers and allies to withhold their vote on any bill that does not include the DREAM Act.

 Our DREAMers are headed for DC again if they're not already there.  And they're politically savvy and very well organized.  They are currently going after democrats that are now the #DeportationCaucus that callously voted to deport immigrant youth.  

Yes, shame on all the anti-immigrant democrats and republicans that voted this way. Have they no heart or compassion?  No empathy? No caring?  We they or their ancestors not also once strangers in a strange land?

Check out the video on this art installation, too.  

Time is of the essence.  We can win this one.  Please place calls immediately. Leave messages.

Angela Valenzuela
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Giant baby artwork appears at U.S-Mexico border wall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 65-ft mural of a child peering over the border arrives as the DACA rollback is announced and Trump pushes on with his wall

9 September 2017

 

Anna Cafolla

 

A huge image of a young child has been erected on the U.S Mexico border, peering over the wall into the United States. It arrives just as Donald Trump announced plans to roll back DACA, a scheme that gives undocumented migrants who arrived in the states as children the opportunity to live and work there.
The 65-ft mural cut-out sits on the border close to Tecate, Mexico. The black and white image illustrates a smiling child, fingers over the steel wall, peering downwards inquisitively. According to the New York Times, the pictured child is a one-year-old who lives in Tecate.
It was created and orchestrated by a French artist known as JR. “As an artist, I try to bring back perspective,” he told the NYT. “For this little kid, there are no walls and borders.”

The artwork comes at a time when dialogue surrounding immigration is fierce: Trump intends to pull the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, and his administration has accepted more proposals for building the 2,000 mile-long border wall.
“Now as an artist I think that it’s amazing that the piece arrived at a moment when it creates more dialogue,” JR told the Guardian. “Because the idea itself is to raise more questions.”
The artist has created other similarly large pieces in Paris slums and buildings in Rio de Janeiro, as well as giant photobooths in Israel and Palestine. He previously tapped issues surrounding immigration with a 2014 installation inside a derelict building on New York’s Ellis Island, where immigrants entered the U.S during the 19th and 20th century.
This current artwork will stay in place for one month.
The border has been an ample and well-used space in recent times for artists. Chim Pom, a Japanese group, built a ‘USA Visitors Centre’ treehouse close to Tijuana, while another project by Guillermo Galindo and Richard Misrach created instruments from objects left behind by people attempting to cross the border.