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A Project of the KPFA Community Radio CollectivesCronicas De La Raza 25 May 2010 – KPFA FM
Posted onMay 25, 2010
Tonight’s program features discussion of the beautiful Mission Murals, with Annice Jacoby and Patricia Rodriquez. We highlight the exciting music of Fuga and Los Cojolites; as well as offer exclusive News Headlines from the Americas and the word on the “Streets of Aztlan.” Listen and enjoy!
Produced By: Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andrea Rivera, Mister Chuch Longoria, Julieta Kusnir, Nina Serrano, Emiliano Echeverria and Clay “C`Tone” Leander.
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promo La raza Chronicles May 25, 2010
Posted onMay 24, 2010
Miguel : sorry I forgot my code- couldn’t post on the website.
Promo: La Raza Chronicles May 25, 2010
Tonight’s program features discussion of the beautiful Mission Murals, with Annice Jacoby and Patricia Rodriquez. We highlight the exciting music of Fuga and Los Cojolites; as well as offer exclusive news headlines from the Americas and the word on the “Streets of Aztlan.” Listen and enjoy!
Produced By: Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andrea Rivera, Mister Chuch Longoria, Julieta Kusnir, Nina Serrano, Emiliano Echeverria and Clay “C`tone” Leander.
Re: Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona=?ISO-8859-1?B?uQ==?=s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Posted onMay 22, 2010Dear Nina,
I just emailed them to add my name. I assume it’s okay to send this on to the Revolutionary Poets’ Brigade here in San Francisco, but please let me know.
Thanks
Diane di Prima
From: ninaserrano34
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 07:43:03 -0700
To: adrian arias
Cc: Claudia Cuentas Oviedo
Subject: Re: Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Dear Arts Community Member,
Please sign this petition below and pass it on to all your contacts. Thank you. Stop racial profiling before it is too late.
“United we stand or divided we fall.” artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
There is some great poetry at on Facebook see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-Against-Arizonas-SB-1070/114160971948532?ref=ts Nina Serrano
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Artists against Arizona
Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:38 P
Subject: Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
To: Artists against Arizona
Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Please post widely & ask the Writers, Dee-Jays, Singers, Actors, Sculptors, Photographers, Musicians and Artists of all kinds to sign-on to use their artistry as a weapon against Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB1070
To Sign-on & Endorse this Campaign as an organization, group or as an individual; please send your: Name, Title/Affiliation/Union and City & State or Country to:
artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
To follow us on Facebook see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-Against-Arizonas-SB-1070/114160971948532?ref=ts
Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Absent Cause zine, Brooklyn, NY
Actor Slash Model/Riot Acts, Chicago, IL
Adelaide Windsome/ Geppetta, Multimedia Artist, Puppeteer, & Street Performer, Philadelphia, PA
Adhamh Roland, Singer/Songwriter/Activist Berkeley, CA
AfricanFamily.org, African Family Film Founation/African Family Children’s Fund, Santa Cruz CA
Alan Barysh, Performance Poet, Author of Mr. Magoo in Hell, President of Gimmie Shelter Productions
Alan Bickley, Member of AFTRA, NWU, and OAH
Alexander Billet, Music Journalist and Writer, Rebel Frequencies, Chicago, IL
Alfredo Arreguin, Artist, Seattle, WA
Alison Roh Park, Writer, New York, NY
Allison Davis, New York, NY
Amber Garlan, St. Paul, MN
Anado McLauchlin, Artist, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Analee Pepper, Writer, San Francisco, CA
Andre Antonio, Yanina Ibarguen, Street Scene, Phatefx, Panama City, Panama
Andrew Wolter, Writer, Phoenix, AZ
Andria Alefhi, Creator of the zine: We’ll Never Have Paris, NY, NY
Angela Jimenez, Photographer/Freelance, Brooklyn, New York
Angie Reed Garner, Painter, Louisville, KY
Annah Anti-Palindrome, Musician/Sound-Artist, Oakland, CA
Annalise Ophelian, Psy.D., Director/Producer, Diagnosing Difference, Floating Ophelia Productions, LLC
Annette Sexton-Ruiz, Painter, Muralist, Ceramicist, Phoenix, Arizona
ArtAndStruggle.Com, Artist & Activist Collective
Audrey Lehmann, Ph.D, Expressive Arts Therapist, OR
Auggie Kennedy, Chico, CA
B.J. Buckley, Poet and Writer, Lolo, MT
Barbara Dane, 83 year old Blues, Jazz and Folk Singer and Lifetime Activist, Oakland, CA
Barry Weiser, Photographer, Weiser Communications Inc. New York, New York
Bernard J. Tarver, Actor/Writer, Member: AFTRA/AEA/SAG, New York, NY
Beryl Landau, Painter, San Francisco, CA
Bet Power, Director & Curator, Sexual Minorities Archives, National collection of LGBTI literature, history, and art.
Bethany Trombly, Founder of BodyMindFull, Dancer/Perfomance Artist, Oakland, CA
Betty and Peter Michelozzi, Aptos, California
Betty Nobue Kano, Painter, Berkeley, CA
Beverly Smith, Mss. Specialist, Cottonwood AZ
Bobby Furst, Assemblage Artist, Mixed Media, Joshua Tree, CA
Booh Edouardo, Writer/Student, San Francisco, CA
Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet, Chicago, IL
Brandon King, Community Organizer/Activist/Visual Artist- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, New York, NY
Brian [S Sherman], Founder, Available Resources Band
Camilo Perez Bustillo
Carlos Miranda-Garcia-Tejedor, Madrid, Spain
Carmelita Tropicana, Performance Artist, New York City
Carne Cruda (band), Oakland, CA
Carolina Juárez, Educator, Visual Artist, Vice Chair Latino Advisory Council, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA
Carolyn E Krause, Artist, La Quinta, CA
Cate Bourke, Ceramic/Installation Artist, East Hartford, Connecticut
Cecile Pineda, Writer, Theater-maker
Cecilia Mitchell, Writer, Atlanta, GA
Cecilia P Norris, Two spirited Native, First Peoples & Indigenous rights Activist, Writer, Slam Poet, Chapel Hill, NC
Celeste Chan, Multimedia Artist and Organizer, San Francisco, CA
Charles Bee, Author and Artist, Kassel, Germany
Charles M. Wilmoth, San Francisco, CA
Chicahuac Necahuatl, Poet/Writer/Activist Wichita, KS
Chino Rios, Community Organizer, Queer Youth Activist, and Performing Artist, Springfield, MA.
Chischilly Pottery, Bisbee, AZ
Chris Tashima, Actor and Director, Member: SAG/AFTRA/AEA/DGA/SDC, Los Angeles, CA
Christine Clark, Writer, Henderson, NV
Christine Granados, Writer, Rockdale, Texas
Christine Stoddard, Writer and Interdisciplinary Artist, Richmond, VA
Christopher Francisco, Performance Artist
Chuck Mohan, President, Guyanese American Workers United
Claude Marks, Documentary Producer, Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA
Constance Garcia-Barrio, Ph.D., Lecturer, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Copycat Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Cynthia Cruz, Poet, Brooklyn, New York
D. H. Fabian, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Dan Koon, Mountain View, CA
Dana Bellwether, Lakeport, CA
Dana Morrigan, Managing Editor, Genderfork.com, San Rafael, CA
Dante Alencastre, Filmmaker, En El Fuego(In The Fire), Los Angeles, CA
Daphne Gottlieb, Writer, San Francisco, CA
Darla Masterson, Artist, Tucson, AZ.
Darren Hadlock, Vocals/Keyboards for tranceMECHANIC, Albany, OR
David “Spoonboy” Combs, Singer/Songwriter, Washington, D.C.
David Pérez, Writer/Editor/Activist/Actor Taos, New Mexico
Deborah Stucklen
Deirdre Sinnott, Writer, New York, NY
Denise Solis, Co-Artistic Director, Musician, Las Bomberas de la Bahia – Afro Puerto Rican Bomba Ensemble
Dennis Formento, Poet
Diane Raptosh, Professor of English, College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID
Diane Roebuck McNaron, Singer, Stage Director, Voice Coach, Birmingham, AL
D’Lo ,Theater Artist/Writer/Comedian, D’LocoKid Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Dorian Katz, Art Practice Graduate Student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Dorinda Moreno, Cultural Liaison, Poet, Human Rights Advocate, Oakland, CA
Dorothy Randall Gray, Writer & Executive Director of Heartland Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Douglas Fowley Jr., Actor, Los Angeles, California
Dr Sam Noumoff, University Professor (Retired)
Dr. Joyce Miller, New York, New York
Ed Bland, Osmund Music Inc, Smithfield VA
Ed Robertson, Bellingham, Washington
Eddy Pay, Petaluma
Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Edmund Light, California
Edward Childs, Unite-Here Local 26, International Action Center, Documentary, Producer, Boston, MA
Elaine Carol, Artistic Director, MISCELLANEOUS Productions, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Elaine Mayer, Writer, Rochester, MN
Eleanor Bader, Journalist, Brooklyn, NY
Eli the Alibi, Musician/Writer/Radio DJ Riverside, CA
Elizabeth Julia Stoumen, Writer, International Women’s Writing Guild, New York, NY
Elizabeth Milos, Spanish Medical-Legal Interpreter, San Francisco, CA
Ellen Vogel, Sculptor, San Francisco, CA
Elliott Harvey, Vocalist & Writer of A Stick and A Stone, Philadelphia, PA
Encian Pastel, Storyteller, Oakland, CA
Eric A. Gordon, Writer and Biographer, Los Angeles, CA
Eric Johns, Creator Dildo Machine zine & Filmmaker, Questionable Productions, Olney, Maryland
Erik-Anders Nilsson, President, Jersey City Acting Collective, Jersey City, New Jersey
Ester Hernandez, Visual Artist, San Francisco, CA
Evan Greer, Singer/Songwriter, Riot-Folk! Collective, AFM Local 1000, Boston, MA
Flo Oy Wong, Artist, Asian American Women Artists Association, Sunnyvale, CA
Frances Varian, Poet, Essayist, Performer, Activist. Durham, North Carolina
Francisco Herrera, Trabajo Cultural Caminante
Francisco X. Alarcon, Educator/Poet, University of California, Davis
Frank Espada, Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary, San Francisco, CA
Frank R. Scott III, Santa Ana, CA
Freedom Train Productions, NYC
Gene Glickman, Conductor Harmonic Insurgence Chorus, Brooklyn, NY
Gina de Vries, Writer/Performer, San Francisco, CA
Ginger Lynn Chapman, Writer, Portland, OR
Good Asian Drivers Brooklyn, NY
Gordon Johnston, Writer, Portland, Oregon
Gregory Johnson, Painter and Potter, Machias, Maine
Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Artist, Writer, La Pocha Nostra, San Francisco, CA
Gunner Scott, Founder/Producer, X Gender Productions, Boston, MA
Heather Cottin, Singer, Activist with the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, Freeport, NY
Hans Ostrom, Writer, Tacoma, Washington
Harriet Ford, Maitri Jewelry, Tannersville, PA
Helen Klonaris, Writer, Bahamas Writers Summer Institute & The AHA Collective, Oakland, CA and Nassau, Bahamas
Henry Braun, Poet in the woods of Maine
Henry Mills, Poet/Musician, Silver Spring, MD
Heron Boyce, Sculptor, Biodynamic / Organic Farmer, Environmental Activist, Dames Quarter, MD
homoTiller Media Industries, San Francisco CA
Ignacio G. Rivera, Poly Patao Productions, Brooklyn, NY
Imani Henry, Activist, Writer, Performer, Brooklyn, NY
IMARI DuSauzay, Photographer/Art Educator
International Tribunal of Conscience
Isaac Artenstein, Filmmaker; San Diego, CA
J.M. Giordano, Photographer, Baltimore, MD
J.S. Levario, Video Maker, Mexico City
Jae Sevelius, PhD, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Jaimie Hashey, Editor and Writer of ButtRagMag, Musician with Burglepig
James Israel, The James Israel Band & Publisher, Humor Times Sacramento, CA
James W. “Jimmy Jam” Johnson Jr., Albany, NY
Jamez Terry, Storyteller, Poet, and Fiddle Player, Somerville, MA
Jan Cook, Visual Artist, Vallejo, CA
Janet Mayes, Ph.D., International Action Center, Writer, Psychologist
Jaynis Guevara, Concord, NC
Jeanne D Shaw, Artist, Croton On Hudson, NY
Jen Cross, Founder/Facilitator, Writing Ourselves Whole, San Francisco, CA
Jenna Brager, Cartoonist, Washington DC
Jennifer Cole, Artist, Austin, TX
Jennifer Ruggiero, Photographer and Videographer, Wonder Valley, CA
Jenny Lynn McNutt, Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Jesus Cruzvillegas, Cultural Promoter, Mexico City
Jim Smith, Poet, Writer, Free Venice Beachhead, Venice, California
Joe Carpenter, Writer, Anarchist, Grants Pass, OR
Joe Uehlein, Artist, Musician
John Bernard, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Houston, South Portland, ME
John Dumser, Singer/Songwriter
John E. Norem, Tucson, AZ
John Lavine, Editor/ Art Director, Black & White Magazine, Color Magazine, Novato, California
Jonathan Wolfel, Independent Artist, Tucson, Arizona
Joseph McAnney, Stone Art, Congress, AZ
Josie Taglienti, Visual Artist, Phoenix, AZ.
Juan Tejeda, Musician/Conjunto Aztlan, San Antonio, TX
Judith Berlowitz, Ph.D, The Alto Nation, Oakland Symphony Chorus, Oakland, Califas
Judith Williams Sandoval, Photographer, San Francisco, CA
Jules Rosskam, Artist/Educator/Activist, Brooklyn, NY
Juli Wood, Musician, Chicago, IL
Julia Murray, Writer, Sierra Vista, Arizona
Julie Dunn Fine Art, Atascadero, CA
Julius Gordon, Artist, Tucson, AZ
K. Ulanday Barrett, Educator/Performance Poet/Speaker/Writer, Jersey City. NJ.
Karen Johnson, All Washed Up jewelry, Machias, Maine
Karen Pinto, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Karen Tornoe, Painter, Savannah/GA
Kathe Garbrick, Artist, Manhattan, KS
Katrín Kinga Jósefsdóttir, Reykjavík, Iceland
Kelly Shortandqueer, Zinester, Shortandqueer Zine, Denver, CO
Ken Narasaki, Actor/Writer, SAG/AFTRA/AEA, Los Angeles, CA
Larry Gerber,Artist/Educator Sedona,Arizona
Kentucky Fried Woman, Dancer, Performer & Producer, Oakland CA
Khalil Khan, Movement in Motion
Kim Pickens, Mama/Artist/Activist/Poet, Houston,Tejas
Koba, Hip-Hop Producer and Performer, Harlem, NY
Laura-Marie, Creator of mental health zine, Functionally Ill, Sacramento, CA
Kostja Schibrowski, Installation Artist, Leipzig, Germany
Lallan Schoenstein, LaborGrafix, New York, NY
Larry Malu Filmmaker, NY, NY
Las Bomberas de la Bahia – Afro Puerto Rican Bomba Ensemble
Laura C. Alonso, Writer, Chicago, IL
Laura Schleifer, Writer/Theater Artist, New York, NY
Laurence Ebersole, Human Rights Poet & Counselor, Seattle, WA
Laurinda Mayer, SFCC, Foundation for Honduras, Pro-Papa, Honduras, Central America
Lee Sharkey, Poet, Editor Beloit Poetry Journal
Lena Bartula, Artist, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Leslie Feinberg, Nat’l Writers Union-UAW, Co-Founder Rainbow Flags for Mumia
Lewis Wallace, Writer and Activist, Chicago, IL
Linda Rodriguez, Writer, Kansas City, MO
Lorrie Sprecher, Ph.D., Writer and Musician, Author of the novel Sister Safety Pin, Syracuse, NY
Lucy R. Lippard, Writer, Galisteo, New Mexico
Luis Deveze , Actor, Independent, Los Angeles, CA
Lydia Howell, Poet, Writer, Broadcast Journalist, KFAI Community Radio* (ID Purpose Only), Minneapolis, MN
Lyle Linder, Independent Artist
Lyn X, Artistic Director, Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lynn Susholtz, Owner/Director, Stone Paper Scissors, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
Madeleine Egger a.k.a. Madeleine Michele, Poet, Writer, Union City, NJ
Madeline Shaw, Actor, AEA, SAG, AFTRA Slate Hill NY
Magué Calanche, Artist, Illustrator, Designer, San Francisco, CA
Malin Laney, Photographer, Eugene, OR
Mara Goodman, Singer, Teacher of adults studying ESOL, Brooklyn, New York
Marco Albarran, Director, Calaca Cultural Center, Phoenix,AZ
Margaret Valerie Stone, Writer, CA
Margot Pepper, Author and Journalist, San Francisco, California
Marilyn Cornwell
Mark Gunnery, Singer/Songwriter/Producer, Riot Folk/Odonian Records,Baltimore, MD
Martha Froese-Kooijenga, Saskatchewan, Canada
Mental Notes – Hip Hop Fusion Band
Meryl Feigenberg, Artist/Educator, Brooklyn, NY
Mia Anderson, Actor, NY NY
Micah Riot/Maya Rivina, Artist, San Francisco, CA
Michael McIrvin, Poet/Writer, Cheyenne WY
Michael Moorcock, Novelist, Austin, Texas
Michael Murphy, Singer/Songwriter/Musician, Omaha, Nebraska
Mike Boda, Writer for Examiner.com (Pittsburgh Grassroots Examiner,) Pittsburgh, PA
Monica Enriquez-Enriquez, Artist, Berkeley, CA
Milos Raickovich, Composer/Conductor, New York
Minal Hajratwala, Author, San Francisco, CA
Minnie Bruce Pratt, National Writers Union, Syracuse, NY
Movimento per la società di giustizia e per la speranza, (Movement for the society of justice and hope), Italy
Nadine Dumser, Creative Editor/Writer
Nancy Ann Siracusa, New York, NY
Nancy Van Ness, Director, American Creative Dance, NYC
Natasha Mayers, Whitefield, ME
Nellie Wong, Poet, Author and Socialist Feminist Activist, San Francisco, CA.
Nephtali De León, Chicano Poet / Author, Muralist / Painter
Nina Hoechtl, Artist, London and Mexico City
Nina Moliver, PhD, Research Consultant, Registered Yoga Teacher, Boston, MA
Nina Serrano, Poet, Radio Producer, La Raza Chronicles, KPFA–fm, Oakland CA
Nomy Lamm, Writer/Musician, San Francisco, CA
NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc, New York, NY
Oli P. Simon, Artist and Filmmaker, Director Meditationcamp Tibetan Centre, Hamburg, Germany
Orlonda Uffre, Visual Artist, Oakland, CA
Oscar Revilla Alguacil, Madrid, España.
Pamela Calore, Multimedia Artist, San Marcos, CA
Pamela Zulli
Patricia Barba
Patricia Roland-James, Writer, Aquila Ink Publishing, Forestville, CA
Paul Drake, Painter, New Zealand
Peter Phillips Ph.D., Prof, Sociology, Sonoma State University & Pres.,Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
Paul Von Blum, Art Critic/Cultural Historian/Writer, African American Studies Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Phil Davis, Drummer, Douglasville, GA
Phoebe Ackley, Painter, Sculptor, Teacher, Berkeley, California
Pilar Diaz, Copycat Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Quail Bell Magazine, Richmond, VA
Queerartist, Hartford Connecticut
Rachel K. Zall, Poet/Performer/Photographer/Designer, Somerville, MA
Rafael Jesús González, Poet, Visual Artist, Latino Advisory Council, Oakland Museum of California, Berkeley, CA
Ramona Landeros, Land Arrows Productions
Red Durkin, Comedian, Oakland, CA
Reese Forbes, Photographer,St Louis, MO
Reginald Harris, Poet and Writer, Baltimore MD
Remi Kanazi, Poet, Brooklyn, NY
Richard Kamler, Artist/Director, Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations, San Francisco, CA
Rima Schulkind, Sculptor, Bethesda MD
Robin Perry, Songwriter, former Phoenician now living in Australia
Roger Ellman, Composer & Scientist, The-Origin Foundation, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
Ron Ford, Writer, Photographer, Tannersville, PA
Ron Gordon, President, Ron Gordon Communications, Inc, Morrisville, PA
Ron Jacobs, Writer
Ron Stark, Albion CA
Rosemarie Woods, Writer/Educator/Activist, Kansas City, MO
Roxana Leiva, Art Education for Social Change, El Salvador
Ruben Hernandez, Periodista, Arts Activist, Founder of Latino Cultural Center in Phoenix, AZ
Ryan Harvey – Riot-Folk! Collective, Baltimore, MD
Sally Nelson, Berkeley, CA
Sarazeta Ragazzi,Co-Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Musician,Las Bomberas de la Bahia
Seeley Quest, Writer, Performer, Organizer, Oakland, CA
SEN-ONE, Universal Zulu Nation Brooklyn,NY
Sha Grogan-Brown, Co-Founder/On Point Consortium, Washington DC
Sharon Bridgforth, Writer/Theatre Artist/Activist, Austin, Texas
Sharon Michelle Hernandez, Graphic Designer/Photographer, Miami, Florida
Sharon Siskin, Artist and Art Professor, Berkeley, CA
Shawna Virago, Musician, San Francisco, CA
Shelley Ettinger, Writer, Queens, NY
Sherry Steeves, Artist, Sandgate, VT
Siamak Vossoughi, Writer, San Francisco, CA
Siobhan Arnold, Artist and Educator, San Diego, CA
Sonny G, Street Art/Graphic Design, Bay Area, CA
Spiritchild, Founder of Movement in Motion, Artist & Activist collective
Stephen Geller, Novelist And Screenwriter, Savannah, Georgia
Steve Deasy, Singer/Songwriter, AFM Local 1000, Detroit, MI
StormMiguel Florez, Musician, Performer, Producer, San Francisco, CA
Sue Harris, Co-Director, Peoples Video Network, New York City
Suki Diamond, Clay Sculptor, Sebastopol, CA
Susan E. Davis, National Writers Union, United Auto Workers Local 1981
Susana Cook, Performance Artist, New York, NY
Swaneagle Harijan, Women In Black, Frontlinemom, Artist & Activist, Vashon, Washington
Tamar Diana Wilson, Author and Poet, La Jolla California and Los Cabos, Mexico
Tamiko Nimura, Writer, Tacoma, Washington
Teresa Basilio, Artist, Activist, Brooklyn, NY
Tha Truth, Political Hip Hop Artist, Philadelphia, PA
Tessa Micaela, Never On Time Poetry Journal, Philadelphia, PA
The Greater Washington Indie Arts Festival, Arlington, VA
The Politically Incorrect Cabaret, the only touring political satire troupe in the US
The Shondes, Brooklyn, NY
The Tranny Roadshow
Theater of Irregular Desire, Berkeley, CA
Thomas C. Rockriver, Iron Sculptor, Ironheads for Peace and Justice, Chapel Hill, NC
Tim Duda, Activist, San Antonio, Texas
Tobi Vail, Writer and Musician, Olympia, WA
Tom Shealy
Tyrone Robinson, El Prieto/The Dark One, Artist, Henderson, NV
Unknown Click, Producer, Hip Hop Artist, Denver, CO
Vanessa Huang, Poet, Oakland, CA
Veronica Golos, Poet, New Mexico
Victoria Lewis, Filmmaker, San Francisco, CA
Viktoria Valenzuela, Host of The Fresh Ink Poets, Oswego, NY
Vondora Jordan, Singer/Writer, Harlem, NY
Walt Trask, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
YK Hong, Artist, Freedom Trainers, Brooklyn, NY
Zeraph Moore, Organizer, Bangor Media Collective, Bangor, ME
Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 Statement
We believe, the decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to sign into law the poorly conceived immigration measure SB1070, marks a new low in the fight to protect civil liberties in The United States. This law allows any officer of the law at the state, county, or city level in Arizona to determine the legal immigration status of anyone at anytime, among other provisions, including making it a crime to be in Arizona illegally.
Millions of people everywhere believe it will lead to rampant racial profiling, particularly against people of Latino/a heritage. President Obama has called it “misguided.” Furthermore, immigration is a national issue and the state of Arizona has no constitutional role in determining who has legal status in this country.
We are calling on members of the worldwide artistic community—whether visual, performing, literary or other discipline—to boycott the state of Arizona in opposition to this unjust legislation, for as long as it remains on the books. We ask artists to not perform, produce, present, appear or conduct business in Arizona so that lawmakers there understand that the rest of the country disapproves, so they will feel the economic impact of their bad decision. We call on talent agents, managers, publicists, unions and associations to also support this effort and the artists they represent who choose to join.
We also call on fans and supporters of the arts to contact their favorite performers and artists and encourage them to participate in this boycott. Fans can also show their support for the boycott by writing to Arizona Governor Brewer, and by supporting their favorite artists when they make appearances in other states.
The artistic community has a natural role to play in commenting and responding to social issues. Now more than ever the time is right to act.
To Sign-on & Endorse this Campaign as an organization, group or as an individual; please send your: Name, Title/Affiliation/Union and City & State or Country to:
artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-Against-Arizonas-SB 1070/114160971948532?ref=ts
Please spread the word to other artists
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-Against-Arizonas-SB 1070/114160971948532?ref=ts
Re: Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Posted onMay 22, 2010Dear Arts Community Member,
From: Artists against Arizona <artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:38 P
Subject: Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
To: Artists against Arizona <artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com>
Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Please post widely & ask the Writers, Dee-Jays, Singers, Actors, Sculptors, Photographers, Musicians and Artists of all kinds to sign-on to use their artistry as a weapon against Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB1070
To Sign-on & Endorse this Campaign as an organization, group or as an individual; please send your: Name, Title/Affiliation/Union and City & State or Country to:
artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
To follow us on Facebook see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-Against-Arizonas-SB-1070/114160971948532?ref=ts
Endorsers of Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 as of 5/22/2010
Absent Cause zine, Brooklyn, NY
Actor Slash Model/Riot Acts, Chicago, IL
Adelaide Windsome/ Geppetta, Multimedia Artist, Puppeteer, & Street Performer, Philadelphia, PA
Adhamh Roland, Singer/Songwriter/Activist Berkeley, CA
AfricanFamily.org, African Family Film Founation/African Family Children’s Fund, Santa Cruz CA
Alan Barysh, Performance Poet, Author of Mr. Magoo in Hell, President of Gimmie Shelter Productions
Alan Bickley, Member of AFTRA, NWU, and OAH
Alexander Billet, Music Journalist and Writer, Rebel Frequencies, Chicago, IL
Alfredo Arreguin, Artist, Seattle, WA
Alison Roh Park, Writer, New York, NY
Allison Davis, New York, NY
Amber Garlan, St. Paul, MN
Anado McLauchlin, Artist, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Analee Pepper, Writer, San Francisco, CA
Andre Antonio, Yanina Ibarguen, Street Scene, Phatefx, Panama City, Panama
Andrew Wolter, Writer, Phoenix, AZ
Andria Alefhi, Creator of the zine: We’ll Never Have Paris, NY, NY
Angela Jimenez, Photographer/Freelance, Brooklyn, New York
Angie Reed Garner, Painter, Louisville, KY
Annah Anti-Palindrome, Musician/Sound-Artist, Oakland, CA
Annalise Ophelian, Psy.D., Director/Producer, Diagnosing Difference, Floating Ophelia Productions, LLC
Annette Sexton-Ruiz, Painter, Muralist, Ceramicist, Phoenix, Arizona
ArtAndStruggle.Com, Artist & Activist Collective
Audrey Lehmann, Ph.D, Expressive Arts Therapist, OR
Auggie Kennedy, Chico, CA
B.J. Buckley, Poet and Writer, Lolo, MT
Barbara Dane, 83 year old Blues, Jazz and Folk Singer and Lifetime Activist, Oakland, CA
Barry Weiser, Photographer, Weiser Communications Inc. New York, New York
Bernard J. Tarver, Actor/Writer, Member: AFTRA/AEA/SAG, New York, NY
Beryl Landau, Painter, San Francisco, CA
Bet Power, Director & Curator, Sexual Minorities Archives, National collection of LGBTI literature, history, and art.
Bethany Trombly, Founder of BodyMindFull, Dancer/Perfomance Artist, Oakland, CA
Betty and Peter Michelozzi, Aptos, California
Betty Nobue Kano, Painter, Berkeley, CA
Beverly Smith, Mss. Specialist, Cottonwood AZ
Bobby Furst, Assemblage Artist, Mixed Media, Joshua Tree, CA
Booh Edouardo, Writer/Student, San Francisco, CA
Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet, Chicago, IL
Brandon King, Community Organizer/Activist/Visual Artist- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, New York, NY
Brian [S Sherman], Founder, Available Resources Band
Camilo Perez Bustillo
Carlos Miranda-Garcia-Tejedor, Madrid, Spain
Carmelita Tropicana, Performance Artist, New York City
Carne Cruda (band), Oakland, CA
Carolina Juárez, Educator, Visual Artist, Vice Chair Latino Advisory Council, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA
Carolyn E Krause, Artist, La Quinta, CA
Cate Bourke, Ceramic/Installation Artist, East Hartford, Connecticut
Cecile Pineda, Writer, Theater-maker
Cecilia Mitchell, Writer, Atlanta, GA
Cecilia P Norris, Two spirited Native, First Peoples & Indigenous rights Activist, Writer, Slam Poet, Chapel Hill, NC
Celeste Chan, Multimedia Artist and Organizer, San Francisco, CA
Charles Bee, Author and Artist, Kassel, Germany
Charles M. Wilmoth, San Francisco, CA
Chicahuac Necahuatl, Poet/Writer/Activist Wichita, KS
Chino Rios, Community Organizer, Queer Youth Activist, and Performing Artist, Springfield, MA.
Chischilly Pottery, Bisbee, AZ
Chris Tashima, Actor and Director, Member: SAG/AFTRA/AEA/DGA/SDC, Los Angeles, CA
Christine Clark, Writer, Henderson, NV
Christine Granados, Writer, Rockdale, Texas
Christine Stoddard, Writer and Interdisciplinary Artist, Richmond, VA
Christopher Francisco, Performance Artist
Chuck Mohan, President, Guyanese American Workers United
Claude Marks, Documentary Producer, Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA
Constance Garcia-Barrio, Ph.D., Lecturer, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Copycat Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Cynthia Cruz, Poet, Brooklyn, New York
D. H. Fabian, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Dan Koon, Mountain View, CA
Dana Bellwether, Lakeport, CA
Dana Morrigan, Managing Editor, Genderfork.com, San Rafael, CA
Dante Alencastre, Filmmaker, En El Fuego(In The Fire), Los Angeles, CA
Daphne Gottlieb, Writer, San Francisco, CA
Darla Masterson, Artist, Tucson, AZ.
Darren Hadlock, Vocals/Keyboards for tranceMECHANIC, Albany, OR
David “Spoonboy” Combs, Singer/Songwriter, Washington, D.C.
David Pérez, Writer/Editor/Activist/Actor Taos, New Mexico
Deborah Stucklen
Deirdre Sinnott, Writer, New York, NY
Denise Solis, Co-Artistic Director, Musician, Las Bomberas de la Bahia – Afro Puerto Rican Bomba Ensemble
Dennis Formento, Poet
Diane Raptosh, Professor of English, College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID
Diane Roebuck McNaron, Singer, Stage Director, Voice Coach, Birmingham, AL
D’Lo ,Theater Artist/Writer/Comedian, D’LocoKid Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Dorian Katz, Art Practice Graduate Student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Dorinda Moreno, Cultural Liaison, Poet, Human Rights Advocate, Oakland, CA
Dorothy Randall Gray, Writer & Executive Director of Heartland Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Douglas Fowley Jr., Actor, Los Angeles, California
Dr Sam Noumoff, University Professor (Retired)
Dr. Joyce Miller, New York, New York
Ed Bland, Osmund Music Inc, Smithfield VA
Ed Robertson, Bellingham, Washington
Eddy Pay, Petaluma
Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Edmund Light, California
Edward Childs, Unite-Here Local 26, International Action Center, Documentary, Producer, Boston, MA
Elaine Carol, Artistic Director, MISCELLANEOUS Productions, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Elaine Mayer, Writer, Rochester, MN
Eleanor Bader, Journalist, Brooklyn, NY
Eli the Alibi, Musician/Writer/Radio DJ Riverside, CA
Elizabeth Julia Stoumen, Writer, International Women’s Writing Guild, New York, NY
Elizabeth Milos, Spanish Medical-Legal Interpreter, San Francisco, CA
Ellen Vogel, Sculptor, San Francisco, CA
Elliott Harvey, Vocalist & Writer of A Stick and A Stone, Philadelphia, PA
Encian Pastel, Storyteller, Oakland, CA
Eric A. Gordon, Writer and Biographer, Los Angeles, CA
Eric Johns, Creator Dildo Machine zine & Filmmaker, Questionable Productions, Olney, Maryland
Erik-Anders Nilsson, President, Jersey City Acting Collective, Jersey City, New Jersey
Ester Hernandez, Visual Artist, San Francisco, CA
Evan Greer, Singer/Songwriter, Riot-Folk! Collective, AFM Local 1000, Boston, MA
Flo Oy Wong, Artist, Asian American Women Artists Association, Sunnyvale, CA
Frances Varian, Poet, Essayist, Performer, Activist. Durham, North Carolina
Francisco Herrera, Trabajo Cultural Caminante
Francisco X. Alarcon, Educator/Poet, University of California, Davis
Frank Espada, Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary, San Francisco, CA
Frank R. Scott III, Santa Ana, CA
Freedom Train Productions, NYC
Gene Glickman, Conductor Harmonic Insurgence Chorus, Brooklyn, NY
Gina de Vries, Writer/Performer, San Francisco, CA
Ginger Lynn Chapman, Writer, Portland, OR
Good Asian Drivers Brooklyn, NY
Gordon Johnston, Writer, Portland, Oregon
Gregory Johnson, Painter and Potter, Machias, Maine
Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Artist, Writer, La Pocha Nostra, San Francisco, CA
Gunner Scott, Founder/Producer, X Gender Productions, Boston, MA
Heather Cottin, Singer, Activist with the May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights, Freeport, NY
Hans Ostrom, Writer, Tacoma, Washington
Harriet Ford, Maitri Jewelry, Tannersville, PA
Helen Klonaris, Writer, Bahamas Writers Summer Institute & The AHA Collective, Oakland, CA and Nassau, Bahamas
Henry Braun, Poet in the woods of Maine
Henry Mills, Poet/Musician, Silver Spring, MD
Heron Boyce, Sculptor, Biodynamic / Organic Farmer, Environmental Activist, Dames Quarter, MD
homoTiller Media Industries, San Francisco CA
Ignacio G. Rivera, Poly Patao Productions, Brooklyn, NY
Imani Henry, Activist, Writer, Performer, Brooklyn, NY
IMARI DuSauzay, Photographer/Art Educator
International Tribunal of Conscience
Isaac Artenstein, Filmmaker; San Diego, CA
J.M. Giordano, Photographer, Baltimore, MD
J.S. Levario, Video Maker, Mexico City
Jae Sevelius, PhD, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Jaimie Hashey, Editor and Writer of ButtRagMag, Musician with Burglepig
James Israel, The James Israel Band & Publisher, Humor Times Sacramento, CA
James W. “Jimmy Jam” Johnson Jr., Albany, NY
Jamez Terry, Storyteller, Poet, and Fiddle Player, Somerville, MA
Jan Cook, Visual Artist, Vallejo, CA
Janet Mayes, Ph.D., International Action Center, Writer, Psychologist
Jaynis Guevara, Concord, NC
Jeanne D Shaw, Artist, Croton On Hudson, NY
Jen Cross, Founder/Facilitator, Writing Ourselves Whole, San Francisco, CA
Jenna Brager, Cartoonist, Washington DC
Jennifer Cole, Artist, Austin, TX
Jennifer Ruggiero, Photographer and Videographer, Wonder Valley, CA
Jenny Lynn McNutt, Artist, Brooklyn, NY
Jesus Cruzvillegas, Cultural Promoter, Mexico City
Jim Smith, Poet, Writer, Free Venice Beachhead, Venice, California
Joe Carpenter, Writer, Anarchist, Grants Pass, OR
Joe Uehlein, Artist, Musician
John Bernard, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Houston, South Portland, ME
John Dumser, Singer/Songwriter
John E. Norem, Tucson, AZ
John Lavine, Editor/ Art Director, Black & White Magazine, Color Magazine, Novato, California
Jonathan Wolfel, Independent Artist, Tucson, Arizona
Joseph McAnney, Stone Art, Congress, AZ
Josie Taglienti, Visual Artist, Phoenix, AZ.
Juan Tejeda, Musician/Conjunto Aztlan, San Antonio, TX
Judith Berlowitz, Ph.D, The Alto Nation, Oakland Symphony Chorus, Oakland, Califas
Judith Williams Sandoval, Photographer, San Francisco, CA
Jules Rosskam, Artist/Educator/Activist, Brooklyn, NY
Juli Wood, Musician, Chicago, IL
Julia Murray, Writer, Sierra Vista, Arizona
Julie Dunn Fine Art, Atascadero, CA
Julius Gordon, Artist, Tucson, AZ
K. Ulanday Barrett, Educator/Performance Poet/Speaker/Writer, Jersey City. NJ.
Karen Johnson, All Washed Up jewelry, Machias, Maine
Karen Pinto, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Karen Tornoe, Painter, Savannah/GA
Kathe Garbrick, Artist, Manhattan, KS
Katrín Kinga Jósefsdóttir, Reykjavík, Iceland
Kelly Shortandqueer, Zinester, Shortandqueer Zine, Denver, CO
Ken Narasaki, Actor/Writer, SAG/AFTRA/AEA, Los Angeles, CA
Larry Gerber,Artist/Educator Sedona,Arizona
Kentucky Fried Woman, Dancer, Performer & Producer, Oakland CA
Khalil Khan, Movement in Motion
Kim Pickens, Mama/Artist/Activist/Poet, Houston,Tejas
Koba, Hip-Hop Producer and Performer, Harlem, NY
Laura-Marie, Creator of mental health zine, Functionally Ill, Sacramento, CA
Kostja Schibrowski, Installation Artist, Leipzig, Germany
Lallan Schoenstein, LaborGrafix, New York, NY
Larry Malu Filmmaker, NY, NY
Las Bomberas de la Bahia – Afro Puerto Rican Bomba Ensemble
Laura C. Alonso, Writer, Chicago, IL
Laura Schleifer, Writer/Theater Artist, New York, NY
Laurence Ebersole, Human Rights Poet & Counselor, Seattle, WA
Laurinda Mayer, SFCC, Foundation for Honduras, Pro-Papa, Honduras, Central America
Lee Sharkey, Poet, Editor Beloit Poetry Journal
Lena Bartula, Artist, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Leslie Feinberg, Nat’l Writers Union-UAW, Co-Founder Rainbow Flags for Mumia
Lewis Wallace, Writer and Activist, Chicago, IL
Linda Rodriguez, Writer, Kansas City, MO
Lorrie Sprecher, Ph.D., Writer and Musician, Author of the novel Sister Safety Pin, Syracuse, NY
Lucy R. Lippard, Writer, Galisteo, New Mexico
Luis Deveze , Actor, Independent, Los Angeles, CA
Lydia Howell, Poet, Writer, Broadcast Journalist, KFAI Community Radio* (ID Purpose Only), Minneapolis, MN
Lyle Linder, Independent Artist
Lyn X, Artistic Director, Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lynn Susholtz, Owner/Director, Stone Paper Scissors, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
Madeleine Egger a.k.a. Madeleine Michele, Poet, Writer, Union City, NJ
Madeline Shaw, Actor, AEA, SAG, AFTRA Slate Hill NY
Magué Calanche, Artist, Illustrator, Designer, San Francisco, CA
Malin Laney, Photographer, Eugene, OR
Mara Goodman, Singer, Teacher of adults studying ESOL, Brooklyn, New York
Marco Albarran, Director, Calaca Cultural Center, Phoenix,AZ
Margaret Valerie Stone, Writer, CA
Margot Pepper, Author and Journalist, San Francisco, California
Marilyn Cornwell
Mark Gunnery, Singer/Songwriter/Producer, Riot Folk/Odonian Records,Baltimore, MD
Martha Froese-Kooijenga, Saskatchewan, Canada
Mental Notes – Hip Hop Fusion Band
Meryl Feigenberg, Artist/Educator, Brooklyn, NY
Mia Anderson, Actor, NY NY
Micah Riot/Maya Rivina, Artist, San Francisco, CA
Michael McIrvin, Poet/Writer, Cheyenne WY
Michael Moorcock, Novelist, Austin, Texas
Michael Murphy, Singer/Songwriter/Musician, Omaha, Nebraska
Mike Boda, Writer for Examiner.com (Pittsburgh Grassroots Examiner,) Pittsburgh, PA
Monica Enriquez-Enriquez, Artist, Berkeley, CA
Milos Raickovich, Composer/Conductor, New York
Minal Hajratwala, Author, San Francisco, CA
Minnie Bruce Pratt, National Writers Union, Syracuse, NY
Movimento per la società di giustizia e per la speranza, (Movement for the society of justice and hope), Italy
Nadine Dumser, Creative Editor/Writer
Nancy Ann Siracusa, New York, NY
Nancy Van Ness, Director, American Creative Dance, NYC
Natasha Mayers, Whitefield, ME
Nellie Wong, Poet, Author and Socialist Feminist Activist, San Francisco, CA.
Nephtali De León, Chicano Poet / Author, Muralist / Painter
Nina Hoechtl, Artist, London and Mexico City
Nina Moliver, PhD, Research Consultant, Registered Yoga Teacher, Boston, MA
Nina Serrano, Poet, Radio Producer, La Raza Chronicles, KPFA–fm, Oakland CA
Nomy Lamm, Writer/Musician, San Francisco, CA
NuyoRican School Original Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc, New York, NY
Oli P. Simon, Artist and Filmmaker, Director Meditationcamp Tibetan Centre, Hamburg, Germany
Orlonda Uffre, Visual Artist, Oakland, CA
Oscar Revilla Alguacil, Madrid, España.
Pamela Calore, Multimedia Artist, San Marcos, CA
Pamela Zulli
Patricia Barba
Patricia Roland-James, Writer, Aquila Ink Publishing, Forestville, CA
Paul Drake, Painter, New Zealand
Peter Phillips Ph.D., Prof, Sociology, Sonoma State University & Pres.,Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
Paul Von Blum, Art Critic/Cultural Historian/Writer, African American Studies Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Phil Davis, Drummer, Douglasville, GA
Phoebe Ackley, Painter, Sculptor, Teacher, Berkeley, California
Pilar Diaz, Copycat Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Quail Bell Magazine, Richmond, VA
Queerartist, Hartford Connecticut
Rachel K. Zall, Poet/Performer/Photographer/Designer, Somerville, MA
Rafael Jesús González, Poet, Visual Artist, Latino Advisory Council, Oakland Museum of California, Berkeley, CA
Ramona Landeros, Land Arrows Productions
Red Durkin, Comedian, Oakland, CA
Reese Forbes, Photographer,St Louis, MO
Reginald Harris, Poet and Writer, Baltimore MD
Remi Kanazi, Poet, Brooklyn, NY
Richard Kamler, Artist/Director, Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations, San Francisco, CA
Rima Schulkind, Sculptor, Bethesda MD
Robin Perry, Songwriter, former Phoenician now living in Australia
Roger Ellman, Composer & Scientist, The-Origin Foundation, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA
Ron Ford, Writer, Photographer, Tannersville, PA
Ron Gordon, President, Ron Gordon Communications, Inc, Morrisville, PA
Ron Jacobs, Writer
Ron Stark, Albion CA
Rosemarie Woods, Writer/Educator/Activist, Kansas City, MO
Roxana Leiva, Art Education for Social Change, El Salvador
Ruben Hernandez, Periodista, Arts Activist, Founder of Latino Cultural Center in Phoenix, AZ
Ryan Harvey – Riot-Folk! Collective, Baltimore, MD
Sally Nelson, Berkeley, CA
Sarazeta Ragazzi,Co-Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Musician,Las Bomberas de la Bahia
Seeley Quest, Writer, Performer, Organizer, Oakland, CA
SEN-ONE, Universal Zulu Nation Brooklyn,NY
Sha Grogan-Brown, Co-Founder/On Point Consortium, Washington DC
Sharon Bridgforth, Writer/Theatre Artist/Activist, Austin, Texas
Sharon Michelle Hernandez, Graphic Designer/Photographer, Miami, Florida
Sharon Siskin, Artist and Art Professor, Berkeley, CA
Shawna Virago, Musician, San Francisco, CA
Shelley Ettinger, Writer, Queens, NY
Sherry Steeves, Artist, Sandgate, VT
Siamak Vossoughi, Writer, San Francisco, CA
Siobhan Arnold, Artist and Educator, San Diego, CA
Sonny G, Street Art/Graphic Design, Bay Area, CA
Spiritchild, Founder of Movement in Motion, Artist & Activist collective
Stephen Geller, Novelist And Screenwriter, Savannah, Georgia
Steve Deasy, Singer/Songwriter, AFM Local 1000, Detroit, MI
StormMiguel Florez, Musician, Performer, Producer, San Francisco, CA
Sue Harris, Co-Director, Peoples Video Network, New York City
Suki Diamond, Clay Sculptor, Sebastopol, CA
Susan E. Davis, National Writers Union, United Auto Workers Local 1981
Susana Cook, Performance Artist, New York, NY
Swaneagle Harijan, Women In Black, Frontlinemom, Artist & Activist, Vashon, Washington
Tamar Diana Wilson, Author and Poet, La Jolla California and Los Cabos, Mexico
Tamiko Nimura, Writer, Tacoma, Washington
Teresa Basilio, Artist, Activist, Brooklyn, NY
Tha Truth, Political Hip Hop Artist, Philadelphia, PA
Tessa Micaela, Never On Time Poetry Journal, Philadelphia, PA
The Greater Washington Indie Arts Festival, Arlington, VA
The Politically Incorrect Cabaret, the only touring political satire troupe in the US
The Shondes, Brooklyn, NY
The Tranny Roadshow
Theater of Irregular Desire, Berkeley, CA
Thomas C. Rockriver, Iron Sculptor, Ironheads for Peace and Justice, Chapel Hill, NC
Tim Duda, Activist, San Antonio, Texas
Tobi Vail, Writer and Musician, Olympia, WA
Tom Shealy
Tyrone Robinson, El Prieto/The Dark One, Artist, Henderson, NV
Unknown Click, Producer, Hip Hop Artist, Denver, CO
Vanessa Huang, Poet, Oakland, CA
Veronica Golos, Poet, New Mexico
Victoria Lewis, Filmmaker, San Francisco, CA
Viktoria Valenzuela, Host of The Fresh Ink Poets, Oswego, NY
Vondora Jordan, Singer/Writer, Harlem, NY
Walt Trask, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
YK Hong, Artist, Freedom Trainers, Brooklyn, NY
Zeraph Moore, Organizer, Bangor Media Collective, Bangor, ME
Artists Against Arizona’s SB 1070 Statement
We believe, the decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to sign into law the poorly conceived immigration measure SB1070, marks a new low in the fight to protect civil liberties in The United States. This law allows any officer of the law at the state, county, or city level in Arizona to determine the legal immigration status of anyone at anytime, among other provisions, including making it a crime to be in Arizona illegally.
Millions of people everywhere believe it will lead to rampant racial profiling, particularly against people of Latino/a heritage. President Obama has called it “misguided.” Furthermore, immigration is a national issue and the state of Arizona has no constitutional role in determining who has legal status in this country.
We are calling on members of the worldwide artistic community—whether visual, performing, literary or other discipline—to boycott the state of Arizona in opposition to this unjust legislation, for as long as it remains on the books. We ask artists to not perform, produce, present, appear or conduct business in Arizona so that lawmakers there understand that the rest of the country disapproves, so they will feel the economic impact of their bad decision. We call on talent agents, managers, publicists, unions and associations to also support this effort and the artists they represent who choose to join.
We also call on fans and supporters of the arts to contact their favorite performers and artists and encourage them to participate in this boycott. Fans can also show their support for the boycott by writing to Arizona Governor Brewer, and by supporting their favorite artists when they make appearances in other states.
The artistic community has a natural role to play in commenting and responding to social issues. Now more than ever the time is right to act.
To Sign-on & Endorse this Campaign as an organization, group or as an individual; please send your: Name, Title/Affiliation/Union and City & State or Country to:
artistsagainstarizona@yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Artists-Against-Arizonas-SB 1070/114160971948532?ref=ts
Please spread the word to other artists
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LRC website Fwd: Delayed greetings for Mothers Day from the Cuban 5
Posted onMay 18, 2010Can this go on our website? and the greeting from the Cuban 5.
From: International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 <info@thecuban5.org>
Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Subject: Delayed greetings for Mothers Day from the Cuban 5
To: ninaserrano34@gmail.com
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International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 | P.O. Box 22455 | Oakland | CA | 94609
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Cronicas De La Raza 11 May 2010 – KPFA FM
Posted onMay 11, 2010We spotlight “Bracero”, an exciting documentary illuminating the background of our current immigration debates and to help shape our future strategies. News headlines From the Americas with special reports on the student hunger strike at UC Berkeley and the upcoming youth march in San Francisco, as well as a calendar of upcoming events and musica- round out the night’s program. Enjoy!
Produced by Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andrea Rivera, Emiliano Echeverria, Mr. Chuch Longoria, Clay “C-Tone” Leander, Julieta Kusnir and Nina Serrano.
Fundacion Caminante Honors Nina Serrano
On Sat May 22 at 6pm Fundacion Caminante will celebrate “Premio Mujer 2010” honoring 5 women for their community service. La Raza Chronicles own Nina Serrano’s will be one of 5. The dinner and concert at St Mary’s cathedral in San Francisco features the music of Francisco Herrera, Liliana Herrera, Patricia Wells and Merlinda Fspinoza. For advanced tickets go to Fundacion Caminante. General admission for dinner and concert are $40, $10 for children, and $20 for seniors and students. LRC listeners are welcome to sit at Nina’s table. This is a benefit for Trabajo Caminante
Live on the air – Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM – San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno
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Listen NOW:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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La Raza Chronicles – May 11, 2010
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promo
Posted onMay 11, 2010La Raza Chronicles: Promo May 11, 2010
We spotlight “Bracero”, an exciting documentary illuminating the background of our current immigration debates and to help shape our future strategies. News headlines From the Americas with special reports on the student hunger strike at UC Berkeley and the upcoming youth march in San Francisco, as well as a calendar of upcoming events and musica- round out the night’s program. Enjoy!
Cronicas De La Raza 04 May 2010 – KPFA FM
Posted onMay 4, 2010La Raza Chronicles celebrates Cinco de Mayo on the Streets of Aztlan. We will hear: News Headlines from the Americas with a spotlight on the Salvadoran protests to the appointment to a governmental post of Jorge Melendez, who with Joaquin Villalobos murdered Salvadoran national poet Roque Dalton; a conversation with guests Marino Cordoba and Liza Smith about the internal refugee crisis in Colombia; a discussion with US immigration expert Arnoldo Garcia; and a report on the Colorado River water use in the US and Mexico. We add music to the mix and a calendar of upcoming events. Listen and enjoy.
Produced by Nina Serrano. Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andres Rivera, Mr. Chuch Longoria, Clay ‘C-Tone‘ Leandre and Emiiano Echeverria.
Live on the air – Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM – San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno
Live on the web at:
www.kpfa.org/streams/kpfa_64k.m3u
Listen NOW:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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La Raza Chronicles – May 4, 2010
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The Assassination of a Poet
Posted onMay 4, 2010
July 2, 2007
The Assassination of a Poet
Memories of Roque Dalton
By NINA SERRANO
I first met Roque Dalton in Havana in July of 1968. He claimed he was a descendant of an outlaw, and he turned me into a writer and a poet.
I was in Havana working on a documentary film about Fidel with my then-husband, Saul Landau, and our two children, Greg, age 13 and Valerie, age 10. It was our second trip there as a family. I researched Cuban photo and film archives and filled in as the sound person. Making a film about Fidel involved a tremendous amount of waiting and therefore free time.
Living in a hotel with maid and laundry service, as well as restaurant meals, liberated my life from domestic duties. I met remarkable people including Estella Bravo who worked at Casa de Las Americas, the hub of Cuban and international leftist life with publications, exhibits, and conferences. Estella recruited me as a volunteer to help her catalogue American folk and protest music at “Casa.”
I was walking down the hall of Casa de Las Americas, when a man popped out of one of the rooms, following me and quickly catching up. He introduced himself and said his name was Roque Dalton, a Salvadoran poet. He’d been in a meeting of male poets and they noticed me go by. So, he was sent to see who I was. Until then, I thought of poets as a very serious bunch. Now, I saw that clearly they indulged in the favorite Cuban pastime of the era- girl watching.
I commented that in my country, the United States, the Dalton Gang members were legendary folk heroes, like Jesse James.
“Yes,” he said.” I am related to them.”
We walked back to my hotel for lunch, He was very witty, and we laughed with every step under hot sun and palms trees, passing the Caribbean splashing against the malecon, dodging cars, and entering the limply air-conditioned Habana Libre Hotel.
It was the year when the entire island was gearing up for a campaign to produce a record-breaking ten million tons of sugar cane harvest. The previous year had been the year of the “Heroic Guerrilla.” referring to recently killed Che Guevara, whose picture hung every where. Sacrifice abounded. Schools, work centers, and whole families dedicated themselves to volunteer sugar cane cutting. The “Diez miliones van” campaign ultimately reaped only six million tons. However, it set new norms in socialist participation and volunteerism and promoted the Guevara concept of the “New human being,” one who worked enthusiastically for the common good.
Roque joined my family for lunch and immediately we were all laughing. He told us that he and his wife, and three boys had only recently moved from this hotel and were now installed in a Havana apartment, mentioning that his sons missed the use of the pool. As we moved down the cafeteria line, we continued talking about his connections to the Dalton gang. I was enthralled and suggested we write a television play of the story together using Brechtian theater ideas.
“Television?” he scoffed, “As a poet and polemicist, I worship at the altar of the novel.”
“But television reaches the masses,” I countered. “And Cubans with only two dull channels to watch deserve better. It will set a model for intellectuals to bring their skills and talents to the people.”
He agreed and after lunch, we went across the street to ICR, the Cuban broadcasting system and arranged with Abraham Masiques, that we would come back in ten days with a completed script for “The Daltons Ride South.”
If it passed muster with the political assessor, it would be videoed in their studio.
Every morning, Roque arrived with his sons, Roque, Juan Jose, and Jorge, carrying their bathing suits. The kids would go down to the pool and then come up to play Monopoly, while we worked. We sat at a big table that we periodically cleared throughout the day for room service family meals and snacks.
Roque sat at my Olivetti typewriter, since the script had to be in Spanish, while I handed him precious sheets of carbon paper. Cuba had severe shortages of everything. We often resorted to the dictionary and pantomime to work out linguistic problems between us, as we were neither totally fluent in the other’s language.
On the appointed day, we arrived with a completed script at the TV station. There were a few annoying rewrites demanded by the assessor, but we were too thrilled to protest. A production team hastily formed; slides produced, music composed, shots plotted, costumes assembled, and rehearsals scheduled.
One night after a rehearsal, Roque and I were walking back to the hotel around the lively La Rampa night-life, when plain-clothes police surrounded the crowd. He grabbed my arm: “Follow me, I am expert in escaping police.” He deftly led us back to safety, although several people were arrested that night. We thought the raid was part of the campaign against homosexuals.
Roque said he had escaped from Salvadoran jails five times, once through the divine intervention of an earthquake. When the prison wall collapsed, he walked out on to a waiting municipal bus and then out its side door onto another bus.
He told me he’d written a prose piece about being threatened by the CIA saying that they would kill him, and then spread the word that he was a CIA agent. He would die disgraced, as a traitor. As I listened deeply, I vowed to myself that if such a terrible event were to happen, I would help tell the world that Roque was honest and good.
We mounted our television drama in four days. The rehearsal time was so short that when the camera went into a close-up of a talking decapitated head, the actress froze. She’d forgotten her lines because of the quick turn-around time to learn them. She stared out on the screen in real terror- which was quite effective really- but Roque and I were dying because our precious words were lost.
The program was very well received, though at the reception party, we sat in a corner on the floor with tears of disapointment. We had anticipated the production like a Hollywood cowboy movie, quick moving with lively action. But, the Cuban TV acting at that time was exaggerated, and the editing style was very slow.
Immediately after, I rushed into the filming of Fidel and his entourage on a jeep caravan across the island. Roque too had pressing deadlines to meet from Cuban publishers. He was to write an answer to the Regis Debray’s book on Cuba at Fidel’s personal request. He was also proof reading the printer’s copy for his new poetry anthology.
When I left for California, we arranged to stay in touch through letters and invented a code for collect calls. My children loved a TV animation program called “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” He would phone and say his call was from “The Flying Squirrel,” which was the cartoon character “Rocky’s ” persona.
A year later in 1969, our family returned to Cuba to screen the Fidel film and begin researching for a fiction film about the Salvador Allende election in Chile. If Allende won, it would be a non-violent democratic revolution. This fostered even more discussions between Roque and me, about armed struggle and if it was the only path to revolution.
The “Fidel” documentary was lauded. We watched the first human being land on the moon. Our Cuba stay was short, only two weeks. Roque was frequently tied up with mysterious meetings. I worried about him, because it was rumored that he was involved with a Salvadoran guerrilla grouping. When I asked him about it, he said he could not discuss it, which I respected. We began a continuous dialogue about violence and terrorism. I was afraid of them. He felt it was unfortunate, but that sometimes for the sake of a greater good, they were necessary.
Some people described his group to me as “adventurist” and “Maoist.” Those were frequent charges in Havana in those days, against any non-Communist Party leftist group. The Mao influence was popular that year world-wide. Even the Black Panthers at a San Francisco rally had waved Mao’s little “Red Book.”
I visited Roque’s apartment and was happy to finally meet his wife, Aida. On one of his visits to our hotel, he saw a copy of a San Francisco alternative newspaper, “The San Francisco Good Times” with its flamboyant graphics and high spirits. The only words in it he could readily understand were the headlines: Los Siete De La Raza.”
“Who are they?” he asked.
“They are a group of Salvadoran immigrant youth, who are accused of killing a San Francisco policeman. Their defense has become a rallying point for organizing the Latino barrio, in the way the Black Panthers have done in nearby Oakland and the Young Lords in New York City.
“When you go home,” he said, “you work with them.”
I promised I would, and I did. That is how I became a poet.
Returning to San Francisco, I continued to worry about Roque. Our conversations replayed in my head. Emboldened by having written the video play, I wrote a poem about my concern for his safety and his life, The editors of the “Good Times” splashed it on the front page, and it was published as “To R. Before leaving to Fight in Unknown Terrain.” Thus I became a poet.
To R. Before Going to Fight in Unknown Terrain 1969
Mass media I adore you.
With a whisper in the microphone
I touch the mass belly against mine
like on a rush hour bus
but with no sweat and no embarrassment.
“Don’t die,” I whispered, in person.
Only the air and revolutionary slogans hung between us.
“When I die I’ll wear a big smile.”
And with his finger drew a clown’s smile
on his Indian face.
“Don’t die!” the whisper beneath the call to battle.
My love of man in conflict
with my love for this man.
Women die too.
They let go their tight grip on breath and sigh,
and sigh to die
They say that Tanya died before Che.
I saw her die in a Hollywood movie.
Her blood floated in the river.
I stand in the street in Havana.
There are puddles here
but few consumer goods to float in them.
Here the blood is stirred by the sacrifice of smiles
to armed struggle
A phrase and an act.
They leave one day and they are dead.
“Death to the known order. Birth to the unknown.”
Blood. Blood. Blood.
The warmth of it between the thighs
soothes the channel
The baby fights and tears.
I stand by a puddle in Havana
a woman full of blood
not yet spilled.
Can I spill blood by my own volition?
Now, it flows from me by a call of the moon.
The moon
A woman mopping her balcony
spills water from her bucket
On my hair, my breasts
and into the puddle.
The question is answered.
When I contacted the Los Siete de La Raza Defense Committee in San Francisco, they dismissed me as an “artist type.” They sent me to work with Roberto Vargas, a Nicaraguan born poet living in the Mission District, San Francisco’s barrio.
“Roberto Vargas has a crazy idea about organizing a fundraising poetry reading.”
Scribbling poems on café napkins and backs of envelopes, I was by now, obsessed with words. But, I had never participated in a poetry reading, though I had heard many Cuban poets like Pablo Armando Fernandez and Nicolas Guillen read in Havana. I’d even heard the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, when I was a teenager in New York City. In San Francisco, in the 60’s, I’d listened to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, and Alan Ginzburg read, as well as the Soviet poet, Yevtechenko.
Roberto invited me to participate in the poetry reading, and I read my poem to Roque. Writing poems and reading in community poetry readings became a vital part of my life. I met the other poets and joined Editorial Pocho Che, a Latino poetry publishing collective, that used stapled mimeographed or Xerox, or any means necessary, to publish broadsides and booklets. I reported regularly on the “Los Siete” trials for the San Francisco Good times.
When I returned to Havana in 1974 with my daughter Valerie, now 16, we met Roque Jr. by chance, the first night at the hotel. He told me that his father was in Viet Nam and was expected back in May. That May, Roque jr. came to our new house by the Havana Zoo to deliver a letter for me from Roque Sr. and perhaps in hopes of finding Valerie.
Roque’s handwritten letter said that he was a war correspondent in Vietnam and told of the perils of warfare in a very humorous way. He included his funny little cartoon drawing. It reminded me of one I had received from a friend, in my teens, who had been forced into the navy during the Korean/US war. A few days after I received the letter from Korea, my friend’s parents phoned to tell me he had been killed.
Roque’s letter reassured me he would see me soon in Havana.
What I did not know then was that Roque was not in Viet Nam as a war correspondent, but rather was in El Salvador as a guerrilla fighter, as a murdered guerrilla fighter. I looked forward to seeing him, but he was already dead when I read the letter, written months earlier.
We left Havana in the fall of 1975. Soon after, in San Francisco, I read of his death in the international edition of the Cuban newspaper, “Gramna”. Though deeply grieved, I took the article as a signal to honor Roque’s name, so that the infamous CIA threat of smearing him would not happen.
I told my friends, Daniel del Solar, and Alejandro Murguia, who had been co-editing the new bi-lingual literary magazine “Tin Tan” published by Editorial Pocho Che in San Francisco. We created a flyer and poster, which included the Gramna obituary. Countless community people helped to post it on every corner of the Mission district. Of special help were the Sandinistas who by then had their newspaper, La Gaceta Sandinista, headquarters on 22nd and Valencia Streets. We dedicated community events to Roque’s memory and created a small insert about him for our magazine A few years later, Alejandro Murguia and other San Francisco poets, like Jack Hirschman formed the Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade.
Today, over thirty years after his death, we still do not know the whole story of his death.. I join with his family, friends, and supporters in asking for the daylighting of the terrible and treacherous truth about horrible events leading to his murder by some of his fellow comrades in arms. I hope that day comes in my life time. Roque was a great friend, co-worker, father, and renown writer and poet. I still miss him.
This month The Nation magazine ran a piece attacking Hugo Chavez by Joaquin Villalobos, the assassin of Rogue Dalton.Click here to read San Francisco poet laureat Jack Hirschman’s response.
Nina Serrano lives in San Francisco.
Copyright Nina Serrano 2007
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Promo may 4, 2010
Posted onMay 3, 2010I put it up on the KPFA website. If there are problems please let me know. I can change it. Gracias.
La Raza Chronicles Promo May 4, 2010
La Raza Chronicles celebrates Cinco de Mayo on the Streets of Aztlan. We will hear: News Headlines from the Americas with a spotlight on the Salvadoran protests to the appointment to a governmental post of Jorge Melendez, who with Joaquin Villalobos murdered Salvadoran national poet Roque Dalton; a conversation with guests Marino Cordoba and Liza Smith about the internal refugee crisis in Colombia; a discussion with US immigration expert Arnoldo Garcia; and a report on the Colorado River water use in the US and Mexico. We add music to the mix and a calendar of upcoming events. Listen and enjoy.
Produced by Nina Serrano. Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andres Rivera, Mr. Chuch Longoria, Clayton C`tone Leander and Emiiano Echeverria.
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