Cartooning for a Cause

Serious comics expand the frame of social justice.
Tagged: Alberto Ledesma, education, undocumented youth, youth
4/16 in #Ithaca, NY: Central American families & limits of #immigration policy http://t.co/TBUOuL4n6q via @Cornell http://t.co/DFqNwwEumS
31 mins ago
.@endfamdetention do you have a larger version of the Precarious lives event flyer? Who's the artist? http://t.co/d64JiIhPwn
3 hours ago
RT @radioambulante: Learn podcasting basics with @Transom_org. Part One: Voice Recording Gear http://t.co/jqD1hOvUXN
20 hours ago
Empowering #feminist drawings to brighten your day http://t.co/vqC53PLRUq via @BoingBoing #art4 http://t.co/VyvMo2OmZU
1 day ago
MT @latinorebels: @Deadline Hollywood & Why It’s Dead http://t.co/Bs45RrjmH9 #diversity #racialjustice http://t.co/OfgiHx0eG1
1 day ago
Unusual #ChildrensBook Celebrating #FridaKahlo’s Story & Spirit http://t.co/XvQFsDUBfT via @brainpicker #art4 #latism http://t.co/0nat4xLnjj
1 day ago
Getting a Bunch of Likes, or Creating a Hashtag? That’s Not #SocialChange: Impact Producer @lksriv http://t.co/NW0Zk0tsWN via @FilmmakerMag
1 day ago
Friday in #NYC: #Undocupoets Petition Reading http://t.co/Y4ufYlPt1P via @aaww #latism #immigration http://t.co/acscUKRZUW
2 days ago
Serious comics expand the frame of social justice.
Tagged: Alberto Ledesma, education, undocumented youth, youth
Read between the lines of the Tucson school authorities’ spin: banned is banned.
Author Jeff Biggers on right-wing yahoos, the immigrant struggle, and the Arizonification of America.
Knowledge, Power and Ethnic Studies: The borderline between embracing difference and segregating it.
Women muralists return to the scene of their early development as activists/artists.
Tagged: Arts/Poetry, education, public art
Author of Occupied America talks about surprise, fear and fanaticism in the battle to defend ethnic studies in Arizona.
Tagged: education, ethnic studies, Rodolfo Acuna, Saving Ethnic Studies
What better form of theatrical art than the farce to capture the absurdity of the infamous witch hunt of Tucson’s embattled Ethnic Studies program?
CultureStrikers have engaged in a range of actions to demonstrate in form and content how art and activism can be fused to build a collective vision for social justice.
Tagged: Colette Gaiter, education, Jessica Hagedorn, Tucson
In Arizona, a culture war is pitting education activists against a political establishment bent on maintaining the ethnocentric status quo. Community groups have taken the struggle to the courts.