This mural, on 24th St in San Francisco’s Mission district, is one I’ve often noticed and liked. Painted by the group Homey (Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth) it unfolds across 117 feet of concrete, showing people challenging the barriers –cultural, societal and physical — that oppress and divide them. But I never really knew anything about its history. [Read more...]
Censorship in the Mission
October 19, 2008 By 1 Comment
Melilla, a photoessay by Flo Razowsky
January 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Flo — activist, photojournalist, friend and inspiration — has just posted a beautiful new photoessay from the Spanish-Moroccan border at Melilla.
http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9398
“This portfolio is part of a bigger project focused on the look of borders become manifest, the look of the land and the people when the arbitrary line in the sand takes form. These shots were taken from Melilla, Spain, a Spanish enclave cut off from the north of Morocco by a militarized and deadly triple layer, 10ft high structure. Migrants travel for 4,5,6 years to reach this side of the line only to be held in migrant detention centers, some for years, awaiting the legal system to either award them papers or deport them to where they started out from so many years ago and worked so hard (and many died) to get away from.”
On the Edge:The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez
January 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The first section of Steev Hise’s film “On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez” can now be viewed online at http://panleft.net/cms/ote-podcast1
He will be poisting a new segment every Monday for the next 8 weeks — definitely a film worth checking out.
For more information about the film, visit http://political.detritus.net/juarez