{"id":2394,"date":"2011-09-15T02:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T07:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2017-12-19T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T07:45:13","slug":"culturestrke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/archives\/2394","title":{"rendered":"culturestr\/ke"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2395\" style=\"width: 2520px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2395 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0050c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2520\" height=\"1890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0050c.jpg 2520w, https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0050c-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0050c-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0050c-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles MacGregor, Emory Douglas and Oscar Magallanes at the US\/Mexico border in Arizona.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>NEW YORK \u2014 A delegation of more than 50 acclaimed writers, visual artists, and filmmakers will gather in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona September 10-16 to kick off a major national arts-based campaign challenging punitive, anti-immigrant laws and longstanding federal immigration policies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A coalition of artists, CultureStrike, will come together in Arizona\u2013epicenter of the immigration crisis\u2013to launch a national initiative to produce visual, written, video and other works designed to educate the public about the devastating effects of our nation\u2019s current policies toward immigrants, while mobilizing communities to fight against punitive and discriminatory immigration laws nationwide.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Among the delegates are a number of award-winning writers including National Book Award winner Maxine Hong Kingston and National Book Award finalist Jessica Hagedorn, New Yorker Magazine \u201c20 under 40\u2033 writer Daniel Alarc\u00f3n, a Tony Award winner, two MacArthur Fellows, four American Book Award winners, and a Yale Poetry Prize winner. The group also includes notable visual artists such as Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party; El Mac, prominent street artist and painter; and Tania Bruguera, interdisciplinary artist and 1998 Guggenheim fellow.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe believe Arizona represents the epicenter in a major civil rights battle of our time,\u201d saidFavianna Rodriguez, a visual artist and a founder of CultureStrike. \u201cAs artists and writers, we have come together to stand against a growing anti-immigrant climate, enabled by hatemongers like Pearce and Arpaio, as well as Obama\u2019s failed and repressive federal immigration policy.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2396\" src=\"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/delegation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/delegation.jpg 535w, https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/delegation-400x224.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A delegation of more than 50 acclaimed writers, visual artists, and filmmakers will gather in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona September 10-16 to kick off a major national arts-based campaign challenging punitive, anti-immigrant laws and longstanding federal immigration policies. A coalition of artists, CultureStrike, will come together in Arizona\u2013epicenter of the immigration crisis\u2013to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/archives\/2394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;culturestr\/ke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,8],"tags":[268,16],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-art","category-panel-artist-talks","tag-culture-strike","tag-oscar-magallanes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oscarmagallanes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}