On the Line
On the Line No More Hiroshimas Chantilly, Virginia Demonstrators gathered at the Smithsonian's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport on December 15 to protest the display of the Enola...
...That's where the new radio station fits in...
...Zapatistas (below left) threw an anniversary party in Oventic, Chiapas, on January 1. Performers (below right) on stage during the anniversary commemoration on December 31...
...They brought with them 25,000 Japanese signatures against the display...
...Box 11093, Shorewood, WI 53211...
...What Happened to Peace...
...Curator and graphic artist John Carr designed the exhibit to spread the message of nonviolence and to showcase hand-crafted prints from several renowned artists...
...Portrait of a Textile Worker will be unveiled at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wisconsin, in early 2005...
...For more information, the exhibit's website is www.yowhathappenedtopeace.org...
...For more information, contact the Mexico Solidarity Network at 4834 N. Springfield, Chicago, IL 60625, (773) 583-7728...
...With low wages and high expenses (a bed in a shared room in a dingy trailer runs $200 a month or more), farm workers in Immokalee make barely enough to survive...
...For further information, call the American Friends Service Committee at (617) 661-6130...
...Members of the Japanese Confederation of Atomic, Nuclear, and Hydrogen Bomb Sufferers spoke at the demonstration...
...She is requesting that people send her labels...
...Immokalee, Florida On a balmy winter weekend in southwestern Florida, scores of community media activists descended on the small farming town of Immokalee to build a radio station...
...The piece is about the act of physically putting disconnected things—including the subject matter—back together," Agnew tells The Progressive...
...For more information about future radio barnraisings, contact Prometheus Radio Project at www.prometheusradio.org...
...Changing this situation is tough...
...Ten Years of Zapatismo Chiapas, Mexico Zapatista communities and international supporters celebrated with music and dancing to mark the anniversary of the January 1, 1994, uprising in southern Mexico...
...Radio Consciencia Lucas Benitez (above) in the broadcasting booth...
...People from peace and justice groups in the Washington, D.C., area also joined in the protest...
...On the Line No More Hiroshimas Chantilly, Virginia Demonstrators gathered at the Smithsonian's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport on December 15 to protest the display of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb...
...Steve Pierce For information on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the website is www.ciw-online.org...
...They're hesitant to speak out—even in the face of abusive labor conditions that make the front page of the Miami Herald...
...Yo...
...The Zapatistas still control dozens of indigenous communities and have recently set up "good government" councils in those areas...
...Sewing Awareness Milwaukee, Wisconsin Artist Terese Agnew is creating a quilt using garment labels to reproduce a photo of a Bangladeshi textile worker...
...The plan is to broadcast in Spanish, Creole, and various indigenous languages—no English...
...A percentage of the poster sales will go to Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit organization that provides support to dissenting members of the armed forces...
...This Florida-based group of immigrant farm workers from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean has been organizing since 1993 to raise the standard of living for people on the bottom rung of the food production chain—the pickers...
...Agnew began the quilt in January 2003 and expects to use more than 27,000 clothing labels of various shapes and sizes...
...What Happened to Peace...
...Terese Agnew's website is www.tardart.com...
...When we shop, our thoughts are totally disconnected from the tangible reality of the conditions under which clothing products are made...
...The new display does not mention the loss of human life in Hiroshima...
...government and the Smithsonian Institution to include figures and photographs of Japanese casualties in the exhibit...
...The goal is to provide a channel of communication to bring a disparate workforce together to demand change...
...No Car No War Los Angeles In January, Transport Gallery in Los Angeles opened a politically charged poster art exhibit called Yo...
...On Sunday, December 7, at 7:00 p.m., Radio Consciencia began broadcasting...
...Activists (right) place the antenna in position...
...People interested in hosting the exhibit can contact John Carr at info@33graphic.com A supporter cheered during a December 21 rock concert in Mexico City...
...They asked the U.S...
...The Coalition of Immokalee Workers operates the station...
...Not just any radio station—a radio station owned and operated by farm workers...
...You can send garment labels (preferably black and gray) to Terese Agnew, P.O...
...Most of the workers don't speak English, and the immigration status for many of them is shaky...
Vol. 68 • February 2004 • No. 2
