Mission Resistance!

by Staff Writer

Two revolutionary media and art projects of POOR Magazine's Race
Poverty and Media Justice Institute in its new classrooms in the
Mission District have forged a powerful collaboration with
Intersection for The Arts and Mission Community Council to create
Mission Resistance! - Mission Voices SPeak up on issues of poverty,
border fascism, unrecognized work and micro-business, migration/immigration, homelessness, gender,
disability, racism, police brutality, and survival by any means necessary!

Digital Resistance a revolutionary media & arts education project for
youth, adults and elders in poverty locally and globally

Los Viajes a bi-lingual Audio, Literary and Performance anthology of
peoples migration/journeys to the United States from their homelands.
Los Viajes also introduces a new lens on migration/immigration that
resists the criminalization of false borders and the introduces the UN
Declaration on Indigenous Peoples

This event will also be a preview to the Los Viajes Anthology Project
which will be released in September of 2009 (at the anniversary of
the signing of the UN declaration of Indigenous Peoples)

Translation will be provided

The welfareQUEENS will appear for special guest appearance
The welfareQUEENS are a group of mamaz , daughters, grandmothers and
sons speaking up about the poverty and criminalization of poor
families locally and globally.

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