Can They Break Out of the Script?
July 23, 2010
Sometimes you get stuck: stuck in a way of thinking, stuck in a way of reacting to people around you, stuck in the place where you live. This week on Latino USA we meet two people in Arizona — Irene and Gerardo — who seem, well, stuck. They are each waiting for the tough new immigration law about to go into effect, and they see things from two very different perspectives.
Valeria Fernández from the Feet in Two Worlds project talks to them about life in Arizona in the days before SB 1070 becomes the law.
Lalo Alcaraz self portrait
Then, keep listening as Maria discusses how their stories could hypothetically change and shift with satirist and artist
Lalo Alcaraz.
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> The Art of Lalo Alcaraz
> La Cucaracha
> Pocho Hour of Power (KPFK)
Maria talks to visual artist Ester Hernandez about the work she’s created in protest of SB 1070: including the striking image of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a wanted terrorist. (Click the image to see the full work.)
Hernandez was born and raised in California, on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas. She was a member of Las Mujeres Muralistas, the influential muralists working in the 1970s San Francisco Mission District. She has been a pioneer in the Chicana/Chicano civil rights art movement ever since.
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Maria is a big proponent of the personal soundtrack: the tunes that carry you from day to day, that shape the aural landscape around your life. And, yeah, that French novelist with the cookie might disagree, but we think nothing can send you back to a place and a time better than an old song.
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In the news this week: an experimental method to protect African women from AIDS, information on over a thousand undocumented immigrants in Utah collected and distributed, and two dozen young people deliberately reveal they are undocumented. Katie Davis updates us from Washington, D.C.
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