For the month of May, Magnum Foundation will be showcasing work from the Magnum archive to highlight issues in the immigration debate as part of our LA RUTA project.
According to National Immigration Forum study, Homeland Security spends $2 billion annually on the jailing and deportation of undocumented immigrants – a nearly 150% increase from 7 years ago.
Pictured: 8:00 pm holding tank for undocumented male detainees. El Cajon, CA. 1989. Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
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LA RUTA
THE NEW YORK TIMES
La Ruta was featured in The New York Times, The Arts section on Saturday, April 27.
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According to the Center for American Progress, if undocumented workers were granted citizenship in 2013: The U.S. GDP would grow by $1.4 trillion and the economy would create an estimated 203,000 additional jobs per year over the next 10 years.
To call for a quick and direct path to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers in the U.S. this May Day go to:
http://reformimmigrationforamerica.org/#content-campaigns
Pictured: 3:00pm Arrest alongside Interstate 5, Oceanside, CA. 1989, Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos
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Magnum Foundation is proud to announce its collaboration with Working Theater in the presentation of Ed Cardona, Jr.’s world premiere play LA RUTA. This unique collaboration will illuminate and clarify some of the central issues within the current immigration reform debate through a theatrical performance and accompanying photo-based installation. La Ruta, will be staged within a semi-truck and will travel throughout NYC and it’s outer boroughs.
Magnum Foundation is organizing a photo-based installation outside the truck that will focus audiences on the experiences of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. and will feature both award-winning Magnum photographers and young, emerging documentary photographers. Images from the renowned Magnum Photos archive will also be projected within the truck setting to illuminate the interior worlds of the characters.
By using art as a tool for social engagement, Magnum Foundation hopes to engage audiences in the broader socio-political context of the immigration issue. See below for ways to get involved and take action.
Campaigns & Resources
1. BORDER DEATHS AND ENFORCEMENT
a. receive updates from the border network for human rights: www.bnhr.org
b. get involved:
www.nomoredeathsvolunteers.org/werejectracism.htm
www.derechoshumanosaz.net/projects/arizona-recovered-bodies-project/
c. donate to: www.borderangels.org/
d. contact your elected officials to discuss immigration reform that addresses the unintended consequences of increased border enforcement.
2. DETENTION AND DEPORTATION
a. advocate for the elimination of the quota:
http://detentionwatchnetwork.org/
b. support the national prison divestment campaign:
prisondivestment.wordpress.com/author/enlaceintl/
3. DUE PROCESS
a. support the ny immigrant family unity project:
First state-wide universal representation program for detained immigrants facing deportation. nyifup@gmail.com
b. join the dignity not detention campaign to repeal mandatory detention and restore due process to immigration law. visit www.dignitynotdetention.org to read the 15 things you can do to stop mandatory detention.
c. join the campaign for prison phone justice: phonejustice.org
d. get involved with the accompany immigrant program: www.newsanctuarynyc.org/ or first friends visitation group: firstfriends2@juno.com
4. LABOR
a. advocate for raising the minimum wage:
The Center for Economic and Policy Research published an analysis that if the federal minimum wage had kept up with increased rates in worker productivity it would have stood at nearly $22/hr today.
b. contact your elected officials
to discuss co-sponsorship of legislation that will raise the minimum wage and tie it to the rising cost of living.
www.raisetheminimumwage.com/pages/new-york-state
www.raisetheminimumwage.com/pages/fair-minimum-wage-act-of-2013
c. drop the i-word: Take the pledge to not call people ‘illegals.’Colorlines.com/droptheIword
d. support the nyc-based ‘paid sick time act’:
www.timetocareny.org/nyc/
DREAMERS/NEXT GENERATION
a. get active with the ny state youth leadership council:Sign up for their newsletter www.nysylc.org/.
See ‘11 things you can do to help support the NY DREAM Act.’
www.nydreamact.org
b. contact your state elected officials to discuss co-sponsorship of the comprehensive NY DREAM Act, currently slated for June 2013.
c. sign the online ny dream act petition:
http://action.dreamactivist.org/nydreamact/
d. donate to NYS Youth Leadership Fund, The Dream
Activist Network, 67 Sueños, or other immigrant youth-
led organizations advocating for more inclusive reform.
Donate to a scholarship fund for undocumented students.
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Magnum Foundation Hits Photoville
Magnum Foundation participated in Photoville, a seven-day photography festival on the Brooklyn Waterfront. MF transformed two shipping containers into unique home-like galleries to enforce the project themes featured in Bruce Gilden’s No Place Like Home and Sim Chi Yin’s Rat Tribe.
Immersive Exhibition Design by Patricia Adler, http://patriciaadler.info/
Production Team:
Ben Gancsos
Emma Raynes
Mimi Schiffman
Jacqueline Bao
Adrian Fussell
Laurence Cornet
Rachel Brown
Amy Poueymirou
Emily Pederson
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The Magnum Foundation participated in Photoville, a seven-day photography festival on the Brooklyn Waterfront. MF transformed two shipping containers into unique home-like galleries to enforce the project themes featured. MF brought together Bruce Gilden’s No Place Like HOme: Foreclosures in America documenting the lives devastated by the recent housing crisis; and Sim Chi Yin’s Rat Tribe, exposing the world of Beijing’s migrants living underground. MF’s involvement in Photoville was made possible through the generous support of the Compton Foundation, Open Society Institute, and Panta Rhea Foundation.
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DayLight Magazine recaps Photoville
The Magnum Foundation presented two exhibitions examining the meaning of home, featuring EF grantee Bruce Gilden and HR fellow Sim Chi Yin.
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Emily Schiffer
MotherJones, There Grows the Neighborhood
MotherJones published in print images from Emily Schiffer’s Securing Food in Chicagoland in their July/August 2012 issue.
But considering Emily Schiffer’s photos, I was reminded of Mother Teresa’s visit to a housing project on Chicago’s West Side in the mid-1980s. What rattled her was not the poverty of the pocket-book. She’d seen worse in India. Rather, it was what she called ‘the poverty of the spirit.’”
The article will be online in July. We will keep you posted!
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EVENING OF WITNESS, THE VALUE OF WATER
Value of Water event, hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was a wonderful evening of readings, photography and film at St. John’s Cathedral. Narratives from the Voice of Witness book series were read by noted actors and activists with visual interventions by Magnum Photos photographers Paolo Pellegrin, Thomas Dworzak, Chris Steele Perkins, and Dominic Nahr.
(Source: fotofestival-hannover.de)
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