All across the United States today, students walked out of their classes from 10:00 to 10:17 am, to remember the 17 people who were killed at the Parkland shooting, and to protest gun violence in our country. These kids walked out of their school in my neighborhood of Jackson Heights. #endgunviolence #walkout #gunreformnow
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My reportage illustrations of the NYC rally against the immigrant ban have been published in the May/June issue of Spirituality & Health. The drawings are illustrating an article titled Being Honorable by Brady Kiesling, who writes about his decision to leave the state department after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and his thoughts on the first attempted Executive Order […]
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Saturday, March 25 at noon there will be a rally: People For Free Press! The group will meet at the Bryant Park Library and march to the offices of the New York Times. See info HERE. I can’t join them on site, but decided to do a reportage-inspired illustration to mark the event. Congress shall make no […]
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This reportage illustration is from a rally in front of the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village recently. The community came out in support of the trans-gender kids that will be affected by the new administration’s position rescinding protections that had allowed transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. […]
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As today is the day after Mardi Gras, I thought it was an appropriate time to post these drawings made at the New Orleans Jazz Funeral for the Presidency. The event, put together by the group Rise & Resist in Greenwich Village, NY and other critics of the current administration, was a mock funeral for the […]
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Last Sunday, organizers put together a rally in New York’s Times Square, titled: “Today, I am a Muslim Too.” The rally was set up as an a-political event in support of the large Muslim population of NYC. As an entry for so many immigrants for so many years (See: Ellis Island post here) this city is […]
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“We want clean air!” was one of the many cries heard in midtown Manhattan at lunch hour today, outside the offices of Senator Charles Schumer. The hour-long event, co-sponsored by Food and Water Watch was a rally to “urge Schumer to resist Trump’s anti-environmental agenda.” (FB link and full sponsor list HERE) I arrived to see a […]
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March and Rally: We Will End the Refugee and Muslim Ban! Last Sunday in Battery Park, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, New Yorkers came together to support their immigrant population. On Friday evening, Pres. Trump had signed the executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for 120 days, and on refugees […]
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They came pouring in from all over the country. Women and their male allies converged on Washington DC this past Saturday to let the new President Trump know: We Are Here, And We’re Not Going Anywhere! It was an amazing reportage opportunity, of course, but it was more than that: It was history in the […]
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Monday, December 12, was a march and boycott strike to protest the presidential election, organized by the Nationwide Women and Allies. In New York City, the (mostly) women marched from Columbus Circle to Trump Tower, and, despite my busy schedule, and the rainy day, I decided to march with them. As I exited the subway at the Trump International hotel in […]
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