Saturday, August 11, 2007

A Local Mural

This is what a Provincetown mural looks like. Across the street from this mural literally, I am painting about the decendents of the native peoples who today move back and forth across the border to put food on the tables of America still. Back at home, Ice raids conducted by Homeland Security are happening all over Los Angeles to deport undocumented workers who fuel our economy from their workplaces. The New York Times announced the new Homeland Policy to tighten up on agricultural workers despite the failure of the immigration bill. Agricultural workers will be taken out of the fields. Often in the raids, the real consequences are that mothers and fathers are deported and untended children are left at home.
A moment after I took this photo, the men who were posturing in front of the pilgrims posed next to a pilgrim grabbing his crotch. Somehow it seemed appropriate.
The authorities said that the deporting of a woman who had sought refuge in churches did not signal a crackdown on religious groups that help illegal immigrants.