SAVE THE DATES. Comunidad, Teatristas, Activistas, Artistas, Todxs – On the weekend of El Grito de la Independencia Mexicana, please join us in a public and collective outcry, to protest ICE's policies and to demand an end to the government-sanctioned unconscionable treatment de los (in)migrantes y refugiados of all ages.
“Mis Hijos! cries La Llorona, the Weeping Woman of Mexican myth and memory. “My children, where have you gone?” It is the turn into the 16thcentury. Prescient, La Llorona, our Indigenous mother, mounts the temple steps of Tenochtitlan and grieves aloud the loss of her Native México and its children. She knows what’s coming.
In the last weeks, as the horror of the separation of children from their asylum-seeking families along the southern border began to surface, outraged news pundits, protestors and congressmen alike retorted, “This is not America.” Among ourselves, the invisible—Native Americans, Latinos, working-class immigrants and their children, citizen and undocumented alike—we speak a different language. We don’t really
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