Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)
Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.
Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.
For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.
Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.
So proud that my work is on the wall of my favorite museum, declaring that good things happen when people act in solidarity. honolulumuseum.org/mari-matsuda...
“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)
The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...
Everything old is new again: Ben Sakoguchi, "World War III Brand," from the Orange Crate series, 1974-81. Sakoguchi, now 87 years old, is a Japanese American artist who was interned with his family in Arizona during WWII. Based in Southern California, he has been steadily making work since the 1960s
