As violence against immigrants and peaceful protesters by federal immigration agents roils Minneapolis, more than 500 people recently gathered in Los Angeles to decry the authoritarian attacks and plan a collective path of resistance.
A new immersive art exhibition commemorates the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles wildfires by inviting visitors to walk alongside fire survivors and experience their stories through interactive art, music and video.
The phoenix stood tall in fiery colors, as it set off atop a float in the famous Rose Parade® on New Year’s Day – symbolically conveying to a worldwide audience that survivors of the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires are rising up together.
In a mass public campaign to stand with them and hundreds of other neighbors taken in immigration raids, the California Community Foundation and other prominent institutions are projecting their stories and photographs of Angelenos who support them onto their buildings in billboard-sized, illuminated images.
