Plastic Jesus is the name of a Los Angeles-based street artist. Amid the U.S Presidential campaign of 2016 where Donald Trump pledged to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to halt illegal immigration, Plastic Jesus built his own version of a wall that surrounded Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood’s famous Walk of Fame…. Read more »
Category: Latin America & Caribbean
JR and Child Looking Over Border Wall
French street artist JR has been challenging the walls between people for a long time. He recently erected a massive image of a Latin American child looking over the U.S. border wall with Mexico. At a time when the U.S. policies toward immigration have include separating children from families and housing them in over-crowded detention… Read more »
Bob Marley
There may be no other musician as well known around the world as Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae singer. With his band The Wailers, Marley’s music took themes of jubilation and liberation with spiritual centeredness to almost every corner of the globe. He died at 36 from a form of melanoma, continuing his music and… Read more »
JOHN PAUL LEDERACH
“The primary practical task of those working for reconciliation is to help create the space where Truth, Mercy, Justice, and Peace can truly meet and thresh things out…We need to recognize all their concerns as proper, provide them with voices, respond to their fears and needs, and place them in an open and dialogical setting”… Read more »
PEDRO REYES
Mexican sculptor Pedro Reyes received guns, rifles and pistols disabled by the Mexican army. He melted them down and forged them into mechanical musical instruments which can be played by computer. He also collected over 1,500 guns and forged them into 1,500 shovels used to plant trees around the world. Reyes said, “It’s basically the… Read more »