Hundreds of Chicagoans gathered in Federal Plaza on Dec. 5 to protest a new policy proposal by the Trump administration, which states immigrants who are receiving public benefits such as Medicaid and housing assistance can be denied green cards.
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A recent White House policy proposal to ban Chinese students from U.S. campuses might cost Chicago millions of dollars and numerous jobs, estimates indicate. The proposal, raised by President Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller, who is famous for promoting hardline immigration policy, aimed to stop issuing student visas to Chinese nationals, Financial Times reported in October.
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During Orlenda Caseres’ two-month journey in 1995, she crossed borders between four countries: Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. Caseres, 19 at that time, walked for most of the time, and sometimes swam or “traversed the desert,” as she said. But the danger and expense were worthwhile. In her home country, like other Hondurans, she was struggling to live.
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In 2016, the world was horrified by a photograph of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh caked in dust and blood while riding in the back of an ambulance after a drone strike in Syria. For Catherine Edelman, the emotions sparked by the photograph laid bare both the potential and shortcomings of photography and art as tools to end violence, displacement and war
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The screech of a train, the ring of paleta-cart bells and the chatter of children—these sounds define Pilsen in the summer. And artist Amanda Gutiérrez is listening to every sound the neighborhood has to offer. She has called Pilsen, a neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago, home for over 15 years. “I feel very emotionally and historically attached to this neighborhood,” she said.
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The trauma she experienced during the Second Intifada continues to haunt Mary Hazboun, a 34-year-old Palestinian artist and folk singer from Bethlehem. She’s now channelled some of her pain into an art project titled “The Art of Weeping.”
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By Jack C. Doppelt Beneath the surface of our wrenching national conversation in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, school
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