#luisamoreno

[gerardbillet]

The Great Wall de Judith Baca (suite). #california #tujungawash #coldwatercanyonavenue #burbankboulevard #thegreatwall #judithbaca #drcharlesdrew #mrslaws #davidgonzales #pacoima #zootsuitriots #luisamoreno #braceroprogram #jewishrefugees #babyboom #streetart #urbanart #artderue #arturbain #graffitiart #wallpainting #spraypaint #acrylicpainting #sparc #ɪɴsᴛᴀᴘɪᴄ #photoofthedays #losangelesmycity (à The Tujunga Wash) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cktp9ivry-K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[scenefromthesidewalk]

March 13, 2019

"THE GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES"

by Judy Baca

Begun in 1974 and originally painted over five summers, Sparc founder Judy Baca's 1/2 mile long masterpiece running along Coldwater Canyon Ave employed a diverse group of 400 youth and their families, working with a team of scholars and artists—including Isabel Castro, Yreina Cervantez, Judith Hernandez, Olga Munoz, Patssi Valdez, Margaret Garcia, Christina Schlesinger, Judy Chicago, and Gary Tokumoto. While many of our monuments glamorize the past, Baca's landmark, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, pays tribute to working people of California while also acknowledging a checkered history of injustices toward its women and minorities. The detail above tells the tale of Guatemalan immigrant Luisa Moreno, a labor movement activist who convened the first national Latino civil rights assembly in 1939.  @judy_baca/  @sparcinla/

[lesliexbryant]

starter for @luisamoreno​

“You wanna know something? I’ve always wanted to own a cow on my Pop’s little farm. I can tell you from the very beginning of working there as a kid that I begged him every year for one.” Leslie was rambling at this point, a flaw in his charm for when things were too silent for him. “Pop said that his land was good for horses and horses only so we’re thankful enough to have four right now. You ever ridden one before?”

[melaniecervantes]

#inktober drawing five is a portrait of Luisa Moreno. "Originally from Guatemala Luisa Moreno devoted herself to workers in the U.S. and their struggles for a decent life. In 1928 she began organizing expoloited workers in a Harlem sweatshop. There she came to know Puerto Rican socialists, and joined the Communist Party. She went on to organize Black and Latina workers in Florida and helped build a cigar workers union that had been terrorized by the Klu Klux Klan. She organized cane workers in New Orleans and then tuna packing workers in San Diego, becoming chief organizer of their union The United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America in 1938. That same year she helped organize the Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española with Josefina Fierro de Bright, and they became life long friends. She was elected the first Latina member of California CIO COuncil. Luisa was atttacked in the "Red Scare" and threatened with deportation is she did not testify against another lanbor organizer. She refused and was deported in 1950. After a stay in Mexico, she went to Cuba where she participated in the Revolution's early years. " from "500 Years of Chicana Women's History" by Betita Martinez She also organized the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, after the service men riots(so-called Zoot Suit Riots), to exonerate the indicted Pachuco youth. #luisamoreno #chapina #ethnicstudies #chingona #drawing #dignidadrebelde