About The Project
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<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Leading up to December 18, designated “International Migrants Day” by the United Nations, Immigrant Movement International and its partner organizations are mobilizing <strong>a</strong><strong>rtists, immigrants, activists, and interested members of the public across the globe</strong> to develop projects related to the issues and experience of migration. Through these actions, we aim to help highlight the fact that human migration is an increasingly central phenomenon of contemporary global existence, and to assert and promote the fundamental human rights and dignity of migrants and their families. </span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">A Filipina domestic worker in Hong Kong, a Bangladeshi construction worker in Dubai, a Mexican day laborer in Los Angeles, a Chinese scientist in Toronto, an Algerian philosopher in Paris and a Cuban artist working in New York might not have race, language or religion in common. But the contemporary migrant challenges traditional notions of identity -- often based solely on commonalities in nationality or culture -- and instead points us to a new shared experience of migration itself. Each of these human beings has crossed borders to a new environment where their basic human rights are often minimally recognized, where their contribution to society is sometimes undervalued, and where they are not invited to feel "at home." </span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">We -- Immigrant Movement International, Creative Time, and the Queens Museum of Art -- call on artists, immigrants, activists, and other interested participants to stand up and take action in response to International Migrants Day. Let us act in recognition of the concept of transnational migrants as a “global class” united across continents and cultures by common political and social conditions as well as by the human experience of being a migrant. By engaging people across the globe, we hope to promote understanding of the specificity of local migration issues and the political interconnectedness across nations and regions that migration engenders. </span></p>
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<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- We invite artists, curators, activists, organizers, and any member of the public who would like to be involved to propose and create an artwork, art project, and/or public or private action of any scale or format in relation to immigrant issues and migrant rights.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- Participants are encouraged to organize and carry out an action in their area that engages with the context of local immigrant issues. </span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- In addition to or in lieu of carrying out an original action, participants can also join the project by reading the Manifesto of Immigrant Rights, publicly or in solitude, on December 18 at 2PM local time and then documenting the reading and sharing via a report on this site. </span></p>
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<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">- On December 18, the global actions will unfold in real time for 24 hours and are trackable via the world map on the home page of this site. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>For questions email united@immigrant-movement.us</strong></p>
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<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 15px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">INVITACIÓN ABIERTA PARA ACCIONES</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">El día 18 de Diciembre, designado por las Naciones Unidas como el "Día Internacional del Migrante", vamos a movilizar a los artistas y productores culturales alrededor del mundo, para desarrollar proyectos relacionados con experiencias y temas en torno a la migración. Por medio de acciones artísticas queremos ayudar a resaltar la migración humana como un fenómeno central y de gran crecimiento en la existencia global contemporánea y a la vez reafirmar y promover los derechos humanos fundamentales, tales como la libertad y dignidad de los inmigrantes y sus familias. </span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Una empleada domestica Filipina en Hong Kong, un constructor/obrero Bangladés en Dubái, un jornalero Mexicano en Los Ángeles, un científico Chino en Toronto, un filosofo de Alergia en Paris y una artista Cubana trabajando en Nueva York pueden no tener una raza en común. Pero los inmigrantes contemporáneos retan las nociones de identidad tradicionales basadas en una nacionalidad común y nos indican una nueva experiencia compartida y una nueva condición migrante en si misma. Cada uno de estos seres humanos ha cruzado fronteras hacia un nuevo ambiente donde sus derechos humanos básicos a menudo no son reconocidos en su totalidad, donde su contribución a la sociedad a veces es menospreciada y donde no son invitados a sentirse en casa. </span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Nosotros, El Movimiento Inmigrante Internacional, Creative Time y el Queens Museum of Art, hacemos un llamado a los artistas a levantarse y actuar en respuesta al Día Internacional del Migrante. Actuemos en reconocimiento del concepto de inmigrantes transnacionales como una "clase global" unida a través de continentes y culturas, tanto por condiciones políticas y sociales, como por la experiencia humana de ser un inmigrante. Mediante la participación de artistas alrededor del mundo, esperamos promover el entendimiento de temas específicos de migración local y la interconexión política que la migración genera a través de regiones y naciones. Si bien grupos en pro de los derechos humanos y los medios de comunicación han participado en las actividades del 18 de Diciembre, es nuestro sentir, que los artistas tienen herramientas comunicativas únicas, valiosas y útiles en este esfuerzo. Es hora de hacer un llamado a todos los artistas en pro de esta importante causa. </span> </p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA PARA ACCIONES</strong></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- Invitamos a artistas, curadores, activistas, organizadores, y todo miembro del público que quiera participar en la propuesta y creación de una obra, proyecto artístico, y/o acción públic o privada, en cualquier escala o formato, relacionada con temas de inmigración y derechos del inmigrante.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- Incentivamos a los participantes a organizar y ejecutar una acción que aborde el contexto local de temas inmigrantes de su área.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- Además de o en lugar de llevar a cabo una acción original, los participantes también pueden unirse al proyecto leyendo de manera publica o privada, el Manifiesto de Derechos del Inmigrante, el día Diciembre 18 a las 2 pm hora local, y luego documentando y compartiendo la lectura por medio de este sitio web.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- Los participantes deben confirmar su participación en el proyecto registrando su nombre y locación en este sitio web, y proporcionando una descripción de su acción planeada para el 18 de Diciembre. Incentivamos a los participantes a registrarse con antelación al 18 de Diciembre para así compartir su acción planeada con una audiencia global e inspirar a otros a participar en la convocatoria también.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- Después de pre-registrarse, los participantes llevaron a cabo sus acciones a las 2 pm hora local, documentaran las acciones y subirán sus reportes post-acción en el mapa global.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 180px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; line-height: 20px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">- El día 18 de Diciembre todas las acciones globales serán develadas en tiempo real por 24 horas serán rastreadas por medio del mapa globa en la pagina principal de este sitio web. </span></p>
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