"Each evening, drivers on the busy 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles pass billboard-size portraits of Angelenos that flash across the side of a building with a simple message next to their faces: Am I Next? Three Los Angeles institutions have teamed up to launch a response to federal immigration raids in the nation's second-largest city, projecting illuminated images of everyday LA residents in support of the thousands of community members who have been detained this year."
"It also asks the question: if fellow residents are arrested without consideration of constitutional rights, then who is really safe? I carry my passport around, which I never imagined as a native Angeleno, said Miguel Santana, president and chief executive of California Community Foundation, or CalFund. I know people who are afraid to leave their homes, who don't go shopping at Home Depot because it doesn't matter if you're a US"
Billboard-size black-and-white portraits of Angelenos are projected nightly on downtown Los Angeles buildings with the message 'Am I Next?' The California Community Foundation, LA Plaza Cultura y Artes and the Japanese American National Museum launched the protest art project in response to federal immigration raids that detained thousands this year. The projections present brief vignettes under the label 'Taken' describing people accosted and snatched from buses, homes, workplaces and streets by federal agents. The campaign addresses fear and trauma from a militarized enforcement approach and questions who remains safe when constitutional rights are overlooked.
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