MIKE ALEWITZ: LABOR SOLIDARITY HAS NO BORDERS



Photo © Robin Dunitz

Date
1990

Location
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
6120 South Vermont Ave. (between 61 st and 62nd streets)
Los Angeles

Media Notes
Acrylic, 42' x 12'
Alewitz was assisted by Juan Garcia, Mauricio Cabrera, Elden Bookhart, and Lydia Velasquez.

Description

Working people of different nationalities are shown heading from Los Angeles to the well-fortified U.S.-Mexican border. They are determined to break down the border in order to unite the workers on both sides. Meanwhile, bosses from various local industries watch in horror as their profits are threatened. A green slimy monster, symbolizing the system of international capitalism, tries to guard the wealth created by its workers but owned by their employers.

This library was founded in 1963 to preserve books and other materials related to such progressive causes as the labor, peace, women's and other movements for social justice.


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