Self Help Graphics, East Los Angeles’ venerable institution dedicated to Chicano art, printmaking and grassroots community arts in general, was closed on June 7th, 2005. The artistic heart of Chicano LA beats no more. Amazingly enough, it was the organization’s own "Board of Directors" that closed the doors of SHG to the public, changed the locks on the building to bar staff and artists from entering, and locked-up the parking lot used by visitors and community members alike.
Weblog story:
Self Help Graphics Finished?
by Mark Vallen (Photo by www.harrygamboajr.com),
Reports:
PROTEST CLOSURE OF CHICANO ART CENTER
by SHAC,
Protest to Save Self Help Graphics
by Califaztlan
It was a few minutes after 9:00, and it was already clear that Joe, determinedly grinning, and his ragtag crew from Save Our State had lost their effort to stop Alhambra Home Depot shoppers from supporting the store's hiring practices. What wasn't clear was why the police let most of the Alhambra and Los Angeles counter-demonstrators stand behind and on either side of the small Ventura group, as well as across the street, for more than an hour. Thirty Alhambra, Monterey Park, and Glendale police lined up along Morengo Street facing both groups on the sidewalk, those complaining about Home Depot's community-based hiring practices in front and those supporting it directly behind them and to spilling along the sidewalk on either side
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UPDATES:
Statement on Alhambra by SGVNPJ,
Pasadena Star-News gets Alhambra Protest story 100% wrong by A
REPORTS: Alhambra: And Then They Came by Leslie
PHOTOS:
Photos from Anti-SOS/MM protest
by A,
Pictures from Alhambra SOS Counter Protest
by Was actually there,
SOS Takes a Lot of Heat by Marcus,
Protest Part 2
by Was actually there,
Pic's from warm up to BP2
by RP,
Photos From Alhambra by Johnny
VIDEOS:
Video from Alhambra Counter-protest by A,
Alhambra Video by Marcus
Closure of Chicano Art Center
