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Yanira Castro
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Puerto Rican interdisciplinary, performance artist making work with the public.

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A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous and committed professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Letters to Dissenters is an action of CIRCLE UP: a group that gathers IRL & virtually to knowledge share, engage in action, & buoy dissenters with notes of gratitude. It’s a a good reminder to steel your spine. Third round: Rep Al Green, Maine Gov Janet Mills, Wesleyan Pres Michael S. Roth. Join us!
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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LFG! #teslatakedown GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION March 29

Every showroom in America
500+ around the world
Let's send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY
Plan an action or find one near you: teslatakedown.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The ACLU is suing the NEA for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first major legal challenge to controversial policy changes the agency has enacted since President Donald Trump took office.
ACLU Sues NEA for Enforcing Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Mandate
The suit argues that the federal art funding agency's new grant requirement violates the First Amendment in what may be the first major legal challenge to the controversial policy changes.
hyperallergic.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Here we go!❤️‍🔥
Full of gratitude for the theater and performance organizations who are taking this to the courts as a First Amendment issue with the @aclu.org. 👏👏👏
Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Gratitude Letters to Dissenters is an action of CIRCLE UP: a group that gathers to knowledge share, engage in actions, & buoy dissenters by sending notes of gratitude. It’s a real nervous system temperer. Second round: Danielle R. Sassoon, Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, AG Leticia James, Ron Vachris. Join us!
February 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Art community. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. We are in an existential moment. We are right to feel it. The ground HAS shifted. The future is not what we were planning for. And yes, it was fast. And yes, the whiplash hurts. But… we are here. And we know it. So, what the F? This is what I’m dreaming…
February 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@schumer.senate.gov We are out here in NYC with @indivisible.org asking you to hold the line. Why don’t you have a rep here to talk to us? We are your constituents. You need to hear us.

BLOCK. DELAY. OBSTRUCT.
NO ON VOUGHT.
Stop Musk’s power grab.
February 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights.

they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones
January 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Creatives Rebuild New York just released The Artist & Cultural Workers Bill of Rights to address labor concerns and systemic inequities. 👏👏👏
A New Framework for Enshrining Artists’ Rights - Creatives Rebuild New York
CRNY released The Artist and Cultural Workers Bill of Rights to address systemic inequities and labor concerns facing artists and cultural workers.
www.creativesrebuildny.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Last chance to see “Revenge Score: An Abbreviation of the Treaty of Paris 1898” at 21c Chicago Museum Hotel’s Gallery 3 conference room. Designed to the U.S. Gov Publishing Office Style Manual’s specs, this performance score “for americans” is printed on beach towels as official state documents.
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
New here. 👋
Sharing a project, Gratitude Letters to Dissenters (inspired by @evayaaasantewaa.bsky.social), that I’ve begun IRL w/ a group called CIRCLE UP. We gather to knowledge share, engage in actions, & we buoy dissenters by sending notes of gratitude. 1st up: Revd Mariann Edgar Budde. Join us!
January 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM