Voice of Art - Migration Is Beautiful, Pt. 1

Meet powerhouse artist/activist Favianna Rodgriguez -- a leading voice in the movement of artists raising awareness about U.S. immigration issues. Favianna is a co-founder of both Presente.org and Culture Strike, two groups pushing back against the wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and legislation that has recently swept the nation. Pulitzer Prize winning author Jose Antonio Vargas explains the ironies of anti-immigration hysteria in a country founded by immigrants. Favianna participates in a visual campaign using the Monarch Butterfly as a symbol of the beauty and dignity of migrants.
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[@faviannarodriguez651]

Thank you everyone for the awesome comments and for sharing your ideas. I'm really excited about this piece!

[@beckywilliams3672]

These 3 videos literally brought me to tears. Keep doing what you're doing! x

[@mcelanov]

Kudos to Favianna. Bravery, beauty, and strength are things we need to see more often.

[@RazeOfficial]

Excelente!

[@closethesoa]

This three part series is fabulous! Art and activism is an effective combination that is able to reach people on a different level and moves them to take action. The problem is greed, exploitation and militarization.

[@elialucia95]

I didn't this existed until now. This is beautiful, we need more opened minded ppl like this in the world.

[@socialkittn]

So impressed and inspired by this episode. Please continue to do more like this. I know I had my own thoughts/ideas before watching this, and it completely blew my mind.

[@dane5120]

Large movements start with small steps. Bravo Favianna!

[@zapatenoch]

This is a beautiful video! José Antonio Vargas is fucking hilarious! I know I shouldn't even be reading all the hate comments, but I just recommend that you re/listen to José A.V.'s piece about being stuck in the same conversation. People are buying all that scapegoating crap because they're restricted to seeing only through the blinders of the today's laws and refusing to see the US's role in this situation. Not all laws are just; that's the whole point!

[@yhana20]

This is an amazing video! :) So much talent and such a great cause! Keep it up!!! :)

[@morganmarshall6556]

These also brought me to tears and i am not cryer. I was very surprised. Why are people begging for their rights in the streets, risking deportation and separation from their families here in the land of the FREE?

[@elizahcreates]

This needs to make a comeback like NOW!!! @iamother

[@Soul4eva1]

Thank you for the enlightment!

[@faqu529]

She is an amazing artist.

[@faviannarodriguez651]

Yes, immigration is just in one direction. As in coming "in". But migration is more about back and forth movement.

[@dirrrtyboyy]

Wow great piece.

[@faqu529]

This is a powerful video.

[@LanaAyirebi]

This is very powerful and inspiring and this we need more videos like this

[@cuteSMe1]

this is awesome i love art i love human will .. share this

[@rolo1052]

'Hipsters gonna hip'

[@PinkCoils]

even so people should all be treated alike.

[@musiconfire10]

Agreed!!!

[@SpaceMonkiiBob]

Fantastic

[@LoonyBees]

great video, really loved it.. :-)

[@artinthehead]

Art born out of the struggle for justice, equality, and against oppression is the most noble and important art one can involve oneself with. All the rest is fluff in my humble opinion.

[@Teufer2]

Imagine someone walks into your home uninvited. If you ask him. "Hey who the hell are you? This is my home! Get out out of here! The intruder starts screaming about being oppressed.

[@Mediaselectah]

beautifull message and excellent realization! keep it going you have our support too! _*_

[@GJB7733]

There's a difference between migration and invasion. I for one, don't want to pay more taxes for their food, shelter, healthcare or anything else they feel "entitled" to.

[@Alvarado20002009]

It is beautiful. Alicia

[@sarbarimou]

great

[@TheJlubi777]

Alright, now lets talk about Haitian migrants too!

[@malverdeculican]

Mi ingles esterrible pero lemando infinitas bendiciones mexico df.

[@Soul4eva1]

I am AFrican, and I am an immigrant. USA needs to change, and just accept immigration. pont blank.

[@Teufer2]

Oh screw you. Don't tell other countries what to do.

[@zapatenoch]

It was legal to own people before! remember? I would add that im/migration is also painful as shit, though. I'm a 2nd gen. immigrant (--which feels ridiculous to say with roots that go hundreds of generations deep into this continent. before there were even "borders") and I witness and experience the pain of having to separate from your home and family. My mom suffered 18 years of not seeing her brothers and sisters in México because she wanted me to have a chance at not being as exploited.

[@dccph]

It's worth researching the history of immigration laws. Yes, they are there for a reason, to keep out certain racial and ethnic groups -- also to make "illegal" immigration the only kind of viable migration option for certain groups, which helps to keep down wages and deny people their basic human rights.

[@NotGibby]

Part 2

[@ogsumi]

Pharell brought me here

[@QuetzalgirlJuarez]

keep it up hermana :)

[@claytonfreeman7780]

People want to go where they can find work,which is not a bad thing.America's stuck in the same question,what are the economic agreement?Lou Dobbs said we cannot reform immigration ifwe cannot control immigration. the quote is right in a way because if immigrants are coming over regardless of the law,how can you change the immigration laws if you already have nocontrol of immigrants and their illegal presence already.TheU.S is very stuffed when it come to immigration laws unlike their countries.

[@TheLampDancer]

Well I wouldn't say only Illegals do that. Many Americans do hit-and-runs. They just need to do things properly to ge their legal status. My grandpa did it.

[@koolgamer1221]

All this butterfly talk makes me want to listen to Kendrick Lamar's new Album "To pimp a Butterfly" lol Yall should check it out, it's amazing! God bless

[@QuetzalgirlJuarez]

Canada is going thew rough times at the moment ... ;(

[@grizzlyishful]

How can one not see the truth of this?

[@TheLampDancer]

they don't give it to them because they are un-documented. Many immigrants have became legal by working hard. Many Mexicans don't want to do the paperwork required. So in my opinion if they don't want to file the papers they do not get rights in America. I love the Mexican people, but if they want to be Americans they need to prove that they can abide by the laws that all Americans have too abide by.

[@swishablowa420]

AND there a difference between immigration and migration.

[@maginoo2007]

thank u for debunking the myths about immigrants...

[@jarojoe6938]

There's a difference between immigration and illegal immigration...

[@ronelaandallo]

Forgot about that dbag bellow me. I hate that the word hate is everywhere. Man this is like the Africans Americans vs the white Americans in 1950 - 1970. But worse with Latinos. I'm a Filipina and I agree that greed is the blame of this problem. But everybody is trying to get work so why doesn't America just get our jobs back and leave the other countries to do their own work.

[@bingramtube]

Dang . There sure are alot of racist haters. Personally I've found them to be hard working and easy to be around.

[@310sherryberry]

Justifying illegal immigration is stupid. Enough said.

[@jlh3092]

Some of these comment really show how fucked up America is.... Racism is alive and well. I support migration and I will share the Video

[@zapatenoch]

And her nostalgia lives in me too. I don't think it's fair that some of us have to make the choice between home/moms/brothers/sisters and not starve. It's ridiculous! I don't think it's okay for some people to be criminalized for aiming for a better future by working exploiting jobs only because they aren't permitted* legal status (whoever thinks people are undocumented because they don't want to do the paper work--BULLSHIT)

[@zapatenoch]

meanwhile others get away with exploitation because outsourcing, NAFTA and making millions in profit is* legal--written into the constitution by the great land-(and some slave-owning) founding fathers. And the effects of colonization of collective trauma and the legacy through an economic system that only makes some wealthy because others (i.e. colonized countries, historically ) are poor are whited out of the discussions and HISstory books as reasons for all this.

[@jayrobsah]

bt i kind of get why americans would be upset

[@KenGold666]

Japan or ancient China? ancient Egypt?

[@QuiiuQ82]

I have a question. I'm all for immigration. It's what makes America the country that it is, but what I'm trying to understand is why illegal immigrants won't become citizens when they do get here. It may sound like a stupid question but I feel if you came all this way and plan to stay why not take the steps to become a citizen? My friend claims its because they don't want to pay taxes but I don't believe that's true.

[@dccph]

No it's not. Enough said.

[@crazboy21]

OH and 1 we didnt start but a few wars we fought back to 2 NAFTA has nonthing to do with immigration stop naming points that are irrlavent and face it if you have a history of inhuman acts on your background then you cant be in the US its the rules follow it

[@crazy4u3]

reasons that are clearly posing problems

[@swishablowa420]

You aint gotta go to another county to migrate

[@adrianzavalza3502]

I disagree

[@swishablowa420]

Why did you delete my comment? I said this video is stupid. And thats my opinion. Why are denying me of that. Isn't that what you guys are against?

[@Bryana12ish]

I disagree with this video, this should be called "Illegal immigration is beautiful" because there would be no controversy on immigration laws if they did it legally. But the problem with this type of immigration has nothing to do with jobs, but it does raise poverty rates and which means even more money comes out of my check...but I think the way people talk about illegal immigrants is racist and no one deserves that type of treatment.

[@SpaceMonkiiBob]

Fantastic