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Guerilla Bus Ads (2011)Guerilla bus ads promoting Immigrants, based on slogans crafted by Immigrants at Tania Bruguera's Immigrant Movement International project , and by people concerned by the influx of Immigrants to their neighbourhood. Part of a series of actions by Ghana ThinkTank related to Immigrants' situation in Queens, including passing cards for Police officers, and Legal Waiting Zones, all out of the Ghana ThinkTank Mobile Unit project at the Queens Museum of Art.
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We started by pairing slogans created at an Immigrant Movement International workshop with images of early Italian Immigrants to the USA, and set up focus groups around these images and slogans.
We then presented the same slogans again, but paired with Latino imagery, and once again discussed the meaning of the slogans. The workshops allowed us to bridge the Immigration experience between generations of Immigrants, and resulted in pro-Immigrant ads crafted by those same people who had issues with the new waves of Immigration in their communities.
We printed these ads to MTA Bus guidelines, and pasted them on several bus lines that connected the old and new waves of Immigrants in Corona.
On December 18, we re-staged the Advertisement Occupations in support of Immigrant Movement International's International Migrant Day Actions.
More photos of the Immigrant Promotion Campaign and related actions here.