OUR NEIGHBORS MARKER PROJECT
Amilado Press in collaboration with Alexandra Beaumont and Angela Tillges developed the “Our Neighbors Marker Project” to center and humanize the people taken by I.C.E. as it continues operations across the state of Minnesota.
These people are not numbers—they are Our Neighbors, Our Friends, Our Sisters, Our Children, Our Uncles, Our Co-Workers….
Their absence, whether brief or prolonged in detention, impacts us deeply as a community.
Minnesota artists Lynda Grafito and Genessis Lopez created a series of community markers that allow individuals or groups to personalize signs and post them publicly, visualizing the impact I.C.E. abductions have on all our communities.
Community members are welcome to pick up free markers and post them publicly alongside ongoing mutual aid, community support, and recovery actions. Download the free graphics to print and distribute in your community.
Contact Amilado Press to become an “Our Neighbors Marker Project” distribution hub.
Download Graphics Designed by Genessis Lopez
Download Graphics Designed by Lynda Grafito
TAKE ACTION / HOW TO USE THIS MARKER (sign)
Individual Action:
Choose a marker design or downloadable graphic
Fill in the relationship or name of a person taken by ICE. The goal is to humanize individuals impacted, without jeopardizing their safety.
Post the sign in a publicly visible space. Your personal or business property, at a major traffic intersection.
Connect your marker to actions: ongoing mutual aid, community support, and recovery activities locally.
Community Action:
Gather a group
Download graphics and choose a marker design
Fill in the relationship or name of a person taken by ICE. The goal is to humanize individuals impacted, without jeopardizing their safety.
Post the sign in a publicly visible space. Your personal or business property, at a major traffic intersection, in a park, at your school or faith space.
Connect your marker to action: ongoing mutual aid, community funds, and recovery activities locally.
A community action can be a useful tool for groups:
that are already connected to front line work and mutual aid efforts.
public organizations (schools, faith places, neighborhood organizations)
Benefits of a community action:
Creates a communal, reflective moment to process
Strengthens groups connected to frontline work and mutual aid efforts
Engages public organizations (schools, faith groups, neighborhood organizations)
When posted en masse, the markers form a public memorial honoring individuals impacted by ICE.
Minnesota-Based Distribution hubs
visit a distribution hub to pick up a Printed sign
Twin Cities:
Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center
788 E 7th Street
St. Paul, MN
@indigeroots
West Side Community Organization
@wsconow
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
1011 S Washington Ave, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN
@mnbookarts
Statewide:
The 410 Project
523 South Front Street
Mankato, MN
@410project_communityart
La Zacatecana
740 11th St E
Glencoe, MN
Springboard for the Arts, Fergus Falls
201 W Lincoln Ave
Fergus Falls, MN
@springboardarts
Twin Ports Rapid Response
Duluth, MN
