Final Project! February 6 at Jacome Plaza

On February 6, 2008 the Kore Press Grrls Literary Activism Class took to the streets of downtown Tucson to spread hapiness to passerbys by handing out free cookies with messages written on them, valentines, and T-shirts with "peace and love" stenciled and spray painted. In part, this action was intended to counteract a anit-immigration activist spreading hateful messages during the lunch hour in Jacome Plaza. Read below about some of the community response.

Tucson Weekly Mention: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:106594

Rachel Villarreal from Voices Inc.:

Last week this guy, Alan Ward, from the Farmer's Market came by. You know how we saw the white banner in front of the anti-immigration guy, this was his statement. Apparently it worked and the anti guy was arrested b/c he got so out of control. He came by here wondering if the students who handed out the cookies wanted to come out again. He was really impressed with their activism and was hoping they could continue to be involved.

Teacher Kimi Eisele: Remember your "FREE HAPPINESS" act? Well, it worked.[...]your work got noticed.

You can read the writing and thinking these guerrilla grrls did throughout the 12 week class, including a sample artist statement (see Carrie's blog), by clicking on the class member blogs located on the right side of this page.