For Immediate Release
June 25, 2018 Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jess Cherofsky
Jess@cs.org
For Immediate Release
June 25, 2018 Cambridge, MA
Contact: Jess Cherofsky
Jess@cs.org
Migrants and asylum seekers are protected by international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law. We believe that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what their country of citizenship, their country of residence, their legal status, ethnicity, or their economic conditions. International human rights law was created to protect the most vulnerable populations, and the United States has a moral and legal obligation to uphold those standards and to treat with dignity any human beings fleeing conditions of violence and economic injustice.
Cultural Survival Condemns the Trump Administration’s Policy of Separating Families at the Border
The Department of Homeland Security reported on June 15, 2018, that the Trump administration separated 1,995 children from the adults they were traveling with at the U.S. border between April 19 and May 31.
Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez was shot and killed by border patrol after crossing the border in Laredo, Texas on May 23, 2018. The border patrol agent who fired the shot fatally wounding Gomez Gonzalez remains on administrative leave.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jess Cherofsky // 617.441.5400 x 15 // jess@cs.org
Scents and Patterns of Madagascar and Peru Travel to Tiverton
Cultural Survival Bazaar draws art, makers, and music from dozens of cultures
Role: The Summer Bazaar Artist Liaison is a temporary job opportunity in July 2018 to coordinate the approximately 10-15 Indigenous artists participating in Cultural Survival's Indigenous Artisan Institute and to provide support to Cultural Survival staff during the two summer Bazaars. The person in this role will be the primary liaison with the artists and will be in regular communication with Bazaar staff.
President Trump illegal decision to shrink the Bears Ears Monument on December 5, 2017, reversing the Obama administration’s designation of Bears Ears as a National Monument in Utah, is an attack on Tribal sovereignty and self-determination and a measure that is continuing the Trump administration’s discriminatory treatment of Native Peoples in the United States.