Justin's Anti violence/racism stickers

Yari

My sticker was made for the awareness of foster care abuse across the country and many other nations. Many may think that foster care may the best place for children who are taken by the state from abusive and neglect or just troubled homes. But little do they know that they may have made problems worse by putting them in the hands of abusive foster parents. I would like to dedicate this sticker the organizations who are making our foster social workers and case workers aware of such circumstances that happen within the foster care system and allowing them to see the bigger picture beyond their clipboard and foster child papers and references and into the homes they feel secure to put them into.

Veranika McGhee

These are some of the services that help and protect any type of animal for home animals to wild animals.

All these gas companies cause oil spills and they don't know how much it hurts us and the animal that live in them 

Global warming. Increased temperature will affect ecosystems and humans.

Save the big cats. Increased poaching affects the well being of big cats in the wild.

Isair

For this sticker I tackled gender inequality, and how we all need to work together to fight for equality. Men and Women should be treated equally and the only to way to begin the fight for equality is to start with yourself. The side with the woman is colored blue, while the side the side with the man is colored pink (along with other gender equality symbols) are used to represent the breaking of gender stereotypes.

Police brutality is a current issue which can be seen throughout the news. I wanted to emphasize the corruption in the world of law enforcement using the officers standing in line above a group of scared teens, along with one officer with a banner reading "do you feel safe?" to represent the inability to stand up to these uniformed villains. The phrase "who can protect us now?" represents how corruption in our very justice system means that we are truly left vulnerable.

Illegal Immigration and immigration policies are very important subjects in our current society. Illegal Immigrants are treated like criminals and many politicians work very hard to throw out people merely chasing the american dream which is the very basis of our country. The combination of the U.S'. and Mexican flag represent the families who feel ties to both nations yet are chained by their lack of a passport and social security card (mere pieces of paper that negate them any rights), "my dreams are not illegal" is the cry for our government to realize that these people are simply looking for a better life and thus should not be treated like prisoners.

Substance and Alcohol abuse is something I have seen throughout my life. The clouds represent the negativity which leads to the abuse, but the rays of light overpower these cloud, "there is hope" means that there is always a hope for life to get better. I wanted people to know that they should never give up, and should never resort to substance abuse, because there is always hope.

Religious conflicts can be seen all over the world and still affect our world today. The mixture of colors and religious symbols over one face represents how religion should bring us together instead of breaking us apart. Each person has their part to play and as long as everyone tries to get along then religion can be a beautiful thing.

Jocelyn Bermudez .

Human trafficking is a scary thing and we have to try and make it stop before it gets out of hand 

Our future depends on us and if we keep damaging it it will never fix 

We seem to be killing animals like nothing and we might just end up not having any in our future 

This sticker shows how most of our animal are becoming extinct and how maybe kids in the future won't even know what the simplest animals were like an elephant or a tiger 

If we continue to damage our air we won't have anything alive anymore everything would just be dead and dry 

Sticker blog -Yvette Luera

My stickers represent various of issues occurring around the world, such as fracking, gender pay gap, and muslim stigma. Fracking is drilling underground for oil, while as it sounds harmless, it can contaminate water. This can result in a lot of health issues. Gender pay gap has been a long-term issue for women. They still struggle to make as much as man. Muslim stigma is a big issue today. We label every Muslim to be a terrorist and they face discrimination all the time. I hope to bring awareness to these problems and have people strive to fix them.

Arriel Wilkins- Stickers

It's weird that we always seem to put enough money on our Ventra cards the day before, but when we tap them on the CTA it always seems to say "insufficient fare" . Ventra isn't a sufficient way to conduct payment for public transportation.

People are born with freedom of religion. It isn't right for ISIS to take that freedom away from anyone. This is one of the biggest problems of the world right now.

Everyone's life matters no matter which way that you decide to live it. Hate crimes against those who are interested in the same sex are wrong. They're life is worth just as much as anyone else's. 

Crime is one of the biggest problems in the city of Chicago at the moment. People die everyday because of gun violence. Children are being killed daily because of gun crimes. An end must be put to this.

Stickers (Yessenia Gonzalez)

This sticker represents gun violence and how we need to put an end to it. There are people who illegally own guns and they go out and murder innocent people. Guns are used like toys, just for entertainment. They pull the trigger and don't even think about how they might be leaving someone without a parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, daughter, son. 

This picture represents police brutality. As we have seen on the news there has been a lot of incidents when police beat innocent people almost to death. We've also seen that police have killed innocent men. This is basically sending a message for the police to stop using extreme force and hurting us, basically telling them to handle situations the right way. 

The message that I'm trying to get across with this sticker is to spread bullying awareness. Bullying is something that's becoming very common with young kids at school. It's a subject that really needs to be out there so people know that it exists and that it could be happening to their children. And to the children that are getting bullying, those messages on the sides of the sticker are for them, to influence them to stand up for themselves. 

Gang Violence (Eduardo)

Cps

Stickers- Mitzi Zepeda

This sticker focuses on how people should stop abusing animals. We observe animals abuse but people don't prevent it. It's sad how animals are hurt and no one helps them because they think the animals will harm them. 

A certain percentage of the world is in world hunger. It's sad how especially children are starving to death. There are a lot of people homeless and are hungry,but some people are selfish and don't help them.

Nicole Trinidad Sticker Collection

My sticker collection is to fight against sexual harassment and empower women to be able to fight back and just overall be powerful. I'm trying to express the idea that women should be able to "fight back" and not be suppressed anymore. This issue is very important because many women feel as if they shouldn't stand up for themselves so to encourage them to do so is important and necessary. 

Stop the violence- emilyn Gutierrez

My sticker focuses on police brutality. It shows how police can cause just as much violence as everyone else. It shows how police use violence against people when they aren't even doing anything, in some cases it's just protests people are doing and the police use violence against them. This is to show and to let people know how some police can be causing more bad than good and how this violence needs to stop! 

Karina Nicole Arciga - Sticker collection

My first message for my first sticker is that CPS BATHROOMS ARE DIRTY AND GROSS! Many people see my finished pieces and they ask why it is so graphic but I always say sometimes things have to be graphic so people can understand, and I want people to understand that CPS bathrooms are gross. The second sticker is on injustice on immigrants. The man is kind of faded if you notice you can't really see his face and I did that because people care about the food and the crops the immigrants work for but they don't care for the rights of an immigrant. My last sticker is on something I really care about and most of my art work that I do is on this topic. Schools Closing in Chicago. As we all know when Mayor Rahm Emmanuel was elected he decided it was "right" to close 53 CPS schools. From this moment, I have not supported anything he did or tries to do. He failed me as a Chicago citizen and I want him to realize people care. When schools close, it comes to destruction in an area and violence. We OBVIOUSLY DON'T NEED ANY MORE VIOLENCE. 

My True selfie-Jocelyn Bermudez

My True Selfie-Isair Carmen

My True selfie

Veranika McGhee

Arriel Wilkins (True Selfie)

My true selfie- Karina Arciga

My true selfie- Emilyn Gutierrez

My True Selfie-Mitzi Zepeda

My true Selfie - Desiree Fountain

My True Selfie - Nicole Trinidad

Ft. Tyler Dennen

My true selfie - Luis Gutierrez

Stereotype vs. True Self

Students have been discussing the issues they face when stereotyped. They feel judged, cornered, labeled, restricted. Students talked about sometimes finding stereotypes funny, sometimes feeling angry. They discussed when they themselves stereotype others. They talked about how often it depends on WHO is looking at them. Different people, from different places may stereotype them in different ways.

Isair: "When people from other neighborhoods hear I am from Little Village, they assume I am a gang banger and thug. When people in my own neighborhood see me, they assume I am a nerd. I am neither."

They brainstormed the kinds of stereotypes they have faced in their experiences and compared that to their concepts of the TRUE SELF, who they know they really are as a complex human being.

Here are their mind maps: