CPS: Chicago's Problomatic Sanitation - Nicole Trinidad

The issue within CPS schools is how sanitation and the overall cleanliness has been disregarded by CPS and the new company they hired. We need this to stop! How can they expect us to do well when they can't even treat us decently? We are being treated unfairly just to be fit enough for the students and the community! -Nicole Trinidad

Posted on a board in Curie Metro High School at a stair intersection 

Brenda Roman--Survival

This Zine is meant to explain the struggle to have money for stuff you need. It shows financial problems in different situations. In my case I am struggling to go to college. It sucks how some people have to work extra hard for money; among those people there's my dad and my brother. I want people to know that it's not easy out there in the real world. We're all competing to get what we want but so e of us have it easier.

Veranika McGhee "Predator OR Prey"

POACHING
I believe it is bad to kill animals in Wildlife, we need to STOP the Slaughter because we are reducing species thus becoming the destroyer of the animal kingdom.

Cover

Save The Big CATS

Protect the Elephants

Yvette Luera- Silence and Negligence

Artist Statement:
The purpose is to talk about drug abusers. I mention how they are usually shunned by society. The reaction I hope to get from this is to have people try to reach out to help those struggling with this battle instead of turning their backs on the just because of labels society might put on them. If you are looking for help in dealing with this, SAMHSA helps with finding treatment facilities close to you. The link is http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/.

Zine Distribution

Kevin Najera - How Discrimination Affects Not Only Our World But You As well

Artist Statement: The issue I am talking about is discrimination, particularly, racial discrimination. I think that racial discrimination is a major issue in today's society. Unfortunately, I don't think racial abuse will ever go away. But we can make a difference. I want people to understand how people suffer when they are racially abused. I want people to actually start imagining how people are constantly being neglected due to their color or back round. I want people to actually make a difference and actually start doing something.

(Placed my zine in a locker at the gym)

Drug Abuse zine by Yari Molina

Artist statement: The things drugs do to yo and those around you; what they make you do and how dignity, respect, and lives are lost forever. I'm against drugs, even if I understand why people do them, but there's always a way to get way from them. I want people to understand the harm not only do to themselves but those close around them and how people really see them after they've committed this mistake of drug abuse.




Poem:

“Children of the Drugs”

Drug abuse isn’t something surprising where I live

Kids get peer pressured to do before they even get to understand the world around them

They get sucked into fantasies no one tells them that they’re not real

‘Til it’s too late…

Ever day families are torn apart

Parents sent to jail

And kids cry in foster homes

Because meth took mommy and daddy away

Like once on a TV. Broadcast there was this 12-year-old girl who was taken from parents addicted to meth into a foster home and was interviewed about what happened at home and she said, “My daddy would hit my mommy, there would be friends over from dad who did drugs, and they would talk to me and touch me and do things to me.”

Respect… Dignity lost because the “ bully” makes you go crazy after withdrawal of the sensation felt… They would do anything, anything, anything to get more… to feel that overpowering “good” vibrant sensation again. They’ll steal, sell themselves, put their families at risk, they’ll even murder to get it. Those family members of mine who are known to do so are shunned and are the bad examples and nobody wants them around.

Him…rest in peace…him…

We lost him through a murder…

For involving himself in something he shouldn’t be involved…

Substances and ignorance killed him…

He was a great person, funny too…

But ignorant…

Ignorant to the fact that the things he does, the things he consumes will get him killed…

And it did…

Those days were rough…

The media loves to lie and leave out things so no one feels bad about it…

But I did… we all did, there was endless mourning, I heard and saw the “careless” people cry… for the first time… His cheeks were soft yet swollen…swollen with the ignorance that killed him… trapped in the hospital air… I felt and still feel confused thinking he’s still here…but when I walk around…he’s not…I felt empty and feel disappointed how the media only talked about his bad but never all the good…

Drugs…drugs and ignorant stupidity yet stubbornness took him away from our puzzle piece we call life…

Drug abuse may seem nothing to many but to me it’s a factor that made me lose one too many… done…

Yeah, you’re addicted, you want more, more and more.. but can you stop? Of course… just remember you’re not just harming yourself, you’re harming the ones truly close to you…better now before it’s too late…just know every drug you take that isn’t a prescribed direction by an actual doctor is a couple steps closer to your body dumped somewhere for you to rot away…like the others around you that are doing the same…

Distributed to my therapist's office on Christmas Eve 2014 (will get pictures of her next to it c: )

WHATZA ZINE!?

Short for magazine or fanzine, zines are self-publications, motivated by a desire for self-expression, not for profit.

https://zines.barnard.edu/definition

Guerrilla artists don't follow the status quo, unless it works for them. 

Guerrilla artists make the change that they want to see. 

Guerrilla artists are revolutionaries.

Guerrilla artists respond to the world.

Guerrilla artists create art FOR the world and their communities.

Guerrilla artists from our class are now tackling a project which focuses on issues that affect their own community or the larger community of our nation and world. Each student has decided on an issue and will create a zine to respond to this issue in a way that is accessible to our local community. These will be distributed in three different places (our school, the library, and the student's choice) so that others can see the incredible work that they have done and connect to these issues in a unique way.

I will leave you with my own cover and a few pages of a Zine I have created addressing the issue of dehumanization of people who are homeless and the issue of panhandling in Chicago.

Ms. Love