Chon Noriega: Art Helps Us Focus and Shift

“There´s really been no successful social or political movement that didn´t have the arts as a foundation for sharpening and circulating its message,” says Chon Noriega. Those pushing Prop 187, he says painted immigrants as taking away jobs, money, public services from citizens. Artists showed immigrants to be contributors to the economy, people who belong here and have a voice.