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Yanira Castro

@acanarytorsi.bsky.social
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Puerto Rican interdisciplinary, performance artist making work with the public. acanarytorsi.org linktr.ee/acanarytorsi

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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A broad group of National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants have taken action with the "Bethesda Declaration" that targets the NIH and HHS Leadership. Join these courageous and committed professionals by adding your name now. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
actionnetwork.org
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
theguardian.com
Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Letters to Dissenters is an action of CIRCLE UP: a group that gathers IRL & virtually to knowledge share, engage in action, & buoy dissenters with notes of gratitude. It’s a a good reminder to steel your spine. Third round: Rep Al Green, Maine Gov Janet Mills, Wesleyan Pres Michael S. Roth. Join us!
MICHAEL S. ROTH 
President of Wesleyan University
229 High Street Middletown, CT 06459GOVERNOR JANET MILLS 
1 State House Station 
Augusta, ME 04333REPRESENTATIVE AL GREEN 
2347 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC  20515
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 20/03/2025
LFG! #teslatakedown GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION March 29 Every showroom in America 500+ around the world Let's send these techno-fascists, broligarchs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear. NO WAY Plan an action or find one near you: teslatakedown.com
Graphic showing the Tesla stock line tanking and text reading
#TeslaTakedown global day of action March 29
277 tesla locations in the us
500+ around the world
turn out in numbers to fight elon musk's illegal coup
find or start an action at teslatakedown.com
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 06/03/2025
The ACLU is suing the NEA for requiring grant applicants to abstain from using federal funds to “promote gender ideology” in what may be the first major legal challenge to controversial policy changes the agency has enacted since President Donald Trump took office.
hyperallergic.com
ACLU Sues NEA for Enforcing Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Mandate
The suit argues that the federal art funding agency's new grant requirement violates the First Amendment in what may be the first major legal challenge to the controversial policy changes.
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Here we go!❤️‍🔥 Full of gratitude for the theater and performance organizations who are taking this to the courts as a First Amendment issue with the @aclu.org. 👏👏👏
nytimes.com
Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Gratitude Letters to Dissenters is an action of CIRCLE UP: a group that gathers to knowledge share, engage in actions, & buoy dissenters by sending notes of gratitude. It’s a real nervous system temperer. Second round: Danielle R. Sassoon, Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, AG Leticia James, Ron Vachris. Join us!
Danielle R. Sassoon
United States Attorney's Office
26 Federal Plaza, 37th Floor
New York, NY 10278Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, MD, MPH
c/o HEAT Program
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
450 Clarkson Avenue, Room 6-27
Brooklyn, NY 11203AG Leticia James
Office of the NY State Attorney General
The Capitol
Albany NY 12224-0341Ron Vachris
Chief Executive Officer, President & Director
Costco Wholesale
999 Lake Drive
Issaquah, WA 98027
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Art community. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. We are in an existential moment. We are right to feel it. The ground HAS shifted. The future is not what we were planning for. And yes, it was fast. And yes, the whiplash hurts. But… we are here. And we know it. So, what the F? This is what I’m dreaming…
Text that reads, “Art community. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.” Text is overlaid on a photo of the sun rising over the ocean. Text that reads, “It IS an existential moment. We are right to feel it. The ground HAS shifted.” Text is overlaid on a photo of an old, rusted, defunct lifeguard chair at a drained pool.Text that reads, “To all our art non-profits… private funders… art spaces…
May you organize. May you create underground networks of funding, of mutual aid. May you give artists whatever money there is to protest.” Text is overlaid on a photo of a cave opening.Text that reads, “To us, the artists:
May we use every skill in our arsenal to rise to this moment. We need zines, line dances, posters, protest chants, acts of demonstration, and, and, and…
How can we tell the stories of how this all effects real people. Make it visceral.
We have the props.” Text is overlaid on a photo of a window taken through a metallic filter.
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@schumer.senate.gov We are out here in NYC with @indivisible.org asking you to hold the line. Why don’t you have a rep here to talk to us? We are your constituents. You need to hear us. BLOCK. DELAY. OBSTRUCT. NO ON VOUGHT. Stop Musk’s power grab.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights. they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Creatives Rebuild New York just released The Artist & Cultural Workers Bill of Rights to address labor concerns and systemic inequities. 👏👏👏
creativesrebuildny.org
A New Framework for Enshrining Artists’ Rights - Creatives Rebuild New York
CRNY released The Artist and Cultural Workers Bill of Rights to address systemic inequities and labor concerns facing artists and cultural workers.
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Last chance to see “Revenge Score: An Abbreviation of the Treaty of Paris 1898” at 21c Chicago Museum Hotel’s Gallery 3 conference room. Designed to the U.S. Gov Publishing Office Style Manual’s specs, this performance score “for americans” is printed on beach towels as official state documents.
Three white oversized beach towels hang on a wall. Printed on them is text resembling a government document but is actually a performance score.
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Yanira Castro @acanarytorsi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New here. 👋 Sharing a project, Gratitude Letters to Dissenters (inspired by @evayaaasantewaa.bsky.social), that I’ve begun IRL w/ a group called CIRCLE UP. We gather to knowledge share, engage in actions, & we buoy dissenters by sending notes of gratitude. 1st up: Revd Mariann Edgar Budde. Join us!
A photo of the Reverend in her ceremonial robes with her address:

The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde
Episcopal Church House
Mount St. Alban
Washington, DC, 20016-5094, USAA stack of letters addressed to The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde.
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