It looks like Shepard Fairey has found his next cause, and it’s a good one. In a joint collaboration between Fairey and Ernesto Yerena, the Immigration Reform posters were created to promote that exact cause. The idea is that immigrant or not, everyone deserves to be treated like a human being. All I can say to that is amen, brother. All proceeds from the sale of these posters will go toward creating materials for the May Day marches and various immigration reform organizations. This is a cause that is seriously worthwhile and I think everyone should go out and buy one of these prints. You can buy the one with the image of the girl here, and the one with the man here. Both are $45 and available at obey.com and cimarrones.org. Here’s a quote from Shepard about what this project means to him.

“I am an immigrant. My ancestors left England and Scotland to come to this land to create a better life for themselves and their families. America is a land of immigrants. Ironically, the people’s who this land was inhabited by before “Americans” were Native Americans North and South American descent. I bring up this history not to stir up controversy or animosity, but to simply point out the complexity of who is entitled to live here. Something that is not complex and should not be controversial is the right of all humans to be treated like humans. People coming to America for the same reasons our ancestors did deserve human rights. The United States was created by immigrants and now our country needs immigration reform.”