When my friend, Suzala and I went to the Hicksville LIRR train station on Saturday we were there to sketch at the DACA Rally. Immigrants, advocates and members of the community marched in support of DACA and the immigrants it protects. The rally marched from the train station to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's local office.
We started sketching the crowd at the station while they were organizing. There were at least 200 people who took part. The only way we were able to sketch was standing up in the crowd. This was my first sketch. It was impossible for me to sketch a lot of the crowd before they started to march.
We started sketching the crowd at the station while they were organizing. There were at least 200 people who took part. The only way we were able to sketch was standing up in the crowd. This was my first sketch. It was impossible for me to sketch a lot of the crowd before they started to march.
Since Suzala still has trouble walking long distances from her foot that was broken at the beginning of June we didn't march with the group. Instead we got back in my car and drove over to where the group was headed. Several speakers, some of them activists and some of them Dreamers stepped up to the microphone. I tried to sketch as much as I could in the time we were there...again while standing, which isn't easy. The organizers were so happy to see that we were documenting the rally and several of them took photos of the sketches.
