Fort Worth Report Interview
California artist Oree Originol had his “Chicano Awakening” when he moved from Los Angeles to Oakland in 2009.
The awakening came when he met some friends while working at a bookstore called Imix Bookstore in Eagle Rock.
“I wasn’t raised with any politics at home — I was raised more Catholic, for sure,” Originol said.
The artist was inspired by the killings of Alex Nieto in San Francisco, Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and 98 other people killed by police to create the ‘Justice for Our Lives’ mural, a piece that shows the faces of those who died…
