THIS TACO TRUCK KILLS FASCISTS is the second feature in Rodrigo Dorfman’s "Occupy the Imagination" trilogy, exploring cultural resistance in the Americas. It is also about how revolutionary consciousness is transmitted across generations and the challenge this poses when parenting Latin American children in an age of rampant anti-immigrant hysteria.

New Orleans-based performance activist Jose Torres-Tama has a dream: to create a revolutionary Taco Truck Theater with a simple message: “No guacamole for immigrant haters”. Inspired by Woody Guthrie’s motto: this machine kills fascists, This Taco Truck Kills Fascists is an epic journey born out of the urgency of the now and our responsibility to engage and confront white supremacy with the weaponized beauty of Art.

The film features José Torres-Tama, catalyst and performance artist, and the Super Beings of the New Orleans-based ensemble of the Taco Truck Theater/Teatro Sin Fronteras that includes Spirit McIntyre, cellist, vocalist, poet, and sound healer; Natalie Jones, writer, singer, and performer; Roberto Carrillo, songwriter and multi instrumentalist; Michael Ward-Bergeman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; and Tacos by Heidi Hickman.

The film also features the youngest members of the Taco Truck Avengers: Diego (7) and Darius Torres-Copeland (10), as singers and performers.

This is a moving film that documents the life of a performance artist and father trying to raise his two bilingual boys with the consciousness needed to understand an empire that has migrated deep into the "Dark Side," and has made Latin American immigrants "enemies of the state" by pimping hate and fear while advocating a white nationalist agenda of violence towards all people of color.

The diverse and bilingual ArteFuturo Ensemble performs a visually dynamic show with moving stories that offer a parallel between Latin American immigrants dehumanized as "illegal aliens", and the historic struggles of African Americans with a national crisis of police shootings of unarmed black civilians.

They proclaim that, "No human being is illegal!" & that "BLACK LIVES MATTER!"

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As a Latinx immigrant artist, Jose Torres-Tama describes what he sees as a “responsibility to speak the people’s pain.” He views his art as tied up with a larger lucha de la gente — a people’s struggle — and disdains the “gringos who do experimental theater about nothing.” His Taco Truck Theater is equal parts outraged, vivacious and unapologetic in a way that captures this philosophy, as its actors’ chanting, yelling and singing arrive wrapped up in drum beats and loud cries of affirmation.
--The Chronicle Duke University Independent News (Alizeh Sheikh)

Under a rallying cry of “No Guacamole For Immigrant Haters,” the artist’s Taco Truck Resistance brings both Mexican food and stories of undocumented immigrants to the masses through street theatrical performances. In this endeavor, Torres-Tama works with his young sons Darius and Diego, Heidi the taco maker, and such performers as Natalie “La Sirena” Jones and Spirit McIntyre.
--BeyondChron (Peter Wong)