Jorge Diaz Ortiz
AgitArte Artistic Director
Santurce, Puerto Rico
Jorge Díaz Ortiz is a cultural worker/popular educator, community organizer, mask/puppet maker and performer from Santurce, Puerto Rico. He is the Artistic Director of AgitArte, a working class artists' organization engaging with frontline communities in cultural solidarity projects for liberation. In 2006 he founded Papel Machete, a collective of radical artists and street theater/puppetry workers dedicated to education, agitation and solidarity work in Puerto Rico and its Diaspora. He was the developmental editor of the book co-authored by AgitArte about 21st century U.S. social movements, When We Fight, We Win! Jorge s actively engaged in struggles for the liberation of Puerto Rico, and deeply committed to working class abolitionist struggles which challenge patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism and capitalism in all of its forms.