This year, 2012, there was so much build up as May Day approached. Historically the day is an international celebration of workers and labor movement. Since 2006 when a mass scale boycott was called by migrants and solidarity groups , May Day has become a call for policy reform. Now, the movement of th 99% which emerged and was inspired by the Occupy encampments added another layer of calls for change which range from financial systems reform to a call for a whole new economic system which values people and the planet before profits.

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San Francisco Fabulous!

Chinese Progressive Association with posters I designed for them. 

We made it across the Bay to Oakland. This marcher picked up a poster I designed and had a shirt on Jesus and I designed in 2007.

The future of our movements. Rice and Beans cuties.

This woman was so impassioned by the marchers. 

Forward Together recently invited me and over half a dozen other artist to create e-cards for Mama's Day. The goal was to create cards that addressed that gap that the greeting-card-industrial-complex left many of the people who have mothered us in. The project allowed me to reach deep into my heart and create pieces that honor the love and caregiving that don't feel appropriately addresssed through frilly laced declarations that are doused with flowers and cheesy stock sentiments.

The Strong Families Initiative is celebrating "Mama's Day" with a custom e-card tool that gives all mothers and families a chance to be visible. The site provides eighteen templates by artists likeKirby Platero, Nikki McClure, Micah Bizant, Veronica Bayetti Flores  and myself that feature motherhood in all its diversity, with space for you to write a personalized message and email it to the mother of your choice. 

Culture Strike, the Center for New Community and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Present:

An evening of Visual Art, Posters, Prints and Pro-Migrant Graphics, Comedy, Music, Literary Readings and Short Films to Fight Anti-Immigrant Hate.

Read more about the event by clicking here: UNDOCUNATION

Jesus and I will be doing live screen printing with special images created just for this event. We will be giving away the prints once all the prints are dry and we will be signing  these limited edition, hand made prints for the folks who get one.  ONE per person. There will be a very limited number , about 75 of each, and we will be giving them out on a first come, first serve basis. 

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I will be in New York for the closing reception if this exhibit which will take place on May 6th.

I don't often have the opportunity to travel to New York City so I hope my East Coast friends can make it to this event!

***The pieces on exhibit will be on sale!***

Part of the proceeds will go to enable AF3IRM NY to conduct its Purple Rose campaign against the outsourcing of entire departments in corporate operations – a tactic that depresses wages and de-unionizes the workplace and encourages trafficking. As the major share of the proceeds will go to the artists themselves, the exhibit is also a means of supporting transnational women artists in their creation of a culture representative of their life experiences.

These English and Spanish posters are two of four poster designs we will be giving away on May Day in Oakland and San Francisco. I want to thank all the people who donated and made this project possible, through this generous community support we are printing 1000+ full color posters and 500+ screen prints. It feels good when community comes together, pitches in, letting you know they have your back and appreciates the work you do! Thank You Everyone!!!

We have 11x17 Downloads of the Spanish and English Poster

To Download the poster in English Click Here

To Download the poster in Spanish Click Here