Giving Thanks 2020
DOWNLOAD PDF HERE In 2011 we felt so tired of the Thanksgiving narrative & normalization of this day that celebrates invasion and genocide so we started an intentional practice of celebrating Indigenous resistance & resilience. Now every year, wherever I am...
Black Lives Matter
Over the past couple of months I've seen Black folks targeted by white supremacy, from the NYPD harassing folks for not wearing masks to the deaths of people at the hands of both Police and vigilantes. During this pandemic we see that white supremacy is alive as ever...
Stop the Raids
It’s insane that during this global pandemic ICE continues raids in immigrant communities without any regard of peoples health. Instead of helping the situation they’re making things worse by adding to the number of people in detention centers at a moment when the...
Solidarity with Essential Workers
For the rest of my life I will be in the vulnerable category. Be it the California wildfires, this global pandemic or any unforeseen future cataclysmic events that can threaten my health and my life because of the cancer I have already survived (thus far). Over the...
The People Need to Flower Not Corporations
These past few weeks have been difficult being a human being in this world and seeing all the pain we’re all experiencing. Reading about governments around the world taking care of their people while the US takes care of corporations makes me angry. We need people to...
Celebrating 25 years of Zapatista Struggle
Celebrating 25 years of Zapatista Struggle for a new world. A world that I look forward to where indigenous people have taken back their land are able to determine their future and build their own communities. #ezln#zapatistas#dignidadrebelde 📸 by Kristen...
Abolish ICE
We created these posters to go to people who are calling for an end to Trump's zero tolerance policy, ending all detentions and deportations and abolishing ICE. Please print out and post them as many places as you can think of! Download Posters Here: Ya Basta 8.5x11...
Jerusalem is Palestinian
As a Xicanx I'm always in solidarity with Palestinians, because like indigenous people in the Americas they've had their ancestral lands taken from them. Right now they are dealing with more of this as the cheeto in charge has "recognized" Jerusalem as Israel's...
Viva Fred Hampton
On this day in 1969 Chicago Police Department in collusion with the FBI, assassinated the Chairman. As a way to remember him I have made a downloadable PDF poster available for anyone who wants it.
#HelpMelanieCervantes fight cancer!
Please considering donating to #helpmelaniecervantes fight cancer! www.youcaring.com/melaniecerantes-828867 Dear family, friends and supporters, I want to give thanks to everyone who has sent me good energy, made a contribution and shared this fundraiser as I have...
Dignidad Rebelde Studio Moving
At the end of December we learned that we have to move our art studio, fairly quickly with a somewhat short notice. We have found a new space to house our screen printing equipment which will allow us to be creative and productive. Many people have asked how our...
RESIST Poster Download
I made this graphic to share online and hopefully make some prints as well. But I am making it available as a download here for people to print and make their own signs to put up in windows, make picket signs and if you have the set up screen print some shirts. ...
Protect the Water | Defend the Land
I made this piece with the central figure holding up a braid of sweetgrass, a plant medicine, to the sky as an eagle flies above Lake Oahe. Texas based Energy Transfer Partners, in constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline wants to drill across the Missouri River at...
Caravana Contra la Represión en México
New poster edition we are donating to support fundraising for the Caravana Contra la Represión en México. This speaking tour is a collective effort to create solidarity with the different social struggles being waged in Mexico, and to denounce government repression...
Let’s Talk About Ethical/Decolonial Approaches to Art and Cultural Organizing Against Displacement
Closing Event & Discussion for the Exhibit: Boom: The Art of Resistance A Diversity of Bay Area Anti-Displacement Tactics at Random Parts, 1206 13th Avenue September 10th, 4-8pm (Discussion is from 5:00-6:30pm) FEATURING: Amara T. Smith, with House/Full of Black...
Solidarity with Standing Rock
Standing in solidarity with Standing Rock and the struggle to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. #noDAPL #standingwithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #Rezpect We are selling a limited number of posters so we can fundraise resources to buy more paper and ink to...
Un Caracol Chiquito in East Oakland: A Self-Determined Landless Peoples Movement
On the fourth of July weekend while many people were celebrating Independence day, the folks at Homefullnes in East Oakland, California were celebrating their interdependence. A group of Black, Brown, Houseless and Indigenous Peoples came together to demonstrate their...
Melanie on Cafe con Pod Dulce
Mar and Nestor interview Melanie Cervantes about her decade long work in philanthropy, her art collaboration called Dignidad Rebelde, and her favorite pan dulce! As artists and people working for social change, we want to dedicate this episode to the black lives we...