Presente.org

Presente.org

Presente.org is a website that Tumis.com helped build along with ChangeOfColor.org. Tumis provided the design and htm/css coding which I helped create. Check it out here. About Presente.org Presente.org seeks to strengthen the political voice of Latino communities....

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Da Town Graphics- Youth on the Move

"We strongly believe that our future is in the hands of the young folks."-Mutulu Shakur Last week Jesus and I worked at Oakland's Spanish Speaking Citizen's Foundation with several Raza youth ages 12 to 17 to conduct five workshops on how to develop political posters....

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Presente! Close the School of the Americas!

Presente! Close the School of the Americas!

Recently Jesus and I connected with the folks at the ¡Presente!, the newspaper of the movement to close the School of the Americas (formerly known as the SOA Watch Update). Check out the use of our artwork for the cover of the Summer issue which  would put the civil...

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2009 Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance

2009 Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance

UC Berkeley will be hosting it's third annual Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance this Thursday, April 2nd from 5:30 to 10:30 pm. For the the third year Jesus Barraza and I will be participating in the event. This year we will be tabling and continuing our support...

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Art of Protest Exhibit in Berkeley

Art of Protest Exhibit in Berkeley

Join us for the opening reception of our two-person show in Berkeley this Friday! Friday, April 3rd at the Pueblo Nuevo Gallery in Berkeley, CA. This exhibit will feature some of the most recent work Melanie and Jesus have created in partnership with grassroots...

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Stencilada

Stencilada

This coming weekend is the unveiling of eight new panels that have been created by local and national artist, this includes a panel by the two of us. Melanie worked to cut the 2 stencils and spray them, I think they turned out pretty cool.   Stencil Archive and...

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Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?

This is a review from poormagazine.org of the Hobos to Street People exhibit. Poor Magazine is a project of the Poor People's News Network. Artwork by Art Hazelwood. A Review of From Hobos to Street People: Artists Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the...

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The 40th Anniversary of twLF at UCB

The 40th Anniversary of twLF at UCB

Forty years ago students at the University of California at Berkeley came together to organize the third world Liberation Front that led the longest protest on campus which led to the founding of the Ethnic Studies Department. In 1999 students once again got together...

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Soul’d Roots

Soul’d Roots

Sisters of Color United for Education & Annie E. Casey Foundation Presents SOUL'D ROOTS Food & Media Justice Institute Promoting Solidarity and Sustainability in Our Communities March 12 - 15, 2009 Denver, CO Jesus and I will be participating in this Institute...

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Third World Liberation Front

Third World Liberation Front

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the third world Liberation Front Hunger Strike, where seven college students camped outside of California Hall and fasted for what they believed in. I was at a Chicana/o Studies conference in Texas when the strike started. I was...

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8th Annual Ethnic Studies Conference

8th Annual Ethnic Studies Conference

I was recently asked by the planning committee of Youth Together's Ethnic Studies Conference to design the t-shirt for the upcoming gather. Youth Together was the first organization whose social justice work I became familiar with when I moved to the Bay Area from Los...

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New Digital Prints

New Digital Prints

I've been spending a lot of time in the studio working on some new prints. At night I've had the time to work on some new digital prints. Here are a couple of prints, one of Marcos from the Festival de Digna Rabia (Festival of Dignified Rage) and one of Che from a old...

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Anti-Police Brutality Show

Anti-Police Brutality Show

Join Jesus and Melanie at Mama Buzz Cafe in Oakland for the closing reception of the Anti-Police Brutality Show. The reception will take place on Friday, February 27th from 6pm-9pm at 2318 Telegraph Ave in Oakland. The show consists of works on paper from us, our...

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