Please help us get hand made posters into people’s hands. WE need to raise $250 to print 300+ posters for the following Bay Area Events
I was recently invited by the collective members of Indig-nación; a Spanish language newspaper for the Occupy Wall St. movement, written and edited by Latin@s to create a poster for the the print and online editions of the publication.
I was tasked with creating a poster that would inspire people to mobilze and get out into the streets on May 1st 2012. Occupy Wall Street is urging people around the world to join in on the day of action:
Worldwide, May 1st is traditionally a ‘Workers’ day – a day of Labor Solidarity, and a public holiday. It’s a day to celebrate and march in support of im/migrant rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘99%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the im/migrant movements of May 1st, we decided to declare May 1st, 2012 a People’s General Strike. Instead of calling upon unionized Labor to make a specific demand (illegal under Taft-Hartley), we are calling upon the people of the world to take this day away from school and the workplace, so that their absence makes their displeasure with this corrupt system be known.
As I reflected on how to best create an image that might galvanize people to action I began to “arm myself with knowledge of the past” by studying historic May Day posters. I finally found one that really caught my attention that was designed by Nikolai Kochergin. Kochergin was among the first artists to start to design Soviet political posters. The poster “I-oe maia goda” (May 1, 1920) has three central figures striding over the symbols of the old regime. Read more here: http://dignidadrebelde.com/blogpost/view/359
“Antes de que nos olivden”
Jesus Barraza
20 x 26
2 - Color, Hand made Screenprint, Mohawk Archival Paper, Printed in Oakland, 2012
“This poster was one of the first screen prints I designed and printed back in 2001. I only made a handful of these and most of them were horribly printed and for years I have been wanting to re-print these and I fianlly got around to it. This poster was originally inspired by a Caifanes song, “Antes que nos olviden”, this was from their first album and had listened to it for years. In the late 1990s I read an interview with the band and they talked about the song being dedicated to the students who were massacred at Tlatelolco in 1968, knowing that made me love the song that much more and inspired me to make the poster.”
This is a second edition of the print “Las Brown Berets”
3 - Color, Hand made Screenprint, Mohawk Archival Paper, Printed in Oakland, 2012
Two generations (1990s and 2000s) of Ch/Xicana members of the Watsonville Brown Berets are depicted as well as a central portrait of Hilda Reyes a member of the East L.A. chapter of the Berets (early 1970s). I created this piece because the leadership and contribution women make to radical organizations and movements is often eclipsed by male figures. This piece honors these amazing women.
Brown Berets are a barrio defense committee that emerged in the late 1960s. The Brown Berets focus on community organizing against police brutality and advocate for educational equity. The Brown Berets organized the National Chicano Moratorium in which close to 20,000 Chicanos marched and protested the high casualty rate of Chicanos in Vietnam and the military draft. This peaceful protest became chaotic when the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department decided to end the event by attacking attendees. Four Chicano activists were killed (two of them Brown Berets), Gustav Montag, Lyn Ward, José Diaz including journalist Rubén Salazar.
Available here:http://dignidadrebelde.com/story/view/156
Download the newest poster 11 X17 here:
http://www.dignidadrebelde.com/document/download/65
I recently teamed up with Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco to produced a new poster for the 99% fighting for dignity and better working and living conditions. Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.
Feel free to tag people in the image and share widely.
http://www.dignidadrebelde.com/document/download/65
I recently teamed up with Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco to produced a new poster for the 99% fighting for dignity and better working and living conditions. Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.
Feel free to tag people in the image and share widely.
We recently completed this print collaboration with Celia Herrera Rodriguez, making limited edition prints of the drawings used in Cherrie Morraga’s latest book Drawings From A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness. The set includes all nine images from the book and comes printed on various types of colored paper and ink combinations that were selecteded by Celia during a proofing process at our studio. These will be sold as lose prints and as portfolio sets packaged with a cover sheet in an envelope. We have these for sale as individual prints for $50 each and as a set of nine for $400.
We have two sets of prints (Set b and c) available at a special low price, four prints for $100 plus $10 shipping & handling. These are proofs that have a little smudge of ink on the margin or something in the image that needed to be curated (fixed) or a bent corner, overall they look pretty good for the price. Oh and we will throw in some extras. You can send me a message if you are interested, let me know which set you like, we can ship these out ASAP priority mail.
Tlazocamati Tonantzin.Thank you Mother Earth for everything— my life and all the life you give. Your day is everyday.
“JAGUAR KNIGHT”
by Jesse Hernandez
17.5 x 23, 8 - Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Acid Free New Strawthmore Matte paper, Printed in Oakland, 2008
This print with Jesse Hernandez is one of the first prints Jesus and Melanie (Dignidad Rebelde) published together. The image is of the “Jaguar Knight”, one of Hernandez’ pieces that was made into a Dunny by Kid Robot. We made these for a 2008 exhibit at Munky King in Los Angeles. The artist sold out most of his copies and I have a few available, they were not perfect but have been curated/edited and look pretty good, and at $40 dollars for an eight color screen print that’s a good deal.
Portraits of Resistance Artist Reception
Come celebrate the ongoing struggle for human rights and remember wonderful allies like John Lennon (it’s the 31st anniversary of his death) with us.WE will have the pleasure of guest performers from Anak Bayan. Dignidad Rebelde artists reception at Cafe Gabriela 988 Broadway, in Downtown Oakland tonight. We will have gift prints for the first 100 people there and will also be tabling with all our latest work.
There will be good food and drink courtesy of Cafe Gabriela too! See you from 6-9pm tonight!
NEW PRINT—GABRIELA SILANG
Jesus Barraza
20 x 26
5 - Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Heavy Art Paper, Printed in Oakland, 2011
This portrait was made to honor the Memory of Gabrial Silang, a Filipina freedom fighter who fought alongside her husband Diego Silang for the Liberation of their land, Ilocano. After Diego’s death she continued as the leader of the resistance until she was captured and hung.
D0X: UC Davis Pepper Spraying officer, Lt. John Pike. Please be respectful in your condemnation of this act of brutality.
Lieutenant John Pike
Records Unit Manager
Phone: 530-752-3989
Cell: 530-979-0184
japikeiii@ucdavis.edu
Address: 4005 Cowell Blvd, Apt 616. Davis, CA 95618-6017
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New collaboration with Santiago Armengod. He created the linocut graphic and I designed the layout. To distribute at the COP17 – climate change talks in Durban, South African this November and December (2011).
What is REDD?
According to the publication, “The Little REDD Book”, the basic idea behind Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) is simple: Developing countries that are willing and able to reduce emissions from deforestation should be financially compensated for doing so. However, according to many Indigenous Peoples, REDD is CO2lonialism of Forests because it allows Northern polluters to buy permits to pollute or “carbon credits” by promising not to cut down forests and plantations in the South. The newspaper The Australian calls REDD a ““classic 21st century scam emerging from the global climate change industry.” (From Indigenous Environmental Network)
