Viva La Mujer
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Melanie Cervantes
Bay Area, California, United States
Melanie Cervantes (Xicana) has never lived far from the California Coast having been born in Harbor City, California and raised in a small city in the South Bay of Los Angeles. Now making her home in the San Francisco Bay Area she creates visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical change and social transformation. In 2007 she co-founded Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration that produces screen prints, political posters and multimedia projects that are grounded in Third World and indigenous movements that build people's power to transform the conditions of fragmentation, displacement and loss of culture that result from histories of colonialism, genocide, and exploitation. Dignidad Rebelde’s purpose is to translate the stories of struggle and resistance into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.
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Be the Change! a Justseeds Coloring Book
Justseeds Collaboration
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Chingona Postcard Set
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We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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Never Give Up Greeting Card
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Rafael Moreno on Indigenous People’s Day
October 9, 2014
From Left to Right: Winona Laduke [Anishnaabe], Wicahpiluta Candelaria [Rumsen Ohlone], and Comandante Ramona [Tzotzil Maya]. Art by Rafael Moreno. I am really pleased to share some beautiful pieces made…
Book: In Our Power
September 30, 2014
I recently completed the art and cover design for an exciting new book by Nora Barrows-Friedman on the U.S. student movement for Palestine Solidarity including the rich history of Palestinian-American…
Reflections of Healing
September 28, 2014
Join me at the Oakland Museum of California for the public unveiling of Reflections of Healing, a large-scale art installation created by artist and educator Brett Cook with participation from…
Dignidad Rebelde…Abolitionist Artists
December 21, 2013
The Abolitionist, a newspaper publication dedicated to the strategy and practice of prison industrial complex abolition has transcribed a presentation I (Melanie Cervantes) did on the collaborative space called Dignidad…
VIDEO: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color
February 1, 2013
TO WATCH VIDEO CLICK HERE http://youtu.be/0QSor8Va6d8 I gave an interview to Claudia Hernandez as part of her project “Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color”. It reveals a bunch of slices of…
Make A Difference-CA Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights
August 30, 2012
This is big. The California State Senate just passed A.B. 889, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. The most populous state in the country is on the threshold of changing…
May Day Poster-A Peek into My Process
April 11, 2012
DOWNLOAD MAY DAY POSTER BY CLICKING HERE I was recently invited by the collective members of Indig-nación; a Spanish language newspaper for the Occupy Wall St. movement, written and edited…
Rise Up: The Political Graphics of Dignidad Rebelde
December 4, 2010
Please come Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde at our opening at Artillery Gallery in San Francisco on December 4th at 7:30pm. You can support local artists and…
Planeta o Muerte! Venceremos! -Together We Will Save the World
October 9, 2010
Planeta o Muerte! Venceremos! -Together We Will Save the World Last Spring tens of thousands of people from over 150 nations traveled to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change…
Oscar Grant Murals in Downtown Oakland
July 5, 2010
As the city of Oakland waits with anxiety about the decision the jury will come to and the final outcome of the Johannes Mehserle trail verdict artists are busy at…
2010 Socialism Conference
July 2, 2010
This Sunday Jesus and I will be presenting at the Socialism Conference in Oakland. It will be at the Oakland Marriot.Sunday, July 4th at 11:30 am. "Art and Resistance". The…
Because I have roots in Arizona…
May 28, 2010
A Xicanita in the making, Arizona, 1982 My earliest memories of experiencing the Southern Border are of trips to the place where my dad grew up and where my tio…
The process of developing “Brown and Proud”
May 10, 2010
Building of a Chicana Consciousness As a senior in high school I vividly remember the movement that emerged in California to resist the racial profiling, xenophobia and nativism that Proposition…
Art inspired by Rini Templeton
February 13, 2010
“Wherever she went, she drew what she saw and donated her art to the cause.” Rini Templeton was a prolific graphic artist and huge inspiration to artist like me who…
Art and Politics Panel in San Francisco
February 10, 2010
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Time:7:30pm – 10:00pm Location: CounterPulse Street:1310 Mission Street (at 9th) City: San Francisco, CA Favianna Rodriguez will host a panel with Bay Area artists: Jesus…
Racial Justice Poster Contest
January 15, 2010
The Akonadi Foundation’s mission is to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society. Akonadi believes that racial justice movement…
Creating Radical Graphics for our Liberation: An anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist forum
November 5, 2009
Sunday, November 15th 1:00 – 4:30pm Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. (at 23rd Ave.) Oakland, CA 94606 FREE. Donations accepted. Creating Radical Graphics is a one-day mini-conference for Bay…
Dyke Rights = Human Rights
June 24, 2009
I am so happy to share the 2009 San Francisco Dyke march poster design. Since I met Ani Rivera my contact for the Dyke March committee, a few years ago,…
Urban Habitat Launches the Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project
June 4, 2009
Read an article from the latest issue of Race, Poverty and the Enviroment that I was interviewed for. My homie Desi is also featured. His words are powerful! I shared…
Da Town Graphics: Oakland Youth on the Move
April 15, 2009
“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…
Tear down White Supremacy
Giving Thanks 2013
Solidarity with Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers
Dignity Not Detention
Fight for the Schools All Students Deserve
Oakland is Occupied Ohlone Land
Justice for Oscar Grant
Protect the Water | Defend the Land
Seguimos Tejiendo La Memoria
Justice for Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez
Alto Georgia
Giving Thanks 2016
Giving Thanks 2012
Fred Hampton
Not One More Deportation
Unidos Por La Justicia, No Divididos Por El Racismo
Communities United for a Responsible Budget
EZLN Women’s Revolutionary Laws
The Richest 1% Should Pay for their fair share
Brown and Proud: Todos Somos Arizona
Los Prestatarios Usureros Engañaron a Mi Comunidad
The Richest 1% Should Pay Their Fair Share (translated)
Dump the Prison Stock
Take down the wall
I am because we are
I am Trayvon Martin and My Life Matters
Land and Housing are Human Rights
La Cultura Cura
Giving birth in chains is inhumane
Hands Off Assata
Alto Arizona
Solidarity with the National Prison Strole
The 99% Demand Peace and Justice
EZLN Women’s Revolutionary Laws (Spanish)
The Richest 1% Should Pay Their Fair Share
Israel “Reefa” Hernandez
Our Oakland, Our Solutions
I Get It From My Mama
Desde Juarez a Ayotzinapa
I am Oscar Grant and My Life Matters
Free Marissa Now!
Young Women’s Bill of Rights
“Reproductive Justice =People Power to End Gender Oppression
Desinvierte de Prisiones
Hungry for Justice
Stop Re-Segregating Our Universities
Sogorea Te
I am Eric Garner and My Life Matters
Discover Your Love of Revolution
I am Mike Brown and My Life Matters
Restore Harmony Con La Madre Tierra
Solidarity with Standing Rock
Nothing Can Stop Our Love
Atenco Aguanta
Victory to those who struggle for their liberation
I am Renisha McBride and My Life Matters
El Salvador Solidarity Poster
The salmon will run again
Divest from prisons
Abolish Solitary Confinement
Solidarity with Ferguson
United for Justice Not Divided by Racism
How did banks get bailed out when all I got was sold out?
I am Andy Lopez and My Life Matters
Solidarity with Palestine
Dignidad y Justicia No Tienen Fronteras
Education for liberation
Protect Grandmother Earth
Tonantzin
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Dreams Are Stronger Than Fear
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Alto Polimigra
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Viva La Mujer
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Caminante, No Hay Puentes
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Migration is a Human Right
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Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Melanie Cervantes: Eberhardt Notebook
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No Borders, No Nations, Stop Deportation!
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This Is An Emergency!
Water for All
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Power & Love
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Julia de Burgos
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
No War
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EZLN Women’s Revolutionary Laws
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Ya Basta
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Assata
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El Amazonas Resiste
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Madre Tierra
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End the Occupation of Palestine
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In Xochitl, In Cuicatl
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Viva La Mujer
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Free Hawaii
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Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
Justseeds Collaboration
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