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[dignidadrebelde]

Standing in solidarity with Standing Rock and the struggle to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. #noDAPL #standingwithStandingRock

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“ Stolen sisters/ Stolen land “, traditional, unceded territories  of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver), August 2016

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“ Survival is resistance” tshirt 

Screenprinted with gold ink

[zolamtl]

Colten Boushie, 22 yrs old, from Red Pheasant First Nation, was shot dead by a rural saskatchewan man when he came towards him for help for a flat tire. The shooter is pleading not guilty to 2nd degree murder. Why was he granted bail?

Colten’s family is asking for justice

This young indigenous man that had his whole life in front of him. He was training to be a fireman and was involved in his community church. 

Racism kills.

[angoramtl]

In front of the wheatpaste made by my bff @zolamtl ! It’s an honor to me that she draws my portrait. xxx

[nativenews]

[TWEET: Family in Dinétah resisting #environmentalviolence. Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies. #LandBodyDefense]

[angoramtl]

New design !

Survival is resistance 

[angoramtl]

Mini print 2 colors !

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this is an AMAZING resource! def recommend checking it out (available for download here), as well as the adjoining website. 

The Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies initiative report and toolkit centers the experiences and resistance efforts of Indigenous women and young people in order to expose and curtail the impacts of extractive industries on their communities and lands. Together, our team traveled to some of the most heavily impacted Indigenous territories in the U.S. and Canada to listen to frontline communities. From the American Southwest to Canada’s tar sands region of Alberta, our team walked with Navajo youth across their sacred lands in New Mexico and witnessed First Nations’ women and young people bravely speaking up in defense of their land, their people, and future generations. Our goal was to detail— through community interviews and research— the environmental violence suffered by community members. We also sought to share their resistance efforts, and provide advocacy tools and strategies to support their work. 

In addition to heart-breaking stories, our interviews uncovered two important nuances: 1) healing and ceremony are crucial components to the work being done to respond to environmental violence; and 2) while local, federal, and international laws and policies serve as critical tools, Indigenous peoples are also designing more immediate solutions to reducing harm, which are culturally-safe and community-based. 

This report is paired with a toolkit for Indigenous communities that offers workshop templates for environmental violence teach-ins, resources for healing and land-based medicines, and a community health assessment. These and other practical tools aim to help Indigenous communities identify the connections between the way their bodies and lands are being impacted, and it also provides the means to combat the dangers of environmental violence. Most importantly, the toolkit offers both guidance and support for developing and strengthening culturally-rooted, nation-specific responses to the unrelenting traumas Indigenous communities face.

[justseedsartists]

No Access Without Consent, screenprint by Jesse Purcell

From the We Are the Storm portfolio we produced in 2015 in collaboration with Culture Strike.

[melaniecervantes]

A crew of various Bay Area Raza screenprinters took up our squeegees to take some posters to the people demonstrating outside of SF City Hall today. It was an organic movement inspired by the #frisco5 hunger strikers. It was great to see people get out there on their feet to stand against police impunity and for justice. #frisco500 #frisco5 #hungryforjustice #hungerforjustice (at San Francisco City Hall)

[angoramtl]

Melanie is the best ! xxx

[allthecanadianpolitics]

From the article: 6,000 aboriginal children died in residential school system, report finds

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Remember folks, this is not in the “distant past” I am a 1st generation survivor my mother was raped and abused in the Residential school here in Nova Scotia when she was a child, she was taken away from her family and unable to see her siblings.  The fallout of the residential school system will be felt by countless people in the newt few generations.  Let this never happen again, anywhere in this world.

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My grandmother is a survivor of the US residential school era. My grandmother. My father’s mother. Two generations ago. This is not in the distant past in any way. I grew up with her telling me how they would starve the children for days, especially the younger ones, in order to make them more compliant. They were raped and beaten sometimes to the point to where they passed out or worse. They were rarely allowed to go home and only if they had completed all of their “chores.” They were never allowed to speak our languages, practice our cultures, partake in our ceremonies. They were nothing more than prisoners.

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My grandfather is a residential school survivor. He’s the man in the blue shirt in the sixth picture. He told me a few stories, but the worst ones were the ones he never told me. The stories I did hear were about how children would be so afraid to sleep at night that they would wet the beds. When the nuns came around to check them, they would get beaten for wetting the bed. There was one time when he was playing outside and he saw the cooks hosing off a piece of rotten meat. As a few maggots dropped off of it, my grandpa asked, “what’s that for?” and the cook replied, “supper.” He said when he finally went home from that place, in his late teens, he couldn’t even speak to his mother. She didn’t even know who he was anymore.

In my town, there’s a graveyard for all the children who never made it home. It’s behind the old Residential School-turned-University. People walk around the grounds at night to freak themselves out and tell ghost stories. Well, the true ghost stories are still alive inside all of the survivors, their children, their children’s children, and on.

[angoramtl]

Chief Theresa Spence by Wall of Femmes

Decolonizing Street Art 2014

[angoramtl]

My bff @zolamtl realized a collective  colouring book with a bunch of amazing montreal artists. You can buy one here or at the Montreal Anarchist bookfair soon ! ‘’ The Radical Politics Colouring Book is a collection of illustrations and games by montreal street artists, visual and tattoo artists, and community organizers. The 50 pages of activities and illustrations, in french and english, touch a diversity of subjects such as the environmental struggle, radical feminism and class war.’’  Artists: Cam, Chris Robertson, Fanny Aïshaa, F is the Key, JS le tueur, Julie, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, Shanna Strauss, Swarm, Wall of Femmes, Zola

My page is about belugas and nice fishs :)

[angoramtl]

Last sunday I had a really interesting conversation with the artists Sarah Mangle, Freda Guttman and Kevin Lo about art and activism and organized by Howl! Festival. I feel so lucky to know amazing artists folks ! 

[melaniecervantes]

I want to appreciate the team at @sonsandbros for inviting me to partner with them on this series of portraits for the month of March. I am humbled by all the love and support they show to these firebrands. I fee so lucky to do this work. It heals me!

Repost @sonsandbros ・・・ Thank you to @MelanieCervantes of #DignidadRebelde for contributing her energy and time to our Women’s History Month Portrait Series.

Melanie is a Xicana from South LA, now living in the Bay Area. In 2007 she co-founded Dignidad Rebelde with @JesusVBarraza with the purpose of creating culture and art grounded in radical love for people of color and our histories. Their work is “following principles of #Xicanisma and #Zapatismo, we create work that translates people’s stories into art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.”

Her images have been revered in the streets used as tools during resistance and protest and she’s also been acknowledged by the established art world with public collections of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the Latin American Collection of the Green Library at Stanford, and The Library of Congress. Her art has also been exhibited at @yerba__buena (San Francisco); @ExploreNMMA (Chicago); @mexic_arte (Austin, TX); and @themuseumofmodernart (New York, NY).

Her awe-inspiring posters, prints and digital images have reached Egypt, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, Slovenia, Palestine, Venezuela, Switzerland, Colombia, India, Guatemala and more. We are proud to work with and support this amazing Xicana!

#WomensHistoryMonth #MelanieCervantes #xicana #artist #dignidadrebelde #art #printmaker

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