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Dignidad Rebelde is a project created by Bay Area activist-artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. United by shared values and beliefs Jesus and Melanie use graphic arts to communicate powerful social justice messages to the masses. The purpose of their project is to promote collaboration between artists and grassroots organizations and to produce and distribute screen-printed political posters. Melanie and Jesus’ radical political views are shaped by their Xicana Indígena worldview and spirituality and are grounded in their work with local community groups. They created Dignidad Rebelde as space where Xicanisma and Zapatismo meet, in rebellion against over 500 years of colonialism, imperialism, genocide, racism, patriarchy and neoliberal capitalism. Dedicated internationalists Barraza and Cervantes share a common interest in expressing solidarity with oppressed peoples, their liberation struggles and movements.

Melanie Cervantes	Jesus Barraza
Road to Racial Justice                    Click here to view original size 20 x 26  6-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Fabriano Accademia, Printed in Oakland, CA 2008  The concept for this piece was to capture movement building and communities living their traditional cultures as a form self-affirmation and resistance to racism.	Dignidad Rebelde                                  Click here to view original size
Resortera                                               Click here to view original size 20x26  2-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint,Archival Acid Free New Leaf Heavyweight Matte paper , Printed in Oakland, CA 2009  A solidarity piece with the young Palestinian children who must use slingshots to defend their lives and their from the Israeli tanks, “Apache” helicopters and machine gun toting soliders who continue to invade, “settle” and colonize Palestine.	Brown Buffalo                                Click here to view original size 19 x 25  3-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Covetry Rag Paper, Printed in San Leandro, CA  2006  This poster was created to honor Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, the lawyer who defended the LA 13 as well as serving as lawyer for Hunter S. Thompson who he joined on many adventures. I tried to capture the pride and arrogance that Zeta was so well known for.
La Resistencia                                       Click here to view original size 20 x 26  5-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Fabriano Accademia, Printed in Oakland, CA 2008  As a Xicana I understand how settler colonialism plays out in the lives of Indigenous peoples all over the work. So my political solidarity is built on a common experience of displacement and is  accompanied by a true committment to stand by my Palestinan brothers and sisters.  This piece honors the many kinds of resistance to Israeli occupation by the Palestinian people.	Angela Davis                                         Click here to view original size 22 x 25  3-Color, Handprinted,Screenprint, Archival Lennox Paper, Printed in San Leandro, CA  2007  This poster was created to honor Angela Davis who was a active member of the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party, USA. She was best known for her participation in a failed attempt  to free the Soledad Brothers, which she was later put on the FBI’s most wanted list for her participation. After her trial and release Davis went on to continue being a university professor as well as work to change the Prison Industrial Complex.
Agua no es mercancia                         Click here to view original size	If Capital can Cross Borders so can We!Click here to view original size
A Slingshot to Defend your Life?        Click here to view original size 20-26  6-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint,Archival Acid Free New Leaf Heavyweight Matte paper , Printed in Oakland, CA 2009  A solidarity piece with the young Palestinian children who must use slingshots to defend their lives and their from the Israeli tanks, “Apache” helicopters and machine gun toting soliders who continue to invade, “settle” and colonize Palestine.	Somos el Pueblo                                   Click here to view original size 20 x 26  5-Color, Handprinted,Screenprint, Fabriano Accademia ,Printed in Oakland CA 2008  This print was created for the Nakba, the 60th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Queer Migrant Rights                          Click here to view original size	Struggling                                              Click here to view original size
Indigenous Women Defending Land and Life Since the Beginning of                                           Click here to view original size 20 x 26  10- Color, Handprinted, Archival Lenox Paper, Printed in Oakland CA 2009  As individuals, as organizations, as communities or as a people, indigenous women continually prove their strength in the face of threat and adversity. Our responses show that we are not passive victims of oppression but fierce actors in the indigenous peoples’ struggles for survival. We have formed organizations and networks. They have initiated community-based projects to respond to  basic needs of our people.We have been in the forefront of numerous actions of indigenous peoples to defend our land, our lives and our  livelihood.	Genocide is not Justice                       Click here to view original size
Mothers Milk                                           Click here to view original size 22 x 30  6-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Lenox paper, Printed in Oakland, CA  This print features a Zapastisa woman who is breastfeeding for the well-being of her child, as an exercise of her rights and a demonstration of her rights.	Lucha Zapatista                                    Click here to view original size 20 x 26  4 -Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Lenox 25, Printed in San Francisco CA  2001  15 years ago, on New Years day the EZLN declared war on the Mexico taking over the town of San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas in an attempt to start a revolution in Mexico. In the face of the North American Free Trade Agreement the Zapatistas took up arms against the Mexican government with the aim of taking President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the PRI out of power to restore legitimacy and stability to Mexico. This poster was created to commemorate the struggle of the Zapatistas and their perseverance to create a world where many worlds fit.
La Abuelita y nieta                                Click here to view original size 17 x 22  Giclee, Matte Heavyweight Paper, Printed in San Leandro, CA 2008  This piece honors our grandmothers role in our lived as young women. The sacred and the meaningful happen in moments with our grandmothers. This piece was created for Mother’s Day 2008.	La Xicana                                               Click here to view original size 17.5 x 23  7-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Printed in San Leandro, CA  2006  This print was created to honor women in the Xicana movement, in the organizing world it has become very apparent that women have always played a central role in movement work.
Right to Return                                     Click here to view original size	Seremos Libres                                     Click here to view original size
>>  Jesus Barraza Lolita Lebron                                         Click here to view original size 17.5 x 23  5-Color, Handprinted, Screenprint, Archival Covetry Rag Paper, Printed in San Leandro, CA  2006  This print created to honor the spirit of Lolita Lebron, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who led the 1950 attack on U.S. House of Representatives. Lebron and the others were sentenced to to death, but the sentence was later changed to life in prison. In 1979 Lebron and the others were pardoned by President Jimmy Carter.	Indian Lnd                                              Click here to view original size