Melanie Cervantes

Melanie Cervantes
Solidarity with Egypt
$25

A design I originally created as a downloadable poster. This print is designed in the tradition of OSPAAL (Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa & Latin America) a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalization, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights. The have created a vault of political posters to support freedom fighting world wide and promoted Third World solidarity. I have a wonderful book called "The Solidarity Poster" that catalogs all of their works. I found a poster in that book from 1969 with the slogan "Victory Will Be Attained by the Peoples Who Struggle for their Liberation" in four languages. I decided to use the slogan verbatim and thought it worked well.
We printed about 120 posters and gave almost all of them away at a march in San Francisco. We kept a small stack to sell to help recuperate the cost of materials. We only have very limited quantities, about 15 left!

1-color screen print

20x26
Nenah Green acid free paper
unsigned/unnumbered