A People Without Murals is a Demuralized People

OPERATION RED ROSE

MEMORIES OF EL MONTE

ENTRE ESPINAS NACEN FLORES 

IN BETWEEN THORNS, FLOWERS ARE BORN    

-LIL' MIRACLE OF HOPE

AS TRADITION, COLECTIVO H@UTNGNA WAS IN THE COMMUNITY CELEBRATING THE FALL EQUINOX. EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TO THIS DAY, WE BEGAN ORGANIZING AS A COLLECTIVE AFTER AN INITIAL MEETING AT THE LA MADERA COMMUNITY GARDEN. WITH INVITED GUESTS FROM THE CHINATOWN ANTI-WAL MART CAMPAIGN, A TEACHER AND MEXICA DANCER FROM BALDWIN PARK, FRIENDS FROM THE CESA COLLECTIVE (EAST LA), AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WE TALKED ABOUT DIFFERENT STRATEGIES IN CREATING A CAMPAIGN BASED OUT OF LOVE, DIGNITY AND TRUTH. SINCE THEN, WE HAVE MARCHED FOR THOSE KILLED BY POLICE BRUTALITY, EXPOSED A CITYWIDE TOWING SCANDAL, AND NOW CREATED A COMMUNITY MURAL. ALTHOUGH, THIS PHYSICAL PIECE OF ART HAS SINCE BEEN ERASED BY RAMONA PROPERTIES OWNER JACK DALTON, WHO IS ALSO A FORMER POLICE OFFICER AND PRESENT HEAD OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE  INVOLVED IN THE PREVIOUSLY NOTED TOWING SCANDAL, OUR MEMORIES OF EL MONTE WILL EXIST FOREVER IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE PEOPLE OF HOUTNGNA!

ALGUN DIA CORREMOS LIBRES, HASTA DONDE PUEDAN VER TUS OJOS, SIN DUE(N)OS, NI NOMBRES NI FRONTERAS. MAPUCHE FAMILIA

ONE DAY WE WILL ALL RUN FREE AS FAR AS THE EYES CAN SEE; WITHOUT OWNERS, NAMES NOR BORDERS. MAPUCHE FAMILY

PARA TOD@S TODO.

EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE

EASTSIDE SOLIDARITY

FEMINISTS FOR LIFE

AS CUSTOM, WE OPEN UP OUR GATHERINGS BY OPENING UP THE FOUR DIRECTIONS AND GIVING RESPECT TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE LAND

WE THEN HAD A CEREMONY OF SHARING FOOD

BEING MINDFUL OF THE ENVIRONMENT, WE WASHED RECYCLABLE PLATES THROUGH A TECHNIC OF CONSERVING WATER. ALTHOUGH SOME PEOPLE STILL BROUGHT STYROFOAM PLATES/CUPS, THIS WAS AN ATTEMPT IN CREATING A CULTURAL SHIFT OF BEING CAUTIOUS OF OUR CONSUMPTION PATTERNS.

WE THEN OPENED UP THE SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR TALENTS

PETRA SHARING POETRY

MADBOY SANDOVAL SPITTING SOME RHYMES ON POLICE BRUTALITY

HIP HOP FREESTYLE OVER 2PAC BEATS WITH CALIFATZLAN

WRITING INSPIRED BY OPERATION RED ROSE

POETRY DUG UP BY BRENDA ANAHY

IRIS DE ANDA SHARED WITH US SOME OF HER WORK TOO!

THEN THE KIDS TOOK OVER. ROCIO SINGING HER HEART OUT

KARAOKE IN THE KLINGS!!!

PAINFULLY, WE DID NOT GET ANY PICTURES OF SOME OF THE KIDS BREAKDANCING. HOWEVER, WE WERE PLEASED TO FIND OUT THAT THE REGULAR CLASSES BEGAN AFTER OUR INITIAL WINTER SOLSTICE IN 2013 AT THE OTHER END OF THE KLINGERMAN APTS.

AT THE END OF THE NIGHT, AS WE WERE PUTTING AWAY ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT, THE POLICE ENDED UP STROLLING THROUGH, HARASSING THE RESIDENTS. WITH A SHOW OF POPULAR POWER, WE SUCCESSFULLY KICKED THE POLICE OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND SAID NO TO THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OUR COMMUNITY
AND YES TO ART, CREATIVITY, BEAUTY  AND LIFE IN ALL ITS DIVERSE FORMS.

PLAIN WALL BEFORE OUR COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT