This piece is dedicated to all the people of Iran who have been protesting in the streets, struggling for the self-determination to decide the future of their own government and country. It is also important to put this struggle within a contemporary context where people in the global south are struggling to build a better world, one in which decisions are no longer made with only those who control capital in mind.

Jesus Barraza is an interdisciplinary artist with an MFA in Social Practice and a Master's in Visual Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. He holds a BA in Raza Studies from San Francisco State University. He is a co-founder of Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration that produces screen prints, political posters, and multimedia projects, and a member of Just Seeds Artists Cooperative, a decentralized group of political artists based in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. From 2003 to 2010, he was a partner at Tumis design studio, where he worked as a web developer, graphic designer, and project manager. In 2003, he co-founded the screen-printing studio Taller Tupac Amaru, which produced political posters and fine-art prints. He is currently a lecturer in the Ethnic Studies department at UC Berkeley.