Paris Is burning from subMedia.tv
April 9, 2016
Paris is Burning from subMedia.tv This week we take a look at the multiple converging flashpoints of resistance in France, which have combined into a popular movement that has inspired…
Paper Cuts Interview with Mary Tremonte & Darin Klein
April 8, 2016
My old buddy Christopher Kardambikis caught up with me at the LA Art Book Fair last month to do an interview for his NYC-based Clocktower radio show Paper Cuts, devoted…
DIYDPW #34
April 8, 2016
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Video: Mazatl Painting in Brighton
April 6, 2016
Here’s Justseeds member Mazatl, painting two murals at the Wahaca restaurant in Brighton, England, and talking about what influences the subjects of his current print and mural work. …
Lady Fast Attacked by Fundamentalists
April 5, 2016
On Saturday April 2nd in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a feminist art and music event called Lady Fast was attacked by hardline fundamentalists and city police. The event was being hosted by…
The Resistance of the Angler Fish & Poems by Jess X. Chen
April 4, 2016
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen has been hiding in a hermit hole writing poems exploring eco-feminism, environmental resilience and love amidst diaspora, violence and trauma. Here are some of her…
Interview on Circled A Radio
April 4, 2016
A couple weeks back I got to do a live interview, about Justseeds, with Yodet Gherez of Circled A Radio in the UK. You can give it a listen below…
Revenge of the Fallists from subMedia
April 3, 2016
from subMedia.tv: This week we take a look at the nefarious capitalist mechanism called free trade agreements, with a focus on world wide resistance to the TPP or Trans Pacific…
10th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, coming up.
April 2, 2016
New York City Anarchist Book Fair to celebrate 10th anniversary, Sat., April 16, 2016 NEW YORK—In the decade since it debuted in 2007, the NYC Anarchist Book Fair has become…
Kevin Caplicki on Whisper or Shout Panel Discussion at BRIC
March 29, 2016
Tomorrow evening I’ll be representing Interference Archive at the following panel discussion at BRIC, in Brooklyn, NY. It is part of the programming for the current exhibition, Whisper or Shout,…
Big Prints in Omaha
March 28, 2016
I spent a week in Nebraska earlier this month, as a guest artist at the University of Omaha, at the invitation of professor Jave Yoshimoto. I spent most of my…
233: Ben Shahn, part II
March 28, 2016
Welcome to the second week of my Ben Shahn book cover posts. You can check out week one, my stroll through the covers Shahn designed in the 1950s and 60s…
Inkworks R.I.P.
March 26, 2016
Inkworks, one of the longest running movement print shops in the US, recently closed. Steven Heller wrote nice obit., and short interview with original collective member Lincoln Cushing, on Print…
Racial Justice: A Collection of Books and Print Ephemera from Brooklyn’s Interference Archive
March 24, 2016
ArtSlant and the Night Library just published a cool piece featuring Interference Archive. Seven volunteers of the collective chose items in the archive that they felt spoke to the issue…
BLU buffs his own work
March 24, 2016
A friend in Slovenia recently notified me that the artist BLU’s removing his murals from Bologna Italy for very anti-commercial reasons. Check out the article and further discussion, in Italian,…
Crimethinc. Review of Perspectives
March 22, 2016
In a Crimethinc. Ex Workers Collective podcast, an audio strike against a monotone world, “On the Chopping Block” a review of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. In episode #46: International Anarchist…
232: Ben Shahn, part I
March 21, 2016
Ben Shahn is one of the artists most influential to many members of Justseeds. He was a Lithuanian immigrant who apprenticed as a lithographer before becoming a master of multiple…
Earth First! The Musical!
March 16, 2016
Colleague Maren Ward has been putting together a musical celebrating 30 years of Earth First!– the radical, no-compromise environmental movement that brought direct action to the forests, mountains and deserts…
Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar- call for submissions
March 15, 2016
Call for art and article submissions: Sustaining Movements The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the…
On Resource Wars: An Interview with Kevin Basl
March 14, 2016
Halliburton convoys in western Iraq. Halliburton convoys in western Pennsylvania. —Iraq War veteran and Pennsylvania citizen, Kevin Basl As part of the Lycoming College Spring Symposium on Veteran Issues, I…
Fernando’s No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes t-shirts!
March 12, 2016
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes has turned Justseeds member Fernando Marti’s contribution to our most recent Justseeds/CultureStrike portfolio—We Are The Storm—into a benefit t-shirt. Go to the No Mas Muertes…
CPH/IVAW portfolio @ Braddock Carnegie Library
March 10, 2016
As part of their monthly “Artists in the Library” series, the folks at the Braddock branch of the Carnegie Library in southwest Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) have put up the Celebrate…
Guest posting on Our Comics Ourselves
March 9, 2016
I wasn’t able to pull together a Judging Books by Their Covers post this week, in part because I’m guest posting all week on the Our Comics, Ourselves tumblr site!…
Honoring Berta Caceras for International Women’s Day
March 8, 2016
We received this great portrait, produced by Genevieve Roudané, in honor of assassinated indigenous organizer Berta Caceras Flores. #JusticiaParaBerta In 1993 she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous…
Community Youth Mural on Migration & Ecological Justice Part 1
March 6, 2016
I’ve spent the last month or so in collaboration with Asian-American filmmaker Tani Ikeda, Immediate Justice, and the Center for Biological Diversity leading a weekly stencil and mural workshop to…
read the writing on the wall – 27
March 4, 2016
San Ignacio, Belize. February 2016. Knowledge Kills HIV. These will not transmit HIV, Mosquito, Shower. These will transmit HIV, razor blade, needle. AIDS does not discriminate, Why do we? I…
Indigenous Leaders of Indonesia
March 3, 2016
Colleagues in Taring Padi, the amazing Indonesian political art group that I recently spent some time with, produced a calendar a couple of years ago featuring beautiful paintings of 6…
Black Power Book Covers in situ
March 1, 2016
Back in December the Ace Hotel in New York invited Interference Archive to fill a display case in their lobby. We decided we wanted to use the opportunity to place…
231: Insurgency 1971
February 29, 2016
Last month I got to give a talk at the Maine College of Art in Portland, which was great in and of itself, and had the added bonus of giving…
White Canada Has a Black History
February 26, 2016
The later at From subMedia.tv: In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new…
read the writing on the wall – 26
Art & Politics, Inspiration, Justseeds Member Projects, Read the Writing On the Wall, Street Art & Graffiti
February 25, 2016
Free Art. Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. February, 2016. Two things I’ve always loved about art made in public is that it can be produced by anyone, willing to take the…
CPH poster exhibition up at UConn
February 23, 2016
The University of Connecticut recently acquired a complete set of the Celebrate People’s History Posters, and already has them on display! They’re up at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center…
230: Small Press Africa, part VI
February 22, 2016
This week I’m going to close out my sub-series on Small Press Africa with sixteen books from Southern Africa. I hope people have enjoyed checking these books out as much…
We Be Darker Than Blue Mural
February 20, 2016
We Be Darker Then Blue, a mural by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) and Jess X. Chen This mural, installed at the BRIC art space in NYC, portrays a poetic sisterhood spanning…
A Day Without Latinos and Immigrants
February 20, 2016
photo by Joe Brusky This past Thursday – February 18, 2016 – Wisconsin witnessed its largest demonstration at the State Capitol Building in Madison since 2011 and the demos against…
Vi Subversa, RIP
February 20, 2016
Legendary punk performer Vi Subversa died today, aged 80. Vi fronted the equally legendary British punk group the Poison Girls, bringing an elder perspective to the turmoil of youth culture,…
Help bring Palestinian Libraries to this year’s ALA Conference
February 19, 2016
Librarians and Archivists With Palestine (LAP) is co-sponsoring a panel on Palestinian libraries at this year’s American Library Association (ALA) conference in Orlando, Florida June 23-28 2016. They are working…
Manta Ray Paste-ups in Yogyakarta
February 18, 2016
I’m just back from Indonesia, and a slew of little art projects there. First up, a paste-up wall of Manta Ray screenprints and papercuts- I made these before I left…
New Project from Jamaa Al-Yad
February 17, 2016
Our friend Jamaa Al-Yad in Beirut just launched a new project: “Boycott, Divest, Sanction: On Campus” Originally designed for a campaign at the American University of Beirut, they’ve uploaded…
3 Steps Notepads
February 16, 2016
Our friend Charles at Eberhardt Press (who prints the fabulous Justseeds Organizers each year, and the new 3-Year Garden Journal) just sent me a small box of cool notebooks he…