“The Financial Crisis is Real”
May 31, 2009
Photo essay on the foreclosures in Detroit
Bogside Artists Collective – Northern Ireland
May 30, 2009
Riffing off Kevin’s post about art and resistance in Northern Ireland, I thought I would post some photos of murals by the Bogside Artists’ in Derry, Northern Ireland. I took…
Culture Production About Resistance-Bobby Sands
May 30, 2009
I was looking thru old posts from the C-monster blog and came across a link to the Magnum photography site. The link led me to a set of images titled…
La Entrada Walls 2 & 3
May 30, 2009
My friends in San Diego have finished 2 more amazing walls on their La Entrada Project. Check out the videos below, and the project here. La Entrada Project – Wall2…
Defining Anarchist Art
May 29, 2009
I wanted to draw attention to AK Press’ blog Revolution by the Book there is a post about Josh MacPhee & Erik Ruin’s book Realizing the Impossible called Defining Anarchist…
Sydney Anarchist Film Festival
May 29, 2009
The two anarchist bookstores and infoshops in Sydney Australia, Jura and Black Rose Books, have put together the first Sydney Anarchist Film Festival. They are showing 14 great films over…
LAWCHA in Chicago
May 28, 2009
Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Fund for Labor Culture and History are holding their annual conference this weekend in Chicago. The theme for the conference is ‘Race, Labor…
Meshed Histories: The Influence of Screen Printing on Social Movements
May 28, 2009
Lincoln Cushing has just published a new short article entitled “Meshed Histories: The Influence of Screen Printing on Social Movements” on the AIGA site. Here’s the first couple paragraphs, and…
Emma and Sylvia Back in Stock!
May 27, 2009
After years of being out of stock, and people continually asking for them, I’ve started to reprint some of the older Celebrate People’s History posters. I’m excited to announce that…
Stain & Mode busy last weekend
May 27, 2009
Chris Stain just sent me this photo of a mural he painted with his long-time pal Billy Mode. They took advantage of the nice weather in Brooklyn to put up…
History is written by the winners.
May 20, 2009
I ran into this over on the Information Clearinghouse site, a place I often go for news. This is part of an ad campaign being run in South Africa for…
Mural of Police Surveillance Cameras Erased by Bridgeport Alderman in Chicago
May 19, 2009
Chicago has a long, sad history of buffing graffiti brown, but now it seems that political murals are getting the same treatment. Last week, Alderman James Balcer (Ward 11) ordered…
Our Lenin: kid’s book from the USA, 1934
May 19, 2009
I can’t remember where I found this book, but this is a children’s biography of Lenin published in 1934 by the CPUSA press. The writing is a basic heroic summary…
April showers brought May flowers!
May 16, 2009
Check out these garden photos — 1 month later from “Ridin Dirty” blog…
anakseribupulau
May 16, 2009
Here’s a relatively new site for an Indonesian project called Anakseribupulau, which seems to be a coalition of political art groups, including Taring Padi. Check out the site here. They…
“I Murdered 2 Young Men”
May 15, 2009
Marc Fischer from Temporary Services just sent along this amazing flyer he found in Chicago!:
Signs of Change-Inspired Teens in PGH
May 13, 2009
Sex Education for All by Shira Rascoe More radical teen printmaking totally! Pittsburgh’s CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) High School students in Shannon Pultz’s printmaking class visited the Signs of…
Fed Up with the Crisis in BCN
May 13, 2009
Some friends in Barcelona decided they were “fed up with the crisis, were tired of the fear that mass media communicate everyday, and sick of suffering in silence at home,…
Street Art etc… Europe last summer
May 12, 2009
These are pictures Katie B. took while on tour with my band last summer in Europe, some highlights of street art, graf. and alternative spaces. Stencil on left from Hamburg,…
Billboard Gets Silly in Pittsburgh…
May 12, 2009
Dozens of these poorly designed McDonalds billboards have been popping up all over Pittsburgh this spring. I was surprised to come upon this decidedly ridiculous alteration at a busy intersection…
Mayday Berlin!
May 12, 2009
Our friend Sandy K. from Image-Shift sent us a communique of links and images to their recent poster project for Mayday Berlin. The project consisted of two sets of posters….
Portraiture
May 11, 2009
Everyone in Justseeds has been cranking out illustrations for a collaboration with Microcosm to do a series of books about influential radical people/groups in the Americas. I had to make…
Rebellion and Graphic Art in Oaxaca
May 11, 2009
I came a cross some really beautiful images while looking for some visual references for a comment I wanted to post on Josh’s review of Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca. Photographer,…
CPH in London
May 8, 2009
The Celebrate People’s History Poster Series is currently on display at the 56a Infoshop in London. 56A is one of the longest running anarchist social centers in London, I first…
Free Xero: A Re-discovered Inspiration
May 6, 2009
I was flipping through various comics anthologies the other day (looking for wordless comics for a friend’s thesis project) when i rediscovered the work of Carol Moiseiwitsch. I remembered her…
UNC Stencil Attack
May 6, 2009
Bernard Herman receently sent these photos over of a nice set of stencils that showed up one morning on the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus. Not sure who…
Red (Pedal) Power
May 5, 2009
I thought some of y’all may be interested in what is happening in the Native arts community, particularly from an anti-colonial perspective. This summer, I am one of a handful…
REVIEW: Protest Graffiti Mexico
May 5, 2009
Louis E.V. Nevaer & Elaine Sendyk Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca Mark Batty Publishers, 2009 As far as I know, this is the first book out that exclusively focuses on the…
New Atenco Poster
May 4, 2009
Our friends at La Furia de las Calles in Mexico City just sent along this intense new Atenco poster. Click continue below the poster for a letter by Atenco political…
Freedom and Justice for Atenco!!
May 3, 2009
Our comrades in Mexico City just sent this along: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ATENCO!! By Heriberto Salas and Salvador Díaz (Spanish Translation at the bottom) On May 3, 2006, the…
Oakland youth prepare for May Day march and rally
May 2, 2009
May Day: Youth Prepare from Betty Bastidas on Vimeo. In preparation for May 1st Immigrant Rights mobilization in Oakland youth gathered for a banner making party to paint graffiti banners,…
Morel of the Story
May 2, 2009
We left the house today to go for a walk and close by our apple tree were a few beautiful morels! So psyched for our free food foraging! We are…
Hot Off the Presses #3
May 2, 2009
Inkworks, one of our favorite worker-owned print shops, has just release issue #3 of their Hot Off the Presses newsletter. And this issue’s artists of the month are Justseeds own…
Agitate! Educate! Organize! Book Release
May 1, 2009
Lincoln Cushing’s new book on American labor posters is finally out!: Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher $24.95, Cornell University Press, 2009 East Bay…
Printing with Pittsburgh Teens!
May 1, 2009
This week saw the culmination of a project I’ve been working on the last couple of months alongside Mary Tremonte (also of Justseeds), Pittsburgh artist (and beekeeper) Ashley Brickman, and…