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For anyone that speaks Italian some really cool folks in Rome did an interview with me at the Reproduce & Revolt show at the House of Love and Dissent. You…
For anyone that speaks Italian some really cool folks in Rome did an interview with me at the Reproduce & Revolt show at the House of Love and Dissent. You…
In Solidarity with the National Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People I started working on this poster, I am linking two files that can be downloaded and printed on both…
This piece appeared yesterday in the South Bronx. The wall faces the Bruckner Expressway, a highly used elevated highway passing through the Bronx. My pal Anomalous compiles a lot of…
In November 2008, I was interviewed by Britt Bravo for her show, Big Vision Podcast. She interviewed me about my artistic vision, process, and new book, Reproduce & Revolt, which…
If you care to reflect on the crisis there are a bunch of NY TImes articles gathered in this link of their Business Section. Its called the “Reckoning”, or “the…
I’ve just returned from several weeks travel in Mexico, mostly spent at the southern end of the Baja California peninsula. It’s an area with a spectacularly rich marine ecology and…
Modern Chinese Woodcuts A few years ago I picked up a book of Chinese woodcuts, written in the early 80s, put out by a state press and updated in the…
Since we’ve filled the blog with joyous pictures of burning Christmas trees, I thought I’d post some links to more substantive information on the current struggle in Greece: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/ http://libcom.org/…
The Locust Tank image that I first made in 1995 got up in some unusual places this year. From the lobby of the MOMA to Gavin’s arm to Topeka, Kansas…
This just in: Calling all artists and creative folks!! The Civil Liberties Defense Center is planning to design a t-shirt and poster(s) reflecting CLDC’s commitment and solidarity to environmental, animal…
While I have been ranting and writing so confusedly, about the economic crisis, since September, some friends were putting together Radical Perspectives on the Crisis. Check it out, contribute, this…
The Christmas tree in the center of Athens, see Icky’s earlier post. Greece: Protests and Unrest Enter Third Week Protests continue across Greece in response to the police murder of…
Worth a whirl. Sock and Awe game, and try to hit Bush in the face. Again, the internet helps us live our fantasies, virtually.
“Athens’ giant Christmas tree burns in front of the Greek parliament in Athens December 8, 2008. Protesters set fire to a major department store in central Athens and torched the…
Here’s some news from a friend in Argentina: A month ago the students of Escuela Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano in Buenos Aires, responding to plans by the city government to…
I’m heading over to the New School now…off the blog and into the streets… From within the occupied New School in Exile, 65 5th Avenue, New York City: We have…
The students at the New School in NYC are holdin’ it down! New School in Exile As of 19:00 (7 pm, Dec. 17, 2008) a diverse collection of students from…
Images, banner drops, tactical media, performances and actions loaded with symbolism were in full effect this week. The Yippies and the Situationists would be proud. Just Do It.
I spent two weeks this Fall living in a shed at the Anchor Archive in Halifax, Nova Scotia as an Artist-in-Residence. Definitely one of the highlights of this year. The…
This winter I’ve started learning the nearly-lost art of typesetting and letterpress printing with friend and cohort Artnoose. I have a lot of ideas relative to my current video work…
From the NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ALISSA J. RUBIN Published: December 14, 2008 BAGHDAD — President Bush made a valedictory visit on Sunday to Iraq, the country…
Favianna and I have teamed up with the Bay Area t-shirt collective Liberation Ink on their new line of shirts, all drawn from images in Reproduce & Revolt! Liberation Ink…
Jared Davidson of the Garage Collective in New Zealand sent over this poster about a housing struggle in his local community, Christchurch. The suit in the image is Mayor Bob…
Cindy Milstein has just put online a copy of the article, “Reappropriate the Imagination!,” which was published in Erik and my book Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority last year….
My friend Katie Orlinsky has a photo essay in last Sundays NY Times about transgendered folks in Juchitan, Oaxaca. In this part of Oaxaca — a narrow strip of land…
Many of you have likely heard that news that Illinois Governer Rod Blagojevich was caught trying to sell Obama’s old Senate seat! It’s good to know the Democratic party hasn’t…
Below is a post from Jacob Flom who is a student in my Art and Ecology class at UWM. Jacob does incredibly inspiring work with IVAW and SDS and it…
My friend elin o’Hara slavick just sent me this great holiday card designed by British political artist and photo-montagist Peter Kennard. Kennard has been making political collages for decades, he…
Lots of new prints makin it onto the electical boxes these days, here are a few recent examples…
The End of Television is a video program beginning when analog television ends. On February 17th, 2009 the U.S. television broadcast signal will change over from analog to digital. No…
I’m excited to share that I recently had an article I wrote translated into Italian, and published in a great journal called Zapruder: Storie In Movimento. Zapruder is a non-academic…
The worker occupation of the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago by members of UE (United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America) Local 1110 has reached its fourth…
thought people might be interested in the flyer for the Toronto showing of our Voices from the Outside prison print portfolio.
Check out indymedia.org and other alternative news organizations for updates on what is taking place in Greece. For the past three days protests and riots having been taking place in…
I am very excited that this is happening… Idled Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago By RUPA SHENOY AP December 6, 2008 CHICAGO – Outraged and determined Chicago factory workers who…
My friend Sam Sebren sent along a cool new stencil he’s been working on that he wants to share with the world. Just click on the image below, drag the…
Check out the weird write up in our local Providence newspaper on the Sustainable show… http://thephoenix.com/Providence/Arts/72689-Live-through-this/
A passage from Return to the Same City by my favorite detective novelist and radical historian Paco Ignacio Taibo II: “I’m involved in ideological warfare.” “Against whom?” “Against a gang…
Here’s some photos of a poster a friend made about the CUNY budget cuts. “There’s only one thing left to do…STOP THE BUDGET CUTS!” From what I hear …the big…
I am a gaming nerd!! Everyother Thursday, I get together with a group of like-minded geeks and we engage in German boardgames. Good times. Over the weekend, while hanging out…