As part of its 2016 Benefit Party, Interference Archive is holding a silent auction of over 35 pieces of social movement ephemera. The auction runs from now until 11pm on…

Some recent copy-right free graphics that I made in response to the police murder and state violence taking place across the country.

A new excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements that was published by The New…

Another excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements that was published by The New Press…

Readers of the Justseeds blog likely recall the 30-city wheatpasting campaign of images that were put up in August and September to promote the People’s Climate March in NYC and…

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, photo courtesy of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Here is another excerpt from A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt starts…

Check out the event on their website here.

As many followers of Justseeds know, today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In the United States, today is a federally-recognized, national holiday known as Columbus Day. In much of Latin America,…

From Left to Right: Winona Laduke [Anishnaabe], Wicahpiluta Candelaria [Rumsen Ohlone], and Comandante Ramona [Tzotzil Maya]. Art by Rafael Moreno. I am really pleased to share some beautiful pieces made…

The People’s Climate March – billed as the largest climate march in history – is days away – this Sunday, September 21st in NYC. The Flood Wall Street action takes…

photo of Richmond, VA action. On September 21st during the People’s Climate March tens of thousands of people will march through the streets in NYC to demand climate justice on…

Inspired by the directorial cue—”Lights, camera, action!”—award-winning poets Cathy Linh Che, Jess X Chen and Paul Tran embark on a cross-country extravaganza to read from their first and upcoming books….

Feminist organizing around reproductive rights has been one of the most deeply important issues to me throughout the last 15 years. Many of my own artistic endeavors have centered on…

The blatantly offensive Washington Redskins name is going to be history sooner than later. The question will be what will replace it? Will it be safe and sanitized? The Warriors?…

photo by Joe Brusky Yesterday Voces de la Frontera organized a demo in front of the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in Milwaukee to protest the recent rash of…

ABOVE ALL ELSE Trailer from John Fiege on Vimeo. Trailer for a new documentary film by John Fiege that follows the story of David Daniel and his neighbors fight against…

Robby Herbst informed me about this new info graphic guide – Utopias of So. Cal – that can be found free around LA. Learn more about the project here.

Below is an exhibition review from Susan Noyes Platt who has long been at the forefront of writing critically about art and activism. In early 2013 she curated the Justseeds-IVAW…

Author and educator Paul Von Blum wrote an article about Justseeds for the Spring 2014 issue of Tikkun. This is quite an honor as Paul Von Blum has long been…

Overcast skies could not damper the enthusiasm of a spirited march on May Day from Voces de la Frontera to the Milwaukee County Courthouse to stand up for workers rights…

The Providence Journal featured one of my collages and gave a very nice review of my current solo show “Generations | 8 Chapters Blooming.” This show is up at the…

A few weeks back I sat down with C.S. Soong, host of the “Against the Grain” show at KPFA in Berkeley and talked for an hour about the People’s Art…

Obama was in Chicago this past Wednesday and his motorcade passed by a spirited demonstration – Chicago Says No Keystone XL – led by 350.org and the Sierra Club Illinois…

ENTER THE DARKNESS: Fire to the Prison Industrial Complez New and neon work from Gloria Galvez Steven Rodriguez Abe Social & Ch.R.O.M.E.

People of Weed, CA and the Pacific Northwest people heading home from the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair: Stop by the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture for a Justseeds…

Bay Area people: Justseeds will be tabling the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair this Saturday – March 22nd from 10:00am-6:00pm – at The Crucible (1260 7th St. Oakland – near…

In 2009 a film was released called “BOGOTÁ CHANGE” about Antanas Mockus’ work as Mayor of Bogota. He then ran for president in the 2010 elections. These filmmakers have now…

In early January I spoke on WPEB in Philadelphia on the Decarcetate PA prison justice show about the Justseeds Critical Resistance Portfolio Project. I talked about the portfolio, as well…

A recent image that I made for a Post Carbon Institute/Steve Lambert poster project that will be hitting the streets soon. My image unfortunately mirrors reality with the erroneous decision…

One of the great aspects of going out on the road on a book tour has been learning about a host of activist art projects that had not yet crossed…

Women’s Studio Workshop is co-ordinating a day to improve the Wikipedia entries of Women Artists. I encourage folks to participate in this! You can spend just a few minutes to…

Attention: People With Body Parts, a body-positive collective that focuses on bookmaking, empowerment workshops, movement, and collaborative art projects is doing a book tour! They recently released a second book,…

Here is an excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt details the woman’s suffrage movement in the late 1910s and their use of…

The Abolitionist, a newspaper publication dedicated to the strategy and practice of prison industrial complex abolition has transcribed a presentation I (Melanie Cervantes) did on the collaborative space called Dignidad…

Here is another excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States. This excerpt details the feminist art movement in California and specifically the Woman’s Building –…

(SNCC poster, 1962 photograph by Danny Lyon) Chicago friends: I will giving a talk on my new book A People’s Art History of the United States at the Jane Addams…

Long before the Independent Media Center (Indy Media) and the “Become the Media” movement that arose out of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle there was the Worker’s Film and…

A key environmental and Native rights struggle is currently taking place in northern Wisconsin. The Walker Administration has re-opened Wisconsin to mining interests making the proposed Penokee Mine a disaster…

Here is a short excerpt from Chapter 15 from my new book A People’s Art History of the United States. This chapter examines the role of the Artists’ Union during…

Here is a short excerpt from my book A People’s Art History of the United States and the first installment of blog entries that highlight specific chapters. For this entry…

Raoul Deal, Lisa Moline, Lane Hall, and I spent the last weekend in Kitchener, Ontario completing a drawing installation for the Surface Tension: The Future of Water exhibition that opens…

50 years ago the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) dubbed the March on Washington the “Farce on Washington.” They had good reason to level such a harsh critique. SNCC –…

Black Salt Collective is launching therir first large-scale collaborative project: a part-narrative, part documentary, art film with original musical soundtrack. Black Salt Collective is the work of artists Grace Rosario…

Justseeds friend Kim Cosier recently penned an article for the latest issue of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (Volume 33: PreOccupy / Maximum Occupancy) about the art…

Here is a simple graphic that I made in response to the Obama Administrations support of drones. Obama – much like every president before him – is tied to the…

Milwaukee-based artist Jacob Flom created a new graphic about drones. On his website, he writes: “The worlds largest corporation, General Electric (GE) invited me to submit work for their annual…

Justseeds friend, frequent collaborator, and IVAW organizer Aaron Hughes sent me these images of an installation that he created about drones. His work is part of a veteran’s exhibition at…

The loss of manufacturing jobs is the central narrative of the upper Midwest portion of the US. This region was once home to blue-collar manufacturing jobs, the majority of which…

Good things arise out of collaborations and art exhibitions. During the Justseeds SGCI install in March in Milwaukee I noticed folks from Yes – Youth Empowered in the Struggle –…

New Swoon print available here! From the artist: “This past December I returned to Juarez, Mexico to publicly recreate the portrait of Sylvia Elena Morales, first created in 2008. The…

The horrific massacre that transpired in Newtown hit me hard. Not simply because I am a parent and a teacher, but because gun violence has become so rampant and so…

I made this poster for what promises to be an awesome performance in Montreal tonight. Come to the show and scope out some new justseeds prints.

In early July we traveled to Arizona as part of a project we started, "Justicia y Dignidad",  to work deepen the connections we have to three grassroots community organizations. We…

From the Design Observer: I can’t think of any other design or visual arts publication quite like Signal in form and content. “Journal” is exactly the right word here because Signal,…

This is big. The California State Senate just passed A.B. 889, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. The most populous state in the country is on the threshold of changing…

In June i was invited to lead a screen printing workshop at the Ruckus Society’s Action Camp for Migrant Rights that was coordinated with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network….

If you happen to be in Pittsburgh, you can pick up my Queer Scout Badges and Merit Badges from the Upcycla Craft-o-Tron vending machine at the East End Food Co-op….

This past year I was in Ireland doing an artist in residence and teaching. I had the opportunity to work closely with many students including Arianna, a Mexican grad student…

A group of collectives and individuals recently got to travel to Cheran K’eri, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. In 2011, the 20,000 residents of Cheran unanimously decided to venture…

Don’t miss your chance to buy this gorgeous collection of prints, support the Wrikuta Defense Front and the Wixarika struggle for autonomy. Take a look at this beautiful slideshow with…

These English and Spanish posters are two of four poster designs we will be giving away on May Day in Oakland and San Francisco. If you’re out there look for…

DOWNLOAD MAY DAY POSTER BY CLICKING HERE I was recently invited by the collective members of Indig-nación; a Spanish language newspaper for the Occupy Wall St. movement, written and edited…

Happy International Women’s Day to all my sisters out there! Politicians and conservatives are waging an all out war on women, our bodies, our access to health, our right to…

Hacavitz is a Black Metal band from Mexico City (formerly Queretaro). The band took their name from the Mayan god Jacawitz that is a mountain deity. Jacawitz actually means Mountain…

In Manitoba, the Canadian province north of Minnesota and North Dakota, today is officially Louis Riel Day. For many, Riel is a controversial historical figure. Seen by many as the…

Last year while I was visiting Pittsburgh for the Justseeds Biennial show I got to stay with fellow Justseeder and friend Shaun Slifer. While my stay at his house, we…

I am kicking myself for not taking the chance to express my disdainful sentiments on my favorite themes until now. The party has started at Art Basel Miami Beach, and…

In late-December and early-January, I will be traveling to Australia as part of an Indigenous delegation attempting to establish an exchange program between Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes (on…

Fellow artist and activist Ethan Heitner told me about a great project he is helping with. I asked him to do a guest blogpost about the whole process of making…

This coming weekend we will be visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico with a few presentations and workshops. These are in conjunction with the “Counting Coup” exhibit at the Museum of…

My friend Aviv from Barcelona is trying to fund a cool new project called The Sussiya Book of Embroidered Local Knowledge. According to Aviv, they will be spending a couple…

Shaun Slifer and I recently had the great pleasure of visiting Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune in Copenhagen. They organized an exhibit of the Justseeds Resourced Portfolio and related prints…

In July Melanie Cervantes and I teamed up with Rupert Garcia to produce a print to use as a fundraiser for the Ethnic Studies College at San Francisco State University….

Justseeds fellow-traveler Brandon Bauer just sent me a cool animated gif he made from one of my Occupy posters. I actually can’t figure out how to embed the damn thing…

Lincoln Cushing has just put online a new essay about U.S. New Left printshops that accompanies the new exhibition Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change….

I was recently in Berlin with my partner, and we got to catch the awesome Hokusai exhibit at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum. Which according to what the people in the museum…

Once upon a time (in the 1980’s & 90’s) there was a sticker and a T-shirt that said “Corporate Rock Still Sucks” (also the slogan of SST records). The first…

MILK NOT JAILS is a consumer campaign to mobilize NY residents to support the dairy industry and the long-term sustainability of the rural economy. It is a political campaign to…

Groups & Spaces is an online platform that gathers together information on people making art in groups and collaborative situations, groups that run art spaces, and independently run artist spaces…

The Sound Strike Art Exhibit Promo – July 29, 2011 from Favianna Rodriguez on Vimeo. If you are want to see some of the freshest artwork by artists from around…

My friends out in Los Angeles are putting together another great LA Vs. WAR event this coming September. Growing out of the Yo! What Happened to Peace? exhibitions that traveled…

ENGLISH VERSION of Tenemos Todo y Nos Falta Todo from Palabra Radio on Vimeo. A short video about a community in Southern Mexico organizing resistance to future mining projects. They…

Unfortunately yes. Worse, Republicans want to model Wisconsin after Arizona. Voces de la Frontera, a large immigrant rights organization in Milwaukee held its first emergency meetings last Sunday to inform…

Here is a great talk given by Roger Peet at the Portland State University Monday Night Lecture Series back in January of this year. Roger gives a great overview of…

I’m a little late in reposting this, but our friend Erick Lyle (creator of the fabulous Scam zine which we sell on the site HERE) recently had a nice long-format…

The protest movement in Madison, Wisconsin over collective bargaining rights for public employees has reached day 16 and more solidarity is needed. The stakes are high. Defeat Governor Walker and…

My buddy Hannah Dobbz is currently researching and writing a book to be published on AK Press on the history of squatting, land struggles, and property law in the United…

The full archive of the projects of the Anti-Advertising Agency (2004-2010) have just been put up online, including Dara Greenwald and my contribution, the Samaras Project, an exploration into alternative…

This week for drawing all the time I am picking some of my favorite hand drawn signs from the Capital in Madison WI. Saving the best for first: I love…

I designed this for poster for the Political Poster Jam happening at the Oakland Museum next week. From 8 to 11pm on February 25, 2011, the Oakland Standard will honor…

In lieu of Rad Teen Print of the Week, here is Rad Post-Teen Project of the Week! From Johannesburg, South Africa: check out this rad portable project organized by Kevin…

A nice video of an artist talk by Theodore Harris, one of my favorite political collagists working today. The show he is talking about is “COLLAGE and CONFLICT: The Anti-Imperialist…

I just got this in from my friend John Jordan in the UK: Dear friends, rebels and fellow utopians, We are delighted to invite you to the Launch of our…

I’ve been trying to simplify my life and that includes simplying my stuff… getting rid of things I do not need that create clutter, including files on my computer. As…

These are some pictures from the printing of Extincion 3. This last December I sent half of the 33-print edition to JS HQ in Pittsburgh but black magic spells were…

Four years ago in 2007, around this time, I could hardly muster the energy to do anything except lay in bed. I was in one of the lowest and most…

As the year wraps up, I’ve been speding time organizing the loose ends that will help me have a more simpler 2011. I’m deleting and throwing out loads of stuff,…

Here are some posters that I have never had online because I didn’t have an elctronic file or jpeg. Recently we have been working on documenting all the prints and…

This just landed in my inbox, another David Bacon story with phenomenal images of people at work (check out more from David HERE): The People of Watsonville 1—Picking the Colonizers’…

Planeta o Muerte! Venceremos! -Together We Will Save the World Last Spring tens of thousands of people from over 150 nations traveled to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change…

Here’s the 2011 calendar from the Certain Days Collective in Montreal! This year’s calendar includes artwork and writing by Josh MacPhee, Alvaro Luna Hernandez, Marilyn Buck, Favianna Rodriquez, Daniel McGowan,…

Check out this great event about Marcellus Shale, mountaintop removal, and related issues, this Thursday at AIR. Participating artists include Jackie McDowell, Ally Reeves, Shaun Slifer, Mary Tremonte, Jude Vachon,…

I’m a month late in getting this up here, but the billboard lib group California Department of Corrections (CDC) put up a great new billboard: Here’s their press release: For…

My friend and kick-ass printmaker Art Hazelwood has just released a hand-printed artist book called Into Iraq. Check it out HERE. It;s pretty cool, and here’s what he has to…

The NYC Department of Sanitation is threatening to consider ghost bikes as “derelict bikes” that may be subject to removal. If you support preserving these memorials for those killed on…

Major Props to fellow activists and artists for this action they did today in downtown Phoenix. “In a daring act of civil disobedience in downtown Phoenix this evening, at least…

I just released my new art print about Malcolm X, the revolutionary who has most influenced my political framework. His most powerful lesson for me was around self-determination, that is,…

The East Bay Express each year recognizes the baddest, raddest and dopest talent in the San Francisco Bay Area. This year, our collective, the Taller Tupac Amaru was named the…

Just released a new piece on Justseeds. click here to view piece My interest in food justice and food politics began in 2003 when I read the groundbreaking book by…

Leonard Jefferson is a prolific artist who has used his art to provide analysis and commentary concerning Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system and his lived experience behind bars. His art is…

As the city of Oakland waits with anxiety about the decision the jury will come to and the final outcome of the Johannes Mehserle trail verdict artists are busy at…

I arrived to Arizona on Sunday evening to do some work around the upcoming May 29th mega march. I came to lend support to National Day Laborer’s Organizing Network (NDLON),…

“Brown and Proud” shirts now available from Liberation Ink. 50 % of the profits will go to Puente, a grassroots org in Arizona. Melanie Cervantes has donated her design to…

A couple weeks back at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair I was lucky to be able too meet Heinrich Schultze, a long-time activist photographer from Hamburg, Germany. He was displaying and…

Recently Swoon, Matt Small, Mike Snell (of Black Rat Projects), and RJ Rushmore (of vandalog.com) traveled to Kabwe, Zambia to work with students at the Robert Shitima School. They were…

Protests in Mexico City to demand Justice for Caravan in Oaxaca and to end the Para-military attacks on Autonomous indigenous communities. Yesterday at 4:00pm we gathered downtown Mexico City to…

Friday April 2nd was the opening events of On Brecht at NYC’s Brecht Forum. The exhibit is open Monday-Friday from 2 PM – 7 PM until April 28. I hope…

I’ve been way behind on blogging these days, and rad things keep slipping by before I can post them up here. My friend Sam Sebren had a cool art piece…

Found this behind my farm stand at Union Square a couple of weeks ago. The poster lists a website at NewMTA.info. I’ve seen many spoofs of NYC MTA service posters,…

Pictograms are a type of visual language that is ubiquitous today. They are regularly used along highways and streets, in the olympics, or on bathroom doors. These symbols (often called…

If you’re in the NYC area, stop by ABC No Rio to check out the Ides of March show, but make sure to take a look at the outside of…

Just want to make a short post to let people in the Pacific North West know that the exhibit Signs of Change closes this Friday! Here are the details: http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/power-to-the-poster/Content?oid=2264175

Some video footage from the shutdown of the freeways around downtown Oakland. Your browser is not able to display this multimedia content.

We will be participating in a MANIFEST EQUALITY an exhibit which gathers together a diverse array of hundreds of the nation’s most talented visual artists under one roof to celebrate…

Since participating in a session called Pedagogies of the Periphery (organized by Rebecca Zorach) a few weeks ago at threewalls Gallery in Chicago I have been thinking through a lot…

  This past week was super productive, i printed four posters and drove up to Sacramento for a poster installation. There are a few prints that we had designed for…

Our friend Etta Cetera is working hard on a new project to support Mumia, here’s the info: Flood the White House – Mail Art 4 Mumia Mumia Abu-Jamal—The world’s most…

This is an essay written by Eric Triantafillou that is included in Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today. Eric wrote the piece as a provocation to political printmakers, asking all…

This week was super busy, I printed three editions and still had time to run around getting supplies and table at an event to sell some prints. The week started…

I just hung a show up at Stumptown Coffee on S.E. Division St here in Portland. If you are in town stop by, take a look, and grab a cup…

We are very happy to announce the release of the first print Dignidad Rebelde publishes, “Haiti Will Rise Again” designed by EastSide Arts Alliance. This image was created by ESAA…

A little while back I got an announcement from Magdalena Jitrik, one of the Argentine artists that had organized the Taller Popular de Serigrafía (who had designed and printed for…

In recent years I keep coming across the graphics and posters of Luba Lukova, and have been increasingly impressed with their clarity, directness, and graphic efficiency. Lukova edited and designed…

I came across these designs, by Chrysa Koukoura, while researching campaigns for the upcoming Justseeds Portfolio-Resourced. We are hoping to pair each participating artist with an organization/campaign to create a…

Since I was unable to make my own opening in Chicago because of Lake Effect Snow (poor me), I have decided to upload another academic text I recently published in…

“This is an altar created by young people in the Chicago neighborhoods of Humboldt Park and South Chicago. Altars like this one, memorializing an untimely violent death, are an all-too…

Our friend Kei from the Irregular Rhythm Asylum in Tokyo designed the very cool 2010 CIRA Japan calendar (CIRA is Japan’s largest anarchist archive). This years calendar has a theme…

by Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes A year ago, early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22-year old, Oscar…

For Immediate Release- Chile Estyle: A Group Exhibition of Chilean Urban Art, Curated by Pablo Aravena Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art Opening Reception: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 7-10 PM Exhibition…

Mark Vallen has some really incredible posts up on his blog. While Art Basel, in Miami Beach, is being cleaned up and repackaged to go home, I read “200 One…

My friend Zoeann just sent me a link to this site Americans Who Tell the Truth. It’s a series of painted portraits of lefties from the US by Robert Shetterly,…

Sunday, November 15th 1:00 – 4:30pm Eastside Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. (at 23rd Ave.) Oakland, CA 94606 FREE. Donations accepted. Creating Radical Graphics is a one-day mini-conference for Bay…

Here’s a couple of shots of a large piece I am working on for the Justseeds show at Sea Change Gallery in Portland. The show opening is on first Thursday,…

Out good friends at the Groundswell Design Collective havee been having some computer troubles as of late, but they are now fully back online. If you’ve never checked them out,…

Our friends and awesome t-shirt makers Liberation Ink are struggling to survive at the moment, and need our help! Liberation Ink is an Oakland-based artist and activist run shirt shop…

My old friend Jasson Perez is making a name for himself in Chicago as 1/3 of the political hip-hop crew BBU (Bin Laden Blowin’ Up, or Black, Brown & Ugly)….

From the Mobilization for Climate Justice: Bryant Park – Climate SOS, New York Climate Action Group, and members of Rising Tide North America protested what they called “a greenwashed U.S….

Icky A, Roger Peet and I will have some work in the show “I think therefore I am” at the Goodfoot Lounge in Portland. The opening is this Thursday Sept….

Patricia Dahlman and Michael Dal Cerro have put up the 14 pieces of art they received in response to a call for art on health care reform. There’s a couple…

Support indigenous resistance! I just got an email today from the folks at Certain Days announcing the completion of the 2010 calendar. A number or justseeds members contributed work, it’s…

Jared Davidson of the Garage Collective in New Zealand has just posted this short video about early labor history in NZ. It’s a nice short piece collaged from historical photos,…

Artist Gregory Moore has put up a nice collection of portraits he’s painted on his website. Each portrait is of a US soldier that has refused to fight in Iraq….

Here is some info about a print shop in Saint Louis, Missouri who are following a cooperative model. All Along Press is a cooperative art space specializing in letterpress, screenprinting,…

Mark Vallen, who is a painter and printmaker and runs the art-for-a-change blog, has a bunch of really nice prints for sale on his site. He just posted a Sandanista…

I stumbled on this design site, Belog, which has a great collection of Iranian graphics, including a bunch of very cool posters and book covers. Here’s the link to the…

Our friend Kazembe Balagun, who runs the blog Black Man with a Library, has just posted a podcast interview he did with Black Panther artist Emory Douglas. I’ve embedded it…

I am Xicano. My family roots tie me to this land. My ancestors have moved across the Americas for thousands of years. I grew up in South San Diego just…

Erik is the artist and residence at my workplace right now, and we spent 20 minutes today at lunch having fun making this exquisite corpse:

I just stumbled across this interesting site, a re-purposing of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis in an attempt to discuss recent events in Iran. I can’t say I agree with all the…

I’m getting this up a little late for celebrating Pride, but my friend Sam sent me this great flyer/story made by one of the Stonewall veterans. It’s an amazing narrative…

Hard to resist not doing more mud stencils after the energy that came out of the Tamms Year Ten mud stencil action in early June in Chicago. Here’s some new…

I am so happy to share the 2009 San Francisco Dyke march poster design. Since I met Ani Rivera my contact for the Dyke March committee, a few years ago,…

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University is proud to present the exhibition “Art, Archives, and Activism: Martin Wong’s Downtown Crossings” from March 6-December 18, 2009. From the mid ’80s…

Quick update on a project taking place this weekend in Chicago. The Tamms Year Ten coalition is partnering with Milwaukee artist Jesse Graves to publicize state-sanctioned torture at the Tamms…

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is looking for advocates, organizations, and researchers with complex policy issues that need visual explanation. We seek advocates with a constituency who would directly…

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…

Last evening I presented with Bec Young at The NorthStar Center in Lansing, MI. In the discussion following our presentation, one of the women in the audience (who happens to…

“We strongly believe that our future is in the hands of the young folks.”-Mutulu Shakur Last week Jesus and I worked at Oakland’s Spanish Speaking Citizen’s Foundation with several Raza…

Its good to find a support campaign webpage that has downloadable graphics available. Check out the Freinds of the RNC8 propaganda page. And learn about the RNC8’s struggle for charges…

The Real Cost of Prisons site has recently put up a large collection of art by prisoner artist Carnell Hunnicutt, Sr. It’s pretty interesting stuff, Hunnicutt mostly takes existing texts…

I can’t remember if I posted something about this before, but either way, this is cool: The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), a San Francisco-based homeless advocacy group, has posted…

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the third world Liberation Front Hunger Strike, where seven college students camped outside of California Hall and fasted for what they believed in….

Here’s the last bit I want to share about Rome for now. One of the last days we were in Rome we got to take a trip out to the…

While in Rome we took a couple trips to San Lorenzo, a working class neighborhood which is both the locus of current student activism, and the historical center of the…

I’ve been meaning to write down some thoughts on my trip to Rome since I got back over a month ago, but time has been crunched and re-crunched with other…

This is a re-post from: http://boryana-rossa.livejournal.com/17089.html My friend Boryana, an artist from Bulgaria, keeps me informed about the political art scene in Russia and Eastern Europe. I took a long…

Here’s a cool little video of Seth Tobocman performing his classic piece, You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive. It was made by Andrew Lynn of Breathing Planet…

On February 2, 1848, a Mexican delegation ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with Mexico accepting the Rio Grande as the Texas border and ceding almost half its territory (which…

My friend Mike Stephens has a nice online show up on DirtyPilot.com. Mike is an amazing block printer from Corpus Christi, TX, and a print of his has been in…

I have to say I’m quite impressed with the outpouring of art and design in support and defense of Gaza. It’s nice to see some skills flexed to do something…

From Boba Singh‘s flickr stream, an artist in Berlin. Here is their website: vizifada.de

Worth a whirl. Sock and Awe game, and try to hit Bush in the face. Again, the internet helps us live our fantasies, virtually.

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….

There weren’t many opportunities to be politicized, radically, growing up in a small town. I found most political ideas and became aware of activist “campaigns” through music. The Dead Kennedys,…

New Zealand’s Garage Collective has just launched a blog! Check it out here.

Jared Davidson from Garage Collective and Zoe Thompson-Moore, both from New Zealand, have just a cool video slideshow on art and activism they recently did. Check it out.

Here’s a link to a great little video about the art of LeRoy Johnson and Theodore Harris. Pretty compelling stuff, evokes Romaire Beardon and social realism thrown into a dada…

Here’s a cool project that my friend’s friends are working on: A duo of sweet cycling ladies who have initiated a project called The Gift Cycle, are on the final…

The political graphics in Reproduce & Revolt are slowly starting to spread out around the world! Above is a poster made by communities in San Marcos that are resisting Montana…

Jared Davidson of the New Zealand-based Garage Collective has posted a follow-up essay to his earlier piece we blogged about here: “This Is Not A Manifesto —Towards An Alternative Design…

One of the highlights of this year’s Allied Media Conference in Detroit was learning about the Transborder Immigration Project by Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro. In…

It’s hard to believe that almost a year has passed since our friend Daniel McGowan has been in prison. I’ve kept in touch with Daniel, and also have come to…

So, I’ve been trying to learn to sew for the past month, and it has been a both frustrating and very rewarding endeavor. My friend Kat got me started and…

A collective in Madrid, called Atenco Somos Todos, held an action in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Reminding the Spanish government and the rest of the world of…

I wrote this essay a while back for Punk Planet which sadly is no longer being published as a print magazine. I wanted to put it up here because it…

Seen around Bed-Stuy, historically predominant African-American neighborhood, in Brooklyn, NY. Begs the question… The neighborhood has been forgotten and downright neglected by city institutions for decades, yet in recent years…

Our friend Imminent Disaster is back with her second installment of her travels in South America. Thanks to her and continue to have great experiences. Mujeres Creando is a feminist…

Thai artist Vasan Sitthiket is showing a series of new paintings about the Iraq War 5 years on at the National Art Museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The show opens March…

Here’s a new art site trying to grapple with the fact that we’re 5 years into a never-ending war, and most of us have moved on to pretend that it…

I’ve just been so impressed with all the work of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) lately….Here’s another amazing project, Combat Paper. Working with artists in Vermont, IVAW members…

If you’ve only got 3 minutes to look at the internet today, definitely check out this video of a performance that the arts group triiibe did at the January 27th,…

Crafting Protest http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=13844 01/26/2008 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Many contemporary artists are using craft to make diverse and timely political statements. Because creating crafts is so often social and…

I recently came across an amazing project in Chicago that has been ongoing since July of 2004. All of the windows of the top 3 floors of the Chicago Printmakers…

I guess it’s definitely calendar season. An old friend from Chicago (who now lives in Puerto Rico), Dave Buchen, has been hand printing these great animal linoleum cut calendars every…

We just got an email from our Bay Area friends Liberation Ink. They are selling some of the best political t-shirts I’ve ever seen, and a chunk of the money…

WRAP (The Western Regional Advocacy Project) is a homelessness advocacy group that has realized the power art has in spreading a message. For the past year or so they have…

Art from the Justseeds Coop is featured this month on the website Rejected Letters to the Editor. An interesting project, RLTE is a collection of letters to the editor, op-ed…

The main reason I had originally wanted to travel to Copenhagen was to visit Christiania, the squatted former military barracks which now make up a mini-town on the edge of…

Welcome to the new online home of Justseeds / Visual Resistance Cooperative! 13 artists from across the US, joined by NYC’s Visual Resistance collective, have banded together to create this…

From Slaughterhouse Five: “It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like…

This is the first-ever post by IminentDisaster, who’s been working on an incredible installation in Red Hook for the last few weeks: This site-specific intervention in Red Hook, Brooklyn provides…

Incredible news from Oregon: Jeff “Free” Luers’ legal team finally won an appeal, and his ridiculous 22-year sentence could potentially be cut by two-thirds. From FreeFreeNow.org: We have some good…

Right: A memorial for Peter Hornbeck, a friend of a friend. Pete was killed January 10, 2004, when a driver going close to 100 miles an hour ran him down…

Street Art Workers Releases New Poster Project: Land & Globalization Poster Series Wheatpasters and Distributors Needed! The newest project from the Street Art Workers (SAW) takes a look at how…

For 10 years, JustSeeds has been a critical resource for radical artists working outside the “art world” system. In the process of becoming a decentralized artist-owned cooperative, the floor suddenly…

Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles at the Craft and Folk Art Museum Curated by the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest October 22 – December 31, 2006…

We received word last night that New York City activist and journalist Brad Will was shot and killed yesterday by paramilitary forces while filming from a barricade during a protest…

A group calling itself the Milwaukee Paper Company has hit the streets of Milwaukee with their new poster campaign. Here are a few images, to see more photos visit milpaperco’s…

With several projects in the works and a massive benefit gallery show just behind us, Visual Resistance is in the red. While we’ve fundraised for other groups or friends in…

I found this in my inbox from the Clamor blog recap under the heading “New Counter-Recruitment Tool Featuring The Coup” first posted on May 11th. There is a link to…

The Friends of William Blake, a working group of artists and activists who first put out the “The People’s Guide to the Republican National Convention” a 33-by-22-inch full-color fold-up map…

Wooster Collective has been asking various people in the street art world what they would do if they had twenty million dollars to spend on public art. Here’s our response:…

Via ekosystem comes word of a crackdown against so-called “quality of life” offences in Barcelona. Zosen writes: [The] new law says is illegal to skate, do graffiti, posters, stickers, give…

With almost all other venues for speech and debate closed off, activists are using graffiti to speak out against Mugabe’s dictatorship in Zimbabwe: A few streets away from Robert Mugabe’s…

Stepping away from politics into another way of moving people through art, Paul from Eyeteeth links to an essay of his from February that asks the question: how can art…

I’m sure by now you’ve all heard about the Bush administration’s four-year campaign of illegal spying on American citizens. Last Saturday, the NY Times broke the story that the National…

Mark Vallen has a great essay up on his blog Art for a Change responding to Larry Beinhart’s recent article bemoaning the lack of “political” art in a recent group…

As I am sure everyone knows, Stanely Tookie Williams was murdered by the State of California December 13th at 12:35 am PT by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison….

This email from Shaun in Pittsburgh came our way via the Street Art Workers email list: I thought this was interesting, and a positive example of what happens when we…

I’m not big on holidays in general, and the whole Thanksgiving-to-Chistmas season, with its frantic consumerism, stressful travel, and insipid jingles tends to make me a mumbling misanthropic mess. But…

In August, our friend Mariel traveled from the U.S. to Mexico to join La Caravana de Artistas en Resistencia. This group of artists took a bus to Chiapas to paint…

November 20th-27th there is going to be a ROAD TRIP FOR RELEIF to New Orleans organized by a radical group called Common Ground. Anyone and everyone should get in their…

NYC Indymedia does invaluable work, especially on their free biweekly paper the Indypendent. Their website, paper, and space have all served as powerful and much-needed resources for activists in this…

Since we are a NYC based collective, and there is an upcoming mayoral election, I wanted to point out a really slick website called Fire Bloomberg. The site leads to…

Will from UntitledName.com has photos of police officers stealing bicycles locked to street signs in Williamsburg. He writes: Around 7 pm on October 5, 2005 the NYPD removed bicycles locked…

The scenes from New Orleans are heartbreaking and bring back horrible memories of New York on September 11. But where that tragedy was an instant shock, the full toll from…

VisualResistance.org is back online ,with some changes; most notably a new intro page with quick links to projects we’ve been involved in. This blog is only a small part of…

I missed this story when it first came out but it’s been sticking in my brain since I found it a few days ago: A U.S. Air Force colonel has…

The tech problems we’ve been experiencing for the last 4 days should be cleared up now. The photolog still has some bad amnesia, but the main page (this one) and…

We’ve been working hard this week to set up a new website for our Critical Mass campaign. Today feels like this city’s first summer day — just the right time…

A reminder and update about Visual Resistance’s Art for Critical Mass call: we’ve got 5,000 stickers coming next week, just in time for the April ride. We’ve got a half…