The most recent production from submedia.tv: This week we bring you a special sedition on the anniversary of one of the most bad-ass and sophisticated revolutionary organizations in the United…
“The presence of uniformed and adversarial police, call and response chants, and the shifting division of physical space into areas inside and outside the crowd all serve to create feelings…
In 2011 Justseeds traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to create a collaborative installation for the 29th Graphic Arts Biennial. During our visit there we became familiar with various projects and fellow…
I’m sending care and love on behalf of justseeds toward the queer&trans migrant warriors and families that lost their lives this morning in Orlando and the LGBTQ community at large,…
@notorious_t_0_m saw our work on the subway and advised "stop the spread of trump!" @realdonaldtrump #SubwayTrumpStickers #streetart #donaldtrump #nyc #makeamericagreatagain #gofuckyourself A photo posted by Major Bigtime (@majorbigtime) on May…
The abduction in 2014 of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in Guerrero, Mexico continues unsolved, as evidence mounts of government complicity and even coordination of the disappearances….
I’m excited to be headed to Lawrence, KS tomorrow to talk at the launch of the Kansas People’s History Project, a new poster endeavor loosely modeled on my Celebrate People’s…
The latest It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. This week we take a look at the economic and political crisis…
Last weekend I went to Astoria, a small city at the mouth of the Columbia River, for a party celebrating what seems like a final victory over the forces that…
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
This week, we take a look at the tens of thousands of migrants tapped in limbo in Europe, facing down the prospect of being deported back to the war zones…
Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen just completed a really impressive mural project at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in LA as part of the Endangered Species Mural Project. Working with…
Interference Archive is included in the current exhibition Agitprop! in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. I have to say that the show is…
It’s the 21st year of the Bay Area Anarchist bookfair, an annual gathering of publishers, thinkers, and actors on the theme of making this society, and all societies, free. If…
It’s a Justseeds art explosion in the art-build space above Company Brewing in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood for the next three days. Justseeds artists Paul Kjelland, Pete Railand, Nicolas Lampert and…
Our colleagues in Art Forces are hosting their second annual Social Justice Bloc Party this coming weekend, April 22-23 in Olympia, Washington, and showing some work from our Migration Now…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The latest from the stimulator! 2015 wrapped up with a bang, with dozens of militant actions carried out by anarchists under the banner of “Black December.” In Turkey, aspiring Fuhrer,…
I recently wrote a short essay on the 1960’s San Francisco-based antiauthoritarian group The Diggers, and how they both relate to my way of navigating the world, but also how…
“Despite Oregon’s revolting racist history as a racist white “utopia,” the state comes off as part of the “left coast,” a safe haven for gender, sexual diversity, environmentalism, and…
Here’s subMedia.tv’s latest installment This we bring you a recap of the COP21 climate clusterfuck in Paris, with Jim Hansen’s reaction to the historic non-agreement and 350.org’s condemnation of comrades…
John Trudell, a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker, passed away on December 8th. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island…
Portland hip-hop MC, organizer, radio wrangler and colleague Mic Crenshaw is currently on tour through multiple nations of Sub-Saharan Africa with the Afrikan Hip-Hop Caravan. The Caravan is a traveling…
On the morning of December 11 a number of direct actions took places in cities around the world, in solidarity with the work giong on in Paris to force attention…
It’s not too late to sign up for a Justseeds Community Supported Art membership for 2016! CSA members will have three freshly designed prints on the theme of Love and Justice…
I’m just returned from Birmingham, Alabama, upon completion of the fourth Endangered Species Mural, this one featuring the Watercress Darter. The darter is a very small, brightly colored fish that…
Adalah-NY teamed up with some cultural workers, and friends of Justseeds, to produce this video in support of the cultural boycott of the Israeli state. NY based artists are asked…
Everyone knows that art is an engine that drives transformation. The art we look at reminds us that other people feel like we do, and gives us something to believe…
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We’re excited to get some press for our recent exhibition Armed by Design. You can read more at The Guardian.
W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) is proud to announce the launch of W.A.G.E. Certification, a paradigm-shifting model for the remuneration of artistic labor. Initiated and operated by W.A.G.E.,…
I wrote this article for Bitch Magazine in the leadup to the recent People’s Climate March, thinking about futility and frustration and the reasons we do the work we do….
I just got some photos from this past weekend’s opening of the first annual Screenprint Biennial, in Troy, NY. My ______ Manifesto diptych was included, which I’m really excited about….
The excellent environmental news site Mongabay.com has a new journalism initiative, and it’s producing some fascinating work. A recent post examined the potential linkages between the trafficking of great apes…
Our comrade Andalusia was in Brasil, for many weeks, reporting on the demonstrations around the World Cup. Here are some links to a few videos & radio clips she produced…
Today would have been Patrice Emery Lumumba’s 89th birthday. Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo, was an emblem of passionate resistance to Belgian colonial rule, and at…
On this day in 2010 there was a march in Detroit that inspired a print I recently released called Solstice. The march was part of a decades-long struggle to take…
THE NOMAD SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR ITS “FUVELA” – ESPECIALLY TO MILWAUKEE by Cris Siqueira and Isabella Gargiulo A bar in Milwaukee created a favela-themed patio for the World Cup and…
Summary of recent events: On May 2, 2014, in the Zapatista territory of La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico, the group CIOAC-Histórica [with the participation of the Green Ecological Party and the…
Burglars who took on the FBI abandon shadows
Some totally appalling news about the NSA’s capabilities. I really hope everyone that uses technology watch the following videos and educate yourself. This is incredibly nuts! Democracy Now! from December…
[HEMPSTEAD, NY] The hunger relief efforts of a small group of dedicated and caring Long Islanders operating on a near-zero budget is eclipsing that of the relief efforts of many…
I’m excited that (as far as I know…) my first book cover design has been converted into a book shield for a book bloc! A big cardboard copy of George…
We here at Justseeds use the web to sell our work, but we also try very hard to find brick and mortar stores that are willing to take a chance…
The blog series in which I ask members of Justseeds to make a list of five things that have been inspiring them as of late. This time we get a…
There’s an interview with filmmaker Vanessa Renwick over on the Incite website. Vanessa’s interviewer, Deborah Stratman- also an amazing experimental documentary/filmmaker, engages Vanessa into a conversation about her work, filmmaking,…
Here’s some photos from some friends here who did a creative action during the Columbus Day parade in Bloomfield (Pittsburgh’s Little Italy). The pictures speak for themselves, a small group…
I was so sad today to wake up and read the news that Herman Wallace had died just three days after he was released from prison. Herman (along with Albert…
When people think about Justseeds they might first think about the images that we make or various projects and collaborations with movements, but central to what we do is being…
Prison sentences: Bradley Manning: 35 years Donald Rumsfeld: 0 Number of people charged with espionage for leaking classified information in US history: 10 Number charged under the Obama Administration: 7
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Could the devastating policies of the War on Drugs (i.e. the War on People of Color) and the mass incarceration of those with minor drug offenses that have been in…
More reasons to despise Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: He has made gathering in the State Capitol Building without a permit illegal. Of course people have defied this, but now the…
Though it’s fallen out of the (western) media spotlight, the struggle for public space in Istanbul continues. Protests and re-occupations of Taksim Square are ongoing (news reports a new clash…
Perusing the ol’ Hark! a Vagrant tumblr yesterday I came across this absolutely marvelous video by Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tic for a song called Google Google Apps Apps. I…
Some colleagues made this awesome, star-studded explosion of a video tribute to Bradley Manning. Watch it, think hard about it. What are YOU willing to do for what you know…
A Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of glowing plants just reached its funding goal. The plan, put forth by a small startup in the Bay Area called Genome Compiler…
University of Nottingham professor Adam David Morton offers up a nice little vignette of commentary on the significance of the Zapatista movement, using my “Aqui Seguimos” print as a springboard….
In the past two days both the New York Times and the New Yorker have featured the book bloc exhibition at Interference Archive, with a focus on the book shields…
You might have noticed, joyfully, the news last week about grad student Thomas Herndon and his epic takedown of one of the pillars of the global austerity movement. Herndon was…
I ran across this impressive piece of data visualization recently, which really sums up exactly how the US “war on terror” strategy has changed since Obama’s arrival as commander in…
Part of the month I spent at the Caldera Arts Center was taken up by attempts to fashion some music videos out of the clips I shot while traveling in…
The excellent magazine n+1 released a small book last year called “The Trouble Is The Banks: Letters to Wall Street”. The book is composed of letters written to the officers…
This just in!: Occupied Greek Factory Begins Production Under Workers Control Occupy, Resist, Produce! recuperations “We see this as the only future for worker’s struggles.” —Makis Anagnostou, Vio.Me workers’ union…
Roger posted a couple days back about Freedom Press Bookshop in London being firebombed. Insane. There is more about it HERE and HERE, but I also wanted to share this…
Hey everyone- we’re having a sale for the rest of February here at Justseeds. You can get 10% off every order when you use the coupon code “winter” at checkout….
I’ve just seen (via Boing Boing) that Freedom Books was recently and mysteriously firebombed. The long-lived London Anarchist bookstore is 125 years old. Read more here.
Probably the first Justseeds post about billionaires. Here is Bloomberg’s list of billionaires and not so equal distribution of wealth.
Drawn by the child of a man in Tamms. December 18, 2012. From the TAMMS Year Ten website: “In February, Governor Quinn proposed the closure of Tamms supermax prison and…
StreetArtNYC give a nice mention of Justseeds exhibition “Sowing the Seeds of Love” with some images on their blog. Thanks! Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is “Sowing the Seeds of Love” at…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28, 2012 – San Francisco, California Liberated Ads Highlight Israeli War Aims in Gaza The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign…
As of October 4, 2012, Lumumba will have served ten years. It’s time to set him free!
14 months ago in July of 2011 Milwaukee Police left 22-year old Derek Williams to die as he begged for medical help from the back of an MPD squad car,…
I’m currently in DR Congo, in the capital Kinshasa, to be precise, waiting for a dawn flight to Kisangani in the Northeast. I’m volunteering with a team of scientists led…
Kimberley Rivera and Rodney Watson who have sought refuge in Canada are now facing deportation threats from the Canadian government. Kimberly Rivera, the first women Iraq war resister to come…
This came in recently from my friend Sandy in Berlin:
Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan for VP candidate sets up yet another dangerous election scenario between two corporate-friendly candidates; one bad (Obama) and one extremely bad (Romney.) Ryan makes the…
My good friend Sandy has been at the heart of an amazing housing struggle in Berlin, where residents of one of the giant residential buildings at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg…
A couple weeks back I read an interesting story in the New York Times, about a nascent protest movement in Sudan, inspired by Tahrir Square and Occupy, and struggling against…
THE SKY IS PINK by Josh Fox and the GASLAND Team from JFOX on Vimeo. Josh Fox (dir. Gasland) has a new video on hydrofracking and media/industry propaganda, “The Sky…
“If you all stick around long enough today, you’ll start to feel it in your throat. Your nose feels sore, back of your throat feels raw.” Greg Lancaster* is telling…
Today we have a guest blog from Cindy Milstein, who has been spending considerable time up in Montreal participating in the “Maple Spring/Summer” and writing a lot about it. Her…
More attacks on labor rights in Wisconsin – this time on workers at Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee – a frozen pizza company that ships nationally. A strike is in week…
The Wisconsin Uprising ended with a recall election and the recall election ended with an abrupt thud. Many expected a razor tight contest – one that was sure to end…
Our friend Tom Civil had a great show in Melbourne last month, and there’s a bunch of pictures up of it HERE, and a really thoughtful in depth interview with…
There’s an awful lot of mass murder going on in Mexico. Piles of dead bodies are heaped in public squares, hung from bridges, or dismembered and decapitated and laid out…
The fight song for the University of Wisconsin is “On, Wisconsin!” The Wisconsin state motto is “Forward.” Lofty ideals filled with optimism, but those days seem long gone in the…
IVAW field organizer Aaron Hughes, a frequent collaborator with Justseeds, most recently on the War is Trauma portfolio, spoke today on Democracy Now! about plans for protesting the NATO summit…
A stunning short film documenting the movement in Barcelona. Take a couple minutes and give it a view. “And we continue…”
It has been six years since the heavy repression in San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico, where people had gathered to protest the eviction of flower vendors from…
I just learned that Elizabeth Catlett died on Monday, at her home in Mexico at the age of 96. Catlett was an outstanding participant of the black arts movement in…
Adam Curtis, of Power of Nightmares fame, has a new long-read post up on his blog that is sure to rile many: he suggests that the modern yoga craze finds…
The Justseeds/IVAW print portfolio was just featured in The 22 Magazine. From the write-up: Beyond being beautiful pieces of art, each work is a call to end unneeded violence…
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The new President of Ireland Michael D Higgins is a politician, accomplished poet, sociologist, and author. He also served as the Minister for Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht. Here is…
Wendy Redstar, a contemporary Crow artist who teaches at Portland State University, runs a blog on Contemporary Indigenous art. Along with her students at PSU, she conducts challenging and provocative…
Madison is mobilizing again! [Photo from Sue Simensky Bietila.]
Victories in the prison justice movement are few and far between but a huge people’s victory is unfolding in Illinois. Governor Pat Quinn has announced plans to close the TAMMS…
Meet Felipe, a father who is on the verge of losing the right to his children forever. Felipe Montes was deported to Mexico about a year ago, away from his…
Here are a couple of interesting stories from the gorilla regions of central Africa: The Fossey Gorilla Fund, which operates a variety of active conservation efforts in Rwanda and DR…
My friend Carolina just sent me this awesome article she wrote on the on-going battle of the Triqui people for their Autonomy and self determination. San Juan Copala: Autonomous Triquis…
This past Thursday, Wisconsin witnessed another new low. State Republicans in the Assembly fast tracked a pro-mining bill (AB 426) that will allow the out-of-state mining corporation Gogebic Taconite to…
I received a press release this morning from a new political action group; Patriots for Self-Deportation, announcing the launch of their website SelfDeport.org. Taking inspiration from Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s…
In drug-war torn Reynosa, Mexico, a large statue of a rooster has appeared on a busy roadside. The ten-foot sculpture is adorned with a flower wreath addressed to the memory…
Last year two species of Rhinoceros went extinct. The Vietnamese sub-species of the Javan Rhino and the Western Black Rhino of Africa are gone forever, casting no more shadows. Their…
UPDATE @ 3:02 PM PST: Pancho has just been released!! Thank you to all who supported!!! Francisco “Pancho” Ramos-Stierle was arrested on Monday as he was sitting in silent, non-violent…
Occupy Portland has been uprooted from its two downtown parks, and begins a new phase – whether that means a new location or a new course of action. Since I…
Check out this recent action in Chicago where Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got an unexpected greeting by audience members that he did not expect to be in attendance –the working…
A creative action here in New York pulled together by Occupy the Boardroom.
A very powerful documentary, LOST IN DETENTION, recently aired on PBS’s Frontline and revealted the devastating consequences of the mass incarceration of immigrants and the harsh toll it takes on…
Show your support for IVAW member Scott Olsen – a 24-year old Marine veteran with two tours in Iraq who was critically injured by a police projectile at Occupy Oakland…
I recently returned from England, the most highly surveilled region of Earth. It’s palpable. The presence of CCTV cameras is like the touch of a spider. Very like a spider,…
Our friend Cindy Milstein has been posting great regular updates about what is going on inside Occupy Philly on her blog HERE. Check it out! [The image above is from…
Mother Jones just put up a cool article entitled “Octopi Wall Street!” about the historical use of the octopus as a representation of capitalism. Worth clicking over and reading it…
*Urgent News Bulletin: Ostula comrade killed in Xayakalan* “We have to struggle, come what may, whatever happens, against anyone we have to. A struggle isn’t easy. It’s exhausting—economically, physically, and…
It may appear to our regular blog readers that all of Justseeds is cavorting around Europe at international art biennials, but it isn’t true! I’ve been at home in New…
Our friends from Black Mesa Indigenous Support are an awesome group of folks and do fantastic work. I am going to be going out to Black Mesa for the first…
I recently came across Tahrir Documents, an amazing website and resource that is archiving, scanning, translating, and representing a huge collection of documents, fliers, posters, and newspapers produced as part…
I’ve been meaning to repost this for weeks, so better late than never. I stumbled across this short article on and set of images by the Deterritorial Support Group, a…
Robert Tillman from Printeresting, one of our favorite blogs, spent a week in Pittsburgh in July. He just put up a bunch of posts about the print places he visited…
With 1.8 billion dollars spent at the fair, Art Basel recorded its highest gross of sales in its 43 years. In the context of this any meaning of Art is…
“There is a restlessness within our souls that keeps us questioning, discovering and struggling against a system that will not allow us space and time for fresh expression….” – Gil…
Ganzeer, an Egyptian artist, is featured in an interesting article from the Guardian a couple of weeks back: Egypt’s uprising brings DIY spirit out on to the streets “…in Tahrir…
Direct action gets the media coverage. Yesterday, Greenpeace activists brought much needed local and national media attention to the Fisk and Crawford power plants in Chicago by hanging a banner…
(I am tardy on posting this and my attempts to find out what happened yesterday (with the two prisoners potentially being released) has been, so far, fruitless. I am posting…
Many folks are gearing up for the June 4-11 March on Blair Mountain. The excerpt below came down the wire from organizers, along with this awesome new print from Providence-based…
There will be a second round of anti-nuclear protests coming up on May 7th. Radiation and the horrors of nuclear catastrophe don’t know any boundaries, this is an international issue….
I haven’t had a chance to post new work on the site for some time, but its not like I haven’t busy. I though I’d share some photos of an…
I wanted to do a quick blog post about the April 10th day of protest against nuclear power and weapons. Kei sent an email describing the action in Tokyo that…
My friend and DJ/collaborator Cara Erskine just had an article published in Dis Magazine’s Labor Issue. She writes about Tea Party-backed Maine Governor Paul LePage’s removal from the lobby of…
More posters and reminder about the April 10th Day of Action CALL FOR ACTION “This is a global call for actions on 10th April. We sincerely hope that you will…
CALL FOR ACTION “This is a global call for actions on 10th April. We sincerely hope that you will take any actions together on that day. Work with us in…
“Gov. LePage ordered the removal of a 36-foot, 11-panel mural by Maine artist Judy Taylor from the foyer of the Maine Department of Labor in Augusta because, he claimed, it…
Journalist and photographer David Bacon has just sent out another good piece, reminding us that labor unrest and organizing is happening all over the country, not just in Wisconsin: FOUNDRY…
Justseeds was recently mentioned in a local article. Which is totally awesome press! However, I also want to avoid the possible interpretation of us as primarily competition for other local…
Erik Ruin and I (Josh MacPhee) currently have work in a cool looking exhibition in Amman, Jordan at a venue called (The Studio). The show was organized by Nidal El-khairy…
This van (seen in Pittsburgh) wryly references the myriad, often toxic rainbow of chemicals found in the hydraulic shale fracturing (or “fracking”) method used in drilling and stimulating natural gas…
I was so excited to read about this on Alternet over the weekend! Everybody knows the GOP’s biggest weakness is money, so why not hit ’em in the sweet spot?…
Paper Politics got props in the latest issue of the Providence Phoenix (our weekly paper). Greg Cook has constantly given positive and well written articles about printmakers in Providence: his…
Wisconsin workers fight back! A slumbering labor movement has awakened in Wisconsin in response to the extreme anti-union legislation that Gov. Scott Walker (in office for six weeks) is attempting…
“heART of the revolution” is an online exhibit displaying art from around the world in support of the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. Website presented by…
I’ve been glued to my computer screen and speakers listening to the news from Egypt. There has been a growing social movement the last few days that has erupted into…
I found this online summary of my art. Now I can quit!
Here’s a link to the site of photographer James Mollison, who has undertaken a great project of portraiture in Indonesia, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo: Passport photographs of apes….
RT (Russia TV), which appears to be a US-based Russian online TV station, just ran a story on NYC’s Brecht Forum while our Justseeds print exhibition was still hanging there,…
First the David Wojnarowicz removal from the Smithsonian and now… Street artist Blu (we’ve cross-linked to some of his graffiti animations in the past) was finishing up a mural on…
Not sure if folks have been keeping up with world news, but I caught a glimpse of some photos and video of protesters and riot police clashing in the streets…
I recently had an article published in the Portland-based environmental journal Bear Deluxe about the international bushmeat trade and the effects that it’s having on the populations of our closest…
Slade Art School in the UK has been occupied. You can follow it HERE. Back in the 60s and 70s occupied art schools produced some of the best political posters…
Hey folks! Check out this rad props we got onto a local RI blog! Celebrate People’s History! Poster Book is on the front page! http://thebiggestlittle.org/
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. I forget who said that, but the events unfolding in West Virginia at the site of the largest armed labor…
Friends in Melbourne have been organizing against anti-low income housing policies in Melbourne, and produced this new video in lead up to a big protest on Nov. 12:
Justseeds has gotten a small flurry of online press recently, here’s a couple highlights: 1) “A Print You Can Believe In” on The Link in Montreal with a focus on…
Signal has gotten a couple nice mentions on the web (don’t forget to pick up a copy HERE.): —A review at Dotrad, which calls Signal “a beautiful chronicle of political…
“We were taught how the pioneers went into the West. They opened their eyes, and made up what things could be.”
This is a long piece about art and activism for a mainstream paper like the Washington Post. Go Favianna, Cesar, and everybody who got this coverage! Cesar Maxit, Graham Boyle,…
Who’s heard of Menhaden? Anyone? Show of hands? Certainly not me, before a couple of months ago. Now, however, the oily fish that once schooled in innumerable masses on the…
(Trail of Dreams walkers heading to Arpaio’s office, Phoenix, AZ) Just got back from DC where I traveled to after spending week in Arizona, where I was with the…
Ok—more insanity in the news… “The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of religious freedoms, America’s…
Ok—this is insane! Someone forwarded us this article and I am stunned. I understand with the current racist anti-immigration law in Arizona, this sort of racism is not surprising. However,…
This is old news now, but hell, I’m busy and can’t always get this stuff up as it happens! For those that haven’t seen it, pretty interesting action last…
“It took me 15 hundred miles to lose the fear of being undocumented.” – Carlos Roa Today Gaby Pacheco, Carlos Roa, Felipe Matos, and Juan Rodriguez, arrived in their hometown,…
This last 3rd and 4th of May was four years since the people in San Salvador Atenco were brutally repressed by the PFP police in Mexico. Here’s a beautiful poster…
Our friends in Japan have spent months protesting the purchase of Miyashita Park in Tokyo by Nike, who intend to turn the park, now a home for many of Tokyo’s…
Justseeds and related-projects keep popping up around the web, here’s a recent list of activity: 1. Spectres of Liberty (Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, and Olivia Robinson) just had an interview…
My friend Charlie just sent along this follow up to last week’s post about creative attacks on H&M for their support of Israeli apartheid. French activists dressed up like IDF…
Troubling news. Ricardo Dominguez, known for Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is taking heat for a Floodnet action against the University of California Office of the President during the March 4th…
I’ve referenced this graphic a few times in the last few days. I don’t remember where I came across it, I find it quite intriguing. It asks folks in the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society Condemn Police Brutality, Demands Justice, Continues the Struggle for Education Rights. 18 arrested, 250 rally for education rights at the University…
All Gaby Pacheco ever wanted was to finish college and teach music to disabled children. Brought to the United States by her parents as a young girl, Gaby has excelled…
Our friends at Riseup.net just sent out a new newsletter, which contained a short but useful section on online privacy. I’ve reprinted it below: How to protect your privacy…
An entire generation of anti-authoritarians are passing on. With Zinn last month, and Colin Ward on Feb. 11 (and Alex Comfort in 2000, Paul Goodman in 1972, and…)… They remind…
My friend Gabriel was denied entry into the country and has had to cancel his US tour. We’ve got serious problems when artists, writers, and musicians are not allowed into…
There is something oddly mesmerizing about this video. I guess a guy just walked into Wal-Mart and started swinging!??! More info HERE.
I’m working hard installing Signs of Change in Portland, OR this week (we open on Thursday night!) and wanted to throw a couple quicks items I’ve run into up here…
Iranian filmmakers have called for a boycott of this years Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, Iran in hopes of pressuring the government to ease up on repression and release political…
Billy da Bunny, of Loop Zine Distro, has started putting up very strange, yet engaging, video zine reviews on the We Make Zines website. He recently put up a set…
My good friend Dwight, owner-operator of the Tucson multi-functional art/community/print space the Gloo Factory and allied enterprise Peace Supplies has been struggling against eviction from his crazy downtown space for…
The 800 individual letters (in solar-panel font) that I helped to print for Katherine of SEA Change Gallery here in Portland were stitched together and made into banners in several…
Welcome to the Teens, hard on the heels of the Noughties. As humanity continues to hack and chew at the earth, extinction rates continue to rise. I have a really…
The Yes Men in Copenhagen = a corporation and/or government is going to get humiliated for good reason. This time it’s Canada. More here: http://theyesmen.org/canada
Some links to keep up with whats happening at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the protests in the streets: Indymedia Danmark: http://indymedia.dk/ Democracy Now!: www.democracynow.org/
I just wanted to send a shout out to our comrades in Vancouver and Victoria who have been struggling against a completely invasive, parasitic, and brutal Olympics campaign. There’s more…
Words of wisdom from historian Howard Zinn on Obama winning the Noble Peace Prize and using it as a forum to declare the war in Afghanistan as a just war….
Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley was occupied again today, and halfway across the globe students from AmirKabir Uniiversity in Tehran tore the gates off their school! Check out the video…
Here’s a couple of photographs from an epic day of screen-printing, Roger of Justseeds and Heather of Flight 64 cranking out hundreds of individual letters for Katherine Ball’s (of SEA…
10 Years since Seattle and this is where we are. I saw the below last night and was totally gobsmacked: I’ve been trying to think of what to write until…
A handful of my favorite media-making friends were in California documenting the recent actions over the “austerity measures” in the California University system. Brandon Jourdan has some strong feeling about…
Check out info on the STUPAK part of the current health care bill. Women are denied access to abortion coverage- the bill actually denies coverage to women who already have…
David Bacon just sent out a nice set of photos and a short text on the hotel worker’s strike going on right now in San Francisco. One of the things…
(banner drop on a bridge where bankers at the conference were passing by on tour boats) “The major banking institutions, who have been raked over the coals of public opinion,…
On October 24, 350.org organized the most widespread day of political action in history — over 5,200 events in 181 countries — to call for a clear solution to the…
Our garden season is coming to a close in RI but it’s that time of the year to be hunting for food! I found hen of the woods over last…
This past March, I cofounded an online advocacy organization centered around Latinos and our struggles – Presente.org. One of the most recent campaigns we launched has been around CNN’s Lou…
The drama with Shepard Fairey continues…While the position that some of the Justseeds’ members take on the work of Fairey is public knowledge (see Mark Vallan’s 2007 essay, written with…
The Guardian UK recently posted a short but interesting piece on the art, design, and technology used in the recent protests in Iran. The article is called “The art of…
Thursday, October 15, 2009 NYU’s Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, room 914 at 8 p.m. Doors will open at 7:30. This event is free and open to the public,…
For those that haven’t seen it, here’s a good intro video to what went down on the streets of Pittsburgh during the G20:
So while we’ve been dealing with G20 fallout here, there’s been a bit of stir over in the UK related to the G20 as well. British art crew the Space…
I came across this project while reading Kathleen Hanna‘s (of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and Julie Ruin) blog! They are a project by an Argentine artist which received a grant…
Legendary Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa of the Nueva Canción (new song) movement died today. Her poetic and political lyrics were a true inspiration to the social movements against the…
Hell Yes! Chicago lost its bid to host the Olympics. An estimated 84 percent of the city opposed bringing the Games to Chicago but this did not stop the Daley-machine,…
I got this forward and it has taken me months to put it up but here its is: a new infoshop A-raamatukogu (A-library)www.araamat.org opened in Estonia this past summer. They…
Here is video exploring many different aspects of the Keffiyah; its history, colonization, the appropriation of symbols of resistance. and how Palestinian businesses are affected by the global market. Watch…
These are pictures I culled from IO9 of the Red Dawn movie remake (creatively titled “Red Dawn 2010”) , where Russia and China invade the old USA. This one, like…
On Thursday, September 24th actions against the budget cuts, fee hikes, layoffs and furloughs at University of California campuses took place throughout the UC system. Workers, graduate student employees, staff…
A Factory Like a City By David Bacon from TruthOut.org Last month Toyota announced it would close the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General…
The Billionaires for…. are a street theater group that have been present during the election cycles of the last ten years. Here’s some media pieces about the Billionaires current adaptation….
this just in down the wire: FOUR YEAR LEGAL BATTLE ENDS WITH SUBSTANTIAL DONATIONS TO CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CAE Defense Fund donated to Center for Constitutional Rights &…
Food for thought from the always excellent Kill Your Pet Puppy blog: Thought anti-fascism was all about bearded sociology lecturers waving ‘Never Again’ banners? Not in London’s East End in…
Bottled water! Emblem of assholery. None more so than the Fiji Water brand, with its deceptively idiotic campaign to seem ecologically sound and socially responsible. This despite the fact that…
Friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy and Lize Mogel tipped me off to this great story about German politicians their own versions of mini-utopias at Hamburg’s Miniature Wonderland, the…
This came down the wire this week, a response from Resistanbul to the 11th Annual Istanbul Biennial, which opens this week, and the IMF/World Bank meetings in Istanbul Oct. 1-8:…
“To Change the World: This traveling exhibit of works by radical artists has a refreshingly old-fashioned air” by Margaret Regan Tucson Weekly 03 September 2009 Fabian Garcia Rios was the…
Climate Ground Zero is a campaign against mountaintop removal, they currently have a treesit campaign that is being threatened right now by authorities, some participants have been detained. Check out…
The Way it Was By Justyn Dillingham You might not know it to look at that small, trim-looking white building next to the School of Art, but inside those walls,…
18 August 2009: Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war.” Tristan Anderson, an American national, was critically injured on 13 March 2009…
Many of us in Pittsburgh are watching the creeping media coverage of the pending G20 Summit in September with a mixture of feelings – most notably trepidation and annoyance. Sure,…
I just got this in the inbox from author & photographer David Bacon. A really interesting piece on the future of the labor movement in the US. It was originally…
Lens, the photojournalism blog of the New York Times, has posted a collection of photos by Katie Orlinsky of Central America immigrants in Mexico City waiting to hop trains to…
I recently went to see Propagandhi play in Milwaukee. At this show I first heard about the Tar Sands, a dirtier more toxic way of producing oil than usual. Some…
My friends at Jura Books in Sydney need help! They are holding a cool raffle to raise money, with one of the big prizes being this great historic Australian political…
Here’s an article from the NY Times City Room Blog, by Colin Moynihan, about yesterdays land occupation in NYC, by Picture the Homeless. Its a good article about the action…
This past weekend Peter and I participated in Artscape. We had a booth on the bridge outside the train station alongside of “the duelling court”, “dunk the chump”, space alien…
If you understand the logic of the economic system in which we currently live, the following story will come as no surprise. Nonetheless our understandings don’t prevent us from having…
The Progress Illinois site has a good post on a recent action by the TAMMS Year Ten coallition demanding that the Chicago Tribune retract a fault-ridden editorial about TAMMS. The…
Protests against the G8 meeting are underway in Italy and the IMC is covering the events as they unfold. http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/ On the opening day of the G8 summit, Greenpeace activists…
Charges have been dropped against four of the SF8! For actual information about the case click here.
From the UWM SDS blog… “This 4th of July, SDS celebrated revolution, and independence from empire. Students from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Marquette University jumped into two parades,…
Iran Multitude is a new blog keeping track of what’s going on in Iran, from the inside and out. Check it out here. (image from A1one’s flickr stream)
Michael Jackson is dead and the entire world has something to say. MJ broke race barriers without a doubt. “He broke race barriers in the pop world which opened doors…
As a follow up to the piece we directed you to that Daniel McGowen wrote for the Huffington Post, here’s an article from the LA Times about a lawsuit the…
Ever since Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the right wing has attacked her with racist and sexist remarks, part of a coordinated strategy to tarnish her…
The anarchist newspaper Onward!, which ran from early 2000-2002, is now digitized and up online here. A couple Justseeds artists were involved in the paper at different points, but there’s…
Tech savvy anti-authoritarians have set up a cluster of servers for anonymous testimony and coverage of the demonstrations in Iran from inside and outside of the country, Anonymous Iran. This…
Here’s another short missive from Iran: Things were extremely difficult and violent yesterday…I went, just to be a witness, and having seen what I did, I am deeply hurt and…
We got this report in the mail the other day from independent writer, journalist and photographer David Bacon. It’s a nice short piece, and a great photo essay. Bacon has…
This is an amazing collection of images from Iran over the past couple of days. It is extremely interesting how important these images have become to people on he ground,…
This just in from our comrades in Mexico City: Urgent denunciation: aggression against VOCAL member, David Venegas (Spanish Translation Below) This Wednesday, June 17, at approximately 1:30 in the afternoon,…
A friend of mine is currently in Iran, watching and participating in the struggle as it unfolds. Here’s one of their reports: Tehran – June 14, midnight. The streets of…
THERE IS NO REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE WITHOUT PROVIDERS!!! Please read this article about George Tiller, if you aren’t already familiar with the terrorism that abortion providers face…. (they even used one…
Daniel McGowen recently had a GREAT piece published on the Huffington Post blog about the new Communications Management Units in US prisons. It’s a must read, check it out here.
Ex-Pinochet army conscript charged with folk singer Victor Jara’s murder José Adolfo Paredes Márquez tracked down to Chilean capital almost 36 years later It was the atrocity which symbolised Chile’s…
From Boing Boing.net. The excellent work of Guatemala-based photojournalist James Rodriguez has been featured on BB a number of times before. The most recent photo-essay on his blog documents a…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently launched a website, called Teaching Copyright, helping educators and others mentor youth about their activity online. There’s a lot of misinformation out there about…
Photo essay on the foreclosures in Detroit
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 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…
A friend told me about this artist Knaan, a Somali-Canadian who recently made this video. I found his work and political views to be really provocative and interesting. He was…
SDS Milwaukee continues to amaze. Below is a post detailing a recent victory to make UWM clothing apparel sweatshop free and how creative resistance and perseverance aided the campaign. “The…
Just read this morning that the Terror Enhancement for the RNC8 has been dropped. The RNC8 are a group of Minneapolis people that were organizing protests for the Republican National…
A friend brought this to my attention in an email using the title of the post as the subject. It’s not just philandering husbands who fear Google Street View’s roving…
A group of approximately 60 people occupied the New School today. The University and NYPD responded with force, arrested and have held many of the participants overnight. The following story…
That’s all, folks! The last Jaguar in the United States has been killed. The beast in question, a sixteen year old male named “Macho B”, was euthanized by state biologists…
From the G20 in London (thanks Paolo!)
I was listening to Democracy Now! yesterday and heard mention of this anti-war campaign: Our Spring Break is a student and youth initiated and led alternative spring break. It is…
As a result of some violations of building codes the Rhizome Collective will have to vacate the premises of their warehouse in East Austin, TX. The building houses a handful…
Justseeds friend and AREA Chicago editor Daniel Tucker has just published an interesting post on the Art:21 blog. You can read his post “A better ‘we’ through art?” here. Here’s…
The fight over intellectual property rights, and the demand to keep our ideas in the commons, is one of the most important struggles we face. The Pirate Bay, the world’s…
Friends in Pittsburgh recently sent along an article from the Pittsburgh City Paper about Shepard Fairey sending a cease and desist letter and threatening to sue a local designer. Once…
Our friends at PEEL Mag. just sent this over. A street artist and supporter just lost his apartment to fire, and needs any help he can get. I had an…
Joel Kovel is a professor, and writer, working at Bard College, who was recently notified that his contract will not be renewed. In the statement below he illustrates his political…
My friend Eric Triantafillou, a teacher, artist and designer in Chicago, has been following all the dialogue around the Shepard Fairey controversies, and wrote up the below piece in response….
Dara passed along this LA Times story about organized attacks on advertising in Paris. It’s reminiscent of the actions of StopPub from the early 2000’s, where they would organize times…
Today the Associated Press threatened to sue Fairey. “The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission,”…
My friend Jean’s brother is in Damascus and I thought people may be interested in hearing an account from someone from the states visiting the region. His blog is called…
Here’s a recent article, about Brandon Darby, from the Austin Chronicle, in Texas. The article describes a lot of tried and true tactics learned from previous FBI programs such as…
Format Magazine has release their Top 10 Street Art Books of 2008, and Reproduce & Revolt is at the top of the list! Check it out here.
I was recently sent this article about the anarchist presence during the riots in Oakland. It’s nicely written and I think articulates some clear points that are useful in talking…
By Jenka Soderberg Co-Editor-International Middle East Media Center US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, in introducing a bill supporting the Israeli attack on Gaza, that passed unanimously by voice…
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction By Naomi Klein This article is scheduled to appear in the January 26, 2009 edition of The Nation. It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy…
Grafiteros spraypaint the municipal building, during the rally, with messages of solidarity for folks in Gaza, and Oaxaca’s APPO. There’s a bit more background on recent events over on ZapaGringo.
It’s been 18 days since the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip began, since that time there have been 883 deaths and sadly more than a third have been women…
I came across this on the Adbusters blog. Im always apalled by how brainwashed we are from corporate campaigns which suggest “we” conserve (read Gone Tomorrow by Heather Rogers). That…
Activist Unmasks Himself as Federal Informant in G.O.P. Convention Case By COLIN MOYNIHAN New York Times January 5, 2009 When the scheduled federal trial begins this month for two Texas…
Today many of us in the Bay Area attended a protest to demand justice for Oscar Grant, the unarmed young man killed by BART police a few days ago. I…
The amount of time and energy put into the development of new methods of destroying all life never fails to impress. The contemporary trend of biomimicry in industrial design produces…
The world and Israeli media have been ignoring the Israeli protests against the war in Gaza. This is a short report by SocialTV, an independent news source in Israel, documenting…
Two of my favorites: the Carrie Furnace & Southside railroad tunnel Ah, an auspicious beginning to 2009: more brutal crackdowns on graffiti in Pittsburgh. Two young men, both students at…
Early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22 -year old, Oscar Grant III by pushing him face down to…
I am discovering more online sources for news and opinion about the ongoing aggression against the people of Gaza by the Israeli government. Tales to Tell-From Gaza is a blog…
by Prof. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories December 31, 2008 The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations…
By BRIAN ENO January 2, 2009 It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting…
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…
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/…
“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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The IVAW website and the Groundswell Collective blog have a great post and video on a recent IVAW action who continue to amaze and inspire us with their incredible array…
Some other stuff I came across today Stories about Movimento por Justicia del Barrio, a tenant organization, that has had recent victories against their landlord. In the Indypendent and at…
I went over to the Village Voice site to look up a movie listing and came across this Sam Mcpheeters piece. I felt like reposting it because there have been…
Long time prisoner and jailhouse lawyer and activist Harold H. Thompson died on November 11, 2008 of heart failure. Harold was an anarchist prisoner serving life plus sentences in Tennessee,…
The Da! Collective is reported to have opened up a supposedly valuable building in London, England. Plenty of news on it at; Guardian Telegraph, Dailymail, and other spots on their…
In NYC this weekend! Escupido de la Panza de la Bestia Parte 2! is a Collaborative Art Showing… A Tri City Exchange….From Valparaiso, Chile, Cordoba, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina with…
Hey, remember those Somali pirates who hijacked a ship full of guns and tanks? Today marks their fiftieth day in control of the MV Faina, just off the central Somali…
How does one turn google street view upside down? Easy…. check out this link to A Street with View, a super creative performance / google street view re-enactment that took…
Chris passed along this link to The Citrus Report which spoke of an article in Artnews. This following article by Carolina A. Miranda, I have plenty to say, but its…
Pittsburgh is in many ways a small town. I went to a University of Pittsburgh Street Law class last night to show-and-tell rad youth printing projects to possibly incorporate into…
Zolo Agonia Azania, a political prisoner in Indiana and an amazing painter, illustrator and collagist, has finally been taken off death row!!! On the eve of his third death penalty…
I’m stuck on the couch, on what must be the most beautiful Fall day in NYC, with a busted up ankle. Instead of catching up on the daily confusion on…
Check out the entries and resources on Naomi Klein’s website The Shock Doctrine to put some of the recent economic issues in perspective. There’s a bunch of good pieces &…
If you like to harass elected officials or think that they may represent your interests get over to Vote No Bailout! and send your representative a message!
Doom is nigh, as long the Prophets have said. A Plague upon your Houses! Mysterious humours infect the Citadels of Trade.
Hello, fellow apes. I’m here today to tell you about your relatives. I’m referring to the other three African species of Great Ape, namely the gorilla, the chimpanzee and the…
Minneapolis Police Detain 3 Independent Journalists, confiscating video equipment, computer, phones, notebooks and money among other personal belongings MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (August 26, 2008) – Minneapolis Police officers detained three journalists…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock- you know about all the detentions, disappearances, and shootings of people in China who have been outspoken about the ongoing struggle for a…
That’s a mouthful. I was looking at the WFMU blog yesterday and came across a post called “You Too Can Help Silence Bono”. I really like the internet when it…
Every few weeks I am stunned by the abstraction of economics. It is beyond my comprehension how this system perpetuates itself, it has to. And anyone invested in it must…
There has been a lot of hoopla over July about the public art installation New York City Waterfalls by artist Olafur Eliasson. There has been much speculation as to the…
The building that has housed Self-Help Graphics, the renowned community art center in East LA, was sold earlier this week. The future of Self-Help, which has worked with many of…
I recently saw the exhibition “Imaginary Coordinates” at the Spertus Museum in Chicago and was disappointed to learn that the exhibit was recently abruptly closed and will not run through…
Two members of Rebel Diaz, NYC-based political hip hop group, were arrested yesterday for trying to intervene in the police harassing a street vendor. Here’s a piece written by Davey…
Joshua David Stein has written an article titled Ghost Riders about the Ghost Bike Project for New York Magazine. Really beautiful photographs by Christopher Griffith accompany the article. I disagree…
Readers Digest takes a look at the Ghost Bike Project in their June 2008 issue, and the “your america” section online. The memorials continue to garner attention in the media…
If you’ve got a couple minutes, give this May Day statement by a sector of the Iraqi labor movement a read. It shows that there might be another path for…
Our friends at AK Press, one of the largest and best anarchist book publishers and distributors in the world (which I guess unfortunately isn’t saying too much, but still…), just…
Quiz. A major riot took place in Montreal on Monday night where store windows were smashed and close to a dozen police cars were set on fire. Can you guess…
In what can only be described as classic, Shepard Fairey is suing another artist for stealing from him! After decades of pillaging other people’s work wholesale, I guess Fairey thinks…
In Paris, London, Istanbul, and San Francisco, protesters have interrupted the passing of the Olympic torch in solidarity with the people of Tibet and against China’s human rights abuses. Here…
Not what you think, or maybe exactly. The Tate Museum, a world renowned contemporary art museum, is looking for some new muralists . Graffiti can stake its claim on museums…
‘People’s History’ headed to movies By Borys Kit Feb 8, 2008 BERLIN — Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is being adapted into a feature documentary….
South End Press is currently seeking qualified applicants to join our small, majority women and majority people of color collective as Editor/Publisher/Financial Coordinator.
Hands down, the Iraq Veterans Against the War(IVAW) are doing the most kick ass political and cultural work in the US today. For a year or so they have been…
Last week there was an encuentro in Oaxaca that was attended by many organizations of the APPO (Popular Assembly for the People of Oaxaca) and others struggling for justice in…
My friend Stephanie has created an amazingly interesting and weird new project by opening a factory in Second Life! In an attempt to raise serious issues about the intersection of…
As if the war in Iraq wasn’t surreal and fucked up enough already (with televised “victory” events before the real war even started, mass public spectacles like the tearing down…
This came in the other day from The Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, who were instrumental in the fight to get the US to stop bombing the…
Colin Matthes recently completed a mural for Milwaukee’s IN:SITE temporary public art program. The mural is titled “Everyday Transactions: The Familiar Inconceivable”. The mural draws upon elements of the everyday,…
In October members of THINK AGAIN did some large-scale projections in Los Angeles for a project was called “The NAFTA Effect” organized by Outpost for Contemporary Art. THINK AGAIN’s mobile…
Recently in Massachusetts police used the networking website Myspace.com to find 3 graffiti artists that are suspected to have caused $75,000 worth of “damage.” Stoughton Police Officers “spent more than…
The Washington Post had a nice article a few days back on Philadelphia’s extraordinary public murals: White-haired Marian Custus peers out her door where a row of elegant townhouses once…
Via Charles & Ed, a great article on the “graffiti of disaster” in post-Katrina New Orleans: A can of spray paint was a crucial tool for New Orleans rescue teams…
Designer and all-around good guy John Emerson has an article in the latest issue of Communication Arts about designers who use collective or cooperative structures to collaborate and make a…
With the recent destruction of New Orleans, and the lawless aftermath there now exists an exetremely volatile circumstance. While the mayor declares a final evacuation to “forcibly remove” those that…
The big news in the street art world this morning comes from Washington, D.C., where three people, allegedly Borf and two friends, were arrested early yesterday morning. The Washington Post,…
As a sidenote to the previous post, folks who missed the Design of Dissent show can still get a glimpse of it, thanks to public broadcasting. Last week’s episode of…
Just got word that WBAI’s Rise Up Radio show will be doing a segment at 11am today (Friday) on graffiti and advertising. Cope2, who recently completed a billboard for Time…
Colin Moynihan has an article in the New York Times today about our ghost bike project and Time’s Up’s memorial stenciling project. It’s good that this issue is getting mentioned…
An article by Elizabeth Hays about the Ghost Bike project appears on the Daily News website: Memorial outlines bike death BY ELIZABETH HAYS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A 10-speed bicycle,…
In Detroit, an artist will go to jail today. His crime? Recreating a Michaelangelo mural that includes a nude figure: He painted Eve as God created her: nude. And when…
It had to happen sooner or later. Technology similiar to that found in projects like Grafedia and YellowArrow will now be used to the buff’s advantage. Mirroring the interactive and…