Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
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Josh MacPhee
Brooklyn, NY, United States
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY (InterferenceArchive.org). MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade (AntumbraDesign.org).
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AnarchismAnti-capitalismAnti-warCulture & MediaGlobal SolidarityHistoryHousing & CitiesLaborPolice & PrisonsRacial JusticeSocial Movements Associated Projects
Interference Archive, 244: Philip K. Dick, Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture
Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Wellspring
Beyond Prisons
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Signal:05
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Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Mint
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Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
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No One Is Illegal Diptych
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Amilcar Cabral
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People’s Climate March!
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All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
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March
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Book Zoo
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No Easy Victories
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Broadsheet
Justseeds Collaboration
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Realizing the Impossible
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We’ve Got Nothing to Lose But Our _____
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____ of the World, Unite!
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The Readers
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Signal:03
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Imaging Apartheid: Toward Freedom—Palestine
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Even the Worms…
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General Strike!
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Feet on the Ground 2
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Toward Freedom (Egypt)
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Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
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Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Signal:01
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Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
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US Military Interventions Since WWII
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Kold Krush
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Resourced
Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
Justseeds Collaboration
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To Each According to Need
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Pound the Pavement #11
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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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Ghost of the Liberty Street Church
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2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
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No More
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244: Philip K. Dick
November 28, 2016
I used to work hard at doing one of these Judging Books by Their Covers posts a week, but I’ve fallen of, and recently realized I’ve been doing more like…
Interference Archive Ephemera Auction
November 16, 2016
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…
Screenprint Biennial Opens Tonight/Josh MacPhee Talk Tomorrow
October 28, 2016
I’m really excited to be heading up to Troy, NY today to see the opening of the 2nd Screenprint Biennial, and then to give a talk tomorrow at the Collar…
Worker’s Unite! Film Festival: Call for Submissions
October 18, 2016
My friend Sam recently sent me this call for submissions. I’m not a filmmaker, but I know some of you out there are!: Submissions Are Open for Season 6 of…
243: 50 Fists
October 3, 2016
This week is a bit of a divergence from my usual book cover fare. Instead of focusing on a publisher, author, or designer, I want to look at likely the…
242: Mbari Publishing
September 12, 2016
For years I’ve been hunting down issues of Black Orpheus (which I featured in my last post, #241), and books from it’s spin-off publishing-wing Mbari. I honestly can’t remember how…
Certain Days 2017
August 31, 2016
2017 sees the release of the 16th annual Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. Many Justseeds’ artists have contributed art to the calendar over the years, this year includes…
Help Reprint War In the Neighborhood
August 30, 2016
After being out of print for almost 20 years, Ad Astra Comics is reprinting Seth Tobocman’s seminal Lower East Side squatter graphic novel War in the Neighborhood. I remember getting…
241: Black Orpheus
August 29, 2016
Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature is likely the most important literary journal to emerge out of Africa, and one of the most important in the world…
Pre-Order Mobile Print Power: Soñamos Sentirnos Libres Book
August 18, 2016
Since May, Interference Archive has been hosting an exhibition of the collaborative work of Mobile Print Power (MPP). MPP is a mobile screen printing collective largely made up of immigrant-youth…
Protests in Print at NYPL
August 15, 2016
Many Justseeds-related publications are included in the current “flash exhibition” Protests in Print at the New York Public Library. Signal, the Librarians and Archivists to Palestine zine, and some Interference…
Signal:05 Out Now!
August 2, 2016
Alec and I are very excited that our latest issue of Signal is back from the printer and available here on Justseeds! We made a little promotional animation/video, and hope…
Behind Design 02: Producing the City
July 19, 2016
So for this second installment of Behind Design, I thought I’d talk a bit about what went into my recent screenprint poster, Producing the City. Back in April, my friend…
240: Collier’s Af/Am Library
July 4, 2016
While collecting books from the African Writers Series published by Heinemann (I’ll be featuring those books in a future post), I stumbled upon what I first thought was a small…
Agitadores de Conciencia
June 30, 2016
I’m excited to have a number of posters in a new exhibition entitled Agitadores de Conciencia/Agitators of Conscience. Organized by Ofelio Serpa, the show is currently on display at the…
Beyond Prisons Posters
June 29, 2016
At the end of March I was contacted by Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation about participating in a project he was putting together—an experiment in mass production and distribution…
Behind Design 01: Perspectives #29
June 28, 2016
I’ve been wanting to start this up for awhile, but finally pulled together a little time to do it! “Behind Design” will hopefully be a new blog post series about…
239: Ravan Books
June 27, 2016
This week’s focus is on the South African published house Ravan Press, which was founded in 1972 by Peter Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé. On second glance, you’ll…
238: “Power, Fists, Guns, Books: Black Power & Book Cover Design”
June 13, 2016
For months I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of the post I originally did here about the design of the book Black Power, and other related Civil Rights-era publications…
237: Updates
June 6, 2016
This week I don’t have a new focus. Instead I’ve gone back into a number of old posts and corrected mistakes, improved the writing, added new covers, and/or added better…
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
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Bars 1
Make Afraid Flags
Which Side Are You On?
Rebirth
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Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
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The Occupation of Alcatraz
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Migration Now!
Apartheid IsReal
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better
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John Brown
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Malcolm X
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All Borders Are Temporary
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Free Expression
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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The Durruti Column
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Zapatista
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Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Street Stencils #2
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
edited by Anthony Romero & Josh MacPhee
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Young Americans
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Three Steps
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Bricks
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