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Chase dreams Not Cash Manhattan Bridge, NYC. June 2017
Chase dreams Not Cash Manhattan Bridge, NYC. June 2017
Please Sound Horn Private Road in Orange County, NY. It is my understanding, on roads that have no jurisdiction by the State, County, Town, City or Village, are “controlled” by…
Serena Troshynski, a Library and Information Science student at St. John’s University, selected my Support GI Resistance poster for an assignment that was published on the Hidden Heritage Collections blog….
Steven Heller interviewed Justseeds member/Interference Archive co-founder Kevin Caplicki, along with archive members Jen Hoyer, Bonnie Gordon and Louise Barry, for PRINT Magazine’s website. The Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New…
I teamed up with Kayrock screenprinters here in Brooklyn to evolve my Strike flag design (downloadable graphic HERE) into a Spring-themed shirt for their Political Action wing. The proceeds from…
Dave Loewenstein, muralist, graphics producer, arts organizer, CPH poster designer, and all-around great friend of Justseeds, needs our help. His partner’s mom, Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick, is fighting deportation! From…
Gratitude
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Electoral College Or Bust Long Island City, Queens. April 2017. I Love Fake Democracy Long Island City, Queens. April 2017 More Police State Please Long Island City, Queens. April 2017
Healing
Daniel Drennan, a talented artist and founding member of Jamaa Al-Yad a Lebanese art collective, is requesting support for his Mothers’ Voices: A “Rematriated” Adoptee’s Art Residency. My goal for…
Democracy Is Over Long Island City, Queens. April 2017. This Election Is A Joke. Long Island City, Queens. April 2017 CIA Knows Best Long Island City, Queens. April 2017
Hey folks! I have just launched a kickstarter to turn the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” print series into an offset printed booklet. Here is the link!
Like Goliath They Will Be Conquered
Today I received an anonymous DIYDPW tip-off in my email, the day after the removal of the Jefferson Davis memorial statue in New Orleans, Louisiana: Jefferson Davis Parkway was just…
Hey all, another year has gone by and the Certain Days collective is looing for your writing and art for their 2018 calendar. Its a great project supporting political prisoners…
Take Down The Regime. Manhattan Bridge, NYC. April 2017
Democracy . . . Dark Money
America is Fucked, Yeah! WAR 4-EVER PLEASE On a very active wall under the elevated train in, Long Island City, Queens. April 2017.
(photos by John Colombo from The Bulletin v.42 n.5 May 2017) The DIYDPW channel has, until now, always been documentation of signage of some sort. This time I’m highlighting a…
There’s a new project space that opened in Santa Fe recently called Biocultura. They had an inaugural event April 23rd where they were one of several organizations to partner with the…
A couple months ago I stumbled onto twenty Dutch mass market paperbacks scattered across the $.50 and $1 racks at the Strand here in New York. Although I can’t read…
Pangrok Sulap is an activist print-arts collective based out of Sabah, Malaysia. They are an amazing group that does movement based art works with local communities, particularly on issues of…
A guest post by colleague Amy Harwood, of Signal Fire and the Gloo Factory. I think I might have the most interesting comment thread going on Facebook today. No, really….
Voces de la Frontera has organized the annual May Day march for the past decade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This year is no different. In this time of crisis Voces de…
Welcome to the 2nd interview with one of the parents in Justseeds. I decided I needed to interview my fellow Justseeds parents as a way to reflect on my own…
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is one of the country’s oldest and most respected schools of craft. Opened in 1929 by Lucy Morgan who focused her initial…
While working a shift at Book Thug Nation a couple years back, I stumbled across a couple really nicely designed hardbacks of Sartre’s philosophy. They’re interesting because they simultaneously have…
by Diana Kirk (from The Progressive) April 11, 2017 Chip Thomas Dr. Chip Thomas, also known by his artist name Jetsonorama, lives in Tuba City, Arizona, on Navajo land. For thirty…
I just finished off the 12th in the Endangered Species Mural Project, at the corner of Lombard and Atlantic in North Portland, OR. Painted with Portland artist Sarah Farahat, the…
I was invited to participate in the 2017 Joshua Treenial. The theme this year was event horizon. I ventured to Joshua Tree in January to find a potential location for…
Some thoughts on my contribution to this year’s Justseeds CSA, “Earth Protectors: Global Movements against Climate Change.” I arrived in this country as a five-year old in the 1970s, and…
Check out this powerful video by Showtime about last weeks Milwaukee Public Schools board meeting where the board voted 8-0 to make MPS a sanctuary school district. The video highlights…
This Sunday, April 9th, from 3-6pm is the official opening of the exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All at the Queens Museum, in Corona, Queens, NYC. The show is installed on…
“Healing. . . Coming Home to Our Bodies.”
“Oceans Do Rise. . . Empires Do Fall.”
World Water Day focuses attention on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in developing countries. The day also focuses on advocating for the sustainable…
“Democracy Spring.”
1. Community The successful projects, organizations, and movements for justice that I know of have been deeply rooted in community. Communities defend, sustain, grow, inspire, and transform movements just as…
“Take from the Greedy to Give to the Needy.”