This Is What Solidarity Looks Like
December 31, 2013
[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…
167: Pluto Workers’ Handbooks
December 30, 2013
Back in 1974, someone smart at the British radical, socialist press Pluto decided to publish the first of a series of Workers’ Handbooks. The Hazards of Work: How to Fight…
A Call To Halt. Exhibition by Brandon Bauer
December 27, 2013
A Call To Halt: A multimedia installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and of the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987 is a new project…
Justseeds: Old School 11
December 26, 2013
This old school image is from Kevin Caplicki: “I drew this illustration in 2006 for an anarchist football team that was traveling to the Mondiali Antirazzisti, an Anti-Fascist festival in…
Justseeds in Mexico
December 25, 2013
Roger and Mazatl are in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, to participate in some of the events taking place around the 20th anniversary of the emergence of the…
Dignidad Rebelde…Abolitionist Artists
December 21, 2013
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…
My first book shield…
December 17, 2013
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…
166: Short Stories from Puerto Rico
December 16, 2013
Here is another gem unearthed at Brooklyn’s best bookstore, Book Thug Nation. The title is a bit contested, as the cover says it’s Short Stories from Puerto Rico, and the…
Honoring Sitting Bull
December 15, 2013
“My friends! Be strong…because me, I am nothing…” (Sitting Bull’s song, according to Cedric Good House.) Today is a great day to honor the life of Tatanaka Iyotake, popularly known…
Toronto Anarchist Fair
December 14, 2013
This weekend is the Toronto Anarchist Fair there are so many activities and events. We will be at the book market Tomorrow Sunday Dec 15th. 55 Gould St. Toronto 10…
Help Save Food for Thought Bookstore
December 13, 2013
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…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: The Woman’s Building
December 13, 2013
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 –…
Imaging Apartheid – New Prints Launch Event in Montréal Tonight
December 11, 2013
Imaging Apartheid posters up in the streets of Toronto If you are in Montréal come check out the newest posters by Imaging Apartheid Thursday, December 6, 2013 5 à 7…
165: The Wood Grouse
December 9, 2013
This week I’ve got another quirky book to share, but we’ll be jumping from East Germany to Laos. I found this small, cheaply produced book—The Wood Grouse—in Portland, OR. It…
PAH book talk in Chicago: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013
December 7, 2013
(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…
New video from The Coup feat. Japanther- “Long Island Iced Tea, Neat”
December 7, 2013
The Coup surfaces to serve up the official video premiere of “Long Island Iced Tea, Neat” – a stop-motion social commentary on the epidemic of police brutality and racial profiling…
In Memory of The Buddy Cat
December 7, 2013
One of my closest and oldest friends, The Buddy Cat (“B” to those who knew her well), passed away while I held her in my arms the week before this…
Favianna’s keynote at Revolve: An Art for Social Change Symposium
December 6, 2013
REVOLVE Keynote Presentation: Favianna Rodriguez from PhillyCAM.
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Become the Media 1930
December 5, 2013
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…
Bust Magazine Interviews Whore Paint!
December 2, 2013
Jaime Lowe’s interview begins: “The first time I saw Whore Paint, a self proclaimed-feminist, Riff Rock/No Wave/Crooner Shred hybrid band out of Providence, RI, I was immediately 16 again and…
164: DDR Mini Poster Books, part III
December 2, 2013
This week is the final in a series of posts about mini-East German poster books (see HERE and HERE). This week’s book, Plakate zum Ersten Mai (Posters for May Day)…
Justseeds Notebooks on the Way!
November 26, 2013
For years we’ve been talking about making blank/ruled/graphed notebooks with Justseeds art on the cover, and now we’ve finally done it! We’ve teamed up once again with Eberhardt Press (who…
163: DDR Mini Poster Books, part II
November 25, 2013
This weeks book is the second in a series of mini-poster publication produced in the DDR, or former East Germany. Last week we looked at a book about posters celebrating…
Stand with the Bad River Tribe: No Penokee Mine
November 25, 2013
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…
Amazing! (Colin)
November 23, 2013
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…
Chris Stain interviewed on OBEY blog
November 22, 2013
Chris Stain grew up writing graffiti in his hometown of Baltimore, and kept at it in spite of a handful of arrests…
Justseeds Studio Visit with Meredith Stern
November 21, 2013
Here is another Justseeds studio visit, in which I ask coop members to describe their current studio and to talk about their ideal workspace. This time with we visit Meredith…
A People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Artists Organize
November 20, 2013
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…
We are the Universe!
November 19, 2013
Today is the official launch of the newest “WorldWord” short video series. This is a collaboration between Becky Stark, Peter Glantz, and Kevin Hooyman. This series premiered on the relaunch…
The Historical Imagination
November 19, 2013
On a grim and drippy morning earlier this week I sat in my house reading an article about slave capitalism in the magazine n+1, specifically a review of Walter Johnson’s…
Sounds of the Week #15
November 19, 2013
Welcome back to Sounds of the Week, the weekly sound musings by members of Justseeds. This week Nicolas Lampert creates a playlist for his new book A People’s Art History…
162: DDR Mini Poster Books, part I
November 18, 2013
When I first traveled to Berlin back in 2007, doing research for Signal with Alec Dunn, we spent a lot of time haunting bookstores. Being a book junkie, there’s little…
Sounds of the Week #14
November 13, 2013
Welcome back to Sounds of the Week, the weekly sound musings by members of Justseeds. This week Alec Icky Dunn lets us know what he’s been listening to, and Pete…
Whore Paint “This Body” Video Release!
November 13, 2013
Justseeds member Meredith Stern plays music with Hilary Jones and Rebecca Mitchell in a feminist band called “Whore Paint” and today is their video release of the song “This Body”…
People’s Art History of the United States excerpt: Bringing the War Home
November 13, 2013
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…
CA Corrections Dept. Strikes Again!
November 11, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 6, 2013 – San Francisco, California New Ad Campaign Explains Drones to Skeptical American Public The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a…
161: The Labor Spy Racket
November 11, 2013
Over the past two years I’ve been stumbling across old, early paperbacks published in the 1930s by Modern Age Books in New York. They seem like a lefty publisher in…
Amazing! (Erik)
November 10, 2013
Amazing!, 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…
Green Mini Demo Derby – Championship on November 14th
November 6, 2013
This year I put a ridiculous amount of time and energy into making a solar powered remote control car demolition derby (Green Mini Demo Derby). From asking numerous businesses if…
Sounds of the Week #13
November 6, 2013
Welcome back to Sounds of the Week, the weekly sound musings by members of Justseeds. This week Lou Reed, Songs:Ohia/Jason Molina.