Drawing All the Time : Week 54
Posted May 15, 2012 by colin_matthes in Inspiration | Comments (0)
From a collection of drawings titled Life Skills. They are a sort of instructional drawing project.
JBbTC 103: Frantz Fanon pt.3
Posted May 14, 2012 by jmacphee in Judging Books by Their Covers | Comments (0)
If Wretched of the Earth is Fanon's manual for anti-colonial revolt, Black Skin, White Masks is the intellectual backbone behind it. Originally published in 1952, and based on his rejected doctoral thesis, it lays out the ideas behind the revolt—the psychological effects of colonialism. Although it is Fanon's first book, it wasn't published in English (by Grove Press) until 1967, six years after his death, and four years after Grove published Wretched of the Earth.
Black Skins is not a handbook for revolution, so it demanded a different cover treatment. What Grove went with was straight type, hand-rendered, which is very similar to the original Wretched dust jacket (see HERE), and a definite break with the Wretched paperback which was circulating in 1967.
Truth and Justice for Itzel Janet Méndez Pérez
Posted May 14, 2012 by santi in Events | Comments (0)
Action and protest: May 14.
In San Cristobal de las Casas there will be a march and protest around the brutal murder of Itzel Janet Méndez Pérez and a number of other femicides that have taken place in Chiapas over the past several months. Itzel was a 17 year-old indigenous woman whose body was found on the morning of April 14 in the Sonora neighborhood of San Cristobal showing clear signs that she had been beaten, raped, and stabbed before her death.
A diverse coalition of artists, human rights groups and women's organizations, have come together to demand justice and accountability for this crime, and have gathered to assist with the organization of a public protest to denounce this horrible crime and demand justice. The action, JUSTICE FOR ITZEL, will take place on May 14 to mark the one month anniversary of Itzel's murder, and will consist of a march to the site where her body was found. On Monday, the coalition of individuals and groups demanding justice for Itzel and an end to the femicides will release a public statement will announce the May 14th action and include the names of supporting individuals and organizations.
"As Goes Janesville" / As Goes the Recall
Posted May 11, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in In the News | Comments (0)
Milwaukee-based documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein has posted a ten-minute trailer of his new film "As Goes Janesville" a powerful portrait of the decline of a one-industry town in south central Wisconsin. The film trailer documents the massive class divide between rich and poor as industry leaves (the GM plant) and right-wing policies take hold. Around the seven-minute mark of the trailer Gov Walker's assault on the public union employees is featured and Lichtenstein captures on film a conversation that Walker had with one of his largest backers - Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks. The Defend Wisconsin website features the full quotes of Walkers "Divide and Conquer" mentality:
New CPH Posters Hot of the Presses!
Posted May 11, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Member Projects | Comments (0)
If you haven't checked out the Justseeds store lately, you might have missed the cascade of new Celebrate People's History posters that have been coming out. I'm excited to announce that a half dozen have been printed, and another half dozen are on their way in the next couple months. These are the first new posters in the series in over a year—there are some great ones, and they are still only $4 a pop! Check out:
Wisconsin Workers Uprising by Sue Simensky Bietila
Jane Jacobs by Sabrina Jones
Major Taylor by Janet Attard
Vieques Libre by Dave Buchen
Jamaican Maroons by Damon Locks
Sacred Ground by Aaron Samsel
Whistling for Macho B: an Interview w/ Janay Brun (pt.2)
Posted May 9, 2012 by shaun in Interviews | Comments (0)
"The whole story has still not been told. The agencies have gotten away with everything, a lot of people involved with the agencies have gotten away with everything, and nothing has changed for the benefit of the jaguar at all. Nothing in conservation, I mean, these fools can do this all over again. They got away with it once, why not try it again if the opportunity presents itself?"
(Part one of this interview can be read here. At Pittsburgh's Independent Media Center: Rustbelt Radio, you can listen to Jessica McPherson's solid, 27 min. audio story from this interview here)
Honoring John Brown
Posted May 9, 2012 by bec_young in Firebrands | Comments (0)
Born on this day in 1800, John Brown is a man whom it is hard to feel neutral about. Called a terrorist by some and a martyr by others, Brown was moved to violence by his conviction of the slavery system as evil and wrong, a conviction supported by his strong Christian faith. "John Brown’s legacy is typically whittled down to his audacious orchestration of an armed slave revolt in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia...However, his October, 1859 raid on an armory saw Brown with only 21 armed supporters, all of whom were eventually overcome by a force of U.S. Marines." (Firebrands: Portraits From the Americas).
Before his execution, Brown gave a speech which summed up his views: "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done!"
Get your copy of the newest M68 portfolio WIRIKUTA -Tsekie Tuamuxawita!
Posted May 9, 2012 by santi in Art & Politics | Comments (0)
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 details of every print and collaborators in the newest M68 Portfolio WIRIKUTA -Tsekie Tuamuxawita: Herido Lugar Sagrado. The slideshow also contains selection of photos from the Wirikuta Defense Front actions and two beautiful traditional Wixarika songs by Hilario López, Pablo López, Kwixi Aguililla produced by Rodrigo de la Mora.
Whistling for Macho B: an Interview w/ Janay Brun (pt.1)
Posted May 8, 2012 by shaun in Interviews | Comments (2)
In March 2009, headlines told us that “the last jaguar in the United States” had died in the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona after being snared in the wild during a routine study. His given name was “Macho B,” and his death – euthanasia at the hands of veterinarians shortly after an orchestrated capture – was originally publicly lamented as a necessary course of action for the aging, endangered cat, whose last days were wrought in an agony that could have only been brought by fifteen years of living wild. That’s how the story played, at least – until Janay Brun, a field tech for the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project, came forward to blow the whistle on the operation, out her superiors for neglect and hubris, and set the wheels in motion for a federal criminal investigation into the illegal “take” of an endangered species.
Drawing All the Time : Week 53
Posted May 8, 2012 by colin_matthes in Inspiration | Comments (0)
From a collection of drawings titled Life Skills. They are a sort of instructional drawing project.
Rad Teen Print of the Week 31: Safe Sex!!!
Posted May 8, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Inspiration | Comments (0)
This silkscreen print was created by Deria for Planned Parenthood of Western PA. No Glove No Love!!!!
Agit-Prop and Intervention Exhibit at Neurotitan
Posted May 4, 2012 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (0)
Here are some flicks of the Justseeds exhibition Agit-Prop and Intervention, currently up at Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
Support G.I. Resistance! G.I. Coffeehouse film screening & benefit
Posted May 3, 2012 by k_c_ in Events | Comments (0)
Members of the G.I. Coffeehouse Support Network would like to invite you to:
A screening of the film Grounds for Resistance, a fundraiser for Under the Hood and Coffee Strong, the only two G.I. coffeehouses based in the U.S. There will be a short talk-back following the screening, which will include updates from the coffeehouses about their current G.I. rights and resistance work and ways to help out.
Friday, May 4 / 7:30pm The Commons 388 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY
The coffeehouses are looking for support from communities outside of the base towns they work in, so please join us for an evening of discussion about G.I.-led anti-war movement building. Justseeds members Molly Fair & Kevin Caplicki will also display the collaborative portfolio War Is Trauma.
Nosaltres
Posted May 3, 2012 by jmacphee in Film & Video | Comments (0)
A stunning short film documenting the movement in Barcelona. Take a couple minutes and give it a view. "And we continue..."
Six years since Red May in Atenco
Posted May 3, 2012 by santi in In the News | Comments (0)
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 the Belisario Dominguez market.
The flower vendors therefore asked the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT) for back up since confrontations with the police were escalating. In response to the vendors calls the FPDT blockaded the Texcoco-Mexico City highway in order to pressure police away from their violence against unarmed civilians that would later result in the death of 14 year old Javier Cortés y 20 year old Alexis Benhumea.
Justseeds Migration Portfolio Progress
Posted May 2, 2012 by roger_peet in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (0)
We've been making a lot of progress on the upcoming Justseeds/Culture Strike Migration Portfolio (Title TK) that I'm co-coordinating with Favianna Rodriguez. We're producing nearly forty images by a broad range of artists addressing issues relative to migration and immigrant rights. In addition to a stalwart cadre of Justseeds artists, we're printing images by Emory Douglas, (the Black Panther Party's Minister of Culture) cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, artist Imin Yeh, undocumented youth activists Julio Salgado and Felipe Baeza, and many many more. The images are being printed in a new print studio in San Francisco, opened by master printer Paul Mullowney, and at Flight 64 Studio in Portland. A third are letter-press prints, produced on a Vandercook press by the inestimable Patrick Cruzan. The rest are being screen-printed by the equally inestimable Jesus Barraza (of Justseeds and Dignidad Rebelde) and the slightly less estimable myself.
DIY Feminism at Brooklyn Museum
Posted May 2, 2012 by jmacphee in Events | Comments (0)
Jenna Freedman and Josh MacPhee on DIY Feminism
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Jenna Freedman, librarian at the Barnard Zine Library, and Josh MacPhee, founder of Interference Archive, discuss the evolution of feminist print culture. They trace its trajectory from activist poster making, offset printing, and graffiti in the late 1970s and early 80s to the rise of the feminist zine in the 90s.This program is free with Museum admission.
(image: London graffiti, 1980. Photo by Jill Posener)
DIYDPW (#21)
Posted May 2, 2012 by shaun in DIYDPW | Comments (1)
OK, so maybe this one isn't exactly citizen-generated infrastructure in the way I'm usually interested... or is it? If anything it's hilarious! Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Thanks, Alisa!)
It's May 1st See you in the streets!
Posted May 1, 2012 by k_c_ in Events | Comments (0)
No Work!
No shopping!
No school!
No housework!
No service!
No Data!
Occupy Everything!
....and go have fun!
Rad Teen Print of the Week 30: Junk vs Healthy Food
Posted May 1, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Inspiration | Comments (4)
This week's silkscreen print was created by Talonda and Iysha, to promote healthy food habits.
International General Strike Poster! Cartel para la Huelga General Internacional!
Posted April 30, 2012 by santi in Downloadable Graphics | Comments (4)
International General Strike!
Two versions of the same poster.
To download the English Version click HERE.
To download the Spanish Version click HERE.
¡Huelga General Internacional!
Dos versiones del mismo cartel.
Para descargar la version en Espanol haz click AQUI.
Para descargar la version en Ingles haz click AQUI.
Drawing All the Time : Week 52
Posted April 30, 2012 by colin_matthes in Inspiration | Comments (0)
A detail from a series of images titled Life Skills.
Hitler Reacts to May Day
Posted April 30, 2012 by k_c_ in Film & Video | Comments (0)
Really incredible, watch and share this today!!
Go to closed captions to turn on English subtitles
More May Day Posters
Posted April 29, 2012 by Jesus_Barraza in Art & Politics | Comments (0)
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 us we will have a bunch of posters to give away. If you want to print your own copy download them here.
To Download the 11x17 poster in Spanish Click Here
To Download the 11x17 poster in English Click Here
Justseeds in Berlin pt3
Posted April 28, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (0)
Turns out that when Kevin and Santiago were here in Berlin in the Fall last year, they pasted up a big entryway in Kreuzberg with leftover prints from the Slovenia install. It's starting to peel, but most of it is still up!
Below & Beyond: Tour Dates!
Posted April 27, 2012 by shaun in Events | Comments (0)
Inspired by the long-submerged Mill Creek of West Philadelphia, as well as current debate about fracking in Pennsylvania, this original play explores the complications of what lies beneath our feet. Using puppets, pulleys, movement, and maps, the performance examines the intricacies of extraction and recognizes a waterway that continues to resurface. Tree house, houseboat and bunker dwellers unite amidst an invasion of urban water buffalo. All this, plus a one-man band! BELOW and BEYOND is a performance directed by Donna Sellinger (of The Missoula Oblongata), and created by Beth Nixon (of Ramshackle Enterprises) and Sarah Lowry (also of The Missoula Oblongata), with Matthew Schreiber on accordion and a million other instruments.
(Out NorthEast? Don't miss this! Dates and more info below...)
Justseeds in Berlin pt2
Posted April 27, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (0)
While here in Berlin we've been absorbing the visual atmosphere, which includes a significant amount of interesting political markings and messages. Here's ten from my camera.
Justseeds Exhibition in Berlin Tonight!
Posted April 27, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (0)
Are you in Berlin?? Come to our opening!!!
Justseeds
Agit-Prop and Interventions
April 27-May 27, 2012
Neurotitan Gallery
im Haus Schwarzenberg, Rosenthalerstraße 39, 10178 Berlin
Opening Friday 4/27, 8pm
Art & Politics, a group discussion 4/28, 8pm
Dance dance dance again! Party 4/29, 10pm
with DJ Captain Captian (Kreuzburgh) and DJ Mary Mack (Justseeds/Pittsburgh) + Visuals (Shaun Slifer/Justseeds)
JBbTC 102.5: A Brief Hiatus
Posted April 26, 2012 by jmacphee in Judging Books by Their Covers | Comments (0)
Hello book cover fans! I wanted to share a short note to say I hope that JBbTC will back on a regular weekly schedule very soon. Between working on Occuprint, the Interference Archive, and now installing a Justseeds show in Berlin, I've been way, way too busy, and the book posts have taken a back seat. I hope to be back on track ASAP.
In the meantime, it appears as if German crime novels in the 1970s included a lot of scenes with helicopters!!
Drawing All the Time: 51
Posted April 26, 2012 by colin_matthes in Inspiration | Comments (1)
It has been a while since I have done a drawing all the time post. I have been living in rural Ireland and the internet feels far away. 
DIYDPW (#20)
Posted April 25, 2012 by shaun in DIYDPW | Comments (0)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Full image below)
War is Trauma porfolio at the Speak Easy in KC
Posted April 25, 2012 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (0)
The exhibition schedule for the Justseeds-IVAW "War is Trauma" portfolio rolls on. Marc Fischer of Temporary Services recently presented the portfolio at the Speak Easy series in Kansas City. Will Stewart from IVAW was on hand to co-present and below are some photos that Marc passed on. Below also is a description of the Speak Easy which sounds amazing and proof positive that art and activism is alive and well in the Midwest.
Justseeds in Berlin pt1
Posted April 24, 2012 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects | Comments (4)
So there are five of us Justseeds members (and two fellow travelers) trouncing around Berlin, in preparation for our exhibition at Neurotitan gallery (see HERE!). We've been here for almost a week, but have been adventuring so hard, we've completely failed to blog about it! This is the first of a series of posts to rectify the situation.
Rad Teen Print of the Week 29: Pulling Out
Posted April 24, 2012 by mary_tremonte in Inspiration | Comments (0)
This week's silkscreen print is by Ella, for Planned Parenthood of Western PA. Planned Parenthood is using this series of posters by Power Up in their youth education programs.
Inauguración de la Carpeta Gráfica: WIRIKUTA en San Cristobal, Chiapas
Posted April 19, 2012 by santi in Events | Comments (0)
Cordialmente les invitamos a la Inauguración de la Carpeta Gráfica: WIRIKUTA -Tsekie Tuamuxawita: Herido Lugar Sagrado
Viernes 20 de Abril 2012
8:30 pm
Entrada Libre
De parte de La Escuela de Cultura Popular, La Convención Metropolitana de Artistas y Trabajadores de la Cultura, el Paliacate y dentro del marco de las Jornadas Contra la Minería que se han llevado acabo en la ultima semana. Te invitamos a la Exposición e inauguración de esta obra gráfica creada en colectivo a beneficio del Frente por Defensa de Wirikuta: Tamatsima Wahaa.
Habra convivencia, música y buen ambiente.
En el Espacio Cultural el Paliacate
Av. 5 de Mayo #20
Col. Centro
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas.
