Like the Waters, We Rise
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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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). His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production. He can be contacted via josh (at) justseeds.org
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AnarchismAnti-capitalismAnti-warCulture & MediaGlobal SolidarityHistoryHousing & CitiesLaborPolice & PrisonsRacial JusticeSocial Movements Associated Projects
Interference Archive, Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, Street Art Workers, Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, Inaugurating Resistance, Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, Imaging Apartheid, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Pound the Pavement, Cut and Paint
Advertising Shits In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
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The Day Before the Revolution
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Reproduce & Revolt
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Got Oil?
Street.Rec & Josh MacPhee
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Healthcare for All
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Pound the Pavement #22
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24-Hour Armed Security
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
Labor Creates All Wealth
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Agua Para Todos
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Soon We’ll All Be Gone.
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Many Hands For Human Need
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Red Wedge Beats the Whites
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Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
The Cure for Disorder…
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Now!
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Somebody is Watching You.
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Liberation Support Movement (2nd Edition)
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Under Water States of America
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We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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No More
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Beware of Buyouts
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Tierra y Libertad
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Agitate! Educate! Organize!
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Armed Love
Ben Morea & Josh MacPhee
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Social Movement Symbols
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Smile, You’re On Camera
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All Rise
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No Sides in Climate
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The Cops Are In Your Head…
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Daddy, what did YOU do in the Climate War?
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No to the University as Factory
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Lick Your Elbow
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Boycott/Divest/Sanction
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Poor People’s Campaign Portfolio
Give Graffiti the Thumbs Up
Daniel Tucker & Josh MacPhee
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Paper Politics Poster
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Eradicate Fascist Vermin
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Signal:06
Paper Politics (1st ed.)
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Red Wedge & Black Wedge Beat the Whites
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Commonwealth: Water for All
Justseeds Collaboration
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Capture the Flag 7
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Security/Fear
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Québec Biennial poster set
Justseeds Collaboration
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Mini Prints
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Capture the Flag 4
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Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
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Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements
edited by Anthony Romero & Josh MacPhee
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Lonely Books
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Wellspring
Signal:05
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Fuck Work
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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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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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DS128.4
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Kropotkin 1892
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_____ Manifesto Diptych
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We’ve Got Nothing to Lose But Our _____
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____ of the World, Unite!
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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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John Brown
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We’re All In This Together
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Toward Freedom (Palestine)
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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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US Military Interventions Since WWII
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Noam Chomsky: Crisis & Hope
Think Galactic
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Wounded Knees
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Celebrando 15 Años de Lucha Zapatista
Grow Tall
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How Many Dead?
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Ghost of the Liberty Street Church
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2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
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An Encyclopedia one of Hyperallergic’s Top 25 Books of 2019
January 16, 2020
I’m very excited that Laura Raicovich and Hyperallergic chose my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, as one of their Top 25 Books of 2019! Here’s what they…
Jamaa al-Yad: Revolution Until Victory
October 30, 2019
A new project has been launched by the international pan-Arab collective Jamaa al-Yad: “This project is based on a call for artwork from the Institut du Monde Arabe. The question…
On Tour with An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
September 27, 2019
I’m heading out on book tour for the first time in years! I’m so excited about my new book I wanted to get back in gear and travel and talk…
Steven Heller Interviews Josh MacPhee
September 26, 2019
I was recently interviewed by design historian Steven Heller about my new book, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels. It’s been published on Design Observer, and is a quick and…
Mutual Aid Animation
August 22, 2019
This has already made the rounds a bit, but in case you haven’t seen it, Dean Spade and the Big Door Brigade made this really neat animation about mutual aid….
Advertising Shits In Your Head
July 31, 2019
PM Press is collecting pre-orders via Kickstarter to help print the new edition of the killer adbusting book Advertising Shits In Your Head (originally published in the UK by Dog…
Street Sheet Collaboration
July 11, 2019
A number of the collaborations that Justseeds members work on with social justice organizations get a fair amount of recognition, whether it’s the art builds that have been happening with…
Radix’ Futures Series
July 10, 2019
These seem to be boom times for independent science fiction publishing. Never in my lifetime have I seen such an explosion in the efforts of small publishers printing and distribution…
An Encyclopedia featured on Pop Matters
July 8, 2019
I’m so excited that my new book An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is gathering steam. This book has been 4 years in the making, with two earlier editions self-published…
Honor Native Land with USDAC
July 2, 2019
While in Houston this past weekend for a series of amazing gatherings of teachers from the National Education Association, I got to meet Gabrielle and Warren from the US Dept….
Pre-Sale for An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
May 13, 2019
I’m excited to announce that the new, 3rd edition of An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels is done, and about to head out to the printers! If you didn’t catch…
Freedom Highway
May 11, 2019
Freedom Highway is a radio show produced by Nick Panken for Radio Kingston. Earlier this year Nick traveled down to Interference Archive for a number of visits, and interviewed both…
Queer Trans War Ban
May 10, 2019
Dean Spade has recently posted an amazing website of resources for queer and trans people (and their accomplices) to make sense of the thorny issues around the US military trans…
Subvertisers for London
April 25, 2019
Check out this great new short film about adhacking and subvertising in London, just put out by Dog Section Press! Also, I’ll be moderating a panel next week with three…
Celebrate People’s History Poster book back in stock!
April 25, 2019
For about 6 months the Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution has been out of stock, but the Feminist Press has reprinted (the 3rd printing!) and…
271: Hammett on Iskry
April 8, 2019
Here are a couple great Dashiell Hammett novellas published in Poland by Iskry in 1987 and ’88. Although the cover designs (by Wiesław Rosocha) are not as accomplished as many…
270: English Everywhere
April 1, 2019
A quick book blog this week. I found this book on the street a couple months back, and am pretty impressed with the 1970s whole book design, channeling high modernist…
Free Alejandra!
March 5, 2019
Alejandra is a 22 year-old lesbian from El Salvador who came to the US seeking asylum due to persecution for her sexual orientation. Since arriving in the US, she’s been…
269: Commie Round-Up
February 25, 2019
This week I thought I would just round up some of the cooler communist covers I’ve amassed over the past handful of years. It’s a nice collection, with material from…
Higher Education Action Day
February 20, 2019
It’s been amazing to see the involvement of Justseeds artists in the organizing, labor, and image generation at the large-scale art builds happening in Wisconsin around immigration and California around…
Fuck Work Animation 2
All Will Be Free
Which Side Are You On?
We Used to Employ People, Now We Warehouse Them
Solidarity with 1st Nations
Bars 1
Science or Extinction
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
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Fuck Work Animation 1
There Is Nothing More Urgent Than Freedom
Tax Cuts for the Rich
You only get what you’re organized to take.
Families Can’t Wait
Universal Rent Control Now!
Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
Unidos contra el muro
General Strike!
Occupy Poster Download: Dancing Dollars
Beware of Buyouts
Global Climate Strike 2019 Graphics
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 257.83 MB
Format: PDF
We Want (Everything)
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – patch
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Pound the Pavement #8
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Flags (Black)
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Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas
Justseeds Collaboration
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You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take
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Street Stencils #2
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Exhausted
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Pound the Pavement #12
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Security
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March (small)
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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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Healthcare for All
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Free Expression
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Eighteen Street Stencils
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Three Steps
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The Readers
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Great Soft Power
Justseeds Collaboration
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All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
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Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
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Bricks
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Liberating Learning
Close Rikers/No New Jails
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Pilot TV
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Realizing the Impossible
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Beyond Prisons
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John Brown
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Migration Now!
Now!
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Three Steps
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Autonomy Sticker
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History (Redux)
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Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Malcolm X
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Pound the Pavement #11
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Build Communities
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Rebirth
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Slingshot/Weed Postcard
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Producing the City
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Philly Graphics: Street Art Against the Republican National Convention 2000
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Zapatista
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Organize!
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Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
No Fence Uncut
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All Borders Are Temporary
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Free the Land
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Build Communities
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Stencil Four
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Pound the Pavement #9
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Toward Freedom (Egypt)
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Young Americans
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Melt Ice
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To Each According to Need
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Seventeen Street Stencils
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Counter-Signals #2
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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The City is Ours
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – sticker
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Stencil Pirates
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10 Street Stencils
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Grow
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DS128.4
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Build Communities (Red and Green)
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
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Resourced Forest
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Untitled
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Counter-Signals #1
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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STOP
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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No One Is Illegal Diptych
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Plant Seeds
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