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: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School, Imaging Apartheid, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Pound the Pavement, Cut and Paint
Organize! (Orange/Purple)
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Tierra y Libertad
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Interference Archive: Building a Counter-Institution in the United States
Jen Hoyer & Josh MacPhee
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Martin Sostre
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Bo Brown
Julie Perini & Josh MacPhee
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Pound the Pavement #28
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Stars & Bars
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Organize! (Yellow/Blue)
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Some Anarchists I’ve Known…. (2)
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The Cops Are In Your Head…
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No Evictions!
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Toward Radical Futures + Be the Change! Coloring Book Bundle
Justseeds Collaboration
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Too Much Info
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Toward Radical Futures: a Justseeds Coloring Book
Justseeds Collaboration
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Masks
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Signal:07
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The Readers (2)
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Cut • Stop • End
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… the beach.
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6th Annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair
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Build Communities (Black/Red)
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Cancel Rent
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Close the Detention Centers
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Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #3
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Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #2
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Theft Is Rent
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Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #1
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Che Guevara Triptych
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Beyond Prisons Poster Set
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Bonus Tracks
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An Encyclopedia & Bonus Tracks
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United States Of On Fire
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United States Of Under Water
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United States Of (Diptych)
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Funmilayo Ransome Kuti
Miriam Klein Stahl & Josh MacPhee
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Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School
Justseeds Collaboration
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Celebrate People’s History: New Edition
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Wash Your Hands
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Red Wedge Strikes Again
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Wash Your Hands
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The Seven Principles of Cooperation
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Together
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24-Hour Armed Security
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Soon We’ll All Be Gone.
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Many Hands For Human Need
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Nuclear Warning Postcard
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Red Wedge Beats the Whites
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No Wall Unclimbed
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No Fence Uncut
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The Cure for Disorder…
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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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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Smile, You’re On Camera
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All Rise
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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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Paper Politics Poster
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Flags (Red)
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Flags (Black)
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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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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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Lonely Books
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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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Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
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Left Behind
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Amilcar Cabral
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People’s Climate March!
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Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Justseeds Collaboration
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Resourced
Justseeds Collaboration
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War Is Trauma
Justseeds Collaboration
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War Broadsheet
Justseeds Collaboration
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Signal:03
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Imaging Apartheid: Toward Freedom—Palestine
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General Strike!
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Money Talks Too Much
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John Brown
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We’re All In This Together
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Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
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To Each According to Need
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Mountain Top Removal
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Make Art Not War Postcard
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Noam Chomsky: Crisis & Hope
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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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Free Expression
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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New Shirts!
February 7, 2023
After many years of people asking if I had any shirts of many of my graphics, I’ve finally launched a new shirt store! I’m testing things out on Bonfire, starting…
Graphic Liberation at the Opalka Gallery
October 31, 2022
Over the past six weeks my Graphic Liberation! exhibition has been housed at the Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY. A set of interchangeable and interactive projects…
Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print
October 18, 2022
This just in! One of the key community print shops in the US—Mission Gráfica in San Francisco—is putting together a book documenting its 40-year history. Written by Art Hazelwood, a…
Justseeds Member Playlists: Summer 2022
August 2, 2022
Last week I posted a collective playlist compiled from Justseeds member favorite spins this summer. Today I’m posting the full lists ten folks sent me, so you can dive deeper…
Justseeds Summer 2022 Playlist
July 29, 2022
Music has always been important to us over here (there? everywhere?) at Justseeds. Many members are in or have spent considerable time with bands and other musical projects, others have…
Celebrate People’s History at Mt. Holyoke
July 7, 2022
A couple years back I was contacted by Amanda Maciuba, a printmaking professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts. For a number of years she has been using my…
We Want Everything
June 6, 2022
My exhibition We Want Everything closes this Friday at the Reinberger Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art! I’m really proud of this show, in many ways it is the…
Graphic Liberation! at George Mason University
June 1, 2022
In January and February my Graphic Liberation exhibition was installed at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. It was part of a set of installs of an evolving body of…
It’s Right to Rebel
May 25, 2022
In late 2020 I was contacted by Brage Aronson, who runs the small Norwegian record label Plateselskapet No. 13 (“Record Company #13). He was working on a new release and…
Graphic Liberation! with Tings Chak
May 24, 2022
This conversation with Tings Chak took place over zoom on April 15th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Graphic Liberation! with A3BC
May 17, 2022
This conversation with A3BC (Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear, and Arts Blockprinting Collective) took place over zoom on April 27th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
Graphic Liberation! with Judy Seidman
March 11, 2022
This conversation with Judy Seidman took place over zoom on March 9th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Graphic Liberation! with Sandy Kaltenborn
March 8, 2022
This conversation with Sandy Kaltenborn took place over zoom on February 16th, 2022. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
Massive Attack on BDS Activists in Austria
January 26, 2022
We recently received a note from Amer Shomali, artist and designer who is a participant in the Imaging Apartheid Project. A version of his Visit Palestine poster used in Austria…
Graphic Liberation! with Tomie Arai
December 20, 2021
This conversation with Tomie Arai took place over zoom on November 3rd, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding with political graphics producers under…
We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here
December 6, 2021
For the past 3 years I’ve been working on an artist book about the red flag, and in particular the song of the same name, written by Jim Connell during…
Graphic Liberation! at Colgate
December 3, 2021
I just received some great documentation by Mark Williams of my ¡Graphic Liberation! exhibition and workshop at Colgate University. I’m going to use his photos to walk everyone through the…
Graphic Liberation! with Daniel Drennan ElAwar/Jamaa Al-Yad
October 28, 2021
This conversation I had with Daniel Drennan ElAwar (Jamaa Al-Yad) took place over zoom on September 29th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
The End of Mugabe
October 27, 2021
My friend Tinashe Mushakavanhu (co-founder of the fabulous Reading Zimbabwe project) was recently on the WISER podcast “discussing the coup of November 2017 in Zimbabwe, the death of Robert Mugabe,…
Justseeds Summer 2021 Playlist
August 3, 2021
Last week I got a great message in my inbox, a summer playlist by the Trust Your Struggle crew. It immediately made me think we should pull a playlist together…
Justseeds Font Pack 3
Justseeds Font Pack 2
Stop Line 3 Care Package
Justseeds Collaboration
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Stop Line 3
Landlord
#PeopleNotPolluters
Justseeds Collaboration
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Let’s Save the Post Office
Rent (Freeze or) Strike!
Free Them Now!
Trump COVID-19 Flag
Care Package #1
Justseeds Collaboration
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Build Communities
Fist-Aid Kit
Whole Foods Monster
Global Climate Strike 2019 Graphics
Justseeds Collaboration
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Shut Them Down
Families Can’t Wait
There Is Nothing More Urgent Than Freedom
Solidarity with 1st Nations
The Police Talk to You…
Prisons Don’t Work
Free the Land
Healthcare for All
Wellspring Portfolio
Justseeds Collaboration
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There Are Too Many People in Prison
We Used to Employ People, Now We Warehouse Them
Prisons Don’t Work
Exhausted by Capitalism
Fuck Work Animation 2
Fuck Work Animation 1
Mayday March
Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
Gaza Lives
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
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Forever Readers
IVAW Field Organizing Team
Assata: A Wall Is Just A Wall
Operation Recovery
Justseeds Collaboration
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Format: PDF zine
PTSD (Captain America)
General Strike!
Resourced Portolio
Justseeds Collaboration
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Bars 1
Soon They’ll All Be Gone…
Flag/Prison
Security
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Rebirth
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Are We Free Yet?
Abdulrahman Naanseh & Josh MacPhee
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No Evictions
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Power
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Defend Black Lives
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We Keep Us Safe
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Three Steps
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Teach or Go to Jail!
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No New Jails
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Build Communities (Green/Purple)
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Some Anarchists I’ve Known…. (1)
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Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #4
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Grow
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Autonomy
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Red for Ed
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Huelga
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Palestine Lives (Variant)
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Buck the System
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We Demand
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Los Siete Principios Cooperativos
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Under the Burning Cop Cars…
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Postcard Set
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Let’s Save the Post Office
The Portland Stamp Company & Josh MacPhee
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Melt Ice
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Time To Connect
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Like the Waters, We Rise
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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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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Free Leonard Peltier
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Agua Para Todos
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Buck the System
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History
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Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
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Hudson Mohawk Mayday
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Build Communities (Pink/Blue)
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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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No New Jails
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Build Communities embroidered patches
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Total Control?
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We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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Organize!
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Beware of Buyouts
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Tierra y Libertad
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Build Communities (Red and Green)
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Social Movement Symbols
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No Sides in Climate
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Close Rikers/No New Jails
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Daddy, what did YOU do in the Climate War?
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You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take
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Give Graffiti the Thumbs Up
Daniel Tucker & Josh MacPhee
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Prisons are a Black Hole
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Paper Politics (1st ed.)
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Counter-Signals #2
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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Build Communities
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Healthcare for All
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
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Capture the Flag 9
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Stars and Bars
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Untitled
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Three Steps
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Plant Seeds
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Counter-Signals #1
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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Capture the Flag 18
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Great Soft Power
Justseeds Collaboration
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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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Resourced Forest
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Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Beyond Prisons
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Producing the City
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Exhausted
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Mint
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No One Is Illegal Diptych
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No Fence Uncut
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No Wall Unclimbed
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March (small)
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All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
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March
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Trois Doigts
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Wellspring
Justseeds Collaboration
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We Want (Everything)
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Realizing the Impossible
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DS128.4
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DS128.4
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Kropotkin 1892
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Three Steps
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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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Three Steps
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The Readers
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Even the Worms…
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All Borders Are Temporary
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Feet on the Ground 2
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One Big Union
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History (Redux)
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Autonomy Sticker
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Toward Freedom (Palestine)
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Toward Freedom (Egypt)
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Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Apartheid IsReal
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Pound the Pavement #12
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Melt Ice
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Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – patch
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Celebrando 15 Años de Lucha Zapatista (Alt Ed.)
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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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Pound the Pavement #11
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Trashing the Neoliberal City
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Cut and Paint #2
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Untitled
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Bricks
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Pound the Pavement #10
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2007 NYC Anarchist Bookfair
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Free the Land
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Now!
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Rebirth
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Plant Seeds
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – sticker
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¡Si Se Puede!
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The City is Ours
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Pound the Pavement #9
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Stencil Pirates
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Pound the Pavement #8
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Grow
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Make Art Not War
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Young Americans
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Street Stencils #2
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STOP
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Zapatista
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Philly Graphics: Street Art Against the Republican National Convention 2000
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Stencil Four
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Eighteen Street Stencils
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Seventeen Street Stencils
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10 Street Stencils
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