Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School
Justseeds Collaboration
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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: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School, Imaging Apartheid, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, Pound the Pavement, Cut and Paint
Celebrate People’s History: New Edition
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Postcard Set
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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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Let’s Save the Post Office
The Portland Stamp Company & Josh MacPhee
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The Seven Principles of Cooperation
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Together
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Time To Connect
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Like the Waters, We Rise
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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The Day Before the Revolution
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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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Somebody is Watching You.
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Liberation Support Movement (2nd Edition)
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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No New Jails
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Malcolm X
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Total Control?
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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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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: A National Call for Moral Revival
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
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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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Capture the Flag 12
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Capture the Flag 13
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Security/Fear
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Québec Biennial poster set
Justseeds Collaboration
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Capture the Flag 1
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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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Armed by Design/El Diseño a las Armas
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Mint
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Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
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No Wall Unclimbed
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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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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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Exhausted by Capitalism
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Far From Afghanistan
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For A Society Without Prisons
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Signal:02
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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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Toward Freedom (Palestine)
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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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Apartheid IsReal
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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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Trashing the Neoliberal City
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Cut and Paint #2
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Winter In America
The Durruti Column
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Political Patterning
October 6, 2020
First things first, I’ve launched a small Spoonflower shop of some of my political fabric patterns. You can check it out and buy fabric HERE. Because I don’t have the…
Introducing Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
July 21, 2020
We want to welcome Kevin Yuen Kit Lo as part of the Justseeds class of 2020! Kevin lives and works in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. He is the principal and creative director of…
Introducing Zola
July 13, 2020
We’re very excited to welcome Zola into the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. Zola is based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, and over the past decade has become one of the city’s most prolific and…
The Art of Protest
May 5, 2020
A small glimmer of hope and enjoyment arrived in the mail a little while back, a copy of the new political poster book by Jo Rippon and Amnesty International, The…
Polit-Groove IGTV Channel
May 4, 2020
In early March I started posting daily political songs from records I have onto a new Instagram TV Channel. It’s called Polit-Groove, and I’m up to almost 50 songs at…
Close Rikers/Free Them Now!
March 26, 2020
Covid-19 has made its way into prisons and jails throughout the country, there already stories emerging about sick guards bringing the virus in and bureaucrats covering it up. Jails and…
Certain Days Call for Art
March 9, 2020
A Generation of Support Through the Bars – the 20th edition of the Certain Days calendar (more info HERE) The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective will be…
Open Call for the 2020 Screenprint Biennial
February 16, 2020
I’ve been involved in one capacity or another with the Screenprint Biennial since it’s inception in 2014, and encourage all screenprinters to respond to the call and participate in this…
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…
University As Factory? No!
Rent (Freeze or) Strike!
Close the Detention Centers
The Police Talk to You…
Global Climate Strike 2019 Graphics
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 257.83 MB
Format: PDF
Resourced Portolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 39.01 MB
Format: PDF
We Used to Employ People, Now We Warehouse Them
Unidos contra el muro
Forever Readers
Mayday March
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 4.50 MB
Format: PDF
Fuck Work Animation 2
Care Package #1
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 128.96 MB
Format: mixed
The Cops Are In Your Head…
Fist-Aid Kit
Under the Burning Cop Cars, the Beach
Smash
Soon They’ll All Be Gone…
Operation Recovery
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 9.90 MB
Format: PDF zine
Exhausted by Capitalism
Agitate-Educate-Organize
Prisons Don’t Work
You only get what you’re organized to take.
PTSD (Captain America)
Forest
Wellspring Portfolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 53.41 MB
Format: JPG
Gaza Lives
Universal Rent Control Now!
Free Mumia Collection
There Are Too Many People in Prison
Education Costs Way Less Than Prison
IVAW Field Organizing Team
#PeopleNotPolluters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 35.03 MB
Format: Various
John Brown
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Free Expression
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Migration Now!
Pound the Pavement #8
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Flags (Black)
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Pound the Pavement #12
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Philly Graphics: Street Art Against the Republican National Convention 2000
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Toward Freedom (Egypt)
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Pound the Pavement #11
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Feet on the Ground 2
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No One Is Illegal Diptych
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Stencil Pirates
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Build Communities embroidered patches
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Untitled
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Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
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Organize!
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Reproduce & Revolt
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Three Steps
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Security
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Healthcare for All
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You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take
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Melt Ice
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Great Soft Power
Justseeds Collaboration
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Make Art Not War
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The City is Ours
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All Borders Are Temporary
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Stars and Bars
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We Want (Everything)
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Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – sticker
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Exhausted
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Hudson Mohawk Mayday
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DS128.4
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Build Communities (Red and Green)
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STOP
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Capture the Flag 15
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Plant Seeds
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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
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March (small)
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History (Redux)
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Counter-Signals #2
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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No Fence Uncut
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Street Stencils #2
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Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Free the Land
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Three Steps
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Melt Ice
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Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
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Young Americans
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Malcolm X
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Resourced Forest
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Under Water States of America
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All Together Now!
Drew Cameron/Combat Paper & Josh MacPhee
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Capture the Flag 9
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Build Communities
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The Readers
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Counter-Signals #1
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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Advertising Shits In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
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Beyond Prisons
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Close Rikers/No New Jails
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – patch
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DS128.4
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Rebirth
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Realizing the Impossible
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Seventeen Street Stencils
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Bricks
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Zapatista
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Untitled
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Pound the Pavement #9
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Build Communities
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Eighteen Street Stencils
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10 Street Stencils
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Stencil Four
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Social Movement Symbols
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Prisons: America’s Finest Slave Plantations
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Now!
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