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
6th Annual Victoria Anarchist Bookfair
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Build Communities (Black/Red)
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Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #4
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Close the Detention Centers
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Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #3
$50
Grow
$30
Stencil Pirates: Proof Sheet #2
$50
An Encyclopedia & Bonus Tracks
$26
United States Of On Fire
$100
United States Of Under Water
$100
United States Of (Diptych)
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Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School
Justseeds Collaboration
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Los Siete Principios Cooperativos
$15
The Readers (2)
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Under the Burning Cop Cars…
$10
Celebrate People’s History: New Edition
$28.95
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
$60
An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
$22
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
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History
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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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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
Paper Politics Poster
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Eradicate Fascist Vermin
$30
Healthcare for All
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Commonwealth: Water for All
Justseeds Collaboration
$120
Capture the Flag 7
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Capture the Flag 12
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Security/Fear
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Québec Biennial poster set
Justseeds Collaboration
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Capture the Flag 4
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Capture the Flag 14
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Capture the Flag 2
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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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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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Book Zoo
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No Easy Victories
$60
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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Exhausted by Capitalism
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Far From Afghanistan
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For A Society Without Prisons
$5
Signal:02
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Money Talks Too Much
$75
John Brown
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We’re All In This Together
$100
Toward Freedom (Palestine)
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Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
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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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Mountain Top Removal
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Make Art Not War Postcard
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Noam Chomsky: Crisis & Hope
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Think Galactic
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Wounded Knees
$15
Celebrando 15 Años de Lucha Zapatista
$20
Grow Tall
$10
Celebrando 15 Años de Lucha Zapatista (Alt Ed.)
$30
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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Trashing the Neoliberal City
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Cut and Paint #2
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Winter In America
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Untitled
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The Durruti Column
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Bricks
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Pound the Pavement #10
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Slingshot/Weed Postcard
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Graphic Liberation! with Dignidad Rebelde
June 11, 2021
This conversation I had with Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza (Dignidad Rebelde) took place over zoom on April 14th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve…
Graphic Liberation! with Emory Douglas
June 10, 2021
This conversation I had with Emory Douglas (Black Panther Party) took place over zoom on March 17th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
Graphic Liberation! with Alison Alder
June 9, 2021
This conversation I had with Alison Alder (Megalo Printshop/Redback Graphix) took place over zoom on March 2nd, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been holding…
Graphic Liberation! with Avram Finkelstein
June 8, 2021
This conversation I had with Avram Finkelstein (Silence=Death Project/Gran Fury/Flash Collectives) took place over zoom on February 17th, 2021. It is part of an ongoing series of conversations I’ve been…
Souni TV x Free City Radio
February 21, 2021
Justseeds’ good friend Stefan Christoff, who started both Free City Radio and the Imaging Apartheid Project, has just launched a new initiative, a weekly Free City Radio TV show on…
Catalan Independence Sticker Book!
February 15, 2021
Friends at the Centre de Documentació de l’Esquerra Independentista are putting together a fabulous book of the history of stickers as agit prop in the struggle for Catalan independence. They’re…
“Barbara Dane’s Life of Defiance and Song” in the NYT
February 10, 2021
A great article about the life and work of protest singer Barbara Dane came out today, written by Jenn Pelly and published by the New York Times. Here’s the first…
The Art of Burmese Resistance
February 9, 2021
This post is written by Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, a social justice activist and lay Buddhist teacher in the Burmese tradition who travels to Myanmar at least once a year. Unfortunately…
Graphic Liberation Conversation Series
February 8, 2021
I’m very excited to present the 2021 Graphic Liberation Lecture Series! I was invited by the Art and Art History Department and the Christian A. Johnson Foundation at Colgate University…
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…
Stop Line 3 Care Package
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 65.85 MB
Format: PDF, JPG, & PNG
Stop Line 3
No Evictions!
Under the Burning Cop Cars, the Beach
Defend/Defund
Free Mumia Collection
Landlord
#PeopleNotPolluters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 35.03 MB
Format: Various
Care Package #1
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 128.96 MB
Format: mixed
Build Communities
Fist-Aid Kit
Whole Foods Monster
Global Climate Strike 2019 Graphics
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 257.83 MB
Format: PDF
Shut Them Down
Red for Ed
Universal Rent Control Now!
All Will Be Free
Tax Cuts for the Rich
Families Can’t Wait
There Is Nothing More Urgent Than Freedom
Solidarity with 1st Nations
The Police Talk to You…
The Cops Are In Your Head…
Close the Detention Centers
Healthcare for All
Wellspring Portfolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 53.41 MB
Format: JPG
Melt Ice
Red Wedge/Black Wedge
Agua Para Todos
Education Costs Way Less Than Prison
There Are Too Many People in Prison
We Used to Employ People, Now We Warehouse Them
Mountain Top Removal
Forest
Gaza Lives
People’s Climate March: Downloadable Posters
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 4.50 MB
Format: PDF
All Borders Are Temporary
Occupy Poster Download: Dancing Dollars
Assata: A Wall Is Just A Wall
Operation Recovery
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 9.90 MB
Format: PDF zine
PTSD (Captain America)
General Strike!
Resourced Portolio
Justseeds Collaboration
Size: 39.01 MB
Format: PDF
Bars 1
Autonomy
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Huelga
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Melt Ice
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Advertising Shits In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
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Reproduce & Revolt
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Agua Para Todos
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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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Liberation Support Movement (2nd Edition)
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Under Water States of America
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Build Communities embroidered patches
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We Are All In This Together: exhibition catalog
Justseeds Collaboration
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Organize!
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Build Communities (Red and Green)
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Social Movement Symbols
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Close Rikers/No New Jails
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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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Handala
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Flags (Black)
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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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An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
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Capture the Flag 9
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Capture the Flag 15
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Capture the Flag 13
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Stars and Bars
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Untitled
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Counter-Signals #1
Other Forms & Josh MacPhee
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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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Security
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Resourced Forest
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Liberation Support Movement
Interference Archive & Josh MacPhee
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Producing the City
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Exhausted
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No One Is Illegal Diptych
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No Fence Uncut
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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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We Want (Everything)
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Signal Combo Pack
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Signal:04
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Celebrate People’s History: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Realizing the Impossible
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Three Steps
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The Readers
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Imaging Apartheid: Toward Freedom—Palestine
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All Borders Are Temporary
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Migration Now!
Feet on the Ground 2
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History (Redux)
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Autonomy Sticker
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Toward Freedom (Egypt)
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Signs of Change
Dara Greenwald & Josh MacPhee
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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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Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate
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Voices From Outside: Critical Resistance
Pound the Pavement #11
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Labor Creates All Wealth
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Free the Land
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Now!
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Rebirth
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Chemicals Make Our Lives Better – sticker
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The Occupation of Alcatraz
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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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John Brown
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