Portland, OR, United States
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His visual work tends to focus on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and Capitalism and what can and can't be done about them. His writing addresses the politics and history of social relationships with the natural world. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, coordinates the national Endangered Species Mural Project for the Center for Biological Diversity, and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. He collaborates with artists, activists and scientists globally and locally in the service of a more generous and a wilder world. Get t-shirts of some designs here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/toosphexy/. Contact: toosphexy at gmail or @toosphexy on most social media.
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Late last year the computer-chip manufacturer Intel announced that it was planning a $25 billion expansion of its factory at Kiryat Gat in Israel, just miles from the border of…
I picked 8 images from our free graphics packages and had them reproduced on newsprint by a local web press. 2000 of each, so 16000 total posters! I’ve been shipping…
Papier-maché symbols of solidarity with Palestine I was helping to organize a march and rally in Portland to commemorate Nakba Day, the 76th anniversary of the Catastrophe which marks the…
I have been reading a lot lately about artificial intelligence; what it is and isn’t, where it comes from and where it’s going. I am a Luddite, confirmed, and my…
Justseeds artists have been producing art in solidarity with the people of Palestine in cities across North America; painting banners, placards, flags for actions and interventions, and silkscreen-printing posters, picket…
In October of 2023 I opened a show at Souvenir Gallery in Portland, OR, which pulls together a skein of projects from the past five years into one exhibit. The…
I’m pleased to share the publication of an article that I wrote for the New Republic magazine, which you can read here. This piece covers some of the experience that…
The Teamsters union is about to go on strike against UPS. If they do, it would be the largest strike against a single business in the history of the USA….
I spent three weeks in May in Lubumbashi, the second largest city in DR Congo. The city was founded in 1910 as a commercial garrison for the nearby Etoile du…
I’m in Lubumbashi, DR Congo for three weeks, doing research and presenting about my work on the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan Project. I’m staying…
Fucking Cancelled is a podcast from Montreal, Canada, hosted by Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil, which deals with what the hosts call the Nexus: the synthesis of identitarianism, social media…
I wrote a feature article about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine for the excellent magazine of African news and culture The Continent. Check it out to read a short summary of the…