Last month Princeton Architectural Press published Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest, a timely collection of political posters responding to today’s issues and struggles. It’s a beautifully produced book, and...
I recently was invited by the rad Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis to decorate one of the tables they’ve set up in their new cafe and restaurant over-looking the bookstore....
Each year we carry the Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar by the Certain Days Collective, and each year they sell out fast. They’re broadcasting their call for imagery and writing...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Chip Thomas inspires. Powerful short documentary video on Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) that was produced by KQED Arts. Street Artist Reflects Native American Dignity at a Monumental Scale When images of...
MonicaTrinidad at Do Not Resist exhibition. Photo by Love & Struggle photos. A growing number of artists have been responding to social issues and making political work. Yet, fewer have been...
I’ve been thinking a lot about flags lately. What will be the symbols of our movement in the future? Here’s one offering. I’m inspired by the Third World internationalism of...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
EPIC Bee was inspired by the logo for Upton Sinclair’s EPIC movement (End Poverty In California) from the 1930s. Sinclair’s plan called for a massive public works program, sweeping tax...
–Photo by Hazael R., www.flickr.com/photos/tuitstar On September 19 of last year at 1:14 pm, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, affecting the states of Puebla, Morelos, Mexico State, and Mexico...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
Jane Norling is an artist activist with an inspiring past. For fifty years, as a painter, graphic designer, and public artist, she’s created community murals, graphic designs for social and...
In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague Charles, who...
In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. This is a...
There are a couple really sweet spots (for me) where book cover design starts to feel sublime, and one of these is the “Green Period” of the Penguin crime series...
I recently returned from about three and a half weeks of travel through the southwest and beyond, including three days spent at the 4th annual March to Save Oak Flat....
Audio Interference, a podcast series produced by the Interference Archive, has released an episode on the Bread and Puppet Theater, started in the 1960’s by Peter Shumann. The all volunteer...
I’ve been going through the archival documents and photos of our family and trying to find out all I can about the Russian origins of my family. I discovered an...
Throughout the spring and summer of 2017, I obsessively pursued the previously unrecorded history of a small activist printshop from Huntington, West Virginia that called itself Appalachian Movement Press. All...
On Thursday, March 1st from 7-9pm, Jeramy Turner and Mary Ellen Croteau will be presenting the secret history of the 1990s feminist art collective the Sister Serpents at Interference Archive...
I just got a copy in the mail of the Korean edition of my Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution! It has been in the works...
It’s been really exciting to work the past year with the Sidewall Mural Project in Pittsburgh to produce a series of six Celebrate People’s History posters as 8 ft tall...
Fresh from the printers is the sixth and latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Signal is edited by Josh MacPhee and I and it...
In October of 2016, Justseeds moved into Bloomcraft: a collectively-managed building in Pittsburgh which is now home to some amazing local groups and artists! The Glitterbox Theater, 1Hood Media, the...
I really nice long format article about Interference Archive and activist/social archiving just posted on the AIGA Eye on Design site. It’s pretty thorough, and has some nice photos. Check...
Resist Across the street from the Southwest Museum Station of the gold line. Mt Washington, Los Angeles. February 2017 One word, cut from some white material and installed publicly. It’s...
Last Friday Silvia Federici gave a phenomenal talk on the history and politics of the Wages for Housework movement to a packed crowd at Interference Archive. The talk was in...
Our friends at Booklyn are having a giant moving sale! Booklyn, 37 Greenpoint Ave. Ste. E4G, Brooklyn, NY 11215 February 22: Artists’ Books & Prints Preview Reception [7-10 pm] THURSDAY’s...
Justseeds fellow-traveler Dave Loewenstein has a new show up at the Lawrence Public Library. More info HERE. From Dave: Earlier this fall, I realized that many of the posters I’ve...
On December 4, 1967, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced plans for a Poor People’s Campaign and called for the nation to take dramatic steps to end poverty. In...
One of the best designed exhibitions of the Celebrate People’s History poster series is now on at the Stamp Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The photos (see below) look amazing,...
March 29th Jenna Valoe and I have an opening at Ripon College in Wisconsin for a show we are calling “A Time of Expectant Hopes”. I was approached by Ripon...
Submedia has a new episode form their series Trouble. Check it out Older generations never tire of reminding youth that the years they spend on college or university campus are...
Baby, can I get your number My name is not baby Brooklyn, NY. January 14, 2017
For those that haven’t heard, Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the most important Anglophone authors of the 20th century, passed away on January 22, 2018. I (and many here...
Building Art to Keep Families Together from MTEA Union on Vimeo. Joe Brusky of MTEA and the Overpass Light Brigade made a time lapse video of the recent Voces de...
Does it even Matter Brooklyn, NY. January 14, 2017 Whats the point Williamsburgh, NY. June 24, 2011
From the early 20th century through the early 1960s, one of the largest Left organizations in the US (if not the largest) was the Communist Party USA. The propaganda wing...