Inkworks R.I.P.
March 26, 2016
Inkworks, one of the longest running movement print shops in the US, recently closed. Steven Heller wrote nice obit., and short interview with original collective member Lincoln Cushing, on Print…
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Art & Politics
This channel is a bit of a catch all, since so much of what we do and are interested in over here in Justseeds engages in some way with both art and politics. 
Racial Justice: A Collection of Books and Print Ephemera from Brooklyn’s Interference Archive
March 24, 2016
ArtSlant and the Night Library just published a cool piece featuring Interference Archive. Seven volunteers of the collective chose items in the archive that they felt spoke to the issue…
BLU buffs his own work
March 24, 2016
A friend in Slovenia recently notified me that the artist BLU’s removing his murals from Bologna Italy for very anti-commercial reasons. Check out the article and further discussion, in Italian,…
Earth First! The Musical!
March 16, 2016
Colleague Maren Ward has been putting together a musical celebrating 30 years of Earth First!– the radical, no-compromise environmental movement that brought direct action to the forests, mountains and deserts…
Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar- call for submissions
March 15, 2016
Call for art and article submissions: Sustaining Movements The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the…
Fernando’s No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes t-shirts!
March 12, 2016
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes has turned Justseeds member Fernando Marti’s contribution to our most recent Justseeds/CultureStrike portfolio—We Are The Storm—into a benefit t-shirt. Go to the No Mas Muertes…
Guest posting on Our Comics Ourselves
March 9, 2016
I wasn’t able to pull together a Judging Books by Their Covers post this week, in part because I’m guest posting all week on the Our Comics, Ourselves tumblr site!…
Community Youth Mural on Migration & Ecological Justice Part 1
March 6, 2016
I’ve spent the last month or so in collaboration with Asian-American filmmaker Tani Ikeda, Immediate Justice, and the Center for Biological Diversity leading a weekly stencil and mural workshop to…
read the writing on the wall – 27
March 4, 2016
San Ignacio, Belize. February 2016. Knowledge Kills HIV. These will not transmit HIV, Mosquito, Shower. These will transmit HIV, razor blade, needle. AIDS does not discriminate, Why do we? I…
Indigenous Leaders of Indonesia
March 3, 2016
Colleagues in Taring Padi, the amazing Indonesian political art group that I recently spent some time with, produced a calendar a couple of years ago featuring beautiful paintings of 6…
Black Power Book Covers in situ
March 1, 2016
Back in December the Ace Hotel in New York invited Interference Archive to fill a display case in their lobby. We decided we wanted to use the opportunity to place…
read the writing on the wall – 26
February 25, 2016
Free Art. Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. February, 2016. Two things I’ve always loved about art made in public is that it can be produced by anyone, willing to take the…
CPH poster exhibition up at UConn
February 23, 2016
The University of Connecticut recently acquired a complete set of the Celebrate People’s History Posters, and already has them on display! They’re up at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center…
We Be Darker Than Blue Mural
February 20, 2016
We Be Darker Then Blue, a mural by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) and Jess X. Chen This mural, installed at the BRIC art space in NYC, portrays a poetic sisterhood spanning…
A Day Without Latinos and Immigrants
February 20, 2016
photo by Joe Brusky This past Thursday – February 18, 2016 – Wisconsin witnessed its largest demonstration at the State Capitol Building in Madison since 2011 and the demos against…
New Project from Jamaa Al-Yad
February 17, 2016
Our friend Jamaa Al-Yad in Beirut just launched a new project: “Boycott, Divest, Sanction: On Campus” Originally designed for a campaign at the American University of Beirut, they’ve uploaded…
3 Steps Notepads
February 16, 2016
Our friend Charles at Eberhardt Press (who prints the fabulous Justseeds Organizers each year, and the new 3-Year Garden Journal) just sent me a small box of cool notebooks he…
read the writing on the wall – 25
February 14, 2016
No war, Promote Peace and Love. Caye Caulker, Belize. Feb 2016. Belize is a small country, of 300,000 people, on the Carribean Sea bordered by Mexico and Guatemala. It has…
Rent Checks for Beyond Repair
February 13, 2016
Sam Gould, one of the organizers of a new community art space and print shop in Minneapolis called Beyond Repair, recently asked me if I would help launch their new…
Audio Interference – A new podcast series from Interference Archive
February 5, 2016
Audio Interference is a podcast by Interference Archive in Brooklyn, NY, a volunteer-run archive of material culture produced in social movements. Interested in the capacity of audio to capture oral…