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…
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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. 
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…
Back in Yogyakarta with Taring Padi
February 4, 2016
Greetings from Yogyakarta, a burgeoning city on the island of Java in Indonesia. I’m here to visit friends in the Indonesian political printmaking collective Taring Padi, legendary agitators in graphic…
border/arte interview with jetsonorama
February 1, 2016
“What is JustSeeds and why are collectives important?
Justseeds is a cooperative of 30 socially-engaged artists and activists scattered across north America whose work addresses themes of social justice, environmental justice, gender quality, prison reform, veteran advocacy and so on.
Mine: An Anthology Zines #1 and #2 now available online!
January 24, 2016
In 2002 I published a zine called Mine: An Anthology of Women’s Choices. It was a compilation of stories of people who had had an abortion. In 2004 I released…
Promoting Climate Justice Through Art Activism in Milwaukee & Beyond
January 22, 2016
More reflections on Paris and D12. Here is a link to an interview that I did recently about Climateprints.org and the climate justice art for D12. The interview was by…
Our Comics, Ourselves opens Thursday, Jan. 21st
January 18, 2016
Here’s a teaser video for the upcoming exhibition at Interference Archive! Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art January 21—April 17, 2016 Opening January 21st, 7–10pm Interference…
Jaguar Mural in Tucson: progress!
January 18, 2016
The fifth of the Endangered Species Murals is taking shape in Tucson, on the side of the Solar Culture complex in downtown. The mural is being painted by local artist…
read the writing on the wall- 22
January 13, 2016
1. Create Now Question Later 2. Fortune favors the Bold 3. Do it with Love Seen on a wall in Brooklyn, NY. August 2013.
On the Diggers: Hippie Modernism
January 12, 2016
I recently wrote a short essay on the 1960’s San Francisco-based antiauthoritarian group The Diggers, and how they both relate to my way of navigating the world, but also how…
D12 Paris Climate Demos Recap: wheat-pasted posters
December 31, 2015
The fourth and final recap of time spent in Paris for the D12 Climate Demos is a photo essay of posters and stickers wheat-pasted in the city during the COP…
D12 Paris Climate Demos Recap: D12
December 30, 2015
My first two recaps on the Paris Climate demos looked at the art build space and various creative resistance projects that took place leading up to D12 – the December…
D12 Paris Climate Demos Recap: Art and Activism
December 29, 2015
My first recap post about the Paris climate demonstrations looked at Jardin d’ Alice – the art build space in Montreuil. This post looks at some of the activist art…
Our Comics, Ourselves book, pre-order now!
December 28, 2015
Interference Archive is hard at work on its next project, a survey of comics from alternative perspectives entitled Our Comics, Ourselves. We’re putting out a publication to document and go…
D12 Paris Climate Demos Recap: Jardin d’ Alice art space
December 28, 2015
Earlier this month – from December 4th-14th – I was in Paris for the lead up to the D12 demos that took place on the day that world “leaders” signed…