“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…
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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. 
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…
Keep It In The Ground poster designs
January 19, 2021
Justseeds artist Kill Joy has coordinated a rush job of poster design, enlisting several artists from the cooperative to produce images for a push for rigorous climate action by the…
Rebuild Rogue Climate
January 10, 2021
Over the past four or five years I’ve designed and produced a series of banners, signs, stickers and posters to support the ongoing struggle against the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural…
Migration Now! Artist Talk at Pequot Library
December 14, 2020
I was invited by the Pequot Library in Southport, CT to give a talk about the Migration Now! portfolio, which I co-produced with Favianna Rodriguez. It was great to get…
7 Ways Artists and Designers Can Set the Tone for Election Defense
November 2, 2020
What will happen after election day? In this unprecedented year, we are likely not to know who our next president is when we go to bed on November 3rd. We’re…
Fundraiser for Congolese researchers in pursuit of the US nuclear legacy in Africa
October 27, 2020
If you’ve been following my research and writings here about the legacy of DR Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine (the source of the impossibly powerful uranium ore that made the Manhattan Project…
VDLA wheatpasting action-Vote Nov 3rd-Black and Brown Lives Matter
October 25, 2020
This past Saturday Voces de los Artistas (VDLA) – an art affinity group with Voces de la Frontera – organized a wheatpasting action to put up VOTE NOV 3rd /…
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…
The Witch in the Smoke
September 14, 2020
David Graeber died last week, and in mourning his loss and considering his contributions, I read, at a friend’s suggestion, his 2011 summary of Occupy on the Al Jazeera website….
From Shinkolobwe to Tsankawi- 75 years of nuclearity after the Trinity Test
August 5, 2020
It was my pleasure to help organize a webinar on the 75th anniversary of the Trinity test to commemorate all those who have been affected by the legacy of the…
Fifty Three Days of Protest in Portland, Oregon.
July 20, 2020
It’s been 53 days of protest in Portland. Tonight at the Justice Center a line of mothers in yellow is pressed against the new fence that the Federal forces have…
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…
Melanie Cervantes on Becoming an Artist
March 17, 2020
After some informal surveys on social media to help me gauge interest, gather topics and get a sense for timing I am happy to announce my first FREE online lecture:…
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…
Advertising Shits In Your Head
July 31, 2019
PM Press is collecting pre-orders via Kickstarter to help print the new edition of the killer adbusting book Advertising Shits In Your Head (originally published in the UK by Dog…
Remember history, remember relevance
July 24, 2019
Above: Native-American activists Amy Anderson and Mari Villaluna, with Chinese-American elder Pam Tau Lee One of the leaders working to take down the New Deal-era murals at George Washington High…
La Minga Indigena
April 1, 2019
I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and…
Waking up from the Forest
March 20, 2019
For the next six weeks I’ll be in Medellin, Colombia, working with the people at Fundación Casa Tres Patios to create some projects with ex-fighters of the FARC, the Revolutionary…