Justseeds members Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza operate as Dignidad Rebelde, a powerful collaborative art duo centered in Oakland, California who believe that “art can be an empowering reflection of…

THE NOMAD SHOULD APOLOGIZE FOR ITS “FUVELA” – ESPECIALLY TO MILWAUKEE by Cris Siqueira and Isabella Gargiulo A bar in Milwaukee created a favela-themed patio for the World Cup and…

When people think about Justseeds they might first think about the images that we make or various projects and collaborations with movements, but central to what we do is being…

Prison sentences: Bradley Manning: 35 years Donald Rumsfeld: 0 Number of people charged with espionage for leaking classified information in US history: 10 Number charged under the Obama Administration: 7

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Could the devastating policies of the War on Drugs (i.e. the War on People of Color) and the mass incarceration of those with minor drug offenses that have been in…

More reasons to despise Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: He has made gathering in the State Capitol Building without a permit illegal. Of course people have defied this, but now the…

Hey everyone- we’re having a sale for the rest of February here at Justseeds. You can get 10% off every order when you use the coupon code “winter” at checkout….

Probably the first Justseeds post about billionaires. Here is Bloomberg’s list of billionaires and not so equal distribution of wealth.

Drawn by the child of a man in Tamms. December 18, 2012. From the TAMMS Year Ten website: “In February, Governor Quinn proposed the closure of Tamms supermax prison and…

As of October 4, 2012, Lumumba will have served ten years. It’s time to set him free!

There’s an awful lot of mass murder going on in Mexico. Piles of dead bodies are heaped in public squares, hung from bridges, or dismembered and decapitated and laid out…

It has been six years since the heavy repression in San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico, where people had gathered to protest the eviction of flower vendors from…

The Justseeds/IVAW print portfolio was just featured in The 22 Magazine. From the write-up:   Beyond being beautiful pieces of art, each work is a call to end unneeded violence…

The new President of Ireland Michael D Higgins is a politician, accomplished poet, sociologist, and author. He also served as the Minister for Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht. Here is…

Wendy Redstar, a contemporary Crow artist who teaches at Portland State University, runs a blog on Contemporary Indigenous art. Along with her students at PSU, she conducts challenging and provocative…

Meet Felipe, a father who is on the verge of losing the right to his children forever. Felipe Montes was deported to Mexico about a year ago, away from his…

My friend Carolina just sent me this awesome article she wrote on the on-going battle of the Triqui people for their Autonomy and self determination. San Juan Copala: Autonomous Triquis…

UPDATE @ 3:02 PM PST: Pancho has just been released!! Thank you to all who supported!!! Francisco “Pancho” Ramos-Stierle was arrested on Monday as he was sitting in silent, non-violent…

Occupy Portland has been uprooted from its two downtown parks, and begins a new phase – whether that means a new location or a new course of action. Since I…

A creative action here in New York pulled together by Occupy the Boardroom.

A very powerful documentary, LOST IN DETENTION, recently aired on PBS’s Frontline and revealted the devastating consequences of the mass incarceration of immigrants and the harsh toll it takes on…

Our friend Cindy Milstein has been posting great regular updates about what is going on inside Occupy Philly on her blog HERE. Check it out! [The image above is from…

Mother Jones just put up a cool article entitled “Octopi Wall Street!” about the historical use of the octopus as a representation of capitalism. Worth clicking over and reading it…

*Urgent News Bulletin: Ostula comrade killed in Xayakalan* “We have to struggle, come what may, whatever happens, against anyone we have to. A struggle isn’t easy. It’s exhausting—economically, physically, and…

It may appear to our regular blog readers that all of Justseeds is cavorting around Europe at international art biennials, but it isn’t true! I’ve been at home in New…

Our friends from Black Mesa Indigenous Support are an awesome group of folks and do fantastic work. I am going to be going out to Black Mesa for the first…

I’ve been meaning to repost this for weeks, so better late than never. I stumbled across this short article on and set of images by the Deterritorial Support Group, a…

Robert Tillman from Printeresting, one of our favorite blogs, spent a week in Pittsburgh in July. He just put up a bunch of posts about the print places he visited…

“There is a restlessness within our souls that keeps us questioning, discovering and struggling against a system that will not allow us space and time for fresh expression….” – Gil…

Ganzeer, an Egyptian artist, is featured in an interesting article from the Guardian a couple of weeks back: Egypt’s uprising brings DIY spirit out on to the streets “…in Tahrir…

My friend and DJ/collaborator Cara Erskine just had an article published in Dis Magazine’s Labor Issue. She writes about Tea Party-backed Maine Governor Paul LePage’s removal from the lobby of…

Justseeds was recently mentioned in a local article. Which is totally awesome press! However, I also want to avoid the possible interpretation of us as primarily competition for other local…

Erik Ruin and I (Josh MacPhee) currently have work in a cool looking exhibition in Amman, Jordan at a venue called (The Studio). The show was organized by Nidal El-khairy…

I was so excited to read about this on Alternet over the weekend! Everybody knows the GOP’s biggest weakness is money, so why not hit ’em in the sweet spot?…

Paper Politics got props in the latest issue of the Providence Phoenix (our weekly paper). Greg Cook has constantly given positive and well written articles about printmakers in Providence: his…

Wisconsin workers fight back! A slumbering labor movement has awakened in Wisconsin in response to the extreme anti-union legislation that Gov. Scott Walker (in office for six weeks) is attempting…

“heART of the revolution” is an online exhibit displaying art from around the world in support of the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. Website presented by…

RT (Russia TV), which appears to be a US-based Russian online TV station, just ran a story on NYC’s Brecht Forum while our Justseeds print exhibition was still hanging there,…

Not sure if folks have been keeping up with world news, but I caught a glimpse of some photos and video of protesters and riot police clashing in the streets…

Slade Art School in the UK has been occupied. You can follow it HERE. Back in the 60s and 70s occupied art schools produced some of the best political posters…

Hey folks! Check out this rad props we got onto a local RI blog! Celebrate People’s History! Poster Book is on the front page! http://thebiggestlittle.org/

Friends in Melbourne have been organizing against anti-low income housing policies in Melbourne, and produced this new video in lead up to a big protest on Nov. 12:

Justseeds has gotten a small flurry of online press recently, here’s a couple highlights: 1) “A Print You Can Believe In” on The Link in Montreal with a focus on…

This is a long piece about art and activism for a mainstream paper like the Washington Post. Go Favianna, Cesar, and everybody who got this coverage! Cesar Maxit, Graham Boyle,…

Who’s heard of Menhaden? Anyone? Show of hands? Certainly not me, before a couple of months ago. Now, however, the oily fish that once schooled in innumerable masses on the…

  (Trail of Dreams walkers heading to Arpaio’s office, Phoenix, AZ) Just got back from DC where I traveled to after spending week in Arizona, where I was with the…

Ok—more insanity in the news… “The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of religious freedoms, America’s…

Ok—this is insane! Someone forwarded us this article and I am stunned. I understand with the current racist anti-immigration law in Arizona, this sort of racism is not surprising. However,…

“It took me 15 hundred miles to lose the fear of being undocumented.” – Carlos Roa Today Gaby Pacheco, Carlos Roa, Felipe Matos, and Juan Rodriguez, arrived in their hometown,…

This last 3rd and 4th of May was four years since the people in San Salvador Atenco were brutally repressed by the PFP police in Mexico. Here’s a beautiful poster…

Our friends in Japan have spent months protesting the purchase of Miyashita Park in Tokyo by Nike, who intend to turn the park, now a home for many of Tokyo’s…

Justseeds and related-projects keep popping up around the web, here’s a recent list of activity: 1. Spectres of Liberty (Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, and Olivia Robinson) just had an interview…

Troubling news. Ricardo Dominguez, known for Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) is taking heat for a Floodnet action against the University of California Office of the President during the March 4th…

I’ve referenced this graphic a few times in the last few days. I don’t remember where I came across it, I find it quite intriguing. It asks folks in the…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Milwaukee Students for a Democratic Society Condemn Police Brutality, Demands Justice, Continues the Struggle for Education Rights. 18 arrested, 250 rally for education rights at the University…

All Gaby Pacheco ever wanted was to finish college and teach music to disabled children. Brought to the United States by her parents as a young girl, Gaby has excelled…

An entire generation of anti-authoritarians are passing on. With Zinn last month, and Colin Ward on Feb. 11 (and Alex Comfort in 2000, Paul Goodman in 1972, and…)… They remind…

There is something oddly mesmerizing about this video. I guess a guy just walked into Wal-Mart and started swinging!??! More info HERE.

I’m working hard installing Signs of Change in Portland, OR this week (we open on Thursday night!) and wanted to throw a couple quicks items I’ve run into up here…

Iranian filmmakers have called for a boycott of this years Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, Iran in hopes of pressuring the government to ease up on repression and release political…

Billy da Bunny, of Loop Zine Distro, has started putting up very strange, yet engaging, video zine reviews on the We Make Zines website. He recently put up a set…

Welcome to the Teens, hard on the heels of the Noughties. As humanity continues to hack and chew at the earth, extinction rates continue to rise. I have a really…

The Yes Men in Copenhagen = a corporation and/or government is going to get humiliated for good reason. This time it’s Canada. More here: http://theyesmen.org/canada

Some links to keep up with whats happening at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the protests in the streets: Indymedia Danmark: http://indymedia.dk/ Democracy Now!: www.democracynow.org/

I just wanted to send a shout out to our comrades in Vancouver and Victoria who have been struggling against a completely invasive, parasitic, and brutal Olympics campaign. There’s more…

Words of wisdom from historian Howard Zinn on Obama winning the Noble Peace Prize and using it as a forum to declare the war in Afghanistan as a just war….

Wheeler Hall at UC Berkeley was occupied again today, and halfway across the globe students from AmirKabir Uniiversity in Tehran tore the gates off their school! Check out the video…

10 Years since Seattle and this is where we are. I saw the below last night and was totally gobsmacked: I’ve been trying to think of what to write until…

A handful of my favorite media-making friends were in California documenting the recent actions over the “austerity measures” in the California University system. Brandon Jourdan has some strong feeling about…

Check out info on the STUPAK part of the current health care bill. Women are denied access to abortion coverage- the bill actually denies coverage to women who already have…

David Bacon just sent out a nice set of photos and a short text on the hotel worker’s strike going on right now in San Francisco. One of the things…

(banner drop on a bridge where bankers at the conference were passing by on tour boats) “The major banking institutions, who have been raked over the coals of public opinion,…

On October 24, 350.org organized the most widespread day of political action in history — over 5,200 events in 181 countries — to call for a clear solution to the…

Our garden season is coming to a close in RI but it’s that time of the year to be hunting for food! I found hen of the woods over last…

This past March, I cofounded an online advocacy organization centered around Latinos and our struggles – Presente.org. One of the most recent campaigns we launched has been around CNN’s Lou…

The drama with Shepard Fairey continues…While the position that some of the Justseeds’ members take on the work of Fairey is public knowledge (see Mark Vallan’s 2007 essay, written with…

The Guardian UK recently posted a short but interesting piece on the art, design, and technology used in the recent protests in Iran. The article is called “The art of…

For those that haven’t seen it, here’s a good intro video to what went down on the streets of Pittsburgh during the G20:

So while we’ve been dealing with G20 fallout here, there’s been a bit of stir over in the UK related to the G20 as well. British art crew the Space…

I came across this project while reading Kathleen Hanna‘s (of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and Julie Ruin) blog! They are a project by an Argentine artist which received a grant…

Hell Yes! Chicago lost its bid to host the Olympics. An estimated 84 percent of the city opposed bringing the Games to Chicago but this did not stop the Daley-machine,…

I got this forward and it has taken me months to put it up but here its is: a new infoshop A-raamatukogu (A-library)www.araamat.org opened in Estonia this past summer. They…

this just in down the wire: FOUR YEAR LEGAL BATTLE ENDS WITH SUBSTANTIAL DONATIONS TO CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CAE Defense Fund donated to Center for Constitutional Rights &…

Friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy and Lize Mogel tipped me off to this great story about German politicians their own versions of mini-utopias at Hamburg’s Miniature Wonderland, the…

“To Change the World: This traveling exhibit of works by radical artists has a refreshingly old-fashioned air” by Margaret Regan Tucson Weekly 03 September 2009 Fabian Garcia Rios was the…

Climate Ground Zero is a campaign against mountaintop removal, they currently have a treesit campaign that is being threatened right now by authorities, some participants have been detained. Check out…

18 August 2009: Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war.” Tristan Anderson, an American national, was critically injured on 13 March 2009…

Lens, the photojournalism blog of the New York Times, has posted a collection of photos by Katie Orlinsky of Central America immigrants in Mexico City waiting to hop trains to…

I recently went to see Propagandhi play in Milwaukee. At this show I first heard about the Tar Sands, a dirtier more toxic way of producing oil than usual. Some…

My friends at Jura Books in Sydney need help! They are holding a cool raffle to raise money, with one of the big prizes being this great historic Australian political…

Here’s an article from the NY Times City Room Blog, by Colin Moynihan, about yesterdays land occupation in NYC, by Picture the Homeless. Its a good article about the action…

This past weekend Peter and I participated in Artscape. We had a booth on the bridge outside the train station alongside of “the duelling court”, “dunk the chump”, space alien…

If you understand the logic of the economic system in which we currently live, the following story will come as no surprise. Nonetheless our understandings don’t prevent us from having…

The Progress Illinois site has a good post on a recent action by the TAMMS Year Ten coallition demanding that the Chicago Tribune retract a fault-ridden editorial about TAMMS. The…

Protests against the G8 meeting are underway in Italy and the IMC is covering the events as they unfold. http://g8.italy.indymedia.org/ On the opening day of the G8 summit, Greenpeace activists…

From the UWM SDS blog… “This 4th of July, SDS celebrated revolution, and independence from empire. Students from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Marquette University jumped into two parades,…

Iran Multitude is a new blog keeping track of what’s going on in Iran, from the inside and out. Check it out here. (image from A1one’s flickr stream)

Michael Jackson is dead and the entire world has something to say. MJ broke race barriers without a doubt. “He broke race barriers in the pop world which opened doors…

As a follow up to the piece we directed you to that Daniel McGowen wrote for the Huffington Post, here’s an article from the LA Times about a lawsuit the…

Ever since Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the right wing has attacked her with racist and sexist remarks, part of a coordinated strategy to tarnish her…

The anarchist newspaper Onward!, which ran from early 2000-2002, is now digitized and up online here. A couple Justseeds artists were involved in the paper at different points, but there’s…

Tech savvy anti-authoritarians have set up a cluster of servers for anonymous testimony and coverage of the demonstrations in Iran from inside and outside of the country, Anonymous Iran. This…

Here’s another short missive from Iran: Things were extremely difficult and violent yesterday…I went, just to be a witness, and having seen what I did, I am deeply hurt and…

We got this report in the mail the other day from independent writer, journalist and photographer David Bacon. It’s a nice short piece, and a great photo essay. Bacon has…

This is an amazing collection of images from Iran over the past couple of days. It is extremely interesting how important these images have become to people on he ground,…

This just in from our comrades in Mexico City: Urgent denunciation: aggression against VOCAL member, David Venegas (Spanish Translation Below) This Wednesday, June 17, at approximately 1:30 in the afternoon,…

A friend of mine is currently in Iran, watching and participating in the struggle as it unfolds. Here’s one of their reports: Tehran – June 14, midnight. The streets of…

THERE IS NO REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE WITHOUT PROVIDERS!!! Please read this article about George Tiller, if you aren’t already familiar with the terrorism that abortion providers face…. (they even used one…

Daniel McGowen recently had a GREAT piece published on the Huffington Post blog about the new Communications Management Units in US prisons. It’s a must read, check it out here.

Ex-Pinochet army conscript charged with folk singer Victor Jara’s murder José Adolfo Paredes Márquez tracked down to Chilean capital almost 36 years later It was the atrocity which symbolised Chile’s…

From Boing Boing.net. The excellent work of Guatemala-based photojournalist James Rodriguez has been featured on BB a number of times before. The most recent photo-essay on his blog documents a…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently launched a website, called Teaching Copyright, helping educators and others mentor youth about their activity online. There’s a lot of misinformation out there about…

Photo essay on the foreclosures in Detroit

Chicago has a long, sad history of buffing graffiti brown, but now it seems that political murals are getting the same treatment. Last week, Alderman James Balcer (Ward 11) ordered…

Our comrades in Mexico City just sent this along: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE FOR ATENCO!! By Heriberto Salas and Salvador Díaz (Spanish Translation at the bottom) On May 3, 2006, the…

SDS Milwaukee continues to amaze. Below is a post detailing a recent victory to make UWM clothing apparel sweatshop free and how creative resistance and perseverance aided the campaign. “The…

Just read this morning that the Terror Enhancement for the RNC8 has been dropped. The RNC8 are a group of Minneapolis people that were organizing protests for the Republican National…

A friend brought this to my attention in an email using the title of the post as the subject. It’s not just philandering husbands who fear Google Street View’s roving…

A group of approximately 60 people occupied the New School today. The University and NYPD responded with force, arrested and have held many of the participants overnight. The following story…

I was listening to Democracy Now! yesterday and heard mention of this anti-war campaign: Our Spring Break is a student and youth initiated and led alternative spring break. It is…

As a result of some violations of building codes the Rhizome Collective will have to vacate the premises of their warehouse in East Austin, TX. The building houses a handful…

The fight over intellectual property rights, and the demand to keep our ideas in the commons, is one of the most important struggles we face. The Pirate Bay, the world’s…

Friends in Pittsburgh recently sent along an article from the Pittsburgh City Paper about Shepard Fairey sending a cease and desist letter and threatening to sue a local designer. Once…

Our friends at PEEL Mag. just sent this over. A street artist and supporter just lost his apartment to fire, and needs any help he can get. I had an…

Joel Kovel is a professor, and writer, working at Bard College, who was recently notified that his contract will not be renewed. In the statement below he illustrates his political…

My friend Eric Triantafillou, a teacher, artist and designer in Chicago, has been following all the dialogue around the Shepard Fairey controversies, and wrote up the below piece in response….

Today the Associated Press threatened to sue Fairey. “The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission,”…

My friend Jean’s brother is in Damascus and I thought people may be interested in hearing an account from someone from the states visiting the region. His blog is called…

Format Magazine has release their Top 10 Street Art Books of 2008, and Reproduce & Revolt is at the top of the list! Check it out here.

I was recently sent this article about the anarchist presence during the riots in Oakland. It’s nicely written and I think articulates some clear points that are useful in talking…

Co-Editor-International Middle East Media Center US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, in introducing a bill supporting the Israeli attack on Gaza, that passed unanimously by voice vote in the…

Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction By Naomi Klein This article is scheduled to appear in the January 26, 2009 edition of The Nation. It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy…

Grafiteros spraypaint the municipal building, during the rally, with messages of solidarity for folks in Gaza, and Oaxaca’s APPO. There’s a bit more background on recent events over on ZapaGringo.

It’s been 18 days since the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip began, since that time there have been 883 deaths and sadly more than a third have been women…

I came across this on the Adbusters blog. Im always apalled by how brainwashed we are from corporate campaigns which suggest “we” conserve (read Gone Tomorrow by Heather Rogers). That…

Activist Unmasks Himself as Federal Informant in G.O.P. Convention Case By COLIN MOYNIHAN New York Times January 5, 2009 When the scheduled federal trial begins this month for two Texas…

Today many of us in the Bay Area attended a protest to demand justice for Oscar Grant, the unarmed young man killed by BART police a few days ago. I…

Two of my favorites: the Carrie Furnace & Southside railroad tunnel Ah, an auspicious beginning to 2009: more brutal crackdowns on graffiti in Pittsburgh. Two young men, both students at…

Early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22 -year old, Oscar Grant III by pushing him face down to…

I am discovering more online sources for news and opinion about the ongoing aggression against the people of Gaza by the Israeli government. Tales to Tell-From Gaza is a blog…

by Prof. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories December 31, 2008 The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations…

By BRIAN ENO January 2, 2009 It’s a tragedy that the Israelis – a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression – are now acting…

In November 2008, I was interviewed by Britt Bravo for her show, Big Vision Podcast. She interviewed me about my artistic vision, process, and new book, Reproduce & Revolt, which…

If you care to reflect on the crisis there are a bunch of NY TImes articles gathered in this link of their Business Section. Its called the “Reckoning”, or “the…

Images, banner drops, tactical media, performances and actions loaded with symbolism were in full effect this week. The Yippies and the Situationists would be proud. Just Do It.

From the NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ALISSA J. RUBIN Published: December 14, 2008 BAGHDAD — President Bush made a valedictory visit on Sunday to Iraq, the country…

Below is a post from Jacob Flom who is a student in my Art and Ecology class at UWM. Jacob does incredibly inspiring work with IVAW and SDS and it…

The worker occupation of the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago by members of UE (United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America) Local 1110 has reached its fourth…

Check out indymedia.org and other alternative news organizations for updates on what is taking place in Greece. For the past three days protests and riots having been taking place in…

The IVAW website and the Groundswell Collective blog have a great post and video on a recent IVAW action who continue to amaze and inspire us with their incredible array…

Some other stuff I came across today Stories about Movimento por Justicia del Barrio, a tenant organization, that has had recent victories against their landlord. In the Indypendent and at…

I went over to the Village Voice site to look up a movie listing and came across this Sam Mcpheeters piece. I felt like reposting it because there have been…

The Da! Collective is reported to have opened up a supposedly valuable building in London, England. Plenty of news on it at; Guardian Telegraph, Dailymail, and other spots on their…

In NYC this weekend! Escupido de la Panza de la Bestia Parte 2! is a Collaborative Art Showing… A Tri City Exchange….From Valparaiso, Chile, Cordoba, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina with…

How does one turn google street view upside down? Easy…. check out this link to A Street with View, a super creative performance / google street view re-enactment that took…

Chris passed along this link to The Citrus Report which spoke of an article in Artnews. This following article by Carolina A. Miranda, I have plenty to say, but its…

Pittsburgh is in many ways a small town. I went to a University of Pittsburgh Street Law class last night to show-and-tell rad youth printing projects to possibly incorporate into…

Zolo Agonia Azania, a political prisoner in Indiana and an amazing painter, illustrator and collagist, has finally been taken off death row!!! On the eve of his third death penalty…

I’m stuck on the couch, on what must be the most beautiful Fall day in NYC, with a busted up ankle. Instead of catching up on the daily confusion on…

Check out the entries and resources on Naomi Klein’s website The Shock Doctrine to put some of the recent economic issues in perspective. There’s a bunch of good pieces &…

If you like to harass elected officials or think that they may represent your interests get over to Vote No Bailout! and send your representative a message!

Minneapolis Police Detain 3 Independent Journalists, confiscating video equipment, computer, phones, notebooks and money among other personal belongings MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (August 26, 2008) – Minneapolis Police officers detained three journalists…

That’s a mouthful. I was looking at the WFMU blog yesterday and came across a post called “You Too Can Help Silence Bono”. I really like the internet when it…

Every few weeks I am stunned by the abstraction of economics. It is beyond my comprehension how this system perpetuates itself, it has to. And anyone invested in it must…

The building that has housed Self-Help Graphics, the renowned community art center in East LA, was sold earlier this week. The future of Self-Help, which has worked with many of…

I recently saw the exhibition “Imaginary Coordinates” at the Spertus Museum in Chicago and was disappointed to learn that the exhibit was recently abruptly closed and will not run through…

Two members of Rebel Diaz, NYC-based political hip hop group, were arrested yesterday for trying to intervene in the police harassing a street vendor. Here’s a piece written by Davey…

Our friends at AK Press, one of the largest and best anarchist book publishers and distributors in the world (which I guess unfortunately isn’t saying too much, but still…), just…

Quiz. A major riot took place in Montreal on Monday night where store windows were smashed and close to a dozen police cars were set on fire. Can you guess…

In what can only be described as classic, Shepard Fairey is suing another artist for stealing from him! After decades of pillaging other people’s work wholesale, I guess Fairey thinks…

In Paris, London, Istanbul, and San Francisco, protesters have interrupted the passing of the Olympic torch in solidarity with the people of Tibet and against China’s human rights abuses. Here…

Not what you think, or maybe exactly. The Tate Museum, a world renowned contemporary art museum, is looking for some new muralists . Graffiti can stake its claim on museums…

‘People’s History’ headed to movies By Borys Kit Feb 8, 2008 BERLIN — Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is being adapted into a feature documentary….

South End Press is currently seeking qualified applicants to join our small, majority women and majority people of color collective as Editor/Publisher/Financial Coordinator.

Hands down, the Iraq Veterans Against the War(IVAW) are doing the most kick ass political and cultural work in the US today. For a year or so they have been…

My friend Stephanie has created an amazingly interesting and weird new project by opening a factory in Second Life! In an attempt to raise serious issues about the intersection of…

As if the war in Iraq wasn’t surreal and fucked up enough already (with televised “victory” events before the real war even started, mass public spectacles like the tearing down…

This came in the other day from The Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques, who were instrumental in the fight to get the US to stop bombing the…

Colin Matthes recently completed a mural for Milwaukee’s IN:SITE temporary public art program. The mural is titled “Everyday Transactions: The Familiar Inconceivable”. The mural draws upon elements of the everyday,…

In October members of THINK AGAIN did some large-scale projections in Los Angeles for a project was called “The NAFTA Effect” organized by Outpost for Contemporary Art. THINK AGAIN’s mobile…

Recently in Massachusetts police used the networking website Myspace.com to find 3 graffiti artists that are suspected to have caused $75,000 worth of “damage.” Stoughton Police Officers “spent more than…

The Washington Post had a nice article a few days back on Philadelphia’s extraordinary public murals: White-haired Marian Custus peers out her door where a row of elegant townhouses once…

Via Charles & Ed, a great article on the “graffiti of disaster” in post-Katrina New Orleans: A can of spray paint was a crucial tool for New Orleans rescue teams…

Designer and all-around good guy John Emerson has an article in the latest issue of Communication Arts about designers who use collective or cooperative structures to collaborate and make a…

With the recent destruction of New Orleans, and the lawless aftermath there now exists an exetremely volatile circumstance. While the mayor declares a final evacuation to “forcibly remove” those that…

The big news in the street art world this morning comes from Washington, D.C., where three people, allegedly Borf and two friends, were arrested early yesterday morning. The Washington Post,…

As a sidenote to the previous post, folks who missed the Design of Dissent show can still get a glimpse of it, thanks to public broadcasting. Last week’s episode of…

Just got word that WBAI’s Rise Up Radio show will be doing a segment at 11am today (Friday) on graffiti and advertising. Cope2, who recently completed a billboard for Time…

Colin Moynihan has an article in the New York Times today about our ghost bike project and Time’s Up’s memorial stenciling project. It’s good that this issue is getting mentioned…

In Detroit, an artist will go to jail today. His crime? Recreating a Michaelangelo mural that includes a nude figure: He painted Eve as God created her: nude. And when…

It had to happen sooner or later. Technology similiar to that found in projects like Grafedia and YellowArrow will now be used to the buff’s advantage. Mirroring the interactive and…