Carlos Cortes 100 Años
September 8, 2023
A must see art exhibition for any activist/artists out there. At the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago
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The price Congo pays for its metals: new article in The New Republic
August 31, 2023
I’m pleased to share the publication of an article that I wrote for the New Republic magazine, which you can read here. This piece covers some of the experience that…
Calls to Action from Minidoka
July 19, 2023
Under the Idaho desert heat the gravel and lava rocks sang a somber beat beneath our feet. “What kind of ancestors do we want to be?” was the question posed…
Let This Radicalize You
June 15, 2023
There are very few unexpected emails that arrive in my inbox that make me have to hold back a squeal of excitement from my day job cubicle like the invitation…
The Assassination Site of Patrice Lumumba
May 13, 2023
I’m in Lubumbashi, DR Congo for three weeks, doing research and presenting about my work on the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan Project. I’m staying…
Roger Peet with the Fucking Cancelled podcast
April 10, 2023
Fucking Cancelled is a podcast from Montreal, Canada, hosted by Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil, which deals with what the hosts call the Nexus: the synthesis of identitarianism, social media…
Roger Peet on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t
February 14, 2023
I got to have a fun and wide-ranging conversation with friend and colleague Joey Alone of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talked about Congo, conservation, the sorry…
Updates: Iran’s impending revolution
October 26, 2022
October 26, 2022 marks forty days since the death of Mahsa Jina Amini by Iran’s morality police. From all around the country, thousands of people marched to her gravesite despite road blockades. Students in universities across the county and well as refinery workers continue their strikes against the current oppressive regime.
Street Roots illustrations
September 26, 2022
Street Roots is Portland, OR’s street newspaper, sold across the metro area by people experiencing houselessness. It’s also reliably one of the best publications in the city hands down on…
Women, Life, Freedom!
September 25, 2022
Within a weeks’ time trending posts of 22 year old Halle Bailey having red locs in the upcoming new little mermaid movie and inspiring little black girls everywhere became overshadowed…
Unionizing Starbucks in Portland
June 3, 2022
Across the USA, a wave of union activity is hitting the ubiquitous storefronts of the Starbucks brand. The baristas and “partners” calling for union elections are on the frontline of…
Downwinders
April 25, 2022
Last month I was honored to go support and learn from the Downwinders Consortium at the Trinity Site of White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Twice a year…
Recent Victories Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
December 4, 2021
Seems strange to post about good news, but I will absolutely take it where I find it. This week, there were two victories in campaigns that I’ve been associated with,…
Racial Justice Not Recalls
November 12, 2021
It is not that uncertainty and precarity suddenly landed upon our lives in 2020 with the pandemic. It is that our coping mechanism, to ignore the uncertainty and precarity that…
No Toxic Coal Ash! Protect Lake Michigan
October 11, 2021
I’ve been working with Just Transition Northwest Indiana to create a group of images for their campaign to protect the waters of Lake Michigan (and all the Great Lakes) from…
A People’s WPA, a blueprint reimagining the role of artistic labor in rebuilding society.
September 21, 2021
In the spirit of the original WPA, The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture commissioned artists to produce posters that uplift the essential forms of labor needed in this historic…
“Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism” at the MET
September 8, 2021
“The 4 Evils” print will be in the exhibition Revolution, Resistance, and Activism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Printed for the Poor People’s Campaign Print Portfolio,…
License to Spill: an anti-Chevron comic
May 28, 2021
The Civil Liberties Defense Council commissioned me to make a comic illustrating the ongoing struggle against oil-giant Chevron, and their attempts to avoid the consequences of massively polluting the Ecuadorian…
The Sumatran Rhino: Hard to Save
March 18, 2021
This is the second video in a series of animated shorts that I’m helping to create for the good people at Mongabay.com. It’s an animated explainer that aims to describe…
“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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