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…
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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…
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…
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…
Listening As a Radical Act
January 14, 2021
As we witness the world around us in transformation, remediation, some may say chaos, in this fight for our lives, and while the whole world is ablaze (literally and figuratively)…
The Sumatran Rhino: Not Doomed
December 8, 2020
This summer I worked on a really interesting project that was something pretty new to me: an animated explainer about the current situation of the endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros, created for…
“Chicago Artists Fuel the Movement for Prison Abolition”
August 26, 2020
New Justseeds members Nicole Marroquin and Monica Trinidad were recently featured with other activist artists in a Hyperallergic article by Claire Wang about their powerful work supporting the abolitionist movement…
Free West Papua
August 12, 2020
I am truly honored to be joining Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative with an opportunity to uplift issues tied to my heart strings. In our pivotal moment in history for Black lives…
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…
The Rocks Keep Showing Up
May 19, 2020
I’ve been researching a sprawling project about the Congolese mine that produced the Uranium for the Manhattan project for several years now (read previous blog posts here and here). With…
Close Rikers/Free Them Now!
March 26, 2020
Covid-19 has made its way into prisons and jails throughout the country, there already stories emerging about sick guards bringing the virus in and bureaucrats covering it up. Jails and…