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…
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…
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…
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…
Over Christmas I visited my family and at dinner one night my stepfather was telling a story about his childhood, and how his father had made a living. They lived…
I recently had the pleasure to design a couple of banners for an action taken by colleagues at Portland Rising Tide. Climbers and kayakers from PRT and Mosquito Fleet chained…
I’ve just returned from a 6-week residency (along with my partner Erica Thomas) in Medellín, Colombia, as a guest of Casa Tres Patios; an arts organization affiliated with the University…
The incoming tide of fascism in Brazil is breaking on the shores of Rio. The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro shut down today an art exhibit at…
I came across this on Twitter last week: a newly compiled version of Ed Mead’s 80’s text adventure “The Warden Game“. Ed was a member of working-class anticapitalist urban guerrilla…
This is the second in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in…
For well over a hundred years, peeps around the world have called in sick and caused some major fucking rukus on May Day. From Chile to France, ninjas take the…
In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague Charles, who…
I really nice long format article about Interference Archive and activist/social archiving just posted on the AIGA Eye on Design site. It’s pretty thorough, and has some nice photos. Check…
Our friends at Booklyn are having a giant moving sale! Booklyn, 37 Greenpoint Ave. Ste. E4G, Brooklyn, NY 11215 February 22: Artists’ Books & Prints Preview Reception [7-10 pm] THURSDAY’s…
Justseeds fellow-traveler Dave Loewenstein has a new show up at the Lawrence Public Library. More info HERE. From Dave: Earlier this fall, I realized that many of the posters I’ve…
Street artist Zola has produced a powerful poster in support of Palestinian political prisoners. The illustration is of Ahed Tamimi, a 16 year old activist, who faces 12 charges after…
I recently completed this illustration for our ongoing collaboration with the excellent political magazine In These Times, in which Justseeds artists are providing the centerfold posters for their upcoming year…
Justseeds’ artists Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, and Josh MacPhee are all included in Get with the Action: Political Posters from the 1960s to Now, the new survey of political posters…
Rachel Elizabeth Jones just published an insightful article about the Fauna penny press project over at Hyperallergic! She hits on some key points about the underpinning motivations behind the project… “In…
Steven Heller interviewed Justseeds member/Interference Archive co-founder Kevin Caplicki, along with archive members Jen Hoyer, Bonnie Gordon and Louise Barry, for PRINT Magazine’s website. The Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New…