Licking Your Elbow
July 19, 2012
A couple weeks back I read an interesting story in the New York Times, about a nascent protest movement in Sudan, inspired by Tahrir Square and Occupy, and struggling against…
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The Sky Is Pink: Josh Fox on Fracking
June 28, 2012
THE SKY IS PINK by Josh Fox and the GASLAND Team from JFOX on Vimeo. Josh Fox (dir. Gasland) has a new video on hydrofracking and media/industry propaganda, “The Sky…
Poisoned Water, Poisoned Air: A Visit to the Shalefields
June 19, 2012
“If you all stick around long enough today, you’ll start to feel it in your throat. Your nose feels sore, back of your throat feels raw.” Greg Lancaster* is telling…
Guest Blog/Cindy Milstein: Red Streets, Red Art, Montreal, Night 44
June 14, 2012
Today we have a guest blog from Cindy Milstein, who has been spending considerable time up in Montreal participating in the “Maple Spring/Summer” and writing a lot about it. Her…
Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee Tries to Bust Union with Immigration Threats
June 9, 2012
More attacks on labor rights in Wisconsin – this time on workers at Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee – a frozen pizza company that ships nationally. A strike is in week…
Wisconsin Workers: Divided and Conquered, For Now
June 8, 2012
The Wisconsin Uprising ended with a recall election and the recall election ended with an abrupt thud. Many expected a razor tight contest – one that was sure to end…
Civil show in Melbourne: Follow-up
June 7, 2012
Our friend Tom Civil had a great show in Melbourne last month, and there’s a bunch of pictures up of it HERE, and a really thoughtful in depth interview with…
Surreal Omnidirectional Tornado of Slaughter
May 31, 2012
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…
Fight On Wisconsin
May 18, 2012
The fight song for the University of Wisconsin is “On, Wisconsin!” The Wisconsin state motto is “Forward.” Lofty ideals filled with optimism, but those days seem long gone in the…
Aaron Hughes of IVAW speaks about the Chicago NATO protests on Democracy Now!
May 16, 2012
IVAW field organizer Aaron Hughes, a frequent collaborator with Justseeds, most recently on the War is Trauma portfolio, spoke today on Democracy Now! about plans for protesting the NATO summit…
Nosaltres
May 3, 2012
A stunning short film documenting the movement in Barcelona. Take a couple minutes and give it a view. “And we continue…”
Six years since Red May in Atenco
May 3, 2012
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…
Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)
April 4, 2012
I just learned that Elizabeth Catlett died on Monday, at her home in Mexico at the age of 96. Catlett was an outstanding participant of the black arts movement in…
Adam Curtis Takes Aim at Yoga
March 28, 2012
Adam Curtis, of Power of Nightmares fame, has a new long-read post up on his blog that is sure to rile many: he suggests that the modern yoga craze finds…
In the News, Feb 2012
March 21, 2012
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…
Justice for Trayvon
March 20, 2012
More info HERE.
Interview at Indigenous Arts’ Blog
March 12, 2012
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…
Saturday in Madison
March 12, 2012
Madison is mobilizing again! [Photo from Sue Simensky Bietila.]
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Announces Plans to Close the Tamms Supermax Prison
February 22, 2012
Victories in the prison justice movement are few and far between but a huge people’s victory is unfolding in Illinois. Governor Pat Quinn has announced plans to close the TAMMS…
Save Felipe’s Family – Father Deported, Kids Taken Away
February 15, 2012
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…