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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A stunning short film documenting the movement in Barcelona. Take a couple minutes and give it a view. “And we continue…”
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…
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, 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…
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…
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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…
Madison is mobilizing again! [Photo from Sue Simensky Bietila.]
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…
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…
Here are a couple of interesting stories from the gorilla regions of central Africa: The Fossey Gorilla Fund, which operates a variety of active conservation efforts in Rwanda and DR…
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…
This past Thursday, Wisconsin witnessed another new low. State Republicans in the Assembly fast tracked a pro-mining bill (AB 426) that will allow the out-of-state mining corporation Gogebic Taconite to…
I received a press release this morning from a new political action group; Patriots for Self-Deportation, announcing the launch of their website SelfDeport.org. Taking inspiration from Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s…