Victory at Intel
July 2, 2024
Late last year the computer-chip manufacturer Intel announced that it was planning a $25 billion expansion of its factory at Kiryat Gat in Israel, just miles from the border of…
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Justseeds Member Projects
While we are all part of Justseeds, we also each do all kinds of other work. This channel features information about individual Justseeds members projects, whether they are art activities, political organizing, writing, or teaching. 
Palestine Solidarity Posters
June 16, 2024
I picked 8 images from our free graphics packages and had them reproduced on newsprint by a local web press. 2000 of each, so 16000 total posters! I’ve been shipping…
Big Props for Nakba Day 76
May 22, 2024
Papier-maché symbols of solidarity with Palestine I was helping to organize a march and rally in Portland to commemorate Nakba Day, the 76th anniversary of the Catastrophe which marks the…
Armed by Design!
May 21, 2024
Interference Archive and Common Notions need your help to publish a new, expanded, and amazing edition of Armed by Design, the most comprehensive book on the publication program of Cuba’s…
Falastin’s Phytoremediators
May 9, 2024
One of my most favorite annual events in Tacoma, Washington is Tacoma Wayzgoose. “Tacoma Wayzgoose is a community letterpress, printmaking, and book arts extravaganza. Meet local printers and view their…
Art for the People
May 1, 2024
…Our panel on Saturday morning “Art for the People: Sustaining Community Practices from the 60s to the Future,” was composed of Diane Fujino, a. e. hunt, Justseeds artists: Kill Joy, Jess X. Snow, and (myself) Saiyare Refaei, and moderated by Chad Shomura. We wanted to share living proof of how radical collective imagination shows up in the art and cinema within social movements…
Support Needed for Palestinians Fleeing Gaza: A reflection on the last 97 days of horror
January 11, 2024
Once again unable to sleep, I write this blog on a cold rainy Portland morning, as today, in a historic move towards Palestinian freedom, South Africa takes Israel to the…
Justseeds artists in the streets for Palestine
November 26, 2023
Justseeds artists have been producing art in solidarity with the people of Palestine in cities across North America; painting banners, placards, flags for actions and interventions, and silkscreen-printing posters, picket…
Dig Up the Sun exhibit
October 12, 2023
In October of 2023 I opened a show at Souvenir Gallery in Portland, OR, which pulls together a skein of projects from the past five years into one exhibit. The…
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…
Nuclear History in Lubumbashi
July 1, 2023
I spent three weeks in May in Lubumbashi, the second largest city in DR Congo. The city was founded in 1910 as a commercial garrison for the nearby Etoile du…
The People and the Library: Reflections on Grass-Roots Efforts to Preserve and Expand the Library As a Commons
June 1, 2023
I was recently invited to participate in the People’s Budget Office, a participatory project by facilitating artist Phoebe Bachman and Mural Arts Philadelphia. A cohort of four different Philly artists…
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…
Shinkolobwe article published in The Continent
March 18, 2023
I wrote a feature article about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine for the excellent magazine of African news and culture The Continent. Check it out to read a short summary of the…
Making Redacted Rubbings in Southeastern Arizona
February 17, 2023
If “the strike was broken” every time you read about a worker’s struggle that happened on the soil you’re standing on, you might begin to think that every strike has always been broken, and the horizon of collective action and potential for true solidarity might seem like an ideological fantasy…
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…
New Shirts!
February 7, 2023
After many years of people asking if I had any shirts of many of my graphics, I’ve finally launched a new shirt store! I’m testing things out on Bonfire, starting…
The Wound at the Heart of the World: the nuclear legacy of the Manhattan Project in Congo and USA
January 15, 2023
I gave a lecture on my research into the legacy of the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in DR Congo for the Hanford Challenge Project. Hanford is the name of the military…
Endangered Species Murals #29: the American Burying Beetle in Tulsa, OK
December 29, 2022
I traveled to Tulsa in October of 2022 to collaborate on this mural with an artist that I’ve admired for a long time. Kathleen Neeley is an illustrator and printmaker…
Graphic Liberation at the Opalka Gallery
October 31, 2022
Over the past six weeks my Graphic Liberation! exhibition has been housed at the Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY. A set of interchangeable and interactive projects…
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