Recent Organizing Tools
October 14, 2025
Here’s a recap of some tools for protest and organizing that I’ve produced over the last couple of months. Most of the organizing I do these days happens under the…
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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. 
Strike While the Needle Is Hot!
August 18, 2025
In the works for over 5 years, my new book Strike While the Needle is Hot!: A Discography of Workers’ Revolt is out now! You can get a copy of…
Shinkolobwe in Hiroshima
August 16, 2025
I spent two weeks in August in Japan; ten days in Hiroshima as part of an art exhibit at a space called Gallery G, and then a few days in…
…They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds
July 28, 2025
Quick little post here to share a mural I finished up at Clear Creek Middle School in Gresham, OR this May. The mural idea came from 8th grade educator Lindsay…
Making Art for Movements: Roger Peet on “Art in Action” radio
June 11, 2025
Earlier this year I was invited onto the podcast “Art in Action”, hosted by Justseeds fellow-traveler Stefan Christoff on Free City Radio in Montréal, Canada. It was a very interesting…
Dig Up The Sun in Chicago
May 27, 2025
In April I had the honor of showing the body of work that surrounds the big Shinkolobwe map in an exhibit entitled “Dig Up The Sun” at Watershed Arts and…
Roger Peet on CounterPunch Media: new article and podcast!
March 29, 2025
I have two things out on CounterPunch Media this month- an article on the website and an appearance on CounterPunch Radio, the in-house podcast. On the CounterPunch website: I wrote…
6065: Between Democracy and Dictatorship in Indonesia
February 16, 2025
I recently spent two weeks in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, collaborating with the artists of Taring Padi on a new artist book about the legacy of the political genocide of 1965. Taring…
The Shinkolobwe project at the 8th Lubumbashi Biennial
December 29, 2024
I wrote an article for the Counterpunch website about my recent experience attending and participating in the 8th Lubumbashi Biennial. I was invited to participate by the Picha Art Collective,…
Grabadolandia, Print festival 2024
November 19, 2024
Chicago, November 22 – 24 Instituto Grafico de Chicago
Endangered Species Murals #29: Steelhead
September 20, 2024
In May of this year I drove out from Portland to the small town of Condon, OR, to paint a mural. The subject was steelhead, a large and beautiful species…
Signs for a Strike
September 19, 2024
New Seasons Labor Union confronts the boss at the “nicest grocery in Portland” In August one of Portland’s newest independent unions approached me with a request: they wanted some signs…
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…
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…
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