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…
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…
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,…
Chicago, November 22 – 24 Instituto Grafico de Chicago
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
…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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…