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…
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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…
For Progress, There Is No Cure
December 25, 2023
I have been reading a lot lately about artificial intelligence; what it is and isn’t, where it comes from and where it’s going. I am a Luddite, confirmed, and my…
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…
Graphics for the UPS strike
July 14, 2023
The Teamsters union is about to go on strike against UPS. If they do, it would be the largest strike against a single business in the history of the USA….
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 Assassination Site of Patrice Lumumba
May 13, 2023
I’m in Lubumbashi, DR Congo for three weeks, doing research and presenting about my work on the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan Project. I’m staying…
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…
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…
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…
Street Roots illustrations
September 26, 2022
Street Roots is Portland, OR’s street newspaper, sold across the metro area by people experiencing houselessness. It’s also reliably one of the best publications in the city hands down on…
Endangered Species Murals #27: Piping Plover
August 22, 2022
In June I travelled to the town of Selkirk, Treaty 2 territory, Manitoba, Canada, to paint a mural of the endangered Piping Plover. These charming small shorebirds are threatened by…
Unionizing Starbucks in Portland
June 3, 2022
Across the USA, a wave of union activity is hitting the ubiquitous storefronts of the Starbucks brand. The baristas and “partners” calling for union elections are on the frontline of…
Endangered Species Murals: Desert Endemics in Shoshone, CA
May 13, 2022
A new entry in the ongoing Endangered Species Mural Project just wrapped up in the small village of Shoshone, CA, on the edge of Death Valley. The mural is on…
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