Rally against Data Center Disasters
May 18, 2026
I do my organizing with Portland DSA, and right now we are engaged in a multi-front fight against new data center development in the Portland Metro area. The western suburbs,…
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Today's Extinct Animal
Roger's posts about vanishing fauna. 
Gold Poisoning
April 14, 2026
I have a new piece out on Counterpunch, which I wrote after two weeks at a biological station in the Amazon basin of southeastern Perú last month. In it I…
AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare – Video
February 19, 2026
On February 4th we hosted a forum on AI and its discontents with our friends at Haymarket Books, Counterpunch, and Pilsen Community Books. It was a fascinating and engaging panel…
AI and the Techno-Fascist Nightmare
January 26, 2026
Join us on Wed Feb 4, 2026 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST for a forum on the worst of AI! Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being used to deport migrants,…
Machine Nightmares event in Portland
December 15, 2025
On December 4th I hosted an event called “Machine Nightmares: Artists Confront AI” with author Lydia Kiesling at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop in Portland, Oregon. We imagined getting a group of…
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…
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…
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 (with…
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,…
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…
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…
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