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…
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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…
We Made This World – We Can Make Another
January 19, 2022
I wrote this piece to accompany the second edition of this print. If you’re like me, and sorry in advance, you have spent a lot of your life wondering exactly…
Endangered Species Murals #26: The Mexican Blindcat
October 27, 2021
In the first weeks of October, 2021, I traveled to Del Rio, Texas to paint the 26th installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project, an effort to paint murals of…
New Shirt Designs!
July 15, 2021
This design is based on a linocut that I’m eventually going to make into a formal print on paper, but I haven’t quite managed to do so yet. In the…
License to Spill: an anti-Chevron comic
May 28, 2021
The Civil Liberties Defense Council commissioned me to make a comic illustrating the ongoing struggle against oil-giant Chevron, and their attempts to avoid the consequences of massively polluting the Ecuadorian…
Insect Papercuts for a commission
April 22, 2021
I’ve been working on a few poster designs for a commission from Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation and National Geographic magazine. Each poster involves my interpretations of iconic photographs…
The Sumatran Rhino: Hard to Save
March 18, 2021
This is the second video in a series of animated shorts that I’m helping to create for the good people at Mongabay.com. It’s an animated explainer that aims to describe…
Early 2021 Projects
February 5, 2021
I’ve just returned to Portland from a swing through the high plateaus of the southwest, escaping the Portland cloud and retaining social distance. Being away from the studio meant that…
The Sumatran Rhino: Not Doomed
December 8, 2020
This summer I worked on a really interesting project that was something pretty new to me: an animated explainer about the current situation of the endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros, created for…
The Witch in the Smoke
September 14, 2020
David Graeber died last week, and in mourning his loss and considering his contributions, I read, at a friend’s suggestion, his 2011 summary of Occupy on the Al Jazeera website….
Art and Protest, and Extinction is Forever
June 16, 2020
Since my main gig painting murals has been postponed indefinitely due to COVID, I’ve been looking elsewhere for ways to make a living making art, and I’ve been lucky to…
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