This hand-drawn illustration is an expansion of the original screenprint I made for our 2018 portfolio collaboration with the Poor People’s Campaign.
A large cluster of protest signs clamber upwards. They are empty, ready for additions. Two birds fly above.
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“We were still educating. We were showing our kids how to stand up for themselves to a bully.”
If “the strike was broken” every time you read about a worker’s struggle that happened on the soil you’re standing on, you might begin to think that every strike has always been broken, and the horizon of collective action and potential for true solidarity might seem like an ideological fantasy…
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum just dropped this video documenting their new project creating two public monuments to the Battle of Blair Mountain!
Mercedes Dorame, Tomiko Meeks, Andrea Roberts, and Justseeds’ own Shaun Slifer discuss their public memory work…
