This image is a part of the Justseeds’ 2014 Liberating Learning portfolio. More information about that project can be found HERE.
A vast cyan blue ocean takes up most of this portrait-oriented poster. At the top, there are waves and a slave merchant ship, or clipper ship with its sails full of wind. Written in the ocean, in a vintage serif font, the words: “Teach History From Below.” At the bottom of the ocean, and below these words, sit chains attached to a set of empty shackles.
“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…
