Justice for Oscar Grant
by Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes A year ago, early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22-year old, Oscar…
by Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes A year ago, early New Year’s Day in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police murdered unarmed, 22-year old, Oscar…
*Fuck Gentrification Somewhere, in the world. If it only were pleasurable and easy to fuck something like gentrification, maybe we’d be able to move beyond the boom and bust capitalist…
Its been a year since the Federal Government started bailing out countless financial institutions. The banks and investment have preserved their wealth and avoided their own crisis, and postponed the…
Tonight, several folks organized a Ghost Bike installation and memorial service for Rui Hui Lin, 38, who was killed while returning from a delivery on his bicycle Monday in the…
When I was in LA I got over to the California African American Museum to see Howard L. Bingham’s photographs of the Black Panther Party. The exhibit is made up…
Ever since Chris & I finished the installation and hung his show I’ve been taking in LA. I wanted to post a bunch of photos and links right after the…
Attached are some pics a friend sent me, taken at the former site of Martin Sostre’s radical “Afro-Asian” bookstore in the heart of Buffalo.
Jared Davidson of the Garage Collective in New Zealand sent over this poster about a housing struggle in his local community, Christchurch. The suit in the image is Mayor Bob…
Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley’s “Street With A View” Project just got a nice write up on the AP wire, picked up in all kinds of publications and web-based news…
On Wednesday we headed way up the mountain that rests on the side of Ecatepec, winding around crazy narrow roads and huge speedbumps. The speedbumps up here are almost like…
The next stop on the trip is the city center of Ecatepec, where we meet four members of the local graffiti crew the Komal Collective. Komal Collective formed in 2006…
Two months ago or so, Favianna Rodriguez (co-editor of Reproduce & Revolt) asked me if I wanted to take a trip to Mexico City with a crew of artists. My…
Yesterday, August 6th, 2008 marks the 63 years since the United States military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Each year I can help but personally commemorate all the…
To continue with our gardenblogging I figured I’d share too. I live on the third floor in an apartment building in Brooklyn with Josh, and this is the amount of…
I caught this humorous alteration to a sidewalk advertisement while walking in downtown Pittsburgh this past weekend. I don’t know what it used to say under the word “war”, but…
Joshua David Stein has written an article titled Ghost Riders about the Ghost Bike Project for New York Magazine. Really beautiful photographs by Christopher Griffith accompany the article. I disagree…
Readers Digest takes a look at the Ghost Bike Project in their June 2008 issue, and the “your america” section online. The memorials continue to garner attention in the media…
If you were interesting in seeing the exhibit, you can check out some flicks I took of the installation over at the Justseeds profile. We filled up a large container…
Seen around Bed-Stuy, historically predominant African-American neighborhood, in Brooklyn, NY. Begs the question… The neighborhood has been forgotten and downright neglected by city institutions for decades, yet in recent years…
JSVR is happy to introduce to you a “guest” writer, Imminent Disaster. She is a NY-based artist traveling in South America and agreed that our blog would be a great…