Re-imagining the California Mission Dioramas
February 13, 2020
This year, my son did not have to create a diorama of a California mission, like so many children in California schools used to do. Instead, the class studied the…
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No LNG banners at Oregon statehouse
January 18, 2020
Last month I designed and built five big banners for a protest at the Oregon statehouse in Salem against the Jordan Cove LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) pipeline and terminal slated…
A Time of Expectant Hopes
October 24, 2019
“A Time of Expectant Hopes,” a collaboration between Pete Railand and Jenna Valoe, including works inspired by 19th century union banners, suffragist banners, and modern day activist banners. Opening Friday…
DIYDPW #57
June 11, 2019
I came across @dreadlockpranksta on Instagram awhile back and am finally sharing their DIY installations! Below is a selection of messages left at site specific locations in NYC. See their…
subMedia- Stim’s last stand
June 6, 2019
Watch the last episode of sub.media’s Its the end of the world…
La Minga Indigena
April 1, 2019
I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and…
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Zapatista uprising
January 2, 2019
January 1st 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional-Zapatista Army for National Liberation) uprising in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Their struggle for…
Read the writing on the wall – 67
December 11, 2018
Freedom. Brooklyn, October 2015. Sometimes, not on the wall, but read on the ground. Was someone writing their name? Or is the land screaming to be liberated?!
Street Signs and Endangered Animals
August 27, 2018
This past week my daughter and I visited fellow Justseeds artist Chip Thomas on the Navajo Reservation. We traveled there for multiple reasons: to spend time with Chip, to see…
Comida es Medicina seed altar
August 7, 2018
Much of my art is created for use by activist organizations, most of it is individually created, things like poster designs, block prints or etchings. I’m happy in this work….
Chip Thomas: KQED Arts video
March 28, 2018
Chip Thomas inspires. Powerful short documentary video on Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) that was produced by KQED Arts. Street Artist Reflects Native American Dignity at a Monumental Scale When images of…
NO LNG Propaganda Party at PNCA in Portland
March 15, 2018
In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural…
Solidarity with Oak Flat
March 9, 2018
I recently returned from about three and a half weeks of travel through the southwest and beyond, including three days spent at the 4th annual March to Save Oak Flat….
Signal:06 Editors Round-Up
February 19, 2018
Fresh from the printers is the sixth and latest issue of Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture. Signal is edited by Josh MacPhee and I and it…
Building a portfolio for the new Poor People’s Campaign
February 13, 2018
On December 4, 1967, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced plans for a Poor People’s Campaign and called for the nation to take dramatic steps to end poverty. In…
Garrick Imatani – Rendering Culture and History
January 21, 2018
Artist Garrick Imatani has been working on a series of powerful projects related to culture and power in the context of colonial and Indigenous relationships to land, and to the…
NO LNG Rally in Salem
January 15, 2018
Over the last few weeks I’ve been collaborating with Klamath artists Ka’ila Farrel-Smith and Asa Wright to produce some big banners for a rally against Liquefied Natural Gas export in…
Free all Palestinian Political Prisoners by ZOLA
January 4, 2018
Street artist Zola has produced a powerful poster in support of Palestinian political prisoners. The illustration is of Ahed Tamimi, a 16 year old activist, who faces 12 charges after…
Jerusalem is Palestinian
December 9, 2017
As a Xicanx I’m always in solidarity with Palestinians, because like indigenous people in the Americas they’ve had their ancestral lands taken from them. Right now they are dealing with…
Leave It In the Ground
October 16, 2017
A couple months back the stalwart Chicago-based left magazine In These Times approached Justseeds about a collaboration, in which we would create artwork for a series of pull-out centerfold posters…
Help sub.media #BringBackStim
September 27, 2017
Our fellow travelers from sub.media are in serious need of financial support and are interested in reviving their show, Its the end of the world as we know it and…
read the writing on the wall – 44
July 16, 2017
Contre le Colonialisme Contre le Capitalisme Contre le Racisme Ni Patrie, Ni état, Ni Québec, Ni Canada! Montreal Anarchist Book Fair. May 2017.
Commonwealth review on Hyperallergic
June 26, 2017
“…two series of prints from the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative evidence smart and stylish design sensibilities.” The Justseeds/Interference Archive exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All, which is currently on display at the…
Call-out for art and writing- Certain Days Calendar
May 11, 2017
Hey all, another year has gone by and the Certain Days collective is looing for your writing and art for their 2018 calendar. Its a great project supporting political prisoners…
Help send Pangrok Sulap to Spain!
April 28, 2017
Pangrok Sulap is an activist print-arts collective based out of Sabah, Malaysia. They are an amazing group that does movement based art works with local communities, particularly on issues of…
Parachute banners: Notes from the May Day preparation in Milwaukee
April 25, 2017
Voces de la Frontera has organized the annual May Day march for the past decade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This year is no different. In this time of crisis Voces de…
“American” Flag
April 10, 2017
Some thoughts on my contribution to this year’s Justseeds CSA, “Earth Protectors: Global Movements against Climate Change.” I arrived in this country as a five-year old in the 1970s, and…
Commonwealth Official Opening This Sunday
April 5, 2017
This Sunday, April 9th, from 3-6pm is the official opening of the exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All at the Queens Museum, in Corona, Queens, NYC. The show is installed on…
Celebrate World Water Day with our Wellspring portfolio
March 22, 2017
World Water Day focuses attention on the importance of universal access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in developing countries. The day also focuses on advocating for the sustainable…
Iskigamizige-giizis | Sugarbushing Moon
March 13, 2017
For many Indigenous people, late-winter or early-spring (depending on your perspective) is the time to be in the Iskigamizigan or Sugar Bush. It is a period when everything and everyone…
Justseeds Art in the Streets
February 3, 2017
In the last few months there’s been a real upswing in the number of images being posted to our downloadable graphics page. I’m also happy to report that there’s been…
Screenprinting at the Art Tent at Standing Rock: Viktor Ortix interviewed by Nicolas Lampert
January 26, 2017
Dallas-based printmaker Viktor Ortix traveled to Standing Rock in September and then in early November where he stayed at the Oceti Sakowin camp for six weeks. He spent the majority…
¡Hasta La Pasta Compañerxs!
January 7, 2017
A little delayed, but here is the final episode of It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. The crew will keep…
Art Build Techniques for Protest
January 6, 2017
Bay-Area arts organizer David Solnit has been making art for protest movements for decades, and has established a practice of simple, reliable techniques for amplifying messages in the streets. I’ve…
Inaugurating Resistance Propaganda Party and Art Call-Out
December 25, 2016
Post-Election Organizing: Call for Art & Designs Interference Archive is hosting a propaganda party on the weekend of January 14/15 to produce and disseminate artistic material to be used during…
Land of the Free
December 7, 2016
“Up above the land, in the clouds, borderless.” A new short video from long-time Justseeds friend and comrade, Portland based filmmaker Vanessa Renwick.
Endangered Species Mural: Dakota Skipper
November 29, 2016
I had been planning a mural in Asheville, NC for months, had a ticket, ordered paint, and was all set to fly out and start painting on the 7th and…
Art tent at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock
November 24, 2016
There are many ways to support the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. This is one that relates specifically to art. Months ago an art tent was constructed that is open…
Apogee Journal seeking art and writing by October 31
October 25, 2016
From Apogee Journal: “The ongoing struggles of the Standing Rock Sioux community and the multitudinous tribes that have joined in protest in North Dakota has inspired Apogee Journal to facilitate…
Up Against The Wall at Booklyn
September 21, 2016
Here are a handful of images from the opening last month of Up Against The Wall, at Booklyn. The exhibition, which includes portions of the Iraq Veterans Against War portfolio…
When I Remember I See Red: California Native American Contemporary Art
September 21, 2016
Art Exhibition Saturday, September 17, 2016 to Thursday, October 13, 2016 Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University From their website: “This exhibition is the first…
New Justseeds Portfolio, Available Now!
September 12, 2016
New release available from Justseeds! Wellspring, Justseeds’ newest portfolio, is made up of 12 original Risograph prints, enclosed inside a handprinted fabric bandana, each exploring our contemporary relationship to water….
Burn the plantations from Submedia.tv
August 31, 2016
This time from submedia.tv an amazing episode from some incredibly inspiring folks working inside prisons and on the outside on Turtle Island. Learn about them and show your solidarity! In…
Solidarity with Standing Rock
August 25, 2016
Standing in solidarity with Standing Rock and the struggle to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. #noDAPL #standingwithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #Rezpect We are selling a limited number of posters…
No Pipelines on Indigenous Land
August 23, 2016
Over the last two days, Justseeds’ member Dylan Miner put together some graphics in solidarity with Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. You can read about Native support here at Indian…
Practicing Descolonización: A Few Thoughts from Wallmapu
July 28, 2016
In her recent book Sociología de la imagen, Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui writes that ‘la descolonización solo puede realizarse en la práctica.’ Rivera Cusicanqui maintains that the only way…
Medicinal Plants in Chile
July 19, 2016
On Saturday night, I took the redeye flight from Detroit to Santiago. I am hanging out in Chile for a week, where I am co-convening a Working Group at the Tenth…
Collecting gaawayag along the highway
July 13, 2016
Throughout my life, I have known plenty of folks who have used roadkill for a variety of purposes. In addition to dumpster diving baked goods or produce, many of the freegan folks I knew in my…
Niwiigwaasike (I remove birch bark from the tree)
July 4, 2016
On Saturday morning, I woke to greet the sun. Before going to bed the night before, I set the alarm on my phone, but my body arose before the phone’s…
Collaborating with Plants in Vancouver
June 21, 2016
A few years ago, I desired to learn to speak to plants and learn their language. Although I had been raised primarily in the woods in Michigan’s Thumb, I didn’t…
Native Kids Ride Bikes in Oskana Kâ-asastêki
June 16, 2016
During May and early June, I made two trips to traditional Cree and Métis territory, a place known as Oskana Kâ-asastêki. Today, settlers call it Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I had last been…
We are the Storm Portfolio at the Energy Fair, Custer, WI
June 11, 2016
The We are the Storm portfolio will be on display at the Energy Fair in Custer, WI (June 17-19, 2016). Come check it out and say hi. A little bit…
Stinkfish, Kill Joy and Mazatl in Honduras
June 6, 2016
Between the months of April and May of this year we(Kill Joy, Stinkfish and Mazatl) had the pleasure of being in Honduras for four weeks to work on the first…
The Crisis of Democracy from subMedia.tv
May 25, 2016
The latest It’s The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine from subMedia.tv. This week we take a look at the economic and political crisis…
meanwhile, in the spot where butch cassidy + the sundance kid robbed their 1st bank
May 22, 2016
I was invited to be the artist in residence for the Telluride #MountainFilmFestival (#mfilm2016). With assistance from several Telluride rock stars “What we do to the mountain we do to…
Aanikoobijiganag – Thinking about Ancestors and Descendants
May 20, 2016
For my first entry in Aniibiishaaboo miinawaa Makade-mshkikiwaaboo – Tea and Coffee, I want to reflect on my exhibition that is currently on view at Artspace in Nogojiwanong (place at the…
Aniibiishaaboo miinawaa Makade-mshkikiwaaboo
May 16, 2016
Over the last few years, life seems to have gotten the best of me. While I have been quite busy on artistic and community-based projects, as well as teaching and…
SOLASTALGIA: a queer eco-feminist poetry tour
May 6, 2016
Justseeds member Jess X. Chen, and Diné artist Demian Dineyazhi, are going on an eco-feminist poetry tour across America between May 5-May 17th 2016! Stops include: Los Angeles, Tucson, Gallup,…
Social Justice Bloc Party in Olympia
April 18, 2016
Our colleagues in Art Forces are hosting their second annual Social Justice Bloc Party this coming weekend, April 22-23 in Olympia, Washington, and showing some work from our Migration Now…
Revenge of the Fallists from subMedia
April 3, 2016
from subMedia.tv: This week we take a look at the nefarious capitalist mechanism called free trade agreements, with a focus on world wide resistance to the TPP or Trans Pacific…
Kevin Caplicki on Whisper or Shout Panel Discussion at BRIC
March 29, 2016
Tomorrow evening I’ll be representing Interference Archive at the following panel discussion at BRIC, in Brooklyn, NY. It is part of the programming for the current exhibition, Whisper or Shout,…
Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar- call for submissions
March 15, 2016
Call for art and article submissions: Sustaining Movements The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective (www.certaindays.org) is releasing its 16th calendar in the Fall of 2016. Over the…
Fernando’s No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes t-shirts!
March 12, 2016
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes has turned Justseeds member Fernando Marti’s contribution to our most recent Justseeds/CultureStrike portfolio—We Are The Storm—into a benefit t-shirt. Go to the No Mas Muertes…
Honoring Berta Caceras for International Women’s Day
March 8, 2016
We received this great portrait, produced by Genevieve Roudané, in honor of assassinated indigenous organizer Berta Caceras Flores. #JusticiaParaBerta In 1993 she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous…
Indigenous Leaders of Indonesia
March 3, 2016
Colleagues in Taring Padi, the amazing Indonesian political art group that I recently spent some time with, produced a calendar a couple of years ago featuring beautiful paintings of 6…
White Canada Has a Black History
February 26, 2016
The later at From subMedia.tv: In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new…
Our Comics, Ourselves book available now!
February 12, 2016
Here’s Interference Archive’s youngest volunteer (and Justseeds’ newest sprout) Asa Michigan MacPhee showing off the awesome new book/catalog that came out of the “Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation…
read the writing on the wall- 23
January 20, 2016
REVOLUTION its ready when its ready. Give or take 500+ years. In the Broadway stop of the G train. Brooklyn, NY. December 2014.
Our Comics, Ourselves opens Thursday, Jan. 21st
January 18, 2016
Here’s a teaser video for the upcoming exhibition at Interference Archive! Our Comics, Ourselves: Identity, Expression, and Representation in Comic Art January 21—April 17, 2016 Opening January 21st, 7–10pm Interference…
No Justice on Stolen Land from subMedia.tv
January 14, 2016
The latest from the stimulator! 2015 wrapped up with a bang, with dozens of militant actions carried out by anarchists under the banner of “Black December.” In Turkey, aspiring Fuhrer,…
News from the Malheur Occupation
January 11, 2016
“Despite Oregon’s revolting racist history as a racist white “utopia,” the state comes off as part of the “left coast,” a safe haven for gender, sexual diversity, environmentalism, and…
Honoring Comandante Ramona
January 1, 2016
On this day in 1994, 22 years ago, the Zapatista Army for National Liberation made their cause known to the Mexican government and the world. One of the most beloved leaders of…
D12 Paris Climate Demos Recap: D12
December 30, 2015
My first two recaps on the Paris Climate demos looked at the art build space and various creative resistance projects that took place leading up to D12 – the December…
New if a song could be freedom mixtapes!
December 27, 2015
I’m excited to announce that we have released our 16th if a song could be freedom mixtape. A series of political playlist that accompanies the Interference Archive exhibition if…
Rest in Power—John Trudell
December 15, 2015
John Trudell, a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker, passed away on December 8th. Trudell (Santee Sioux) was a spokesperson for the Indians of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island…
Activist Art at COP 21 Climate Conference Paris 2015
December 6, 2015
This is what making art with a hundred-plus people looks like. One of the hub spaces for artists to crank out work for the countless number of demos taking place in…
Join Justseeds CSA Dec 1-7th and get a $15 gift card!
December 1, 2015
It’s not too late to sign up for a Justseeds Community Supported Art membership for 2016! CSA members will have three freshly designed prints on the theme of Love and Justice…
The Ferguson Effect
November 29, 2015
The latest from submedia.tv! This week we bring you black and brown power worldwide as peeps from Manila to Chicago fight the powers that be. In the Philippines, anti-capitalist warriors…
Community Supported Art: a powerful way to show your support for Justseeds
November 23, 2015
In 2015 we successfully launched our first Print of the Month club, in which club members received one print a month from a different Justseeds artist. Artists and supporters were…
Amplify Palestine!
November 18, 2015
Adalah-NY teamed up with some cultural workers, and friends of Justseeds, to produce this video in support of the cultural boycott of the Israeli state. NY based artists are asked…
Subscribe now to Justseeds Community Supported Art for 2016!
Art & Politics, In the News, Inspiration, Justseeds Group Projects, Justseeds Member Projects, Posters & Prints
November 16, 2015
Everyone knows that art is an engine that drives transformation. The art we look at reminds us that other people feel like we do, and gives us something to believe…
Support submedia.tv
November 12, 2015
We live in tumultuous times. Our world is wracked by a convergence of destabilizing and devastating wars, soaring levels of inequality, and mass waves of human displacement. Battered by increasingly…
Honoring Geronimo
February 17, 2015
“I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.”…
Honoring Zumbi dos Palmares
November 20, 2014
Dia da Consciência Negra, or Black Awareness Day, is celebrated on this day every year in Brazil. The date of the holiday was selected to honor Zumbi dos Palmares for…
Ayotzinapa
November 19, 2014
Last week I posted this to my instagram, made sense to share it here: I spent the day harvesting in the field but constantly thinking about the students and families…
190: Curbstone Press, part II
August 25, 2014
Curbstone was not just an independent poetry press, but it’s core mission was political, to publish and bring awareness to culture as a tool of struggle in Latin America. One…
Happy Birthday Patrice
July 3, 2014
Today would have been Patrice Emery Lumumba’s 89th birthday. Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo, was an emblem of passionate resistance to Belgian colonial rule, and at…
A Call to Action in Support of the Zapatistas
May 18, 2014
Summary of recent events: On May 2, 2014, in the Zapatista territory of La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico, the group CIOAC-Histórica [with the participation of the Green Ecological Party and the…
Justseeds in We Honor: The Art of Activism
May 15, 2014
A number of Justseeds artists are included in a fabulous exhibition entitled We Honor: The Art of Activism in Albuquerque, NM (more info HERE). Organized by Nani Chacon, the show…
Public Energy Art Kit
May 5, 2014
Justseeds artists Santiago Armengod, Nicolas Lampert and Roger Peet each made a graphic for the recently released Public Energy Art Kit, which is a collection of posters addressing aspects of…
Shifting Baselines on the Lomami
April 19, 2014
I wrote a new post for the blog about my Congo trip today, covering a conversation I had with the chief of the tiny and isolated village of Lole about…
Obenge Recordings
January 22, 2014
I’m pleased to announce the release of Obenge Recordings- a compilation of music I recorded in the now-vanished village of Obenge in Democratic Republic of Congo in the fall of…
Zapatista Murals
January 10, 2014
I’m just back from three weeks in Mexico, most of which I spent traveling with Mazatl in Chiapas, the southernmost state and home to the Zapatista movement and its system…
Honoring Sitting Bull
December 15, 2013
“My friends! Be strong…because me, I am nothing…” (Sitting Bull’s song, according to Cedric Good House.) Today is a great day to honor the life of Tatanaka Iyotake, popularly known…
154: Studies in International Communism
September 9, 2013
I was in San Francisco in the Spring of 2012 for the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, and since I had a little extra time I made the rounds of the…
Bill Ohrmann Paints It How He Sees It
September 3, 2013
I spent two weeks in August traveling around Montana. My friend Elizabeth and I hiked to hot springs in the Bitterroot Wilderness, counted Golden Eagles and Nighthawks in the Paradise…
In Palestine pt.9
July 3, 2013
This is the largest key in the world. It sits at the entrance to Aida Refugee Camp, which sits on the edge of Bethlehem, pushed right up against the Israeli…
Commentary on “Aqui Seguimos”
June 7, 2013
University of Nottingham professor Adam David Morton offers up a nice little vignette of commentary on the significance of the Zapatista movement, using my “Aqui Seguimos” print as a springboard….
Today’s Extinct Animal: Pig-footed Bandicoot
May 26, 2013
Fire is part of the suite of factors on the short list for major contributions to human development. When we learned to control fire, we started using it to harden…
Counterfeit: A Congo Diptych
May 8, 2013
A doomed past doesn’t mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn’t bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I’ve got two new prints (here and here) up…
Justseeds Interview on Prison Radio Guelph
February 8, 2013
I was interviewed yesterday on Prison Radio Guelph, at CFRU 93.3 fm, discussing the Justseeds: Migration Now! exhibit currently on view at OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery at 205 Richmond St….
Congo stories
January 31, 2013
I’ve been slowly updating the tumblr about my Congo trip, dropping in some photos and telling some small stories about them. There’s so much to tell! The total chaos and…
The Lomami Bandanas: Bear Deluxe article and other press
January 4, 2013
I’ve been back from Congo for nearly a month now, which seems crazy. It was very odd to travel from a place like Obenge, the Congolese village where I stayed…
Zinn Education Project Keeps Getting Better!
January 1, 2013
I’ve been enjoying the teaching materials and modus operandi of the Zinn Education Project ever since I discovered them back when we were working on the Firebrands book. These days…
Back from the Congo
December 17, 2012
Ten days ago I returned to the US after three months in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’m still adjusting to being back, waking up at 4 in the morning,…
La Persistencia de los Sueños install peek from Interference Archive
November 15, 2012
Sublevarte Colectivo is currently installing a retrospective exhibition at Interference Archive, that opens tomorrow, Friday, November 16th. Here’s a peek of them at work. All photos taken by Irina Arellano-Weiss
Raise Your Fist! (video)
November 9, 2012
One of my favorite consequences of posting video work on the internet is the possibility that someone might take the time to tweak your project in a new direction. Over…
All Power To The People! (video)
October 12, 2012
I’ve finished up a video that I was collecting images for at the Interference Archive during the end of this last August (right after gathering for our Justseeds planning retreat)….
Easton Cowboys & Cowgirls Book Release in Brooklyn, Tonight!
September 25, 2012
NYC Book Release: Freedom Through Football: The story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls by Will Simpson & Malcolm McMahon Tuesday September 25th, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th st. #4…
Justseeds Migration Portfolio Progress
May 2, 2012
We’ve been making a lot of progress on the upcoming Justseeds/Culture Strike Migration Portfolio (Title TK) that I’m co-coordinating with Favianna Rodriguez. We’re producing nearly forty images by a broad…
Honoring Túpac Amaru II
March 19, 2012
I’m not sure what curse words would have come out of the mouth of Túpac Amaru II, born on this day in 1742 as José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, but surely…
“We will use every tool in our war chest to defend our water and air.”
January 28, 2012
This past Thursday, Wisconsin witnessed another new low. State Republicans in the Assembly fast tracked a pro-mining bill (AB 426) that will allow the out-of-state mining corporation Gogebic Taconite to…
The Rhino Rescue Project
January 11, 2012
Last year two species of Rhinoceros went extinct. The Vietnamese sub-species of the Javan Rhino and the Western Black Rhino of Africa are gone forever, casting no more shadows. Their…
No REDD Papers, vol. 1
November 25, 2011
I recently designed a new pamphlet about the failures of REDD, the UN’s current carbon trading scheme. It is called No REDD Papers, vol. 1, was edited by Hallie Boas,…
Jemila Hart: Celilo Falls Monotypes
June 4, 2011
My colleague Jemila Hart, who is a fellow board member of the Flight 64 print studio in Portland, recently had a show in the space of a series of monotypes…
Viande de Brousse
May 23, 2011
Here’s a new project: a bushmeat food-cart. The project is called Viande de Brousse, the French translation of bushmeat, meaning simply wild meat hunted from the forest, or bush, as…
51: Arbeiter Ring’s Semaphore series
March 28, 2011
After filling the last three months with two different five-week series (prisons and Kropotkin), I’m ready to jump into something completely different. For the most part over the past year…
RESOURCED at Marketplace Gallery
August 10, 2010
Here are some photos of the RESOURCED exhibit at Marketplace Gallery, 40 Broadway Albany, NY.
Signal 01 is out!
August 6, 2010
The first issue of Signal is out now published by PM Press. Signal is a full color, 140 page book about international political art, graphics, and culture. The first issue…
17: B. Traven, part IV
August 2, 2010
Recapping last week: In the decade from 1931 to 1940, B. Traven published a series of six books known as his Jungle Novels: Government (1931), The Carreta (aka The Cart)…
Justseeds 2010 Portfolio in progress Resourced
March 30, 2010
NYC Justseeds members have been hard at work organizing our second portfolio, Resourced. This will be our second theme based portfolio of handmade prints, following Voice From Outside: Artists against…
Printing with Taring Padi
March 30, 2010
Here’s a little photo essay showing the printing process used by Indonesian print cooperative Taring Padi, including images from all stages of the process, from sketching to carving to printing….
More from the Missing Plaque Project!
January 8, 2010
Tim Groves, the Toronto-based founder of the Missing Plaque Project, just sent me a link to a great video interview he did for RBNonline in December. In the interview, he…
Made In Palestine
October 1, 2009
Here is video exploring many different aspects of the Keffiyah; its history, colonization, the appropriation of symbols of resistance. and how Palestinian businesses are affected by the global market. Watch…
Rebellion and Graphic Art in Oaxaca
May 11, 2009
I came a cross some really beautiful images while looking for some visual references for a comment I wanted to post on Josh’s review of Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca. Photographer,…
What is a Pirate?
April 20, 2009
A friend told me about this artist Knaan, a Somali-Canadian who recently made this video. I found his work and political views to be really provocative and interesting. He was…
The Cherokee Writing System
February 18, 2009
I wanted to announce the release of a new Celebrate People’s History poster! The Cherokee Writing System was designed by Frank Brannon, Jr., who runs his own letterpress studio SpeakEasy…
Somali Pirates Twist the Knife
November 12, 2008
Hey, remember those Somali pirates who hijacked a ship full of guns and tanks? Today marks their fiftieth day in control of the MV Faina, just off the central Somali…
Festival of the New Winds pt. 1
October 26, 2008
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…
Today’s Extinct Animal- The Lake Atitlan Grebe
August 26, 2008
I’ve decided that this blog thing might be useful for regular, depressing updates on the subject that I think about most, namely, extinction. To start off with, I think I’ll…
“Free” is Etymologically related to “Friend”
May 15, 2008
I recently went to Southpaw in Brooklyn for an incredible Hip-Hop show. The line up was Sabreena da Witch, hip-hop artists and activists Rebel Diaz, and DAM. The venue was…
Friends at the Sundance Film Fest
February 5, 2008
Just to point your attention to some friends that were at the recent Sundance Film Festival. The documentary Slingshot Hip-Hop a film about Palestinian hip-hop, was screened to numerous sold-out…
Breakdown’s Nuclear Poster Series
November 9, 2007
Australian activist artists and designers extraordinaire Breakdown Press (Tom Civil & Lou Smith) have just released their 3rd political poster series, this one around nuclear power and waste. I was…