Solidarity
"We Agree: A Crisis In Common" Opening!
Posted August 5, 2010 by roger_peet in Art exhibits/shows
Portland! Come out tomorrow evening, Thursday August 5th, to the SEA Change Gallery, downtown in the Everett Station Lofts, for the Opening of "We Agree: A Crisis in Common". Two giant blockprints about the impact of the natural gas industry on both sides of the Pacific: One made by the Portland-based members of Justseeds, and the other by renowned Indonesian printmaking cooperative Taring Padi! The prints are huge and dense and awesome, and the gallery is packed to the rafters with other work by Roger Peet, Alec "Icky" Dunn, Pete Yahnke, and members of Taring Padi. For more information on the project, navigate here
SEA Change Gallery
625 NW Everett Street
Gallery #110
Portland, OR
Opening at 5pm, refreshments will be available to those with quick feet and swift lifting elbows!
Justseeds 2010 Portfolio RESOURCED Available!!!
Posted August 2, 2010 by k_c_ in Justseeds & Member Projects
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative has released the highly anticipated project, RESOURCED, a portfolio of 26 hand-made art prints that explore the devastating effects of resource extraction and environmental devastation. The collection provides a critical look at what people can do in defense of the planet. Graphics have always played a vital and powerful role in exposing injustices throughout history, and RESOURCED follows this tradition, offering urgent messages about sustainability, environmental justice, and clean energy. Included in the portfolio are some of today’s most exciting street artists and poster makers, including Gaia, Chris Stain, Favianna Rodriguez, Armsrock, and others. Artists collaborated with organizations to produce images illustrating topics around environmental destruction, food sovereignty, workers' rights, Indigenous struggles, and examining the effects of mountaintop removal, oil extraction from tar sands, hydro-fracturing, mega-dam projects, mining, over-fishing, and much more.
Final weekend for "Let's Talk of a System" Exhibit (San Francisco)
Posted July 1, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez
I recently completed this installation titled "PACHAMAMA VS. CAPITALISM : PLANETA O MUERTE." The installation was a part of the exhibition "Let's Talk of a System" which was the inaugural show for the new partnership between Intersection for the Arts and The Hub Bay Area.
The group show closes this Saturday, July 3, 2010 so be sure to check it out if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exhibit features the work of April Banks, Sergio De La Torre & Vicky Funari, Suzanne Husky, Laura Parker, James Reed, Banker White and myself, Favianna Rodriguez.
Intersection 5M Gallery - 901 Mission Street @ 5th. San Francisco, CA 94103
All 12 Atenco Political Prisoners are Set FREE!
Posted June 30, 2010 by santi
We just got some great news! By order of the Mexican Supreme Court, all 12 of the Atenco Political Prisoners will soon be freed from their 4-year unjust imprisonment. The ruling apparently grants them immediate release, but as of 7pm Mexico City time, we have no official word. When we do... We will tell you at what time the party starts!
Freedom for ALL Political Prisoners!
OAXACA. SUPPORT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA: A call to mobilize in support of the resistance of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala next June 8
Posted June 4, 2010 by santi in Indigenous Resistance
OAXACA. SUPPORT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA
A call to mobilize in support of the resistance of the Autonomous
Municipality of San Juan Copala next June 8
The Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala has been under siege for
the last 6 months. Armed paramilitaries continue to block roads and
refuse to allow people to come and go freely. As a result of their
actions, there is no electricity, drinking water, or medical attention
in Copala. The children can’t go to school because there are no
teachers. Paramilitaries shoot at townspeople daily, resulting in the
deaths of at least 21 people between last November and May.
Caution!! Migrant Workers of Arizona (subtitle: By the Time I Wheatpaste Arizona)
Posted May 30, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Solidarity
Dan S. Wang and I recently collaborated on a print to voice our opposition to the Arizona Immigration Bill SB-1070. Copies of the print are available here and most of the edition was mailed to Arizona where friends put them up in the streets.
Cordyceps Mural in the Zapatista Community of Morelia, Chiapas.
Posted May 25, 2010 by santi in Indigenous Resistance
This last April we had the opportunity to get invited to do a mural at the Autonomous Zapatista Commuity of Caracol IV, Torbellino de Nuestras Palabras, Morelia, Chiapas. Two of us spent a week working hard literally from dawn until dusk everyday, and at nights we got to hang out and spend time with our Tzeltal friends, eat lots of beans, rice, tostadas, and habaneros. (The best food you could ever wish for.) This is a little story in pictures of the time we spent there.
Justseeds/TaringPadi Anti-LNG print
Posted May 24, 2010 by roger_peet in Art & Politics
Take a look at some of these photos of the printing session we had yesterday in rainy Portland. People came over to help jump up and down on the giant block, in the traditional Taring Padi manner... This print is part of a collaboration with the Indonesian print group Taring Padi, addressing issues of natural gas exploitation on both sides of the Pacific. Next up, the Northwest Natural shareholders meeting on the 27th!
The process of developing "Brown and Proud"
Posted May 10, 2010 by Melanie_Cervantes in Solidarity
Building of a Chicana Consciousness
As a senior in high school I vividly remember the movement that emerged in California to resist the racial profiling, xenophobia and nativism that Proposition 187 stirred in the state. Prop 187 was a 1994 ballot initiative designed make public servants such as teachers, bus drivers and doctors an act as an arm of the migra, asking for papers, in order to prohibit undocumented migrants from using health care, public education, and other social services in the Cali. At the time I lacked any concrete vehicles to really get involved in the organizing but remember the massive student walkouts to protest the attack on Raza communities. One of the most salient aspects of the resistance, to these attacks on communities of color, was the cultural affirmation we made visible every day through the music we listened to, clothes we wore, hairstyles and ways we identified...
Progress on the Project
Posted April 28, 2010 by roger_peet in Art & Politics
Here's some pictures from the ongoing Large Print Project in Portland. Icky, Pete and Roger have begun carving a 3' x 10' block of lino to make a counterpart to the Taring Padi print that Roger brought back from Indonesia a couple months ago. 
RESIST THIS! IVAW hip hop show to free Marc Hall
Posted April 15, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Solidarity
A night for a jailed Iraq War Veteran and war resister...
A night of cultural and political resistance...
A night to free Marc Hall!
When: April 16, 2010 7pm - 12AM
Where: Decima Musa, 1901 S. Loomis, Chicago, IL 60608-3020
Who: Local War Resisters, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Civilian-Soldier Alliance, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and YOU!!!
What: Resist This! A night of cultural and political resistance to free Marc Hall.
Hip-Hop: Chicago Hip-Hop Artist Ideologists, Dreamtek, and G-spot
Why: Marc Hall an Iraq War Veteran is currently sitting in an Army jail in Kuwait because he dared to express his opinions about the stop loss policy in a rap song and filed a complaint for not being treated for PTSD. The Army is planning a General Court Martial which could potentially send Hall to prison for years. Please help Iraq Veterans Against the War, Courage to Resist, Veterans for Peace and the family and friends of Marc Hall to raise funds to send Marc's lawyer and doctor to Kuwait so that he will have a reasonable defense at this court martial. We are demanding that the Army drop all charges against Hall and give him an Honorable Discharge. To learn more about Marc: www.stoplossmusic.org
Donation: $10 donation at the door (No one turned away)
Printing with Taring Padi
Posted March 30, 2010 by roger_peet in Art & Politics
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. I had the chance to help print some copies of this massive block, which is the Taring Padi half of a project addressing issues related to natural gas exploitation on both sides of the Pacific: the three Portland Justseedsers (Pete, Icky and Roger) will be working on their half in the coming month. We'll be working with local nonprofit Bark to promote exhibits and displays of the two prints in towns along the route of the proposed Palomar gas pipeline this summer. Enjoy the photos!
Sketching the initial design on MDF hardboard.
16 Beaver Group in NYC needs your support
Posted March 23, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Solidarity
This is a letter asking friends and supporters of 16 Beaver Group for
assistance. We have never asked for money for sustaining the space.
Unfortunately, in these last months, we have encountered some challenges
which require this unprecedented step.
In the past 6 months, we have been struggling over our lease renewal with
the building owner of 16 Beaver Street. We are doing our best to resolve
this situation directly and through legal channels. However, the inability
to clarify our status in the space has prevented us from bringing in a new
partner to share the 4th floor with us, thus denying us a significant
portion of our monthly rent for the space. And thus, since September have
been accruing debt.
From Chile: Productora de Comunicación Social call for solidarity
Posted March 10, 2010 by k_c_ in Solidarity
From some friends that create a really awesome anti-authoritarian video-magazine, Synapsis, in Chile.
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY:
Dear comrades,
The situation of this region called Chile is already known, thus we believe more details about the earthquake are not necessary, as the Internet offers a lot of information about what took place.The group of individuals that make up the Productora de Comunicación Social* escaped physical damage, even though during the earthquake a couple of comrades from our organization were in Concepción, one of the most devastated regions - leaving the site where they were pretty much uninhabitable and losing some equipment used for the work of the organization.
In Santiago, our main workplace and where meetings were held, also home to a couple of our comrades - the Casa Volnitza - was partially destroyed. Currently, we are looking into repairing the site, since neither the Productora nor the Sociedad de Resistencia Santiago**, with whom we share the space, have another place to go to.
