10.10.2003

So, the entire catalog is up on the site, but the menu at the top of the page isn't live yet, so in the meantime, you can check things out with these links: Posters, Shirts, Publications, and Misc (i.e. postcards, cd's, videos, patches)

posted by just 19:58



10.9.2003

First, sorry for all the construction.

Second, here is a link to the Celebrate People's History posters: CPH Posters Page.

Third, while this site is still in transition to its final design and until I have a way to do online ordering, let me give instructions on how to order:

1) pick what you want and tally the cost

2) add postage, use the chart below until I put something more exact together:
1 item:$1.50, 2-4 items: $2.50, 5-8 items: $3.50, 9-15 items: $4.25, 16 items or more: $5

3) send well concealed cash or checks to "Josh MacPhee"

4) send orders to: justseeds, POBox 476971, Chicago, IL 60647

posted by just 13:56



8.10.2003

Hi Everyone,
This site is being build slowly but surely. I haven't built the links in yet, but you can now see all the Celebrate People's History posters on their own page, just got to CPH Posters Page.

Keep an eye out for the shirts and everything else to go live soon!

posted by just 11:13



The Celebrate People's History poster series is an on-going project producing posters that focus around important moments in "people's history." These are events, groups, and individuals that we should celebrate because of their importance in the struggle for social justice and freedom, but are instead buried or erased by dominant history. Posters celebrate important acts of resistance, those who fought tirelessly for justice and truth, and the days on which we can claim victories for the forces of freedom. In the past 5 years over a dozen posters have been produced on a variety of subjects, from the Battle of Homestead to Fred Hampton, Malcolm X to Jane, an underground abortion collective.

These posters have been and will continue to be posted publicly (i.e. wheatpasted on the street, put up in peoples home and storefront windows, and used in classrooms) in an attempt to help generate a discussion about our radical past, a discussion that is vital in preparing us to create a radical future. I have also been using this project to create a loose network of artists interested in creating radical public art and showcasing the work of unknown artists that want to create art that is functional, carries a social message, and doesn't get buried at the bottom of the heap of the capitalist "art world."

Below are all the posters produced so far. Some are sold out, but most are still available for $3 each. You can also purchase a subscription to the poster series where you will be mailed all of the new posters as they are produced. You can download a pdf of the subscription form here: CPHSub. For more information email me at: order(at)justseeds.org

Malcolm X 11x17 Offset, art by Josh MacPhee The very first People's History Poster. Sold Out!
John Brown 11x17 Offset, art by Josh MacPhee Stunning stenciled portrait of the most famous white abolitionist in U.S. history. John Brown has been called a man that white people insist was insane and Black people insist was a hero. The text is a part of a eulogy written for Brown by Henry David Thoreau. Sold Out!
Mayday 11x17 Offset, art by Erik Drooker This poster celebrates what is known as the worker's holiday everywhere in the world except in the United States, the very place where it was started. Sold Out!
Little Bighorn 11x17 Offset, art by Roger Peet This poster is a beautiful block print celebrating the defeat of General Custer at the hands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Lakota Indians. $3
Dr. Marie Equi 11x17 Offset, art by Icky Apparatus Great block-print portrait of Dr. Equi, a lesbian, anarchist, World War I war-resistor!! She has been called the Emma Goldman of the Pacific Northwest. $3
Harriet Tubman 11x17 Offset, art by Darrell Gane-McCalla This poster portrays Tubman leading slaves to freedom during the Combahee River action, the first and only military action conceived of and led by a woman in U.S. history. Sold Out!
Sylvia Ray Rivera 11x17 Offset, art by John Gerken Stenciled portrait of Sylvia Ray Rivera, the drag queen that helped lead the Stonewall Riot, a queer revolt against the New York City police and the spark which set off the gay liberation movement. Soldout!
Jane 11x17 Offset, art by MerryDeath Stern "Jane" was the codeword for a secret clandestine collective of feminists that provided safe abortions to women in Chicago at a time when abortion was still completely illegal. This poster pays homage to this amazing, heroic and anonymous group of women. $3
Paul Robeson 11x17 Offset, art by David Lester This poster is an homage to this extremely diverse and talented communist activist. Robeson used his skills in athletics, music, acting and organizing to fight for racial justice, world peace and worker's freedom. $3
Emma Goldman 11x17 Offset, art by Ben Rubin Hilariously portrayed here as the "queen of Anarchy," Emma Goldman is probably the most well known North American anarchist. She was an anarchist, labor agitator, free love practitioner, birth control advocate and all-around ass-kicker. $3
Augusto Sandino 11x17 Offset, art by Erik Reuland At the beginning of the 20th century, Sandino, along with a small group of farmers and workers, successfully fought for six years against the U.S. military in an attempt to create a Nicaragua free of foreign domination. $3
Homestead 11x17 Offset, art by Erok A memorial to the big strike at Carnegie Steel in Pittsburgh in 1892 with the block print design by Pittsburgh artist Erok. $3
Fred Hampton 11x17 Offset, art by Claude Moller A celebration of one of the most charismatic and intelligent Black Panthers. He was so threatening to the status quo that he was killed in cold blood by the Chicago Police. $3
Wangari Maathai 11x17 Offset, art by Ally R. This poster celebrates the life and work of Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Kenyan Greenbelt environmental and social justice movement. $3
Elisee Reclus 11x17 Offset, art by Shaun S. Celebrate the life of this 19th century anarchist geologist that worked against the endless human attempts to fence and cage land and nature. Yup, an anarchist geologist! $3
Phoolan Devi 11x17 Offset, art by Miriam Klein Stahl and Boff Whalley This poster is an homage to India's infamous "bandit queen." Devi was accused of killing 22 men as a revenge for being repeatedly gang raped. $3