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[madeleinejubileesaito]

Dictators, fascists, and oligarchs want us to believe that they are all-powerful and that we would be nothing without them. The reality is: They don’t create anything. We, the people, create EVERYTHING!

I made this poster for the Justseeds graphics library and it’s under a creative commons license and free to download and use! More details + download high-res files on my website: here.

Inspired by this passage from the Daniel Hunter article 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won:

“It will be helpful to have a power analysis in our minds, specifically that’s known as the upside-down triangle. This tool was built to explain how power moves even under dictatorships.  The central tenet is that like an upside-down triangle, power can be unstable. It naturally topples over without anything supporting it. To prevent that, power relies on pillars of support to keep it upright. Casually, the left often focuses on pillars of support that include governments, media, corporations, shareholders and policy makers. Describing the pillars of support, Gene Sharp wrote: ‘By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler though a variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop providing these skills, the ruler could not rule.’ Removing one pillar of support can often gain major, life-saving concessions. In response to Trump’s 2019 government shutdown, flight attendants prepared a national strike. Such a strike would ground planes across the country and a key transportation network. Within hours of announcing they were “mobilizing immediately” for a strike, Trump capitulated.”

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

Sound, linocut by Saiyare Refaei and Yoshi Nakagawa for Tacoma Wayzgoose Print Festival in the spring of 2025

[thefugitivesaint]

Molly J. Fair, 'Direct Action', 2009 Lifted from “Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today”, 2009 (PM Press)

[panstarry]

free-to-distribute graphic for a couple orgs. formatted for print on 11x17 in paper but can also fit 2 onto a sheet of 8.5x11 in. riso-compatible file coming soon. solidarity forever!

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[garadinervi]

Stonewall uprising! June 28 (– July 3), 1969 / 2025

(image: John Gerken, Sylvia Ray Rivera. Celebrate People's History, Stonewall, 1969, (2 color offset printed poster), 2001, «Celebrate People's History Poster» 7, Justseeds, Third printing, printed at the worker-owned and union-run Community Printers, Santa Cruz, CA)

(plus: June 28, 1969: Stonewall Riots, Zinn Education Project)

[victusinveritas]

(Art by Dave Loewenstein, from Justseeds) Want to learn more about May Day and the Labor Movement?

Read this.

Want to spend a bit of money supporting anarchist, socialist, and other leftist cool folks AND learn about May Day? You can get the print version of the book linked above here. Check out this book.

Want a graphic history focused mostly on Canada?

Want some other books on labor organizing, here are a few.

Try this one.

Or this one.

Or...

And finally some Joe Hill/IWW stuff because it wouldn't be a May Day without it.

Anyhow, have a good day, comrades.

[uwmspeccoll]

A Bodily Autonomy Decorative Sunday

These gorgeous posters are a selection of work from Our Bodies Our Resistance, published by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative in 2023 in an edition of 150. The collection was curated by Molly Fair, a multidisciplinary artist, member of Justseeds, and a librarian (huzzah!). The thirteen risograph prints, cover sheet, and colophon were printed at Cowboy Press in Richmond, VA. They come wrapped in green hanky, screen-printed by Mary Tremonte at Lavender Estero in Pittsburg, PA. The green bandana is a symbol of the Marea Verde (“Green Wave” or “Green Tide”) an abortion rights movement that began in Argentina in the early 2000s and has since swept across Latin America. The design for the hanky was “cut from one piece of paper” by artist Devon Cohen, and “uplifts grizzly bears and three plants -- tansy, rue, and pennyroyal -- that have documented use over the centuries as abortifacients” (from the colophon). 

Some of the posters are also available as digital download here, for use in organizing work under an Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Check out our photo captions for artist attributions.

Featuring art by Devon Cohen, Alec Dunn, Molly Fair, Sarah Farahat, Christeen Francis, Sanya Hyland, Kill Joy, Josh MacPhee, Fernando Martí, Andrea Narno, Saiyare Refaei, Jessica Sabogal, Meredith Stern, and Mary Tremonte.

60% of the proceeds of this portfolio will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds’ Collective Power Fund. This fund redistributes “direct abortion funding to 28 member abortion funds across more than 20 states. Funding is concentrated in the South and Midwest, where it’s often hardest to get an abortion. The Collective Power Fund supports the cost of an abortion, transportation to a clinic, childcare. lodging, and abortion doula support.”

-https://justseeds.org/product/our-bodies-our-resistance-portfolio/

Check out more Decorative Sunday posts here.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[figdays]

No Pipelines On Indigenous by LandDylan A.T. Miner