Tag Archive | "art"

Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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Colectivo Solidario, El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imagenes

Marking the centenary of Solidaridad Obrera, this extensive graphic history of the Spanish libertarian tradition is one of the most recent books published by the Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera.

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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement

This richly illustrated and designed volume, featuring indigenous art and photographs on nearly every page and unprecedented interviews with members of the early villages, is a result of the seven years Mexican journalist Gloria Muñoz Ramírez’ spent with the Zapatistas in Southern Chiapas.

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Bristle: Political Street Expressions In Bristol And The South West

Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Bristle: Political Street Expressions In Bristol And The South West

This is a full colour collection of subverts, stencils, graffiti, defaced billboards and other graphical hi-jinks photographed around the Bristol area.

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Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca

Organizers often forget the importance of the imagination. Though cadre may be able to articulate points in Capital, it's the masses who dream for brighter futures for their children that provide the numbers movements need to succeed. And when things look difficult, the imagination helps keep participants focused. One example of this observation was the protest effort in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters and the Fight Against Displacement in L.A.’s Figueroa Corridor

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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We Shall Not Be Moved: Posters and the Fight Against Displacement in L.A.’s Figueroa Corridor

Gentrification is one of those great battles the working class continues fight on a regular basis. Not that it has much of a choice. Urban desirability and the quest for community in cities across the United States have turned many a block into "neighborhoods in transition," condominium war zones where the enemy combatants are the less well-to-do.

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Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte

Monday, April 13, 2009

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Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte

Mao Tsetung was famously quoted as saying there was no such thing as art for art's sake, or art detached from politics. In Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte, Carlos Francisco Jackson probes such concepts, as well as their limits. Social justice-oriented creative expressions have proven a transformative force in many eras, from the Black Arts Movement to the explosion of Mexican-American humanities from the 1940s to 1970s.

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