Reproduce and Revolt:
A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist
Edited by Josh MacPhee and Favianna Rodriguez
Paper | 9" x 7" | 200 pgs. | ISBN: 1-933368-25-X | List: $20.00
Coming July 2006
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About the book:
Reproduce and Revolt! is a graphic toolbox for political activists all over the world. The book contains 300+ exciting high quality illustrations and graphics about social justice and political activism for use on flyers, posters, t-shirts, brochures, stencils, and any other graphic aspects of political campaigns. All the graphics are bold, easy to reproduce, and are available to reproduce without permission. The book offers clear instructions on how to best utilize the images to improve the graphic qualities of political campaigns. It also contains a short history of political graphics, an archive of political flyers and posters throughout history, and a bibliography of further reading for all of the social justice issues the art covers.
A long-standing complaint regarding political campaigns is the lack of creativity employed in messaging and tired old graphics that have been used for decades. Reproduce and Revolt! is specifically designed to fill this gap and bring new meaning and vibrancy to campaigns. The book includes a huge range of art that can be used for any number of issues, including:
• Anti-Authoritarianism (including anarchism, hierarchy, direct action, mutual aid and more)
• Anti-Racism & Third World/POC Unity (institutional racism, racial equality, unity among peoples of color throughout the world, national movements, attacks on youth of color, white privilege and more)
• Arts & Culture as Tools of Resistance (including images that represent practices of music, art, graffiti, breakdance, hip hop, punk, singing, djing, capoeira, as forms of resistance)
• Counter-Globalization (including corporate control, IMF, World Bank, WTO, capitalism, austerity, world debt, alternative economies and more)
• Education (including privatization, self-education, free schools, liberatory pedagogy, urban inequalities, military recruitment and more)
• Environment (including environmental justice, environmental racism, endangered species, animal rights, earth liberation, deforestation, strip mining, water rights, bio-tech, organics, community gardens and more)
• Feminism (including women's struggles, wages for housework, equal pay for equal work, equal rights, gender discrimination, women's liberation movement, sexual assault, men against sexism, fat lib. and more)
• Food (including food justice, anti-fast-food, meat industry, right to whole foods, people's farms, vegeterianism/veganism, GMO's)
• Government & Police Brutality (including bureaucracy, taxes, anti-cop, police brutality, elections, voter fraud, voter disenfranchisement, voting rights, and more)
• Health Care (including disability, mental health, AIDS, access, abortion, aging and more)
• Housing (including public housing, gentrification, private ownership, abandonment, homelessness and more)
• International Solidarity (including connections with movements around the world, borders, mutual aid, national liberation, Zapatista support, Cuba support, Palestine Support, indigenous solidarity and more)
• Immigration & Border Issues (including US/Mexico border wall, refugees, deportation, detention, English-only laws, immigrant rights, immigrant-bashing, denouncing term "illegal")
• Land Struggles (including Palestine, Native land theft, right to nationhood and land, anti-privatization land laws)
• Labor (including unions, work slowdowns/stoppages/sabotage, strikes, bosses, anti-work, economics, campesinos, farm workers, maquiladoras, sweatshops, sex work and more)
• Media (including media control, media justice, media consolidation, independent media, pirate radio and more)
• Prisons (including prison reform, prison abolition, racism in the criminal justice system, the death penalty, political prisoners, stopping the construction of prisons, torture, sentencing discrepancies and more)
• Protest (including marches, protests, direct action, pickets, plowshares, armed actions and more)
• Queer Liberation (including gay, lesbian, trans, intersex, and bisexual struggle, gender binaries, queer bashing, sexual liberation and more)
• War (including anti-war, imperialism, militarism, state terrorism, war tax resistance, nuclear weapons, "collateral damage" and more)
• Youth Power (including youth organizing, youth voices, children's rights)
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About the author:
Josh MacPhee is a street artist, designer, curator, and activist. A street stenciler and poster maker for over a decade, he also runs a radical art distribution project, justseeds.org, as a way to develop and distribute t-shirts, posters, and stickers with revolutionary content. He organizes the Celebrate People’s History Poster Project, an ongoing poster series in which different artists create posters to document and remember moments in radical history. He also collectively organizes agit-prop cultural actions with ad-hoc groups of artists under various organizational names such as Department of Space and Land Reclamation and Street.Rec. His work has been profiled by publications such as Clamor Magazines, In These Times, Utne Magazine, and many others.
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