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Last night, New York-based Seth Tobocman offered up a multimedia presentation of the work in his new book, “Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century” (AK Press, 2008).  Accompanied by False Prophets drummer Eric Blitz and guitarist Steve Wishnia, the trio brought to life several of Tobocman’s pieces, most from “Disaster and Resistance,” at Boston’s Lucy Parsons Center.

Seth is an artist and longtime activist and educator, as well as cofounder of the comics zine “World War 3 Illustrated.” In his new book, he outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, from post 9-11 New York City to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans.

“Disaster and Resistance” does justice to his classic works, “You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive” and “War in the Neighborhood,” and Seth’s performance is well worth checking out when it comes to your neighborhood.

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The new Cut and Paint stencil template zine is now available! This one includes photo spreads, essays, how-to articles about moss graffiti and micro-stencils, and (of course) a bevy of copyright-free stencils for your painting pleasure!

Given the popularity of the first edition, they’ve doubled the run for #2 - grab your copy from the Just Seeds ordering website today.

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Through puppetry and toy theatre, Great Small Works productions reanimate the public sphere and participation in democratic life.

Since 1995, the collective has engaged audiences with political and avant garde work. They take the stage in theaters, clubs, schools, galleries, streets, and other community centers to address contemporary issues, such as the culture of fear, fundamentalism, and conceptions of evil.

Based in New York City, the company continues the twenty-eight year-old tradition of Spaghetti Dinners, variety evenings (founded on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s by veterans of Vermont’s Bread & Puppet Theater) that include music, live performance, political discourse, and vegetarian spaghetti.

Their Rapture Project (2007) is a serio-comic epic spectacle about fundamentalism and American culture and politics. Inspired by rough-and-tumble Sicilian marionettes, current events, popular End Times literature, The Rapture Project brings together tabloid newspaper stories, popular literature about Armageddon, and fundamentalist iconography to create an epic spectacle following an unlikely cast of characters from the USA to the Middle East and beyond.

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the Think Tank that has yet to be named brings us several Radical Orations on Art, Activism & Education. These readings of radical educational texts were delivered in soapbox style throughout Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago.  The readings were documented in order

to combine the temporal, performative, educational and site-specific nature of the project in to a (re)distributable form. In particular, the remixing of the audio documentation is an assemblage of the orations in content and context, somewhat aphoristic and fragmented, this editing down attempts to create connections between both the content of the radical educational texts and the ambient aural experience of the three distinct urban locations where the oration occurred.

Below, you will find Radical Oration 01: Paulo Freire “Pedagogy of Freedom”

The Think Tank has also compiled 23 Readings on Art, Activism & Education, a huge compilation of such influential education theorists as bell hooks, Ivan Illich, Emma Goldman and Pabla Friere.

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The Radical Cross Stitch Posse are proud to announce the arrival of their new baby. Out of the clicks of the needles and the desire to celebrate our wonderful creative communities, an internet archive of the herstory of radical craft has been born.

The Fabric of Resistance is a non-hierarchical, community-created archive and celebration of radical craft action and organization, past and present. The wiki-style archive has been established as a resource for radical craft practitioners, historians, and students. Fabric of Resistance is a tribute to the creative resistance which is often marginalized by both crafters and activists, yet has provided the visionary spark for great uprisings, revolutions and major social change.

The Posse says:

This wiki is a constant work in progress. So this is a call out is for the stories of women and men you know in your community who use craft as a form of resistance. Please add your stories, preferably with images. We want to know names, dates and issues. But we’re especially interested in the stories behind the work. Tell us about the design processes as well as the creation process. If you want help with questions to ask people let us know.

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