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Breakdown Press has published a 32-page broadsheet newspaper of posters by some friendly faces you might want to acquire, for free, and distribute in your neighborhood.

Drop them a line at distro@breakdownpress.org with your address and how many copies you wish to receive, then get to posting!  Contributing artists include:

Colin Matthes, HA-HA, Ann Newmarch, John Emerson, 7U?, Kathleen McCann, Olaf Ladousse, Lluis Fuzzhound, Marc Martin, Marc de Jong, Caitlin Poduska, M.P. Fikaris, Van Rudd, Iain McIntyre, Stewart Cole, Aris Prabawa, Tom Civil, Rasool Parvari Moghaddam, Mathew Kneebone, Erik Ruin, KA’a, Bretton Bartleet, Arlene TextaQueen, Lou Smith and Tom O’Hern. And poetry by Ocean Vuong, Anwyn Crawford, Mammad Aidani and Opal Palmer Adisa.

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Add Art has released a new version of their Firefox plugin. Upgrade now and catch The Panthers Showed Unity, Then The House Was Divided by Shani Peters

It’s Raining Social Practice | Smack Mellon brings a survey exhibit, Condensations of the Social, with the suggestion that social practice, more than any other, can change how we live. [Provisions]

Keep it Movement | The United States Social Forum is in full swing, with many not-to-be-missed events.  We’re not in town, but if you are, dig the New World from Below book party for some friendly faces. [USSF]

Time to Upgrade | Eyebeam, Not An Alternative, and Upgrade!NY are busy with Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, which starts with participation as a dominant, even coercive paradigm, and examines it in art, activism, urbanism, technology, and more. [Upgrade]

Tips Appreciated | The HONK! Festival’s annual benefit happens Friday, with RiotFolk artist Evan Greer, the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society, and more of Boston’s wonderfully weird. [HONK!]

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Emily Larned’s Stock Project

More Repression | NYC cops and Federal agents raided the headquarters of the fourth annual Anarchist Film Fest. [Infoshop]

Reason to Celebrate | Our friends at Red Sun Press celebrate 35 years with a retrospective show this May.  Here’s the video (Facebook required) for those who can’t make it to Boston. [Red Sun Press]

Notes from Underground | Boston’s local zine library celebrates its reopening this weekend with some lovely friends.  Come say hello! [Papercut Zine Library]

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Heather and Ivan Morrison’s How to Survive the Coming Bad Years

Sweet Release | Autonomedia’s dropping their new book, Critical Strategies in Art and Media, and throwing a big party. [Eyebeam]

Eponymedia | The conference that inspired the book, also titled Critical Strategies in Art and Media, featured Steve Kurtz, Bifo, Brian Holmes, and more.  The video documentation can be watched online. [World-Information Institute]

We ♥ Geo-Affinities | Spend some time with this experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary European art. [GenderArtNet]

Groundswell Gains | We wrote a piece on how we work, and what we do when we work. [Sheepless]

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Jacob Chamberlain deliberates on public art and integrity at Provisions Library

Built to Thrive | We often wonder how and why some terrible ideas manage to stick and survive.  Shareable is hosting a forum to get at how good ideas can do the same. [Shareable]

Speaking of Thriving | Red Sun Press, our local movement print shop, did a short video protesting the Chamber of Commerce. [Red Sun Press]

Urban Bumpkins | The Berwick Research Institute has put out a call for a summertime art encampment, in which homesteaders will create public art installations on the Boston Harbor Islands. [Bumpkin Island Art Encampment]

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