Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist-activist who uses visual art to strengthen and support organizing, movement building and education for social justice. He was born into the Puerto Rican independence movement and came of age in a time of mass movements in the United States. He has been active in the labor movement for thirty years and was a founder of the Northland Poster Collective which produced art and organizing materials for labor struggles. He worked as both an industrial and artistic screen printer for much of his adult life. His writes about strategic organizing and movement building.
During the Underground Railroad movement of the mid-nineteenth century, people escaping the enslaved South were instructed to follow the Drinking Gourd, the…
Remembering Chairman Fred Screeching tires. Flashing lights. Heavily armed men rushing up the dark stairwell open fire through walls and doors on…
Let’s take a moment to look past the looming presidential election. Within a few days the formal voting will take place. How…
“Now we get to go out and lie to our members once again,” a union staffer recently complained to me. She was…
The Empire backfires The eighty seven billion dollars in public funds approved by the US Congress this fall will be used mostly…
September Lightning When lightning flashes on a stormy night, the world is lit up for a brief, frozen second. You see the…
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is, which is to be…
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