Posters

In the late 1960s and early 70s, the Black Panther Party was a major political force. The party's Kansas City, Missouri…

The poster celebrates the history of NYC's anti-gentrification movements, fighting for tenant power and housing as a…

The GLF was the first LGBT activist organization formed after the 1969 Stonewall uprising in NYC. No queer organization…

"Don't listen to the hawks..." "We won't fight another rich man's war...." so say the Vietnam vets commemorated on this…

In 2011 at an Occupy protest in Oakland, CA, two-time Iraq veteran Scott Olsen was shot in the head by police,…

Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was the first slave to win her freedom in court on human…

International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union: “We’d rather starve quick than starve slow.”The ILGWU was a driving…

Power Up!Corita Kent was a radical educator, silkscreen printing pop artist, and activist agitator whose pedagogical and…

"Yes I was a slave and I'll say this to the whole world: Slavery was the worst curse ever visited on the people of the…

Grace Paley, 1922–2007. Poet laureate, educator, peace activist, feminist, short story writer. "It is the…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

Crass (1977-1984) was a group of artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians that banded together using punk…

Erik Ruin's homage to the 17th century British revolutionaries who created small agrarian communities in hopes of…

The Dil Pickle Club was an underground literary nightspot in Chicago from 1914-1933, home to hobohemians, Newberry…

Two fiery activists, organizers, movement founders, and writers who began, throughout the gritty reality of…

In 1989, Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), formed to protest the damming of the Narmada River, which…

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” —Octavia E. Butler  Groundbreaking science fiction…

From 1972 to 1991, former Chicago police commander, John Burge, and his men systematically tortured over 119…

With 1.5 million members, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST) is one of the largest social movements in…

The Angel Island Liberty Association (or "Self-Governing Association") was a mutual-aid society run by Chinese detainees…

The Paris Commune was a popular-led revolution and democratic government that ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871.…

In the summer of 1966, an organization of queer and trans street youth called The Vanguard staged a street sweeping in…

Protect Mauna Kea. The new wave of aloha ‘āina defends sacred land from scientific imperialism. No to TMT. Printed at…

World Charter for Prostitutes’ Rights 1985 Sex Workers’ Rights are Human Rights LawsDecriminalize all aspects of…

“Armed with the knowledge of our past we can charter a course for our future. Only by knowing where we’ve been can…

San Francisco 1966: Transwomen and drag queens working in the Tenderloin district of San Fransisco often took refuge in…

The Rani of Jhansi was born in 1828 and her early education was unusual for girls at the time: wrestling, swordfighting,…

In 1968 the Brown Berets organized a massive student walk out in East LA, demanding equality in schools for Chicanx…

In 1958, Carol Parks Hahn and Ron Walters, two Wichita NAACP youth leaders, decided to protest segregation of local…

Bayard Rustin, 1912–1987. “Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man, but around the…