Today we occupied Burlington. Hope you can make it next time. Love, Us.

Burlington Vermont City Hall.Vintage Post card Cowan Ephemera Collections. CowanDesign.

We had a huge rally and General Assembly today, right in City Hall Park. Oct 16 2011

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No More War (Kazumasa Nagai, 1970)

(via Thinking F.H.K Henrion. 04 18 1914 | THINKINGFORM)

During BC oil & gas business conference, ForestEthics runs classified ads in BC papers and hosts an “unwelcome” party 
by Karen Tam Wu, Senior Conservation Campaigner
September 23rd, 2011

Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel and Shell Canada President Lorraine Mitchelmore were both in Vancouver today at a business conference to promote the export of oil and gas to Asia Pacific. (The part that they won’t be telling their fellow business peeps is that their respective companies want to export products from high-risk projects in northern British Columbia that local communities have vociferously opposed.)

We decided to do our own promotions of their destructive projects. ForestEthics placed classified ads in the Personals section of several BC news outlets, including the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, and Victoria Times Colonist with this message:

More and Source

Make Do And Mend now is available as Keepsake Box. It makes a great place to stash your sewing goods. In the picture is Saki, our pug. Last night my daughter made her a new winter coat out of old curtains.

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World War II - United StatesA mother and daughter happily can food.Poster Text:
WE’LL HAVE LOTS TO EAT THIS / WINTER, WON’T WE MOTHER? / GROW YOUR OWN / CAN YOUR OWN.Catalog ID Number: 669 

Topic: Conservation

Keywords:

Artist: A. Parker

Publisher: Office of War Information, no. 57

Date Published: 1943

Format: 1 Poster: Color; 58 x 41 cm

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Sew for Victory

The United Steps quintupled the number of men in uniform between 1941 (1.4 million) and 1943 (6.9 million). Each of these servicemen and women needed socks, underwear, work clothes and dress uniforms. Civilians were urged to help this massive clothing effort by lowering the demand on commercial purchases and making their own clothes at home.

Not everyone could sign up and march off, but all families could “sew for victory” by patching and repairing used clothing and by producing new items.

The artist, Pistchal, worked in New York City in the Federal Art Project sponsored by the Work Projects Administration. He also created a well-known poster for a exhibit of native American art at the Museum of Modern Art.

Medium : 1 print on poster board : silkscreen, color.

Created/Published: [New York] : N.Y.C. W.P.A. War Services, between 1941 and 1943

Creator : Poster design by Pistchal

Part of the Work Projects Administration Poster Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

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Work Pays America Prosperity

artist: Vera Bock. WPA

Vera Bock, who created this poster on American labor, was one of thousands of artists who participated in the Federal Art Project (FAP). Her work is found in many book illustrations and a wide variety of subject matter for the FAP. Part of the Work Projects Administration (WPA), the ambitious project started in 1935, and survived until 1943.

The artists of the FAP produced a wide variety of subject matter, labor, education, travel, the war effort, and reading and books are just several of the themes that appealed to artists who participated in the FAP.

George Biddle, the founder of the project, said that because of the Federal Art Project, the Depression exerted, “a more invigorating effect on American art than any past event in the country’s history.” While times were hard, the mood of the posters was typically upbeat and the designs were bold and original and many of the artists felt free to experiment with a wide range of concepts. For American art, it was a vital period that invigorated the entire country’s perception of what art could be and brought American art into the international forefront.

In addition to posters, the FAP created thousands of murals in public buildings all across the country. Artist such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Louise Nevelson, all left a moment of their creativity to posterity because of this program. As art historian Francis O’Connor said, “Something very vital indeed, something revolutionary happened to American culture during the 1930’s.”

One of the FAP’s major activities was the index of American Design. The project helped popularizing American folk art by documenting the countries “usable past” of over 20,000 photographic records of American art, painting, sculpture, handicraft and folk art. The project was dissolved in 1943.

The Library of Congress is the largest single holder of WPA posters, having over 900 in its collection.

Medium : 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color

Created/Published : Federal Art Project, New York, between 1936-1941

Creator : Vera Bock, artist

Part of the Work Projects Administration Poster Collection housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress

1918 WWI Womens Land Army by Guenther Vintage Military Poster

PRINTED BY: The American Lithographic Company 1918 New York State Army Membership Committee.
AGE: World War One era 1918 lithograph.

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Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding have been designing posters together since 1986. Their work has appeared in many international publications and exhibitions, has received numerous awards, and is in permanent collections around the world. 

They are both professors at Tyler School of Art/Temple University in Graphic & Interactive 

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