Bunch of lectures and rallies and confrontational political art
Roger Peet
@toosphexy.bsky.social
Artist and printmaker, Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, Portland DSA Prints and shirts: https://toosphexy.carrd.co/
From idea to 20 printed signs, all analog and hand printed, in 1.5 hours. Rally at City Hall tomorrow with @portlanddsa.bsky.social !
New anti-Data Center graphics package just dropped on our free downloads page! justseeds.org/graphic/no-m...
Say no to the mass closure of Portland Public Schools! Rally today at 5pm outside PPS HQ, 501 n. dixon! Made these signs and strapped them to the art bike.
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Close to 300.000 public service workers on streets in France of which 70.000 in Paris Incl. 8000 firefighters 170 demos in country >320 schools blocked Well done comrades @epsu.bsky.social @labourstart.bsky.social @strikemap.org @crimethinc.com @social.verdi.de @forsatradeunion.bsky.social
Grève du 29 septembre : entre 206.000 et 300.000 fonctionnaires ont manifesté à travers la France, dont 8.000 pompiers mobilisés avec le mouvement à Paris
À l'appel de l'intersyndicale, la fonction publique s'est mobilisée mardi pour protester contre le recul du pouvoir d'achat.
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Portland cops made a big deal out of the fact that this police dog was k*lled one day before "retirement" and it turns out they shot it themselves www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Designed a new T-shirt for @demsocialists.bsky.social ! Get one here: store.dsausa.org/products/dsa...
One of the reasons I think this went viral even in queer circles is because everyone has seen this dynamic play out in some form in our spaces. We need a better way to root out toxic people utilizing the language of liberation in narcissistic and sociopathic ways to dominate spaces.
doom boy@doomboy.bsky.social · 4w agohilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.
Here’s the full quote I provided on Friday, not Saturday, which is falsely reported in the article for some reason. Not sure why they omitted to print the second part.
Willamette Week@wweek.com · last mo.The money behind that billboard can be traced in part to the Portland Metro Chamber, the city’s chamber of commerce—and the message shows how eager the city’s business lobby is to unseat Councilor Mitch Green. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...
summer 2020 the cops beat up my 64 year old dad walking away from a protest wearing a "friends of trees" hoodie. all this to say i personally have trouble getting worked up over questions of appropriate social media decorum from private citizens contemporaneously responding to cop brutality
The Oregonian@oregonian.com · last mo.Councilor Mitch Green said he regrets the since-deleted tweets. “That's not how I engage in discourse today,” he said. https://mrf.lu/2zjmT
Macklemore makes a brief appearance in Phil Neel's 2018 book "Hinterland", which I finished this week
The first time I read about the robot apocalypse I wouldn't shut up about it for months but that was a long time ago now
Visited the cathedral of St Nazaire in Beziers, where crusaders k*lled a city's worth of Cathar heretics in 1209, an event which gave us the phrase "k*ll them all, God will know his own!"
Art and Politics at the Socialism Conference with me, William Estrada, and Margaret Palmquist!
Save the date! Wednesday 9/16 at City Hall! Portland City Council will start talking about the CEI Hub policy proposals. Be there! Post your questions and suggestions in the comments. Art by Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social.
Working on a new poster design which is a callback to the first poster I hand-made in large quantities, in 1999ish. It was a two-color stencil print with a car going off a cliff and the text "Cars Suck". It crossed my mind last month and I wondered what it would look like to update it.
New collaborative screenprint by @toosphexy.bsky.social and Sam Wallman drops today! It's the last day of our summer sale- get 20% off with code LEARN at checkout on our site!
Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
Beautiful screenprint about the future of fire from @toosphexy.bsky.social ! justseeds.org/product/fire...
We're having a sale through the end of the month- 20% off with code LEARN at checkout! justseeds.org/shop/?js-ord...
Here's a graph showing the relative favorability of China vs USA over the last few years.
Finished: a five color collaborative print made with Australian labor organizer and illustrator Sam Wallman.
