Welcome to the Northland Poster Collective Blog. Here you can find the latest news for our website, and read posts and comment on issues such as social justice, labor, organizing, war and peace, environment and health, civil liberties, GLBT, global and racial issues (immigrant rights, Africa, Latin America, etc.), and women’s voices to name a few, and read articles on how some of our posters are being used in the community. Please feel free to visit our website and shop for posters, note cards, stickers, buttons, t-shirts, mugs, and much more.

Dream Act Art 
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March 2008
Northland led a workshop to help a coalition of immigrant high school students plan a rally at out state capitol in early March. The goal was to build pressure for passage of the Dream Act, which would make it possible for immigrant young people to go to college. The kids came up with a […]

No Human Being is Illegal 
by Betsy

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I am convinced that movements go through particular stages and phases of development, whether we are aware of those stages or not.
Take, for example, the current movement for immigrant rights. Last March it burst into the consciousness of English speakers with enormous rallies, marches, and (in May) a one-day general strike. It seemed to errupt […]

The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend 
by Betsy

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Of all the slogans Northland has ever popularized, the one which has gone the farthest is “Unions: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend”. As far as we know, it originated with a local labor council on the West Coast, but we borrowed it and put it (and its sister, “The Labor Movement: The […]

US Troops Out Now! 
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The US peace movement has been pretty much stymied about what to propose about the situation in Iraq. It’s hard to avoid a sense of responsibility about the violent chaos we hear about each day. Even when we opposed going in to Iraq in the first place, there’s a sense in which […]

Then You Win! 
by Betsy

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Gandhi’s cheerful description of the progress of campaigns and movements appears on several products we sell — mugs, t-shirts, posters, and note cards. If only it were that simple in real life! I would guess the Mahatma said this with a twinkle in his eye.
Anyone who’s done any grassroots organizing knows that campaigns are not […]

Embracing the Struggle (in more ways than one!) 
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Among our “vintage” posters is one showing Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela hugging one another. The legend below is, “Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.” The picture was taken in 1987.
Well, in view of the revelations about Madikizela-Mandela’s gang of body guards, which victimized her political opponents and innocent neighbors […]

Woody Guthrie poster 
by Ricardo

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This was the first poster I ever made. I’d done flyers and newspaper art and poster designs that I kept for myself. This was an actual poster. I was teaching myself to screen print. I’d saved enough money to order some supplies that I’d idntified (from a book) as being the […]

“If you have come to help me…” 
by Ricardo

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I first came across this quote in the earlt-mid 1990s. “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” The poster I made with these words first appears in a Northland catalog in […]

Victoria Poster 
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These posters were donated in 2005 to the Student Farmworker Alliance for the National Student/Youth Encuentro. More than 65 participants form over 20 states gathered in Immokalee, Florida - home of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — to explore issues ranging from the history of the Coalition to the modern labor union movement to the […]

Woman Sleeping 
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This poster was released in 1992 for use in the movie “Blind Spot,” starring Joanne Woodward, who plays a progressive thinking congresswoman. The story is about her relationship with her daughter. “Woman Sleeping” was to be used as part of the background in the congresswoman’s office.

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