More Art Against the Racist Charter

Just to letcha all know, a tumblr has been put up by the group Ensemble Contre la Charte, featuring art against the Quebec’s proposed racist Charter of values. You can check it out at http://ensemblecontrelacharte.tumblr.com/ For those of you who are artistically inclined, we are still looking for and accepting artistic …

Drainville: Pompier Pyromane

  Some explanations, for those of you who do not read french, or are not from Quebec, are below. For those of you who do read french, and are from here, you should be able to get it without having to read further. As the below is an explanation of …

Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire

Texas reigns supreme in the punishment business. With 173,000 inmates and more than twice as many paid employees as Google, Texas’s prison system is the largest in the United States, outstripping even California, which has an overall population 50 percent larger. By almost any measure, Texas stands out. The state’s …

Royal Tour: Aboriginal women and children, Vancouver, BC, 1901 by Musée McCord Museum

VIEW-6840 Royal Tour: Aboriginal women and children, Vancouver, BC, 1901 William McFarlane Notman 1901, 20th century Notman photographic Archives – McCord Museum VIEW-6840 Femmes et enfants autochtones lors de la visite royale, Vancouver, C.-B., 1901 William McFarlane Notman 1901, 20e siècle Archives photographiques Notman – Musée McCord To see the …

Domestic servants waiting for street car on way early in the… by New York Public Library

Digital ID: 1260094. Domestic servants waiting for street car on way early in the morning. Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1939.. Wolcott, Marion Post — Photographer. May 1939 Notes: Original negative #: 30338-M3; Schomburg copy negative #: SC-CN-94-0483 Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Georgia. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more …

Apache prisoners at Fort Bowie, Arizona, 1884 by The U.S. National Archives

Original Caption: Apache prisoners at Fort Bowie, Arizona, 1884 From: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 – 1954 Created By: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 – 02/28/1964) Production Date: ca. 1860 – ca. 1865 Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/530907 Repository: …

Antifascist Memorial by Andrew Dupont

“It was on this site, the Lustgarten, during the war, May 18, 1942, that members of the antifascist resistance groups associated with Herbert Baum attempted to burn down the slanderous Nazi propaganda exhibit called ‘Soviet Paradise.’ The attempt was a protest against the war and the terror of the National …

Female shirtwaist strikers being taken into custody by the police at Jefferson Market Prison, 1909. by Kheel Center, Cornell University

Title: Female shirtwaist strikers being taken into custody by the police at Jefferson Market Prison, 1909. Date: 1909 Photographer: Unknown Photo ID: 5780PB32F27C Collection: International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985) Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood …