Inkworks Press book release party
Visions of Peace and Justice: Over 30 Years of Political Posters
Tuesday May 01, 2007
Free - 7pm
Celebrate the release of a new large format book with over 400 color illustrations: Visions of Peace and Justice: Over 30 Years of Political Posters. From the archives of Inkworks Press on International Labor Day.
Inkworks Press Announces the publication of Visions of Peace & Justice
Thirty years of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press.
To be released On May First 2007
Visions of Peace & Justice, a 150-page full color book, contains over 400 reproductions of political posters from the archives of Inkworks Press.
Founded in 1974, the shop has functioned as a pillar of the
progressive community in the Bay Area
providing printing services including discounts and donations to social
movements, community groups, and non-profits.
This unique position has
allowed Inkworks to accumulate a comprehensive and
fascinating archive of beautiful
political posters that have been printed on its presses and compiled
for the first time in this important historical document.
Whether it’s the American Indian Movement,
Latin American Solidarity campaigns,
Women‘s Liberation, community-based struggles against environmental
racism, the current efforts to end the war in Iraq, or a broad range of
other post-1960s US social movements,
Visions of Peace & Justice records
it all through the timeless powerful art of the poster.
Chapters Include:
Internationalism & Peace, Labor Movement, Racial Justice, Women’s
Liberation, Queer Liberation, Environment & Public Health, Elections &
Reforms, Arts & Culture
Featuring Essays By:
David Bacon, Lincoln Cushing, Angela Davis,
Anuradha Mittal, Carol Wells,
and more
