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Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistrance and Revolution
MacPhee, Josh
Book
2010
Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by over 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creati...
Flyposting guide
Article
2006
Guide with tips and advice on flyposting, or "wheatpasting", for advertising and getting your message out to a wide audience on a low budget.
Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Rutherford, Ward
Book
1978
Die Kunst findet nicht im Saale statt: Politische Plakate
Staeck, Klaus; Adelmann, Dieter
Book
1976
The Labadie Collection
Website
The Labadie Collection was established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Although the Collection was originally concerned m...
OPIRG Poster Archive
Website
A website with posters produced by OPIRG-York and OPIRG Toronto from the 1980s to the present.
The Organizer's Manual
O.M. Collective
Book
1971
Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defens...
The Palestine Poster Project Archive
Website
An online collection of thousands of posters from, or related to, Palestine.
Picture This: Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007)
Boyer, Jean-Pierre; Desjardins, Jean; Widgington, David
Book
2008
A collection of posters which offer a veritable journey through Quebec’s social history and political imagination of the past four decades.
The Poster in History
Gallo, Max
Book
2001
Postering bylaw
Article
1992
Postering Revolution: Wheat Paste, the Marxist Glue
Engler, Yves
Article
2013
On the role of postering in the activist agenda.
Rear-View Mirror: A Snapshot of Toronto Activist Art (1976-1996)
Constable, Mike (creator)
Website
2014
A snapshot of Toronto activist art from the 1976 general strike to the 1996 Days of Action.
Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Ferm, Alan; Mildred, Constantine
Book
1974
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Greenwalk, Dara; MacPhee, Josh
Book
2010
Drawn from an exhibition at Exit Art, a cultural center in New York City, Signs of Change is a visual archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera from mor...
UN urged to recognize cultural significance of Palestine posters
Irving, Sarah
Article
2014
An interview with Palestine Poster Project founder Dan Walsh, recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, gives a in-depth look into the history and contents of this collection of 10,000 posters.

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Website
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