Agitprop News: July 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Happy Birthday Mother Jones - August 1, 1837

August 1, 1837

Happy Birthday

MOTHER JONES

(The hell-raising organizer, not the wimpy liberal magazine that stole her name)

Mother Jones Kicks Ass

by Mike Alewitz

Painted on site

Jobs with Justice Convention/ 1993

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Professor Muddle Explains Everything

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

VIVA CUBA

July 26, 1953

Attack on the Moncada Barracks

Viva Cuba

by Mike Alewitz

4' x 8’/ 1992

Cuba Is a Socialist Nation

Fidel Castro, May 1 1961 Mayday

http://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1961/05/01.htm

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

THE ONGOING CON IN CONNECTICUT

THE ONGOING CON IN CONNECTICUT

Interview with Mike Alewitz

by Stanley Heller on

ECONOMIC UPRISING

Mike Alewitz is a member of CCSU Profs4Progress and the AAUP.

He is an agitprop muralist, working in the US and internationally.

CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERVIEW

BUREAUCRACY
from THE WORKER IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER
by Mike Alewitz

One of five 7’ x 10’ banners commissioned for the founding convention of the ICEM/ 1995
The banners hung briefly in the AFL-CIO Building in Washington, DC,
until they were ordered removed by then Vice-President Richard Trumka.

ICEM Banner by Mike Alewitz

July 19, 1979 - Nicaraguan Revolution

4' x 9' VENTANA Banner by Mike Alewitz

THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION

From the overthrow of the U.S. installed and supported Somoza dictatorship in 1979, this small, impoverished country, subjected to a brutal economic embargo and U.S. funded contra war, provided an example to the world with its humanity, its internationalism, and its culture.

The new revolution was a beacon for workers, activists and artists. Delegations travelled to Nicaragua from throughout the world to learn from the new revolution and contribute to its survival. Despite its meager resources, the revolutionary government, under the leadership of the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN), threw tremendous resources into rebuilding Nicaraguan culture.

Artists solidarity groups like Ventana and Arts for a New Nicaragua organized numerous artist brigades to Nicaragua. These brigades conducted workshops, performed, and painted murals. Although the revolution was eventually strangled by the U.S. blockade, the experiences of those who worked in Nicaragua helped to inspire thousands of activists throughout the world..