Pound the Pavement #33: Shut Rikers: A Brief History of Political Graphics in 15 Stickers (2nd Ed.)
Pound the Pavement #33: Shut Rikers: A Brief History of Political Graphics in 15 Stickers (2nd Ed.)
Katal Center
Josh MacPhee
Abolition / Social Movements / Art & Culture / Partner Publisher
Back in print in a new 2nd Edition with 4 additional pages of material and updated introductions.
Part history lesson, part organizing tool, part sticker set, this publication traces the ark of reproducible political graphics over the past 100 years via a collection of 15 examples. Each of these—from the Russian Revolution's "Red Wedge Beats The Whites" to an 1980s squatting flyer featuring Bart Simpson—have been re-imagined as graphics mobilized to shut Rikers Island Jail Complex.
The Katal Center provides a brisk introduction to Rikers Island and why it is one of the country's most notorious jails. MacPhee draws on both his extensive knowledge of political graphic history and his 30 years of designing within social movements to deftly connect the two via the bridge of the campaign to Shut Rikers.
In addition, each zine comes with a set of 16 stickers, ready to use!
Product Details
Published: March 2026
Format: Saddle-stitched, 2-color risograph printed zine
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
Page count: 44
Printed in a second edition of 350 copies
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Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Militancy, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has contributed to the art and culture of the campaigns of dozens of community organizations and unions.
Forthcoming, ships December 2026
Josh MacPhee
Preface by Grégory Pierrot
Art & Culture / Capitalism / Labor / Social Movements
In this short, graphic volume, Josh MacPhee explores the role of music and sound in the student and worker revolt on May 1968 in France through the lens of the vinyl records that emerged out of—and were produced to comment on—the struggle. From the chanson enrages that sung on the barricades, the birth of an independent and politicized music infrastructure in France, the explosive emergence of free jazz and rock scenes, and the enduring legacy and embedding of the sounds and aesthetics of '68 into experimental and pop music to this day, this book shows the impact of liberatory politics and action on our audio landscape.