When artists challenge power, censorship follows.

Black artists like Dread Scott of Fall of Freedom keep the radical tradition alive.

#ArtIsPower #ProtectArtists #BlackHistoryMonth #ArtAgainstOppression

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4 years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian artists continue to create.

ARC has created a safety guide for artists navigating the war. Read & share:
https://ow.ly/2hTc50YkPwY

Do not look away.
#ArtAgainstOppression #ArtistsUnderThreat

Sixteen Rivers Press poets and friends gather at the California Capitol Building to honor people killed by ICE

A memorial of those killed by ICE as of February 6, 2026

Poets formed a circle and read 2-3 lines each or names of those killed by ICE to create a collective poem. California State Poet Laureate Lee Herrick was the last reader and speaker.

Sixteen Rivers Press and NorCal poets and friends gathered at the Sacramento Capitol Building on Friday Feb 6 to honor and remember those killed by ICE. #BlueskyProtest #NorthernCaliforniaPoets #ICEProtest #PoetryForJustice #ArtAgainstOppression #PoetsAgainstICE

Join NorCal poets in protesting ICE violence at the State Capitol Building on Friday, Feb 6, at 10am. Sponsored by Sixteen Rivers Press. #BlueskyProtest #NorthernCaliforniaPoets #ICEProtest #PoetryForJustice #ArtAgainstOppression #PoetsAgainstICE

The first picture shows the first part of a four part poem in fourteen lines. It focuses on a general telling of current affairs, highlighting problems caused by; authoritarianism, oligarchy, white supremacy, classism, and other structures of oppression, ending with a call to action. The poem states: "The air we breathe, the stars above, are owned by those who set the cost. They trade our dreams, deny us love, and call it profit when we’ve lost. They sell our steps, our thoughts, our bones, our bodies leased, our futures sold. We toil beneath their corporate thrones, our life is weighed in shares and gold. But fire still sleeps in hearts oppressed, a spark within the coldest night. No chain can hold what beats in chests, no coin can buy a soul’s true light. Keep reading, revolt, refuse your fate, Darlin', their power dies when we create."

The second picture shows the second part of a four part poem in fourteen lines. It focuses on Women's health; reproductive rights, sexism, the patriarchy, and misogyny. The poem states: "Stole women's rights with bloodstained hands, a court of men, a preacher’s throne. Medieval laws in modern lands, our bodies claimed, but not their own. They strip us bare, then call it law, Roe was slain by robed deceits. Yet rape-born life is what they saw, not choice, not pain, not blood-streaked sheets. A man who bragged of grabbing flesh, still writes the rules, still walks unchained. So daughters, march, your wounds still fresh, your rage like fire, unrestrained. We are not weak, nor meek, nor still, we raise, protect, but march to kill."

The third picture shows the third part of a four part poem in fourteen lines. It focuses on the genocide in Palestine and Ukraine. The poem states: "And Palestine, oh Palestine, your children cry, your rivers bleed. Your truth is buried, masked in time, as nations simply watch you plead. And Ukraine, proud against red tide, your flowers golden, scorched by war. Yet still you stand, respond in stride, and fight for all you're fighting for. Their bombs still fall, their tongues despise, but we are many, they are few. Their power cracks when people rise, when voices fierce make old world new. So march, resist, refuse to kneel, for all who bleed, for all who feel."

The fourth and last picture shows the final part of a four part poem in fourteen lines. It focuses on unity disregarding political right -or leftwing stance and ideology, and highlights false flag tactics and operations with the goals to divide and destabilise to ultimately conquer. The poem states: "So Left and Right, we must unite, the elite now bind us, one and all. They profit, starve us with delight, divide us just to watch us fall. They've turned our labour into dust, they buy the laws, the lands, the skies. Yet still we argue whom to trust, point at each-other as freedom dies. No flag will break the banker's reign, no left or right will set us free. We stand as one, or fall in vain, their greed consumes both you and me. For when they change the rules on you, you will be nothing but a minority too."

Shit is getting real, the times are dire.
We've reached the tipping-point, so it's up to us to dictate the way our lives will be. Wake up, stand up, boycot, vote, join your local community.

Consumerism is dead, and now we are The Consumed.

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