Iran: People in
struggle for independence and democracy, by Leah Statman,
for Gonna Rise Again Graphics (San Francisco, CA); circa 1978,
screenprint
All Of Us Or None political poster archive assembled by
Michael Rossman
The “All Of Us Or None” (AOUON)
archive project was started by Free Speech Movement activist
Michael Rossman in 1977 to gather and document the poster-work of
modern progressive movements in the United States. Though earlier work
is included, its focus is on the domestic political poster renaissance,
which began in 1965 and continues to this day. The Archive gathered
posters from all streams of progressive activity — from movements of
protest, liberation, and affirmative action, trade union and community
struggles, to electoral and environmental organizing, community
services, and visionary manifestos. Though strongest in work from the
San Francisco Bay Area, its scope is national: one-quarter of its
holdings come from out-of-state. These are complemented by an archive
of international work. The collection consists of approximately 25,000
distinct titles. The collection is now part of the Oakland Museum of
California.
Rossman died May 12, 2008. For more information about the AOUON
collection, contact curator Lincoln Cushing, lcushing "at" igc dot org.
All Of Us Or None:
Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area Exhibition
at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
March 31- August 19, 2012 Ever-expanding web
catalog of these posters at OMCA
Published catalog
through Heyday, now available as an eBook
|Listing of Bay Area radical workshops and presses
Michael Rossman's own web page
about the collection
Unity is the
solution : From the prisoners of Attica State prison to all oppressed
people of the world, by the Student Research Facility (Berkeley,
CA); mid 1970s, offset