RAINBO ROLLSPO

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Back on my print game >:)

rainbowrollspo, feat. the Zipper!

very old pattern sample #rainbowrollspo ! thanks to megan & caden…

May Day is internationally recognized as a celebration of organized labor and worker power. It has its roots in anarchism, particularly the Chicago Haymarket riots of 1886. The American September Labor Day was formalized in order to diffuse the significance of those riots and of the Haymarket martyrs. The holiday also has roots in other organized labor movements, and also in pagan springtime festivals. The phrase I will be printing, “THE ______ & THE ____ HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON” is a play on a Wobblie axiom–Wobblie refers to the IWW, International Workers of the World, a solidarity-based decentralized union (rather than the common employers-based model). The axiom “The Worker and the Boss Have Nothing in Common” references the diametrically opposed interests of the class that owns the means of production and the class who labor yet cannot access the value their labor generates. I love this phrase because of its stark extremism. How can any two things have nothing in common? Yet the phrase provokes a sense of inherent truth along with inherent falsehood. What are the opportunities for solidarity and common ground that emerge from a recognition of severe inequality?

Poster by Molly Colleen O’Connell