This is pretty specialized but if there are any union staffers out
there… We’ve just released a line of union sympathy cards (after
repeated requests from union reps). These are condolence cards for
unions to send to bereaved members or their families. They can also
be customized for a particular union or organization
(if done in quantity).

Friend of Northland,

Here is your monthly announcement that our free calendar is ready to download. This one features a quote about tyranny and resistance by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the early 20th century. We could have filled the whole calendar page with IWW history, most […]

August, 2008
We like to see our play the full range of roles that art should play, from beaming benevolently at you from your wall to engaging in the good fight for a better world. Recently friends in the California labor movement got with us to rush out a bunch of buttons addressing a hot issue. […]

I am convinced that movements go through particular stages and phases of development, whether we are aware of those stages or not.
Take, for example, the current movement for immigrant rights. Last March it burst into the consciousness of English speakers with enormous rallies, marches, and (in May) a one-day general strike. It seemed to errupt […]

Of all the slogans Northland has ever popularized, the one which has gone the farthest is “Unions: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend”. As far as we know, it originated with a local labor council on the West Coast, but we borrowed it and put it (and its sister, “The Labor Movement: The […]

These posters were donated in 2005 to the Student Farmworker Alliance for the National Student/Youth Encuentro. More than 65 participants form over 20 states gathered in Immokalee, Florida - home of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — to explore issues ranging from the history of the Coalition to the modern labor union movement to the […]

The Outhouse poster, by Ricardo Levins Morales, served as a humorous response to an on-going problem that track workers were having in being furnished with suitable washroom facilities on the job.