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 […]

Gandhi’s cheerful description of the progress of campaigns and movements appears on several products we sell — mugs, t-shirts, posters, and note cards. If only it were that simple in real life! I would guess the Mahatma said this with a twinkle in his eye.
Anyone who’s done any grassroots organizing knows that campaigns are not […]

Among our “vintage” posters is one showing Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela hugging one another. The legend below is, “Love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will embrace.” The picture was taken in 1987.
Well, in view of the revelations about Madikizela-Mandela’s gang of body guards, which victimized her political opponents and innocent neighbors […]

This was the first poster I ever made. I’d done flyers and newspaper art and poster designs that I kept for myself. This was an actual poster. I was teaching myself to screen print. I’d saved enough money to order some supplies that I’d idntified (from a book) as being the […]

I first came across this quote in the earlt-mid 1990s. “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” The poster I made with these words first appears in a Northland catalog in […]