DSA National Design Committee

Bread and Roses and Ink and Pixels

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Hello from the DSA National Design Committee! We've got a sweet ol' website: https://t.co/F0Rv5hNAXG and an email: https://t.co/[email protected]

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#LaborDay

[English Radical History @EnglishRadical]

“And what socialist will care for any other news this week, beyond that one said fact? He was our best man, and he is dead ... It is true that much of his work still lives, and will live. But we have lost him, and, great as was his work, he himself was greater.” [2/4]

[English Radical History @EnglishRadical]

William Morris, textile designer, poet, novelist & socialist, died #OTD 1896. Here are some excerpts from Robert Blatchford’s moving obituary to Morris published in The Clarion:

“It does not matter what goes into the Clarion this week, because William Morris is dead.”

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Have a Morris rose!

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Edward Burke-Jones drew cartoons of Morris at work, mostly of him falling down https://t.co/QPSS0HiLYT

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Enough words, some pictures!

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‘Art and Socialism’ remains one of the most idealistic and inspiring works on the role art and labor should and could play in society if only we had the imagination and will - which lead to his ‘escapist’ Utopian book- ‘The View From Nowhere’ https://t.co/VxotddY7TW

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A feverent unionist , he’s regarded as one of the hardest working advocates for a worker’s state in Britain at the time, leading to some jeers that he took commissions from the wealthy for his ornate, handmade designs https://t.co/PPktRlG3Gu

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Morris was a utopian, and a bit of a moralist, like Ruskin he thought art and labor had a goodness in an of its own, so long as the work as meaningful and brought beauty into the world https://t.co/bdDGHfk7nT

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Morris was opposed the increasingly industrialized, increasingly mass produced world and thought much of the useless toil was going into creating ugly people peole didn’t need, alienating artists from what should be the source of joy in their lives

[Kristen Gonzalez @Gonzalez4NY]

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SAVE THE DATE!

We have petitioned, we have canvassed, and now it's time to rave.

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[Astoria Blvd, Queens SBWU @astoriablvdSBWU]

Come visit us on 31st Ave between 33rd & 34th in Astoria. Thanks @daveslesbianbar for inviting us!!

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Universal health care, affordable childcare, tuition-free college — all of this is a reality in Norway.

Join me and Anniken Krutnes, Norway's Ambassador to the U.S., tonight for a very special livestream discussion on what we can learn from her country.

[Shawn Gude @shawngude]

Ida B. Wells's 1916 letter to Eugene Debs, praising his opposition to Birth of a Nation.

"Of all the millions of white men of this country, you are the only one I know that has had the courage to speak out against this diabolical production."

[Toni Gilpin @ToniGilpin]

🧵This Feb. 1934 demonstration, organized by the Communist Party, drew 10,000 people to Union Square in NYC. They were protesting the termination of the Civil Works Administration, the program which, in less than six months,

[devon manney @devonmanney]

Some of the most incredible designers I've ever met!! Join them and help make good and vital art!

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Walter Crane 1894