Book contract for “Paper Bullets”!

I signed a book contract with PM Press last week to publish Paper Bullets: 110+ Years of Political Stickers from around the World!

I’ll write the introduction and a few chapters, but I’ve invited several other notable contributors.

• Paul Buhle
• Irina Bukharin
• John Collins
• Eric Corriel
• Ganzeer
• Guerrilla Girls
• Kevin Howley
• Jen Hoyer
• Nazar Kozak
• Todd Lawrence and Heather Shirey, Urban Art Mapping and George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Archive
• Marina Llorente
• Josh MacPhee, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
• Penelope Rosemont
• Kiara Welsch, Linksjugend [‘solid]

My contact at PM Press also suggested Lincoln Cushing and Crimethinc. Ex-Workers’ Collective, both of whom I have followed for years.

Here is the table of contents to date. Essays will each run 500-1,500 words, depending on the topic, etc.

1. “Takin’ It to the Streets & Stickin’ It to the Man,” introduction, Tedford
2. IWW “silent agitators” or “stickerettes,” Tedford
3. “U.S. Out of the War in Vietnam,” Tedford
4. “Richard M. Nixon and Watergate: The Proof Increases Everyday,” Kevin Howley
5. “Silent Agitators, Their Secret,” Penelope Rosemont
6. “I’d Rather Be Smashing Imperialism,” Lincoln Cushing
7. “Silence = Death” Avram Finkelstein + AIDS stickers, Tedford
8. “Sticking It to the Patriarchy with SisterSerpents Radical Feminist Art Collective,” Jen Hoyer
9. “George W. Bush: ‘No Intel Inside’,” Kevin Howley
10. “This Phone is Tapped,” CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective
11. “The Silenced and Exiled Voices of Russian Activists,” Irina Bukharin
12. “Barack Obama + Sticker Robot,” Tedford
13. “Contra la Violencia Machista: Fighting Violence Against Women in Spain,” Marina Llorente
14. “The Guide to Behaving Badly,” Guerrilla Girls
15. “Three Things Learned from the Mask of Freedom during the Egyptian Revolution” Ganzeer
16. “Rebellious Stickers from Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests, 2013-14,” Nazar Kozak
17. “Germany’s Football Club St. Pauli: The Pirates of the League,” Tedford
18. “Trumping Hope,” Kevin Howley
19. “’Murderous City of Lakes’: Protest Stickers and the 2020 Uprising in Minneapolis,” Todd Lawrence and Heather Shirey
20. Slavers of New York (Ada Reso, Maria Robles, and Elsa Eli Waithe), Tedford
21. “¡No al Genocidio! Spanish Stickers in Solidarity with Palestine,” John Collins
22. “About ‘SHUT RIKERS: A Brief History of Political Graphics in 15 Stickers’,” Josh MacPhee
23. Indigenous rights, Marjorie Skidders
24. “Sticker Hootenanny” featuring several contemporary artists