Northland Poster Collective Closing Its Doors
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More bad news in a bad economy: Northland Poster Collective, an edgy, feisty producer of posters, T-shirts, pins, bumper stickers and note cards for union activists–and a union shop to boot–is closing its doors at the end of the month.
Says founding member and artist Ricardo Levins Morales:
“After 30 years of undermining Wall Street, it finally fell on us.”
The Minneapolis-based company always lived on a shoestring, and a frayed shoestring at that. But somehow, against all the odds, the collective survived for 30 years. The entire stock is now 50 percent off, and you can get some utterly unique items that may never be available again.
Northland folks are the ones who, among other things, coined or spread some of the slogans you’ll find on union members’ pins and bumper stickers, including “The Labor Movement: The Folks that Brought You the Weekend,” “Friends Don’t Let Friends Cross Picket Lines,” and “Unions: The Anti-Theft Device for Working People.”
