We’ve started an archive…Donate Your Posters!

The Alternatives Library is starting an archive of social movement art, but we need your help!  We want to document the work of activists and activist struggles through collecting posters, graphics, and other artwork that these movements produced. This spring the library held a Celebrate People’s History Art Show which showcased posters from the Just…

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Botanica Los Angeles

Material expressions of spiritual belief are integral components of the Los Angeles landscape. Cathedrals, temples, churches, and shrines dot the city, but they are not the only sites where notions of the divine, or at least the supernatural, are made visible. Reflecting the broad ethnic and cultural reconfiguration of Southern California in recent years, botanicas…

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