2010.54.8698

It is against the darkness, this revolution...And the beginning of everything that is to come.
1983
26.00 in HIGH x 12.00 in WIDE
(66.04 cm HIGH x 30.48 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.8698

Along the bottom is text reading "batik (c) Lisa Kokin Published by Inkworks 1974-1984 ten years of progressive printing" followed by an Allied Printing union label, "inkworks" and, in larger text, "Oakland".

This is a vertically oriented poster on white paper. There is a thin, green border all the way around about ? inch from the edge of the paper. Inside this border, the background is light brown and there are 7 irregularly shaped circles with illustrations of people doing various things. There are 3 rows of two side-by-side circles and a single, larger, more heart-shaped one at the bottom. The people in the images are doing things like tallying votes, working with machinery, reading, and listening to someone's heart with a stethoscope, or are drawn from the shoulders up. The figure in the illustration at the bottom wears a straw-like hat and has a thin, brown object with the letters "LK" on it alongside him or her. Handwriting-like green text at the bottom reads "It is against the darkness, this revolution? / And the beginning of everything that is to come." Very small text beneath the quote attributes it to "-Ernesto Cardenal, Minister of Culture, Nicaragua Libre" and centered, black text below that reads "in solidarity with the peoples of Central America".
Bookmark and Share