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Posters to knock walls down and raise activists' spirits up. (Northland Poster Collective) (Cover Story)

From: National Catholic Reporter  |  Date: 6/18/1993  |  Author: Gibeau, Dawn

MINNEAPOLIS -- The boldly colored silk-screen poster beside him proclaims the words of Brazilian Archbishop Dom Helder Camara: "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Ricardo Levins Morales, the artist, is manager and cofounder of the 14-year-old Northland Poster Collective, one of the country's nerve centers for art dedicated to social justice. Malcolm X, Anne Frank, Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie, ...

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