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Artist-run press celebrating niche artifacts and public discourse at www.currenteditions.biz (510) 519-7283 📍 Emeryville, CA

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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 16h
SAD (we need the cardboard talk Liz!!)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Current Editions reproduced the center map from Scanlan's Suppressed Issue: Guerrilla War in the USA. www.currenteditions.biz/product/guer... - I love that they did this because I had an idea to make a zine about the issue and now I won't, lol
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Guerrilla Attacks in the US
In 1970, Scanlan’s Monthly published “Guerrilla War in the U.S.A.,” a sprawling special issue devoted to political violence, sabotage, and the growing belief that the United States had entered a perio...
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
NOW AVAILABLE: www.currenteditions.biz/product/guer... 🚨
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Guerrilla Attacks in the US
In 1970, Scanlan’s Monthly published “Guerrilla War in the U.S.A.,” a sprawling special issue devoted to political violence, sabotage, and the growing belief that the United States had entered a perio...
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The backside has an extensive timeline of incidents
Large black-and-white printed poster laid on a gray floor, filled with dense columns of small text entries and rows of circular and star-shaped icons. Sunlight casting diagonal shadows across it.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
No printer in America would print this centerfold in 1970. Next weekend, we’ll have it at the Current Editions table at the LA Art Book Fair
Black-and-white framed poster showing a map of the United States titled “Guerrilla Attacks in the U.S., 1965–1970.” The map is dotted with circles of varying sizes indicating frequency of attacks.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Okay I will note that Norwalk's elementary school closed in 2020
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Norwalk-La Mirada to close Chavez Elementary, Los Coyotes Middle schools
The board voted to keep John Foster Dulles and Earl Edmondson elementary schools open.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Shout out to Bakersfield @npr.org affiliate @kvprnews.bsky.social whose list includes actual links so the information is verifiable. This was by far the most accurate and thorough list I found today!
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List: Libraries, parks, schools and other California spots named after César Chávez
An analysis by The California Newsroom — a collaborative of public media outlets, including NPR — found over 65 locations in the Golden State bearing the name of the late labor leader.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I know this because they list César E. Chávez School for Social Change in Santa Cruz. This was an alternative school started by a nonprofit called Barrios Unidos that I haven't been able to find any mention of for about 10 years (and no link on Wikipedia).
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Love to see how many news organizations rushed to put out articles about California sites named after Cesar Chavez today that just scraped Wikipedia (or used ChatGPT which also scrapes Wikipedia). This includes @ktvufox2.bsky.social and @abc7news.bsky.social.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Sacramento renaming downtown plaza
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Sacramento leaders signal support for renaming César Chávez Plaza downtown
Sacramento city leaders will plan to rename a downtown park after sexual abuse allegations against the late Civil Rights leader César Chávez.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Some great journalism from NBC Los Angeles, that includes Chavez Ravine. According to Wikipedia, Chavez Ravine was named for Julian Chavez, "a 19th-century Los Angeles councilman who had originally purchased the land in the Elysian Park area." www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/c...
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Here is list of Los Angeles monuments named after Cesar Chavez
At least one LA official called for the change of Cesar Chavez Day.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fresno State covers statue: www.kget.com/news/state-n...
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Bakersfield pulling its street renaming
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H Street will remain H Street: Proposal nixed to rename downtown boulevard for Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez Boulevard would have fronted the Padre Hotel, the Fox Theater and the Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center, which is currently under construction at 21st and H streets.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A list of schools, parks, libraries, streets, etc. named after Cesar Chavez in California: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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CESAR CHAVEZ RENAMING
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
*and by Americans, I mean “people living in America regardless of identification!” 😀
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Americans would do well to peruse this ever-timely publication! The section on search warrants includes scenarios for when police try to search your premises, info on when police can and cannot search, types of details a warrant must include, and example judicial warrants from various states.
Illustrated comic explains police search warrants and consent during home searchesComic panels explain refusing consent and legal rights during police searchesSample search warrant document showing authorization and seized items list
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“Am I free to go, or am I being detained?” is a mantra that has been drilled into our household, sometimes to the dismay of one person (who may simply be requesting to leave the kitchen or end a conversation on shrink wrapping tools).
Cartoon police officer questions a woman who asks, “Am I free to go?”
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A prized possession in the Current Editions library is Katya Komisaruk’s Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement, published by AK Press in 2003. A cartoon character named Sibyl Rites narrates various police scenarios, accompanied by advice and sample legal documents.
Hand holds “Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement” book showing a light-skinned cop detained a dark-skinned man behind a chain-link fence. The tile font references a 90s graffiti/hip hop aesthetic, with a red outline.Cartoon officer detains a woman as she repeats, “I’m going to remain silent. I would like to see a lawyer.”
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Not exaggerating—this went on for at least twenty minutes. Side to side, hopping on and off the board like a small child, not a dog. Just in case you needed to see this today!
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Hard to decide what was better today: our new publication arriving, or watching this dog have a great time skateboarding while we waited
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Also in red, because why not
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TV Tells You FBI Lies Lies Lies – Red
In 1994, Linda Thompson released a 90-minute documentary titled Waco II: The Big Lie Continues. In it, Thompson—an early proponent of bulletin...
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
TV TELLS YOU F.B.I. LIES LIES LIES Linda Thompson's iconic protest sign from Waco II: The Big Lie Continues. Ever relevant, available in two colorways!
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TV Tells You FBI Lies Lies Lies – Blue
In 1994, Linda Thompson released a 90-minute documentary titled Waco II: The Big Lie Continues. In it, Thompson—an early proponent of bulletin...
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Love seeing Marie Equi pop up! Artist Tara Murino-Brault made this beautiful poster with her words for the Portland, Oregon edition of our project Class Set. Now it's enjoyed by students all over the world! ❤️ classset.org/Marie-Equi-T...
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Marie Equi + Tara Murino-Brault (Vol. 4) - Class Set
Download this poster design as a high-resolution pdf (11 MB) Marie Equi (b. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1872–1952) was an outspoken doctor and activist. Equi was born to working-class parents in New ...
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
If you like information about Houston, updates on new our publications, or memories of early-2000s DIY culture, we humbly suggest reading our latest newsletter issue
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Winter Welcome (No. 7)
Please Take a Look!—current events from Current Editions
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Though what ends up being more helpful is reviewing previous sales at similar fairs in terms of attendance, sales, etc. It’s enormously helpful to have this one sheet overview and only takes about 5 minutes to input after a fair (just did one today!) since we track sales via Square
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We have a spreadsheet that we enter numbers of each thing after every fair, along with the days. A formula spits out an average of how much we sell per day, which helps us estimate how much to pack for future fairs.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
“There’s quite a bit more to painting than I realized.” Thank you Landon for speaking The Truth! by @katebingburt.bsky.social
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Yes, I Texted the Number on the Sign
A conversation with Landon, the roof-cleaner and sign-painter behind Portland’s most charming DIY advertisements.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
morning foam
A man wearing a black helmet, red t-shirt, and jeans rides a black electric bicycle along a station platform in front of a vintage yellow and brown train car. The train car is painted with the words "CENTRAL PACIFIC" in large red letters near the top and "PROMONTORY POINT" in smaller red letters below the windows. The train has a classic design with rectangular windows and a red horizontal stripe running along the bottom of the yellow exterior. Overhead, a pedestrian walkway and part of a watchtower-like structure are visible against a cloudy sky.The rear end of the same vintage Central Pacific train car is shown at a station platform, with two men in casual clothing standing on the small back platform. The train car has a rounded roof and is painted in a faded yellow and brown color scheme with red trim. A circular sign on the back reads "PROMONTORY POINT – CHANDLER, ARIZONA." One man is holding his hands in the air and the other rests an arm on the railing. The side of the car again displays “CENTRAL PACIFIC” and “PROMONTORY POINT” in red lettering. The platform tracks, station pavement, and parts of other train cars are also visible in the background under an overcast sky.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Data 70+Helvetica+desktop computer+the office+bar code+the earth+bar code ON the earth+implied sheeple+mailing address that's not a PO Box
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Tucked away in the corner of Bay Area Then at YBCA is @hernberferd.bsky.social's holy grail of Gen X thought. It's a poster he’s wanted to see in person for years. ARE YOU BEING PROCESSED?
A poster with a black background filled with white star-like speckles. At the top, bold text reads “PROCESSED WORLD.” In the center, a white silhouette of a person sits at a desk using a computer atop a large cube-shaped Earth with world map panels. One cube face has a barcode. Below, the caption asks: “Are you DOING the processing? Or BEING processed?”
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
sometimes you look up and realize you’re living in a @marc-fischer.bsky.social world
Street photo of an abandoned pink Barbie-style dollhouse placed on a sidewalk near a street corner. The three-story plastic dollhouse is damaged and missing parts, with toy furniture like a yellow swing and toilet still visible. Surrounding the dollhouse are discarded items including a white trash bag, mattress, and toy palm treePhoto of a zine cover titled “Affordable Housing in Avondale,” featuring an image of a pink and multi-colored dollhouse. The dollhouse is cut open to reveal its multi-level interior, including toy furniture and staircases, and is positioned against a white garage door and gray siding. The composition mimics real architectural photography
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Many other people were clearly inspired by Mandela’s words because this poster’s no longer in print, but you can still see it at classset.org; check currenteditions.biz for other (equally inspirational) posters in stock.
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Current Editions
We research, design, and publish assorted ephemera. Based in Emeryville, California, it is a project of Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
When discussing design ideas and motifs with Jeffrey, @jessalynaaland.bsky.social remembers proposing: “what about someone landing the most awesome skateboard trick?” Skate tricks, long shot mayoral races, the fall of an apartheid state—turns out the message holds up. 🍎🛹🍎
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Class Set
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” It made our day to hear this Nelson Mandela quote pop up in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s post-primary speech this week—the same one featured in Jeffrey Cheung’s beloved Class Set poster from 2017.
Scanned Risograph print by artist Jeffrey Cheung. The print features a drawing of a dark-skinned person with long dark hair, pink nails, blue shorts, and a long-sleeved red shirt, hovering above a skateboard as if mid-trick. Below the illustration is a handwritten quote: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” by Nelson Mandela on a plain white background.Hand holding a Risograph print by artist Jeffrey Cheung in a sunlit studio. The print features a drawing of dark-skinned person with long dark hair, pink nails, blue shorts, and a long-sleeved red shirt, hovering above a skateboard seemingly mid-trick. Below the illustration is a handwritten quote: “It always seems impossible until it’s done” by Nelson Mandela. A rainbow reflection is visible across the print on the concrete floor.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Yet their upload progress bar remains committed to early internet aesthetics
Screenshot of a file upload window from a web browser showing an upload progress bar on the website "proofthisfile.com/framebar.asp." The status indicates "Uploading files..." with a progress of 6.47MB out of 159MB (4%) completed. The estimated time left is 3 minutes and 31 seconds at a speed of 736K/sec. Below the progress bar is an instruction that reads, "To cancel uploading, press your browser's STOP button." The browser window includes a typical address bar and macOS-style traffic light buttons (red, yellow, green) in the top-left corner.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This is why our newest publication was set in Twentieth Century!!
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
AI-generated hold music from our printer just sang about “varied paper options” and “in-house binding solutions”???????????
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Awesome!! Did you hear of anyone doing it? Naturally that could have been another publication 😂
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It would also be a fun opportunity for me to weed my sticker collection and some of those. @marc-fischer.bsky.social I bet you could figure out something like that to combine with the vast collection of other ephemera in your life. Honestly my dream would be a train show if we made stuff for that
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I like the idea of a specialist gathering if you make things that address that topic. One fair I wanted to do last year but couldn’t due to a conflict was a Sticker Fair, as we make a sticker related publication in addition to actual stickers (and I make other art with actual stickers).
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We’ve streamlined packaging too: we like Stayflat mailers for booklets—they keep things safe, and all you have to do is pop it in and peel the strip. For wholesale orders, we save boxes and packing materials from our own mail. It’s free and we get to ☮️❤️♻️
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Second: make it fun (whatever that means for you). We print note cards on leftover cover stock with our Risograph, but a black-and-white printer works too. Add a sticker, a doodle—something quick that makes the package a little more personal.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If mail order feels like a chore, my #1 tip: systematize it! We bought a secondhand label printer, and our shop auto-syncs with our shipping platform. Presets for each item let us print labels in seconds. The whole process takes about 5 minutes.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Not every artist publisher I know enjoys doing mail order, but I honestly love it. I get to write a little note to someone I’m deeply appreciative of and decorate the package with stickers we designed. It also fulfills my mail art urges with minimal effort.
A hand holds a brown cardboard mailer with a goldenrod shipping label, a blue and orange Risograph-printed “Current Editions” card with the words “Peace” and “Earth,” and a bright yellow smiley face sticker with “Current Editions” in red text. Also on the package are two stickers: a small mint green “Thank You!” sticker, and a black triangle sticker with “Current Editions” in bold white text. The background shows a gray concrete floor and flat tiles, suggesting a studio or workspace.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🌭C🇻🇦O🌭N🇻🇦G🌭R🇻🇦A🌭D🇻🇦U🌭L🇻🇦A🌭T🇻🇦I🌭O🇻🇦N🌭S🇻🇦
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As we all know, it's the season to visit Jimi Hendrix's grave in Renton, WA. So on your way to pay respects, why not swing by the Seattle Art Book this weekend!! We'll be there, upstairs, with all our new (and newly reprinted) publications. More info: www.seattleartbookfair.org
Colorful promotional poster for the Seattle Art Book Fair at Washington Hall on May 10–11, 2025. The background is bright yellow, featuring bold black text and a stylized illustration of a smiling stack of yellow books with red, blue, and purple outlines. A large smiley face is drawn across the books, and the words “CURRENT EDITIONS” are arranged in red letters over the face. A coiled red cord loops around the bottomWoman with long brown hair wearing sunglasses, a striped shirt, black cardigan, and checkered tote bag poses beside a black and gray etched mural of Jimi Hendrix at a memorial. The portrait features Hendrix’s face surrounded by stars and the handwritten phrase “until we meet again” above his head. The mural is marked with lipstick prints and graffiti-style hearts.A crowded indoor book and arts fair in a converted theater space. Numerous tables with vendors displaying books, prints, and artistic works fill the main floor. The venue has a stage with marquee lighting in the background and a balcony level. Attendees wearing name badges browse colorful merchandise throughout the bustling space, which has wooden flooring and theatrical lighting overhead.
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🫡🫡🫡
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
thank you
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Current Editions @currenteditions.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
When your secondhand binding equipment arrives with a sticker like this on the manual, you know everything’s going to be top-notch
A metallic sticker on a white piece of paper displaying contact info for “Heavenly Office,” a company offering church office solutions, including a website and toll-free number.
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