Last year the AFL-CIO did a fund raiser to keep them in business. I wish that was in the company history below. I bought the Shame of New Orleans shirt etc...
http://www.northlandposter.com/history.htmlPicture This: A History of Northland Poster Collective
Images are the best way to tell the story of Northland Poster Collective.
Picture this: The Northland Cultural Workers' Conference in Minneapolis, 1979. Eleven young graphic artists meet in a workshop, and excitedly feed off one another's ideas about using art to chronicle and create social change.They meet again, and again, eventually forming a collective to critique one another's art. Lisa Blackshear, Dean Conners, Marilyn Hall, Lee Hoover, Richard Kees, Ricardo Levins Morales, Janice Perry, Frank Sander, Carla Stetson, Mary Sutton, and Lee Wolfson belong to this early incarnation of the collective. George Beyer, an artist who cut his teeth during the CIO organizing drive of the 1930s, delightedly attends their meetings. He encourages them to use silk screening to put their art into circulation.
FULL history and photos at link.