Ali

Hand screen printed patch Circle A with janyak (Armenian needlelace) trim illustration The circle A stands for anarchism (անարխիզմ), the “beautiful idea” where all are free and liberated from states, hierarchies, and all forms of coercive power. “Is it possible?” is a hypothetical question that we will not know until we reach that day. “Is it worth striving for?” is an ethical question. For everyone who strives for collective liberation, then the answer is yes, and we believe we have a responsibility to work towards that day. The janyak pattern, in the tradition that I learned, is called shourchbar (circle dance) that for me symbolizes the collective whole of our struggle – standing shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, feet grounded to the earth and eyes set towards that beautiful idea on the horizon. “By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.” ― Errico Malatesta

SWANA folks! Come stitch together in community SUNDAY 5/17 4-7PM @swanarosepdx Our Stitching circle is for SWANA folks only and open to all SWANA identities in their varied expressions. Bring any handwork you’re working on, or if you’re not working on anything just bring yourself and spend time with community. This is not a class but folks help each other along, inspire one another and share story, skills and threads. You can bring show and tell items (WHO’s got a show-n-tell to bring? Is it YOU? 🧿🧿), snacks to share, stitching books, stories and most importantly YOURSELF. There’s a lot of pain in our communities that’s been accumulating, and continues to intensify💔 We know stitching won’t fix a thing, BUT it will give us the opportunity to be together, build community, tend to each other, share and just BE. Let’s stitch each other into community ♥️🪡❌🧿 SWANA Rose is a masks required space and is currently not ADA accessible. Message us with any questions. Flier by: @entangledrootspress Image is Palestinian women stitching

The Unbroken Thread - Stories from SWANA Stitch. Reprint now available (risograph printed + hand bound 🪡) Since we started Portland SWANA Stitch in February 2023, our community has grown and created beautiful and meaningful work! Created to commemorate our second SWANA Stitch show! We interviewed our members about what stitching and Stitch mean to them. The themes that kept surfacing were connection, community, generational connections, picking up ancestral crafts. These are some of the threads that connect us. "In our diasporas we often lose ancestral practices. When we are severed from our homelands we lose materials or are forced to abandon them in order to survive. When we gather to stitch, we pick up what others were forced to set down." We hope this zine inspires you to pick up your stitches and build radical community the way our ancestors have since the very first stitch. You can also declare your love for Stitch and order our Stitch button pack! All proceeds go to support SWANA Stitch 🪡❌🧿♥️ Available at entangledroots.com

Seed by Seed zine - 2nd printing! A collection of stories highlighting the significance of the pomegranate across the SWANA region. 🌷 As an important element in all our cultures and cuisines, the pomegranate can be seen not just as a fruit but as a symbol of our shared fight for collective liberation against genocidal, colonial, and capitalist empires. Seeing the way the zionist-owned POM Wonderful Company has monopolized the pomegranate market and rewritten its story for the west while erasing its SWANA roots has inspired us to create a project compiling and sharing personal stories into a zine on the ways pomegranates have impacted our lives. 🌷 100% of all sales from this zine go to supporting farmers and food sovereignty in Gaza through the @arduna_team in memory of Yousef Abu Rabia. Arduna (Our Land) is tended by Yousef's family and closest friends, continuing his vision of agricultural autonomy and food sovereignty of Gaza. Arduna continues to farm, repair the land, provide water access and do food distribution in North and Central Gaza 🌷 They are currently hosting a funding drive to re-establidh a plant nursery in the north. Dm @blossoming.resistance or @arduna_team to get involved and join. 🌷 You can order one from the link in @entangledrootspress ' bio, available in tiered pricing 🌷

A Garland for May Day: Dedicated to the Workers of the World and to the Stewards of the Earth. An updated version of Walter Crane’s 1895 woodcut illustration “A Garland for May Day.” This updated linocut reflects contemporary collective liberation struggles and replacing the “English garden” garland with that of Pacific Northwest native plants. The linocut was created 13 years ago, but I just recently updated the bottom text on the patches. With the spring flowers and May Day, it seemed like a good time to reshare. Remember the past. Fight for the future. Take time to learn the anarchist roots of May Day as international workers' day, and refuse to let the statists co-opt it. True solidarity is strength. Brittle "unity" with zionists and fascists is capitulation. We have a world to win, so keep walking towards that utopia on the horizon. And never give up on the beautiful idea. 🏴

SOLD OUT ✨LIMITED EDITION ZIPPER POUCH FUNDRAISER FOR BATOUL✨ this is the second run of (5) zipper pouches made in collaboration with @entangledrootspress 💖 50% of all sales with be donated to Batoul & her family, who are currently surviving a genocide in Gaza. @entangledrootspress provided the fabric that they hand-printed their great-grandmother’s Armenian Janyak (lace) design on dark rose canvas. I sewed them together using secondhand metal zippers. I tried to highlight the design in each bag which led to slight variations - each measures approximately 9”ish x 6”ish. Make this your next bag for sewing notions, face care, secrets, rock collections, you name it. TWO of the bags feature unique Armenian Marash designs. $35/ea or $40/ea for Marash (free shipping if outside PDX) DM @marie.jan.garments to purchase I will update this post when 5/5 pouches have sold!

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose history is ended, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, whose prayers are no longer uttered. Go ahead, destroy this race. Let us say that it is again 1915. There is war in the world. Destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their houses and their churches. See if they will not live again. See if they will not laugh again. See if the race will not live again when two of them meet in a beer parlor, twenty years after, and laugh, and speak in their tongue. Go ahead, see if you can do anything about it. See if you can stop them from mocking the big ideas of the world, you sons of bitches, a couple of Armenians talking in the world, go ahead and try to destroy them.” -William Saroyan, a son of Bitlis Art by Ali of Entangled Roots Press, a granddaughter of Bitlis Poems by @najwan_darwish + @sophiaarmen

Lest they Perish - free downloadable graphic Every year on April 24th, millions of Armenians around the world take to the streets. Scattered like seeds across the globe, the diaspora protests in front of genocide-denying consulates, they congregate at universities and cultural centers, they gather with loved ones, they light candles. In the modern borders of Armenia, they march with torches and flowers to the eternal flame of the Swallow's Fortress. The call is to remember and demand. We remember the 1.5 million slaughtered and marched to their deaths in the desert by the Ottoman Empire. We demand justice for those lost and those who survived: recognition, reparations, return of stolen lands and artifacts from the modern state of Turkey. We mourn for the dead on April 24th, but every day we must fight for the living. We must fight systems and empires of mass death. Everywhere. 11″ x 17″ poster. Pen and ink illustration based on a Near East Relief poster raising funds for victims of the genocide. These graphics are free for people to use on posters, banners, fliers, websites, and free publications. Reach out for free prints to distribute if you are local. Thank you for the risograph printed posters @outletpdx #april24 #armeniangenocide

Create Free. Live Free. Free + Open Software: Disentangle your creative practice from Adobe products + other proprietary software. (2nd edition!) Compiled and printed last week at @iprc_pdx More Free and Libre Open Source options. Libre means free. Freemium isn't free. From GNU operating system- " “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis." Let's face it- Adobe is inaccessible at best and exploitative at worst. From their price hikes, mandatory subscription plans with steep cancellation fees to their spyware, sharing customer information with third parties, and numerous data breaches, they just aren't that great. It can take time to learn new software, but know this breakup is for the best. 💥Anti-copyright. Disseminate and distribute freely. 💥Available to download for free in Read and Print pdf files. 💥Copies purchased on my site will cover paper + printing for free distribution.

SWANA folks! Come stitch together in community SUNDAY 4/19 4-7PM @swanarosepdx Our Stitching circle is for SWANA folks only and open to all SWANA identities in their varied expressions. Bring any handwork you’re working on, or if you’re not working on anything just bring yourself and spend time with community. This is not a class but folks help each other along, inspire one another and share story, skills and threads. You can bring show and tell items (WHO’s got a show-n-tell to bring? Is it YOU? 🧿🧿), snacks to share, stitching books, stories and most importantly YOURSELF. In these ongoing, incredibly difficult times stitching won’t fix a thing, BUT it will give us the opportunity to be together, build community, tend to each other, share and just BE. Let’s stitch each other into community ♥️🪡❌🧿 SWANA Rose is a masks required space and is currently not ADA accessible. Message us with any questions. Flier by: @entangledrootspress

SOLD OUT - stay tuned for the final drop! ✨LIMITED EDITION ZIPPER POUCH FUNDRAISER✨ this is the first run of only two batches of zipper pouches made in collaboration with @entangledrootspress 💖 50% of all sales with be donated to Batoul & her family, who are currently surviving a genocide in Gaza. @entangledrootspress provided the fabric that they hand-printed on dark rose canvas & I sewed them together using secondhand metal zippers. I tried to highlight the design in each bag which led to slight variations - each measures approximately 9”ish x 6”ish. Make this your next bag for sewing notions, face care, secrets, rock collections, you name it. $35/ea (free shipping if outside PDX) DM @marie.jan.garments to purchase I will update this post when 5/5 pouches have sold!

Seed by Seed zine - A collection of stories highlighting the significance of the pomegranate across the SWANA region. Stories of how pomegranates have connected us to our families, our communities, our ancestors, our traditions, and our struggles to preserve our cultures and peoples in the face of exploitation and erasure. 🌷 As an important element in all our cultures and cuisines, the pomegranate can be seen not just as a fruit but as a symbol of our shared fight for collective liberation against genocidal, colonial, and capitalist empires. Seeing the way the zionist-owned POM Wonderful Company has monopolized the pomegranate market and rewritten its story for the west while erasing its SWANA roots has inspired us to create a project compiling and sharing personal stories into a zine on the ways pomegranates have impacted our lives. 🌷 Made by a group of creators from the SWANA region based on Turtle Island (the U.S.) who are deeply connected to the pomegranate /رمان / նուռ / انار. We grew up with this fruit all around us: pomegranates on art and in jewelry; pomegranate pieces in the hands of our family and friends as we prepared them together; pomegranate seeds in our salads, our stews, or just by themselves. We are each a seed, coming together to make a powerful whole. 🌷 100% of all sales from this zine go to supporting farmers and food sovereignty in Gaza through the @arduna_team in memory of Yousef Abu Rabia. The Arduna team works directly with Yousef’s family and are the only organization that has been given direct approval to continue this work in Yousef’s name and memory. They are currently hosting a funding drive to re-establidh a plant nursery in the north. Dm @blossoming.resistance or @arduna_team to get involved and join. 🌷 Our first donation from zines sales, $525, was sent today. We released this zine at the Nowruz market organized by @reyhanherbfarm earlier this month and are honored to release this to the wider world on today on Nowruz. 🌷 You can order one from the link in @entangledrootspress ' bio 🌷