Fair Contract: Lead & Roses Letterpress Printed Card

THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FOR A FAIR CONTRACT! *SOLIDARITY FOREVER*
4.25 x 5.5in (A2) letterpress printed folded card with white cotton envelope.

How it’s Printed
Letterpress printed using hand-set antique lead type & vintage cuts (printing blocks). Card backs are printed with photopolymer plates.

About this Design
After I posted the first eight Lead & Roses designs, someone reached out to ask if I could make one for union reps & leaders — folks who sit at bargaining tables, negotiating contracts on behalf of their coworkers. I said OF COURSE, and this card was born! So grateful to be in conversation with so many folks doing good work on so many fronts, and to have learned so much from labor leaders. Solidarity forever!

About Lead & Roses
The phrase “bread and roses” is usually attributed to the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts textile strike & originated in a James Oppenheim poem:

“Our lives shall not be sweated
from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies:
give us bread, but give us roses!”

Bread & Roses has been used in many social movement contexts as a metaphor for the importance of art, beauty, & rest as critical forms of sustenance. Lead & roses gives this phrase a letterpress pun: much of the type used in hand-setting & printing these cards is made of lead.

These are cards to bolster the hearts of organizers so that they remain deeply invested in working for collective liberation for as long as it takes.

For more information about Lead & Roses, visit: https://www.radicalemprints.com/leadandroses

Interested in a wholesale order? Reach out to nicole@radicalemprints.com. Thank you!