Phone Banking: Lead & Roses Letterpress Printed Card

I’D RATHER NOT BE PHONE BANKING,
BUT I’M GLAD I’M PHONE BANKING WITH YOU.
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) of flowers. Card backs are printed with photopolymer plates.

About this Design
This one is (also) for my fellow introverted organizers! Some folks don’t mind phone banking, but some of us use serious tactics to avoid making or answering live phone calls. But you know what? Phone banking is a form of “spade work” (thank you, Ella Baker!) and can be a critical way to connect with our bases, our communities, our grassroots donors, and beyond. And just like with door knocking, the company can make all the difference.

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!