John Fleissner
Wisconsin native John Fleissner is an artist, activist, and public high school teacher. His art “is for the working class.” Versed in multimedias, John creates printmaking, relief cuts, stamp work, wood carving, and street murals. He is a vocal advocate for workers rights. You can find his work on the picket lines and pasted to street walls around the city of Milwaukee and all over the world.
Key Sites
Commentaries, Interviews, and Lectures
Academic References
- Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Abolition geography: Essays towards liberation. Verso Books, 2022.
- Lowe, Lisa. "The Dialectics of Abolition." American Quarterly 75.2 (2023): 371-376.
- MacPhee, Josh, ed. Paper politics: Socially engaged printmaking today. PM Press, 2009.
- McDowell, Meghan G., and Luis A. Fernandez. "‘Disband, disempower, and disarm’: Amplifying the theory and practice of police abolition." Critical Criminology 26.3 (2018): 373-391.
- Meiners, Erica R. "Ending the school-to-prison pipeline/building abolition futures." The Urban Review 43.4 (2011): 547-565.
- Lester, Quinn. "Whose democracy in which state?: Abolition democracy from Angela Davis to WEB Du Bois." Social Science Quarterly 102.7 (2021): 3081-3086.
- Wall T and Linnemann T (2014) Staring down the state: Police power, visual economies, and the “war on cameras.” Crime, Media, Culture 10(2): 133-149.
