You can't jail the revolution: Free the Chicago 8

You can't jail the revolution: Free the Chicago 8 [Offset Lithograph]. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland. https://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/20105454.

Though the head of the figure is downturned, his presence is palpable. Not only is he painted in red, but he is also surrounded by movement: blue spikes of energy expanding outward from his form. His power, his resistance, is being spread. The words appear in a large, block-print style featuring the same blue as the energy spikes. In red, squeezed between the rest of the text are the words “Stop the Trial”. From the figure with his fist raised, the blue spikes of energy transform into these words “You Can't Jail the Revolution: Free the Chicago 8.” In red is what the artist wants: to stop the trial. All this information, all the text, is put second visually. What is put first? The raised fist. It portrays the spirit of the message without having to say anything.