What The Gloo Factory Is All About
The Gloo Factory is located in the heart of Tucson’s Historic Warehouse Arts District. Shown here, we are printing banners for the semi-annual open studio tours of the arts district.
Our products go out in the world to make change. The Apaches for Cultural Preservation have for years used the Gloo Factory to make t-shirts for their annual Mount Graham Sacred Run. In this photo, the Apaches complete a 400+ mile relay between the sacred peaks on Mount Graham and the San Francisco mountains outside of Flagstaff, AZ.
We are located in downtown Tucson’s Historic Warehouse Arts District.
Silkscreen color separations set up for the Save the Scenic Santa Ritas t-shirts. SSSR is a grassroots coalition working to stop a giant copper mine outside of Tucson. We print their shirts, stickers, buttons, brochures and more, and wholeheartedly encourage their efforts to protect the ecology of this diverse area.
Jeff is making buttons for No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid coalition addressing border issues. The buttons feature a water jug in the desert and were design here at the Gloo Factory. They tell a story about the dire and deadly situation in the American desert borderlands; they also are promoting awareness of the political trials of No More Deaths volunteer (and Peace Supplies web designer) Walt Staton, who is currently facing jail time stemming from leaving water in the desert as humanitarian aid for Migrants. See more at www.NoMoreDeaths.org
We work with local businesses in many ways. Our colorful custom screenprinted ceiling tiles are part of the exquisite renovation at the Historic Train Depot done by Maynard’s restaurant.
Peace Supplies was founded in response to the growing threat of invasion in Iraq. We printed signs for this protest march, the largest peace march in Tucson history. Seven years late we are still at it. Go to our website for a free “Afghanistan:Obama’s Vietnam?” bumper sticker.
We offer full service printing and binding and do a wide range of custom work for progressive groups.
Stapling programs for and Asylum Project awards dinner. Many of the groups we cater to are volunteer, non-profit, and service traditionally disenfrancised communities.
We are part of a unique community of creative people working for positive change in the world. The large warehouse facility we have rented for the last decade has provided the space to expand our services and ability to support this community.
At the very core of what we do every day is a belief that we can change things for the better. Challenging the lunacy and waste of war is second nature to us; providing an alternative to the corporate media that fans the flames of war and profits from the military industrial complex is what keeps us determined to do our work.
We support the complex and unique relations involved in peaceful change. Southern Arizona has become a militarized zone, where the inhumanity of captialism is brutally clear. We want a world where people and the earth are respected and where jobs with justice are available for all.
We make our facilities available to community groups to print their own merchandise. Gloo Factory offers trainings in various forms of printing and networks with other local independent media projects.
Some of our goods on display at a benefit for the Guatemala Acupuncture Project (GUAMAP). Their annual holiday craft fair raises money to bring acupunture practitioners and trainings to impoverished communities in Guatemala.
Cranking out signs against the anti-migrant Proposition 200, a racist ballot initiative-turned -law that has criminalized people based on their skin color.
One of our most popular bumper stickers, originally produced for the Tucson Community Supported Agriculture Project. Only by controlling our means of production can we guarantee the ability to get our ideas out. In a society dominated by Clear Channel and Fox news, independent media is a necessity for survival.
The Gloo Factory / Peace Supplies routinely participates in political and social events. A few examples are anti-war marches in San Francisco and Washington, DC, the Green Fest in DC and Chicago, Tour de Fat (Fat Tire) in Phoenix and Tucson, and Tucson’s Bike Swap Meet and Peace Fair. Here are a few photos.
Here we are in Washington, DC at an anti-war march in September 2007
Tucson Street Fair, 2006
