For information on donating, go to www.northlandposter.com/donations.html

Northland, founded in 1979, has been a major resource for the labor movement and progressive organizations for posters, buttons, bumper stickers, t-shirts and other materials. The collective\'s most famous union bumper sticker may be "The Labor Movement: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend."

Operating out of a shop in south Minneapolis, the collective has been part of many of the major social and economic justice campaigns of the past three decades, including fair trade, Latin American liberation, immigrant rights, GLBT rights, worker culture and more.

About 20 years ago, the collective incurred substantial debt that it has not been able to pay off, the group says on its website, www.northlandposter.com

"We have carried that debt ever since and paid for it with low wages, missed paychecks, inadequate tools, and many other conditions that we help our friends to fight against in the workplace," they wrote.

"To keep going, we would need to raise enough money to pay off our debts and invest a substantial sum into marketing and outreach. That would mean bringing in the amount of $200,000."

Letters sent to close supporters in May elicited a "heartwarming and overwhelming" response, the collective said, but it has not been enough. Recently, Northland sent out another appeal for donations.

If enough is not raised, "we will close down in a systematic way," the group said on its website. "In that case, Northland Poster Collective would fill orders and provide service until sometime in September. The screen printing and graphic arts business which has produced most of our goods, Northland Union Screen Printing, will continue to operate, and will continue to handle custom orders."