What a celebration of life, progressive values and resistance this calendar is! I hope the calendar helps bring about a year of increased commitment to building a just and peaceful world.
Dik Cool, Publisher
Full color; 14x22 on your wall.
People's history annotations.
Holidays for many faiths.
Lunar cycles, 13 native moons.
Eric Drooker,scratchboard and watercolor©1991
January - Ain’t No Power Like The Power Of The People!
Eric Drooker's colored scratchboard image inspires us to use our solidarity to overcome the ever encroaching power of the military-corporate-government-university complex. We shall not be moved!The Highlander Center/SCW
February - The Highlander Center
This collaged tribute to Myles Horton and friends, celebrates the founders and key activists of Highlander, a multiracial organizing and training school that has provided 77 years of radical education.Gabriela Network Collective©2007
March - Women Against War
Founded in the 1980’s, GABRIELA, a Philippine women’s human rights organization, works for human rights in the Philippines, and networks with its sister organization in the US to oppose war and imperialism.Alfredo Arreguin, oil on canvas©1990
April - The Last Salmon Run
Homage to the Salmon, Alfredo Arreguin's intricately beautiful oil painting, reminds us of the symbolic importance of salmon to many Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest.Photograph (right) by Steve Reiter. Collage by SCW
May - Share The Road
Relieve traffic congestion. Reduce use of oil. Reduce air pollution. Fight obesity. This is the future if more people ride their bikes to work. Karen Kerney's collage inspires us to embrace the new-old bicycle, which gets us where we want to go in more ways than one.Photograph by Erin Davies, 2008
June - Fagbug
When Erin Davies found the words "fag" and "u r gay" spray-painted on her VW bug, she transformed the assault into a journey of courage and solidarity. With the words remaining on the car, she took a 58-day trip around the US to connect to people on both side of the homophobia line.Photograph by Abigail Singer
July - Rising Tide: No Compromise!
Abby Singer’s photograph of the 2008 action that shut down construction of a south Florida power plant captures the commitment and determination of activists intent on promoting truly clean, renewable energy in response to the climate crisis.Digital photograph by David Hanks©2005
August - Oppose Military Recruitment
David Hanks’ photograph captures the re-designed storefront of the Oakland, CA military “career center”, shut down by citizens in 2005. Don’t the recruiting centers in your city need similar re-design?! Design: Juan Martinez Beth Ferguson, linocut©2006
September - The Rhizome Collective
This colorized linocut, created jointly by Beth Ferguson and Juan Martinez, celebrates the community and social justice at the core of the Educational Center for Urban Sustainability in Austin, TX.Janet Essley, acrylic on carpet felting©2007
October - Indigenous Women
These revealing portraits of indigenous women are drawn from Janet Essley’s 12-portrait series Oil/Resist. The figures are testament to the leadership roles women have taken in the struggles of indigenous peoples fighting for their lands and ways of life.Jennifer Marsh, fabric sculpture©2008 All photographs by Cathryn Lahm
November - Make It New
Jennifer Marsh’s International Fiber Collaborative project solicited fiber panels from around the world representative of our extreme dependence on oil. Over 3,400 fabric panels were combined to transform an abandoned gas station in Syracuse, NY into a marvelous neighborhood spectacle.Jennifer Hewitson, scratchboard and watercolor dyes©2008
December - Another World Is Now
Jennifer Hewitson’s glorious scratchboard speaks powerfully of the faith that undergirds all activism: that by moving ahead with confidence and a determined hope, we can indeed realize our dreams of a more just and peaceful world.