September 22, 2023

October 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for October 2023. This month’s art is the poster “Social Order”. Its message highlights the bewildering enormity of the wealth gap – particularly relevant right now with actors/writers, autoworkers, and others out on strike in the U.S against their millionaire and billionaire bosses.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2024 edition is available now!

Click here or below to download the PDF.

August 22, 2023

September 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for September 2023. This month’s art is from the poster “Chile 11 de Septiembre”. This month is the 50th anniversary of the U.S. CIA coup which overthrew the democratically elected, socialist Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed the dictator Pinochet.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2024 edition is on the way very soon!

Click here or below to download the PDF.

July 22, 2023

August 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for August 2023. This month’s art is from the poster “Strike!” – a look at the historical origin of the term – to celebrate the current strike wave sweeping the U.S.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above, and our 2024 edition is on the way very soon!

Click here or below to download the PDF.

June 24, 2023

July 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for July 2023. This month’s art is a not-for-sale piece Ricardo made for this year’s “Mira Mi Corazón” fundraiser for El Colegio High School in Minneapolis. Look closely and you can see the continents in the wings of the monarch butterfly – a cross-cultural symbol for migration and positive change.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

May 24, 2023

June 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for June 2023. This month’s art includes “You are Here” – available at a notecard or postcard – and “Won’t Be Erased” – available as a button.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

April 24, 2023

May 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for May2023. This month’s art includes our “I like my coffee union brewed” pin button, backgrounded by a section of the poster “Sack of Coffee.” May 1 is International Workers’ Day; here in the U.S., baristas like those in Starbucks Workers United have been leading the charge of a youth surge in unionization. The 300th U.S. Starbucks store to unionize did so last month.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

March 27, 2023

April 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for April 2023. This month’s art is called Just Wanted To Check In.” It’s available here as a greeting card. The image is also part of Ricardo’s “What to do in a Pandemic” series, a collection of 10 images that remain relevant as ever about responding to the health justice crisis of our time. These are available in our first coloring booklet, as well.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

February 25, 2023

March 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for March 2023. This month’s art features RLM’s poster “Environmental Justice.” From last month’s disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, to the current struggle for community control of the “arsenic triangle” in the East Phillips neighborhood here in Minneapolis – environmental (in)justice spans the rural-urban divide and demands we address its connections to capitalism, economic inequality and policing.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

January 27, 2023

February 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for February 2023. This month’s art features RLM’s NEW poster “To be of use, featuring a poem by Marge Piercy.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is now available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

December 24, 2022

January 2023 Free Downloadable Calendar Page

Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for January 2023. This month’s art features the poster “Defend Community,” and the beaver lodge from the “What to Do in a Pandemic” series.

A record breaking cold snap across the U.S. in December has made survival more difficult for those in substandard housing and those who are unsheltered. This artwork reminds us of the importance of home – to check on our housed and unhoused neighbors, and to band together to defend our communities against threats both natural and man-made.

The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is now available at the link above.

Click here or below to download the PDF.

June 21, 2022

A Circle By The River – Climate Visionaries for 100PercentMN

This June 2022 video produced by Line Break Media and 100PercentMN, a coalition of organizations working for a just and fossil-free future for Minnesota, features Ricardo’s words and (animated!) artwork. It’s part of their “Climate Visionaries” series.

The video is five and a half minutes; use the CC button to enable captions.

April 1, 2020

MN COVID-19 Response Town Hall

On March 26th, 2020, I joined many community leaders to in roundtable live-stream to discuss how we’re responding as a community to the COVID-19 crisis. Thank you to Rep. Ilhan Omar and her team for convening this conversation.

January 31, 2020

TPT Minnesota Originals

screenshot of a video about the work of Ricardo Levins Morales on TPT

Click above to watch a video titled “Portrait of an Artist as a Healer and Trickster Organizer,” produced as a part of TPT’s Minnesota Originals in 2019. (The link will take you to TPT’s website.)

January 5, 2018

MAG-Net Media Justice Salon: Abolition in the Digital Age

On November 29, 2017, the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) held a Media Justice Salon, hosted by Myaisha Hayes. The theme for this salon was “Abolition in the Digital Age.” I participated in this salon on behalf of MPD150, along with guest speakers Mariame Kaba of Project NIA and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.

Read more about the Media Justice Salon and the resources shared in the video on the Center for Media Justice’s website.