The original RLM illustration shown on this puzzle, “Lunch Counter,” is based on a famous photograph of a lunch counter sit-in in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, in which both black and white students took part. Despite violent assaults by white mobs and the risk of prison time, the sit-in movement helped win key demands of the Black Freedom struggle.
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On February 1, 1960, four African-American students sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store. The tactic spread and, despite facing brutal assaults and prison time, it proved to be a key piece of the civil rights struggle.
Also available as a poster.
On February 1, 1960, four African-American students sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store. The tactic spread and, despite facing brutal assaults and prison time, it proved to be a key piece of the civil rights struggle.
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The Christmas Rebellion
Statue of Juan de Oñate is Defaced
The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
The Bread and Roses Textile Strike
CeCe McDonald released from prison, 2014
Chicago March of the Unemployed
Tortuguita/Stop Cop City
Filipino and Japanese Sugar Cane Workers Strike
After Hurricane San Ciriaco in 1899 destroyed Puerto Rico’s coffee plantings, thousands of workers were recruited to cut sugar cane in Hawai’i. This gave birth to Hawai’i’s Puerto Rican community. Poster/card: San Ciriaco
Featured Art: “Ancestors.” Poster/card available here.
Greensboro Sit-ins
New York City School boycotts
History of Black History Month
Japanese-Mexican Labor Association
Boldt Decision
Captain Cook and Hawai’i
Iraq War Protest Anniversary
Kelli Peterson and the GSA
West Virginia Teacher Strike
No Border Wall Drag Protest
Wounded Knee Occupation
Featured Art: Miriam Makeba. Poster/card available here.
Puerto Rican nationalist attack on Congress (1954 – 70th Anniversary)
Chicano Blowouts
“Stop Cop City” direct action destroys construction site
Needletrades strike and International Women’s Day
Alberta Schneck
The Capitol Crawl
New York Conspiracy
March for our Lives
Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike
World War II Internment Camp survivors show solidarity with 2019 family detainees
Amazon Unionization
Nurses protest lack of equipment as COVID pandemic grows
The Rainbow Coalition
Chairman Fred Hampton/Rainbow Coalition poster/card
“Had the Panthers followed today’s practices and looked just at the surface evidence, they’d have written the Patriots off as hopeless racists. Instead they asked why these folks were hurting: was their racism based on vested interest or had they been fooled into it. They concluded that in the big picture they all had more to gain as allies than enemies.” – From Ricardo’s 2010 blog post, Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: a political ecology of change
Disability Rights Sit-in
Tennessee lawmakers expelled, reinstated after protesting gun violence
Freedom House Ambulance Services
Earth Day
Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance
Los Angeles 1992 Rebellion
Struggle for the Eight hour workday and International Workers’ Day
Poster/card “Eight Hours.” How would you fill in the top and bottom text to reflect the world you’d like to see?
May 1, 2006 Immigrant Rights Protests
Writers Guild of America Strike
“Orca Uprising”
Malcolm X delivers his “Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?” speech
“Jane’s Revenge”
Jackson State Shootings
Poster created by RLM for a commemorative conference 20 years after the Kent State & Jackson state murders.Minneapolis Teamster Strike – 1934 (90th Anniversary)
Ida B Wells
George Floyd Uprising
Third Precinct Burning
“We Feel You – From the Ancestors”: Ricardo made this poster in the wake of the uprising. Available as a poster/card.
League of the Physically Handicapped
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters wins recognition
Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid
Angela Davis’s Acquittal
Raid on Tierra Amarilla Courthouse
Sitka Fort Capture
Juneteenth Ports Shutdown
Vincent Chin murder and Asian-American civil rights activism
The Battle of Little Bighorn
Founding of the IWW
Stonewall Rebellion
“Families Belong Together” demonstrations
Paterson textile strike
The Bicentennial Without Colonies
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
Black Hills decision (See also February for information about the 1980 Black Hills Survival Gathering)
The Society for Human Rights
American Indian Movement founded
The Minneapolis-founded American Indian Movement responded to the needs of urban American Indians – MinnPost/MNopedia
1619 Polish Voting Rights Strike in Virginia
Background art from “World Music” – poster available here
Black Sex Worker Liberation Protest
Puerto Rican governor resigns after people’s rebellion
UPS Teamsters Strike 1997
Crowd takes over Montreal Pride without cops or corporations
Freedom School Convention
Murder of Michael Brown and Ferguson Uprising (2014)
World War II Internment Reparations
Nat Turner’s Revolt
Battle of Blair Mountain
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Drag Show Defense
Armed antifascists block MAGA/Proud Boys from attacking drag brunch (with video)
Gabriel Prosser and Jack Ditcher’s Revolt
More information about historical dates in September-1946 Sugar Workers Strike
Peekskill white supremacist riots
Seizure of the La Boquilla Dam
Lesbian Avengers protest attempts to eliminate inclusive curriculum
Also on September 9: Attica Rebellion anniversary
Mexican Normalistas attack military base in support of 43 murdered Ayotzinapa students
1982 Environmental Racism Blockade
Beginning of Occupy Wall Street
Air Traffic Controller solidarity march
67-member Kootenai Tribe declares war on the US
Dzil Nchaa Si An/Mount Graham observatory protest
El Grito de Lares
Poster featuring Ramon Emeterio Betances, leader of the 1868 rebellion against Spain. The “PROMESA” bill in his right hand connects El Grito de Lares to present day anticolonial struggle.
US colonialism, following in the footsteps of Spanish colonialism, genocide and slavery, has been a violent and criminal interruption of the inherent freedom of Puerto Rico and its people, and an assault on everything that sustains our lives and our land. It has caused us tremendous suffering and the loss of many lives. It has cost us great harm to our collective health and wellbeing, the theft of our natural wealth, our work, our agriculture, and the poisoning of our culture and our ecosystem.
In the face of everything that has happened, our natural sovereignty continues to push back, for, like all living organisms, it is part of our nature to resist all harm and reject every form of violation. – excerpt from DeCLARAcion, a liberation document by Aurora Levins Morales and Ricardo Levins Morales in 2017 (English/Español)
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Sit-In
“No One Is Disposable” Poster
Silent Spring released
Rachel Carson poster available
Spot graphic is a “leaf” from “Century of Struggle,” depicting the historic AIDS Quilt as displayed on the Washington Mall starting in 1987.
The Daughters of Bilitis
Striketober 2021
Mauna Kea Thirty Meter Telescope protests
Act UP FDA protest
#MeToo
Black Panther Party is Founded
John Brown’s insurrection against slavery
The I hotel protests and evictions
Women’s international Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.)
Assata Shakur escapes prison
“Friend of Assata” Poster/Card
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the FDA
Strike wins Ethnic Studies Department in San Francisco
The liberation of “The Creole”
The prevention of the Orme Dam
San Miguel de Gualdape Rebellion of 1526
The Poston internment camp strike
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR)
Button: Trans People Won’t Be Erased!
Uprising of the 20,000 – Garment Workers’ Strike
Poster “Uprising of the 20,000”
Indian Farmworker Strike
Arizona Border Wall section blocked
The “Battle of Seattle” WTO protests – 25th Anniversary
Related poster: The Gulf Solidarity Pledge
More information about historical dates in December –
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Fred Hampton assassinated
Antifascists Sabotage Neo-Nazis’ vehicles in DC
Starbucks Unionization
Button: I like My Coffee Union Brewed!
Jackson Boycotts
Radio Free Alcatraz
Battle of Lake Okeechobee
The 1975 Minneapolis trans anti-discrimination ordinance
The United Auto Workers win recognition
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Artwork available for purchase: “Planet Parenthood,” “Say Gay,” “Stop Thinking About Sex!”
The Six Companies
The Christmas Rebellion
The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
The Bread and Roses Textile Strike
One Inc. v. Olesen, the first Supreme Court decision to deal with gay rights
Los Angeles Teacher Strike
Lucy Parsons
The Lumbee and the KKK
Jaunary 21, 2017 Women’s March
January 22, 1973: Roe vs. Wade
In Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right to an abortion without excessive government restriction.
After the rollback of Roe v. Wade in 2022…
“Muslim Ban” Protests
Bde Maka Ska name restoration
Artwork available for purchase: “The Earth Is Not For Sale“, “We Are The Mainstream“
More info on the Black Hills Survival Gathering, as reported in Science For The People in 1980.
John Trudell on Liberation – Black Hills (Paha Sapa) Survival Gathering on Youtube
Greensboro Sit-ins
“Lunch Counter” poster, card or jigsaw puzzle
New York City School boycotts
History of Black History Month
Wet’suwet’en Resistance
Japanese-Mexican Labor Association
Captain Cook and Hawai’i
Iraq War Protest Anniversary
Kelli Peterson and the GSA
West Virginia Teacher Strike
No Border Wall Drag Protest
Wounded Knee Occupation
Artwork available for purchase: “Rachel Corrie“
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Saint Paul Federation of Educators used some re-worked RLM artwork to promote a joint protest, which turned out thousands in the bitter cold a few weeks before MFT went on a historic strike in March 2022.
Claudette Colvin
Chicano Blowouts
Needletrades strike and International Women’s Day
The New Deal (see also June artt)
Alberta Schneck
The Capitol Crawl
Rachel Corrie
New York Conspiracy
March for our Lives
ICE Stewart Detention Center Hunger Strike
Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike
Art available for Purchase: “No Mas Fossil Fuels!”
RLM’s 2022 Video, “A Circle By The River” discusses visioning for a fossil free future:
The background image for April’s calendar page comes from Ricardo’s poster, “Better Active Today Than Radioactive Tomorrow,” produced for Northern Sun Alliance in the mid 1970s.
Amazon Unionization
The Rainbow Coalition
Chairman Fred Hampton/Rainbow Coalition poster/card
“Had the Panthers followed today’s practices and looked just at the surface evidence, they’d have written the Patriots off as hopeless racists. Instead they asked why these folks were hurting: was their racism based on vested interest or had they been fooled into it. They concluded that in the big picture they all had more to gain as allies than enemies.” – From Ricardo’s 2010 blog post, Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: a political ecology of change
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Disability Rights Sit-in
California Essential Workers Wildcat Strike
Freedom House Ambulance Services
Earth Day
Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance
Los Angeles 1992 Rebellion
The May calendar art was all originally commissioned and is not available for purchase – but you might recognize the background from the poster “Begin With Research.”
Eight hour workday and International Workers’ Day
Poster/card “Eight Hours.” How would you fill in the top and bottom text to reflect the world you’d like to see?
New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike-
Jack Spratt Sit-in
Poor People’s March on Washington
Jackson State Shootings
Poster created by RLM for a commemorative conference 20 years after the Kent State & Jackson state murders.Minneapolis Teamster Strike
Ida B Wells
George Floyd Uprising
Third Precinct Burning
“We Feel You – From the Ancestors”: Ricardo made this poster in the wake of the uprising. Available as a poster/card.
League of the Physically Handicapped
Artwork available for purchase: “New Deal Anniversary“
Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid
Angela Davis’s Acquittal
Raid on Tierra Amarilla Courthouse
Columbus Statue Toppling
No More Deaths case
Sitka Fort Capture
Juneteenth Ports Shutdown
ADAPT die-in
Vincent Chin
The Battle of Little Bighorn
Stonewall Rebellion
Art available for purchase: “Serán las dueñas de la tierra“
Review of the film “Serán las dueñas de la tierra” by Néstor David Pastor at NACLA:
When you consider Puerto Rico’s fertile land and tropical climate, it’s tempting to assume that conditions are ideal for farming—they’re not. This unfortunate reality becomes increasingly apparent in the new documentary, Serán las dueñas de la tierra (English title: Stewards of the Land), which follows the struggles of three young farmers. The film also marks the debut for director Juan Manuel Pagán Teitelbaum, who produced the feature-length documentary alongside his partner, Mariolga Reyes Cruz.
The Bicentennial Without Colonies
We Will Ride movement
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
Black Hills decision (See also February for information about the 1980 Black Hills Survival Gathering)
The Society for Human Rights
Prime Day Amazon Protests
Strike for Black Lives-
Jaleel Stallings
The Bonus Army
Artwork available for purchase: “The Throne Within”
The Black Sex Worker Liberation Protest
UPS Teamsters Strike
Community Gardens in Detroit
“Defend Detroit” – Poster/Notecard by RLM
Freedom School Convention
World War II Internment Reparations
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
CIA driven coup in Iran
Nat Turner’s Revolt
Battle of Blair Mountain
March on Washington
Gabriel Prosser and Jack Ditcher’s Revolt
Artwork available for purchase: “My Hands/Mis Manos“, “Violetta Parra“
“One of my greatest inspirations has been the Latin American New Song movement, especially its Chilean pioneers. They transformed themselves from performers of and for the student left into the creators of an authentic voice for their people’s aspirations. Moving easily between songs of love and songs of land reform, between nonsense verse and traditional lament, they dissolved rather than accepted the barriers that divide politics from the rest of life.
What these musicians accomplished was to master the “dream language” of their people as expressed in ancient and contemporary musical traditions. They then used it to voice the secret hopes and feelings that were not finding expression in the commercial culture monopoly, dominated by imported, “Western,” music.”
–Ricardo’s 1990 essay, “The Importance of Being Artist”
Tulsa Massacre
Peekskill white supremacist riots
Seizure of the La Boquilla Dam
Attica Rebellion anniversary
Fascist/US-backed Chilean Coup
Naomi Osaka wins the US Open
National Farmworkers Association Strike
Air Traffic Controller solidarity walkout
Hurricane Maria and mutual aid
Huracanes y San Ciriaco – posters commemorating people’s resilience in the face of previous hurricanes to hit Puerto Rico
Dzil Nchaa Si An/Mount Graham observatory protest
El Grito de Lares
Poster featuring Ramon Emeterio Betances, leader of the 1868 rebellion against Spain. The “PROMESA” bill in his right hand connects El Grito de Lares to present day anticolonial struggle.
US colonialism, following in the footsteps of Spanish colonialism, genocide and slavery, has been a violent and criminal interruption of the inherent freedom of Puerto Rico and its people, and an assault on everything that sustains our lives and our land. It has caused us tremendous suffering and the loss of many lives. It has cost us great harm to our collective health and wellbeing, the theft of our natural wealth, our work, our agriculture, and the poisoning of our culture and our ecosystem.
In the face of everything that has happened, our natural sovereignty continues to push back, for, like all living organisms, it is part of our nature to resist all harm and reject every form of violation. – excerpt from DeCLARAcion, a liberation document by Aurora Levins Morales and Ricardo Levins Morales in 2017 (English/Español)
Youth protest the climate the crisis
The Philadelphia housing protest
The plate and halftone images in October come from event posters designed by Ricardo for the “Guerrilla Wordfare” series in Minneapolis. The clock spot graphic was adapted from the classic “Time to Organize!” IWW image, for the zine version of Ricardo’s 2022 essay “What time is it on the clock of the police abolition movement?”
The Daughters of Bilitis
Striketober 2021
Mauna Kea Thirty Meter Telescope protests
Act UP FDA protest
#MeToo
The 1968 Mexico City Olympics protests
The I hotel protests and evictions
Youth lawsuit over climate change
Artwork available for purchase: “Ella Baker – Understanding“, “Study History“
Minneapolis Public Safety Initiative-
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and the FDA
The Historic 2018 elections
The liberation of “The Creole”
The prevention of the Orme Dam
Line 3 protest
The Poston internment camp strike
Walmart Black Friday Demonstrations
Indian Farmworker Strike
The “Battle of Seattle” WTO protests
Artwork available for purchase: “Cardinals,” “Happy Solidarity Holiday“
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Starbucks Unionization
Jackson Boycotts
London ads preventing deportation
The 1975 Minneapolis trans anti-discrimination ordinance
DRUM and the Muslim Registry
Battle of Lake Okeechobee
The Skylab Job Action
The United Auto Workers win recognition
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“Another World Is Possible” depicts a vision of change, with art based on the nineteenth century Flammarian engraving. One side of the image shows strip mining, deforestation and police/military repression. The other depicts a healthy ecosystem, sustainable energy, and cooperation. With lots of unique features and hidden elements to discover, it makes for the perfect puzzle. Another World is Puzz-lable!
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Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for February 2020. This month features “Lunch Counter” (available as a card and poster). The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar (2020 now available for purchase!) – featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it.
Click below to download the PDF. The calendar is formatted to print on 11×17 or A3 paper.
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This collection of 6 posters highlights African American activists, icons and movements. The posters illustrate struggles both well known and lesser known. The whole set is great for schools and classrooms celebrating black history month, or to showcase inspirational African Americans any time of the year.
Consists of the following six posters:
Angela Davis
Bayard Rustin
Memphis 1968
Lunch Counter
A Friend of Assata
Trayvon Martin/Ella Baker
Plus a caption sheet printed on cardstock which helps explain and contextualize the artwork for viewers.
Get all six posters in the series, together for the price of five. $59.95
Angela Davis 