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2010 Peace Calendar

Contents:
• January: Healthcare - Single Payer, Universal, Community-based Heathcare
• February: African American - "Rosa Sat, Martin Walked, Barack Ran"
• March: Feminism - Women in Afghanistan
• April: Green - Greenwashing
• May: Jobs and Justice - "Power to the People"
• June: Gay Marriage - Interracial marriage pioneer Mildred Loving speaks out
• July: Food/Organic - White House Vegetable Garden
• August: Simple Living - Don't just do something! Sit there!
• September: Middle East - Shministim-Israeli highschoolers refusing service in occupied Palestine
• October: Indigenous - “Niña y Tucàn” (Girl and Toucan), freedom and cultural identity in Colombia
• November: Economic Justice - “Defy the Moneygod”
• December: Dance - Fan Dancers

• Full color, 14 x 22 on your wall
• Over 200 people’s history annotations
• Holidays for many faiths
• Lunar cycles, 13 native moons

*We regret to inform that we accidentally omitted a couple of holidays from our 2010 Peace Calendar. We missed Chanukah, which begins sundown on December 1st, should be on the calendar on December 2nd. We also left off Kwanzaa, which begins December 26th. We endeavor to be inclusive around so many holidays from so many cultures/religions. And we have erred.

January - Health Care A Right Not A Privilege!

An energizing SCW collage on the critical importance of genuine health care reform. Raise your voices for health care that is government sponsored, single payer, comprehensive, community-based, and appropriately located and well coordinated. It's just too important to leave to the marketplace! (Poster, postcard, buttons, stickers available.)

February - Rosa Sat, Martin Walked, Barack Ran.

Gene Pendon’s thoughtful tribute to the election of Barack Obama uses words from Pennsylvania mom Kiari Day to place this milestone firmly within the framework of the struggle for civil rights. It reminds us that much work remains if we are to bring freedom, justice, dignity and equal opportunity to all Americans. (Poster, T-shirt, notecard, postcard, bookmark, button and sticker available.)

March - Forsaken

Lana Slezic’s marvelous photograph was taken at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan just after these women had voted. Despite the courageous efforts of Afghani women and their allies, to be a woman in Afghanistan is to live a life governed by the entwined forces of patriarchy and militarism to an extent barely comprehensible in the West.

April - The Art of Greenwashing

Tom Fishburne deftly ridicules the current obsession with all things “green” in this terrific cartoon. If we are serious about slowing climate change, businesses, organizations and individuals need to expose and jettison the greenwash, stop calling the same things by different names, and get down to the serious business of doing things differently. (Set of 12 small stickers available.)

May - Main Street, Not Wall Street

This richly colored detail from a painting, Power To The People, by John August Swanson, highlights the critical importance of labor and community solidarity in times of economic crisis. Let’s make our demands clear for policies that strengthen access to education and training, protect adequate social safety nets, and develop local economies. (Poster, notecard available.)

June - What Loving Is All About

This SCW collage places the moving story of Mildred and Richard Loving, who dared to defy laws against interracial marriage, in the context of the pursuit of marriage equality for gays and lesbians. Oakland, CA demonstration photographs by Cathy Cade. Mildred and Richard photograph AP/Wide World. (Postcard, button, sticker available.)

July - White House Vegetable Garden

Vegetable gardens are the small scale seeds of a revolution that can solve a host of public health and environmental crises, among them unsafe food, childhood obesity, struggling local economies, an imperiled environment, and hunger and food insecurity in many urban communities. So don’t just Improve Your Neighborhood – Improve Your Life! Improve Our World! – Plant A Garden! (Poster, notecard, postcard available.)

August - Don’t Just Do Something! Sit There!

A magical painting by high school artist Nicole Wageck invites us into the outdoors, not to work, or play games, but simply to be fully present there. There is an art to doing nothing. Oh, we may know how to waste time. But can we truly relax and enjoy the nothingness? (Book available.)

September - Shministim: Pioneers of a Warless World

Photographs provided by Activestills Collective document the remarkable courage of Israeli high-school seniors who object to their county’s overwhelming militarization, and despite being punished by imprisonment, have refused to serve in the occupation of Palestinian lands. (“Peace Also Takes Courage” T-shirt, mug, button, sticker available.)

October - Niña y Tucán

Jafeth Gómez Ledesma’s compellingly beautiful painting celebrates the rich diversity of Colombian culture. His work exemplifies the power of art to both inspire and document our aspirations for community empowerment and a more decent world. (Poster, holiday card, notecard, postcard.)

November - Defy the Moneygod

Jane Evershed’s mesmerizing painting makes plain our culture’s deadly obsession with the pursuit of the bottom line. But when profits are linked to people’s well-being and respect for the planet, a new triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit, emerges. Money becomes the grease for building sustainable, creative communities. (T-shirt available.)

December - Fan Dancers

As Margaret Warfield’s incredibly dynamic and engaging dancers demonstrate, “There are short cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them!” Vicki Baum (Notecard, framed small print available.)