2025 Peace Calendar

Artwork inside the 2025 Peace Calendar
- January: Otherworldly Underworld, Barry Webb, photography  ©2024
The ground beneath our feet is a living web threaded with fungal networks that connect, regenerate, and recycle living matter, supporting all of life on Earth.

- February: Rev. Doctor Pauli Murray, Adri Norris, mixed media/watercolor, © 2024
Pauli Murray played a role in virtually every movement for social justice in the latter half of the 20th Century – yet was often relegated to the sidelines of the causes she fought for.

-March: Sisterhood is Powerful, Hanifa Adbul Hameed, digital illustration, © 2021
Women, and their allies, are fighting hard on many fronts to turn back powerful forces of church and state determined to keep male supremacy in place.

- April: Honoring Dik Cool and the Anti-War Movement, Syracuse Cultural Workers, photo collage
Peace Calendar founder Dik Cool’s vision, persistence, creativity and community-building guided 50+ years of anti-war and social justice activism.

- May: UAW Rising - Union Strong, Jim West, photographs ©2023 
Recent United Auto Workers’ victories signal a resurgent US labor movement — one that is delivering for workers and retirees, and capable of spurring organizing efforts across other sectors.

- June: We Make the Future, Alex Albadree, digital illustration, ©2023 The Center for Cultural Power
With the forces of reaction and repression on the offensive, it is vital that LGBTQ++ activists and allies fight back at all levels – local, state and federal.

- July: The Right to Safety One Human Family, Fatinha Ramos, mixed media ©2017
Record levels of global migration are fueled by immense human suffering, and demand our creative and compassionate action to confront nativism and racism.

- August: Madre Tierra (Mother Earth), Rafael López, acrylic paint on wood board
Humans once understood themselves to be part of a living planet.  Can we imagine and re-create a world where humans leave a “green handprint” rather than a carbon footprint?

- September: Education Not Incarceration, Kate DeCiccio, spraypaint/acrylic on wood
Great progress has been made to reduce juvenile confinement in recent decades, but more remains to be done, particularly for Black and Indigenous youth.

- October: Freedom For Palestine, Shahzaad Raja, collage, © 2021 @thecitizenraja
Given the many critiques we've received about the October artwork, we decided to include the full text from the calendar to give people a more full understanding of our perspective. All the other months have a brief summary of the full text published in the calendar.

NEVER AGAIN... FOR ANYONE

The mass destruction and death in Gaza, so vivid on screens across the globe, have been traumatic, as was the brutal Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. The scale of suffering in Gaza breaks our hearts. This calendar was created since then, and goes to press without an end in sight. We mourn the losses in Gaza and Israel, and raise our voices against violence, oppression, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and hatred in any form.

Escalating violence is not the answer, nor is pretending that the status quo on October 6 was acceptable or stable. Bold action for justice, healing and reconciliation is required. US weapons and diplomatic support have enabled Israeli aggression to continue, despite unprecedented levels of opposition and protest here and internationally.

Neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian leadership effectively serve their people. But there is no equivalence between occupier and occupied. There can be no solution until there is freedom and dignity for Palestinians and Israelis. We don’t know what form peace and self-determination will take, but it must be our North Star.

- November: The Spirit of Indigenous Women, Isaí Robledo González, digital illustration
Colonizers the world over have sought to disrupt the transmission of traditional Indigenous knowledge from generation to generation. Women are often at the forefront of resistance and cultural resilience.

- December:  Follow Your Heart, Laura K. Reeder, 4 acres of snow & footsteps © 2021
December’s freeform labyrinth is an invitation to explore your particular place on this amazing planet.  “Walking …  is how the body measures itself against the Earth,” Rebecca Solnit.

Check out the images from the past four Peace Calendars.

And if you're interested in history, read this great essay by SCW co-founder Linda Perla about the birth of the Peace Calendar and it's first 25 years.