Calendar: War Resisters League 2009 Peace Calendar
$14.95
CAL-PEACE09WRL
A desk calendar and state-by-state account of the places where radical history happened, from the civil rights and anti-racist struggles of Alabama and Mississippi to centuries of war tax resistance in Massachusetts, indigenous opposition to oil-drilling in Alaska, and union organizing in Kentucky and California.
“Hold on to some watchwords for today: freedom, justice and peace. … In especially vivid ways the pages of this calendar help us gain a sense of direction by taking us to some of the … battlefields for these ideas. [It] proves that it is possible to resist war and the causes of war—that great power lodged in weapons or ruthless political ambition [can’t] crush either the belief that something better is possible or the struggle to create something better; and that's a reminder …that we need.”
—From the Foreword by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Praise for
The Path of Most Resistance: A U.S. Radical History Tour
The War Resisters League 2009 Peace Calendar
I’m gonna lay down my stylus and palm pilot and study anti-war and more … Thank you War Resisters League for this remarkable calendar, our daily reminder that peace, real freedom, the preservation of humanity and the environment, justice, and more of the fruits of our labor were won by collective struggle alone. We are inheritors of a tradition of resistance, the source of light in dark times, and if we forget, each page of this calendar will remind us of our real daily agenda.
—Robin D. G. Kelley
Author of
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
The 2009 Peace Calendar is wonderful, truly inspiring. These are unknown moments in history, and the best moments, because they show resistance to war, courage, and comradeship. It is not only a calendar, but a piece of literature.
—Howard Zinn
Author of
A People's History of the United States
