2010 Calendars at AK Press!
Here at AK, we’re all about being organized. And even with today’s modern technologies (I admit, I have a phone that could run my life for me if I let it…) there’s still no substitute for a good old-fashioned paper calendar. What would I do without my trusty Slingshot? My fellow collective members would probably all hate me, because I’d never meet a deadline. So let this be a lesson to all of you—get a good calendar or no one will like you. Just kidding (for the most part), but what I’m trying to be serious about here is the abundance of excellent 2010 calendars and organizers that have arrived in the AK warehouse this month. Check it out:
The Slingshot Organizer is our most popular calendar each year, and comes in two sizes—the teeny little pocket organizer and the larger, spiral-bound desk planner—as well as a variety of colors (but tell us in plain English if you care what color you get, because they name their colors all sorts of hilarious things we can’t keep track of). It’s popular because it’s cheap, it’s laid out in a way that won’t bore you, and it’s got a lot of good information in it (most notably some great historical factoids and a radical contact list for when you’re on the road).
Another calendar that looks great this year is Sparking Change: Poster Art & Politics, the War Resisters League’s 2010 Peace Calendar. Their calendars have a different theme every year, and 2010 just happens to be a good one for my inner (okay, outer) radical art nerd. Desk planner size and spiral bound, with a different full-color image for every week, this one would make a great gift.
If you’re more the wall calendar type, check out the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. I have their 2009 calendar on my office wall and it has served me well! The Certain Days calendars always include great art and good information about political prisoners and the prison industrial complex. And this year the theme of the art and writings is Indigenous Resistance, in honor of the struggles against the 2010 Olympics.
Then of course there’s the World for Palestine wall calendar. In an appreciation of the solidarity work of international artists, the folks who have done the “Colors from Palestine” calendars in the past are now doing a series by international artists committed to the Palestinian struggle. This calendar features the work of Brazilian artist Carlos Latuff. Very cool artwork, and proceeds go to support young artists in Gaza.
Another wall calendar we carry every year is the Zapatista Solidarity Calendar. It’s been a popular one—the contents vary from year to year (this year it’s photos of life in Zapatista “communities in resistance”), but the folks who make it always give the money to projects in Chiapas, in this case to support the construction of drinking water systems and the development of autonomous health and education. Can’t argue with that, eh?
One more that we picked up for the first time last year and are giving another shot because it was so popular: the New Internationalist Planner. Last year it was called the Live , Love, Work, Play Diary, which sounds way more exciting, but we promise the contents are almost the same! Slick full-color graphics and tons of useful information (including conversion charts, radical holidays, and international transit maps).
And stay tuned, soon we’ll also have the Autonomedia Jubilee Saints wall calendar and also one from the IWW! I’m going to buy one of each, this will be my most organized year yet. Think color coding. Mmmmmmmmmmm. I mean it.