New 2024 Edition with color cover art and a new foreword
Written by Ricardo Levins Morales in 2007 after another assault on Gaza, we have re-issued this pamphlet to help make sense of current events – and to offer this contribution towards pointing the way to a just peace in Palestine.
Lihish’ta’weel– a composite of words meaning “transformation” in Arabic (tahweel) and Hebrew (lihishtaneh) – in essence represents a movement for two Rights of Return: for Palestinians to return to places that were stolen from them, and for Jews to return to the expansive roots of Jewishness that have been stolen as well, both with equally devastating results.
In the long tradition of anti-Zionist Jews who ask, “If Not Now, When?” this image adds to the chorus of Jews opposed to occupation and apartheid.
Three hands pull back barbed wire to reveal a path to an olive tree, its branches forming a raised fist. The Israeli apartheid wall sits in the background. The text is in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Those who know hardship and persecution well are often in the best position to struggle alongside others who face it. Anti-Zionist Jews comprise a large and powerful portion of the movement to end apartheid and occupation in Palestine.
Jewish solidarity with Palestine… If not now, when? Three hands pull back barbed wire to reveal a path to an olive tree, its branches forming a raised fist. The Israeli apartheid wall sits in the background.
The text in this poster appears in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Discussion with Ricardo Levins Morales hosted by Autumn Brown at Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis, February 6, 2025. In Ricardo’s first ever book event, he reads from and discusses The Land Knows The Way: Eco-Social Insights For Liberation.
The audio is 74 minutes. See below for timestamps, and click “continue reading” to read the transcript.
0:00 Autumn Brown introduces the event, how she met Ricardo, and the book
7:53 Ricardo introduces the book
10:26 Reading of the chapter “Haiti and the physics of fire”
20:35 Ricardo discusses the elements of the book: personal narrative, history, ecology, and organizing principles
21:20 Autumn asks about when Ricardo first began to notice and teach the connection between Ricardo’s ecology and organizing
22:26 Ricardo responds
25:36 Ricardo talks about the chapter “Organic tensions, birds and windfall”, and polarization in movements
28:44 Autumn speaks to the current moment and asks Ricardo, what is the medicine that you’re offering right now?
29:48 Ricardo responds and talks about what keeps him grounded in times of confusion and danger, and about grief and despair
34:30 Autumn reflects about emotional wounds and healing
35:57 Ricardo talks about restoring power in the face of trauma and emotional injury
37:27 Autumn asks, how is this moment the same and different from other periods of fascistic rise in history?
38:38 Ricardo responds by talking about childraising advice he was given, and about how fascism and authoritarian looks different in different times and places. He talks about differences in how elite factions respond, and about how we can rely on principles like not surrendering public space, using tactics to see us through when we don’t have strategy, and defending those most immediately targeted.
46:53 Autumn reflects about the heat sources of people’s movements
47:40 Ricardo elaborates on how it’s not a time to be purists, and about making alliances from a position of strength
49:19 Autumn asks, what do you think will be possible seven generations from now?
50:15 Ricardo responds and reads a short book excerpt and discusses the emotional and cultural chemistry of change,
55:28 Ricardo talks about regime change in ecosystems using the Everglades as an example
1:00:25 Autumn asks the audience for questions rooted in dilemmas about organizing work [the questions are audible but are at very low volume in the recording]
1:04:11 Ricardo responds to audience questions by speaking about connecting with the world outside one’s own trauma
1:06:23 Ricardo talks about collectively addressing the feeling of powerlessness and modeling a way of new being
1:09:40 Ricardo concludes by discussing the useful concept of the enemy, that sharp analysis and compassion have to go together, with the Black Panthers’ Rainbow Coalition as an example
Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for January 2025. This month’s artwork is a detail of another just released poster by Ricardo, ““It Is Our Duty To Win,” featuring a quote from Black revolutionary Assata Shakur (previously the subject of a different RLM poster).
The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool as well as a resource for social movements. Our 2025 Liberation Calendar is still available for purchase – if you haven’t gotten yours yet, hey, why not? If you enjoy the free monthly calendar, you’ll love the Liberation Calendar.
Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for December 2024. This month’s artwork is a detail of Ricardo’s newest poster, “From the River to the Sea,” about the Palestinian freedom struggle and justice for all.
The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool as well as a resource for social movements. Our 2025 Liberation Calendar is available for purchase, with special rates available for wholesale, bulk (12+) purchases, and fundraisers (you pay wholesale rate and sell for the price you like). If you enjoy the free monthly calendar, you’ll love the Liberation Calendar, and it makes a great gift!
Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for October 2024. This month’s artwork features Ricardo’s corazon – originally made for El Colegio High School’s annual fundraiser – called “Heart of Gaza”. It envisions a Palestine of abundance in happier times, both past and future. An expanded version of the image is available as a poster, a notecard, and also features as a page in our 2025 Liberation Calendar.
The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool as well as a resource for social movements. Our 2025 Liberation Calendar is now available for purchase, with special rates available for wholesale, bulk (12+) purchases, and fundraisers (you pay wholesale rate and sell for the price you like).
Now available as a notecard – A depiction of a Palestine of abundance in happier times, past and future. A woman wearing a keffiyeh stands with an offering amidst a lush grove of oranges, a representation of the strong connection between the Palestinian people and their land.
The piece was originally created on a wooden heart-shaped block, amidst Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza. It was Ricardo’s 2024 entry in “Mira Mi Corazón,” the annual art fundraiser for El Colegio High School in Minneapolis. It’s also available as a poster.
A depiction of a Palestine of abundance in happier times, past and future. A woman wearing a keffiyeh stands with an offering amidst a lush grove of oranges, a representation of the strong connection between the Palestinian people and their land.
The piece was originally created on a wooden heart-shaped block, amidst Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza. It was Ricardo’s 2024 entry in “Mira Mi Corazón,” the annual art fundraiser for El Colegio High School in Minneapolis.
Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for May 2024. This month’s artwork is an event poster Ricardo made in 1990 for the Jackson State & Kent State Commemorative Conference, 20 years after the May 1970 killings of antiwar students by the U.S. military. At the time of writing, encampments for justice in Palestine and against U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide there are springing up at college campuses around the nation, facing varying levels of state repression. As the event poster says, let us “learn from the past to build for the future”.
Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for January 2024. This month features a portion of the poster/card Jewish Solidarity With Palestine, a vision of interfaith solidarity and liberatory struggle in light of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. To read more about the history of Zionism and possibilities for a just peace for Jews and Palestinians, check out Ricardo’s pamphlet Lihish’ta’weel, which also features this art.
Here is your free, printable monthly calendar for March 2023. This month’s art features RLM’s poster “Environmental Justice.” From last month’s disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, to the current struggle for community control of the “arsenic triangle” in the East Phillips neighborhood here in Minneapolis – environmental (in)justice spans the rural-urban divide and demands we address its connections to capitalism, economic inequality and policing.
The monthly calendar is a simplified, complementary version of the Ricardo Levins Morales Liberation Calendar, featuring historical dates and a mix of new and old artwork, printable for use in your office, school, or you-name-it. It’s a great teaching tool, whether for in-person or distance learning. Our 2023 edition is available at the link above.
A depiction of a Palestine of abundance in happier times, past and future.
Microfiber tapestry – 50×61″, great for virtual meeting backgrounds, conferences, classrooms or meeting halls. Also available as a poster – see bottom of page.
This hopeful poster featuring text by Aurora Levins Morales gives a contemporary take on the Exodus that encompasses people of all tribes.
“They say that other country over there, dim blue in the twilight, farther than the orange stars exploding over our roofs, is called peace, but who can find the way? This time we cannot cross until we carry each other. All of us refugees, all of us prophets. No more taking turns on history’s wheel, trying to collect old debts no one can pay. The sea will not open that way. This time that country is what we promise each other, our rage pressed cheek to cheek until tears flood the space between, until there are no enemies left, because this time no one will be left to drown and all of us must be chosen. This time it’s all of us or none.”
This poster commemorates and celebrates solidarity activist Rachel Corrie. This brave young woman died while defending a Palestinian home from demolition by the Israeli Defense Forces in March, 2003. Her name became known around the world amongst anti-Israeli-apartheid activists and others.
The words in this poster come from Rachel’s last emails home to the United States.
A multi-color screen print, this poster about strength, dignity and sacrifice belongs on many a solidarity activist’s wall.
“My Palestinian friends are a good example of how to be in it for the long haul. I know that the situation gets to them… I am nevertheless amazed at their strength in being able to defend such a large degree of their humanity – laughter, generosity, family time – against the incredible horror occuring in their lives and against the constant presence of death… I spent a lot of time writing about the disappointment of discuovering the degree of eveil of which we are still capable.
I should at least mention that I also discovering a agree of strength and basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity.”
Israel’s 2006 all-out military assault on Gaza and Lebanon unleashed painful historical memories.
This poster stylistically spins off Pablo Picasso’s famous painting Guernica, a reaction to Germany’s casually devastating bombing of the Basque town of the same name during the Spanish Civil War.
