This Month's Free Calendar Download

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

This month’s free calendar download from artist Ricardo Levins Morales -- who created this year’s DC Labor FilmFest logo -- publicizes Ethnic Studies Week, a nationally coordinated campaign organized by educators. “It was conceived as a response to recent laws and school standards imposed in Arizona and Texas which seek to eliminate the teaching of the history of non-white folk,” says Morales. “Note how the champions of repression announce so clearly what it is that they are afraid of! Get out there and tell stories, folks!”