Now in its 25th year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a fundraising and educational project coordinated between outside organizers across North America and current and former political prisoners. Click here to order your copy!
Each calendar has 11 thought-provoking essays and 12 pieces of beautiful art. You’ll feel inspired every day of the year, with radical historical dates and lots of space for your own plans.
The 2026 calendar features the following essay by Peppy and Krystal.
On Devotion
Have you ever known love so deep, a life without it is unlivable? The fabric of our worlds are woven with love. The lengths that we go to protect this love is instinctual, a self preservation.
We, derived from earth’s elements, creatures of the land we live on are driven to defend our bodies as an abstract state politicizes our existence and attempts to distill all landscapes into battlefields. A struggle between authority and autonomy, state sanctioned violence versus defense of self-sovereignty. As anarchists, we reject their technologies of oppression. As anarchists, we will always reach beyond ourselves moving in concert with others for the great expanses of liberation.
When nefarious actors chose to gather within the academy around a falsehood posed as a question, we chose direct action as means of intervention. While they asked, “Should Transgenderism be regulated by law?” We answered unequivocally with our bodies, fireworks, and homemade smoke cans: “Fascism is not to be debated, it is to be destroyed”. Liberalism and the University mask the true genocidal ambitions of the fascist project by providing a “free speech” platform; a rallying space for organizing, recruitment and legitimization. Our actions in April ’23 were partial but not isolated. We see our lives as part of community organizing that enjoins militancy and care in an effort to preserve the possibility of communal life. And as the state continues to intensify and expand it’s violence, re-affirming its colonial ways, the clarity of its mission and that of ours is clear.
Reaching now from behind concrete walls and inside invisible lines of prison society, we extend our open palms to wave – to offer and receive greetings of solidarity. Prosecution, persecution and imprisonment are always a possible hindrance when we devote ourselves to the labor of revolutionary love but let us not dwell too deeply on temporary confinements. Rather, let us focus on the many horizons before us and what we will do to reach them. Remembering, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Total solidarity with the interconnected struggles for self-determination and collective defense everywhere.