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About Certain Days
A yearly calendar featuring writing and artwork of political prisoners. Sales of the calendar go to benefit various radical and political prisoner projects.
Feb 9, 23
Call for Art & Essay Submissions for 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoner Calendar
Announcing the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar for 2024 and calling for submission of art and essays. The Certain Days:... Read Full Article
Sep 27, 22
Certain Days 2023 Calendar is now Available for Pre-Order!
Announcing Certain Days: Freedom For Political Prisoners Calendar for the year of 2023. We are happy to announce that sales for the... Read Full Article
Apr 7, 22
Call for Art and Article Submissions for the 2023 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar
Call for submissions for the 2023 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar. The Certain Days collective will be releasing our 22nd... Read Full Article
Jul 1, 21
Prison Break: See You When I’m Free
In the last month we mourned the loss of three revolutionaries, all from different movements and all former political prisoners. Sebastian “Sabi”... Read Full Article
Jun 1, 21
Prison Break: Tearing Down the Walls
While thousands take to the streets in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and even more in the streets commemorating the 1-year anniversary... Read Full Article
May 1, 21
Prison Break: Empty the Cages
Happy May Day! From New York ending long-term solitary confinement in jails and prisons to people being held at the St. Louis... Read Full Article
Apr 28, 21
Call for Art and Articles for Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar 2022
Call for art and article submission for the 21st edition of the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoner Calendar. The theme for... Read Full Article
Apr 1, 21
Prison Break: Glimmers of Light
Spring is here, the sun is shining a bit longer, prison guards are refusing the vaccine, judges are mandating video surveillance to... Read Full Article
Mar 1, 21
Prison Break: COVID-19 Cases Continue to Spread to Political Prisoners
Though a short month, much indeed went down in February. We mourn the passing of activist and musician Anne Feeney as well... Read Full Article
Feb 1, 21
Prison Break: A Key for Every Lock
Much has happened in the first few weeks of this new year. Illinois is ending cash bail, pressure continues to mount for... Read Full Article
Jan 1, 21
Prison Break: New Year, Same Struggle for Abolition
With The Marshall Project reporting that 1 in 5 prisoners in the U.S. have had COVID-19, we are beginning the new year... Read Full Article
Dec 1, 20
Prison Break: Cracks Beneath the Ice
Much has happened in the last month: Nobel laureates and interfaith leaders have called for the release of political prisoner David Gilbert... Read Full Article
Nov 2, 20
Prison Break: “Our Passion For Freedom, Is Stronger Than Their Prisons”
photo: Calvin Ma We’re being told that the fate of democracy itself is at stake, that by casting our votes this week... Read Full Article
Oct 1, 20
Prison Break: With Arms Wide Open
In the last few weeks, the public has gotten a rare glimpse into the horrific plight of prisoners locked away in U.S.... Read Full Article
Sep 1, 20
Prison Break: Take One From Us, Another Appears
So much has happened in the last month. Kenosha, Wisconsin and Lafayette, New Orleans have joined the growing number of cities in... Read Full Article
Aug 1, 20
Prison Break: Come Together, Right Now
As this is being written, unidentified Federal agents are disappearing protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, police nationwide are doubling-down on... Read Full Article
Jul 1, 20
Prison Break: If They Come For You in the Morning…
The rebellion that began in Minneapolis following the brutal police murder of George Floyd quickly spread across the country, and the world.... Read Full Article
Jun 3, 20
Prison Break: Political Prisoners and COVID-19
This piece was in the final stages of editing when events around the country, and the world, escalated in response to the... Read Full Article
May 1, 20
Prison Break: Memory and Struggle
While COVID-19 continues to upend life as we know it, its devastation is multiplied tenfold for those inside prisons and jails around... Read Full Article
Apr 1, 20
Prison Break: Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here
With COVID-19 continuing to wreak havoc across the globe, we must pay particular attention to our comrades behind the bars. The extent... Read Full Article
Mar 1, 20
Prison Break: Brick by Brick, Wall By Wall
We enter March with the news that Chuck Africa, the last incarcerated member of the MOVE 9, was released in February, after... Read Full Article
Feb 1, 20
Prison Break: Fighting Until They All Come Home
As you flip your new 2020 Certain Days calendar to February, you will see beautiful artwork by Ethan X. Parker, an illustrator... Read Full Article
Jan 2, 20
Prison Break: Welcome to 2020
It’s now the year 2020 and we’ve still got an abundance of prisons and a stubborn willingness to fill them. There is,... Read Full Article
Dec 30, 19
Rest in Power, Robert Seth Hayes
Editorial from the Certain Days collective on the passing of political prisoner and former member of the Black Panther Party, Robert Seth... Read Full Article
Dec 1, 19
Prison Break: Fire to Warm Our Hearts
You’ve probably noticed that you’re on your last month of your 2019 Certain Days calendar. Don’t fret, the 2020 Certain Days: Freedom... Read Full Article
Nov 1, 19
Prison Break: Message In a Bottle
There’s only two months left in the year, and that means only two more images in your 2019 Certain Days calendar. November’s... Read Full Article
Oct 1, 19
Prison Break: Victories Along the Way
Can you believe it’s October already? Time flies when you’re busy fighting the State and working to free our political prisoners. As... Read Full Article
Sep 24, 19
The Certain Days 2020 Calendar is Now Available to Order!
Certain Days has just released their 2020 edition of their calendar! Sales of the calendar go to benefit prison abolitionist and political... Read Full Article
Aug 30, 19
Prison Break: Through the Bars
Micah Bazant’s beautiful portrait is featured as the September artwork in the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. The poem... Read Full Article
Aug 16, 19
Certain Days Collective Mourns the Loss of Political Prisoner Tom Manning
Statement from the Certain Days collective on the passing of political prisoner Tom Manning. Tom’s contributions to Certain Days go right back... Read Full Article
Aug 1, 19
Prison Break: In the August Heat
The August artwork in your 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar should look familiar. This beautifully detailed art by Montreal-based... Read Full Article
Jun 28, 19
Prison Break: Always On the MOVE
The year is now more than halfway over. We have received all art and article submissions and are busy compiling the 2020... Read Full Article
May 30, 19
Introducing: Prison Break from the Certain Days Collective
We are pleased to introduce the brand new column Prison Break, which is a project of the Certain Days Collective, a long... Read Full Article
Mar 26, 19
Call for Art and Article Submissions: Knitting Together the Struggles
A call for art and article submissions for the 2020 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. Deadline for submissions is May... Read Full Article
Oct 25, 18
The Certain Days 2019 Calendar is Out!
Certain Days Calendar, a benefit for political prisoners produced by prisoners, is out now, and here we present some selections from within... Read Full Article
Sep 4, 18
Pre-Sales for 2019 Certain Days Calendar Have Begun!
Order you copy of Certain Days 2019 calendar now. Produced by and for political prisoners, with profits going to help a variety... Read Full Article
Apr 2, 18
Call for Art and Article Submissions for 2019 Certain Days Calendar
A call for art and article submissions on Health/Care for the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. The deadline is... Read Full Article