MayDay Posters & Themes
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- 2019 Beloved Community Be Love, Come Unity, plant 1,035 trees
- 2018 What You Feed, Grows About transformative power of Love
- 2017 Imagine, Heal, Resist Come together for the work at hand and ahead
- 2016 Radical Returnings The first step of Reparation begins in the heart
- 2015 …And Still We Rise For Racial Justice and Affirmation that Black Lives Matter
- 2014 Wonder? Wonder! Love this Earth in defense of its destruction
- 2013 See the World For the Children
- 2012 The End of the World As We Know It The beginning of the world as we make it. Now! About Transition Towns
- 2011 Caws to Unite united in anger about economic and justice disparities, international protests
- 2010 Uproar! In this census year, we consider that ‘not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.’ (quote from Einstein)
- 2009 Our Common Treasury-Dig It As the economy collapses, we honor the common and sacred soil
- 2008 A New Bridge: Infrastructure for the Future Beings Blueprint for sustainability
- 2007 Somos Agua For the Water
- 2006 The Time Is Now! To Come Together for the Common Good!
- 2005 Where Do We Go From Here? About Disarmament
- 2004 LEAP! Into the Wondrous Possible A vision of the Holy Fool
- 2003 This Is Our Child About local and international violence to Children and the Bill of Rights for children
- 2002 MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Cry of distress, call for Peace
- 2001 Prayer for the Flowering of Compassion About the teachings of the Dalai Lama
- 2000 Divining Economy about wealth and health
- 1999 Somos Uno 25th year honoring Mayday’s red and green roots
- 1998 Sing! About Music
- 1997 May Abundant Blessings Flow About gratitude and community wellness
- 1996 Be A Bridge To prevent violence in the community
- 1995 Gorgeous Fever of Consciousness: Honor Your Senses As the virtual world expands, thanks to our body’s senses
- 1994 In Honor of Seeds: Awesome Vessels of Power! All of the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today
- 1993 Let The Sleeper Awake! Call for deeper layers of consciousness
- 1992 I Am Another Yourself Against colonial mindset in every way
- 1991 Return to Turtle Island Honoring Native American contributions to the world, and the Great Tree of Peace treaty
- 1990 Wheel of Change Ever Whirling Applauding the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and Nelson Mandela’s freedom
- 1989 Voices of Trees Honors relationship of humans and trees
- 1988 When the Dragon Speaks Taken from the words of many poets
- 1987 We May Be Family After All from Chief Seattle’s speech
- 1986 Corn Honoring corn as the intrinsic physical and spiritual sustenance of the Americas
- 1985 Our World Home Think globally and locally
- 1984 In Honor of Time and Changebringing of Hearts, Hands, Minds 10th Mayday, honoring teachers and 10 year olds
- 1983 Water In honor of water
- 1982 Water In honor of water
- 1981 (In Honor of) Time and Changebringing
- 1980 The Year of the Child In alignment with United Nations theme
- 1979 Wake Up! Honors Spring and people’s work
- 1978 These Things Are Free!
- 1977 Seasons Honors the changbringing of earth and of people
- 1976 The Ark Like Noah’s, carrying us through the storm
- 1975 Bring Us Back Together From the years of the Vietnam War!
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