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We're honored to welcome Ricardo Levins Morales to the store for an event in celebration of his new book The Land Knows the Way: Eco-Social Insights for Libertion, a collection of political medicines gathered and gleaned from six decades of trickster art and activism, the long history of peoples' movements, and the deep rhythms of our planet's ecology. Levins Morales offers ways to creatively and effectively respond to living in times that are, on the one hand, unprecedented and unique, and on the other, part of longstanding and familiar historical cycles. If we are to learn from what history and ecology have to teach us, we need to become reacquainted with both.

Ricardo Levins Morales describes himself as a "healer and trickster organizer disguised as an artist." When his family moved to Chicago from Puerto Rico in 1967, he left high school and began supporting the Black Panthers and Young Lords. Since then, he has participated and acted in solidarity with farmers, labor, environmental, racial justice and abolitionist movements. He was a founding member of Northland Poster Collective in 1979, and has operated his own Minneapolis studio/store since 2009. In 2024, Ricardo was named the McKnight Artist of the Year, awarded to one Minnesota artist annually for their significant lifelong contributions to MN communities. He has received numerous other awards for his art and organizing, however, his greatest affirmation is the uses to which his work has been put to use by grassroots movements for social justice.