Fred Hampton on the importance of revolutionary education Haymarket Books 2024-10-20 | Fred Hampton on the importance of revolutionary education
Vermont Palestine Conference: Palestine Today: War, Genocide, Resistance & Solidarity Haymarket Books 2024-10-20 | Speakers: Ashley Smith, Aria Aber, Samia Abbas & Kali Akuno The Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation is excited to host the first ever Vermont Palestine Conference: The Struggle for Land and Liberation. This conference is for any and all who are interested in learning more about Palestinian liberation and intersecting struggles/causes, as well as what the struggle for liberation looks like in Vermont. This is a space for seasoned organizers and those new to the cause, for strategizing, learning from each other, and deepening our collective work.Join our state-wide educational and activist conference about the struggle to free Palestine.Learn more at vermontcpl.org/events/vermont-palestine-conference--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Vermont Palestine Conference: Building the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation Haymarket Books 2024-10-19 | Speakers: Michele Eddleman McCorkmick, Helen Scott, Merih Etgü, Wafic Faour, & Fhar Miess The Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation is excited to host the first ever Vermont Palestine Conference: The Struggle for Land and Liberation. This conference is for any and all who are interested in learning more about Palestinian liberation and intersecting struggles/causes, as well as what the struggle for liberation looks like in Vermont. This is a space for seasoned organizers and those new to the cause, for strategizing, learning from each other, and deepening our collective work.Join our state-wide educational and activist conference about the struggle to free Palestine.Learn more at vermontcpl.org/events/vermont-palestine-conference--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Gaza, Lebanon, & Israel’s Drive Toward Regional War Haymarket Books 2024-10-18 | Join Salvage and Haymarket Books for an urgent discussion of Gaza, Lebanon, & Israel’s Drive Toward Regional War with writer and activists Joseph Daher and Sai Englert.--------------------------------------------------------------After nearly a year of their genocidal campaign in Gaza, Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and subsequent invasion of Southern Lebanon leaves the region poised on the brink of regional war. While mainstream outlets and politicians fall over themselves to blare the loudest denunciations of Iran’s retaliatory missile barrage launched in response, solidarity activists the world over are scrambling to understand how we got here, and what we can do to force our rulers back from the abyss.In this Salvage Live discussion Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God, and a piece in the forthcoming issue of Salvage on the class basis of Hamas, will be in conversation with Sai Englert, author of Settler Colonialism: An Introduction.--------------------------------------------------------------Joseph Daher is an internationalist anticapitalist and an academic. He teaches at Lausanne University, Switzerland and at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Marxism and Palestine, Syria after the Uprisings and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God. He is the founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.Sai Englert is a lecturer at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He is the author of Settler Colonialism: an Introduction and sits on the editorial boards of Historical Materialism and Notes from Below.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Salvage. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Towards the Abyss: Mass Protest, War, and What Ukraine Reveals About the Global System Haymarket Books 2024-10-15 | Over the course of the past decade, Ukraine has been roiled by war and upheaval that stretches from 2014, when pro-EU protestors toppled the government in Kiev, through the ongoing Russian invasion that began in 2022. Throughout that time, Volodymyr Ischenko has provided invaluable commentary on Ukraine’s accelerating downward spiral. While the particulars—the drawn-out process of demodernization following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia’s increasingly desperate attempts to maintain its fractured hegemony over its former satellites—may be unique to Ukraine, a surprisingly similar pattern has emerged across much of the globe in the 21st century.For this event, Ishchenko will be in conversation with Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, to discuss the situation in Ukraine, how things went from mass protests to war in that country, and what that process reveals about the global order.-----------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Vincent Bevins is the author of The Jakarta Method (2020) and If We Burn (2023), and previously served as a foreign correspondent for fifteen years, primarily in Southeast Asia and Latin America.Dr. Volodymyr Ishchenko is a Ukrainian sociologist, currently at Freie Universität Berlin. He published widely on contemporary Ukrainian politics, the Euromaidan revolution and the ensuing war, notably in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Left Review, and Jacobin. He is the author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Country Queers Haymarket Books 2024-10-09 | Join Rae Garringer and special guests Neema Avashia, Kijana West, and David Rodriguez for a virtual launch and celebration of Country Queers: A Love Letter.--------------------------------------------------------------Please support these efforts focused on Helene recovery in rural Appalachian communities:east TN - Tri Cities Mutual Aid Network - @allixTCMAN on venmosouthwest VA - Holler2Holler - @holler2holler on venmowestern NC - Rednecks Rising - @chelseawnc on venmo--------------------------------------------------------------Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.After years as a DIY, minimally funded, community-based oral history project, the work now takes a new form in Country Queers: A Love Letter—a book of full-color photos and interviews with rural folks from Mississippi to New Mexico and beyond, with Garringer’s account as traveler and interviewer woven through the pages. In these intimate conversations, we see how queerness—shaped, as all things are, by race, class, gender, and more—moves in rural and small-town spaces, spotlighting how country queers make sense of their lives through reflections on land, home, community, and belonging. While media-driven myths suggest that big cities are the only places queer folks can find love and community, Country Queers resists that trope by centering rural queer and trans stories of the joys, challenges, monotony, and nuances of their lives, in their own words.haymarketbooks.org/books/2439-country-queersSpeakers:Neema Avashia is a West Virginian-born Indian American who writes about her identity, culture, and politics. She is the author of Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place.Rae Garringer is a writer, oral historian, audio producer, and goat farmer based in southeastern West Virginia, where they were raised. They are the author and editor of Country Queers: A Love Letter. Kijana West is the founder of Safe Space Cumberland, a home for the LGBTQIA+ family in Cumberland, MD working in intersectional partnership with other historically marginalized communities.David Rodriguez is a goat farmer from Lane City, Texas. He and his husband run Country Q's: a goat milk soap company.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing Haymarket Books 2024-09-27 | Join Rebecca Vilkomerson, Rabbi Alissa Wise, Omar Barghouti, Nyle Fort and Stefanie Fox as they discuss the new book Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist OrganizingThe book asks What does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow—in numbers and power—while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part?Against the backdrop of rapid and often devastating political developments, Solidarity is the Political Version of Love explores how JVP grew larger as the organization shifted to the left and helped to alter the public narrative about Palestinian liberation, while also navigating the tensions of organization-building and creating a space for Judaism liberated from Zionism. Their insights help contextualize the intense suppression of activism for Palestinian freedom, while illuminating the roots of today’s flourishing Jewish solidarity with Palestinians worldwide.In addressing their shortcomings and failures no less than their inspiring successes, Vilkomerson and Wise deliver an account of JVP’s organizing during the 2010s that offers crucial strategic lessons for anyone engaging in the collective work of building organizations and fighting for justice as our movements evolve over time.***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***Speakers:Rebecca Vilkomerson has worked in social justice movement building for several decades, as an organizer, fundraiser, organizational development consultant and strategist. From 2009-2019 she was the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. In 2022, the Solidaire Network published her report “Funding Freedom: Building Support for the Palestinian Freedom Movement in Philanthropy.” She is currently the Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project.Rabbi Alissa Wise is an organizational consultant, community organizer, educator, and ritual leader with over two decades of movement-building experience. Rabbi Wise co-founded the JVP Rabbinical Council in 2010. From 2011-2021 was Organizing Co-Director, Deputy Director and Interim Co-Executive Director of JVP. She is currently the Lead Organizer of Rabbis for Ceasefire which she founded in October 2023.Omar Barghouti is a co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY, and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket: 2011). His commentaries and views have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, among others.Stefanie Fox (she/her) is the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a U.S. based, grassroots membership organization mobilizing Jewish communities into the movement for Palestinian rights and freedom and towards a vision of Judaism beyond Zionism. Stefanie joined JVP in 2009 as the organization’s first National Organizer, and played multiple roles over the past 15 years growing the organization into the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world. Prior to joining JVP, Stefanie spent a decade in racial and economic justice work as a grassroots community organizer, public health practitioner, and policy researcher and analyst. She has written extensively for print media with publications in outlets like Time, Boston Review, The Nation, and has appeared on MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, CNN, and more. Nyle Fort is a minister, organizer, and scholar. He is currently an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Jewish Currents. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
We The Gathered Heat Haymarket Books 2024-09-26 | Join Bao Phi, Terisa Siagatonu, George Abraham, David Mura, Saba Keramati and other special guests for a live celebration of their poetry anthology We The Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word.A rich anthology featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific Islander” (AAPI) in today’s world.Exploring the range of experiences AAPI people endure in a world shaped by colonization and white supremacy, the poems in this collection confront American militarism, reimagine lineage, celebrate queer/trans life, and reclaim indigeneity, refugeehood, and more. Drawn from a range of schools and movements, We the Gathered Heat highlights the vitality of oral traditions in contemporary AAPI literature. Intergenerational and fiercely loving, this path breaking anthology honors our literary ancestors and makes space for AAPI literary futures.Get We The Gathered Heat from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org/books/2221-we-the-gathered-heat***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***Speakers:Bao Phi (he/him/his) has been a performance poet since 1991. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, Bao Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry. He has two collections of poems, both published by Coffee House Press, Sông I Sing and Thousand Star Hotel, the latter of which was nominated for the Minnesota Book Award, named by NPR as one of the best books of 2017, and was chosen as 2017’s best poetry book of the year by San Francisco State’s Poetry Center.Terisa Siagatonu is an award-winning poet, teaching artist, mental health educator, and community leader born and rooted in the Bay Area. Her presence in the poetry world as a queer Samoan woman and activist has granted her opportunities to perform and speak in places ranging from the White House (during the Obama administration) to the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France. A Kundiman Fellow and 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 List Honoree, her work has been published in Poetry Magazine and has been featured on Button Poetry, CNN, NBCNews, NPR, Huffington Post, KQED, Everyday Feminism, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, and Upworthy.Carol Ann Carl is a Native Pohnpeian poet. In 2023, she was the Poetry and the Senses fellow at the University of California–Berkeley’s Arts Research Center. She lives in Honolulu.George Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet and memoirist who was born on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville, FL). They are the author of Birthright (2020), which won the Arab American Book Award. They are currently executive editor of Mizna and teach at Amherst College.David Mura’s most recent books are The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives and A Stranger’s Journey: Race, Identity & Narrative Craft in Writing. His poetry books are The Last Incantations, Angels for the Burning, The Colors of Desire, and After We Lost Our Way.Saba Keramati is the author of Self-Mythology, selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series (University of Arkansas Press, 2024). She is a Discovery Poetry Prize winner. For more, please visit www. sabakeramati.com.Sham-e-Ali Nayeem is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, sound producer, and recovering social justice lawyer with Hyderabadi Muslim roots. She is the author of the poetry collection, City of Pearls (Upset Press, 2019) and has released two musical albums, City of Pearls (2019) and Moti Ka Sheher (2023), featuring self-composed musical interpretations from her book. Sham-e-Ali is the recipient of the 2022 Leeway Transformation Award, the 2016 Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship, and the 1997 echoing green fellowship. Follow Sham @sham_e_ali_nayeem.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation Haymarket Books 2024-09-18 | Join Linda Sarsour, Noura Erakat, Yosra El Gazzar, and Aline Batarseh as they discuss Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation, Edited by Jessica Anderson, Aline Batarseh, and Yosra El Gazzar and Created by Visualizing Palestine.The book is a striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a vivid portrait of Israeli settler colonialism and the Palestinian struggle for freedom. The infographics present more than just data: colorful, accessible, and thoughtfully arranged, the oppression they document in stark detail dovetails with stories of perseverance and strength. From the history of Zionist settlement to the depopulation of Palestinian villages; from the construction of an apartheid wall to the destruction of olive trees; from hunger strikes to mass protests to boycotts, Visualizing Palestine’s graphics are powerful, comprehensive, and demand our attention. In the words of Arundhati Roy, Visualizing Palestine is "The anatomy of an occupation laid bare."Get a copy of Visualizing Palestine: haymarketbooks.org/books/2441-visualizing-palestine--------------------------------------------------------------Aline Batarseh is Palestinian from East Jerusalem. She joined Visualizing Palestine as executive director in 2021. She has more than 20 years of experience working with several Palestinian and international nonprofits at the intersections of gender equality, reproductive justice, children’s rights, mental health, and social justice. Aline has a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a B.A. in Communication Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College. Aline is co-editor of Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation. Yosra El Gazzar is a visual artist and designer based in Cairo, Egypt. She has been working as an information designer with Visualizing Palestine since 2016. Yosra has a B.A. in Applied Science and Arts from the German University in Cairo, she was also a fellow of Moutheqat/Women in DOX fellowship in Tunisia., and a fellow of CEC ArtsLink in the US. Her work has been presented in various venues including: The Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, Dar El Nimer for Arts and Culture in Beirut, MED International Film Festival in Rome, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany, FESPACO Pan African Film Festival in Burkina Faso, and Dubai and Beirut Design Weeks. Yosra is co-editor of Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation.Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Noura is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival and a Board Member of Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights. In 2024, she served as the Co-Chair of an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel, which submitted a report to the White House recommending suspending U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. Linda Sarsour is an award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, seasoned community organizer, direct action strategist, and mother of three. Ambitious, outspoken and independent, Linda shatters stereotypes of Muslim women while also treasuring her religious and ethnic heritage. She is a Palestinian Muslim American and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn!” She is the co-founder of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change and co-founder of Until Freedom, an intersectional racial justice organization focused on direct action and power building in communities of color. Until Freedom is best known for their work on the Breonna Taylor police murder case in Louisville, Kentucky.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Visualizing Palestine. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police Haymarket Books 2024-09-18 | Join David Correia, Kim Kelly and Judah Schept as the discuss Corriea’s latest book, Set the Earth on Fire: The Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 and the Birth of the Police. The book is an eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern policing. As John Sayles said of the book, "David Correia has excavated a trove of forgotten or little-known history from the hard coal of Pennsylvania, culminating in the question that remains with us today— just who are the police meant to protect and serve?" Learn more: haymarketbooks.org/books/2220-set-the-earth-on-fire-----------------------------------------------------------Judah Schept the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (New York University Press, 2022) and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion (NYU Press, 2015, and co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Verso Books, 2024). He has been active for more than two decades with organizations and campaigns fighting for decarceration and abolition and is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.David Correia is a Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Properties of Violence (University of Georgia Press, 2013), co-author with Tyler Wall of Police: A Field Guide (Verso, 2018), and co-author with Nick Estes, Melanie Yazzie, and Jennifer Denetdale of Red Nation Rising Nation: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation (PM Press, 2021). He is a co-founder of AbolishAPD, a research and mutual aid collective in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Kim Kelly is a Philadelphia–based journalist and organizer who writes about labor, politics, food, music, and culture. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Esquire and The New York Times. She is the author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence Haymarket Books 2024-09-13 | Join Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, Harsha Walia, Migrants Organise and Books Against Borders in this virtual discussion of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence on September 12, 2024, at 7pm UK time. This event will also act as the launch for a new, in-person reading group for organisers in London, starting September 18th--------------------------------------------------------------Our current moment has witnessed, with greater clarity than ever before, the complicities and collaborations between tech companies and the violent systems of dispossession, displacement, and exclusion inherent to global racial capitalism. These systems - and the surveillance companies, tech giants, and arms manufacturers that proliferate and profit from them - stretch across borders, linking states in global regimes of extraction, exclusion, and genocide. From Palestine, to Kenya, to Britain, to the US, we have seen an acute interplay between surveillance technologies, the suppression of rights and the extension of state power.As Israel, the ‘homeland security/surveillance capital of the world’ uses AI to target Palestinian and a whole host of technologies in the ongoing genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, fascist lynch mobs on the streets of Britain have been answered with a push from the government for expanded use of facial recognition technologies.Yet throughout this moment, campaigns have consistently identified key targets: the companies complicit in the development, sale, and expansion of these technologies. The wealth of targets for resistance have become increasingly clear - albeit widespread. Now, more than ever, it is vital that we come together to strategise, organise, and reflect on how we resist.“Our job … through reading, learning, and acting together, must be to politically and radically imagine a world void of the border- and surveillance-industrial complex; void of racial capitalism. We impart cracks in these structures, in part, by chipping away at violent technologies and their political economy wherever we find them. We must interrogate and understand exactly how the structures we wish to undo are upheld, obscured, and reinforced by these violent technologies that promise greater efficiency, convenience, and security.”Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi and Coline Schupfer, from the introduction--------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:MIZUE AIZEKI is the founder and Executive Director of the Surveillance Resistance Lab. For nearly twenty years, Mizue has been organizing to end the injustices at the intersections of the criminal and migration control systems—including criminalization, imprisonment, and exile. Mizue has led multiple policy and individual case campaigns to end the entanglement of local law enforcement and ICE policing, and has also built community defense programs to combat ICE raids. Mizue is a co-editor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket Books, February 2024). Mizue’s photographic work appears in Dying to Live, A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books, 2008) and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016).MATT MAHMOUDI is a lecturer, researcher, and organiser. As well as helping form the No Tech for Tyrants collective, Matt leads Amnesty International’s “Ban the Scan” campaign against facial recognition technologies from New York City to the occupied Palestinian territories. He is Affiliated Lecturer in Sociology and was the inaugural Jo Cox PhD scholar at the University of Cambridge. Alongside his forthcoming book, Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control (University of California Press), his work appears in The Sociological Review, International Political Sociology, and Digital Witness (Oxford University Press, 2020).HARSHA WALIA is active in migrant justice, anticapitalist, feminist, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist movements and is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism and Border and Rule.MIGRANTS ORGANISE is a UK-based platform for refugees and migrants to organise for power, dignity and justice. The organisation combines advice and support for individuals subjected to hostile immigration policies with grassroots organising, advocacy, research and campaigning to dismantle structural racism.BOOKS AGAINST BORDERS is an abolitionist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist political education collective. We view collective education as fundamental to our organising, and aim to bring together theory and practice to ensure that we approach our work with clear principles, working towards socialist and abolitionist futures.
From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire Haymarket Books 2024-09-11 | Join Haymarket Books and In These Times for a book talk on From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, with author Sarah Jaffe. This event will take place at Haymarket House, and will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses range from the personal grief of a single COVID death to the planetary disaster wrought by climate change. We are in an age of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated. What can we do?This is capitalism's death phase, and this crushing daily reality its violent, thrashing excrescence. It has become clear that the cost of wealth creation for a few is enormous destruction for most of the world’s population. The marginalized and the vulnerable have been feeling the weight of this crisis for a long time, but it is increasingly pressing down on all of us. And yet we are denied the means of mourning the futures that are being so brutally curtailed.At such a moment, taking the time to grieve is a radical act. In her new book, From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, veteran labor journalist Sarah Jaffe shows how public memorialization has become more than a refusal or a protest: it is a path to imagining a better world. In it, she argues that when we are able to mourn the lives, the homes, the worlds we have lost, we are better prepared to fight for a transformed future.What could this collective mourning look like? How do we slow down and grieve when everything about the world lashes at our backs and demands we move on? For this launch event, Jaffe will discuss all of this and more.For this launch event, Sarah Jaffe will be in conversation with Dania Rajendra------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Order a copy of From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire:bookshop.org/a/1039/9781541703490————————————————————————————————————————————————Speakers: Sarah Jaffe is a Type Media Center Fellow and an independent journalist covering the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets. She is the author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone and Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the American Prospect, and many other publications. She is the cohost, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine's Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The Progressive and New Labor Forum.Dania Rajendra has been organizing, strategizing, and writing to knit people together across boundaries, silos, disciplines, and communities for two decades. Currently, she sits on the international advisory board of the Diaspora Alliance and the board of Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW).---------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and In These Times. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Capital and Abolition Haymarket Books 2024-09-05 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————In this session, authors Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs will draw on their work on California, Louisiana, and beyond to tease out the interrelationship of racial capitalist crisis and the expansion of carceral geographies as well as how a historical materialist approach to abolition can fortify and advance our struggles for new worlds.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Unbuild Walls: Borders, Prisons, and Abolition Haymarket Books 2024-09-05 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————As calls to abolish ICE, prisons and policing, and borders gain urgency in the U.S. and abroad, so too does the need to understand how these systems necessitate and sustain each other. Silky Shah and Harsha Walia, in conversation with Amna A. Akbar, will unpack why global migrant justice efforts require a PIC abolition analysis, and how this relates to bordering, migration, and capitalism more broadly.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
From the Ashes: Grief, Care, and Time in our Movements Haymarket Books 2024-09-05 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring Sarah Jaffe, Eman Abdelhadi, Kelly Hayes, and Lydia Pelot-HobbsGrief is everywhere these days, and yet speaking about it is often foreclosed even in our movement spaces. As we move forward in a time of intersecting crises, how do we create space for our very human needs—for rest, for care, for time to mourn—while we organize to rise to the immediate challenges of our time?———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
The Genocidal Returns of Lesser Evilism: The U.S. Elections and Left Strategy Haymarket Books 2024-09-05 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring brian bean, Kristen Godfrey, Natalia TylimA presidential election between Trump and whoever the Democrats thrust upon us is the latest expression of deepening social, political and constitutional crisis. What does it mean to understand these elections through the prism of the pressing need to organize and build forces capable of fighting for an alternative, socialist future to that offered by Genocide Joe (or his successor) and Donald the Dictator?———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
SunDDay School: A Revolutionary Love Haymarket Books 2024-09-02 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Presented by the Dream Defenders.SunDDay School is a space for us to explore and experience the spiritual life of social movements. As we move through profound grief in our world, this program, curated by the Dream Defenders, is organized around the adage that “revolution is the greatest act of love,” and love for our people, here and internationally, is what unites us most. Join us for “A Revolutionary Love” - an inspirational service that will celebrate how socialist politics can transform the human spirit.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long: Exploring the Work of June Jordan Haymarket Books 2024-09-02 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Join Hanif Abdurraqib in exploring both politically radical poems and love poems from June Jordan's body of work and mapping how those two impulses (love and a radical politic) intersect, and are not at all disparate.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
An Ecosocialism that Builds: What’s Next for the Green New Deal? Haymarket Books 2024-09-02 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Presented by the Climate and Community Institute and DSAFive years ago, the Green New Deal transformed climate organizing. It’s time to take stock of successes, setbacks, and strategy. How can we confront the climate crisis at scale while advancing internationalism, racial justice, and worker power? Join us for a lively debate about ecosocialism.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Lenin and the Politics of Rehearsal Haymarket Books 2024-09-02 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore.100 years after Lenin’s death, his exhortations to learn and think in the concrete remain urgent for our movements. What does it mean to approach our political practice not as an abstract set of rules, but as a collective rehearsal of coming worlds? And how can we perceive, expand, and connect contemporary world-experiments rehearsing abolitionist, communist, and anti-imperialist movement around the planet?———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
The Political Economy of Covid Haymarket Books 2024-09-02 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Presented by Death Panel, featuring Jules Gill-Peterson, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, and Artie VierkantOver the last several years, the Biden administration has overseen a rapid dismantling of the US covid response, alongside an effort to normalize the virus as part of everyday life. This session will explore how this rush to a premature “end” of the pandemic was accomplished, how it was presented as an apolitical and technocratic matter of changing circumstances.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Blue Collar Empire: On the History of the AFL-CIA and Possibilities for Labor Internationalism Haymarket Books 2024-09-02 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring Jeff SchuhrkeA conversation about the new book Blue Collar Empire—which recounts the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade in the late 20th century, shows how it took place in partnership with the US government’s Cold War-era quest to control labor struggles abroad, and explores what this history means for the possibility of international solidarity in the US labor movement today.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Haymarket Books 2024-09-01 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Join acclaimed writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs as she illuminates how, for Lorde, survival was not simply about getting through, or about resilience. It was about the total stakes of living on, and with, a planet in transformation, her commitment to justice intimately connected to her deep engagement with the natural world.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Palestine and the Limits of International Law Haymarket Books 2024-09-01 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring Noura ErakatSince the early 20th century, Palestinians have leveled a racial and anti-colonial critique of Zionism. That critique crystallized vividly during the apex of Third World Revolt particularly in the UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination. While the Oslo Agreement offered Israel a lifeline to protect its Zionist settler sovereignty, the State incrementally and steadily dismantled the prospect of a Palestinian state. In 2020, several legacy human rights organizations echoed the Palestinian critique of Israel following Israel’s passage of the Nation-State Law declaring that only Jews have the right to self-determination in Palestine making clear that Israel intended to be the only sovereign between the River and the Sea. This history and analysis seemed to fall by the wayside after October 7th, which lifted Gaza outside of geographical and political context and suggested that history began in 2023. This lecture will discuss this historical development with an eye on the Palestinian intellectual and political tradition in order to offer commentary on the limits of international law in this moment.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Theory of Water: Indigenous Internationals for World-Making Haymarket Books 2024-09-01 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonUsing Nishnaabeg "poetic knowledge" concerning water, this talk explores Indigenous internationalism, grounded solidarity and world making towards liberatory futures.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Dismantling Imperial Feminism Haymarket Books 2024-09-01 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring with Megan Lessard and Emily JanakiramLess than 25 years after the United States invaded Afghanistan, vowing to “liberate” women from the Taliban, warmongers in the imperial core are cynically invoking “women’s rights” to manufacture consent for Israel’s genocide in Palestine. In this discussion, we will unpack the concept of Israeli sexual exceptionalism and how feminism continues to be marshaled in the service of empire.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Ten Myths About Zionism Haymarket Books 2024-09-01 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————The radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and a new edition of Ten Myths About Israel, will critically assess the myths and reality behind the state of Israel. From the false equation of Judaism with Zionism, to lies about Gaza, to the two state solution and more, equipping ourselves with historical knowledge is essential to solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Moving Toward Home: The Enduring Legacy of Black and Palestinian Solidarity Haymarket Books 2024-09-01 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago, presented by the Dream Defenders———————————————————————A decade ago, “from Ferguson to Palestine, occupation is a crime,” rang out at protests around the United States. This acknowledgement of shared struggle came from an enduring commitment against anti-colonial domination by Black and Palestinian revolutionaries, a connection that has only strengthened over the years. This session will examine how this bond was built, from Malcolm and Muhammad touring Palestinian refugee camps to ongoing action for a Free Palestine, and explore where our fights for liberation go from here.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
All Eyes on Palestine: Solidarity, Liberation, Intifada Haymarket Books 2024-08-31 | Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2024 conference, in Chicago. ———————————————————————Featuring Noura Erakat, Rafeef Ziadah, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, and Rabbi Brant RosenEven amidst Israel’s ongoing genocidal war, the courage and steadfastness of Palestinians have awakened a global solidarity movement. Join us to discuss the rich history of the Palestinian liberation movement, the state of the resistance to Israel and US imperialism, and the future of Palestinian and global liberation.———————————————————————Help sustain the Socialism Conference for years to come by making a donation today:haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com/forms/help-sustain-the-socialism-conference
Call to Artists: Through the Portal Learning Series - Part 3 Haymarket Books 2024-08-22 | Join us for a three-part online workshop connecting artists, designers and content creators who aspire to contribute to movements for collective liberation with grassroots organizers & educators working in the areas of solidarity economy/economic democracy, climate justice and abolition (the “portals” of SJI’s Portal Project.)Each event will correspond with soon-to-be released booklets published in conjunction with UIC’s Social Justice Initiatives’ Portal Project and Haymarket Books, and in advance of SJI’s “Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” conference happening in Chicago this September 20 - 22.Artists will be invited to participate in a brief workshop (45 - 60 minutes) with individuals working deeply within the “portals” of Economic Democracy, Climate Justice & Abolition. They will do an introduction to these areas of work ( a 101 style presentation) and share examples where artistic and cultural production have been pivotal in these movements. Then, artists will be able to engage in a spacious Q&A with the organizers about questions they may have about these areas of work.We invite artists and culture workers who are new to grassroots social movements around the economy, climate and abolition who are interested in learning more and creating work which challenges the imagination of art consumers. There is a CALL TO ART connected to “Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” conference where artists may submit work. We intend this series to support artists in the creation of their work related to the gathering.August 7 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Francisco Perez (Center for Economic Democracy / Economics for Emancipation) & Camila Tapia-Guilliams August 14 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Mark Chavez (Climate Justice Alliance) August 21 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Richie Reseda (Question Culture)---------------------------------------------------------------------SpeakersFrancisco Pérez (Platanomics) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and senior economist at the Center for Economic Democracy. He’s the former director of the Center for Popular Economics, a nonprofit collective of political economists whose programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. He is one of the main designers of Economics for Emancipation. Learn more: www.platanomics.comCamila Tapia-Guilliams (they.them.elle) is a mixed media artist and solidarity economy organizer based in Baltimore, MD. In their work they weave together narratives of care, cooperation, and resistance to create interactive experiences about anti-oppressive and democratic practices. Camila is a co-founder and Worker-Owner of Transverse Cooperative, an artist-owned co-op based in Baltimore that serves movements for collective liberation with art, design, and cultural strategy and organizes arts and culture workers towards better living and working conditions. Camila is also the Training and Consulting Coordinator with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the national membership organization of worker co-ops. Recently, Camila was a member of NCBA & CDF's Co-op Leaders and Scholars, sat on the board of Guilded Cooperative, and was an organizer with Anticapitalism for Artists.Mark Chavez is a storyteller who lives with his family in the Northern Rockies. His writing has appeared in Flux Hawaii and Taiji Terasaki's TRANSENDIENTS: Immigrant Stories of Place. In between doing communications work for Climate Justice Alliance and raising two young kids, he is working on a debut middle grade novel and collection of short stories.richie reseda practices transformative justice in his relationships and daily life. He is a formerly-incarcerated music and film producer, content creator, cultural organizer, and creative director. He produced the feature film, SONGS FROM THE HOLE. He co-created and co-hosted the Spotify Original podcast Abolition X, and creative-directs for The For Everyone Fashion Collective. While in prison, he founded the worker-owned media collective Question Culture, and co-foundedSuccess Stories, the feminist-accountability program chronicled in the CNN documentary, “The Feminist on Cell Block Y.”------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, SJI Portal Project, Art.coop, and Artists for Radical Imagination. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Call to Artists: Through the Portal Learning Series - Part 2 Haymarket Books 2024-08-15 | Join us for a three-part online workshop connecting artists, designers and content creators who aspire to contribute to movements for collective liberation with grassroots organizers & educators working in the areas of solidarity economy/economic democracy, climate justice and abolition (the “portals” of SJI’s Portal Project.)Each event will correspond with soon-to-be released booklets published in conjunction with UIC’s Social Justice Initiatives’ Portal Project and Haymarket Books, and in advance of SJI’s “Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” conference happening in Chicago this September 20 - 22.Artists will be invited to participate in a brief workshop (45 - 60 minutes) with individuals working deeply within the “portals” of Economic Democracy, Climate Justice & Abolition. They will do an introduction to these areas of work ( a 101 style presentation) and share examples where artistic and cultural production have been pivotal in these movements. Then, artists will be able to engage in a spacious Q&A with the organizers about questions they may have about these areas of work.We invite artists and culture workers who are new to grassroots social movements around the economy, climate and abolition who are interested in learning more and creating work which challenges the imagination of art consumers. There is a CALL TO ART connected to “Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” conference where artists may submit work. We intend this series to support artists in the creation of their work related to the gathering.August 7 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Francisco Perez (Center for Economic Democracy / Economics for Emancipation) & Camila Tapia-GuilliamsAugust 14 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Mark Chavez (Climate Justice Alliance) August 21 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Richie Reseda (Question Culture)---------------------------------------------------------------------SpeakersFrancisco Pérez (Platanomics) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and senior economist at the Center for Economic Democracy. He’s the former director of the Center for Popular Economics, a nonprofit collective of political economists whose programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. He is one of the main designers of Economics for Emancipation. Learn more: www.platanomics.comCamila Tapia-Guilliams (they.them.elle) is a mixed media artist and solidarity economy organizer based in Baltimore, MD. In their work they weave together narratives of care, cooperation, and resistance to create interactive experiences about anti-oppressive and democratic practices. Camila is a co-founder and Worker-Owner of Transverse Cooperative, an artist-owned co-op based in Baltimore that serves movements for collective liberation with art, design, and cultural strategy and organizes arts and culture workers towards better living and working conditions. Camila is also the Training and Consulting Coordinator with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the national membership organization of worker co-ops. Recently, Camila was a member of NCBA & CDF's Co-op Leaders and Scholars, sat on the board of Guilded Cooperative, and was an organizer with Anticapitalism for Artists.Mark Chavez is a storyteller who lives with his family in the Northern Rockies. His writing has appeared in Flux Hawaii and Taiji Terasaki's TRANSENDIENTS: Immigrant Stories of Place. In between doing communications work for Climate Justice Alliance and raising two young kids, he is working on a debut middle grade novel and collection of short stories.richie reseda practices transformative justice in his relationships and daily life. He is a formerly-incarcerated music and film producer, content creator, cultural organizer, and creative director. He produced the feature film, SONGS FROM THE HOLE. He co-created and co-hosted the Spotify Original podcast Abolition X, and creative-directs for The For Everyone Fashion Collective. While in prison, he founded the worker-owned media collective Question Culture, and co-foundedSuccess Stories, the feminist-accountability program chronicled in the CNN documentary, “The Feminist on Cell Block Y.”------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, SJI Portal Project, Art.coop, and Artists for Radical Imagination. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Nazar Boy Haymarket Books 2024-08-09 | Join Tarik Dobbs with special guests Julian Randall, I.S. Jones and Katana Smith, in celebration of his debut poetry collection Nazar Boy.———————————From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism.Tarik Dobbs’s work explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9/11 America. As an Arab American writer, Dobbs is achingly familiar with the power dynamics, violence, and capitalistic undercurrents woven through the language of the colonizer. They challenge this power in visual, free-verse, and formally intense poems—both traditional and innovative—that stretch the elasticity of borders, verbs, images, redactions, and more. Ranging from sonnets to concrete poems, Nazar Boy is visually stimulating, thought-provoking, emotionally wrenching, and exquisitely crafted.Dobbs’ poems blur and collapse narrative distances within and between places, from the Levant to Michigan, and break down dichotomies portrayed in Western media: between Arabness and whiteness, intellectualism and the working poor, Muslimness and queerness, disability and desire. By turns irreverent and serenely gentle, Dobbs calls us to speak, to dream, and to imagine beyond those distances so that we might speak, dream, and imagine better versions of ourselves, our relationships to each other, and our places in the world.Get Nazar Boy from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org/books/2217-nazar-boy---------------------------------------------------------------Speakers: Tarik Dobbs (b.1997; Dearborn, MI) is a writer, an artist, and a Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Tarik’s poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the Net anthologies, as well as AGNI, Guernica, and Poetry Magazine, among others. Tarik helps run poetry.onl, and served as a guest editor at Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America as well as Zoeglossia: A Community for Poets with Disabilities. Tarik received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, and is currently an M.F.A. fellow in art, theory, practice at Northwestern University.Julian Randall is a Living Queer Black poet from Chicago. His poetry and essays are published in the New York Times Magazine, POETRY, The Atlantic, and Vibe. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Julian holds an MFA in Poetry from Ole Miss. His first book, Refuse, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He was also a contributor to the #1 New York Times-bestseller Black Boy Joy. Julian has previously worked as a youth mentor, teaching writing workshops to children on house arrest. Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa is his debut children's novel. Follow him on Twitter!I.S. Jones is an American / Nigerian poet and essayist. She has received support in the form of fellowships, retreats, and residencies from Hedgebrook, Brooklyn Poets, Sewanee’s Writers Conference, Callaloo, Bread Loaf, and The Watering Hole. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. For the last three years, she served as the Director of the Watershed Reading Series with Art + Literature Laboratory. Her chapbook Spells of My Name (2021) was selected by Newfound for their Emerging Poets Series. I.S. Jones is a 2023 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar. She is currently an instructor with Brooklyn Poets, a reader for Poetry Magazine, and is at work on her debut full-length collection of poems.Katana Smith is a poet and writer from Aurora, Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, AGNI, RHINO poetry, and elsewhere. She is a freelance writer and serves as Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University. Katana earned her MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from the Litowitz graduate program at Northwestern University. She is a McNair Scholar, and a graduate of the creative writing program at Knox College. She lives in Chicago.---------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Call to Artists: Through the Portal Learning Series - Part 1 Haymarket Books 2024-08-08 | Join us for a three-part online workshop connecting artists, designers and content creators who aspire to contribute to movements for collective liberation with grassroots organizers & educators working in the areas of solidarity economy/economic democracy, climate justice and abolition (the “portals” of SJI’s Portal Project.)Each event will correspond with soon-to-be released booklets published in conjunction with UIC’s Social Justice Initiatives’ Portal Project and Haymarket Books, and in advance of SJI’s “Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” conference happening in Chicago this September 20 - 22.Artists will be invited to participate in a brief workshop (45 - 60 minutes) with individuals working deeply within the “portals” of Economic Democracy, Climate Justice & Abolition. They will do an introduction to these areas of work ( a 101 style presentation) and share examples where artistic and cultural production have been pivotal in these movements. Then, artists will be able to engage in a spacious Q&A with the organizers about questions they may have about these areas of work.We invite artists and culture workers who are new to grassroots social movements around the economy, climate and abolition who are interested in learning more and creating work which challenges the imagination of art consumers. There is a CALL TO ART connected to “Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” conference where artists may submit work. We intend this series to support artists in the creation of their work related to the gathering.August 7 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Francisco Perez (Center for Economic Democracy / Economics for Emancipation) & Camila Tapia-GuilliamsAugust 14 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Mark Chavez (Climate Justice Alliance) August 21 - 2 ET - 3:30 ET - Richie Reseda (Question Culture)---------------------------------------------------------------------SpeakersFrancisco Pérez (Platanomics) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and senior economist at the Center for Economic Democracy. He’s the former director of the Center for Popular Economics, a nonprofit collective of political economists whose programs and publications demystify the economy and put useful economic tools in the hands of people fighting for social and economic justice. He is one of the main designers of Economics for Emancipation. Learn more: www.platanomics.comCamila Tapia-Guilliams (they.them.elle) is a mixed media artist and solidarity economy organizer based in Baltimore, MD. In their work they weave together narratives of care, cooperation, and resistance to create interactive experiences about anti-oppressive and democratic practices. Camila is a co-founder and Worker-Owner of Transverse Cooperative, an artist-owned co-op based in Baltimore that serves movements for collective liberation with art, design, and cultural strategy and organizes arts and culture workers towards better living and working conditions. Camila is also the Training and Consulting Coordinator with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, the national membership organization of worker co-ops. Recently, Camila was a member of NCBA & CDF's Co-op Leaders and Scholars, sat on the board of Guilded Cooperative, and was an organizer with Anticapitalism for Artists.Mark Chavez is a storyteller who lives with his family in the Northern Rockies. His writing has appeared in Flux Hawaii and Taiji Terasaki's TRANSENDIENTS: Immigrant Stories of Place. In between doing communications work for Climate Justice Alliance and raising two young kids, he is working on a debut middle grade novel and collection of short stories.richie reseda practices transformative justice in his relationships and daily life. He is a formerly-incarcerated music and film producer, content creator, cultural organizer, and creative director. He produced the feature film, SONGS FROM THE HOLE. He co-created and co-hosted the Spotify Original podcast Abolition X, and creative-directs for The For Everyone Fashion Collective. While in prison, he founded the worker-owned media collective Question Culture, and co-foundedSuccess Stories, the feminist-accountability program chronicled in the CNN documentary, “The Feminist on Cell Block Y.”------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, SJI Portal Project, Art.coop, and Artists for Radical Imagination. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Our History is the Future Haymarket Books 2024-08-03 | Now available in paperback on the fifth anniversary of its original publication, Our History Is the Future features a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising indigenous campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world.In this award-winning book, Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations.In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan “Mni Wiconi”—Water Is Life—was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even with the encampment gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue.————————————————————————————————————————————————Speakers: Nick Estes is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is an award-winning historian and journalist. Estes co-hosts the Red Nation podcast and is the lead editor of Red Media, an Indigenous-run media organization that publishes books, videos, and podcasts. He is also a member of the Oceti Sakowin Writers Society, a network of Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota writers committed to defend and advance Oceti Sakowin sovereignty, cultures, and histories.Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas (2017), which won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and poetry editor at Kore Press; in 2012, her participatory installation, Whereas We Respond, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. She was awarded a Whiting Writer’s Award in 2016. Long Soldier is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.-----------------------------------------------------------This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
No Medals for Genocide: Ban Israel from the Olympics Haymarket Books 2024-08-01 | The 2024 Paris Olympics are set to take place this July and August. As Israel’s genocide of Palestinians rages on, hear from athletes and activists about the campaign to ban Israel from the Olympics, the conditions of Palestinian athletes trying to train to reach their dreams in the midst of a genocide, and ways that athletes globally are showing solidarity.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Hanna Barakat is a Palestinian sprinter who competed for Palestine at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.Jules Boykoff is a professor at Pacific University, an international expert in sports politics and author of 6 books on the Olympic Games, and retired professional soccer player.Jesse Joseph is a competitive marathoner who staged a protest for Palestine during the US Olympic Trials, and an activist with the Democratic Socialists of America.Moderated by Olivia Katbi, the North America coordinator for the Palestinian BDS Movement.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat Haymarket Books 2024-07-26 | Join us for a discussion of how to maintain hope in the face of despair, with Hannah Proctor and Sarah Jaffe———————————“Not since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In Burnout, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.”—Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor, ParapraxisIn the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? In her new book Burnout, Hannah Proctor answers that question by drawing on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope.Burnout considers despairing former Communards exiled to a penal colony in the South Pacific; exhausted Bolsheviks recuperating in sanatoria in the aftermath of the October Revolution; an ex-militant on the analyst’s couch relating dreams of ruined landscapes; and many more. Jettisoning self-help narratives and individualizing therapy talk, Proctor offers a different way forward—neither denial nor despair. Her cogent exploration of the ways militants have made sense of their own burnout demonstrates that it is possible to mourn and organize at once, and to do both without compromise.For this launch event, Proctor will be joined by Sarah Jaffe, whose forthcoming book From The Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire takes up a similar subject.————————————Speakers:Hannah Proctor holds a Wellcome Trust University Award at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of two books: Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History (published in the Palgrave Macmillan series 'Mental Health in Historical Perspective' in 2020) and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). She's a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy, is a contributing editor at Parapraxis Mag and is web/reviews editor of History of the Human Sciences.Sarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone; Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and the forthcoming From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, all from Bold Type Books. Her writing has been published in The Nation, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and a contributing writer at In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored podcast, with Michelle Chen, covering today’s labor movement, and Heart Reacts, with Craig Gent, an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Verso Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
What Is the State For? Haymarket Books 2024-07-25 | Can the nation-state serve social justice? Should social movements work inside or outside the state? What would a just state look like, and how can we get there? Join Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and others for an exploration of these timely questions.———————Leading a discussion in the latest issue of Boston Review, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò identifies fossil capital as the principal obstacle to a more just world. We face an uphill battle against carbon’s capture of the state system, he argues, but state politics remains our best path forward.In this online forum, Táíwò will be joined by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Tara Raghuveer to explore the strategies, possibilities, and limitations of our movements’ efforts to address the climate crisis and transform the state in the image of justice.Order a copy of What Is The State For: haymarketbooks.org/books/2467-what-is-the-state-for———————Speakers:Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosphy at Georgetown University. He is the author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations.Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Professor of Sociology at NYU and Director of the Urban Democracy Lab. His most recent book is We, the Sovereign.Tara Raghuveer is the founding director of KC Tenants and the National Tenant Union Federation.---------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Boston Review. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution Haymarket Books 2024-07-11 | Join Robbie McVeigh, Bill Rolston, and Bill Fletcher Jr., for a discussion of Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution—————————————————Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. And as Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston argue in their new book, Ireland’s experience is central to understanding the history of colonization and anti-colonial politics throughout the world. Part history, part analysis, Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution charts the centuries of Irish colonial history, from England’s proto-imperial engagement with Ireland in 1155 to the Union in 1801, and the subsequent struggles for Irish independence and the legacies of partition from 1921.A century later, the plate tectonics of Irishness are shifting once again. The Union is in crisis and alternatives to partition are being seriously considered outside the Republican tradition for the first time in generations. These significant structural changes suggest that the coming times might finally see the completion of the decolonization project – the finishing of the revolution.In this launch event, the authors will be joined by Bill Fletcher Jr. for a discussion of what decolonization should mean—and how to achieve it—from Ireland to Palestine and beyond.—————————————————Get a copy of Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution: haymarketbooks.org/books/2111-ireland-colonialism-and-the-unfinished-revolution-----------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Robbie McVeigh is a researcher and writer based in Edinburgh. He has published extensively, with a particular focus on race and equality. He has worked with statutory and community organizations across Ireland on issues of education, human rights and racism and sectarianism. He has also worked internationally on issues of race, equality, peace and independence including research on Roma Rights across the EU and self-determination in Papua New Guinea. His most recent research publication is Irish Medium Education and the ‘Statutory Duty’ in NI: A rights perspective (CAJ and Conradh na Gaeilge 2022).Bill Rolston is an emeritus professor at Ulster University and former director of the Transitional Justice Institute. He has researched and written on a wide range of topics over the years, from media reporting of conflict to political wall murals, from reproductive rights to political imprisonment, and from unemployment to justice for victims in the North of Ireland. He has also been active on connected extracurricular issues including organizing, with others, debates and discussions at the annual Feile an Phobail/West Belfast Festival and acting as chair of the victims’ group Relatives for Justice.Bill Fletcher Jr. is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice, and the author of “They’re Bankrupting Us!” And 20 Other Myths about Unions. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
A Map Of My Want Book Launch and Celebration Haymarket Books 2024-07-10 | A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme on their long walk home from a rural county jail as they contemplate how threesomes, quantum mechanics, beaches and nature hikes led them to an epic journey of sexual liberation.An offspring of Audre Lorde’s seminal essay “Uses of the Erotic,” Hicks’s A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult. Lyrically, Hicks interprets the US Declaration of Independence's infamous “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for themselves. Combining storytelling with Western astrology, this poetry collection is an intimate erotic spell through which Hicks conjures joy as they develop an alternate theory on how to attain happiness—through ecstatic healing. A Map Of My Want is available from Haymarket here. Praise:“A Map of My Want is an essential collection that burns with resilience, eroticism, and the pursuit of freedom on every page.”—Ruben Quesada, author and editor of Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry“Faylita Hicks's A Map of My Want is a poetic knowing of jail, sleeping cots, bills, and of riding feral pleasures beyond to the self's heat. Their poetry sings, and invites the reader to sing along—ecstatically.” —Maud Lavin, author of Push Comes to Shove“Each poem in A Map Of My Want is a special magic that inhabits the deepest parts of the psyche, digs in, and resists forgetting.”—Airea D. Matthews, author of Bread and Circus---------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Faylita Hicks (she/they) is a queer Afro-Latinx writer, spoken word artist, and cultural strategist. Newly based in Chicago, Illinois, Hicks is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut poetry collection HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Julie Suk Award, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize.Andrea Change is poet, writer, Executive Director and a long-time friend of the Guild Complex. She has been a part of the Chicago poetry community for over 20 years. Her work has been published in a number of poetry magazines, journals and included in such poetry anthologies from Tia Chucha Press as Powerlines and Stray Bullets. Her poetry was also included in the 2001 Steppenwolf Theatre production, Words on Fire.Adrian Matejka is the author of 7 books, most recently the graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century which was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by the New York Public Library. He is the editor of Poetry magazine.Billy Tuggle is a parent; an educator; a mentor; a performer; and proud South Side Chicagoan. A poetry slam champion, Billy won the 2006 Rustbelt Poetry Slam; multiple Chicago Grand Slams; was the 2015 National Poetry Slam Haiku Champion; and recognized by Odyssey On-line as one of the top 30 slam poets over 30. With one volume, several chapbooks and numerous anthology & journal placements under his belt, Billy was nominated for Best of the Net (2019) and was one of the initial nominees for Chicago Poet Laureate (2023). His next book, A Tree Falls In The Hood is forthcoming from Swimming With Elephants Publications.Carmendy Tuggle is a Chicago native, middle school student, and youth performance artist. By eleven years of age, she had performed on stages in several states including festivals such as the National Poetry Slam and the Glenwood Ave (Chicago) Arts Fest. Carmendy has done competitive dance; won grade-school math & poetry competitions; was both the only virtual and youth presenter at the 2023 Redwood Poetry Festival; and appears on the release ‘Volume 2” by HipHop duo Big Silky. Other interests include anime & manga; creating visual art; social justice; and travel.Ruben Quesada’s sophomore collection of poetry, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Editors Prize, will be available on October 15, 2024. He edited the groundbreaking anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (2022), winner of the Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Awards. He is the author of two chapbooks—Jane (2023) and Revelations (2018) and a collection of poetry, Next Extinct Mammal (2011). His poetry and criticism appear in The New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Harvard Review and elsewhere. He teaches for the low-residency MFA Programs in Creative Writing at Antioch University and Cedar Crest College. He lives in Chicago.--------------------------------------------------------------This celebration is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Guild Literary Complex, Illinois Humanities, ICL Ltd. Co. and L&A Healing Studio,
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence Haymarket Books 2024-07-01 | Please join co-editor Mizue Aizeki and contributor Jacinta Gonzalez in conversation with A. Naomi Paik as they discuss the new Haymarket book: Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence.In the name of “smart” borders, the U.S. and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more “efficiently” categorize and control human beings and their movement.These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence shed light on this threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it.The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders.Purchase Resisting Borders and Technologies of ViolenceEdited by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline SchupferForeword by Ruha BenjaminOrder a copy of the book: haymarketbooks.org/books/2094-resisting-borders-and-technologies-of-violence---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Mizue Aizeki is Executive Director and founder of the Surveillance Resistance Lab. Aizeki’s photographic work appears in Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid and Policing the Planet.A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (UC Press, 2020) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (UNC Press, 2016), as well as articles in a range of academic and public-facing venues. She has co-edited four special issues of the Radical History Review—“Militarism and Capitalism (Winter 2019), “Radical Histories of Sanctuary” (Fall 2019), “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” (Spring 2020), and “Alternatives to the Anthropocene” (Winter 2023). With Cat Ramirez, she coedits the “Borderlands” section of Public Books, and with Sam Vong, she coedits “The Politics of Sanctuary” blog of the Smithsonian Institution. She is an associate professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.Jacinta Gonzalez is Mijente's Policy Director and leads the #NoTechforICE campaign. Previously, she worked at PODER in México, organizing the Río Sonora River Basin committees against water contamination by the mining industry. Jacinta was the lead organizer for the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice Congress of Day Laborers (2007-2014). In Louisiana Gonzalez helped establish a base of day laborers and undocumented families dedicated to building worker power, advancing racial justice, and organizing against deportations in post-Katrina New Orleans.---------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Ukraine at a Turning Point: Imperialism, National Liberation, and Solidarity Haymarket Books 2024-06-29 | What are the global ramifications of Putin’s bloody effort to erase Ukraine’s right to self-determination, and what political and ideological challenges does it pose to those who seeking to solidarize with victims of imperialism and neocolonialism? These and related questions will be addressed by socialist activists from Ukraine, Russia, and the United Kingdom.————————————————————————————————————————————————Ilya Budraitskis is author of Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia. He writes on politics, art, film, and philosophy for openDemocracy and Jacobin and is co-founder of Posle (“After”), a network of Russian intellectuals in exile.Hanna Perekhoda a native of Ukraine, is a researcher at the University of Lausanne, studying political imagination in Russia and Ukraine. She is a founder of Swiss-based Committee of Solidarity with the Ukrainian People and a member of the Ukrainian left-organization Sotsialnyi Rukh (The Social Movement).Simon Pirani is a historian and researcher at the University of Durham whose books include The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920–1924: Soviet Workers and the New Communist elite and Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption and is active in Ukraine solidarity work in the UK.-----------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Ukraine Solidarity Network. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.https://linktr.ee/ukrainesolidaritynetwork
Witness: An Insiders Narrative of the Carceral State Haymarket Books 2024-06-26 | Join Lyle C. May and Danielle Purifoy as they discuss May's new book: Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State. In Witness, Lyle C. May offers a scathing critique of shifts in sentencing laws, prison policies that ensure recidivism, and classic "tough on crime" views that don't make society safer or prevent crime. These insightful and analytical essays explore capital punishment, life imprisonment, prison education, prison journalism, as well as what activism from inside looks like on the road toward abolishing the carceral state.No outside journalist can adequately report what happens inside death row or what it is like to live through thirty-three executions of people you know. May's grounded writings in Witness challenge the myths, misconceptions, and misinformation about the criminal legal system and death in prison, guiding readers on a journey through North Carolina's congregate death row, where the author has spent over twenty years of his life.Get a copy of Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State here: haymarketbooks.org/books/2102-witness---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Lyle C. May is a prison journalist, abolitionist, and Ohio University Alum currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in sociology, with a criminology major. He is a member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society and the Author's Guild. Lyle's writings have appeared in Scalawag Magazine, Perspectives on Politics, The Intercept, America Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere. Lyle is also a coauthor of Inside: Voices from Death Row (Scuppernong Editions, 2022) and contributor to Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America's Death Row (Duke University Press, 2021). He routinely lectures to high school and university students, church groups, and community organizations on the politics, policies, and experiences of mass incarceration. As he pursues every legal avenue to overturn his wrongful conviction and death sentence, Lyle advocates for greater access to higher education in prison.Danielle Purifoy, JD, Ph.D (she/they), is an assistant professor of Geography and Environment at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also serves as a faculty project lead for the UNC Environmental Justice Action Research Clinic. Danielle’s research intersects Geography, Law, Environmental Studies, and Black Studies to learn about Black placemaking practices from town formation to ecological stewardship. She is the former Race and Place editor of Scalawag, a media organization devoted to Southern storytelling, journalism, and the arts. You can find her work in Society and Space, Annals of the American Assocation of Geographers, Inside Higher Ed, Environmental Sociology, Scalawag, Southeastern Geographer, Southern Cultures, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, among other publications.---------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work
Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia: Book Launch Conversation Haymarket Books 2024-06-21 | Join us for an online discussion of Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia, a new book out from Voice of Witness and Haymarket Books.Appalachia has been a place of movement and migration—for individuals, families, and entire communities—for centuries. This book brings together oral histories of refugees, migrants, and generations-long residents that explore complex journeys of resettlement. In their stories, Appalachia is not simply a monolithic region of poverty and strife, but rather a diverse place where belonging and connection are created despite displacement, resource extraction, and inequality.Taken together, the narratives present a nuanced look at life in contemporary Appalachia, expand our ideas of who belongs, and add to the growing body of works that counter damaging myths of the region.--------------------------------------------------------------“In a region historically marred by displacement and stereotypes, these poignant first-person narratives reveal a stunning, multidimensional Appalachia, a chosen home that illustrates the power of belonging.” —Appalshop“This book is bringing the voices, which is to say the heart, of the great people who have chosen Appalachia as our home.” —Nikki Giovanni, from the foreword“Beginning Again broadens the understanding of who is Appalachian and reveals how many seek safety in a place that is often portrayed as toxic…The stories ask us to reckon with the inequalities in our region, but also to hold hope that our communities will provide when political and economic systems fail.” —Lesly-Marie Buer---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Katrina Powell is a professor of rhetoric and writing at Virginia Tech and the founding director of the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies.Babikir is a narrator in Beginning Again and a curriculum advisor for the project. He is a business student at the University of Virginia and a School Liaison working for a nonprofit resettlement agency, Commonwealth Catholic Charities. Babikir fled Sudan with his mother and siblings and lived at a refugee camp in Chad, working as an educator, before resettling in the US.Mekyah Davis is a narrator in Beginning Again and the co-coordinator of Black Appalachian Young & Rising (BAYR), an initiative of the STAY Project, a grassroots network of young people working to make Appalachian communities places they can and want to stay. His family goes back eight generations in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.Dao X. Tran is the editorial director at Voice of Witness.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Voice of Witness. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. A portion of the proceeds of this event will go to Voice of Witness.You can also support by purchasing Beginning Again here. Free corresponding lesson plans are available on the Voice of Witness website: haymarketbooks.org/books/2229-beginning-again
Cultivating Solidarity: Responding to Political Repression Haymarket Books 2024-06-18 | From anti-pipeline protests to Gaza solidarity student encampments to the indictment of forest protectors in Georgia, we are seeing that as conditions worsen and mobilization increases, political repression of social movements is escalating. With widespread organizing against genocide in Gaza and increasingly militant action to defend the planet and on many other fronts, we are moving into a period where social movement participants are facing mounting surveillance and criminalization. In these times, solidarity and support is essential, particularly as efforts to divide and delegitimize resistance abound. This webinar introduces a new tool developed by abolitionist organizers addressing common talking points that undermine solidarity in the face of repression of movements. It invites journalists, organizers, and writers of all kinds to resist divisive frameworks that stigmatize resistance and legitimize unjust legal systems. The hope is to equip commentators to respond to legal repression with nuance and attention to long histories of legal subjugation. Please join us for a presentation of this tool, a discussion of how these dynamics have been playing out in our movements, and how we can build a more robust shared analysis of what solidarity looks like in these dangerous and pivotal times.————————————This event is cosponsored by Community Justice Exchange and Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Solidarity: Discussing the Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea Haymarket Books 2024-06-14 | Join Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Astra Taylor, and Malaika Jabali for an in-depth examination of the history and politics of Solidarity.Solidarity is often invoked, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly understood. In this event, leading activists and thinkers will discuss the past, present, and future of the concept across borders of nation, identity, and class to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality, polarization, violence, and ecological catastrophe?In their recently published book, Solidarity, Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor offer a lively and lucid history of the idea—from Ancient Rome through the first European and American socialists and labor organizers, to twenty-first century social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter—tracing the philosophical debates and political struggles that have shaped the modern world.Looking forward, they argue that a clear understanding of how solidarity is built and sustained, and an awareness of how it has been suppressed, is essential to warding off the many crises of our present: right-wing backlash, irreversible climate damage, widespread alienation, loneliness, and despair.For this launch event Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor will be joined by Malaika Jabali.Order a copy of Solidarity: The Past, Present and Future of a World Changing Idea from Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/a/1039/9780593701249---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Leah Hunt-Hendrix is an organizer and writer who works on economic inequality and democracy. She is co-founder of the Solidaire Network and Way to Win, networks of progressive philanthropists that support social movements and electoral politics, respectively. She is co-author with Astra Taylor of Solidarity: The Past, Present and Future of a World Changing Idea, and she has a PhD from Princeton University in Religion, Ethics, and Politics.Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and political organizer. Her books include the American Book Award winner The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in a Digital Age and Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss It When It's Gone. Her films include "What Is Democracy?" and "Examined Life.” Her 2023 book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart was part of the CBC Massey Lecture series. She is an advisor to Lux Magazine, on the editorial board of Hammer & Hope, and a co-founder of the Debt Collective, the world’s first debtors’ union.Malaika Jabali is a journalist and author whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, where she was a columnist, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Vox, Jacobin, The Intercept, and ESSENCE, where she served as Senior News and Politics Editor. A 2024 New Arizona Fellow at New America, Malaika’s writing on race and politics has led to appearances on Bloomberg, NPR, The Hill TV, BBC Radio, The Brian Lehrer Show, and a sit-down with Oscar-winning director Michael Moore on his Rumble podcast, among others.Malaika’s debut book, It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On, was named by the Boston Globe as one of the Best Books of 2023, and her debut political feature, “The Color of Economic Anxiety,” published in Current Affairs Magazine, was awarded the 2019 New York Association of Black Journalists Media Award for Newspaper/ Magazine feature.A Columbia Law School graduate, Malaika is a retired public policy attorney who wrote legislation and examined policy for the New York City Council for 7 years.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry Haymarket Books 2024-06-13 | Join Kevin Lin, Eli Friedman, and Ashley Smith as they discuss their new book, China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial RivalryFrom trade wars and pandemic politics to rioting workers, intercontinental balloons, and battles over TikTok, the US media tends to present contemporary China—when it’s discussed at all—in sensationalist terms. This portrayal has only intensified as China’s relationship with the United States has grown increasingly hostile. Whether in the form of overtly racist rhetoric and aggressive trade actions, or the more buttoned down but equally antagonistic efforts to oppose Chinese interests abroad, the US has made clear that it has no interest in giving up its position as global hegemon. This seemingly endless cycle of nationalism, jingoism, and reactionary politics on both sides of the Pacific suggests a downward spiral that could plausibly result in catastrophic military confrontation.China in Global Capitalism forcefully makes the case that workers and socially marginalized people in both the US and China must oppose our rulers’ claims that they have our best interests in mind as they ratchet up their rivalry. Rather, if we’re to avert nuclear calamity, we must oppose imperialism in all its forms, and regardless of its source and rhetoric.haymarketbooks.org/books/2228-china-in-global-capitalism————————————————————————————————————————————————Speakers:Kevin Lin an activist and researcher on China's labor movement, and has been engaged in building international labor solidarity. He is currently a visiting fellow at Cornell University, and works on a book project about workers' struggles in China.Eli Friedman teaches in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University. His most recent book is The Urbanization of People: Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City.Ashley Smith is a socialist writer and activist in Burlington, Vermont. He has written in numerous publications including Truthout, The International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Jacobin, New Politics, Against the Current, and many other online and print publications.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition Haymarket Books 2024-06-05 | Join author Calvin John Smiley and special guests, Marc Lamont Hill, Zellie Imani, and Olayemi Olurin for a conversation and celebration of the book Defund: Conversations Toward Abolition.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The 2020 uprisings against police violence launched a nation conversation about defunding the police and prisons, propelling the #defund movement into the spotlight. The backlash has been swift, beating back efforts to reallocate public funds away from police and other punitive carceral systems and into social welfare programs that provide care, stability, and community.But as Calvin John Smiley reveals through pointed conversations with academics, activists, and system-impacted individuals, #defund was always more than a brief moment; it is part of an ongoing struggle against white supremacy, capitalism, police state-sanctioned violence, and mass incarceration.Buy a copy of defund: conversations toward abolition here: haymarketbooks.org/books/2292-defund---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Calvin John Smiley is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College-City University of New York (CUNY). Smiley is the author of Purgatory Citizenship, published by University of California Press. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, The Prison Journal, and Punishment & Society, and his research has been featured in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Toronto Star, and Le Monde. Outside of writing, Smiley works with incarcerated youth and young men in New York City. He lives in Queens, New York.Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is currently the host of BET News. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College. He is the author of Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, and We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility, and with Mitchell Plitnick, Except Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. He is the owner of Uncle Bobbie's Bookstore in Philadelphia, PA.Zellie Imani is a teacher, journalist, community organiz- er, cofounder of Black Lives Matter–Paterson (New Jersey), and cofounder of the Black Liberation Collective.Olayemi Olurin is a lawyer, political commentator, and social media influencer who reports on issues related to the criminal legal system, both in New York City and across the United States.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Islam, Anarchism, & Anti-Statist BIPOC Constellations of Sovereignty: A Roundtable Haymarket Books 2024-05-29 | Please join Indigenous scholar-activist J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), Black anarchist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) Ashanti Alston, & Muslim anarchist Mohamed Abdou for a round table conversation on "Islamic Anarchism, Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Self-Determination." Drawing on their own experiences and expertise, Kauanui and Alston will discuss their own engagements with Abdou's book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances.---------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island. He is the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo and recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. He has also taught at the University of Toronto & Queen's University. His research stems from his involvement with the anti-globalization post-Seattle 1999 movements, organizing for Palestinian liberation, the Tyendinaga Mohawks and the sister territories of Kahnawake, Akwesasne, and Kanehsatake, during the standoff over the Culbertson tract, as well as the anti-war protests of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. He is author of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He wrote his transnational ethnographic and historical-archival doctoral manuscript due for publication on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary (2019).J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is a scholar-activist who teaches critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, critical race studies, and anarchist studies at Wesleyan University. Kauanui is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke 2008); Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke 2018); and editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (Minnesota 2018). She co-hosted and co-produced two anarchist radio programs, “Horizontal Power Hour” (2010-2013) and “Anarchy on Air” (2014- 2019), and was the sole producer and host of “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” (2007-2013) – all of which emanated from WESU, Middletown, CT. She also served as guest editor for a special issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, focused on “The Politics of Indigeneity, Anarchist Praxis, and Decolonization” (2021). Kauanui is one of the six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, established in 2008.M. Ashanti Alston is a Revolutionary Black nationalist, Anarchist, abolitionist, speaker, writer, Elder motivator. A long-time member of The Jericho Movement, he is presently an Advisory Board member of the National Jericho Movement and co-founding board member of the Center for Grassroots Organizing (Vermont land project). He continues giving talks and writing inspirational analyses concerning the dismantling of the myriad oppressive regimes in which we find ourselves enmeshed. He is one of the few former members of the Black Panther Party who identifies as an anarchist in the tradition of ancestor Kwesi Balagoon (BPP & BLA) He developed abolitionist politics in the early years of Critical Resistance. He has helped save the life of a baby pig with the Animal Liberationists, learned depth-queer politics from being challenged, and wants to see non-ego Eldership partaking through sincerely loving the younger generations who truly want to ‘CARRY IT ON”.--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Pluto Press. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Socialism 2024 Conference: Politics, Education, Community Haymarket Books 2024-05-28 | Four days. Hundreds of discussions. Thousands of socialists. From Palestine to the US and beyond, radical politics have re-emerged as necessary for both survival and full liberation. At this critical juncture, the Socialism 2024 Conference will be a vital gathering space for today’s left.Join thousands of leftwing activists and authors in Chicago this September 1-4 for a four-day conference featuring over a hundred participatory discussions, lectures, and workshops organized by activists from all over the country. Whether you are already organized or politically curious, the Socialism Conference is the place to share lessons from history, learn about socialist and abolitionist ideas and organizing, discuss active struggles, and debate current issues on the left. Register now at socialismconference.org. Register before June 28 for the early bird discounted rate.Please note: Attendees at Socialism 2024 will be required to wear N95 or KN95 masks while indoors throughout the conference.
Degrowth Communism: Envisioning a World Beyond Capitalism Haymarket Books 2024-05-25 | Join Haymarket Books and Pilsen Community Books for a talk on Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, with author Kōhei Saitō. This event will take place at Haymarket House, and will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Unavoidable evidence of the catastrophic consequences of climate change confronts us at every turn. Record high ocean temperatures. Once-a-century storms that appear every other year. And on and on. In the face of ongoing ecological disaster, international best-selling author Kōhei Saitō asks why our society continues to prioritize corporate profits (and the rapacious expansion on which they depend), and proposes a revolutionary alternative to unfettered capitalism: degrowth communism.In Slow Down, Saitō provocatively argues that any solutions that don’t directly confront capitalism itself—from the COP agreements to the “Green New Deal”—represent dangerous compromises that may ultimately worsen the climate emergency. Because it creates artificial scarcity and endlessly produces commodities based on their value, rather than their usefulness, our economic system itself makes it impossible to reverse climate change so long as capitalism remains in place. The biggest contributor to the problem cannot be an integral part of its solution.Instead, Saitō advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and our system of production. By returning to a system of social ownership, degrowth communism, we can restore the abundance of things that we truly need, and can focus on those activities that are essential for human life.What would this alternative look like? How do we end mass production and mass consumption without reducing living standards? What do we need to do to redress global inequality without accelerating the rate at which the planet burns?For this launch event Saitō will be in conversation on all of this, and more, with Science for the People editor, and Pilsen Community Books collective member, Erik Wallenberg.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Order a copy of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto: pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/MexlWhzwbd-b7iAlWPw-ywSpeakers:Kohei Saitō is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2016. He was awarded the 2018 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, the most prestigious academic award for Marxian studies, making Saito its youngest recipient. In 2020 the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science awarded him the highly prestigious JSPS prize, awarded to the top 25 scholars (only a few in humanities and social sciences) in the entire country under the age of 45. In 2021, Slow Down received the "Best Asian Books of the Year" prize from the Asia Book Awards.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Pilsen Community Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Break the Bonds!: Divest from Israel Bonds, Invest in Freedom Haymarket Books 2024-05-24 | Campaign Event & Teach-InThere has never been a more important moment to campaign to end U.S. support for the Israeli apartheid and the Israeli military’s genocide of Palestinians! Billions in “Israel Bonds”–direct loans to the Israeli military and government–are being purchased by our local governments, state governments, unions, pension funds, religious institutions, and other institutions every day. Together, we can withdraw key support for violence against Palestinians by demanding that our community institutions stop buying Israel Bonds. Come learn from organizers about Israel Bonds and Israel Bonds divestment, including what you can do in your community to break the bonds with genocide and apartheid!Speakers:Sandra Tamari Adalah Justice ProjectDani Noble Jewish Voice for PeaceMohammad Faraj No New Bonds campaign, Cuyahoga CountyDov Baum American Friends Service CommitteeLoan Tran Rising Majority--------------------------------------------------------------This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Adalah Justice Project, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, Rising Majority, Little Sis, Muslims for Just Futures, Dissenters, American Friends Service Committee and Showing Up for Racial Justice. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.If you identify as Jewish, you can take the pledge to divest from Israel Bonds and invest in Palestinian liberation jewishvoiceforpeace.org/not-in-my-name-divestSign-Up Form to stay in the loop:act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/a/israel-bonds-sign-upResources from the Boycott National Committee: bdsmovement.netDivestment guide and divestment list for universities and other institutions: afsc.org/divestThe list of companies involved now in the Gaza genocide: afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companiesThe 'Investigate' database and screening tool - see what you are invested in: investigate.infoApartheid-Free Communities campaign and pledge: apartheid-free.org
