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Abolish ICE is Not Just a Slogan with Justin Akers Chacón and John Washington (5-19-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Authors John Washington and Justin Akers Chacón discuss how to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities in a time of crisis. Get a copy of The Dispossessed: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3171-the-dispossessed Get a copy of Radicals in the Barrio: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/987-radicals-in-the-barrio For more books on resisting empire at home and abroad: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/99-haymarket-books-for-resisting-empire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As coronavirus rages on, immigrant communities are being left to fend for themselves. Barred from most financial assistance, scapegoated as harbingers of disease, and facing dire conditions in detention; the Trump administration is seizing upon a pandemic to further its nativist agenda. How can we build a movement to resist the racist attacks on immigrants and demand not only an end to ICE but justice and relief for all immigrants? John Washington writes about immigration and border politics, as well as criminal justice, photography, and literature. He is also an award winning translator, having translated Óscar Martinez, Anabel Hernández, and Sandra Rodriguez Nieto, among others. His book, The Dispossessed, on the global story of asylum, is forthcoming from Verso Books in 2020. Justin Akers Chacón, a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California, is the author of Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class (Haymarket 2018) and, with Mike Davis, No One is Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2006). Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/3Z7SKGTgYqQ Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Into the Portal, Leave No one Behind with Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein (5-19-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Join Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein in a conversation moderated by Asad Rehman on how we move from crisis to justice and build a Global Green New Deal! We knew our system was broken. But the Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the cruelty of the global economy, and deepened the visceral injustices of our societies. Before the virus stuck, the effect of climate catastrophe and obscene inequality meant that millions were already living in multiple crises. Now, as the pandemic wreaks an untold impact, we know that it is those who are most vulnerable—whether from their inability to access healthcare, or because of their economic precarity—who bear the heaviest burden. In times of crisis, it is always the poorest, the most oppressed, and those under occupation, who are most affected. Our only recourse is to amplify the calls for justice ringing from every corner of the globe. The time to build the future we deserve is now, and international solidarity is the tool we need to begin its construction. You can get involved by joining and supporting each of this event's sponsoring organizations. The Global Green New Deal: http://globalgnd.org/ The Leap: https://theleap.org/ War on Want: https://waronwant.org/ Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org Check out Naomi Klein's latest book, On Fire: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781982129910 Read Arundhati Roy's 'The Pandemic is a Portal': https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca Pre-order Arundhati Roy's Azadi: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781642592603 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/w0NY1_73mHY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

What a School Means with Eve L. Ewing (5-14-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Join Eve L. Ewing in radically reimagining the meaning of public schools with an antiracist, liberatory vision of what education could be. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What are schools beyond the brick and mortar that compose them or the test scores and graduation rates that garner the most public attention? Join writer, scholar and cultural organizer Eve. L. Ewing in conversation with Jen Johnson from the Chicago Teachers Union as they discuss what schools really mean to Americans and to African-Americans in particular. Can schools be places for liberation or are they destined to remain institutions that reflect the oppressions and segregation of society? Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection 1919 and the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side. Her first book, the poetry collection Electric Arches, received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was named one of the year's best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. Jen Johnson is Chief of Staff for the Chicago Teachers Union. Get the books: 1919: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1295-1919 Electric Arches: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1374-electric-arches Check out Eve's latest book, Ghosts in School Yard: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780226526027 Haymarket's list of books for young readers: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/116-50-off-haymarket-books-for-young-readers Haymarket's education justice reading list: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/146-education-justice-reading-list Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/NHo2egETxvI Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The Left was Right: Radical Politics and Labor Militancy from 1945 to 2020 (5-12-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Join author-activists Toni Gilpin and John Nichols for a conversation on the historic consequences of ousting the Democrats' progressive wing. To get a copy of John Nichols' new book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3082-the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party To get a copy of Toni Gilpin's new book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1449-the-long-deep-grudge —————————————————————————— Seventy five years ago, Vice President Henry Wallace’s antiracist, progressive political vision—as well as his nomination to remain vice president—was sidelined by Democratic big city bosses and southern segregationists. As history repeats itself through Democratic insiders' staunch rejection of the Sanders campaign, how should radicals engage with the Democratic Party? Wallace's ouster set the stage for a continued pattern of Democratic concessions to the right, and a series of blows to labor unions. As organized labor collapsed, so did the standard of living for the American working class. In this virtual teach-in, the authors will contend with this history and offer takeaways for radicals from the campaign trail to the factory floor. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/MJPmhEHcDds Buy books from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw (5-5-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Join us for a conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw, hosted by Janine Jackson, about why intersectionality matters in this moment of crisis. äThe past few months have prompted unprecedented levels of turmoil and unpredictability due to rising alarm over COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronavirus did not create the stark social, financial, and political inequalities that define life for so many of us, but it has made them more strikingly visible than at any moment in recent history. Meanwhile, the most vulnerable to societal neglect remain most impacted. Unfortunately, some of the intersectional dimensions of these structural disparities remain undetected and unreported. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her work has been foundational in two fields of study that have come to be known by terms that she coined: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality. She is the host of the African American Policy Forum's Under The Blacklight: The Intersectional Failures that COVID Lays Bare, an ongoing livestream series in which thought leaders around the country discuss the current crisis, explore how we can move forward together to protect and uplift the most vulnerable among us, and imagine the world we hope to see emerge on the other side. Crenshaw is also the host of Intersectionality Matters. Janine Jackson is the program directors at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s (Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC‘s Nightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW’s Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) and Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). For more info on our sponsors: Haymarket Books - https://www.haymarketbooks.org African American Policy Forum (AAPF) - https://aapf.org/ Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - https://fair.org/ Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/otload6iBhA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

A Working Class Vision For The Future with Sara Nelson, Stacy Davis Gates, and Sarah Jaffe(5-1-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Celebrate May Day with a discussion from leading labor voices Sara Nelson, Stacy Davis Gates, and Sarah Jaffe about how we can build a radical working class response to the current crisis. What is our vision as the working class for a different future, one free from exploitation and corporate greed, and how do we organize to win it? May Day, international workers' day, is a time to honor and celebrate the radical traditions of the labor movement. In the midst of the current crisis it is more important than ever to build on the militant legacy of May Day and organize a fighting, working-class resistance that demands a better world for us all. Sara Nelson is the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO and she represents 50,000 of aviation’s first responders at 20 airlines. In 2019, The New York Times called her "America's most powerful flight attendant" for her role in helping to end the 35-day Government Shutdown by calling for a general strike. Stacy Davis Gates is the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union. This past fall, she helped to lead a 15-day strike and to negotiate an historic contract that provides for smaller class sizes, ensures a nurse and social worker in every Chicago public school, secures sanctuary protections for immigrant families, and supports students and families experiencing homelessness. Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at Type Media Center, the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt and the forthcoming Work Won't Love You Back, both from Bold Type Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/TEmgk2i2DFc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Microbes and Macroeconomics with David McNally and Hadas Thier (4-29-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Join us for a discussion on the state of the global economy with activist economists David McNally and Hadas Thier. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold across the world it has become increasingly obvious that we’ve only seen the first wave of shocks it will send through the global economy before things “return to normal.” Each week brings a new and completely unprecedented turn—from record setting unemployment claims, to the total implosion of oil prices. And while the conditions of lockdown are undoubtedly the catalyst for the turmoil roiling through global markets, what if it’s Capitalism’s “normal” that paved the way for the economic crisis looming on the horizon? In this virtual teach-in, radical economists David McNally (author of the essential Global Slump) and Hadas Thier (author of the forthcoming A People’s Guide to Capitalism) will try to help activists make sense of the twists, turns, and sudden collapses in the world economy that have been playing out in the background during this global health emergency. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/zWIDsEFVGZQ Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4 LatiNext (4-28-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Editors José Olivarez and Willie Perdomo will be joined by special guests Diannely Antigua, Rigoberto González, Janel Pineda, and Raquel Salas Rivera, for an event to launch the new anthology The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what's next. Get the book: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1491-the-breakbeat-poets-vol-4 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/MIBC7OtkrkA Buy books from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The Pandemic is a Portal with Arundhati Roy (4-23-20) Mar 01, 2021

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In her latest essay, “The Pandemic Is a Portal” — from her forthcoming Haymarket Books publication Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. — Arundhati Roy writes: What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely more than a virus. Some believe it’s God’s way of bringing us to our senses. Others that it’s a Chinese conspiracy to take over the world. Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality,” trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. Join the acclaimed author to discuss this essay and her recent writings on the existential threat posed to Indian democracy by an emboldened Hindu nationalism, India’s new citizenship laws that discriminate against Muslims and marginalized communities and could create a crisis of statelessness on a scale previously unknown, and the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/QmQLTnK4QTA Buy books from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Remaking Schools in the Time of Coronavirus (4-22-20) Mar 01, 2021

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Three leading voices in the struggle for education justice (Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, and Noliwe Rooks) discuss the remaking of public schools in the time of crisis. What has this crisis taught us about the role of public schools in society? What have we learned about what really matters in education during this time? When we re-open schools, what kind of education will we have, will we demand? The Covid-19 crisis has upended public education around the country. Join three radical education activists in conversation about what this crisis means for public education now and how moving forward we can continue to fight for the schools our students deserve. Jesse Hagopian is an award-winning educator and a leading voice on issues of educational equity and social justice unionism. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine and is the co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, and editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. Noliwe Rooks is the W.E.B Du Bois Professor of Literature at Cornell University and the author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education which won an award for non-fiction from the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Wayne Au is a Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is a long-time Rethinking Schools editor, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives and author of A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/rDnP663yEbM Buy books from Haymarket: haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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