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SUMMARY:Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors
DESCRIPTION:Join Desiree Cooper\, MARS. Marshall and J.K. Chukwu for a conversation about Cooper’s new edited collection\, Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors.\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nBlack Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors is a provocative\, tender\, literary collection of essays\, poetry\, and graphic stories about how racism shapes life in the urban outdoors. African American writers ages 16 to 74 share their memories of summertime in Detroit. In these pages\, water is both a spiritual divide between enslavement and freedom\, and a segregated space for whites only. Public spaces hold both enticement and threat; summer road trips are as necessary as they are guarded. While the stories are uniquely Detroit\, they are also emblematic of the barriers to the outdoors imposed upon Black and brown urban dwellers nationwide since The Great Migration. Persistent themes color their stories: How racism circumscribes Black outdoor participation. How divestment\, abandonment\, and racial politics continue to redline childhood summers. How childhood racial trauma still haunts the adults who survived it. Black Summers is a collection about struggle\, persistence\, and reinvention. But ultimately\, it’s a tribute to Black joy during the most carefree of seasons: summertime. \n**We encourage in-person attendees to wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterward the program with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers:\nDesiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow\, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist\, former attorney\, and editor of the groundbreaking 2026 anthology\, Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors. Her fiction\, poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Oprah Daily\, MSNBC Daily\, Flash FictionAmerica 2023\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Rumpus\, River Teeth\, Best African American Fiction 2010\, and noted in The Best American Essays 2019. Cooper’s children’s picture book\, Nothing Special\, is a 2023 Paterson Prizewinner and included on the NY Public Library’s “10 Best Children’s Books of 2022.” She is a founding board member of Cave Canem\, a residency for Black poets; a former board member of the Furious Flower Poetry Center; a current member of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective; and a fellow of Kimbilio\, a residency for Black fiction writers. http://www.desireecooper.com \nMARS. Marshall was born and raised in Detroit\, MI. MARS. is a writer\, film photographer\, and the author of FLOWER BOI (Gold Line Press\, 2022). They earned an MSW from Wayne State University and an MFA from Randolph College. Their work has appeared in Four Way Review\, Obsidian Literature & Arts for the African Diaspora\, Foglifter\, and elsewhere. MARS. is the recipient of the 2021 Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Arts Fellowship and the 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellowship in Poetry. They currently live and love in Chicago. http://www.blkboimars.com \nJ K Chukwu is a writer and visual artist from the Midwest. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was a LAMBDA fellow\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, Best of Net\, and short-listed for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Her debut novel\, The Unfortunates\, published with Mariner Books\, was a co-winner for the 2024 MMLA prize. It was also featured in the New York Times Book Review\, Ebony\, Bustle\, and selected as a Buzz Pick with Good Morning America. \n  \n\n\n\n\nThis 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/black-summers-growing-up-in-the-urban-outdoors/
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SUMMARY:Shredding Rugs: Poetry | Presence | Healing
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Haymarket House for live readings from Shredding Rugs\, and guided conversation exploring truth-telling\, resilience\, and the healing power of language.\n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nShredding Rugs is a bold\, tender\, and unapologetic poetry collection that speaks directly to the hearts of Black and Brown girls who have been left unprotected\, overlooked\, and underestimated. Through vivid storytelling and visceral imagery\, Lachrisa Grandberry invites readers to sit with truths that are often swept under the rug. \nThis book offers more than poems\, it offers presence. Shredding Rugs offer a space for reflection\, release\, and reclamation. With each page\, Grandberry holds space for those navigating generational trauma\, identity\, and healing on their own terms. The collection doesn’t promise neat conclusions or perfect endings\, it simply tells the truth. Loud\, clear\, and rooted in love. \nLachrisa Grandberry (she/her) is a Chicago-based actor\, singer\, writer\, and storyteller whose work lives at the intersection of artistry\, truth-telling\, and healing. Her performance career spans stages across the Midwest\, including Goodman Theatre\, Chicago Shakespeare Theater\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and many seasons with Northern Sky Theater. \nAs a 2026 New Stages Residency Writer at Goodman Theatre\, and the 2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Musical Theater Fellow\, Lachrisa is also the Director of NOVA Programming at Northern Sky Theater\, where she creates intentional spaces for writers to explore\, challenge\, and amplify their voices. In 2022\, she was named one of Wisconsin’s 52 Most Influential Black Leaders. \nThrough her poetry collection Shredding Rugs and her theatrical work\, Lachrisa uses storytelling as a tool for reflection\, release\, and transformation. Lachrisa believes that storytelling is a way to learn\, unlearn\, release\, and heal. “I know that my stories are not my own\,” she writes. “They belong to all of us.” She aims to continue inspiring and transforming the human mind through the power of storytelling in hopes that they hold the power to connect us\, confront us\, and ultimately\, heal us. \nLachrisa will be joined by a board member of Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP). \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and YEPP. While all our events are free we encourage you to make a donation to support our collective programming work.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/shredding-rugs-poetry-presence-healing/
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SUMMARY:OFFSITE: 250 Years of Resistance: Brian Jones and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Brian Jones at the National Public Housing Museum for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world.\n\n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nTake a break from the bizarre and depressing spectacle of Donald Trump presiding over celebrations of the U.S. state’s 250th birthday to join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Brian Jones for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world. \n**This in person event will be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. \nWe will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers:\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the co-founder of Hammer & Hope. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book\, was recently published in an expanded second edition by Haymarket Books\, with a new foreword by Angela Y. Davis. ​Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2021\, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. With Colin Kaepernick and Robin D. G. Kelley\, she edited Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies. Her latest book is the expanded and updated edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective\, featuring a new introduction by Taylor and a powerful new interview with Angela Y. Davis. \nBrian Jones is an educator and author. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Brian is a founding board member and contributing artist to the organization\, Voices of a People’s History and the author of two books\, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History\, and Black History Is for Everyone. \n  \nThis 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. \nLocation\nNational Public Housing Museum (919 South Ada Street)\, 60607
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/offsite-250-years-of-resistance-brian-jones-and-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-in-conversation/
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SUMMARY:The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors\, Politicians\, and Police Violence in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Join Flint Taylor and Martha Biondi in a discussion about Flint Taylor’s latest release\, The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors\, Politicians\, and Police Violence in Chicago \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nIn December 1969\, the FBI\, the Chicago Police Department\, and the office of States Attorney\, led by rising political star Edward V. Hanrahan\, conspired to assassinate Black Panther leader Fred Hampton\, and then flagrantly covered up their misconduct. Thirteen years later\, Jackie Wilson was tortured by the same police department and wrongfully incarcerated for thirty-six years. \nDrawing on unique insights from his role as a leading opposition lawyer in both cases\, award-winning author Flint Taylor details the vast political corruption uncovered in the Hampton case and the twists and turns of Wilson’s forty-year effort to win his freedom. \nWith blistering clarity and righteous indignation\, The Conviction Machine shines a penetrating light on the sordid world of prosecutorial misconduct and police violence. \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers:\nMartha Biondi is a professor of Black Studies and History at Northwestern and the award-winning author of We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation. \nAs a law student\, Flint Taylor was a founding member of the People’s Law Office and has been a partner of the PLO since 1972. As a student and lawyer\, he has been dedicated to litigating against police violence and racism for more than fifty-four years. Among the landmark cases that Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther case; the Greensboro\, North Carolina case against the KKK\, Nazis and Greensboro police; and a series of cases arising from a pattern and practice of police torture and cover-up by Chicago police Commander Jon Burge\, former Cook County State’s Attorney and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley\, and numerous other law enforcement officials. He has represented\, and continues to represent\, many wrongfully convicted persons\, including police torture victims who have spent decades in prison and on death row. He has chronicled his work and that of the People’s Law Office in an award-winning historical memoir titled The Torture Machine. \n  \n\n\nThis 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/the-conviction-machine-prosecutors-politicians-and-police-violence-in-chicago/
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SUMMARY:Haymarket Presents: Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Haymarket Presents speakers series event\, with Beth Howard and Eric Kerl in discussion of Howard’s new book\, Song for a Hard-Hit People A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner’s Daughter. Co-sponsored SURJ. \n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nIn Song for a Hard-Hit People\, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky—the economic struggles\, trauma\, and ever-present sexism along with the loving care of her close-knit rural community. These complex people shaped Howard’s sense of justice and solidarity\, and taught her about the inextricable bonds working-class people share\, despite our differences. But her childhood also left her with emotional wounds that threatened to destroy the life she built for herself. While healing her wounds is deeply personal\, there’s no separating it from the people and place that made her. \nAppalachia is often framed as a place to escape from\, where people are hateful\, lazy\, and bring tragedy upon themselves. But in her quest to understand her home and her people\, Howard uncovers the powerful history of white Appalachians fighting alongside Black and Brown people\, pushing back against billionaires who gain power by using racism to divide them. Appalachia\, she realizes\, has not only been hit hard; it is the place to wage a freedom struggle. \nToo many of us are denied the basic necessities of life: somewhere decent to live\, good food to eat\, health care that doesn’t break the bank\, jobs that don’t kill us. As Howard reminds us\, we haven’t got a chance—unless we organize. \nIn the midst of divisive rhetoric\, violent repression\, and grifters writing elegies\, may this story be a song. \n**This in person event will also be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nBeth Howard is the Cultural Strategist for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)\, the largest national organization bringing white people into the fight for racial and economic justice. She grew up in a rural white working-class community in Eastern Kentucky and has organized in the American South for two decades\, primarily in her beloved home state of Kentucky. \nBeth has been a lead organizer on campaigns to raise the minimum wage and restore voting rights. She’s also engaged white working-class Southerners on successful electoral campaigns\, including ones that defeated an abortion ban ballot initiative in the 2022 Kentucky midterms and reelected Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear in 2023—and ran a rural field office in the 2020 Georgia runoff election. \nBeth is the creator of the viral narrative campaign Rednecks for Black Lives\, and has been featured on the NBC News National Day of Racial Healing special\, Matter of Fact’s Listening Tour with Soledad O’Brian\, NPR’s Here and Now\, Now This News\, in the book Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections\, the New York Times\, and The Boston Globe. Beth lives in Lexington\, Kentucky. Song for a Hard-Hit People is her first book. You can find her on Substack at Working Class Love Notes and online at bethhowardky.com. \nEric Kerl is a writer\, designer\, photographer\, and organizer based in Chicago. Kerl has written for Rewire News\, 100 Days in Appalachia\, Tempest\, International Socialist Review\, and others. As a co-founder of Rampant magazine\, he examined the intersections of race and class in the US South. \nHe was the final apprentice admitted to the title of journeyman in Cincinnati Typographical Union #3. Kerl finished a second journeymanship in the printers’ union\, with an expertise in letterpress\, gravure\, intaglio\, and offset lithography. Since 2001\, he has worked as a master printer in newspaper\, magazine\, poster\, and book publishing. \nRaised in rural Kentucky\, he is interested in the stories of Southern Appalachia\, culture at the margins\, race-making\, and rebellious people’s movements. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by SURJ and Haymarket Books\, and is part of the Haymarket Presents speakers series. 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/haymarket-presents-song-for-a-hard-hit-people-a-memoir-of-antiracist-solidarity-from-a-coal-miners-daughter/
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SUMMARY:Socialism or Barbarism: An Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a four-week intensive seminar on the thought of Rosa Luxemburg led by Audrey Nicolaides.\n\n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Seminar\nFor Rosa Luxemburg\, civilization faced a choice: “socialism or barbarism.” But how to actually achieve socialism was the driving preoccupation of Luxemburg’s life. Economist\, journalist\, politician\, and streetfighter\, Luxemburg threw herself into the great debates that roiled the international Marxist movement. She was a vociferous critic of parliamentary reformism\, developing instead a singularly powerful internationalist and mass participatory theory of socialist revolution centered on the mass strike. She debated Lenin on problems of political organization and was the first to warn against the authoritarian degeneration of Bolshevism. An acute political economist\, she wrote what stands as the first major Marxist attempt to grapple with the centrality of imperialism to the global capitalist system\, The Accumulation of Capital. \nOver two decades of intense political and theoretical activity\, she earned the admiration of her allies\, the begrudging respect of her adversaries\, and the mortal hatred of her enemies (who murdered her in 1919). To this day\, Rosa Luxemburg continues to inspire leftists all over the world. But her theoretical and political legacy is also haunted by the failure of the political project she championed. How can we understand Luxemburg’s theoretical and polemical work in the light of the collapse of socialist revolution and internationalism? Is Luxemburg’s revolutionary vision\, encapsulated in her famous slogan\, still plausible today\, with liberal democracy under siege by the reactionary and neo-fascist far-Right? \nIn this course\, we will read Luxemburg’s work against its immediate historical and political context: the imperialist build-up to World War I\, the rise and fall of German Social Democracy and the Second International\, and the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We will ask: What is Luxemburg’s account of imperialism and what are its implications for Marxist theorizing? How did Luxemburg understand the revolutionary politics of her day? What can her decades-long but ultimately failed efforts to steer the ship of German Social Democracy toward revolution tell us about the nature of mass socialist politics? What were Luxemburg’s blindspots and what do they reveal about the limits of Second International Marxism? And what remains alive in her work today? In tackling these questions\, we will survey her entire body of work including but not limited to Reform or Revolution?\, The Mass Strike\, The Accumulation of Capital\, The Junius Pamphlet and her extensive writings on Russia. We will supplement these readings with selected correspondence\, news articles\, pamphlets\, and later scholarship as well as writings from her contemporaries and interlocutors including Karl Marx\, Friedrich Engels\, Eduard Bernstein\, Karl Kausty\, Rudolf Hilferding\, Karl Liebknecht\, Paul Levi\, and Lenin. We will outline Luxemburg’s singular contributions to Marxist theory and socialist politics and consider their implications\, resonances\, and continued relevance for the twenty-first century. \nThis is a four-week course\, meeting once-weekly between June 9 and June 30 on Tuesday evenings\, 6:30pm – 9:30pm. Students are expected to participate in all four sessions. Syllabus and readings will be sent out upon registration. Space is limited\, so register to secure your spot. \n  \nThis course is sponsored by Haymarket Books. and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/socialism-or-barbarism-an-introduction-to-rosa-luxemburg/
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SUMMARY:Dangerous\, Dirty\, Violent\, and Young: A Book Event with Zayd Ayers Dohrn
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s new book\, Dangerous\, Dirty\, Violent\, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground\, at Haymarket House.  \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nZayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. All his life\, Dohrn’s parents said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle\, but in this explosive memoir\, he discovers that story wasn’t entirely true. \nThis masterpiece of personal and social history brings us inside an infamous family and their lives underground. Drawing on exclusive interviews\, declassified FBI files\, and long-hidden letters\, photos\, and diaries\, Dohrn tells a new story of radical resistance\, including revelations about the Weathermen’s bombing campaign\, their secret alliance with the Black Liberation Army\, and the dramatic prison break of Assata Shakur. \nReckoning with the emotional damage the Weathermen inflicted on their victims\, their children\, and themselves\, Dohrn’s unflinching memoir explores the roots of radicalism and asks how a young person survives when the place they feel safest—with their family—also puts them in danger. \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and copies of Night Shift in Perfect English available for purchase.** \nAbout the Author:\n\n\nAn acclaimed playwright and screenwriter\, Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a professor and director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. He is creator of the hit narrative podcast Mother Country Radicals and the rock protest musical Revolution(s).
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/dangerous-dirty-violent-and-young-a-book-event-with-zayd-ayers-dohrn/
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SUMMARY:Films for a Changing World presents: Jerry & Me
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Mehrnaz Saeedvafa’s 2012 documentary short\, Jerry & Me. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nThe film will be followed by a discussion moderated by Ali Tarokh of the Syrian Community Network and the Risheh Institute. Snacks and refreshments will be served and all proceeds from the screening will go towards supporting the work of the Syrian Community Network. \nAbout the Film \nIranian-American filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeedvafa traces her journey from growing up as young girl in Tehran to adjusting to life in America\, while she reflects on how the films of Jerry Lewis spoke to her as an outsider in both countries. Peppered with clips from Lewis’ films\, as well as other Hollywood classics\, that have been dubbed into Farsi\, this short documentary is “an invaluable cross-cultural lesson\,” said esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. \nAbout Syrian Community Network \nSyrian Community Network (SCN) works alongside immigrants and refugees\, with care\, through needs-based Case Management\, Education\, and Immigration services. SCN strives to continue its founding mission in providing a holistic model of direct service and community building for all those in need regardless of religion\, ethnicity\, immigration status\, or sexual orientation. We maintain our original name\, not to exclude other groups\, but rather to honor the history of those original families who survived their experience to build new lives here. Learn more about their work here! \nAbout the Series \nHaymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World. We envision this community film series to be a place for people to come together in community during this volatile political moment. In times like these\, our struggle to change the world can feel even more difficult to sustain and we hope these events will be a space to share a collective cultural experience and connect with one another. \n\n\nTransit & Parking\nHaymarket House is located at 800 W. Buena Ave on the corner of Buena and Clarendon in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The 146\, 151\, and 36 CTA buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line Sheridan and Wilson stations are each about a 12-15 min walk/roll away. There is free street parking in the surrounding area. Outside of school hours \, parking for a fee is available nearby at the Walt Disney Magnet School lot at 4149 N Clarendon Ave. or the Brenneman School lot at 4251 N. Clarendon Ave\, both are about a block away. Paid parking is also available through parking apps like Spot Hero. \nAccessibility\nThere are a couple steps leading up to the front entrance on Buena. The ramp entrance can be accessed from the back parking lot\, via Clarendon Avenue. For the ramp entrance to the house\, please email info@haymarkethouse.org after registering. The event will all take place on one level and all restrooms and hallways are wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/films-for-a-changing-world-presents-jerry-me/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Where Do We Go From Here? A conversation with Bill Ayers and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Ayers and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.\n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nIn a time of endless war\, institutional collapse\, and escalating repression\, what is to be done? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Ayers and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. \nThis in-person event will include a reception with light bites after the program. \nSpeakers:\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the co-founder of Hammer & Hope. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation\, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book\, was recently published in an expanded second edition by Haymarket Books\, with a new foreword by Angela Y. Davis. ​Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2021\, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. With Colin Kaepernick and Robin D. G. Kelley\, she edited Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies. \nHer latest book is the expanded and updated edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective\, featuring a new introduction by Taylor and a powerful new interview with Angela Y. Davis. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this event. \nBill Ayers\, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired)\, has written extensively about social justice and democracy\, education and the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. His books include When Freedom is the Question\, Abolition is the Answer\, A Kind and Just Parent; Teaching toward Freedom; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident; “You can’t fire the bad ones!” And 18 other Myths about Teachers\, Teachers’ Unions\, and Public Education; To Teach: The Journey\, in Comics; Demand the Impossible!; and Race Course: Against White Supremacy. \n  \nThis 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/where-do-we-go-from-here-a-conversation-with-bill-ayers-and-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
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SUMMARY:Community Building\, with funds to Chicago Abortion Fund
DESCRIPTION:Join Rachel Cohen\, Sarah Spain\, and friends for a short panel and a fundraiser for the Chicago Abortion Fund.\n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nJoin Rachel Cohen\, Sarah Spain\, and friends to celebrate Rachel’s 32nd birthday as best we know how: with a short panel moderated by Sarah and focused on an introduction to community organizing\, mingling time with representatives from various mutual aid groups ready to take questions\, and fundraising for the Chicago Abortion Fund. This is a party you’re welcome to attend with friends or alone! There will be plenty of opportunities to meet new people\, and a guarantee that they’re interested in plugging in to progressive Chicago community. \nTo attend\, please donate ($50 suggested\, but please pay what you wish) via Rachel’s Chicago Abortion Fund-a-Thon page and then register under the same name with Haymarket here. \n**This in person event will also be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n  \nThis 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/community-building-with-funds-to-chicago-abortion-fund/
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SUMMARY:Haymarket Presents: Alyssa Battistoni on Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Haymarket Presents speakers series event\, with Alyssa Battistoni and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation about Capitalism\, Nature\, and Battistoni’s new book\, Free Gifts. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books. \n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nCapitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world\, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts\, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature\, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified\, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. \nUltimately\, Battistoni offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present\, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world\, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts. \nAlyssa Battistoni and Gabriel Winant will grapple with these timely critiques of capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature. \n**This in person event will also be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nAlyssa Battistoni is a political theorist and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics\, capitalism\, Marxism\, feminism\, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought.  Alyssa is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019)\, with Kate Aronoff\, Daniel Aldana Cohen\, and Thea Riofrancos. Her latest book is about capitalism and the value of nature\, titled Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. \nGabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago\, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741\, a member of the Dissent editorial board\, and author of The Next Shift. \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books and Haymarket Books\, and is part of the Haymarket Presents speakers series. 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/haymarket-presents-alyssa-battistoni-on-capitalism-and-the-politics-of-nature/
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SUMMARY:Celebrate May Day at Haymarket House
DESCRIPTION:Join Haymarket Books this May Day to help us celebrate 25 years of publishing \, and 5 years of programming at Haymarket House!\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nEnjoy an afternoon of camaraderie\, delicious food (including vegetarian and vegan options)\, and refreshments as we celebrate May Day and our vibrant living tradition of resistance to tyranny\, exploitation\, and oppression. In this volatile political moment we are more grateful than ever for our Haymarket House community\, and we look forward to gathering with you. \nThis event is a fundraiser for Haymarket House\, so we ask folks who attend to register for a paid ticket and make an additional donation in order to support our ongoing work creating a vibrant home for culture\, politics\, and community in Chicago. \nActivities include:\nDelicious food!\nExclusive new Haymarket Books merch\n$25 used book dive–fill up a bag with books for $25!\nYard games for all ages\nMusic by DJ Mo Mami\nNew Haymarket books for sale\nConversation with folks from our radical Chicago community\, a chance to debrief after the May 1st day of action!\nPlease register through Ticket Tailor if you plan to attend so we have an accurate headcount for food and refreshments. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nThis event is family friendly and will be held outside in the Haymarket House garden\, weather permitting. \n—– \nAt Haymarket Books\, we take inspiration and courage from our namesakes\, the Haymarket Martyrs\, who gave their lives fighting for a better world. Their 1886 struggle for the eight-hour day—which gave us May Day\, the international workers’ holiday—reminds workers around the world that ordinary people can organize and struggle for their own liberation. These struggles—against oppression\, exploitation\, environmental devastation\, and war—continue today across the globe.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/celebrate-may-day-at-haymarket-house/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:MELT ICE-Community Bake Sale
DESCRIPTION:CHICAGO MELTS ICE: Join us Sunday\, April 26th from 11-4 for our Community Bake Sale! \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAll funds will go towards supporting the work of Palenque LSNA (Liberating Spaces Through Neighborhood Action) and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). \nThe Community Bake Sale will have goods from bakers based in Chicago and beyond as well as music\, free coffee\, and lawn games for kids! Treats will be available for purchase using vouchers for sale at the door. Accepted payment methods are cash\, card\, and tap to pay and we suggest bringing your own reusable bags to transport your goodies! \nSee you there! \nTRANSIT AND PARKING\nHaymarket House is located at 800 W. Buena Ave on the corner of Buena and Clarendon in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The 146\, 151\, and 36 CTA buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line Sheridan and Wilson stations are each about a 12-15 min walk/roll away. There is free street parking in the surrounding area. Outside of school hours \, parking for a fee is available nearby at the Walt Disney Magnet School lot at 4149 N Clarendon Ave. or the Brenneman School lot at 4251 N. Clarendon Ave\, both are about a block away. Paid parking is also available through parking apps like Spot Hero. \nACCESABILITY\nThere are a couple steps leading up to the front entrance on Buena. The ramp entrance can be accessed from the back parking lot\, via Clarendon Avenue.  The event will all take place on one level and all restrooms and hallways are wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/melt-ice-community-bake-sale/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Citations Needed co-host Adam Johnson will be in joined in conversation with Nashwa Bawab to discuss Johnson’s new book\, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza (Pluto Press\, April 2026) \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nHow to Sell a Genocide is a thorough indictment of US corporate media’s role in enabling—and\, at times\, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like The New York Times\, CNN\, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israel’s war crimes\, hid the US’s central role\, and dehumanized the Palestinian people. \nDrawing from deep\, original data-driven analysis\, Johnson dissects the mechanics of propaganda\, from the selective empathy\, strategic omissions\, overt racism and repetition of state-sanctioned falsehoods\, to the demonization of humanitarian workers and dishonest coverage of campus protests. With clarity and moral force\, Johnson argues that the genocide could not have been sustained without the active\, sustained complicity of the US media. \nSpeakers\nAdam Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed. His writing has been featured in The Nation\, In These Times\, The Intercept\, Los Angeles Times\, and San Francisco Chronicle. \nNashwa Bawab is the web producer at In These Times and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement. \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books\, Pluto Press 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/how-to-sell-a-genocide-the-medias-complicity-in-the-destruction-of-gaza/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Films for a Changing World presents: Teaching America
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, April 14th for a screening of Anurima Bhargava’s 2025 documentary Teaching America. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nHigh school students and teachers join forces to fight for African-American studies\, after the state of Arkansas threatens to shut their classes down. The in-classroom testimony of a movement sparked by the unflinching desire to learn that crosses boundaries and generations. The film will be followed by a discussion led by youth leaders from the Chicago Freedom School and all proceeds will go towards supporting their work. \nAbout the Film\nTeaching America honors the high school students and teachers who stood united—embracing joy\, dignity\, brilliance\, and love—when the state of Arkansas threatened to shut their Advanced Placement African American Studies classes down. The film captures a powerful moment in America: a testament to wisdom\, boundless curiosity\, and an unshakable desire to learn that crosses boundaries and generations—in a time of forced erasure of our history\, culture\, and humanity. \nAbout Chicago Freedom School\nFounded in 2007\, CFS mission is to cultivate and amplify the leadership of Black and Brown youth as they envision and organize toward collective healing and liberation. Learn more about their work here! \nAbout the Series\nHaymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World. We envision this community film series to be a place for people to come together in community during this volatile political moment. In times like these\, our struggle to change the world can feel even more difficult to sustain and we hope these events will be a space to share a collective cultural experience and connect with one another.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/films-for-a-changing-world-presents-teaching-america/
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SUMMARY:Poetry for the People
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of radical poetry where celebrated local poets read from their work as part of The Goodman Theatre’s 100 Free Acts of Theater. \n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nThese poems challenge systems\, imagine new futures\, and give voice to resistance\, liberation\, and collective care. As we navigate an ever more challenging world\, we hope this event is not only a shared cultural experience but also a place for connection and community building. The program will be followed by a reception with light refreshments and books from the readers for purchase. \n**Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nDerrick Austin is the author of three poetry collections including This Elegance\, forthcoming from Boa Editions in May 2026\, Tenderness (Boa Editions\, 2021)\, winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\, and Trouble the Water (Boa Editions\, 2016) selected by Mary Szybist for the A. Poulin Jr\, Poetry Prize. He is a 2026 AICA-USA Art Critics Fellow. \nI.S. Jones is the author of Bloodmercy\, chosen by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR / Honickman First Book Prize and the chapbook Spells of My Name\, selected by Newfound in 2021 for their Emerging Writers Series. Currently\, she is a Senior Editor for Poetry Northwest\, where she runs her column\, The Legacy Suite. Her works have appeared in Granta\, LA Review of Books\, Guernica\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. While she has lived in many places across the U.S.\, she gratefully calls Chicago home. \nDiamond Sharp is a poet and writer from Chicago. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, New York Magazine\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more. She is a former editor of Bandcamp Daily and Rookie and a graduate of Wellesley College. Her debut book of poetry\, Super Sad Black Girl\, was published in 2022 \nHosted by Tim Stafford\, editor of the all ages anthology series Learn Then Burn (Write Bloody Books) and the author of the poetry collection The Patron Saint of Making Curfew (Haymarket Books). \n  \n\nThis initiative is presented by Goodman Theatre in partnership with Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and Allstate.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/poetry-for-the-people/
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SUMMARY:Left Media Under a Hostile Regime
DESCRIPTION:Join a conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara\, Ari Bloomekatz\, Maya Schenwar\, and Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger to discuss the big ideas and the nitty gritty of working in left media. \n  \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nWhat are some of the challenges facing independent media in this political climate? What is the role of left media in an era of constant political crisis and an emboldened far-right? As current events move at the speed of light\, and censorship and fear grip newsrooms\, how do left publications play a part in building connection and solidarity? \nJoin a conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin / The Nation)\, Ari Bloomekatz (In These Times)\, Maya Schenwar (Truthout)\, and Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger (AirGo Radio) to discuss the big ideas and the nitty gritty of working in left media. \nWriters\, activists\, publishers\, and readers committed to expanding the reach of left ideas\, please come ready to participate in the discussion! The conversion will be followed by an informal reception with light snacks. \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nBhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin\, the president of the Nation magazine\, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. \nAri Bloomekatz is Interim Executive Director and Executive Editor at In These Times. He was previously the Managing Editor of Rethinking Schools and Tikkun magazines\, and spent several years as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. \nMaya Schenwar is Truthout‘s editor-in-chief\, author of Locked Down\, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better\, and co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition and Who Do You Serve\, Who Do you Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. \nDamon A. Williams is a movement builder\, organizer\, hip-hop performing artist\, educator and media maker from the south side of Chicago. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media\, and the Co-Creator of AirGo\, a podcast in Chicago that reshapes culture for the more liberatory and creative. He is also the co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective\, an artistic activist organization utilizing cultural production and popular education to redistribute power and resources\, eradicate systemic violence\, and transform inequity. \nDaniel Kisslinger is a Chicago-based host and producer who creates dialogue-based media showcasing the stories\, voices\, and artworks of communities challenging power\, reconfiguring public life\, and reimagining our world. He is the Co-Founder of Respair Production & Media\, a movement journalism and media hub\, and is the Co-Creator of AirGo\, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes culture for the more liberatory and creative. \n  \n\n\n\nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books\, Jacobin\, In These Times\, Truthout\, AirGo Radio and Respair Media. 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/left-media-under-a-hostile-regime/
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SUMMARY:Night Shift in Perfect English with Mina Khan
DESCRIPTION:Join poet Mina Khan for a an evening of celebration of her new book\, Night Shift in Perfect English\, at Haymarket House\, with special guests Jesse Fairbanks\, Francesca Kritikos\, and Lisa Low. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\n2024 Winner of the Two Languages Book Award\, Mina Khan’s debut collection Night Shift in Perfect English is a tender\, album-like retelling of the immigrant family post-American Dream. Drawing upon her Korean-Pakistani heritage\, Khan discusses the NYC bodega in a gentrifying neighborhood\, the aging body\, and a rapidly deteriorating climate; Everyday violences-and the vivid joys that persevere. \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and copies of Night Shift in Perfect English available for purchase.** \nSpeakers:\nMina Khan is a Korean-Pakistani American poet from NYC. Her work spans across nations\, generations\, to discuss cyclicality\, violence\, tenderness\, ecology\, and the everyday. She is the author of MON-monuments\, monarchs & monsters (Sputnik & Fizzle\, 2020) and Night Shift in Perfect English (Gasher Press\, 2026.) Her work has appeared in AAWW’s The Margins\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Epiphany Magazine\, and more. Khan holds a BA from Wesleyan University\, MFA from Columbia University\, and is a Tin House alum. \nJesse Fairbanks (they/them) is a nonfiction writer from East Tennessee whose work reflects the conditions and consequences of racial capitalism. Through stories of their dead mothers\, Jesse honors the concept of complex personhood\, celebrating their matriarchs’ stubbornness while mourning their passivity. Their essays weave political and familial histories to expose white supremacy as soul-sucking for white southerners with little income and no wealth. Jesse currently works as a Policy Analyst on the Public Benefits Justice team at the Center for Law and Social Policy\, where they advocate to increase funding for and expand access to federal rental assistance programs \nFrancesca Kritikos is the editor in chief of SARKA\, a journal and publisher focused on works of the flesh. Her latest book\, The season of lilacs is monstrous\, was released by Blush Lit in October 2025. Her writing has been published in English\, French and Greek in numerous online and print journals. She also writes the Substack column Body Composition. \nLisa Low is the author of Replica (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2026) and the chapbook Crown for the Girl Inside (YesYes Books\, 2023). She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize\, and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Ecotone\, The Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere. Originally from Maryland\, she lives in Chicago. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Chicago Poetry Center. 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/night-shift-in-perfect-english-with-mina-khan/
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SUMMARY:Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire with Simukai Chigudu
DESCRIPTION:Join author Simukai Chigudu in conversation with Barbara Sostaita and Adam Goodman about his new book\, Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire.  \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nChasing Freedom is an exquisitely crafted memoir\, sweeping from Zimbabwe to Oxford\, that lays bare the violent\, enduring legacy of colonialism on both a country and a family. Simukai Chigudu grew up in the shadow of Africa’s struggles for liberation. As he navigates the tangled threads of personal and political history\, he is guided by one central question: What does it mean to be truly free?\n\nIn this gorgeous and atmospheric family memoir\, Chigudu embarks on a quest to understand how the trauma of decolonization has shaped not only his country\, but his very identity—as an African\, a migrant\, a Black man\, a doctor\, a scholar\, and a son. What he discovers is that colonization is a potent force that continues to upend lives and institutions. Chasing Freedom is an intimate reckoning with the ghosts of the past that haunt our politics and our psyches in ways we can’t always see. \n  \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests. We will have books for sale after the program. ** \nSpeakers:\nSimukai Chigudu is associate professor of African politics at the University of Oxford and fellow of St. Antony’s College. He was previously a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His academic monograph\, The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera\, Crisis and Citizenship Zimbabwe (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, won the prestigious Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award from the International and American Political Science Associations. He holds a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford\, for which he was awarded the Audrey Richards Prize 2018\, a biennial award from the African Studies Association UK for the best thesis on Africa. Before coming into academia\, he worked as a medical doctor in the NHS for three years. He was also one of the founding members of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford\, and has become a leading voice in public debates on the cultural politics of colonialism and racism. Chasing Freedom is his first trade book. \nBarbara Sostaita is a writer and scholar living in Chicago. She is an assistant professor in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her first book\, Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert\, is an ethnographic study of care practices on the migrant trail. \nAdam Goodman is a historian and an associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of the award-winning book The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. \n  \n\n\nThis 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/chasing-freedom-coming-of-age-at-the-end-of-empire-with-simukai-chigudu/
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SUMMARY:Films for a Changing World presents: Flying Lessons
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday\, March 24th at 6 PM for a screening of Elizabeth Nichols’ 2024 documentary\, Flying Lessons. The film will be followed by a discussion led by ONE Northside and all proceeds will go towards supporting their work. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Film\nElizabeth Nichols’ Flying Lessons is a beautiful ode to a New York City Lower East Side artist as well as to the larger “dying breed” that once roamed the streets of Alphabet City\, performing in its now extinct clubs. Importantly\, it’s also a call to end rampant gentrification and a love story between director and character all rolled into one. When their Lower East Side building comes under siege by a predatory landlord\, a young filmmaker and an aging punk artist forge an unlikely friendship. As the two women collaborate on a portrait of a creative life amidst NYC’s cultural crisis\, they discover what it means to be neighbors. \nAbout the Series\nHaymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World. We envision this community film series to be a place for people to come together in community during this volatile political moment. In times like these\, our struggle to change the world can feel even more difficult to sustain and we hope these events will be a space to share a collective cultural experience and connect with one another. \nOrganizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside (ONE Northside) is a community organization resulting from the merger of Lakeview Action Coalition and Organization of the Northeast. Together\, ONE and LAC have a history of nearly 60 years of powerful and effective community organizing.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/films-for-a-changing-world-presents-flying-lessons/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Game Worker Solidarity: Organizing in the Games Industry
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Unfortunately due to illness our comrades from SAG-AFTRA will no longer be able to join us for this event. Instead of a formal program\, we invite folks in Chicago with interest in organizing the games industry to join Game Worker Solidarity members Austin Kelmore and Jamie Woodcock for a meet-and-greet. \n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nSince the formation of GWU (Game Workers Unite) in 2018\, there has been a wave of unionization in the games industry. As this workers’ movement spread and developed\, game workers have sought to unionize in different local contexts\, involving a range of different collective actions. \nThe panel will also discuss the Game Worker Solidarity (GWS) project\, a collaboration between academics and game workers\, particularly seeking to collect and preserve an emerging history of game worker organizing. The GWS project maps and documents collective actions taken by game workers and is relaunching with an updated website and database\, including detailing layoffs in the industry. \nThe panel will discuss different examples of game worker organizing\, exploring the relationship to the labour process\, forms of collective action\, employer responses\, and unionization in the games industry. The aim is to reflect on the organizing so far\, future horizons\, and what can be learnt for workers in organizing in other sectors. \n**This in person event will also be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nAustin Kelmore has worked in the video games industry for the past 18 years and co-founded the IWGB Game Workers Union\, Game Worker Solidarity\, and No Games For Genocide. He actively organizes in all three groups to improve the games industry and the world at large. \nSarah Elmaleh is an actor\, voice director and games performance consultant driven by a passion for playful collaboration. She is also a dedicated advocate for industry sustainability for actors and game developers alike\, and served as Chair of the Interactive Media Agreement Negotiating Committee throughout SAG-AFTRA’s 3-year negotiations and 11-month strike for generative AI protections. \nStarting out in indie games like Gone Home\, Sarah is best known for roles in Helldivers 2 (Service Technician)\, Hi-Fi Rush (Korsica)\, Fortnite (Cube Queen)\, and Gears 5 (Lizzie Carmine)\, voiced the female version of the player character in BioWare’s Anthem\, and has provided additional voices in games like The Last of Us Part II\, Spider-Man: Miles Morales and God of War Ragnarok. She has directed performance for AAA megahits (Call of Duty\, Fortnite) and impactful indies (IGF 2024 nominee The Wreck\, Tribeca Games Award winner 2023 Goodbye Volcano High).\nHer consulting work educates and connects developers with industry-standard performance communities and best practices\, from navigating union compliance to casting and recording. She has taught game development students about working with actors (USC\, NYU)\, and helps acting students adapt to games-specific challenges (Queer Vox). She has also programmed\, produced\, and juried games festivals and events (Games for Change\, IGF\, IndieCade)\, serving for many years as director and cohost of the IndieCade Awards. She is one of six hosts\, alongside game devs and academics\, of The Secret Lives of Games podcast. \nZeke Alton is an Actor and former Navy Test Pilot whose performance credits span film\, television\, and all genres of voice acting. He is known for his roles in video games such as Call of Duty\, DC Dark Legion\, and The Callisto Protocol\, and Animated series such as Boss Baby\, and Marvel’s Eyes of Wakanda. He can also be seen in tv shows like SWAT and CSI\, and feature films like My Dead Friend Zoe. Zeke volunteers at SAG-AFTRA in multiple areas and leverages his experience in military acquisition to develop contracts and engage in negotiations to help union actors thrive in today’s media environment.\nZeke loves video games\, Arsenal Football Club\, and is learning to dance Argentine Tango. \nKeythe Farley is a writer/ director/ actor who lives in Los Angeles. \nAs an actor\, Keythe has a long list of commercial\, animation\, video game and promo credits. He’s best known as Thane Krios in the MASS EFFECT series of video games\, Kellogg in FALLOUT 4 and Eruptor in SKYLANDERS. Keythe can be heard as Santa Claus in the Christmas special ALIEN X-MAS on Netflix. \nKeythe is also a well-known Voice Over Director with animation credits that include\, RUGRATS ADVENTURE TIME and FRIGHT KREWE. He is also a prolific voice director of video games including GOD OF WAR\, MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2\, CALL OF DUTY\, FINAL FANTASY XV\, ASGARD’S WRATH 2 and the SKYLANDERS series of games. \nKeythe is also the co-author of BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL which won the NYC Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical\, and recently had a revival production at New York City Center. \nFrom the blank page to the finished product\, Keythe is a committed and experienced storyteller who understands what makes stories work. \nhttps://www.keythefarley.com/ \n  \n\n\nThis 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/game-worker-solidarity-organizing-in-the-games-industry/
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SUMMARY:Heat The Ground Up with Starbucks Workers United
DESCRIPTION:Join In These Times\, Labor Notes\, and Haymarket Books for a panel discussing how the historic Starbucks strikes were organized\, how workers mobilized\, and larger lessons learned.\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\n4\,500+ Starbucks baristas across 150+ cities have shut down hundreds of stores\, blockaded distribution centers\, and disrupted corporate operations with a level of militance rarely seen in the U.S. labor movement. It was a firestorm of good trouble that caught management off guard and marked a high-water point for labor. Haymarket and In These Times are inviting Chicago Starbucks Workers United strike captains to a panel discussion. Together\, we’ll unpack one of the most historic strike actions in modern labor history. This event is focused on the city-wide strike strategy carried out in Chicago. Panelists will map out how the strike was organized\, how workers mobilized\, and larger lessons learned. \n**This in person event will also be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nClarissa Redwine is the host of Heat The Ground Up\, a new Haymarket Original podcast exploring the historic Starbucks Workers United campaign. Her work in the labor movement has been featured in The New York Times\, the BBC\, The Guardian\, The Verge\, TechCrunch\, and many other news outlets. \nMiles Kampf-Lassin is senior editor of In These Times. \nDiego Franco is a six-year Starbucks barista\, based in Chicago. He is a member of Starbucks Workers United\, where he serves as an elected strike captain and bargaining delegate. \nRowan Ravine\, Starbucks Workers United \nThis event is sponsored by Haymarket Books\, Labor Notes\, 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/heat-the-ground-up-with-starbucks-workers-united/
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SUMMARY:Films for a Changing World presents: The Spies Among Us
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, February 19th at 6 PM for a screening of Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman’s 2025 documentary The Spies Among Us. The film will be followed by a discussion led by members of Lucy Parsons Labs. Proceeds from ticket sale donations will go towards supporting the work of Lucy Parsons Labs and refreshments will be served. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Film\nThe Spies Among Us is a rare look into the inner workings of a data-driven surveillance state run by one of the most feared secret police forces the world has ever known – East Germany’s Stasi. A personal investigation into family secrets by Peter Keup\, a Stasi victim-turned-historian\, takes a turn when he contacts the men who ran the system. These are the first dialogues between Stasi officers and a victim ever recorded. Through these encounters a terrifying mosaic is built of the lengths people go to maintain power in a dictatorship\, as well as the indomitable human spirit that seeks truth and self-determination. \nAbout the Series\nHaymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World. We envision this community film series to be a place for people to come together in community during this volatile political moment. In times like these\, our struggle to change the world can feel even more difficult to sustain and we hope these events will be a space to share a collective cultural experience and connect with one another. \nLucy Parsons Labs (LPL) organizes safer communities by challenging the systemic domination accelerated by by both public and private institutions. As technological advancements are increasingly used to exploit Black\, brown\, and low-income communities\, LPL will continue to provide expertise to the growing network of communities defending our rights. \n**We ask that all in-person attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of all attendees**
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/films-for-a-changing-world-presents-the-spies-among-us/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260216T183000
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SUMMARY:Haymarket Presents: Thea Riofrancos on Extraction
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this Haymarket Presents speakers series event\, with Thea Riofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book\, Extraction. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books. \n\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nFrom the Los Angeles wildfires at the start of last year\, to Trump’s recent televised summit with oil executives\, evidence has continued to mount that the dominance of fossil fuels\, and the catastrophic effects of climate change they continue to accelerate\, is not going to be broken anytime soon. Yet the lithium industry is booming\, and critical ‘green’ minerals continued to be on the frontlines of geopolitical wrangling. What are we to make of all this? Are we helping to solve the ecological crisis by buying electric cars if their construction necessitates opening hundreds of new mines in the next decade? If zero emission energy remains an urgent global need\, how should we navigate these existential dilemmas? \nThea Riofrancos and Gabriel Winant will grapple with these questions and consider what a path toward a just and effective green transition could look like. \n**This in person event will also be live-streamed through Haymarket Books. Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the virtual event on the day of the event.** \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nThea Riofrancos is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College\, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute\, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Previously\, she has been an Andrew Carnegie Fellow\, a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard\, and a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame\, as well as holding research positions at institutions in Santiago\, Chile and Quito\, Ecuador. The author of Resource Radicals and coauthor of A Planet to Win\, her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics\, Cultural Studies\, World Politics\, and Global Environmental Politics\, and her essays in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, The Guardian\, n+1\, and Jacobin\, among other outlets. \nGabriel Winant is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago\, a member of the executive council of AAUP/AFT Local 6741\, a member of the Dissent editorial board\, and author of The Next Shift. \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books and Haymarket Books\, and is part of the Haymarket Presents speakers series. 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.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/haymarket-presents-thea-riofrancos-on-extraction/
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SUMMARY:Radical Used Book Fair!
DESCRIPTION:Hey Chicago! We would love if you joined us Sunday\, February 15th for our Radical Used Book Fair (indoor edition!) ????♥️???? \nWe’ll have hundreds of radical books available—many in like-new condition as well as some rare finds. It’ll be an excellent place to stock up for yourself or as gifts for all the activists\, organizers\, and readers in your life! All proceeds will go towards supporting the work of Haymarket House. \nAll paperbacks $4\, hardcovers $6. Accepted payment methods are cash\, card and tap to pay. Please bring your own reusable bags. \nThe Anti-War Committee: Chicago will be tabling and collecting signatures with the goal of ending the investment of Illinois’ public funds into Israel and ICE. Learn more about their work here! \nSee you there! \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nTransit\, Parking & Accessibility\nHaymarket House is located at 800 W. Buena Ave on the corner of Buena and Clarendon in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The 146\, 151\, and 36 CTA buses stop nearby. The CTA Red Line Sheridan and Wilson stations are each about a 12-15 min walk/roll away. There is free street parking in the surrounding area. Outside of school hours\, parking for a fee is available nearby at the Walt Disney Magnet School lot at 4149 N Clarendon Ave. or the Brenneman School lot at 4251 N. Clarendon Ave\, both are about a block away. Paid parking is also available through parking apps like Spot Hero. \nThere are a couple steps leading up to the front entrance on Buena. The ramp entrance can be accessed from the back parking lot\, via Clarendon Avenue\, just let the event organizers know by emailing casey@haymarketbooks.org upon registration so the door can be propped open.The event will all take place on one level and all restrooms and hallways are wheelchair accessible. We also have a HEPA air recirculator in our main event space. Masks are recommended as this is an indoor event.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/radical-used-book-fair-2/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Join David Omotoso Stovall and Tara Betts as the discuss Stovall’s latest book Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nMarginalized communities often become understandably preoccupied with a city’s structured attempt to deem them disposable\, making it difficult to see people experiencing the same suffering as potential comrades in struggle. Enemies are manufactured as the result of continued displacement\, hyper-segregation\, and dispossession. Under these impossible circumstances people are often quicker to punch each other before they identify the enemy as white supremacy and capitalism\, creating a society where conflict is engineered. \nExamining the long fight of Black people in Chicago to claim their humanity and thrive in a city while facing school closings\, the destruction of public housing and oppressive law enforcement\, Stovall argues that marginalized communities face unique structural challenges while being blamed for interpersonal conflict and labeled “violent” and deemed disposable. With a novel approach to the question of how state-sanctioned violence and abandonment impacts low-income communities\, Engineered Conflict uses examples from Chicago’s recent history to shed light on the politics of disposability through housing instability\, criminalization\, and school closures. Looking at all three phenomena together allows readers to see how state policies designate some neighborhoods as unviable\, where disinvestment furthers a rationale to contain members of these communities. \nLooking at the many ways Black communities have resisted state violence and the work of local organizations to address marginalization\, Engineered Conflict calls for a powerful movement against the displacement\, disinvestment\, and disposability of Chicago’s Black population. \n**We strongly encourage all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nSpeakers:\nDavid Omotoso Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and Criminology\, Law & Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory\, School Creation and the Politics of Interruption. \nTara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear\, Break the Habit\, and Arc & Hue. She is a professor in the Peace\, Conflict Studies\, and Social Justice program at DePaul University and part of the faculty at the Solstice MFA program at Lasell University. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including This is the Honey\, Choice Words\, and The Overturning. Her short stories and essays have also appeared in numerous publications\, including Octavia’s Brood\, Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories\, The Whiskey of Our Discontent\, and The Breakbeat Poets.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/engineered-conflict-structural-violence-and-the-future-of-black-life/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260120T183000
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SUMMARY:What We Saw in Chicago: Lessons from the CBP Surge
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with local organizers about how our community pushed back against attacks on our neighbors from federal border patrol agents last fall.\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Event\nOver the course of several months\, more than 250 Border Patrol agents were flown into Illinois to assist ICE in carrying out warrantless arrests and racially targeted sweeps. Community organizations documented at least 615 people who were unlawfully detained — a number expected to grow as additional cases are reviewed. \nAlthough this particular surge force has since left Illinois\, federal officials have made it clear that similar operations are likely to return. That makes it essential to take stock of what happened here\, how our communities responded in real time\, and what it means for the months ahead. \n**We ask all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speakers and other guests.** \nSpeakers:\nSpeakers include Rey Wences from Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR)\, Antonio Gutierrez from Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and Illinois State Senator Celina Senator Villanueva\, with a special poetry reading from Juliet DeJesus Alejandre. \nThis event is cosponsored by ICIRR\, OCAD and Haymarket Books.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/what-we-saw-in-chicago-lessons-from-the-cbp-surge/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260114T200000
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Engineers: Learning\, Politics\, and Activism in Pre-1979 Iran
DESCRIPTION:Bill Ayers sits down with author Sepehr Vakil to discuss Vakil’s new book\, Revolutionary Engineers: Learning\, Politics\, and Activism at Aryamehr University of Technology. \n\n      \n        \n      \n    \nAbout the Book\nIn 1966\, the Shah of Iran established Aryamehr University of Technology (AMUT)\, now known as Sharif University of Technology\, as part of a larger campaign to modernize the nation. In 1979\, AMUT engineering students played a critical role in the revolution that overthrew the Shah and his regime. In Revolutionary Engineers\, Sepehr Vakil\, Mahdi Ganjavi\, and Mina Khanlarzadeh present the cultural\, political\, and pedagogical history of AMUT\, from its 1966 establishment up to its pivotal role in the 1979 revolution\, while delving into the complex interplay of global\, national\, and Islamic values in STEM education. \n“Revolutionary Engineers uncovers the captivating story of Sharif University’s role in Iran’s 1979 revolution\, challenging conventional STEM narratives and offering a profound lens on the power of students to shape history.”\n—Ruha Benjamin\, Princeton University\, author of Race After Technology \nRead more about the book here! \n**We strongly encourage all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of the speaker and other guests. We will have a reception afterwards with light refreshments and books available for purchase.** \nBuy the book! \nSpeakers:\nSepehr Vakil is a scholar\, writer\, and educator who was born in Iran\, grew up in California\, and now lives in Evanston\, where he is a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. At Northwestern\, he directs new initiatives at the intersection of ethics and technology\, including the Center for Responsible Technology\, Policy\, and Public Dialogue\, and the M.S. in Technology\, People\, and Policy (MTePP) program. Deeply committed to engaging in public scholarship\, Sepehr writes a Substack newsletter exploring ideas about family\, technology\, and culture\, and co-hosts the podcast A Professor and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar (PCWB). A father of five\, he has also begun performing stand-up comedy around Chicago as a creative outlet that extends his commitment to public dialogue and bringing people together through humor\, storytelling\, and community. \nBill Ayers\, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired)\, has written extensively about social justice and democracy\, education and the cultural contexts of schooling\, and teaching as an essentially intellectual\, ethical\, and political enterprise. His books include When Freedom is the Question\, Abolition is the Answer\, A Kind and Just Parent; Teaching toward Freedom; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident\, “You can’t fire the bad ones!” And 18 other Myths about Teachers\, Teachers’ Unions\, and Public Education\, To Teach: The Journey\, in Comics\, Demand the Impossible!\, and Race Course: Against White Supremacy.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/revolutionary-engineers-learning-politics-and-activism-in-pre-1979-iran/
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SUMMARY:Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Shannon Perez-Darby with special guest Shira Hassan\, this workshop will explore the way that mandatory reporting is used to criminalize families and communities. Together we will discuss why mandatory reporting is not neutral\, how mandatory reporting and family policing connects to other forms of criminalization and how to resist calls to “comply in advance.” \nGet Tickets\nThis workshop is for educators\, social workers\, youth workers\, those in the public health realms and all community members impacted by mandatory reporting and family policing. Come to learn about why these laws are harmful and how to resist! \nSpeakers\nShannon Perez-Darby: A founding member of the Accountable Communities Consortium\, core member of the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project and co-editor of the anthology\, How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action (Haymarket\, 2025)\, Shannon Perez-Darby is a queer\, mixed Latina\, anti-violence advocate\, author\, activist\, and consultant working to create the conditions to support loving\, equitable relationships and communities. Shannon centers queer and trans communities of color while working to address issues of domestic and sexual violence\, accountability\, family policing and prison abolition. \nShira Hassan (she/her) is the former executive director of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project\, an organizing and grassroots movement building project led by and for young people of color that have current or former experience in the sex trade and street economies. A lifelong harm reductionist and prison abolitionist\, Shira has been working on community accountability for nearly 25 years and has helped young people of color start their own organizing projects across the country. \nWith an introduction from Erica Meiners.  \nCo-Sponsors:\nMandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project: The Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral project works to share survivor stories about the impact of mandatory reporting\, educate communities on harm reduction practices and change the conditions that lead to violence and abuse.\nHow to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action: From leading abolitionist organizers\, How to End Family Policing From Outrage to Action (Haymarket\,2025) is a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/mandatory-reporting-harm-reduction/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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SUMMARY:Migra Watch Training with PUÑO at Haymarket House
DESCRIPTION:Join PUÑO for a training on how to document and report ICE activity in your neighborhood. \nGet Tickets\nSince January\, PUÑO has been building collective power to protect Chicago’s immigrant communities through a variety of trainings and connecting Chicagoans to their local rapid response group. At this training organizers will lead attendees in a 2-hour training on how to document and record ICE activity\, as well as how to combat ICE terror in our communities. We will also have materials on site to make own whistle kits and connecting with your local rapid response groups and each other. \nRefreshments will be provided. \nPlease RSVP for free to join us so we can get an accurate headcount! \n***We ask that all attendees wear masks in the event space during the program for the health and well-being of our community and presenters. If you need accommodations please let us know when you RSVP and we will do our best to meet your needs.*** \n————————————————————– \nAbout Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo:\nPUÑO is a coalition dedicated to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights through legal support\, education\, and community engagement in Pilsen and its surrounding areas. \nAbout Haymarket House:\nHaymarket House is a radical community and political event space in Uptown and the Chicago home of Haymarket Books.
URL:https://haymarkethouse.org/events/migra-watch-training-with-puno-at-haymarket-house/
LOCATION:Haymarket House\, 800 W Buena Ave\, Chicago\, IL\, 60613\, United States
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