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Join us for the next event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is joined by Uahikea Maile for a conversation on decolonial strategies that look to water as a catalyst for radical transformation. Co-sponsored by Pilsen Community BooksIn her powerful new book, Theory of Water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson offers a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and forces in the world today. Simpson draws on Nishnaabeg origin stories while artfully weaving the work of influential writers and artists alongside her personal memories and experience—and in doing so, reimagines water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world.Theory of Water is a resonant exploration of an intricate, multi-layered relationship with the most abundant element on our planet—one that, as Simpson eloquently shows, is shaping our present even as it demands a radical rethinking of how we might achieve a just future.Theory of Water is a genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force–water–through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers.Speakers:Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and member of Alderville First Nation. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is the author of seven previous books, including Rehearsals for Living with Robyn Maynard, and the novel Noopiming: A Cure for White Ladies. Her newest book is Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead.Dr. Uahikea Maile is a Kanaka Maoli scholar, organizer, and practitioner from Maunawili, Oʻahu. He is assistant professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Maile’s current book manuscript, Gifts of Sovereignty: Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Politics in Hawaiʻi, examines the historical development and contemporary formation of settler colonial capitalism in Hawai‘i and gifts of sovereignty that seek to overturn it by issuing responsibilities for balancing relationships with ‘āina, the land and that who feeds.This event is co-sponsored by Pilsen Community Books and Haymarket Books, and is part of the Haymarket Presents speakers series. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxWlazKmtQ4Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

A perilous situation faces Ukraine in the aftermath of the recent Trump-Putin summit, in which the partition of its land and people were proposed without a Ukrainian voice at the table. This panel will discuss the regional and global ramifications of Russia’s war of occupation and ways to solidarize with those opposing it.Speakers:Tanya Vyhovsky is a Ukrainian American, clinical social worker, and a member of Vermont’s Progressive Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, and recently returned from a trip to Ukraine.Ilya Budraitskis is a political researcher and socialist activist previously based in Moscow. His essay collection Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and The Left in Post-Soviet Russia was published by Verso in 2022.Denys Bondar, a native of Ukraine, is a professor of physics at Tulane University and is a member of the Ukraine Solidarity Network.Howie Hawkins, USN and Green Party presidential candidate 2020This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Ukraine Solidarity Network.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzHRol0nAhMBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join internationalist organizers discussing the lessons contemporary international solidarity movements can learn from past struggles against the Vietnam War and in support of Vietnamese liberation.View the A Luta Continua Zine Series: https://bit.ly/intlsolidarityzinesDownload the Solidarity and War in Vietnam Zine: https://bit.ly/vietnamzine2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Vietnamese liberation forces over the imperialist US military. This timing coincides with the release of the zine, Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, the NLF Is Gonna Win: Solidarity and the War in Vietnam 1955-1975, written by James Kilgore. The zine is an overview of the international solidarity efforts that emerged in the US and beyond in support of the Vietnamese struggle and is part of the zine series A La Luta Continua from Community Justice Exchange.The launch of this zine comes at a moment when a massive global solidarity movement has emerged in support of the liberation of Palestine. In this webinar, a panel comprised of individuals who took part in the anti-war movement of the 60s and 70s, as well as contemporary activists engaged in Palestinian solidarity organizing, will share perspectives on the parallels and differences in the struggles, look at lessons learned from the support for the Vietnamese, and assess how we might learn from that history. The discussion hopes to provoke answers on how we can mobilize more support for Palestinian freedom and build a global movement based on international solidarity and visions of true liberation.This event is organized by Community Justice Exchange in partnership with Haymarket Books.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF89oS7CtL4Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Haymarket Books and Parceo for a discussion on how our pedagogies can ground our organizing in collective struggles for justice.How do our pedagogies impact and help ground our organizing and the ways we can connect and build upon our collective struggles for justice?How do we learn (and share our learning) from our organizing in ways that broaden and deepen our movements?How does our political education impact our organizing, our thinking, our work, our connections and interconnections?What are the challenges we face in our different spaces in elevating our deep commitments and principles–and action?Moderator/opening–Lesley Williams, Educator and writerPanelists:Mizue Aizeki, Collaborative Research Center for ResilienceMaya Suzuki Daniels, Educator and OrganizerLara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)Merrie Najimy, Veteran Anti-Racist Educator, MTA Rank And File for PalestineRebecca Vilkomerson, Funding FreedomClosing--Nina Mehta, PARCEOThis event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, and PARCEO. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxhKgRwxBwBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Wen Stephenson and Jane Hirshfield for a conversation on faith, humanism, and radical solidarity in the face of fascism and climate catastrophe-Wen Stephenson's new book, Learning to Live in the Dark is a collection of hard-hitting and deeply personal essays in which the Nation writer and veteran activist traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophesFaced with the intellectual, moral, and spiritual abyss created by these intersecting crises, Stephenson reaches back to the ideas of mid 20th-century thinkers Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Albert Camus, and Frantz Fanon, along with contemporary writers engaged in the climate-justice struggle—including the acclaimed American poet Jane Hirshfield.For this event, Hirshfield will join Stephenson to take up the urgent question of how to hold on to a radical commitment to a better world when crises beset us from all sides.Purchase a copy of Learning to Live in the Dark: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-learning-to-live-in-the-darkSpeakers:Jane Hirshfield, among American poetry's foremost voices for the biosphere and writing “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), is the author most recently of The Asking: New & Selected Poems. Hirshfield's honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Founder in 2017 of Poets for Science, Hirshfield is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Wen Stephenson is a veteran journalist, essayist, and climate-justice activist. A correspondent for The Nation and frequent contributor to The Baffler, he is the author previously of What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other (2015), about the pivotal early years of the U.S. climate justice movement. He is a former editor at The Atlantic and The Boston Globe, where he edited the Sunday Ideas section, and has written for those and many other publications, including Slate, The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere. In 2010, he left his career in mainstream media and has since covered, engaged in, and helped organize nonviolent resistance to fossil capital. He lives near Boston.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewPT5_RW8wEBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

The Trump regime took advantage of the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement under the Biden administration to launch a full-scale assault on higher education. He has unleashed ICE on student activists, branded any dissent against Israel’s genocidal war “antisemitic,” bullied universities into cancelling programs on race and gender, and defunded entire institutions. Join us for this Spectre Live panel of activist educators to discuss how to resist Trump’s New McCarthyism.Speakers:Isaac Kamola is a professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He is author of Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War (2021) and Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary (2019). He currently directs the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).Heba Gowayed is a writer and associate professor sociology at CUNY Hunter college and a current Carnegie Fellow. She is the author of Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential (2022).Vineeta Singh is a fellow at AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, an associate editor of Ethnic Studies Review, and a non-tenure track college teacher. She studies the history of US higher education as a site of racial contestation, so we can put contemporary confrontations about “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in the context of the four hundred years of racial capitalism. Her work for the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom is currently available as a limited run series on the podcast “AAUP Presents.”Zoé Samudzi is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of African-American and Africana Studies at The Ohio State University. She is also a Global Blackness Fellow with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg, and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution (AFRIMUHERE).This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Spectre Journal. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AokV9UO14ek Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join us for an evening of poetry and readings to raise money for vital mutual aid efforts in Gaza. As the zionist occupation - backed by the US, Britain and their allies - announces plans to openly ethnically cleanse and seize Gaza City, while forced starvation of Palestinians across Gaza rages on, we ask you to please donate what you can to provide food, water and essential supplies. These donations can save lives.This event is organised by Books Against Borders, with collaboration from the White Kite Collective, Haymarket Books, and the long list of authors, poets and performers* who have contributed to this fundraiser.Find more info and fundraiser links here: https://linktr.ee/booksagainstborders Speakers:Kamila ShamsieSuhaiymah Manzoor-KhanWhite Kite CollectiveTaghrid Choucair-VizosoZainab HasanSirine SabaHeba Al-AghaJulia Choucair-VizosoEmile SabaHossam MadhounRuth LassMaxine PeakeHanan HabashiZia Ahmed Tom BranfootLola OlufemiTasneim Zyadalisa minerva luxxRachel Spence-----About the Fundraisers: All funds raised will go to urgent fundraisers in Gaza. Half of ticket sales will go to Bridge of Solidarity, an anti-capitalist mutual aid organisation set up by Yazan, a young Gazan poet, challenging the genocide through mutual aid and the distribution of food, water, and funds. A quarter each of ticket sales will also go to fundraisers for friends in Gaza who are dependent on this money to support their families in the face of starvation, including our friends Iman and Raed. We will also be amplifying other projects and fundraisers here and throughout the event.Bridge of Solidarity is an anti-capitalist mutual aid organization founded in Gaza by Yazan, in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, focused on the most marginalized in Gaza most at risk of dying: people without phones, English skills, social media, wealthy relatives, outside support, and living relatives. You can donate directly to this fundraiser here: https://chuffed.org/project/bridgeofs...Iman and her family, from her young niece and nephew to her elderly parents, have been displaced multiple times and had their homes and neighbourhood destroyed. We are raising money to support them to access basic needs and supplies in the face of starvation and serious health problems, and to raise funds for her and others in her family to evacuate when it is safe to do so. You can support Iman and her family directly here: https://gofund.me/c9689660Raed and his family have narrowly survived multiple horrific attacks, including the Al-Ma’madani massacre and strikes that have taken the lives of relatives. Their home was destroyed and they have lost everything. This fundraiser is to support them access basic supplies, with food and other necessities at extreme prices and difficult to access. You can support Raed and his family directly here: https://chuffed.org/project/help-raed-in-gazaWe would also like to direct people to Shadows, an independent, non-profit artistic collective based in Gaza, established in 2020, and their ongoing campaign to develop a permanent children's performing arts club in Gaza. Please donate what you can to support this important work to foster expression, psychosocial support, and cultural resistance amongst communities in the Gaza strip. Support here: https://chuffed.org/project/134634-sh...Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/DFmcLVV52awBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org”

Join Global Jews for Palestine and Haymarket Books for a discussion on Palestinian liberation and building Anti-Zionist Jewish community.Mission Statement:We are Jews from many countries who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and multigenerational and our members embrace a broad range of viewpoints on Jewish religious and ethical traditions. We are connected by our involvement in the struggle for Palestinian rights, and by our determination to work for justice. We oppose Zionism and all forms of racism and colonialism.We believe that it is our particular responsibility to challenge Jewish organizations whose alliances and actions undermine Palestinian human and national rights, promote Jewish exceptionalism, and overturn Jewish social justice traditions. At the heart of our work is the fight for Palestinian liberation and the struggle for a world free of racial and ethnic hierarchy, colonial domination, and unbridled militarism.Background:Global Jews for Palestine initially came together to share our experiences of opposing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism - a document that is being used to shield Israel from valid political challenge and to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights. Since our founding in 2019, we have come to recognize that our purpose is to be a powerful and effective global Jewish voice advocating for Palestinian liberation.In the past year, as we have witnessed Israel’s genocide in Gaza and intensified ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, we are more committed than ever to making our voices heard and to standing together with the Palestinian people.Moderator:Marilyn Garson, Alternative Jewish Voices (Aotearoa/New Zealand)Panelists: Sheryl Nestel, Independent Jewish Voices (Canada)Wieland Hoban, Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East (Germany)Iván Zeta, Judíes x Palestina (Argentina)Closing: Dr. Gabor Maté, Hungarian-Canadian PhysicianThis event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Global Jews for Palestine.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrmXSnmFLPUBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Austin Sauerbrei and Katey Lauer for a virtual launch of Trouble! at Coal Creek, a gripping graphic novel tells the story of the 1891 Coal Creek War.Told through the eyes of a young Welsh immigrant, Trouble! at Coal Creek is the epic story of a cross-racial struggle to abolish the system of convict-leasing in the mines. Austin Sauerbrei's evocative black-and-white illustrations and masterful storytelling show the personal battles and motivations that led thousands of miners to repeatedly take up arms against the powerful companies, their militias, and politicians.Lured by coal companies’ promises of good pay, stability, and opportunity, the narrator’s father brought their family across the Atlantic Ocean for work in the mine. The job, however, was deadly, and life grew unbearable as the coal companies immiserated miners and their families. Meanwhile, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, racist terror, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan were still fresh memories for most. Coal companies relied increasingly on the forced labor of mostly Black prisoners who were loaned out from the state, an extremely profitable continuation of the old system of racist brutality. As Ida B. Wells noted at the time, "The Convict Lease System and Lynch Law are twin infamies which flourish hand in hand."The miners of Coal Creek, however, set fire to the edifice of convict-leasing and inspired similar rebellions throughout the South. In this captivating graphic novel, Saurbrei brings their overlooked story to life for new generations of organizers.Order a copy of Trouble! at Coal Creek here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2529-trouble-at-coal-creekSpeakers:Austin Sauerbrei is a community organizer and sequential artist based in Tennessee. He currently serves as the Director of Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM), a 52-year-old, member-led organization dedicated to empowering Tennesseans in their efforts to have a greater voice in determining their own future. Austin spent years as a neighborhood and tenant organizer in Nashville, and then as the organizer for both the Chattanooga and Knoxville-Oak Ridge AFL-CIO Labor Councils. A lifelong comics enthusiast, Austin practices visual storytelling as a form of popular education. He and his wife, Claire Brown, live in Athens, Tennessee, with their three children.Katey Lauer is an organizer, facilitator, and trainer in West Virginia, with a deep love of place. She has formed and led grassroots organizations in the Appalachian mountains for 15 years, as Coordinator of The Alliance for Appalachia, Lead Organizer of Appalachia Rising and The March on Blair Mountain, and founding Director of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum. Architect of the WV Can’t Wait movement, Katey currently acts as Co-chair of this statewide formation that’s out to win a people’s government in the mountain state. Katey is also a Core Trainer Training for Change.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXm-OMPRNoBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Garrett Felber for the virtual release event for the long-awaited biography of Martin Sostre—the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.Martin Sostre (1923–2015) was a Black Puerto Rican from East Harlem who became a politicized prisoner and jailhouse lawyer, winning cases in the early 1960s that helped secure the constitutional rights of incarcerated people. He opened one of the country’s first radical Black bookstores and was scapegoated and framed by police and the FBI following the Buffalo rebellion of 1967. Throughout his nine-year imprisonment, Sostre transformed himself and the revolutionary movements he was a part of, eventually identifying as a revolutionary anarchist and laying the foundation for contemporary Black anarchism. The decade-long Free Martin Sostre movement was one of the greatest and most improbable defense campaign victories of the Black Power era, alongside those to liberate Angela Davis and Huey Newton. Although Sostre receded from public view after his release in 1976, he lived another four decades of committed struggle as a tenant organizer and youth mentor in New York and New Jersey. Throughout his long life, Martin Sostre was a jailhouse lawyer, revolutionary bookseller, yogi, mentor and teacher, anti-rape organizer, housing justice activist, and original political thinker. The variety of strategies he used and terrains on which he struggled emphasize the necessity and possibility of multi-faceted and continuous struggle against all forms of oppression in pursuit of an egalitarian society founded on the principles of “maximum human freedom, spirituality, and love.”Get the book: https://www.akpress.org/a-continuous-struggle.htmlSpeakers:Garrett Felber is an educator, writer, and organizer. They are the author of Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State, and coauthor of The Portable Malcolm X Reader, with Manning Marable. Felber is a cofounder of the abolitionist collective Study and Struggle and is currently building a radical mobile library, the Free Society People's Library, in Portland, Oregon.Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she served as Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2014-2024. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso 2022), and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California 2007). Recent publications include an Introduction to V.I. Lenin Imperialism and the National Question (Verso 2024), and a foreword to the English translation of Making the World Clean by Françoise Vergès (Goldsmiths and MIT Press 2024). The Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore (dir. Kenton Card. 2021) features her internationalist work. Honors include the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize (with Mike Davis and Angela Y. Davis) and the 2022 Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Prize.This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and AK Press.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nuu8ylfmakBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org