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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Daniel HoSang and Micah English with a response from longtime organizer and strategist Gihan Perara, moderated and introduced by Dr. Carmen Rojas.How are conservative groups like Turning Point USA building new onramps to the right for young people, people of color, and other parts of the progressive base? How do their events, rallies, workshops, and social media spaces make direct appeals to identity, culture, and organizing issues that have long been the domain of the left? And what implications do these appeals and tactics have for left wing political strategy and practice?A team of scholar activists attending right wing events for the last two years reports back on the surprising ways that the MAGA movement has built new inroads for people of color and other parts of the progressive base. How are they doing it and what challenges does it pose to progressive approaches to organizing and movement building?Speakers:Micah English is a PhD candidate at Yale University studying American politics, and an organizer with Unite Here Local 33. Micah researches Black politics, social movement engagement and mobilization, and their intersections with sexuality and gender.Daniel Martinez HoSang is a professor of American Studies at Yale and co-editor of the forthcoming volume, The Politics of the Multiracial Right. He is the author or co-editor of six other books an social movements and racial justice and a current Race and Democracy Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute.Gihan Perera is a Senior Fellow at the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) and an experienced movement strategist with over 25 years of experience working at the intersection of racial justice, community organizing, and transformative philanthropy. As a thought leader and practitioner, he bridges the gap between grassroots movements and institutional philanthropy, offering critical analysis on power-building strategies in an increasingly complex political landscape.Dr. Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation. Under her leadership, the foundation launched the prestigious Freedom Scholar award, committed to ensuring that a majority of MCF’s endowment is overseen by diverse managers, and since starting in 2020 granted more than $160M in funding to dozens of organizations doing the hard work of shifting power to those people who have long been excluded from having it.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfk8crNutnEBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Criminalization is not only a primary tool to suppress dissent, silence opposition, and enforce policies that consolidate and enforce power - it is at the core of how Right wing, authoritarian and fascist agendas, movements, and regimes are enacted, legitimized, and entrenched.Interrupting criminalization - a political process that extends beyond criminal laws, policing, and punishment to a collective construction of categories of "others" framed as existential threats to an imagined and actual social order to be contained, expelled, and, ultimately eradicated - must therefore be at the core of our resistance.Join panelists Andrea J. Ritchie, Rachel Herzing, and Scot Nakagawa in exploring the central role of criminalization in shaping the current and evolving political terrain, and the essential role of challenging criminalization and confronting carceral logics and systems in strategies for resistance and solidarity across movements to fight fascism and authoritarianism worldwide.Speakers:Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating and agitating around policing and criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, and gender nonconforming people for the past three decades. She has been actively engaged in anti-violence, labor, and LGBTQ organizing, and in movements against state violence and for racial, gender, reproductive, economic, environmental and migrant justice in the U.S., Canada, and internationally since the 1980s. Andrea is the co-founder of Interrupting Criminalization, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, and co-author of No More Police. A Case forAbolition and Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States.Scot Nakagawa is a political strategist and organizer with over four decades of experience exploring questions of structural racism, white supremacy, and social justice. He is the co-founder and director of the 22nd Century Initiative, a national strategy and action hub building power at the intersection of opposition to authoritarianism and expanding democratic governance in the U.S.Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and educator fighting the violence of surveillance, policing and imprisonment. Herzing is co-author, with Justin Piché, of How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment (2024). Herzing is director of the Yarrow Institute for Organizing and Analysis, was executive director of Center for Political Education, a resource for political organizations on the left and progressive social movements; co-director of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex; and director of research and training at Creative Interventions, a community resource that developed interventions to interpersonal harm that do not rely on policing, imprisonment, or traditional social services.Ejeris Dixon is an organizer, writer, and strategist with 25 years of experience leading organizations within racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, transformative justice and economic justice movements. They are the Founding Director of Ejerie Labs where they focus on building movement strategy towards creating transformative futures and curtailing rising fascism. Ejeris serves as the host of the Fascism Barometer, a podcast and learning hub that discusses fascism’s rise in the United States, and how to organize against it. For ten years Ejeris served as the Founding Executive Director of Vision Change Win Consulting, where they partnered with organizations throughout the United States and internationally to build their organizing and community safety infrastructure and capacity. Ejeris is also the co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha. Over the past twenty-five years Ejeris has directly worked on thousands of incidents of violence and directly organized around more than a hundred murders of Queer and Trans People of Color.Woods Ervin is an organizer that has been working for over a decade in movements both for trans self-determination as well as for prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. She has worked at both TGI Justice Project and Interrupting Criminalization. She is currently a co-director at Critical Resistance, an organization that launches campaigns and projects for PIC abolition, at which she’s been volunteering since 2010.This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Interrupting Criminalization.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy7U1mdh4Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on free speech at the hands of the current administration.As events have continued to unfold at a blistering pace under the current Trump administration, it has remained crucial for our side to strategize about how we can respond to these conditions while defending those baring the brunt of this full out assault.Speakers:Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She is a columnist with The Guardian. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice. Her newest book is the New York Times-bestseller Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, just published in paperback.Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker and political organizer. Her books include the American Book Award–winner The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, and, with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. She is a co-founder of The Debt Collective.Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free. 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 co-edited, with Robin D. G. Kelley and Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and is Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series investigating the complicated and largely invisible history of the New York Police Department.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vP5p_oTmZUBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join us as we celebrate the launch of The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration edited by Brandon Shimoda and Brynn Saito. The event will begin with words from poet and concentration camp survivor Mitsuye Yamada followed by readings and conversation with Cathlin Goulding, Michael Ishii, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Emily Mitamura, Paulette “Tkl' Un Yeik” Moreno, Carolyn Nakagawa, Michael Prior, and Anne Yukie Watanabe. This event is co-sponsored by Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct action project of Japanese American social justice advocates and allies working to end detention sites and support directly impacted immigrant and refugee communities that are being targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies.Pick up a copy of The Gate of Memory here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/...Intro song for live broadcast: "There Is No Moment In Which They Are Not With Me" by contributor Patrick Shiroishi off his album EvergreenSpeakers:Cathlin Goulding is an educator and curriculum designer. A former public school teacher, she codirects YURI Education Project, an education consultancy that helps PK-12 educators teach and tell Asian American histories. Her grandparents and mother were incarcerated at the Jerome and Gila River camps. She lives in Queens, New York.Michael Ishii is a healer, artist, and community organizer. His mother and her family were incarcerated at Minidoka concentration camp and his upstate NY relatives were massacred during WWII. Much of his life has been devoted to the work of nonviolence and healing multigenerational trauma related to Japanese American WWII incarceration.Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Isako Isako, the chapbook Notes from the Birth Year, and Mothersalt, forthcoming from Alice James Books in May. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Left Margin LIT in Berkeley, and her grandparents and great-grandparents were incarcerated at Rohwer and Lordsburg.Emily Mitamura is a Yonsei poet and scholar of race, gender, empire, and film. With commitments to women of color and Third World feminisms, their work takes up archival, relational, and bodily hauntings in the afterlives of mass and colonial violence. Her family was incarcerated at Poston and Heart Mountain.Paulette “Tkl' Un Yeik” Moreno is a civil rights leader, poet, and speaker. Her grandfather, George Kamachi Miyasato Sr, and her Uncle George Miyasato Jr, were incarcerated during World War II in Lordsburg, NM and Minidoka. Paulette and Harriet Miyasato Beleal, her mother, are journeying to share their vision of truth that reflects Worth.Carolyn Nakagawa is a fourth-generation Anglo-Japanese Canadian poet and playwright who makes her home in the territory colonized as Vancouver, British Columbia. Her paternal grandparents were forcibly uprooted from Steveston and lived in Magna Bay and Westbank before returning to Vancouver in 1950. She is currently seeking a publisher for her full-length poetry manuscript.Michael Prior is a poet and teacher. His grandparents and their families were incarcerated in Tashme, a camp located on the unceded land of the Coast Salish peoples. Prior’s most recent book of poems, Burning Province, won the 2021 BC & Yukon Book Prize for poetry and the 2020 Canada-Japan Literary Award.Brynn Saito’s third collection of poetry, Under a Future Sky (Red Hen Press, 2023), was inspired by her visit with her father to Gila River, the place where her aunt, grandparents, and other family members were incarcerated. Brynn teaches at California State University, Fresno.Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including The Grave on the Wall and The Afterlife Is Letting Go, both from City Lights. He had family in Heart Mountain, Poston, and Fort Missoula, where his grandfather was incarcerated under suspicion of being a spy for Japan.Anne Yukie Watanabe (she/her) is a queer femme yonsei and shin-nisei nurse, organizer, peer counselor and writer living in Chicago. Her grandparents were incarcerated in Tashme and Lillooet in Canada. She is a founding member of Nikkei Uprising, a Nikkei group that organizes for collective liberation with an abolitionist and anti-imperialist lens.This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Tsuru for Solidarity, and The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRd1HvGzSPkBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò for a conversation with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson to celebrate the release of the new paperback edition of Reconsidering Reparations.A clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens. Centuries ago, Táíwò explains, European powers engineered the systems through which advantages and disadvantages still flow. Colonialism and transatlantic slavery forged schemes of injustice on an unprecedented scale, a world order he calls “global racial empire.” The project of justice must meet the same scope.Táíwò’s analysis not only discourages despair, it demands global resistance. Reconsidering Reparations suggests policies, goals, and organizing strategies. And it leaves readers with clear and powerful advice: act like an ancestor. Do what we can to shape the world we want our moral descendants to inherit, and have faith that they will continue the long struggle for justice. This understanding, Táíwò shows, has deep roots in the thought of Black political thinkers such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cedric Robinson, and Nkechi Taifa.Reconsidering Reparations is a book with profound implications for our views of justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change policy.Speakers:Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Elite Capture, a contributor to Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book, and a past recipient of a Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar fellowship. Táíwò’s public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Hammer & Hope (where he is a member of the Editorial Team). His writings have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Korean, among other languages.Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian) woman from the working class, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. She is the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of Highlander Research & Education Center. As a member of leadership teams in the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), Ash-Lee has contributed to the Vision for Black Lives and BREATHE Act. She has served on the governance council of the Southern Movement Assembly, the advisory committee of National Bailout Collective. She is a long-time activist who has worked in movements fighting for workers, for reproductive justice, LGBTQUIA+, environmental justice etc.Get the book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2538-reconsidering-reparationsWatch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaucLXi_agBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Rick Perlstein, Jean Casella, and David Neiwert as they discuss the updated edition of Blood in the Face by James Ridgeway.In 1990, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far-right movement. It told their story from the inside out, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, police reports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this "fringe" culture were too powerful--and too much a part of American culture--to be ignored or dismissed.When the book's prescience about the dangers of the racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a second edition of Blood in the Face was released with a new introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled Blood in the Face), have earned cult followings.In the past 25 years, Ridgeway's final warning–that the "fringe was becoming part of the fabric" of American politics and culture, have come to chilling fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism, the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump with the thunderous support of white nationalists.Join Rick Perlstein, Jean Casella, and David Neiwert as they discuss Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the Birth of a Nation to the Age of Trump and its continued relevance.Speakers:Chicagoan Rick Perlstein is the author of a four-book series on the rise of conservatism in America. The first, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 2001. The second, third, and fourth made the New York Times bestseller list, with the second, Nixonland, appearing on the “best of” lists of over a dozen publications in 2008. A contributor to publications including the Nation, Washington Post, New Yorker, New Republic, he is the former president of the board of InThese Times magazine and a frequent talking head on cable news and history documentaries.Jean Casella collaborated with James Ridgeway for more than 30 years, editing both the original 1991 edition and the revised 2025 edition of Blood in the Face. In 2009, she and Ridgeway co-founded Solitary Watch, a watchdog project that exposes solitary confinement and other abusive conditions in U.S. prisons and jails. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, and Mother Jones, among others. For her work on prisons, she received a Soros Justice Media Fellowship and an Alicia Patterson Fellowship.David Neiwert is an investigative journalist and author based in the Pacific Northwest. Though now retired from daily newsroom operations, he worked as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Idaho, Montana, and Washington from the 1970s to the 1990s, when he made the leap to digital journalism in the early iterations of MSNBC's Redmond newsroom, where he won a National Press Club award for distinguished online journalism.Get the book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1651-blood-in-the-faceWatch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_PjcK3j8sIBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join editors and contributors of Abolish Social Work (As We Know It) and Abolition and Social Work for a discussion about the intersections of abolitionist politics and principles and social work.Pick up a copy of Abolish Social Work (As We Know it) here: https://btlbooks.com/book/abolish-social-workPick up a copy of Abolition and Social Work here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2226-abolition-and-social-workPick up a copy of Not Your Rescue Project here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project Pick up the Creative Interventions Toolkit: https://www.akpress.org/creative-interventions-toolkit.htmlMoment of Truth Statement of Commitment to Black Lives: https://wscadv.org/news/moment-of-truth-statement-of-commitment-to-black-lives Speakers:Cameron W. Rasmussen is an educator, researcher, social worker, and facilitator. Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His research is focused on issues of accountability, restorative and transformative justice, and the intersections of social work and abolition. Cameron is a Co-Editor of Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes and the Practice of Community Care and is a Collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW). He completed his PhD in the Social Welfare program at the CUNY Graduate Center.Craig Fortier - (they/them) is an Associate Professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo). They have been involved in community based organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans* liberation, anti-capitalist, Indigenous solidarity, and abolitionist movements. Craig is the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism and co-editor of Abolish Social Work (As We Know It). Their research is interdisciplinary, experiential, and rooted in day-to-day organizing work - including studies on colonialist memorialization projects, queer and trans* community sports, social work history, social movement organizing, and political theory. They currently reside in Tkaronto/Toronto (Michi Saagiig Nishaabeg, Wendat, and Haudenosaunee territories) and acts as a co-commissioner in the Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball association, playing shortstop for the Don River Curse Breakers.Durrell Malik Washington Sr. is an Abolitionist, a Social Worker, Educator and PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. His research interest lies at the intersections between P.I.C. Abolition, Juvenile legal law, policy and other youth serving systems, Black families, and Health. Durrell is a Beyond Prisons Fellow at UChicago and a collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work.Mimi Kim is a longtime community accountability/transformative justice practitioner. As a co-founder of Incite! and founder of Creative Interventions, Mimi has challenged interpersonal and state violence through the building of community-based liberatory practice. She is currently re-launching the StoryTelling & Organizing Project through a Stories for Power collaboration between Creative Interventions and Just Practice. Mimi is also an Associate Professor of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach.Chanelle Gallant - (she/her) is a movement writer, organizer, strategist and consultant and co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (Haymarket Books, 2024). She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy on sex work and racial justice, from city hall to the United Nations. Chanelle sits on the national board for Showing Up for Racial Justice and Catalyst Project and has helped to move millions into organizing through donor advising and grassroots fundraising. She holds an MA in Sociology and was a Lambda Literary Fellow. Find her at chanellegallant.comSena Hussain (she/her) is a social worker, editor, and prison abolitionist based in Toronto. She has spent over a decade supporting criminalized and marginalized people through harm reduction, advocacy, and direct support. Sena is the editor of Cell Count, a publication amplifying the voices of prisoners and has co-facilitated workshops in federal prisons on health and harm reduction. Her work is rooted in anti-oppressive practice, abolitionist organizing, and a commitment to systemic change.This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Network to Advance Abolition in Social Work.Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo7juGv5H2oBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani-Muslim woman who is currently serving an unjust 86-year sentence at the only federal medical prison in the United States, FMC Carswell, notoriously known as the “Hospital of Horrors.” For Aafia and countless others at the Hospital of Horrors, their punishment goes beyond captivity, and mirrors a pattern of abuse and neglect that is pervasive in women’s prisons across the U.S.Join us in learning about Dr. Siddiqui’s case, the function of abuse at FMC Carswell and other women’s prisons, and ongoing efforts to demand justice for state violence survivors.To learn more about Dr. Siddiqui’s case follow: @aafiamovementofficial on InstagramLearn more about the Texas People’s Tribunal: https://texaspeoplestribunal.com/More information on Missouri Justice Coalition: https://mojustice.org/Join the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition mailing list: https://dublinprisonsolidarity.org/Speakers:Diana Block is a long time feminist, abolitionist, social justice activist. She is a founding and active member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition. Diana is also an author and writes for online journals. You can learn more about her work at dianablock.com.Kendra Drysdale is a motivational speaker, and an advocate for transformative justice, trauma healing, and rehabilitation. She was a part of the class action lawsuit against FCI Dublin, and is a survivor advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and Dublin Prison Solidarity Committee.Kaley Johnson is a Texas-based freelance journalist. Her work includes investigations into FMC Carswell federal prison, uncovering systemic issues in the Texas criminal justice system, following social justice movements in North Texas, and stories centering on vulnerable populations.Tania Siddiqi is an attorney and the Founder and Executive Director of the Texas People’s Tribunal. Her work focuses on creating and implementing effective strategies against state violence. She has led both regional and international movement-centered initiatives. Tania is the Editor of #WithoutJustCause: The Case of U.S.-Held Political Prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.ML Smith is the Founder of Missouri Justice Coalition. She is a criminal punishment system-impacted advocate, abolitionist and activist who experienced incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, which made her intimately aware of the dire reality faced by our imprisoned populations, as well as the egregious actions and apathy of institution staff and administrators.This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Texas People’s Tribunal and Missouri Justice Coalition. Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGW633rRh0Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org

Join Nafis Hasan and Tayyaba Jiwani in conversation on the rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and how to center our efforts to combat cancer on the basis of care. Organized by Common Notions, Jamhoor, Science for the People, and Haymarket Books.More than fifty years after the declaration of the War on Cancer, we are nowhere closer to victory. The problem lies in the way cancer is understood and the “cancer-industrial complex” that has been established to address it.Metastasis brings the cancer-industrial complex to the fore of our understanding of what cancer is, the chronic nature of the disease, its unmistakable parallels to capitalism, its inextricable link to the neoliberal model of economic development, and its disproportionate burden on nonwhite and poor populations—and what it will really take to rid ourselves of the gravest dangers to our individual and collective well-being.Nafis Hasan received his PhD in Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology from Tufts University in 2019. He is currently an Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a labor organizer based in Philadelphia. His writings have appeared in Jacobin, Science for the People, The Trouble, and more. He serves as an editor for the radical science magazine Science for the People and South Asian left media platform Jamhoor, and is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Read more at nafishasan.com.Tayyaba Jiwani completed her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Toronto and currently researches the political dimensions of genomics as a fellow at the University of Exeter. She is also an editor at Jamhoor, a South Asia-focused left media platform.This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Common Notions, Jamhoor, and Science for the People.

Join Zhandarka Kurti, Jarrod Shanahan, and Dylan Rodríguez for a damning account of mass incarceration that reveals how powerful nonprofits and "progressives" used the language of social movements to build new jails.In Skyscraper Jails, scholars and organizers Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti detail how progressive forces in New York City appropriated the rhetoric of social movements and social justice to promise “downsized” and “humane" jails. The principal advocates of these new jails were not right-wing politicians, but prominent city activists and progressive non-profit organizations.As the political coalition that campaigned for the new jails fans out across the United States, the story at the heart of Skyscraper Jails is at once a case study and a cautionary tale for what will be coming to cities and towns across the United States and beyond.Speakers:Zhandarka Kurti is an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Loyola University Chicago. Her work examines race, class, criminalization and punishment through a historical and contemporary perspective. She is the co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and the Future of America’s Punishment System and editor of Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity.Jarrod Shanahan is the author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage, co-author of States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System, and City Time: On Being Sentence to Rikers Island and editor of Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity. He lives in Chicago and works as an assistant professor of Criminal Justice at Governors State University in University Park, IL.Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.