Channel Title: Haymarket Books Channel Description: Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher based in Chicago. Every dollar we take in from book sales and donations goes directly to support our project of publishing books for changing the world—a project has never been more necessary or more urgent. We need your help to continue to do the work. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our continuing to do this work. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/donate --------------------- Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago. Our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements and the education and development of a critical, engaged, international left. <video> Vermont Palestine Conference: Palestine Today: War, Genocide, Resistance & Solidarity Description: Speakers: Ashley Smith, Aria Aber, Samia Abbas & Kali Akuno The Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation is excited to host the first ever Vermont Palestine Conference: The Struggle for Land and Liberation. This conference is for any and all who are interested in learning more about Palestinian liberation and intersecting struggles/causes, as well as what the struggle for liberation looks like in Vermont. This is a space for seasoned organizers and those new to the cause, for strategizing, learning from each other, and deepening our collective work. Join our state-wide educational and activist conference about the struggle to free Palestine. Learn more at https://www.vermontcpl.org/events/vermont-palestine-conference -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> We Grow The World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition Description: Join Dorothy Roberts, Harsha Walia, Kim Wilson, and Maya Schenwar for a virtual book launch and conversation on caregiving, abolition, and hope amid chaos! As we await a second Trump presidency, it's easy to feel frozen -- as if any action we take can't possibly be enough, and may be futile. Now is a moment to bring in the stories of folks who are taking action to build a liberatory world every day, sometimes in ways that go completely unrecognized: caregivers. In this heavy time, it's important to recognize the centrality of care to movement work. In their new anthology, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson have drawn together the insights of a wide range of authors and organizers, including Dorothy Roberts, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Beth Richie, Harsha Walia, Dylan Rodriguez, Victoria Law, adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown, and many more. Together, these essays illuminate the ways in which caregiving and struggles for liberation intertwine, offering both transformative ideas and practical tools for building new worlds even in the direst of circumstances. Get a copy of the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2446-we-grow-the-world-together --------------------------------------------------------------------- Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and board president at Truthout. She is the coauthor (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better. Maya is also the coeditor (with Joe Macaré and Alana YuLan Price) of Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States, and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and numerous other publications. Maya is a cofounder of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and organizes with the Love & Protect collective. She lives in Chicago with her partner, child, and abolitionist cat. Kim Wilson is an artist, educator, writer, and organizer. She is the cofounder, cohost, and producer of Beyond Prisons, a podcast on incarceration and prison abolition. A social scientist by training, Dr. Wilson has a PhD in Urban Affairs and Public Policy, and her work focuses on examining the interconnected functioning of systems, including poverty, racism, ableism, and heteropatriarchy, within a carceral structure. Her work delves into the extension and expansion of these systems beyond their physical manifestations of cages and fences, to reveal how carcerality is imbued in policy and practice. She explores how these systems synergize to exacerbate the challenges faced by under-resourced communities, revealing a deliberate intention to undermine and further marginalize vulnerable populations. Harsha Walia is the award-winning author Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism. Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Her path breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and biopolitics. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Beyond Prisons, Truthout, and upEND. 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. </video> <video> Vermont Palestine Conference: Building the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation Description: Speakers: Michele Eddleman McCorkmick, Helen Scott, Merih Etgü, Wafic Faour, & Fhar Miess The Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation is excited to host the first ever Vermont Palestine Conference: The Struggle for Land and Liberation. This conference is for any and all who are interested in learning more about Palestinian liberation and intersecting struggles/causes, as well as what the struggle for liberation looks like in Vermont. This is a space for seasoned organizers and those new to the cause, for strategizing, learning from each other, and deepening our collective work. Join our state-wide educational and activist conference about the struggle to free Palestine. Learn more at https://www.vermontcpl.org/events/vermont-palestine-conference -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> Fighting Systems of Oppression: How Do Our Principles Guide Our Work for Justice? Description: Join educators and organizers doing powerful work for justice, locally, nationally, and globally–from resisting genocide to fighting for abolitionist futures. We will discuss and learn from each other's experiences about how the principles we hold dear help guide and shape our work for justice. Speakers: Welcome: Nina Mehta is a community educator and co-director of PARCEO, a community research, resource, and education center that partners with a range of groups and institutions to strengthen our collective work for justice. Moderator: Morgan Bassichis is a writer and performer who has been a member of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City since 2014. They co-edited the anti-zionist anthology Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, published by Wendy's Subway in 2023. Ujju Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor at The New School. She brings a long history of working to build organizing for educational justice, immigrants’ rights, and abolition as well as projects at the intersection of arts and social justice, popular education, and adult literacy. Nyle Fort is a minister, organizer, and scholar. He is currently an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Darakshan Raja is the founding director of Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) where she manages the organization's overall development, programming, administration, and strategic direction. She leads MJF's national advocacy and movement-building efforts, local Chicago power-building programming, and DC Guaranteed Income Program. Aimee Shalan is a British-Palestinian and Director of Makan, a not for profit organisation providing transformative education to strengthen the movement for Palestinian liberation. Lesley Williams is a longtime advocate for Palestinian rights and for anti racism in local and municipal government and services. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, and PARCEO. 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. </video> <video> The Gathering Table: Black Feminist Conversations Description: oin us for a live version of the forthcoming podcast hosted by Moya Bailey and Demita Frazier, The Gathering Table, at Haymarket House. Longtime organizer, activist, and founding member of the Combahee River Collective, Demita Frazier has made her way back to her Chicago roots and is working on a memoir about her life. Moya Bailey is a professor at Northwestern University, a 3-year transplant to the City of Wind, and is known for coining the term "misogynoir" which describes the anti-Black racist misogyny that Black women and people read as Black women experience. The two have forged a near decade long friendship across state, national, and generational borders. Gather round to hear them chat about the intergenerational tensions and ecstasies of Black feminists in praxis as we run up to the 2024 election. What do Black feminists have to say about what the world we want and how we get it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and In These Times. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> Perfect Victims: Mohammed El-Kurd & Robin D.G. Kelley Description: Join Mohammed El-Kurd and Robin D.G. Kelley for a virtual conversation to launch Mohammed’s new book Perfect Victims. -------------------------------------------------------------- Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian. Pre-order Perfect Victims through Bookshop now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/perfect-victims-mohammed-el-kurd/21498541?ean=9798888903155 -------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Mohammed El-Kurd is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. In 2021, He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time. He is best known for his role as a co-founder of the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement. His work has been featured in numerous international outlets and he has appeared repeatedly as a commentator on major TV networks. Currently, El-Kurd serves as the first-ever Palestine Correspondent for The Nation. His first published essay in this role, “A Night with Palestine’s Defenders of the Mountain,” was shortlisted for the 2022 One World Media Print Award. Rifqa, his debut collection of poetry, published by Haymarket Books, was named “a masterpiece” by The New Arab and a “remarkable debut” by the Los Angeles Review of Books. The book was one of Middle East Eye’s “Best Books of 2021” and was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for “Best First Collection.” El-Kurd holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a BFA in Writing from Atlanta’s Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). He is the Culture Editor at Mondoweiss. Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, among other titles. His writing has been featured in the Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Black Music Research Journal, African Studies Review, New York Times, The Crisis, The Nation, and Voice Literary Supplement. -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> Not Your Rescue Project Description: Join longtime organizers and authors Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam in conversation with Harsha Walia on ways to deepen solidarity with migrant sex workers. -------------------------------------------------------------- In Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice, long-time organizers Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam deftly expose the harms of criminalization in the name of “anti-trafficking” and lift up migrant sex workers’ organizing. In doing so, they make the compelling case that the only effective response to the needs of migrant sex workers must be led by migrants in the sex trade, as they fight for rights, safety, and autonomy. An indispensable exploration of the relationship between migration and sex work—and the underlying societal conditions they reflect—Not Your Rescue Project is a thorough indictment of the anti-trafficking industry as an engine of criminalization and state violence, and an instructive account of the emancipatory politics already being practiced by migrant sex workers in their organizing. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project Speakers: Chanelle Gallant is an author, activist, and movement strategist who has worked in the areas of sexuality and criminalization for over two decades. Her writing has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently the New York Times best-seller Pleasure Activism, Beyond Survival, and Defund, Disarm, Dismantle, and her work has been discussed in the Washington Post, the Advocate, Esquire, Vice, and every national media outlet in Canada. Chanelle is on the national board for Showing Up For Racial Justice and has helped to found or support numerous sex worker organizations. She has an MA in sociology and was a Lambda Literary Fellow. Elene Lam is an activist, artist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender. She has fought for sex worker, migrant, gender, labor, and racial justice for over twenty years. She is the founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) and the co-founder of Migrant Sex Workers Project. She has used diverse and innovative approaches to advocate social justice for migrant sex workers, such as leadership building and community mobilization. She holds a master’s of law and master’s of social work. She is a PhD candidate at McMaster University (School of Social Work) and is studying the harm of the anti-trafficking movement. She was awarded the Constance E. Hamilton Award for Women’s Equality by the City of Toronto. Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism. Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee. -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> After the Fall of Assad: The Struggle for a Free Syria Description: Syrians have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's brutal dictatorship, liberated cities, freed political prisoners, and opened space to struggle for an inclusive, democratic, egalitarian country. But imperial, regional, and internal forces are angling to contain the revolution. Join this Spectre Live! webinar led by Joseph Daher, Leila al-Shami, Yasser Munif, and Spectre's Shireen Akram-Boshar to learn about the revolution's results and prospects. -------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian socialist and scholar and author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Lebanon’s Party of God (2016) and Syria after the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience (2019). Leila Al-Shami is co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War and co-founder of From the Periphery media collective. Yasser Munif is an associate professor at Emerson College and author of The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death. Shireen Akram-Boshar is a graduate student at the University of Houston, member of the editorial board of Spectre Journal, member of the Tempest Collective, writer at Truthout, and contributor to Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. Endorsed by Counterpunch, New Politics, People Before Profit, Tempest Collective. If you would like to endorse, please email inbox@spectrejournal.com. -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Spectre Journal. 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. </video> <video> Where Do We Go From Here? A Post-Election Assessment Description: Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a post-election assessment and urgent conversation about how to chart a path forward. How does the Left—in the US and internationally—squarely face the myriad challenges that confront us and find ways to build effective movements for the world we need? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> Poetry and Prose of Palestine Description: Join writers Maya Abu Al-Hayyat and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha in conversation with Noor Hindi for a reading and discussion on the poetry and prose of Palestine. -------------------------------------------------------------- Join us for a reading and discussion with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, author of No One Knows Their Blood Type, just published by Cleveland State University Poetry, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Something about Living (University of Akron Press), which is a finalist for the National Book Award. Speakers: Born in 1980 in Lebanon, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is an Arabic-language Palestinian novelist, poet, and children’s book author. She edited The Book of Ramallah, an anthology of short stories published by Comma Press in 2021. Her children’s book A Blue Pond of Questions was translated into English and published by Penny Candy Books. An English translation of her poetry appeared from Milkweed Editions under the title You Can Be the Last Leaf, translated by Fady Joudah and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of Water & Salt (Red Hen), which won the 2018 Washington State Book Award, Kaan & Her Sisters (Trio House Press), finalist for the Firecracker Award, and Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024), winner of the 2022 Akron Poetry Prize. Her writing has been published in journals, including: Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Poets.org, Protean, and Prairie Schooner, and in the anthologies, The Long Devotion and We Call to the Eye and the Night. She was the translator and curator of the 2022 series “Poems from Palestine” at The Baffler magazine. She is currently curating a series on Palestinian writers for Words Without Borders entitled “Against Silence.” For more about her work, visit www.lenakhalaftuffaha.com. Noor Hindi (she/her/hers) is a Palestinian-American poet and reporter. She is a 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow is her debut collection of poems. She lives in Dearborn. -------------------------------------------------------------- This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and the University of Akron Press. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like Description: Join Rebecca Carroll in conversation with Donika Kelly and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein as they discuss and celebrate the newly imagined edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like. ——————————— The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres. Featuring interviews with and excerpts by writers like Rita Dove, Pearl Cleage, Barbara Neely, June Jordan, and others, this indispensable work speaks to the intersections of politics and art-making along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Now, writer and cultural critic Rebecca Carroll presents the original conversations alongside personalized introductions by some of the brightest voices in today’s literary world. The new contributors carry the torch of the original interviewees’ lives and words with heart, rigor, gratitude, and radical imagination, illuminating how these conversations are about more than just writing—they are about life, relationships, joy, gratitude, wellness, and self-preservation. I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like is a book unbound by time, lifting up a chorus of past and present voices. Paying homage to a historic lineage of Black feminist writers and their impact on our current literary landscape, it is a book by and for the storytellers, the poets, the playwrights, the dreamers, and all readers interested in what it means to make art within and from marginalized spaces. "Thirty years ago, Rebecca Carroll curated an astonishing collection of voices, and it is a gift to now be immersed in a lively dialogue between those remarkable trailblazers and a new generation of Black women who have been shaped by their words, wisdom and radical vision." —Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ———————————— Speakers: Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 conversations about race in a pivotal year for America and the award-winning Billie Was a Black Woman. Rebecca’s writing has been published widely, and her critically acclaimed memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, has been optioned by Killer Films with Rebecca attached to write and develop for episodic TV. She is the creator, curator, and executive producer of In Love and Struggle, a live and audio event series that centers the lived experiences of Black women and nonbinary people through monologues, music, and humor. The series is a co-production with The Meteor media collective, where Rebecca serves as Editor-at-Large. Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations and Bes- tiary. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. She cur- rently lives in Iowa City, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an associate pro- fessor of physics and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of The Disor- dered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred. Her next books, The Edge of Space-Time and The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic, are forthcoming from Pantheon Books and Duke University Press, respectively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. </video> <video> Beyond the Ballot: The Left in a Time of Polycrisis Description: A special conversation with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Chenjerai Kumanyika Presented by Hammer & Hope magazine, Haymarket Books and Marguerite Casey Foundation. The Left is at a critical juncture in the United States—and globally. We confront multiple simultaneous threats, from rising militarism, to profound ecological disruptions, to the growing threat of fascism, and beyond. What are the possibilities for building hope and effective political strategies amid the intersecting economic, political, and ecological crises we face? How do we understand the limits of the ballot box to achieve the changes we need and deserve? Please join us for this urgent discussion, which will also serve as the launch of the new issue of Hammer & Hope magazine. </video> <video> Censored by Prisons, Censored by TedX* Description: Join incarcerated journalists Kwaneta Harris, Lyle C. May and Rayne Vylette as they illustrate the reach of the carceral system, from within the bowels of prisons where punitive policies incubate, to the free world where those same policies manifest in every home, work place, and community connected to an incarcerated person. Specifically, the carceral system is a frontline for experiments in censorship and social control. Censored by Prisons, Censored by TedX* will present incarcerated speakers discussing specific penal policies that are being mirrored by laws in the larger society, laying bare how prison has metastasized into something that threatens free society, and what can be done to fight back. The speakers aim to better inform the public about the danger of carceral expansion and authoritarian control, using experiences in prison that connect with current affairs in the free world as examples. Harris, May and Vylette are taking significant risk to speak from their own experiences and warn the public about the loss of their rights under the guise of "safety" and "morality." Prisons are a public responsibility, a part of the community that can be a valuable resource for information if only the community is willing to listen. *This speaker series was originally pitched to the TedX organization under the name TedX: Carceral State, but was rejected because the Carceral State is not a specific place. This is an independently produced event not affiliated in any way with Ted Talks or TedX. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Kwaneta Harris (she/her) is a former nurse, business owner, and expat, now an incarcerated journalist, from Detroit. In her writing she illuminates how the experience of being incarcerated in the largest state prison in Texas is vastly different for women in ways that directly map onto a culture rooted in misogyny. Her stories expose how the intersection of gender, race, and place contribute to state-sanctioned, gender-based violence. Harris is an abolition feminist and through her writing she offers a peek inside the brutal criminal legal system, with hope to reimagine effective non-carceral solutions for those who harm. She writes about abortion, censorship, and climate change and how they affect systems-impacted people. Her writings have appeared in PEN America, Truthout, Lux magazine, Prism, Appeal, Slate, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She was interviewed for a documentary by Al Jazeera about solitary confinement, in which she has been detained the last eight of her seventeen years incarcerated. She is currently working on a book about the youth from juvenile who are her neighbors in solitary confinement. Lyle C. May is an Ohio University alum, member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society, Authors Guild, and is currently finishing his Bachelors in Arts degree in Law and Sociology through Adams State University. An incarcerated journalist, abolitionist, and public speaker, May is also author of Witness: An Insider's Narrative of the Carceral State (Haymarket Books, 2024), and The Transformative Journey of Higher Education in Prison: A Class of One (Routledge Academic Press, 2024). For more information visit LyleCMay.com. Rayne Vylette is a transgender woman and activist who is currently incarcerated again in Florida after violating probation. While free, she worked to advocate for the trans community by working to plan and create resources and participating in panels, such as the panel on surviving in prison as a trans woman, and how to stay safe. She is also a stylist and seamstress and loves to both dress well and to help others do the same. Rayne enjoys writing and public speaking, and is an active member and officer in her institution's Toastmasters Gavel Club. She also continues her advocacy while inside as a part of the Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, and Muslim Counterpublics Lab. 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. </video> <video> Love, Power and Liberation with Angela Davis and Lama Rod Owens Description: Thank you for supporting EBMC! Here is how you can donate to support our mission. For credit card and PayPal donations: https://bit.ly/3LRdz2D  For Venmo donations: @eastbaymeditation Love, Power and Liberation: Angela Davis & Lama Rod Owens in Conversation, moderated by Prentis Hemphill, is a fundraiser to support the East Bay Meditation Center. This intergenerational conversation among three of our most important contemporary visionary thinkers is happening at a crucial moment for our communities, three days after the November election. Given the stakes at this time, we will need a place to find refuge, build strategy and gather in community. Angela Davis, Lama Rod and Prentis Hemphill will reflect on our current political moment and why a response grounded in a radical vision for the future and a commitment to collective liberation is more critical than ever. This historic event is also a fundraiser for the crucial work of the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) and we invite you to give generously to support this important community institution. EBMC has been a refuge, a spiritual home, and a mindfulness and meditation training center in downtown Oakland serving people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people living with disabilities, social justice activists and the general community for almost 20 years. Founded in a celebration of diversity and equity, EBMC has been described as a beacon of light around the world for organizations committed to radical inclusivity and the intersections of activism and contemplative practice. At EBMC we rely on a generosity-based model of financial sustainability called Gift Economics. This means that there is no set fee for any of our offerings, and everyone is invited to give at the highest level they can for the benefit of all. Through this practice we are encouraged to shift our relationship to money and to capitalism and to invite equity and radical inclusivity into our process of healing and spiritual liberation. For a list of our offerings and more information please visit our website at www.eastbaymeditation.org. </video> <video> Social Work, Racial Capitalism and the Struggle for Abolition Description: Join the Network to Advance Abolition in Social Work in collaboration with Haymarket Books for a conversation about the intersections and entanglements of social work and racial capitalism, and how they can shape struggles for abolition. This will be the first in a two part series geared towards the social work community deepening our understanding and praxis in struggling against racial capitalism and for care, interdepence, and collective safety and wellbeing. This first event will explore racial capitalism and its hold on social work and other caring professions, and how this analysis can shape our struggles and movements. Speakers: Mimi Abramovitz, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy, Emerita, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York received her MSW in Community Organizing and her DSW in Social Policy, both from Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research interests include the US welfare state, poverty, inequality, activism, Neoliberalism, and Managerialism--all viewed through the lens of race, class, gender, and history. Widely published in social work and often interviewed by the print and broadcast media, she is the author of 90 plus articles and four books, including Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present. She is currently writing Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Black and White Working-Class Women Since 1900. She has received more than 19 awards, most recently an Honorary Doctorate from Lund University, Sweden, 2023; The Lifetime Award for Excellence (Hunter College, 2022)/ and the Significant Lifetime Achievement Award ( CSWE 2018 ). Dr. Kirk “Jae” James is an immigrant, formerly incarcerated black man committed to creating a world in which everyone can self-actualize. Jae is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the DSW program at NYU Silver School of Social Work. He also sits on the editorial board of the journal Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work. Jae has authored numerous academic articles and book chapters; and speaks internationally on mass incarceration, anti-oppression, human rights, trauma, abolition praxis, and liberatory pedagogy. He has written and shared his lived experience and research with HuffPost, the Jamaican Gleaner, Truth Out, Forbes Magazine, and Bloomberg news. Jae also leads NYU Silver's Evolving Justice — an educational initiative to build community, co-create brave spaces, and facilitate various dialogue(s) toward the emancipatory exploration of justice in theory and action. Jae was inducted into the inaugural Alumni Hall of Fame at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice in 2018. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2020 New York University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award. Jae is completing his first book, titled 94A6325: Coming of Age In The Era of Mass Incarceration, which is a reflection and amalgamation of his lived experience and research within carceral systems. Born in South Africa and raised in the United States, Premilla Nadasen is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College and Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She is most interested in the activism and visions of liberation of poor and working-class women of color. She is past president of the National Women’s Studies Association, the inaugural recipient of the Ann Snitow Prize, a former Fulbright Fellow, a member of the Society of American Historians, and a Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar. Nadasen has been involved in grassroots social justice organizing for many decades and has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organizing. She is the author of two award-winning books Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States and Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement. Most recently she published Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. She is currently writing a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba. 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. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Intervention Group at Columbia School of Social Work and was an Associate Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University. 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). </video>

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