Haymarket Books Live

Join Black Lives Matter at School educators for a conversation about the new uprising for educational justice in early childhood education. Education activists Takiema Bunche-Smith, Laleña Garcia, Angela Harris, Denisha Jones, Makai Kellogg and Nancy Carlsson Paige discuss the struggle against systemic racism in schools, how we can win real educational justice and the lessons from Black Lives Matt...

Join us for a panel discussion on the brutal repression of political dissenters in Egypt since 2016 and how to build solidarity. Since 2016, the tyrannical regime of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has built 30 new prisons to house the estimated 70,000+ political prisoners incarcerated since Sisi seized power in 2013. Egyptian civil society activists and journalists have been especially ta...

This is the third and final in a series of events curated by Cortney Lamar Charleston in collaboration with The BreakBeat Poets and Haymarket Books, to celebrate the release of his new collection, Doppelgangbanger. Poets: Cortney Lamar Charleston is originally from the Chicago suburbs. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a BS in Economics from the Wh...

Join Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick, & Noura Erakat for a launch event and discussion of the important new book, Except for Palestine. ———————————————— “For too long, many have championed the rights and liberties of oppressed peoples here and abroad, but remained silent on Palestinian freedom, or even worse, supported U.S. policies that render Palestinian humanity and suffering invisible. Thi...

Join five prominent voices in movement journalism for an urgent discussion of community-centered reporting and the end of objectivity. Since its proliferation in the 1920s, objectivity has been used as a tool of journalism, developed to create neutrality in reporting. However, as journalist Ramona Martinez says, "Objectivity is the ideology of the status quo." What has been forgotten in media hist...

Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Kevin Lin take a harrowing look into lives and struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers. ---------------------------------------------------- Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a dev...

Join us for a conversation about challenging carceral social work through the development and practice of an abolitionist social work. As demands to defund the police often look to social work as an alternative, panelists Tanisha "Wakumi" Douglas, Mimi Kim, Kirk "Jae" James and Cameron Rasmussen discuss the cautions of and possibilities for abolitionist social work. Social work, historically and t...

This event is the second in a series of three events curated by Cortney Lamar Charleston in collaboration with The BreakBeat Poets and Haymarket Books, to celebrate the release of his new collection, Doppelgangbanger. Cortney Lamar Charleston is joined by Patricia Smith for this event. NB: Nate Marshall was unable to join the event, but his work is read by Cortney. --------------------------------...

Celebrate the publication of We Do This 'Til We Free Us with a discussion about prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition, seeking justice beyond the criminal punishment system, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, featuring contributors and organizers from the book. What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What...

Join Timnit Gebru, and other important scholars and activists for a discussion of how we resist the corporate power of the tech monopolies. ———————————————— Big Tech touches nearly every part of our lives. From vacuuming massive amounts of information about our movements and collecting images of our faces, to dictating where gigwork drivers should go and pushing warehouse workers to fulfill orders...

Two dynamic BreakBeat poets go poem for poem on the themes that inspire them from Cortney Lamar Charleston’s Doppelgangbanger. ---------------------------------------------------- This event is the first in a series of three events curated by Cortney Lamar Charleston in collaboration with The BreakBeat Poets and Haymarket Books, to celebrate the release of his new collection, Doppelgangbanger. ---...

Are you ready to celebrate Janel Pineda’s Lineage of Rain? With special guests: Kay Ulanday Barrett, féi hernandez, Vanessa Angélica Villareal AND Jihyun Yun?! Hosted by José Olivarez?! Y’all: get ready for the real. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Janel Pineda is a Los-Angeles born Salvadoran poet and educator. She has performed her poetry internationally in both En...

A Spectre conversation with Charles Post, Peter Ikeler, and Calvin John Smiley on systemic racism and the policing of US capitalism. ---------------------------------------------------- Over the last few decades, the US state has thrown millions of people, disproportionately Black and Latino, behind bars in one of the greatest waves of mass incarceration in history. Join this webinar led by Spectr...

Join Harsha Walia and Robin D.G. Kelley for a discussion about racist border regimes, capitalism and migration, and the ascent of the far-right across the world, marking the release of Walia’s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examina...

Join former Black Panther Party members for a discussion about how to best cultivate and sustain resistance. ---------------------------------------------------- The Black Panther Party (BPP) has made an undeniable impact on the iconography, language, culture and practice of revolutionary struggles since the mid-1960s. Join former BPP members/political prisoners in a discussion about commitment, c...

Join Opal Tometi, Brian Jones, Denisha Jones, Jesse Hagopian and Marshé Doss in conversation about Black Lives Matter and education justice. ---------------------------------------------------- Join us for conversation about making Black lives matter in our schools and beyond as part of this year's Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. In her foreword to Black Lives Matter at School: An Upr...

Join Black Lives Matter at School activists and educators for a conversation about the new uprising for educational justice in California. ---------------------------------------------------- Education activists Nathaniel Genene, Jesse Hagopian, Taunya Jaco, Denisha Jones, and Cecily Myart-Cruz in conversation about the struggle against systemic racism in schools, how we can win real educational j...

Join Lucy Diavolo, Jenn Jackson, Kim Kelly and Maia Wikler in conversation about climate justice and intersectional activism. ———————————————— As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe. An urgent call for climate justice, No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis, analyzes the environmental crisi...

Throughout the world, migrants have been scapegoated by capitalist states led not only by the nationalist right but also by the centrist establishment. Join this webinar led by Nandita Sharma, Justin Akers Chacón, and Vanessa Wills who will examine the roots of this wave of xenophobia and what the left should fight for in the short term on the road to a world without borders. Part 1 can be found h...

Join Haymarket Books, Jacobin, and the Debt Collective for a discussion of how to build the movement for debt abolition! ---------------------------------------------------- Emboldened by the election of Joe Biden and the continued crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Debt Collective has renewed its call for the new president to cancel all student debt during his first 100 days in offic...

Join members of the COVID19 Policing Project in conversation with Marc Lamont Hill on pandemic policing and new ways forward to safeguard the health and well-being of Black communities most devastated by coronavirus, policing, and economic crisis. "The way forward through the raging pandemic and devastating economic crisis doesn’t lie in more surveillance, policing and punishment of marginalized c...

Join Felicia Rose Chavez and Kiese Laymon as they discuss The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop’s call to consciously work against traditions of dominance in the classroom and how to achieve authentically inclusive writing communities. Get a copy of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1552-the-anti-racist-writing-workshop -----------------------------------------...

Join the International Committee of Democratic Socialists of America for this panel discussion with leading experts on African politics. ———————————————— What should progressives know about the political situation in Africa today? Find out by joining the International Committee of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Haymarket Books for this panel discussion with leading experts on African p...

Join Black Lives Matter at School activists and educators for a conversation about the new uprising for educational justice, Philly-style. ---------------------------------------------------- Education activists Tamara Anderson, Jesse Hagopian, Ismael Jimenez, Dana Morrison join Edwin Mayorga for a conversation about the struggle against systemic racism in schools, how we can win real educational...

Join Brendan O'Connor and Jay Caspian Kang for a conversation about fighting fascism in the context of recent far-right violence. ---------------------------------------------------- Even as Donald Trump prepares to leave office, the forces that put him there have not yet dissipated, as the storming of Capitol Hill by a militant coalition of revanchist small business owners, street-fighting neo-fa...