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A discussion on why winning a Green New Deal requires confronting both inequality and the right-wing's strategic racism. ---------------------------------------------------- How can we win the Green New Deal and rapidly transform our economy to avert climate catastrophe while securing economic and racial justice for all? Co-editors of the new book, WINNING THE GREEN NEW DEAL, Varshini Prakash and...

Join authors Roberto Lovato and Mike Davis for a lively conversation on violence, migration, and the possibility of revolution, in celebration of the release of Lovato’s gripping new memoir Unforgetting. An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates...

Join Arundhati Roy and Nick Estes for an urgent and timely conversation on the present crisis, resistance, and the meaning of freedom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant...

The first in a series of Critical Conversations organized by Study and Struggle discussing prison abolition and immigrant justice. The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organize against incarceration and criminalization in Mississippi through four months of political education and community building. Our Critical Conversations webinar series, hosted by Haymarke...

A conversation on the intersecting crises that have plagued Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria and the communities organizing to rebuild. ---------------------------------------------------- Join Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar Bonilla, and Molly Crabapple for a conversation on the intersecting crises that have plagued Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria in 2017, and the communities organizing to resist and...

A conversation about why capitalism has failed and how we can fight for an economy, and society, that works for the 99%. ---------------------------------------------------- Join writers and socialists Hadas Thier and Meagan Day for a conversation about the unfolding global economic and health crises and the importance of arming a new generation of activists and organizers with the tools of Marxis...

A discussion examining the roots of the explosion and mass protests currently unfolding in Lebanon with speakers on the ground in Beirut. ----- Please join the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) International Committee and Haymarket Books for this forum examining the momentous events currently unfolding in Lebanon, featuring three speakers on the ground in Beirut. The massive explosion that ro...

Making connections between the movement to abolish police and prisons in the US and the struggle for liberation in Palestine and beyond. ——————————————— A historic multiracial rebellion has exploded and sustained across the U.S. in response to the police lynching of George Floyd and others brutalized and killed at the hands of US police. This uprising has coincided with the escalating colonization...

The Root Slam presents an all Black Latinx book release celebrating The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. Featuring performances by Elizabeth Acevedo, Nicole Sealey, John Murillo, Julian Randall, and Jennifer Falú and co-hosted by Gabriel Cortez and Tianna Bratcher. Featuring: ELIZABETH ACEVEDO NICOLE SEALEY JOHN MURILLO JULIAN RANDALL JENNIFER FALU TIANNA BRATCHER GABRIEL CORTEZ -----------------...

A conversation about abolitionist politics and transformative justice between Asian activists, authors and organizers. This panel explores abolitionist politics and practices among Asian organizers and cultural workers whose projects include prisoner support, anti-deportation work, disability justice, gender and sexual justice, anti-imperialism and anti-borders, and transformative justice. Speaker...

Front line health care workers discuss waging an intersectional, anti-racist fight against Covid-19. ---------------------------------------------------- With states reopening around the country despite record levels of Covi-19 cases and a growing death toll as well as a national debate about whether public schools are safe to resume in-person classes this fall, it is clear that government officia...

A conversation with leading Atlanta-based organizers about the deep, intersectional, and transformative struggle for Black liberation. ---------------------------------------------------- Much of the ‘back of the house' organizing that has made the current rebellion and political moment possible goes unseen. So often images of protestors in the streets capture our collective attention and imaginat...

A conversation between Cliff Conner and Sarah Lazare about the history of scientific corruption and abuse and prospects for change today. ———————————————— The atomic bombs that ended World War II heralded the rise of the United States to first place in the realm of science. Expectations of what American science and technology could accomplish in an era of peace were virtually unlimited. Disease wo...

A conversation between labor and community activists about centering the fight against racism in the fight for public health care. ------------------------------------------------------------------ COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on the intersection of racism and healthcare in this country. Chronic racist inequity has produced terrifying outcomes in terms of the disproportionate effect the virus is...

Join us for a virtual teach-in on the resurgent revolutionary wave sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. ———————————————————— The Syrian regime has consolidated its power in the past few years with the assistance of its allies, Russia and Iran. However, the conditions that led to the uprisings are all still present, especially dictatorship and social justice. These conditions have actually on...

The BreakBeat Poets Live! is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family. Chapter 4 features Destiny Birdsong, Mahogany L. Browne, Camonghne Felix, Jacob Saenz, and Nate Marshall. Watch the live event recording: Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow...

Join Haymarket Books and Mondoweiss for a conversation on the end of Zionism with Ali Abunimah, Philip Weiss and Nada Elia. ------------------------------------------------------ Zionism — the assertion that Jews have a right to violently establish and maintain an ethno-religious state in the homeland and at the expense of the Palestinian people — was, at least in the United States, a mainstream b...

Join us for a conversation with education activists about the current struggles in public education for safe and equitable schools for all. Sponsored by: Baltimore Teachers Union, Boston Teachers Union, Chicago Teachers Union, Journey for Justice, Little Rock Education Association, Massachusetts Teachers Association, National Educators United, and United Teachers Los Angeles. ————————————————— A c...

Join us for a virtual teach in on police, surveillance, and technology with Ruha Benjamin and Dorothy Roberts ---------------------------------------------------- With calls for “defunding police” on the rise, invisible, tech-mediated surveillance continues to penetrate every area of our lives – workplaces, schools, hospitals, and of course policing itself. How does this relate to a longer history...

Join Jesse Hagopian, Amelia Blair-Smith, and Khury Petersen-Smith for a discussion of this summer’s uprising and how we can envision and build a revolutionary future. This event is part of the Socialism 2020 Virtual conference. Register for the conference at www.socialismconference.org. The racist police murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others have catalyzed a massive nationw...

Join Bill Fletcher Jr., Dina Gilio-Whitaker, and Symone Baptiste to discuss reparations for slavery and settler colonialism, a part of the Socialism 2020 Virtual conference. Register for the conference at www.socialismconference.org. The past few years has seen passionate political debate over what the United States government owes to the descendants of slaves as well as demands from Indigenous co...

Join Robin D.G. Kelley, Grace Blakeley, and Brian Jones for the opening plenary of Socialism 2020 Virtual. Register for the conference at www.socialismconference.org. We open the conference with a panorama of our present political landscape: a global pandemic, racialized health disparities backed by racist police violence, and the likelihood of a major economic crisis. This panel will situate our...

Join us for a discussion on abolishing the police and policing with Mariame Kaba, Maya Schenwar, and Victoria Law. ——————————————————— Recent Black Lives Matter protests have already gained some significant victories, reaching further toward abolition than many may have thought possible in this lifetime. As we stand on the precipice of so much potential change, there’s an understandable impulse to...

Join Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., and Maya Marshall for an indispensable conversation about James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own. ames Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle?...

At its start, the Syrian Revolution in 2011 was a mass popular uprising for democracy and equality against Bashar al-Assad’s brutal dictatorship. It included people from all ethnicities and religious groups who liberated sections of the country and tried to build a new democratic society. This panel will discuss the causes, nature and trajectory of this struggle for liberation, and the reasons for...