Gang Politics: On Tour with Kristian Williams
This summer, join author Kristian Williams as he promotes the release of Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime! Registration details below.
Demystifying forces of the state, gangs, and revolutionary violence.
In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between “gangs” of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and Antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and conflict more common, Williams’s analysis is a crucial corrective to our usual ideas about the role violence might or should play in our social struggles.
Kristian Williams is the author of six books, including Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America. Williams has been actively writing and leading discourse on anarchism in historical and present-day contexts, social inequalities, and critiques on police and political force since the 1990s. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
PHILADELPHIA
07/03 Wooden Shoe Books @ 7PM
704 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
*RSVP Not Required
BALTIMORE
07/06 Red Emma’s @ 7PM
3128 Greenmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
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D.C.
07/07 Lost City Books @ 7PM
2467 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
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RICHMOND
07/10 Small Friend Records & Books @ 6PM
1 N Lombardy Street
Richmond, VA 23220
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