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Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century

Missions Center - City College of San Francisco 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join Michael Truscello in a discussion of his new book "Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance" "Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon." —George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune Why don't the poor rise up? Even mainstream media like the […]

Kimberly Dark @ Women and Children First (Chicago)

Women and Children First 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL, United States

A free reading, Q&A, and book signing with Kimberly Dark in celebration of her new essay collection. Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat […]

AK Press & Authors @ Howard Zinn Book Fair, San Francisco

City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

The Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history, past, present and future. We gather together authors, zinesters, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn, the Book […]

$5

You Don’t Owe Anyone Pretty: Kimberly Dark @ CounterPulse, San Francisco

CounterPulse 80 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

In this powerful storytelling event, award-winning performer Kimberly Dark shares stories from her new book, Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old (AK Press, 2019), in order to remind us: “You don’t owe anyone pretty,” and “We are creating the world, even as it creates us.” In a moving and hilarious show, Dark invites her […]

$15

Nora Samaran @ WestM (Corvallis, OR)

WestM 101 NW 23rd St, Corvallis, OR, United States

CW: Discussion will cover topics of rape culture, white supremacy, violence, and gaslighting. We will have a trained advocate from CARDV (Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence) available at this event for folks in need. Join us for a conversation with Nora Samaran as she discusses her book, Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence […]

AK Press & Authors @ Humboldt Anarchist Book Fair

Manila Community Center 1611 Peninsula Dr., Arcata, CA, United States

Can you believe it’s the 10th one?! The organizers of the Humboldt Anarchist Book Fair are excited to celebrate their big anniversary with those of you who’ve shared in this tradition all these years, and with those of you who are joining in for the first time! They're cooking up a Book Fair that you […]

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