We’re bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk tours, and more. Come find our tables and say hello!

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• Godspeed You! Black Emperor – West Coast Tour – from March 14 to 23

• American Association of Geographers – AAG in Denver, CO from March 23 to 27

• Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagara Falls, NY from March 23 to 26

• Building Worker Power Conference in Amherst, MA from March 24 to 26

• MoCCA Arts Festival in New York, NY on April 1 and 2

• Philly Punk Rock Flea Market in Philadelphia, PA on April 1 and 2

• Seattle Punk Rock Flea Market in Seattle, WA on April 1 and 2

• Bioneers in Berkeley, CA from April 6 to 9

• Norwescon in Seattle, WA from April 6 to 9

• Collective Power for Reproductive Justice Conference in Amherst, MA on April 15

• LA Times Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA on April 22 and 23

• TCAF Toronto Comics Arts Festin Toronto, ON on April 29 to 30

• Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, CA on May 7

• LAWCHA – Labor and Working Class History Association in New Brunswick, NJ from May 18 to 20

• WisCon Feminist Science Fiction Convention in Madison, WI from May 26 to 29

• Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas, NV from May 26 to 29

• Adjacent Festival in Atlantic City, NJ on May 27 and 28

• National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in New Orleans, LA from May 30 to June 3

Join these upcoming events below with Mitch Troutman, author of The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942. Learn more here.

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Monday, April 3

6:00pm

Ithaca, NY

Autumn Leaves Books

115 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850

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Tuesday, April 4
6:00pm

Binghamton, NY

sponsored by Riot Act Books & the Bundy Museum of History & Art
@ The Bundy Museum at 127-129 Main St

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Thursday, April 6 in conversation with Kim Kelly, labor journalist and author of Fight Like Hell

7:00pm

Philadelphia, PA

Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center

210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Learn more and register here.

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Saturday, April 8

7:00pm

Baltimore, MD

@ Red Emma’s Bookstore

3128 Greenmount Avenue

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Monday, April 17

7:00 pm

Elizabethville, PA

Elizabethville Area Historic Society

100 E Main St, Elizabethville, PA 17023

Directions

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Sunday, May 21

2:00 pm

Sunbury, PA

w/ Northumberland County Historic Society1150 North Front Street Sunbury, PA 17801-1126

Parking in rear. Please enter from Fort Augusta Street.

Directions

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Join us for these in-person and virtual events with Dr. Michael Fine to discuss his new book, On Medicine as Colonialism.

About the book:

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.

Praise

“On Medicine as Colonialism details the sociopolitical realities that undergird health injustice and offers a realistic perspective on achieving health equity.” —Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, Dell Medical School, UT Austin

“A sobering diatribe on health care in America.” —David N. Sundwall, former executive director of the Utah Department of Health

“Michael Fine wins his big-hearted argument that American medicine is colonialism, not just for the poor but for all of us. It is a desecration of our health care system by the same old robber barons. . . . This doctor-activist is pointing us to solutions. Everyone should read it.” —Samuel Shem, author and professor of medical humanities, NYU Medical School

“Fine writes with the eye of both a humanist and a practitioner. . . . His passion for individual lives and concern for the common good is what drives his outrage at what has been wrought.” —Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Fund, from the foreword

About the Author

Michael Fine is a community organizer, family physician, public health official, and public health policy provocateur. He is the author of Health Care Revolt, Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories.

Join us for a book launch event for Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex on Sunday, April 2nd at the Glitter Box Theater in Homestead, PA outside of Pittsburgh from 2pm to 4pm. Cohosted by SWOP Pittsburgh (Sex Worker Outreach Project) and City Books. Learn more here.

Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV. We want our world back! Resist, Reclaim and Rebuild. 7 to 9 of April, 2023. In-person at the University of Hamburg , Germany and Livestreamed in several languages. Learn more and register here.

Including PM Press authors NAZAN ÜSTÜNDAĞ, JOHN HOLLOWAY, HAVIN GUNESER, ANDREJ GRUBAČIĆ, and JAMES KELMAN, and many other presenters.

“Call for a collective stance to demand our world back!

This is a call to all those who are struggling for a free life and an end to all forms of exploitation. A call to gather together to demand an end to the destruction of our world and the environment. A call to gather together to put a stop to femicide, epistemicide, societycide, and genocide.

Our world has never before seen such a rate of destruction. In the last hundred years, not only are different languages and cultures dying off, but every day numerous plants and animals become extinct.

Capitalist modernity and its source, patriarchy, have brought us not only to the brink of the destruction of human society as we know it but also of our world. However, it is not all hopeless, if we take a collective stance, we may come out of the chaos with a better civilization — democratic civilization — but only if we do something about it now. We do not need to search for another world elsewhere; we want our world back!”

Join Jon Melrod, author of Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War, for they Keynote at the Berkeley Labor Conference on Friday, April 7th at 6pm at Berkeley Law in Room 105. Learn more about the conference and keynote here.

About the book

Join Akilah S. Richards, author of Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, for COMMUNICATION, CONNECTION & CHALLENGING CONVERSATIONS: Getting Back Into Right-Relationship With Ourselves, Each Other, Nature & Our Ancestors” on Sunday, April 9th online from 2:30pm to 4:30pm EST. Cost and email to register is on the flyer. Learn more on Instagram.

Join us for this virtual book talk on Labor Power and Strategy on Thursday, April 13th at 12pm PST, hosted by various centers of UCLA. Learn more and register here.

About Labor Power and Strategy:

What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In Labor Power and Strategy, legendary strategist, historian, and labor organizer John Womack, speaks directly to a new generation, providing rational, radical, experience-based perspectives that help target and run smart, strategic, effective campaigns in the working class.

In this sleek, practical, pocket inspiration, Womack lays out a timely plan for identifying chokepoints and taking advantage of supply chain issues in order to seize and build labor power and solidarity. Interviewed by Peter Olney of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union—Womack’s lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten young labor organizers and educators, whose responses create a rich dialogue and open a space for joyful, achievable change. With stories of triumph that will bring readers to tears this back-pocket primer is an instant classic.

Contributors include: Gene Bruskin, Carey Dall, Dan DiMaggio, Katy Fox-Hodess, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jane McAlevey, Jack Metzgar, Joel Ochoa, Melissa Shetler, and Rand Wilson.

John Womack Jr. is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, emeritus, at Harvard University. He served as chairman of the Department of History, 1982–85, and acting chairman, 1991–92. Born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma, he first joined a union, the International Laborers and Hod Carriers, while in high school, earning a union wage in summer construction work. He held his card until he graduated from college and went to work at The Louisville Times—then into graduate studies and later into academic work. His publications include Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (1968) and Rebellion in Chiapas (1999).

Join Jon Melrod discussing Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War in Chicago, IL at Pilsen Community Books on April 17 and in Milwakee, WI at Boswell Book Company on April 19.

About the book

Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex

Bluestockings Cooperative in NYC

Thursday April 20 2023 5:30pm – 7:00pm

Brigada Flores Magon – Antifascist anticapitalist streetpunk from France – Only US Show!

April 25th in Santa Ana, CA with special guests:

– Last of a Dying Breed (Mic Crenshaw & Micah Fletcher) – Radical hip hop from Portland, OR

– Barra Brava – Ska and Oi from Mexico

– Plus DJ’s Tiempos Perdidos and Ghostown

Sponsored by Three Way Fight, RASH USA and PM Press

Get tix here.

Join this book release party, reading, and punk show to celebrate the release of This Rancid Mill: An Alex Damage Novel by Kyle Decker. Saturday, April 29th at the Live Wire Lounge in Chicago, IL. Learn more here.

About the book:

With his blue mohawk and ragged leather jacket, Alex Damage fits into only a small pocket of 1981 Los Angeles: the dynamic, changing punk scene. In this world, he survives on favors and reputation as a small-time private investigator, but when a young woman hires him to solve the potential murder of the singer of one of his favorite local bands, everything in his life amps up. As he digs deeper into what really happened, Alex must both seek out and dodge an endless array of dangerously powerful drug dealers, aging porn stars, crooked cops, neo-Nazi skinheads, and shadowy, corrupt politicians. The deeper he gets—and the more punishment his body takes and the more he begins to fall for the woman who hired him—the more determined he becomes to follow the trail to its conclusion. In the end, the truth is far more complicated than Alex had thought: not only about the murder and the victim’s unsavory private life but also about Alex’s own past behaviors and attitudes.

Meticulously researched and drawing from memoirs, zines, and documentaries, Alex Damage’s story comes to life with real hangouts and shows from LA in 1981, which makes the book immersive for the people who were there as well as those who wish they could have been.