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We're bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk tours, and more. Come find our tables and say hello! Follow us on
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We’re bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk tours, and more. Come find our tables and say hello!
Follow us on Twitter & Instagram to learn more.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor – West Coast Tour – from March 14 to 23
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American Association of Geographers – AAG in Denver, CO from March 23 to 27
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Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagara Falls, NY from March 23 to 26
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Building Worker Power Conference in Amherst, MA from March 24 to 26
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MoCCA Arts Festival in New York, NY on April 1 and 2
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Philly Punk Rock Flea Market in Philadelphia, PA on April 1 and 2
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Seattle Punk Rock Flea Market in Seattle, WA on April 1 and 2
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Bioneers in Berkeley, CA from April 6 to 9
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Norwescon in Seattle, WA from April 6 to 9
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Collective Power for Reproductive Justice Conference in Amherst, MA on April 15
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LA Times Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA on April 22 and 23
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TCAF Toronto Comics Arts Festin Toronto, ON on April 29 to 30
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Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, CA on May 7
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LAWCHA – Labor and Working Class History Association in New Brunswick, NJ from May 18 to 20
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WisCon Feminist Science Fiction Convention in Madison, WI from May 26 to 29
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Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas, NV from May 26 to 29
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Adjacent Festival in Atlantic City, NJ on May 27 and 28
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National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in New Orleans, LA from May 30 to June 3
Time
January 1 (Saturday) - December 31 (Tuesday)
Location
Everything Everywhere All at Once
15marAll Day27aprUNION DAYS 2023 TALKIN’ UNION at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY

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UNION DAYS 2023 TALKIN’ UNION at Cornell University in Ithaca,
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UNION DAYS 2023 TALKIN’ UNION at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Join us at the annual Spring semester Union Days events.
See below for a full list of union days events. Learn more here.
Union Days 2023 Schedule
March 15
Unionizing on University Campus
4:30-6pm, 105 Ives Hall
Julie Schmid, Executive Director, American Association of University Professors
Katy Habr, Executive Board Vice Chair, Student Workers of Columbia (SWC)
Emilie Lozier, Co-chair, Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Ian Scott, Dartmouth Student Workers Collective
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April 13
Southern Workers Organizing
4:30-6pm, 305 Ives Hall
Kim Kelly, author of “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor”
Maria Harmon, Step Up Louisiana
Ieisha Franceis, Union of Southern Service Workers
Haeden Wright, Auxiliary President, United Mine Workers Locals 2368 and 2245
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April 17
ILR Labor Leaders In Residence – Keynote Speech
4:30-6pm, 305 Ives Hall
Chris Smalls, President, Amazon Labor Union
Derrick Palmer, Vice President, Amazon Labor Union
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April 25
4:30-6pm, 105 Ives Hall
Ellen Cassedy, author, “Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie”
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March 15 (Wednesday) - April 27 (Thursday)

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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
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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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Time
March 30 (Thursday) - May 21 (Sunday)

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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,
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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.
Time
March 30 (Thursday) - May 31 (Wednesday)
Location
Various in-person and virtual events
02apr2:00 pm4:00 pmWorking It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex book launch in Pittsburgh

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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
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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.
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(Sunday) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
07aprAll Day09Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV Conference. We want our world back!

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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
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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!”
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april 7 (Friday) - 9 (Sunday)

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Join Jon Melrod, author of Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War, for they Keynote at the
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Join Jon Melrod, author of Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class WarBerkeley 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
Deeply personal and astutely political, his memoir recounts his thirteen-year journey to harness working class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of the American Motors auto company in WisconsinMelrod’s book recounts how he faced termination, dodged the FBI, outwitted collaborators in the UAW, and became the central figure in a multi-year, surreptitiously funded and orchestrated defamation lawsuit by American Motors against the rank-and-file shop newsletter Fighting Times, as he strives to build a class-conscious workers’ movement from the bottom up.
A radical to the core, Melrod was a key part of a campus insurrection at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He left school for the factory in 1972, hired along with hundreds of other youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing auto assembly line. The book paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires, many of whom were Black Vietnam vets returning from war with little faith in the system and little tolerance for authority.
Containing dozens of archival photographs, Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant anti-racist revolutionary who rose through the ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class-conscious workers’ movement.
About the Author
Born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950s, Jon Melrod grew up in apartheid-like Washington DC. Active in the student movement that opposed the Vietnam War and a supporter of black liberation, Jon embraced the ideology that the working class held the power to radically transform society. He left the campus for the factory in 1973. For thirteen years, he immersed himself in the day-to-day struggles of Milwaukee’s working class, both on the factory floor and in the political arena. Despite FBI surveillance and interference, Jon organized a militant rank-and-file caucus and rose through union ranks to a top leadership position in UAW Local 72. After a mass workforce cutback imposed by AMC’s joint venture partner Renault, he left to attend Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco in 1985. Graduating cum laude with a JD, he opened a law firm in San Francisco, successfully representing hundreds of political refugees.
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(Friday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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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
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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.
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(Sunday) 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
13aprAll DayLabor Power and Strategy virtual event with UCLA

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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
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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).
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All Day (Thursday)
15apr1:00 pm2:30 pmFighting Capitalism's Ecological Death Cult

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Fighting Capitalism's Ecological Death Cult: April 15, 2023 at 1.00pm – 2.30pm ET with David Camfield, author of Future on Fire: Capitalism and
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Fighting Capitalism’s Ecological Death Cult: April 15, 2023 at 1.00pm – 2.30pm ET with David Camfield, author of Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change, along with Sabrina Fernandes and Richard Seymour
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of climate catastrophe and the challenges in confronting the state and market behind the disaster.
Online, please RSVP
Climate catastrophe is intensifying at an alarming pace. Capital and governments clearly have no intention of stopping it; for them, free markets, private property rights, and accumulation remain sacrosanct, even if that means a massive amount of death, suffering, and destruction. Meanwhile, despite occasional moments of mass militancy in the face of ecological crisis, movements for climate justice remain far from being able to mount serious opposition to the power of the state and capital.
The challenge is significant, even epochal, and we are so far unable to meet it. Join David Camfield, Sabrina Fernandes, and Richard Seymour – three socialists who have written about climate justice – for a wide-ranging discussion of this predicament and how we might overcome it.
Get a copy of Future on Fire: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1263
Get a copy of The Disenchanted Earth: https://theindigopress.com/product/the-disenchanted-earth-paperback/
***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and live captioning will be provided.***
Speakers:
David Camfield is the author most recenttly of Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change. David lives in Winnipeg, has been an active socialist since high school, and is one of the editors of Midnight Sun.
Richard Seymour is a writer and a founding editor of Salvage. His recent books include The Twittering Machine and The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism.
Sabrina Fernandes is a sociologist, ecosocialist organizer and communicator from Brazil. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with CALAS at the University of Guadalajara.
Moderator:
Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) is the managing editor of Midnight Sun, a magazine of socialist strategy, analysis, and culture. Their most recent book is the poetry collection Plenitude (Book*hug Press). They live in Toronto.
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This event is sponsored by the Midnight Sun Magazine and Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.
Time
(Saturday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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Join Jon Melrod discussing Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War in Chicago, IL at Pilsen
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Join Jon Melrod discussing Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
About the book
Deeply personal and astutely political, his memoir recounts his thirteen-year journey to harness working class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of the American Motors auto company in WisconsinMelrod’s book recounts how he faced termination, dodged the FBI, outwitted collaborators in the UAW, and became the central figure in a multi-year, surreptitiously funded and orchestrated defamation lawsuit by American Motors against the rank-and-file shop newsletter Fighting Times, as he strives to build a class-conscious workers’ movement from the bottom up.
A radical to the core, Melrod was a key part of a campus insurrection at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He left school for the factory in 1972, hired along with hundreds of other youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing auto assembly line. The book paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires, many of whom were Black Vietnam vets returning from war with little faith in the system and little tolerance for authority.
Containing dozens of archival photographs, Fighting Times captures the journey of a militant anti-racist revolutionary who rose through the ranks of his UAW local without compromising his politics or his dedication to building a class-conscious workers’ movement.
About the Author
Born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950s, Jon Melrod grew up in apartheid-like Washington DC. Active in the student movement that opposed the Vietnam War and a supporter of black liberation, Jon embraced the ideology that the working class held the power to radically transform society. He left the campus for the factory in 1973. For thirteen years, he immersed himself in the day-to-day struggles of Milwaukee’s working class, both on the factory floor and in the political arena. Despite FBI surveillance and interference, Jon organized a militant rank-and-file caucus and rose through union ranks to a top leadership position in UAW Local 72. After a mass workforce cutback imposed by AMC’s joint venture partner Renault, he left to attend Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco in 1985. Graduating cum laude with a JD, he opened a law firm in San Francisco, successfully representing hundreds of political refugees.
Time
april 17 (Monday) - 19 (Wednesday) ET
Location
In-Person in Chicago and Milwaukee
20apr5:30 pm7:00 pmWorking It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex at Bluestockings in NYC

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Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex Bluestockings Cooperative in NYC Thursday April 20 2023 5:30pm - 7:00pm RSVP for the in-person event here! Working It:
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Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
Bluestockings Cooperative in NYC
Thursday April 20 2023 5:30pm – 7:00pm
RSVP for the in-person event here!
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex is a new anthology of writing and art from PM Press based on the beloved series of zines of the same name. Described as a polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity, this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those who have traded sex. For its NYC launch, Bluestockings worker-owner AL will moderate a panel of four contributors—Emily Dall’Ora Warfield, Melissa Ditmore, Janis Luna, Susan Elizabeth Shepard— as they reflect on sexual labor in the context of capitalism and read selections from their pieces.
The event will take place at 116 Suffolk Street. The space is wheelchair accessible. Masks are required to enter the bookstore and during entirety of the event.
Income-based sliding scale ticketing: If you are someone who identifies as having little to no income, please feel free to RSVP to our event for free. If you are someone who identifies as having disposable or generational income, please pay as close to full price for our event as you can.
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(Thursday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
25aprAll DayBrigada Flores Magon – Antifascist anticapitalist streetpunk – in Santa Ana, CA

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Brigada Flores Magon - Antifascist anticapitalist streetpunk from France – Only US Show! April 25th in Santa Ana, CA with special guests:
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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.
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All Day (Tuesday)
29aprAll DayThis Rancid Mill – Book release party and punk show with Kyle Decker

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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,
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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.
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All Day (Saturday)
Location
Live Wire Lounge in Chicago, IL