The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming anarchist book fairs, big and small city book festivals, indie comics fests, academic conferences, activist gatherings, punk fests, folk festivals, punk markets, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come find the PM tables and say hello. Follow along on our socials to learn more.

• Bread and Roses Heritage Festival Lawrence, MA September 7

• Ithaca Is Books Festival Ithaca, NY September 12 and 13

• Knoxville Punk Rock Flea Market Knoxville, TN September 12

• Chicago Printer’s Row Chicago, IL September 12 and 13

• Season of the Witch Punk Market Hamilton, NJ September 12

• PVD Fest Providence, RI September 18 and 19

• Another Carolina Anarchist Book Fair ACAB Asheville, NC September 18 to 20

• Riot Fest Chicago, IL September 19 to 21

• Victoria Anarchist Book Fair Victoria, BC September 19 and 20

• Worker Co-op Conference Boston, MA September 25 to 26

• Philly Punk Rock Flea Market Philadelphia, PA September 25 to 27

• Apple Harvest Festival Ithaca, NY September 25 to 27

• Seattle Punk Rock Flea Market Seattle, WA September 25 to 27

• Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn, NY September 26 and 27

• Seattle Anarchist Book Fair Seattle, WA September 26 and 27

• NYC Anarchist Book Fair New York, NY September 26

• London Anarchist Bookfair London, UK on September 26

• Boston Hassle Flea Market Boston, MA September 27

• Sonoma County Veg Fest Santa Rosa, CA September 27

• Decatur Book Festival Decatur, GA October 2 and 3

• Progressive Education Network Columbus, OH October 2 to 4

• Peace and Justice Studies Association PJSA Arlington, VA October 2 to 4

• Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair Oakland, CA October 3

• READ & RESIST Northampton, MA October 3

• Litquake Small Press Book Fair San Francisco, CA October 4

• Upstate Punk Rock Flea Market Albany, NY October 4

• Montreal Anarchist Book Fair Montreal, QC October 10 and 11

• Furnace Fest Birmingham, AL October 10 and 11

• Live Free Anarchist Book Fair Hanover, NH October 10

• Chicago Zine Fest Chicago, IL October 10

• Atlanta Pride Atlanta, GA October 10 and 11

• Oral History Association Portland, OR October 15 and 16

• Northwest Teaching for Social Justice NWTSJ Seattle, WA October 17

• Toronto Anarchist Book Fair Toronto, ON October 17

• Sacramento Anarchist Book Fair Sacramento, CA October 17

• Peterborough Radical Bookfair Peterborough, UK October 17

• Cardiff Radical Bookfair Cardiff, UK October 17

• Circuit Breakers Tech Workers Conference New York, NY October 17 to 18

• New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market Halloween market Edison, NJ October 17

• Easton Book Festival Easton, PA October 17 and 18

• Southern Festival of Books Nashville, TN October 17 and 18

• Montreal Punk Rock Flea Market Montreal, QC October 18

• Boston Hassle Flea Market Boston, MA October 25

• World Fantasy Convention Oakland, CA October 22 to 25, 2026

• American Studies Association ASA Chicago, IL October 22 to 25

• New Orleans ACAB Zine Fest New Orleans, LA October 23 to 25

• Union for Democratic Communications Ithaca, NY October 23 and 24

• Atlanta Radical Book Fair Atlanta, GA October 24

• Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Bristol, UK October 24

• Manchester Anarchist Book Fair Manchester, UK October 31

• National Women’s Studies Association Conference Atlanta, GA November 5 to 8

• Edinburgh Radical Book Fair Edinburgh, UK November 5 to 8

• Brooklyn Folk Festival Brooklyn, NY November 6 to 8

• Twin Cities Book Fest TCBF Minneapolis, MN November 7

• Boston Anarchist Book Fair Boston, MA November 7 and 8

• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association PAMLA Seattle, WA November 12 to 15

• Facing Race Raleigh, NC November 12 to 14

• Darkside NJ Oddities Friday 13th Market Edison, NJ November 13

• Non-fiction Comics Festival Burlington, VT November 14

• Dorset Radical Book Fair Dorset, UK November 17

• American Society of Criminology ASC Chicago, IL November 18 to 21

• A Kansas City Anarchist Book Fair (AKCAB) Kansas City, MO November 21

• Middle East Studies Association MESA Boston, MA November 21 to 24

• Amsterdam Anarchist Bookfair Amsterdam, NL November 21 and 22

• Basilica Hudson Farm and Flea Market Hudson, NY November 27 to 29

• Howard Zinn Book Fair San Francisco, CA December 6

• Philly Punk Rock Flea Market Philadelphia, PA December 11 to 13

• New Jersey Punk Rock Flea Market Secaucus, NJ December 12 and 13

• Comic Arts LA CALA Los Angeles, CA December 12 and 13

• BookFest Omaha Omaha, NE December 12 and 13

• Asbury Park Punk Rock Flea Market Asbury Park, NJ December 27

• Creating Change National LGBT Task Force Conference Louisville, KY January 27 to 31, 2027

• American Association of Geographers AAG New York, NY February 8 to 11, 2027

• Appalachian Studies Association Conference Lewisburg, PA March 4 to 7, 2027

• Northeast Modern Language Association NeMLA Convention Newport, RI March 6 to 9 2027

• Tucson Festival of Books Tucson, AZ March 13 and 14 2027

• Association of Writers and Writing Programs AWP Chicago, IL March 17 to 20, 2027

Join Joe Uehlein and others for a book and music tour to celebrate the release of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology. See the events below. More will be added, so check back. Learn more here.

September 14th in Amherst, MA from 5pm to 7pm
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass Amherst
418 N Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 01002

September 16th in Boston, MA from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
SEIU 32BJ, 6th Floor
26 West St, Boston, MA 02111

September 17th in Portland, ME from 6pm to 8pm
Space Gallery | Arts. Artists. Ideas.
534-538 Congress St, Portland, ME 04101

September 30th in Seattle, WA from 4pm to 6pm
WSLC, AFL-CIO
321 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

October 3rd in Portland, OR from 4pm to 6pm
AFM Local
325 NE 20th Ave., Portland, OR 97232

October 30th
Los Angeles, CA (TBA)

Courage or Complicity? How Veterans Are Responding to the Assault on Democracy by Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon is a searing indictment of political betrayal and a big salute to vets organizing against it. This book reveals the front line battles shaping the future of American democracy. Learn more and order here.

Here are some upcoming events for the book:

Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance:
Susan Simensky Bietila

Original art work and book event
Opening reception September 11th from 6pm to 9pm
Discussion with Susan Simensky Bietila at 7pm

URI-EICHEN Gallery 2101 S Halsted Chicago IL 60608

Learn more here.

On display from September 11, 2026, through October 23, 2026.

Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance is original artwork from Susan Simensky Bietila’s new book of the same name. Uri Eichen Gallery is showing drawings, block prints and watercolored silkscreen prints and photographs from her six decades as a movement artist and activist collaborator. Her art is on the page and in action with murals, protest banners and giant puppets of birds and fish carried in the streets, masks of notorious dictators for street theater, posters pasted on walls and hung in radical spaces, community art builds, and more.

Housing Justice with Madeleine Hamlin and Gretchen Purser

Sunday, September 13 at 4pm at Autumn Leaves Books in Ithaca, NY

Join housing activists and authors Madeleine Hamlin and Gretchen Purser at Autumn Leaves Books for a discussion of the new book Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity (PM Press, 2026).

Housing is being reshaped by financialization, dispossession, displacement, and resistance across global contexts. Housing Justice dissects common concepts such as “eviction,” “property,” and “social housing” and analyzes emerging terms like “carceral shelter” and “déracinement.” The book illuminates how language mediates the spatial, institutional, and affective dimensions of housing injustice and offers a shared starting point for imagining—and organizing—alternative futures.

This event is free. Join us upstairs on the mezzanine. Keep in mind, seating is limited.

This event is a part of the Ithaca Is Books festival happening September 10-13. Learn more at www.ithacaisbooks.org.

Madeleine Hamlin is assistant professor of geography at Colgate University, where she also occasionally teaches in regional prisons. Her research examines the intersection of housing and the carceral state in US cities. In 2021, she was named an Emerging Scholar by the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation. Her work, which has also been supported by a fellowship from the Society of Woman Geographers, has been published in Antipode, Progress in Human Geography, and Urban Geography, among other outlets. Her forthcoming monograph with University of Chicago Press examines how policing shaped the trajectory of Chicago’s public housing over time, as well as the daily life of its residents.

Gretchen Purser is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also the research co-director on advocacy and activism for PARCC, where she coordinates the Labor Studies Working Group. Her work has been recognized with a wide variety of publication awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections on Labor and Labor Movements, Marxist Sociology, Sociology of Human Rights, and Public Sociology. Since 2012, she has served as chair of the board of the Workers’ Center of Central New York. She is also involved with the Syracuse Tenants Union.

𝘿𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩: 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙩𝙨, 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙗𝙚𝙡 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 with author 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮́𝗻 in conversation with fellow journalist 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗣𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗼, editor of the Long Beach Watchdog.

𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝟲:𝟬𝟬𝗽𝗺 in-store at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach, CA. Learn more here and here.

The rebellious history that has reshaped the United States and the world includes uprisings of enslaved Africans and abolitionists confronting the scourge of slavery, brave Black youth challenging Jim Crow segregation, Indigenous peoples resisting colonial America’s encroachments, Mexican women organizing labor strikes in the Southwest, antiwar protesters marching for peace, and much more.

With poetic fervor, Gabriel San Román’s 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 delves into the strikes and forgotten martyrs of the labor movement to expose the fetid underbelly of exploitation. In a subverted “this day in history” format and rising from his “Subversive Historian” commentaries on Pacifica Radio, a story is told for every day of the year with poignant vignettes about protests–no matter how big or small.

These inspiring stories span centuries and recount the everyday bravery of people organizing for a world free of hate and exploitation. And they are powerfully delivered at this crucial juncture in America when history from below faces relentless attacks and erasure from above. 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 is essential reading for workers, students, activists, or anyone frustrated by the status quo, and is a clarion call to read, remember, and rebel!

About the participants:

𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮́𝗻 is an award-winning journalist and author. He has investigated political corruption as a reporter for the 𝘓𝘰𝘴 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, written long-form histories for the 𝘖𝘊 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘺, and voiced the “Subversive Historian” radio series on Pacifica Radio. He is also the author of 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘴: 𝘝𝘪́𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘑𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (PM Press). In 2026, CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California honored him with a Ruben Salazar award. He lives in Orange County with his wife, daughter, and their house cat.

𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗣𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗼 has been a writer and journalist for nearly three decades. Today he works as an editor at the local news co-op 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘥𝘰𝘨. He is the author of numerous books including 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘪 𝘋𝘢𝘻𝘦, a novel about a particularly rough day at a struggling newspaper on Maui, 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢, a memoir of the 12 years he worked as a journalist on Maui, and 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴, a collection of his journalism.

The event is free and open to the public, no tickets or reservations required.

Zane McNeill, editor of Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia and coeditor of Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth Ohio on Monday, September 21st.

Susan Simensky Bietila, author of Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance, and others will be speaking at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, September 26th at 5pm at Loisaida Center, 710 E 9th Street (across the street from La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez).

Art can be more dangerous than words—especially when it marches, masks up, and takes to the streets. Movement artist, agitator, and cultural conspirator Susan Simensky Bietila will discuss her lifetime of drawing resistance through artwork, organizing, street actions, art builds, and more, encapsulated in her new book, Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance (PM Press, 2026). This new book is is a vivid, image-rich memoir and archive chronicling Susans six decades of work. From underground newspapers of the 1960s to Indigenous-led water protection actions and puppet-filled protest marches of today, Bietila has never stopped making trouble—or making art. This presentation will be both a discussion and blueprint for artists who want to fuel social movements and a celebration of the enduring power of art made in, with, and for resistance.

Susan Simensky Bietila is based in Wisconsin and works with Indigenous water protectors and allies to stop toxic mines and oil pipelines by organizing art builds and creating banners, puppets, and masks. She works with social justice movements including Voces de la Frontera, Jewish Voice for Peace, Communities United by Water, and many others. She was a coeditor and collective member of RAT—the pioneering second- wave feminist newspaper—and later joined the World War 3 Illustrated collective, where she continues to create graphic nonfiction rooted in her activist experience. Her work has appeared in the streets and halls of power to galleries and magazines, including Fifth Estate, The Nation, and In These Times, and in books, including Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall; Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World; and World War 3 Illustrated: 1979–2014.

Surviving What Future with zuri arman, Shuli Branson, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and E Ornelas, contributors to Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies

At the NYC Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, September 26th at 4pm at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez in the Cave. Learn more here.

Authors from the PM Press book Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies, zuri arman, Shuli Branson, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and E Ornelas, will host an interactive discussion that considers what future might even mean now. An endless present. A promise made to white people on the condition of the genocide of Indigenous people in the Americas and Africa and the world over. The slow death of all life in the name of civilization. In the interstices, where we survive, we depend on networks of support that must continually reform while systematically being crushed by settler colonialism, the state, and capital. We will turn to parallel worlds of spirit and beauty, wisdom and illogic, negation and creation, infused with a desire for beauty against the law, a criminality that dispenses with justice as it has been conceived in white democratic thinking.

Drawing from our experience in Indigenous, Black, Asian-American, refugee, antizionist, and anarchist communities, we will confront here and now what has continued, what has been foreclosed, and what escapes the grasp of the state

Book Launch: Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It’s Hard

Susan Simensky Bietila, author of Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance, and others at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 27th at 12noon at the Center for Brooklyn History, 128 Pierrepont St. Check out the book fair website here.

Women Changing History

Across fiction, biography, and memoir, three new graphic novels show the motivations, agency, and bravery of intelligent women up against powerful men and totalitarian armies. Andrea Chalupa (Mrs. Orwell) dives into the life of Eileen Blair, poet and wife of George Orwell, who accompanied him to Spain when he chose to fight against Franco’s fascist army. Susan Simensky Bietila (Front Lines: A Lifetime of Drawing Resistance) illustrates her full life as an activist, moving from the pioneering second-wave feminist newspaper RAT to the World War 3 Illustrated comics collective while building and deploying protest art for decades of social justice movements. And Krystal Quiles adapts Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies, which studies the lives, loves and failures of the Mirabal sisters, based on real women who resisted the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Moderated by TK.