01augAll Day31decPM Press - Exhibiting & Tabling
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The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk fests, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come
Event Details
The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk fests, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come find our tables at these gatherings and say hello. Follow us on Twitter & Instagram to learn more.
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Seattle Anarchist Book Fair in Seattle, WA on August 26 and 27
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Muddy Roots Music Festival in Cookeville, TN from September 1 to 4
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Socialism Conference in Chicago, IL from September 1 to 4
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Mildred Fish Harnack Memorial Concert, celebrating antifascist resistance in Milwaukee, WI on September 1
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San Francisco Zine Fest in San Francisco, CA on September 3
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Punk Rock Flea Market in Tacoma, WA on September 2 and 3
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Bash Back in Chicago, IL from September 8 to 11
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Vermont AFL Convention in Burlington, VT on September 9 and 10
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Chicago Printer’s Row in Chicago, IL on September 9 and 10
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On tour with Godspeeed You Black Emperor from September 9 to 11
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Riot Fest in Chicago, IL from September 15 to 17
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NYC Anarchist Book Fair in New York, NY on September 16
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NOFX Punk in Drublic in San Francisco, CA on September 16
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Furnace Fest in Birmingham, AL on September 23 to 25
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Victoria Anarchist Book Fair in Victoria, BC on September 23 and 24
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MICE Massachusets Independent Comics Expo in Boston, MA on September 30 and October 1
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Brooklyn Book Festival – Kids Book Fair in Brooklyn, NY on September 30
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Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, NY on October 1
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Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair in Oakland, CA on October 1
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Twin Cities Book Fest in Minneapolis, MN on October 14
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Boston Book Festival in Boston, MA on October 14
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Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on Oct0ber 20 to 22
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Northwest Teaching for Social Justice NWTSJ in Portland, OR on October 21 and 22
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Brooklyn Folk Festival in Brooklyn, NY on November 10 to 12
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and many more…
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August 1 (Tuesday) - December 31 (Tuesday)
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
24sepAll DayJelena Vermilion on Working It in Toronto, ON
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Book reading and film screening with Jelena Vermilion, contributor to Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex, on September 24th at Glad Day
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Book reading and film screening with Jelena Vermilion, contributor to Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex, on September 24th at Glad Day Book Shop in Toronto, ON. Join us and learn more here.
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All Day (Sunday)
25sepAll DayWorking It panel discussion at Powell's in Portland
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A panel discussion of Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex with coeditor Matilda Bickers and contributors Susan Elizabeth Shepard, Kasey Champion, Charlie
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A panel discussion of Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex with coeditor Matilda Bickers and contributors Susan Elizabeth Shepard, Kasey Champion, Charlie Bronwyn, and Domino.
Powell’s City of Books in Portland, OR on Monday, September 25th at 7pm at 1005 W. Burnside St. Learn more here.
Working It is an anthology born from the Portland sex worker zine of the same name, part of a long tradition of area sex workers using self-publishing to communicate and organize. The panel discussion includes contributors to the anthology and strip club organizers from Oregon and Washington. Participants include anthology editor and STROLL PDX founder Matilda Bickers, Los Angeles strip club organizer and contributor Domino Rey, We Are Dancers organizer Kasey Champion, PDX Stripper Strike/Haymarket Pole organizer Charlie Bronwyn, and journalist and career stripper Susan Elizabeth Shepard. They’ll be discussing the part zines have played in sex worker organizing and current efforts by dancers on the West Coast, including union drives at clubs in Los Angeles and Portland, and legislative activism among Washington dancers.
Charlie Bronwyn is a white, queer, nonbinary sex worker from Portland, Oregon. They started their organizing path in labor unions and as a sex worker in 2013, but the two didn’t intersect until the summer of 2020 when strippers in Portland went on strike. They believe in committing fully to dismantling white supremacy, ableism, and transphobia. Charlie continues to organize with Haymarket Pole Collective, and has recently settled a case against a club in Portland.
Kasey Champion started working in strip clubs a few months after turning 18, initially as a waitress at the Pike’s Place Deja Vu but quickly transitioned to dancing at Rick’s on Lake City well before it was owned by the Vu. For the next 14 years Kasey danced off and on at the family owned clubs as a way to support her family and finish her degree at the University of Washington. She continued to dance after graduation and beginning her career in tech, but unfortunately is now retired thanks to covid-19. She currently teaches for the computer science department at the University of Washington, organizes with the Democratic Socialists of America, Strippers are Workers and works to reduce the barrier to entry into the tech industry and reform the industry’s poor privacy practices.
Susan Elizabeth Shepard is the proud holder of awards in the realms of both journalism and stripping. She was one of the cofounders of the sex workers’ site Tits and Sass, and has written extensively on labor issues in strip clubs. Susan is from South Texas and recently moved to Philadelphia after multiple stints in Austin, Portland OR, and Missoula MT, where she was part of organizing the Missoula Independent, an alt weekly that was closed by its corporate owners in 2018 after the staff voted to form a union. During the pandemic lockdowns, she produced and hosted virtual shows for her fellow dancers from Mary’s Club.
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All Day (Monday)
27sepAll DayRadical Publishing in Political Headwinds
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Radical Publishing in Political Headwinds Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 7pm to 8:30pm The Word Is Change, 368 Tompkins Ave Brooklyn, NY 11216 "THIS IS
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Radical Publishing in Political Headwinds
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 7pm to 8:30pm
The Word Is Change, 368 Tompkins Ave Brooklyn, NY 11216
“THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2023 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT”
Radical Publishing in Political Headwinds
Publishers from independent presses such as Feminist Press, PM Press, Common Notions Press, and LittlePuss Press, discuss the imperative of publishing books that uplift marginalized and insurgent voices, create and complicate representation, and spark and amplify movements. This is even more critical during challenging political times, when individuals are being disempowered, and marginalized communities are being scapegoated and stripped of their rights. These publishers will speak on the challenges of publishing radical books against political headwinds, why it matters, and the impact that radical books, writers, and conversations have within their communities and beyond. They’ll also discuss their dreams for the future of radical indie publishing and indie literary community.
Participant Bios
Whitney Hu (she/her) is the Director of Civic Engagement and Research at Churches United for Fair Housing and a community organizer based in Sunset Park. She organizes specifically around: tenant’s rights, anti-gentrification and displacement, mutual aid, food sovereignty, and immigration justice. Previously, she was the Director of Public Programs for National Book Foundation and the Marketing & Communications Director for the Strand Bookstore.
Margot Atwell (she/her/hers) is a writer, editor, publisher, speaker, and community funding expert. She is the Executive Director and Publisher of Feminist Press. Previously, she was Head of Publishing and Director of Community Outreach at Kickstarter, PBC, and Publisher of Beaufort Books. In 2019, she was selected as a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree and received the Digital Book World Outstanding Achievement Award. She’s the co-author of The Insider’s Guide to Book Publishing Success, and author of Derby Life. You can find her on Twitter or Instagram at @MargotAtwell, and read her writing in her On the Books newsletter.
Cat Fitzpatrick is the first trans woman to serve as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers University–Newark, and the Editrix at LittlePuss Press. She is the author of a collection of poems, Glamourpuss (Topside Press) and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. The Call-Out is her first novel.
Ramsey Kanaan has been at various times the founder of AK Press (named after his mother’s initials), a teenage punk rocker, middle-aged folk singer, centerfold pin-up, anarchist book fair founder, vegan all-you-can-eat enthusiast, right (and left) midfield amateur soccer player, cofounder/publisher at PM Press, and devoted husband and father. Actually, he still is.
Malav Kanuga (he/him) is founding editor and publisher of Common Notions Press. He is also a founding member of Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center (Philadelphia), and before that, a longstanding collective owner-member of Bluestockings Bookstore (New York). He is a researcher at the Media, Inequality, and Change Center at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania / Rutgers University. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York. Malav Kanuga’s research and movement-based media projects explores collective experiences of urban life, politics, and mobilization.
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All Day (Wednesday)
28sepAll DayJon Melrod and Bill Franks at A Room of One's Own in Madison, WIAuthor Events:Jon Melrod
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Fighting Times: An Evening with Jon Melrod and Bill Franks at A Room of One's Own in Madison, WI on Thursday, September 28th at 6pm. Learn more
Event Details
Fighting Times: An Evening with Jon Melrod and Bill Franks at A Room of One’s Own in Madison, WI on Thursday, September 28th at 6pm. Learn more here.
A Room of One’s Own is thrilled to welcome Jon Melrod and Bill Franks for a reading and discussion on Jon’s new book Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War.
This event is cosponsored by the University of Wisconsin School for Workers, the South Central Federation of Labor, and the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice. Join us for a rousing discussion on class organizing!
About Fighting Times
“An eloquent voice from the frontlines of the hard, bitter, exhilarating struggles for freedom and justice that have made the world a better place. [A]n inspiring guide for carrying the crucial struggle forward.”
– Noam Chomsky
Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness working class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of the American Motors auto company in Wisconsin. Melrod faces termination, dodges the FBI, outwits collaborators in the UAW, and becomes 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 the campus insurrection at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He left campus for the factory in 1972, hired along with hundreds of other youthful job seekers onto the mind-numbing auto assembly line. Fighting Times paints a portrait of these rebellious and alienated young hires, many of whom were returning Black Vietnam vets returning from the war-torn jungles with little faith in the system and with 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.
The book will inspire and arm a new generations of labor militants and organizers with the skills and attitude to challenge the odds and fight the egregious abuses of the exploitative capitalist system.
Jon Melrod was born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950’s and grew up in apartheid-like Washington D.C. 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. In 1972 he left the campus for the factory, and for the next 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. Today, he is married to Filipina actress and human rights activist Maria Isabel Lopez and has become politically active in the movement to defend the ancestral lands of the persecuted indigenous peoples of the Philippine archipelago who are under attack by the army at the behest of foreign logging and mining interests. He has also become active in the human rights struggle defending imprisoned Filipino political prisoners.
Bill Franks worked as a Senior Equal Opportunity Specialist for the Department of Workforce Development in the Division of Employment and Training. He was the Statewide Equal Opportunity Officer and Complaint Officer. Additionally, Bill served as a Union Steward for the AFT-W Local 4848 from inception in 1993 until and beyond retirement. The Local was at one time the largest public employee union, with approximately 4,800 in the bargaining unit. From 2005-2010, Bill was the Chief Steward and served on the Local’s Executive Committee and was Bargaining Support Committee Chair for two of three Bargaining Sessions. Currently, he chairs the Labor & Industry Committee of the NAACP of Dane County and has been a member of POWRS, Protect Our Wisconsin Retirement Security, since retirement.
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All Day (Thursday)