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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• Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA from February 20 to 23

• Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ on March 4 and 5

• Association of Writers and Writing Program AWP in Seattle, WA from March 8 to 11

• Left Coast Crime 2023 in Tucson, AZ on March 16 to 19

• Appalachian Studies Association Conference in Athens, OH from March 17 to 19

• 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

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

• Bioneers in Berkeley, CA from April 6 to 9

• Norwescon in Seattle, WA from April 6 to 9

• 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 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 these upcoming events for Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr. with contributions by Gene Bruskin, Carey Dall, Dan DiMaggio, Katy Fox-Hodess, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jane McAlevey, Jack Metzgar, Joel Ochoa, Melissa Shetler, and Rand Wilson.

February 1st

Harvard Trade Union Program’s “James Green Memorial Forum” forum

John Womack will be joined by Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West B (2nd floor), Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. MA 02138 

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February 2nd – RSVP
Boston Trade Union at UA Local 12 at 12noon

John Womack will be joined by Peter Olney

Plumbers Local 12 in Boston, MA
1240 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02125
Sponsored by Massachusetts AFL-CIO and Metro Boston Building Trades.

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February 4th
NYC Labor Notes at 5:30pm
People’s Forum Herald Square

320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

A conversation moderated by journalist Alex Press, with book contributors & editors Gene Bruskin, Melissa Shetler, and Peter Olney.

Learn more here. Live stream here.

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March 2nd
West Portal Bookshop in San Francisco at 7pm
with Peter Olney and Carey Dall

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March 17th
Powell’s City of Books in Portland, OR (1005 W. Burnside St) at 7pm
with Peter Olney and Tom Leedham

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April 1st
UMass Boston – Boston Labor Conference – Book Table

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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).