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september
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Book launch for Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism with author Eliana Rubin and special guest adrienne
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Book launch for Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism with author Eliana Rubin and special guest adrienne maree brown, and music by Sijal Nasralla & DUNUMS on Friday, September 20th in Durham, NC at Northstar Church for the Arts. Join us! Learn more here.
Together we can create a world beyond borders that transcends the State and returns power to our bodies, communities, and the land…
Join us for the Book Release of Taking the State Out of the Body.
Dive into musings on freedom and embodied resistance as we celebrate the release of this timely book. This will be an abundant night of weaving our connections together including discussion with the author, Eliana Rubin and special guest, adrienne maree brown along with music by Sijal Nasralla & DUNUMS.
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All Day (Friday)
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Join these two events in NYC with Katie Tastrom for A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice.
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Join these two events in NYC with Katie Tastrom for A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice.
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september 20 (Friday) - 21 (Saturday)
22sepAll DayThree Way Fight at Making Worlds Books in PhiladelphiaAuthor Events:Matthew N. Lyons
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Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, a book talk with Matthew N. Lyons and Arturo Castillon Sunday,
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Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, a book talk with Matthew N. Lyons and Arturo Castillon
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Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104
ADVANCED REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED (CLICK HERE)
Three way fight politics argues that the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but is also in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combat both. We’ll discuss the history of this perspective and how it can help us navigate today’s struggles, from anti-police riots to confronting the MAGA movement, drawing on, Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, the new collection of essays and interviews from PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing.
Matthew N. Lyons is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire and coauthor with Chip Berlet of Right-Wing Populism in America. He has been a contributor to Three Way Fight since 2005, and his writings have also appeared in several other leftist and mainstream publications. Matthew is co-trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry.
Arturo Castillon is a writer and substitute teacher living in Philadelphia. With Shemon Salam, he is the coauthor of The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising (Daraja Press, 2021) and has published work in The George Floyd Uprising (PM Press, 2023) as well as in Black Quantum Futurism: Space-Time Collapse II (The AfroFuturist Affair/House of Future Sciences Books, 2020).
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All Day (Sunday)
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Join Ian Brennan and others to celebrate and discuss Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End, a new collection of
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Join Ian Brennan and others to celebrate and discuss Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End, a new collection of field note manifestos about Ian’s ongoing quest to provide musical platforms for underrepresented nations & populations. The book has an Introduction by Marilena Umuhoza Delli and Foreword by Dame Evelyn Glennie.
Tuesday, September 24th – Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA) with Gary Phillips, Los Angeles author and community activist
Saturday, September 28th – Grammy Museum (Los Angeles, CA) with Raymond Antrobus, British writer and educator
Sunday, September 29th – Powell’s Books (Portland, OR) with Larry Crane, editor & publisher of Tape Op Magazine
Monday, September 30th – City Lights (San Francisco, CA) with Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ian Brennan is Grammy-winning producer who has produced three Grammy-nominated albums and published seven books while also teaching violence prevention around the world since 1993 for organizations such as the Smithsonian and the National Accademia of Science (Rome). Brennan released his first album in 1987 and in the past decade has produced over forty records by international artists from five continents, which have resulted in the first widely released original music albums from nations such as Rwanda, Malawi, Kosovo, South Sudan, Romania, Comoros, and Vietnam. He has worked with artists as diverse as Fugazi, country legend Merle Haggard, Sleater-Kinney, and Green Day. His work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS television, and in an Emmy-winning segment of 60 Minutes. He is the author of Missing Music: Voices from Where the Dirt Roads End, Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes, and Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth.
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september 24 (Tuesday) - 30 (Monday)
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Abolishing Surveillance: A Screening of Media Activism against State Repression and for Community with Chris Robé in Brooklyn, NY at Interference Archive on Thursday, September 26th from 7:00 PM to
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Abolishing Surveillance: A Screening of Media Activism against State Repression and for Community with Chris Robé in Brooklyn, NY at Interference Archive on Thursday, September 26th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Learn more here.
The Department of Justice sought information on all who visited the DisruptJ20.org website for Donald Trump’s inauguration. Undercover agents infiltrate BlackLivesMatter protests. Police routinely command bystanders to stop filming them by falsely claiming it is a crime. Yet communities and activists push back against state repression while pursuing self-determination. Media activism has provided a key element for resistance and community organizing. This screening and discussion, based on material from his new book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression, will feature shorts and video sequences made by counter-summit protesters, animal rights activists, cop watchers, Muslim American youth, and forest defenders to offer a brief history of such media activism. Lively discussion will be encouraged throughout.
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All Day (Thursday)
27sepAll DayAbolishing Surveillance with Chris Robé at NYUAuthor Events:Chris Robé
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Join us for this talk with Chris Robé on Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression The talk is entitled, Abolishing Surveillance: A Brief History
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Join us for this talk with Chris Robé on Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression
The talk is entitled, Abolishing Surveillance: A Brief History of Copwatching, Community Organizing, and Media Activism on Friday, September 27, 6:00 pm at NYU in the Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
More information https://tisch.nyu.
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All Day (Friday)
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Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, a book talk with Matthew N. Lyons, contributor Suzy Subways, and local activists.
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Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, a book talk with Matthew N. Lyons, contributor Suzy Subways, and local activists.
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Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia, PA at 704 South St
Three way fight politics argues that the far right grows out of an oppressive capitalist order but is also in conflict with it in real ways, and that radicals need to combat both. We’ll discuss the history of this perspective and how it can help us navigate today’s struggles, from anti-police riots to confronting the MAGA movement, drawing on Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, the new collection of essays and interviews from PM Press and Kersplebedeb Publishing.
Matthew N. Lyons is the author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire and coauthor with Chip Berlet of Right-Wing Populism in America. He has been a contributor to Three Way Fight since 2005, and his writings have also appeared in several other leftist and mainstream publications. Matthew is co-trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry.
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All Day (Saturday)
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Book Talk and Panel with Chris Robé on Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression Monday, September 30, 2024 in Philadelphia, PA 5:00pm-6:30pm University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School
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Book Talk and Panel with Chris Robé on Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression
Monday, September 30, 2024 in Philadelphia, PA
5:00pm-6:30pm
University of Pennsylvania
Annenberg School in Room 500
3620 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Open to the Public
Hosted by the Media, Inequality & Change Center
Learn more here.
Chris Robé’s primary research concerns the use of media by various communities and social movements. In the twenty-first century, media does not simply offer a representational platform for different communities but more importantly serves as a material practice to engage in collective struggles for a wide variety of purposes.
He has written about the emergence of anarchist-based video activism in his book Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas (PM Press, 2017). His co-edited collection with Stephen Charbonneau InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader (Indiana University Press, 2020) investigates global trends in media activism through a historic lens. His most recent book Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression (PM Press, 2023) concerns the relationship between video/digital media activism and state repression pertaining to animal rights campaigns, counter-summit protesting, Latinx copwatching and community organizing, and Muslim-American youth resistance.
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All Day (Monday)
october
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu at the Education Justice
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu at the Education Justice Project at University of Illinois Champaign Urbana on October 17th. Details TBA.
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James Kilgore is a formerly incarcerated researcher and activist based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration. He drafted four of those volumes during his six and a half years in California prisons. He is a research fellow at MediaJustice, where he founded the Challenging E-Carceration project and is director of advocacy and outreach for FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign, Illinois.
Vic Liu is an artist and author who uses design to communicate complex information with empathy. She is the author of Bang! Masturbation for All Genders and Abilities. Her work includes: materials mapping the fragmentation of the Syrian Opposition (circulated within the state department), pamphlets on womxn workers’ rights in collaboration with the 2020 Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship & Legal Momentum (distributed through community hubs in New York State); a physical toolkit for making discussions around birth control more demonstrable (distributed through the Baltimore City Health Department); and more.
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All Day (Thursday)
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu in Chicago, IL on October 19th hosted
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The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Mass Incarceration book talk with James Kilgore and Vic Liu in Chicago, IL on October 19th hosted by Walls Turned Sideways, an art and community space dedicated to people impacted by incarceration, with a focus on collective liberation, healing, and abolition.
James Kilgore is a formerly incarcerated researcher and activist based in Urbana, Illinois. He is the author of six books, including the National Book Foundation Award-winning A People’s Guide to Mass Incarceration. He drafted four of those volumes during his six and a half years in California prisons. He is a research fellow at MediaJustice, where he founded the Challenging E-Carceration project and is director of advocacy and outreach for FirstFollowers Reentry Program in Champaign, Illinois.
Vic Liu is an artist and author who uses design to communicate complex information with empathy. She is the author of Bang! Masturbation for All Genders and Abilities. Her work includes: materials mapping the fragmentation of the Syrian Opposition (circulated within the state department), pamphlets on womxn workers’ rights in collaboration with the 2020 Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship & Legal Momentum (distributed through community hubs in New York State); a physical toolkit for making discussions around birth control more demonstrable (distributed through the Baltimore City Health Department); and more.
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All Day (Saturday)