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  • A History of Anti-Imperialist Organizing in the Belly of the Beast

    • April 1 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St

    Join Chicago Dissenters and Buttons of the Left as we gather at Pilsen Community Books for a night of examining the history of anti-imperialist organizing in the belly of the beast. Buttons of the Left will be presenting a series of buttons and artifacts to both help us understand the social basis that drove anti-imperialist mobilization at different points and to help explain the mechanisms of the organizing processes at these times.... Read More

  • Soup and Bread

    • April 1 @ 6:30 PM
    • until April 08 @ 9:00 PM
    • The Hideout
    • 1354 W Wabansia, Chicago

    Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More

  • FOIA 101 Workshop with Lucy Parsons Labs

    • April 2 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 7:00 PM
    • Zoom
    • Online

    Join us Thursday April 2nd on Zoom for a FOIA 101 workshop! Register at the link. Who is this for: - people who haven’t written a foia before - people unsure if their foia’s are useful - people who want to get some tips... Read More

  • Breaking the ICE: Lessons from the Resistance in Minnesota

    • April 2 @ 6:30 PM
    • Co-Prosperity
    • 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago, IL

    Activists from the Twin Cities will share how their anti-ICE movement drove out the feds. The Twin Cities‘ anti-ICE movement defeated Operation Metro Surge through organized, creative and tireless experimenting. As part of a national tour, activists from Minneapolis and St. Paul will pass on the lessons they’ve learned to Chicagoans.... Read More

  • Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar

    • April 2 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us as we welcome Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar to the store for an event in celebration of their new books Ballot and Stock Photo. About Stock Photo: Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Stock Photo mines the visual culture of stock photography, which is used in nearly every facet of the media landscape we consume, including as part of the datasets on which A.I.... Read More

  • Chicago Weekend of Solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants @ Bloodfruit Library

    • April 3 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 11:00 PM
    • Bloodfruit Library
    • DM @bloodfruitlib on Instagram

    An ominous unjust and tragic conviction against those protesting at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center: as our collective freedoms are bound together in an fascist era of criminalization and dehumanisation, we are compelled to take action on this day of international solidarity. The... Read More

  • Chicago Weekend of Solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants @ Midwest Books to Prisoners

    • April 4 @ 12:00 PM
    • until 5:00 PM
    • Midwest Books to Prisoners
    • 3613 W Cermak Ave, Chicago, IL

    An ominous unjust and tragic conviction against those protesting at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center: as our collective freedoms are bound together in an fascist era of criminalization and dehumanisation, we are compelled to take action on this day of international solidarity. The... Read More

  • Under the Tree Podcast presents Levitating the Pentagon with Nancy Kurshan and Bill Ayers

    • April 9 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    We're excited to join Under the Tree Podcast in welcoming Nancy Kurshan to the store for a conversation with Bill Ayers about Kurshan's book Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories. In Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories, longtime activist Nancy Kurshan offers a vivid, woman’s-eye view of seven decades of radical social change.... Read More

  • Lisa Low Celebrates REPLICA

    • April 11 @ 7:30 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us as we welcome Lisa Low to the store for a launch celebration for her new collection Replica. Stand-up comedy, a celebrity non-apology, observations of racism, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica. In poignant, witty poems, Lisa Low navigates the tensions of solidarity and hostility in white spaces as she sets out to write differently about race. “The... Read More

  • Molly Crabapple in conversation with Eman Abdelhadi: Here Where We Live is Our Country

    • April 23 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    In conjunction with In These Times magazine, join us to celebrate the launch of Molly Crabapple's new book. Here Where We Live is Our Country is the first popular history telling the dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.... Read More

  • Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves with Stuart Schrader and Robert Vargas

    • May 13 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    Join us as we welcome Stuart Schrader and Robert Vargas to the store for discussion of Schrader's new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, a history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A... Read More

  • THE OVERSEER CLASS and HOW TO SELL A GENOCIDE with Steven W. Thrasher and Adam Johnson

    • May 21 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    Join us as we welcome Steven W. Thrasher and Adam Johnson to the store for a conversation about Thrasher's The Overseer Class and Johnson's How to Sell a Genocide. About The Overseer Class: The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain. Our... Read More