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  • Screening of RED ANT DREAM hosted by Revolutionary Marxist Study Group Chicago

    • March 25 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    Join the Revolutionary Marxist Study Group for a screening of Red Ant Dream, a documentary of the people's struggle and 58 year long revolutionary civil war in India. Red Ant Dream highlights the struggle of Adivasis (the indigenous people of India) against multinational corporations and mining companies which seek to expand their plunder of the land and exploitation of the people of India, the Maoists’ fight against state repression which serves to protect and advance the aims of these companies and exploiters, and much more.... Read More

  • Seven Minutes in Hell Round 3

    • March 27 @ 7:30 PM
    • Apple Computer
    • Ask a freak

    🍈14 SEVEN MINUTE SETS🍈 3.27 🍈 7:30PM 🍈 APPLE COMPUTER (ask a freak for location) third year of a scenic trip through hell REFRESHMENTS TBA (meatballs...)

  • Project 2052 Launch at Pilsen Community Books

    • March 28 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL

    We need radical imagination to fight fascism and reclaim our world! Join us to celebrate the launch of Project 2052: a website of revolutionary speculative fiction and art set in the world of Everything for Everyone! Come dream and dance with us! Please RSVP: https://withfriends.co/event/27679188/project_2052_launch Program:... Read More

  • People's Cafe: ICE, Resistance, and Worker Power

    • March 29 @ 1:00 PM
    • until 4:00 PM
    • Co-Prosperity Sphere
    • 3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL

    From their historical roots in ancient Middle East and early 20th century Europe, People’s Cafes have historically served as a public space for citizens to share ideas and preserve democracy. Join @ilcofchi on March 29th from 1-4pm at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport (3219 S.... 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

  • 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

  • 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