April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.
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Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.2: The Trans Marxist Issue. Call for papers, deadline 29 April 2023
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From the monsters that beat Tyre Nichols to death. What in the fresh hell is going on, Memphis??
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"The Memphis Police Department is introducing an eight-officer unit that will arrest unaccompanied minors that sell food, play loud music, are 'inappropriately dressed' or dancing in the street in Downtown Memphis" @LucasFinton
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Rutgers on Strike: Meet One of Thousands of Profs & Grad Workers Demanding Better Pay, Job Security
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We're hiring an Associate Editor! Come work with the great team . Applications considered on a rolling basis but we'll stop accepting them after May 5. Apply now! DM me with any ?s
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NYC!
Don’t miss “The People Speak — and Sing!” A celebration of Voices of A People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 2nd at , presented by
Details & tickets:
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This is tomorrow and we can't wait! Join , , and David Camfield for a deep dive into the climate crisis and what's to be done about it, hosted by us and our comrades at , and facilitated by !
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/fighting-cap
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terrific piece from . “To ask such questions is simply to pay attention to how capitalism’s restructuring of production alters the relationships that make up our entire social world, not just our practices and roles in economic production.”
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I am a junior doctor. I work in Intensive Care.
I was also recently a relative - I spent two months in hospital with my mum last summer, before she died of Covid19.
Why am I striking?
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London! 🇵🇸
We have a limited number of tickets available for a poetry reading and conversation with Mohammed El-Kurd in central London on 22 April ✨
Tickets are £10 each. Email uk@haymarketbooks.org to be added to the waitlist. THIS WILL SELL OUT. 👀
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If the Missouri AG is allowed to enforce his proposed ban on all care for trans people it will be a disastrous and watershed moment in this country's political history, one I have basically zero faith in our mainstream political discourse to take seriously
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Tomorrow!
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Fighting Capitalism's Ecological Death Cult
Join David Camfield, @safbf, and @leninology for a discussion about confronting the state and market behind climate catastrophe, hosted with @midnightsunmag.
Saturday, April 15th at 1:00 pm ET
RSVP to attend: eventbrite.com/e/fighting-cap
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SPREAD THE WORD // CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for an anthology of poetry on Nikkei – Japanese American – Canadian – Latin American incarceration, written by descendants, edited by and me . Deadline 4/30. Info/submit: bit.ly/40oApTV
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Y'all have got to stop saying librarians are saving democracy. We haven't even been able to save our own field from fascists. Fund us, support us, utilize us. But don't make us the last line of defense between democracy and dystopia.
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my debut album Why Does The Earth Give Us People to Love? is out everywhere now 🥹💜
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In honor of the reissuing The Men With The Pink Triangle—one of the first full accounts of survival from a person imprisoned for homosexuality during the Holocaust—we've excerpted the first chapter of Josef Kohout's testimony here:
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If you want to understand why workers at Rutgers are on strike and why it matters to all of us, listen to this interview with Rutgers professor, Donna Murch.
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Three Rutgers University academic worker unions (@ruaaup,
@ruaaup_ptl & @ABhsnj) have entered their 5th day of a historic strike.
"They want labor to be as cheap as possible," says union member @murchnik, of the "neoliberal" university system that benefits those at the top.
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We’ve already raised over $1000 for ! Looking forward to the discussion after the movie. Tomorrow!
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Chicago!
Our comrades from @VersoBooks and @PilsenCommBooks are co-hosting a benefit screening of How to Blow Up A Pipeline on Saturday with all proceeds to @ATLSolFund
RSVP to attend:
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Tonight at 7 at The Bureau (LGBT Center on west 13th off 7th Ave)
BETTINA APTHEKER- in a rare NY appearance- on The Communist Party, homophobia, and its impact on the LGBT Movement.
This is a do-not-miss.
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You can also watch this video and others in the series on ’ Youtube channel, and bookmark the Socialism…Seriously playlist:
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Good morning! I'm excited to launch a series of short videos on basic socialist questions. Today we're starting with the most basic one of all: what is it?
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On likely getaway path of dime thieves on Franklin Mills Circle @PhillyPolice finding dimes along street hundreds of yards from the burglarized Federal Government truck that had $750k in dimes inside. They’re filling bucket, carrying shovel & broom. @FOX29philly
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Three Illinois colleges are currently on strike, Governors State University, Eastern Illinois University, and Chicago State University, and all three faculty unions find themselves fighting against the same management playbook as we have seen here at . (1)
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Not Too Late is an instant National Indie Bestseller!
Congratulations to , , and to all of these wonderful contributors, and huge thanks to everyone who picked up a copy from an indie bookstore!
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Tomorrow in Brooklyn!
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This Friday, April 14 at 7 pm, @RebeccaSolnit, @yotammarom and climate policy advocate Renato Redentor Constantino discuss Not Too Late, a new collection of essays and interviews around climate justice co-edited by Solnit and @Thelma_Lutun. RSVP here: bklynlib.org/3UtU2YX
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Recording now available here:
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I've been hearing about this for months. And it sounds like it's going to keep happening.
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Nine years and six days old, and climate change is still violence inflicted upon the many by the few.
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Call climate change what it is: violence | Rebecca Solnit theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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Here’s my piece on the Clarence Thomas affair, btw
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I had a lovely conversation with for the Deep Dive. You can hear it here:
Google Play -> podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L
Spotify -> open.spotify.com/episode/6kyTTs
Apple Podcast —> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi
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Fantastic profile of our new magazine, Hammer&Hope
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I talked to co-founders @JenParker393 @KeeangaYamahtta and writers @KCTenants @MonifaBandele about their work on @HammerandHope, a new magazine of Black politics and culture thenation.com/article/societ
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This morning I shopped with and found a couple of books that were 40% off. They have a great array of books, both physical and ebooks.
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April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world. haymarketbooks.org/blogs/70-poetr
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Enjoyed this interview with Melissa Harris-Perry who gave us very substantive coverage.
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Not Too Late is an instant National Indie Bestseller!
Congratulations to , , and to all of these wonderful contributors, and huge thanks to everyone who picked up a copy from an indie bookstore!
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