Join Kris Hermes, activist and author of Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000, along with UMN graduate student Charmaine Chua, and UMN PhD candidate Rahsaan Mahadeo at Boneshaker Books on Friday, March 11th at 6pm for a Conversation on Policing and Dissent.
Elizabeth Fontaine will read from her YA novel, Eagle Peak.
Lucas Pingel will read from his collaborative chapbook, I'm Sure This Was a Beautiful Place (Strange Cage 2013), as well as pieces from his working manuscript, Happy Apocalypse Day.
Hard to Believe is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world.
Recent decades have seen the exciting convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada. From this convergence, a growing set of activists – from anti-poverty organizers in Toronto to prison abolitionists in Oakland, from occupy activists in New York to migrant justice organizers in Vancouver – are developing shared politics and practices. They are building “another politics,” to use a Zapatista expression. These efforts combine anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-oppression politics with grassroots organizing among ordinary, non-activist people. Drawing on interviews with organizers across North America, this presentation will explore another politics and distill lessons for building effective, visionary movements.
