Join us for a special video conference with front line leaders in the fight for social justice in Brazil. ———————————————————— 30,000 Brazilians have died from Covid-19 according to official figures, soon to be second highest number in the world behind the United States. The real number is twice that and more than 1,000 are dying each day. Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro flouts social distancing, has fired two health ministers, and is toying with a coup all as unemployment skyrockets. Meanwhile, a coalition of more than 500 left-wing political parties, unions, and social movements are pushing for impeachment and, after two months of lockdown, street protests against Bolsonaro’s neo-fascist movement are on the rise at least partially inspired by the uprising in Minneapolis and in towns and cities across the United States. ———————————————————— Presenters: Preta Ferreira is a coordinator of the Homeless Movement of Downtown São Paulo (MSTC) and was one of the main organizers of the campaign to free Workers Party leader Lula from prison. Sonia Guajajara is the executive coordinator of the Association of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil and was the Party for Socialism and Freedom’s vice-presidential candidate in 2018. Moderated by Sabrina Fernandes from the editorial board of Jacobin Brasil. ———————————————————— Sponsored by Haymarket Books, Jacobin Brasil, Left Movement for Socialism, Insurgência, Resistência, Ruptura, Punto Rojo, Spectre, New Politics, No Borders News, and Rampant. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/YhaAYAQ0KU4 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join us for a conversation on art, politics and revolution with Boots Riley and Noname. ————————————————— The global uprising against racism and police violence has brought millions of people around the world into the streets to make Black Lives Matter, and has catapulted radical demands for police and prison abolition into the center of public consciousness. It’s also brought new urgency to discussions of reform and revolution, challenging the power of capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism in the 21st century, and the role of artists can as participants in political struggles. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on art, politics, and revolution with Noname and Boots Riley, hosted by Khury Petersen-Smith. Noname is a rapper from Chicago. She’s the founder of Noname’s Book Club. Boots Riley is a rapper and filmmaker from Oakland. Join Noname's Book Club here: https://www.nonamebooks.com/ Get a copy of Boots Riley's Book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/489-boots-riley Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/_i12zRBXObI Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Critical Resistance for their annual fundraiser: this year a conversation with Charlene Carruthers & Marc Lamont Hill in honor of Juneteenth! Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued ordering states in the confederacy to release their slaves, Black people in Texas achieved their liberation from chattel bondage. On June 19,1865, General Order Number 3 was read from the Ashton Villa balcony in Galveston, Texas, that demanded that slaveholders free their slaves. That day, Juneteenth, has become an annual occasion for celebration, reflection, and education about the meaning of freedom and the on-going, universal struggle for liberation from domination. These questions about the true meaning of freedom are more relevant than ever to the work of abolitionists and those working to eliminate the prison industrial complex (PIC) and its attendant harms. To explore the legacy of Juneteenth and ongoing struggles for Black (and international) liberation, CR is happy to host a conversation between two prominent Black thought leaders and firebrands, Charlene Carruthers (BYP100 cofounder) and Marc Lamont Hill (BET news host). For more information on Critical Resistance: https://criticalresistance.org Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/UazJ0_7o1vA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

We are in a historic moment brought on by the consistent exertion of people power across the country and around the world. This has brought us to a place where our communities are poised to win significant victories against the violence of policing on a large scale. To guide us in this moment, we need to hold central that Abolition is both a vision and a political strategy. Part of this strategy is recognizing and actualizing that we cannot call for reforms that further entrench and legitimize policing in any form as a solution to social, economic or political problems. As prison industrial complex abolitionists, the reforms we call for in our demands must be aimed at diminishing the political power of policing. How can we assess which proposals to support or to oppose in our organizing? What are some abolitionist proposals? Join Dean Spade, Woods Ervin & Kamau Walton from Critical Resistance, K Agbebiyi from Survived and Punished NY and Mariame Kaba from Project NIA and Survived & Punished to discuss these questions and more. Join us for this conversation to deepen our shared analysis and to discuss how we use abolition as a politic, practice and framework to move us toward liberation and self-determination. Co-sponsored by Critical Resistance, Project NIA, Survived and Punished, Reclaim the Block, and Black Visions Collective. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/GHdg4dqBMyk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join together with virtual community in this time of distancing to experience an emotionally stirring 90 minute podcast performance. A STRONGER DESIRE TO LIVE draws together a roster of powerful artists standing in to voice a tremendous series of prose, poetry and drama works penned by award-winning incarcerated writers. Tied together with original music by Kenyatta Emmanuel, an artist and activist who has shared his music from Sing Sing to Carnegie Hall, the program is a moving tribute to the immense, and often hidden talent behind the walls. The live release event will feature an original slideshow with artwork sourced from the Artists at Risk Connection, Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and The Confined Arts, and invite listeners to join in a live chat. As prison restricts incarcerated people from being able to join the program, all captured reactions will be shared with our featured authors in the event's aftermath. Featuring writing by Caroline Ashby, Paul J. Betts, Jr., Arthur Fitzgerald, Yvette M. Louisell, Robert McKown, Matthew Mendoza and Justin Rovillos Monson. Performances by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Dr. Adam Falkner, Shanelle Gabriel, Casey Gerald, Milton Jones, Nicole Shawan Junior, Darrell Larson, Amanda Erin Miller and Josie Whittlesey. Curated by PEN America Prison Writing Committee Members Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Carissa Chesanek, Michael Juliani, Grace Kearney, Katie Lasley, Ryan D. Matthews, Amanda Miller and Crystal Yeung in partnership with Program Director Caits Meissner and Manager Robert Pollock. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read the Bios of writers and performers here: https://pen.org/event/a-stronger-desire-to-live/ Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/CxPA9FWkuIM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin in a discussion about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it feels to be blackballed by the NBA. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Hodges won two championships with Michael Jordan and the Bulls but was conspicuously erased from Jordan's docuseries "The Last Dance." As Jemele Hill said in a recent tweet, " When they were addressing Jordan’s lack of involvement in social justice issues, that would have been a great time to discuss what happened to Craig Hodges. #TheLastDanceAs." Join Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin in a discussion about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it all relates to why Craig was blackballed in the prime of his career. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- More on Craig's recent memoir Long Shot: Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power. As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating. But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice. In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others from his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Hodges played in the NBA for ten seasons, in which he led the league in three-point shooting percentage three times. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in 1991 and 1992, and is a three-time Three Point Contest champion at All-Star weekend. Dave Zirin is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of several books, most recently Brazil's Dance with the Devil. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN, and Democracy Now! He hosts WPFW's The Collision with Etan Thomas and has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/tPV-xVBk8qk Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Marc Lamont Hill on the history, present, and future of the fight for a world where Black Lives Matter. ———————————————————— If you cannot attain justice by engaging the system, then you must seek other means of changing it. We are in the early stages of an uprising against racism and police violence. The simultaneous collapse of politics and governance in the midst of a global pandemic has forced millions of people to take to the streets to demand the most basic necessities of life, including the right to be free of police harassment or murder. Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Marc Lamont Hill for a conversation about the history, present, and future of the fight for a world where Black Lives Matter, hosted by E. Tammy Kim. ———————————————————— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018. Her third book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press, was a finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is currently the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College. E. Tammy Kim is a magazine reporter, a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, and a retired lawyer. She co-edited the book Punk Ethnography. She cohosts the Time to Say Goodbye podcast. To order copies of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's books From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1368-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation How We Get Free: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free Race For Profit: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781469653662 For further reading on this topic check out Haymarket Books' Black Liberation Reading List: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-haymarket-books-on-the-struggle-for-black-liberation Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/P3_CZ1rDlRg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join us for a conversation between Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear on indigenous resistance in the context of the global pandemic. —————————— Water Protectors at Standing Rock, drawing from long traditions of resistance, used Indigenous sovereignty and mutual aid networks based on kinship as bulwarks against oil pipelines, state violence, and environmental colonialism. These two elements have helped shield Indigenous nations from the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the fossil fuel industry exploits the crisis to expand pipeline projects renewed struggle is more vital than ever. Join Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear for a virtual teach-in on what lessons today’s activists can learn from these traditions of resistance. —————————— Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. For 2017-2018, Estes was the American Democracy Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Estes is the author of the book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance and he co-edited Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, which draws together more than thirty contributors, including leaders, scholars, and activists of the Standing Rock movement. Estes’ journalism and writing is also featured in the Intercept, Jacobin, Indian Country Today, The Funambulist Magazine, and High Country News. Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. She is building a research hub in Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society. Follow them at www.IndigenousSTS.com and @indigenous_sts. TallBear is author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Her Indigenous STS work recently turned to also address decolonial and Indigenous sexualities. She founded a University of Alberta arts-based research lab and co-produces the sexy storytelling show, Tipi Confessions, sparked by the popular Austin, Texas show, Bedpost Confessions. Building on lessons learned with geneticists about how race categories get settled, TallBear is working on a book that interrogates settler-colonial commitments to settlement in place, within disciplines, and within monogamous, state-sanctioned marriage. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She tweets @KimTallBear and @CriticalPoly. —————————— Co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Red Nation, and Verso Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/W5zp8S0nR8o Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

The BreakBeat Poets Live is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Hosted by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin, The BreakBeat Poets Live! is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family. --- Kevin Coval is a poet and author of A People’s History of Chicago and over ten other collections, anthologies, and chapbooks. ​He is the founder and editor of the BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books, artistic director for Young Chicago Authors, and the founder of Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival. --- Idris Goodwin is the playwright, producer, educator, who coined the term “breakbeat poet.” He is the author of Can I Kick It? and the Pushcart–nominated collection These Are the Breaks. His publications also include Inauguration, cowritten with Nico Wilkinson, and Human Highlight: An Ode to Dominique Wilkins and This Is Modern Art, both cowritten with Kevin Coval. --------- Maya Marshall, a writer and editor, is co-founder of underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall has earned fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, and Cave Canem. She is the author of Secondhand (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) and a former senior editor for [PANK]. Her writing appears in Best New Poets 2019, Muzzle Magazine, RHINO, Blackbird, the Volta, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago where she works as a manuscript editor for Haymarket Books. Her debut poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love is forthcoming from Haymarket Books. --------- Mother Nature is the irresistible force of Klevah and TRUTH—emcees devoted to building a legacy founded on defiance and self-discovery. The Chicago-based duo is the answer for listeners seeking both substance and simplicity. As educators, they have mastered the ability to deliver weighty content through uplifting BARZ that pierce the conscience. With Peace and Love as their weapon and community at their foundation, these Gr8Thinkaz are on their way to provoking a pivotal shift in the next generation. --------- José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His book, Citizen Illegal, won of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize and was named a top book of 2018 by NPR. ​He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Olivarez was awarded the Author and Artist in Justice award from the Phillips Brooks House Association and named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers. He is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/L_xDzEE9_k4 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Package King author Joe Allen discusses with Flynn Murray what's happening in the behemoth US logistics industry during a time of crisis . ------------------------------- United Parcel Service (UPS) is playing a critical role in maintaining the supply chain for urgent PPE supplies and essential goods amidst the pandemic. The corporation and its' workers wield incredible amounts of power and influence, particularly now. Joe Allen will tear down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies. How did UPS displace General Motors, the very symbol of American capitalism, to become the largest, private sector, unionized employer in the United States? And, at what cost to its workers and surrounding communities? Joe Allen and Flynn Murray will discuss all this and the overarching logistics machine in the US as it attempts to keep the country afloat in these tumultuous times. Joe Allen is the author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS. Flynn Murray recently authored "The Rebirth of a Logistic Workers’ Movement?" for Dissent Magazine. ------------------------------- This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Dissent Magazine. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/igOae1tA2cw Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks