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The launch of Jamie K. McCallum's book, Essential. Essential reading for understanding the past, present, and future of the working class.Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, attracting a level of support unseen in decades. This explosion of labor unrest seemed sudden to many. But Essential reveals that American workers had simmered in discontent long before their anger boiled over. Decades of austerity, sociologist Jamie K. McCallum shows, have left frontline workers vulnerable to employer abuse, lacking government protections, and increasingly furious. Through firsthand research conducted as the pandemic unfolded, McCallum

Three Philadelphia writers discuss the challenges posed by writing and publishing about real people, violence, and justiceMaking Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center: Literary Reading & Discussion: On Writing Memoir, Gender Violence, & Reparative JusticePlease join three Philadelphia writers for a reading from Lisa Nikolidakis' new memoir, No One Crosses the Wolf, as well as an open discussion about the challenges posed by writing and publishing about real people, violence, and justice.Speaker / Author biosLisa Nikolidakis’s memoir, No One Crosses the Wolf, about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey debuted in September 2022.

Providing a new conceptual framework for cooperation as a form of social practice Providing a new conceptual framework for cooperation as a form of social practice, Practicing Cooperation describes and critiques three U.S.-based cooperatives: a pair of co-op grocers in Philadelphia, each adjusting to recent growth and renewal; a federation of two hundred low-cost community acupuncture clinics throughout the United States, banded together as a cooperative of practitioners and patients; and a collectively managed Philadelphia experimental dance company, founded in the early 1990s and still going strong. Through these case studies, Andrew Zitcer illuminates the range of activities that make

Book launch of an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple anglesNo Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today's movement to identify, deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is growing within capitalist democracies, a myriad of voices come together to shape the new face of antifascism in a moment of social and political flux.Speakers BiosShane Burley is an author based in Portland, Oregon. He

A discussion and Q&A of Cars and Jails which investigates how the car functions at the cross-roads of the debt economy and carceral state.Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center Book Launch and Discussion: Cars and Jails: Dreams of Freedom, Realities of Debt and Prison with Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston"Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year."—Malcolm X (a former auto worker)American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the cross-roads of two great systems

A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power. Join us for a discussion of J. T. Roane's new book, Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place.In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods. In acts that ranged from the mundane acts of refashioning intimate spaces

A screening on ecological struggle and resistance to state power.IF A TREE FALLS is a documentary looking at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' The documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The film examines larger questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.The police killing of Manuel Teranat / Tortuguita and repression of forest defenders in Atlanta / Cop City this month adds dire weight to our abilty to undersand ecological defense

Join the Making Worlds Staff Collective for a community reading and discussion of Take Care of Your Self over a series of five sessions.Join the Making Worlds Staff Collective for a community reading and discussion of Take Care of Your Self by multimedia artist and writer, Sundus Abdul Hadi. Each session will focus on a different section of the book and the series will culminate with a Q&A and discussion with the author for the final session.Advanced registration is required for each session. You do not need to have attended a prior session to attend any of the following sessions.

How are spiritual and moral imaginations opening us to new, just worlds?Abolition and Dignity: Spiritual Resources for RevolutionHow are spiritual and moral imaginations opening us to new, just worlds? Three writers and activists will open a conversation about this question: Jasmine Syedullah and Jared Ware, contributors to the book Spirituality and Abolition, and Vincent Lloyd, author of Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination. Bringing expertise organizing against incarceration and advancing racial justice, drawing on Buddhism, Christianity, African syncretic religions, and other traditions, the three speakers will explore the complex, ambivalent ways that religious and spiritual traditions hinder and help struggles

Join us for a discussion of the book, Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr, with labor organizer Gene Bruskin.What would it take to topple Amazon? To beat back the austerity budgets polarizing our city? To rebuild the labor movement? How is it possible to organize those without hope who are working on the margins?John Womack’s new book Labor Power and Strategy explores these questions and more, and his lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten labor organizers and educators. Join Philly native Gene Bruskin, one of those labor organizers, in conversation with local unionizing workers to discuss.

In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, a reading group that considers what a dignified life looks like?

Join to learn how to play Land and Freedom! Copies are available for play and purchase. A discussion on anti-fascist alliances will followBetween 1936-39, the Spanish working class built the largest experiment in self-managed collectivization in a modern economy. At the same time, a well-trained Fascist military, armed and funded by Italy and Germany, waged war against the Spanish Republic, itself deeply divided along political and revolutionary lines. Can an anti-fascist alliance stand up to this kind of pressure without succumbing to internal distrust over competing agendas?Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War is a brand-new board game

In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, a reading group that considers what a dignified life looks like?

A stop on the east coast Principled Unity Book Tour: A discussion of the past and future of multiracial alliances for revolutionary change.The purpose of the Principled Unity Book Tour is to bring individuals, groups, and street organizations together to discuss the commonalities and to provide future actions in the legacy of the First Rainbow Coalition through the Second Rainbow Coalition. The West Coast Tour brought many groups together that are now working in solidarity. The East Coast Tour will do the same.Kwame Shakur, author of My Search for Answers, Truth and Meaning will discuss how he became a revolutionary

In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, a reading group that considers what a dignified life looks like?

Join Making Worlds and The Autonomous South Philly Cinema Association for a benefit screening of Riotsville, USA for #StopCopCItyThe fight in Atlanta against “Cop City” is heating up. The Autonomous South Philly Cinema Association is hosting a benefit screening of Riotsville, USA (2022, 91 mins) to raise funds for mounting legal expenses. Riotsville, USA takes its name from the mock cities built by the U.S. government in the late 1960s to train police and military in repressive techniques to throttle uprisings, much as Cop City hopes to do — unless the struggle against it is victorious.

Stokas undertakes a critical and decolonial analysis of DEI work, linking contemporary practices of diversity to longer colonial histories.In Reparative Universities, Ariana González Stokas undertakes a critical and decolonial analysis of DEI work, linking contemporary practices of diversity to longer colonial histories. González Stokas argues that diversity is an insufficient concept for efforts concerned with anti-oppression, anti-racism, equity, and decolonization. Given its historical ties to colonialism, can higher education be locations for unraveling, repair and redistribution?About the author: Ariana González Stokas has spent the last two decades working in institutions as a faculty member and senior-level DEI administrator committed to