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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

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

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

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.

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