Fandom is, and always will be, political. Take a stand against C2E2's connections to ICE and join us in empowering our communities through connection, joy, and resistance in fandom spaces! We welcome and encourage speakers, performers, artists, cosplayers, and more... Read More
We need radical imagination to fight fascism and reclaim our world! Join us to celebrate the launch of Project 2052: a website of revolutionary speculative fiction and art set in the world of Everything for Everyone! Come dream and dance with us! Please RSVP: https://withfriends.co/event/27679188/project_2052_launch Program:... Read More
Come support our "home" cafe fundraiser for a local Asian American power-building org! Join Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago for delicious Asian-inspired baked goods and drinks made by our volunteers. We will also have games and activities, so come hang out and bring a friend or make one while you're here! 💌 RSVP at luma.com/tizeapgo This... Read More
From their historical roots in ancient Middle East and early 20th century Europe, People’s Cafes have historically served as a public space for citizens to share ideas and preserve democracy. Join @ilcofchi on March 29th from 1-4pm at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport (3219 S.... Read More
In honor of Women's History Month, join CODEPINK Chicago on Sunday, March 29th at 1pm for a pop-up letter-writing event at the Lincoln Lodge! We'll be hosting a women-focused letter writing campaign for those incarcerated as political prisoners of the state. Let's come together to express our support & uplift those targeted by the U.S.... Read More
Join Chicago Dissenters and Buttons of the Left as we gather at Pilsen Community Books for a night of examining the history of anti-imperialist organizing in the belly of the beast. Buttons of the Left will be presenting a series of buttons and artifacts to both help us understand the social basis that drove anti-imperialist mobilization at different points and to help explain the mechanisms of the organizing processes at these times.... Read More
Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More
Join us Thursday April 2nd on Zoom for a FOIA 101 workshop! Register at the link. Who is this for: - people who haven’t written a foia before - people unsure if their foia’s are useful - people who want to get some tips... Read More
Activists from the Twin Cities will share how their anti-ICE movement drove out the feds. The Twin Cities‘ anti-ICE movement defeated Operation Metro Surge through organized, creative and tireless experimenting. As part of a national tour, activists from Minneapolis and St. Paul will pass on the lessons they’ve learned to Chicagoans.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar to the store for an event in celebration of their new books Ballot and Stock Photo. About Stock Photo: Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Stock Photo mines the visual culture of stock photography, which is used in nearly every facet of the media landscape we consume, including as part of the datasets on which A.I.... Read More
An ominous unjust and tragic conviction against those protesting at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center: as our collective freedoms are bound together in an fascist era of criminalization and dehumanisation, we are compelled to take action on this day of international solidarity. The... Read More
An ominous unjust and tragic conviction against those protesting at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center: as our collective freedoms are bound together in an fascist era of criminalization and dehumanisation, we are compelled to take action on this day of international solidarity. The... Read More
We're excited to join Under the Tree Podcast in welcoming Nancy Kurshan to the store for a conversation with Bill Ayers about Kurshan's book Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories. In Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories, longtime activist Nancy Kurshan offers a vivid, woman’s-eye view of seven decades of radical social change.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Lisa Low to the store for a launch celebration for her new collection Replica. Stand-up comedy, a celebrity non-apology, observations of racism, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica. In poignant, witty poems, Lisa Low navigates the tensions of solidarity and hostility in white spaces as she sets out to write differently about race. “The... Read More
In conjunction with In These Times magazine, join us to celebrate the launch of Molly Crabapple's new book. Here Where We Live is Our Country is the first popular history telling the dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Stuart Schrader and Robert Vargas to the store for discussion of Schrader's new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, a history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A... Read More
Join us as we welcome Steven W. Thrasher and Adam Johnson to the store for a conversation about Thrasher's The Overseer Class and Johnson's How to Sell a Genocide. About The Overseer Class: The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain. Our... Read More