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
WELCOME POSTULE (HOUSTON, TX) TO CHI at RAT LODGE (message for location) POSTULE (TX) BAKANTEZ MELON MORBID FASCINATIONS BRUISED AEREOLAE byob all ages second floor, one flight of stairs
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