Chicago's unruly events calendar.https://www.thejungle.events/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/B3ddmntGxwLhiC/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/B3ddmntGxwLhiC/[April 19 @ 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM | Co-Prosperity, 3219 S Morgan St, Chicago] A 45 minute zoom presentation by Idris Robinson screened in person at Co-Prosperity in Bridgeport. Followed by an hour long discussion. A part of ROSA school at CoPro. @rosa.chicago This session will focus on Chapters 10 and 12 of The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer, examining the subsequent waves of riots, revolts, and uprisings sweeping the globe in terms of destituent power. We will explore the challenges of offering a theoretical account of this widespread phenomenon, with particular attention to how theory can help us move past the limits and impasses that emerge within moments of revolt, especially where they risk hardening into political deadlocks. In this regard, the session will move between conceptual analysis and concrete examples, focusing on how Black revolt and Palestinian resistance function as national and international avant-gardes, opening new possibilities for struggle and unleashing its stifled potentiality.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:57:01 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/4SUTeF8Tkxau8k/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/4SUTeF8Tkxau8k/[April 23 @ 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM | Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL] 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. Joining Molly will be Eman Abdelhadi, co-author of Everything for Everyone.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:02:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/9KSTWr9Y8A0qHO/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/9KSTWr9Y8A0qHO/[April 23 @ 7:00 PM until April 24 @ 7:00 PM | Theatre Momentum, 1541 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL. 60657] April 23rd and 24th at 7 PM! Driven to murdering his boss, Dominic Davenport and his husband Charles must hide all evidence from a nosey Constable in this new comedy. FREE POPCORN!! Soft drinks available with donation encouraged. This venue is alcohol free, please no BYOB, thank you. Show runs about an hour with no intermission. @littleheadbearprodMon, 13 Apr 2026 00:24:39 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/lgjPJWLX9zaSdw/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/lgjPJWLX9zaSdw/[April 27 @ 8:00 PM | DMen Tap, 2849 W Belmont Ave] 4/27/2026 8PM-CloseTue, 14 Apr 2026 01:10:51 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/ZxCOPasS666nVh/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/ZxCOPasS666nVh/[May 13 @ 7:00 PM until 8:00 PM | Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL] 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 tour de force...Read it now.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets, officers employ violence at their own discretion. Behind closed doors, they are even more powerful. In city halls, police strong-arm local leaders and nullify attempts at public oversight. And in state legislatures and Washington, DC, police lobbyists and union leaders zealously uphold a bipartisan consensus against even mild reform. Yet as recently as fifty years ago, police still served at the pleasure of democratically elected politicians, not the other way around. In Blue Power, Stuart Schrader narrates the rise of a bottom-up movement of rank-and-file officers who lifted policing above the law. Organizers launched their campaign in the 1960s, courting a public backlash to urban uprisings and civil rights. City by city, county by county, they formed unions and other organizations and won control over working conditions, impunity from oversight, and insulation from lean budgets. By the 2000s, this movement had triumphed nationally, shoring up the power of the police to overrule the public interest in the name of law and order. Through deep archival detective work, Blue Power reveals how police forced American democracy to back the blue.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:04:41 GMThttps://www.thejungle.events/posts/UJvdRneKvCIVPu/https://www.thejungle.events/posts/UJvdRneKvCIVPu/[May 21 @ 7:00 PM until 8:00 PM | Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W 18th St, Chicago, IL] 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 society places so much weight and attention on those who become the first or only of their identifying group that we miss one of the inherent issues in that model. This book is about the kinds of compromises made by a small but influential group of people from minoritized groups in the United States as they have entered segregated institutions in highly visible positions. People in the overseer class wield enormous institutional power, even necropolitical power over who lives and who dies; it’s just that their power is predicated upon repressing other people who look (or speak/have sex/come from places) like them. About How to Sell a Genocide: As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick “war on terror” framework. How to Sell a Genocide is a thorough indictment of US corporate media's role in enabling—and, at times, directly inciting—one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Johnson unpacks how major news outlets like The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israel's war crimes, hid the US’s central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:08:26 GMT