Adding to my #TBR list. I am also ordering a copy for our library. From #HaymarketBooks @haymarketbooks

>Happy Publication Day, Colin Kaepernick! ✊

Abolition for the People provides a blueprint and vision for creating an abolitionist future where communities can be safe, valued, and truly free

#books #reading #abolition

Feminism, as writer Marie Shear remarked in 1986, “is the radical notion that women are people,” a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless.

#RebeccaSolnit (born 1961) in Men Explain Things To Me (2014) page 60 of 67 pages #HaymarketBooks isbn 978-1-60846-457-9
#MarieShear

Currently reading #chinamieville #aspectrehaunting #haymarketbooks #communistmanifesto

I've just reviewed Noam Chomsky's 'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time": https://niklas.reviews/2023/05/02/noam-chomsky-illegitimate-authority/ :chomsky:

The book is published 9 May (2023-05-09) by #HaymarketBooks, buy it from their site: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2004-illegitimate-authority

#NoamChomsky #CJPolychroniou #TruthOut #interviews #book #review #BookReview @bookstodon

From Noam Chomsky and C. J. Polychroniou's coming book, 'Illegitimate Authority'. https://bookrastinating.com/user/pivic/quotation/130974#anchor-130974

#NoamChomsky :chomsky: #CJPolychroniou #Bookrastinating #HaymarketBooks @bookstodon

Big publishing houses often buy out small, independent publishers, just to push them (and their books) into oblivion! The #internetArchive was helping to keep those books from being lost to history!

The End of Progressive Book Publishing in the Age of Monopoly Capital?

Tom Engelhardt 09/28/2022

"After all, like Pantheon, at the moment of its demise, it was a lively, deeply progressive operation, churning out powerful new titles — until, that is, it was essentially shut down when Sara, a miraculous publisher like André, was shown the door along with her staff. Bam! What did it matter that, thanks to her, Metropolitan still occupied a space filled by no other house in mainstream publishing? Nothing obviously, not to Holt, or assumedly Macmillan, the giant American publishing conglomerate of which it was a part, or the German Holtzbrinck Publishing Group that owns Macmillan.

"How strange that we’re in a world where two such publishing houses, among the best and most politically challenging around, could find that there simply was no place for them as progressive publishers in the mainstream. André [Schiffrin], who died in 2013, responded by launching an independent publishing house, #TheNewPress, an admirable undertaking. In terms of the #DispatchBooks I still put out from time to time, I find myself in a similar world, dealing with another adventurous independent publishing outfit, #HaymarketBooks.

"Still, what an eerie mainstream we now inhabit, don’t we?

"I mean, when it comes to what capitalism is doing on this planet of ours, book publishing is distinctly small (even if increasingly mashed) potatoes. After all, we’re talking about a world where giant fossil-fuel companies with still-soaring profits are all too willing to gaslight the public while quite literally burning the place up — or perhaps I mean flooding the place out. (Don’t you wonder sometimes what the CEOs of such companies are going to tell their grandchildren?)."

#Libraries #Publishers #Books #Corporations #Monopoly #Censorship #Copyright #Authors #BookPreservation #History #Culture #SmallPublishers #IndepedentPublishers #ProgressivePublishers

https://www.juancole.com/2022/09/progressive-publishing-monopoly.html

Live right now by #HaymarketBooks ! #StopCopCity
https://www.youtube.com/live/hWwJkxxMuhQ?feature=share

As I'm working on my book review of 'Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Optimism', edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, I'm struck by the blend of sobering views of reality and words of hope.

The quote is by Gloria Walton.

The book is published on 2023-04-03. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2000-not-too-late

#HaymarketBooks #RebeccaSolnit #ThelmaYoungLutunatabua #GloriaWalton #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis #climate @bookstodon

A quote from the soon–to–be–published book anthology 'Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility', edited by Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young-Lutunatabua.

'Difficult Is Not the Same as Impossible

Rebecca Solnit

It is late. We are deep in an emergency. But it is not too late, because the emergency is not over. The outcome is not decided. We1 are deciding it now. The longer we wait to act, the more limited the options, but scientists tell us there are good options and great urgency to embrace them while we can. An emergency is when a stable situation destabilizes, when the house catches fire or the dam breaks or institution implodes, when the failure or sudden change or crisis calls for urgent response. It’s when it becomes clear that the way things were is not how they’re going to be.

The word “we” is both problematic and necessary, so at the outset I want to acknowledge that not everyone is part of any version of “we”’ This book was put together with young people and newcomers to the climate movement in mind, with an expectation that most readers would be in the US and global north. Even there, the differences matter—between indigenous and settler, rich and poor, people who have lost homes and lives to the climate crisis and those who think of it as largely in the future. But there’s also the “we” that is all humanity, all who are impacted, and all beings alive now and yet to come. So, take this “we” with a grain of salt and allow some latitude for the necessity and inadequacy of the categories that make up language.'

https://bookrastinating.com/book/433839/s/not-too-late

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2000-not-too-late

#HaymarketBooks #RebeccaSolnit #ThelmaYoungLutunatabua #book #quote #ClimateCatastrophe @bookstodon

Haymarket Books Fights Back Against Republican Attacks on Educational Freedom https://prospect.org/education/02-20-2023-haymarket-books-desantis-censorship-schools/

Highlighting the good work of #HaymarketBooks.

#BannedBooks #censorship #PartyOfStupid #books #reading

This company #HaymarketBooks will be publishing e-books about #BlackHistory, especially in Florida. https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1622750944235601920?s=46&t=ewxYEOEuCqjDseS4ycL3sQ

#ReadBannedBooks
#crtisactualhistory
Thank you #HaymarketBooks

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/480-defend-black-history-defend-black-lives

New book by Noam Chomsky :chomsky: and C.J. Polychroniou coming out on 2023-05-09 from Haymarket Books!

'Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time'

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2004-illegitimate-authority

#NoamChomsky #CJPolychroniou #book #politics #HaymarketBooks

For years I've been curious about the more "revolutionary" aspects of the Left (broadly conceived). What does it mean to "smash the state," or to "de-fund the police," or to seek revolution rather than incrementalism?

I came across this rather thoughtful, intense, and passionate talk on just these questions. I don't know where I stand on all of it, but I find it compelling in many ways and a lot of food for thought.
#revolution #socialism #SmashTheState #HaymarketBooks

https://youtu.be/ePzYyELJhuE

Recent studies show that U.S. life expectancy is falling behind other wealthy nations “in large part because a lot of Americans are dying very young—in their 40s and 50s, rather than their 70s and 80s… a long-simmering tragedy that COVID took to a furious boil.” My essay for this volume introduces readers to some of the people I grew up with who never made it that far—gone tragically young, representing entirely avoidable “deaths of despair.” #AfterLife #Haymarketbooks #history bit.ly/3FxPqtz

Tonight! I’ll be at #redemmas at 7 for an #AfterLife book talk & signing.

Packing for #2022SHA rn. #Baltimore here I come!🥰

#maryland #book #booktalk #newbook #writer #editor #HaymarketBooks #washingtondc #read #books #writers #pandemic #politics

Only 2 USD for the latest ebook by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky, 'Notes on Resistance':
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1882-notes-on-resistance

#HaymarketBooks

Um. You can get the #ebook of #AfterLife from #HaymarketBooks rn for only TWO DOLLARS!!!

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1927-after-life

Pro-imperialist pseudo-left event on Ukraine ends in debacle for organizers:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/15/even-m15.html

#Ukraine #PseudoLeft #TempestCollective #DSA #AgainstTheCurrent #HaymarketBooks #NewPolitics

#WSWS #DavidNorth

Pro-imperialist pseudo-left event on Ukraine ends in debacle for organizers:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/15/even-m15.html

#Ukraine #PseudoLeft #TempestCollective #DSA #AgainstTheCurrent #HaymarketBooks #NewPolitics

#WSWS #DavidNorth