If you are in DC, @bolcoop is organizing DC's inaugural Working Class Literature Festival on May 1st/2nd at the Festival Center (1640 Columbia Rd NW). From poetry and fiction to music, the festival insists on the roses alongside the bread. Link in comments
Mamdani: I will give you an example, when we talk about grocery stores… it cost less than half of what the city is already set to spend on subsidizing corporate supermarkets without any guarantee of cheaper prices and collective bargaining agreements or that they accept SNAP or WIC
By handing Trump the power to go forward with his violent agenda unchecked, SCOTUS has opened the door to end birthright citizenship, attacking trans rights, and undermining labor unions. We need to fight back with protests, strikes, and mass movements
https://t.co/Rg84kMfK1x
A timely documentary in the wake of Sri Lanka’s recent elections and the ongoing negotiations with the IMF. @beenasarwar and @Jayati1609 will join virtually for a discussion
RSVP here
https://t.co/SbL5lVIq4d
Join us on Oct 23rd at 6:30pm for a writing workshop. Through solo and collaborative writing exercises, we will imagine a world that we want to live in. Register here https://t.co/6OfotK52UL
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Join us for an engaging conversation @bolcoop with Zara Chowdhary about her memoir The Lucky Ones, which recounts the horrors of Gujarat riots in 2002. @Hindus4HR
Adding another super interesting event on political currents in China focusing on the forms of solidarity with movements of workers, migrants, and women*
In collaboration with @asianlabour
April 15th at 7pm
https://t.co/LQuRoQRCd2
🌱 Climate Week in NY starts this Sunday, with a justice march co-organized by our comrades at @drumnyc
Before we hit the streets, we're making posters @ Wash. Sq. Park this Sat. 16 Sept 1-5pm 🎨
Swing by & make some propaganda for the coming weeks of action! ✊🏽
We are a group of activists, educators, and workers with a shared goal of establishing Bol; a worker-owned cafe, bookstore, and event space in Washington, DC. https://t.co/8qHWJR6zBC
Academe friends- Fall semester is coming, here's a link to BOL's online bookshop to buy books for your classes and share with colleagues in the department DC. Almost all books in print can be ordered through our bookshop. https://t.co/lZME1fU6LU
We’re going to have to ask ourselves-
What really is the difference between Sudanese people & Ukrainian people, which means Ukrainians have free entry to Europe & a visa pathway to the UK, and Sudanese are kept out with brutal force?
Excited to host this important conversation- come join us tomorrow if you are curious about how war shapes our everyday emotions and experience of space- Register below https://t.co/KH8eXS2ewC