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SUMMARY:A Normal Life with Freedom Press [online event]
DESCRIPTION:A Normal Life is the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas\, known to the public as the “Greek Robin Hood\,” to police as “The Uncatchable.” His is an illegalist existence lived in defiance of the police and of the state\, and for decades\, it has been a life lived as a fugitive. \n\n\n\nIn Greece he has become a household name\, a modern folk hero of sorts\, taking millions in bank raids — including the famous Kalambaka heist\, Greece’s biggest ever — and ransoming CEOs whilst distributing his gains to those who needed it. But he is most famous for his prison breakouts — infamously escaping the high-security wing of Korydallos Prison by helicopter. \n\n\n\nTwice. \n\n\n\nVassilis Palaiokostas is hated by the authorities\, deemed a terrorist\, his freedom a continued insult to the Greek State. Now his memoir\, an instant bestseller in Greece\, has been translated to English for the first time so he can tell his story in his own words. He does not offer any mealy-mouthed\, “socially acceptable” justifications for his actions\, but honestly elaborates his dreams and their totality. \n\n\n\nA Normal Life is a gripping account of life on the run and in jail\, of car chases\, daring escapades and the camaraderie of the bandit. It is also the story of his motivations. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Freedom Press \n\n\n\nFreedom is Britain’s oldest anarchist press \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:Abolition. Feminism. Now.
DESCRIPTION:Aviah Sarah Day (Sisters Uncut) in conversation with Gina Dent and Beth Ritchie. \n\n\n\nAbolition. Feminism. Now. is an urgent call for a truly intersectional\, internationalist\, abolitionist feminism. \n\n\n\nThe Black Feminist Bookshop and Housmans are very pleased to announce a joint event to celebrate the publication of Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie’s new book Abolition. Feminism. Now. (published by Penguin). \n\n\n\nGina Dent and Beth Ritchie will be in conversation with lecturer\, activist and a member of the direct action group Sisters Uncut Aviah Sarah Day. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nAs a politics and as a practice\, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment\, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement\, in its demands for police defunding and demilitarisation\, and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. \n\n\n\nAs this book shows\, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state\, with its key role in perpetuating violence\, both public and private\, in prisons\, in police forces\, and in people’s homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times. \n\n\n\nIn this landmark work\, four of the world’s leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional\, internationalist\, abolitionist feminism. \n\n\n\n‘This extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I’ve ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition\, for the inseparability of gendered and state violence\, domestic policing and militarism\, the street\, the home\, and the world. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and organizational experience\, the authors offer a genealogy of the movements that brought us here\, lessons learned\, battles won and lost\, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice.’ ROBIN D. G. KELLEY\, AUTHOR OF FREEDOM DREAMS: THE BLACK RADICAL IMAGINATION \n\n\n\n‘In this powerful\, wise and well-crafted book\, filled with insight and provocation\, the authors make it patently and abundantly clear why abolitionist feminism is necessary . . . Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased\, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time\, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for. It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.’ SARA AHMED\, AUTHOR OF WILLFUL SUBJECTS \n\n\n\nAccessibility information: \n\n\n\nThis event will take place online. We will use Closed Captions to subtitle the event. Please get in touch at blackfeministreading@gmail.com with any questions or access needs you would like us to be aware of. \n\n\n\nTicket information: \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans and the Black Feminist Bookshop then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and people who are experiencing economic hardship. \n\n\n\nBlack Feminist Bookshop Patreon members gain access to the book club as part of their membership. More information here. \n\n\n\nHow to access this event online: \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the Black Feminist Bookshop. \n\n\n\n\nBOOK TICKETS HERE\n\n\n\n\nGina Dent is associate professor of feminist studies\, history of consciousness\, and legal studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture\, and lectures and writes on African diaspora literary and cultural studies\, postcolonial theory\, and critical area studies. Her current project Visualizing Abolition grows out of her work as an advocate for transformative and transitional justice and prison abolition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Richie is Professor of Criminology\, Law and Justice and Black Studies\, Sociology\, Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her most recent book is Arrested Justice: Black Women\, Violence and America’s Prison Nation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAviah Sarah Day can be found teaching and researching at Birkbeck\, University of London when working\, and organising in her East London community the rest of the time. She is involved in Sisters Uncut\, a national direct-action collective fighting cuts to domestic violence services and state violence as well as Hackney Cop Watch. She is co-author of the book Abolition Revolution with Shanice McBean\, which is due to be published by Pluto Press autumn 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:The Rise of Ecofascism with 12 Rules for WHAT [online event]
DESCRIPTION:The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment\, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? \n\n\n\nThis incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right\, after years of denying the reality of climate change\, are now showing serious signs of reversing their strategy. A new generation of far-right activists has realized that impending environmental catastrophe represents their best chance yet for a return to relevance. In reality\, however\, their noxious blend of conspiracy\, hatred and violence is no solution at all: it is the ‘eco-socialism of fools’. Only a real commitment to climate justice can save us and stop the far right in its tracks. \n\n\n\nNo-one interested in the struggle against right-wing extremism and the crusade for climate justice can afford to miss this trenchant critique of burgeoning ecofascism. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nSam Moore and Alex Roberts are researchers\, anti-fascist activists and the hosts of 12 Rules for WHAT\, a podcast about the far right. \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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SUMMARY:The Starmer Project: A Journey To The Right\, with Oliver Eagleton [online event]
DESCRIPTION:A forensic political biography of the Labour Party leader \n\n\n\nThe Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider\, what sort of politician is he really\, and what mark is he making on the new politics of Labour? \n\n\n\nIn The Starmer Project\, Oliver Eagleton provides a careful reading of Starmer’s record at the Crown Prosecution Service and as a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet\, tracing the political alliances he forged and the roots of his bid for the party leadership. \n\n\n\nStarmer originally pledged to revitalise Corbynism with a dose of lawyerly competence. To understand what happened afterwards it is necessary to understand the man himself. So little known about Starmer that his actions are usually interpreted as overtures to others. On closer inspection\, however\, he is anything but an empty political vessel. \n\n\n\nSPEAKERS \n\n\n\nOliver Eagleton is an Assistant Editor at New Left Review and Sidecar. He writes on culture and politics for the Guardian\, TLS\, Literary Review and Novara. \n\n\n\nmore speakers TBC \n\n\n\nHOW TO ACCESS THIS ONLINE EVENT \n\n\n\nAn invitation to this online event will be emailed to you on the day of the event. We will use the email address used to register for this event. Confirmation emails and invitation links sometimes end up in spam folders\, so please check there before emailing the shop. Thank you. \n\n\n\nTICKET INFORMATION \n\n\n\nIf you’d like a copy of the book then choose the book plus entry ticket. If you’d like to support Housmans then please choose a solidarity ticket. There’s also a free access ticket for students\, low income and unwaged comrades. \n\n\n\n\nTO BUY TICKETS OR RSVP TO THIS EVENT\, CLICK HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n				Share on X (Opens in new window)\n				X\n			\n				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n				Facebook\n			\n				Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n				Insta\n			Like this:Like Loading...
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