BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240503T220000 DTSTAMP:20240319T171029Z CREATED:20240319T123100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T171029Z UID:55605-1714762800-1714773600@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Half-Earth Socialism DESCRIPTION:June 24\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHousmans are delighted to welcome Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass to the shop to celebrate the paperback launch of their seminal book Half-Earth Socialism. \n\n\n\nWithout revolutionary change\, humanity confronts a dystopian future of global heating\, epidemics\, and mass extinction. Yet\, the mainstream ‘solutions’ on offer are either too modest or too risky\, such as toothless cap-and-trade programmes\, dangerous geoengineering schemes\, seaweed in cattle feed\, luxury electric cars\, and wildlife conservation bankrolled by billionaires. In their book Half-Earth Socialism\, newly released in paperback\, historian Troy Vettese and scientist Drew Pendergrass criticize such tepid solutions and offers instead a countervailing vision for the future.  \n\n\n\nHalf-Earth Socialism goes beyond critique to confront a series of difficult questions. What does a just and ecologically-stable society actually look like? How can we go past the colonial history of conservation and replace it with something democratic and grounded in indigenous sovereignty? If capitalism leads inevitably to environmental crises\, how can we organize production and distribution without markets? If we engage in economic planning\, what are the planetary boundaries that constrain our interchange with nature? Can we ensure planning remains democratic? In Half-Earth Socialism\, Vettese and Pendergrass demonstrate that thinking through such questions allows us to imagine a new kind of society that is not only desirable\, but also feasible and necessary.  \n\n\n\nIn this event\, Vettese and Pendergrass will will be joined in conversation by food transparency advocate Robbie Lockie\, co-founder of Plant Based News. Half-Earth Socialism argues that widespread veganism makes it far easier to save land for biodiversity\, renewable energy\, fossil-free agriculture\, and carbon dioxide removal. In addition to the other points of the book\, their conversation will touch on disinformation in animal agriculture\, the role of veganism within broader environmental and left-wing movements\, and the relationship between activism and media. \n\n\n\nAbout our speakers: \n\n\n\nDrew Pendergrass is a writer\, activist\, and climate scientist whose work imagines how humanity can democratically govern itself under a worsening environmental crisis. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University\, where he also earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. His research uses satellite\, aircraft\, and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. Drew is currently working on a system that uses satellites to estimate real-time global emissions of methane\, an important greenhouse gas. He is the lead developer of CHEEREIO\, a free\, open-source software used by scientists to characterize the sources of a wide variety of pollutants. Drew is co-author of the book Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, along with historian Troy Vettese\, with whom he has also co-written articles for Architectural Design and International Labor and Working-Class History. In addition to his scientific publications\, Drew has authored various pieces of popular environmental writing for outlets including Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and Jacobin. \n\n\n\nTroy Vettese is a Ciriacy-Wantrup post-doctoral fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. from New York University and Masters’ degrees from NYU\, St. Andrews\, and Oxford\, and has held research fellowships at the University of Copenhagen\, the European University Institute\, and Harvard University. Troy has taught a variety of courses on environmental studies in connection with Marxism\, neoliberalism\, and critical theory at the University of Milan\, Lund University\, and the University of Copenhagen. Together with Drew Pendergrass\, Troy is the author of the manifesto\, Half-Earth Socialism (Verso\, 2022)\, which has been discussed in Jewish Currents\, New Statesman\, Le Monde\, and the Ecologist\, as well as being translated into Swedish\, Italian\, Thai\, Korean\, and Spanish. He is currently writing a monograph on neoliberal environmental thought and editing a volume on Marxist animal studies. Troy’s popular writing has appeared in n+1\, the Guardian\, Jacobin\, Boston Review\, and Bookforum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRobbie Lockie\, a digital media innovator and food transparency advocate\, leads The Freedom Food Alliance\, promoting informed consumer choices and exposing industry practices. Their recent report unveils disinformation tactics in animal agriculture. As co-founder of Plant Based News\, Robbie raises awareness on veganism\, reaching millions monthly. Inspired by personal health challenges\, Robbie champions ethical\, sustainable living for a better world. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \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… URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-half-earth-socialism/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/getimage_db694b49-2f99-4e74-b6e8-b59be92d62f0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T223000 DTSTAMP:20240430T100941Z CREATED:20240409T152609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T100941Z UID:56179-1715367600-1715380200@housmans.com SUMMARY:Book Talk: Change Everything by Natalie Bennett DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome Natalie Bennett to the shop to celebrate the publication of her new book of green political theory: Change Everything: How we can rethink\, repair and rebuild society. \n\n\n\nWe are living in a social\, political\, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and more balanced world. The decades-old political orthodoxy\, that greed is good\, inequality doesn’t matter and we can keep treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground\, has been a recipe for disaster. Our world needs a new vision\, the Green vision. From Universal Basic Income to free education\, from less stuff but more life\, to genuine democratic opportunities for all\, Natalie Bennett brings together a holistic\, hopeful and practical vision for the future.The foundations of Change Everything are conversations with many thousands of people. We need to engage millions to bring together the imagination\, talents and energy of all to rebuild and repair our societies. Then a positive future is within our reach. \n\n\n\n‘This book is a tonic! Positively bristling with countless common-sense solutions to restore human and planetary wellbeing\, Change Everything powerfully sets out what needs to be done and how to do it. Both practical and hopeful\, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer\, greener future.’Caroline Lucas MP \n\n\n\n‘Natalie Bennett is right. We have to change everything. But how? Sitting on our hands and hoping things will return to ‘normal’ is not an option . . . Natalie Bennett provides hope and inspiration by showing us how in a myriad of practical ways. If you want to “be the change you wish to see in this world”\, read this book’ Christine Milne\, former leader of the Australian Greens \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nNatalie Bennett was leader of the Green Party of England and Wales 2012-2016\, and entered the House of Lords in 2019. That’s meant a decade travelling the country speaking at public meetings\, in schools\, colleges and universities\, and hearing about the many great grassroots efforts being made to tackle our polycrises. She has degrees in agricultural science\, humanities and social science\, reflecting her passion for joined-up\, systems thinking\, rather than reductionist\, 20th-century-style approaches. She was editor of the Guardian Weekly\, chief sub-editor on the Bangkok Post\, and a volunteer at the Thai National Commission on Women’s Affairs. She grew up on the lands of the Wallumedegal people in northern Sydney. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \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… URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-change-everything-by-natalie-bennett/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/F9wbVXSWMAApun-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240517T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240517T220000 DTSTAMP:20240517T131300Z CREATED:20240412T115637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240517T131300Z UID:56288-1715972400-1715983200@housmans.com SUMMARY:The Rentier City: ISAAC ROSE in conversation with NICK BANO DESCRIPTION:Housmans are delighted to welcome two authors whose work interrogates the most pressing problems of our time: the housing crisis\, the problem of landlordism and gentrification. \n\n\n\nIn Isaac Rose’s The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis\, the author observes that in cities across the world\, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back. A good place to begin answering these questions\, Rose argues\, is Manchester\, England. Over the last thirty years\, corporate developers\, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image\, replacing its working-class communities\, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers\, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. \n\n\n\nThe Rentier City traces this story\, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities\, between rentier and rentee\, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in. \n\n\n\nSimilarly\, in Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis\, Nick Bano confronts a world where landlords always win and renters pay the price and asks\, what can be done? Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty\, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before\, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year\, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet the government’s only solution is to promote homeownership. \n\n\n\nAgainst Landlords shows that this crisis is not the product of happenstance or political incompetence. Government policy has intentionally split British citizens into homeowners and renters\, two classes set on very different financial paths. In the UK\, one out of every twenty-one adults is a landlord\, and it is this group\, and those who aspire to join it\, represented by the political class. Building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law\, Bano argues\, and reforms must sweep away the landlordism at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life. \n\n\n\nIsaac and Nick will read from their work and discuss the problems\, and possible solutions\, they both so brilliantly describe\, followed by a Q&A. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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… URL:https://housmans.com/event/the-rentier-city-isaac-rose-in-conversation-with-nick-bano/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Untitled-design-5-edited-1536x1086-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240526T200000 DTSTAMP:20240502T125031Z CREATED:20240419T154110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240502T125031Z UID:56381-1716748200-1716753600@housmans.com SUMMARY:'Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour' with Kim Kelly DESCRIPTION:On a rare visit to Britain\, Housmans welcomes journalist\, author\, and organiser Kim Kelly\, to speak about her book ‘Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labour’\, and to discuss the current groundswell in US labour activism.“Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the working-class heroes who propelled American labor’s relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law.The names and faces of countless silenced\, misrepresented\, or forgotten leaders have been erased by time as a privileged few decide which stories get cut from the final copy: those of women\, people of color\, LGBTQIA people\, disabled people\, sex workers\, prisoners\, and the poor. In this assiduously researched work of journalism\, Teen Vogue columnist and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that history and shows how the rights the American worker has today—the forty-hour workweek\, workplace-safety standards\, restrictions on child labor\, protection from harassment and discrimination on the job—were earned with literal blood\, sweat\, and tears.Fight Like Hell comes at a time of economic reckoning in America. From Amazon’s warehouses to Starbucks cafes\, Appalachian coal mines to the sex workers of Portland’s Stripper Strike\, interest in organized labor is at a fever pitch not seen since the early 1960s.Inspirational\, intersectional\, and full of crucial lessons from the past\, Fight Like Hell shows what is possible when the working class demands the dignity it has always deserved.” \n\n\n\n“In FIGHT LIKE HELL you’ll find the true stories of people who have fought to win a better world for themselves and everyone else who has to work for a living.”—Jeremy Brecher\, author of National Bestseller Strike!“Meticulously researched and beautifully told\, [in FIGHT LIKE HELL] Kim Kelly has established herself as a true champion for the working class.”—Liz Shuler\, AFL-CIO PresidentAbout the author \n\n\n\nKim Kelly is an independent journalist\, author\, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018\, and her writing on labor\, class\, politics\, and culture has appeared in The New Republic\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The Baffler\, The Nation\,the Columbia Journalism Review\, and Esquire\, among many others.Kelly has also worked as a video correspondent for More Perfect Union\, The Real News Network\, and Means TV.Previously\, she was the heavy metal editor at “Noisey\,” VICE’s music vertical\, and was an original member of the VICE Union. A third-generation union member\, she is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World’s Freelance Journalists Union as well as a member and elected councilperson for the Writers Guild of America\, East (WGAE). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOur thanks to Seditionist Distribution for making this event happen https://seditionist.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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… URL:https://housmans.com/event/fight-like-hell-the-untold-history-of-american-labour-with-kim-kelly/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fight-like-hell.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR