POV: you discover a worker-owned radical bookstore that’s also a vegan cafe and bar
📍: @redemmas // Baltimore
#vegan #plantbased #baltimore #vegansofig #bookstore
We are a worker cooperative. That means that our workers make all the decisions about what happens in our workplace, not bosses, investors, or oligarchic billionaire overlords. A democratic economy is possible — we’ve been showing how it’s done for over two decades.
#workercooperative #workplacedemocracy #cooperative
Steven W. Thrasher presents "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" in conversation w/Lisa Snowden
Wed May 27, 7:00 pm
The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass 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.
#Class #Power #Institutions #Baltimore #Books
Adam Johnson presents "How to Sell a Genocide" in conversation w/ Maximillian Alvarez
Sat May 23, 7 pm
Johnson's analysis 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. 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. 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.
#War #Media #America #Baltimore #Books
The Solidarity Economy isn’t a thing. It’s more than a coop, or a collective, or a time bank. The Solidarity Economy is a movement - a global movement to build a just and sustainable economy where we prioritize people and the planet over growth. And it’s happening right here in Baltimore. Join @bred.baltimore and @redemmas for a monthly breakfast series exploring solidarity economy work in black communities and black-led institutions and organizations around the city. Our first session is Thursday, May 21 at 9AM! Don’t miss it. (Definition courtesy of @neweconomycoalition ) #solidarityeconomy
Baltimore, MD ✨ Saturday, May 30
Book event: Dr. Ashley D. Farmer in conversation with Dr. Minkah Makalani
📖 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is the first biography of one of the most influential yet understudied Black activists and thinkers of the 20th century.
The book shows how Moore fundamentally changed the scope and shape of Black struggle today.
⏰ 7 pm @redemmas
RSVP:
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Gautham Rao presents "White Power" in conversation with Theresa Runstedtler
Thurs, May 21, 7 pm
The violent legacy of the US’s slaveholding oligarchy and the brutal policing of Black Americans.
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and place, White Power uncovers how slaveholders created their own white supremacist police and government to deny Black people rights, power, and humanity.
#Slavery #WhiteSupremacy #America #Baltimore #Books
