Events

Join Silvia Federici in the Bay Area, CA for a series of events based on her recent and forthcoming books.

Thursday, December 5th at 7:30pm in Berkeley

In conversation with Sasha Lilley on Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women, a KPFA Benefit at St. Johns Presbyterian Church at 2727 College Avenue in Berkeley, CA. For tickets, click here.

Friday, December 6th at 7pm in Sacramento

On Witches, The Commons, Reclaiming the Body, and Discovering Our Power at the Verge Center for the Arts 625 S St, Sacramento, CA, 95811. Sponsored by Sacramento DSA and the Marxist School of Sacramento. Learn more here.

Saturday, December 7th at 12noon in San Francisco

On Re-enchanting the World at The Lab at 2948 16th St San Francisco, CA 94103. Talk followed by a vegetarian meal. Learn more here.

Saturday, December 7th at 7pm in Santa Cruz

On Re-enchanting the World at the Freight Building at Depot Park 119 Center St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Co-sponsored by Santa Cruz Revolutionary Feminist Working Group and Subrosa. Learn more here.

Sunday, December 8th at the Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco in conversation with Jenny Worly from 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm in Room 106. Learn more here.

Monday, December 9th at 7pm in Berkeley

Silvia in conversation with Jenny Brown, author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, and Dani Burlison, editor of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body at Moe’s Books at 2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704. Learn more here.

Tuesday, December 10th at 7pm in San Francisco

Book launch for Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism at the California Institute of Integral Studies at 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103.  Sponsored by the Anthropology and Social Change Department. Learn more here.

Silvia’s books include:
Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, 2nd Edition
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia)
Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism (forthcoming)
Find them here.

Join David Ranney, author of Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out, at the DePaul University Labor Education Center in Chicago, IL on Tuesday, December 10th from 6pm to 7:30pm in room 1451 (14th floor) at 14 E. Jackson.  Presented by the DePaul University Labor Education Center and the Illinois Labor History Society.

The book is his first-hand account of working in factories in Chicago’s Southeast Side in the 1970s and 1980s. It describes his experiences and observations about the day to day work, worker organizing, immigration raids, racism, unsafe working conditions, and reflections on how we can work for a more just society.

David Ranney is professor emeritus in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ranney has also been a factory worker, a labor and community organizer, and an activist academic. He is the author of four books and more than a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on issues of employment, labor and community organizing, and U.S. trade policy. His two most recent books are Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order and New World Disorder: The Decline of U.S. Power. In addition to his writing, he gives lectures on economic policy and politics and also finds time to be an actor and director in a small community theatre.

An evening with Vyvian Raoul, coauthor of Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance, and famed punk-art surrealist Winston Smith, contributor to Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years, at Silver Sprocket in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 10th at 7pm. Including a film screening of Subvertisers for London (21m) at 8pm sharp. Click on the link below for more information.

Join Nisi Shawl, author of Talk like a Man – the newest Outspoken Author Series book, in Seattle, WA on Wednesday, December 11th reading with Eileen Gunn on at Cafe Racer at 7pm. Click on the link below for more information.

“Shawl’s keen sense of justice and their adamant anticolonialism always ride just beneath the surface of her stories. Never didactic, Shawl possesses the gift of a true storyteller: the ability to let the warp and weft of plot and character do their moral work for them.”
—Brian Charles Clark in Curled Up with a Good Book

Nisi Shawl is an African American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known for their science fiction and fantasy stories and novels dealing with race, gender, and sexual orientation. They live in Seattle, where they also write on political and cultural matters for the Seattle Times. Even before Shawl’s steampunk-flavored alternate history of the “Belgian” Congo, Everfair, took the sci-fi world by storm, their short stories had already established them as a cutting-edge black writer whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Joanna Russ.

Join PM Press at the 10th Humboldt Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, December 14th from 10am to 6pm at the Manila Community Center, located at 1611 Peninsula Dr, Arcata, California 95521. Free, Fun, All Ages. Click on the link below for more information.

Join Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore, coeditors of Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook and composers of the Working-Class Heroes CD at Down Home Music in El Cerrito, CA on Saturday, December 14th. They will be performing songs from the album and speaking about the struggle in song. Click on the link below for more information.

Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. Recent projects include the republication of Songs of Freedom by Irish revolutionary James Connolly, the recording and publication of Working-Class Heroes, and the launch of the multimedia project Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. He is the author of five books including, in 2017, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975 (PM Press) and A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property (Zed Books). Callahan can be reached at www.matcallahan.com. Get his books here.

Yvonne Moore is a singer and bandleader originally from Schaffhausen. In addition to recording numerous albums of her own music, Moore is cofounder and treasurer of the Art in History and Politics Association, whose purpose is to discover, publish, and popularize music, graphic art, and texts created by participants in conflicts such as the struggle to abolish slavery. Her exploration of the songs of Sarah Ogan Gunning led to the making of Working-Class Heroes. Moore can be reached at www.matandyvonne.com.

Join Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore, coeditors of Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook and composers of the Working-Class Heroes CD at The Green Arcade in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday, December 17th at 7:30pm. They will be performing songs from the album and speaking about the struggle in song. Click on the link below for more information.

Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco. Recent projects include the republication of Songs of Freedom by Irish revolutionary James Connolly, the recording and publication of Working-Class Heroes, and the launch of the multimedia project Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. He is the author of five books including, in 2017, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975 (PM Press) and A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property (Zed Books). Callahan can be reached at www.matcallahan.com. Get his books here.

Yvonne Moore is a singer and bandleader originally from Schaffhausen. In addition to recording numerous albums of her own music, Moore is cofounder and treasurer of the Art in History and Politics Association, whose purpose is to discover, publish, and popularize music, graphic art, and texts created by participants in conflicts such as the struggle to abolish slavery. Her exploration of the songs of Sarah Ogan Gunning led to the making of Working-Class Heroes. Moore can be reached at www.matandyvonne.com.

Come to a discussion with the coauthors of Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance at Freedom Bookshop on Thursday the 19th of December from 6.30pm – 8pm. This event will feature a screening of “Subvertisers for London” (Dog Section Films, 21mins). Click on the link below for more information.

Join PM Press at The 49th Annual KPFA Holiday Craft Fair on December 21st and 22nd at the Craneway Pavilion, 1414 Harbour Way South Marina District, Richmond CA 94804. Click on the link below for more information.

Join PM Press at the ASBURY PARK Punk Rock Flea Market on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28th from 10 am – 5 pm. $10 earlybird, $5 after 11 am.