The struggle for immigration justice during the COVID crisis
Online MeetingIn this our fifth episode of Shelter & Solidarity we will be joined by scholar activists Aviva Chomsky (author of *Undocumented*, and *'They Take Our Jobs!' and Twenty Other Myths about Immigration*), Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki (co-authors of the book *Dying to Live: A [...]
Mass Murder in the Making of Our Times
Online EventOctober 1 marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of one of the worst episodes of mass murder in the twentieth century: the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in 1965-1966. Organized and directed by Indonesia’s military, the killings targeted people associated with the [...]
Trump’s Walls Must Fall: Greg Grandin with Avi Chomsky
Online EventJoin us Thursday, Oct. 15 from 7-8:30pm EST for a deep dive with 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Grandin, author of *THE END OF THE MYTH: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America* (among many other books). We will also be [...]
Invisible No Longer: Confronting Anti-Asian Racism and Building Community Resistance
Online EventReports of anti-Asian racism throughout the U.S. have surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, but have not been the subject of sustained public attention until recent months. The deadly March 16th Atlanta spa shootings, along with a spike in lethal attacks against persons of Asian descent, [...]
Crisis in the Caribbean: Building Solidarity with Cuba and Haiti from the Belly of the Beast
Online EventMakers of two of the world's most consequential revolutions, the people of Cuba and Haiti have paid the price for attempting to set forth a more just and egalitarian world - with forced reverse-reparations, sanctions, invasions, and constant threats of regime change. In diverse ways, [...]