A special conversation with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Chenjerai Kumanyika

Presented by Hammer & Hope magazine, Haymarket Books and Marguerite Casey Foundation.

The Left is at a critical juncture in the United States—and globally.

We confront multiple simultaneous threats, from rising militarism, to profound ecological disruptions, to the growing threat of fascism, and beyond.

What are the possibilities for building hope and effective political strategies amid the intersecting economic, political, and ecological crises we face?

How do we understand the limits of the ballot box to achieve the changes we need and deserve?

Please join us for this urgent discussion, which will also serve as the launch of the new issue of Hammer & Hope magazine.

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Saturday, October 19, 2024

7 PM

The Sanctuary at W83

150 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024

**Please register through Ticket Tailor. Free and open to the public.**

Book signing to follow.

Speaker:

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She is a columnist with The Guardian. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice. Her newest book is the New York Times-bestseller Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, just published in paperback.

Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker and political organizer. Her books include the American Book Award–winner The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, and, with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. She is a co-founder of The Debt Collective.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free. Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She co-edited, with Robin D. G. Kelley and Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and is Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series investigating the complicated and largely invisible history of the New York Police Department.

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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books, Hammer & Hope, and Marguerite Casey Foundation. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.