PM Press authors presenting at the 6th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair "Strike! Discovering Our Power" in San Francisco, CA on Sunday, December 8th

10:30am – 12noon
Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom with Alice Bag, Michelle Cruz Gonzales, author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band, Jessica Mills, and editor John Mink. Room 213.

12:30 – 2:00pm
Abortion is Our Right to Strike with Jenny Brown, author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, as well as Allie Lahey and Sarah Shannon. Room 211.

Parenting in the Resistance with Dan Arel, author of Parenting without God: How to Raise Moral, Ethical, and Intelligent Children, Free from Religious Dogma, Second Edition in conversation with Jessica Mills, who wrote the Foreword, and Dani Burlison. Room 319.

Trump and Money: From Status to Contract and From Contract to Deal with George Caffentzis, author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism, in conversation with Delio Vasquez. Room 214.

2:15pm – 3:45pm

Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance with coauthor Vyvian Raoul in conversation with John Law of the Billboard Liberation Front. Room 154.

Angry Women Rise Up: Channeling Anger Into Action with Dani Burlison, editor of All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body, and contributors Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Airial Clark, Christine No, Ariel Erskine, and Lorelle Saxena. Room 215.

STRIKE: A Musical Slide Performance by Eric Drooker, author and artist of Slingshot: 40 Postcards by Eric Drooker. Room 214.

4:00pm – 5:30pm
Working Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song with Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore, coeditors and composers of Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook and CD. Room 325.

Strikes, Class Struggle and Choke Points with Immanuel Ness, editor of New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism, Gifford Hartman and Robert Ovetz. Room 319.

A Radical Guide will be filming select panels. Support their work!

For the full book fair schedule, go here.

Join Silvia Federici in the San Francisco Bay Area 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. 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, and Dani Burlison, editor of All of Me, 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.

Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre will be launching their new book, Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980, in Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, December 3rd at 6:30pm at The Old Bar, 74- 76 Johnson St, Fitzroy. They’ll be joined by literary historian and pulp fiction fan Stuart Kellis. Entry is free and there will be readings from classic pulp novels and music from DJ Bruce Milne.


Ian Brennan will present his new book Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth on Friday, December 6th in Rome, Italy at Libreria GRIOT.

Vyvian Raoul, coauthor of Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance, will be at Tamarack in Oakland, CA on Sunday, December 8th at 8pm and then in conversation with famed punk-art surrealist Winston Smith, artist of Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years, at Silver Sprocket in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 10th at 7pm. Both coauthors, Matt Bonner and Vyvian Raoul, will be at Freedom Bookshop in London, UK on Thursday, December 19th at 6.30pm. At each event, “Subvertisers for London" will be screened, a 21 minute film featuring Jonathan Barnbrook, Darren Cullen, Dr. D, Hogre, Double Why, Lydia Dagostino, Protest Stencil, Sila Yucel and Special Patrol Group. Winston pictured, not Vyvian or Matt!

David Ranney will present on 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.

Nisi Shawl will discuss Talk like a Man – the newest Outspoken Author Series book – in Seattle, WA on Wednesday, December 11th reading with Eileen Gunn at Cafe Racer at 7pm.

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, will be performing at Down Home Music in El Cerrito, CA on Saturday, December 14th and The Green Arcade in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday, December 17th at 7:30pm.
Come visit the PM Press tables at these events!