The November midterm elections represent a referendum of sorts on the first two years of Trump’s second term, and set the stage for the next two years. As the profile of socialists continues to rise, Trump and his cronies will do anything to hold onto power, from intensifying wars abroad to devastating voting protections at home. Join Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an urgent assessment of the state of our democracy and the future of struggles from below under the far right regime.

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Speakers:

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 Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.
 

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