A conversation about the role of social workers organizing for justice in the so-called child welfare system. Social work, historically and today, has been deeply embedded in systems of carceral control. With social work's legacy of ties to policing and oppressive family regulation through the child welfare system, the social work community is actively imagining and working towards a social work rooted in abolition, turning to traditions of resistance that also characterize its history. This webinar is a third in a series on Abolitionist Social Work organized by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAAASW) in partnership with Haymarket Books, challenging carceral social work through the development and practice of an abolitionist social work. The Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAAASW) is a group of social workers from different parts of the U.S. building a year-long initiative to support abolitionist work in the field of social work. The initiative includes ongoing political education, research, knowledge generation around carceral and abolition social work, developing an online hub of abolitionist social work resources, and broader organizing and advocacy efforts to build abolitionist ideas and practices into social work. Speakers: Halimah Washington is a Black mama and social justice activist/advocate from New York City. Halimah has over 15 years of experience in human services and has made it her mission to be a social change agent. She has been action oriented, lobbying in Albany as an activist and advocate fighting for criminal justice reform, reproductive justice, education reform, fair and affordable housing and HIV/AIDS-related issues. Halimah is a Columbia University Beyond the Bars Fellow and NYC Department of Health Birth Justice Defender. Joyce McMillan is a thought leader, advocate, activist, community organizer, and educator. Her mission is to remove systemic barriers in communities of color by bringing awareness to the racial disparities in systems where people of color are disproportionately affected. Joyce believes before change occurs the conversation about systemic oppression that creates poverty, and feeds people of color into systems must happen on all levels consistently. She completed a restorative certificate program at the New School and says change will not happen independently of healing. Her ultimate goal is to abolish systems of harm while creating concrete community resources. Joyce is the founder and Executive Director of JMacForFamilies, a 501 3 c she founded to support families. MJ (Maleeka Jihad) is the Director of the MJ Consulting Firm, an Agency focused on dismantling systemic racism in the child welfare system through education, advocacy and policy reform. She is the CEO and Co-creator of EC3 (Emic Cultural Consultants Collective), where she specializes in organizational and individual transformational work with structural racism. As an adjunct faculty member at the Graduate School of Social Work with the University of Denver, she teaches race, privilege, social justice and law courses. Michelle Grier (she/her) is a social justice worker and Black feminist committed to liberatory healing practices. She is a social worker, with over 10 years of experience, learning from and providing support to young people in schools and nonprofits. Her current commitments are focused on amplifying the mandates and messages of BIPOC youth survivors of racial and gender-based violence. She is a member of NAASW. This event is sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/t2_LKmSz0Iw Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Mohammed El-Kurd, Majd Kayyal, Sandra Tamari, and Sumaya Awad as they unpack and the history and ongoing reality of the Nakba. ---------------------------------------------------- Israel’s founding in 1948 was a result of premeditated ethnic cleansing campaigns across historic Palestine with the goal of displacing and dispossessing the indigenous Palestinian population of their land. The violence of the 1948 Nakba didn’t stop. In fact, successive Israeli governments, with the financial and political backing of the US, have given Israel the green light to expand and entrench its colonial project. Colonialism is alive and well in the 21st century. The Nakba is not a thing of the past, but an ongoing reality. Join us for a discussion and a call to action as we unpack the history of 1948, the stories of survival, and the many ways the Nakba is ongoing today. ---------------------------------------------------- About the speakers: Sandra Tamari is a Palestinian organizer and the Executive Director of Adalah Justice Project (AJP). Prior to her work with AJP, Sandra worked for 10 years in higher education as a immigration specialist, and before that as a Senior Program Manager for AMIDEAST, the Assistant Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and a grant writer and researcher for Al-Jana, Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts in Beirut. She is a co-founder of the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and was co-chair of the Steering Committee for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights from 2015-2018. She was a lead organizer of the Palestinian contingent to Ferguson October in 2014. Mohammed El-Kurd is writer and poet from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine. Majd Kayyal is a Palestinian novelist and journalist born in Haifa to a family displaced from al-Barwa. He studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tragedy of Sayyed Matar (2016), which won the Qattan Foundation Award, and Death in Haifa (2019). Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian writer and socialist organizer based in New York City. Her writings focus on Palestine, anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, and immigration, and have been featured in the Feminist Wire, In These Times, Open City, and Jacobin, among others. She is currently Director of Strategy at the Adalah Justice Project. Sumaya is the co-editor of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. ---------------------------------------------------- This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, Adalah Justice Project, Center for Constitutional Rights, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and Uprooted and Rising. Learn more about the BDS Movement: https://bdsmovement.net Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/6e6GEd9FNbY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Seema Yasmin and Steven Thrasher in conversation to celebrate Yasmin’s newly released poetry collection, If God Is A Virus. This is the full event recording. ---------------------------------------------------- Merging documentary poetry from the epicenter of an epidemic with the story of viruses in the evolution of humanity, If God Is A Virus gives voice to the infected and the virus. Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet’s experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. Documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises, and how medical myths and rumor can travel faster than microbes. These poems also give voice to the virus. Eight percent of the human genome is inherited from viruses and the human placenta would not exist without a gene descended from a virus. If God Is A Virus reimagines viruses as givers of life and even authors of a viral-human self-help book. Get a copy of If God Is A Virus here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1636-if-god-is-a-virus ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, disease detective and author of If God Is A Virus. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 with her team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. Yasmin was a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she chased outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations, border towns and hospitals. Currently, Dr. Yasmin is a Stanford professor, medical analyst for CNN and science correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Find her at seemayasmin.com, Twitter @DoctorYasmin and Instagram: @drseemayasmin. Steven Thrasher, is a Scientific American columnist and professor at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism and the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins, from Celdaon Books and Macmillan Publishing. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/-tGMuVFmjsg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Avi Chomsky and Steve Stiffler as they discuss their new book, Organizing for Power, with Eric Loomis. Boston 's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Economic growth now delivers remarkably few benefits to large sectors of the working class -- a phenomenon that is particularly severe for immigrants, people of color, and women. Organizing for Power explores this nation-wide phenomenon of "unshared growth" by focusing on Boston, a city that is famously liberal, relatively wealthy, and increasingly difficult for working people (who service the city 's needs) to actually live in. Organizing for Power is the only comprehensive analysis of labor and popular mobilizing in Boston today, the volume contributes to a growing body of academic and popular literature that examines urban America, racial and economic inequality, labor and immigration, and the right-wing assault on working people. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Steve Striffler is the Director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston and author of Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights. Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She is the author of numerous books; and has been active in Latin America solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades. Erik Loomis is associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. His latest book is A History of America in Ten Strikes, published by The New Press in 2018. ---------------------------------------------------- Order a copy of Organizing for Power: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1559-organizing-for-power ---------------------------------------------------- Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/hs6WMuzwmzA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join Michael Löwy, Marianela D’Aprile, and Aline Klein for a multi-media discussion of Löwy’s new book, Revolutions. Michael Löwy’s Revolutions presents a startling visual documentation of a wide range of seminal revolutionary events, from the Paris Commune of 1872 through to the Zapatista uprising of the mid-1990s. The immediacy and dynamism of the book’s images tells the story of these upheavals in a way that texts rarely can, offering a rare glimpse of these complex and messy events and the real human beings who drove them. This celebration of the book’s release will showcase dozens of these stirring photos as the participants discuss what the images tell us about their moments, and how today’s socialist movement can draw lessons from the revolutionary struggles of the past. Get a copy of Revolutions here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1476-revolutions ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Marianela D’Aprile is a writer in Chicago. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Committee. Aline Klein is on the editorial board of Jacobin Brasil and is an activist in the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL). Michael Löwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). He is the author of numerous books, including Revolutions; On Changing the World; the Politics of Combined and Uneven Development; and the War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America; Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s “On the Concept of History.” Todd Chretien (moderator) is an organizer, author, translator, and high school Spanish teacher. He has contributed to several books, including Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, and is editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution. ---------------------------------------------------- Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/-gdjTK7V2f0 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Join a panel of experts for a discussion of the insurgent social movements sweeping across Africa. Across the continent, social movements are rising up and taking to the streets. Organizing against police brutality, militarism, budget and subsidy cuts and for democracy, human rights and liberation, activists are building on a long tradition of struggle to demand change. Join us for a live conversation with organizers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria and Sudan on lessons from their movements and building international solidarity. Speakers: Fred Bauma is a leader of the pro-democracy youth group LUCHA, which advocates for nonviolent, community-level change and governmental reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was arrested in March 2015 and spent 18 months in prison, where he faced the death penalty for organizing peaceful protests calling for rule of law. Lai Brown is the Organising Secretary of Automobile, Boatyards, Transport, Equipment and Allied Senior Staff Association (AUTOBATE), a writer and the National Secretary of Socialist Workers and Youth League (SWL) Amar Jamal is a Sudanese writer, translator, post-graduate student of anthropology, and part of the inaugural class of Africa is a Country Fellows. Mzalendo Wanjira Wanjiru is a Co-founder of Mathare Social Justice Center and a member of Women in Justice Centres and Social Justice Movements. Facilitator: Nanre Nafziger-Mayegun is Executive Committee Co-Chair, DSA AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus. This event is co-sponsored by Africa Is A Country, the DSA International Committee, the DSA Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus, and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/q1l-XHJOJv0 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks