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★ “Generative AI increasingly serves as the visual engine of authoritarian politics worldwide,” according to this profound and terrifying study. Donatella Della Ratta rigorously clarifies an uncanny yet all-too-real threat. @haymarketbooks buff.ly/X7cvZdE
September 26, 2026 at 11:16 PM
"We need songs that crumble empires, films that teach, remind, and inspire, poems that would make a despot revoke your citizenship."

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2876-songs-my-mother-taught-me

via @haymarketbooks

#art #artists
Songs My Mother Taught Me
INDEPENDENT PRESS TOP 40 BESTSELLER Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice—in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides. Songs My Mother Taught Me is Williams’ clear-eyed exploration of the role of the artist in these times by answering the question: what radicalized you? He answers by examining how his role models—writers and artists, from Amiri Baraka to local musicians in Brazilian bars to Palestinian hip-hop heads—have responded to imperialist violence, oppression, and genocide. Riffing on Paul Robeson’s famous declaration, Williams builds a provocative case for why today’s artists cannot remain neutral in the face of injustice. “We need songs that crumble empires,” he writes, “films that teach, remind, and inspire, poems that would make a despot revoke your citizenship.” The radical artists of the Vanguard Series offer new poetry and prose to answer the question, What does poetry have to do with politics?
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September 23, 2026 at 2:33 PM
My book re: Occupy Wall Street, Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals, available here: hegemonyhowto.org

(2nd edition with @haymarketbooks out in 2027)
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
hegemonyhowto.org
September 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM
“Some artists believe they have no place discussing politics, or, at least, politics beyond their scope.

Yet a live-streamed genocide should bring everything into question.”
September 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Joshua Frank offers a provocative analysis of the downsides of green energy. It’s a much needed challenge to the green energy status quo. @haymarketbooks www.publishersweekly.com/9798888906071
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September 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Book 202:

How To Close A Camp - John Washington 📱🔒⛺️🚫💙📚💡

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An urgent, cogent, well-researched and defined guide to dismantling the US immigration detention system. An absolute MUST READ for those interested in fighting back against the spread of evil. Thanks to #NetGalley & #HaymarketBooks!
September 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
UNSAFE: S. Lamble & Dean Spade on Anti-Trans Backlash 10 AUG 1p-2:15p CT https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/2302749
Tending to Our Wounds: Edna Bonhomme in Convo w/ Edwidge Danticat 11 AUG 1p-2:15p CT
Tending to Our Wounds: Edna Bonhomme in Conversation with Edwidge Danticat | HaymarketBooks.org
Join Edna Bonhomme and Edwidge Danticat for the online launch of Tending to Our Wounds, reflecting on the impacts of colonialism, slavery and racism, and the lives formed in resistance to them.
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July 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
When we receive monetary donations, 100% goes towards purchasing liberatory books for OUR library. This is part one from recent donations, all purchased from @haymarketbooks
June 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
#WorldInequalityDatabase

#RobLarson, #MasteringTheUniverse: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More #HaymarketBooks, 2024
June 9, 2026 at 7:36 PM
☀️ TOMORROW is the day! Our editorial director Mason Bryan and audience engagement fellow Kashawn Taylor are kicking off the Bridging the Gap conference with their workshop on an innovative way to work with incarcerated ...
Prison Journalism Project (@prisonjournalism.bsky.social)
☀️ TOMORROW is the day! Our editorial director Mason Bryan and audience engagement fellow Kashawn Taylor are kicking off the Bridging the Gap conference with their workshop on an innovative way to work with incarcerated writers. If you're attending, make sure to look for them! https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/2076720
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May 28, 2026 at 10:55 PM
☀️ TOMORROW is the day! Our editorial director Mason Bryan and audience engagement fellow Kashawn Taylor are kicking off the Bridging the Gap conference with their workshop on an innovative way to work with incarcerated ...
Prison Journalism Project (@prisonjournalism.bsky.social)
☀️ TOMORROW is the day! Our editorial director Mason Bryan and audience engagement fellow Kashawn Taylor are kicking off the Bridging the Gap conference with their workshop on an innovative way to work with incarcerated writers. If you're attending, make sure to look for them! https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/2076720
bsky.app
May 28, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Prison journalism is a serious press discipline. There's a conference in Chicago this May 29-30 treating it like one. Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices. Journalists, editors, publishers ...
Prison Journalism Project (@prisonjournalism.bsky.social)
Prison journalism is a serious press discipline. There's a conference in Chicago this May 29-30 treating it like one. Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices. Journalists, editors, publishers welcome. https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/2076720
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May 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Prison journalism is a serious press discipline. There's a conference in Chicago this May 29-30 treating it like one. Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices. Journalists, editors, publishers ...
Prison Journalism Project (@prisonjournalism.bsky.social)
Prison journalism is a serious press discipline. There's a conference in Chicago this May 29-30 treating it like one. Bridging the Gap: Amplifying Incarcerated Voices. Journalists, editors, publishers welcome. https://events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/2076720
bsky.app
May 13, 2026 at 10:02 AM
This Wednesday!

Come hear from the extremely badass Rachel Cohen (and friends!), and get the chance to speak with reps from a handful of different orgs doing good work in the city.

If you’re super mad on the internet let’s put that anger to use, huh?

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May 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Plenty of opportunities to meet new people, with a guarantee they’re interested in helping you plug into progressive Chicago community. Wanna get involved in immigration, LGBTQ rights, housing or another issue? Come meet people who can help!

events.haymarketbooks.org/events/haymarketbooks/2166332
Register Now – Community Building, with funds to Chicago Abortion Fund – Haymarket House (800 W Buena)
Community Building, with funds to Chicago Abortion Fund – Haymarket House (800 W Buena), Wed May 13, 2026 - Join Rachel Cohen, Sarah Spain, and friends to celebrate Rachel's 32nd bi...
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April 18, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I learned about Rachel Cohen through her viral resignation letter from a top law firm kowtowing to Trump’s demands & have come to admire so much her particular brand of resistance. I find her inspiring & wanted to help spread her wisdom. 👇🏻

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Register Now – Community Building, with funds to Chicago Abortion Fund – Haymarket House (800 W Buena)
Community Building, with funds to Chicago Abortion Fund – Haymarket House (800 W Buena), Wed May 13, 2026 - Join Rachel Cohen, Sarah Spain, and friends to celebrate Rachel's 32nd bi...
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April 18, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Estamos entusiasmados por la publicación de las revoluciones de nuestro Manifiesto de Times Times por la Red Internacional, los pueblos quieren (@ thepeopleswant.bsky.social), en la que también participamos.
April 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
It’s so typical of the fash to miss the point of things.

John Brown’s sword may as well be a ring of shiny keys that is absolutely entrancing that idiot, and not cutting a tough and dangerouspath to human equity.
April 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
We kindly invite you to our virtual book launch with @haymarketbooks on Tuesday, April 14th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET.

How can we build a new internationalism, based on the experiences of recent uprisings and popular power, at a time of generalized warfare?

With members from Lebanon, Iran and Syria.
March 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Slowly going through this one. Hamid argues against democracy. That it is a farce and an empty promise, that it comes with shrapnel, threats and bombs. If we must be anything, let it always be against tyranny. #booksky #haymarketbooks #indiepublishing
March 27, 2026 at 11:20 PM
A new oral history of #StarbucksWorkersUnited just dropped in the @HaymarketBooks Audio podcast feed, and they let me do some yapping about this historic feat of organizing :)
February 11, 2026 at 2:52 AM