What “Salting” is and Why You May Not Know About It – Author Talk with Mie Inouye, Jorge Maldonado and Vanessa Veselka | Labor Author Series #6

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Join us for our sixth author talk, with Mie Inouye, Jorge Maldonado, and Vanessa Veselka to discuss the practice of "salting" a workplace. A concept with history that dates back to the early 1900s, a salt is a worker who gets a job at a workplace with the goal of organizing their coworkers. As part of the recent upsurge of…

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The End of “The Beginning of Infinity” Reading Group — Chapter 18: The Beginning

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Join us as we finish David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity” and close out our 10-month, 15-session book club. Share your final thoughts about this challenging, thought-provoking book with every one of our thoughtful, friendly peers who made it to the end!   How can we shed the parochialism of the past? What singularities have humans…

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Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman – Author Talk with Yvonne Martinez | New Labor Author Series #7

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Join us for our next author talk in our worker organizing series, with Yvonne Martinez to discuss her new memoir, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and…

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Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass – Talk with Mary Gray and Ryan Gerety | New Labor Book Series #8

Join us for our next author talk, with Mary Gray, to discuss her book “Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass,” and Ryan Gerety,…

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How to Read a Novel: VI, Precision — The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald

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Do you want to read more classic fiction? Do you want to know more about how novels work, their technique? Do you want to do this in a low pressure bookclub-style setting? Join Henry Oliver, who writes The Common Reader for this series on How to Read a Novel. In this series, we will learn how novels…

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Reading Group: “The Matter with Things” by Iain McGilchrist

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Starting in February, hosts Isabela Granic and Nastasia Griffioen are launching a reading group for Iain McGilchrist's magnum opus, The Matter with Things. The first session will be on February 8th and we'll continue to have them once a month on every second Wednesday of the month at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST. For the…

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