Past Events

February 2020
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández at Cambridge Forum
February 19, 2020,
Cambridge MA

For much of America’s history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here.

Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis at Busboys and Poets
February 19, 2020,
Washington DC

Authors Erik Nelson and Andrea L.

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández at Harvard Law School
February 19, 2020,
Cambridge MA

Migrating to Prison: America’s . . .

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández at Roosevelt House
February 18, 2020,
New York NY

Professor César . . .

Anne Kim at Politics and Prose
February 17, 2020,
Washington DC

Author Anne Kim will speak on her upcoming book Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and Crisis of Disconnection at Politics and Prose at The . . .

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández at Brooklyn Historical Society
February 13, 2020,
Brooklyn NY

Is immigrant detention a symptom of a broken system, or is it a product of a system working exactly as designed?

Janet DeWart Bell at University of Oregon
February 10, 2020,
Eugene OR

Duke Law professor Guy-Uriel E.

Janet Dewart Bell at Tsunami Books
February 9, 2020,
Eugene OR

Sunday, February 9, 4 PM: Author Event with Janet Dewart Bell, a social justice activist with a doctorate in leadership and change from Antioch . . .

January 2020
We Own the Future at McNally Jackson- Kate Aronoff and Mychal Denzel Smith
January 29, 2020,
New York NY

Akemi Johnson at the Japanese American National Museum
January 25, 2020,
Los Angeles CA

Join Akemi Johnson as she reads from her debut book "Night in the American Village," a beautifully written examination of the complex relationship . . .

We Own the Future at Verso Books
January 23, 2020,
Brooklyn NY

Join us, Dissent, and Verso Books for a discussion and party for the release of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style. 

We Own the Future at Politics and Prose, Union Market
January 16, 2020,
Washington D.C.

For the first time since the Great Depression, a majority of Americans under thirty view socialism more favorably than they do capitalism.

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