BOL Worker Owned Bookstore Cafe @bolcoop
Speak! Your Words Are Free. bol.coop Washington, DC Joined July 2021-
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If you are in DC, @bolcoop is organizing DC's inaugural Working Class Literature Festival on May 1st/2nd at the Festival Center (1640 Columbia Rd NW). From poetry and fiction to music, the festival insists on the roses alongside the bread. Link in comments
Mamdani: I will give you an example, when we talk about grocery stores… it cost less than half of what the city is already set to spend on subsidizing corporate supermarkets without any guarantee of cheaper prices and collective bargaining agreements or that they accept SNAP or WIC
By handing Trump the power to go forward with his violent agenda unchecked, SCOTUS has opened the door to end birthright citizenship, attacking trans rights, and undermining labor unions. We need to fight back with protests, strikes, and mass movements cnn.com/politics/live-…
A timely documentary in the wake of Sri Lanka’s recent elections and the ongoing negotiations with the IMF. @beenasarwar and @Jayati1609 will join virtually for a discussion RSVP here eventbrite.com/e/documentary-…
Join us on Oct 23rd at 6:30pm for a writing workshop. Through solo and collaborative writing exercises, we will imagine a world that we want to live in. Register here meetup.com/dmvs-leftist-w… @AfterStormMag
Such a great list! Will order some of these for @bolcoop
It feels so feeble to keep recommending books in the face of genocide, but empire is counting on Westerners to not give a shit about Lebanon. The magic of books is they can make Beirut as precious to you as Paris is, without you having to leave home. So read these Lebanese Books!
Mark your calendars. Thursday Sep 19th at 6:30 pm. Books will be available for purchase.
Join us for an engaging conversation @bolcoop with Zara Chowdhary about her memoir The Lucky Ones, which recounts the horrors of Gujarat riots in 2002. @Hindus4HR
Adding another super interesting event on political currents in China focusing on the forms of solidarity with movements of workers, migrants, and women* In collaboration with @asianlabour April 15th at 7pm eventbrite.com/e/social-strug…
Join us for an engaging conversation on global labor movements. March 28th at 7pm. Details here eventbrite.com/e/global-labor… @maximillian_alv @asianlabour
NYC Folks
🌱 Climate Week in NY starts this Sunday, with a justice march co-organized by our comrades at @drumnyc Before we hit the streets, we're making posters @ Wash. Sq. Park this Sat. 16 Sept 1-5pm 🎨 Swing by & make some propaganda for the coming weeks of action! ✊🏽
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Join us Next Thursday (August 24) to Celebrate Two Years of BOL Coop. eventbrite.com/e/bols-annual-…
We are a group of activists, educators, and workers with a shared goal of establishing Bol; a worker-owned cafe, bookstore, and event space in Washington, DC. bol.coop
Academe friends- Fall semester is coming, here's a link to BOL's online bookshop to buy books for your classes and share with colleagues in the department DC. Almost all books in print can be ordered through our bookshop. bookshop.org/shop/bol
We’re going to have to ask ourselves- What really is the difference between Sudanese people & Ukrainian people, which means Ukrainians have free entry to Europe & a visa pathway to the UK, and Sudanese are kept out with brutal force?
'It's sheer chaos' Sky's @YousraElbagir reports from Port Sudan which has become an evacuation point for thousands of people since fighting broke out in Sudan Read more: trib.al/8Pv6aKo
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April Events at BOL, "Listening While Muslim" with Words Beats & Life next Thursday 4/6/21:
Excited to host this important conversation- come join us tomorrow if you are curious about how war shapes our everyday emotions and experience of space- Register below eventbrite.com/e/suspicious-l…
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