No Fascist USA! Discussion Series, Talk #2 – Hilary Moore, James Tracy, and Edward Onaci

MAIN TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: Accomplices

Hilary Moore, James Tracy, and Dr. Edward Onaci in the first of four talks about anti-fascist movements, past and present, and street-level organizing.

Event co-sponsored by Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia, PA.

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This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.

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Event is free, but registration is required

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City Lights LIVE presents four talks about anti-fascist movements, past and present, and street-level organizing, hosted by Hilary Moore and James Tracy, author of No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements.

Talk #2, happening on Saturday, August 8th at 12PM PST / 3PM EST is a conversation with Shane Burley.

This event is co-sponsored by Burning Books in Philadelphia. Please consider supporting Burning Books by purchasing a copy of No Fascist USA! from them: (buy link here).

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

Hilary Moore is an anti-racist political educator and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice, and is the co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press, 2011). Her newest book is Burning Earth, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis—And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Brussels, 2020).

James Tracy is an author, organizer, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars.

Dr. Edward Onaci is the author of Free the Land : The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) and teaches courses on African American history, modern U.S. history, women’s global political struggles, social movements and music in Africa and its diaspora, and more at Ursinus College. They incorporate interdisciplinary scholarship and emphasize student empowerment. Dr. Onaci’s instruction also makes use of creative resources and high impact tools, such as Reacting to the Past and Digital Liberal Arts projects. His approach encourages students to take ownership over their personal and group studies, produce their own knowledge, and apply what they learn in class to their current lives and future ambitions.