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SUMMARY:reVisions: Decoding Technological Bias
DESCRIPTION:Join City Lights\, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco\, and Gray Area for reVisions\, a week-long festival exploring how technological bias shapes our cultural realities. \nOur trust in mediated experiences has never been lower. Governed by algorithms that perpetuate the biases and weaknesses of their developers\, our cultural consumption is increasingly shaped by undetectable forces that determine our reality. Images play an important role here: fake photos and videos created with deep neural networks threaten privacy\, democracy\, and national security. Vision recognition systems skew gender\, race\, and class differences and become vehicles of discrimination. Underdeveloped AI models misrepresent the health disparities faced by minority populations. \nHow can we illuminate the algorithmic bias embedded within technology and counter the perpetuation of bias? What innovative approaches can we develop to strengthen inclusion\, diversity\, and sustainability in technology? \nThis festival brings a network of luminaries together to share new perspectives and rewrite new visions advocating for justice and reclaiming power. \nThe festival is part of the project IMAGE + BIAS that critically engages with the cultural realities being increasingly determined by imperceptible technologies. \nSpeakers: \n• Jillian York\n• Maureen Webb\n• Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski\n• Ryan Milner and Whitney Phillips\n• Jer Thorp and Romi Ron Morrison \n\nWorkshops: \n• Understanding AI Data Bias Workshop\n• BYOW Workshop: Build Your Own Words to Resist Algorithmic Censorship\n• Meme Tactics Workshop \nAll events are free but require registration. Links are posted below each event description. \n\n  \nSPEAKER SCHEDULE \n  \nThursday June 10\, 2021 \nSession 1 \n12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern \nAgainst Technosolutionism! Why We Can’t Regulate Our Way Out Of This Mess \nwith Jillian York \n   \nThe same radical technologies that helped give rise the social and political movements of 2010-12 later enabled a rise in disinformation\, propaganda\, and the promotion of other harms. Today\, our societies are grappling to find solutions\, but looking in all the wrong places. \nJillian C. York is International Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, EFF. She is also a founding member of the feminist collective\, Deep Lab. She has been covering questions of  surveillance and freedom since the 2000s. She was named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 intellectuals on social media. She has written for the Guardian\, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy. Verso Books recently released her new book Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism. She is based in Berlin. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nFriday\, June 11\, 2021 \nSession 2 \n12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern \nCoding Democracy – How Hackers Are Disrupting Power\, Surveillance\, and Authoritarianism \nwith Maureen Webb \n   \nHackers have a bad reputation\, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. Maureen Webb would like to offer another view. Hackers\, she argues\, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice\, an ethos\, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed\, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power\, mass surveillance\, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology\, the hacking movement is trying to “build out” democracy into cyberspace. \nMaureen Webb is a human rights lawyer and activist. She has spoken extensively on post-September 11 security and human rights issues\, most recently testifying before the House and Senate Committees reviewing the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act. In 2001\, Webb was a Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University in New York. A litigator for some of the first constitutional cases heard under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms\, including the landmark freedom of association case\, “Lavigne\, “and a case challenging the powers of Canada’s newly instituted spy agency\, CSIS\, she sits as co-chair of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. She is also the Coordinator for Security and Human Rights issues for Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada. She is the author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World published by City Lights Books and has taught national security law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nSession 3 \n3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 pm Eastern \nSurrogate Futures: Technology\, Race\, and the Human \nwith Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski \n     \nIn this talk\, Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski consider how the surrogate effect of technology within technoliberalism\, as they describe it in their book\, Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019)\, comes to bear on recent discussions around technological bias. Assessing how technological design is central to envisioning and shaping different potential futures\, they emphasize the importance of thinking beyond bias if we are to understand how racial capitalism undergirds technological design. They also explore radical design politics that disrupt more mainstream uses and visions of technological value. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \nKalindi Vora is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nSaturday\, June 12\, 2021 \nSession 4 \n12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern \nYou Are Here: A Field Guide \nwith Ryan Milner and Whitney Phillips \n     \nOur media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire\, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here\, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors\, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we\, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map. \nWhitney Phillips is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and the author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT Press). \nRyan M. Milner is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Charleston and author of The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media (MIT Press). \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nSession 5 \n3:00 pm Pacific / 6:00 p.m. \nLiving in Data \nwith Jer Thorp and Romi Ron Morrison \n     \nTo live in data in the twenty-first century is to be incessantly extracted from\, classified and categorized\, statisti-fied\, sold\, and surveilled. Data—our data—is mined and processed for profit\, power\, and political gain. In Living in Data\, Thorp asks a crucial question of our time: How do we stop passively inhabiting data\, and instead become active citizens of it? \nJer Thorp is an artist\, a writer\, and a teacher. He was the first data artist in residence at The New York Times\, he is a National Geographic Explorer\, and he served as the innovator in residence at the Library of Congress in 2017 and 2018. He lives under the Manhattan Bridge with his family and his awesome dog\, Trapper John\, MD. Living in Data is his first book. \nRomi Ron Morrison is a Black queer non-binary artist\, researcher\, and educator. Their work investigates the personal\, political\, ideological\, and spatial boundaries of race\, ethics\, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using maps\, data\, sound\, performance\, and video\, their installations center Black Feminist technologies that challenge the demands of an increasingly quantified world—reducing land into property\, people into digits\, and knowledge into data. \nClick the (RSVP LINK) on the Gray Area website to reserve your place in the virtual hall. \n  \nWorkshop Schedule \n  \nWednesday\, June 16\, 2021\, 10am – 1pm Pacific / 1pm – 4pm Eastern \nUnderstanding AI Data Bias \nInstructors: Paul Bethge\, Ralph Eger\, Yannick Hofmann\, & Jana Müller \nIn this workshop\, participants will be introduced to the basics of Deep Learning and explore the topic of data bias. Together\, the implications of this technology will be explored using generative neural networks in the visual media domain. \nCoordinated by The Intelligent Museum \n \nThe Intelligent Museum is a practice-based research and development project at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the German Museum\, with the aim of connecting the museum with current AI technologies\, making it a place of experience and experimentation\, a social space where art\, science\, technology and public discourse come together. \n  \nThursday\, June 17\, 2021\, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern \nBYOW Workshop: Build Your Own Words to Resist Algorithmic Censorship \nInstructors: Xiaowei Wang\, Qianqian Ye \n   \nTo enroll click the (ENROLLMENT LINK) on the Gray Area website. \nOur capacity for change is shaped by our capacity for language: new phrases\, words\, revolution are created by our ability to imagine new worlds and vocabularies. From hashtags and political slogans\, words serve as reminders and provocations of where we’ve been and where we are headed. \nYet online\, words are not just expressions — words are now a form of data. “The systemic manipulation and monetization of digitized language is a threat to the security and stability of modern society. The very words we use to communicate\, learn\, debate\, and critique have become compromised by opaque algorithmic organisation and optimisation\, and the market-driven profits of private companies such as Google. We might therefore ask ourselves\, just how resilient and secure is language in the digital age?” writes researcher Pip Thornton. Whether in the US\, in China\, globally\, language online has become the medium in which activism arises. Language has also become a form of data\, ready to be co-opted\, used to create machine learning systems for profit\, such as words for training data that form AI models that can “write”. Words have also become an arena for automated censorship and moderation. In China\, automated censorship has led to a surge of creativity as online netizens scramble to “fool the machine”\, through creative use of homophones to images and new characters that bypass OCR (optical character recognition). \nWriting has long been a form of dissent and provocation. Words can destroy worlds or create new worlds. Our new languages will be prismatic in nature\, subject to the multiple\, relational and transnational ways of expression. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll use the Hanzimaker and other parts of the Algorithmic Censorship Toolkit by Future of Memory to experiment with creating new words\, phrases and vocabularies to document the past and think through the future. These new hybrid characters\, a mash of multiple languages\, just as diasporic as their creators will escape classification and recognition by automated systems. We see these characters as a form of visual poetry.\nAs Audre Lorde wrote\, “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundation for a future of change\, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” \nWhat words will we be left with to describe the past? What words will build our future? What is the new vocabulary we need for different kinds of revolution? \nXiaowei Wang is an artist\, coder and a writer. The creative director at Logic magazine\, their work encompasses community-based projects on technology\, ecology\, and education. Their projects have been finalists for the Index Design Awards and featured by the New York Times\, the BBC\, CNN\, VICE\, and elsewhere. \nQianqian Ye is an artist\, educator and organizer based in Los Angeles. She currently teaches at USC Media Arts + Practice and works as a p5.js co-lead at Processing Foundation. She was born and raised in China and moved to the US in 2012. Trained as an architect\, she explores the complex interaction between digital\, architectural\, and social spaces. \n  \nFriday\, June 18\, 2021\, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern \nMeme Tactics Workshop \nInstructors: Josue Chavez\, Kira Simon-Kennedy \n   \nTo enroll click the (ENROLLMENT LINK) on the Gray Area website. \nMemes make us laugh\, and make a message catch on. Best of all\, people can remix them and pass them on. We need all the tools we can get to negotiate power and assert presence. Meme Tactics is a session to share strategies to harness the humorous power of memes for movements. We’ll share examples of dances\, symbols\, zines and patches from Nicaragua\, India\, mainland China\, and beyond. You’ll leave with a set of tactics specific to amplify your own messages. \nJosue Chavez researches media\, translation and labor in China and Central America. He is the co-curator of Meme Tactics\, and his critical writing has been featured in Ada: A Journal of Gender\, New Media and Technology. He is a Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Studies department at Penn. \nKira Simon-Kennedy helps creative people do impactful and interesting things as the co-founder & director of China Residencies\, a co-founder of Rivet\, and an independent film producer. She likes writing guides\, redistributing resources\, and curating meme tactics. \n\n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chenxing Han and Breeshia Wade
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 10 at 6pm PT when Breeshia Wade and Chenxing Han join us to discuss their books\, Grieving While Black and Be the Refuge on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84076096679\n\nPraise for Grieving While Black\n“Grieving While Black expands the notion of grief beyond its quick association with death to examine all of the spiritual and psychological tolls of racism and sexism. By drawing on her experiences as a birth doula and chaplain\, Breeshia Wade complicates grief itself by exploring different forms of loss while also imagining a path toward healing. A bracing\, illuminating read.”\n—BRIT BENNETT\, author of the New York Times best sellers The Vanishing Half and The Mothers\n\n“Breeshia Wade has written a moving testament to the power of grief and healing at the intersection of generational loss\, race\, and sexuality. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to enact compassionate antiracism in their activism and in their lives.”\n—SARAH VALENTINE\, PhD\, author of When I Was White\n\nAbout Grieving While Black\nAn exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver.\n\nMost of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one\, the end of a relationship\, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what’s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear\, what we love\, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life\, she connects sorrow not only to specific incidents but also to the ongoing trauma that is part and parcel of systemic oppression.\n\nWade reimagines our relationship to power\, accountability\, and boundaries and points to the long-term work we must all do in order to address systemic trauma perpetuated within our interpersonal relationships. Each of us has a moral obligation to attend to our own grief so that we can responsibly engage with others. Wade elucidates grief in every aspect of our lives\, providing a map back to ourselves and allowing the reader to heal their innate wholeness.\n\nPraise for Be the Refuge\n“In Be The Refuge\, Buddhists from all backgrounds will find truth in the words of like-minded people from various Asian streams\, dealing squarely with the complexity of ‘betwixt-and-between’ racial identities and life experiences.” –San Francisco Book Review (5/5 stars)\n\n“Chenxing Han writes with a singular grace\, missing nothing in a work that draws from a well of academic origins\, while merging cultural critique and luminous voices into a moving memoir. No doubt many an Asian American Buddhist will find themselves heard and championed here\, even as the book’s careful sifting of histories and possibilities makes it valuable reading for future scholarship. Above all\, Be the Refuge lives up to its name.”\n—erin Khuê Ninh\, author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature\n\nAbout Be the Refuge\nA must-read for modern sanghas–Asian American Buddhists in their own words\, on their own terms.\n\nDespite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American\, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse\, inclusive\, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism.\n\nBe the Refuge is both critique and celebration\, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital\, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic\, pan-Buddhist group\, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian American Buddhists’ own voices. With insights from multi-generational\, second-generation\, convert\, and socially engaged Asian American Buddhists\, Be the Refuge includes the stories of trailblazers\, bridge-builders\, integrators\, and refuge-makers who hail from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds.\n\nChampioning nuanced representation over stale stereotypes\, Han and the 89 interviewees in Be the Refuge push back against false narratives like the Oriental monk\, the superstitious immigrant\, and the banana Buddhist–typecasting that collapses the multivocality of Asian American Buddhists into tired\, essentialized tropes. Encouraging frank conversations about race\, representation\, and inclusivity among Buddhists of all backgrounds\, Be the Refuge embodies the spirit of interconnection that glows at the heart of American Buddhism.
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Chenxing Han and Breeshia Wade
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, JUNE 10 AT 6PM PT WHEN BREESHIA WADE AND CHENXING HAN JOIN US TO DISCUSS THEIR BOOKS\, GRIEVING WHILE BLACK AND BE THE REFUGE ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84076096679\nOr One tap mobile :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84076096679#  or +13462487799\,\,84076096679#\nWebinar ID: 840 7609 6679\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcYBicTJNB \nPraise for Grieving While Black\n“Grieving While Black expands the notion of grief beyond its quick association with death to examine all of the spiritual and psychological tolls of racism and sexism. By drawing on her experiences as a birth doula and chaplain\, Breeshia Wade complicates grief itself by exploring different forms of loss while also imagining a path toward healing. A bracing\, illuminating read.”\n—BRIT BENNETT\, author of the New York Times best sellers The Vanishing Half and The Mothers \n“Breeshia Wade has written a moving testament to the power of grief and healing at the intersection of generational loss\, race\, and sexuality. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to enact compassionate antiracism in their activism and in their lives.”\n—SARAH VALENTINE\, PhD\, author of When I Was White \nAbout Grieving While Black\nAn exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver. \nMost of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one\, the end of a relationship\, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what’s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear\, what we love\, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life\, she connects sorrow not only to specific incidents but also to the ongoing trauma that is part and parcel of systemic oppression. \nWade reimagines our relationship to power\, accountability\, and boundaries and points to the long-term work we must all do in order to address systemic trauma perpetuated within our interpersonal relationships. Each of us has a moral obligation to attend to our own grief so that we can responsibly engage with others. Wade elucidates grief in every aspect of our lives\, providing a map back to ourselves and allowing the reader to heal their innate wholeness. \nPraise for Be the Refuge\n“In Be The Refuge\, Buddhists from all backgrounds will find truth in the words of like-minded people from various Asian streams\, dealing squarely with the complexity of ‘betwixt-and-between’ racial identities and life experiences.” –San Francisco Book Review (5/5 stars) \n“Chenxing Han writes with a singular grace\, missing nothing in a work that draws from a well of academic origins\, while merging cultural critique and luminous voices into a moving memoir. No doubt many an Asian American Buddhist will find themselves heard and championed here\, even as the book’s careful sifting of histories and possibilities makes it valuable reading for future scholarship. Above all\, Be the Refuge lives up to its name.”\n—erin Khuê Ninh\, author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature \nAbout Be the Refuge\nA must-read for modern sanghas–Asian American Buddhists in their own words\, on their own terms. \nDespite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American\, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse\, inclusive\, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism. \nBe the Refuge is both critique and celebration\, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital\, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic\, pan-Buddhist group\, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian American Buddhists’ own voices. With insights from multi-generational\, second-generation\, convert\, and socially engaged Asian American Buddhists\, Be the Refuge includes the stories of trailblazers\, bridge-builders\, integrators\, and refuge-makers who hail from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds. \nChampioning nuanced representation over stale stereotypes\, Han and the 89 interviewees in Be the Refuge push back against false narratives like the Oriental monk\, the superstitious immigrant\, and the banana Buddhist–typecasting that collapses the multivocality of Asian American Buddhists into tired\, essentialized tropes. Encouraging frank conversations about race\, representation\, and inclusivity among Buddhists of all backgrounds\, Be the Refuge embodies the spirit of interconnection that glows at the heart of American Buddhism.
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Hinton
DESCRIPTION:Point Reyes Books and East Bay Booksellers present Elizabeth Hinton in conversation with Michael Tubbs and Advance Peace Director DeVone Boggan about the new book\, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Liveright). \n“If you want to understand the massive antiracist protests of 2020\, put down the navel-gazing books about racial healing and read America on Fire.” —Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \nThis event will stream on our Crowdcast channel. We encourage you to purchase the book from us or East Bay Booksellers. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout America on Fire\nFrom one of our top historians\, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era. \nWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets\, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader\, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers\, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet\, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire\, the events of 2020 had clear precursors—and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. \nEven in the aftermath of Donald Trump\, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history\, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences\, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions—explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests\, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared\, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds. \nBlack rebellion\, America on Fire powerfully illustrates\, was born in response to poverty and exclusion\, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968\, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime\,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality\, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers\, plundered local businesses\, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities\, from York\, Pennsylvania\, to Cairo\, Illinois\, to Stockton\, California. \nThe central lesson from these eruptions—that police violence invariably leads to community violence—continues to escape policymakers\, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife\, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control\, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality. \nAbout the participants\nElizabeth Hinton is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School. The author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime\, she lives in New Haven\, Connecticut. \nOn November 8\, 2016\, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton\, California. Upon taking office in January 2017\, elected at the age of 26\, Michael Tubbs became both the nation’s youngest mayor\, for a city of over 100\,000 people and Stockton’s first African-American mayor. \nDevone Boggan is the founder and chief executive officer of Advance Peace\, an organization dedicated to ending cyclical and retaliatory gun violence in American urban neighborhoods.
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Hinton
DESCRIPTION:Point Reyes Books and East Bay Booksellers present Elizabeth Hinton in conversation with Michael Tubbs and Advance Peace Director DeVone Boggan about the new book\, America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s (Liveright). \n“If you want to understand the massive antiracist protests of 2020\, put down the navel-gazing books about racial healing and read America on Fire.” —Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \nThis event will stream on our Crowdcast channel. We encourage you to purchase the book from us or East Bay Booksellers. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout America on Fire\nFrom one of our top historians\, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding of the post–civil rights era. \nWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defiantly flooded into the nation’s streets\, demanding an end to police brutality and to the broader\, systemic repression of Black people and other people of color. To many observers\, the protests appeared to be without precedent in their scale and persistence. Yet\, as the acclaimed historian Elizabeth Hinton demonstrates in America on Fire\, the events of 2020 had clear precursors—and any attempt to understand our current crisis requires a reckoning with the recent past. \nEven in the aftermath of Donald Trump\, many Americans consider the decades since the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s as a story of progress toward greater inclusiveness and equality. Hinton’s sweeping narrative uncovers an altogether different history\, taking us on a troubling journey from Detroit in 1967 and Miami in 1980 to Los Angeles in 1992 and beyond to chart the persistence of structural racism and one of its primary consequences\, the so-called urban riot. Hinton offers a critical corrective: the word riot was nothing less than a racist trope applied to events that can only be properly understood as rebellions—explosions of collective resistance to an unequal and violent order. As she suggests\, if rebellion and the conditions that precipitated it never disappeared\, the optimistic story of a post–Jim Crow United States no longer holds. \nBlack rebellion\, America on Fire powerfully illustrates\, was born in response to poverty and exclusion\, but most immediately in reaction to police violence. In 1968\, President Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Crime\,” sending militarized police forces into impoverished Black neighborhoods. Facing increasing surveillance and brutality\, residents threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers\, plundered local businesses\, and vandalized exploitative institutions. Hinton draws on exclusive sources to uncover a previously hidden geography of violence in smaller American cities\, from York\, Pennsylvania\, to Cairo\, Illinois\, to Stockton\, California. \nThe central lesson from these eruptions—that police violence invariably leads to community violence—continues to escape policymakers\, who respond by further criminalizing entire groups instead of addressing underlying socioeconomic causes. The results are the hugely expanded policing and prison regimes that shape the lives of so many Americans today. Presenting a new framework for understanding our nation’s enduring strife\, America on Fire is also a warning: rebellions will surely continue unless police are no longer called on to manage the consequences of dismal conditions beyond their control\, and until an oppressive system is finally remade on the principles of justice and equality. \nAbout the participants\nElizabeth Hinton is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University and a professor of law at Yale Law School. The author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime\, she lives in New Haven\, Connecticut. \nOn November 8\, 2016\, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton\, California. Upon taking office in January 2017\, elected at the age of 26\, Michael Tubbs became both the nation’s youngest mayor\, for a city of over 100\,000 people and Stockton’s first African-American mayor. \nDevone Boggan is the founder and chief executive officer of Advance Peace\, an organization dedicated to ending cyclical and retaliatory gun violence in American urban neighborhoods.
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SUMMARY:Author Gayle Forman Discussing WE ARE INEVITABLE with YA Authors Jandy Nelson and Nina LaCour
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, June 10\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of WE ARE INEVITABLE with author Gayle Forman in conversation with Nina LaCour (author of  WE ARE OKAY and WATCH OVER ME) and Jandy Nelson (author of  I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN and THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE). \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87202166749. \nOrder your copy of WE ARE INEVITABLE at http://bit.ly/ggpInevitable\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/inevitableAB. \nDescription\n\nEven in the face of extinction\, life–and love–finds a way. \nAaron Stein used to think books were miracles. But not anymore. Even though he spends his days working in his family’s secondhand bookstore\, the only book Aaron can bear to read is one about the demise of the dinosaurs. It’s a predicament he understands all too well\, now that his brother and mom are gone and his friends have deserted him\, leaving Aaron and his shambolic father alone in a moldering bookstore in a crusty mountain town where no one seems to read anymore. \nSo when Aaron sees the opportunity to sell the store\, he jumps at it\, thinking this is the only way out. But he doesn’t account for Chad\, a “best life” bro with a wheelchair and way too much optimism\, or the town’s out-of-work lumberjacks taking on the failing shop as their pet project. And he certainly doesn’t anticipate meeting Hannah\, a beautiful\, brave musician who might possibly be the kind of inevitable he’s been waiting for. \nAll of them will help Aaron to come to terms with what he’s lost\, what he’s found\, who he is\, and who he wants to be\, and show him that destruction doesn’t inevitably lead to extinction; sometimes it leads to the creation of something entirely new. \nAbout the Author\n\nGayle Forman is an award-winning\, internationally bestselling author and journalist. Her #1 New York Times bestselling novel If I Stay was adapted into a film starring Chloë Grace Moretz. Gayle is also the author of several other bestselling novels\, including Where She Went\, I Was Here\, the Just One series\, I Have Lost My Way\, and Leave Me. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with her husband and daughters.\nCONNECT WITH GAYLE:\nWebsite: GayleForman.com\nTwitter: @GayleForman\nInstagram: @GayleForman\nFacebook: Facebook.com/GayleFormanAuthor \nPraise For…\n\n“No one writes about love like Gayle Forman. Lose yourself in her passionate mash note to rock music\, indie bookstores and best of all\, the miracles that can happen when you take chances on other people.” — E. LOCKHART\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Again Again \n  \nAbout Jandy Nelson\n\nJandy Nelson\, like her characters in I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN\, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood\, throws salt\, and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel\, THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE\, was on multiple Best Books of the Year lists\, was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick\, earned numerous starred reviews\, has been translated widely\, and continues to enjoy great international success. Currently a full-time writer\, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco\, California—not far from the settings of THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE and I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN. \nAbout Nina LaCour\n\nNina LaCour is the author of the widely acclaimed HOLD STILL\, THE DISENCHANTMENTS\, EVERYTHING LEADS TO YOU\, and the Michael L. Printz Award-winner WE ARE OKAY. She is also the coauthor\, with David Levithan\, of YOU KNOW ME WELL. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher\, she now writes and parents full time. A San Francisco Bay Area native\, Nina lives with her family in San Francisco\, California. www.ninalacour.com
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