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SUMMARY:Spring Reading Group: "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring on Wednesday\, September 7\, 7pm EDT for the first session of our reading group on Matthew T. Huber’s “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.” \nHuber’s book argues that despite capitalism’s vital role in causing the urgent climate crisis we now face\, the climate movement finds itself more appealing to the upper classes than the working class. To address the climate crisis\, Huber proposes and argues for a climate movement led by workers that builds our collective power to transform systems and create international solutions that work for the many and not just for the few. No matter where our interests lie – climate movements\, worker movements\, decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty – Huber’s book offers much for us to discuss as a group as we learn how to build our world together. \nIn this first meeting\, we will be discussing Part 1 of the book. All are welcome. The book is available direct from Verso (https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war)\, or send us an email. \nEmail us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-climate-change-as-class-war-building-socialism-on-a-burning-planet
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Spring Reading Group: "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring on Wednesday\, September 21\, 7pm EDT for the second session of our reading group on Matthew T. Huber’s “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.” \nHuber’s book argues that despite capitalism’s vital role in causing the urgent climate crisis we now face\, the climate movement finds itself more appealing to the upper classes than the working class. To address the climate crisis\, Huber proposes and argues for a climate movement led by workers that builds our collective power to transform systems and create international solutions that work for the many and not just for the few. No matter where our interests lie – climate movements\, worker movements\, decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty – Huber’s book offers much for us to discuss as a group as we learn how to build our world together. \nIn this second meeting\, we will be discussing Part 2 of the book. All are welcome. The book is available direct from Verso (https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war)\, or send us an email. \nEmail us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-climate-change-as-class-war-building-socialism-on-a-warming-planet
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Spring Reading Group: "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring on Wednesday\, October 5\, 7pm EDT for the third session of our reading group on Matthew T. Huber’s “Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet.” \nHuber’s book argues that despite capitalism’s vital role in causing the urgent climate crisis we now face\, the climate movement finds itself more appealing to the upper classes than the working class. To address the climate crisis\, Huber proposes and argues for a climate movement led by workers that builds our collective power to transform systems and create international solutions that work for the many and not just for the few. No matter where our interests lie – climate movements\, worker movements\, decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty – Huber’s book offers much for us to discuss as a group as we learn how to build our world together. \nIn this third meeting\, we will be discussing Part 3 of the book. All are welcome. The book is available direct from Verso (https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war)\, or send us an email. \nEmail us at info@springmag.ca for the Zoom link.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-climate-change-as-class-war-building-socialism-on-a-burning-planet-2
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SUMMARY:Spring Halifax Reads: "Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Spring Socialist Network’s reading group to read and discuss Leslie Kern’s “Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies.” We will be meeting on December 12\, at 5-7 pm\, at 6208 Quinpool Road\, Unit 102. \nWhat does gentrification look like? Is it a process that replaces one community with another? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? We hope that this book will better ground our analysis to understand and resist gentrification in Halifax. \nKern\, who previously authored “Feminist City\,” is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. She will be making an online appearance during our meeting! \nThe e-book is available to read through Hoopla\, an app you can access through your Halifax Public Library membership. \nThe book is available from Verso. The book can also be purchased at Venus Envy
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/spring-halifax-reads-gentrification-is-inevitable-and-other-lies
LOCATION:6208 Quinpool Road\, unit 102\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, 6208 Quinpool Road\, unit 102\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Solidarity Beyond Bars: Halifax Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Spring Socialist Network’s reading group to read and discuss Solidarity Beyond Bars: Unionizing Prison Labour. We will be meeting on Sunday\, February 11 at 1 pm to discuss the book. Asaf Rashid\, one of the book’s authors and a Halifax local\, will join us for part of the discussion. \nFrom the publisher’s description:\n“Prisons don’t work\, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust\, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do\, how they do it\, who they do it for and under which conditions. Unions protect workers fighting for better pay and against discrimination and occupational health and safety concerns\, but prisoners are denied this protection despite being the lowest paid workers with the least choice in what they do — the most vulnerable among the working class. Starting from the perspective that work during imprisonment is not “rehabilitative\,” this book examines the reasons why people should care about prison labour and how prisoners have struggled to organize for labour power in the past. Unionizing incarcerated workers is critical for both the labour movement and struggles for prison justice\, this book argues\, to negotiate changes to working conditions as well as the power dynamics within prisons themselves. The book can be purchased at Venus Envy and Bookmark.\nhttps://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/solidarity-beyond-bars \nThe event will be held at a member’s residence. Please email paniz.ksy@gmail.com if you would like to attend.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/solidarity-beyond-bars-halifax-reading-group
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Spring Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Spring Labour Caucus is hosting a reading group of Labor Notes’ book “Secrets of a Successful Organizer”. \nThis books is about how to fight back where you work and win and is relevant to anyone who wants to build workers’ power and mass movements. \nTo get a copy of the book\, DM us or email us at info@springmag.ca. \nTo register and access the Zoom link\, please click here. \nWe will be meeting on the following Sundays to discuss the book chapter by chapter. Meeting dates: \n\nApril 16\, Lesson 1\nApril 23\, Lesson 2\nMay 7\, Lesson 3\nMay 14\, Lesson 4\nMay 28\, Lesson 5\nJune 4\, Lesson 6\nJune 18\, Lesson 7\nJune 25\, Lesson 8
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/secrets-of-a-successful-organizer-spring-reading-series
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SUMMARY:Harvesting Freedom: Halifax Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning about the hidden exploitation in Canada’s food systems and how the most exploited farm workers are leading the fight for fair working conditions? \nThis month\, Spring’s Halifax’s book club is discussing Gabriel Allahdua and Edward Dunsworth’s new book\, “Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada.” \nThis event will feature a conversation with author Gabriel Allahdua\, a migrant worker organizer. We will explore the many challenges faced by migrant farm workers on this land and how everyone can support their movement for justice. \nFind the book for purchase here: https://btlbooks.com/book/harvesting-freedom \nIt is also in stock at the King’s Co-op Bookstore. \nAll are welcome to join the event. Please wear a mask.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/harvesting-freedom-halifax-reading-group
LOCATION:Windsor Foundation Room\, Halifax Central Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Spring Reading Group - Palestine: The Case for Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring on Sunday\, November 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT over Zoom for a reading group discussion on Anne Alexander’s article\, “Ending apartheid in Palestine: The case for a revolutionary strategy.” \nWith the Palestinian working class having to organize under constant violence for decades at the hands of the perpetually funded and armed Israeli occupation apparatus\, and with sources of Israeli funding and machinery not directly dependent upon the exploitation of Palestinian labour\, Alexander argues that fighting back against apartheid will require the revitalization and cooperation of revolutionary movements across the Arab world — not to forsake the Palestinian liberation movement\, but to expand and deepen it. \nClick here to register for the reading group\, and click here to access the reading.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-palestine-the-case-for-revolution
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Spring Reading Group: Teamster Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring’s Labour Caucus for a reading group and discussion of Farrell Dobbs’ classic book\, “Teamster Rebellion.” \nThe book chronicles the 1934 union organizing and activity of Teamsters Local 574 in Minnesota\, of which Dobbs was a key rank-and-file leader. In the face of fierce strikebreaking efforts\, repression\, and brutal police violence\, the workers organized a strike that would go down as a watershed moment in labour history. \nWe will be meeting in two sessions over Zoom: \n\n 	 \nSunday\, January 14\, 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT (Chapters 1-6)\nSunday\, February 4\, 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT (Chapters 6-13)\n\n\nAll are welcome! To register\, click here. If you need a copy of the book or if you have any questions\, please email info@springmag.ca.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/spring-reading-group-teamster-rebellion
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Reading group: "The Red in the Rainbow" by Hannah Dee
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring for this four-part reading group of “The Red in the Rainbow” by Hannah Dee! \nThis inspiring story of the fight for sexual liberation travels across continents and centuries\, uncovering a radical struggle including the Stonewall riots in 1969 and the mass movement against Apartheid South Africa that achieved the first inclusion of 2SLGBTQIA+ rights in a constitution. \nMeetings will be hybrid\, with participation in-person in Toronto (720 Spadina Ave\, Room 223) and over Zoom. We will be covering the book over the course of four sessions: \n\nJuly 9\, 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 4pm PT\nJuly 23\, 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 4pm PT\nAugust 6\, 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 4pm PT\nAugust 20\, 7pm ET / 8pm AT / 4pm PT\n\nParticipants will be provided with a digital copy of the text. Click here to register for the reading group! \nOnline participants can access the Zoom link by clicking here.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-the-red-in-the-rainbow-by-hannah-dee
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241024T180000
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SUMMARY:Reading Group: "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction"
DESCRIPTION:Spring Socialist Network’s vancouver Branch is beginning a reading group for the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction\, edited by Sumaya Awad and brian bean. Get your copy for free at Haymarket Books! \nWe are meeting four times\, every other Thursday\, from 6pm-8pm PT\, starting October 24th. \n\nOCTOBER 24TH\nPart 1: Circumstances Given and Transmitted from the Past\nNOVEMBER 7TH\nPart 2: The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Cairo\nNOVEMBER 21ST\nPart 3: Workers of the World\, Unite\nDECEMBER 5TH\nConclusion: Revolution Until Victory\n\nNo worries if you cannot finish the readings for each meet! A discussion lead will give a summary at the beginning of each gathering. But if it helps\, an audiobook recorded by Spring members will be made available to those who sign up! \nWe are looking forward to the fruitful discussions and actions that will spring from this reading group. We hope to see you there! \n“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only\, but a cause for every revolutionary\, wherever they are\, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” —Ghassan Kanafani \nClick here to register.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/reading-group-palestine-a-socialist-introduction
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251011T123000
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SUMMARY:Vancouver Spring Reading & Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join Spring’s Vancouver branch for a socialist reading and discussion group on Saturday\, October 11\, 11am PT over Zoom! \nWe will be reading chapters 4 and 5 of the John Rees pamphlet “Strategy and Tactics.” Whether you’re a Spring member or just someone interested in discussing how socialists can develop effective tactics and winning strategies\, come join us for discussion! \nIf you need access to the reading\, please email info@springmag.ca. While reading the text beforehand will help make the most of our discussion\, it is not a strict requirement. \nRegister by clicking here.
URL:https://springmag.ca/event/vancouver-spring-reading-discussion-group
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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