This weekend, we’re thrilled to participate in the Brooklyn Art Book Fair for the very first time — and to share our table with comrades from Brooklyn Jail Support & No Brooklyn Jail, who will unveil a zine about the jail’s key architects. All of our proceeds will support mutual aid efforts in NYC & Gaza, including BKJS. You can find us at #R17 inside Recess, between Stitches and the Palestinian Youth Movement.
It bears remembering that just a few weeks ago, Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of antifascist zines — and that he and his comrades were collectively sentenced to 556 years in prison for actions stemming from a protest outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center. In solidarity with the Prairieland defendants, we will be distributing free copies of Benjamin “Champagne” Song’s sentencing statement, formatted into a zine. FREE THEM ALL.
Immense gratitude to the organizers & volunteers behind BKABF, which unlike most other fairs is 1) completely free for all vendors & visitors, 2) accessible to the immunocompromised, by requiring masking indoors, and 3) “unquestionably stands” with a free Palestine.
Friday, July 10, 6–9pm
Saturday, July 11, 11–7pm
Sunday, July 12, 11–6pm
46 Washington Ave, in Clinton Hill
Monthly meeting: Tuesday, July 14, 6:30pm
We are meeting, as we do on the second Tuesday evening of every month, at Various/Artists (19 Essex St). To be discussed: a few exciting projects on the horizon!
Community Safety, Carceral Design, and Dreaming Otherwise: Thursday, July 16, 6–8pm
Part of the W.O.W. Project’s 10-year anniversary discussion series, this conversation brings together artists and organizers Chloë Bass, Cindy Hwang (of AAD / No Brooklyn Jail), and Vic Liu to examine the impact of the borough-based jails in NYC, with a focus on the skyscraper jail being constructed in Chinatown. Situating the project within a broader landscape of mass incarceration and displacement — from the police takeover of Park Row to the expanding carceral reach in Chinatown — we ask: what does community safety mean and who gets to define it? In place of a jail, what else could be here?
The program explores the role of artists and cultural workers in the aestheticization of carceral systems through design, and how art can obscure the violence of incarceration even as it can also serve as a tool of resistance. We invite participants to reflect on what it means to refuse participation in carceral design and to imagine alternative futures grounded in care, collective well-being, and worlds beyond punishment.
This event is currently full; please email [email protected] to join the waitlist!
Sit-in for “No More 24” starting July 14
Via Ain't I A Woman!?:
After months of broken promises and delays, home care workers and the growing coalition behind them have had enough. How can Speaker Menin ignore the voices of immigrant women of color as they call on her to end the 24-hour workday by passing the original No More 24 Act? What other choice do they have than to bring the fight right to her door? Join workers’ sit-in starting Tuesday, July 14!