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Apr 2025
1h 23m

Trump's Hammer, Our Hope: An Emergency T...

Haymarket Books
About this episode

Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on free speech at the hands of the current administration.

As events have continued to unfold at a blistering pace under the current Trump administration, it has remained crucial for our side to strategize about how we can respond to these conditions while defending those baring the brunt of this full out assault.

Speakers:

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She is a columnist with The Guardian. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice. Her newest book is the New York Times-bestseller Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, just published in paperback.

Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker and political organizer. Her books include the American Book Award–winner The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, and, with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. She is a co-founder of The Debt Collective.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and How We Get Free. Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She co-edited, with Robin D. G. Kelley and Colin Kaepernick, Our History Has Always Been Contraband. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and is Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Chenjerai Kumanyika teaches nonfiction audio journalism and podcasting at New York University. He is the co-creator, co-executive producer and co-host of Uncivil, a podcast on the Civil War and is the creator and host of the new podcast, Empire City, an eight-part narrative series investigating the complicated and largely invisible history of the New York Police Department.

Watch the live event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vP5p_oTmZU

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