Join Naomi Klein\, Chenjerai Kumanyika\, Astra T aylor\, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the accel erating corporate dominance of our lives and societies.
From Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions\, to the Trump f amily's vision for remaking Gaza into another Dubai\, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace. Tu ne in for a discussion of what we must do to resist the shock and awe polit ics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts.
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Speakers:
Naomi Klein i s an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling autho r. She is a columnist with The Guardian. In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University and is now Ho norary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joi ned the University of British Columbia as UBC Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice. Her newest boo k is the New York Times-bestseller Doppelganger: A Trip into t he 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: Ta king 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\, So lidarity: The Past\, Present\, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Sh e is a co-founder of The Debt Collective.
Keeanga-Y amahtta Taylor is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Blac k Liberationand 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 Pu litzer Prize in History. She co-edited\, with Robin D. G. Kelley and Colin Kaepernick\, Our History Has Always Been Contraband. Taylor is a c ontributing writer at The New Yorker and is Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.
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