Friends! Due to heavy storms rolling through, we are closing up at 6PM tonight (Friday), so our workers can get home safely. Food orders close at 5:45! Thanks for understanding - we will see you bright & early, with lots of coffee, on Saturday morning!

NEVER GIVE UP
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TONIGHT WE VIBE! It's the Red Emma's Mother Earth Poetry Vibe, hosted by our very own @analysisthepoet! Tonight's feature is Will Cook, and we can't wait to see you! 6PM!

On 5/21, we're welcoming Kamau Franklin, Mariah Parker, and Micah Herskind, editors of the brand new No Cop City, No Cop World collection, for a talk about the fight for a world without police, in conversation with Sam Master of Organizing Black and Erica Caines of Black Alliance for Peace. Be there!

RSVP and share: https://withfriends.co/event/22800130/kamau_franklin_micah_herskind_and_mariah_parker_present_no_cop_city_no_cop_world_lessons_from_the_movement_in_conversation_werica_caines_black_alliance_for_peace_and_sam_master_organizing_black

Consider this your advance warning: there are limited quantities of vegan bread pudding available in our pastry case, and if you get here early tomorrow when we open, you might get one! We're open 9AM to 9PM Tuesday through Saturday, and 10AM to 4PM on Sundays. Come through any time for great books, great vegan food, and excellent events. 🩷

Amazon book sale week? Nah, it's Independent Bookstore Day this Saturday, one of the biggest book shopping days of the year, and we're donating 20% of our proceeds this Saturday to Palestine Legal to help defend the rights of people standing up for Palestine. If you are in Baltimore, stop through any time from 9AM to 9PM to shop and support. Not in Baltimore? No problem - you can shop in-stock titles on our website and have them shipped anywhere in the US. Fuck Amazon. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

📣 Migrant justice
✊ Labor power
🍉 Free Palestine
🎓 Hands off higher ed
👊 Smash the billionaires
👶 and bring the kids!

6 feeder marches, one massive May Day rally

More info: https://bmoremayday.org/

A special event for young readers — and everyone else — who wants to learn about the long history of workers standing up and pushing back, with Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly presenting her new book "Fight to Win! Heroes of American Labor" ✊

🗓️ Saturday, May 10
🕓 4PM
👉 RSVP: https://withfriends.co/event/23069120/kim_kelly_presents_fight_to_win_heroes_of_american_labor_for_young_readers

All out for May Day!

On May 1st—the international holiday for working people—feeder marches from all over the city will be converging on McKeldin Square downtown for a huge protest against the Trump regime and its billionaire backers.

More info @ https://bmoremayday.org/

On Tuesday 4/22 we're welcoming Eli Valley, “the angriest political cartoonist in America,” for a talk on his new book "Museum of Degenerates"

RSVP: https://withfriends.co/event/23124580/eli_valley_presents_museum_of_degenerates

BRING KILMAR HOME

Come grab a poster or ten and hang them up around town!

“What’s Left is a lively, informative, and invigorating book on a subject that truly could not be more important: how to fight for our future on earth.” —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People and Intermezzo

Thrilled to welcome Malcolm Harris back to the store on 4/29 for a discussion of his new book "What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis," in conversation w/Max Alvarez.

RSVP: https://withfriends.co/event/22851953/malcolm_harris_presents_whats_left_three_paths_through_the_planetary_crisis_in_conversation_w_max_alvarez

It’s been 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015 and the Uprising that followed. Many in Baltimore remember the grief, anger and pain of those days, but also the solidarity and organizing that came from taking to the streets and declaring “Whose streets? Our streets.” It’s a phrase you still hear around Baltimore, signifying the power that every resident has to make change in their neighborhoods.

Join us as we discuss the current state of matters in Baltimore City and reflect on a pivotal moment in Baltimore's history.

https://redemmas.org/events/looking-back-moving-forward-a-special-west-wednesday/

Baltimore Beat, a Black-led nonprofit newspaper, will host a panel discussion featuring Tawanda Jones, the sister of Tyrone West, who was killed by BCPD in 2013. THIS WILL BE THE 611th EDITION OF WEST WEDNESDAYS.

The panel will also feature: Devin Allen - award winning photographer Lawrence Grandpre - Author and Director of Research for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle Lisa Snowden - Editor In Chief of Baltimore Beat

Also, if you aren't familiar with their work beyond their one improbable pop breakthrough, you are missing out on a trove of left wing musical genius!

Do you get knocked down, but get up again?

Then you might want to come to tonight's event with Boff Whaley of Chumbawamba https://redemmas.org/events/boff-whalley-of-chumbawamba-presents-but/

Hey union families and teachers—you are going to want to mark your calendars for May 10th, when Kim Kelly is here to talk about their brand new book on labor history for young readers!

https://withfriends.co/event/23069120/kim_kelly_presents_fight_to_win_heroes_of_american_labor_for_young_readers

HANDS OFF MOMODOU TAAL

Sunday 4/13: Alec Karakatsanis breaks down the logic and mechanisms of copaganda—how police and the media manipulate our news—in conversation with Lisa Snowden of the Baltimore Beat