A Time of Monsters - A Time to Fight: The Howard Zinn Book Fair on Dec. 6!

If ever there was a time to create our own history rather than let malevolent people write it for us, that time is now! Meet the people and groups helping build a world that serves everyone at the Howard Zinn Book Fair, Sunday, December 6, from 10am to 6pm, at the San Francisco City College Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street. This year's theme is A Time of Monsters, A Time to Fight.

The Howard Zinn Book Fair started in 2014 as an annual celebration and this year features 40 panel discussions by authors and activists and a big room full of independent presses, community groups, artists, and non-profits. All of our participants focus on empowering people to become engaged in the struggle for a truly participatory and democratic society.

We live in a time when many are asked to survive what can only be called monstrous: authoritarianism, war, state violence, environmental destruction, economic insecurity, forced displacement, attacks on civil rights, and the everyday cruelties of systems built to dehumanize. But throughout history, ordinary people have resisted monstrous situations and individuals in order to take more control of their future.

This year we have dozens of speakers including renowned journalist Dave Zirin, whose new book The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn is a groundbreaking profile of our book fair's namesake, the radical historian and thought leader Howard Zinn.

Other speakers include Rachel Herzing, Jordan Camp, Rachel West, Delio Vazquez, Aya de Leon, Cole Rockarts, Mark Lispi, Carolyn McConnell, Benjamin Heim Shepard and many, many more.

Authors, activists and community leaders propose and present examples of novel, radical solutions to many of our current woes including starting a media co-op, refusal of work at our workplaces, bearing witness in Gaza, and empowering women. Issues covered this year also include trans rights, new strategies for organizing labor and immigrants, anti-fascism, ecosocialism, the role of music in changing society, writers and artists as activists, reproductive autonomy, food justice, inspiring ideas from The Black Panthers, democratizing media, how to deal with AI, and much, much more!

Please join us on Sunday, December 6, from 10am to 6pm at the Mission Campus of SF City College at 1125 Valencia Street.

This is a masked event.

Please don't drive. Our location is close to 24th and Mission BART and many major MUNI lines.

More information at zinnbookfair.org or zinnbookfair [at] gmail.com