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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite’s This Chair Rocks (Celadon) is a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces Applewhite’s journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life.

Free

Writers Resist Anthology Reading

Rontoms 600 East Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Join Writers Resist: The Anthology contributing writers—along with those from Rise Up and Poets Reading the News—for a marathon Resistance Reading at Rontoms. Catch the last 30 minutes of Rontoms' happy hour for yummy pub food and drinks, and stay for a few hours of rage, hope, bewilderment, activism, and camaraderie. For more information, contact WritersResist@gmail.com. Join us for a free collaborative reading by contributing writers to Poets Reading The News, The Rise Up Review, and Writers Resist at AWP, hosted at Rontoms--have a yummy bite and join the resistance! POETS READING THE NEWS READERS: Megan Merchant, Rémy Dambron, Matty Layne Glasgow, Devon Balwit, Collin Spinney, Charissa Menefee RISE UP REVIEW READERS: Devon Balwit, Brent Terry, Lenny DellaRocca, Jennifer Jean, Iris Dunkle, Claudia F. Savage,…

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Amber Tamblyn

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

An intimate meditation and public reckoning, Era of Ignition (Crown Archetype) is a passionate exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.

Free

New Works of Environmental Nonfiction

Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United States

Grab a pint and listen in on dispatches from the Great Lakes and the Big Ice, important stories of environmental justice, history, and activism. Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Metropolitan Books, will be reading alongside fellow Warren Wilson MFA alumni Justin Gardiner, author of Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic by the University of Georgia Press. Contact: Justin Gardiner

Free

The Coffeehouse Resistance: Book Reading/Q&A with Sarina Prabasi

Guilder Cafe 2393 NE Fremont St., Portland, OR, United States

"Coffee-shop owners and workers know that it’s about so much more than the coffee. What keeps people coming back are the relationships, the human connections." Fresh Cup Magazine, in partnership with Guilder, is pleased to welcome Buunni Coffee co-founder and author Sarina Prabasi to Portland in celebration of her new book, The Coffeehouse Resistance: Brewing Hope in Desperate Times. Part coming-to-America story, part lyrical memoir, and yet another part activist’s call to action, The Coffeehouse Resistance is timely, funny, and poignant. Writing as a mother, immigrant, new American, coffeehouse owner, and international nonprofit leader, Prabasi’s story weaves between Nepal, Ethiopia, and the United States. When Prabasi and her husband move from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to New York City with their young daughter in 2011, they…

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Powell’s Books presents Senator Jeff Merkley

Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Jeff Merkley couldn't believe his eyes. He never dreamt the United States could treat vulnerable young families with such calculated brutality. Few had witnessed what Merkley discovered just by showing up at the border and demanding to see what was going on behind closed doors. Contrary to the official stories and soothing videos, on Senator Merkley’s visit he encountered mothers and children, newborn babies and infants, stranded for days on border bridges in blistering heat or locked up in ice-cold holding pens. There were nearly 1,500 boys jammed into a former Walmart, a child tent prison in the desert with almost 3,000 boys and girls, and children struggling to survive in gang-filled Mexican border towns after they were blocked from seeking asylum in the United…

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Grace Paley’s Life Stories with Judith Arcana

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR, United States

To ensure that you are able to join us for the event, please rsvp for all guests. Guests who are walk in on the day of the event are not guaranteed seats. On September 15, please join Judith Arcana, author of Grace Paley's Life Stories, for a conversation with poet and publisher Carl Adamshick, and for readings by both writers from the book. Grace Paley's Life Stories is the only biography of renowned author and activist Grace Paley and explores the roots of her political consciousness and traces her work as an activist as it grew into her work as a storyteller. It was recently reprinted in a glowing 2nd edition by Eberhardt Press in Portland. Arcana and Adamschick will discuss the importance of this…

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Jenny Brown in Conversation with Leni Zumas

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

We are thrilled to welcome author, teacher, and activist Jenny Brown in conversation with Portland author Leni Zumas. A portion of the proceeds of this day’s sales will be donated to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. Brown will be here to talk with Zumas about her book Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, published by PM Press. She has another new book as well from Verso books, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now. Jenny Brown is a women's liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to get morning-after-pill contraception available over-the-counter in the United States. She is the co-author of Women's Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. While editor at…

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Seane Corn

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

In Revolution of the Soul (Sounds True), celebrated yoga teacher and activist Seane Corn shares pivotal accounts of her life with raw honesty – enriched with in-depth spiritual teachings – to help us heal, evolve, and change the world.

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Enough Is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United States

Michelle Roehm McCann’s Enough Is Enough (Simon Pulse/Beyond Words) is a young activist’s handbook to joining the fight against gun violence to make schools safer for everyone. McCann deftly explains America’s gun violence issues – myths and facts, causes and perpetrators, solutions and change-makers – and provides a road map for effective activism.

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