CCSF is hosting an exciting event on Thursday, March 21 from 1:30-3:30pm in MUB 140 at the Ocean Campus with the authors of Everything for Everyone: an oral history of the New York Commune 2052-2072.

This landmark text dares to imagine a future where humanity has forged a path through oligarchy, climate change, and political chaos. Written as an oral history, authors Eman Abdelhadi and M.E. O’Brien will speak about their work, answer questions, and participate in student-led small group discussions.

The event will include light snacks, rich discussions, and an opportunity to interact with the authors of one of the most daring and audacious books of our time. See the attached flyer or visit tinyurl.com/everythingforCCSFLinks to an external site. for details. A full description of the book is below:

“Joining a long line of speculative writing that helps us to understand worlds not yet existing An Oral History of the New York Commune will appeal to readers of Octavia Butler, Ursula LeGuin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ian M. Banks, Samuel Delaney, and China Mieville among others. By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world’s governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism–New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people’s efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.”