Better Days Reading Club June Meeting

Date: Wednesday, June 24

Time: 7:30-9:00 PM

Location: Pinch Bakery and Plant Shop, 183 Sherman Avenue N, Hamilton

Join Epic Books at Pinch Bakery & Plant Shop for a social-justice-oriented book club sponsored by Ward 3's Community Resilience Grant! Every month we read a nonfiction book on a different social issue and discuss what we've learned and how we can use it to implement positive grassroots change in our community. Come for the delicious free treats from Pinch (iykyk), stay for a great discussion of books and community!

June's book is Mutual Aid by Dean Spade. This new and expanded edition lays out why mutual aid is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout.

After a guided discussion of the book, we'll talk about how we can take what we've learned and use it to implement real, lasting change in our communities.

Books are available from the Hamilton Public Library, in e-book form online, or at both Epic Books locations, where they are 15% off all month. Subsidized copies are available to members who face financial barriers.

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