Book Launch: How to Close a Camp
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Join John Washington for the release of his new book How to Close a Camp at Moon Palace Books on Saturday, July 25th at 4:00pm. John will be joined in conversation by Kira Kelley and Fatima Insolucion.
**This is an in-person event, and masks are required in the store. We offer free masks at the front door, but deeply appreciate you bringing your own!**
An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system
Masked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the gates of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do it.
In spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting back against camps—and winning. Washington distills strategies and lessons from successful campaigns to close camps and block or slow the opening of new ones, drawing on conversations with veteran organizers from the movement.
Chipping away at the infrastructure of the camp is the only way to stave off increasing xenophobic and authoritarian violence. It is time to close all the camps and build a world that no longer requires them.
John Washington is a journalist covering the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. He is the author of The Case for Open Borders and The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond. Washington is also a translator of books by Anabel Hernandez, Sandra Rodriquez Nieto, and others. His most recent translations include The Hollywood Kid by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Both were co-translated along with Daniela Ugaz. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Kira Kelley is an organizer and attorney in Minneapolis. Kira's clients teach them so much: how to shut down coal plants and weapons manufacturers, how to take strategic risks, and how to be playful without compartmentalizing. During Operation Metro Surge, Kira sued Pam Bondi 65 times and supported an intrepid group of multilingual legal workers in founding the Twin Cities Habeas Collective. TCHC freed hundreds of people and catalyzed a mass exodus from the US Attorneys Office by rejecting lawyer-centered risk aversion and competition and operating instead as a collaborative, open-source project. Kira is proud to play for a rugby team that has a BDS policy, hosts KYR trainings, and took shifts outside the Whipple all last winter. If you want to chat about security culture or elaborate practical jokes--come find them.
Fatima Insolucion an anarchist writer, humanitarian aid volunteer, and healthcare worker, Insolucion splits their time between Tucson and Minneapolis. They've done no border work in the Sonoran desert, Calais, and beyond and have written extensively about the internalization of border enforcement and the application of counterinsurgency over the 20 years they've been involved in movement work. They've also done media work, legal support, asylum support, and prisoner support over the years.
**This is an in-person event, and masks are required in the store. We offer free masks at the front door, but deeply appreciate you bringing your own!**
An urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system
Masked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the gates of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do it.
In spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting back against camps—and winning. Washington distills strategies and lessons from successful campaigns to close camps and block or slow the opening of new ones, drawing on conversations with veteran organizers from the movement.
Chipping away at the infrastructure of the camp is the only way to stave off increasing xenophobic and authoritarian violence. It is time to close all the camps and build a world that no longer requires them.
John Washington is a journalist covering the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. He is the author of The Case for Open Borders and The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond. Washington is also a translator of books by Anabel Hernandez, Sandra Rodriquez Nieto, and others. His most recent translations include The Hollywood Kid by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Both were co-translated along with Daniela Ugaz. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Kira Kelley is an organizer and attorney in Minneapolis. Kira's clients teach them so much: how to shut down coal plants and weapons manufacturers, how to take strategic risks, and how to be playful without compartmentalizing. During Operation Metro Surge, Kira sued Pam Bondi 65 times and supported an intrepid group of multilingual legal workers in founding the Twin Cities Habeas Collective. TCHC freed hundreds of people and catalyzed a mass exodus from the US Attorneys Office by rejecting lawyer-centered risk aversion and competition and operating instead as a collaborative, open-source project. Kira is proud to play for a rugby team that has a BDS policy, hosts KYR trainings, and took shifts outside the Whipple all last winter. If you want to chat about security culture or elaborate practical jokes--come find them.
Fatima Insolucion an anarchist writer, humanitarian aid volunteer, and healthcare worker, Insolucion splits their time between Tucson and Minneapolis. They've done no border work in the Sonoran desert, Calais, and beyond and have written extensively about the internalization of border enforcement and the application of counterinsurgency over the 20 years they've been involved in movement work. They've also done media work, legal support, asylum support, and prisoner support over the years.
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3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406
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