EVENING POLITICAL DISCUSSION

Evening Political Discussion started as a book club meeting in living rooms and shared spaces across the city, and has evolved into a monthly hybrid meeting covering books, articles, and a wide variety of topics, histories, and radical imaginings for the future.

Much of the work that must be done to change the world is the unexciting and very everyday work of learning, asking questions, building community, and showing up. Thomas McKecknie, the person who started this group has said about it:

“Education lets us learn from the accumulated genius of our ancestors and contemporaries about how to transform the world. I don't know about you, but I think the world needs to experience a lot of transformation. “

We run this club to do that important work of educating ourselves, in order to learn what was, and imagine what could be, together.

Some materials we’ve covered in the past:

• Family Abolition, M.E. O’Brien (book)

• The Ethics of Adoption (topic)

• Contemporary Antifeminism (topic)

• Canadian Electoral System (topic with speaker)

• 100 Years War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi (book)

• Mining in the DRC (topic)

• The Armenian Genocide (topic)

• Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, Kohei Saito (book)

• Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe (book)