Who Decides the Future of Our Neighborhoods?

Quantum Entanglements is a new multimedia investigation from Respair Production & Media about South Side Chicago communities fighting for self-determination as a proposed $9 billion quantum computing development raises concerns about contamination, displacement, surveillance and policing.

At its heart, the conversation asks: Who gets to decide the future of our neighborhoods?

Moderator: Nashwa Bawab is the web producer at In These Times.

Join us on August 1st to celebrate the release of Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology, the powerful autobiography of longtime labor leader and Labor Network for Sustainability Founder Joe Uehlein. This special event for the national Book & Music Tour will bring together movement leaders, organizers, and music lovers for an evening of stories and songs from a lifetime spent fighting for workers, the environment, and a better world.

This event is cosponsored by In These Times and Pilsen Community Books.

Celebrate the 2026 Democratic Socialist Summit with DSA Fund and In These Times! Join comrades from across the country for drinks, music, good company and a surprise keynote speaker.

Explore more than a century of May Day history through labor artifacts, Haymarket memories and brunch with archivist Isaac Silver at In These Times.

Join In These Times for food, drinks and conversation while supporting 50 more years of independent journalism, worker power and movements for justice.

Join us after the Mets v White Sox game for an event with A.M. Gittlitz on his new book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team. A love letter to a franchise and a thrilling study of New York City, Metropolitans traces the electric and calamitous history of the New York Mets.

In These Times is cosponsoring this event with Pilsen Community Books

Join Bill Ayers, Eman Abdelhadi and Joel Bleifuss in Chicago for an invitation-only discussion on the future of In These Times and progressive independent media.

A convo with Sonali Kolhatkar, Richard Wallace and Diego Morales on Breaking ICE: Community Defense against State Terror & MAGA Fascism.

Join us as we join our friends at In These Times in welcoming Sonali Kolhatkar, Richard Wallace and Diego Morales to Pilsen Community Books for a discussion of the new book Breaking ICE: Community Defense against State Terror and MAGA, a gripping, on-the-ground account of the growing movement against state violence, featuring interviews with those on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice and what it means to belong.

A war is being waged on the streets of the United States of America: MAGA’s violent anti-immigration regime is being challenged by a growing national movement dedicated to protecting communities and reversing racist and authoritarian policies. In Breaking ICE, award-winning journalist Sonali Kolhatkar presents her conversations with over a dozen movement organizers, lawyers, artists, labor leaders, and scholars on the frontlines of the fight. Through their courageous stories, Kolhatkar documents the impact of ICE violence, workplace raids, mass surveillance, and intimidation tactics, and how communities from Maine to California are organizing for a better world. Our present actions will not only determine the nature of American demographics from here on out, but also whether the future of the United States will look like an open multiracial democracy or a fascist police state.

SONALI KOLHATKAR is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the racial justice editor at YES! Magazine and the host of YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates around the United States. Sonali is a senior correspondent of the Economy For All Project at the Independent Media Institute and the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice. She has won numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, and has been nominated for Best Radio Anchor four years in a row. Sonali earned her MS in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. She resides with her husband and two sons in Pasadena, California.

RICHARD WALLACE is the founder and director of Equity and Transformation (EAT), an organization which fights for social and economic equity for Black workers in informal work and those who have been formerly incarcerated. EAT is involved with research, advocacy, policy development, community organizing, and podcast production. He is currently the board president at Working Family Solidarity. Prior to working at EAT, he worked with the Workers Center for Racial Justice and Chicago Workers Collaborative.

DIEGO MORALES is a community organizer whose work focuses on issues affecting Chicago's south side. His work includes direct support to homeless encampments, ballot initiatives to tax the wealthy, community strike support for labor unions, preservation of immigrant culture, winning electoral campaigns, defense against attacks by immigration agents, and more. He is currently most involved as a leader of PUÑO, a rapid response team he helped create. He has facilitated trainings across the city, state, and country to establish and support rapid response efforts, as well as coordinating political education as an arm of immigration defense work.

Tzedek Chicago is proud to present Dave Zirin, author of the recently published book The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, This powerful new biography examines the life and work of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, as a progressive icon and thought leader by highlighting the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.

In These Times is proud to cosponsor this event with Pilsen Community Books.

Join us as we welcome Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi to the store for a discussion of Lewis's new essay collection Femmephilia, an original diagnosis of femmephobia in our culture, and a vision of a life-giving femme feminism for all.

In These Times is proud to cosponsor this event with Pilsen Community Books,

No! But you’re going to learn a lot about boycotts. Join this In These Times dinner with organizer, scholar, and chef Ash Bohrer, author of the forthcoming book WE Don’t Buy It as well as Marxism and Intersectionality, and Capitalism & Confinement. 

The night’s delicious offerings will be accompanied by Ash’s stories of the boycotts and resistance movements that made them possible. This is an intimate dinner and tickets are limited. All proceeds go to supporting In These Times for the next 50 years.

Join other In These Times members for pizza and beer with author Rick Perlstein, author of the forthcoming The Infernal Triangle, for a discussion on the rise of fascism and the contexts we need to frame our resistance. All proceeds go to supporting In These Times for the next 50 years.

Come join us in Chicago for a truly special night celebrating our half a century in print. Among our featured guests will be Molly Crabapple, In These Times' new (and first) Artist-at-Large, and the night will showcase a gallery of her anti-fascist work.