The PM Press Tabling Tornados are bringing the noise to these upcoming book festivals, conferences, radical gatherings, punk fests, and more. Look up these events and support their work! Come find our tables at these gatherings and say hello. Follow us on Twitter & Instagram to learn more.

• MICE Massachusets Independent Comics Expo in Boston, MA on September 30 and October 1

• Brooklyn Book Festival – Kids Book Fair in Brooklyn, NY on September 30

• Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, NY on October 1

• Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair in Oakland, CA on October 1

• Maximum Ska and Punk Fest in Modesto, CA on October 7

• Asbury Park Punk Rock Flea Market in Asbury Park, NJ on October 8

• Twin Cities Book Fest in Minneapolis, MN on October 14

• Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN on Oct0ber 20 to 22

• Crash Fest in Portland, OR on October 20 and 21

• Northwest Teaching for Social Justice NWTSJ in Portland, OR on October 21 and 22

• Boston Hassle Flea Market in Boston, MA on October 22

• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Portland, OR on October 26 to 29

• Portland Book Festival in Portland, OR on November 4

• Brooklyn Folk Festival in Brooklyn, NY on November 10 to 12

• Reno Punk Rock Flea Market in Reno, NV on November 11 and 12

• Boston Anarchist Book Fair in Boston, MA on November 11 and 12

• American Society of Criminology in Philadelphia, PA from November 15 to 18

• Nonfiction Comics Fest in Burlington, VT on November 18

• East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest EBABZ in Berkeley, CA on December 2

• Philly Zine Fest in Philadelphia, PA on December 2

• Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco, CA on December 3

• Heart of the Valley Anti-Capitalist Book Fair in Corvallis, OR on January 19 to 22

• Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ on March 9 and 10

• and many more…

Join us for these in-person and virtual events with Dr. Michael Fine to discuss his books On Medicine as Colonialism , Health Care Revolt, Abundance, and others.

About On Medicine as Colonialism

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.

Praise

“On Medicine as Colonialism details the sociopolitical realities that undergird health injustice and offers a realistic perspective on achieving health equity.” —Jewel Mullen, MD, MPH, Dell Medical School, UT Austin

“A sobering diatribe on health care in America.” —David N. Sundwall, former executive director of the Utah Department of Health

“Michael Fine wins his big-hearted argument that American medicine is colonialism, not just for the poor but for all of us. It is a desecration of our health care system by the same old robber barons. . . . This doctor-activist is pointing us to solutions. Everyone should read it.” —Samuel Shem, author and professor of medical humanities, NYU Medical School

“Fine writes with the eye of both a humanist and a practitioner. . . . His passion for individual lives and concern for the common good is what drives his outrage at what has been wrought.” —Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Fund, from the foreword

About the Author

Michael Fine is a community organizer, family physician, public health official, and public health policy provocateur. He is the author of Health Care Revolt, Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories.

Charlie Allison presents No Harmless Power: The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno with Patrick Germain on Friday, October 20th at The Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia, PA at 6pm at 704 South St.

Come learn about one of the largest and most dramatic anarchist polities to ever exist—the Free Territory of Ukraine—and the general of its armed forces, Nestor Makhno.

Join Charlie Allison, the author of a biography on Makhno called No Harmless Power, and moderator Patrick Germain for an evening’s conversation on history, self-organized militias, collectivized agriculture, and the perils of heroism.

Join Matt Meyer and others for a panel at The Peace History Society conference outside Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, October 28th. Conference info here.

Get books by Matt Meyer here, including Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present.

10:30–12:00 p.m. Plenary Session Two
War Resisters League, 1923–2023: A Century of Revolutionary Nonviolent Activism for Peace & Justice
Scott Bennett (moderator)
Mandy Carter
Ed Hedemann
Matt Meyer
Joanne Sheehan
Location:  University Hall W105