December at the Rhizome

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Save the date for RZH SOLSTICE dinner 12/20

Thank you so much for supporting The Rhizome House in 2024! Y'all really showed up and remind us every day that sustaining movement infrastructure is work worth doing.

To show our gratitude and build community, we'd like to invite you all to a solstice dinner on Friday, 12/20. We'll reflect on where we've been in the past year and where we're hoping to go in the next. We'll share a little about financial transparency and give some run down summaries of event numbers. We'll also have a sweet ritual for the winter solstice and social hour (and bonfire?) afterward.

So excited to see you all there to welcome the dark and mark a transition in seasonality <3
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔

Check out these new editions to our library - free to check out for 90 days:

Abolish Rent How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis.

From two co-founders of the largest tenants union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process.

The Case for Open Borders
by John Washington

In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border.  Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities.

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by Premilla Nadasen

Nadasen traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit.

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072
by M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi

In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.

Mastering the Universe The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More by Rob Larson

How much do we really know about the billionaires who sit atop our global economic system? Who are they, really? How did they accumulate their ill-gotten gains? And what kind of depravities do they use to maintain their positions?Turning their own weapons of class-war against them—from the fawning profiles found in the Mansion section of the Wall Street Journal to the national income data buried in white papers meant solely for investors and technocrats—Larson crunches the numbers so you don’t have to.  But he doesn’t stop there, because appreciating the sheer scale of the global wealth gap doesn’t even touch on all the ways the ruling class are making us miserable, breaking our society to pieces, and destroying the planet in their pursuit of ever-increasing power and profit.

We also have new free zines available.

We have also restocked many books in our distro with more on the way soon.