Winter Institute 2023

Featuring: Remember - Joy  Harjo, Michaela  Goade; The Real Dada Mother Goose - Jon  Scieszka; No Sweet Without Brine - Cynthia  Manick; The Wet Hex - Sun Yung  Shin; Village - LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs; Common Grace - Aaron  Caycedo-Kimura; Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco - K.  Iver; Your Kingdom - Eleni  Sikelianos; Relinquenda - Alexandra  Regalado; apocrifa - Amber  Flame; I am Kavi - Thushanthi  Ponweera; Binded - H  Warren; Quiet Night Think - Gillian  Sze; A Warning About Swans - R. M.  Romero; Galápagos: Islands of Change - Leslie  Bulion; Side Notes From The Archivist - Anastacia-Renee; Bread and Circus - Airea D.  Matthews

Kick off Virtual Wi2023 with a LIVE keynote conversation between Danny Caine (co-owner of the Raven Book Store and author of How to Resist Amazon and Why), Cory Doctorow (co-author of Chokepoint Capitalism), and Stacy Mitchell (Director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance). Together, they will explore the threats posed by corporate consolidation, and far-reaching strategies for fighting back.
Corporate monopolies are as powerful as ever, making it harder and harder for American small businesses to thrive. The explosive growth of monopolizers like Amazon has implications beyond booksellers, too, impacting creative workers, privacy advocates, the environment, and American labor. But with a new antitrust movement already claiming important victories, incremental progress is being made. Bookstores now have an opportunity for bold action to tell our story and resist corporate consolidation. In this discussion between three leading anti-monopoly thinkers, learn about the risks posed by capitalist chokepoints, and gain strategies for how to fight back.