Get ready. Our two-day HOLIDAY KICKOFF SALE starts this Sunday. Our stores are decorated, our shelves are brimming, and we're eager to help you find the perfect gifts—including (especially?) something for yourself. See you soon! 🔗 Details: bit.ly/4eq1bSB

Following the success of our first online poetry reading, we're bringing you a second one on Dec. 5 with Indigenous geniuses NATALIE DIAZ, LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON, and JAMAICA HEOLIMELEIKALANI OSORIO 💖 Donations to the Sameer Project. Sign up here: workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-poe…

❝Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians there, the UN Special Committee said in a new report❞ ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Not valid at the bar, but come see us while you're here! 🍻

❝The danger now is that Palestinians die twice, once in physical reality and second in a moral one where the powerful diminish the very standards that shape the world as we know it.❞ —Nesrine Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

❝This should be obvious but I’ll say it anyway: to agree to the NEA’s compliance guidelines, even while crossing our fingers and holding our noses, would not merely be hypocritical—it would be a betrayal of our staff, contributors, and community.❞ —Halimah Marcus

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This weekend in Tempe and Phoenix: community, resources, and books they don't want you to read. changinghands.com/bannedbookstore

Community, resources, and books they don't want you to read. THE BANNED BOOKSTORE is open for #IndependentBookstoreDay weekend. A portion of proceeds benefits @uniteagainstbookbans. changinghands.com/bannedbookstore

❝So well curated and presented. It’s like a museum exhibit from the future—a dark future.❞ THE BANNED BOOKSTORE continues today (Sunday) at Changing Hands Bookstore Tempe and Phoenix. changinghands.com/bannedbookstore

❝The Banned Bookstore gave me chills.❞⁠ ❝Bewildering, enraging, surprising, inspiring.❞⁠ ❝At one point I was moved to tears.❞⁠ ❝. . . felt like a scene from The Twilight Zone.❞⁠ changinghands.com/bannedbookstore

❝If there's a feeling that I think unites us, it's a sense of collective abandonment.❞ Great Sarah Kendzior interview by KJZZ Phoenix's Sam Dingman, who moderated our event with Sarah last week. Signed copies of THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP in stock now.kjzz.org/the-show/2025-…

Anyone at all? Senator Mark Kelly? Senator Ruben Gallego?

Does Democrats' "ironclad support" for this government still hold? Even as major international bodies redouble their efforts to warn the world? cc: Captain Mark Kelly Ruben Gallego

❝No aid has entered Gaza for more than 10 weeks. Every single one of the 2.1 million people there faces famine conditions.❞ —UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher cc: Captain Mark Kelly Ruben Gallego news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

Neither do Gaza's adults. cc: Ruben Gallego Senator Ruben Gallego Captain Mark Kelly Senator Mark Kelly

Signatories include two Nobel Prize winners for Literature—Annie Ernaux and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio—and Goncourt Prize winners Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and Leila Slimani.

So has Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a UN Special Committee, the International Criminal Court at The Hague ("plausible genocide"), numerous genocide scholars, and other international bodies.

A world historical obscenity. Like the Biden administration before them, which vetoed numerous resolutions to stop the genocide, the Trump administration is the lone vote against.

This Wednesday will mark the *10 YEAR* anniversary of the First Draft Book Club at Changing Hands Bookstore. The only thing I've ever stayed committed to for 10 years before is a cat. It's one of the great joys of my life to read and discuss books with my community changinghands.com/event/june2025…