OPIRG Guelph’s Radical Resource Library is hosting a book launch with Aric McBay, author of the novel Kraken Calling.
Join us for a discussion about resistance and resilience, tactics and strategy, and the importance of speculative fiction in movements for social and environmental justice.
Copies of the book will be available to purchase, with cash or by debit/credit or e-transfer.
Accessibility and public health information:
– This is a free event!
– 10C is a physically accessible space – there’s an elevator to the 4th floor, moveable tables and chairs, and an accessible washroom.
– Aric will be speaking into a microphone, and we will have a mic and sanitizing wipes available for the discussion.
– Childcare provided upon request, with 48 hours advance notice.
– We are working on setting up a livestream of the event for those who would prefer to stay home; we will try to allow for remote participation.
– Masks are required except for the speaker, and we’re asking people to please avoid eating and drinking in the space.
– 10C is a physically accessible space – there’s an elevator to the 4th floor, moveable tables and chairs, and an accessible washroom.
– Aric will be speaking into a microphone, and we will have a mic and sanitizing wipes available for the discussion.
– Childcare provided upon request, with 48 hours advance notice.
– We are working on setting up a livestream of the event for those who would prefer to stay home; we will try to allow for remote participation.
– Masks are required except for the speaker, and we’re asking people to please avoid eating and drinking in the space.
*** If you have any other accessibility needs or questions, please get in touch!
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Aric McBay is an organizer, a farmer, and author of seven books, including the novel Kraken Calling (2022) and Full Spectrum Resistance (2019), a two-volume guide to building more effective movements. He writes and speaks about effective social movements, and has organized campaigns around prisoner justice, Indigenous solidarity, pipelines, unionization, and other causes. You can find his work at www.aricmcbay.org.
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Kraken Calling alternates between 2028 and 2051.
In 2028, activists fight an increasingly desperate battle against the climate emergency and capitalism, but their every victory brings down repression. Meanwhile, discontented by protests and polemics, a radical movement named Kraken grows in the shadows.
Twenty years later, an oppressive regime has taken control after a series of epidemics, economic shortages, and ecological disasters. The population suffers ruthless “triage” at the hands of an Emergency Authority that cares only for its own inner circle. Revolutionaries struggle for survival and support. In the city and on a remote farm, regular people try to stay out of the conflict. But no one can avoid the coming storm.
Popular social movements and underground liberation groups clash, and people struggle against the limitations of their time. In 2028, the underground seems premature—but by 2051, they may be too late.