Sonali Kolhatkar discusses & signs Breaking Ice: Community Defense Against State Terror and Maga Fascism

Political exhaustion has a particular texture: too much input, no framework, nowhere to set any of it down. It arrives in fragments, mostly through people angrier than you and less informed, until caring at that volume starts to make you useless. There is a real difference between doomscrolling and sitting in a room while a journalist who has covered immigration enforcement and community response for years lays out how the pieces connect, then takes questions from strangers who are just as tired as you are. Breaking Ice is an argument about community defense, and the crowd it pulls in Pasadena tends to be people who came straight from work, still in the clothes, choosing this over the couch. Expect long questions and longer answers. Nobody leaves early, and the room is small enough that you end up talking to whoever sat down next to you. Thursday the 3rd, 7:00pm. RSVP required.