Join us on Wednesday, August 5th at 5:30 for our next Cactus Book Club. Milwaukee National Lawyers Guild will lead an evening of discussion of journalist and guild member Kris Hermes’ book, Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000. 

In examining the policing methods developed by former Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney to repress dissent, methods which have been extensively used across the U.S. ever since, we hope to encourage people to learn about the “radical, innovative, and confrontational forms of legal support carried out by R2K Legal,” a defendant-led collective that acted in true solidarity in the streets, the jails, the courtrooms, and in the media to support one another and their community.

Recommended bookseller: Lion’s Tooth

“The National Lawyers Guild is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.”

ABOUT US: Cactus Book Club (CBC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 5:30-7:30 in the back room at Cactus Club. Each month a different community organization, collective, mutual aid group, or business chooses the book & recommended bookseller then leads the discussion. We read sociopolitical fiction and non-fiction, with a focus on works by women, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and/or otherwise under-published groups. You don’t have to finish reading the book to attend. All book club meetings are free. No registration required. 18+. CBC is part of our ongoing Cactus+ programming. Contact bookclub@cactusplus.org with questions or suggestions.

Interested in leading a book club? Apply here