Author Talk: Derrick Palmer — Handbook for the Revolution -with Afeni Evans
May 21, 2026
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as posted by the channelAuthor Derrick Palmer discusses their book "Handbook for the Revolution" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
From the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, a definitive how-to guide to workplace organizing told through a David vs. Goliath chronicle for the ages.
In Handbook for the Revolution, Derrick Palmer, who continues to work at JFK8, provides the answer in the form of a how-to guide to organizing in today’s workplace while providing gripping, never before-told anecdotes from the ALU's fight and its plans for the future. Practical, philosophical, and full of personality, Palmer’s manual-cum-manifesto is an accessible step-by-step playbook for the often contentious and complex process of unionization, and a powerful call for equality—and greater understanding—through worker solidarity.
Full of hard-won lessons and personal experience, and written in the context of mass consolidation, fluctuating labor laws, and an ever widening wealth gap, Handbook for the Revolution is an invaluable resource for the modern labor movement, a thrilling chronicle of persistence, and an inspiring push for change in the workplace—and beyond.
Derrick Palmer is the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, which in 2022 successfully unionized an Amazon warehouse for the first time in the company’s history. In 2022, he and union cofounder Christian Smalls were honored with placement on Time's 100 Most Influential People list and as one of the Dynamic Duos on Ebony's Power 100 list. He continues to work at the Amazon JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where he lives.
Palmer is in conversation with Afeni Evans, an activist and organizer, a Movement 4 Black Lives Electoral Justice Table member, former regional field lead for The Green Party and forever frontline from the George Floyd Uprising. Afeni's passion for advocacy and her voice is lended to all marginalized people from our Palestinian siblings to protesters being brutalized in Nigeria, Afeni's voice knows no border. Afeni is passionate about equity, anti-racism and leadership development.
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