# Event Details - **Event Name**: John Washington: How to Close a Camp - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Jounalist John Washington discusses his latest, an urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system.About this EventJounalist John Washington discusses his latest, an urgent polemic and practical guide to dismantling the immigrant detention system.ABOUT THE BOOKMasked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of detention centers across the country. In How to Close a Camp, award-winning journalist and translator John Washington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps--and how to do it.In spite of the decades-long growth of immigrant detention, communities have been fighting back against camps--and winning. Washington distills strategies and lessons from successful campaigns to close camps and block or slow the opening of new ones, drawing on conversations with veteran organizers from the movement.Chipping away at the infrastructure of the camp is the only way to stave off increasing xenophobic and authoritarian violence. It is time to close all the camps and build a world that no longer requires them.ABOUT THE AUTHORJohn Washington is a journalist covering the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. He is the author of The Case for Open Borders and The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond. Washington is also a translator of books by Anabel Hernandez, Sandra Rodriquez Nieto, and others. His most recent translations include The Hollywood Kid by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Both were co-translated along with Daniela Ugaz. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/tempe/john-washington-how-to-close-a-camp/100001994391038283 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Changing Hands Bookstore - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Tempe - **state**: AZ - **country**: United States - **location**: Changing Hands Bookstore - **lat**: 33.3624661 - **long**: -111.9126201 - **full address**: Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: John Washington: How to Close a Camp - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/2b9df027e08d25dd84dc59b06c3426b59cca42e4eee317e88ed7196fce3c551c-rimg-w1200-h600-dc1d2129-gmir.jpg?v=1784694041 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is John Washington: How to Close a Camp being held? - **A:** John Washington: How to Close a Camp takes place on Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 27 Aug, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing John Washington: How to Close a Camp? - **A:** John Washington: How to Close a Camp is organized by Changing Hands Bookstore. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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