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Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Josina Muthemba Machel Classroom 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

This 3-part series will cover the following themes of the last historic campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and its contemporary revival as the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel

Violeta Parra Stage 320 West 37th Street, New York, United States

Drawing on hundreds of interviews in Palestine and Israel, Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of Palestine, and Palestinian labour, have been used to build out the state of Israel -- even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation.

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Lessons From the Movement to End Slavery

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

The ideas and politics of the movement to end slavery can teach us valuable lessons for today’s struggles. This course aims prepare participants for deeper study of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America.

Raiz Up! All Femme Showcase + Open Mic

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join us for this special edition of  Raiz Up!  as we celebrate women artist, resistance, and movement. This is a monthly open mic and showcase welcoming emcee’s, singers, dancers, poets, and all other artists! 

Film Screening: The Working Class Goes To Heaven (1971)

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Lulu Massa (Gian Maria Volonte) is a highly productive worker at a factory paying piece work but is disliked by his colleagues as his efficiency is used by management to justify their demands for higher output. While employees are told to care for and rely on their machines, they see radical students outside the factory campaigning for higher pay rates and less work.

Film Screening: Khoon diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail)

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Opening out the real and the human against the abstract and the brutal, the film seeks to confront advocates of amnesia in Kashmir as well as in other conflict zones.

Revolutionary Lawyering

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

This course will examine the role of the legal system as an historically-evolved mechanism and codification of the capitalist system, as well as a “relief valve” that functions to contain the social justice movement, especially the struggles of the dispossessed. This course will also consider the part that can be played by legal practitioners in revolutionary societal transformation.

Do I Have a Future Here? A Discussion on Economic Migration with DIEM25

Josina Machel & Michael Ratner Combined Classroom 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join us for an interactive educational session discussing personal migration stories and clearing up political confusions. Let’s connect the dots and analyze individual worries and troubles in the context of the larger systemic and social issues.

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The Age of Anxiety

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

This six week course will explore this age of anxiety and its fetishization of the self. The course will be structured around Konstantinos Tsoukalas’ recent book Age of Anxiety and will also include readings from W.H. Auden, Leonard Cohen, Michael Sandel, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Erich Fromm.

Uses of Marxist Critical Concepts for Everyday Life

The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

This four hour seminar, taught by Richard D. Wolff, will summarize and apply the critical and analytical power of basic Marxist economics to today's dominant economic theories and their accompanying ideologies.

Bravado Magenta: Film Screening and Discussion

Paul & Eslanda Robeson Cinema 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

This Film is an Exposé on the intersection of coloniality and patriarchy. A performative documentary which critically analyzes racialized masculinities through self-cartography and storytelling. This film was written and directed by multidisciplinary artist and scholar Bocafloja .

CALL FOR ART - Artists Against Apartheid

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