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April 20 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Master’s Tools: Activism and the Academy
What is “legitimate” knowledge? What are our political obligations as academics and activists?To further this conversation with a broader community of activists and academics, please join us for the conference titled The Master’s Tools: Activism and the Academy.
April 20 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Saturday, repeating until May 4, 2019
Capital in Crisis: 2008 to 2020 and Beyond
A review of the 2008 capitalist crisis with a reading and discussion of David McNally’s Global Slump and other works.
April 20 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Saturday, repeating until May 11, 2019
What does it Mean to be Left?
This course will discuss what it means to be Left, both in the past and in the present and will posit some thoughts for a new left formation adequate to the demands of the contemporary world.
April 20 @ 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm
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An event every week that begins at 2:15 pm on Saturday, repeating until May 11, 2019
Freud and Philosophy: Overcoming the Self and its Aporias
This seminar will address the very ambivalent and volatile relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophical discourse
April 20 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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One event on April 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm
One event on April 20, 2019 at 3:30 pm
One event on May 6, 2019 at 3:30 pm
One event on June 3, 2019 at 3:00 am
One event on July 16, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Songs in the Key of Resistance
Songs in the Key of Resistance is a community song and chant share hosted by the NYC Poor People's Campaign: National Call for Moral Revival and The People's Forum. This is a space to develop relationships and strengthen our community through song.
April 20 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 4:30 pm on Saturday, repeating until May 4, 2019
The Age of Anxiety
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.
April 21 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, repeating until June 2, 2019
Spanish Language for Social Movements (True Beginner)
Sundays, February 24th, 2019 - June 2nd, 2019 10:00pm-1:00pm (3hrs./week; 45 hrs.)
The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Spanish.
April 21 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
The Ambiguities of the “Personal is the Political and the Political is the Personal”
This one-day course will explore how structural changes in US capitalism since the 1970s have transformed North Americans’ intimate life: our sexuality, relationships, marriages, families, and job expectations.
April 22 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Overdose Prevention Training
You will become a Certified Opioid Overdose Responder and receive an Overdose Rescue Kit with naloxone (a medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose and restores breathing.)
April 22 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:00 pm on Monday, repeating until April 29, 2019
Black Reconstruction
Some have called the U.S. Civil War the “second American revolution” or the completion of the first American revolution. Others claim that the war of independence and Civil War were not revolutions, but had tremendous revolutionary potential. We will read W.E.B. DuBois’ Black Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2007) in whole, and for more recent research, the middle part of Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South (Harvard University Press, 2003).
April 23 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Tuesday and Thursday, repeating until May 8, 2019
HOME: A Performance Project by The Open Program
HOME offers regular rehearsals at different locations, open to everybody at all times. You can join the project from the beginning, or even at the last moment. A team of professional artists from different parts of the world will help you develop your story or poem, discover with you how to work on speech, vibration, rhythm and meaning, or assist you in creating a song or an acting fragment, a dramatic piece based on what you think and feel is meaningful for you and your people, and rehearse with you on what you created.
April 23 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, repeating until April 23, 2019
De Sangre y Azucar: Afro-Caribbean Rhythms Drumming Classes
These introductory classes seek to highlight the different musical rhythms of the Caribbean. Some of the styles taught will be Rumba (Cuba), Bomba (PR), musical forms from DR/Haiti, and Afro-Panamanian styles!
