The People’s Market features local artists, creatives and makers from the 5 boroughs, and beyond. Come learn, share experiences and build community while supporting our local artists.
Who was Thomas Sankara? What did he stand for? Why is the political course he fought for relevant to working people in Africa and the US? Join us on a presentation on Thomas Sankara's Revolutionary Legacy.
Earlier this year more than 160 million peasants and workers went on strike in India. The workers, exhausted by almost three decades of neoliberal policies and by the attack on their rights, came onto the streets to make their case for better livelihoods and workplace democracy. Join us for a dialogue with the leader of the All India Peasants Union.
This course explores the position that historically oppressed groups in the US — Puerto Ricans and Native, African, Chinese, Japanese and Mexican Americans have occupied in the US economy. We outline the Materialist/Marxist analysis of race ideology and how if differs from other interpretations. We also analyze the theoretical and political contributions that radicals of color in the US have made to the fight for human liberation.
Joins us in a conversation with Emmy-winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar ahead of the release of their award-winning documentary The Silence of Others (2018). A cautionary tale about fascism and the dangers of forgetting the past.
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 Arabic.
What risks do incarcerated writers face when their words travel beyond prison walls? Dynamic authors, poets, activists, and actors Mahogany L. Browne, Aja Monet, Jon Sands, Christopher Soto, Kirya Traber and Jecoina Vinson bring the writers’ messages to life on the stage.
Lurian Lula da Silva, former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's only daughter, will join us in New York for the book launch; she will make her first international appearance to denounce the judicial arbitrariness and human rights violations that put Lula in jail.
Join author Vannak Anan Prum, visiting from Cambodia, dor a celebration and discussion of his graphic memoir of slavery at sea.
This will be an immersive reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Almanac of the Dead." This course will explore what might we learn from "The Almanac of the Dead" about capitalist production and its relationship to the Indigenous situation in the Americas.
Join us in experiencing the culminating performance of HOME. HOME is a theater piece created by people who have to tell you something about this human experience – its different aspects, abuses, struggles, hopes, circumstances and obstacles, and the fight to to be able to say, HOME.
We the Stones /Nosotros las Piedras, a documentary by Costa Rican filmmaker Álvaro Torres Crespo, follows three gold panners deep in Costa Rica’s jungle. For years they have panned the rivers and exchanged their gold for food and alcohol. Now, the government has decided to expel them all.
