Film Screening: Mulheres de Axé / Axé Women

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

In this documentary, the Axé Women talk about their struggles to maintain their community’s African roots, bringing to light the matriarchal foundations of Candomblé and, consequently, a significant part of how Brazilian culture was built.

Film Screening: American Dream

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

American Dream chronicles the six-month strike that followed during 1985 and 1986 at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota. The film asks, was it worth it, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labor? 

RAIZ UP! HIP HOP SHOWCASE + OPEN MIC

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

Our monthly open mic and showcase welcomes emcee’s, singers, dancers, poets, and all other artists! Join us as we celebrate resistance, movement and art.

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Jazz and Self Determination: Session 2

Join musician and scholar Ras Moshe for a panel and performance followed by a two session course examining the historical parallels between Jazz and socio-political engagement.

THE GOOD MIND – FILM SCREENING

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

The film follows Onondaga Nation leaders as they continue the efforts of their ancestors to protect their sovereignty and culture, seek justice for the wrongs done to their traditional lands!

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Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA

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

Join the Revolutions Study Group for this 4-week course. Our four-week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen, "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race," first published 1975, and W.E.B Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.

(PART ONE) From Civil Rights to “We are an African People!”: SNCC and the Black Student Movement, 1960-1972

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

This workshop will assess how SNCC as the vanguard of the national Black/Student movement evolved from non-direct non-violence to develop a Black Nationalist & internationalist organizational mission in the midst of the shifting objectives of the overall Black Freedom Struggle of the early to mid 1960s.

PRIDE

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

It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. Initially rebuffed by the Union, the group identifies a tiny mining village in Wales and sets off to make their donation in person.

MEDIA MAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD: SESSION 3

This is the 3rd in a series of workshops on the relationship between media and movement building. This 3rd session will feature the screening of short works by workshop participants

ENGINEERED CONFLICT: SCHOOL CLOSINGS, PUBLIC HOUSING, LAW ENFORCEMENT

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

A lecture by Dr. David Stovall. This lecture seeks to help us understand the current connection between school closings, destruction of public housing and law enforcement strategies as a form of intentional state-sanctioned violence.

CALL FOR ART - Artists Against Apartheid

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