Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Book Launch: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

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

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor  narrates this dramatic transformation in housing policy, its financial ramifications, and its influence on African Americans. She reveals that federal policy transformed the urban core into a new frontier of cynical extraction disguised as investment.

Film Screening: Lamma Shoftak / When I Saw You

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

Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine.

Film Screening: Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days That Shook the WTO

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

This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization’s Millennium meeting in December 1999.

Film Screening: Trópico de Sangre

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

La Republica Dominicana está agitado bajo la brutal dictadura de Rafael Trujillo. Esta es la historia de cómo Minerva y sus hermanas desafiaron al dictador.

Film Screening: Stuart Hall Project

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

Combining archival imagery with specially filmed material and a Miles Davis soundtrack,  Akomfrah carefully constructs sequences of rare forgotten and long since seen historical material together with Hall’s extensive broadcasts and personal archives, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the ideas and personal story of Stuart Hall. 

alQaws Benefit Show x NYC

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

Come join us for a night of performances to raise funds to help bring together and support Palestinian Queers across borders. With special guest Alsarah from Alsarah and the Nubatones!

FILM SCREENING: Red November Black November

Sally Alvarez and Carolyn Jung produced a film, "Red November, Black November," documenting the Greensboro tragedy. The film premiered in March of 1981, less than 2 years after the murders, and stands as a raw record of the truth of the massacre and its immediate aftermath.

Marx and Engels, The Civil War in the U.S. with Andrew Zimmerman

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

A complete revision of the 1937 edition of the Civil War writings of Marx and Engels, this volume incorporates new texts by Marx and Engels, as well as by US authors including Communist Union Army officer Joseph Weydemeyer and African American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois.

End the War on the Poor: Confronting Militarism and the War Economy

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

Around the world, the poor and dispossessed are facing the direct violence, economics, and politics of war and militarism. Join us on Friday, December 6, for a public discussion on militarism, the war economy and building a moral economy in its place.

CALL FOR ART - Artists Against Apartheid

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