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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK | Motown & The Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries with Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman
DESCRIPTION:An inside look at how the experiences of Black workers created lifelong revolutionaries \nMotown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class\, race\, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers\, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League\, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit\, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion\, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces\, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle. \n\nJerome Scott\, a former labor organizer in the Detroit auto plants in the 1960s-70s and a founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers\, was the founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. He is a political educator in movement and labor organizations in the South and nationally\, and a contributing author/co-author to political education toolkits and numerous articles on the capitalist crisis\, the digital and AI technological revolution\, and class\, race\, and the revolutionary process. He was co-recipient of the American Sociological Association 2004 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology\, is a board member of the General Baker Institute\, and is a member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. \nWalda Katz-Fishman\, a scholar activist and professor emerita of sociology at Howard University\, was a founding member of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She facilitates political education in academic and movement spaces and is a contributing author/co-author and editor of popular education toolkits and numerous chapters and articles on the global capitalist crisis\, the AI/digital revolution\, class\, race and gender\, and revolutionary transformation. She was co-recipient of the American Sociological Association 2004 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology and is active in academic and social justice organizations\, including the League of Revolutionaries for a New America.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/motown-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Culture,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:[Book Launch] PARTY LINE with Kyle Carrero Lopez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of Kyle Carrero Lopez’s electrifying debut collection\, PARTY LINE\, which centers three interconnected forces: social life\, US-Cuba relations\, and the lives of Black people in the United States and Cuba. Through familial\, satirical\, and geopolitical lenses\, Party Line considers how countries—and people—wield power over those they have othered. Kyle will be joined by writers Jasmine Sanders and Elisa Gonzalez. \nThe collection features a series meditating on tensions embedded in party spaces. Carrero Lopez challenges assumptions that these spaces are apolitical or purely escapist\, revealing unexpected connections between individuals’ actions and those of the state. His work expands bridges between US and Cuban art by developing an urgent poetics around the material conditions of the US embargo and challenging whitewashed images of Cuban Americans in the US imagination. \nAlternating between humor and lyric severity\, playfulness and political critique\, these poems negotiate contradiction with linguistic dexterity and critical consciousness\, proving that political poetry can be both serious and joyously alive. \n____ \nKyle Carrero Lopez is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY\, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest\, PARTY LINE\, forthcoming July 2026 from Graywolf\, and serves as Editor for the Poetry Project Newsletter. Born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey\, his work centers power\, social life\, and Afro-Cuban histories\, among other subjects. His writing has been highlighted in Best New Poets and Best of the Net; round-ups in W Magazine\, Current Affairs\, and The Atlantic; and episodes of Poetry Unbound and The Slowdown. \nElisa Gonzalez is a poet\, essayist\, and fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection\, Grand Tour\, published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, was named one of the best books of 2023 by The New Yorker. FSG will also bring out her novel\, The Awakenings\, and a nonfiction book\, Strangers on Earth. \nJasmine Sanders is a writer from the south side of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, ArtForum\, BookForum\, and New York magazine.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/partylinelaunch/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Palestinian Writers: Sara Abou Rashed with Sarah Aziza & Mohammed Mhawish
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a NYC literary evening celebrating the launch of Sara Abou Rashed’s book\, Theories of Return\, with fellow Palestinian writers. \n\n\n\n\nComing from Columbus\, Ohio\, Sara will be joined by Sarah Aziza (author of the award-winning memoir The Hollow Half) and acclaimed Gazan writer and journalist Mohammed Mhawish. This will be an illuminating event discussing the role of Palestinian writers today\, Palestinian literature\, memory\, return\, and more. \nThe evening features readings by all three writers\, followed by a conversation & book signing. \n\nRSVP
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/palestinian-writers-sara-abou-rashed-with-sarah-aziza-mohammed-mhawish/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:RIOT/EPFL - Stop Building? A Moratorium on New Construction
DESCRIPTION:‘Stop Building\, House Everyone! ’—How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction? To question the dictate of building new as a solution to the housing crisis offers a way out of our current crisis of imagination by directing us to a myriad of other routes. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT/ EPFL @epflarchitecture ) will discuss one of the most contentious parts of the groundbreaking book ‘A Moratorium on New Construction’ (@sternbergpress_official @mitpress ) at the People’s Forum @peoplesforumnyc in New York on Friday 5th at 6:00 PM with @adarebrown and @danjoroche — do join us! \n  \nFind RIOT/EPFL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZCP47aCrAg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/riot-epfl-stop-building-a-moratorium-on-new-construction/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Talk & Discussion with Dr. Brian Kwoba author of Hubert Harrison - Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
DESCRIPTION:Join the People’s Forum for an event to introduce Dr. Brian Kwoba’s award-winning book\, Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism. He will be joined in conversation by Tajee Bounds to explore the many radicalisms of Hubert Harrison\, who emerges in the book as one of the most influential and neglected Afro-Caribbean revolutionaries in New York City’s history. \nAfter blazing a trail for people of color in the Socialist Party of America\, Hubert Harrison emerged as one of the most prominent Black freethinkers and free lovers of his generation. He practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist Colored International in the face of European colonialism in Africa\, Asia\, Latin America\, and the Caribbean. Most spectacularly\, Harrison’s Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of African people in modern history. Because of his fearless radicalism\, however\, the full scope of Harrison’s revolutionary legacy has been erased from popular memory. Until now. \nUntil now\, Dr. Kwoba’s book has won the 2026 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and the 2026 Phillis Wheatley Book Award from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage. According to Robin DG Kelley\, “Brian Kwoba has written a beautiful\, intellectual biography as radical and original as its subject.” \nDr. Kwoba is a professor of history and director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis. Over the past 22 years\, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism\, immigrant workers’ rights\, climate justice\, decolonizing education\, Falastin\, and the movement for Black lives. Tajee Bounds is the membership and volunteer coordinator for the People’s Forum and a community organizer in New Jersey. \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-discussion-with-dr-brian-kwoba-author-of-hubert-harrison-forbidden-genius-of-black-radicalism/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Bible and Police Violence in the United States by Conor Q. Foley
DESCRIPTION:Police violence is surging across our country. The state has been captured by Christian nationalists\, and its agencies and officials continue to invoke the Bible to justify these predations. We need an analysis that can guide our confrontations with its power. \nSo join Dr. Janet Dewart Bell\, Rev. Jordan T. Jones\, and Manolo de Los Santos at The People’s Forum for a conversation about the Bible and policing based on Conor Q. Foley’s new book. \nREGISTER HERE \nBook description:  \nThis book traces the dynamics of biblical influence on police violence in the United States. As new escalations of state violence are inflected by an ascendent Christian nationalism\, the Bible has been reasserted as a source of legitimacy and narrative force. Policing in the United States has always been intertwined with the Bible\, beginning in the colonial era and transatlantic slave trade\, and extending up through Jim Crow\, mass incarceration\, and the rise of the contemporary carceral state. The Bible was used to provide the mythic and moral context in which these histories of domination unfolded\, nourishing the growth of globalized racial capitalism\, (neo-)colonialism\, and imperialism as the zones of war within which policing is practiced. Building upon these histories\, this book draws on a range of sources\, from Bibles marketed to the police\, to Bible studies and devotionals written by and for police\, to visual stunts\, statements\, and social media posts from politicians and government agencies intent on protecting and expanding policing power. This book considers the mechanics of these kinds of deployments of Scripture and unpacks the hermeneutical structure of the reading habits that underpin them. While critically examining the use of the Bible to justify police violence\, this volume also presents alternative interpretive possibilities that find reparative\, redemptive\, and anti-carceral lines of thought in the Bible\, offering a liberative and irenic counter-reading of Scripture. \n  \nEndorsements: \n“The Bible and Police Violence in the US—Conor Foley’s brilliant gift to our communities and psyches—pushes beyond US/Americana bloodletting and apologetics for the expansion and militarization of US policing […it] severs the cords of racist captivity/slavery/torture and reveals the devastations of imperial and colonial policing. This text offers powerful critiques of and push back against Tower-of-Babel clutter and authoritarian discourse. To protect ourselves and communities against enslavement\, torture\, disappearances\, and deaths\, we need such courageous texts as this one: reminding us that study and resistance to confront predatory power is a challenge worthy of our lives and souls.” — Dr. Joy James\, editor of Beyond Cop Cities\, Confronting Counterinsurgency\, and ENGAGE: Indigenous\, Black\, and Afro-Indigenous Futures \n“Foley provides us with a deep exegesis of how scripture is mobilized by the authoritarian right to advance police power and in the process exposes the deep injustices of both Christian nationalists and the institution of policing.” — Dr. Alex S. Vitale\, Author of The End of Policing \n“The Bible and Police Violence in the United States is a bold\, urgent\, and theologically grounded call to action and exactly the book needed for this moment. At a time when the militarization of our communities is occurring as if on steroids\, author\, activist and pastor\, Rev. Conor Foley\, challenges the proliferation of state-sanctioned violence and the moral and biblical boosterism of law enforcement. This book reminds us that the God of the Bible stands with the poor\, the marginalized\, and the brutalized. It invites activists\, organizers and all people of moral conscience to reckon with the theological roots of American violence—and to commit ourselves to a gospel that breaks chains\, not bodies.” — Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis\, Author\, Pastor\, theologian and anti-poverty activist
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-the-bible-and-police-violence-in-the-united-states-by-conor-q-foley/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Theorizing Fallism: Rhodes Must Fall and the Global Movement to Decolonize the University Book Launch and Q&A with the author Dr. A. Kayum Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:In 2015\, students at the University of Cape Town ignited a movement that would reverberate across the globe by demanding the removal of a statue of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. What began as a protest against a single monument became Rhodes Must Fall: a confrontation with colonial legacies at South African universities that inspired a movement at Oxford and beyond. \nA. Kayum Ahmed tells the powerful story of Rhodes Must Fall\, tracing the emergence of a new decolonial framework\, Fallism\, and its trajectory from Africa to empire. Drawing on archival research and interviews with activists\, he interprets Fallism as both a critique of the university—rooted in patriarchy\, white supremacy\, and capitalism—and a broader decolonial theory. \nAhmed reveals how students combined acts of defiance with deeper forms of intellectual insurgency to challenge Eurocentric curricula\, linguistic hierarchies\, and the silencing of Black epistemologies. In so doing\, they transformed Black pain—the source of the uprising—into a collective struggle for Black liberation. \nBy following Fallism’s journey\, this book demonstrates how student movements create new vocabularies of resistance that transcend geographies of power. It underscores why universities remain battlegrounds in global struggles\, from conflicts over statues and curricula to pro-Palestinian protests. Both a history of a movement and a theoretical intervention\, Theorizing Fallism illuminates the enduring influence of students to challenge entrenched structures of knowledge and power. \n  \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/theorizing-fallism-rhodes-must-fall-and-the-global-movement-to-decolonize-the-university-book-launch-and-qa-with-the-author-dr-a-kayum-ahmed/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Many Lives of Syeda X - Neha Dixit in conversation with Shayoni Mitra
DESCRIPTION:Join Neha Dixit and Shayoni Mitra for an insightful chat about the award-winning book\, The Many Lives of Syeda X. \nWhat does the life of an ordinary working-class Indian look and feel like? In this book\, the award-winning journalist Neha Dixit\ntraces the story of one such faceless Indian woman\, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. Syeda X\, a weaver left Benares for Delhi with her alcoholic husband and three small children in the aftermath of riots triggered by the demolition of the Babri Masjid. In Delhi\, she settled into the life of a poor migrant\, juggling multiple jobs a day — from trimming the loose threads of jeans to cooking namkeen\, and from shelling almonds to making tea strainers. Syeda has done over 50 types of unskilled work in three decades\, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took leave\, to nurse an illness or to attend a school PTA meeting\, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant fighting to take her place. \nResearched for close to a decade\, in this book\, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters: from a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast to a slumlord\, who grew ‘too big’ for his own good\, and is shot by rival landlords. From a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination to a gow rakshak whose daughter elopes with Syeda’s son. From corrupt policemen who delight in beating young Muslim men to a cheerful band of home-based working women who look out for each other. \nIn the end\, things come to a grotesque full circle for Syeda. Her life is upturned for the umpteenth time as the Delhi riots of 2020 caused another cataclysmic displacement. But displacement\, tragedy and hardship are something she is used to — being poor and Muslim and a woman. Written with deep insight\, The Many Lives of Syeda X is a portal to a messy world hidden away from elite Indians. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in New India. \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-many-lives-of-syeda-x-neha-dexit-in-conversation-with-shayoni-mitra/
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SUMMARY:The Story of Capital: Book Launch with David Harvey in conversation with Adam Tooze
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URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-story-of-capital-book-launch-with-david-harvey-in-conversation-with-adam-tooze/
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SUMMARY:Liquid Handcuffs Book Launch & Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Methadone is the gold standard for treating opioid addiction. It is a life-saving medication. But the current\, outdated system for obtaining it–the methadone clinic system– is punitive\, unjust\, and humiliating. In the midst of an ongoing opioid overdose crisis\, it’s easier to get fentanyl on the street than it is to get methadone from a clinic. This live panel of experts will unpack the carceral and racist history of methadone. Panelists will discuss how siloed clinics are a creation of the War on Drugs\, expose the role of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the culture of cruelty\, and explain how methadone is harm reduction but the system that controls access to it is harm production. To free people who take methadone\, the clinic system has to be abolished and care for opioid addiction integrated into the healthcare system. \nJoin Helen Redmond\, Samuel Kelton Roberts\, Betty Kolod and Jerry Otero to discuss the past\, present\, and future of methadone. \nRSVP HERE!
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/liquid-handcuffs/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | Tricontinental\, Havana 1966 with Vijay Prashad & Manolo De Los Santos
DESCRIPTION:Join editor Manolo De Los Santos in conversation with writer Vijay Prashad to shed light on the historic meeting between revolutionary movements from three continents that paved the way for international solidarity in the face of imperialism. Tricontinental\, Havana 1966: Speeches and Documents of the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples for Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America brings together many of the monumental commitments that emerged from the conference\, including speeches\, resolutions\, and never-before-seen photos from this historic meeting. \nSixty years ago\, hundreds of revolutionary leaders—like Fidel Castro\, Amílcar Cabral\, and Salvador Allende—gathered in Havana\, Cuba. Hailing from eighty-two countries and representing national liberation movements\, communist parties\, and socialist states\, they all came with a singular objective: to build solidarity against US imperialism and its allies. \nRevolutionary forces were on the offensive: the Vietnamese were bravely fighting the US military\, South Africa was rising up against apartheid\, Palestine was resisting Zionist colonization\, among many other fronts of struggle. US imperialism\, on the defensive\, was wreaking havoc across the world—it became obvious that worldwide solidarity among revolutionary forces was a necessary step towards achieving total liberation. The Tricontinental was not only an acknowledgment of that fact\, but a promise to make that solidarity a material reality. Decades later\, US imperialism continues its assault on working and oppressed people across the world\, and this conference provides us a glimpse into what is necessary to build true liberation today.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/tricontinental-book-launch/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | Manifestations of Thought by Shaka A. Shakur
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, December 13\, for the book launch of Manifestations of Thought: When the Dragon Comes\, the selected writings of Shaka A. Shakur. Emory Douglas calls it an “impressive\, highly insightful\, and moving book.” Imprisoned in 2002\, Shaka has remained a staunch political activist: he grew into a leader of the New Afrikan Movement and continues to publish and share political analysis\, becoming a leader of organizers\, both inside and outside prison fight for across the country. Hear from folks who helped make this book possible\, as well as organizers and leaders fighting for Shaka’s liberation today. \nAs Derek Ford writes in the introduction\, “The fact this book has made it to publication—that you’re holding these words on paper\, seeing them on a screen\, or hearing them read—is evidence that the state’s escalating efforts to silence Shaka A. Shakur . . . have so far failed.” Produced in close collaboration with Shaka\, Manifestations of Thought is both an urgent call and an everlasting record of a key leader of the Black liberation struggle. This collection gathers his most significant personal\, theoretical\, organizational\, and practical writings. It is a reminder to fight not to honor for the political prisoners of our past\, but also for the revolutionaries still fighting for liberation today. \n  \nLeon Benson is an advocate for humanity and a testament to the power of the human spirit. Benson spent 25 years wrongfully incarcerated\, a harrowing decade of which were spent in solitary confinement. It was in prison that Benson and Shaka met and developed a friendship that lasts until this day. Leon transformed his survival into a mission of healing and justice. Since his exoneration in March 2023\, he has become a leading voice in the mental wellness field\, serving as a trauma-informed reentry specialist and peer recovery coach. \nLeon blends his profound lived experience with professional expertise to navigate the complexities of life after release. As a socially conscious hip-hop artist and community organizer\, he uses art and advocacy to connect with diverse audiences\, offering a rare mix of eloquent vulnerability and actionable insight. His first album\, “Innocent Born Guilty” was released by FREER Records in June 2023 and his first book\, Letters of Gratitude: i Am Because We Are was published by Iskra Books in 2024. \nDr. Akili Sadiki-Shakur\, a retired educator from Purdue University Northwest\, has been involved in the struggle against the racist mass incarceration system for decades. During this work\, she met and eventually married her husband\, Shaka A. Shakur. Akili is currently Director of Saving Our Families (SOF) in Northwest Indiana and Treasurer of the Shaka Shakur Freedom Campaign. \nDerek R. Ford is a teacher\, educational theorist\, and organizer living in Indianapolis. He has been working closely with Shaka A. Shakur since 2023\, helped start Free Shaka Shakur\, and is currently on the Board of the Shaka Shakur Freedom Campaign. Ford Co-Directed “Across Enemy Lines: Shaka A. Shakur” and worked closely with Shaka to edit Manifestations of Thought: When the Dragon Comes. Ford is one of the founders of the Indianapolis Liberation Center–where he volunteers as the Organizational Relations Directors–and is a lead organizer with the Coalition to Free Vernon T. Bateman. Ford’s written eight books\, including Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics\, Unlearning\, and the Sensations of Struggle (Iskra\, 2023) and\, along with Dani Abdullah\, co-hosts Naptown People’s Radio. You can read more about their work at derekrford.com.. \nDani Abdullah is a proud Black and queer person. As an organizer with ANSWER Indiana and the Party for Socialism and Liberation\, they are heavily invested in the liberation of New Afrikan/ Black people and of all people suffering under capitalism. Dani has fought for LGBTQ+ rights\, abortion access\, Palestinian liberation\, and to end police terror in Indianapolis. She is also a co-host of the weekly podcast\, Naptown People’s Radio. Outside of their organizing\, Dani is a mom\, a wife\, a social worker\, a Certified Sexual Abuse Youth Councilor\, the founder and CEO of You Are a Gift\, LLC\, and serves on the Board of Hear Her Voice. \nVernon T. Bateman is an artist\, author\, and community advocate. He was falsely arrested at the age of 18 and unjustly incarcerated for 26 years\, during which time he met Shaka A. Shakur. Released on parole in 2023\, Bateman still faces unconstitutional and severely restrictive parole stipulations. Despite these restrictions\, Bateman continues fighting for justice through his children’s books and artwork. As Congressman André D. Carson said\, Bateman’s “work is a powerful reflection of his unwavering commitment to social justice\, offering both a challenge and a solution to the injustices we face.” You can find out more about Bateman at Baby22GunSafetyLLC.com and VernonsVersions.art.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-manifestations-of-thought-by-shaka-a-shakur/
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SUMMARY:The Labor of Architecture with C. G. Beck and Professor Richard D. Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Architectural Workers United and Democracy at Work present the Labor of Architecture: A Conversation between C. G. Beck & Richard D. Wolff\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE!\n\n\n  \nJoin Architectural Workers United’s C. G. Beck and Democracy at Work’s Professor Richard D. Wolff for a conversation about labor\, architecture\, and democracy at The People’s Forum. Beck and Wolff will discuss Beck’s recently released book The Labor of Architecture: Creativity\, Design\, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness. From the standpoint of architect and union organizer\, The Labor of Architecture confronts the myths and realities of the profession\, advocating for a solidarity-based union movement to help build a more just society. Building off the success of the Mamdani campaign\, they will discuss the role of unions in shaping workplaces and strengthening democracy in a moment of profound historical change. \nThe Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and the “creative class.” In popular imagination\, as author C.G. Beck observes\, the architect is a singular genius\, obsessively working alone in the studio. Surrounded by beautiful drawings and intricate models\, the architect wrestles only with themselves and the purity of their design. This is certainly no longer the case—and perhaps never was. \nRichard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus\, University of Massachusetts\, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor of The New School in New York City. Professor Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. \nC. G. Beck is an architect and organizer based in Brooklyn\, NY. He served on the organizing and bargaining committees for BAU\, the first private-sector architecture union in the U.S. He continues to organize workers with AWU\, a campaign out of the IAM\, and also teaches at The New School.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-labor-of-architecture/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK | Master Peace with Nikolas Kosmatopoulos & Yasmine Khayyat
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with author Nikolas Kosmatopoulos on his latest book\, Master Peace\, which examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence and practices of peacemaking in post–civil war Lebanon. Through ethnographic encounters\, archival research\, and interviews that shed light on the worlds of academic research\, UN agencies\, NGOs\, and think tanks\, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos argues that so-called experts\, from violence researchers to peace professionals\, have often misrepresented and exacerbated the violence they claim to be tackling\, through their deployment of racialized tropes of conflict and communalizing peace practices. \nThe assemblage of these tropes and practices\, which Kosmatopoulos calls “master peace\,” naturalizes social and structural inequalities by collapsing them into supposedly innate cultural and sectarian divisions. Master peace installs unequal relations of domination through the work of metropolitan theories\, as in “ethnic conflict” and “failed state\,” and practices\, such as conflict resolution workshops and crisis reports\, converting the radical demand for just peace into a postcolonial regime of dependence on technocratic tools\, unaccountable experts\, and external donors. \nKosmatopoulos shows how master peace has been framing debates\, designing interventions of peace and war\, and defining the problem of violence in Lebanon and the Middle East for decades\, to deleterious effect. As the supposed moral high ground that justifies external intervention and precludes political solutions or democratic forms of action\, master peace has obscured the geopolitical and ideological nature of violence in the region\, substituting democratic notions of peace for an elitist antipolitics of expertise characterized by dependence\, domination\, and epistemic violence. \n___ \nNikolas Kosmatopoulos is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Department of Anthropology\, Sociology\, and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is co-founder of the research collectives Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at Sea and Decolonize Hellas. His research and teaching fields of interest include political anthropology\, policy expertise and global institutions\, and in particular peacemaking\, statebuilding and crisis resolution in the Middle East\, and as of late\, the politics of solidarity and resistance at sea and the political economies of ships. His research has been published in Peacebuilding\, Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Public Culture\, Third World Quarterly\, Social Analysis\, Millenium\, and Anthropology Today\, among others. \nYasmine Khayyat is Associate Professor of Arabic literature in the Department of African\, Middle East\, South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) at Rutgers University. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary Arabic literature and poetry\, cultural memory studies\, and human/animal relationships in Arabic fiction. Her first book War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon was published by Syracuse University Press on May 15\, 2023. It examines the figuration of the ruin as a site of resistance and potentiality in modern Lebanese novels\, poetry\, and sites of memory. Khayyat has articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature\, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and Critical Inquiry\, among others.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/masterpeace/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Culture,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Eyes of Gaza - Plestia Alaqad in Conversation with Morgan Spector
DESCRIPTION:On the morning of October 7\, 2023\, 21-year-old Plestia Alaqad woke to a flurry of messages and headlines: Gaza under bombardment. Civilians flee waves of Israeli strikes. In a few short days\, she and her family found themselves at the epicenter of a violence all too familiar to Palestinians—but this time\, she knew\, things would never be the same. \nA recent university graduate dreaming of a career as a journalist\, Plestia donned the press vest in the following days and began broadcasting videos of violence and destruction to millions online — becoming known across the world as “The Eyes of Gaza.”\n \n\n\nTHE EYES OF GAZA (September 30 / Little\, Brown and Company) is a series of diary extracts from the weeks following October 7\, a gutting\, on-the-ground record of the suffering and horror endured by the people of Palestine. \nAs Alaqad fled from neighborhood to neighborhood\, from hospital to hospital\, she documented all she saw — the destruction of beloved homes\, waves of bombs\, and most of all\, the boundless bravery and generosity of her people — all the while trying to memorize the faces of those around her “so somebody will have known them before the end\,” and wondering if\, one day\, her own journal will be discovered amidst the rubble. \nFew books have been written by the Palestinians directly impacted by this violence\, because they simply cannot leave or have not survived. With Palestinians having now faced more than 600 days of genocide\, this is more than a book\, more than a memoir; THE EYES OF GAZA is a manifesto of hope\, a document of the indomitable Palestinian spirit\, and a tribute to Plestia’s beloved homeland: “I am who I am because of Gaza… Everything I do is for Gaza. In a way\, it is giving back to the city that raised me.” (Interview\, GQ Middle East) \n–Praise for THE EYES OF GAZA: \n  \n“How do you get over a genocide? The question Plestia asks is rhetorical\, yet it lingers long after the page is turned\, heavy with grief and impossible to answer. Plestia is more than a journalist\, she is a witness\, a storyteller and an unrelenting seeker of truth. With a camera in one hand and a pen in the other\, she has dedicated her life to ensuring the world does not look away. Through her lens\, she captures not only the devastation of genocide in Gaza\, but also the weight of a lifetime lived under Israeli occupation. Her writing is deeply personal\, at times reading like a journal entry or a letter from a friend. She weaves hope and pain so seamlessly that it often hurts to read\, each word a testament to both resilience and loss. Plestia’s ink serves as the veins of Gaza\, giving life to stories that might otherwise be erased. With striking imagery and intimate detail\, her reporting is more than documentation\, it is resistance. Her words left me both devastated and inspired – moved by the strength found in community\, the unwavering spirit of her people\, and the urgent need for collective liberation.”–Macklemore\, Grammy Award-winning Musician \n  \n“The Eyes of Gaza transforms pain into poetry\, offering readers an unfiltered glimpse into the depths of loss\, hope and survival.”–Rupi Kaur\, Poet \n  \n“The raw truth of The Eyes of Gaza hurts. But what’s the point of anything if we can’t face the truth? Palestinians are just like us; they feel as we feel. Please read this joyful\, tragic account of life in Gaza. And celebrate Plestia Alaqad’s courage and skill and stop the killing.”–Miriam Margolyes\, Comedian and Author \n  \nPlestia Alaqad is a Palestinian journalist and author who has emerged as a vital voice in the midst of the destruction in Gaza. At just twenty-one years old\, she captivated audiences with her raw and poignant coverage of her surroundings. Through her unflinching dispatches shared on social media\, Alaqad has offered the world an unfiltered glimpse into the harrowing realities of life under siege\, her experiences resonating deeply with millions across the globe. In November 2023\, as the war escalated\, Alaqad and her family were forced to leave Gaza. Since then\, she has been awarded the Shireen Abu Akleh Memorial Scholarship for a master’s in media studies at the American University of Beirut\, where she continues to advocate for justice. Her advocacy has transcended borders\, drawing attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine and calling for freedom and accountability. Alaqad’s remarkable journalism has earned her multiple prestigious accolades\, including being named one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2024 and winning the One Young World Journalist of the Year Award\, the Lyra McKee Award for Bravery\, and a Human Rights Defender Award.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-eyes-of-gaza/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Carceral Republics: Political Prisoners in the U.S.\, India\, and Israel
DESCRIPTION:At a time when states across the world are silencing dissent\, the stories of political prisoners offer an unflinching map of resistance. Join us for a conversation focusing on three “democracies” — the United States (often styled the “oldest”)\, India (the “largest”)\, and Israel (branded the Middle East’s “only”) — to trace how they mobilize courts\, police\, and prisons to suppress political movements. We’ll explore the criminalization of dissent\, the laws and courts that enable repression\, and the solidarity that persists behind bars\, featuring authors\, editors\, publishers\, and organizers connected to Manifestations of Thought\, The Trinity of Fundamentals\, and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? \nFrom Black political prisoners targeted for confronting white supremacy\, to Indian activists and scholars charged under sweeping security laws\, to Palestinians held as hostages in Israeli jails\, we examine how power consolidates through carceral control and how resistance persists. What do these cases reveal about the nature of democratic rule today? And what solidarities are needed to meet the moment? \nSPEAKERS\nSuchitra Vijayan is an essayist\, lawyer\, and photographer working across oral history\, state violence\, and visual storytelling. She is the author of How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners and founder of the Polis Project. \nEugene Puryear is journalist\, writer\, activist\, politician\, and host on The Freedom Side\, a weekly show by BreakThrough News. \nLameess Mohammed is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement. PYM focuses on campaigns like Mask off Maersk to demand a global arms embargo\, international fundraising initiatives for Gaza\, mass mobilizations\, and political education projects like the translation of The Trinity of Fundamentals.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-carceral-republics-political-prisoners-in-the-u-s-india-and-israel/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Transnational Literature of Resistance - Guyana and Palestine\, 1950s-1980s with Salam Darwazah Mir
DESCRIPTION:Join Bloomsbury author Salam Darwazah Mir as she discusses her book\, Transnational Literature of Resistance: Guyana and Palestine\, 1950s-1980s. Her book examines resistance literatures from Guyana – a British exploitation colony – and Palestine – a settler-colony – at a specific historical moment\, by contesting the provinciality and Eurocentric focus of comparative literature\, delivering the discipline’s universal objectives\, and expanding the discipline’s practice by comparing two literatures and histories from the Global South. \nSalam Darwazah Mir is an independent scholar in the US and previously Associate Professor of English\, Lasell University. At Lasell\, she lauched Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies in 2009 and taught several literature courses. She has previously taught at the University of Maryland\, Johns Hopkins University\, and Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. She is a book review editor at Arab Studies Quarterly.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-transnational-literature-of-resistance-guyana-and-palestine-1950s-1980s-with-salam-darwazah-mir/
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Words For My Comrades A Political History of Tupac Shakur
DESCRIPTION:📷⁩ ⁨🎤 Join us for a book talk on Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur on the 29th anniversary of his death. We’ll be joined by the author and music journalist Dean Van Nguyen to discuss the icon\, rapper\, and son of a Black Panther whose artistic and political legacy still resonates today. \n✊🏾 Before his murder at age twenty-five\, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the preeminent storyteller of the 1990s\, building\, in the process\, one of the most iconic public personas of the last half century. Using oral histories from conversations with the people who directly witnessed Tupac’s life and career\, Van Nguyen demonstrates how Tupac became one of the most enduring musical legends in hip-hop history\, and how intimately his name is threaded with the legacy of Black Panther politics—including how he and Afeni Shakur\, his mother and a Panther herself\, championed the disenfranchised in distinct ways. \n📙 Words for My Comrades is the story of how the energy of the Black political movement was subsumed by culture\, and how America produced two of its most iconic\, enduring revolutionaries. \n📅 Sat\, September 13\, 6PM  \n📍Times Square\, New York City   \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-words-for-my-comrades-2025/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Culture
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SUMMARY:Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice: NYC Edition w/ Red Canary Song
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice: NYC Edition\nHear from the co-authors of Not Your Rescue Project\, the first book on migrant sex worker struggles and organizing\, and from Red Canary Song about how migrants in the sex industry are being affected by immigration raids and racism–and how their anti-fascist resistance in the massage parlor serves as a blueprint for creative resistance and solidarity for everyone.  \nYves Tong Nguyen (they/she/he) is a Vietnamese queer disabled abolitionist organizer and cultural worker who is currently organizing with Red Canary Song and Survived & Punished NY\, and formerly organized with Free Them All 4 Public Health. They are personally concerned with supporting survivors of all forms of violence through organizing and informal community support. They have experience in supporting sex workers\, migrant workers\, and survivors of gender-based violence\, particularly criminalized survivors of abuse. \nChanelle Gallant is a movement writer\, organizer\, strategist and consultant and co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (Haymarket Books\, 2024). She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project\, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy on sex work and racial justice\, from city hall to the United Nations. Chanelle sits on the national board for Showing Up for Racial Justice and Catalyst Project and has helped to move millions into organizing through donor advising and grassroots fundraising. She holds an MA in Sociology and was a Lambda Literary Fellow. Find her at chanellegallant.com  \nElene Lam is an activist\, artist\, community organizer\, educator\, human rights defender and the coauthor of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. She has fought for sex worker\, migrant\, gender\, labor and racial justice for over 20 years. She is the founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) and the co-founder of Migrant Sex Workers Project. She has used diverse and innovative approaches to advocate social justice for migrant sex workers\, such as leadership building and community mobilization. She holds Master’s degrees in law and social work and a Ph.D. in social work\, where she studied the harms of the anti-trafficking movement. She was awarded the Constance E. Hamilton Award for Women’s Equality by the City of Toronto.\nRed Canary Song is a grassroots organization of Asian and migrant sex workers and massage workers\, organizing transnationally. Our work is in the tradition of sex worker mutual aid\, and we center base-building with migrant massage workers through a labor rights\, migrant justice\, and PIC abolitionist framework. We believe that the full decriminalization of sex work is necessary for the safety and survival of massage workers and trafficking survivors.  \nWe\, ourselves\, are not a 501c3 nonprofit as we work against saviorism and the nonprofit industrial complex that often positions themselves as rescuers of Asian and Migrant sex workers\, massage workers\, and other marginalized groups who engage in informal labor economies. We do not participate in advocacy\, social work\, or activism as a career. We are a volunteer-based group with a core collective of sex workers\, massage workers\, and trusted allies who are fiscally sponsored by a 501c3 organization that manages our donations\, grants\, and taxes\, while we get to autonomously make organizing decisions to serve our community on a direct needs basis. \nMutual aid\, as opposed to charity\, does not connote moral superiority of the giver over the receiver. Our mutual aid includes\, but is not limited to: interpretation/translation services\, connection to legal\, medical\, and immigration services\, emergency cash\, courtroom support\, groceries\, medical & hygiene supplies\, clothing and other forms of care. We promote safety\, health\, pride\, and mutual care\, whilst fighting stigma\, isolation and systemic violence.\n\nPlease donate to help us cover event costs and worker transportation. \nButterfly is a grassroots\, community-led organization centering the voices and leadership of Asian and migrant sex workers. For over a decade\, the organization has mobilized and supported more than 5\,000 Asian and Migrant massage and sex workers through outreach\, advocacy\, mutual aid\, and community-based education. Butterfly advocates for decriminalization and abolition\, including an end to the anti-trafficking industry. Through developing member-led support networks\, community leadership\, and grassroots organizing\, Butterfly ensures migrant sex workers’ voices are heard at the  local\, federal\, and international level. By centering these perspectives\, Butterfly unmasks the intersecting and deeply rooted oppressions woven into multiple systems. As a member of national coalitions such as the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform and the Migrant Rights Network\, Butterfly builds solidarity across allied movements\, positioning migrant sex workers at the forefront of broader struggles for racial\, economic\, and gender justice
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/not-your-rescue-project-migrant-sex-workers-fighting-for-justice-nyc-edition-w-red-canary-song/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH | Disability and Empire: Class\, US Imperialism\, and the Struggle for Disability Justice with Joyce Chediac\, Jane Cutter\, and Sunil Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book launch for Disability and Empire: Class\, US Imperialism\, and the Struggle for Disability Justice. Exploring the social construction of “disability” in the US\, the authors look at the history of the disability rights movement\, bringing in the stories and voices of those engaged in the daily fight for a better world: from solidarity with liberation struggles of the 1950s\, ’60s\, and ’70s; to building solidarity between care workers and clients; to the victories won by disability activists and the status of rights for people with disabilities today. \nThis book aims to bring visibility to the liberation struggle of people with disabilities\, adding an internationalist and class perspective—and making them the subject\, not the object\, of history. It expands beyond the US\, critically examining the role of U.S. imperialism in killing and disabling millions\, as well as studying how other societies deal with disability. Looking ahead\, it paints a picture of what disability justice may look like under socialism. \nThe event will be a presentation of the book followed by a brief Q&A. There are masks available at the front desk for those attending in person. \n_____ \nJOYCE CHEDIAC has participated in activism going back to the Civil Rights\, womens’\, and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. An Arab-American\, she has written on the Middle East and women’s issues for over five decades. She is a registered nurse\, and the former assistant editor of The American Journal of Public Health. Chediac is hard of hearing and dyslectic. Her writings on disability include: “People with disabilities are half of people killed by cops” and “Disability rights in the age of austerity.” She is currently a national editor of the Liberation News website and lives in New York City. \nJANE CUTTER is a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is a life-long caregiver\, starting as a teen providing care to family members and neighbors with disabilities. Since the early 1990s\, she has taught students with disabilities and earned a doctorate in Special Education in 2003. Some of her earliest experiences as an activist include participating in protests at the Sacks theater chain in Boston with the Disabled People’s Liberation Front. She has contributed to other books including Revolutionary Education and Socialist Reconstruction\, and edited Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism by Tina Landis. She is a member of the national editorial team for Liberation News. \nSUNIL FREEMAN was the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s 2020 Vice Presidential candidate\, running with Gloria La Riva. He has written for Liberation News\, and his essays have been published in journals including Gargoyle\, American Kahani\, Delmarva Review\, Washingtonian\, The International\, and Jaggery. His music reviews have appeared in The Washington Post\, and fiction in The Account. Now retired\, he worked for many years as Assistant Director of The Writer’s Center\, a non-profit in Bethesda\, Maryland.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/disability-and-empire/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "Menace to Empire" with Moon-Ho Jung
DESCRIPTION:Menace to Empire traces both the colonial violence and the anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence anticolonial subjects\, from the Philippines and Hawaiʻi to California and beyond. Radicalized by their opposition to the US empire and racialized as threats to US security\, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary politics that engendered and haunted the national security state—the heart and soul of the US empire ever since.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-menace-to-empire-with-moon-ho-jung/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:"We Are the Union" Book Launch with Eric Blanc
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about how bottom-up workplace organizing can defeat Trumpism and the billionaires. Eric Blanc’s new book\, We Are the Union\, shows that recent struggles from Starbucks\, to Amazon\, to southern auto\, have developed a new organizing model — worker-to-worker unionism — which builds scalable power by giving rank-and-filers an unprecedented degree of leadership. As UAW president Shawn Fain puts it\, “We Are the Union is an urgently needed blueprint for how we beat the billionaire class. Every worker should read this book.” \nSpeakers include: Alex Press (Jacobin)\, Eric Blanc (Author)\, Tyrick Pollard (Amazon Worker Organizer)\, and Adan Esa (Starbucks Worker Organizer) \nEvent co-sponsors: NYC-DSA\, Jacobin\, NYC-EWOC\, and Debt Collective.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/we-are-the-union/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Book Dialogue: Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan\, published by @raachipress\, an independent press based in Gilgit-Baltistan and Asia\, dedicated to centering perspectives from the margins. \nThis special event will feature Dr. Nosheen Ali\, co-editor of Beyond the Mountains\, in conversation with Madhuri Sastry\, Culture Editor at The Polis Project.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-dialogue-beyond-the-mountains-social-and-political-imaginaries-in-gilgit-baltistan/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Red Books Day 2025
DESCRIPTION:About Red Books Day: \nEvery year\, thousands of people across the world commemorate Red Books Day to stand in solidarity with left books\, their authors\, and the people’s movements they ushered forward. While Red Books Day takes place on the publication day of the Communist Manifesto\, February 21 also marks the sixtieth anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination. As we commemorate 100 years of his life in 2025\, we remember the legacy he leaves behind for organizers across the world—a legacy cut short by those who feared his message of resistance and revolution. \nJoin us Feb. 21 from 4pm to 9pm for an evening to commemorate Malcolm X’s life\, and to stand in defense of revolutionary voices\, amplifying them even more! \nAll Evening | Screen Printing + Book Swap + Communal Reading \nBring clothes or accessories to print on\, but most importantly bring your books: books to swap with other revolutionary readers\, or books you’re reading so you can discuss it with your comrades! \n7–8PM | Reading Malcolm X \nCelebrate the life and legacy of Malcolm X\, and join us for a collective reading of the words of Malcolm X. TPF staff and community members will be reading\, and we encourage you to bring your friends and spend an evening with revolutionary literature! \n8–9PM | Cultural Perfomance \nDid we mention it’s also Nina Simone’s birthday? Come by and celebrate the sounds of Black liberation and resistance through a tribute to Nina Simone. \nP.S. We’ll have 15% off in-store purchases just for the evening\, so there’s no better time to pick out your next red book. See you there!
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/red-books-day-2025/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Book Talks,Culture,Public Meetings,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Dr. Suzanne Ross | Born Jewish in Nazi Europe – My Journey to Become Anti-Zionist
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Suzanne Ross is a longtime fighter against racism and war. As a child\, she escaped the Nazi Holocaust and lived on a kibbutz in British-occupied Palestine. Her new book tells of her journey to militant anti-Zionism. She debunks the foundational myths of Zionism and exposes the roots of today’s genocide in early Zionist ideology and culture. Join Dr. Ross\, Pam Africa\, Immortal Technique and others for the book launch \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/dec19/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:CHILDREN'S BOOK READING: Sitti's Bird - A Gaza Story
DESCRIPTION:Join author and artist Malak Mattar on Saturday\, November 16 at 5 PM for a reading of her children’s book\, Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story. Written and illustrated by Malak\, this unique and sensitive picture book reflects her childhood in occupied Palestine. It tells the story of a young girl whose love for her family and passion for art help her overcome the fear and trauma of the 2014 Gaza airstrikes— traumas experienced by many children in Gaza and beyond. \nMalak is a little girl who lives in Gaza with her parents. She goes to school\, plays in the ocean\, and visits Sitti’s house on Fridays. One day while she is in school\, bombings begin. She spends the next 50 days at home with her parents worrying and feeling scared\, until one day she picks up her paintbrush …
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/childrens-book-reading-sittis-bird-a-gaza-story/
CATEGORIES:art,Book Talks,Children,Culture
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Rashid Khalidi in Conversation with Katie Halper
DESCRIPTION:Join us for An Evening With Rashid Khalidi in Conversation with Katie Halper! \nThe event is sold out but please RSVP to join us online: YouTube.com/thekatiehalpershow \nJoin us for an evening with renowned historian and author Rashid Khalidi as he discusses his book The 100 Years War. Engage in thought-provoking conversations and gain valuable insights into the Israel/Palestine conflict. The event will be moderated by Katie Halper\, a writer\, podcast host and video correspondent. She hosts The Katie Halper Show Livestream\, podcast and WBAI radio show and co-hosts the podcast and youtube show Useful Idiots. You won’t want to miss this unique opportunity! \nEvent details: \n\nDate: October 29\, 2024\nTime: 6:30pm- 8:30pm\nLocation: YouTube.com/thekatiehalpershow
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/rashid-khalidi-in-conversation-with-katie-halper/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Abolish Rent Book Launch: Organizing for a World Without Landlords
DESCRIPTION:Join two co-founders of the LA Tenants Union\, Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis\, in celebrating the launch of their book\, Abolish Rent. With organizers from Crown Heights Tenant Union and Brooklyn Eviction Defense\, they’ll discuss the resurgent tenant movement and how we can fight back\, stay put\, and take control of our homes.\n\n\n\nRent drives millions into debt\, despair\, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. For anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis\, complicit politicians\, and real estate greed\, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing analysis and striking stories of resistance\, it shows us how tenants can\, through organizing and collective action\, harness our power and win the housing we deserve.\n\n\n\n\nKhadija Haynes is an organizer with Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Right to Counsel\, and she is the founder of Black Women for Theory and Praxis.\n\n\nBen Mabie is an editor and organizer based in Brooklyn. A member of the Crown Heights Tenant Union\, he works for the NewsGuild of New York\, IFPTE Local 98 and Dan Denvir’s podcast the Dig; he also co-hosts Fragile Juggernaut\, a Haymarket podcast on the meaning of the CIO.\n\n\nTracy Rosenthal is a cofounder of the L.A. Tenants Union\, a frequent contributor to the New Republic\, and the author\, with Leonardo Vilchis\, of Abolish Rent\, forthcoming from Haymarket. They are now on rent strike in New York City.\n\n\nLeonardo Vilchis has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirty years. Trained in liberation theology\, he co-founded Union de Vecinos in 1996 and the L.A. Tenants Union in 2015.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/abolish-rent-book-launch-organizing-for-a-world-without-landlords/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: I AM MAROON THE TRUE STORY OF AN AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONER
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and discussion for I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner\, the story of Russell Maroon Shoatz\, a political prisoner and former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member who was sentenced to death-by-incarceration in 1972\, but paroled in 2021. He passed away 53 days after his release. This discussion will include hip-hop artist Nejma Nefertiti\, co-writer of I Am Maroon Kanya D’Almeida\, and Kempis Ghani Songster with Right to Redemption (R2R). \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nWatch the livestream of the event HERE. 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-i-am-maroon-the-true-story-of-an-american-political-prisoner/
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: BEYOND POLICING w/ PHILIP V. McHARRIS & THENJIWE McHARRIS
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a book launch for Beyond Policing by Philip V. McHarris in conversation with Thenjiwe McHarris. \nIt’s evident that policing is a problem. But what is the best way forward? In Beyond Policing\, distinguished scholar and writer Philip V. McHarris reimagines the world without police to find answers and reveal how we can make police departments obsolete. \nBeyond Policing tackles thorny issues with evidence\, including data and personal stories\, to uncover the weight of policing on people and communities and the patterns that prove police reform only leads to more policing. \nMcHarris challenges us to envision a future where safety is not synonymous with policing but is built on the foundation of community support and preventive measures. He explores innovative community-based safety models (like community mediators and violence interrupters)\, the decriminalization of driving offenses\, and the creation of nonpolice crisis response teams. McHarris also outlines strategies for responding to conflict and harm in ways that transform the conditions that give rise to the issues. He asks us to imagine a world where people thrive without the shadow of inequality\, where our approach to safety is a collective achievement. \nMcHarris writes\, “What if our response to crisis wasn’t about control but about care? How can we create conditions where safety is a shared responsibility? How can we design justice so that no community is routinely oppressed? Envisioning such a world isn’t just a daydream; it’s the first step toward building a society where violence and fear no longer dictate our lives.” \nTransformative and forward thinking\, Beyond Policing provides a blueprint for a brighter\, safer world. McHarris’s vision is clear: we must dare to move beyond policing and foster a society where everyone has the resources to thrive and feel safe. \nPhilip V. McHarris is an assistant professor in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies at the University of Rochester. McHarris was a presidential postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University in the Department of African American Studies and the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. He earned his PhD in sociology and African American studies at Yale University. He was named one of the Root 100s Most Influential African Americans in 2020. McHarris has appeared on MSNBC\, CNN\, and PBS and in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, and more.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-beyond-policing/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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