FREEDOM SUMMER FILM SERIES: Mandabi (1968)
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThis film explores themes of neocolonialism, religion, corruption, and relationships in Senegalese society.
This film explores themes of neocolonialism, religion, corruption, and relationships in Senegalese society.
As a part of an ongoing series hosted by The People's Forum, Histories of the Working Class in North America, Jessica Wilkerson, scholar and historian, will give a public talk on women’s organizing in the Appalachia South.
Histories of the Working Class in North America is a space for popular education that brings researchers and scholars into conversation with organizers, students, and teachers rooted in the contemporary working class. In order to know where we are going, we must study where we have come from!
Over the past 50 years, Cuba has produced more Olympic boxing medalists than any other country. That success was spearheaded by Teófilo Stevenson, who once famously turned down a million-dollar offer to fight Muhammad Ali and turn professional, choosing instead to continue fighting for his beloved homeland.
Join us in conversation to celebrate the launch of China’s Great Road; Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices by author and economist John Ross.
In this biographical film, we follow the story of Carlos Marighella, a Brazilian Marxist Leninist revolutionary and guerrilla fighter, who is most known for writing the Minimanual of the Urban Guerilla.
A part of our programming for World Environment Day, we hear from Veggie Mijas on grassroots food justice organizing in marginalized communities.
Necesitamos enterrar la dominación del capital sobre la vida, construir un mundo justo, igualitario y hermoso, para que todas y todos podamos vivir bien y en paz. Acompáñenos en una conversación con Zoe PC, de People's Dispatch, y Carlos Marentes, del Border Agricultural Workers Project.
John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s father and brother, will travel from Australia to undertake a nationwide tour of the U.S. beginning June 6 - July 2 to advocate for Julian’s release and to raise awareness about the importance of protecting journalists and a free press.
In this film based on a true story, the poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
A virtual summer program for organizers, visionaries and people in resistance to oppression. Read through the info and apply by Saturday, June 12!
The People's Market is back! We are so excited to have cultural workers, artists, and makers back in the space. Shop zines, art, handmade jewelry, vintage clothing, healing activities, herbal teas, etc.
