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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: My Father's Shadow
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Paul and Eslanda Robeson Cinema at The People’s Forum\, created in the spirit of their love of art\, film\, and revolution. \n\n\n\n\nOn what begins as an ordinary day\, two brothers wait—restless\, suspended—for the return of their estranged father\, journalist and activist Folarin. He suddenly appears and takes his sons on a thrilling\, unexpected trip into Lagos to collect his long-overdue unpaid salary. \nNigeria | 2025 | Akinola Davies Jr. | 94m \nThis is a free educational program\, however\, in order to maintain a safe capacity level\, we ask that you get an $8 solidarity ticket to reserve your participation and to sustain our educational programming.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-my-fathers-shadow/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:How to Sell a Genocide: U.S. Media and the War Machine w/ Adam Johnson\, Kylie Cheung\, and members of the New York War Crimes Editorial Collective
DESCRIPTION:Join Adam Johnson\, Kylie Cheung\, and members of the New York War Crimes Editorial Collective for a conversation about the mainstream media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza\, and the importance of movement-led journalism that challenges the Zionist newsroom status quo. Saturday\, May 9 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm at The People’s Forum (320 W 37th St)\, organized by Writers Against the War on Gaza and Pluto Press. \nCopies of Adam Johnson’s new book How to Sell a Genocide will be available for purchase; all proceeds go to The Middle East Children’s Alliance. Free copies of the latest issue of the New York War Crimes will also be available. \nAdam Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed. His writing has been featured in The Nation\, In These Times\, The Intercept\, Los Angeles Times\, and San Francisco Chronicle. \nKylie Cheung is a staff reporter at the Abortion\, Every Day newsletter; before that\, she worked on staff at Jezebel and Salon. She has written extensively about Israel’s use of allegations of mass rape as a pretext for genocide. Cheung is the author of Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse\, Domestic Violence and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy and Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans. \nThe New York War Crimes is a movement newspaper focused on Palestine\, produced by the Writers Against the War on Gaza. There are 21 issues of the paper so far. \n  \nRSVP 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/how-to-sell-a-genocide-u-s-media-and-the-war-machine-w-adam-johnson-kylie-cheung-and-members-of-the-new-york-war-crimes-editorial-collective/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:ARABIC LANGUAGE CLASSES | SUMMER 2026
DESCRIPTION:Arabic for Social Justice\nAPPLY HERE: Registration Form \nAlgarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses at The People’s Forum to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice\, cinema\, media\, and culture. \nThrough weekly social justice themes\, and using a communicative and popular education approach\, participants will improve their Arabic skills and critically engage with various cultural productions in Arabic\, including films\, TV series\, newsreels\, short stories\, and songs. \nThese courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking\, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in the U.S. and the Arab world. \nCourse Offerings\nAll classes run for 10 weeks. Cost for each class is a $300–$400 sliding scale ($500 if the contribution is paid for by a work stipend instead of the individual participant). \n  \nA1: Beginner I (In-person and virtual options)\nThis course introduces students with no prior experience to the Arabic alphabet and the basics of reading\, writing\, pronunciation\, and sentence structure. Participants learn foundational vocabulary and simple grammatical forms while being introduced to spoken Arabic alongside Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM EST\nIn-Person: Saturdays\, starting Jun 13 | 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM EST\n\n  \nA2: Beginner II (In-person and virtual options)\nDesigned for students with one semester of Arabic\, this course reviews core structures and expands vocabulary\, verb conjugation\, and sentence formation. Participants continue developing reading\, listening\, and speaking skills while gaining more exposure to spoken Arabic and its relationship to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM EST\nIn-Person: Tuesdays\, starting Jun 16 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST\n\n  \nA3: Beginner III (In-person and virtual options)\nThis course is designed for students who have completed two semesters of Arabic and are ready to work more consistently with cultural materials. Participants strengthen conversational skills\, expand vocabulary\, and develop greater comfort moving between spoken Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) through short texts\, songs\, film clips\, and guided viewing activities. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST\nIn-Person: Saturdays\, starting Jun 13 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST\n\n  \nIntermediate (In-person and virtual options)\nThis Intermediate course builds on foundational Arabic skills to develop participants’ ability to communicate across everyday\, cultural\, and social topics using both colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Students work with short video clips\, songs\, dialogues\, and written texts to expand vocabulary\, practice key grammatical structures\, and build confidence in comprehension\, conversation\, and short writing. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM EST\nIn-Person: Saturdays\, starting Jun 13 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EST\n\n  \nAdvanced and Heritage Speakers Film Club (Virtual only)\nThis discussion- and media-based Arabic course uses a film club format to develop advanced comprehension\, vocabulary\, and expressive skills across colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Designed for high-intermediate learners\, advanced students\, and heritage speakers\, participants work with subtitled and unsubtitled films/clips\, dialogue transcripts\, and short texts through translation\, brief writing\, and guided discussion. \n\nVirtual: Sundays\, starting Jun 14 | 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST\n\n  \nImportant Information for Applicants\n\nRolling Admissions: Selected participants will be contacted by our instructors on a rolling basis until a week before classes start. Late applications will be considered if spots are made available.\nPriority: This program prioritizes working-class\, queer\, BIPOC\, and heritage speakers of Arabic.\nAccessibility: As part of Algarabía’s mission to make our courses accessible\, we have sliding-scale rate options and payment plans available. Once you complete the application and are selected\, you will be given the opportunity to apply for these discounted rates individually.\n\n  \nAbout Us\nAt Algarabía Language Co-op\, we see language learning as a meaningful\, collaborative\, and transformative process. This is reflected in our training in hands-on communicative and task-based language teaching approaches and our use of popular education in the language classroom. We seek to support the holistic development of all language learners as they become competent multilingual speakers. We devise classroom activities and use textbooks and other original didactic materials that meet our participants’ needs and represent the linguistic and racial/ethnic diversity of the Spanish- and Arabic-speaking worlds. \nAPPLY HERE: Registration Form \n  \nContact & Follow Us: \n\nEmail: algarabia.arabic@gmail.com\nWebsite: www.algarabialanguage.com\nInstagram: @algarabia.language
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/arabic-language-classes-summer-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual Event with The People’s Forum
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SUMMARY:NYC Book Talk with Joe Sacco!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with acclaimed graphic journalist Joe Sacco cosponsored by Jewish Currents. Joe will be in conversation with Sunita Viswanath of Hindus for Human Rights and Alex Kane of Jewish Currents. The event will occur on May 13th from 6:30pm-9pm at The People’s Forum. Sacco’s latest book\, The Once and Future Riot\, is about a communal riot that took place in Muzzafarnagar\, India in 2013. Since Joe has been prolific on the subject of Palestine\, this book on India is an opportunity to see the connections between between Hindu nationalism and Zionism — and the wars and violence they cause — through his eyes. Mr. Sacco has another book coming out this fall called Requiem in Gaza\, with Chris Hedges. \nOnce and Future Riot will be available for sale and signing. \n  \nRSVP
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/nyc-book-talk-with-joe-sacco/
LOCATION:NY
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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
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:CYANOTYPE 101 w/ PRAISE FULLER
DESCRIPTION:CYANOTYPE 101 w/ PRAISE FULLER \nOne-day   |   11AM – 2PM   |   Saturday\, May 16   |   $75 \nStudents will spend this introductory workshop learning the cyanotype process from beginning to end. This one-day class covers the basic process of prep\, choosing photos/objects\, and exposure/printing. Cyanotype 101 is beginner-friendly and perfect for those who haven’t experimented with the medium before. \nFor those intermediate + advanced\, please join Cyanotype 201 (first session April 2026).\n__ \nPraise Fuller (b. Houston\, Texas) is a New York-based\, self-taught artist\, poet\, and educator with a practice spanning printmaking\, installation\, and mixed media with a central focus on the cyanotype process. Fuller’s work emerges from historical analysis and introspection\, exploring what lies beyond the constraints of family\, the church\, trauma\, and the cultural realities of the South. These introspections are interwoven with the concept of “rememory\,” a term borrowed from Toni Morrison\, which reflects how memory exists beyond\, or even escapes\, the individual mind by inhabiting objects\, places\, and communities. \nhttps://www.praise-fuller.com/
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/cyanotype-101-w-praise-5/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Art Courses,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:Fundraiser Concert for Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser Concert for Lebanon\nWe’re gathering for an afternoon and evening of music\, to be in the same space for a moment and listen together. \nThis fundraiser brings together artists from across New York’s many musical worlds\, a coming together in solidarity\, through music. \nAll funds from the event will go to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Fund\, which supports urgent medical care for children in Lebanon and Palestine and is currently supporting medical teams responding to the situation in Lebanon. \nFEATURING: \nAakash Mittal\nAaron Edgcomb\nCleo Reed\nElsa Saade\nGolkou\nIsaiah Barr\nJen Shyu\nKaoru Watanabe\nKinan Azmeh\nKyle Sanna\nLayale Chaker\nTan Haw\nmiriam elhajli\nMobéy Lola Irizarry\nSamora Pinderhughes\nShahzad Ismaily\nT A Thompson\nWilliam Parker \nLimited prints by artists from Lebanon will also be on display and available for purchase. \nBUY TICKETS HERE
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/fundraiser-concert-for-lebanon/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:COLLAGE MAKING FOR LIBERATION w/ ASHLEY LAGRANGE
DESCRIPTION:COLLAGE MAKING FOR LIBERATION w/ ASHLEY LAGRANGE \nOne-day   |   6-8:30PM   |   Saturday\, May 16   |   Sliding Scale Fee \nJoin us for Collage Making For Liberation\, a one-day workshop w/ Queens-based therapist and artist Ashley Lagrange! \nIn these sessions you’ll learn how to create collage art as a medium for political agitation and propaganda and as a tool for self-reflection and expression. Participants will gather inspiration from collage artists who have created intentional Agitprop and then be provided with prompts and materials to create their own. \n__ \nAshley Marie Lagrange\, (They/Them) is a therapist\, coach\, and collage artist born\, raised and currently residing in Queens\, New York to a multigenerational household Dominican l household. Ashley works in the day as a politicized therapist and coach for the QTBIPOC population which stemmed from their lived experience with madness and grassroots peer support organizing. Ashley is also a Collage Artist\, having taught and facilitated various classes and workshop spaces on the analog art form. Ashley is a member of DegrowNYC and previously sat as their Propaganda Chair.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/collage-w-ashley-may/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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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
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:FIGURE DRAWING NIGHT w/ NICK SKOUG
DESCRIPTION:FIGURE DRAWING NIGHT w/ NICK SKOUG \nOne-day   |   6-8:30PM   |   Tuesday\, May 19  |   $20 \nIn these one-day sessions\, participants will practice figure drawing with a live model\, working independently with guidance and input from artist Nick Skoug. Basic drawing materials will be available (paper\, drawing boards\, pencils\, charcoal\, erasers). Participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies as well! \n__ \nNick Skoug is a figurative painter. Originally from the Los Angeles area\, he studied painting there before moving to Germany\, where he lived for 10 years. He left Berlin for a Master’s Degree in Painting at the New York Studio School. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/drawing-night-may/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:A California Story: Screening & Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:From Coast to Coast: Narrative Power in Action \nRSVP \n​Join Pillars of the Community on May 21\, 5:30PM at The People’s Forum for an exclusive screening of California Story\, a groundbreaking documentary that examines gang documentation and surveillance laws targeting communities of color across America. With support from Pillars Fund\, we’re thrilled to bring this powerful and urgent documentation work from San Diego directly to New York City. \n​The Film \n​California Story features compelling interviews with California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber\, renowned scholar Dr. Cornell West\, Rep. Sydney Kamlager\, investigative reporter Greg Moran\, and other leading advocates who expose how California’s discriminatory gang documentation policies criminalized innocent people and destroyed community trust. The film exemplifies Pillars of the Community’s use of documentary as a tool for communities to tell their own stories\, amplify movement work\, and catalyze policy change to address the harms of surveillance laws in the state. \n​Hear opening remarks from Director David Kuhn\, followed by a screening of the film and a dynamic panel discussion by storytellers\, organizers\, and academics — Linda Sarsour\, Khalid Alexander\, Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika\, Dr. Elizabeth Hinton\, and Tim Kornegay. They will help us understand how the stories in the film reinforce connections to New York’s own history with surveillance and over-policing and demonstrate how narrative power can bridge movements and catalyze policy change. The evening will conclude with an exclusive performance by NYC hip hop duo Rebel Diaz. \n​Light refreshments will be served. \nDoors Open: 5:30PM \n​Program Starts: 6PM
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/a-california-story-screening-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREEENING: Seeds for Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Paul and Eslanda Robeson Cinema at The People’s Forum\, created in the spirit of their love of art\, film\, and revolution. \nFeaturing some of the biggest names in the movement\, “Seeds for Liberation” centers Palestinian voices and experiences while connecting the Free Palestine movement to Black\, Chicano\, and other collective struggles. From Gaza and the West Bank to Stop Cop City and digital activism\, the film spans decades of solidarity and culminates in reflections on what liberation and a free Palestine truly mean. \n**Filmed on iPhones with B-Roll footage provided by activists and journalists from across the globe. \nUS | 2026 | Matthew Solomon | 92m \nDirected by: \nMatthew Solomon \nExecutive Producers: \nAlana Hadid \nDonna Hadjikhani \nCast Includes: \nDr. Noura Erakat \nAbby Martin \nDr. Mimi Syed \nSammy Obeid \nMoath Hamzeh (Mo Hamz) \nMimi Abu Ghazaleh \nDhoruba bin Wahad \nLuciux Riker \nLara Elborno \nReverend Keyanna Jones Moore \nMary Hooks \nChuck Modiano \nSim Kern \nYousef Khafaja \nAyman Nijim \nMichael Schirtzer \nSynth \nErnesto Ayala \nMark Wayne \nRicci Sergienko \nOriginal Poetry by: \nAmanee Izhaq \nOriginal Music by: \nThe Neighborhood Kids \nOzomatli \nDivina Salam \nUSvsTHEM \nDaii Dreamiin \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screeening-seeds-for-liberation/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:American Empire in Crisis? Palestine\, Trade Wars\, and "World Order"
DESCRIPTION:Building upon more than a half century of sustained analysis of the evolving political economy of contemporary capitalism—and in particular the challenges it poses to the left—Socialist Register 2026\, Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins puzzles through the rubble left behind after decades of rampant neoliberalism. \n\nWhat kind of world order is now emerging?\nIs capitalism entering a terminal crisis\, or being violently reconstituted?\nHow is American empire being reshaped from Palestine to New York?\nAnd what possibilities remain for socialist politics in an age of ecological breakdown\, geopolitical fracture\, and resurgent authoritarianism?\n\nIbrahim Shikaki\, Costas Lapavitsas and Paul Heideman\, three contributors to this year’s Socialist Register volume\, will consider these and other question in conversation with co-editor Steve Maher and the new editor of Monthly Review Press\, Arun Kundnani. \nAbout the Socialist Register: \nThe late\, great Mike Davis described the Socialist Register as “…the intellectual lodestar for the international left since 1964.” Every year over the past 6+ decades\, the Socialist Register (published by Monthly Review Press) has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas. \nFor the contents of this year’s Socialist Register\, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKpKQOZmtY8 \nThe Socialist Register has been around for more than half a century\, but this is the first-ever live U.S. launch of the Socialist Register in decades\, if ever.This is also your chance to come meet Monthly Review Press’ new editor\, Arun Kundnani\, in person\, alongside the relatively new coeditor of the Socialist Register\, Steve Maher. \nPlease join us on Thursday the 28th of May!
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/socialistregister2026/
LOCATION:Josina Machel & Michael Ratner Combined Classroom\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:EcoRove's Land Keepers Release Event
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin the Land Keepers Release Event on Friday\, May 29th\, from 6:30–8:30 PM NYC time at The People’s Forum (320 West 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) New York\, NY 10018 in the Michael Ratner classroom for the release event for Land Keepers\, a reader by EcoRove published by GenderFail. EcoRove’s Land Keepers Reader brings together writers\, activists\, journalists\, farmers\, and ecologists from across Bilad al-Sham — Lebanon\, Syria\, and Palestine — to tell stories of green resistance in the Jabal al-Sheikh ecological zone. Spanning South Lebanon\, the occupied Jawlan\, and the occupied Galilee\, this landscape faces ongoing ecocide\, defined as the deliberate destruction of land and ecologies used by the settler-colonial regime to erode livelihoods\, cultures\, and environments. \nThe event will include a conversation between  EcoRove’s Iyad Abou Gaida with contributors Mahdi Sabbagh\, Hussein Chaabane\, and Michelle Eid\, moderated by Lara Arafeh of Majlis NYC. Tickets are available on a sliding scale to ensure everyone can afford to attend. If you have the means\, please consider purchasing a supporter ticket to support this important work. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All tickets will come with a special risograph print created exclusively for this release event! \nTicket Pricing: Community Ticket: $10.00 Community Ticket\, including a copy of Land Keepers: $30.00 General Ticket: $25.00 General Ticket\, including a copy of Land Keepers: $50 Supporter Ticket: $50.00 Supporter Ticket\, including a copy of Land Keepers and an 11×17 in limited edition Risograph print by Iyad Abou Gaida: $100.00 The People’s Forum  320 West 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) New York\, NY 10018  in the Michael Ratner classroom Friday\, May 29th\, from 6:30–8:30 PM \nLand Keepers Reader: https://genderfailpress.info/Land-Keepers With contributions by Mahdi Sabbagh\, Hamza Hamouchene\, Public Works\, Hussein Chaabane\, Hisham Younes\, Nadine El-Khoury\, Michelle Eid\, and Munira Khayyat\, EcoRove’s Land Keepers Reader brings together writers\, activists\, journalists\, farmers\, and ecologists from across Bilad al-Sham — Lebanon\, Syria\, and Palestine — to tell stories of green resistance in the Jabal al-Sheikh ecological zone. Spanning South Lebanon\, the occupied Jawlan\, and the occupied Galilee\, this landscape faces ongoing ecocide\, defined as the deliberate destruction of land and ecologies used by the settler-colonial regime to erode livelihoods\, cultures\, and environments. The Reader highlights these struggles through essays\, research\, and testimonies that show how native communities remain rooted in place\, resisting colonial environmental orientalism\, greenwashing\, and scorched-earth tactics. As part of a wider body of work that includes a documentary film\, tapestries\, and sculptural pieces\, the Reader amplifies indigenous ecological knowledge and envisions regenerative futures for threatened landscapes. Land Keepers Edited by Ecorove (Iyad Abou Gaida and Jumanah Abbas) With work by Mahdi Sabbagh\, Hamza Hamouchene\, Public Works\, Hussein Chaabane\, Hisham Younes\, Nadine El-Khoury\, Michelle Eid\, and Munira Khayyat) Cover illustration by Iyad Abou Gaida Designed by GenderFail (Be Oakley) 144 pages Risograph Printed 1st Edition of 600 April 2026 \nEcoRove: EcoRove is a collaborative\, multimedia\, research project and co-collaborative production studio examining the politics of critical zones and the livelihood of humans and non-human species who dwell in them. Our mission is to empower individuals and organizations to share knowledge\, data\, and narratives that re-contextualize eco-socio-political dynamics through a broad spectrum of documentary\, scientific\, and technological approaches. In 2020\, EcoRove was awarded the Arab Fund for Art & Culture Fine Arts Grant for their project Cedar Exodus\, which was exhibited at The New Museum in 2023 – 2024. They have been published in “Pre-Occupied Thoughts” (Al-Rawiya\, 2024)\, and participated in WORLDING 2025 at MIT. \nMajlis NY: Majlis NY is a cultural collective dedicated to fostering dialogue\, artistic expression\, and intellectual exchange within New York’s diverse communities. Inspired by the tradition of the majlis—a gathering space for conversation and storytelling—Majlis NY hosts readings and discussions that highlight voices from the SWANA. Through its programming\, Majlis creates an inclusive space for artists\, writers\, and thinkers to engage with critical social and political issues while celebrating cultural heritage and contemporary creativity. \nGenderFail: GenderFail is a publishing outlet that seeks to instigate works that expand queer subjectivity through a working-class lens. GenderFail sees failure as a boundless source of inspiration in our work\, as a tool to both undo acts of oppression and imagine new systems of liberation. Often these failures are not ours but ones we inherit through systems of Zionism\, colonialism\, white supremacy\, and other forms of silence of oppression. With GenderFail\, Oakley has published over 140 editions\, including works by A.L. Steiner\, Abigail Lucien\, Paul Soulellis\, Lex Brown\, Coco Klockner\, Morgan Bassichis\, Eileen Myles\, Pamela Sneed\, Viva Ruiz\, E. Jane\, and many\, more. Oakley has been an Artist in Residence with the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles (October 5\, 2024- March 02\, 25)\, Acre Residency (August 2022)\, and Wendy’s Subway (October 1\, 2018 – December 31\, 2018). In 2022\, Oakley was awarded a 3-year $30\,000 grant through the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for their ongoing work with GenderFail. \nSpeaker bios: \nIyad Abou Gaida:  is a Lebanese farmer\, ecological designer\, architect\, and researcher\, and co-founder of EcoRove\, a collaborative research and storytelling platform. Iyad’s research engages ecologies of human and non-human beings through film\, illustration\, and spatial practice\, addressing aesthetic and socio-political urgencies for architecture and urbanism across dimensions and geographies. Through EcoRove\, Iyad’s work has been presented at the New Museum\, New Inc Demo 2025\, and the Tallinn Architecture Biennial (TAB). He was part of New Inc’s Creative Science Track (Year 11)\, and the work has been supported by the Alserkal Arts Foundation and AFAC\, with an honorary mention at Prix Ars Electronica. Iyad gained farming experience living on his ancestral terraced agricultural fields with his family in Hasbaya\, South Lebanon. He is the co-founder of Taïm Olive\, a producer of extra virgin olive oil that honors traditional farming practices and the resilience of the land. \nLara Arafeh:  is an independent curator\, writer\, and researcher based in Brooklyn. She also serves as the director of Majlis NY\, dedicated to community building\, promoting cultural exchange\, and showcasing voices from the SWANA. Her research focuses on decolonial methodologies and narrative histories while exploring the intricate intersections of culture\, identity\, and feminism. \nMahdi Sabbagh: is an architectural scholar and urbanist. He co-curates the Palestine Festival of Literature and serves as Editor at Large for the Avery Review. He is the editor of  Their Borders\, Our World (Haymarket Press\, 2024) and was a 2023 Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands. His work appears in the Journal of Public Culture\, Jerusalem Quarterly\, The Architectural Review\, Art Review\, Curbed\, Architecture of the Territory (Kaph Books\, 2022)\, Open Gaza (AUC Press\, 2021)\, and other publications. \nHussein Chaabane: is a Lebanese investigative journalist and war correspondent from Tyre and Ain Baal in Jabal Amel\, South Lebanon. He is a graduate of the Lebanese University. His work focuses on occupation\, political violence\, and the destruction of place\, with particular attention to South Lebanon and the histories carried by its people and landscape. Bringing together field reporting\, documentary investigation\, and legal analysis\, he is a journalist at Legal Agenda\, where he writes long-form investigations and critical analysis. \nMichelle Eid:  is a Lebanese researcher and Editor-in-Chief of Al Rawiya\, a platform and magazine covering stories and analyses on Bilad al-Sham. Her work explores socio-economic justice\, agropolitics\, and food sovereignty\, with a focus on the relationship between land\, identity\, and struggle. \nPublic Works: Public Works Studio is a Lebanon-based action research organization that uses a multidisciplinary approach to spatial justice. It addresses\, mobilizes around\, and actively responds to the chronic challenges facing just cities\, inclusive urban governance and equitable development in Lebanon.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/ecoroves-land-keepers-release-event/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture
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SUMMARY:Defending Our Vets: The Pendleton 2
DESCRIPTION:Documentary screening and discussion about the story of political prisoners John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter. \n\n\n\n\nJoin the National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) for an event honoring political prisoners and featuring the documentary film The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up. This film tells the story of John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter\, two prisoners who intervened to save a fellow inmate\, Lincoln “Lokmar” Love\, from a beating by KKK-affiliated prison guards in 1985\, leading to their unjust incarceration for over four decades. The event will feature the film’s co-director\, Too Black\, alongside members from Black Alliance for Peace\, Black Men Build\, Community Movement Builders\, and Spirit of Mandela. \nFilm Description \nOn the morning of February 1\, 1985\, Lincoln “Lokmar” Love was doomed to the same fate as George Floyd\, Tyre Nichols\, and so many other Black men in the US. As he lay handcuffed and shackled\, Pendleton Correctional Facility guards beat the prisoner beyond recognition as terrified bystanders watched from their cells. But Lokmar’s story ended differently when 2 fellow prisoners sacrificed their freedom to save him from his assailants — a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated guard gang known as the Sons of Light. “The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up” tells the story of John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter\, the leaders of the Indiana prison uprising that rescued Lokmar\, exposed Pendleton’s dehumanizing conditions\, and unleashed the vindictive wrath of the Indiana Department of Correction. Presented by the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2\, “They Stood Up” features exclusive first hand testimony from Cole and Trotter\, as well as interviews with family members and witnesses to the uprising who continue to fight for the Pendleton 2 after four decades of unjust incarceration and solitary confinement. \n  \nRSVP
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/defending-our-vets-the-pendleton-2/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Shut It Down 4 Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join us in preparation for another month of struggle for a free Palestine! We will discuss the current moment and prepare materials for this month of mobilization! RSVP now!\n\nWhen: Monday\, June 1\, 6:30 PM\n\nWhere: The People’s Forum\, 320 W 37th St\, NYC\n\n✊ The details: Our volunteer meeting & art build will start with a political orientation from key organizations in the Shut It Down 4 Palestine Coalition\, including the Palestinian Youth Movement\, the People’s Forum\, and the ANSWER Coalition. We will discuss important developments in the movement for Palestine and the actions planned for the month. From there\, we will divide up into groups to plan local neighborhood outreach\, put the week’s goals into action\, and make art and materials for upcoming actions. Before leaving\, we will ask volunteers to take #ShutItDown4Palestine materials\, like stickers\, flyers\, and posters to distribute in their neighborhoods and workplaces
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/shut-it-down-4-palestine/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:Hula & Oli Workshops with Kumu Hula ‘Auli’i Aweau
DESCRIPTION:Performances and workshops by Ka Pā Hula O La`akea is presented in collaboration with Dancers Unlimited\, a bi-coastal 501(c)3 company in NYC and Hawai`i. The events kick off Dancers Unlimited’s Spring Community Week\, May 31st – June 7th. Please visit www.dunyc-hi.com to get involved in a week of workshops\, discussions and performances. Thank you to New York State Council on The Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for the generous funding support. \nREGISTER
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/hula-oli-workshops-with-kumu-hula-aulii-aweau/2026-06-02/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Culture,Performances
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Embrace & Tiny Movements
DESCRIPTION:Join the filmmakers for a screening of The Embrace & Tiny Movements\, two short documentaries that explore dance as a form of empowerment. \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a screening of The Embrace & Tiny Movements\, two short documentaries that explore the ways in which dance is a form of empowerment. The films will be followed by Q & A with The Embrace director John Owens\, as well as Tiny Movements director Laura Sweeney and producer/documentary subject Jenn Green. Moderated by acclaimed international Director & Producer Hope Youngblood Heck. \nRegister here! \n(Note: This screening includes descriptions of sexual assault and domestic violence) \nThe Embrace (2025\, 17m) \nFollow Argentine tango teacher Carolina Pirotta as her precariously-built world is upended by the election of a right-wing populist. Offering an intimate lens on a life lived amid economic turmoil\, this film dives into a world of tango that refuses to be bound by tradition – examining issues of power\, resistance and resilience in the process. (www.theembracedoc.com) \nTiny Movements (2025\, 24 min) \nJenn Green\, modern dancer and mother of two\, discovers a file full of video recordings of her husband raping her after drugging her with high doses of Ambien. This film tells the story of her creation of Tiny Kitchen Dances project\, her healing as she navigates the ongoing legal battle to protect herself and her children\, the journey to hold her abuser accountable within the legal justice system\, and moving forward as she works to rebuild her chosen life. (www.tinymovementsfilm.com)
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-the-embrace-tiny-movements/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screenings
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:FOR VENIDA\, FOR KALIEF Film & The People's Forum Present : Dreaming Beyond Rikers
DESCRIPTION:FOR VENIDA\, FOR KALIEF Film & The People’s Forum Present : Dreaming Beyond Rikers\n\nTribeca Festival 2025 Official Selection for U.S. Documentary Competition\, FOR VENIDA\, FOR KALIEF debuts the poetry of Venida Brodnax Browder\, mother of Kalief Browder\, and weaves a lyrical and cinematic mosaic connecting past\, present\, and future while exploring the movement to transform Rikers Island- the world’s most notorious jail- into a renewable energy center. Full film synopsis below. \nPlease join us for a poetic and empowering afternoon at The People’s Forum! Following the film screening\, there will be a panel and organizing workshop featuring local advocates from the Campaign to Close Rikers\, Freedom Agenda\, the Jails Action Coalition\, HALT Solitary and more to help facilitate a deeper conversation about the current status of the complete plan to close Rikers Island Jail and organizing to push for its closure by the legally-mandated deadline of August 31\, 2027. We will also visualize and plan for the next phase of the closing plan that is also approved and legally-mandated – the creation of Renewable Rikers in its place. \nThe panel and workshop will be followed by poetry performances by featured artists TBD\, as well as an open mic. \nThe event is free and open to the public with an RSVP and a suggested donation. Light refreshments will be served. Space is limited; advance registration is required below. \n\nEVENTBRITE LINK  \nFILM SYNOPSIS\nFOR VENIDA\, FOR KALIEF (95 minutes) delves into the profound legacy of Kalief Browder\, who at age 16 was sent to New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex for allegedly stealing a backpack. After three years of solitary confinement\, he was released without charge\, but later committed suicide at the age of 22. At the heart of this narrative is his mother\, Venida Brodnax Browder\, who found solace in writing poetry before dying from broken heart syndrome. FOR VENIDA\, FOR KALIEF is a cinematic mosaic\, an immersive journey connecting past\, present\, and future that is balanced between contemporary verite and vivid poetic interludes and rare archival imagery that take us back to the untold story of the Citywide Jail Rebellion of 1970 led by the Black Panthers and Young Lords. Taking an unconventional and liminal approach\, the film explores how the carceral system is a vicious cycle\, and that an individual’s life – and afterlife – can expand exponentially to create societal change previously considered unattainable.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/for-venida-for-kalief-film-the-peoples-forum-present-dreaming-beyond-rikers/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:COLLAGE MAKING FOR LIBERATION w/ ASHLEY LAGRANGE
DESCRIPTION:COLLAGE MAKING FOR LIBERATION w/ ASHLEY LAGRANGE \nOne-day   |   6-8:30PM   |   Saturday\, June 6   |   Sliding Scale  \nJoin us for Collage Making For Liberation\, a one-day workshop w/ Queens-based therapist and artist Ashley Lagrange! \nIn these sessions you’ll learn how to create collage art as a medium for political agitation and propaganda and as a tool for self-reflection and expression. Participants will gather inspiration from collage artists who have created intentional Agitprop and then be provided with prompts and materials to create their own. \n__ \nAshley Marie Lagrange\, (They/Them) is a therapist\, coach\, and collage artist born\, raised and currently residing in Queens\, New York to a multigenerational household Dominican l household. Ashley works in the day as a politicized therapist and coach for the QTBIPOC population which stemmed from their lived experience with madness and grassroots peer support organizing. Ashley is also a Collage Artist\, having taught and facilitated various classes and workshop spaces on the analog art form. Ashley is a member of DegrowNYC and previously sat as their Propaganda Chair.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/collage-w-ashley-june/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Art Courses,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:CYANOTYPE 201 w/ PRAISE FULLER
DESCRIPTION:CYANOTYPE 201 w/ PRAISE FULLER \n3-week | 6-8:30PM | Tuesdays\, June 9 through June 23   | $200 \nIn Cyanotype 201\, students will dive deeper into their print-making practice. Each session covers a lesson relevant to the cyanotype process. This includes how to edit photos for larger negatives\, print on various surfaces\, tone\, and troubleshoot. Participants will spend their time experimenting and build each week to create several works per class. The goal is to leave the course with a holistic understanding of cyanotype printmaking! \nCyanotype 201 is designed for those who have taken a cyanotype course at TPF\, or have experience with the medium\, and want to explore it in more depth. \nWeek 1: Editing Cyanotype Negatives & Editing Large Negatives\nWeek 2: Larger Scale Cyanotypes + Fabric\nWeek 3: Toning \n__ \nPraise Fuller (b. Houston\, Texas) is a New York-based\, self-taught artist\, poet\, and educator with a practice spanning printmaking\, installation\, and mixed media with a central focus on the cyanotype process. Fuller’s work emerges from historical analysis and introspection\, exploring what lies beyond the constraints of family\, the church\, trauma\, and the cultural realities of the South. These introspections are interwoven with the concept of “rememory\,” a term borrowed from Toni Morrison\, which reflects how memory exists beyond\, or even escapes\, the individual mind by inhabiting objects\, places\, and communities. \nhttps://www.praise-fuller.com/
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/cyanotype-201-june/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Pride (2014)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Paul and Eslanda Robeson Cinema at The People’s Forum\, created in the spirit of their love of art\, film\, and revolution. \n\n\n\nBased on a true story\, Pride follows a group of lesbian and gay activists in London who raise money to support striking coal miners during the 1984–85 UK miners’ strike. Despite initial mistrust and cultural differences\, the activists and mining communities forge an unexpected alliance rooted in solidarity\, mutual support\, and shared struggles against discrimination and state repression. Blending humor\, warmth\, and political insight\, the film explores the power of collective action and demonstrates how movements can build strength across lines of identity\, class\, and geography. \nUK | 2014 | Matthew Warchus | 119m \nThis is a free educational program\, however\, in order to maintain a safe capacity level\, we ask that you get an $8 solidarity ticket to reserve your participation and to sustain our educational programming.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-pride-2014/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:PHARMA MONOPOLY -  The Battle For The Future Of Medicines: Author Tahir  Amin in conversation with Activist-Scholar Author\, A. Kayum Ahmed
DESCRIPTION:Billions of people lack the freedom  to access affordable life-saving medicines. One third of Americans leave prescriptions unfilled due to costs\, often skipping doses or cutting pills in half just to get by. \nIn PHARMA MONOPOLY\, Tahir Amin and co-author Rohit Malpani pull back the curtain on a system that prioritizes power and profit over human well-being. This isn’t just about the pharmaceutical industry—it’s about how access to medical care has been remade by private interests both in the U.S. and abroad\, how governments have ceded control to monopolies\, and how global health initiatives often maintain a status quo that leaves the most vulnerable behind while cementing existing power structures. \nThrough a critical look at historical events\, including drawing on Tahir’s two decades in the global access to medicines movement from Delhi to Geneva to Capitol Hill\, PHARMA MONOPOLY traces how the ideology of neoliberalism pushed by western governments under the guise of a ‘rules based order’ operated as a form of colonialism that shaped global trade and the modern pharmaceutical industry over the last 50 years. \nPHARMA MONOPOLY challenges the dominant narratives of intellectual property\, the false god of innovation\, and philanthropy that have created or reinforced inequities and injustices. It also provides a warning of a neo-feudalism that is to come with the emergence of AI in the field of medicines and offers a powerful call for a new movement for justice in global health. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/pharma-monopoly-the-battle-for-the-future-of-medicines-author-tahir-amin-in-conversation-with-activist-scholar-author-a-kayum-ahmed/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T180000
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SUMMARY:FIGURE DRAWING NIGHT w/ NICK SKOUG
DESCRIPTION:FIGURE DRAWING NIGHT w/ NICK SKOUG \nOne-day   |   6-8:30PM   |   Friday\, June 12   \nIn these one-day sessions\, participants will practice figure drawing with a live model\, working independently with guidance and input from artist Nick Skoug. Basic drawing materials will be available (paper\, drawing boards\, pencils\, charcoal\, erasers). Participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies as well! \n__ \nNick Skoug is a figurative painter. Originally from the Los Angeles area\, he studied painting there before moving to Germany\, where he lived for 10 years. He left Berlin for a Master’s Degree in Painting at the New York Studio School. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/drawing-night-june/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Art Courses,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:ABC da Greve (ABC of Strike) | Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Year: 1989 | Director: Leon Hirszman | Duration: 85 mins  | Brazil \n(Portuguese with English subtitles) \n“ABC da Greve” is a 1989 Brazilian documentary film by Leon Hirszman\, on the strikes of the ABC Region labor movement in the late 1970s. ABC stands for the three cities that surround São Paulo City\, which once composed the largest industrial park of South America: Santo André\, São Bernardo do Campo\, São Caetano do Sul. \nThe film follows the metallurgical workers of the large transnational automobile factories located in the ABC Region\, São Paulo in the late 1970s in their struggle for better wages and better living conditions. Filmed in 16 mm\, ABC da Greve records the effervescence of the labor movement\, which mobilized to carry out the first strikes in Brazil since 1968. These strikes preceded the country’s political amnesty and redemocratization and occurred during a brutal military dictatorship. The workers union was led by the then union leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva\, known as Lula\, who rose to found the Workers Party (PT)\, and during his two first terms as President of Brazil (2003-2010)\, provoked major structural changes in Brazilian society. \nLula is currently serving his third term as President of Brazil (2023-present). It is crucial for Lula to defeat the far right yet again in Presidential elections in Brazil in 2026. If elected\, Lula will be the only Brazilian democratically-elected President for a fourth mandate. \nWe bring back this film in a time when mass workers mobilizations and mass strikes are sorely necessary in the United States. It will be followed by a discussion* on labor unions\, people’s power and organized political movement\, with invited co-discussants from the Party for Socialism & Liberation\, Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee\, local unions\, and upper intermediate students from the Portuguese for Social Transformation classes taught by Natalia de Campos/ Syncretic Pleasures at The People’s Forum \n*This screening will have a bilingual English/Portuguese post-film discussion. \nAnyone is welcome. This is a free screening.  \nA suggested donation of $5 and up will benefit The People’s Forum fundraiser for the construction of its new and permanent home. 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/abc-da-greve/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:CYANOTYPE 101 w/ PRAISE FULLER
DESCRIPTION:CYANOTYPE 101 w/ PRAISE FULLER \nOne-day   |   11AM – 2PM   |   Saturday\, June 13    \nStudents will spend this introductory workshop learning the cyanotype process from beginning to end. This one-day class covers the basic process of prep\, choosing photos/objects\, and exposure/printing. Cyanotype 101 is beginner-friendly and perfect for those who haven’t experimented with the medium before. \nFor those intermediate + advanced\, please join Cyanotype 201.\n__ \nPraise Fuller (b. Houston\, Texas) is a New York-based\, self-taught artist\, poet\, and educator with a practice spanning printmaking\, installation\, and mixed media with a central focus on the cyanotype process. Fuller’s work emerges from historical analysis and introspection\, exploring what lies beyond the constraints of family\, the church\, trauma\, and the cultural realities of the South. These introspections are interwoven with the concept of “rememory\,” a term borrowed from Toni Morrison\, which reflects how memory exists beyond\, or even escapes\, the individual mind by inhabiting objects\, places\, and communities. \nhttps://www.praise-fuller.com/
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/cyanotype-june-13/
LOCATION:Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio\, 320 W. 37th\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:art,Art Courses,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:Al-Bait Baitkom - Sudanese Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Al-Bait Baitkom is back for its first summer open mic — a night of Sudani comedy\, music\, poetry\, storytelling\, and whatever beautiful chaos happens when the diaspora grabs a mic. \nWith special feature: Mohamed Araki a touring Sudanese musician\, producer\, keyboardist\, and Sudan’s first Grammy-nominated artist through his work with Bombino. And knowing our crowd… expect surprise drop-ins. \nSudani artists: if you want to perform\, DM Al-Bait Baitkom\n📆 Saturday\, June 13\n⏱️ 6:30PM – 9PM\n📍 320 W 37th St\, New York\nRegister here: https://www.viewcy.com/event/albait_baitkom_3
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/al-bait-baitkom-sudanese-open-mic/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture
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SUMMARY:Protest Testimony Project Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:What does accountability actually look like when it comes to protest policing in New York City? And who gets to define whether change is real? \nJoin us for a community roundtable as part of the Protest Testimony Project—an effort to make sure the people most impacted by protest policing have a direct line into how reforms are evaluated and enforced. \nIn the wake of recent policy changes and legal settlements shaping how the NYPD responds to protests\, this space is about more than information-sharing. It’s about power. We’re bringing community members together to break down what’s changed\, what hasn’t\, and what accountability should look like moving forward. \nThis roundtable is an opportunity to: \n\nLearn about recent changes to NYPD protest policing policies\nUnderstand the ongoing settlement and compliance review process\nShare your experiences\, observations\, and concerns\nDirectly inform how these reforms are assessed and implemented\n\nWhether you’ve been on the frontlines\, organizing in your community\, or simply want to understand your rights and the current landscape—your voice matters here. \nThis is a free event. Refreshments will be provided. \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/protest-testimony-project-roundtable/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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