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SUMMARY:ARABIC CULTURE CLUB: HIGH BEGINNER
DESCRIPTION:Arabic Culture Club: High Beginner\nTuesdays\, September 10th – December 17th\, 2019\, 6-9 pm (3hrs/week; 45 hrs). \nAlgarabía Language Co-op and The People’s Forum are offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in social justice\, cinema\, media\, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes\, and using a communicative and popular education approach\, participants will improve their Arabic skills\, and critically engage with various Arabic cultural productions\, including films\, TV series\, newsreels\, and short stories. These 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. \nHigh Beginner reviews topics covered in Arabic 1 course. Expands vocabulary and idiomatic expressions; focus is on colloquial Arabic and differences among varieties through critically engaging with various Arabic-speaking pop culture. \nLoading…
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/arabic-culture-club-high-beginner/2019-09-10/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Puerto Rico: Resistance\, Disaster\, and Austerity in the World’s Oldest Colony
DESCRIPTION:Every other Thursday\, September 12-December 19\, 6:00-8:00pm (8 sessions) \nThis course will seek to understand the recent political\, social\, and economic events in Puerto Rico before\, during\, and after the mass mobilizations that forced out the elected governor in July of 2019. We will examine the histories of resistance\, working-class formation\, colonialism\, capitalism\, neoliberalism\, and migration of this U.S. territory. These histories intersect with contemporary struggles for racial\, gender\, and LGTBQ equality. \nClass Schedule:\nSession 1: Introduction: Corruption and Protests (Sept. 12th) \nSession 2: History of U.S. Colonialism (Sept. 26th) \nSession 3: Modernization\, Development\, and Migration (Oct. 10th) \nSession 4: Uneven Development and Neoliberalism (October 24th) \nSession 5: Government-Debt Crisis and Austerity (November 7th) \nSession 7: Contemporary Migration and Demographic Decline (November 21st) \nSession 8: Hurricane Maria and Disaster Capitalism (December 5th) \nSession 9: Current Situation and Popular Culture (December 19th)
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/puerto-rico-resistance-disaster-and-austerity-in-the-worlds-oldest-colony/2019-09-12/
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:Makibaka: Fighting back in Pilipino
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, September 7- November 11\, 6-9 PM \nWhether you are of Filipino heritage\, a student of languages\, a researcher\, tourist\, or just someone interested in learning a new language\, this class is for you. Over the course of the next few weeks\, we will be experiencing the first steps into learning Pilipino. Together\, we will explore what it means to learn about a language of a nation forged in the flames of an anti-colonial revolution and continues to develop as a people in an ongoing national-democratic struggle. Through this preliminary journey we hope to also learn about the Filipino people\, the history of the language itself\, common expressions and modes of communication\, and other ways that the language comes to life in the hearts\, minds\, and will of Filipinos—including in diaspora. \nThis course is offered on a sliding scale of $150-$300 for 30 hours of instruction.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/makibaka-fighting-back-in-pilipino-2019-09-12-2/2019-09-12/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:POOR PEOPLE’S WALKING TOUR OF WALL STREET
DESCRIPTION:Walking pace is slow to moderate with public seating in certain stopping points. Participants will be informed of the meeting point. \nA “Poor People’s Walking Tour of Wall Street” has evolved over the years since the 2008 economic crisis\, but it has always been designed first and foremost for leaders emerging from the ranks of the poor and dispossessed – people on the front line of struggles against the interlocking evils\, as Dr. King conceived\, of poverty\, racism\, and militarism. And today\, the fourth horseman of these Apocalyptic forces is the ecological crisis. John Wessel-McCoy\, educator and organizer from the Kairos Center and the University of the Poor\, has conducted tours with grassroots community and religious organizations from across the United States and social movement across the globe. \nWall Street stands above all other command centers of global capitalism\, and that’s why it’s so important that people struggling from below come here to see it for themselves – to reflect on the Wall Street Bull\, the New York Stock Exchange\, to know our history\, and to know who we’re up against. In this system\, all corporations have to go to the bank and serve their shareholders. That is what Wall Street represents. \n“The Poor People’s Walking Tour of Wall Street” helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here. All of our roads lead to this modern day version of Rome. It helps us break our isolation and realize our potential power.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/poor-peoples-walking-tour-of-wall-street-5/
LOCATION:Offsite. Participants will be informed in advance of the meeting point.
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education,Walking Tour
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SUMMARY:La Paloma Prisoner Project Kick-Off
DESCRIPTION:This is a kick-off event that marks the beginning of a series of events geared towards amplifying and celebrating the community of activists who are actively raising awareness\, and inciting action toward decarceration. There will be featured performances including a performance of an excerpt from La Paloma Prisoner\, Colombian musicians and Colombian food! \nCommunity participants include: \nDr. Vanda Seward\, Cuny Criminal Justice Department at CUNY Kingsborough \nDr. Baz Dreisinger\, Author of Incarcerated Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World and Executive Director of the Incarcerated Nations Network \nPamela Villa\, Director of Development- Bronx Connect and Bloomberg Fellow \nRobert Pollack\, Pen America – Prison Writing Program Manager \nLaila Mahler\, Dean of Student and Alumni Affairs\, Columbia University \nJulia Shaw\, LMSW Director\, Criminalized Survivors Program STEPS to End Family Violence\, a program of Rising Ground- City\, Lore Organization \n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/la-paloma-prisoner-project-kick-off/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture
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SUMMARY:Teach-in: Self-Determination and Solidarity in Kashmir
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 14\, 6-9 PM \nThis teach-in is geared towards building solidarity between the Kashmiri and Palestinian anti-occupation movements. The instructors will give a history of the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination\, provide an analysis of the Indian occupation of Kashmir\, and reflect on the ties between India and Israel\, as well as the need for greater mobilization between the Palestinian and Kashmiri solidarity movements. \nCosponsored by the Palestinian Youth Movement\, Jewish Voice For Peace\, and CODEPINK. \nInstructors: \nHafsa Kanjwal is an Assistant Professor of South Asian history at Lafayette College. She completed her PhD in history and women’s studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on post-Partition state-formation in Indian occupied Kashmir. She has written on Kashmir for a variety of news outlets including The Washington Post\, Al Jazeera English\, Kindle Magazine\, Foreign Policy Magazine\, Kashmir Life\, Kashmir Ink\, and the Al Jazeera Center for Study. She has spoken on Kashmir for Al Jazeera English’s The Stream and Inside Story news programs. \nAzad Essa is a senior reporter at Middle East Eye. Previously\, he worked for Al Jazeera English covering central Africa as well as parts of South Asia\, including Kashmir. He was the foreign policy columnist for South Africa’s second biggest media group Independent Media partially owned by the Chinese. He was subsequently fired for writing about China’s persecution of the Uighurs. He is also the author of “The Moslems are Coming.” \nMahum Shabir is a third-year law student at the City University of New York\, School of Law. Her area of interest is international human rights and humanitarian law. Previously\, she worked in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir with the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society – a movement lawyering organization. She is a co-author of Structures of Violence\, a report that examines the legal and political impunity for armed forces in Indian Administered Kashmir in the context of extensive militarization.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/teach-in-self-determination-and-solidarity-in-kashmir/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education,Panel Discussions
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