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SUMMARY:ABOLITION AND/AS ACTIVISM - PRESENTED BY THE CENTER FOR PLACE CULTURE AND POLITICS
DESCRIPTION:In her justly-revered book\, Abolition Geography\, Ruth Wilson Gilmore articulates the prescience of the praxis\, politics\, and poetics of “abolition” as a central principle of liberation movements and social change. The book is a culmination of decades of Gilmore’s ardent and inexhaustible commitment not just to undo the injustices of the carceral state with its infrastructure of racial capitalism\, but to formulate abolition as a condition of revolutionary possibility since\, as she puts it\, “mass incarceration is class war.” Far from being a handy metaphor for the combined and uneven development of the world system\, the prison is the material instantiation of global inequality where location at scale is a provocation to think activism as also\, in its difference and intensities\, confronting carcerality in all its manifestations. \nThe Center for Place\, Culture and Politics’ 2024 conference intends to honor Gilmore’s contribution–in activism\, politics\, pedagogy\, and theory—to an abolitionist agenda and is also crucially an invitation to think with her work on future imbrications of abolitionism with anti-racism\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism among a provocative array of allegiance to radical social transformation. In this way the conference not only celebrates a career\, but extends it. \nThis conference is organized and sponsored by the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY and cosponsored by the Global Studies program\, The New School and The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center\, CUNY.\nIt is free and open to the public. \nMore information and updates HERE.  \nThis event will be livestreamed. HERE is the link for May 3. HERE is the link for May 4.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/abolition-and-as-activism-presented-by-the-center-for-place-culture-and-politics/
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SUMMARY:Envisioning Social and Public Housing Futures
DESCRIPTION:Today housing insecurity is a generalized phenomenon\, driving forward policy solutions under the guise of housing for all. As many look towards the future\, they’ve looked past the fight to preserve public housing in growing favor of so-called “social housing” policy solutions. This half-day mini-conference will kick off with an open conversation led by tenants leading the fight to preserve public housing in New York City. The organizers are members of Save Section 9\, Residents to Preserve Public Housing\, Neighbors Helping Neighbors-Rockaway Hub\, the Committee for Independent Community Action\, and Justice for All Coalition. After they share their analysis of the current housing climate in NYC\, an international panel of housing academics will share comparative research and perspectives on public and social housing across cities. This second open conversation features Raquel Rolnik\, Glyn Robbins\, Sneha Sumanth\, Kristen Hackett\, and Jaime Jover. \nWatch the livestream HERE:
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/envisioning-social-and-public-housing-futures/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Panel Discussions,Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:The CPCP Annual Conference 2023: The State. Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois?
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 5th 6PM – 8:30PM \nSaturday\, May 6th 10:30AM – 6PM \nThe People’s Forum\n320 W 37th Street (between 8th and 9th)\nNew York\, NY 10018  \nRegister for Day 1 (n person only): https://bit.ly/CPCPconferenceday1\nRegister for Day 2 (in person or livestream): https://bit.ly/CPCPconferenceday2 \nWatch the livestream HERE. \nThe State. Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois? \nIn imagining and forging the future there is much talk of the state\, but often with little detail.  What should public goods consist of\, and how might they be organized? Can the need for coercion (eg to pay taxes for public goods) be realized without the carceral and its underlying apparatuses of organized violence? What forms of sovereignty and its delegation (above or below) are possible and desirable?  We are particularly interested in lessons from people struggling for resource sovereignty in the global south — across the entire scope of dispossession: land\, water\, housing\, freedom to move or stay put. We are also interested in creative approaches to reflecting on the state — including fiction\, film\, visual and aural arts. \nFRIDAY\, MAY 5th\n6:00PM: The Measures Taken\, written by Bertolt Brecht\nstaging and concept: Jurrell Lewis and Lucas Kane\ndirected by Lucas Kane\nperformers: Malachi Brown\, Ava Kaplan\, Nashwa Zaman\, Adi Blaustein Rejto\, Kaiden Talesh\nMusic: Malachi Brown and Livia Reiner\ncostumes: Willa Schwabsky and Zelda Mazor-Freedman\nset design: Eliza Williamson\nPainting: Adi Blaustein Rejto \nSATURDAY\, MAY 6th\n10:30-10:50 Welcome and inspiration \n10:50-12:40 Time Future From Time Past: Lessons From Kerala\nMythri Prasad-Aleyamma\, Nissim Mannathukkaren\, and Rekha Raj \n12:45-2:45 Municipal Futures\nKazembe Balagun\, Maliha Safri\, Miguel Robles-Durán\, and Josep Bohigas Arnau \n2:45-3:45 Lunch by The People’s Cafe \n3:45-5:35 Leftism Resurgent: Latin America’s Pink Tide\nRaquel Rolnik\, Carolina Bank Muñoz\, and Gianpaolo Baiocchi \n6:00 Closing roundtable\nRuth Wilson Gilmore\, David Harvey and others \nAbout the speakers: \nCarolina Bank Muñoz‘s work focuses on immigration\, labor\, work\, and Latin America. She is most recently the co-author of A People’s Guide to New York City with Penny Lewis and Emily Tumpson Molina (UC Press 2022). Her previous books include Walmart in the Global South with Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher (University of Texas Press 2018)\, Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart (Cornell ILR 2017) and Transnational Tortillas: Race\, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States (Cornell ILR 2008)\, which was awarded the Terry Book prize. Her current research project looks at Black migration to Chile and the politics of national identity. Apart from scholarly endeavors\, she is Chair of her union chapter at Brooklyn College and is also active with the Immigrant Student Success Office (ISSO). \nDavid Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of various books\, articles\, and lectures. His most recent books are A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse (Verso\, 2023) and The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles (Pluto Press\, 2020). He is the author of Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile Books\, 2014)\, one of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2011\, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press\, 2010). Other books include A Companion to Marx’s Capital\, Limits to Capital\, and Social Justice and the City. Professor Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for nearly 40 years. His lectures on Marx’s Volumes I and II are available for download (free) on his website. He was director of the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics from 2008-2014. Follow him on Twitter. \nNissim Mannathukkaren is Associate Professor in the International Development Studies Department at Dalhousie University\, Canada. His main research interests are focused on nationalism\, post-truth\, Left/communist movements\, development and democracy\, modernity\, Marxism\, and the politics of popular culture\, with a geographical focus on India. He is the author of two books\, Communism\, Subaltern Studies\, and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India (Routledge\, 2021) and The Rupture with Memory: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism (Navayana\, 2006). His research has been published in journals such as the Modern Asian Studies\, Citizenship Studies\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Third World Quarterly\, Journal of Critical Realism\, International Journal of the History of Sport\, Economic and Political Weekly\, Dialectical Anthropology\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, and Sikh Formations. He is an op-ed columnist in the Indian English-language press. \nMaliha Safri is a professor in the economics department at Drew University. Her research has focused on class and political economy\, and in particular the ways that people engage in collective practices in work\, housing\, and food.  She has published articles in Signs\, Antipode\, Rethinking Marxism\, the Economist’s Voice\, Organization\, and edited books. Maliha Safri was also a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant\, and has a forthcoming co-authored book (Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism and Mapping Transformation) on that research on urban solidarity economies in the U.S. \nRuth Wilson Gilmore is director of the Center for Place\, Culture\, and Politics. She writes about racial capitalism; organized violence; organized abandonment; changing state structure; the aesthetics and  politics of seeing; labor and social movements; and the urgency of abolition as a green\, red\, and internationalist project of liberation. Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso 2022); and Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press 2007); and\, co-edited with Paul Gilroy\, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference. (Duke 2021). Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition is forthcoming from Haymarket. Gilmore’s internationalist work features in the Antipode documentary Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2020). She co-founded many grassroots organizations. Awards include the 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize (shared with Angela Y. Davis\, and Mike Davis)\, and the 2022  Marguerite Casey Freedom Scholar Prize. \nAbout the performers: \nMalachi Brown (he/him) is a cellist and composer born and raised in Norfolk\, Virginia. Malachi studied music composition and cello performance at Old Dominion University and Ithaca College. Currently\, Malachi plays with Protestra\, and Sound Off: Music for Bail; he also manages and performs with the Atrium Quartet. In addition to his musical activities\, Malachi is a film and theater actor. Malachi currently resides in New York City. \nAva Kaplan (she/her) is a librarian at Bronx Community College and a member of the PSC-CUNY union. \nLucas Kane (he/she/they) is a brooklyn-based film and theater maker. In 2019 and 2020\, he worked as an assistant director to Peter Brook at the Bouffes du Nord Theater on the productions of Why? and La Tempête. Since then\, their focus has been on using theater as a means to facilitate political discussion\, producing works in non-traditional settings for a range of audiences on the left. \nLivia Reiner (she/her) is a songwriter and performer who has worked with Overtone Industries (LA) Annie Dorsen (NY) and Leslie Buxbuam Danzig. Her original work can be found on bandcamp. \nAdi Blaustein Rejto (they /she) is a painter\, paint maker\, and performer. Adi is currently an MFA candidate at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and an organizer with the Adjunct Faculty Union-AFT at Rutgers. \nKaiden Talesh (he/they) is an actor\, parent\, and organizer based in Brooklyn NY. \nNashwa Zaman (she/her) is an artist\, filmmaker\, performer and arts community facilitator based in NYC. \nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, and cosponsored by The Center for The Humanities at the Graduate Center\, CUNY and The People’s Forum. It is free and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-cpcp-annual-conference-2023-the-state-abolitionist-fascist-communist-bourgeois/
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SUMMARY:PLAY: THE MEASURES TAKEN (CPCP conference day 1)
DESCRIPTION:THE MEASURES TAKEN\, written by Bertolt Brecht\n \nThe play recounts the story of four communist agitators who successfully lead a revolution in rural China. However\, along the way they have to execute a young comrade who’s lack of foresight and focus on individuality endangered the revolution. \nstaging and concept by Jurrell Lewis and Lucas Kane\ndirected by Lucas Kane\nperformed by Malachi Brown\, Ava Kaplan\, Nashwa Zaman\, Adi Blaustein Rejto\, and Kaiden Talesh\nmusic by Malachi Brown and Livia Reiner\ncostumes by Willa Schwabsky and Zelda Mazor-Freedman\nset design by Eliza Williamson \npainting by Adi Blaustein Rejto \nThis is the opening night event of the Center for Place\, Culture and politics’ 2023 conference:The State: Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois?
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/play-the-measures-taken-cpcp-conference-day-1/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Recipes for Survival
DESCRIPTION:Book launch: Maria Thereza Alves Recipes for Survival (University of Texas Press\, 2019) \nwith\nMaria Thereza Alves\nRuth Wilson Gilmore\nMichael Taussig\nOmar Berrada \nMaria Thereza Alves is an artist known for her life-long engagement with peoples and their specific communities\, lands\, and colonial histories. Alves has worked and exhibited internationally since the 1980s\, creating a vast body of deeply interwoven works in which she investigates the histories and circumstances of particular localities in order to bear witness to silenced histories. All of her projects begin in response to local needs and proceed through a process of dialogue between material and environmental realities and social circumstances. While aware of Western binaries between nature and culture\, art and politics\, or art and daily life\, she deliberately refuses to acknowledge them in her practice. She chooses instead to create spaces of agency and visibility for oppressed cultures through relational practices of collaboration that require constant movement across all of these boundaries. \nRecipes for Survival is centered on her father’s community in the backlands of Parana in Brazil. For the first time\, through images and texts\, the story of those who are excluded from official Brazilian histories is told in their own voices. By asking the people of these communities “What do we want the world to know about us?”\, Alves was able to listen to the stories we now have the possibility to see and read on our own. Recipes for Survival was Alves’s very first project. After almost 36 years of searching for a publisher\, it is available at last as a substantial source for another history: that of “an us”\, we who are not included in the “narrative myths of Western historizations”.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-recipes-for-survival/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Center for Place\, Culture and Politics presents: Mobilizations and Migrations
DESCRIPTION:Livestream: YouTube Facebook \nHowever the international order is characterized\, it is clear that various forms of internationalism are in distress. These are at work both in producing violent conflagration and in generating moving populations across the globe (migrant labor\, refugees\, asylum seekers\, exiles\, emigres\, etc.). How\, then\, can internationalism be thought and articulated anew? How can it productively and creatively address various modes of encounter and representation? How can it build on radical genealogies of international solidarity in ways that interlink vital discussions of borders and walls with the systemic relations of racial capitalism and its spatial fixes in the current conjuncture? How do migrations mediate mobilizations as political possibility? Do revolutionary/decolonial reconfigurations of people in/against territories represent the new horizon of internationalism? How does culture\, for instance\, mediate the complex parameters of space\, place\, and the movements between both to fathom contemporary crises and to enable a positive knowledge of their solution? \nJoin us at The People’s Forum for Day 2 of our conference. Click Here for information on Day 1.  This event is free and open to the public. \nDAY 2: SATURDAY\, April 13\, 2019\n9:45 AM: Welcome \n10:00 AM-12:30 PM: Panel 4. Mobilizations\nLaura Y. Liu (The New School)\, Ana Naomi de Sousa (Filmmaker\, London)\, Christina Heatherton (Barnard College)\, and Sónia Vaz Borges (CPCP).  Chaired By Mary Taylor. \n 12:30-2:30 Lunch Break. \n 2:30-4:00 PM  Closing Keynote\nVijay Prashad (Tricontinental) in conversation with all of us. Chaired by Mamyrah Dougé- Prosper (IRADAC and CPCP). \nMORE INFORMATION: pcp.gc.cuny.edu \nOrganized by the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Cosponsored by The Center for the Humanities\, the Advanced Research Collaborative\, the Committee on Globalization and Social Change\, The American Studies Certificate Program\, and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean\, and Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center\, CUNY; and The People’s Forum. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-center-for-place-culture-and-politics-presents-mobilizations-and-migrations/
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