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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:*TPF is closed from March 10 – April 20* \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W.  Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.  In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.   The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nFees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay. \nTickets available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/invention-of-the-white-race-2020-04-07/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume III
DESCRIPTION:*TPF is closed from March 10 – April 20* \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). The study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-volume-iii-2020-04-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:*TPF is closed from March 10 – April 20* \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W.  Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.  In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.   The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nFees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay. \nTickets available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/invention-of-the-white-race-2020-03-31/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume III
DESCRIPTION:*The People’s Forum is temporarily closed from March 10 – April 20* \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). The study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-volume-iii-2020-03-28/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:*The People’s Forum is temporarily closed from March 10 – April 20* \nThe Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W.  Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.  In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.   The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nFees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay. \nTickets available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/invention-of-the-white-race-2020-03-24/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume III
DESCRIPTION:*The People’s Forum is temporarily closed from March 10 – April 20* \nCapital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). The study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-volume-iii-2020-03-21/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:State of Siege
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series \nSTATE OF SIEGE\nFrance\, 1973\, 121 min.\nDIRECTED BY Costa-Gavras \n Costa-Gavras puts the United States’ involvement in Latin American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerrilla group\, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film)\, abducts a U.S. official (Yves Montand) to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation\, leading to violence.  \nDiscussion to follow. \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/state-of-siege/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Highlights of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1
DESCRIPTION:*TPF is closed from March 10 – April 20* \nCapital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy\, politics and struggles. The Marxist Education Project introduced the highlights format because\, over the past 40 years\, the lengthening of people’s work week along with increased job instability (issues that Marx analyzes) have made it harder for people to commit to longer studies. \nIn a continuing quest to increase access for those who have been historically excluded\, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed\, MEP is offering the highlights class beginning this January for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome. \nWhile Capital consists of three volumes\, a basic familiarity with the key concepts and sections of Volume I offers many tools for understanding the mode of production we live under.  \nFees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay. Tickets available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/highlights-of-marxs-capital-volume-1/2020-01-29/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II\, Theodore W.  Allen’s historical materialist analysis of racial slavery\, documents how the plantation elite put in place this system of social control following Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.  In the final stage of this uprising\, an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burned Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay.   The terrified planter bourgeoisie\, in a deliberate response to this display of labor solidarity\, enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th centuries which implanted a system of ‘white’ racial privileges that enabled the imposition of racial slavery and white male supremacy.  \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the 1848 European Revolutions\, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. \nFees are sliding scale. no one is turned away for inability to pay. \nTickets available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/invention-of-the-white-race/2020-01-21/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume III
DESCRIPTION:Capital\, Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole\, completes Marx’s task of moving from the imaginary concrete—the researcher and scientist analyzing the appearances we see in everyday life such as in the Grundrisse\, to the abstract concrete. The results of the analytic study of the phenomenon that has revealed the social/natural content of that phenomenon (Volumes I and II)\, to the real concrete—how this content is expressed in everyday life through the mechanisms by which the actors determine their actions and appropriate wealth (Volume III). The study of Volume III is essential to understanding the complex dynamics at work in the present realities we are facing and how these realities are the necessary results of the inner logic of capital. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-volume-iii/2020-01-18/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191220T193000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: 1900
DESCRIPTION:1900\nITALY\, 1976\, 317 min\nDIRECTED BY Bernardo Bertolucci \n1-7:30PM with a 1 hour intermission \nTwo boys are born the same day\, January 1\, 1900\, on the same Italian estate—one the grandson of a noble peasant\, the other the grandson of a weak-willed aristocrat. One will grow into a rabble-rousing Communist\, leading his extended family through strikes and the upheaval of Mussolini’s rise; the other will grow into an ineffectual fop who sits on his hands as the fascists take over. Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900\, a Marxist epic that’s one part grandeur to two parts folly\, posits the lives of these two characters as nothing less than the symbolic tussle for the soul of Italy in the first half of the 20th century. \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE. No one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-1900/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191129T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T202900Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Stuart Hall Project
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series \nStuart Hall Project\nUK\, 2013\, 99 min\nDIRECTED BY John Akomfrah \n Acclaimed at the Sundance Film Festival\, John Akomfrah’s new film is an emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A complex and deeply insightful thinker about subjects as diverse as feminism\, Marxist methodology\, migration and American hippies\, the 82-year-old\, Jamaican-born Hall is one of the most inspiring voices of the post-war Left. Combining archival imagery with specially filmed material and a Miles Davis soundtrack\,  Akomfrah carefully constructs sequences of rare forgotten and long since seen historical material together with Hall’s extensive broadcasts and personal archives\, taking the audience on a kaleidoscopic journey through the ideas and personal story of Stuart Hall.  \nDiscussion to follow. \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-stuart-hall-project/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191003T171535Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the publication of the English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition. In richly poetic prose Etoke considers pain singing the happiness to come\, memories of forgetting\, and\, on va faire comment? She argues that Africana melancholy is distinct. Rooted in collective and historical experiences of enslavement\, colonization\, and neocolonialism marked by loss of land\, freedom\, language\, culture\, and self. Put differently\, expropriation of labor and of land also annihilated age-old cycles of life. Considering what to do in the wake of such annihilation\, Etoke explores how diasporic Africans reconcile that which has been destroyed with what is newly introduced\, framing this inherent tension as the character of Africana historical becoming. At this event\, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon\, who authored its new foreword\, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses. \n— \nNathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures\, French Politics and Culture\, Nouvelles Études Francophones\, Présence Francophone\, International Journal of Francophone Studies\, and Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. She is the author of L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and of Melancholia Africana l’indispensable dépassement de la condition noire\, which won the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize. In 2011\, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities\, a documentary on race\, identity and citizenship in contemporary France. \nLewis R. Gordon co-edits Rowman & Littlefield International’s Global Critical Caribbean Thought series. He is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; the 2018–2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra\, Portugal; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association. His public Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/LewisGordonPhilosopher/ and he is on Twitter @lewgord. \nSouleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor and Chair of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and recipient of the Edouard Glissant Prize. He is the author of Boole\, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour (a book on Boolean algebra); Islam and the Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal; African Art as Philosophy: Senghor\, Bergson\, and the Idea of Negritude; The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa; and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition. An English version of his book\, Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal\, which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011\, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press. \nSliding Scale.  No one turned away for lack of funds.  Register here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-melancholia-africana-the-indispensable-overcoming-of-the-black-condition/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (JAPAN)
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series \nThe Bad Sleep Well\nJapan\, 1960\, 150 min\nDIRECTED BY Akira Kurosawa \nA young executive hunts down his father’s killer in the scathing The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune\, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American noir to chilling effect in exposing corrupt boardrooms of postwar Japan. \nTickets are sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds.  Register here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-the-bad-sleep-well-japan/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: MORGAN: A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series \nMorgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment\nUK\, 1966\, 97 min\nDIRECTED BY Karen Reisz \nRed diaper baby Morgan Delt (David Warner) is failing as an artist. Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave)\, his bourgeois wife\, is divorcing him in order to marry fellow bourgeois Charles Napier (Robert Stephens)\, an art gallery owner. Locked into a personal world of fantasy\, Morgan begins an all-out campaign to win back Leonie\, performing all kinds of stunts\, including putting a skeleton in her bed and much else to demonstrate the vacuousness of her pending return to a bourgeois existence. When the stunts fail\, Morgan plots to kidnap Leonie\, who still nurtures residual feelings of love tinged with pity for Morgan. The plan fails\, and Morgan is arrested and imprisoned but does not give up—he remains committed to revolutionary ideals. The final scene of the film was a calling to revolutionary youth the world over in 1966\, particularly in England.  \nTickets are sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-morgan-a-suitable-case-for-treatment/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T203000
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SUMMARY:Psychology for Activists
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, September 25- November 20\, 6:30-8:30pm \nIt’s hard to survive in this society\, both physically (with growing precarity)\, and as an integrated and authentic human being. It’s even more complicated when you’re trying to change the world. So we need all the tools and knowledge available! How do we integrate our understandings of how society changes and how individuals and small groups change? How do we recognize when the things getting in the way of our political effectiveness are not just the obvious obstacles but unprocessed past hurt from our own lives—for example\, issues with our family of origin? How do racism\, anti-Blackness\, cis-hetero-patriarchy seep into our individual psychodynamics and group dynamics even as we are trying to overthrow these forms of oppression? As millions of people across the globe face displacement\, war\, imprisonment\, the necessity of immigration—what have we learned about healing practices that can foster recovery from such large-scale historic traumas? \nJuliet Ucelli is a long-time clinical social worker (in the NYC public schools and private practice)\, educator for union and worker programs\, and teacher of Marx’s Capital with the Marxist Education Project.  She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory\, and Marxist understandings of human development.  \nPlease register via the Marxist Education Project here. Fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/psychological-ideas-and-practices-for-activists/2019-09-25/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2\, Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital — including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? Join us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-volume-2-second-sessions/2019-08-10/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190726T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Happy-Go-Lucky
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\nWritten and Directed by Mike Leigh\n(2008 UK 118 mins) \nThirty years old and single\, Pauline “Poppy” Cross shares a London flat with her best friend Zoe\, a fellow teacher. Poppy is free-minded\, high-spirited and kind-hearted. The film opens with Poppy trying to engage a shop employee in conversation. He ignores her\, yet his icy demeanour does not bother her. She maintains her good mood even when she discovers her bicycle has been stolen. Her main concern is not getting a new one or finding the bicycle\, but that she did not get a chance to say goodbye to it. This prompts her to decide to learn how to drive. \nWhen Poppy takes driving lessons for the first time\, her positive attitude contrasts starkly with her gloomy\, intolerant and cynical driving instructor\, Scott. He is emotionally repressed\, has anger problems and becomes extremely agitated by Poppy’s casual attitude towards driving. As Poppy gets to know him\, it becomes evident that Scott believes in conspiracy theories. His beliefs are partly attributable to his racist and misogynistic views\, which make it hard for him to get along with others. Scott seems to be angered by Poppy’s sunny personality and what he perceives as a lack of responsibility and concern for driving safety. Scott is exceptionally irritated by Poppy’s choice of footwear (a pair of high-heeled boots)\, which he feels compromises her ability to drive. From the outset\, he feels Poppy does not take her lessons seriously and is careless. \nFrom The Guardian (UK):\n“Happy Go Lucky has been extravagantly admired since it premiered at the Berlin film festival earlier this year\, and I find myself liking it more and more. Mike Leigh’s trademarked cartoony dialogue\, as ever lending a neo-Dickensian compression and intensity to the proceedings\, is an acquired taste and I have gladly acquired it\, though some haven’t. I am not quite sure what I think about the big\, final confrontation between Poppy and Scott. It is well-acted and composed\, and Marsan is ferociously convincing\, yet the episode is closed off a little too neatly\, and Poppy seems eerily unaffected by this or anything else. The effect is a kind of odd and steely invulnerability: not unattractive exactly\, but disconcerting. \n“Sally Hawkins plays it superbly though: exactly right for the part and utterly at ease with a role that is uniquely demanding. In the factory-farmed blandness of the movies\, Happy-Go-Lucky has a strong\, real taste.” \nLike other wholly original artists\, Mike Leigh has staked out his own territory. His London is as distinctive as Fellini’s Rome or Ozu’s Tokyo. In the 1970s and ’80s his career moved between theatre and making films for BBC Television\, many of which were characterized by a gritty kitchen sink realism style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas Life is Sweet (1990) and Career Girls (1997)\, the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film Topsy-Turvy (1999)\, and the bleak working-class drama All or Nothing (2002). His most notable works are the black comedy-drama Naked (1993)\, for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes. \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-happy-go-lucky/
LOCATION:Josina Muthemba Machel Classroom\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: How America Became Capitalist
DESCRIPTION:How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West\nAn epic history of the formation of American capitalism\, focusing on gender\, race and empire. \nA presentation and discussion with author James Parisot\n“Parisot’s rich and lively analysis of the domestic history of US empire helps readers understand what it was about the development of US economic\, social and political institutions that made the American state so central in the making of global capitalism.”  —Leo Panitch \n“The historical transformation from a society with capitalism to a capitalist society\, then\, meant\, in the American case\, the two hundred and fifty or so year process through which bits and pieces of capitalist relations slowly came to predominate and incorporate non‐capitalist forms of social life. And this history of the rise of capitalist dominance was simultaneously a history of empire building. By empire I refer to the total structure of power over space and territory that emerged from the earliest days of white‐settler colonization through the extension of continental expansion and the globalization of US power.” —James Parisot\, 2017 \nHas America always been capitalist? Today\, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system\, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. Parisot’s book looks at the history of North America from the founding of the colonies to debunk the myth that America is ‘naturally’ capitalist. \nFrom the first white-settler colonies\, capitalist economic elements were apparent\, but far from dominant\, and did not drive the early colonial advance into the West. Society\, too\, was far from homogeneous – as the role of the state fluctuated. Racial identities took time to imprint\, and slavery\, whilst at the heart of American imperialism\, took both capitalist and less-capitalist forms. Additionally\, gender categories and relations were highly complex\, as standards of ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ shifted over time to accommodate capitalism\, and as there were always some people challenging this binary. \nBy looking at this fascinating and complex picture\, James Parisot weaves a groundbreaking historical materialist perspective on the history of American expansion. \nJames Parisot received his PhD in Sociology from Binghamton University. He has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals\, is co-editor of the book American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict? (Routledge\, 2017). \nSponsored by the Marxist Education Project. \nREGISTER HERE. Prices are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-how-america-became-capitalist/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Camp de Thiaroye
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series \nCamp de Thiaroye\nSenegal/Italy\, 1990\, 197 min\nDIRECTED BY Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow \nA Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. As the Senegalese troops are about to be transferred out of the camp\, they learn they will only be given half the pay for their service as the French troops are unfairly converting French francs to Senegalese francs at half the rate to save money. \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-camp-de-thiaroye/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190603T190000
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SUMMARY:Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA
DESCRIPTION:4-week reading and discussion group\nMondays\, 7:00-9:00 p.m.\nJune 3-24\nThe Revolutions Study Group \nThis group is for for anyone who wants to better understand why White and Black retain their significance in U.S. society for so many years after the abolition of slavery. W.E.B. DuBois’ groundbreaking Black Reconstruction\, and the recent PBS documentary on the same subject are both useful for these discussions. However\, we are now taking on two readings which are keys to unlocking the power of the color line in shaping the political economy our world and in shaping the lives of African Americans. Theodore Allen’s pamphlet “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” from 1975\, explores why and how skin color became the basis of a rigid caste system in the U.S. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk is his first important book\, takes readers into the world of racial caste as uniquely experienced by African Americans. \nOur four-week reading sources will be: Theodore W. Allen\, “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race\,” first published 1975\, 34 pages\, available as printed pamphlet and a downloadable PDF \, and W.E.B Du Bois\, The Souls of Black Folk\, 1903\, available in all formats including free e-book\, 189 pages\, in the 1989 Bantam paperback\, available in libraries. \nRegistration fee: $35 in advance or $10 per session payable in class. No one turned away for inability to pay.\nRegister here
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/racial-boundaries-the-origin-and-consequences-of-the-color-line-in-the-usa/2019-06-03/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\nAmerican Dream\nUSA\, 1990\, 100 Min\nDIRECTED BY Barbara Hopple \nAmerican Dream chronicles the six-month strike that followed during 1985 and 1986 at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin\, Minnesota. The local union\, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers\, overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer with a $2/hour wage cut. Following this the meat workers strike and hire a New York consultant to manage a national media campaign against Hormel. Despite support from P-9’s rank and file\, FCWU’s international disagrees with the strategy. In addition to union-company tension\, there’s union-union in-fighting. Hormel holds firm; scabs\, replacement workers\, brothers on opposite sides\, a union coup d’état\, and a new contract materialize. The film asks\, was it worth it\, or was the strike a long-term disaster for organized labor? \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-american-dream/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 2 with the Capital Studies Group
DESCRIPTION:Volume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital — including the commodification of the capacities of the human subject and materials and powers of nature\, the two sources of wealth\, Marx takes on the next big question. How can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that insures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? Join us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than two years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Newcomers are encouraged to join when your schedule permits. \nAdmissions are sliding scale. No one is ever excluded for inability to pay. \nTickets are available here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-volume-2-with-the-capital-studies-group/2019-05-11/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190426T210000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Tout Va Bien
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\nTout Va Bien\nFrance\, 1972\, 125 Min\nDIRECTED BY Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin\nCAST Yves Montand\, Jane Fonda\, Vittorio Caprioli\, Elizabeth Chauvin\, Castel Casti\, Éric Chartier\, Anne Wiazemsky\, et al \nGodard and Gorin’s film\, unpopular and hardly viewed when released\, emerges nearly 50 years later as a film with increasing relevance to the days as lived during this late capitalist period. One can see many of the participants in this film wearing gilets jaunes if the film were being shot today. \nFrom the Criterion re-release: \n“As cinema\, Tout Va Bien is radically simplified and blatantly diagrammatic. After the opening sequence\, the Fonda character arrives at a sausage factory to do a story on modern management techniques. Montand tags along\, and\, as the workers have just staged a wildcat strike\, the visiting celebs soon find themselves “sequestered” with the factory’s clownish boss. The approach is self-consciously Brechtian: The characters frequently address the camera. These characters are characters and the set on which they appear is an obvious set…Tout Va Bien insists on class struggle throughout but is mainly about radicalizing its stars. Their role in the factory is to look and learn. Indeed\, Godard and Gorin upped the class-resentment ante by having the striking workers played not by real workers but by unemployed actors.”              —J. Hoberman\, for Criterion\, Tout Va Bien Revisited \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-tout-va-bien/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Capital in Crisis: 2008 to 2020 and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:This is 4-session mini course\, April 13-May 4. \nA review of the 2008 capitalist crisis with a reading and discussion of David McNally’s Global Slump and other works. \nIn 2008\, as the tectonic plates of the global economy shifted\, financial shocks rocked the world’s banks\, leveling many of them. Panic gripped money markets\, stocks plunged\, factories shut down. Tens of millions of people were thrown out of work; millions lost their homes. An extraordinary uncertainty shook the world’s ruling class. The mood of the moment was captured in the confession by senior writers with the Financial Times that\, “The world of the past three decades is gone.” Within a year or so\, however\, candid statements like this disappeared from the mainstream press. The ruling class regrouped and regained its arrogance…. We are now living slightly more than a decade past the bourgeoisie having regrouped. The near end of the capitalist order as was felt in 2008 recedes in memory\, capital having gone on a range political offensives\, imposing deeper austerity cuts and ideologically taking aim at hard fought for democratic and civil rights. It remains important to understand what did take place in the years leading up to 2008\, that crisis\, and also understanding what took place in that regroupment of capital so that we of the working classes have more capacity during the current and upcoming contours of our class struggles. \nReserve your tickets HERE. Listed fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/capital-in-crisis-2008-to-2020-and-beyond/2019-04-13/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Working Class Goes To Heaven (1971)
DESCRIPTION:Final Friday Film Series with the Marxist Education Project\na continuation of The Anti-Bourgeois Film Series\nLa Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso\nItaly\, 1971\, 125 Min\nDIRECTED BY Elio Petri\nCAST Gian Maria Volontè\, Mariangela Melato\, Gino Pernice\, Luigi Diberti\, Donato Castellaneta\, Giuseppe Fortis\, Flavio Bucci\, Ezio Marano\, Adriano Amidei Migliano\nMUSIC Ennio Morricone \nIf this Italian drama were any less well told\, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece. Instead\, it is a worthy film for the director who made the acclaimed film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. In any manufacturing situation\, it simply doesn’t pay to be the fastest and hardest working person on the assembly line. In the first place\, you probably can’t keep up the pace you’ve set. In the second place\, you make all your co-workers a) look bad and b) have to work harder; they will not thank you for this. Lulu Massa (Gian Maria Volonte) is a highly productive worker at a factory paying piece work but is disliked by his colleagues as his efficiency is used by management to justify their demands for higher output. While employees are told to care for and rely on their machines\, they see radical students outside the factory campaigning for higher pay rates and less work. Lulu lives with Lidia and her son. He puts his lack of interest in sex with her down to the pressures of the job. \nLulu loses a finger in a work accident\, which the workers blame on the faster times. Shocked\, he adopts the students’ analysis and takes strike action to end piece work\, against the unions’ policy\, which is for simply an increase in piece work rates.During that time\, he visits a colleague who shows him not only the error of his own ways\, but the horror of his whole working situation. When he goes back to work\, Massa tries to organize a union. –adapted from the allmovie guide. \nPURCHASE TICKETS (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/film-screening-the-working-class-goes-to-heaven-1971/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T190000
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SUMMARY:The Global Punk Rock Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution with author Ray Patton \nIn March 1977\, Johnny Rotten Lydon of the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey\, militarized landscape of East Berlin. He then went up to the wall and gave it the finger. He didn’t know it at the time\, but the Sex Pistols’ reputation had preceded his gesture\, as young people in the Second World busily appropriated news reports on degenerate Western culture as punk instruction manuals. Soon after\, burgeoning Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski brought the London punk band the Raincoats to perform at his art gallery and student club-the epicenter for Warsaw’s nascent punk scene. When the Raincoats returned to England\, they found London erupting at the Rock Against Racism concert\, which brought together 100\,000 First World UK punks and Third World Caribbean immigrants who contributed their cultures of reggae and Rastafarianism. Punk had formed networks reaching across all three of the Cold War’s worlds. \nThe first global narrative of punk\, Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War\, blurring the boundaries between East and West\, North and South\, communism and capitalism through performances of creative dissent. Ray Patton argues that punk eroded the boundaries and political categories that defined the Cold War Era\, replacing them with a new framework based on identity as conservative or progressive. Through this paradigm shift\, punk unwittingly ushered in a new era of global neoliberalism. \nRaymond Patton studies the relationship between popular culture\, aesthetics\, identity\, and politics in the modern world\, with an emphasis on reexamining the relationship between the “first\,” “second\,” and “third” worlds of the Cold War era. As a History professor\, he has taught on a wide range of subject matter\, including World History\, Fascism and Nazi Germany\, East European and Soviet history\, Music and Resistance\, The Meaning of Life\, and Global Foundations: Consumerism. He has also played sax in a 3rd wave ska punk band. He currently serves as Director of Educational Partnerships and General Education at John Jay College\, CUNY. \nTHIS TALK IS THE SECOND EVENT IN THE MUSIC and CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS SERIES \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay \nRegister at The Marxist Education Project
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-global-punk-rock-revolution/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190204T190000
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SUMMARY:Black Reconstruction
DESCRIPTION:Black Reconstruction: An American Revolutionary Period\nwith the Revolutions Study Group \n13-week session\, Mondays\, February 4 – April 29 7:00pm-9:00pm \n **Monday\, February 10 will be held at the Brooklyn Commons (388 Atlantic Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217)** \nSome have called the U.S. Civil War the “second American revolution” or the completion of the first American revolution. Others claim that the war of independence and Civil War were not revolutions\, but had tremendous revolutionary potential. By whichever historical claim\, the great social revolution of that momentous period following the Civil War was surely the “reconstruction” of social relations in the former slave states. In his groundbreaking study (1935)\, W.E.B. DuBois reveals that this social revolution was both initiated by slaves in the midst of the war and carried through by the emancipated Black population during and after the period when federal troops occupied the former Confederate states. DuBois is concerned to refute the multiple slanders imputed to “Reconstruction” during the counter-revolutionary “Jim Crow” period that followed and to record the real advancements of democracy and social reform made under Reconstruction and partly lost when it was defeated. We will read DuBois’ Black Reconstruction (Oxford University Press\, 2007) in whole\, and for more recent research\, the middle part of Steven Hahn’s A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South (Harvard University Press\, 2003). Both books are readily available new and used\, as e-books\, and in libraries. Email to info@marxedproject.org for a reading syllabus. \nSuggested donations: $95 / $110 / $125 sliding scale\nNo one turned aware for inability to pay \nRegister on Marxist Education Project website \nDownload flyer.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/black-reconstruction/2019-02-04/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T153000
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SUMMARY:Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:A revolutionary collection of black radical thought from a historic event in 1968. \nEdited by David Austin \nIn 1968\, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam\, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their Black brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968\, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era. \nAgainst a backdrop of widespread racism in the West\, and colonialism and imperialism in the ‘Third World’\, this group of activists\, writers and political figures gathered to discuss the history and struggles of people of African descent and the meaning of Black Power. \nWith never-before-seen texts from Stokely Carmichael\, Walter Rodney and C.L.R. James\, these documents will prove invaluable to anyone interested in Black radical thought\, as well as capturing a crucial moment of the political activity around 1968. \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \nDownload flyer \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/moving-against-the-system-the-1968-congress-of-black-writers-and-the-making-of-global-consciousness/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
DESCRIPTION:What is the relationship between poetry and social change? \nStanding at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s\, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism\, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’. For Johnson\, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series\, writing has always been ‘a political act’ and poetry ‘a cultural weapon’. \nIn Dread Poetry and Freedom — the first book dedicated to the work of this ‘political poet par excellence’ – David Austin explores the themes of poetry\, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible\, reggae and Rastafari\, and surrealism\, socialism and feminism\, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon\, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney\, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika\, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study. \nIn the process\, Austin demonstrates why art\, and particularly poetry\, is a vital part of our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread. \nSpeaker: David Austin\nwith an introduction by Lewis Gordon \nDavid Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race\, Sex\, and Security in Sixties Montreal\, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness\, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James. \nLewis Gordon teaches in the United States and in South Africa\, where he is the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of Politics and International Studies\, and in Toulouse\, France\, where he holds the European Union Visiting Chair in philosophy. His recent book What Fanon Said has become a primary source on understanding the work of Fanon. He is known not only for his writings on Frantz Fanon\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Steve Bantu Biko\, and many others\, but also his work in philosophy\, politics\, and varieties of thought in the global south. \nSuggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale\nNo one turned away for inability to pay \nDownload flyer
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/dread-poetry-and-freedom-linton-kwesi-johnson-and-the-unfinished-revolution/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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