A banner that reads: "The End of History, the Battle of Ideas, and the Recovery of Slightly Stretched Marxism
March 14 @ 6:30 pm

Marxism & National Liberation | Introducing Marxism and National Liberation

Introducing Marxism & National Liberation: ‘The end of history,’ the Battle of Ideas, and the recovery of ‘Slightly Stretched’ Marxism
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March 5 @ 8:00 am

COURSE: Marxism and National Liberation

History is propelled by the struggle of our people across the world. The past year opened
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February 22 @ 6:30 pm

RED BOOKS DAY 2024 | COLLECTIVE READING

Join us for a collective reading workshop as we build the skills for how to
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February 18 @ 8:00 am

ARABIC LANGUAGE CLASSES | WINTER 2024

Algarabía 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.
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December 2, 2023 @ 3:00 pm

Science Against Capitalism | Functions and Limits of Technological Interventions

We will discuss the ideological function of technology in shifting the parameters of how the ecological crisis is conceptualized and the inherent inadequacy of proposed future technologies to address what is urgently needed to be dealt with *now*.
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November 28, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Lenin and the Path to Revolution

Join us for a 3 part series as we study the life, and legacy of Lenin, the formation of Leninism, the revolutionary paths it generated across the world. 
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November 18, 2023 @ 10:00 am

FALL | INTRO TO ASL CLASSES

In this class we will build your vocabularies in American Sign Language (get ready to be able to sign full conversations!)
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November 11, 2023 @ 3:00 pm

Science Against Capitalism | Participatory Climate Futures

Join us on Saturday, Nov 11 at 3 PM ET for a seminar with climate scientist Mara Freilich, as we discuss biogeochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems, climate modeling, and the role that community science and multi-sector collaboration can play in building climate solutions.
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November 11, 2023 @ 3:00 pm

Science Against Capitalism: Exiting the Climate Crisis

Science Against Capitalism: Exiting the Climate Crisis aims to connect science education with people and movements rejecting capitalism's destructive path.
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November 1, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

No One’s Backyard! Revolution in the Caribbean

The struggle for freedom, steeped in the legacy of a revolutionary tradition, resonates across nations as the people demand an end to domination—there is no choice but revolution! Take up its history and learn about what a liberated and truly sovereign Caribbean could look like!
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November 1, 2023 @ 6:00 pm

Gaza Teach-in with Palestinian Youth Movement

Equip yourself with knowledge about Gaza’s history, resistance and people who remain steadfast in the face of genocide.
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October 31, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

The Media War on Palestine with Mohammed El-Kurd

Please join us on Tuesday, October 31st at 6:30 PM ET with Mohammed El-Kurd for a session on U.S. and Israeli misinformation and propaganda.
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October 28, 2023 @ 1:00 pm

Letterpress Workshop

Learn the basics of platen letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course.
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October 20, 2023 @ 5:00 pm

Jana Natya Manch: Exploring intersections between Art, Society, Politics and Social Change

A two-day theater workshop to learn strategies and techniques from Jana Natya Manch, India, and Radical Evolution (NYC).
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September 30, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

Spectacle Class with Geo Britto: A Theater of the Oppressed Workshop

2.5-hour introductory workshop to the Theatre of the Oppressed
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August 16, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Power through Percussion Workshop

Drummer for a Day is a 1 or 2 hour introduction to the samba reggae tradition through a close-up, interactive lecture demonstration that includes history, dance, elementary music and rhythm basics, and learning a song from the Batala repertoire.
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August 11, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

The Struggle Continues

This class is part of our Revolutionary Summer School: Pan Africanism and the Struggle For
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August 10, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Screenprinting Workshop

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.
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August 10, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

State of Class Struggle on the Continent Today

Decades after the wave of national liberation struggles on the African continent, the pursuit of a Pan African future persists! Join us as we discuss the ongoing struggles and hear from revolutionary movements who are propelling the Pan African struggle today.
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August 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Who is the Enemy

Join us for a series of in-depth discussions on the ongoing struggles on the African continent, looking at the concrete conditions, leading movements and continental campaigns organised under the banner of Pan-Africanism in the fight to a people-centred, movement-led future.
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August 5, 2023 @ 1:00 pm

Letterpress Workshop

Learn the basics of platen letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full letterpress printing process using our vintage cast iron platen letterpresses
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August 5, 2023 @ 12:00 pm

Debt and Neocolonialism

In this class, we will explore the basis of the neoliberal debt trap that has ensnared many countries and perpetuated an endless debt crisis, as well as the lasting implications.
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August 3, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Screenprinting Workshop

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.
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August 3, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

NATO and US Intervention

The 2011 U.S.-led NATO bombing of Libya is but one example of decades of violent
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August 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

AFRICOM and Hybrid War

Throughout history, the West has used multiple tactics, such as military interventions, orchestrating coups, imposing sanctions, and disseminating misinformation and propaganda, to further its own interests on the African continent.
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July 31, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Intro to Eritrea

Join us on August 4 for an introductory class on Eritrea’s struggle, its regional and international context, and current conditions in the country.
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July 29, 2023 @ 1:00 pm

Printmaking & Liberation: an art intensive with Jasmine Nicole Williams

Join us for a two-part weekend workshop with Atlanta-based printmaker, artist, and organizer, Jasmine Nicole Williams.
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July 28, 2023 @ 6:00 pm

Printmaking & Liberation: an art intensive with Jasmine Nicole Williams

Join us for a two-part weekend workshop with Atlanta-based printmaker, artist, and organizer, Jasmine Nicole Williams.
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July 27, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Screenprinting Workshop

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.
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July 27, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Formation of the Black Left in the US

This class will cover both the particularistic history of Black radicalism in the US, as well as the deeper contributions Black radicals have made to movements for transformative change.
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July 26, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Pan Africanism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Throughout this class, we will study the development and legacy of the Black radical tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean, looking at historical context which ignited and propelled the emergence of liberation movements and visionary leaders in the region.
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July 25, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

Hip Hop Lives! The Future of the Culture

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop with the Justice Center en el Barrio and The
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July 25, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Pan Africanism and Black Liberation in the US

Join us as we explore the relationship and influences that Pan Africanism had on the movement for Black Liberation in the U.S., and the interconnected timelines and inspirations that simultaneously fueled both of these revolutionary liberation movements.
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July 22, 2023 @ 4:30 pm

Film screening: “Navigating the Pilot School” and “Mangrove School”

In the mangrove school, the learning happens with the whole body”. Join us for the
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July 22, 2023 @ 12:00 pm

Reading Cabral in Context

We will be doing a close reading of Amilcar Cabral’s Weapon of Theory speech, delivered
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July 21, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Education for Liberation

Focusing on the experiences of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, this class looks at the role of education in and for liberation.
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July 20, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Screenprinting Workshop

Learn to print your own small posters in this fun and creative 4-session course. You’ll get hands-on experience with the full screen printing process, including preparing your artwork, coating and exposing your screen, working with ink, reclaiming your screen for reuse, and printing your designs onto paper.
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July 20, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Internationalism and Pan Africanism

The spirit of internationalism is an integral part of Pan Africanism, an essential component that fosters solidarity beyond national borders and continues in revolutionary movements on the continent and in the diaspora today
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July 19, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Bolshevik Revolution and Its Impact on the Third World

Join us on July 19 as we study the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and the lessons it offers for revolutionaries on the African continent and diaspora.
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July 12, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Precursors and Currents of Pan Africanism

Pan Africanism, although first emerging as a specific movement in 1900 is rooted in a rich and extensive history. It developed out of the struggles of individuals and organizations, as well as common ideas, throughout Africa and the diaspora, including abolitionist movements across the Americas and the Haitian Revolution.
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July 11, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Bomba Workshop with Dr DRUM

Come explore Bomba with internationally-acclaimed performer/educator and Bronx native Jose Ortiz, a.k.a. Dr. Drum
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July 11, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Designing for the movement

To win the battle of ideas, we must be able to compete with the ruling class, its endless resources, and its powerful media apparatus. Equipping ourselves with professional-level design skills makes our message more compelling and competitive.
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July 7, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Geography of Colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

In this class, we’ll explore the motives and methods behind the partitioning of Africa, which aimed to benefit Western powers, as well as analyze significant events, such as the 1884 Berlin conference and the transatlantic slave trade, and the lasting implications for the African continent and diaspora.
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July 5, 2023 @ 8:00 am

Africa: The Continent, Peoples and Struggles

Join us for a two-part class, where we will study the early history of the African continent, exploring some of the major historical processes of human development and events that have influenced and continue to shape the African continent and the world.
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June 20, 2023

REVOLUTIONARY SUMMER SCHOOL 2023

Revolutionary Summer School @ TPF is a hybrid course for organizers, visionaries and all people advancing resistance to oppression. This year, we invite all who want to join us in a collective study of the histories, constructions, and current projects of Pan Africanism on the African continent and across the world. 
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June 13, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Designing for the movement

To win the battle of ideas, we must be able to compete with the ruling class, its endless resources, and its powerful media apparatus. Equipping ourselves with professional-level design skills makes our message more compelling and competitive.
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June 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Korea is One

This course will investigate Korea’s historical development from the end of the 19th century to the present in the context of the global imperialist system. Participants will learn about the conditions of Korea’s division, the construction of socialism and capitalism in the divided peninsula, and the pillars of the ongoing US war against the Korean people.
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May 27, 2023 @ 1:00 pm

Letterpress Technique Workshop

Learn the basics of letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course.
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May 26, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

100 Years of Palestinian Popular Resistance

Join the New York City chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement on May 26–28 to learn about Palestinian and Arab resistance to Zionist settler-colonialism and British/American imperialism.
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May 20, 2023 @ 1:00 pm

Revolutionary Repurposing: Collage Art as AgitProp

This workshop will guide participants through creating collage art as a medium for political agitation and propaganda, as well as a tool for self-reflection and expression.
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May 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Political Economy for the Working Class

Join us for an introductory course on political economy in which we will learn the basic concepts of political economy and use them to understand the current economic crisis and some of its symptoms, such as the current debt, inflation, and growing gap between rich and poor. 
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May 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Designing for the movement

To win the battle of ideas, we must be able to compete with the ruling class, its endless resources, and its powerful media apparatus. Equipping ourselves with professional-level design skills makes our message more compelling and competitive.
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May 9, 2023 @ 4:15 pm

VIRTUAL COURSE: THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 
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May 6, 2023 @ 4:00 pm

What Is Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Join us on May 6 at 4 PM ET for a discussion on evolutionary developmental biology, or "EvoDevo" with cell biologist, Stuart Newman.
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May 2, 2023 @ 4:15 pm

VIRTUAL COURSE: THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 
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April 25, 2023 @ 4:15 pm

VIRTUAL COURSE: THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 
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April 18, 2023 @ 4:15 pm

VIRTUAL COURSE: THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY

Join us virtually for a close reading of Marx’s Grundrisse with Professor David Harvey. 
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April 13, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Unfinished Ferment - Indonesia from Independence to Today

Join us for a three part seminar series, where we will study the complex history of the revolution and counter-revolution in Indonesia, the 1965 purge, the ousting of the Suharto dictatorship, and the political ramifications and legacy for Indonesia today. 
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April 13, 2023 @ 8:00 am

Screen Printing 101

Learn to print your own small posters and apparel in this fun and creative 5-session course.
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April 8, 2023 @ 1:00 pm

Letterpress Technique Workshop

Learn the basics of letterpress printing and print your own creations in this 3-hour course.
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March 31, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

The Untold Successes of the German Democratic Republic

Join the International Research Centre DDR (IF DDR) to delve into the history, achievements, and lessons of the GDR.
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March 22, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Language, technology and the digital divide | SCIENCE AGAINST CAPITALISM

Join us for a seminar with computational linguist, Michael Gasser, on the relationship between technology, language, and the democratization (and anti-democratization) of knowledge.
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March 14, 2023 @ 6:00 pm

Revolutionary Feminism 2023: Cohort Exhibition

For the past months, participants in the Revolutionary Feminism course have been studying and debating
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March 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

TEACH IN: Earthquake and Humanitarian Crisis in Turkey

Gain a deeper understanding of the current political, social, and economic conditions in Turkey, and the leading role of people’s solidarity in the rebuilding of their communities.
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February 27, 2023 @ 6:00 pm

ARABIC LANGUAGE CLASSES• SPRING 2023

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. T
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February 25, 2023 @ 4:30 pm

SOIL SCIENCES | Science Against Capitalism

How can studying soils help us know more about the environment and also about ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the impacts of the climate crisis?
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February 21, 2023 @ 3:00 pm

Red Books Day Celebrations 2023!

Books, art, music, arts and crafts, hot chocolate, mulled wine, soup, and most of all, revolutionary spirit!
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February 14, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

Collective reading of the Communist Manifesto

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s day than to read a love letter to the working class!
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February 9, 2023 @ 6:30 pm

History of the Communist Manifesto

Travel with us through a time machine to when the Communist Manifesto was written!
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January 22, 2023 @ 3:30 pm

The Specters of Yugoslavia: A historical and philosophical exploration of antifascism, economic self-management and the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement in Socialist Yugoslavia

Join us on Jan. 22 at 3:30 PM ET as we explore the main pillars of Yugoslav real existing socialism - antifascism between 1941-1945, economic self-management, and the key role of Yugoslavia in founding and navigating the Non-Aligned Movement.
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December 9, 2022

“You don’t play with Revolution”: A Short Course on Caribbean Revolutions and the Caribbean Radical Tradition

Explore the theory and practice of Marxism and revolutionary politics through the prism of the Haitian Revolution, Grenadian Revolution, and the ongoing Cuban Revolution and Caribbean radical politics in general.
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October 30, 2022 @ 4:30 pm

SERIES - Science Against Capitalism: The Role of Biophysical Sciences in Building a Sustainable Future for All

Science Against Capitalism aims to bring biophysical science education into conversation with people and movements who refuse to accept the assured devastations wrought by the capitalist path.
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October 18, 2022 @ 7:00 pm

What is happening in Haiti? US intervention and the fight for sovereignty

For the past 4 years, the Haitian people have continuously mobilized in protest against inhumane living standards, rapid inflation and skyrocketing fuel prices, and most recently, rejecting calls for foreign intervention and demanding the resignation of U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
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September 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am

SPANISH FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR BIPOC | FALL 2022 VIRTUAL COURSES

Spanish for Social Justice courses are offered by Algarabía Language Co-op in partnership with The People’s Forum.
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August 16, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

TEACH IN: “We” The People: Understanding Constitutional Law

Calling organizers and people in struggle! We’ll discuss the history of the Supreme Court, historically contextualize how the Constitution has been used to progress different political agendas, and study what happened with Roe v. Wade.
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August 15, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Teach In: History of Palestinian Resistance

We will cover different moments of Palestinian resistance against Zionism and western imperialism and the position of Palestine in global anti-imperialist politics and history.
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August 11, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Text Study: Second Declaration of Havana

In our class, we are going to be traveling to a time and a place: Havana, Cuba in 1962.
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August 10, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Workshop: Popular and Political Education

This workshop will introduce participants to the history, concepts, as well as methods and methodologies of popular and political education.
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August 9, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Teach In: Rise of Neoliberalism

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August 5, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

DJ 101 with DJ Raqx

Learn Rekordbox, basics of beatmatching and mixing on a Pioneer DJ controller
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August 4, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Text Study: Combahee River Collective Statement

In this collective reading and discussion session, we will look at the historical context in which the Combahee River Collective was formed, as well as its role in the development of Radical Black Feminist Tradition.
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August 3, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Workshop: Representation Politics

This workshop will explore how society is organized to serve the economic system on which it stands-capitalism.
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July 29, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Teach In: Climate Change and Socialism

NOTE: This teach in has been changed to Friday, July 29 from 6:30-8:00pm. What is
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July 28, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Text Study: Communist Manifesto

Why do we study history? How do we understand and analyze history?
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July 27, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Workshop: Labor Organizing in Schools

Schools have always played central roles in our communities, and as we face looming budget
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July 20, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

Workshop: Art for Organized Struggle

This class will investigate just that: art and culture, its production, and the groundwork it lays for liberation struggles.
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July 19, 2022 @ 6:30 pm

TEACH IN: Slave Rebellions and Abolition in the Americas

From the 1500's until the Civil War in the U.S. the Americas were rocked by dozens of major slave revolts. Come learn about these uprisings!
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July 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am

Revolutionary Summer School 2022

Revolutionary Summer School @ TPF is a hybrid* summer program for organizers, visionaries and people in resistance to oppression.
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May 24, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Health Work Training for Organizers

This is a 2-part series on the history of revolutionary healthcare and a certification course for organizers and lay people.
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May 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

[TEACH-IN] Law and Social Transformation

This is a lecture and discussion that explores the relationship between legal orders and different forms of oppression, in the US and UK. Are legal systems in the US and UK context fundamentally implicated in forms of capital exploitation and racialization? Can we imagine a socialist legal system here?
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April 1, 2022 @ 12:00 am

Global Political Economy: A Historical Materialist Approach

A 4-session hybrid course to undertake a study of the global political economy through the application of the Marxist method of Historical Materialism.
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March 26, 2022 @ 1:00 pm

A Labor History Teach-in for Organizers

A 3 hour discussion-based teach-in on history of labor to inform today's worker struggles and labor organizing and bring the lessons of the past to our analysis of today’s conditions.
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March 22, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Socialism, Science, and Struggle | Spring 2022 Course

Join us for this NEW course for a Marxist theoretical grounding of nature and the natural sciences, to understand current ecological and environmental crises and organizing, and to participate in an optional hands-on fieldwork in soil science.
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March 9, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Português Básico 1 | SPRING 2022 SESSION

A course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
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March 8, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Português Básico 3 / Beginning Intermediate SPRING 2022 SESSION

This course is designed for native Spanish speakers*, people who grew up around Portuguese, who learned Spanish as their first language, or those who are fluent in Spanish. It is a continuation of the Winter course: Português Básico 2 (for Spanish Speakers).
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March 7, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

Português Intermediário 2 | SPRING 2022 SESSION

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
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February 9, 2022 @ 2:00 pm

Spanish for Social Justice for BIPOC | Spring 2022 Virtual Courses

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and popular education approach, participants will improve their Spanish skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology. Offering: True Beginner, High Beginner, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate, Spanish for Bilinguals. Sign up now!
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February 1, 2022 @ 6:15 pm

The ABC of Contemporary Capital

The aim of this 12- session course is to survey Marx’s political economic writings in 12 sessions to assess how far he succeeded in this mission and how far his findings illuminate contemporary conditions.
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January 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm

ARABIC LANGUAGE • SPRING 2022 COURSES AND CLUBS

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Spring 2022 Arabic courses and clubs to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Sign up now!
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January 4, 2022

APPLICATIONS OPEN! 2022 MEDIA STRATEGIES FOR ORGANIZING

A course to bridge theoretical and technical gaps in our communications strategies for movement building and to counter the neoliberal, bourgeois narrative in the media about what is happening in our countries and in our world. Lectures & technique workshops! Applications due Jan 4th!
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January 1, 2022 @ 11:30 am

POETRY WORKSHOP 2022

4-week VIRTUAL poetry workshop with longtime poet, cultural worker, and organizer, Hector Rivera, with the theme "we must dare to invent the future."
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December 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

APPLY NOW! Reading Capital (Vol. 2)

This course is a collective, close reading of the second volume of Marx’s Capital: A critique of political economy. Applications are due on Dec 23.
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December 10, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Introductory Palestinian Embroidery Class

In this 2-hour course, students will learn how to embroider using traditional Palestinian embroidery cross-stitch methods with Wafa Ghnaim, Palestinian textile author, educator, and artist in residence at The Museum of the Palestinian People.
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December 7, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

Português Básico 2 [For Spanish Speakers] WINTER SESSION

A course for Spanish speakers on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries
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December 6, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

Português Intermediário 1 | WINTER SESSION

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
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November 17, 2021

[APPLY NOW!] DEBT SCHOOL 2021

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOV 20! School of Debt is a Fall & Winter program for those interested in developing their comprehension of Debt and its role in maintaining the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, while the majority of the world suffers ongoing dispossession and economic precarity.
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November 8, 2021

Imperialism 2021 [Seminar]

In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?
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November 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm

Henna Workshop

Join us for a beginner workshop on henna design! Taught by community organizer Shahrin Azim @radicalhennaartist, we'll learn the history of the practice and simple techniques.
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November 4, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

BOOK TALK: A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE

Join us at The People's Forum (320 West 37th Street) for a book talk and discussion with Geo Maher on his new book A World Without Police. This event is co-sponsored by Verso Books.
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November 2, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

Legislating Intersectional Violence in Argentina: Discussion with Black Legal Scholars from Argentina

 The founding members of the Organización Afrodescendiente para la Asistencia Jurídica y Formación (OAFRO),
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Unforgetting book talk and conversation with Roberto Lovato, and a picture of the cover
October 20, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

UNFORGETTING: MEMORY, ART, AND ACTION

Join us for a conversation with journalist and author Roberto Lovato and novelist Alejandro Varela, exploring how memory and art can help guide us through the age of extremes which we are all only just beginning to endure.
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October 8, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

Pedagogy Beyond the Capitalist Knowledge Economy: Book Talk and Discussion

Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive. Join us for an in-person talk and discussion.
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October 7, 2021

APPLICATIONS OPEN! CONJUNCTURAL ANALYSIS FOR ORGANIZED STRUGGLE

Conjunctural analysis is a powerful method for studying, analyzing, and ultimately transforming our present moment. This 5-week course will introduce participants with the skills to conduct their own conjunctural analysis of our current moment.
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September 29, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

Gender & Terror: Narratives of Political Violence | Author Reading and Discussion

Please join us for an in-person reading and discussion with authors NIMMI GOWRINATHAN and ANJULI RAZA KOLB. Both authors will read short excerpts from their recent books and engage each other on overlapping questions on feminism and its discontents and the meaning of political violence.
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September 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Naloxone Training: Overdose Prevention and Protection [Narcan Provided]

Join us for a overdose prevention and protection training. Narcan will be provided!
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September 15, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Português Intermediário 2

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
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September 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Português Básico 1

An introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries
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September 13, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Português Básico 2 (For Spanish speakers)

A course for Spanish speakers on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries
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September 7, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

“I Am Because We Are”: A conversation between Francia Márquez Mina and Angela Davis

Join us as Angela Davis and Francia Márquez Mina meet again to discuss radical politics in Colombia and the U.S. today, considering black radical politics, left coalitions, black women’s movements, the carceral state, paths to abolition, and issues related to environmental justice
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July 10, 2021 @ 3:30 pm

Intro to Drawing

Let’s embark on an exploration of the history of drawing and technique. We'll learn about its aesthetic variation based on cultural and sociopolitical circumstances, as well as its use as a catalyst of self-expression and collective knowledge.
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July 10, 2021 @ 3:00 pm

Paths of the Cuban Revolution: 1868-1959

The course will look into the forms of organization developed over time as well their strategies and tactics.
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June 23, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Português Intermediário 1

An intermediate course on Portuguese, with historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
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June 22, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

Português Básico 1

An introductory course on the basics of Portuguese with a glimpse on historical and contemporary contexts of the working classes and social movements in Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries
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June 22, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Language • Summer and Fall 2021 COURSES

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Summer and Fall Arabic courses to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Sign up now!
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June 12, 2021

REVOLUTIONARY SUMMER SCHOOL @ TPF 2021 — APPLICATIONS OPEN

A virtual summer program for organizers, visionaries and people in resistance to oppression. Read through the info and apply by Saturday, June 12!
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May 8, 2021 @ 3:30 pm

Introduction to Relief Printing

An introductory class to relief printing taking place over the course of three Saturdays (May 8, May 15, and May 22).
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April 14, 2021 @ 6:30 pm

INTRODUCTION TO KRÉYOL

The Creole language was the first step for enslaved workers in the French plantation colonies to emancipate themselves from the oppression of slavery. Join us for an introductory course to develop listening and speaking skills to allow you communicate with native Creole speakers.
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March 7, 2021 @ 12:00 pm

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021 TO APPLY, PLEASE FILL OUT
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February 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021 TO APPLY, PLEASE FILL OUT
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February 27, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

ALGARABÍA LANGUAGE CO-OP X MAYDAY SPACE: SPANISH FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 2021

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and popular education approach, participants will improve their Spanish skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology. Offering: True Beginner, High Beginner, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate. Sign up now!
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February 21, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Language • Spring 2021 COURSES

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in learning Arabic with a focus on topics of social justice, cinema, media, and culture. Offering: True Beginner, High Beginner, Conversational Beginner, and Conversational Intermediate. Sign up now!
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February 21, 2021 @ 12:00 pm

Conversational Arabic Film Club for Heritage Speakers • SPRING 2021

An exciting and new film club hosted by Algarabía Language Co-op for heritage speakers of Arabic to develop their vocabulary and conversational skills!
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February 17, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

The Internationalist History of the Communist Manifesto

On the 173rd anniversary of the publication of Marx and Engel's The Communist Manifesto, join an interview and discussion between artist and organizer Niki Franco and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad on the internationalist history of the document, the liberation struggles it has inspired, and how it connects to people's movements today.
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February 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

Makibaka Level 1

Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.
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November 17, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

VIRTUAL STREET MEDIC TRAINING

In this virtual training, we will learn about the history of street medicine and gain basic skills to effectively and safely prepare for protests, anticipate and recognize care needs, and apply critical first aid during and after demonstrations.
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October 22, 2020 @ 5:30 pm

Arabic Language Course and Film Club - Conversational Intermediate

Reviews topics covered in year 1 & 2 Arabic. Covers grammar review, vocabulary building, and text editing; focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing and critically engaging with various colloquial Arabic cultural productions. Includes a biweekly film screening and discussion!
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October 17, 2020

ALGARABÍA LANGUAGE CO-OP: SPANISH-ENGLISH COMMUNITY INTERPRETING & TRANSLATION TRAINING

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 10-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals (speakers of Spanish with a high level of fluency and proficiency). 
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October 17, 2020

Algarabía Language Co-op x Mayday Space: Spanish for Social Justice

¡Bienvenides! Welcome to Spanish for Social Justice! Spanish for Social Justice courses are offered at the BEGINNER and INTERMEDIATE levels of fluency to those interested in topics of social justice, radical politics, and culture.
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October 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

MAKIBAKA LEVEL 1

**Fall Class!!** Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.
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October 4, 2020 @ 3:00 pm

Arabic Language Course- High Beginner

This course reviews topics covered in Beginner Arabic course. Expands vocabulary and idiomatic expressions; focus is on colloquial Arabic and differences among varieties.
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October 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Language Course- True Beginner

This course is designed for students who had no prior experience with learning Arabic. It introduces students to Arabic alphabet and covers the basics of reading, writing and grammar; focus is on pronunciation, oral fluency, colloquial Arabic and differences among varieties, in relation to formal Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
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October 1, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

MAKIBAKA LEVEL 1

**Fall Class!!** Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.
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August 20, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Socialism vs. Barbarism: Understanding the New Cold War on China

A lecture and discussion with the Qiao Collective to equip us with an analysis of U.S.-China relations within a longer history of U.S. imperialist aggression; the nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics; and China's vision of multilateralism as an alternative to U.S. unilateralism.
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August 12, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Amilcar Cabral and the Liberation Struggle

To revolutionary movements throughout the world, the struggle in Guinea is of prime importance as an outstanding illustration of the need to study one’s own concrete conditions and to make the revolution according to these conditions. A lecture and discussion.
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August 6, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Virtual Book Talk: Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism

Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the unfolding climate crisis. But what if we look to solutions beyond how we currently structure our economies? Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism makes the case that socialism provides the framework for solving the crisis
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July 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

The Deal of the Century and Ongoing Imperialist Attacks on Palestine

As the world still battles an ongoing global pandemic, the Israeli government intensified violence against the Palestinian people and renewed efforts to annex 30% of the West Bank. How should we understand this in the context of over 70 years of land theft, violence, occupation, and apartheid? Join Ali Abunimah for a discussion.
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July 22, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

KOLLONTAI AND REVOLUTION: THERE IS NO SOCIALISM WITHOUT FEMINISM!

Under capitalism, gender oppression and violence is a permanent condition. What can we learn from Kollontai, and what does it mean to build working-class feminism today?
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July 9, 2020

Arabic Language and Film Club Summer 2020 Class Registration

Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new *virtual* Arabic courses! 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.
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July 1, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Jose Carlos Mariátegui: Marxism of the South

A lecture and discussion on the life and contributions of Mariátegui, who was the first to emphasize that those fighting revolution must adapt classical Marxist theory to the particular conditions of Latin America and stressed that indigenous peoples must take a leading role in any revolutionary struggle.
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June 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

BUILDING THE COMMUNE

Today, as struggles against neoliberalism, capitalism, and imperialism grow internationally, the lessons from Venezuela’s ongoing experiments in radical democracy are as urgent as ever.
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June 18, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Makibaka Level 1

Ever wanted to learn Filipino? Through this beginner’s course, not only will we be studying the language itself, but also the history of the Filipino people and the socio-cultural context that helped shape the national language.
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June 10, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

EL FEMINISMO POPULAR CONTRA EL IMPERIALISMO // POPULAR FEMINISM AGAINST IMPERIALISM

¿Cuál es la situación actual de las mujeres en este momento de crisis global? ¿Cómo impacta el imperialismo a las mujeres? ¿Cuál es el papel de los movimientos feministas populares e internacionalistas?
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May 29, 2020 @ 12:00 pm

In Conversation: Vincent Bevins and Vijay Prashad

Join author of The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins and author of Washington Bullets Vijay Prashad for a conversation moderated by Jordan T. Camp about how Washington’s anti-communist wars have shaped our world.
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May 27, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

AGAINST IMPERIALISM, FOR LIFE ON THE PLANET

In this installment, we will focus on the front of struggle for the environment and environmental justice. How can we strengthen our defense of the planet? How do people’s movements around the world push back against imperialism?
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May 21, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

TAKEOVER: Film screening and Q&A with the National Union of the Homeless

On May 1st, 1990, homeless people led a simultaneous takeover of empty government (HUD) houses in cities across the United States. Skylight Pictures followed the takeovers with 12 crews in the eight cities, documenting the secret planning, the illegal occupations, and the hopeful aftermath of this bold endeavor.
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May 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Building Working Class Internationalism today: Intro to the International People's Assembly

What does it mean to build working class internationalism in our current situation? Hear from leaders from organizations that form the International People's Assembly, including Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and Claudia de la Cruz of The People's Forum, and the Popular Education Project.
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May 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

APPLAUSE WILL NOT PROTECT US: THE REALITY OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS ON THE FRONTLINES

How has the for-profit medical system created the conditions in which health care workers are forced to work in unsafe conditions? What is the global dimension of US capitalist approach to healthcare?
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May 8, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

VIRTUAL BOOK TALK: THE SOUTHERN KEY: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

The Southern Key explains the reasons for the failure of the US South to unionize, and that this regional failure has led to the nationwide decline in labor unionism, growing inequality, and the perpetuation of white supremacy.
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April 18, 2020 @ 2:00 pm

Translating Dissent 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice
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April 18, 2020 @ 10:00 am

Community Interpreting 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.
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April 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting Back in Pilipino 2

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based
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April 16, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club- Intermediate 1

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.
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April 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Rumi and Hafez Poetry Workshop

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.
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April 15, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Samuel Stein's public talk: “Labor, Land Use, and Luxury City."

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This talk will draw from recently conducted research to describe the structural factors that shape union and non-profit planning politics in New York City, the historical echoes and antecedents that frame the current political moment, and the theoretical frameworks that clarify how labor, capital, and the state co-produce urban space.
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April 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

MAKIBAKA: FIGHTING BACK IN PILIPINO

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20*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.
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April 14, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club-Conversational Beginner

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.
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April 13, 2020 @ 3:00 pm

THE PEOPLE'S RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS: AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO (SOUTH AFRICA) AND THE NATIONAL UNION OF THE HOMELESS (USA)

What can we learn from the experiences and leadership of organizations of the poor and dispossessed who have been fighting not just against the conditions of this current crisis, but against the permanent crisis of capitalism?
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April 11, 2020 @ 2:00 pm

Translating Dissent 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice
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April 11, 2020 @ 10:00 am

Community Interpreting 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.
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April 9, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting Back in Pilipino 2

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based
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April 9, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club- Intermediate 1

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.
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April 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Rumi and Hafez Poetry Workshop

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.
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April 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

MAKIBAKA: FIGHTING BACK IN PILIPINO

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* 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.
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April 7, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club-Conversational Beginner

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.
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April 4, 2020 @ 2:00 pm

Translating Dissent 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice
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April 4, 2020 @ 10:00 am

Community Interpreting 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.
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April 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting Back in Pilipino 2

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based
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April 2, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club- Intermediate 1

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.
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April 1, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Rumi and Hafez Poetry Workshop

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.
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March 31, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

MAKIBAKA: FIGHTING BACK IN PILIPINO

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* 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.
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March 31, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club-Conversational Beginner

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.
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March 28, 2020 @ 2:00 pm

Translating Dissent 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice
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March 28, 2020 @ 10:00 am

Community Interpreting 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.
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March 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting Back in Pilipino 2

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based
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March 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club- Intermediate 1

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.
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March 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Rumi and Hafez Poetry Workshop

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.
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March 25, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Reading with Tricontinental: Frantz Fanon- The Brightness of Metal

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations. We are holding space every month to discuss and debate the latest dossier.
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March 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

MAKIBAKA: FIGHTING BACK IN PILIPINO

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* 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.
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March 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club-Conversational Beginner

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills.
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March 21, 2020 @ 2:00 pm

Translating Dissent 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants work on a translation project dealing with a topic of their choice
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March 21, 2020 @ 10:00 am

Community Interpreting 101

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering a 15-week community interpreting and translation training for advanced Spanish bilinguals. Participants will be given the opportunity to interpret at a community event.
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March 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Film Screening: Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail)

*TPF is closed from March 10- April 20* Opening out the real and the human against the abstract and the brutal, the film seeks to confront advocates of amnesia in Kashmir as well as in other conflict zones.
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March 20, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Crisis, Reaction, Revolution, Emancipation: What activists in the 2020s can learn from the struggles against slavery in the 1850s

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20*In the 1850s, as in the 2020s, racial capitalism seemed to enjoy ever greater triumphs, as pro-slavery forces expanded the protections of human bondage granted from the beginning by the US Constitution. How did the left face these problems in the 1850s?
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March 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Introduction to Kréyol

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Introduction to Kréyol is a beginner class with a focus on developing listening skills and speaking skills to allow you communicate with native Creole speakers.
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March 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

VIRTUAL TALK: The Ballot, the Streets- or Both: From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution

This book talk will be held online.  Please RSVP and you will receive the link via email! As the left has to think about what it means to run for office in a capitalist state, it's a good time to look back at how the left has historically conducted such debates.
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March 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

The Woman Question

*This class will be held online*When we say we want to end patriarchy, what does that mean? What are the historical and material origins of patriarchy, and how has it shaped the conditions of women historically and today? 
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March 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting Back in Pilipino 2

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based
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March 19, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Culture Club- Intermediate 1

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Algarabía Language Co-op is offering new Arabic courses to those who are interested in topics of social justice. Focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.
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March 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

The Woman Question

*This class will be held online*When we say we want to end patriarchy, what does that mean? What are the historical and material origins of patriarchy, and how has it shaped the conditions of women historically and today? 
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March 4, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

Rumi and Hafez Poetry Workshop

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* Led by linguist and educator Amir Vahab , this evening workshop focuses first on literal translations of the mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafez from the original language, followed by discussion of interpretation and meaning.
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February 29, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

How to Make a Dress: Domestic Labor, Internationalism, and the Radical Pedagogy of Elizabeth Catlett

By teaching and learning from Black working class women in the U.S. and by translating their experiences within a global class struggle, Catlett learned to “make a dress,” and in the process, Heatherton argues, became a revolutionary.
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February 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting Back in Pilipino 2

*TPF is closed from March 10 - April 20* This course is intended for those who both feel ready and can demonstrate a basic proficiency in Filipino/Pilipino, or have a basic understanding of Tagalog upon which the national language is based
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February 19, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

The Communiversity Forum Podcast w/Guest, Dr. David Stovall

This presentation will be the official launch of The Communiversity Forum (TCF) podcast with Dr. David Stovall of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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February 18, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Malcolm X, the Man vs the Myths: Examining a Revolutionary Life

A memorial to 55th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination. Primarily, this presentation will examine, unpack and demarcate fact from fiction regarding his revolutionary career.
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February 15, 2020 @ 3:30 pm

Screen Printing Workshop

A 4-week workshop teaching process of silkscreening, from a basic sketch to digital touch up and screen set up concluding with printing on fabric and paper.
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February 13, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

Interpreting the Crisis: Spring 2020 Lecture Series

We’re pleased to announce the Spring schedule for “Interpreting the Crisis,” a lecture series organized by TPF Director of Research, Jordan T. Camp. Please mark your calendars, and spread the word!
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February 11, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

VIRTUAL COURSE: THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY

A close reading of Marx's Grundrisse. This is a rare opportunity to study Marx with David Harvey, wherever you may be located in the world!
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February 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

MAKIBAKA: FIGHTING BACK IN PILIPINO

*TPF is closed from March 10-23* 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.
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January 28, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

VIRTUAL COURSE: THE GRUNDRISSE WITH DAVID HARVEY

A close reading of Marx's Grundrisse. This is a rare opportunity to study Marx with David Harvey, wherever you may be located in the world!
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January 25, 2020 @ 10:00 am

Battle for the Bible: Christian Nationalism and the Movement to End Poverty

A convening intended to deepen our analysis of Christian nationalism, one of the strongest ideological forces behind the political and economic system dominating life in the US and globally.
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January 23, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

The Life of Fidel Castro: The Forging of a Revolutionary Marxist

A 3 part seminar on the history, formation, contributions, and legacy of Fidel Castro. We will seek to better understand his leadership as well as our evaluation of proletarian internationalism today.
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January 17, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

La negra de aquel negro: entre la resistencia y la subversión (San Juan Bautista, siglo XVI)

Para el conquistador las negras eran mercancía, y en este primer siglo de asimilación colonial a través de cientos de documentos fueron no solamente cosificadas, sino también fueron doblemente subordinadas. Su condición de mujeres implicaba un sometimiento  ante el hombre, el marido o el tutor. Sin embargo, dentro de este proceso de sujeción las negras utilizaron los intersticios del poder para resistir y subvertir.
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January 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm

The Life of Fidel Castro: The Forging of a Revolutionary Marxist

Join us for a 3 part seminar on the history, formation, contributions, and legacy of Fidel Castro. Through readings and discussion we will seek to better understand his leadership as well as our evaluation of proletarian internationalism today
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January 16, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

SEMINAR: Rising Inequality in South Asia

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.
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January 14, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

SEMINAR: Rising Inequality in South Asia

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.
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January 9, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

SEMINAR: Rising Inequality in South Asia

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.
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January 7, 2020 @ 6:30 pm

SEMINAR: Rising Inequality in South Asia

As of 2019, India’s top 9 billionaires hold as much wealth as the country’s bottom 50% - more than 680 million people combined. This course will explore the processes that have made poverty and inequality particularly intractable in the Indian subcontinent.
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December 21, 2019 @ 1:30 pm

Dream Catcher Poetics: A Dream Manifestation Poetry Workshop

This workshop will honor dreams silenced and deferred. Through the work of Carolyn Malachi and Langston Hughes we will reawaken our imagination and hone into realizing our dreams.
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December 13, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Book Launch: Feeding the Crisis

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates.
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December 12, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Economic Lessons for 2020: A Conversation with Dr. Michael Hudson

What lessons can we draw from history to guide us in the months and years to come? Join a conversation with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on the 2008 economic crisis, what's happened over the past  ten years, and what we can anticipate in 2020.
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December 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

Join Keri Leigh Merritt and Rhae Lynn Barnes for a discussion on what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.
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December 10, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

"In the Ruins of the Present”: A Mixed Media Concrete Analysis of the Decade

We invite you to a 5-day, project-based course to produce a collective, mixed-media retrospective of the decade from the perspective of working-class struggle.
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November 15, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

INTRODUCTION TO KRÉYOL

The Creole language was the first step for enslaved people in the French plantation colonies to emancipate themselves from the oppression of slavery. Join us for an introductory course on the basics of the Creole language!
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November 8, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

LAS LUCHAS CONTRA EL NEOLIBERALISMO/ STRUGGLES AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM

In the last weeks, we have seen many uprisings around the world against and neoliberal projects. The People's Forum is convening a teach-in to share analysis of the current context in the American continent and the Middle East. Join us!
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October 26, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

Who Gives the Giver?

Through the works of Khalil Gibran and Rosamond King, we will journey through the processes of becoming a giver and examining the moments in which giving transitions from pleasure to exhaustion.
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October 24, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Keepers of the Culture: The Activism of Librarians and Archivists

Activism may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of libraries and archives, but the work of librarians and archivists is inherently political.
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October 24, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

ROMPE EL MIEDO/INTRO TO THREAT MODELING

Una serie de consejos para enfrentar riesgos en grupos activistas-- This workshop will touch on both online and offline security concerns, and show you how to make a plan to protect yourself whether you are an activist, journalist or concerned citizen
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October 23, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North

Join The Peoples Forum and the editors and contributors of the anthology The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South for a two-day investigation into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow.
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October 22, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Black Liberation, Anti-Fascism & the Arsenal of Democracy

This presentation investigates the trinity of the anti-fascist Black Freedom Struggle (1940s), the Ford Foundation and the Military Industrial Complex which became the catalyst for philanthropy of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Wall Street Charging Bull
October 19, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

POOR PEOPLE’S WALKING TOUR OF WALL STREET

Wall 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.
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October 16, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Teach-In: Palestinian Political Prisoners

Join Lana Ramadan, the International Advocacy Officer for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, for a deeper discussion on the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners and to discuss the ways we can mobilize and coordinate our efforts in support of prisoners and against the occupation.
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October 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Introduction to Political and Popular Education

If we’re serious about transforming our society, then we need to be serious about educating ourselves and our communities, and to equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to really build power.
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October 12, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

Fall: A Season of Self Preservation

How can we collectively honor our emotions and protect our spirits as we move into Fall & Winter?
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October 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

To Set at Liberty the Oppressed: Movement Theologies and Bible Studies

The final session of this seven-part series will take up non-Christian theologies with the aim of expanding our understanding of how religious identity, practice, and understanding has formed and is forming through the struggle for liberation in the US.
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October 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

GANDHI’S MIXED LEGACY, AND WHY STUDYING HIM HELPS US BETTER UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE PROBLEMS FACING TODAY’S FRACTURED WORLD.

The important issues of our time including poverty, inequality, divisions, intolerance, violence, resource-greed, alienation and identity assertion are all becoming increasingly acute. In this talk and seminar, we will be looking at this complex Gandhi and will try and understand his unique contributions to today’s debates.
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October 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Open Program: Open Rehearsals

Join us and create a story. The rehearsals of HOME will introduce different aspects of the research of the Open Program and will give the opportunity to work one on one on selected texts, songs and acting fragments.
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October 3, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

THE RATE AND MASS OF GROWTH WITH DAVID HARVEY

This lecture will devote special attention to the mass of growth. It will ask: What  is the mass of growth? Who controls the mass of wealth?  What are we going to do with the mass that is produced? 
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September 28, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

SPANISH FOR BILINGUALS 3

Level 3 reviews topics covered in Spanish 1 & 2 courses. Covers grammar review and text editing; focus is on short story writing and reading fiction by Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women; hands-on practice on community interpreting and translation as a work skill
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September 28, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

SPANISH FOR BILINGUALS 2

Level 2 reviews topics covered in Spanish 1 course. Expands vocabulary and idiomatic expressions; focus is on colloquial Spanish and differences among varieties; explores the use of inclusive, gender-neutral and anti-racist language.
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September 28, 2019 @ 10:00 am

SPANISH FOR BILINGUALS 1

Level 1 covers the basics of reading, writing and grammar; focus is on pronunciation and oral fluency; explores topics of identity, healing of language-based trauma, and overcoming affective barriers to Spanish learning.
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September 26, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

HENNA 101

We will learn about history of henna as an ancient form of body art, have an open discussion about the commercialization and contemporary use of henna in the entertainment, beauty and fashion industries, as well as a demonstration of henna art.
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September 25, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Psychology for Activists

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?
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September 25, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

A NEW MOVEMENT RISING: THE NATIONAL UNION OF THE HOMELESS!

Identifying, unifying and training leaders to undertake a massive homeless organizing campaign is the purpose of the Committee to Re-establish the National Union of the Homeless.
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September 21, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

STUDY HALL: Radical Study + Stuart Hall

The Worker Writers School’s fall assembly examines the legacies and futures of alternative modes of writing, study, and resistance.
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September 20, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

ARABIC CULTURE CLUB: CONVERSATIONAL INTERMEDIATE

Conversational Intermediate reviews topics covered in Arabic 1 & 2 courses. Covers grammar review and text editing; focus is on developing conversational skills, as well as analyzing and critically engaging with various colloquial Arabic cultural productions.
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September 19, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Trends Against Social Movements in Surveillance & Censorship

Join us to hear from a variety of privacy and security experts who will share trends they are witnessing and the next generation threats they see on the horizon that will impact activists, journalists and citizens across the globe in coming years.
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September 18, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Lessons From the Movement to End Slavery

The ideas and politics of the movement to end slavery can teach us valuable lessons for today’s struggles. This course aims prepare participants for deeper study of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America.
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September 14, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Teach-in: Self-Determination and Solidarity in Kashmir

Join us for this teach-in geared towards building solidarity between the Kashmiri and Palestinian anti-occupation movements.
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Wall Street Charging Bull
September 14, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

POOR PEOPLE’S WALKING TOUR OF WALL STREET

Wall 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.
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September 12, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Puerto Rico: Resistance, Disaster, and Austerity in the World’s Oldest Colony

This 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.
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September 12, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Makibaka: Fighting back in 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.
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September 10, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

ARABIC CULTURE CLUB: HIGH BEGINNER

High 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.
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September 7, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

JAZZ AND SELF DETERMINATION

This will be the sixth edition of the "Jazz and Self Determination" series where the primaries converse about the synthesis of jazz and socio political activity.
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September 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Dance For The People

This month, we will be studying dances from Latin America.
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September 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

MIDDLE EASTERN LOVE SONGS, CHORUS, & DRUMMING CLASSES

In this program you will learn how to sing Middle Eastern Love Songs in Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Azeri languages.
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September 3, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

FARM SCHOOL NYC CITYWIDE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM INFO SESSION

This Info Session will provide information about Farm School's Citywide Certificate program. We'll share about program structure, schedule, cost, application process, and more!
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August 24, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

ACTIVISM, MENTAL HEALTH, & FIVE GOLDEN RAYS

With this workshop, we hope to raise our analysis of what it means to be an activist and deepen our understanding of the relationship between our organizing work, mental health and our individualisms.
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August 21, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

BIBLE STUDY WITH REV. DR. LIZ THEOHARIS

This study will look at passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.
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July 20, 2019 @ 11:00 am

AF3IRM NYC'S 8TH ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF WOMEN’S ACTIVISM (SSOWA)

A boot camp for feminist ideas, concepts and visions. Join us in this continuous forging of an unbreakable sisterhood through all our generations.
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July 16, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

IMPERIALISM

In Imperialism, Lenin provided a collective analysis for collective liberation. How can we better understand imperialism today, in order to build effective anti-imperial strategy for today’s world?
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July 13, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

Jazz and Self Determination Series

Be sure to attend the next installment of “Jazz and Self Determination”, a regular series where the primaries define the narrative concerning the social and artistic components of Jazz. A special emphasis is on the “free jazz’ revolution of the 1960’s.
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July 10, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Dual Book Launch: The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela and American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

Speakers include the authors of the books: Dan Kovalik, Danny Haiphong, and Roberto Sirvent. Book signing will follow.
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July 6, 2019 @ 10:00 am

SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP SERIES

A step by step guide through the process of silkscreening, from a basic sketch to digital touch up and screen set up concluding with printing on fabric and paper.
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July 6, 2019 @ 9:00 am

Spanish for Social Justice Summer Intensive Beginner Spanish Course

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and integrated skills approach, participants will improve their listening, speaking, reading, and writing of the target language.
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July 3, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Alternative Religions

This course will engage some of the most popular recent expressions of alternative religion in the US and what they might mean for our movement-building work today
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June 28, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Putting Capital in our Hands: Why worker cooperatives gained traction in global movements for economic change

This session introduces the worker co-op model to folks who are curious but not really familiar with it yet. Join us as we explore the radical possibilities that worker co-ops bring to our visions of the future!
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June 12, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

RIGHT NOT TO BE POOR

This class draws on the fundamental concepts of human rights, including the history of struggles for human rights, to construct the idea of a right to not be poor in a time of plenty.
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June 11, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

ENGINEERED CONFLICT: SCHOOL CLOSINGS, PUBLIC HOUSING, LAW ENFORCEMENT

A lecture by Dr. David Stovall. This lecture seeks to help us understand the current connection between school closings, destruction of public housing and law enforcement strategies as a form of intentional state-sanctioned violence.
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June 10, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

MEDIA MAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD: SESSION 3

This is the 3rd in a series of workshops on the relationship between media and movement building. This 3rd session will feature the screening of short works by workshop participants
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June 6, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

(PART TWO) From Civil Rights to “We are an African People!”: SNCC and the Black Student Movement, 1960-1972

This workshop investigates the effects of the Black Power movement and SNCC’s radicalization on the national and international anti-colonial & imperialist student/youth led mobilizations of the mid 1960s to the early 1970s.
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June 5, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

(PART ONE) From Civil Rights to “We are an African People!”: SNCC and the Black Student Movement, 1960-1972

This workshop will assess how SNCC as the vanguard of the national Black/Student movement evolved from non-direct non-violence to develop a Black Nationalist & internationalist organizational mission in the midst of the shifting objectives of the overall Black Freedom Struggle of the early to mid 1960s.
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June 3, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Racial Boundaries: The Origin and Consequences of the Color Line in the USA

Join the Revolutions Study Group for this 4-week course. Our 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, and W.E.B Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.
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June 2, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

Jazz and Self Determination: Session 2

Join musician and scholar Ras Moshe for a panel and performance followed by a two session course examining the historical parallels between Jazz and socio-political engagement.
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May 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Film Screening: Mulheres de Axé / Axé Women

In this documentary, the Axé Women talk about their struggles to maintain their community’s African roots, bringing to light the matriarchal foundations of Candomblé and, consequently, a significant part of how Brazilian culture was built.
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May 28, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Bible Study with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

This course will look at three different passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.
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Wall Street Charging Bull
May 25, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

POOR PEOPLE’S WALKING TOUR OF WALL STREET

Wall 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
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May 24, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Film Screening: Spell Reel

A collective film assembled by Filipa César. On the verge of complete ruination, the footage testifies to the birth of Guinean cinema as part of the decolonising vision of Amílcar Cabral, the liberation leader assassinated in 1973.
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May 22, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Critical Analysis for Movement Building: Antonio Gramsci and Conjunctural Analysis

This three-part seminar led by Dr. Jordan T. Camp and Rev. Claudia de la Cruz considers the role of conjunctural analysis in political and social movements. It will explore the development of this method by Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci.
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May 22, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Theologies of Liberation

In this three-part course we will explore some of the key theological concepts at the core of this tradition and examine some of the historical and contemporary social struggles that generate and sustain a liberatory vision of God.
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May 17, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Joint Book Launch with Barbara Foley and Margaret Stevens

Please join us for a discussion and reception as we celebrate the launch of two groundbreaking works by mother and daughter scholars and authors Barbara Foley and Margaret Stevens.
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May 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Teach-In on the Ongoing Nakba in Palestine

Join us as we commemorate seventy-one years since the Nakba - the loss of the Palestinian homeland and the expulsion of some 750,000 Palestinians during Israel’s establishment - with a teach-in at The People's Forum
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May 11, 2019 @ 11:00 am

Capital, Volume 2 with the Capital Studies Group

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, Marx takes on the next big question.
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May 9, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Reading the Almanac of the Dead

This will be an immersive reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's "The Almanac of the Dead." This course will explore what might we learn from "The Almanac of the Dead" about capitalist production and its relationship to the Indigenous situation in the Americas.
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May 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Arabic Language for Social Movements (True Beginner) *New Course!

The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Arabic.
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May 7, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Race and Revolution in the United States

This course explores the position that historically oppressed groups in the US — Puerto Ricans and Native, African, Chinese, Japanese and Mexican Americans have occupied in the US economy. We outline the Materialist/Marxist analysis of race ideology and how if differs from other interpretations. We also analyze the theoretical and political contributions that radicals of color in the US have made to the fight for human liberation.
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May 2, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Book Launch: Militant Education with Sonia Vaz Borges

Join us for the Launch of Sónia Vaz Borges’s new book, "Militant Education, liberation struggle and consciousness. The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978."  Sónia will be joined for a discussion with Craig Wilson.
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May 2, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Building a global movement for human rights and social justice: confronting systems of dispossession, exploitation and oppression

If our current economic and political systems are failing to realize human rights, where do we look for alternatives?
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May 1, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Theories of Poverty

Drawing on religious and cultural references, news media, and other sources, we will examine the deeply entrenched ideologies that keep society at large from recognizing the breadth and depth of poverty and, therefore, prevent us from seeking long-term and real solutions that can end poverty.
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April 29, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Revolution in the Air: A Book Talk and Discussion

Join us for a book talk with author Max Elbaum on the re-release of his book, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.  Max will joined for a discussion by leader and scholar Willie Baptist. 
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Wall Street Charging Bull
April 27, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

POOR PEOPLE’S WALKING TOUR OF WALL STREET

Wall 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
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April 26, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Book Launch: Being and Insurrection

Join us, along with writer/philosopher A. Shahid Stoverand professor LaRose T. Parris for an engaging and critical dialogue about Being and Insurrection, a work of existential liberation theory rooted in lived Black experience.
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April 21, 2019 @ 10:00 am

The Ambiguities of the “Personal is the Political and the Political is the Personal”

This one-day course will explore how structural changes in US capitalism since the 1970s have transformed North Americans’ intimate life: our sexuality, relationships, marriages, families, and job expectations.
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April 17, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

Join us for the launch of Paul Ortiz's new book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States; a recasting of American history which explores the power of the people to organize and triumph over corrupt institutions.
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April 15, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt-Cancelation from Antiquity to Today

Join Dr. Michael Hudson, New Testament Scholar Dr. Aliou Niang and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Biblical Scholar and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, for a discussion on the history of debt and what it means for our context today. Moderated by Shailly Gupta Barnes and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice.
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April 13, 2019 @ 11:00 am

Capital in Crisis: 2008 to 2020 and Beyond

A review of the 2008 capitalist crisis with a reading and discussion of David McNally’s Global Slump and other works.
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April 11, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

¡VAMOS A HABLAR QUECHUA!

Este curso es para principiantes y el objetivo es acercarnos a formas alternativas de entender nuestras relaciones con el mundo natural, el tiempo y el espacio. Está abierto a participantes de todas las edades. Este curso será instruido en Español.
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April 11, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Book Launch: American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

Join us for the launch of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: a People’s History of Fake News, From the Revolutionary War to the War On Terror. Speakers include Danny Haiphong, Ajamu Baraka, and Glen Ford, moderated by Brittany Friedman.
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April 6, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

THE FIGHT TO FREE LULA AND REGAIN DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL: A TEACH IN

Join activists who will explain Lula’s case, the rise of the far-right in Brazil and how to join the fight to free Lula and regain democracy in Brazil.
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April 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Red State Revolt: The Power of Strikes, from West Virginia to LA

Please join us for the launch of Eric Blanc's Red State Revolt (forthcoming from Verso) with a discussion featuring Eric, Jane McAlevey, and Emily Comer
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April 4, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Intro to Concrete Analysis

The workshop will define and teach concepts such as structure and context, strategy and tactics, correlation of forces and hegemony, and then engage students in a limited approach to making their own analysis using those concepts.
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April 3, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

Jazz: Music of the Black Holocaust

Jazz: Music of the Black Holocaust is an introductory course that seeks to explore intersections of “jazz” music, historical perspectives of the African diaspora and their role and impact on contemporary society. Students will be introduced to basic jazz rhythms, melodies, harmonies, jazz culture, fashion and development through multi-media that includes videos, films and recordings. Open to the public.
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March 31, 2019 @ 10:00 am

Uses of Marxist Critical Concepts for Everyday Life

This four hour seminar, taught by Richard D. Wolff, will summarize and apply the critical and analytical power of basic Marxist economics to today's dominant economic theories and their accompanying ideologies.
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March 31, 2019 @ 10:00 am

The Poor Organizing the Poor: Lessons from the National Union of the Homeless

The course will cover the context for the rise of the National Union of the Homeless, the history of the movement, lessons from its successes and failures, and the organizing approach it helped to define
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March 30, 2019 @ 4:30 pm

The Age of Anxiety

This six week course will explore this age of anxiety and its fetishization of the self. The course will be structured around Konstantinos Tsoukalas’ recent book Age of Anxiety and will also include readings from W.H. Auden, Leonard Cohen, Michael Sandel, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Erich Fromm.
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March 30, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

Do I Have a Future Here? A Discussion on Economic Migration with DIEM25

Join us for an interactive educational session discussing personal migration stories and clearing up political confusions. Let’s connect the dots and analyze individual worries and troubles in the context of the larger systemic and social issues.
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March 30, 2019 @ 1:00 pm

Revolutionary Lawyering

This course will examine the role of the legal system as an historically-evolved mechanism and codification of the capitalist system, as well as a “relief valve” that functions to contain the social justice movement, especially the struggles of the dispossessed. This course will also consider the part that can be played by legal practitioners in revolutionary societal transformation.
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March 29, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Film Screening: Khoon diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail)

Opening out the real and the human against the abstract and the brutal, the film seeks to confront advocates of amnesia in Kashmir as well as in other conflict zones.
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March 27, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Lessons From the Movement to End Slavery

The ideas and politics of the movement to end slavery can teach us valuable lessons for today’s struggles. This course aims prepare participants for deeper study of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America.
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March 27, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

This 3-part series will cover the following themes of the last historic campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and its contemporary revival as the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
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March 24, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

Film Screening: The Vieques Struggle

This special, 3-part film screening will present a series of documentaries that show the historical background of the Vieques case, so that we can understand, accompany and learn from the Vieques struggle.
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March 23, 2019 @ 2:15 pm

Freud and Philosophy: Overcoming the Self and its Aporias

This seminar will address the very ambivalent and volatile relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophical discourse
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Wall Street Charging Bull
March 23, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

POOR PEOPLE’S WALKING TOUR OF WALL STREET

A tour to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, our history, and to who we're up against in global capitalism. It helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here.
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March 23, 2019 @ 12:00 pm

What does it Mean to be Left?

This course will discuss what it means to be Left, both in the past and in the present and will posit some thoughts for a new left formation adequate to the demands of the contemporary world.
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March 21, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

MEDIA MAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD: SESSION 2

The centerpiece of this 2nd session is a sneak preview screening of the 30-minute documentary film Empire State Rumblings. We will have the filmmakers and some activists involved in this organizing present for discussion after the film. The focus will be on how the filmmakers and activists collaborated around the project.
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March 21, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

A Call to Negro Women: A (Little Known) Black Feminist Manifesto -- A Discussion Circle

Join Mariame Kaba during Women's History Month for a discussion about the Sojourners and their "Call to Negro Women."
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March 18, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Resisting Occupation: A Teach-in on Kashmir

During this teach-in, the instructors will present a brief historical overview of the Kashmir issue, and discuss the contemporary context of state violence and repression and youth resistance.
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March 13, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Beyond Intellectuals: The role of cultural workers in building a people's movement

A conversation with Fezokuhle Mthonti a journalist, author, cultural critic, organizer and organic intellectual from South Africa. She writes about culture for New Frame, and is committed to writing from a feminist perspective.
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March 10, 2019 @ 4:00 pm

Jazz and Self Determination

Join musician and scholar Ras Moshe for a three session course examining the historical parallels between Jazz and socio-political engagement.
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March 9, 2019 @ 2:00 pm

Beulah Sanders Way: Organizing for Welfare Rights

This celebration of Beulah Sander's way of organizing will lift up the genius of this national hero and draw lessons for organizing the poor against the crises we face today.
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March 9, 2019 @ 1:00 pm

Getting on Common Ground – Conflict Resolution for Cooperative Leaders

When co-op members are encouraged to show up with honesty and directness, engaged co-op leaders can bring together divergent opinions and diverse experiences to deal with disagreement constructively.
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March 9, 2019 @ 1:00 pm

Entrando en terreno común – Resolución de conflictos para líderes cooperativos.

Cuando se alienta a lxs miembrxs de la cooperativa a presentarse con honestidad y franqueza, lxs líderes cooperativos comprometidos pueden reunir opiniones divergentes y experiencias diversas para enfrentar el desacuerdo de manera constructiva.
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March 7, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Who are the Poor and Why are they Poor?

This three-session course (March 7, 14, 21) uses popular education methodologies to take a critical look at common explanations for poverty and inequality, and the ways those concepts are usually defined and talked about.
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March 7, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Arabic Language for Social Movements (True Beginner)

Thursdays, March 7th - June 13th, 2019 5:30-8:30PM (3hrs/week; 45 hrs.) The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Arabic.
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March 6, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Our History is the Future with Nick Estes

Join us in the launch of Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
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March 6, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Gramsci, Culture, and Hegemony

This two-part seminar will explore key concepts developed by revolutionary leader Antonio Gramsci that address how social groups gain, expand, and maintain their power to lead.
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Empire's Tracks
February 27, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Empire's Tracks Book Launch

Manu Karuka's new book Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path
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February 26, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Indoor Specialty Mushroom Cultivation

Farm School NYC, Cornell Cooperative Extension Urban Agriculture Program and Cornell Small Farms Program are partnering on this six-week course that explores the ethnography and social justice aspects of growing mushrooms and trains new and experienced farmers in the background, techniques, and economics of farm scale indoor commercial production.
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February 24, 2019 @ 10:00 am

Spanish Language for Social Movements (True Beginner)

Sundays, February 24th, 2019 - June 2nd, 2019 10:00pm-1:00pm (3hrs./week; 45 hrs.) The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering beginner-level courses to folks who have little to no prior knowledge of Spanish.
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February 23, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado on the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil

Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, a regular Intercept Brasil contributor, will discuss the rise of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his far-right political party.
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February 23, 2019 @ 3:00 pm

My Purpose: Love. Light & _________

LOVE. LIGHT & POETRY seeks to propel individuals to hone into their purposes and sacred paths. This workshop will cultivate a conversation between one’s life purpose and their legacy.
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February 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am

2 Day Theater of the Oppressed Training

In this 2-day workshop we will explore the technique of FORUM THEATER over two days. Participants will learn the basic skills needed to create, perform and lead the Forum Theater format for use in their respective communities. We will explore our bodies as a tool of representing feelings, ideas, and relationships and explore collective solutions to everyday problems.
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February 21, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

MEDIA MATCHMAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD

New York State Poor People’s Campaign, the Kairos Center, and The People’s Forum are excited to present a workshop on MEDIA MATCHMAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD: A 3-part collaborative workshop of screening, discussions, and media work.
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February 21, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

"Unheralded Heroines": Examining the Women Mentors and Comrades in the Life of Malcolm X

Malcolm X’s life and career as influenced by the women who taught, supported and admired his trajectory from his very humble beginnings as a wayward teen to his international prominence as freedom fighter for human rights and dignity of Black and all oppressed peoples throughout the world.
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February 20, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

The Educational & Political Philosophies of Malcolm X

This workshop will assess how Malcolm X’s educational practices and "glocal" political praxis influenced the Nation of Islam, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, Revolutionary Action Movement and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement from the the latter 1960s through the anti-imperialist struggles of the 1970s.
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February 15, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Marx's Capital, volume one (1)

Seminar of the NYC Marxist Studies Collective at the People's Forum conducted by Russell Dale. This course will be a careful reading of the first third of Marx's great economic analysis and critique of capitalism, Capital, volume one. This will be the first of three consecutive courses (Spring, Summer, Fall 2019) in which we will carefully read and discuss the entire work.
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February 13, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Religions and Social Movements

This course will investigate the relationship between social movements and religious traditions. Religions have been both oppressive forces and forces of liberation in the history of human struggle and these tensions have been critical to the development and sustaining of social movements around the world.
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February 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

The “Southernization” of America: What Progressives Can Learn from the US South

This panel of academics who both live and work in the South will help activists, organizers, and concerned citizens better understand the struggles and triumphs of the region. With Keri Leigh Merritt will open with a talk focused on economics. Hilary Green will then discuss education, Bob Hutton will concentrate on labor and unionization, and Booker Mattison will talk about the importance of the arts in the South.
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February 7, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Introduction to Popular and Political Education

If we’re serious about transforming our society, then we need to be serious about educating ourselves and our communities, and to equip ourselves with the knowledge we need to really build power.
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February 6, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Political Economy of Racism

This four session seminar explores the political economy of racism with Professor Manu Karuka. We will work to denaturalize racism as something that needs to be explained, rather than accepted as a facet of social life. We will analyze race as a process and relationship internal to the capital relation itself.
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February 6, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Spanish Language for Social Movements (High Beginner)

February 6th, 2019 - April 5th, 2019 Wednesdays & Fridays 5:30pm-8:00pm (5hrs./week; 45 hrs.) The Center for Language Justice and the People’s Forum are offering high beginner-level Spanish to folks who have already completed a semester-long beginner course.
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February 6, 2019 @ 5:30 pm

Bible Study with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

This course will look at three different passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.
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February 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Spoken Word Classes with Ameresoul

A three-day class that will take participants into the political, personal and powerful journey of creating original performance poetry pieces. This class will help students discover and mold their own poetic voice and stage presence.
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February 5, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Reading Marx's Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey

A close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx’s Capital with Professor David Harvey. This semester-long class meets on Tuesdays from 6:00pm - 8:00pm beginning on February 5th. Registration is now closed.
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December 18, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Kairos Center Evaluation Class

This session has been canceled . This session is for students, who participated in the Kairos Center's fall series of classes to share thoughts and reflections on how the classes went and areas for improvement. 
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December 7, 2018 @ 6:30 pm

Who Profits When We Get Sick?

We all need healthcare, and less and less of us can afford it. This class will introduce the economics and politics of health and healthcare, take a critical look at the “solutions” to the healthcare crisis, and put forward the visions and strategies of grassroots groups organizing for their human right to healthy lives and to the care we need, when we need it.
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December 5, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Economics of surveillance

This workshop is one of a four-part series titled “The Franchise” which aims to explore the political and economic foundation sustaining the arch of the criminal justice system, and the role of community surveillance in this process.
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December 1, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

Theater of the Oppressed Training

This training will teach people ways of fighting back against oppression in their daily lives. We will explore our bodies as a tool of representing feelings, ideas, and relationships.
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November 29, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Read Between The Lines: A Nutrition Survival Guide

Join us as we explain how to break down food labels, examine neighborhood demographics and their relationship to available options, and how to be prepared in a society that benefits from our sickness.
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November 27, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About the Poor

Taught by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, this three-part course will reclaim the radical teachings of the Bible around poverty, wealth and power that have been lost to many of our movements.
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November 15, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Introduction to Political Education & Popular Education Pedagogy

This one-day class is about popular education - an approach to teaching and learning that connects theory, experience, and practical work for social change.
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November 7, 2018 @ 7:00 pm

Peacefully Together: Sutta Study Workshop

During this series of workshops, we will closely examine the Buddha's teachings on communal harmony as preserved in the Pāli Suttas (the oldest extant collection of his words), and discuss how we can adapt and apply them to contemporary circumstances. 
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November 6, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

How to do a concrete analysis (November series)

The workshop will define and teach concepts such as structure and context, strategy and tactics, correlation of forces and hegemony, and then engage students in a limited approach to making their own analysis using those concepts.
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November 6, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Liberation Theology

The course will examine some of the principles behind liberation theology as it has emerged in historical struggles of the poor, including Latin American Liberation Theology, Black Liberation Theology, as well as in the context of non-Christian contexts.
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Wall Street Charging Bull
November 4, 2018 @ 2:00 pm

Poor People's Walking Tour of Wall Street

A tour to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, our history, and to who we're up against in global capitalism. It helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here.
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October 28, 2018 @ 10:00 am

Introduction to the U.S. South

This seminar is an overview of the historical and contemporary significance of the U.S. South. Areas of focus will include the abolitionist movement, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Southern labor struggles of the Depression era, and the "Long Civil Rights Movement" of the 1940's-60's.
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October 23, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

How to do a Concrete Analysis of Context (October Series)

Three-part class on October 23, 6-7:30pm, October 25, 6-7:30pm, and October 28, 2-3:30pm Between the
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October 23, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Theories of Poverty

This course explores the prevailing explanations for why poverty exists today and reveals the deeply entrenched ideologies that prevent us from seeking long-term and real solutions that can end poverty.
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Tompkins Square
October 21, 2018 @ 10:00 am

Lessons from the National Union of the Homeless

This one-day course is an introduction to the National Union of the Homeless (NUH) - an organization led by homeless individuals and families which was active from the mid-80’s to the early 90’s, and came to include some of the key leaders of the Tompkins Square Park encampment.
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October 18, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Who are the Poor and Why are we Poor? Who are the Rich and Why are they Rich?

This one-day course uses popular education methodologies to take a critical look at common explanations for poverty and inequality, and the ways those concepts are usually defined and talked about.
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October 17, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

Beginner Spanish for Social Movements (Evening Sessions)

Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and integrated skills approach, participants will improve their listening, speaking, reading, and writing of Spanish.
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October 16, 2018 @ 6:30 pm

Introduction to Marxism for Women Only

How did the oppression of women, and the division of societies into people who work and others who exploit them, originate and develop historically? Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.
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October 16, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Race and Revolution in the United States

This course with Johanna Fernández explores the position that historically oppressed groups in the US have occupied in the US economy.
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October 14, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

Marxian Economics Intensives with Richard D. Wolff

A Marxian class analysis around four areas of inquiry: Capitalist enterprises- merchant, industrial, and financial; Households and the State; Globalization; and Socialism and Communism.
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October 13, 2018 @ 4:30 pm

Democracy and Marxism

This class, taught by Peter Bratsis, will examine the concept of democracy and how it has been incorporated within the Marxist tradition.
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October 13, 2018 @ 4:00 pm

Fall: A Season of Self-Preservation by Love Light & Poetry

In this workshop with Rabih Ahmed, participants will define self-preservation and affirm it through the creation of original poetic works. Through interactive writing exercises they will begin to hone into their life’s purposes.
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October 13, 2018 @ 3:00 pm

The Rise of Amazon and How to Resist

Join us as we explain Amazon's rise and discuss wealth accumulation and brainstorm working class responses to our present economic conditions.
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October 13, 2018 @ 2:15 pm

Marx, Marxism and Philosophy

Through a general, yet rigorous survey, this class, taught by Michael Pelias, will examine Marx’s use of philosophical materialism in his early manuscripts as well as a critical and analytical approach to the schools of Marxist philosophy.
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October 13, 2018 @ 2:00 pm

Woke Kids Story-Making Workshop: Decolonization + Self Determination

The workshop's aim is to help children work collectively to create stories that empower and celebrate people of different backgrounds.
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October 13, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

Community Control of Modern Technology: A conversation with Sister Elaine Brown

Join TechActivist.Org for a conversation with Guest Speaker Sister Elaine Brown as we discuss the inclusion of technology in the liberation movement.
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October 13, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

The Frankfurt School and the paradoxical idea of progress: Thinking beyond Critical Theory

This course, taught by Stanley Aronowitz, will address the idea of progress in History through a careful and close reading of texts from Adorno and Horkheimer.
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October 10, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Degenerate Art and The State Part II: Notes of Discord

This 8-week survey will be an exploration of selected pieces of music, visual art, and films that are alternative forms of revolt that both deepens our consciousness and inspires resistance
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Poor Peoples Campaign
October 9, 2018 @ 5:30 pm

The Poor People’s Campaign: 1968-2018

A 4-part series, taught by Kairos Center staff, covering the main themes of the last historic campaign of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and its contemporary revival as the Poor People’s Campaign.
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Wall Street Charging Bull
October 3, 2018 @ 4:00 pm

Poor People's Walking Tour of Wall Street

A tour to reflect on the Wall Street Bull, the New York Stock Exchange, our history, and to who we're up against in global capitalism. It helps us to see how all of our isolated fights ultimately lead us here.
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September 30, 2018 @ 12:00 pm

Marxian Economics Intensives with Richard D. Wolff

A Marxian class analysis around four areas of inquiry: Capitalist enterprises- merchant, industrial, and financial; Households and the State; Globalization; and Socialism and Communism.
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September 29, 2018 @ 10:00 am

Theater of the Oppressed Training

This training will teach people ways of fighting back against oppression in their daily lives. We will explore our bodies as a tool of representing feelings, ideas, and relationships.
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September 28, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

How to do a concrete analysis of context

This workshop will define and teach concepts such as structure and context, strategy and tactics, correlation of forces and hegemony, and then engage students in a limited approach to making their own analysis using those concepts.
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September 22, 2018 @ 10:00 am

Urban Justice: Adventures in Radical Urban Theory

By exploring radical urban theories, this course by Miguel Robles-Durán, aims to challenge the way in which social movements and activisms function today and questions their true capacity to engage with the dynamics and modalities of capitalism.
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September 20, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Introduction to Political Education & Popular Education Pedagogy

This one-day class is about popular education - an approach to teaching and learning that connects theory, experience, and practical work for social change.
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September 14, 2018 @ 8:00 am

Buddhist Sutta Study

During this series of Sutta Study classes with Bhante Suddhaso, a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest tradition, we'll be creating a solid foundation of understanding upon which we can build a successful meditation practice.
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August 6, 2018 @ 6:00 pm

Marx and Capital: the Book, the Concept, the History

This course, with Professor David Harvey, will explore all three volumes of Marx's Capital.
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CALL FOR ART - Artists Against Apartheid

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