October 23 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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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?
October 23 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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An event every day that begins at 6:30 pm, repeating until October 24, 2019
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.
October 23 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, repeating until November 13, 2019
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.
October 23 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, repeating until December 11, 2019
Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1
Beginners are welcome, and even long-time Marxists may learn a thing or two and be surprised by some of what they discover in these all-too-seldom read works.
October 24 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Thursday, repeating until November 7, 2019
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.
October 24 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 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
October 24 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 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.
October 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Friday, repeating until January 31, 2020
Marx’s Capital, volume one (3)
This course will be a careful reading of the final third of Marx’s great economic analysis and critique of capitalism, Capital, volume one. This will be the third of three consecutive courses (Spring, Summer, Fall 2019) in which we will carefully read and discuss the entire work.
October 25 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Friday, repeating until December 20, 2019
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.
October 25 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
FILM SCREENING: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (JAPAN)
Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American noir to chilling effect in exposing corrupt boardrooms of postwar Japan.
October 25 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Open Program Presents: HOME
HOME is a theater piece created by people who have to tell you something about this human experience.
October 26 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Saturday, repeating until December 7, 2019
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.
October 26 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Saturday, repeating until October 26, 2019
Capital, Volume 2, Second Sessions
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.
October 26 @ 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Introduction to Disability Justice
This workshop, hosted by Survived and Punished, will explore the past and present nexus between racism, classism, ableism, and structural inequity, focusing in particular on multiply-marginalized people.
October 26 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Saturday, repeating until December 7, 2019
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.
October 26 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 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.
October 26 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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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
October 26 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-founder Bruce Dixon
Join Black Agenda Report for their 13th Anniversary.
October 27 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Book Launch: Recipes for Survival
Maria Thereza Alves is an artist known for her life-long engagement with peoples and their specific communities, lands, and colonial histories. Recipes for Survival is centered on her father’s community in the backlands of Parana in Brazil.
October 29 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until December 17, 2019
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.
October 29 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 7:00 pm on Tuesday and Friday, repeating until October 29, 2019
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.
October 30 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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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.
October 30 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Book Launch: Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition
At this event, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon, who authored its new foreword, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses.
November 1 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jesus Led a Poor People’s Campaign: Sermons from the Movement to End Poverty
This new collection of sermons features religious and community leaders committed to the unity and organization of the poor for a powerful social movement to end poverty. Join six of the book's authors for an inspiring conversation about the spirit of justice.
November 1 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Rising Blades: A Poetry Series with a Twist
"Rising Blades" is a gathering of revolutionaries, in art and action. We will showcase creative storytellers and community organizers, for an active audience who will have a chance to participate in the proceedings through an initial open-mic, and town hall Q&A in the end.
November 5 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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One event on October 22, 2019 at 6:00 pm
One event on November 5, 2019 at 6:00 pm
One event on November 12, 2019 at 6:00 pm
One event on December 3, 2019 at 6:00 pm
One event on December 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm
One event on December 17, 2019 at 6:00 pm
To Set at Liberty the Oppressed: Movement Theologies and Bible Studies
This seven-part series will take up historical and conceptual analysis of the theologies that guided and were discovered through social struggle in US history. The series will also include sessions of deeper Biblical textual study following the method of “reading the Bible with the poor."
November 7 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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An event every week that begins at 6:00 pm on Thursday, repeating until December 19, 2019
Curso de Inglés Para la Autodefensa y la Autodeterminación/ English for Self-Defense and Self-Determination
Este curso comunitario del inglés usa un enfoque comunicativo y elementos de educación popular para desarrollar las habilidades bilingües de nuestra comunidad con el fin de resistir la opresión.
November 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
RIGHT TO WATER: A CONVENING
Our dispensable right to water is under attack. Join us as we hear from frontline community members and experts from Michigan, South Carolina, New Jersey and Washington D.C.
November 9 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Somos Más ما بیشتر هستیم 我们不只是 We Are More: A NYC tour inspired by our stories
A performance: In a dystopian nation where people are forced to assimilate, six immigrants unite in secret to spark a joyful revolution.
November 14 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Book Talk: Green Strategy with Marc Brodine
Addressing the fundamental problems of our time by linking environmental issues to other struggles, Green Strategy argues that allied social and political movements can transform our politics, our economy and protect our species.
November 19 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
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UN/DO PHOTOGRAPHY
This workshop is for those looking to build a stronger epistemological, structural and creative platform for the design and development of socially engaged and critically conscious visual media and documentary projects.
November 20 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
In Occupying Schools, Occupying Land, Rebecca Tarlau explores how MST activists have pressured municipalities, states, and the federal government to implement their educational program in public schools and universities, affecting hundreds of thousands of students
November 21 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Book Launch: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor narrates this dramatic transformation in housing policy, its financial ramifications, and its influence on African Americans. She reveals that federal policy transformed the urban core into a new frontier of cynical extraction disguised as investment.
December 5 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Marx and Engels, The Civil War in the U.S. with Andrew Zimmerman
A complete revision of the 1937 edition of the Civil War writings of Marx and Engels, this volume incorporates new texts by Marx and Engels, as well as by US authors including Communist Union Army officer Joseph Weydemeyer and African American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
