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SUMMARY:Understanding Zionism: Class 1 Origins of Zionism
DESCRIPTION:“UNDERSTANDING ZIONISM”   \nClass 1 – Origins of Zionism \nThis session will outline the emergence of Zionism as a reactionary\, colonial movement and ideology. Participants will learn the conditions\, in both Palestine and Europe\, through which Zionism emerged\, the political orientation and class character of the early Zionist movement\, its organizational development\, and the alliances it built with European imperialism and fascism. Through this session\, participants will explore some of the founding myths of Zionism as well as its defining characteristics to understand why genocide and ethnic cleansing are not aberrations from the logic of Zionism\, but a key part of it that has manifested in different ways over time. 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/understanding-zionism-class-1-origins-of-zionism/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Education
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SUMMARY:From Lebanon to Palestine: Resisting and Returning Together
DESCRIPTION:February 15\, 2025\n7 pm Jerusalem | 5 pm London | 12 pm New York / Lenape | 9 am San Francisco / Ohlone \nSpeakers:\nRania Khalek\, Dr. Jamila Ghaddar\, susan abulhawa\, Dr. Omar Nashabe\, Dr. Hanine Shehadeh \nHosted by: The People’s Forum and Publishers for Palestine \nRania Khalek is a Middle-East based journalist for Breakthrough News\, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream. \nDr. Jamila J. Ghaddar is a Lebanese feminist\, archivist\, historian\, and educator. She is Assistant Professor in Archival Information & Digital Humanities at the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam\, and Founding Director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab (www.archiveslab.org). \nsusan abulhawa is a Palestinian novelist\, poet\, activist\, founder of Playgrounds for Palestine\, director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. Since the start of the genocide\, she was able to make two trips to Gaza. She has written extensively about the horrors she witnessed there. \nDr. Omar Nashabe is an analyst in Criminal Justice and Human Rights. He has served as an adviser to the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities (2008-2011) and managed the first comprehensive monitoring of prison conditions in Lebanon. \nDr. Hanine Shehadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at NY Abu Dhabi. Her current research focuses on the intersections between settler colonialism and new media\, by interrogating how new media landscapes can reinforce or resist digital colonialism\, particularly in relation to indigenous identities and colonial subjugation in Palestine.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/from-lebanon-to-palestine/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: The Trinity of Fundamentals
DESCRIPTION:ORDER YOUR COPY HERE \nIN PERSON ATTENDANCE AT CAPACITY — you are welcome to come try for the waiting list/standing room\, but feel free to also join virtually on The People’s Forum’s YouTube channel. \nJoin us for a book launch for The Trinity of Fundamentals with members of the Palestinian Youth Movement and 1804 Books! The Trinity of Fundamentals is the fictionalized account of former Palestinian prisoner Rafeedie’s nine-year experience hiding from the Occupation\, now presented in its first-ever English translation. \nWritten in 1993 during Rafeedie’s time in Israeli prison and confiscated by prison guards\, The Trinity of Fundamentals was smuggled out by Wisam’s comrades\, and soon after became a significant text for the Palestinian prisoner’s movement. From historical events like the First Intifada and the Gulf War to the deeply intimate moments of life in hiding\, this story gives us a glimpse into what life looks like when it is wholly dedicated to the cause of liberation and is transformed by revolution. As we continue on the path in defense of Gaza against the Zionist genocide\, we must work to deepen our collective understanding of the Palestinian struggle and its many manifestations across our noble history. \nLove\, revolution\, and life—these are the “trinity of fundamentals” that pave Kan’an’s path of struggle. Although the novel is set in the past\, it holds many lessons that resonate with our current political moment\, mobilizing us into collective action. \nThe event will be a discussion of the book with editors from PYM and 1804 Books\, followed by a Q&A with audience members. The discussion will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-the-trinity-of-fundamentals/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Culture,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Volunteer Session & Art Build - Shut It Down For Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an art build & volunteer session to prepare for November 29th International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People actions across New York City.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/volunteer-session-art-build-shut-it-down-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:VOLUNTEER SESSION- SHUT IT DOWN FOR PALESTINE
DESCRIPTION:The time is now to get active in the movement against occupation\, apartheid\, and genocide. Join the Palestinian Youth Movement\, The People’s Forum\, and ANSWER Coalition in preparation for this week’s actions to #ShutItDown4Palestine.  All are welcome. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/volunteer-session-shut-it-down-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Class\, Race\, and Gender with Michael Zweig
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk on Class\, Race\, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism with author Michael Zweig and organizers Jamel Coy Hudson\, Juliet Ucelli\, and Darinel Velasquez. Bringing forth the basic operations of capitalist economies\, it reveals what is driving many of today’s most urgent and vexing problems: the common origins of the inequalities of income\, wealth\, and power; environmental devastation; militarism; racism and white supremacy; patriarchy and male chauvinism; periodic economic crises; and the cultural conflicts that are tearing at US life. \nMichael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history\, from the first settlement of the New World to current life\, including his own lived experiences as an activist\, educator\, and organizer over the past six decades. As such\, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and moral transformation of life in the US. Building on his analysis\, Zweig also presents strategies for political action in electoral and movement-building work. \nJamel Coy Hudson is a lecturer\, professor\, and rhetorician. He has dedicated his academic pursuits to rhetorical studies\, culminating in degrees at the undergraduate\, graduate\, and doctoral levels. He is a Lecturer of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy in the Department of Communication Studies at CUNY Baruch College. In addition to his appointment at CUNY Baruch College\, he has also taught as a faculty member in the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at his alma mater\, Hofstra University. Currently\, he serves as the Tri-chair of the New York State Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and is committed to realizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the Beloved Community. \nJuliet Ucelli (she/her) is a founder of the Brecht Forum/NY Marxist School and Italian Americans for a Multicultural US (IAMUS)\, and a long-time organizer in public school\, anti-racist and anti-war movements. She has served in the national leadership of Liberation Road and writes and teaches on Marx’s Capital\, human development and psychology. \nDarinel Velasquez (he/him) is a Community Organizer with New York Communities for Change. He has organized multiple campaigns on climate justice\, public safety\, and education\, with a focus on housing/tenant rights. His most recent success was mobilizing tenants to win a 0% rent increase in the Village of Hempstead. Having completed the Studio Recording Technology program at Nassau Community College he emphasizes incorporating art and music into the movement space. \nMichael Zweig is the founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life and emeritus professor of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook\, where he received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a member of the New York State Coordinating Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and an elected member of the executive board of United University Professions (AFT 2190) at SUNY Stony Brook. Prior to Class\, Race\, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism\, his books include The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret and Religion and Economic Justice. He lives with his wife in New York City and on the North Fork of Long Island\, where for over thirty years he has served as a volunteer in the Southold Fire Department.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-class-race-and-gender-with-michael-zweig/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism with Premilla Nadasen and Ujju Aggarwal
DESCRIPTION:Join historian and activist Premilla Nadasen in conversation with Ujju Aggarwal.\n\nPremilla Nadasen’s new book Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism\, is a fiery critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.\n\nCare traces the history of the care economy and calls for radical alternatives to our exploitative\, profit-driven system. By highlighting the activism of low-wage workers\, immigrants\, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework\, welfare rights\, and the Movement for Black Lives\, Nadasen uplifts the fight to practice collective care and to envision a more caring\, equitable future.\n\n“A brilliant interrogation of the exploitative and profit-driven care system in the United States. To fully understand racial capitalism in the 21st century\, you have to read this book.”\n–Barbara Ransby\, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement  \n\nPremilla Nadasen is a professor of history at Barnard College\, Columbia University\, where she is co-director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She is the author of Welfare Warriors and Household Workers Unite. \nUjju Aggarwal is trained as a community organizer\, popular educator\, and cultural anthropologist. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning at The New School. Her book Unsettling Choice: Race\, Rights\, and the Partitioning of Public Education is forthcoming (University of Minnesota Press\, 2024). \nWatch the livestream HERE. \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-care-the-highest-stage-of-capitalism-with-premilla-nadasen-and-ujju-aggarwal/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Sound Off! At The People's Forum
DESCRIPTION:In preparation for Sound Off: Music for Bail’s November 10 7 PM string quartet show at the People’s Forum supporting Tatiana Hill from the NYC Office of the Community Liaison\, Sound Off will have two open rehearsals from 11 AM – 2 PM and 3 PM – 5 PM\, as well as a 6-7 PM performance at Word Up Community Bookshop (2113 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10032). Musical selections will be taken from our program for the next day’s concert\, and Sound Off head Jay Julio will speak about Sound Off’s history\, mission\, and future. Admission is free\, with a suggested donation of $15 at the show via cash or card (tax-deductible via our Fractured Atlas link). No RSVP is required to attend either rehearsals or the show. \nCOVID safety protocols — Word Up requires masks to be worn while inside. We appreciate your understanding of what it takes to keep our community safe\, and musicians’ particular needs in an uncertain profession. \nMusician bios: \nBorn and raised in the Bronx\, NYC\, Aurora Mendez is a versatile violinist\, educator\, and advocate for innovation in classical music. Aurora’s passion for her craft has transcended borders as she has graced international stages through participation in prestigious music festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein\, Orchestra of the Americas\, Next Fest\, Marrowstone\, Monteux\, and Spoleto Festivals. Her orchestral engagements include performances with the New Haven and Harrisburg symphonies\, as well as serving as guest concertmaster with City Lyric Opera. \nAs an educator\, Aurora has taught and worked with students across Latin America\, Europe\, and the US. Formerly an Orchestra of the Americas Global Leader Fellow\, Aurora participated in international\nresidencies in Chicago and El Salvador where she collaborated with music schools and youth orchestra organizations. Currently\, she holds positions on the faculty at the NJSO Youth Orchestra\, Music Mentors Collaborative NYC\, and serves as the Strings Teaching Artist in Residence at SOPAC. \nA firm believer in bridging the gap between the classical music world and contemporary audiences\, Aurora has been a featured speaker at renowned international conferences\, including SXSW\nand the Karajan Music Tech Conferences. In 2023\, Aurora partnered with Capital District Latinos as the co-founder of the West Hill Concert Series. This groundbreaking initiative aims to provide the local community with high-quality\, culturally relevant chamber music performances and wellness workshops imparted by leading mental health professionals. \n/ \nBorn and raised in Anchorage\, Alaska\, violinist Celina Farmer has performed throughout her home state with ensembles such as the Juneau Symphony\, the Anchorage Opera\, the Alaska Chamber Singers\, as a tenured Violin 1 player in the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra\, and as a Soloist and Concertmaster of the Anchorage Bowl Chamber Orchestra. Celina annually tours with members of the ABCO to bring classical music to rural communities across Southcentral Alaska. \nCelina’s collegiate studies began at the Eastman School of Music\, where she earned her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance under the tutelage of Professor Renée Jolles. Celina also holds a Master of Music from DePaul University\, where she studied with Professor Janet Sung and performed as Concertmaster of the DePaul Concert Orchestra and the DePaul Baroque Ensemble. Another significant part of Celina’s education was her time spent at Interlochen Arts Academy\, where she earned her High School Diploma and spent three formative years studying with Paul Sonner. \nAs a passionate educator\, Celina teaches in both the traditional style and with the Suzuki method\, completing Suzuki Teacher Training with Every Child Can and Violin Books 1-5 under the mentorship of Rolando Freitag. Celina strives to foster meaningful connections with all of her students and teach musical skills that will allow them to succeed in all aspects of life. \n/ \n25-year old first-generation Filipino-American Jay Julio (they/them) is a multi-instrumentalist\, educator\, and composer-arranger from Uniondale\, NY\, now based in New York City. Jay is the Assistant Principal Violist of the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra\, a section member of the Hartford Symphony\, substitute violist with the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and the Memphis\, Virginia\, and Dallas Symphony Orchestras\, and has been invited to play with the New York Pops\, the American Composers Orchestra\, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra\, PROTESTRA\, ChamberQUEER\, NOVUS NY\, and the Metropolis Ensemble. They appeared in the official collaborative music video for Major Lazer & Marcus Mumford’s single Lay Your Head On Me\, released as a fundraiser for COVID-19 research efforts\, performed with Nigerian artist Burna Boy in his Hollywood Bowl debut\, and joined Audra McDonald this past December on Carnegie Hall’s Great Artists series. \nA prizewinner in national competitions held by the National Federation of Music Clubs\, the YoungArts Foundation\, the Music Teachers National Association and a recipient of a 2019 Juilliard Career Grant\, Jay is indebted to the Virtu Foundation and the American Viola Society for their past support through instrument and bow loans. Festival performance credits include Juilliard’s FOCUS Festival\, the Queens New Music Festival\, the New York String Orchestra Seminar\, Music Academy of the West\, Orpheus@Mannes\, and the Cabrillo\, Spoleto\, Thy\, Aspen\, Texas\, Manchester\, and Pacific Music Festivals. They have served as a Teaching Fellow at the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program\, instructed at the Stony Brook University Chamber Strings Camp\, and currently teach at the Interlochen Center for the Arts Viola Intensive and on a substitute basis at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division. \nAfter taking their first viola lesson at age 14 at the Mannes Preparatory Division\, Jay graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy at 16 studying with Renee Skerik with their highest musical honor\, the Young Artist Award\, received their BM in Viola Performance from the Manhattan School of Music under Karen Ritscher on full scholarship\, and received their MM at the Juilliard School on a full-tuition Susan W. Rose Fellowship under the tutelage of Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. Other important mentors include Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti and Lina Bahn. Away from the instrument\, Jay writes\, and was a finalist in the 2021 Mississippi Review & Meridian poetry prizes. Their poems can be found in the Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Online\, and Barrelhouse\, among other places\, and they enjoy reviewing concerts at Represent Classical. \n/ \nBorn in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, Angelique Montes began her cello studies at the age of 5 at The Suzuki School for Strings in Manhattan\, NY. Her debut solo performance was in 2010\, with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. At that time\, she attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts where she worked with renowned artists such as: Midori\, Carlos Miguel Prieto\, Jan Vogler\, Prazak String Quartet\, the Marsalis family\, and Yo-Yo Ma. \nMontes later attended the Oberlin Conservatory\, where she studied with Amir Eldan. While at Oberlin\, she soloed with the Oberlin Arts and Science Orchestra\, and received honors awards as a member of the Adelphe Piano Trio. Montes went on to study with Matthew Zalkind at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music\, and Alan Rafferty at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music\, where she received her doctoral degree. \nDuring her summers\, Angelique attended Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute\, Interlochen Summer Arts\, National Youth Orchestra of the USA\, National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute\, Colorado College Summer Music Festival\, Credo Music Festival\, Innsbrook Institute\, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. \nHer debut album\, “Refraction” was released the summer of 2022\, and can be found on all streaming platforms\, as well as BandCamp.com for digital and physical purchase. The album highlights solo cello pieces by black composers as well as electroacoustic music. \nIn addition to cello and music\, Angelique enjoys baking/cooking\, listening to podcasts\, playing ping-pong\, and drinking tea. \nWatch the livestream HERE.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/sound-off-at-the-peoples-forum/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,Performances
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SUMMARY:Material Liberation: A People's Fashion Show Vol 3
DESCRIPTION:In response to events like NY Fashion Week and the Met Gala that use Fashion to escape and separate\, Material Liberation provides a space for aesthetics to help us collectively experience different\, better worlds. \nOur 2023 iteration will focus on freedom dreams: how can fashion show freedom histories\, complexities\, and possibilities?  \nPlease bring clothing in good condition to donate to our clothing drive! \nDesigner line up\nKOTAMI | Mel Corchado | VaithaVerse | Kerbie Joseph | Mazen | fabiola soavelo \nPoet lineup\nNathalie E. Amazan | Andrea Albayeros | Felicia Cade \n(subject to change)
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/material-liberation-a-peoples-fashion-show-vol-3/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Instruments of Capitalism (with the authors of CRACK-UP CAPITALISM and THE CAPITAL ORDER)
DESCRIPTION:Eventbrite registration has sold out\, but if you would like to attend the event\, please show up in person at The People’s Forum at 5:45 on October 13.  \nJoin us for a book talk with scholars Clara E. Mattei (The Capital Order) and Quinn Slobodian (Crack-Up Capitalism) as they discuss and connect the themes from their newest books. Joined by historian Adam Tooze (Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy)\, their discussion will illuminate the economic systems and strategies—from austerity\, to tax havens\, and beyond—that serve as the instruments that uphold and protect the capitalist system. \nWatch the livestream HERE \nClara E. Mattei is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research\, and was a 2018-2019 member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Her research contributes to the history of capitalism\, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. She recently published her first book titled The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (University of Chicago Press\, November 2022)\, which was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2022 and is being translated in more than 10 languages.  It investigates the origins of austerity after the WWI crisis to understand its logic as a tool of reaction against any alternatives to capitalism.  She is currently working on a book project which critically reassesses the Golden Age of Capitalism (1945-1975) and its Keynesianism through the lens of austerity capitalism. Her writings have appeared on The Guardian\, Jacobin\, The Nation and Il Fatto Quotidiano—an Italian national newspaper she contributes to regularly. \n\nQuinn Slobodian is the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy published by Metropolitan Books in the US\, Penguin in the UK\, Suhrkamp in Germany\, Seuil in France\, and elsewhere. His previous book\, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press\, 2018)\, won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize and has been translated into seven languages. He is professor of history at Wellesley College\, contributing writer to New Statesman\, co-edits Contemporary European History and co-directs the History and Political Economy Project.\n\nAdam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. In 2019\, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade. For his books\, Adam has won the Leverhulme prize fellowship\, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize\, the Longman History Today Prize\, the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize. He was shortlisted for the Kirkus review\, Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman prize and his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times\, LA Times\, Kirkus Review\, Foreign Affairs and The Economist. He has also written and reviewed for the Financial Times\, The Guardian\, The Sunday Telegraph\, he New Left Review\, the New Statesman\, the WSJ\, the New York Times\, the New York Review of Books\, Dissent\, and many others.\n\n\n\nEventbrite registration has sold out\, but if you would like to attend the event\, please show up in person at The People’s Forum at 5:45 on October 13. 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/instruments-of-capitalism-with-the-authors-of-crack-up-capitalism-and-the-capital-order/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook w/ Sara Ahmed & Mona Eltahawy
DESCRIPTION:“I am not willing to make happiness my cause “–Sara Ahmed \n“I refuse to be polite or civil with anyone who does not recognise my full humanity” –Mona Eltahawy \nPlease join us for a conversation between Sara Ahmed and Mona Eltahawy about impolite\, uncivil and killjoy feminisms and why they are key to the disruption of hetero-patriarchy\, colonialism and racial capitalism. \nThe conversation is to mark the launch of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook\, written as a “helping hand” for feminist killjoys everywhere\, and published by Seal Press on October 3rd \, 2023. In the handbook\, Sara includes Mona’s The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls as one of her recommended texts for feminist killjoys. \nSara Ahmed is an independent queer feminist scholar of colour. She is an unprofessional feminist and a professional feminist killjoy and her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. She has just published her first trade book\, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook with Seal Press. Previous books (published by Duke University Press) include Complaint! (2021)\, What’s The Use? On the Uses of Use (2019)\, Living a Feminist Life (2017)\, Willful Subjects (2014)\, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012)\, The Promise of Happiness (2010) and Queer Phenomenology: Objects\, Orientations\, Others (2006). She is currently writing A Complainer’s Handbook: A Guide to Building Less Hostile Institutions and has begun a new project on common sense. She blogs at feministkilljoy.com. \nMona Eltahawy is a feminist author\, commentator\, and disruptor of patriarchy. She is founder and editor-in-chief of the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT. Her opinion essays have appeared in media across the world. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2005) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (2019) took that disruption worldwide. She is a contributor to the recent anthology This Arab is Queer and is editing the anthology Bloody Hell! And Other Stories: Adventures in Menopause from Across the Personal and Political Spectrums. Her new book due 2024 is a memoir of menopause called The King Herself: How Hatshepsut Helped Me Unbecome.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-the-feminist-killjoy-handbook-w-sara-ahmed-mona-eltahaway/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:From UNGA to COP28 and COP30: Women leading climate action and environmental protection towards a livable planet!
DESCRIPTION:At the core of this event is Minister Sonia Guajajara\, a powerful voice with extensive experience in indigenous rights and biodiversity protection\, will share her expertise and vision for a sustainable future. Our distinguished panel will delve into how women are addressing centuries-old challenges. They are fighting to keep the Amazon standing through ground-level initiatives and advocacy within the highest echelons of power. Learn about the Amazon’s pivotal role in maintaining global climate stability and the urgent solutions needed to restore it\, aligning with the 1.5°C global warming goal. \nThis event marks the launch of a new movement to support the leadership of Indigenous women in the Amazon and all Brazilian biomes\, towards strengthening their presence and participation in the path to COP30. Minister Guajajara extends a global invitation to influential women across the world\, including ministers\, first ladies\, prime ministers\, scientists\, celebrities\, and young leaders.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/from-unga-to-cop28-and-cop30-women-leading-the-climate-action-and-environmental-protection-towards-a-livable-planet/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Peoples and Global Finance: Pathways to sustainability and justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a critical discussion on the indispensable leadership of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in climate and biodiversity action\, and on how recognizing their leadership could deeply transform the global financial system and pave the way to sustainability and justice. While extensively documented in recent reports by global institutions like IPCC\, IPBES\, UN FAO\, and WRI\, IPLCs have received less than 1% of climate funding over the past decade\, with only 17% of global funding meant for them actually reaching the communities on the ground. This event\, building on a successful gathering at the OECD headquarters in Paris\, aims to assess recent developments and tackle the challenges ahead in recognizing and honoring the rights and roles of IPLCs. Join us at the People’s Forum in New York as we work together to rectify this disparity and ensure IPLCs are rightfully acknowledged in the pursuit of a sustainable future. Your participation can be a catalyst for positive change. \nWatch the livestream HERE.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/indigenous-peoples-and-global-finance-pathways-to-sustainability-and-justice/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Panel Discussions,Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: The Dialectics of Dependency with Monthly Review Press
DESCRIPTION:This year\, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Dialectics of Dependency\, Monthly Review Press released the first-ever English translation of Ruy Mauro Marini’s classic – one of the most important texts in the field of Latin American Dependency Theory.\n\nPlease join us in person on September 14th at The People’s Forum for a discussion between activists and writers from Mexico\, South Africa\, Venezuela\, the UK\, Canada and the United States\, as they discuss the influence of Marxist Dependency Theory.\n\n\n\nOne of the most influential — yet neglected —scholars in the English-speaking Left… \n\nConsidered one of the most important intellectuals in Latin American social thought\, the Brazilian writer Ruy Mauro Marini showed that underdevelopment and development are the result of relations between economies in the world market\, and the class relations they engender.  In particular\, Marini developed the concept of labor super-exploitation\, a phenomenon generated by the very role that Latin America plays in the international division of labor – and one now seen the world over.\n\nWritten during an upsurge of class struggle in the region in the 1970s\, and published by Monthly Review Press for the first time in English\, this foundational essay is proving more relevant than ever. The Dialectics of Dependency is an internationalist contribution from one Latin American Marxist to dispossessed and oppressed people struggling the world over\, and a gift to those who struggle from within the recesses of present-day imperialist centers—nourishing today’s efforts to think through the definition of “revolution” on a global scale.\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS\n\n\nTogether with Jaime Osorio\, Amanda Latimer co-edited and translated The Dialectics of Dependency (Monthly Review Press\, 2022).  She teaches politics and sociology at Kingston University (UK).  Her research examines how Brazilian workers and social movements cut across lines of difference\, nation and region to combat the race to the bottom facing workers everywhere in struggles against neoliberal trade deals.\n\nJoseph Mullen (chair) is a member of the Cadre Journal\, an anti-imperialist network that supports struggles in the Global South.  He is also involved with the Arghiri Emmanuel Association\, dedicated to theoretical discussion of unequal exchange and imperialism.\n\n\n\n\nWITH GUESTS\n\nCristóbal Reyes is a Mexican economist.  He is a professor at the School of Economics of the National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico).  He is currently pursuing a PhD in Latin American Studies\, and is co-author of two books on Marxist dependency theory.  Together with Jaime Osorio\, he maintains the online archive of works by Ruy Mauro Marini at Marini Escritos.\n\nChris Gilbert is a professor of political studies at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela and creator and co-host of Escuela de Cuadros\, a Marxist educational television program and podcast. Gilbert is the author of Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project(Monthly Review Press\, 2023).\n\nPhethani Madzivhandila is a Pan Africanist Marxist Historian and an activist based in Azania (South Africa). If not reading historical literature or thinking about the Revolution\, he spends most of his time missing Walter Rodney and imagining a world without capitalism. His research interests draw from the historical and current development of racial capitalism in Africa and how it influences the social relations of agrarian change in rural areas.\n\nAndy Higginbottom supports movements fighting extractivism\, neocolonialism and oppression in Latin America\, South Africa and the Eelam Tamils. His most recent publication is “Superexploitation and the Imperialist Drive of Capitalism: How Marini’s ‘Dialectics of Dependency’ Goes beyond Marx’s ‘Capital’” (Monthly Review 74(11)\, April 2023).  He is a retired Associate Professor at Kingston University (UK).\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHEAD HERE FOR RUY MAURO MARINI’S CLASSIC\, THE DIALECTICS OF DEPENDENCY\n\nAnd as you await your copy\, watch this animated short\, a tribute to the great writer and thinker Eduardo Galeano\, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Open Veins of Latin America.\n\n\n\nHEAD HERE FOR EDUARDO GALEANO’S CLASSIC\, OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/dialectics-of-dependency/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Hip Hop Lives! The Future of the Culture
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop with the Justice Center en el Barrio and The Party for Socialism and Liberation! Join us for our 3-part class series on the revolutionary past\, present and future of Hip-Hop called “Hip-Hop Lives!” Our third class\, “The Future of the Culture” is on Tuesday\, July 25\, 7pm at The People’s Forum. \nFor decades\, Hip-Hop has been both a product of the changing world around us and a catalyst for social change. Like all cultures born in oppressed communities\, there is a constant battle within Hip-Hop that reflects our society’s battle between rich and poor\, exploiter and exploited. Our “Hip-Hop Lives!” series is about how Hip-Hop has been and continues to be instrumental in people’s movements for liberation and socialist revolution. \nThis event will be livestreamed HERE:
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/hip-hop-lives-the-future-of-the-culture/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Culture,Education
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker In Canada
DESCRIPTION:In this singular firsthand account\, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. \nWhen Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada\, he thought he would be leaving his home in St. Lucia to work in a country with a sterling human rights reputation and commitment to multiculturalism. Instead\, breakneck quotas and a culture of fear dominated his four years in a mega-greenhouse in Ontario. This deeply personal memoir takes readers behind the scenes to see what life is really like for the people who produce Canada’s food. \nNow\, as a leading activist in the migrant justice movement in Canada\, Allahdua is fighting back against the Canadian government to demand rights and respect for temporary foreign labourers. Harvesting Freedom shows Canada’s place in the long history of slavery\, colonialism\, and inequality that has linked the Caribbean to the wider world for half a millennium—but also the tireless determination of Caribbean people to fight for their freedom. \nGabriel will be joined by a small panel of local worker leaders (to be announced). \nWatch the livestream HERE.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-harvesting-freedom-the-life-of-a-migrant-worker-in-canada/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future w/ Ken Hammond & Sheila Xiao
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of 1804 Books’ newest title\, China’s Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future\, with author Ken Hammond. Long the most prosperous and sophisticated country in the world\, China was subjected to the military\, economic\, and political domination of Western imperialism for over a hundred years. This volume traces the crisis of Old China and revolutionary struggle up to 1949\, the development of New China with Mao Zedong\, reform under Deng Xiaoping\, and the beginning of a new era led by Xi Jinping. China has generated contradictions as well as dramatic growth in education\, health care\, and other social services. But the process of socialist construction remains an unfinished and ongoing venture\, and the future of the revolution is very much a work in progress. \nCome with your questions and observations—even better\, bring a friend! This event will be in-person and streamed on YouTube. \nYou can buy the book online HERE. \nKEN HAMMOND is Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has been engaged in radical politics since his involvement in the anti-war movement at Kent State in 1968-70. He is a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation\, and an activist with Pivot to Peace. \nSHEILA XIAO is a community organizer. She is a leader of the Los Angeles chapter of the ANSWER Coalition and the co-founder of the peace organization Pivot to Peace. She was a co-coordinator of the People’s Summit for Democracy. \n  \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-launch-chinas-revolution-and-the-quest-for-a-socialist-future-w-ken-hammond-sheila-xiao/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Rivermouth with Alejandra Oliva & Carina del Valle Schorske
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person book talk on Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language\, Faith\, and Migration with author Alejandra Oliva and writer Carina del Valle Schorske. In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir\, Oliva\, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist\, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border\, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family’s long and fluid relationship to the border\, each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande\, and having worked on asylum cases since 2016\, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone’s trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the American immigration system. \nIn Rivermouth\, Oliva focuses on the physical spaces that make up different phases of immigration and looks at how language and opportunity move through each of them; from the river as the waterway that separates the US and Mexico\, to the table as the place over which Oliva prepares asylum seekers for their Credible Fear Interviews\, and finally\, to the wall as the behemoth imposition that runs along America’s southernmost border. With lush prose and perceptive insight\, Oliva encourages readers to approach the painful questions that this crisis poses with equal parts critique and compassion. By which metrics are we measuring who “deserves” American citizenship? What is the point of humanitarian systems that distribute aid conditionally? What do we owe to our most disenfranchised? \nAs investigative and analytical as she is meditative and introspective\, sharp as she is lyrical\, and incisive as she is compassionate\, in Rivermouth\, Oliva argues for a better world while guiding us through the suffering that makes the fight necessary and the joy that makes it worth fighting for. \n  \nAlejandra Oliva is an essayist\, translator\, immigrant justice advocate\, and embroiderer. She is a recipient of the 2022 Creative Nonfiction Whiting Grant. Her writing has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2020\, was nominated for a Pushcart prize\, and was honored with an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writers Fellowship. She was the Franke Fellow at the Yale Whitney Humanities Center in 2022. Read more at olivalejandra.com.\n\nCarina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator of Puerto Rican literature. Her essays and criticism have been published in many venues including The Believer\, Bookforum\, and the New York Times Magazine\, where she is a contributing writer. In 2022\, she won a National Magazine Award for her cover story on social dancing in times of crisis. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her debut essay collection\, The Other Island\, was honored with a Whiting Nonfiction Grant in 2020 and is forthcoming from Riverhead Books.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-rivermouth-with-alejandra-oliva-carina-del-valle-schorske/
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SUMMARY:Roundtable: “AAPI Artists\, Activists\, and Collectives: Working Definitions”
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER IN ADVANCE TO ATTEND HERE \nIn conjunction with our Spring 2023 issue on Freedom\, Lapham’s Quarterly convenes an intergenerational roundtable of writers\, artists\, and activists to discuss the past and present of collective organizing in New York City’s Asian American / Pacific Islander arts community. Revisiting potent case studies in artwashing and protest such as the demonstrations leading up to the cancellation of a planned Godzilla retrospective at the Museum of the Chinese in America in 2021\, this discussion will probe the history and historicization of contemporary pan-Asian activist collectives and pose questions such as: what unique leverage and vantage do AAPI artists and activists have at their disposal? And how do we organize collectively without becoming monolithic? \nThough often enshrined as a collective\, the Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network was a radically dispersed\, rhizomatically organized support network and discursive space for and about Asian American artists; today\, groups like the Chinatown Art Brigade and Youth Against Displacement carry forward the fight for accountability in the art world and beyond. This conversation will look forward to the work being done by these groups today and reflect on the groundwork laid by collectives past. Author and exhibition organizer Ryan Lee Wong moderates the conversation between Todd Ayoung\, Alexandra Chang\, artists and Godzilla affiliates to be announced\, and cofounder of Chinatown Art Brigade Betty Yu. \nThis event will be livestreamed HERE. \nTodd Ayoung is a transdisciplinary visual artist and cultural worker originally born in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a founding member of REPOhistory\, served on two steering committees of Godzilla\, An Asian Pacific Islander Art Network\, worked with GulfLabor Artist Coalition and was on the steering committee which helped organize the Peoples Cultural Plan for NYC.He teaches studio art at Pratt Institute\, Brooklyn\, NY and Parsons\, The New School in NYC. \nAlexandra Chang is the Interim Associate Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity\, Culture and the Modern Experience and the Associate Director of the American Studies Program and advises the MA Public Humanities track at Rutgers University-Newark. She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Art History program of the Department of Arts\, Culture and Media. She is working with New Jersey urban gardening community partners and knowledge bearers of the New Jersey Munsee Lunaape Nation and the Rutgers community to develop The Healing Garden at the Price Institute at RU-N. She is also organizing the Decolonizing Curatorial and Museum Studies and Public Humanities Project (DCMP). Recent exhibitions she has curated include with co-curator Manabu Yahagi Imagining Justice: Asian American Art Movements at the Mori Art Museum in 2022 and Books and Things: The Studiolo of kate-hers RHEE at Paul Robeson Gallery in Express Newark at RU-N in 2022\, among them. \nRyan Lee Wong is the author of the novel Which Side Are You On. He was born and raised in Los Angeles\, lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple\, and currently lives in Brooklyn\, where he is the administrative director of Brooklyn Zen Center. Previously\, he served as program director for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and managing director of Kundiman. \nBetty Yu is a multimedia artist\, photographer\, filmmaker and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Ms. Yu integrates documentary film\, new media platforms\, installation\, photography\, and community-infused approaches into her practice. She is also a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade\, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-gentrification organizing. Ms. Yu has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships from The Laundromat Project\, A Blade of Grass\, International Studio & Curatorial Program\, and Intercultural Leadership Institute\, among several others. Her work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum\, Queens Museum\, NY Historical Society\, Tenement Museum\, Artists Space/ISP Whitney Museum\, and several others. In 2018\, she had a solo exhibition at Open Source Gallery in New York. In 2017\, Ms. Yu won the Aronson Journalism for Social Justice Award for her film “Three Tours” about U.S. veterans returning home from war in Iraq\, and their journey to overcome PTSD. \nLapham’s Quarterly is a magazine of history and ideas founded in 2007 by Lewis H. Lapham. Each issue addresses a topic of current interest and concern by bringing up to the microphone of the present the advice and counsel of the past\, collecting fiction\, nonfiction\, poems\, and essays from over four thousand years of history\, all gathered around a single theme. Subscribe to Lapham’s Quarterly today\, and you will receive Freedom as the first issue in your yearlong subscription. \nThis event is supported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. \nREGISTER IN ADVANCE TO ATTEND HERE
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/roundtable-aapi-artists-activists-and-collectives-working-definitions/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: War Remains with Yasmine Khayyat and Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
DESCRIPTION:​Join us for an in-person book talk on War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon​​ with author Yasmine Khayyat ​and scholar Nikolas Kosmatopoulos. ​War Remains​​ traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature\, cultural production\, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut\, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces of war’s aftermath. She focuses on “Southern Counterpublics\,” a collective of poets\, novelists\, activists\, artists\, and ordinary citizens and their war-inspired creative productions that speak to the ruins’ capacity to be reframed\, recycled\, and recontested. Khayyat argues that the ruins of war can be thought of as a generative milieu for resistant thought and action. An ambitious and provocative work\, War Remains ventures to the so-called margins to archive the texture and substance rendered invisible when studies of memory rely solely on data furnished by official narratives and military accounts of war.​ \nThis event will be held in-person at The People’s Forum and streamed on our YouTube page. Please be prepared to show proof of vaccination at the door if attending in person. \n_________ \nYASMINE KHAYYAT is Assistant Professor of Arabic literature in the Department of African\, Middle East\, South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) at Rutgers University. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary Arabic literature and poetry\, cultural memory studies\, and human/animal relationships in Arabic fiction. Her first book War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon will be published by Syracuse University Press on May 15\, 2023. It examines the figuration of the ruin as a site of resistance and potentiality in modern Lebanese novels\, poetry\, and sites of memory. Khayyat has articles published in the Journal of Arabic Literature\, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and Critical Inquiry\, among others.\n  \n​NIKOLAS KOSMATOPOULOS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Department of Anthropology\, Sociology\, and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. He is co-founder of the research collectives Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at Sea and Decolonize Hellas. His research and teaching fields of interest include political anthropology\, policy expertise and global institutions\, and in particular peacemaking\, statebuilding and crisis resolution in the Middle East\, and as of late\, the politics of solidarity and resistance at sea and the political economies of ships. He is currently finalizing a manuscript called Master Peace: Violence\, Experts\, Lebanon for Penn University Press – Series of Ethnographies of Violence. His research has been published in Peacebuilding\, Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Public Culture\, Third World Quarterly\, Social Analysis\, Millenium\, and Anthropology Today\, among others. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-war-remains-with-yasmine-khayyat-and-nikolas-kosmatopoulos/
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CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:The Trinity of Fundamentals: A Conversation with Wisam Rafeedie
DESCRIPTION:Join the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and 1804 Books for the book launch of Wisam Rafeedie’s The Trinity of Fundamentals. The Trinity of Fundamentals is Rafeedie’s fictionalized account of his nine years of hiding from the Occupation in Palestine\, which ended in his capture by the Israeli occupation army in 1991. Rafeedie wrote The Trinity of Fundamentals during his imprisonment at Naqab Prison in 1993. \nWe will be joined by the author and guest speaker Wisam Rafeedie. Rafeedie is a former Palestinian political prisoner\, full-time researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at Bethlehem University – Palestine. He previously worked as a part-time lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. He holds two master’s degrees from Birzeit University\, one in sociology for his thesis on the changes in the status of women in contemporary Palestinian literature before and after Oslo\, and the other in contemporary Arab studies. \nWisam will be in conversation with the PYM and will speak about how the novel was written and smuggled out of Israeli prison as well as the broader phenomenon of Palestinian prisoner literature production.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-trinity-of-fundamentals-a-conversation-with-wisam-rafeedie/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Stayed on Freedom with Dan Berger\, Michael Simmons\, & nia t. evans
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk on Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey\, with author Dan Berger\, Michael Simmons\, and nia t. evans. Stayed on Freedom is a new history of Black Liberation\, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers\, and bringing into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. \nZoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South. Their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades-long journey that traversed first the country and then the world. In centering their lives\, historian Dan Berger shows how Black Power united the local and the global across organizations and generations. \nBased on hundreds of hours of interviews\, Stayed On Freedom is a moving and intimate portrait of two people trying to make a life while working to make a better world.  This event will be in-person and streamed on our YouTube. If attending in person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination upon entry. \n_____ \nDan Berger is a historian\, professor\, and abolitionist. He curates the Washington Prison History Project and is the author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey. \nMichael Simmons has been a domestic and international human rights activist for 60 years. Beginning as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as Director of European programs for the American Friends Service Committee\, Michael’s work has taken him to Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and the Middle East. \nnia t. evans is a freelance writer and editor based in New York City. She writes about Black life\, politics\, and culture. Her writing has appeared in Teen Vogue\, Hammer & Hope\, Slate\, The Hill\, Education Post\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/stayed-on-freedom/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:The Struggle Continues: Black Women and Student Debt After SCOTUS
DESCRIPTION:At the intersection of systemic racism and the gender pay gap\, Black women are uniquely burdened by America’s student debt crisis — and the federal government’s halting efforts to address it. With the Supreme Court likely to throw out the Biden administration’s limited forgiveness plan in the coming weeks\, what happens next? \nThe Intercept and The Root are proud to co-host “The Struggle Continues: Black Women and Student Debt After SCOTUS\,” a conversation on how the student debt crisis is shaping the futures of Black women and the next steps for the debt relief movement if the court strikes down executive action. \nFeaturing Intercept politics reporter Akela Lacy and audience engagement producer Alyxaundria Sanford\, The Root’s senior reporter Jessica Washington\, and Juanita O. Lewis\, executive director at Community Voices Heard\, the largest Black-led organizing institution in New York state. This discussion will be livestreamed. \nTO RSVP for this event\, please click here.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-struggle-continues-black-women-and-student-debt-after-scotus/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Hostile Homelands w/ Azad Essa & Linah Alsaafin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk on Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance between India and Israel with author Azad Essa and journalist Linah Alsaafin\, who wrote the introduction. \nUnder Narendra Modi\, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ (Hindu State)\, little attention has been paid to the linkages between Modi’s India and the governments from which it has drawn inspiration\, as well as military and technical support. \nIndia once called Zionism racism\, but\, as Azad Essa argues\, the state of Israel has increasingly become a cornerstone of India’s foreign policy. Looking to replicate the ‘ethnic state’ in the image of Israel in policy and practice\, the annexation of Kashmir increasingly resembles Israel’s settler-colonial project of the occupied West Bank. The ideological and political linkages between the two states are alarming; their brands of ethnonationalism deeply intertwined. \nHostile Homelands puts India’s relationship with Israel in its historical context\, looking at the origins of Zionism and Hindutva; India’s changing position on Palestine; and the countries’ growing military-industrial relationship from the 1990s. Lucid and persuasive\, Essa demonstrates that the India-Israel alliance spells significant consequences for democracy\, the rule of law and justice worldwide. \nThis event will be in-person and livestreamed on our YouTube channel. If attending in person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination at the door. \nAZAD ESSA is a South African journalist based between Johannesburg and New York. His work focuses on the intersectionality of race\, Islamophobia\, and US foreign policy. He is the author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Pluto Press) \nLINAH ALSAAFIN is a Palestinian writer and journalist currently based in London. She has written for several print and online outlets such as The Times Literary Supplement\, The New Internationalist\, Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-hostile-homelands-w-azad-essa-linah-alsaafin/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Labor Power and Strategy: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In Labor Power and Strategy\, legendary strategist\, historian\, and labor organizer John Womack\, speaks directly to a new generation\, providing rational\, radical\, experience-based perspectives that help target and run smart\, strategic\, effective campaigns in the working class. In this sleek\, practical\, pocket inspiration\, Womack lays out a timely plan for identifying chokepoints and taking advantage of supply chain issues in order to seize and build labor power and solidarity. Interviewed by Peter Olney of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union—Womack’s lively\, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten young labor organizers and educators\, whose responses create a rich dialogue and open a space for joyful\, achievable change. With stories of triumph that will bring readers to tears this back-pocket primer is an instant classic. With contributions from Gene Bruskin\, Carey Dall\, Dan DiMaggio\, Katy Fox-Hodess\, Bill Fletcher Jr.\, Jane McAlevey\, Jack Metzgar\, Joel Ochoa\, Melissa Shetler\, and Rand Wilson. Join us for a conversation moderated by journalist Alex Press and featuring book contributors and editors Peter Olney\, Melissa Shetler\, and Gene Bruskin. \nThis event is sponsored by Labor Notes\, Jacobin\, and the People’s Forum.\nStart: Saturday\, February 4\, 2023 • 5:30 PM\nThe People’s Forum• 320 W 37th Street\, New York\, NY 10018 US \nPanelists:\nPeter Olney is the retired director of organizing for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. He was associated director of the University of California’s Institute for Labor and Employment. He resides in San Francisco and teaches building trades union organizers as a member of the caulty of the Building Trades Academy at Michigan State University. He is the editor of The Stansbury Forum. \nMelissa Shetler works with Climate Jobs National Resource Center and Cornell University’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative. She is a co-founder and former executive director of Pathways to Apprenticeships\, a pre-appreticeship program that assists historically marginalized communities gain access to union construction careers. She worked as a community organizer and member education facilitator with the Laborers Eastern Region Organizing Fund and became the director of organizing\, and later political director\, for the Metallic Lathers and\nReinforcing Ironworkers Local 36. \nGene Bruskin has been active for forty years in the labor movement as local union president\, organizer\, and campaign coordinator for local and national unions. From 1992 to 1994\, he served as Labor Deputy for Jesse Jackson’s National Rainbow Coalition. He was secretary-treasurer for the Food and Allied and Allied Services (AFL-CIO) from 1996 to 2005. He was the UFCW campaign director for the Justice@Smithfield campaign in North Carolina\, 2006-2008\, and established the Strategic Campaigns Department for the American Federation of Teachers\, 2009-12. He cofounded US Labor Against the War and has been active in other international labor solidarity efforts\, including supporting independent union organizing. \nJacobin staff writer Alex Press will moderate the panel discussion. \nThe event will be livestreamed HERE. 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/labor-power-and-strategy-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Dancing with History with George Lakey & Yotam Marom
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Meeting Our Challenges Tour\, please join George Lakey with Yotam Marom at The People’s Forum to celebrate his new memoir Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice. From his first arrest in the Civil Rights era to his most recent during a climate justice march at the age of 83\, George Lakey has committed his life to a mission of building a better world through movements for justice. In his memoir Dancing With History\, Lakey draws readers into the center of history-making events\, telling often serious stories with playfulness and intimacy. \nYotam Marom is an organizer and facilitator based in New York City. Yotam played a leadership role in Occupy Wall Street and other direct action movements along the way\, was a founding member of IfNotNow\, and founded the Wildfire Project. He has over fifteen years of experience as a facilitator\, offering a combination of strategic support with deep group and conflict work\, working regularly with groups like the Sunrise Movement\, Justice Democrats\, Dream Defenders\, Momentum\, and others. Yotam also has two very cute kids\, tells jokes\, and cooks; you can find his writing and more at www.yotammarom.net. \n“[A] civil rights legend.”—The Guardian \n“Almost no one I can think of has made better use\nof their time on earth.” —Bill McKibben \nIf attending in person\, please be prepared to provide proof of vaccination upon arrival.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-dancing-with-history-with-george-lakey-yotam-marom/
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SUMMARY:PleasureRebel & Heartwork Interactive Concert & Workshop
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE! \nView the livestream HERE! \nThis concert series is designed to inspire growth and healing through creative experiences that connect the audience with themselves\, the music\, and one another.  \nThe two bands\, Heartwork and PL3ZR3BL will each perform sets that interweave moments of silence\, reflection\, engagement\, and collaboration with the audience. \nFor this experience we will… \n✔️ Play 9 original songs [4 from each band +1 group] that center themes of friendship\, navigating conflict w/ loved ones\, learning to self-soothe\, body image\, identity\, self-love\, and learning to let go \n✔️ Lead you through experiential activities that help to clarify your values\, name things that anchor and support you through hard times\, and support you to envision more connected relationships with others and with yourself.  \n✔️ Create space for silent journaling activities to imagine your most grounded self\, embody that self\, and use that knowledge as a source in tense moments. \n❤️ Our hope is for participants to leave the space feeling more connected to themselves\, their values\,  and their vision for their connections and relationships… AND to hear some fun music :). \nWhat to know \n🪨 Please bring along an object that grounds you \n🪩 We invite you to play with us — we’ll be leaning into our avant-glam selves and we invite you to do the same. AND/OR\, simply wear something that you feel good in.  \n❤️ We will always have an opt-out option explicitly stated for every activity.  \nAbout The Artists \nHeartwork\, led by Sterling Duns\, is a 10 year journey in living intimately with and learning courageously from grief and joy. During the time folks are gathered together\, Heartwork uses breath\, music\, conversation and silence to move all collaborators (performers and audience) towards connection with themselves\, with one another\, and with a deepened sense of possibility\n \nBand Mates: Dani G\, Emma\, Marty\, Joe\, Keenan W\, Alexa K\, Debby Duns \nMusical Inspirations: amber mark\, rhye\, ray lamontagne\, esperanza spaldiing\, Beautiful Chorus\, Rhetta Morgan\, kendrick lamar\,  \nPL3ZR.REBEL led by Alexa Kutler is an ensemble that’s about learning how to take our imagination and ideas seriously. Band members of PR are all trying on something new — playing lead guitar\, fronting a band\, being in the background. When you watch us perform\, our hope is that it reminds you that it is possible to do scary things that bring you great joy and pleasure. Our hope is that it supports you to find a spark in yourself\, so that you too may walk through your fears and sew your magic. \nBand Mates: Casey G\, Heather W\, Kamerin\, Ben F\, Duns \nMusical Influences: Lucius\, Japanese Breakfast\, Semisonic\, Rilo Kiley \n💰Suggested Donation: $2-$25 — No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All donations will go to the musicians and makers who have been generously supporting AK & Duns to make their dreams come true! \n😷 COVID Safety… \n The experience will have anywhere between 40 -100 people. We want everyone to feel safe and do what you need for that. We’ll do what we can to ventilate the space  and keep air flowing but please bring your mask to have on hand!  \nThe venue requires a Vaccine card\, and we also ask that you please test before coming. \nIf you’re feeling ill in anyway\, or have been to a larger gathering un-masked in a closed public space in the past few days\, please consider sitting this one out OR taking a covid test. We’ll have a few with us at the door! \nView the livestream HERE! \nREGISTER HERE!
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/pl3z4rebel-heartwork-interactive-concert-workshop/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Performances
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SUMMARY:New International Economic Order | 1974-2024
DESCRIPTION:On 8 December\, The People’s Forum welcomes the Progressive International and political representatives from around the world to present\, deliberate\, and develop proposals for a New International Economic Order (NEIO) fit for the twenty-first century. Speakers include Sacha Llorenti (ALBA-TCP)\, Jomo Kwame Sundaram\, Andrés Arauz\, and Vasuki Nesiah. \nFor more information on the project\, check it out here: bit.ly/3g4dvju
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/new-international-economic-order-1974-2024/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Elite Capture with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò & Chenjerai Kumanyika
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an in-person book talk on Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) with author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. \nIdentity politics is everywhere\, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective. While the Collective articulated a political viewpoint grounded in their own position as Black lesbians with the explicit aim of building solidarity across lines of difference\, identity politics is now frequently weaponized as a means of closing ranks around ever-narrower conceptions of group interests. \nBut the trouble\, Táíwò deftly argues\, is not with identity politics itself. Through a substantive engagement with the global Black radical tradition and a critical understanding of racial capitalism\, Táíwò identifies the process by which a radical concept can be stripped of its political substance and liberatory potential by becoming the victim of elite capture -deployed by political\, social and economic elites in the service of their own interests. Táíwò’s crucial intervention both elucidates this complex process and helps us move beyond the binary of ‘class’ vs. ‘race’. By rejecting elitist identity politics in favour of a constructive politics of radical solidarity\, he advances the possibility of organizing across our differences in the urgent struggle for a better world. \nOlúfẹ́mi will be joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika\, a researcher\, journalist\, and organizer who works as an assistant professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU Arts & Science \nThis event will be held in-person and streamed on YouTube. If attending in person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and ID at the door. \n 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-elite-capture-with-olufemi-o-taiwo-chenjerai-kumanyika/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine\nNEGOTIATIONS- YES!  ESCALATION- NO! \nSaturday\, November 19th\, 11:00am to 4:00pm • In-person at The People’s Forum (320 W 37th St.) and online. \nThe moment is now to inaugurate a new\, multi-national\, grassroots movement to advocate for the end to the current war in Ukraine. The stakes are too real and the dangers too great for the peoples of the word to remain on the sidelines.   \nAnti-war forces in the United States and across the world may have different analyses of Russia\, Ukraine\, and this tragic war\, but we can unite around one thing: there is no road to peace if US government policy remains to obstruct negotiations and send endless weapons into the war zone.  \nWe\, people of conscience\, are coming together to demand that there be a radical shift in the direction of US military and foreign policy. NATO expansion must end. Money must be spent on education\, healthcare\, and housing\, not the war machine. We demand peace\, not war. Join us! \nSpeakers include: \nJeremy Corbyn\, UK Member of Parliament\nJill Stein\, Former Green Party Presidential Nominee\nVijay Prashad\, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research\nBrian Becker\, ANSWER Coalition\nEugene Puryear\, Breakthrough News\nClaudia de la Cruz\, The People’s Forum\nMedea Benjamin\, CODEPINK\n…and more! \nThis event is co-sponsored by The People’s Forum and the ANSWER Coalition. 
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-real-path-to-peace-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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