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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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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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/
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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/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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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
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Vida y Hacienda with Andre Lee Muñiz and Yasmin Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person book talk on Vida y Hacienda: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos\, with author Andre Lee Muñiz and Yasmin Hernandez\, which will feature a rich discussion on Pedro Albizu Campos’ internationalist approach to liberation work and the continued struggle for Puerto Rican sovereignty in the face of constant attacks on the independence movement. \n Vida y Hacienda is the first biography of the renowned revolutionary leader from Puerto Rico to be written in English. It offers the general history detailed in most accounts\, and includes topics not commonly featured in writing on Don Pedro\, especially in the English language\, such as early childhood and academic accomplishments\, his military studies and training in Harvard’s R.O.T.C. program\, his 1936 effort to hold a constitutional convention while also on trial for seditious conspiracy\, his wife\, Dr. Laura Meneses de Albizu Campos\, and more. \nThis event will be hosted in-person and streamed on our YouTube. If attending in person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination upon entry.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-vida-y-hacienda/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:The Katie Halper Show Live with Miko Peled
DESCRIPTION:For the first time since before the pandemic\, Katie Halper is doing a live taping of her weekly Youtube show\, podcast and WBAI radio show\, The Katie Halper Show. Her very special guest is Miko Peled\, the human rights activist and the author of the book The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Katie will talk about being censored and fired by The Hill over a video monologue about Israel’s apartheid state and she will interview Miko about his book and the state of The Israeli occupation of Palestine. Katie has interviewed people like Noam Chomsky\, Vijay Prashad\, Bernie Sanders\, Roger Waters\, Gerald Horne\, Julian Assange’s partner Stella Morris\, Thomas Frank\, Noura Erakat\, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez\, Daniel Ellsberg and more. Her writing has appeared in places like The Nation\, The Guardian and New York Magazine. \nThis year marks the 10 year anniversary of the publication of Miko’s breakthrough memoir\, The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. The son of a decorated Israeli general\, the grandson of a signatory to Israeli independence and the uncle of Smadar\, a 13-year old young woman killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem\, Miko has become a prophetic antizionist voice\, repudiating the exclusivist Zionist settler-colonial project in the heart of whose traditions he himself had grown up. Release of his 2012 book launched Miko on another intriguing journey\, one in which he built strong new ties with leaders and activists in the Palestinian-rights movement within historic Palestine and worldwide. \nTo mark this decennial\, Just World Books has issued a new edition of  The General’s Son. Miko will be signing copies of the book which you can purchase at The People’s Forum. \nThis event will be held in-person and streamed on The Katie Halper Podcast YouTube channel.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/the-katie-halper-show-live-with-miko-peled/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:We Want to Live: Our Water\, Art & Climate Justice Movements
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nEnding the climate emergency that threatens all life on the planet requires masses of people coming together to put our creative minds in action towards climate solutions. \nHear from speakers from frontline nations\, tribes and communities in Africa and the Americas\, and other communities. They will speak from their personal experiences\, highlight their relationship to water and how art making is at the center of their community building to end the climate crisis. \nWant to share your story during the workshop? We want to hear from you! \nRegister and let us know you’re interested in being considered. \nArtists and our art are powerful. We connect\, communicate\, inspire\, mobilize and transform the world. Artists and our art play a critical role in the collective effort to build climate justice movements. As artists\, climate activists and people who care about the present and future generations of our shared home on this planet\, we need opportunities to share the impact of the climate crisis\, including noticing our changing relationship to water. We need space and communities to celebrate our efforts\, successes\, defeats and fresh creative ways to end the climate emergency. \nJoin artists\, activists\, and people who care about our relationship to water as we share stories\, make connections\, engage in deep listening tools\, co-create art and strengthen our climate justice movements. \nFor resources related to this workshop\, visit the Tubig Artists at the Center and the Sustaining All Life Climate Justice Art Gallery. \nCommunity Safety \n**In-person participants are required to agree to and practice COVID safety protocols. COVID vaccination for this event is required by the People’s Forum. Participants can show proof of vaccination by any of the following: \nOriginal vaccination card and photo ID\nPhoto (e.g. on a phone) of original vaccination card and photo ID\nNew York State Excelsior Pass and photo ID\nTo ensure the health and safety of our community as we gather together\, we ask attendees to wear an N95 or KN95 mask for the duration of the event. When eating or drinking\, we ask participants maintain social distance of six feet. We highly encourage taking an at-home COVID test prior to attending. Anyone with a fever or other COVID-related symptoms will be asked to not participate in person and instead participate via online. \nAny changes in the vaccination and/or masking policies is subject to guidelines established by the People’s Forum\, Sustaining All Life\, and/or state and local public health entities. If the public health landscape changes significantly\, we will contact registrants with updated guidelines.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/we-want-to-live-our-water-art-climate-justice-movements/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:New York CISPES Presents: ¡A Más Represión\, Más Lucha!
DESCRIPTION:Join the New York chapter of CISPES\, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador to learn about how El Salvador’s popular social movements are mobilizing to defend the achievements secured through El Salvador’s revolutionary armed struggle in the 1980’s and through the Peace Accords signed in 1992 against the threats of unprecedented rollbacks at this event at the People’s Forum: ¡A Más Represión\, Más Lucha! With Fran Omar\, leader in the Popular Resistance & Rebellion Bloc in El Salvador. Speaking on unlawful arbitrary arrests\, militarization and rollbacks on democracy. \nFran Omar is a popular social movement leader organizing to fight for the rights of various sectors through the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc (BRP)\, founded in January 22\, 2021 in the face of serious setbacks in democracy\, human rights and abuses of power. \nFran Omar is part of the leadership team of BRP and of the Batucada Network “TamborHilando”\, as well as of the Collective of Consistent Professionals that are part of the Block. \nFran is a Professor of Social Sciences\, Popular Educator and a graduate student of Law at the University of El Salvador\, where he participated for several years in university student organizing through the Fuerza Estudiantil Salvadoreña (FES). \nMasks will be required at this event. Presentation will be largely in Spanish with interpretation into English available. Available via livestream on the People’s Forum youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkIX9qFQvkY
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/new-york-cispes-presents-a-mas-represion-mas-lucha/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Panel Discussions,Public Meetings
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SUMMARY:Plunder as Politics: Economic Inequality and Political Power in Modi's India
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE! \nThe Polis Project presents: Plunder as Politics: Economic Inequality and Political Power in Modi’s India – a conversation between Sociologist Alf Nilsen and Suchitra Vijayan to discuss the relationship between economic inequality and political power in Modi’s India. \nIn late September\, global media reported that the Indian businessman Gautam Adani had become the second richest person in the world. Pushing Jeff Bezos into third place on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index\, Adani\, who is the first person from Asia to rank in the top three of the index\, commands a $146.8 billion fortune. He is also first among equals in India’s billionaire club – a select elite comprising some 166 people have seen their wealth skyrocket since Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power in 2014. The rise of Adani and his peers are symptomatic of a deep polarization of wealth and income in Indian society\, where the poorest 50% of the population earns a mere 13% of all national income and owns as little as 6% of all wealth in the country. Despite these perverse inequalities\, Modi and the BJP appear to have a firm hold on political power and even enjoy support among poor and marginalized groups. How do we explain this conundrum? In this talk\, Alf Nilsen will discuss the relationship between economic inequality and political power in Modi’s India\, focusing on how the politics of Hindu nationalism deflects popular discontent and nurtures both the hegemony of the ruling party and the wealth of the country’s corporate tycoons. \nAlf Nilsen is professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. He is the author of Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland (2018) and co-editor of Indian Democracy: Origins\, Trajectories\, Contestations (2019). His research currently focuses on the politics of authoritarian populism in India and the global South more generally. \nSuchitra Vijayan was born and raised in Madras\, India. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post\, The Nation\, GQ\, The Boston Review\, The Hindu\, and Foreign Policy\, and she has appeared on NBC news. A Barrister by training\, she previously worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo\, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is an award-winning photographer and the founder and executive director of the Polis Project\, a hybrid research and journalism organization. She lives in New York.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/plunder-as-politics/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH & SIGNING: A Century of Repression with Ralph Engelman & Carey Shenkman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an in-person book launch\, reception\, and signing on A Century of Repression with authors Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman. This book offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917\, pointing to it as the most important yet least understood law in modern American history that threatens freedom of the press. From the two World Wars\, to the Cold War\, to the War on Terror\, the Act serves to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy\, providing cover for the settling of political scores\, illegal break-ins\, and prosecutorial misconduct. The cases of Eugene Debs\, John S. Service\, Daniel Ellsberg\, Chelsea Manning\, Edward Snowden\, and Julian Assange\, among others\, reveal the threat posed to whistleblowers\, government critics\, and journalists alike. The treatment of the Act’s trajectory also offers new perspectives on American liberalism as well as the evolution of the FBI and the civil liberties movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \nThis book launch will be presented in person at The People’s Forum and online on YouTube. If attending in person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and ID at the door.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-a-century-of-repression-with-ralph-engelman-carey-shenkman/
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: After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person book talk with Keri Leigh Merritt\, Robert Tsai\, Yohuru Williams and Rhae Lynn Barnes for their latest book After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America. After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced\, navigated\, commemorated\, and ignored mass death and loss during global the COVID-19 pandemic\, mass uprisings for racial justice\, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA)\, the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels\, convergences\, and differences between the exceptional “long 2020” while it unfolds and earlier eras in U.S. History. \nThis book documents how Americans have dealt with grief\, pain\, and loss\, both individually and communally\, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines\, we are a nation of survivors—with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way. \n  \nIf joining in-person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and ID.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-after-life-a-collective-history-of-loss-and-redemption-in-pandemic-america/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education
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SUMMARY:Growing Solidarity and Commitment: What's Next for the Palestine Movement?
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE! \nDuring the Unity Intifada in 2021\, Palestinians across historic Palestine rose up as one community to call for justice and liberation. The uprising manifested Palestinian unity in the face of fragmentation\, as Palestinians in the homeland and the diaspora took the streets to resist Israel’s oppression across geographies. \nIn recent years Israel escalated its attack on Palestinian civil society\, interrupting the ability to build collective spaces where radical discourse and organizing can thrive. The Unity Intifada\, and other struggles in Palestine since then\, manifested an inspiring model of people reclaiming political agency in organizing and setting the terms of the discourse around their lived reality. \nYet\, new and emerging Palestinian initiatives/organizing spaces continue to face many challenges–in continuity\, the ability to organize\, and the sense of connectivity in a wider supportive ecosystem. In the US\, the movement has grown to de-exceptionalize Palestine and build a more intersectional vision of justice across struggles\, but faces similar challenges. \nWhat is next for our collective organizing? How can we deepen the relationships we have built\, learn from each other\, grow our circles\, and strengthen our common political visions? How can we claim power on a global scale? How will we resource our next steps? \nSPEAKERS:\nSOHEIR ASAAD\, RAWA: CREATIVE PALESTINIAN COMMUNITIES FUND –\nNIDAA NASSAR\, BALADNA\nVINCE WARREN\, CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS\nSANDRA TAMARI\, ADALAH JUSTICE PROJECT \nMODERATED BY NADIA BEN-YOUSSEF
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/growing-solidarity/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: The Work of Living with Maximillian Alvarez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person book talk with Maximillian Alvarez on his latest book\, The Work of Living. Comprised of interviews Alvarez conducted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic\, The Work of Living captures a critical moment in the lives of working people nationwide: from Kyle\, a sheet metal worker in Kentucky; to Mx. Pucks\, a burlesque performer and producer in Seattle; to Nick\, a gravedigger in New Jersey; Alvarez documents talks to them about their lives\, work\, and experiences. Deemed “essential” by a system that has shown just how much it needs our labor but has no concern for our lives\, workers sacrificed—and many were sacrificed—to keep us fed\, to keep our shelves stocked\, to keep our hospitals and transit running\, to care for our loved ones\, and so much more. Those conversations\, documented in these pages\, are at times meandering\, sometimes funny or philosophical\, occasionally punctured by pain so deep that it hurts to read them. He will be joined in conversation by journalists Alex Press and Luis Feliz Leon. \nIf joining in-person\, please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and ID
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-the-work-of-living-with-maximillian-alvarez/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:Big Other's Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology
DESCRIPTION:Join Big Other for an evening of readings from Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writers Folio: A Hauntology! Register at https://www.facebook.com/events/615581903569304/ \nThe folio collects vital new writing by New York State Poet Laureate\, Willie Perdomo\, Nuyorican Poets Café’s Executive Director\, Caridad De La Luz; literary giants Giannina Braschi and Edwin Torres\, and many other exemplary writers: \nIntroducing the folio\, editor John Madera writes:\nBig Other’s Puerto Rican Writer’s Folio is a kind of phantasmagoria\, a haunting of various embodiednesses and dismemberments. […] It’s an active remembering\, re-membering\, a knowing\, conscientious foregrounding of the past and present\, and imagined futures that conjures ghosts that disturbs the peace of the contemporary. And isn’t that why we\, that is\, artists are here\, here to disturb the peace\, as James Baldwin defines the role of the artist?\nHosted by Madera\, the evening will feature readings from the folio (https://bigother.com/2022/06/10/big-others-puerto-rican-writers-folio-a-hauntology/) by the following contributors: \nCarmen Bardeguez-Brown\nMichele Carlo\nJoey De Jesus\nLyn Di Iorio\nJames W. Fuerst\nRobert Lopez\nJennifer Maritza McCauley\nErnesto Quiñonez\nDimitri Reyes\nCharles Rice-Gonzalez\nPeggy Robles-Alvarado \nJohn Madera’s fiction may be found in Conjunctions\, Salt Hill\, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing\, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review\, Bookforum\, The Review of Contemporary Fiction\, Rain Taxi: Review of Books\, The Believer\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University\, John Madera lives in New York City\, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other. \nCarmen Bardeguez-Brown  is a poet and educator from Puerto Rico. She is the author of Straight from the Drums; Dreaming Rhythms: Despertando Silencios; and Lo que aprendí al otro lado del mundo\, a collaboration with Julio César Paz. Her poems are featured in ¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets\, and Musings During a Time of Pandemic: A World Anthology of Poems on COVID-19. Bardeguez-Brown’s work is also featured in Latino Poets in the United States\, an award-winning documentary\, and has been widely performed and celebrated. \nMichele Carlo is a native Nuyorican and an author/storyteller/comedy-adjacent performer who’s appeared in NPR with Latino U.S.A.\, the Clearwater Music & Arts Festival\, RISK! live shows and podcast\, Story Collider\, PBS’s Stories from the Stage\, and the MOTH’s GrandSlams and Mainstage. She is the author of Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks. \nJoey De Jesus is the author of Hoax and co-author with Jakob Holden of Writing Voice into the Archive\, edited by Jennifer Tamayo. Their poems have appeared in Barrow Street\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Big Other\, the Brooklyn Rail\, Brooklyn Magazine\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, and elsewhere. Some of their poems have been performed and/or installed in Artists Space\, the New Museum\, Basilica Hudson\, and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry\, De Jesus edits poetry for Apogee Journal and lives in Queens\, New York. \nLyn Sandín Di Iorio is a 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow in Fiction currently working on Hurricanes and Other Stories\, a short story collection. Her novel Outside the Bones was a top-five finalist for the 2012 John Gardner Fiction Prize and won a Foreword Indies Silver Award and her book of literary criticism Killing Spanish focuses on Latinx literature. Her story “By the River Cibuco” was named a “Distinguished Story of 2020” in Best American Short Stories 2021. She teaches literature and creative writing at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. \nJames W. Fuerst is the author of Huge and New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Holding an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and an M.F.A from the New School\, he is an assistant professor and departmental faculty advisor of writing in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts\, the New School. \nRobert Lopez is the author of five books of which the most recent are Good People and All Back Full. He’s taught at the New School\, Columbia University\, Pratt Institute. Syracuse University\, and the Solstice Low-Res MFA Program of Pine Manor College. \nJennifer Maritza McCauley is the author of Scar On/Scar Off. Recipient of an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University and a PhD in English (Literature and Creative Writing) from the University of Missouri\, McCauley teaches literature and creative writing in the Literature program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose\, and awards from Best of the Net\, Independent Publisher Book Awards\, and Academy of American Poets. She is presently a fiction editor at Pleiades. \nErnesto Quiñonez is the author of Bodega Dreams\, Chango’s Fire\, and Taína. Quiñonez is an Associate Professor at Cornell University. \nDimitri Reyes is a Boricua multidisciplinary artist\, YouTuber\, and educator from Newark\, New Jersey. Reyes’s Every First and Fifteenth won the Digging Press 2020 Chapbook Award. His work appears in Big Other\, Poem-a-Day\, Vinyl\, Kweli\, Duende\, Obsidian\, and Acentos. He is the Marketing and Communications Director at CavanKerry Press and Artist-in-Residence at NJPAC. \nCharles Rice-González is a writer\, long-time Bronx LGBT activist\, co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance\, and an Assistant Professor at Hostos Community College\, CUNY. He is the author of Chulito and a co-editor of Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction. Recipient of many awards\, he’s the chair of the board for the Bronx Council on the Arts and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop.\nPeggy Robles-Alvarado is the author of The Abuela Stories Project\, Conversations with My Skin\, and Homage to the Warrior Women. Her work has appeared in Big Other; Mujeres\, the Magic\, the Movement\, and the Muse; The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext; ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets; What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump; and elsewhere. \nBig Other is an award-winning online arts and culture magazine\, published since 2009. It features fiction\, poetry\, nonfiction\, art\, reviews\, essays\, interviews\, a podcast\, and more. It has published work by Pulitzer Prize winners Rae Armantrout and Forrest Gander\, National Book Award winners Daniel Borzutzky and Arthur Sze\, Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy Samuel R. Delany\, and a host of other stellar writers.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/big-other/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks
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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Becoming Abolitionists with Derecka Purnell & Nyle Fort
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an in-person book talk with Derecka Purnell on her newest book\, Becoming Abolitionists. Drawing from her experiences as a lawyer\, writer\, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition\, Purnell charts her journey to her realization that the police were a placebo. Calling them felt like something\, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. This book spans not only Purnell’s experience\, but also a long history of social movements rooted in rebellion and revolutionary love that pushed a generation of activists towards abolition\, from Ferguson to South Africa\, from Reconstruction to contemporary protests against police shootings. Becoming Abolitionists shows that abolition is not solely about getting rid of police\, but a commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society\, and\, most excitingly\, an opportunity to reduce and eliminate harm in the first place. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Nyle Fort\, organizer and postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/book-talk-becoming-abolitionists-with-derecka-purnell-nyle-fort/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Education,Panel Discussions
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SUMMARY:BLOOD GOLD | Is your cell phone or electric car stained with Indigenous blood from the Amazon?
DESCRIPTION:SEPTEMBER 19\, 2022 – 6:00 – 7:30 PM \nFrom the cellular phones in their pockets to the electric cars they drive\, consumers will not abide by using products stained with Indigenous blood. Yet until now\, the public has been unaware of its complicity in drastic human rights abuses and irreparable ecosystem destruction.  Recent research shows that Brazilian and global gold refineries that supply leading technology\, electronics\, and automotive companies such as Apple and Tesla could be sourcing gold illegally mined on Brazil’s Amazonian Indigenous territories.  \nThe impacts of gold mining on the Brazilian Amazon’s highly preserved Indigenous territories – particularly those of the Yanomami\, Munduruku\, and Kayapó peoples – are immeasurable. These activities have driven a spike in deadly illnesses such as malaria and mercury poisoning and social conflicts such as armed violence\, drug abuse\, the sexual predation of Indigenous women and girls\, and murder. \nBrazilian Indigenous leaders and representatives from Amazon Watch will explore the attacks\, violence\, and destruction caused by gold mining in the Amazon\, and the complicity of household brands in this disastrous industry. The event will feature the launch of a new publication exposing how the supply chains of the planet’s most valuable technology\, electronics\, and electric car companies are tainted by gold illegally mined on Amazonian indigenous lands. The publication is the fifth installment of the Complicity in Destruction series\, produced by the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples – APIB and Amazon Watch. \nThe highly irregular nature of Brazil’s gold industry demands strong international scrutiny. This industry has shown itself unwilling to self-regulate and requires international pressure to eliminate incentives for ongoing criminality. This event is part of a growing global response to the explosive growth of illegal Amazon mining and its threats to the future of the forest and its peoples.  \nPanelists: \n– Alessandra Munduruku: vice-coordinator of the Federacão dos Povos Indigenas do Pará and coordinator of the Pariri Association (TBC via zoom). \n– Dinamam Tuxá: coordinator of the Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples – APIB \n– Toya Machineri: coordinator of the Coordination of Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Amazon \n– Christian Poirier: Amazon Watch Program Director \n  \nMediator: \n– Ana Paula Vargas – Amazon Watch Brazil Program Director
URL:https://peoplesforum.org/events/blood-gold/
LOCATION:Violeta Parra Stage\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Film Screenings,Panel Discussions
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