Circulating publicity appears to disagree about location/s of possibly same event:

One one hand...  http://nypaxchristi.org/events.html *AND* (interfaithcenter.org/pax-christi-interfaith-prayer-service-on-un-international-day-for-the-total-elimination-of-nuclear-weapons/) claim this location: 
UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Join us on Wednesday, September 26 for an interfaith prayer service at the
gazebo at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,
[East] 47th Street and Second Avenue  at 12:45 PM.

HOWEVER https://facebook.com/events/285282302282131/
says location is instead...

Isaiah Wall at E.43rd St. & 1st Av. at 12:45 PM
(212) 420 0250 info@nypaxchristi.org https://facebook.com/pg/nypaxchristi/events/

How to do a concrete analysis of context
Wednesday Sept. 26 fr/ 2:00 to 3:30 pm at People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves., nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd; transit https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32  event description
https://peoplesforum.org/event/how-to-do-a-concrete-analysis-of-context/all/
Free
venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
Between the 24-hour news cycle and infinite scrolling newsfeeds on social media we’re exposed to so many injustices and outrages, rightly demanding our attention, that we can start to lose sight of the forest for the trees. This workshop aims to teach students how to make sense of all these events and identify the connections between them, not just through abstract statements about capitalism, neoliberalism, systemic racism, and other concepts, but through making a concrete analysis of the situation, based on systematic study.

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

Graphic for both actions:  (https://facebook.com/Running43ayotzinapa/photos/gm.292766198181916/2242874789317792/?type=3&theater)
https://facebook.com/pg/Running43ayotzinapa/events  m.me/Running43ayotzinapa  http://www.running43ayotzinapa.com

 . AYOTZINAPA VIGIL OVERNIGHT TUES.-WED. AT NYC CONSULATE
Tuesday Sept. 25, 8:00 PM at 27 E. 39th St. btw. Park & Madison Aves. (continuing until  Wednesday`s march https://facebook.com/events/409944656202323/
25 de septiembre 2018 8:00pm Vigilia
Consulado mexicano

 . AYOTZINAPA MARCH WEDNESDAY SEPT. 26, 4:45PM fr/ E. 47th ST. TO TIMES SQ.
https://facebook.com/events/292733311518538/
*26 de septiembre 2018. 4:45pm. Caminata desde la ONU al Consulado Mexicano y de ahí a Times Square.
MARCHA - 4 Años BUSCANDO 43 Corazones - VIVOS LOS QUEREMOS
Wednesday Sept. 26 from 4:45 to 8:30 PM  Katherine Hepburn Garden at
224 E. 47th St. btw. 2nd & 3rd [...but check also Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at 1st Av. -t.]
https://goo.gl/maps/MWkjEF1TCLs  https://osm.org/go/Zct9M~jnl
Public · Hosted by Running for Ayotzinapa 43

¿Qué harías si tu hijo fuese el desaparecido?

Las madres y padres de los 43 de Ayotzinapa no han dejado de exigir al gobierno mexicano de Enrique Peña Nieto que regrese a los 43 estudiantes.
Ellos fueron desaparecidos por policías y militares, estos últimos se llevaron a nuestros hijos.

Las voces de las madres y padres han alcanzado resonancia internacional y han sido escuchadas por organizaciones como la ONU, la CIDH, GIEI Y Tribunal Colegiado de Tamaulipas, entre otras.

El gobierna ofreció dinero a las familias de los 43, por callar la desaparición de nuestros hijos.
¿ACEPTARÍAS DINERO POR TU HIJO DESAPARECIDO???

El gobierno con la PGR y más de 100 instituciones están bloqueando las investigaciones para saber el paradero de nuestros hijos.

Pedimos solidaridad y humanismo de nuestra comunidad para hacer presión y que el gobierno nos entregue a nuestros hijos.

ACCIONES

25 de septiembre 2018 8:00pm Vigilia
Consulado mexicano
27 E 39th st, NY NY

*26 de septiembre 2018. 4:45pm. Caminata desde la ONU al Consulado Mexicano y de ahí a Times Square.

REPEATING MONTLY TEXT FOLLOWS.  ASK ABOUT START TIME DISCREPANCY. -T.

Ayotzinapa 43: Monthly NYC Consulate Protest
``Every 26 around 5:30PM we are protesting at the Mexican Consulate in NYC``
27 E. 39th St. btw. Madison & Park Aves.;  #4, 5, 6 Train to 42 St.-Grand Central (at Park);
#7 to 42 St.-Grand Central (btw. Lex & 3rd) or to 5 Av.; D, F to 42 St.-Bryant Park (at 6th Av.); N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, to Times Sq.-42 St.; PATH to 33rd St. (at 6th Av.);
A, C, E to 42 St.-Port Auth.; buses via 42nd St. or 34th St.;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/uJCTBHpDQL32

Gracias por la solidaridad.

Atte:
43 voces y miles más

¡VIVOS SE LOS LLEVARON
Y VIVOS LOS QUEREMOS!

REPEATING TEXT FOLLOWS.  NOTE POSSIBLE START TIME CHANGE. ASK. ASK.   -t.

Ayotzinapa 43: Monthly NYC Consulate Protest?
``Every 26 around 5:30PM [?] we are protesting at the Mexican Consulate in NYC``
27 E. 39th St. btw. Madison & Park Aves.;  #4, 5, 6 Train to 42 St.-Grand Central (at Park);
#7 to 42 St.-Grand Central (btw. Lex & 3rd) or to 5 Av.; D, F to 42 St.-Bryant Park (at 6th Av.); N, Q, R, W, 1, 2, 3, to Times Sq.-42 St.; PATH to 33rd St. (at 6th Av.);
A, C, E to 42 St.-Port Auth.; buses via 42nd St. or 34th St.;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/uJCTBHpDQL32
September actions: https://facebook.com/events/409944656202323/
m.me/Running43ayotzinapa  http://www.running43ayotzinapa.com
https://facebook.com/Running43ayotzinapa/events

[please check source.  ask correct ending time.  ask about next month.  -t.]

Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP)
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
NY Soc. for Ethical Culture in Elliott Library/Room 507
2 W. 64th St. at Central Park West nr. #1, A, B, C, D, N, Q, R, W, F & M66 cross town bus
http://policereformorganizingproject.org/ (917)327-7648 m.me/PROPNYC
prop@propnyc.org  https://facebook.com/pg/PROPNYC/events/

Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) works to expose and correct abusive police tactics that routinely and disproportionately do harm to our city’s low-income communities and people of color.

Book Discussion Group: A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes
Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 6 - 6:45 p.m.
[please research event title to confirm unusual event times -t.]  (https://nypl.org/events/programs/2018/09/26/book-discussion-group-colony-nation-chris-hayes)Program Locations:
Mulberry Street Library
[consider researching cross streets & current directions]
Fully accessible to wheelchairs

Join us at the Mulberry Street Library for our monthly book discussion group. This month's book is A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes.
 
About the book:
"America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure―wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation―reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first “law and order” president. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller, Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes upends our national conversation on policing and democracy in a book of wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis.

Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the Colony, we obsess over order, fear trumps civil rights, and aggressive policing resembles occupation. A Colony in a Nation explains how a country founded on justice now looks like something uncomfortably close to a police state. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked the American Revolution?

A Colony in a Nation examines the surge in crime that began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s, and the unprecedented decline that followed. Drawing on close-hand reporting at flashpoints of racial conflict, as well as deeply personal experiences with policing, Hayes explores cultural touchstones, from the influential “broken windows” theory to the “squeegee men” of late-1980s Manhattan, to show how fear causes us to make dangerous and unfortunate choices, both in our society and at the personal level. With great empathy, he seeks to understand the challenges of policing communities haunted by the omnipresent threat of guns. Most important, he shows that a more democratic and sympathetic justice system already exists―in a place we least suspect.

A Colony in a Nation is an essential book―searing and insightful―that will reframe our thinking about law and order in the years to come."

How to do a concrete analysis of context
Wednesday Sept. 26 fr/ 2:00 to 3:30 pm at People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves., nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd; transit https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32 event description
https://peoplesforum.org/event/how-to-do-a-concrete-analysis-of-context/all/
Free
venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
Between the 24-hour news cycle and infinite scrolling newsfeeds on social media we’re exposed to so many injustices and outrages, rightly demanding our attention, that we can start to lose sight of the forest for the trees. This workshop aims to teach students how to make sense of all these events and identify the connections between them, not just through abstract statements about capitalism, neoliberalism, systemic racism, and other concepts, but through making a concrete analysis of the situation, based on systematic study.

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

(Check dates & times.)
How to do a concrete analysis of context
at People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves., nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd; transit https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32  event description
https://peoplesforum.org/event/how-to-do-a-concrete-analysis-of-context/all/
Free
venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
Between the 24-hour news cycle and infinite scrolling newsfeeds on social media we’re exposed to so many injustices and outrages, rightly demanding our attention, that we can start to lose sight of the forest for the trees. This workshop aims to teach students how to make sense of all these events and identify the connections between them, not just through abstract statements about capitalism, neoliberalism, systemic racism, and other concepts, but through making a concrete analysis of the situation, based on systematic study.

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

 How to do a concrete analysis of context (at People's Forum)

Cuba Speaks For Itself
NEW DATE Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Riverside Church
Doors 7:00 PM then 8:00 PM program
490 Riverside Dr. btw. W. 120th & W. 121st. nr. #1, A, B, C, D & M60 bus
https://nycsproject.org/40427419_10161288816775455_2289112389313888256_n.jpg
https://facebook.com/events/322813618266553  (212) 926.5757x6, (917) 887.8710,   718-601-4751 http://m.me/NYCSolidarityProject nycsproject@gmail.com
Bienvenida a la Delegacion de Cuba a La Assamblea 73 de las Naciones Unidas Y el nuevo Presidente de Cuba
Miguel Díaz-Canel
Dear Cuba Solidarity Activists,

 We can confirm that Miguel Diaz-Canel, President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba will speak at the historic Riverside Church on
 == >  Wednesday, September 26 in Manhattan. Our friend and brother
Miguel Diaz-Canel was elected President of the Council of State in April 2018, succeeding President Raul Castro.

This is a very special occasion and opportunity for us to give a warm welcome to
President Diaz-Canel. and all the other members of the high-level Cuban Delegation who are here attending the annual Fall opening of the United Nations General Assembly along with many dozens of other jvjbheads of states and governments each Fall in New York City. This will be an evening where Cuba Speak for Itself.

The September 26 Event will be a unique opportunity to hear firsthand, the top representative of Cuba discuss the current Cuban reality and to present Cuba’s point of view on the burning issues of world politics. Today, the Cuban people as a whole are engaged in a mass, participatory process of debate and discussion to prepare and ratify a new Constitution registering important economic, social, and political changes in Cuba.
 
September 26 will also be a great opportunity for all friends of Cuba and all supporters of the normalization of US-Cuba relations to express our determined opposition to the stepped up attacks on Cuba under the Donald Trump White House. These include tightened travel restrictions for US citizens and legal residents traveling to Cuba, as well as the US-imposed near-freeze on Cubans visiting the United States, including artists and musicians, doctors and scientists, educators and trade unionists, and even family members.

In the context of US-Cuban history since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, we continue to say that the normalization of US-Cuban relations can only mean: 1) an end to all of Washington’s economic and travel sanctions against Cuba; 2) the return to Cuban sovereignty of its territory in Cuba’s Guantanamo Province; and 3) an end to all the subversive “regime change” programs designed to overthrow the socialist Cuban government which practices genuine international solidarity worldwide.

This email is a renewed invitation to attend this very special event. If you have already reserved a seat, then you do not need to respond to this email or reconfirm your reservation. Otherwise please respond to this email with your name, email address, and, if possible, your cellphone number. A name will be needed for each ticket reservation. You can also text the information to 917-887-8710. Thank you!
in solidarity,

o reserve tickets to hear President Miguel Diaz-Camel speak on September 26th : email ifco@ifconews.org or call 212-926-5757x6.  Give the name (as it appears on the picture ID) for each ticket, also a contact phone number and email.  One person can pick up tickets for a group.
 
    To pick up the actual tickets (with your name) go to any one of the following distribution points:
   
IFCO   
418 West 145th St, Harlem
Tickets can be picked up Mon-Fri 11am to 6pm
Call 212-926-5757 x6 before coming
Contact person: Gail Walker or Emily Thomas
  
    International Action Center 
    147 West 24th St,
    Tickets can be picked up Mon-Fri 3pm to 10pm
    Call 212-633-6646 before coming
    Contact person: Teresa Gutierrez
  
    Holyrood Church
    715 West 179th St, Washington Heights
    Tickets can be picked up Mon-Fri 10:30am to 3:30p
    Contact person: Radhames Morales
  
    
    Sister's Place
    456 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn
    Tickets can be picked up Mon-Fri 7pm to 9pm
    Call 718-398-1766 before coming
    Contact person: Roger Wareham
  
    We are asking for a donation of $5 per ticket to help cover costs for organizing the event (of course we are happy to collect more from those who can give more). Donations can be made in cash at the pick-up locations, on-line at ifconews.org or checks can be made payable to IFCO (WITHOUT mentioning the country our guests are coming from) and putting September 26th in the memo section. Those coming from out of town can send their check payable to IFCO (once again WITHOUT mentioning the country our guests are coming from) and putting September 26th in the memo section.
  

Feminisms Double Issue Launch

Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at e-flux
311 East Broadway at Grand St. nr. F, B, D stops; transit & map:
https://goo.gl/maps/dNVZEpoSLg52 https://osm.org/go/Zct8H_cqV?m=&way=278256418
event descriptions (https://www.e-flux.com/program/214523/e-flux-journal-on-feminism-s-double-issue-launch-with-nbsp-martha-rosler-nbsp-xin-wang-mckenzie-wark-and-nbsp-elvia-wilk/)
https://facebook.com/events/2065782910400134/

e-flux journal on feminism(s)
Double launch of issues #92 and #93 with Martha Rosler, Xin Wang,
McKenzie Wark, and Elvia Wilk

In ten seconds, how many synonyms can you think of for the word “power”?

And then, just when you thought that you finally got the hang of how the power structures around you function, they seem to be coming undone. But are they really coming undone, or is the current that’s pushing and pulling at them not much more than a massage, a way to keep them up to date that stays only on the surface and is not able to touch the center?

What is feminism, precisely? What are feminisms today?

To answer these questions and myriad others, the summer and September issues of e-flux journal are dedicated to feminism(s). It is a particular pleasure to embark on an exploration and an unfolding of the many complex realities and iterations that feminism can accommodate. Not one feminism, but many.

Join us in celebration of the work and words of thinkers, artists, workers, mothers, poets, historians, collaborators, fighters, conveners, killjoys, teachers, men of trans experience, women of trans experience, womyn, women, woman, men, man too* who contributed to e-flux journal's issues #92 and #93.
The launch features contributing authors Martha Rosler, Xin Wang, McKenzie Wark, and Elvia Wilk, introduced by editor Kaye Cain-Nielsen.

*With contributions thus far by Mirene Arsanios, Mary Walling Blackburn, Angela Dimitrakaki, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Renee Gladman, Élisabeth Lebovici and Giovanna Zapperi, Ewa Majewska, Chus Martínez, Pilar Villela Mascaró, Griselda Pollock, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Elvia Wilk, Simone White, and more contributors to come.

**Image: Developing eggs deposited by a tardigrade mother in her shed skin during molting phase. Photo: Don Loarie/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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Free admission, first come first served

Livestream: e-flux.com/live

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com .

Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality/CWI Workshop
Michael Jacobson
Thursday, Sept. 27 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in Columbia U. Knox Hall
606 W. 122nd St., Rm. 509, btw. Claremont Av. & Broadway, nr. #1, A, B, C, D, M60 bus; transit: https://osm.org/go/Zc4ob4Pgw- https://goo.gl/maps/2J4Yz7sFjj32
Bailey.Brown@columbia.edu Fall 2018 listings http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/cwi/
http://iserp.columbia.edu/events  https://sociology.columbia.edu/events

CWI Seminars are held on Thursdays throughout the academic year at
2:00pm in 509 Knox Hall (606 West 122nd Street). We are pleased to announce an exciting group of speakers for our Fall 2018 semester:

Sept. 27, Michael Jacobson (Institute for State and Local Governance, CUNY)

Oct. 4, Ameed Saabneh (Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Haifa)

Oct. 11, Barry Eidlin (Dept. of Sociology, McGill University), “Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada”

Oct. 18, Tonya Brito (School of Law, University of Wisconsin)

Nov. 8, Alair Maclean Dept. of Sociology, Washington State University)

Nov. 15, Kieron Barclay (Max Planck Center for Demography), “The Influence of Birth Order and Family Size on Marital Stability”

Nov. 29, Matthew Hall (College of Human Ecology, Cornell University), “The Impact of Immigrant Deportations on Latino Segregation”

Dec. 6, Jennifer Heerwig (Dept. of Sociology, Stony Brook University), “Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Affluent Donors to Federal Elections, 1980-2008”

Upcoming Events

PSC-CUNY Contract Rally
Thursday, Sept. 27, 4:00PM
The PSC demonstration on Wall Street next Thursday, September 27, will begin at the Stock Exchange, but it will end at another important Wall Street address: the investment banking firm of CUNY Board chairperson William Thompson. We are marching to the finance firm Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C., where Thompson is Chief Administrative Officer, so that we can deliver a collective message: It’s time for the CUNY trustees, led by Thompson, to demand public funding for a fair contract for the PSC. Join us!
We will gather in front of the Stock Exchange (corner of
Wall Street and Broad St) at 4:00 p.m. on the 27th, and arrive at

100 Wall Street [btw. Front St. & Water St. nr. East River] around 5:00, just as finance workers are pouring out of their offices. Read more here!

NYC Troublemakers SchoolSaturday, Sept. 29,  9:00AM – 4:00PM
New York troublemakers are planning a day of skill-building workshops, education, and strategy discussions to put some movement back in the labor movement. This school will be a great opportunity for union members, stewards, and activists to share strategies and build the solidarity required in these tough times.
A light breakfast, lunch, and a copy of the Labor Notes book Secrets of a Successful Organizer are included with registration.
Workshops will include:
    Secrets of a Successful Organizer
    Assertive Grievance Handling
    Organizing After Janus                            Click here to register!

from a NYC Central Labor Council/CLC mailing...    == >  http://nycclc.org/events  https://twitter.com/centrallabornyc
http://m.me/NYCCLC    (212) 604-9552 https://facebook.com/pg/NYCCLC/events/
To Receive Text Alerts from the NYC CLC, text NYCLabor to 877877

UPCOMING EVENTS

PA'LANTE: A Hurricane Maria Documentary
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018,12:30PM in AMC Empire Theatre 13 at
234 W. 42nd St.  https://goo.gl/maps/LSbgTezd1k22
ASK CORRECT ENDING TIME.
$17 at (https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/TicketSearchCriteria.aspx?evtinfo=398952~2e55f238-022e-4d32-92ec-76372fdef771&)
TRAILER & FILM PUBLICITY https://goo.gl/qexH6H
https://urbanworld.org/2018/palante-doc
HEART 9/11 has been working in Puerto Rico with Ramon Rodriguez and Today I'm Brave repairing and rebuilding roofs damaged by Hurricane Maria and is excited to announce Ramon's film PA'LANTE (Forward) screens Saturday, September 22 , 12:30pm at Urbanworld Film Festival, NYC. This documentary tells the personal stories of local Puerto Ricans five months after they were impacted by Hurricanes Irma/Maria and showcases the HEART 9/11 Apprentice Program led by the Greater NYC Building Trades volunteers that is teaching locals carpentry while rebuilding roofs on the island. Sustainability is key and something that is vital for the continued progress of Puerto Rico. Being able to empower underserved communities by teaching them a skill such as carpentry allows them to help themselves, their families and their neighbors.
UrbanWorld Film Festival, AMC Empire - 234 W 42nd Street, NYC
Tickets - PA'LANTE Trailer

Eighteenth Annual Gladys Ricart & Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial Walk / Brides’ March
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018
If you or someone you know has been affected by family violence or you denounce this antisocial criminal behavior, we invite you to join the 18th Annual Gladys Ricart and Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial Walk—also known as Brides’ March—on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. For the background on the Gladys Ricart and Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial Walk/Brides’ March please visit the History, Mission and Goals page.
The 2018 March will start gathering at 8:00AM at the Holy Rood Episcopal Church,
715 West 179th Street, (between Fort Washington and Broadway). The Opening Ceremony begins at 9AM. Marching will start at 10:30 AM. The March will travel South on Broadway, go into the Bronx, then onto Harlem, and end in East Harlem at Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center, 1680 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10029 (corner of 106th Street). For more info visit BridesMarch.com.

Janus Workshop: New Employee Outreach
Thursday, Sept. 27, 10:00 AM to Noon
http://nycclc.org/event/janus-beyond-new-employee-outreach-sep-27-2018 $50
The people hired today will shape our movement’s future. We will explore the importance of new hire orientations in fostering close and on-going relationships with members. We will discuss tools and techniques for best using orientations to secure commitments and encourage active participation.
Sessions can be attended individually, and run $50 per person. Click here to view workshop descriptions and download a registration form.

NYC CLC/NYCOSH/Rutgers Forum on Opioid and its Effect on the Workplace
Thursday, Sept. 27 , 10:00am – 1:00pm
NYCOSH, the New York City Central Labor Council, and the Rutgers School of Public Health will hold a forum on Opioid and its effect on the workplace. This national opioid epidemic is impacting communities and worksites throughout the country. From 1999-2016, more than 350,000 people died from an overdose involving prescription and illegal opioids. On average, 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. Overdoses involving opioids killed about 48,000 people in 2017. Approximately 40% of those deaths were from prescription opioids.
In this workshop participants will learn facts about the crisis, the impact of prescription and illegal opioids, the connection between hazardous jobs, workplace injury, and opioid misuse, overdose, and addiction, jobs that may have occupational exposure, worker protection guidelines, and non-punitive strategies for helping addicted workers.
The forum will be held at UAW Region 9a, 256 W.38th St, 12th Floor.
You can register for this forum through Eventbrite via
== >  www.bit.ly/2PHPXib

 
Fundamentals in Winning Organizing Campaigns: Focus on Internal Organizing
October 5-7, 2018
The NYCCLC and the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute are partnering to hold a 3-day training for member activists and staff that focuses on Internal Organizing skills. If you want to train your members and staff on organizing fundamentals, register today! We welcome all NYCCLC, AFL-CIO affiliated unions to   {SNIP}
TRAINING SCHEDULE:
Friday October 5 from  10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday October 6 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday October 7 from  

No NRA in NHP!Thursday, September 27 at 6 PM – 8 PM Meet in Garden City Park
https://www.facebook.com/events/1041886759305749/
Public · Hosted by Long Island Activists m.me/longislandactivists http://longislandactivists.org  https://facebook.com/longislandactivists/events https://facebook.com/pg/longislandactivists/groups/

The NRA is hosting an event in NHP and this is the OFFICIAL PROTEST of the event. We will be meeting at RICHARD PROVOST PARK which is located next to the King Kullen in Garden City Park on Nassau Blvd. There will be signs available but homemade signs (please be tasteful) [? -t.] are also encouraged. Around 6:30 we will begin marching down Nassau Blvd, making a right on Jericho Turnpike and make a right at

N. 2nd Street (right past The Inn) before continuing in the parking lot down the block. We will have updates on speeches and co-sponsors for this OFFICIAL PROTEST in the upcoming weeks. This will be your opportunity to tell the National Rifle Association how you really feel brought to you by Long Island Activists.

About Long Island Activists

What We CAN Do When There's Nothing To Be Done: Strategies For Change
Oventic Murals, by Lorie Novak
Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 fr/ 9:30 AM - 7:30 PM
Lenfest Center for the Arts in  Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room 
615 W. 129 St., btw. Riverside Dr. & Broadway, nr. #1, A, B, C, D,
M60 bus via RFK Triboro & 125th St.; 125th St. cross town buses;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/wY2vWsYrbi52

Registration javascript button is at bottom of this page: 

https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo 
Program (https://www.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/clinics/what_we_can_do_when_theres_nothing_to_be_done_final_program_updated.pdf) https://socialdifference.columbia.edu/events-1/2018/9/28/cssd-10th-anniversary-celebration
212-854-5665 socialdifference@columbia.edu . Accessibility nn2415@columbia.edu
What We CAN Do When There's Nothing To Be Done: Strategies For Change
CSSD invites you to an all-day Symposium to celebrate 10 Years of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and 5 Years of Women Creating Change!
Join us for a day of roundtables and discussion.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, PLEASE REGISTER

How can we imagine justice, practice solidarity and create change across barriers of social difference in today’s political landscape? As the acceptance of inequality has become the new norm to a degree we might have deemed unthinkable, and as public dialogue has reached an impasse, protest and resistance continue.
This conference brings together scholars, artists, and activists from around the globe whose work can inspire new ways of thinking, seeing and listening, and productive strategies of intervention for our time.

Speakers include:
Ayse Gül Altinay
Sama Alshaibi
Carol Becker
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Judith Butler
María José Contreras
Ricardo Dominguez
Masha Gessen
Rema Hamami
Bernard Harcourt
Saidiya Hartman
Mae Ngai
Juan Carlos Ruiz
Debarati Sanyal
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Diana Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Jeanine Tesori

CSSD Anniversary Planning Committee:
Marianne Hirsch, CSSD Director
Lila Abu-Lughod
Meera Ananth
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Jack Halberstam
Jean Howard
Catherine LaSota
Ana Paulina Lee
Frances Negron-Muntaner
Kendall Thomas
Paige West

Presented by the Center for the Study of Social Difference,
with thanks to our co-sponsors:
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Columbia Global Centers; Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion; School of the Arts; Dean of Humanities; Dean of Social Sciences; Department of Anthropology; Department of English and Comparative Literature; Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Division of Arts and Sciences; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Institute for Research on African-American Studies; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Middle East Institute; Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Barnard Center for Research on Women; and Barnard College Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Event Contact Information:
Center for the Study of Social Difference

March for freedom, march to #FreePeterBiar NYC
Friday Sept. 28 from 5:30 to 9:30 PM nr. NYC U.N. Headquarters on
1st Av., presumably at either E.43rd or E. 47th & nr. E, M, #7, 4, 5, 6, S stops & cross town buses via 42nd St. or 50th St..  Consider asking for a specific location or else request organizers` contact info or allow yourself time to find folks.  -t.    (https://twitter.com/ajakpeter)   (https://eventbrite.com/e/march-for-freedom-march-to-freepeterbiar-nyc-tickets-49968623498)  (https://change.org/p/freedom-for-peter-biar-ajak)  (https://google.com/search?q="peter+biar+ajak")     

Join us in solidarity with Peter Biar Ajak, a youth advocate who is being held unconstitutionally, against NSS law, since July 28.

Peter is currently being held at the notorious South Sudanese prison known as the Blue House. His friends at universities, human rights institutions, media organizations and others around the world are calling for his immediate and unconditional release. Over 64,000 people have signed the change.org petition asking South Sudan to release Peter.

Meet us at UN Headquarters (405 E. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017) [AYMK, THAT IS A POSTAL ADDRESS ONLY. -t. ]  on
Friday, September 28 at 8:30am to stand in solidarity with Peter and all others who are being detained without cause.

Call on President Kiir and the South Sudanese government to release Peter Biar Ajak unharmed as a sign of their commitment to peace in South Sudan. Allow Peter to resume his collaborative efforts in his country's peace process!

For more information on Peter’s incredible journey and his detention, please click here. For information on how to get more involved, please email info@freepeterbiar.com or follow @FreePeterBiar on Twitter.

How to do a concrete analysis of context
Check dates & times at People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves., nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd; transit https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32 event description
https://peoplesforum.org/event/how-to-do-a-concrete-analysis-of-context/all/
Free
venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
Between the 24-hour news cycle and infinite scrolling newsfeeds on social media we’re exposed to so many injustices and outrages, rightly demanding our attention, that we can start to lose sight of the forest for the trees. This workshop aims to teach students how to make sense of all these events and identify the connections between them, not just through abstract statements about capitalism, neoliberalism, systemic racism, and other concepts, but through making a concrete analysis of the situation, based on systematic study.

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

How to do a concrete analysis of context (at People's Forum)

The 10th Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival/BPPFF10
Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. btwn 127th and 128th; #2, 3, A, B, C, D, 4, 5, 6 to 125th St. stops; M60 via RFK Triboro & 125th St.; 125th St. buses;
transit:  https://osm.org/go/Zc4ozI3L4--  https://goo.gl/maps/KKLNa5y13c12
FILM FEST SCHEDULES https://www.maysles.org/10th-annual-bppf
https://facebook.com/pg/MayslesCinema/events/
https://facebook.com/events/240377049942157/
Fest event graphic https://goo.gl/wMJBSh

 . Malcolm X: An Overwhelming Influence On The Black Power Movement
Friday, Sept. 28 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at Maysles Cinema
https://maysles.org/calendar/malcolm-x

 . Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute To The Martyrs Of The Chicano@ Movement
Saturday, Sept. 29, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
https://maysles.org/calendar/symbols-of-resistance
http://tripplanner.mta.info/  http://mta.info/weekender

 . Marcus Garvey: Look For Me In the Whirlwind
Also on Saturday, Sept.  29 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM  at Maysles Cinema
https://maysles.org/calendar/marcus-garvey
http://tripplanner.mta.info/  http://mta.info/weekender

 . William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
https://maysles.org/calendar/william-kunstler

 . Slavery by Another Name
Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
https://maysles.org/calendar/slavery-by-another-name
http://tripplanner.mta.info/  http://mta.info/weekender

 . Winnie
Also on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
https://maysles.org/calendar/winnie
http://tripplanner.mta.info/  http://mta.info/weekender

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More event listings http://bit.ly/nycprotest or justiceduckling.com

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LES Ecology Center fundraiser
Friday Sept. 28, 7:00 PM in Project Farmhouse
76 East 13th St. at 4th Av. nr. L, 4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, W, F, M, PATH, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 14th St. bus  https://goo.gl/maps/XmpdRw1oL1N2
$75  https://lesecologycenter.org/fall-social-2018-cocktail-party
212.477.4022 info@lesecologycenter.org 718.858.8777 venue:  https://projectfarmhouse.org/upcoming-events/ info@projectfarmhouse.org 646-726-4253  PLEASE ASK CORRECT ENDING TIME.   -t.

First Annual Fall Social 2018 – 9/28 Cocktail Party!
Join us for our first Fall Social on Friday, September 28, 2018 at 7pm, Project Farmhouse, for the premiere of our video and annual report. We will also celebrate 20 years as stewards of the East River Park and profile our Artist-in-Residence Program, based at the E-waste Warehouse. There will be a special silent auction with creations by our artists in the program of repurposed electronic waste.

The LES Ecology Center (Ecology Center) has been pioneering community-based models in urban sustainability since 1987. We provide unique e-waste and composting services, environmental stewardship opportunities, and educational programming to all New Yorkers who want to learn about environmental issues and take responsibility for creating solutions through action.

Special Program Profile: The Artist-in-Residence at the E-Waste Warehouse is a self-directed residency program designed to support local artists, exhibit creative reuse, and bring public awareness to electronic waste. Each year, two to six artists are chosen to use a section of the warehouse as studio space and are given free access to electronic waste materials. Their work highlights alternative uses for items that would otherwise be considered garbage and keeps the material from entering the waste stream. Artists are selected based on their proposed project’s use of recycled items and ways their work can engage the public.

Special Silent Auction will include upcycled creations by the artists in the program and an artwork by Kiki Smith.

Host Committee
David Bolotsky
Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President
Margaret Chin, NYC Council Member, District 1
Rocky Chin & May Ying Chen
Harvey Epstein, New York State Assemblymember, District 74
Liam Kavanagh, First Deputy Commissioner, NYC Parks
Brad Lander, NYC Council Member, District 39
Carlina Rivera, NYC Council Member, District 2
Matthew Placek
Walter Strachowsky

When: 7 pm Friday, September 28, 2018
Where: Project Farmhouse, 76 East 13th Street
Ticket Levels:

$75 Per Person
$250 Silver VIP for Two
$500 Gold VIP for Two
Limited Edition Gifts for VIP Purchases

Ticket Levels

If you cannot attend the event, please consider making a donation. All proceeds will support the work of the Ecology Center and tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

The Fall Social is made possible with the support of the Ecology Center Board Members and the Durst Organization.
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Environmental Learning Center and Office

Fire Boat House
East River Park Promenade, at Grand St.
New York NY 10002
212.477.4022

info@lesecologycenter.org

E-Waste Warehouse

469 President Street
Brooklyn NY 11215
718.858.8777

General Mailing Address

P.O. Box 20488
New York NY 10009

Copyright © 2018 Lower East Side Ecology Center

Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain
Friday, Sept. 28 fr/ 7:00 to 9:30 pm at People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M
& cross town bus via 34th or 42nd; transit: 
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
$6 – $15 ; event descriptions:
https://peoplesforum.org/event/event-title-number-three-lorem-ipsum
http://marxedproject.org/organizer/left-colab/

venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org 

A discussion with editors Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness about their published book, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain.

About the book: Global capitalism is always a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, transnational companies such as Walmart and Amazon depend on the work of millions in docks, warehouses and logistics centers to keep goods moving. This is the global supply chain. If the chain is broken, capitalism grinds to a halt. This talk concerns the book of the same name, looking at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who, despite their importance, face extreme exploitation and economic violence.

Experiencing first hand wildcat strikes, organized blockades and boycotts, the authors have explored a diverse range of organizing and related activities, from South China dockworkers to the transformation of the port of Piraeus in Greece, and from the Southern California logistics sector, to dock and logistical workers in Chile and unions in Turkey.

Join us for an evening of discussion on the potential strength our class has the ability to utilize in facing capital dominance during our period where capital has of necessity created this points that really give us the means of “choking” their power.

Organized by Left CoLab: A Convergent Project of Democracy at Work, Institute for the Radical Imagination, and the Marxist Education Project.

People's Forum
People's Forum
People's Forum
People's Forum
People's Forum

            ``...[Saturday, Sept. 29] march on Washington,DC
            and [Sunday, Sept. 30] march on New York City.``

March For Black Women 2018
Washington DC and New York City
event graphic, descriptions & contacts for updates:  https://goo.gl/88rGri
https://eventbrite.com/e/march-for-black-women-2018-tickets-47402055825
Free
by Black Women's Blueprint  (347) 533-9102 or -9103 https://twitter.com/BlackWomensBP  blackwomensblueprintny.org? blackwomen@blackwomensblueprintny.org info@blackwomensblueprint.org  www.blackwomensblueprint.org https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieveBlackWomen https://facebook.com/pg/blackwomens.BWBNY/events/

This September 29, 2018 we march on Washington,DC and on September 30. 2018 we march on New York City. Black women (cis, trans, other identities) and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically with all others who want to pull the foot of oppression off our necks.
Our March is not only a mass mobilization centered on all Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women are forcibly taken from their children, deported or killed by law enforcement; so long as our daughters are sold or go missing; so long as we are raped by friends, family, dates, strangers, prominent persons or nationally renown predators -- WE MUST DEPLOY OUR COLLECTIVE POWER. DEMAND JUSTICE. FIGHT FOR PEACE.
We need you to show up for Black women in all our diversity because our oppressions are bound-up together.

We give ourselves permission to believe in the power of our demands and the strength of our convictions to take back what is already ours. We cannot allow an isolationist impulse to dictate our movement strategy given the political urgency of now. As various communities of Black women, we have always faced innumerable personal, and unspeakable brutalities. We cannot allow the travesties that have affirmed disregard for our existence to continue to flourish while we wither away with resentment and stew in our own rage. Continue to act to eradicate oppression wherever it shows up. This has been our inherited tradition for centuries, practiced in diverse ways around the world, in in both peaceful protest and in righteous anger in the face of indignities and in the fance of dehumanization.

JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION & A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR BLACK WOMEN

Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn: Walking Tour
Saturdays at Noon, Sept. 8, Sept. 29, Oct. 20 from Jay St. & Myrtle Ave.
weekend transit planners: http://tripplanner.mta.info
or  https://osm.org/go/Zct8CgS~R-?m=  or  https://goo.gl/maps/tyN269ju1zz  ;
list of announced service changes & cuts: http://mta.info/weekender
$10 tix: https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours/#block-95883e1ed28c6a00ef70
https://facebook.com/events/1017267781787227/  info@socialjusticetours.com https://facebook.com/socialjusticetours/events
https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours
 
This tour will highlight the development that has recreated downtown Brooklyn as a result of the Downtown Brooklyn Rezoning of 2004. We will also go into political conversations around the use of the 421a subsidy to build new affordable housing and the use of eminent domain at Atlantic Yards in the construction of the Barclays Center.
 
Sites Covered
 . MetroTech Promenade
 . 227 Abolitionist Place (Underground Railroad stop)
 . Myrtle Avalon Plaza
 . The Giovanni (formerly Associated Site)
 . City Point (formerly Albee Square Mall)
 . BAM Cultural District
 . Barclays Center & Atlantic Yards

Events with Social Justice Tours
SEP8Queer History Tour of the Village
SEP29Vegan Food Tour of the Lower East Side

Unable to make it this time? We offer more tours and tour dates at socialjusticetours.com/current-tours.

Social Justice Tours is a newly growing nonprofit grassroots organization with a mission to engage New Yorkers in critical dialogue by exposing injustice and highlighting inequality in an effort to encourage thought and inspire action. Find out more about us at socialjusticetours.com.

Social Justice Tours aims to engage critical dialogue by exposing injustice & highlighting inequality in an effort to encourage thought & inspire action.

Too American to be Dominican. Too Dominican to be American: The Community Identity Crisis
Saturday Sept. 29 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at
Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria,
2113 Amsterdam Ave at W. 165th St. nr. #1, A, C
weekend transit planners http://mta.info or https://goo.gl/maps/DrJFJ7hft7C2
list of service cuts & changes http://mta.info/weekender
PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK SOURCES AT
https://wordupbooks.wordpress.com/wordupevents/
https://www.facebook.com/WordUpBooks/events/
347-688-4456, info [at] wordupbooks [dot] com, events [at] wordupbooks [dot] com,
volunteer [at] wordupbooks.com , preguntas[at] wordupbooks[dot]com

Time to talk about being American vs. being Dominican! Is there a better of the two? How do you feel about being between two cultures? Come have a small snack and drink with us and let's talk about it!

[entry copied in July so (did I mention?) check sources -t.]

Keeping it Cool: a Benefit for Interference Archive
Saturday, Sept. 29 from 4:00 to 9:00 PM at Interference Archive
314 7th St. Brooklyn, btw. 4th & 5th Aves.; R Train to 9 St.; F, G to 4 Av./9 St.;
transit  https://goo.gl/maps/AA5ZBsK8zmP2
Tickets · $7.12 - $22.49 at (https://eventbrite.com/e/keeping-it-cool-a-fundraiser-for-interference-archive-tickets-48733073936)
https://mailchi.mp/interferencearchive/archive-782297
https://interferencearchive.org/keep-it-cool-a-benefit-for-interference-archive/ https://interferencearchive.org/category/events/ https://twitter.com/InterferenceArc https://www.facebook.com/InterferenceArc

Please join AAARI for a talk, Contentious Solidarities: Navigating Racialization and Alliance-Building in Korean American Immigrant Rights Work, by Elizabeth Hanna Clark,
on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, fr/ 6:00 to 8:00pm, at
25 W. 43rd St., 10th Fl., Rm. 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan.
Free & public.  To RSVP:  https://18-09-21clark.eventbrite.com (https://eventbrite.com/e/asianamerican-scholars-of-education-pedagogies-perspectives-experiences-registration-49863984520)  (https://events.cuny.edu/cec/racialization-alliance-building-in-korean-american-immigrant-rights-work/)
https://twitter.com/aaaricuny/status/1040970388426174464
https://mailchi.mp/aaari/18-09-21clark
 

Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork with Korean American immigrant rights organizers, and the Black and Latinx organizers with which they attempt to build solidarity, this presentation explores how the aforementioned tensions unfold in activists’ daily interactions as they attempt to build an interracial solidarity movement at a moment of intensified anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy-making.

In the past twenty years, a 249% growth in undocumented migration from South Korea has contributed to the emergence of socially progressive Korean American immigrant rights organizations committed to solidarity building with other racialized immigrant groups. The rise of these organizations unfolds [during] tensions between Korean Americans with diverse political orientations, and between differently racialized immigrants. Organizers are confronted with the contentious legacies of the so-called Black-Korean conflicts of the 1980s and 1990s. They also contend with Asian American exceptionalism narratives that conspire to both render Asian American migrants as the more “desirable” foils to their Black and Latinx counterparts, and to delegitimize claims by Black and Latinx of continued racialized oppression. What does it mean then to attempt to build an AAPI immigrant rights movement that accounts for these complex dynamics? And, what do these encounters reveal about the intersection of racialization and undocumented status?

By drawing attention to undocumented Korean Americans, who are often low-wage, irregular workers, Korean American immigrant rights organizers upset popular depictions of Korean Americans as uniformly successful, “self-made” entrepreneurs, a characterization that belies increasing Korean American socioeconomic diversity over the last twenty years. Tensions arise as organizers negotiate and attempt to build new forms of Korean American collective identities that encompass diverse, and emergent, Korean American lived experiences. What can the internal politics regarding undocumented immigration in Korean American communities reveal about how differently positioned immigrant groups articulate diverse understandings of human value and immigrant belonging?

Elizabeth Hanna Clark is a Ph.D. candidate in the anthropology department at University of California, Irvine (UCI). Elizabeth is a former community organizer and immigrant rights advocate with the organization CASA de Maryland. Since becoming a graduate student, she has received several awards for her scholar/activism of undocumented AAPI student organizing and mentorship on and off campus, including honorable mention for the 2018 Yamashita Prize for scholar/activism and the 2017 Thomas Angell Prize for excellence in mentoring.

Elizabeth is currently conducting eighteen months of fieldwork in Los Angeles and New York City for her dissertation work on how Korean American immigrant rights organizers navigate solidarities with Black and Latinx counterparts in the national immigrant rights movement. This research project is funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the California Immigrant Research Initiative, UCI’s Center for Critical Korean Studies, and The Center for Citizen Placebuilding.

To RSVP for this talk, please visit https://18-09-21clark.eventbrite.com . Please be prepared to present proper identification when entering the building lobby.

If you are unable to attend the talk, streaming video and audio podcast will be available online the following week. See you on Friday!
Lecture Series Lineup

AAARI is a CUNY-wide scholarly research and resource center
on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans.
Friday Evening Lecture Series

Marxian Economics Intensives with Richard D. Wolff
Sundays, Sept. 30 & Oct. 7, Noon to 4:00 PM at The People’s Forum
320 W 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, 7, S, N, Q, R, D, F & cross town buses via 34th or 42nd; weekend transit http://tripplanner.mta.info
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
svc. cuts & changes http://mta.info/weekender
TICKETS, either or both session/s: (https://peoplesforum.org/event/marxian-economics-intensives-with-richard-d-wolff/2018-09-30/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets)
venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar  https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org ; speaker / D@W: 510-601-0182 https://twitter.com/profwolff https://www.democracyatwork.info/calendar  https://facebook.com/pg/RichardDWolff/events   http://rdwolff.com
m.me/RichardDWolff  similar listings marxedproject.org/venue/the-peoples-forum/

Session 1: Sunday, Sept. 30   Marxian Class Analysis: What it is and its Value for Understanding Society Today
A Marxian class analysis around four areas of inquiry: Capitalist enterprises- merchant, industrial, and financial; Households and the State; Globalization; and Socialism and Communism.

Session 2: Sunday, October 7   Comparing Marxian to Mainstream (“neoclassical”) and Keynesian Economics
This course aims to explain how these three significant yet very different ways of understanding economics both reflect and shape modern societies’ political, cultural, and economic conflicts. Readings will be distributed and Resnick, S. and Wolff, R., Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, MIT Press, 2012 will serve as background to the day long Sunday seminar.

Agitate! Educate! Organize!  Agit Prop in the 21st Century
Exhibition Dates: June 12 -- September 30, 2018 at Interference Archive
314 7th St. Brooklyn, btw. 4th & 5th Aves., nr. F, G, R stops;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/55DXTwh2ffR2  http://interferencearchive.org/category/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/InterferenceArc/events  https://twitter.com/InterferenceArc
 info@interferencearchive.org [please research gallery hours -t.]

Our daily lives are saturated with information; we consume supposedly “neutral” media that implicitly supports existing power structures, yet we simultaneously fear “fake news” without critically analyzing the truths and biases that coexist in every message we see or hear. The reality is that all media has an agenda: for hundreds of years, people have used art, culture, graphics, performance, and design as central elements of social and political organizing across all realms of the political spectrum, to spread information and reimagine reality. This exhibition reflects historic and current uses of agitprop, or agitational propaganda, at the intersection of design and political organizing.

“Propaganda,” from the same root as “propagate,” refers to information that is shared in support of a cause. In modern times, the word propaganda has been weighted with negative connotations; we aim to reclaim the word and highlight the radical potential of propaganda to instigate change. With the Arab Spring, Occupy, Gezi Park, Black Lives Matter, #NoDAPL, and now the resistance to Donald Trump, we’ve seen a new explosion of agitprop. People of all stripes have come out into the streets, placards and banners in hand, wearing T-shirts and buttons, passing out flyers and stickers to protest social injustice. This boost of political ephemera hasn’t been created in a vacuum—since the advent of the printing press and movable type, political slogans and graphics have been part of our daily existence. Politicized communication is the constant accompaniment to people organizing to improve the lives of their families, communities, and co-workers.

Because so much attention is focused on organizing and activism, now is the perfect time to unearth and unpack the history of agitprop. Where does it come from? Who have been its major practitioners? How have the aesthetics and content evolved over time? And, how can we use it to change the world?
   
Interference Archive exists because people like you believe in what we do. The backbone of this community are sustainers who make a regular contribution to the archive, generally of $10 to $50 each month.

Visit our website to learn how you can become a monthly sustainer of Interference Archive!

            ``...[Saturday, Sept. 29] march on Washington,DC
            and [Sunday, Sept. 30] march on New York City.``

March For Black Women 2018
Washington DC and New York City
event graphic, descriptions & contacts for updates:  https://goo.gl/88rGri
https://eventbrite.com/e/march-for-black-women-2018-tickets-47402055825
Free
by Black Women's Blueprint  (347) 533-9102 or -9103 https://twitter.com/BlackWomensBP  blackwomensblueprintny.org? blackwomen@blackwomensblueprintny.org info@blackwomensblueprint.org  www.blackwomensblueprint.org https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieveBlackWomen https://facebook.com/pg/blackwomens.BWBNY/events/

This September 29, 2018 we march on Washington,DC and on September 30. 2018 we march on New York City. Black women (cis, trans, other identities) and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically with all others who want to pull the foot of oppression off our necks.
Our March is not only a mass mobilization centered on all Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women are forcibly taken from their children, deported or killed by law enforcement; so long as our daughters are sold or go missing; so long as we are raped by friends, family, dates, strangers, prominent persons or nationally renown predators -- WE MUST DEPLOY OUR COLLECTIVE POWER. DEMAND JUSTICE. FIGHT FOR PEACE.
We need you to show up for Black women in all our diversity because our oppressions are bound-up together.

We give ourselves permission to believe in the power of our demands and the strength of our convictions to take back what is already ours. We cannot allow an isolationist impulse to dictate our movement strategy given the political urgency of now. As various communities of Black women, we have always faced innumerable personal, and unspeakable brutalities. We cannot allow the travesties that have affirmed disregard for our existence to continue to flourish while we wither away with resentment and stew in our own rage. Continue to act to eradicate oppression wherever it shows up. This has been our inherited tradition for centuries, practiced in diverse ways around the world, in in both peaceful protest and in righteous anger in the face of indignities and in the fance of dehumanization.

JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION & A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR BLACK WOMEN

            ``...[Saturday, Sept. 29] march on Washington,DC
            and [Sunday, Sept. 30] march on New York City.``

March For Black Women 2018
Washington DC and New York City
ASK CORRECT SCHEDULE
event graphic, descriptions & contacts for updates:  https://goo.gl/88rGri
https://eventbrite.com/e/march-for-black-women-2018-tickets-47402055825
Free
by Black Women's Blueprint  (347) 533-9102 or -9103 https://twitter.com/BlackWomensBP  blackwomensblueprintny.org ? blackwomen@blackwomensblueprintny.org info@blackwomensblueprint.org  www.blackwomensblueprint.org
https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieveBlackWomen
https://facebook.com/pg/blackwomens.BWBNY/events/

This September 29, 2018 we march on Washington,DC and on September 30. 2018 we march on New York City. Black women (cis, trans, other identities) and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically with all others who want to pull the foot of oppression off our necks.
Our March is not only a mass mobilization centered on all Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women are forcibly taken from their children, deported or killed by law enforcement; so long as our daughters are sold or go missing; so long as we are raped by friends, family, dates, strangers, prominent persons or nationally renown predators -- WE MUST DEPLOY OUR COLLECTIVE POWER. DEMAND JUSTICE. FIGHT FOR PEACE.
We need you to show up for Black women in all our diversity because our oppressions are bound-up together.

We give ourselves permission to believe in the power of our demands and the strength of our convictions to take back what is already ours. We cannot allow an isolationist impulse to dictate our movement strategy given the political urgency of now. As various communities of Black women, we have always faced innumerable personal, and unspeakable brutalities. We cannot allow the travesties that have affirmed disregard for our existence to continue to flourish while we wither away with resentment and stew in our own rage. Continue to act to eradicate oppression wherever it shows up. This has been our inherited tradition for centuries, practiced in diverse ways around the world, in in both peaceful protest and in righteous anger in the face of indignities and in the fance of dehumanization.

JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION & A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR BLACK WOMEN

            ``...[Saturday, Sept. 29] march on Washington,DC
            and [Sunday, Sept. 30] march on New York City.``

March For Black Women 2018
Washington DC and New York City
ASK CORRECT SCHEDULE
event graphic, descriptions & contacts for updates:  https://goo.gl/88rGri
https://eventbrite.com/e/march-for-black-women-2018-tickets-47402055825
Free
by Black Women's Blueprint  (347) 533-9102 or -9103 https://twitter.com/BlackWomensBP  blackwomensblueprintny.org ? blackwomen@blackwomensblueprintny.org info@blackwomensblueprint.org  www.blackwomensblueprint.org
https://twitter.com/hashtag/BelieveBlackWomen
https://facebook.com/pg/blackwomens.BWBNY/events/

This September 29, 2018 we march on Washington,DC and on September 30. 2018 we march on New York City. Black women (cis, trans, other identities) and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically with all others who want to pull the foot of oppression off our necks.
Our March is not only a mass mobilization centered on all Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women are forcibly taken from their children, deported or killed by law enforcement; so long as our daughters are sold or go missing; so long as we are raped by friends, family, dates, strangers, prominent persons or nationally renown predators -- WE MUST DEPLOY OUR COLLECTIVE POWER. DEMAND JUSTICE. FIGHT FOR PEACE.
We need you to show up for Black women in all our diversity because our oppressions are bound-up together.

We give ourselves permission to believe in the power of our demands and the strength of our convictions to take back what is already ours. We cannot allow an isolationist impulse to dictate our movement strategy given the political urgency of now. As various communities of Black women, we have always faced innumerable personal, and unspeakable brutalities. We cannot allow the travesties that have affirmed disregard for our existence to continue to flourish while we wither away with resentment and stew in our own rage. Continue to act to eradicate oppression wherever it shows up. This has been our inherited tradition for centuries, practiced in diverse ways around the world, in in both peaceful protest and in righteous anger in the face of indignities and in the fance of dehumanization.

JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION & A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR BLACK WOMEN

History of Women & Gender: Tracing and Gendering Diaspora
Monday Oct. 1, 12:30 to 2:00pm in NYU King Juan Carlos I Center,
53 Washington Sq South,  Room 701, btw. Sullivan & Thompson
(http://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events/fall-2018/history-of-women---gender--tracing-and-gendering-diaspora.html) http://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events.html
w/ Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 212-998-8686 clacs@nyu.edu
venue https://www.kjcc.org/event/ https://twitter.com/kjcc_nyu
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Please join the History of Women and Gender program for the first event of the semester: Monday, October 1 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in 53 Washington Square South, Room 701. This event is cosponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Joan Flores-Villalobos, Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University, will discuss her paper " 'Freak Letters:' Tracing and Gendering Diaspora in the Archive of the Panama Canal" (see abstract below).

A light lunch will be served.

 == > RSVP to cjr431@nyu.edu for a copy of the text. All are welcome to attend, whether or not you read the paper in advance.  [ask but RSVP doesn't sound required to me.  NYU public events generally require any standard public ID such as NYCID, driver's or passport.  your name might be recorded like at CUNY. Call to ask.  -t.]

Clare Richfield

Abstract:

"This article explores how West Indian women are recorded using the papers and correspondence of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal, housed in the National Archives of the United States. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found in a file labeled “Freak Letters,” I consider the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, and trace instead the counter-narratives of mobility, affect, and self-determination that might have shaped this woman’s life. I argue that a diasporic and imaginative methodology of recovery can illuminate experiences and limitations beyond the lens of empire. Using this approach, I uncover the archival logic behind “Freak Letters” and recreate the woman’s milieu, highlighting her mobility and diasporic connections. Ultimately, the article seeks to build an empathetic, horizontal, archipelagic counter-discourse as the basis for our explorations of subjects historically silenced or denigrated."
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Power, Collective Struggle, and the Poetic Imagination
Reading & Conversation
Monday Oct. 1 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in
CUNY Graduate Ctr. Skylight Room
365 5th Av. Rm 9100, btw. E. 34th & E. 35th nr. B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 34th St. bus; https://osm.org/go/Zct9GoMTJ-- https://goo.gl/maps/ccmoiwNWCnK2
http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/10-01-power-collective-struggle-and-the-poetic-imagination/
Free & public.  The Center for Place, Culture and Politics

Join us for the launch of three timely books, Building Power From Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart by Carolina Bank Muñoz, Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling by Sujatha Fernandes, and Landia by Celina Su, that look at the joy and poetry of collective struggles. Panning through the voices of Chilean Walmart workers, Afghan women writers, West Indian domestic workers in New York, and Burmese refugee children in northwestern Thailand, these books explore what it means to tell one’s story, the value and peril of symbolic power, and the poetry at the heart of social struggles in the contemporary world. Authors will discuss themes from their books, followed by a Q & A with the audience.

Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. Her work explores social movements, storytelling, and cultural politics in the Americas and globally. Her books include Cuba Represent! (2006), Who Can Stop the Drums? (2010), and most recently Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (2017). Her literary work includes a memoir on global hip hop, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (2011), as well as essays and short stories published and forthcoming in the New York Times, The Nation, The Maine Review, Aster(ix), and elsewhere. Fernandes has also worked as a faculty co-leader in the Narrating Change, Changing Narratives research group of the 2014-2016 Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research from the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Carolina Bank Muñoz is currently Tow Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is an activist-scholar whose work focuses on immigration, globalization, labor, work, and Latin America. Her most recent books include Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart with Cornell University Press and Walmart in the Global South (with Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher) with the University of Texas Press. Her previous book,Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, was the winner of the Terry Book Award. She is currently working on A Peoples Guide to New York City with Penny Lewis and Emily Molina (University of California Press 2019).

Celina Su is the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies and an Associate Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. Her publications include Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (Cornell University Press) and essays in Harper’s, n+1, and elsewhere. She has received several distinguished fellowships, including a Berlin Prize and a Whiting Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her first book of poetry, Landia, was published by Belladonna* in 2018.

Co-sponsored by Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC); the Center for Place, Culture and Politics; the PhD Program in Sociology; and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, & the Destruction of Mexico
Monday, Oct. 1 from 7:00 to 9:00pm in King Juan Carlos I Center, Auditorium
53 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St., next to Judson Mem. Church & nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, PATH, #1, R, W, 6 stops & Houston St. cross town bus;
Free and public.   == >  RSVP  (https://eventbrite.com/e/presenting-eating-nafta-trade-food-policies-the-destruction-of-mexico-by-alyshia-galvez-registration-50419770892) Ask whether required.  Bring any standard public I.D. -t.)  (http://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events/fall-2018/eating-nafta--trade--food-policies----the-destruction-of-mexico.html)
w/ Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 212-998-8686 clacs@nyu.edu
http://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events.html
venue https://www.kjcc.org/event/ https://twitter.com/kjcc_nyu
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The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, are proud to present the latest book by Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico.”

About the book:

Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of dietrelated chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes—attributed to changes in the Mexican diet—has resulted in a public health emergency. In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people’s everyday lives.

About the author:

Alyshia Gálvez is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants and Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox.

Speakers:

Melissa Fuster is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Nutrition at the City University of New York Brooklyn College and a Fellow at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. Her research addresses the historical, social and cultural factors surrounding food selection and consumption, and the policies implemented to address them. She holds a doctoral degree in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, where she examined healthy eating perceptions among food insecure Salvadoran communities. Prior to joining CUNY, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Food Studies at New York University. In this role, she investigated the sociopolitical and cultural factors affecting culinary and nutritional outcomes in the Spanish Caribbean region and its transnational, diaspora communities in the US, forming the basis of her first book project. Her current work examines food environment policies and interventions to encourage healthy eating behaviors in New York City and Latin America.

Mireya Loza is an Assistant Professor of Food Studies in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies. She earned her doctorate in American Studies and an M.A. in Public Humanities at Brown University. In addition, she holds an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her areas of research include Latinx History, Social Movements, Labor History and Food Studies. Her book, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom (UNC Press), examines the Bracero Program and how guest workers negotiated the intricacies of indigeneity, intimacy, and transnational organizing. She is currently carrying out research for her second book project tentatively title, The Strangeness and Bitterness of Plenty: Making Food and Seeing Race in the Agricultural West, 1942-1965.

Krishnendu Ray is the Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at NYU. He was a faculty member and the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at The Culinary Institute of America. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table (2004), The Ethnic Restaurateur (2016), and the co-editor of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (2012). He is currently the President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). His most recent work is on street vending in global cities with attention to questions of law, livelihood, and liveliness of cities.

This event is free and open to the public. ID is required to access the building. The conversation will be held in English.

 . New Dark Age: James Bridle & Ingrid Burrington on technology and the future
How the Information Age destroys knowledge
Tuesday, Oct. 2 from 7.00 to 9.00pm at Eyebeam
199 Cook St. Brooklyn, btw. Bushwick Av. & White St./Evergreen Av.;
L Train to Morgan Av.; J to Flushing Av.; transit https://goo.gl/maps/czcTwV73xTA2
(https://versobooks.com/events/1837-new-dark-age-james-bridle-amp-ingrid-burrington-on-technology-and-the-future)  https://versobooks.com/events

  . New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the FutureThursday, Oct. 4 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in Housing Works at

126 Crosby St. btw. E. Houston St. & Prince St.
https://versobooks.com/events/1839-new-dark-age-technology-and-the-end-of-the-futureBook https://versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age  https://twitter.com/jamesbridle
Sample Chapter https://goo.gl/ryn2CE

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world.

In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new Dark Age.

From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation.

In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.

In these videos James Bridle explains some of the arguments from New Dark Age. Watch all the videos here.

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Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality (CWI Workshop)
Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in Columbia U. Knox Hall
606 W. 122nd St. Room #509, btw. Claremont Av. & Broadway, nr. #1, A, B, C, D, M60 bus; transit:  https://osm.org/go/Zc4ob4Pgw- https://goo.gl/maps/2J4Yz7sFjj32
Ameed Saabneh, University of Haifa, "Displaced and Segregated: The Socioeconomic Status of the Second Generation of Internally Displaced Palestines in Israel"
Bailey.Brown@columbia.edu
http://iserp.columbia.edu/events

CWI Seminars are held on Thursdays throughout the academic year at 2pm in 509 Knox Hall (606 West 122nd Street).  We are pleased to announce an exciting group of speakers for our Fall 2018 semester:

Sept. 27, Michael Jacobson (Institute for State and Local Governance, CUNY)

Oct. 4, Ameed Saabneh (Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Haifa)

Oct. 11, Barry Eidlin (Dept. of Sociology, McGill University), “Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada”

Oct. 18, Tonya Brito (School of Law, University of Wisconsin)

Nov. 8, Alair Maclean Dept. of Sociology, Washington State University)

Nov. 15, Kieron Barclay (Max Planck Center for Demography), “The Influence of Birth Order and Family Size on Marital Stability”

Nov. 29, Matthew Hall (College of Human Ecology, Cornell University), “The Impact of Immigrant Deportations on Latino Segregation”

Dec. 6, Jennifer Heerwig (Dept. of Sociology, Stony Brook University), “Money in the Middle: Contribution Strategies among Affluent Donors to Federal Elections, 1980-2008”

Upcoming Events

 . Race, Ethnicity and Migration (REM) Workshop
September 24, 2018

 . "On (Not) Knowing What is to be Done" (In 17 Affective Registers)
September 25, 2018

 . Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality (CWI Workshop)
September 27, 2018

 . Experimental Design Workshop
September 28, 2018

 . SKAT - Science, Knowledge, and Technology Workshop
October 1, 2018

Fail States: Dispossession and the Grounds of Relationality
A lecture by Jodi Byrd
Thursday Oct. 4 , 2018 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at CUNY Graduate Ctr.
365 5th Av., Rm 9100/Skylight Room, btw. E. 34th & E. 35th nr. B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 34th St. bus;
https://osm.org/go/Zct9GoMTJ--  https://goo.gl/maps/ccmoiwNWCnK2
Free & public.  event graphic, descriptions & contacts:   (https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1109/files/2018/09/Byrd-flyer-618x800.jpg) (http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/10-04-fail-states-dispossession-and-the-grounds-of-relationality-with-jodi-byrd/)
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``legal testimonies, media stories, and movement stories in the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights campaign``

The Uses of Narrative in Organizing for Social Justice (w/ Sujatha Fernandes)
Thursday, Oct. 4 fr/ 6:10 to 7:30 PM in Columbia U. Knox Hall Rm. 509
606 W. 122nd St. btw. Claremont Av. & Broadway, nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops & M60 bus
https://osm.org/go/Zc4ob4AWA-  https://goo.gl/maps/hhugsusxNg72
(https://oralhistory.columbia.edu/calendar/people/oct-4-the-uses-of-narrative-in-organizing-for-social-justice)  https://facebook.com/events/264004044450569/    https://twitter.com/CU_OralHistory  https://facebook.com/pg/Columbia.OHMA/events
 
Mobilizing stories to create social change is one way that oral histories can be used to shape the future. This talk will focus on the uses of narrative in social justice campaigns, with particular emphasis on domestic worker organizing in New York City. It will explore the use of legal testimonies, media stories, and movement stories in the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights campaign. While stories told to the media and at the legislature helped to bring migrant domestic workers a sense of visibility and recognition in broader society,

Sujatha Fernandes argues that these heavily curated narratives drew on longstanding tropes of bad masters, individual victims, and the home as a site of care, that have longer genealogies in slavery and colonialism. In the aftermath of the campaign, many domestic workers rejected this curated storytelling and sought to tell more critical, complex and contextualized stories about their transnational lives. This workshop will explore how these stories, often more in-depth and creative in format, are vital to the ongoing struggles of domestic workers for social justice.
Columbia University Oral History Masters Program

OHMA is the first program of its kind: a one-year interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree training students in oral history method and theory.

 . New Dark Age: James Bridle & Ingrid Burrington on technology and the future
How the Information Age destroys knowledge
Tuesday, Oct. 2 from 7.00 to 9.00pm at Eyebeam
199 Cook St. Brooklyn, btw. Bushwick Av. & White St./Evergreen Av.;
L Train to Morgan Av.; J to Flushing Av.; transit https://goo.gl/maps/czcTwV73xTA2
(https://versobooks.com/events/1837-new-dark-age-james-bridle-amp-ingrid-burrington-on-technology-and-the-future)  https://versobooks.com/events

  . New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Thursday Oct. 4 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in Housing Works at
126 Crosby St. btw. E. Houston St. & Prince St.
https://versobooks.com/events/1839-new-dark-age-technology-and-the-end-of-the-future
Book https://versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age  https://twitter.com/jamesbridle
Sample Chapter https://goo.gl/ryn2CE

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world.

In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we’re living in a new Dark Age.

From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat of automation.

In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems, and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.

In these videos James Bridle explains some of the arguments from New Dark Age. Watch all the videos here.

.

500 Years of Resistance: LWC Community Gala 2018
Friday, Oct. 5 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in St. Peter`s Church

601 or 619 Lexington Ave. at SE corner of E. 54th St.; E, M Train to Lexington Av. (west exit to Lexington); #6 to 51 St. (at Lex.); B, D to 7 Av. (at W.53rd); #7 to 42 St.-Grand Central (at Lexington); #4, 5, S to 42 St.-Grand Central (at Park Av.); F to 57 St. (at 6th Av.); N, Q, R, W to 57 St.-7 Av.; #1, A, C to 59 St.-Columbus Cir.; cross town bus via 57th St. or 50th St.
transit https://goo.gl/maps/tSR7dQtjhVK2 
Event graphic & descriptions https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DluX0HJUYAAGBl9.jpg
http://tiny.cc/lwc2018tickets http://tiny.cc/lwcgala2018 laundryworkercenter@gmail.com

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/500-years-of-resistance-lwc-community-gala-2018  https://facebook.com/events/236884993835511/
347-829-6748 https://twitter.com/LWC_workers/status/1034587906407649281
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LWC.ORG/events/ m.me/LWC.ORG
(646) 801-8592 info@laundry-workers-center-united.org http://www.lwcu.org
 https://twitter.com/LWC_workers
       

Laundry Workers Center is pleased to invite you to our 2018 Community Gala Fundraiser to celebrate together a year of resilience and worker justice. This year, our theme "500 Years of Resistance" honors our member-workers, many of whom are part of indigenous communities, and pays respect to the long legacy of resistance to colonialism and genocide in the Americas.

Friday, October 5, 2018
6:00pm - 9:00pm
619 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022
(East 54 St and Lexington Av. Subways: N, R, W to Lexington Av - 59th St; E, M to Lexington Av-53rd St; 6 to 51 St)

Help us sustain our growing organization and ongoing campaigns by buying a ticket or becoming a Monthly Sustainer.* You can buy tickets via our Action Network Fundraiser, donating via our website donation page, or by mailing a check.**

Member - $10 (registered member of LWC)
Friend - $50
Advocate - $100
Ally - $200
Champion - $500
Visionary - $1000 (or package of 10 tickets)
Supernova - $2000

Join together with LWC members, and fellow organizers, activists, allies, and friends to celebrate our recent victories and our ongoing laundry workers campaign that we launched in June 2018! For questions or concerns, please reach out to <laundryworkerscenter@gmail.com>.

*Please consider becoming a Monthly Sustainer (https://laundryworkerscenter.org/support/). It's the best way to give, and to know each month you are directly supporting NYC's worker-led justice movement. By becoming a LWC monthly sustainer with $10/month or more, you will enable us to keep the fight going in the years to come.

** Checks should be paid to the order of our fiscal sponsor (Brandworkers International), with a note in the memo that it is a donation to the Laundry Workers Center. It should be mailed to the Laundry Workers Center (80 Broad St #613a New York NY 10004)

Catering by LWC member and communtiy leader Pablo Rutillio and his restaurant, La Essencia. 5085 Broadway Ave, Inwood, Manhattan 10034.500 Years of Resistance: LWC Community Gala 2018  

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HIV: The Three Epidemics
Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018 fr/ 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Caveat
21A Clinton St. btw Stanton St. & E. Houston St. nr. F, J, M, B, D, #6 stops & Houston St. bus
https://osm.org/go/Zct8S38R0-- https://goo.gl/maps/i7SedLd4Te12
https://eventbrite.com/e/hiv-the-three-epidemics-tickets-49857669632
(https://caveat.nyc/event/talks-progress-administration--hiv%2C-the-three-epidemics-10-6-2018) https://facebook.com/events/288580881727292/
https://www.sarahcameronhughes.com/talks-progress-administration/
events at venue https://caveat.nyc/events https://facebook.com/pg/caveatnyc/events/
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212-228-2100 contact@caveat.nyc http://m.me/caveatnyc

The TPA Presents: HIV, The Three Epidemics
With Allison Navis, Directed by Sarah Hughes
AIDS abruptly appeared in 1981 and quickly created a world of fear, destroying countless lives and exposing the deadly power of public stigma along the way. Almost four decades later, much has changed, and yet much work still remains to be done. Three Epidemics uses a mix of science and theatrical multimedia to explore the history of HIV and assess how it evolved from a deadly infection to a chronic disease, how lack of access to healthcare and mistaken public perception may be helping the disease spread, and how we can use tools of advocacy and awareness to win the fight against AIDS.

Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:00pm
Tickets: $15
Events are 21+ unless otherwise specified
Venue is mixed seating and standing-room: arrive early to get a good seat!

The Talks Progress Administration is a mad science experiment on stage – we’re pairing academic lecturers with theater directors to see what they’ll make together. The TPA is combining intellectual entertainment, creative discourse, and interactive storytelling like you’ve never seen before.

What would happen if Bill Nye got cast in Sleep No More, if Jane Goodall sat down for tea with Brecht, or if Stephen Hawking wrote a new Hamilton-inspired rock opera? We don’t know, but we sure as hell can’t wait to find out.

The TPA is a collaboration between The Story Collider and Caveat, and is supported by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science.

Allison Navis is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Neuro Infectious Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She got her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Boston University and completed her MD from New York Medical College. She recently finished a residency in neurology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel before choosing to specialize in HIV. In addition to treating patients, she researches the effects of HIV on the nervous system and is currently involved in studies both in New York City and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has an interest in healthcare advocacy and preventative health for underserved communities.

Sarah Hughes is a director and producer of theater and new media. She’s developed theater, installation and virtual reality works with artists and companies such as McFeely Sam Goodman, Eliza Bent, Corinne Donly, Julia May Jonas / Nellie Tinder, Cara Scarmack, Graham Sack and Sensorium, Superhero Clubhouse, and Elevator Repair Service, and her work has been seen at Abrons Arts Center, The Tank, PEN World Voices, and BAM Next Wave, among others. 2016-17 Civilians R&D Lab, New Georges Affiliated Artist, Target Margin Theater Associated Artist, Clubbed Thumb 2017-18 Directing Fellow.

REFUND POLICY: Tickets maybe be refunded up to 24 hours before the event. Within 24 hours we may take exchanges for other events at our discretion. No refunds after the event.

Wob Fest: Union Fundraiser for the Industrial Workers of the World
Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9:00 p.m. (to 1:00 a.m.) at Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St., Brooklyn, btw. Bogart St. & Morgan Ave..; L to Morgan
https://osm.org/go/Zct8sLMPk-- https://goo.gl/maps/Bk9jguwxrC12
$11.46 at (https://eventbrite.com/e/wob-fest-union-fundraiser-for-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-tickets-49188287492)
https://facebook.com/events/516793962094711/

Featuring All IWW Acts:

    Stardust Family United (vocal, variety)
    The Squeegee Men (surf-a-billy lunkhead rock)
    Thee Red Heads (punk rock, no wave, experimental)
    The Missioncreep (live PA, industrial electro breakbeat)

$10 Suggested Donation
Can't make it, but want to support us? Visit WobblyCity.org/Donate

 . Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
Sunday Oct. 7, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM +
Monday Oct. 8, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Harlem River Field [?-t.] Icahn Stadium on Randall's Is.
M35 bus from Lexington Av. & E. 125th St.; directions https://goo.gl/cVP7Qp
Event graphic https://goo.gl/ti6TjB   = (https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33770869_10155458914955911_2095110713713360896_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=c3906833770cb6c5dafa32fda0fd5d41&oe=5BF5AB33)
https://facebook.com/events/128910417901745/7186869297
(718) 686-9297 indigenouspeoplenyc@gmail.com www.redhawkcouncil.org
  Free admission & parking
  Donations Accepted
  Bring lawn chairs
  Overnight camp-out
  Pre-register tents

. Rally and Action - Hurricane Maria Hit Puerto Rico One Year Ago
Thursday Sept. 20 fr/ 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Union Sq. Park, prob. nr. E.14th St.
Details on event graphic https://goo.gl/btKso8 = (https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38774640_10155613020340911_2096147746451881984_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1a2afc296625c19df2eb16fdf38fcda1&oe=5C026B7E)
https://facebook.com/events/501869910271805/ Public · Hosted by
United Confederation of Taino People  http://www.uctp.org
https://facebook.com/events/501869910271805/ oirrc@uctp.org m.me/53905785910
https://facebook.com/pg/United-Confederation-of-Taino-People-53905785910/events
 We call on members of the Social, Environmental and Climate Justice movements, members of ‘la diaspora’, Nuyoricans and others who stand in solidarity with Puerto Rico to support our effort to highlight Puerto Ricans fighting for a just and equitable recovery. Join #OurPowerNYC, organizers, grassroots leaders, artists and others who are actively engaged in a people-to-people just recovery for Puerto Rico to ask, where are we now?

United Confederation of Taino People   If you are Taíno, Arawak, or Carib, you can become a part of this dynamic movement by affirming your Caribbean Indigenous heritage via our Taino Population Census & Inter-Tribal Registry. Just download forms www.uctp.org

Marxian Economics Intensives with Richard D. Wolff
Sundays, Sept. 30 & Oct. 7, Noon to 4:00 PM at The People’s Forum
320 W 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, 7, S, N, Q, R, D, F & cross town buses via 34th or 42nd; weekend transit http://tripplanner.mta.info
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
svc. cuts & changes http://mta.info/weekender
TICKETS, either or both session/s: (https://peoplesforum.org/event/marxian-economics-intensives-with-richard-d-wolff/2018-09-30/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets)
venue https://peoplesforum.org/calendar  https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org ; speaker / D@W: 510-601-0182 https://twitter.com/profwolff https://www.democracyatwork.info/calendar  https://facebook.com/pg/RichardDWolff/events   http://rdwolff.com
m.me/RichardDWolff  similar listings marxedproject.org/venue/the-peoples-forum/

Session 1: Sunday, Sept. 30   Marxian Class Analysis: What it is and its Value for Understanding Society Today
A Marxian class analysis around four areas of inquiry: Capitalist enterprises- merchant, industrial, and financial; Households and the State; Globalization; and Socialism and Communism.

Session 2: Sunday, Oct. 7   Comparing Marxian to Mainstream (“neoclassical”) and Keynesian Economics
This course aims to explain how these three significant yet very different ways of understanding economics both reflect and shape modern societies’ political, cultural, and economic conflicts. Readings will be distributed and Resnick, S. and Wolff, R., Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, MIT Press, 2012 will serve as background to the day long Sunday seminar.

Wob Fest: Union Fundraiser for the Industrial Workers of the World
Saturday, Oct. 6 from 9:00 p.m. (to 1:00 a.m.) at Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan St., Brooklyn, btw. Bogart St. & Morgan Ave..; L to Morgan
https://osm.org/go/Zct8sLMPk-- https://goo.gl/maps/Bk9jguwxrC12
$11.46 at (https://eventbrite.com/e/wob-fest-union-fundraiser-for-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-tickets-49188287492)
https://facebook.com/events/516793962094711/

Featuring All IWW Acts:

    Stardust Family United (vocal, variety)
    The Squeegee Men (surf-a-billy lunkhead rock)
    Thee Red Heads (punk rock, no wave, experimental)
    The Missioncreep (live PA, industrial electro breakbeat)

$10 Suggested Donation
Can't make it, but want to support us? Visit WobblyCity.org/Donate

 . Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
Sunday Oct. 7, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM + overnight camp-out, then...
Monday Oct. 8, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Harlem River Field [?-t.] Icahn Stadium on Randall's Is.
M35 bus from Lexington Av. & E. 125th St.; directions https://goo.gl/cVP7Qp
Event graphic https://goo.gl/ti6TjB   = (https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/33770869_10155458914955911_2095110713713360896_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=c3906833770cb6c5dafa32fda0fd5d41&oe=5BF5AB33)
https://facebook.com/events/128910417901745/7186869297
(718) 686-9297 indigenouspeoplenyc@gmail.com www.redhawkcouncil.org
  Free admission & parking
  Donations Accepted
  Bring lawn chairs
  Overnight camp-out
  Pre-register tents

 
. Rally and Action - Hurricane Maria Hit Puerto Rico One Year Ago
Thursday Sept. 20 fr/ 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Union Sq. Park, prob. nr. E.14th St.
Details on event graphic https://goo.gl/btKso8 = (https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/38774640_10155613020340911_2096147746451881984_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1a2afc296625c19df2eb16fdf38fcda1&oe=5C026B7E)
https://facebook.com/events/501869910271805/ Public · Hosted by
United Confederation of Taino People  http://www.uctp.org
https://facebook.com/events/501869910271805/ oirrc@uctp.org m.me/53905785910
https://facebook.com/pg/United-Confederation-of-Taino-People-53905785910/events
 We call on members of the Social, Environmental and Climate Justice movements, members of ‘la diaspora’, Nuyoricans and others who stand in solidarity with Puerto Rico to support our effort to highlight Puerto Ricans fighting for a just and equitable recovery. Join #OurPowerNYC, organizers, grassroots leaders, artists and others who are actively engaged in a people-to-people just recovery for Puerto Rico to ask, where are we now?

United Confederation of Taino People       If you are Taíno, Arawak, or Carib, you can become a part of this dynamic movement by affirming your Caribbean Indigenous heritage via our Taino Population Census & Inter-Tribal Registry. Just download forms www.uctp.org

Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Tuesday, Oct. 9 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM at Barnard Hall 4th Fl. in James Room
3009 Broadway at W. 117th St. nr. #1 & M60 bus;
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/erna-brodber-and-nicole-dennis-benn/
(https://barnard.edu/events/critical-caribbean-feminisms-dialogue bcrw.barnard.edu/event/erna-brodber-and-nicole-dennis-benn/)   (https://eventbrite.com/e/critical-caribbean-feminisms-erna-brodber-and-nicole-dennis-benn-tickets-41563767347)
by Barnard Center for Research on Women  https://facebook.com/pg/BCRW.Feminism/events/   (212) 854-2067 bcrw@barnard.edu  http://bcrw.barnard.edu
Free

BCRW, the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism co-host a reading and conversation with Roxane Gay, award-winning author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017), Difficult Women (2017), and Bad Feminist (2014). Following the reading, Gay and BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro will discuss various forms of writing--including novels, memoir, and social media interventions--and examine how these create space for conversations around and advocacy for social justice.
About the Speakers
Activist, scholar, and writer Erna Brodber has, over the course of a four-decade career, established herself as a major voice in Caribbean literature. Her distinctive polyvocal narratives draw upon the oral and scribal traditions of the African diaspora, echoing sources as diverse as the folk tales of Anansi the spider-god and the modernist novels of James Joyce. Her protagonists contend with destructive magical forces, in the process recovering their own lost or stolen histories—what Brodber describes as “the half [that has] not been told.” In works like Myal (1988) and Nothing’s Mat (2014), she skillfully uses elements of Afro-Jamaican cosmology to convey both the richness of diasporic traditions, as well as the danger of forgetting them. For Brodber, the past is never really dead—an idea she literalizes in Myal, where “spirit thievery” and zombification become a powerful trope for the psychological and political legacies of colonial exploitation. A winner of a Prince Claus Award (2006), the Musgrave Medal (1999), and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (1989), Brodber holds an Honorary D.Litt. from the University of West Indies at Mona (2011). She lives in the village of Woodside, Saint Mary, Jamaica.

Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of the debut novel, Here Comes the Sun (Norton/Liveright, July 2016). Dennis-Benn is a Lambda Literary Award winner, named by Time Out Magazine as an immigrant making a stamp on New York City. Her debut novel has received much acclaim including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and NPR Best Books of 2016. Dennis-Benn is a Kowald Visiting Faculty in City College's MFA Program and Faculty in the Creative Writing Program at NYU; and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Lambda, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Hurston/Wright, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, ELLE Magazine, Electric Literature, Lenny Letter, Catapult, Red Rock Review, Kweli Literary Journal, Mosaic, Ebony, and the Feminist Wire. Her writing has been awarded a Richard and Julie Logsdon Fiction Prize; and two of her stories have been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in Fiction. Vice listed Dennis-Benn among immigrant authors "who are making American Literature great again." Dennis-Benn was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a graduate of St. Andrew High School for Girls and Cornell University; and holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.

Details and Accessibility
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required. The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.

Co-Sponsored by Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

Tue, Nov 13 6:30 PM   Building from the Left: Strategies to Dismantle the Right
The Diana Cente

Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
Tuesday Oct. 9, 2018 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in Barnard Hall 4th Fl. James Rm.
opposite campus gate  W. 117th & Broadway nr. #1, A, B, C, D, M60
(https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/campus_map-online-summer18-final-2.pdf)
Free  (https://eventbrite.com/e/critical-caribbean-feminisms-erna-brodber-and-nicole-dennis-benn-tickets-41563767347)

by Barnard Center for Research on Women  https://bcrw.barnard.edu/events/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/BCRW.Feminism/events

BCRW, the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism co-host a reading and conversation with Roxane Gay, award-winning author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017), Difficult Women (2017), and Bad Feminist (2014). Following the reading, Gay and BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro will discuss various forms of writing--including novels, memoir, and social media interventions--and examine how these create space for conversations around and advocacy for social justice.

About the Speakers

Activist, scholar, and writer Erna Brodber has, over the course of a four-decade career, established herself as a major voice in Caribbean literature. Her distinctive polyvocal narratives draw upon the oral and scribal traditions of the African diaspora, echoing sources as diverse as the folk tales of Anansi the spider-god and the modernist novels of James Joyce. Her protagonists contend with destructive magical forces, in the process recovering their own lost or stolen histories—what Brodber describes as “the half [that has] not been told.” In works like Myal (1988) and Nothing’s Mat (2014), she skillfully uses elements of Afro-Jamaican cosmology to convey both the richness of diasporic traditions, as well as the danger of forgetting them. For Brodber, the past is never really dead—an idea she literalizes in Myal, where “spirit thievery” and zombification become a powerful trope for the psychological and political legacies of colonial exploitation. A winner of a Prince Claus Award (2006), the Musgrave Medal (1999), and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (1989), Brodber holds an Honorary D.Litt. from the University of West Indies at Mona (2011). She lives in the village of Woodside, Saint Mary, Jamaica.

Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of the debut novel, Here Comes the Sun (Norton/Liveright, July 2016). Dennis-Benn is a Lambda Literary Award winner, named by Time Out Magazine as an immigrant making a stamp on New York City. Her debut novel has received much acclaim including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and NPR Best Books of 2016. Dennis-Benn is a Kowald Visiting Faculty in City College's MFA Program and Faculty in the Creative Writing Program at NYU; and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Lambda, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Hurston/Wright, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, ELLE Magazine, Electric Literature, Lenny Letter, Catapult, Red Rock Review, Kweli Literary Journal, Mosaic, Ebony, and the Feminist Wire. Her writing has been awarded a Richard and Julie Logsdon Fiction Prize; and two of her stories have been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize in Fiction. Vice listed Dennis-Benn among immigrant authors "who are making American Literature great again." Dennis-Benn was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a graduate of St. Andrew High School for Girls and Cornell University; and holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with her wife in Brooklyn, New York.

Details and Accessibility   This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required. The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.

Co-Sponsored by Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

2018 NYAGV Education Fund Annual Benefit
Tuesday, Oct 9, 2018 · 6:30 - 9 pm · Edison Ballroom,

240 W. 47th St.
https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5610/c/209/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=87775

https://twitter.com/nyagv1 www.nyagvedfund.org nyagv.org

Beatrice Fihn, ``On The Fate Of The Earth``
Tuesday Oct. 9, 7:00 to 9:00 PM in The New School Tishman Auditorium
63 Fifth Ave. btw. E. 13th & E. 14th nr. L, PATH, F, M, N, Q, R, W, #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E & buses via 14th St. or 9th St. or 8th St.;  https://osm.org/go/Zct8V7B9F
https://goo.gl/maps/VQL97ToTvZ22
Free RSVP https://t.co/iHnQqjEQLs = (https://eventbrite.com/e/beatrice-fihn-on-the-fate-of-the-earth-tickets-48281150220) ;  event graphic & descriptions:  https://goo.gl/mGQqKv
(https://events.newschool.edu/event/the_jonathan_schell_memorial_lecture_on_the_fate_of_the_earth_elizabeth_kolbert_7303)
https://twitter.com/NationInstitute/status/1042129907625730048 https://events.newschool.edu www.nationinstitute.org 212–822–0250, (212) 340-8164 jayati@nationinstitute.org kristine@nationinstitute.org press@nationinstitute.org

Join us on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, at The New School's Tishman Auditorium as The Nation Institute and the Gould Family Foundation present the third annual Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture on the Fate of the Earth featuring Beatrice Fihn.

Please note that, though the event is free, RSVPs are required.

Beatrice Fihn is the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign coalition that works to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Previously, Beatrice managed the disarmament programme at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Reaching Critical Will project as well as working for the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She has a law degree from the University of London.

The Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series on the Fate of the Earth was established to honor the memory of Nation Institute fellow Jonathan Schell and takes its name from his 1982 work on the consequences of nuclear war. It is an annual lecture of original work delivered by a speaker selected each year by committee addressing topics such as environmentalism, nuclear disarmament, peace, and other issues about the future of humanity and other life on the Earth.

This program is organized by the Nation Institute and The Gould Family Foundation and co-sponsored by The New School and the Tishman Environment and Design Center.

Immigrant Women, Labor, and the Quest for Gender Justice
Bernice Yeung
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 6:30 to 8:00 PM (Doors 6:00 pm) at Brooklyn Historical Soc.
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops; maps:  https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034
$5  (https://eventbrite.com/e/immigrant-women-labor-and-the-quest-for-gender-justice-tickets-49059290659)  http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html
718-222-4111, ext. 250.
How can immigrant women workers achieve safe and just work environments free from sexual harassment and violence? Join us as Bernice Yeung, ProPublica reporter and author of In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers, shares the harrowing experiences she chronicles in her book. She is joined by Rachel Isreeli of the Center for Family Life’s Cooperative Development Program in Sunset Park, which organizes cooperatives in the traditionally exploitative domestic work industry. Joanna Morales, a home care worker, will share her perspective as a worker-owner of Golden Steps Elder Care Cooperative.

Presented in partnership with the Brooklyn Community Foundation and The New Press. Books will be available for purchase in the BHS gift shop and the author will offer signings following the program.

Profiled: A Comedy Show About Racial Profiling
Wednesday, Oct. 10 from 9:00 to 11:00 PM at Caveat
21A Clinton St. btw Stanton St. & E. Houston St. nr. F, J, M, B, D, #6 stops & Houston St. bus
https://osm.org/go/Zct8S38R0-- https://goo.gl/maps/i7SedLd4Te12
$9.47 (https://eventbrite.com/e/profiled-a-comedy-show-about-racial-profiling-tickets-49925952869) (https://www.caveat.nyc/event/profiled-10-10-2018)
events at venue https://caveat.nyc/events https://facebook.com/pg/caveatnyc/events/
https://twitter.com/caveatnyc https://eventbrite.com/o/caveat-13580085802
212-228-2100 contact@caveat.nyc http://m.me/caveatnyc

As a person of color (POC), sometimes it’s difficult to know whether you are being treated poorly because of the color of your skin or you are just the victim of a rude human. However, other times it’s pretty freaking clear that you have been profiled. Being profiled sucks and the best way to get the tension out is by talking about it.Profiled will be a space for people to share their horrible experiences with some humor, while the audience learns about profiling from anecdotal experiences and research.

Hosted by Marcela Onyango & Lauren Clark
Featuring Chanel Ali (Women in Comedy Festival), Yedoye Travis (Comedy Central), Leclerc Andre, Nash Rose, and Dara Jemmott

Doors: 9:00pm / Show: 9:30pm 
Tickets: $9.47 adv / $10 door
21+
This event is mixed seated and standing room. Seats are first-come, first-served.  [Consider calling to ask whether announced times are meant literally, as venue appears to be a nightclub. -t.] 

Marcela Onyango is a writer/comedian/actor based in NYC. She graduated with a BA in International Relations and Economics with hopes of changing the world. Then she thought if she just got a Masters of Public Administration at the American University in Washington, DC people would take her world changing motives seriously. But after living in DC for 7 years, she became disillusioned by politics and sought comedy as an opportunity to discuss serious topics and frankly just complain about how terrible everything is. She produces and hosts an almost weekly news show Feel the News.

Lauren Clark is a New York City based comedian, actress, writer, filmmaker, improv coach and teacher. She graduated in 2011 after studying Creative Writing & Vocal Performance at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. Since moving to NYC in early 2012 she has been part of the cast and crew for various web series, shorts, indie films, plays and podcasts. Currently, she is a regular touring actress with STORY PIRATES while also performing stand-up and characters at various comedy venues throughout the city.

REFUND POLICY: Tickets maybe be refunded up to 24 hours before the event. Within 24 hours we may take exchanges for other events at our discretion. No refunds after the event.
Wed, October 10, 2018
9:00 PM – 11:00 PM

War Resisters League WRL's 95th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, Oct. 11 in DCTV Firehouse at Lafayette St. & White St.
#6 Train to Canal (at Lafayette); J to Canal (at Centre St.); N, Q to Canal (east stairs then
via J Platform onto Centre); R, W to Canal (at Broadway);
transit https://goo.gl/maps/95XFUebnxMT2
TICKETS  https://warresisters.org/civicrm/event/register?1reset=1&id=38
Descriptions & any changes
https://facebook.com/pg/NYC-War-Resisters-League-100615176948963/events/
https://warresisters.org/civicrm/mailing/view?id=411  95thanniversary@warresisters.org  emma@warresisters.org nycwrl@att.net (212) 228-0450 https://m.me/resistwar
https://m.me/100615176948963 https://facebook.com/resistwar/events/  wrl@warresisters.org http://warresisters.org http://www.nycwarresisters.org

WRL's turning 95 this year! Join us this October in NYC to celebrate 95 years of radical antiwar resistance.

The War Resisters League is also publishing a 95th Anniversary Ad Journal - a beautiful keepsake of the organization's history - just in time for our 95th Anniversary Bash! If you or your organization would like to join WRL supporters and friends, new and old in commemorating this event, you can purchase an advertisement here.

WRL's 95th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday Oct. 11, 2018 in Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
87 Lafayette St. at White St.; #6 Train to Canal (at Lafayette); J to Canal (at Centre); N, Q to Canal (east exit stairs nearest Brooklyn, via J Train platform onto Centre St.); R, W to Canal (at Broadway); there is no cross town transit btw. Chambers St. bus & Houston St. bus;
maps & directions https://osm.org/go/Zct8QF4iV- https://goo.gl/maps/5FxbSkigsR22
$105/$61 TIX: https://warresisters.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=38
https://facebook.com/events/253137958742870/ [Consider asking volunteer gigs. -t.]

While it's bittersweet to celebrate 95 years of resisting war, we're excited to gather as a community to rejuvenate ourselves for the long struggle ahead. This October we're taking the opportunity to celebrate WRL's history of resistance and continued commitment to ending war and its root causes while honoring a few of the individuals who carry on the kind of revolutionary work that promises to one day make us all free. We're proud to announce that we'll be awarding Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone woman and sacral site land activist, Corinna Gould, and The Peace Poets, a Bronx-born collective of artists that celebrate, examine, and advocate for life through music and poetry with WRL's 2018 Peace Award. We're also thrilled to announce that lifetime movement activist, Mandy Carter, will be accepting the Grace Paley Lifetime Achievement Award.

This is a ticketed event, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Follow the link for tickets to learn more and how to access discounted tickets.

DCTV is accessible by subway at the J, Z, N, Q, R, 6 Canal St stop in Chinatown in lower Manhattan.
                     :                           :      From a NYC WRL Local Chapter mailing...
 
Antiwar Organizing and Action!

 . NYC WRL Organizing Meeting - Thurs. Sept. 13
DATE: September 13, Thursday
TIME: 7:00 pm
PLACE: Judson Church, 239 Thompson St.
             (1/2 block below Washington Sq. Pk.)
SUBWAYS: "West 4th St." on A, B, C, D, E, F, M trains; "8th St." on R, W trains
We will be planning for the Oct. 7 demonstration against the endless U.S. on Afghanistan — now in its 17th year — among other upcoming actions.  We'll also discuss any updates on the David McReynolds memorial (date and place to be determined), and what happened to Trump's military parade [ask correct ending time -t.]\
 
 . WRL's 95th Anniversary Celebration
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan [at White St. nr. #6, J, N, Q, R, W]
October 11, 2018

For more information: 718-768-7306  nycWRL@nycwarresisters.org
www.nycwarresisters.org     [ but also try these:
m.me/100615176948963 ?  nycwrl@att.net?  https://twitter.com/resistwar
https://facebook.com/pg/NYC-War-Resisters-League-100615176948963/events/  -t.]

Thursday Oct. 11, 2018; 6pm - 8.30pm in 1199 SEIU Penthouse,
330 W. 42nd St. btw. 8th & 9th nr. 42nd St. bus & A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, S, B, D, F, M stops;
ASK EVENT SPECIFICS INCLUDING COST & ANY TIX, REGISTRATION OR RSVP DEAL. TRY: ...OR RESEARCH EVENT TITLE & SENDER NAME, ETC. -T.

From a mailing...
Destination justice! Honoring the airport workers of 32BJ.eml
Subject: Destination justice! Honoring the airport workers of 32BJ
From: Maritza Silva-Farrell
Date: 8/24/2018 5:00 PM

Dear nyprotest,

Today, we're excited to announce that our honorees at the ALIGN 2018 Movement Builders Awards include the Airport Workers Organizing Committee of 32BJ.

Tired of working for poverty wages, New York City-area baggage handlers, security officers, wheelchair agents, terminal and airplane cleaners came together in 2012 to spearhead a historic organizing campaign for respect, fair pay and union rights.

The workers empowered themselves, choosing their own leaders and forming the Airport Workers Organizing Committee to lead the fight.

In 2016, after winning union recognition with 32BJ, they successfully negotiated their first contract which provided important workplace rights and protections. Workers then turned to the Port Authority to raise wages across the board.

While the committee fought for 14,000 passenger services workers, the new $19 minimum wage standards proposed by the Port Authority will cover 40,000 contracted airport workers at the three New York City-area airports, including workers in other sectors like food-service and retail.

Workers like these are the lifeblood of the labor movement, providing inspiration and momentum as we continue to fight for fair pay and strong labor protections.

Join us in celebrating this remarkable win, and the workers who made it possible.
When: Thursday October 11, 2018; 6pm - 8.30pm

Where: 1199 SEIU Penthouse, 330 West 42nd St., New York, NY

RSVP here.

In solidarity,

Maritza Silva-Farrell
Executive Director

WRL's 95th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday Oct. 11, 2018 in Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
87 Lafayette St. at White St.; #6 Train to Canal (at Lafayette); J to Canal (at Centre); N, Q to Canal (east exit stairs nearest Brooklyn, via J Train platform onto Centre St.); R, W to Canal (at Broadway); there is no cross town transit btw. Chambers St. bus & Houston St. bus;
maps & directions https://osm.org/go/Zct8QF4iV- https://goo.gl/maps/5FxbSkigsR22
$105/$61 TIX: https://warresisters.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=38
https://facebook.com/events/253137958742870/ [Consider asking volunteer gigs. -t.]

While it's bittersweet to celebrate 95 years of resisting war, we're excited to gather as a community to rejuvenate ourselves for the long struggle ahead. This October we're taking the opportunity to celebrate WRL's history of resistance and continued commitment to ending war and its root causes while honoring a few of the individuals who carry on the kind of revolutionary work that promises to one day make us all free. We're proud to announce that we'll be awarding Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone woman and sacral site land activist, Corinna Gould, and The Peace Poets, a Bronx-born collective of artists that celebrate, examine, and advocate for life through music and poetry with WRL's 2018 Peace Award. We're also thrilled to announce that lifetime movement activist, Mandy Carter, will be accepting the Grace Paley Lifetime Achievement Award.

This is a ticketed event, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Follow the link for tickets to learn more and how to access discounted tickets.

DCTV is accessible by subway at the J, Z, N, Q, R, 6 Canal St stop in Chinatown in lower Manhattan.
                     :                           :      From a NYC WRL Local Chapter mailing...
 
Antiwar Organizing and Action!

 . NYC WRL Organizing Meeting - Thurs. Sept. 13
DATE: September 13, Thursday
TIME: 7:00 pm
PLACE: Judson Church, 239 Thompson St.
             (1/2 block below Washington Sq. Pk.)
SUBWAYS: "West 4th St." on A, B, C, D, E, F, M trains; "8th St." on R, W trains
We will be planning for the Oct. 7 demonstration against the endless U.S. on Afghanistan — now in its 17th year — among other upcoming actions.  We'll also discuss any updates on the David McReynolds memorial (date and place to be determined), and what happened to Trump's military parade [ask correct ending time -t.]\
 
 . WRL's 95th Anniversary Celebration
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)
87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan [at White St. nr. #6, J, N, Q, R, W]
October 11, 2018

For more information: 718-768-7306  nycWRL@nycwarresisters.org
www.nycwarresisters.org     [ but also try these:
m.me/100615176948963 ?  nycwrl@att.net?  https://twitter.com/resistwar
https://facebook.com/pg/NYC-War-Resisters-League-100615176948963/events/  -t.]

Queer History of the Village w/ Social Justice Tours
Saturdays at 2:00 PM, Sept. 8, Sept, 22, Oct. 13, Oct. 27 fr/ Washington Arch
nr. Washington Sq. No./Waverly Pl. & 5th Av. & nr. A, C, D, E, F, PATH, R, Weekend N Local
& #6, #1 stops; transit planners: http://tripplanner.mta.info or
https://osm.org/go/Zct8U1Lmp-- or https://goo.gl/maps/km5VFcJYprP2
announced service changes & cuts http://mta.info/weekender
$10 at https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours/#block-80c44e26cb6f463b2904
https://facebook.com/events/1981029025288807/  queer@socialjusticetours.com  info@socialjusticetours.com https://facebook.com/socialjusticetours/events https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours
 
Journey back to the queer '60s with someone who experienced it all first hand. Writer, storyteller and queer legend Jay Toole leads folks on a walking tour of the West Village, sharing personal stories and stopping at important places and historical moments along the way. Learn more about the neighborhood through stories about historic lesbian bars, the Women’s House of D (Detention), homelessness in Washington Square park, the mafia's connection to local gay bars and much more.
 
 

Film & Discussion: Eyes on Mississippi
Sunday, October 14, 2018 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Location TBA
https://www.nysec.org/calendar-date_nysec/month/2018-10
As the southern struggle for civil rights caught fire in the 1960s, its burning core was Mississippi. Bill Minor became the state’s most fearless clear-eyed chronicler. His regular Times Picayune and, even more crucially, anonymous dispatches for The New York Times captured U.S. history, in contrast to most Mississippi coverage, white-supremacist propaganda masquerading as fact.

There were threats and opportunities for Minor to leave the state, yet he remained in Jackson, doggedly reporting from 1947 until the Trump administration. Eyes on Mississippi is a 56-minute film on the most essential reporter the nation has never heard of. Minor died in March 2017 at almost 95, producing his outspoken weekly newspaper column until his last illness.

The story of the impact of one reporter determined to call out racism and government dishonesty carries uncanny resonance in the nation today. Besides Minor, other crucial figures participate in the film: Presidential Medal of Freedom winner John Doar, New York Times journalist Claude Sitton, civil-rights leaders Myrlie Evers, former governor William Winter and Pultizer-Prize winner Hank Klibanoff. The film is a five-year project featuring historic footage and images from 19 archives located across the U.S. The documentary’s producer-director is Ellen Ann Fentress. Co-writer and film editor is Lida Gibson.

The documentary examines how Bill Minor witnessed—and occasionally shaped--U.S. history in his coverage of the civil rights movement. Legendary black leader Medgar Evers trusted Minor as the rare local white reporter with a sense of justice. Truth became costly. Three 1964 Freedom Summer volunteers decided to investigate a church burning in Neshoba County after Minor broke the story. The trio’s resulting murders helped awaken the nation to the stakes of the struggle.

Minor made his name as the New Orleans Times Picayune’s Mississippi correspondent. The documentary makes the case that some of his most crucial reporting, however, was his quiet, anonymous civil-rights coverage for The New York Times and Newsweek. The scant use of contributor bylines in the era kept Minor’s national work unknown to his Times Picayune employers. Despite his anonymity to national readers, he was an open secret to the national press corps, who depended on Minor for information.

The documentary explores how Minor’s position as a witness became a contribution of its own. The title Eyes on Mississippi has two meanings. First, it was the name of Minor’s long-time column, but it also was his strategy. The fastest route to change was getting the raw real facts of the struggle out. The more eyes on Mississippi, the more the pressure for transformation.

Minor won Harvard’s Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism in 1966, as well as Columbia’s John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1997.

Screenings have taken place at the Missouri School of Journalism, Tulane University, Atlanta History Center, Vanderbilt University, Washington College, University of Alabama, numerous other colleges in the South and the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.

A Princeton screening is slated for October.

"A Dangerous Idea" Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Monday, Oct. 15, 6:00 to 9:30 PM in Columbia School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Ave.,Rm. C03. btw. W.121st & W.122nd, nr. #1, A, B, C, D, M60 & 125th St. cross town bus lines; transit https://osm.org/go/Zc4oxEmYx--
https://goo.gl/maps/B3dSFfmDXew event descriptions:  (https://socialwork.columbia.edu/event/a-dangerous-idea-eugenics-genetics-and-the-american-dream/)
https://eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-and-expert-panel-discussion-tickets-49918482525
http://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/cssevent/dangerous-idea-film-screening-panel/
film: A DANGEROUS IDEA - Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream
NYC screenings http://adangerousideafilm.com/screenings/
trailer & film publicity  https://vimeo.com/238429950 adangerousideafilm.com
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/dang.html
venue:  212-851-2327; 212-851-2300 https://twitter.com/columbiassw https://facebook.com/pg/columbiassw/events/   sswalumni@columbia.edu
https://socialwork.columbia.edu/alumni/events/
https://socialwork.columbia.edu/about/staff-directory/
https://socialwork.columbia.edu/contact-us/

A dangerous idea has threatened the American Dream from the beginning—the belief that some groups and individuals are inherently superior to others and more deserving of fundamental rights. Such biological determinism provided an excuse for some of America’s most shameful history, and may be rearing its ugly head again. Featuring interviews with social thinkers such as Van Jones and Robert Reich, as well as prominent scientists, A Dangerous Idea is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use, and misuse of gene science. Co-produced by Columbia University School of Social Work alumna Mary Morgan, this documentary brings to light how false scientific claims have rolled back long-fought-for gains in equality, and how powerful interests are poised once again to use the gene myth to unravel the American Dream.

Moderator:
— Irwin Garfinkel, Ph.D., Interim Dean and Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Co

Discuss The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Tuesday, Oct. 16, fr/ 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., NYPL Grand Central Library
135 East 46th St btw. Lex & 3rd nr. #7, 4, 5, 6, S & 42nd St. bus;
maps, etc.:  https://osm.org/go/Zct9NoAAL https://goo.gl/maps/tKVe1SwJghA2 
(212) 621-0670 (https://nypl.org/events/programs/2018/10/16/book-discussion-complete-persepolis-marjane-satrapi) (https://nypl.org/events/calendar) ;
book: (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+complete+persepolis+by+marjane+satrapi)  related (https://nypl.org/education/adults/book-discussion-groups)
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming--both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom--Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.

The Not-So-Sweet History of Sugar (with James Walvin)
Tuesday, Oct. 16, fr/ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (doors 6:00 PM) at Brooklyn Historical Soc.
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops; maps: https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034
$10 (https://eventbrite.com/e/the-not-so-sweet-history-of-sugar-tickets-49060737988)
venue event listings: (https://eventbrite.com/o/brooklyn-historical-society-3153875664)
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html  https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/  718-222-4111
http://m.me/BrooklynHistory
Join social historian, York College professor, and author of Sugar: The World Corrupted, From Slavery to Obesity, James Walvin, as he uncovers the fraught history of one of our most prevalent ingredients: sugar. From its role in catalyzing colonialism and slave trading, to its current contributions to health crises, Walvin delivers this history without any sugar coating.

Presented in connection with the exhibition “Waterfront.”

#CFP: The #Graduate Association for African #American #History at @uofmemphis is hosting its 19th Annual Graduate Conference in African American History on Oct. 17-19. Papers for submission should be related to the #African Diaspora.

https://buff.ly/2JxwdcM

https://twitter.com/AAIHS/status/1022995111733612544

End Chickens as Kaporos
Oral Argument In NYS Court of Appeals, Albany
Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM 
20 Eagle St, Albany
directions https://goo.gl/maps/TPfXJd6nQXk
buses http://wanderu.com https://goo.gl/YuxUTQ
event descriptions https://facebook.com/events/482255095574834/
http://www.endchickensaskaporos.com/
rides? (757) 678-7875 info@EndChickensAsKaporos.com https://twitter.com/kindkaporos www.upc-online.org/events/
related? http://gothamist.com/2018/09/05/kaporos_chicken_lawsuit.php
topic websearch https://goo.gl/eYhsu1
https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2015/2015-ny-slip-op-32708-u.html

For a Left Populism: Chantal Mouffe in conversation with Jonathan Smucker
October 17, 2018 - July 16, 2018 [? -t.] from  7.00 to 9.00pm at Albertine
972 Fifth Ave New York  (212) 650-0070
verso@versobooks.com    (718) 246 8160
(https://www.versobooks.com/events/1833-for-a-left-populism-chantal-mouffe-in-conversation-with-jonathan-smucker) https://www.versobooks.com/events https://twitter.com/versobooks
What is the "populist moment" and what does it mean for the left?

Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action—the people.

In this new book the leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism. The political is to be constructed by establishing a political frontier that divides society into two camps, mobilising an "underdog" against "those in power". Populism, far from being a perversion of democracy, constitutes the most adequate political force to recover and reconstitute itself. This new politics must recognise its partisan character. This presents itself as more than the image of demagoguery and emotive rabbles seen across our media. Furthermore, it is an urgent struggle, because the future will be formed by the kind of populism that emerges victorious from the conflict against the current threats of post-politics and post-democracy.

--

Chantal Mouffe is the Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau); The Dimensions of Radical Democracy; Gramsci and Marxist Theory; Deconstruction and Pragmatism; The Democratic Paradox; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.

Jonathan Smucker is Co-founder and Executive Director of Beyond the Choir. He has worked for more than two decades in grassroots movements as an organizer, campaigner, and strategist. He has trained thousands of movement participants in campaign strategy, messaging, and organizing skills. He researches collective action, identity, and politicization processes as the focus of his doctoral work in the sociology department at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals.

For a Left Populism: Chantal Mouffe in conversation with Jonathan Smucker
October 17, 2018 - July 16, 2018 [? -t.] from  7.00 to 9.00pm at Albertine
972 Fifth Ave New York  (212) 650-0070
verso@versobooks.com    (718) 246 8160
(https://www.versobooks.com/events/1833-for-a-left-populism-chantal-mouffe-in-conversation-with-jonathan-smucker) https://www.versobooks.com/events https://twitter.com/versobooks
What is the "populist moment" and what does it mean for the left?

Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action—the people.

In this new book the leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism. The political is to be constructed by establishing a political frontier that divides society into two camps, mobilising an "underdog" against "those in power". Populism, far from being a perversion of democracy, constitutes the most adequate political force to recover and reconstitute itself. This new politics must recognise its partisan character. This presents itself as more than the image of demagoguery and emotive rabbles seen across our media. Furthermore, it is an urgent struggle, because the future will be formed by the kind of populism that emerges victorious from the conflict against the current threats of post-politics and post-democracy.

--

Chantal Mouffe is the Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Her books include The Return of the Political; Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (with Ernesto Laclau); The Dimensions of Radical Democracy; Gramsci and Marxist Theory; Deconstruction and Pragmatism; The Democratic Paradox; and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, all from Verso.

Jonathan Smucker is Co-founder and Executive Director of Beyond the Choir. He has worked for more than two decades in grassroots movements as an organizer, campaigner, and strategist. He has trained thousands of movement participants in campaign strategy, messaging, and organizing skills. He researches collective action, identity, and politicization processes as the focus of his doctoral work in the sociology department at UC Berkeley. He is the author of Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals.

Gentrification in Downtown Brooklyn: Walking Tour
Saturdays at Noon, Sept. 8, Sept. 29, Oct. 20 from Jay St. & Myrtle Ave.
weekend transit planners: http://tripplanner.mta.info
or  https://osm.org/go/Zct8CgS~R-?m=  or  https://goo.gl/maps/tyN269ju1zz  ;
list of announced service changes & cuts: http://mta.info/weekender
$10 tix: https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours/#block-95883e1ed28c6a00ef70
https://facebook.com/events/1017267781787227/  info@socialjusticetours.com https://facebook.com/socialjusticetours/events
https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours
 
This tour will highlight the development that has recreated downtown Brooklyn as a result of the Downtown Brooklyn Rezoning of 2004. We will also go into political conversations around the use of the 421a subsidy to build new affordable housing and the use of eminent domain at Atlantic Yards in the construction of the Barclays Center.
 
Sites Covered
 . MetroTech Promenade
 . 227 Abolitionist Place (Underground Railroad stop)
 . Myrtle Avalon Plaza
 . The Giovanni (formerly Associated Site)
 . City Point (formerly Albee Square Mall)
 . BAM Cultural District
 . Barclays Center & Atlantic Yards

Events with Social Justice Tours
SEP8Queer History Tour of the Village
SEP29Vegan Food Tour of the Lower East Side

Unable to make it this time? We offer more tours and tour dates at socialjusticetours.com/current-tours.

Social Justice Tours is a newly growing nonprofit grassroots organization with a mission to engage New Yorkers in critical dialogue by exposing injustice and highlighting inequality in an effort to encourage thought and inspire action. Find out more about us at socialjusticetours.com.

Social Justice Tours aims to engage critical dialogue by exposing injustice & highlighting inequality in an effort to encourage thought & inspire action.