PROTEST CANADA GOOSE THURSDAY & SATURDAY, NYC

. Protest Canada Goose’s Cruelty to Animals
Thursday, Oct. 18 from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm at Canada Goose
101 Wooster St. btw. Prince St. & Spring St. nr. C, E, R, W, #6, B, D, F, M, J, Q stops & Houston St. cross town bus;
map  https://osm.org/go/Zct8RTTDk-?node=4471322292
https://facebook.com/events/356298618442459/
PETA https://t.co/QwMNCdBNxy https://twitter.com/hashtag/canadagoosecruelty 

 . No Excuse for Canada Goose
Saturday, Oct. 20, 2:00 pm at 101 Wooster St.
http://tripplanner.mta.info  https://goo.gl/maps/ArERTvuMr3z
http://mta.info/weekender
event descriptions & contacts
https://facebook.com/events/731954103831663/

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.

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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.

Scared Sh*tless For Democracy! Fundraiser
Thursday, Oct. 18, from 7:30 to 11:00 PM at
Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk St. btw. Stanton St. & E. Houston St., nr. J, M, F & M14A bus via 14th St. & Ave. A/Essex St.; Houston St. bus; 2nd Av. bus;
$50 TIX: (https://eventbrite.com/e/scared-shtless-for-our-democracy-tickets-50187291540)
Event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/iuvyCa https://thearena.run/halloween (https://facebook.com/surajpatelnyc/photos/a.491538157877445/689128674785058/?type=3&theater) 

We're throwing a Halloween party to raise volunteers and funds for 2018 candidates.  Proceeds will go to the Arena NY PAC, which helps first time candidates run for office in New York.  And yes - we encoruage you to dress up in your best democracy-themed costume.

DISCOUNTED TICKETS  Interested in a discounted $50 ticket? Take 5 minutes to make a plan to Crush the Midterms. Send us a screenshot of your plan confirmation, and we'll reply with a promo code for a discounted ticket.
1. Make your plan at thearena.crushthemidterms.org .
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Compost Giveback and Yard Tour
Friday, Oct. 19 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in East River Park Compost Yard   ( southwest of East River Park Amphitheater & the FDR pedestrian overpass ramp at Cherry St. M14A or M22 to Grand St. & FDR Dr., last stop;
map https://goo.gl/maps/5Lc1riMFLW42 ;  directions https://goo.gl/myUTXw )
(https://eventbrite.com/e/compost-giveback-and-yard-tour-tickets-49660055563)
https://facebook.com/events/191680315057912/  Free & public · Hosted by
Lower East Side Ecology Center  (https://eventbrite.com/o/nyc-compost-project-hosted-by-les-ecology-center-13)  https://twitter.com/lesecologyctr  https://twitter.com/ewaste_nyc https://facebook.com/pg/lesecologyctr/events

Do you need compost for your school garden, community garden, or tree pits on your block? We will be offering a tour of the East River Park Compost Yard and an opportunity to take free compost to use in your public greening project. Space for vehicles is limited so reserve your spot early.

Early registrants will receive up to 10 pre-filled bags, additional loose compost is available to bag yourself. Bags and tools will be provided.

This compost is for community greening only, it is not available for commercial or private use.

OCT13    E-waste Collection Event / St. Albans

OCT13    East River Park Compost Yard Tours with Open House New York

OCT14    E-waste Collection Event / Kew Gardens Hills
 
OCT19    Compost Giveback and Yard Tour

OCT20    E-waste Collection Event / Cobble Hill

OCT20    E-waste Collection Event / East Williamsburg

OCT21    E-waste Collection Event / Flatbush
  
OCT23    WormShop for Educators: An Introduction to Vermicomposting in the Classroom

OCT27    East Village Street Tree Care

OCT27    E-waste Collection Event / Little Neck

OCT28    E-waste Collection Event / Howard Beach

NOV3     E-waste Collection Event / Jamaica
  
NOV4     E-waste Collection Event / Upper West Side

NOV11  Pumpkin Smash 2018
  
NOV17  E-waste Collection Event / Throggs Neck

NOV18  E-waste Collection Event / Jackson Heights

DEC8    E-waste Collection Event / Park Slope

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Immigrant/Refugee Kabbalat Shabbat and Dinner

Friday, Oct. 19, 6:30 PM (ask correct ending time -t.)
 == >  RSVP: ethan@kolotchayeinu.org
https://facebook.com/events/264823630836391/
https://hias.org/national-refugee-shabbat 

As part of HIAS National Refugee Shabbat, Kolot's own Immigrant/Refugee Working Group (IRWG) will host a Kabbalat Shabbat service with music, discussion, and delicious food.

How can you keep from feeling crushed by the pile-up of attacks on our neighbors, friends, and values? Join the IRWG! Working with us helps connect Jewish history to our activism.
The IRWG meets monthly to mobilize our communities to stand with immigrants and refugees.

Contact kolot.irwg@gmail.com to learn more.

As part of HIAS National Refugee Shabbat, Kolot's Immigration/Refugee Working Group will host Kabbalat Shabbat. We will pray, sing, study Torah, eat and learn. Cantor Lisa B. Segal and Rabbinic Fellow Miriam Grossman will lead the service and we will explore our own traditions of  "going forth," welcoming the stranger, and how we can continue our traditions in the current time.

For more information about the Working Group, contact us at irwg@kolotchayeinu.org .  

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20Shabbat
9:00am
Torah Study. Parsha is Lekh Lekha
10:00am
Breakfast.
10:30am
Shabbat morning services led by Rabbinic Fellow Miriam Grossman and Cantor Lisa B. Segal.
Bat Mitzvah of Solya Violet Spiegel.
Kolot, it is time to renew your membership!
Members can...
- Vote for our next rabbi!
- Enjoy community and pastoral support.
- Participate in adult learning and spiritual discovery.
RENEW OR JOIN >>
Study Torah with Kolot

Kolot’s Torah Study group meets weekly on Shabbat from 9-10am in the balcony of
Kolot, 1012 8th Ave, Brooklyn.

Torah study at Kolot is open to all and is an ‘all opinions on deck’ operation. Whatever your relationship (or not) with God, and whatever your level of knowledge of Torah, Hebrew or Judaism, we welcome your questions and opinions.

If you wish to be on the Torah Study email list, send an email to Artstrim@gmail.com.
Immigrant-Refugee Working Group Bulletin

Immigrant/Refugee Shabbat

The government is proposing changes to the FLORES Agreement Proposed that could allow prolonged or indefinite detention for children and families.
Submit a comment in the Federal Register before November 6 to voice your opposition. Letters that cite particular parts of the rule change are especially useful.

Green Light NY
New York State does not allow driver's licenses for undocumented people. This is especially difficult for upstate workers who make up much of NY's agricultural labor force. NY is approaching a 2018 deadline to reform its driver's license policy. Submit a letter to expand access to driver’s licenses.

Use Your Eloquence:
Write letters of support for immigrants and refugees
The need for us to write letters of support for immigrants in detention or facing deportation is growing. We’ll be setting up our letter writing table again at Shabbat services.
You can receive notices of what letters are needed directly by signing up with New Sanctuary Coalition and writing from home.
We hope you felt welcomed at High Holy Days services.

Help amplify the warmth:
Sign up to be a Shamas - a welcomer at Shabbat services.

E-Waste, E-Waste Collection Event :
Saturday Oct. 20 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at Grand St. & Lorimer St., nr. L, G stops; http://tripplanner.mta.info https://osm.org/go/Zct8ltWeB-?node=5760141608 https://goo.gl/maps/1RnyzRVkgh22 http://mta.info/weekender (https://lesecologycenter.org/calendar/e-waste-recycling-event-east-williamsburg-4-28-2018/) https://facebook.com/events/2250158618562292
https://lesecologycenter.org/calendar/category/ewaste/ewaste-events/list/
https://facebook.com/lesecologyctr/events/

We accept the following working and non-working consumer electronic equipment:
Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)
Monitors (CRT and flatscreen)
Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
Tablets and e-readers
Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)
Printers under 100 pounds, scanners, fax-machines, etc
TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players
Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers
Portable music players
Audio-visual equipment
Video-games
Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)
There are some e-waste items that we accept, but we charge a recycling fee for:
Media such as CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and cassette tapes
Computer battery backup systems (Uninterruptible Power Supply [UPS])
For more information, visit our FAQ
Download event flyer: English

E-waste Collection Event in Cobble Hill
Saturday, Oct. 20 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at PS 29 on
Baltic Street Between Henry & Clinton Streets
https://facebook.com/events/537058843390255/
Free & public · Hosted by Lower East Side Ecology Center/LESEC
(https://eventbrite.com/o/nyc-compost-project-hosted-by-les-ecology-center-13) https://twitter.com/lesecologyctr https://twitter.com/ewaste_nyc https://facebook.com/pg/lesecologyctr/events

OCT13 E-waste Collection Event / St. Albans

OCT13 East River Park Compost Yard Tours with Open House New York

OCT14 E-waste Collection Event / Kew Gardens Hills
 
OCT19 Compost Giveback and Yard Tour

OCT20 E-waste Collection Event / Cobble Hill

OCT20 E-waste Collection Event / East Williamsburg

OCT21 E-waste Collection Event / Flatbush
 
OCT23 WormShop for Educators: An Introduction to Vermicomposting in the Classroom

OCT27 East Village Street Tree Care

OCT27 E-waste Collection Event / Little Neck

OCT28 E-waste Collection Event / Howard Beach

NOV3 E-waste Collection Event / Jamaica
 
NOV4 E-waste Collection Event / Upper West Side

NOV11 Pumpkin Smash 2018
 
NOV17 E-waste Collection Event / Throggs Neck

NOV18 E-waste Collection Event / Jackson Heights

DEC8 E-waste Collection Event / Park Slope

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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.

E-waste Recycling Event: Flatbush
Sunday, Oct. 21 from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm at Flatbush Food Co-op
1415 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn 
https://lesecologycenter.org/calendar/e-waste-recycling-event-flatbush-4-15-2018/
https://lesecologycenter.org/calendar/category/ewaste/ewaste-events/list
LESEC`s FAQ  https://lesecologycenter.org/programs/ewaste/ewaste-faq/
718.858.8777
We accept the following working and non-working consumer electronic equipment: Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes) Monitors (CRT and flatscreen) Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.) Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.) Tablets and e-readers Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.) Printers under 100 pounds, scanners, fax-machines, etc TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers Portable music players Audio-visual equipment Video-games Cell phones, pagers, PDAs Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.) There…Find out more »

 . Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U., and Learning Liberation - Opening reception Thursday, Oct. 11, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Exhibit Oct. 11, 2018 through [Sunday?] Jan. 27, 2019

 . Indigenous People’s Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Sunday, Oct. 14, 2:00 to 5:00 pm
http://interferencearchive.org/indigenous-peoples-justice-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-2/

 . Social Justice Book Club: How Not to Be a Boy
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 6:45pm 

 . Talk and Screening with Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
interferencearchive.org/talk-and-screening-with-fruchter-and-machover/

 . Poetry and women’s theater at Free University of New York and Alternate U
Sunday, Oct. 21, 3:00 PM (http://interferencearchive.org/poetry-and-womens-theater-at-free-university-of-new-york-and-alternate-u/)

 . Women`s Studies Quarterly: Issue Celebration
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 6:30pm (http://interferencearchive.org/celebrate-protest-the-latest-issue-of-womens-studies-quarterly/) http://feministpress.org/forthcoming-contents www.feministpress.org/wsq

 . Propaganda Party Love and Protect Each Other
Saturday, Nov. 17, 1:00 to 5:00 PM
http://interferencearchive.org/propaganda-party-love-and-protect-each-other/

 . K-12 Radical Education in NYC: A Colaborative Investigation
Saturday, Dec. 1, 3:00 to 5:00 PM
http://interferencearchive.org/k-12-radical-education-in-nyc-a-collaborative-investigation/

All events in Interference Archive at 314 7th St., Brooklyn, btw. 4th & 5th Aves.,
nr. F, G, R stops; http://tripplanner.mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/55DXTwh2ffR2
https://osm.org/go/Zct5HeECg-?node=5939543363
service changes http://mta.info/weekender
Please read instead the more legible & current listings at these sources:
https://mailchi.mp/interferencearchive/free-education?e=c88ca4ec14
http://interferencearchive.org/category/events/ https://twitter.com/InterferenceArc
https://facebook.com/pg/InterferenceArc/events info@interferencearchive.org
 
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Rebecca Solnit with Paul Holdengräber: The Language of Crises
Monday, Oct. 22, 7:00 to 9:00 PM, NYPL Schwartzman Bldg. 3rd Fl. Salomon Rm.
Enter fr/ SW corner of W. 42nd St. & 5th Av. or steps on 5th Av. opposite E. 41st;
nr. #7 Train, B, D, F, M, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus;
floor plan (https://nypl.org/sites/default/files/z-floorplan-english_sasb_visitor_guide_april2018_page_3_0.jpg)
== > $40 TIX & descriptions https://showclix.com/event/solnit/tag/fbevent
https://nypl.org/events/programs/2018/10/22/rebecca-solnit-paul-holdengraber https://facebook.com/events/1298033783667164/  http://rebeccasolnit.net/  https://google.com/search?q=+Paul+Holdengr
venue  https://twitter.com/LIVEfromtheNYPL/status/1029004717412823041
https://nypl.org/events/calendar https://facebook.com/NYPLEvents/
(917) 275-6975

"The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality." —Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian

Called “the voice of resistance” by the New York Times, prolific essayist Rebecca Solnit visits LIVE to discuss her latest work, Call Them By Their True Names, a wide-ranging collection in which she turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging—pillars that define the crises of our time. To change the world, Solnit argues, we must first change the story, the names and the words we use to describe it.

Interested in coming to more than one event? Think ahead, and save with subscription packs. Buy tickets for three to five events and save 15%. Buy tickets for six or more events and save 20%.

Decolonizing the Land, Decolonizing the Mind
Monday Oct. 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at BRIC
647 Fulton St., Brooklyn, at Rockwell Pl., a block east of Flatbush & Nevins, & nr. #2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R stops; https://goo.gl/maps/PnWqMbranj62
https://osm.org/go/Zct5dClt?node=5960289931
event descriptions https://facebook.com/events/925428150991879/  Public · Hosted by A Blade of Grass and BRIC  bric@BRICartsmedia.org 718.683.5600 http://m.me/bricartsmedia https://bricartsmedia.org/events-performances#
https://facebook.com/pg/bricartsmedia/events/ https://twitter.com/bricartsmedia
https://facebook.com/pg/abladeofgrassnyc/events/ (646) 945-0860
info@abladeofgrass.org http://www.abladeofgrass.org
 
A collaboration with A Blade of Grass (ABOG), a non-profit organization that provides resources to artists who serve as innovative conduits for social change, this program will feature a performance by Maria Hupfield, FIELDWORKS film screenings featuring four ABOG fellows, and a panel discussion with Stephanie Dinkins, Mary Mattingly, and Maria Hupfield, moderated by artist and racial equity trainer Nayantara Sen of Art/Work Practice.

Decolonizing the Land, Decolonizing the Mind will imagine a more inclusive future in which indigenous and POC communities are thriving and creating alternative systems and technologies to protect people and the environment, disrupting longstanding biases and imperialist aggression. The program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Mary Mattingly: What Happens After."

The program will begin with a short performance by artist Maria Hupfield (Wasauksing First Nation), who will use the "What Happens After" exhibition as a stage for a 15-minute, site specific intervention where she will interact with and respond to items in the gallery. This performance expands on Hupfield's work introducing and activating her own creations to locate personal liberation. The performance will be followed by film screenings documenting projects by ABOG Fellows Black Quantum Futurism, Stephanie Dinkins, Rick Lowe, and Rulan Tangen. The films demonstrate artistic practices that fight gentrification through Afrofuturist philosophies; expose how racism is built into emergent artificial intelligence technology; combat xenophobia against refugees; and center Indigenous artistic and ecological knowledge through collaborative dance. FIELDWORKS is produced by Rava Films.

The act of collaboratively changing the form of an object with a violent and complex history, can be a powerful one. Can it become ritual? Healing? Through the transformation of a massive military vehicle used in the Gulf and Afghan wars, nine performance artists created instead a bridge for communication and a stage for re-visioning a future for public spaces in an increasingly militarized world.

Participants of the redesign included: Rosie Bruno, Nicole Cheng, Emily Bluck Chow, Angela-Renee Coakley, Fred Fleisher, Yunchi Huang, Maria Hupfield, Sto Len, Paul Middendorf, David Hamilton Thomson, Shelley Senter, and Renae Reynolds.

Cover image: Earth mandala by cultural artist Venaya Yazzie as part of the culminating performance of SEEDS : REGENERATION, a collaborative project by ABOG Fellow Rulan Tangen’s indigenous dance company Dancing Earth and native community members of the southwest Four Corners region, in Ute and Diné territory as hosted by Fort Lewis Community Concert Hall, Durango

212-227-7847 .    646-221-9129 - Cell.  PEACE, Catherine

The Resist Spectra trial
The Resist Spectra trial is adjourning until October 23, when their Necessity Defense will be heard. On Friday, July 27, the Prosecution rested their argument against them. Judge Ragazzo then dismissed three of the six defendants, Kim Fraczek, JK Canepa and
Judith Allen, of trespassing charges on lack of evidence. The remaining
defendants, David Publow, Becca Berlin and Janet González, who crawled inside the pipeline on the banks of the Hudson/Muhheakantuck (“river that flows two ways”), will be defended by Attorney Professor David Dorfman of Pace Law School, arguing that their action was necessary to avoid a greater harm.
Kim Fraczek
Director, Sane Energy Project
Text best 646-387-3180

On Jul 30, 2018, at 10:28 PM, JK Canepa
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https://resistspectra.wedid.it/  https://facebook.com/pg/resistaim/events
https://m.me/resistaim https://resistaim.wordpress.com resistaim@gmail.com  https://gofundme.com/resistAIM-Onward

If, like me, you feel bad that you can't make it up to Cortlandt to support the valiant pipeline fighters facing trial, rest assured, you can keep up with the progress of the trial at their facebook page.  Check it out for the latest good news!

The trial is ongoing and the legal defense is amazing!  If you can't be at the trial you can support them in spirit and in cash!
Whatever you can afford will go a long way to express solidarity and help pay the bills. All details below.
Love & solidarity,
Dee
(plz forgive cross-list posting. They need our support)
Support Resist Spectra's fight
Background: Resist Spectra, the direct action arm of the campaign against Spectra/Enbridge's fracked gas pipeline 105 feet away from critical infrastructure at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant since 2014 in New York State. New York just released an Independent Risk Assessment of this pipeline last week proving that this pipeline is a danger to the NYC metropolitan area of 25 million people. It proves that our 4 year long campaign to halt this pipeline is justified.

An Action we took: On July 23, 2018, we will face a judge for a direct action we took in 2016 to block construction of this pipeline. We will be supported by two internationally renowned scientists who are traveling a mighty distance to testify with us, as well as a well-known civil rights attorney, and hundreds of supporters from the NYC metropolitan area.

Bottom line: We need to raise $3,000 to cover expenses of our witness' travel, and our legal costs. Donate here

Our commitment to you: We are working together with groups around our nation to break and rebuild the Necessity Defense laws for halting fossil fuel infrastructure across our nation by working locally. Communities across the USA are continuously poisoned and damaged by the fossil fuel industry in a plethora of layers. Resist Spectra will continue to work tirelessly to halt this dangerous project.

With love,
The Resist Spectra Coordination Team

Dee Aherne
@DeeNYC
350NYC
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
NYC Grassroots Alliance
People's Climate Movement NY

Resist Spectra on Trial
Monday, Jul. 23 from 9:00 AM to Noon
1 Heady St, Cortlandt Manor [a 15 min. taxi or ride share from Metro North Hudson Line`s Peekskill Sta.; see transit explorer at https://goo.gl/aXzR5F -t.]
`` Wear red``
Descriptions & contacts https://facebook.com/events/246873699378093/ https://facebook.com/pg/youareheremap/events/ http://m.me/youareheremap youarehereny@gmail.com http://youareherenymap.org
https://facebook.com/pg/resistaim/events/ http://m.me/resistaim https://resistaim.wordpress.com https://facebook.com/pg/BeyondExtremeEnergy/events/ http://beyondextremeenergy.org http://m.me/BeyondExtremeEnergy
https://facebook.com/pg/ClimateMondays/events/ m.me/ClimateMondays climatemondays@gmail.com contact@saneenergyproject.org
https://facebook.com/pg/saneenergyproject/events/ http://saneenergyproject.org
 
https://facebook.com/pg/OccupyThePipeline/events http://occupythepipeline.com
https://www.offfossilfuels.org/off-act/candidate-pledge 646-387 3180
On October 10, 2016, members of Resist Spectra participated in a direct action of
[non-violent] civil disobedience to physically halt the construction of this deadly project. We worked for years with elected officials plus state and federal agencies to halt plans to expand the Spectra "Algonquin" high pressure fracked gas pipeline running 105 feet away from critical safety infrastructure at decaying Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.
A recent Independent Risk Analysis was published by the NY Department of Public Service confirming the danger of Spectra pipeline network. Not only does this pipeline have a risk of rupture and explosion, but the methane gas being carried through this pipeline is a direct cause of the climate-changing storms we are experiencing such as Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Maria that has decimated populations that are still recovering emotionally, financially, physically...

Resist Spectra — We need all of you to be at this trial on Monday, July 23 . Wear red. Show your support for those who are willing to put their bodies on the line to shut down fossil fuel infrastructure. We can offer rides from Peekskill train station to the courthouse as long as you tell us your arrival time, and we usually go for a meal together after court. We need people from WC to volunteer as ride pickups from the train station. We also need your help getting the word out about this. We need press, people, stories, sketch artists, shares on social media for the
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Train from NYC: 7:19 AM from Grand Central Terminal arrive in Peekskill 8:25 AMhttps://www.facebook.com/events/246873699378093/Resist Spectra — We need ALL your beautiful faces in the courtroom on Monday Morning July 23rd.
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You Are Here: Mapping The Fracking Resistance
Resist Spectra

Occupy the Pipeline

NY Communities for Change Gala
Wednesday Oct. 24, 2018 fr/ 6:00 to 9:00 PM at Littlefield,
635 Sackett St., Brooklyn, btw. 3rd & 4th Aves.
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Extractivism, Indigenous Resistance, and the Politics of Environmental Justice
Macarena Gómez-Barris, Sandy Grande, Jaskiran Dhillon
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at BRIC
647 Fulton St., Brooklyn, at Rockwell Pl., a block east of Flatbush & Nevins, & nr. #2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, N, R stops; https://goo.gl/maps/PnWqMbranj62
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FREE with RSVP [ask whether required -t.] (https://bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/extractivism-indigenous-resistance-and-politics-environmental-justice) (https://eventbrite.com/e/extractivism-indigenous-resistance-and-the-politics-of-environmental-justice-tickets-50367583799)
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This event draws on Mary Mattingly's exhibition What Happens After to raise important questions about the relationship among environmental extraction, militarization, and the politics of decolonization. The discussion will center on exposing how environmental extraction is tied to a longstanding history of colonial violence enacted against Indigenous peoples across the global and highlight the importance of thinking through environmental justice within the context of Indigenous political organizing, resistance, and movements for self-determination. Panelists include Macarena Gomez-Barris, Sandy Grande, and Jaskiran Dhillon.

Macarena Gómez-Barris is chairperson of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies and the Global South Center at Pratt Institute. She is author of Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018) and The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017), which theorizes social life through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor, with Herman Gray, of Towards a Sociology of a Trace(2010).

Sandy Grande is a Professor of Education and the Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Connecticut College. She is also currently serving as a Visiting Professor and Scholar at Columbia University (2018-2019). Her research and teaching interfaces Native American and Indigenous Studies, Education and critical theory, toward the development of more nuanced analyses of the colonial present. Her book, Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought (2015) was published in a 10th anniversary edition; she has also published numerous articles and book chapters.

Jaskiran Dhillon is a first generation anti-colonial scholar and organizer who grew up on Treaty Six Cree Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. Committed to the tenets of public intellectualism, Dhillon’s scholarship is intimately connected to, and informed by, on-the-ground advocacy and direct action. Her work spans the fields of settler colonialism, anthropology of the state, anti-racist and Indigenous feminism, youth studies, colonial violence, and Indigenous studies and has been published in The Guardian, Cultural Anthropology, Truthout, Public Seminar, Feminist Formations, Social Texts, and Decolonization among others . Her first book, Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (2017), provides a critical, ethnographic account of state interventions in the lives of urban indigenous youth. Her new research focuses on developing an anti-colonial critique of the environmental justice movement by examining Indigenous political movements working against the extractive industry, including the resistance at Standing Rock. Dhillonis an associate professor of global studies and anthropology at The New School and a member of the New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective.

The act of collaboratively changing the form of an object with a violent and complex history, can be a powerful one. Can it become ritual? Healing? Through the transformation of a massive military vehicle used in the Gulf and Afghan wars, nine performance artists created instead a bridge for communication and a stage for re-visioning a future for public spaces in an increasingly militarized world.

Participants of the redesign included: Rosie Bruno, Nicole Cheng, Emily Bluck Chow, Angela-Renee Coakley, Fred Fleisher, Yunchi Huang, Maria Hupfield, Sto Len, Paul Middendorf, David Hamilton Thomson, Shelley Senter, and Renae Reynolds.

The Battle of Algiers: A Film Within History
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl
Thursday, Oct. 25 fr/ 6:00 to 7:30 PM at Columbia Maison Français/Buell Hall 2nd Fl.
515 W. 116th St./College Walk btw. Broadway & Amsterdam Av., just SE of Low Library
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Malek Bensmaïl, 2017, 117 min.
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Malek Bensmaïl.
With excep­tio­nal archival mate­rials and many inter­views (Alge­ria, France, Italy, United-States) Malek Bensmaïl’s docu­men­tary about Gillo Pontecorvo’s legendary 1965 film, The Battle of Algiers, will give us, sixty years after, a strong look back at this film half­way between history and legend.

In 1965, three years after Alge­ria gained its inde­pen­dence, Italian film-maker Gillo Ponte­corvo began to shoot a film recons­ti­tu­ting the events of the Battle of Algiers (1956/1957). The black and white news­reel-style film caused a sensa­tion. Effec­ti­vely banned in France until 1971, the film took on mythi­cal status in Alge­ria, where it was scree­ned each year on tele­vi­sion to comme­mo­rate the coun­try’s inde­pen­dence. It was co-pro­du­ced by the company of Saadi Yacef, one of the heroes of the struggle for libe­ra­tion, who plays himself in Ponte­cor­vo’s film. The shoo­ting of the film was used as a ruse to allow the tanks of Boume­die­ne’s army to enter the city more discreetly during the coup that over­threw President Ben Bella. In 2003, during the mili­tary opera­tions in Iraq, the film was shown to U.S. offi­cers as an example of a success­ful struggle against urban terro­rism.

Event co-sponsored by the Maison Francaise, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Middle East Institute, Film and Media Studies, and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.

Join us in experiencing a special northeast visit from Jasminne Méndez, author of Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays & Poetry; Yesenia Montilla, author of The Pink Box; and Roberto Carlos Garcia, author of black/Maybe. It will be a night of Dominican poetry that audiences won’t soon forget! 


Jasminne Mendez is a poet, educator, and award-winning author. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by or forthcoming in Acentos Review, Crab Creek Review, Texas Review, La Galería, Label Me Latino/a, Gulf Coast, Bird’s Thumb, Rumpus, and COG Magazine. She is a senior contributing editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse and the author of two poetry/prose collections Island of Dreams (Floricanto Press, 2013; winner of an International Latino Book Award), and Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poetry (Arte Publico Press, 2018). She is a 2017 Canto Mundo Fellow and an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. 

Yesenia Montilla is an Afro-Latina from New York City and a daughter of immigrants. She is a graduate of Drew University’s Poetry & Poetry in Translation MFA program, and a Canto Mundo Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in the Wide Shore, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and other publications. Her first collection of poetry, The Pink Box (Willow Books) was long-listed for the PEN America Open Book Award. She lives in Harlem.


Roberto Carlos Garcia is the author of black / Maybe (Willow Books) and Melancolía (Červená Barva Press). His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in The Root, Those People, Rigorous, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, The New Engagement, Public Pool, Stillwater Review, Gawker, Barrelhouse, Tuesday; An Art Project, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, and many others. ​He is founder of the cooperative press Get Fresh Books, LLC. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. robertocarlosgarcia.com

2nd Annual MARCH AGAINST FUR
Saturday, Oct. 27 from 1:30 [sometimes says 2:00 PM] to 4:00 PM
Manhattan - ASK LOCATION & ANY CHANGES
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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
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$10 at https://socialjusticetours.com/current-tours/#block-80c44e26cb6f463b2904
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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.
 

Accelerating Change: Oral History, Innovation, and Impact (w/ Doug Boyd)
Thursday, Nov. 1 fr/ 6:10 to 7:30 PM in Knox Hall Room 509
606 W. 122nd St. btw. Claremont Av. & Broadway, nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops & M60 bus
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Oral history is experiencing an explosive phase of growth around the world. Beyond the interview, digital technologies are creating access points to archived oral histories that were once unimaginable. Free and open source technologies such as OHMS can synchronize textual searches of small and large-scale oral history interviews and collections to the corresponding moment in the recorded audio or video, which creates revolutionary possibilities and potential for a single oral history interview to impact the historical record significantly. Archives that previously noted hundreds of annual uses of their oral history interviews are now experiencing several hundred thousand online uses each year. This dramatic increase in scale has had a notable impact on the usage of extant oral history interviews and collections, but it also raises questions pertaining to individual privacy and the ethics of access.

In this workshop, Doug Boyd will focus on the impact of innovative technologies on the practice and the purpose of oral history. In addition to focusing on oral history and access, Boyd will reflect on the emergence of technologies including 360-degree, automatic speech recognition, and the role of artificial intelligence in the archive, as well as reflect on the changing role of the oral history archive itself.
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.

What Is Democracy?
Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, 6:30 pm at Lenfest Center for the Arts 
Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
615 W. 129th St. btw. Riverside Dr. & Broadway
nr. #1, A, ...B... C, D stops, M60 bus & 125th St. buses;
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Screening followed by a conversation with Astra Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Rutgers University, and Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Journalism School.
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Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, Director Astra Taylor’s film, What Is Democracy?, spans millennia and continents, from ancient Athens to medieval Italy to the modern day, reflecting on a word we too often take for granted.

Featuring a diverse cast—including theorists, surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire.

Co-presented by Columbia Journalism School and the Urban and Social Policy Concentration, SIPA.    :    :  

A Tribute to Lucie Brock-BroidoWednesday, October 3, 2018, 6:30 pm Miller Theatre
With Mary Jo Bang, Sophie Cabot Black, Henri Cole, Timothy Donnelly, Emily Fragos, Harmony Holiday, Marie Howe, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Dorothea Lasky, Robert Polito, Srikanth Reddy, Tracy K. Smith, and Kevin Young.
Lucie Brock-Broido served as the Director of Poetry in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts from 1993 until her death on March 6, 2018. Born in Pittsburgh, she earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, and published her first groundbreaking book, A Hunger, with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1988. Brock-Broido went on to receive fellowships from the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as awards from the American Poetry Review and the Academy of American Arts and Letters, to name a few. Widely acclaimed in the United States and abroad as one of the most distinctive and influential poets of her generation, Brock-Broido published three further collections with Knopf, namely The Master Letters (1995), Trouble in Mind (2004) and Stay, Illusion (2013), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award. As well as for her lasting achievements as a poet, Brock-Broido will be remembered as an exceptionally passionate and brilliant teacher, having received the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award in 1989 and 1990, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching in 1991, and Columbia University’s Presidential Teaching Award in 2013.
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Columbia Selects: Alumni of the Writing ProgramThursday Oct 4, 2018, 7:00  pm
KGB Bar
85 E 4th St
Curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.
Our lineup this month: Ge Gao, Julia Bosson, and Brenna McPeek.
The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series featuring Writing Program alumni. These fresh talents are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent.
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Foucault at the Movies: What Films Do to Knowledge
Friday, October 5, 2018, 4:30 pm
Dodge 507

 
A talk by Dork Zabunyan, Professor of Film Studies, University of Paris — 8
Co-author, Foucault at the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2018)
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Directing Thesis: LORDES
Wednesday, October 17—Saturday, October 20, 2018, 8:00 pm
Matinee: Saturday, October 20, 2018, 2 pm
Flexible Performance Space, Lenfest Center for the Arts
Devised by Katherine Wilkinson, Gethsemane Herron-Coward, and the LORDES Ensemble.
Directed by Katherine Wilkinson, Theatre.
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Sound Art MFA in the Library
Friday, October 19, 2018, 6:00  pm
Gabe M. Weiner Music & Arts Library, Dodge Hall
Organized by Nick Patterson and Miya Masaoka, Sound Art.
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Creative Writing Lecture: Lynne Tillman
Wednesday, October 31, 2018, 7:00 pm
Room 501, Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway

Series organized by Ben Marcus, Writing.

Lynne Tillman writes novels, short stories, and essays. She authors a bi-monthly column, “In These Intemperate Times,” for frieze magazine. Tillman received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing in 2014. She is a Professor/Writer in residence at The University at Albany (SUNY), and also teaches in SVA’s MFA program in Arts Writing.
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Literary Translation at Columbia: Emily Wilson

Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 7 pm
Room 501, Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway

Series organized by Susan Bernofsky, Writing.

Emily Wilson is professor of Classical Studies and chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Mocked to Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007), and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014), as well as the translator of Six Tragedies of Seneca (2010) and four plays by Euripides (The Greek Plays, 2016).
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(anti)Blackness in the American Metropolis
Urban Geography Symposium w/ Willie Wright, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Adam Bledsoe
November 2-3, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland
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November 2-3, 2018, Drs. Willie Wright, Yousuf Al-Bulushi, and Adam Bledsoe will host an urban geography seminar in Baltimore, Maryland. The workshop, “(anti)Blackness in the American Metropolis,” is designed to address issues related to the condition of Blackness, Black people and communities in American cities, particularly majority Black cities. Our purpose for this gathering is to intervene in an interdisciplinary area of study (Black urbanism or the Black urban experience) that aside from key works by elder geographers (Bunge, Rose, Wilson) and more recent scholars (Derickson, Gilmore, McKittrick, Shabazz, Woods), is lacking in a sustained interest and analysis from the field of geography. Thus, we ask, what does it mean to propose, and how we one grapple with the idea, that “the neoliberal city” is an anti-Black city, or rather, is sustained by an anti-Black animus? And how are Black communities forging other modes of urban social life in these same spaces?

We welcome attendees to this free, two-day seminar. Sessions will include presentations from scholars and organizers from a variety of disciplines and locales. We will culminate the gathering with a keynote address by Ananya Roy at Red Emma’s Bookstore. The Black Geographies Specialty Group has generously offered to provide a travel award in the amount of $160 for a graduate student, adjunct faculty, or organizer/public intellectual attending the gathering.
We hope you accept our invitation and register here: https://goo.gl/Gnf2rC
Attached, you will find a flyer for the event and directions for how to apply for the travel award.
BaltimoreFlyer
BGSGTravelAward2018
Peace,
Willie J. Wright
Yousuf Al-Bulushi
Adam Bledsoe
Sponsors:
Urban Geography Journal
Human Geography Journal
Black Geographies Specialty Group
Department of Geography, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University

Ivy & Miranda Magpie
Saturday, Nov. 3, 7:30 at Community Church of NY-Unitarian Universalist
40 E. 35th St. (not in basement), btw. Madison & Park Aves., nr. #6, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, 4, 5, 7, S, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 34th St. cross town bus; weekend transit:
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More People's Voice concerts listed at
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October PVC listings in pdf http://www.peoplesvoicecafe.org/pvcnov18.pdf
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Venue contacts 212.683.4988  info@ccny.org http://www.ccny.org/calendar
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Is Transnationalism Good for Democracy?
Palestinian American youth on rights, citizenship, and justice
Thea Abu El-Haj
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018 from 6:00 PM
Barnard Hall 3rd Floor Sulzberger Parlor nr. W. 117th St. & Broadway
https://barnard.edu/events/transnationalism-good-democracy

Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic work with Palestinian American youth, Professor Abu El-Haj explores the creative, flexible practices of transnational “citizenship” that develop from conditions of migration, mobility, and ambiguity. This portrait of flexibility, creativity, and change challenges public discourses that stubbornly cling to ideas of transnational affiliations as dangerous to democracy. Professor Abu El-Haj argues, instead, that youth develop a politics of justice and inclusion to fight inequality and oppression both within and across the artificial borders of nation-states.

Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, associate professor in Education at Barnard College, Columbia University, is an anthropologist of education. Her research explores questions about belonging, rights, citizenship, and education raised by globalization, transnational migration, and conflict. She is currently working on two projects. She is conducting a collaborative ethnographic study of public kindergartens in Beirut, Lebanon, that focuses on questions of conflict and refugee policy. With the support of a Spencer Foundation grant, she is principal investigator of a US national interview study exploring the civic identities and civic practices of youth from Muslim immigrant communities. Her second book, Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2015), won the 2016 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award.

Information:
mbernstein@barnard.edu

E-waste Recycling Event: Jackson HeightsNovember 18 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pmJackson Heights, 37th Avenue between 78th and 79th Street
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718.858.8777
We accept the following working and non-working consumer electronic equipment: Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes) Monitors (CRT and flatscreen) Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.) Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.) Tablets and e-readers Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.) Printers under 100 pounds, scanners, fax-machines, etc TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers Portable music players Audio-visual equipment Video-games Cell phones, pagers, PDAs Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.) There…Find out more »

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Roxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave. btw E. 34th & E. 35th St.
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Free and public; RSVP is preferred.

BCRW and Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism 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
Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic whose writing is unmatched and widely revered. Her work garners international acclaim for its reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social criticism. With a deft eye on modern culture, she brilliantly critiques its ebb and flow with both wit and ferocity.

Words like “courage,” “humor,” and “smart” are frequently deployed when describing Roxane. Her collection of essays, Bad Feminist, is universally considered the quintessential exploration of modern feminism. NPRnamed it one of the best books of the year and Salon declared the book “trailblazing.” Her powerful debut novel, An Untamed State, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. In 2017, Roxane released her highly anticipated memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, as well as a collection of short stories titled Difficult Women.

Roxane is a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times, was the co-editor of PANK, and formerly was the non-fiction editor at The Rumpus. Her writing has also appeared in McSweeney’s, The Nation and many other publications. She recently became the first black woman to ever write for Marvel, writing a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda. Roxane fronts a small army of avid fans on
social media and when she finds the time, she dominates the occasional Scrabble tournament.

Katia D. Ulysse was born in Haiti, and came to the United States as a teen with not a single word of English in her pocket. She earned a BA in English Literature, a Master’s in Teaching, and numerous certifications in the field of education. Over the course of fifteen years, Ms. Ulysse taught English to hundreds of immigrants and refugees from countries around the globe, including Vietnam, Syria, Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and more. She worked in Baltimore City’s toughest schools for 15 years, advocating for at-risk students. Her experiences as an immigrant and teacher are strongly represented in her short stories, personal essays, Pushcart-nominated poetry, and music. Ulysse’s critically-acclaimed story collection, Drifting, and her new novel, Mouths Don’t Speak. continue to draw high praise from literary critics. Her work appear or will appear in the following literary journals and anthologies: The Caribbean Writer, Smartish Pace, Phoebe, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; Mozayik: Yon Konbit Literè —a groundbreaking anthology in Haitian Kreyòl; The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Haiti Noir I, and Haiti Noir II—edited by celebrated Haitian Author, Edwidge Danticat. Ulysse served as Goucher College’s Spring 2017 Kratz Writer in Residence, where she taught advanced creative writing. She has written two books for children. She is currently at work on another short story collection. Mouths Don’t Speak is her first novel.

Co-sponsors
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
The Center for the Study of Women and Society at CUNY Graduate Center

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.

New Sanctuary Coalition Gala

Thursday Nov. 8, 6:00 PM, Judson Memorial Church

55 Washington Sq. South

https://newsanctuarycoalition.nationbuilder.com/gala2018
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Black Girl (La Noire de…)
Thursday, Nov. 8, 6:30 to 8:30 PM in Maison Française/Buell Hall East Gallery
515 W. 116th St./College Walk btw. Broadway & Amsterdam Av., just SE of Low Library
transit https://osm.org/go/Zc4oa26jh-?way=274995720
https://goo.gl/maps/f92VvJN1fh52
event graphic & descriptions: https://goo.gl/hWM2RA
https://eventbrite.com/e/black-girl-la-noire-de-tickets-50178466143
http://maisonfrancaise.org/black-girl-la-noire-dehellip
https://facebook.com/events/276478679649358/
SERIES SCHEDULES
http://maisonfrancaise.org/blackness-in-french-and-francophone-film
(212) 854-4482 https://facebook.com/pg/columbia.maisonfrancaise/events
(646) 745-8545 http://maisonfrancaise.org m.me/columbia.maisonfrancaise
 film by Ousmane Sembène (1966, 65 min.). Screening followed by a conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Mamadou Diouf and Maboula Soumahoro

Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts.

Ousmane Sembène was one of the world's greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring film Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

Columbia University co-sponsors of Blackness in French and Francophone Film: Maison Française; School of the Arts; Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; Institute for African Studies; Columbia Global Centers/Paris; European Institute; and Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Film series presented with support from the Paul LeClerc Centennial Fund, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, la Scam, and the Knapp Family Foundation.

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Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine
Friday, Nov. 9 through Sunday, Nov. 11 (9am - 5pm) at Columbia Univ.
REGISTER https://goo.gl/wgQVXs http://www.scientists4palestine.com/imsp2/
https://facebook.com/events/2144787319095502/ event graphic (https://faacebook.com/Scientists4Palestine/photos/gm.2152743151633252/1840279846085410/?type=3&theater) #ScientistsForPalestine #ScienceDefeatsOccupation

From November 9  through 11 , 2018 the international group Scientists for Palestine and many other members of the international scientific community, will gather at Columbia University in the City of New York for a weekend-long meeting involving multiple plenary and parallel sessions. The event is co-sponsored by Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Science for the People and Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine. This will be Scientists for Palestine's second international gathering, after a similar initiative hosted earlier this year at the University of Cambridge, UK.

The goal of the workshop is to reaffirm the vision of Scientists for Palestine and establish new and ambitious objectives for scientific collaboration between the Palestinian and the international community, transcending the limitations caused by 50 years of ongoing occupation. The topics that will be discussed will vary widely, ranging from strategy sessions on current status of science in Palestine, to educational discussions on the challenges of doing science under the occupation with the goal of developing concrete opportunities for international scientists to get involved, to scientific presentations from many Palestinian and International young scientists.

The event is only open for registered participants, if you would like to participate please fill out the application form goo.gl/u8tkGU. The application deadline is October 30th 2018.

Participants are expected to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

-------------- WHY INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS? ------------

International meetings for science in Palestine are essential to break the international isolation of the Palestinian academic community and to ensure a brighter future for Palestinian science. Though science has a strong tradition in Palestine, higher education and research faces many challenges. Some common to many countries, such as lack of funding and heavy teaching loads for professors, but many unique challenges are from the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, including restrictions on mobility of students and academics, international isolation, raids and forced closures of Palestinian universities and other scientific institutions, and indictment or imprisonment without trial of individual academics.

---------------- SCIENTISTS FOR PALESTINE ----------------

Nevertheless, interest in physics education and research in Palestine continues to grow rapidly not only within Palestine but also throughout the international scientific community. In December 2015, Palestine signed an International Cooperation Agreement with CERN, signaling Palestine's increasing involvement in cutting-edge scientific research at one of the best laboratories in the world. Very recently 15 among the most famous physicists in the world, including a Nobel laureate and a Fields medalist, signed a letter condemning the use of science to normalize the military occupation of the West Bank.

To help meet the rapidly increasing demand for high-level scientific education and collaboration in Palestine, physicists from around the world created Scientists for Palestine, an international group whose goals are to promote and support science in Palestine and to help integrate Palestine into the international scientific community. Among the groups' initiatives is the establishment of the Palestin

ian Advanced Physics School (PAPS) as a regular event, and plans for many further schools, conferences, workshops, and other scientific activities in Palestine.

More info can be found at the official page for the gathering:

Recent Posts
Scientists for Palestine — Higher education and research in Palestine face many challenges from the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In fact Palestinian scientists have to work under restrictions on mobility of students and academics, international isolation, raids, and forced closures of Palestinian universities.Despite these challenges, interest in science education and research in Palestine continues to grow rapidly. Over 25% of the population of 18-24 year olds enrolled in university and half the students are women, a ratio among one of the highest in the world. Several Palestinian universities rank highly among the universities in the region, including جامعة النجاح الوطنية - An-Najah National University, Al-Quds University جامعة القدس, Birzeit University | جامعة بيرزيت, and the Arab American University / الجامعة العربية الأمريكية, in the West Bank, and in Gaza, Al-Azhar University – Gaza, al-Aqsa University, and the Islamic University of Gaza.We will open our Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine with a public event discussing the circumstances faced by Palestinian academics, and scientists in particular, and what we can do to help. Our main guest is Suleiman Baraka, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, full professor at al-Aqsa University in Gaza City and currently Fulbright scholar at Virginia Tech. We will also attempt to established a remote connection with Palestine to hear a report by the Right to Education Campaign - Palestine حملة الحق في التعليم on the situation in the West Bank.Remember that the weekend activities are for registered participants only, if you would like to participate please fill out the application form goo.gl/u8tkGU. The application deadline is October 30th 2018.The event is co-sponsored by Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Science for the People and Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine.#ScientistsForPalestine #ScienceDefeatsOccupation
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Scientists for Palestine — Palestinian astrophysicist Suleiman M Baraka, full professor at al-Aqsa University in Gaza and currently a Fulbright scholar at Virginia Tech, will be one of our guests for the Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine.He was highly affected by the Israeli siege of Gaza. His 11 years old was killed by the bombing of his house by Israeli air forces in January 2009. Hear his story from an interview on Democracy Now! a few years ago.To participate to our weekend long Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine, remember to apply at goo.gl/u8tkGU.#ScientistsForPalestine #ScienceDefeatsOccupations
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Scientists for Palestine — Another reminder that the event is only open for registered

Featuring:
 Science for the People
 Scientists for Palestine
 Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine
 Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
 Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
 http://al-awdany.org/about-al-awda/
 Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University
 Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine  columbiasjp.org

Doing science under military occupation: the case of Palestine
Friday, Nov. 9, fr/ 5:30 to 7:30 PM in Columbia Univ. Northwest Corner Bldg., Rm. 501 (equiv. to W.120th & Broadway, but use W.116th St. campus gate or W.117th steps;
maps:  https://osm.org/go/Zc4obpRZP https://goo.gl/maps/E1zRB4RhxUQ2
descriptions https://facebook.com/events/348158215922402/ w/ Scientists for Palestine,  Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition & Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia Univ.  https://facebook.com/pg/CUPalestine/events

https://facebook.com/pg/AlAwdaNY/events  (212) 851-2992
https://facebook.com/pg/Scientists4Palestine/events m.me/CUPalestine palestine@columbia.edu http://columbia.edu/cu/palestine m.me/AlAwdaNY
http://al-awdany.org/about-al-awda m.me/Scientists4Palestine
http://www.scientists4palestine.com

Higher education and research in Palestine face many challenges from the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In fact Palestinian scientists have to work under restrictions on mobility of students and academics, international isolation, raids, and forced closures of Palestinian universities.

Despite these challenges, interest in science education and research in Palestine continues to grow rapidly. Over 25% of the population of 18-24 year olds enrolled in university and half the students are women, a ratio among one of the highest in the world. Several Palestinian universities rank highly among the universities in the region, including An-Najah University, Al-Quds University, Birzeit University, and the Arab American University Jenin, in the West Bank, and in Gaza, Al-Azhar University, Al-Aqsa University, and the Islamic University of Gaza.

Scientists for Palestine, along other organizations endorsing the event, will host a roundtable discussion to understand the circumstances faced by Palestinian academics, and scientists in particular, and what we can do to help. Our main guest is Suleiman Baraka, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, full professor at al-Aqsa University in Gaza City and currently Fulbright scholar at Virginia Tech. We will also attempt to established a remote connection with Palestine to hear a report by the Right to Education Campaign - Palestine حملة الحق في التعليم on the situation of the West Bank.

This is a public event which will open the weekend long
 == > Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine.
[ http://www.scientists4palestine.com/imsp/ ]   The weekend activities are for registered participants only, if you would like to participate please fill out the application form goo.gl/u8tkGU. The application deadline is
October 30, 2018.

Featuring
   Scientists for Palestine
   Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition http://al-awdany.org/about-al-awda/
   Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University

Please check sources & web search this event 
title for event date/s, time/s & location/s. -t.

Mobilize Against Trump's War Parade
Saturday, Nov. 10, through Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
www.answercoalition.org/mobilize_against_trump_s_war_parade
Sign on here!  (www.answercoalition.org/endorsement_form_join_the_mobilization_against_trump_s_war_parade)

VA HQ Campout and BBQ - NO Cutbacks to VA Medical Centers
Overnight with actions on November 10 & November 11, at or nr.

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, at I St. NW, nr. McPherson Sq. & Lafayette Sq.
Blue, Orange, Silver Metro to McPherson Sq.; Red to Metro Ctr.;
see https://facebook.com/events/423650051485722/
Public · Hosted by John Penley

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NYC Labor Chorus
Saturday, Nov. 10
PROBABLY 7:30 PM PROBABLY at Community Church of NY-Unitarian Universalist
40 E. 35th St. (not in basement), btw. Madison & Park Aves., nr. #6, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, 4, 5, 7, S, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 34th St. cross town bus; weekend transit:
https://osm.org/go/Zct9GkIn?way=265274838 https://goo.gl/maps/DxerBJTqU1H2
http://tripplanner.mta.info http://mta.info/weekender
Usually $20/$12 sugg./NOTA at ...
Producer: Discount & more People's Voice concerts listed at
https://facebook.com/pg/Peoples-Voice-Cafe-153427118068039/events
November PVC listings in pdf http://www.peoplesvoicecafe.org/pvcnov18.pdf
(212) 787-3903 http://m.me/153427118068039 ; http://peoplesvoicecafe.org
Artist: NYC Labor Chorus www.nyclc.org info@nyclc.org 212 929-3232 https://www.facebook.com/groups/216571231761690/events/
Venue contacts 212.683.4988 info@ccny.org http://www.ccny.org/calendar
OR www.acswebnetworks.com/communitychurchny/article188105.htm
ask correct ending time -t.

please check sources for corrections & updates

please check sources for corrections & updates

please check sources for corrections & updates

Please check sources & web search this event 
title for event date/s, time/s & location/s. -t.

Mobilize Against Trump's War Parade
Saturday, Nov. 10, through Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
www.answercoalition.org/mobilize_against_trump_s_war_parade
Sign on here!  (www.answercoalition.org/endorsement_form_join_the_mobilization_against_trump_s_war_parade)

Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine
Friday, Nov. 9 through Sunday, Nov. 11 (9am - 5pm) at Columbia Univ.
REGISTER https://goo.gl/wgQVXs http://www.scientists4palestine.com/imsp2/
https://facebook.com/events/2144787319095502/ event graphic (https://faacebook.com/Scientists4Palestine/photos/gm.2152743151633252/1840279846085410/?type=3&theater) #ScientistsForPalestine #ScienceDefeatsOccupation

From November 9  through 11 , 2018 the international group Scientists for Palestine and many other members of the international scientific community, will gather at Columbia University in the City of New York for a weekend-long meeting involving multiple plenary and parallel sessions. The event is co-sponsored by Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Science for the People and Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine. This will be Scientists for Palestine's second international gathering, after a similar initiative hosted earlier this year at the University of Cambridge, UK.

The goal of the workshop is to reaffirm the vision of Scientists for Palestine and establish new and ambitious objectives for scientific collaboration between the Palestinian and the international community, transcending the limitations caused by 50 years of ongoing occupation. The topics that will be discussed will vary widely, ranging from strategy sessions on current status of science in Palestine, to educational discussions on the challenges of doing science under the occupation with the goal of developing concrete opportunities for international scientists to get involved, to scientific presentations from many Palestinian and International young scientists.

The event is only open for registered participants, if you would like to participate please fill out the application form goo.gl/u8tkGU. The application deadline is October 30th 2018.

Participants are expected to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.

-------------- WHY INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS? ------------

International meetings for science in Palestine are essential to break the international isolation of the Palestinian academic community and to ensure a brighter future for Palestinian science. Though science has a strong tradition in Palestine, higher education and research faces many challenges. Some common to many countries, such as lack of funding and heavy teaching loads for professors, but many unique challenges are from the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, including restrictions on mobility of students and academics, international isolation, raids and forced closures of Palestinian universities and other scientific institutions, and indictment or imprisonment without trial of individual academics.

---------------- SCIENTISTS FOR PALESTINE ----------------

Nevertheless, interest in physics education and research in Palestine continues to grow rapidly not only within Palestine but also throughout the international scientific community. In December 2015, Palestine signed an International Cooperation Agreement with CERN, signaling Palestine's increasing involvement in cutting-edge scientific research at one of the best laboratories in the world. Very recently 15 among the most famous physicists in the world, including a Nobel laureate and a Fields medalist, signed a letter condemning the use of science to normalize the military occupation of the West Bank.

To help meet the rapidly increasing demand for high-level scientific education and collaboration in Palestine, physicists from around the world created Scientists for Palestine, an international group whose goals are to promote and support science in Palestine and to help integrate Palestine into the international scientific community. Among the groups' initiatives is the establishment of the Palestin

ian Advanced Physics School (PAPS) as a regular event, and plans for many further schools, conferences, workshops, and other scientific activities in Palestine.

More info can be found at the official page for the gathering:

Recent Posts
Scientists for Palestine — Higher education and research in Palestine face many challenges from the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In fact Palestinian scientists have to work under restrictions on mobility of students and academics, international isolation, raids, and forced closures of Palestinian universities.Despite these challenges, interest in science education and research in Palestine continues to grow rapidly. Over 25% of the population of 18-24 year olds enrolled in university and half the students are women, a ratio among one of the highest in the world. Several Palestinian universities rank highly among the universities in the region, including جامعة النجاح الوطنية - An-Najah National University, Al-Quds University جامعة القدس, Birzeit University | جامعة بيرزيت, and the Arab American University / الجامعة العربية الأمريكية, in the West Bank, and in Gaza, Al-Azhar University – Gaza, al-Aqsa University, and the Islamic University of Gaza.We will open our Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine with a public event discussing the circumstances faced by Palestinian academics, and scientists in particular, and what we can do to help. Our main guest is Suleiman Baraka, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, full professor at al-Aqsa University in Gaza City and currently Fulbright scholar at Virginia Tech. We will also attempt to established a remote connection with Palestine to hear a report by the Right to Education Campaign - Palestine حملة الحق في التعليم on the situation in the West Bank.Remember that the weekend activities are for registered participants only, if you would like to participate please fill out the application form goo.gl/u8tkGU. The application deadline is October 30th 2018.The event is co-sponsored by Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Science for the People and Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine.#ScientistsForPalestine #ScienceDefeatsOccupation
…
October 5, 2018 at 3:19 PM
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Scientists for Palestine — Palestinian astrophysicist Suleiman M Baraka, full professor at al-Aqsa University in Gaza and currently a Fulbright scholar at Virginia Tech, will be one of our guests for the Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine.He was highly affected by the Israeli siege of Gaza. His 11 years old was killed by the bombing of his house by Israeli air forces in January 2009. Hear his story from an interview on Democracy Now! a few years ago.To participate to our weekend long Second International Meeting for Science in Palestine, remember to apply at goo.gl/u8tkGU.#ScientistsForPalestine #ScienceDefeatsOccupations
…
September 24, 2018 at 1:39 PM
Read More
Scientists for Palestine — Another reminder that the event is only open for registered

Featuring:
 Science for the People
 Scientists for Palestine
 Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine
 Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
 Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
 http://al-awdany.org/about-al-awda/
 Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University
 Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine  columbiasjp.org

Veterans Peace March #N11
Sunday, November 11 at 7 AM - 3 PM
National Mall Washington DC
https://www.facebook.com/events/199226197326956/

Veterans Peace March #N11 -- Washington, D.C.
Sunday, November 11, 2018 7AM-3PM (approximately)

#VeteransPeaceMarch #N11 #PeaceNotWar

Although the Vision and initial organizing for Veterans Peace March and Peace Concert was started by AL GLATKOWSKI a member of "Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Old School Sappers, it has since become part of a broader coalition of groups across the country working together and organizing actions that will take place from November 10th to November 12th in Washington DC.

To Endorse this event click here: (https://veteranspeacemarch2018-owsspag.nationbuilder.com/endorse_the_veterans_and_native_american_peace_march)

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that silenced the guns of the “war to end all wars,” we will march in silence to reclaim the Armistice Day promise of peace.

Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day following the Korean War, most likely to energize the country for upcoming conflicts and to embolden young men who were subject to the draft.

We are not attempting to ignore or discredit Veterans Day. However, we believe that Veterans Day has been seized by those who love war, profit and power; “honoring” veterans has simply become a one-day photo-op for generals, politicians, celebrities and mattress companies. We, the veterans, are the product of war. We demand peace.

The Veterans Peace March will be veteran-led. Supporters are urged to attend and march, but do so with respect to the veterans in the lead, and also respect the complete silence of the veterans as they march.

We will begin marching at 11AM, in silence, from the Washington Monument.

We will be stopping to leave remembrance poppies at the:

• WWII Memorial
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Vietnam Womenʼs Memorial
• Lincoln Memorial
• Korean War Veterans Memorial

We will then cross the Memorial Memorial Bridge to Arlington National Cemetery where we will leave a poppies at selected grave sites.

To Endorse this event click here: https://veteranspeacemarch2018-owsspag.nationbuilder.com/endorse_the_veterans_and_native_american_peace_march

Our goal is to challenge war. We will march in silence to counter the clamor for war. The remembrance poppies are to honor the warriors (Red), the massive civilian deaths (White), and the resisters who opposed the war (Black) ... and not the war.

Please join us in Waging Peace.

Peace unto you,
Al Glatkowski

To Endorse this event click here: https://veteranspeacemarch2018-owsspag.nationbuilder.com/endorse_the_veterans_and_native_american_peace_march

IMPORTANT NOTE RELATIVE TO GROUP NAME CHANGE: The parties involved with organizing this event are now collaborating on how overall best to name this event. Until this decision is made, we will go with the new and original name: #VeteransPeaceMarch #N11

Piss On Trump's War Parade
Sunday, Nov. 11 at 10 AM - 4 PM in Washington, District of Columbia
https://facebook.com/events/172911323352861/
https://facebook.com/pg/metrodpan/about
https://facebook.com/pg/StopTrumpAnnArbor/about

[See also apparently unrelated INTERNATIONALANSWER
action/s, possibly including same Sunday in DC.]

Our Streets = Our Parade

Sunday, Nov. 11 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DChttps://facebook.com/events/123915098443205/
Public · Hosted by Junto Unsilenced

**This is a very early draft**

If this autocratic dictator wants to waste multi-millions of OUR money on a ridiculously fascist tribute to himself, then we will make sure that WE citizens are participants. We will stand up, march, lay down and disrupt!

[ please check source for changes.  -t.]

Reclaim Armistice Day on November 11 from 10:30-12:30 in
Port Jefferson Station on Long Island

TENTATIVE INFORMATION. SEEKING A SOURCE. please look up event title and likely suspects for corrected date/time/location & descriptions

VA HQ Campout and BBQ - NO Cutbacks to VA Medical Centers
Overnight with actions on November 10 & November 11, at or nr.

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, at I St. NW, nr. McPherson Sq. & Lafayette Sq.
Blue, Orange, Silver Metro to McPherson Sq.; Red to Metro Ctr.;
see https://facebook.com/events/423650051485722/
Public · Hosted by John Penley

Please check sources & web search this event 
title for event date/s, time/s & location/s. -t.

Mobilize Against Trump's War Parade
Saturday, Nov. 10, through Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
www.answercoalition.org/mobilize_against_trump_s_war_parade
Sign on here!  (www.answercoalition.org/endorsement_form_join_the_mobilization_against_trump_s_war_parade)

Portraiture and Enslavement at the Thresholds of Emancipation (Agnes Lugo-Ortiz)
Monday, Nov. 12, 6:00 to 8:00 PM in Schermerhorn Extension Rm. 612
nr. #1, B, C, A, D stops, M60 bus & 125th St. cross town bus lines
transit https://osm.org/go/Zc4oa2971-?way=274995736
https://goo.gl/maps/wHMtf5EDAbt
event descriptions https://facebook.com/events/298311077649337/
(http://heymancenter.org/events/portraiture-and-enslavement-at-the-thresholds-of-emancipation-a-caribbean-m/) Public · Hosted by Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (http://irwgs.columbia.edu/events/)
https://facebook.com/pg/irwgs/events/

Portraiture and Enslavement at the Thresholds of Emancipation (A Caribbean Meditation) with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (University of Chicago).
Location: 612 Schermerhorn

The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality is the locus of interdisciplinary feminist and queer scholarship and teaching at Columbia University.
Events with Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

 . OCT10
Bodily: Neither Here Nor There with J.R. Latham

 . NOV26
Disturbing Attachments:Genet, Modern Pederasty and Queer History

Building from the Left: Strategies to Dismantle the Right
w/ Tarso Luís Ramos & Political Research Associates
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, 6:30 to 8:00 PM at Barnard College Diana Center
3009 Broadway at W.119th St. nr. #1 stop & M60 bus
Free & public; RSVP preferred:  (https://eventbrite.com/e/building-from-the-left-strategies-to-dismantle-the-right-tickets-47115389398)
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/building-from-the-left-strategies-to-dismantle-the-right/ https://facebook.com/events/1671800636189021/ by Barnard Center for Research on Women
https://facebook.com/pg/BCRW.Feminism/events/ http://m.me/PoliticalResearchAssociates
(617) 666-5300 contact@politicalresearch.org http://www.politicalresearch.org

How can the left develop more robust strategies to undermine and disrupt the powerful ascendance of the U.S. Right, and build a transformative intersectional social justice agenda that encompasses reproductive justice, LGBTQ rights, racial and immigrant justice, civil liberties, and economic justice? Tarso Luís Ramos, Executive Director of Political Research Associates and BCRW Social Justice Institute Activist in Residence (2016-2018), will present research and strategies, pose ongoing critical questions, and facilitate a discussion with leading organizers and scholars in these fields.

About the Speakers
Tarso Luís Ramos is Executive Director of Political Research Associates. Under his leadership, PRA has expanded existing lines of research documenting right wing attacks on reproductive, gender and racial justice by launching several new initiatives on subjects that include the export of U.S.-style homophobic campaigns abroad, the spread of Islamophobia, and the Right’s investment in redefining religious liberty toward discriminatory ends. Before joining PRA, Ramos served as founding director of Western States Center’s Racial Justice Program, which works to oppose racist public policy initiatives and support progressive people of color-led organizations. As director of the Wise Use Public Exposure Project in the mid-’90s, he tracked the Right’s anti-union and anti-environmental campaigns.

Additional speakers to come.

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.

Political Research Associates is a social justice think tank devoted to supporting movements that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society. We expose movements, institutions, and ideologies that undermine human rights.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT INFO

Tue, November 13, 2018
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Diana Center

3009 Broadway
More Events From This Organizer
Tue, Oct 9 6:00 PM   Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn
James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall,

Like Dolls, I’ll Rise, Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux and Les Indes Gal...
Screening followed by Q&A with director Nora Philippe
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6:30 to 9:00 PM at Lenfest Ctr. Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Rm
615 W. 129th St. btw. Riverside Dr. & Broadway, nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops, M60 bus & 125th St. buses; https://goo.gl/maps/TnfdBcKHiHt
https://osm.org/go/Zc4o0QLRF--?way=614602188 
(https://eventbrite.com/e/like-dolls-ill-rise-le-bleu-blanc-rouge-de-mes-cheveux-and-les-indes-galantes-tickets-50181746956)
https://www.ias.columbia.edu/event/blackness-french-and-francophone-film
Free // Part of film series  == > "Blackness in French and Francophone Film
http://maisonfrancaise.org/blackness-in-french-and-francophone-film
http://frenchculture.org/events/8807-blackness-french-and-francophone-film
 organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts.

Like Dolls, I'll Rise is a film by Nora Philippe that breathes life into rag dolls made by anonymous Afro-American women in the 19th and early 20th centuries for their own children or for the white children they were looking after. Black, injured and forgotten, these magnificent dolls, collected by Debbie Neff, lend their expressive features to the women that a century of slavery, segregation and racism tried to silence. Far from being the mute witnesses of their suffering, dreams and courage, these objects haunted by so many stories become, for the length of this film, the intermediaries of a discourse of self-affirmation and liberation. From Sojourner Truth to Maya Angelou, Like Dolls I'll Rise is inhabited by the voices of these women, writers, poets, activists, who brought the history of black America, and that of the long-ignored women, out of the shadows. (Céline Guénot)

In Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux (2016, 20 min.) Josza Anjembe protrays a teenager from Cameroon who is passionate about the history of France, the country where she was born and which she loves deeply. Having just brilliantly graduated from high school and getting closer to ago 18, Seyna aspires only to one thing: obtaining French citizenship. But her father Amidou is fiercely opposed to the project.

In Les Indes Galantes (The Amorous Indies) (2017, 6 min.), Clément Cogitore created and filmed a performance of "krumping" to Les Indes Galantes, music that was composed for opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1735. Krumping is an urban dance form born in black neighborhoods in Los Angeles after the 1995 riots. The performance was conceived by the most famous hip hop choregraphers in France and Belgium, Dembele, Caruge and Rachiki, and filmed on the stage of Opéra Bastille stage, both a historic symbol of revolution and a contemporary symbol of elite culture.

Columbia University co-sponsors of Blackness in French and Francophone Film: Maison Française; School of the Arts; Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; Institute for African Studies; Columbia Global Centers/Paris; European Institute; and Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Film series presented with support from the Paul LeClerc Centennial Fund, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, la Scam, and the Knapp Family Foundation.
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Tue, November 13, 2018

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EST

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Columbia University: Lenfest Center for the Arts

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