MIGRANTE NY General Assembly
Sunday Feb. 17, 10:00 AM at The People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves.
https://facebook.com/events/486414755220308/
We warmly welcome you/your organization to join us in our annual General Assembly. As thousands of migrant workers leave the Philippines every day, Migrante New York continues to fight for the rights and welfare of Filipino workers at a grassroots level. We appreciate your continued support as an ally of solidarity in our mission to address the roots and symptoms of systemic forced migration. Your support has been indispensable in furthering Migrante New York’s advocation for the thousands of Filipino migrants in the New York area.

February 17, 10:00am
The People’s Forum
320 W 37th st., New York

Registration:
Members - $15
Non-members - $20

For more details:
migrantenewyork@gmail.com
(914) 719-7705

Brown Bike "Stop E-Bike Discrimination" Chinese New Year Ride
Sunday, Feb. 17 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM from
Park Ave. & E. 42nd St. nr. Pershing Sq. Overpass
& Grand Central Terminal entrance
event graphic, description & contacts  https://goo.gl/BhZtMN
https://facebook.com/events/292368994807867/
Public · Hosted by The Brown Bike Girl and Biking Public Project
https://facebook.com/pg/BikingPublicProject/events/
https://facebook.com/TheBrownBikeGirl/

JOIN THE BROWN BIKE GIRL FOR A RIDING ACTION TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS AGAINST DISCRIMINATORY E-BIKE POLICING

When:  Sun 2/17, 11:00am
Where: Grand Central Station (42nd St - Pershing Square)
What:   Ride to the Lower Manhattan - Chinese New Year Parade
             after a 15 minute talk with advocates who have
             spearheaded campaigns on behalf of immigrant delivery
             workers.
Why:    Ask questions. Get answers. Show support and solidarity.
How:    Free CitiBike passes or those who need.
 Ride to meetup or take bike on any train thats stops at 42nd Street (Grand Central, Times Sq, Port Authority, and Bryant Park stops)

Free hand warmers provided, but bundle up!
* * * *
- PLEASE RSVP SO THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH SIGNS TO GO AROUND.
- PLEASE COME WAHTEVER THE WEATHER - YOUR DELIVERY DOES.
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MORE ABOUT THE NYC EBIKE LAW

Everyone in New York wants their food fast and hot. But the motorized e-bikes with throttles that often delivery it are currently illegal to operate. Police fine delivery workers (not their employers) $500 ea individuals and take their bikes

Why are they illegal? Some claim that ebikes are dangerous. But...
- There is no proof that ebikes are involved in more accidents or moving violations than conventional bikes.
- An ebike moving at the same speed as a conventional bike is no more lethal if it were involved in an pedestrian crash.
- No one has been killed by an ebike.  Though e-bikers, like other cyclists have been killed by car traffic.

So what measurable difference sets them ebikes apart?
The vast majority of throttle ebikers are immigrant men of color.
 
Heightened public intolerance and disproportionate policing of the presence of PoC is not an unfamliar phenomenon. But it is something we should not tolerate - especially for our lowest paid and most politcially vulnerable populations.

Recent Post
The Brown Bike Girl — Happy to announce that the Biking Public Project (the lead advocates for delivery worker justice) is officially joining The Brown Bike Girl in this ride and action! They will meet, greet, and inform us of the work theyre doing and the impact discriminatory policy has on the lives of delivery workers.See you 2/17 at Grand Central's Pershing Square (the underpass at 42nd Street).
RSVP [presumably not actually required but consider asking -t.]
https://www.facebook.com/events/292368994807867/

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The Brown Bike Girl is a bicycle advocacy consulting firm that assists those who care about promoting cycling in communities of color get the job done!

The Biking Public Project, formerly "POW! People On Wheels", is a new initiative formed from the 2nd Annual Youth Bike Summit.

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Repeating event.  Please check my sources before traveling to attend. -t.

SecuriTEA Time
Third Sunday of each month at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Ctr
172 Allen St., 10002, btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St. nr. F, J, D, 6, R or Weekend N Local
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8TA_K?node=1681677555
https://goo.gl/maps/vHnjZjivFXA2
Public · Hosted by The CyPurr Collective and Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center
http://twitter.com/cypurrnyc  https://facebook.com/pg/cypurr/events/
http://bluestockings.com/events/  212-777-6028
 https://cypurr-collective.github.io  https://cypurr.nyc
m.me/cypurr cypurr@protonmail.com

Upcoming Dates

 . Sunday, Jan. 20 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
http://bluestockings.com/event/securitea-time/?instance_id=195449
https://facebook.com/events/981907231993303/

 . Sunday, Feb.. 17 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
(https://facebook.com/events/569583540151897/?event_time_id=569583563485228)

 . Sunday, March 17 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
https://facebook.com/events/569583540151897/?event_time_id=569583566818561

 . Sunday, April 21 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
https://facebook.com/events/569583540151897/?event_time_id=569583570151894

 . Sunday, May 19 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
https://facebook.com/events/569583540151897/?event_time_id=569583556818562

Feel like we're in a bad episode of Black Mirror? Is Mr.Robot looking more like a documentary? Between the corporate, state, and civilian threats we face, talking about cybersecurity can be overwhelming and stir up a lot of difficult emotions. This social event from the CyPurr Collective hopes to provide a comfortable space to discuss these anxieties as well as current events in the digital world. Let's build up our digital-agency and form a critical understand the tech encroaching on our lives. All while enjoying delicious tea and snacks, of course.

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The Animals' Battalion vs The Fur Source of New York
Sunday, Feb. 17, 1:30 to 2:30 PM at The Fur Source NY
3 W. 57th St. between 5th & 6th Aves.; F to 57 St. (at 6th); N, Q, R to 57 St.-7 Av.;
N, R to 5 Av. (at Central Pk South or E.60th); B, D, E to 7 Av. (at W.53rd);
#1, A, B, C, D to 59 St.-Columbus Cir.;
map https://goo.gl/maps/UJNx76kmRsp
https://facebook.com/events/2273402512984309/
with http://animalsbattalion.org/fur.html
https://facebook.com/pg/animalsbattalion/events/
646.836.3334 animalsbattalion@gmail.com m.me/animalsbattalion

Film & talk with Kings Bay Plowshares defendants
Sunday, Feb. 17, 2:00 PM at
Fordham Law School Lowenstein Center
113 W. 60th St., 12th Fl. Lounge (at NW corner of Columbus Av.)
nr. #1, A, B, C, D, N, Q, R, W, F stops,
57th St. bus & M66 cross town via E.67th to W.65th;
event graphic & descriptions https://instagram.com/p/BtjigCwBd8e/
https://goo.gl/zj2PCd https://facebook.com/events/351456292370313/
sdear@pfadp.org dearstevedear@gmail.com http://www.pfadp.org
Media: kbp7@gmail.com  General: kingsbayplowshares@gmail.com
www.twitter.com/kingsbayplow7 https://facebook.com/pg/Kingsbayplowshares/events
http://facebook.com/groups/1558500837566350/  hillfletche@fordham.edu, gradyflores08@gmail.com  (607)2808797
Apparently relevant: Witness Against Trident 207.266.0919,
jms733@cornell.edu brockman.beth@gmail.com

Kings Bay Plowshares defendants face ``25 years in prison for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament of the Trident nuclear submarine base in GA. This may be their last NYC event before trial.``

[ask correct ending time -t.]
                ..
 
  From: Mary Anne Grady Flores <gradyflores08@gmail.com
  Greetings
  My sister Clare is one of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 defendants is facing 25 years.  We have a screening and discussion on
  Feb 17th at Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham.  We're hoping to have a couple of notables, TBA.  Can you help   by inviting your respective communities by personally sending a note to your people to come and raise the spirits   of the defendants for a send off as this will be their last public event before their trial in March or April,   in GA.  Please let me know if you can send me a singular  email response. Thanks to all of you for all your life's work! MA
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  PLEASE POST TO NYC AREA LISTS, TO MEDIA, & TO RADIO!  [https://www.facebook.com/events/351456292370313/.  www.twitter.com/kingsbayplow7  ] AND PLEASE PRINT POSTER & 1/4 CARDS TO GIVE OUT AT YOUR EVENTS!
  THANKS!
 
  Film Screening Feb 17 (2).png [file attachment available upon request -t.]
 
  2 PM   SUNDAY: FEB. 17, 2019
   FILM & DISCUSSION WITH
   KINGS BAY PLOWSHARES DEFENDANTS
   facing 25 years in prison for their nonviolent symbolic disarmament of the
   Trident nuclear submarine base in GA. This may be their last NYC event before
   leaving for their March or April trial in GA. Liz McAlister (Phil Berrigan's widow), Fr. Steve Kelly, and Mark Colville wait in jail for their trial since last April 5, 2018. Patrick O'Neill of the Durham, NC C.W. house, (Catholic Worker [C.W.} Founder, Dorothy Day's granddaughter) Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta of the NYC C.W., Clare Grady (daughter of John P. Grady of the Camden 28) of the Ithaca C.W.  are out on $50,000 bond and ankle monitors and, will be at the film and discussion.
 
  LINCOLN CENTER CAMPUS, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
  113 W. 60TH ST, NYC  12TH FL. LOUNGE
 
  Please join us for a special screening of the documentary The Nuns, the Priests and the Bomb. The film follows anti-nuclear war activists of the Plowshares movement in their acts of civil disobedience at sites of the US nuclear arms arsenal and production.  Filmmaker Helen Young and members of the Kings Bay Plowshares currently facing federal criminal charges for their April 2017 action will be present for a discussion following the screening.
 
  The event is free and open to the public.  Please RSVP with this link.
 
     This event is co-sponsored by Fordham’s Center for Religion and Culture, the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs and Peace and Justice Studies program, with the support of NYC Catholic Worker.
 
  For questions contact Professor Jeannine Hill Fletcher, hillfletche@fordham.edu.
   And Mary Anne Grady Flores/ gradyflores08@gmail.com   607. 280. 8797
 
   P.S.: Stay with us via social media:
 http://facebook.com/Kingsbayplowshares/   instagram.com/kingsbayplowshares7/
  facebook.com/groups/1558500837566350/   Media: kbp7@gmail.com  General: kingsbayplowshares@gmail.com
      --
 
      Mary Anne Grady Flores
      Ithaca, NY 14850 1-607-280-8797

      Ithaca Catholic Workers  /  Los Obreros Catolicos de Ithaca

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MACC Organizing Assembly
Sunday Feb. 17, 3:00 to 6:00pm at The Base
1302 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, btw. Central Av. & Stockholm St. (nr. Dekalb Av.); M train to Central Av. (at Cedar St., then walk away from Manhattan); J to Myrtle Av. (NW exit, nearest Manhattan, then walk NE on Dekalb); L to DeKalb Av. (between the exits find Stockholm St. & walk SW, against traffic); buses via DeKalb or Myrtle; B60 via Wilson Av.;
http://tripplanner.mta.info/ https://goo.gl/maps/Zt46tKnkvHD2 (https://osm.org/go/Zct8qVvc?node=5418692470) http://web.mta.info/weekender.html
https://tockify.com/mlsupport/detail/128/1550433600000  https://macc.nyc/events
venue https://facebook.com/pg/TheBkBase/events/ http://thebasebk.org/event/
https://twitter.com/thebasebk thebasebk@gmail.com

The Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) will be holding an
organizing assembly Sunday, Feb. 17, 3:00pm to 6:00pm at The Base {snip} Please attend and invite your friends and comrades [? -t.]. Organizing assemblies are
 == > open to all of those who have participated in MACC working groups or general assemblies!

If you can't arrive on time, feel free to come late.The organizing assembly is MACC's primary decision making body and deals with the nuts and bolts of MACC as an organization and its infrastructure. These assemblies are a forum where we explore and attempt to address the wider needs of MACC and the anarchist movement in NYC. We also use these meetings to set the agenda and the tone for general assemblies ("GAs"), and to check in with working groups.

Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council / MACC Organizing Assembly
Sunday, Feb. 17, 3:00 to 6:00 PM at The Base
1302 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, at Stockholm St. (off Dekalb Av.); M train to Central Av. (at Cedar St., then walk away from Manhattan); J to Myrtle Av. (NW exit, nearest Manhattan, then walk NE on Dekalb); L to DeKalb Av. (between the exits find Stockholm St. & walk SW, against traffic); buses via DeKalb or Myrtle; B60 via Wilson Av.;
https://goo.gl/maps/Zt46tKnkvHD2 https://osm.org/go/Zct8qVvc?node=5418692470
event https://facebook.com/events/2003160363125580/
Public · Hosted by Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC
https://macc.nyc/events https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events
m.me/MACCnyc info@macc.nyc
venue https://facebook.com/pg/TheBkBase/events/ http://thebasebk.org/event/ https://twitter.com/thebasebk thebasebk@gmail.com

The Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) will be holding an organizing assembly this week Sunday, February 17, 3pm-6pm, at The Base, 1286 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn. Please attend and invite your friends and comrades. Organizing assemblies are open to all of those who have participated in MACC working groups or general assemblies! If you can't arrive on time, feel free to come late.

The organizing assembly is MACC's primary decision making body and deals with the nuts and bolts of MACC as an organization and its infrastructure. These assemblies are a forum where we explore and attempt to address the wider needs of MACC and the anarchist movement in NYC. We also use these meetings to set the agenda and the tone for general assemblies ("GAs"), and to check in with working groups.

Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC
MACC is an anarchist organization under which we are building an anarchist movement forum in NYC. Join us at the next general assembly!

Events with Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC

FEB19  AnFem Open Meeting - February
FEB21 Burning Frame: To Die in Madrid & Fury Over Spain
FEB22  MACC General Assembly - February - Verso Books

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NYBR New Member Orientation and Potluck
Sunday, Feb 17, 2019 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM in Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Av., B`klyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St.;
L to Dekalb Av.; M to Myrtle-Wyckoff
map https://goo.gl/CZ85GX
https://facebook.com/events/945044789160621/
https://facebook.com/pg/nyboricuaresistance/events/
m.me/nyboricuaresistance NYboricuaresistance@gmail.com
venue https://twitter.com/maydayspace https://maydayspace.org
https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

Hola!

This will be a new member orientation for those interested in joining the organization. We will review our principles, do a study about the Young Lords, and plan for upcoming events such as May Day, the PR Parade, and other community plans!

If you are able to bring a dish or dessert to share, that would be wonderful! Even better if its arroz con gandules!

We are a child friendly space and want to be able to make room for your children. Someone will be available to provide childcare with coloring books and some toys.

Hope to see you there!

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 . MOUTH HARP IN MINOR KEY: SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
[Sunday] Feb. 17, 2019 fr/ 4:00 to  6:30pm | Suggested donation $10
This documentary explores identity, immigration, exile and the cultural purgatory that is created as immigrants try to preserve their ancestral sense of belonging while seeking to establish a new home.Screening will be followed by a discussion with the director, Maryam Sepehri.
 
More Events at The People's Forum
(https://peoplesforum.org/calendar/category/culture/list/?tribe-bar-date=2019-02)
https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC  
https://facebook.com/peoplesforumNYC/events/

Recent Newsletter
(https://mailchi.mp/b2ea83bc7b8f/upcoming-events-at-the-peoples-forum-276159)

The People's Forum, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and the People's Congress of Resistance would like to thank you for your support in helping us keep organizer and human rights activist Alejandra Pablos. Together, we raised $10.986 for her legal fees in her petition to the Governor of Arizona to stay home with her family in the United States I f you haven't donated and would like to, please go
 == > to http://bit.ly/keepalefreefund

 . The Colonial Pasts and Violent Present of Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
[Tuesday] Feb. 12, 2019 fr/ 6:30 pm
A lecture with Laleh Khalili about the historical roots of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror.  RSVP HERE >>

 . POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF RACISM - MANU VIMALASSERY
[Wednesdays] Feb. 13, 20, and March 13, 2019 fr/ 7:00 to 9:00pm
(https://peoplesforum.org/event/political-economy-of-racism/2019-02-13/)
This four session seminar explores the political economy of racism with Professor Manu Karuka. We will work to denaturalize racism as something that needs to be explained, rather than accepted as a facet of social life. We will analyze race as a process and relationship internal to the capital relation itself.  RSVP HERE >>

 . RELIGIONS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
[Wednesday] Feb. 13, 2019 fr/ 5:30 to 8:30pm
(https://peoplesforum.org/event/religions-and-social-movements/)   
This course will investigate the relationship between social movements and religious traditions. Religions have been both oppressive forces and forces of liberation in the history of human struggle and these tensions have been critical to the development and sustaining of social movements around the world.
RSVP HERE >>

 . ANTI-CAPITALIST LOVE: A PUNK SHOW
[Friday] Feb. 15, 2019 fr/ 7:30 to Midnight, $10
(https://peoplesforum.org/event/anti-capitalist-love-punk-show/) 
This event is an ode to femme/non-conforming leading bands in New York City.
PERFORMANCES by @chupamimadre @brujaluna @ratasenzelo DJ: @aguapanelamami VENDORS: @sisterbatwing @sashalynillo @ay.irani@gammykillz @izxist This event will gather donations for @siemprecontigoinc a family run organization that does direct hurricane relief to a mental home in Puerto Rico.

TICKETS HERE >>

 . INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR AND POLITICAL EDUCATION
[Friday] Feb. 15 & 28, 2019 fr/ 6:00 to 8:00pm
(https://peoplesforum.org/event/introduction-to-popular-and-political-education/2019-02-15/)         This three-session class is about popular education – an approach to teaching and learning that connects theory, experience, and practical work for social change.

RSVP HERE >>

 . SONGS IN THE KEY OF RESISTANCE
[Saturday] Feb. 16, 2019 fr/ 3:00 to 6:00pm
Songs in the Key of Resistance is a community song and chant share hosted by the NYC Poor People's Campaign: National Call for Moral Revival and The People's Forum. This is a space to develop relationships and strengthen our community through song. This meeting be held the 3rd Saturday (3:00-6:00PM) and 1st Monday (7:00-9:00PM) of each month beginning Feb. 16th from 3:00- 6:00PM. This exchange is free and open to everyone regardless of singing ability. Bring your songs and an instrument if you play! 

 . THE EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE
[Saturday] Feb. 16, 2019 fr/ 5:30 to 9:30pm | FREE event suggested $5
The Experience Magazine celebrates her rebirth & rebranding heading into its next era with the release of the 2-Part Winter 2018-2019 Issue. This will be 1st new publication in over a year. This issue will be centered around The Age of Afro-Digital Activism.

 . MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING WITH DR. SHIRLEY LEYRO
[Sunday] Feb. 17, 2019 @ 9:00am - 5:00pm  | FREE WORKSHOP
BECOME CERTIFIED IN MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID and be able to 1) Identify signs and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses; 2) Learn how to respond if you see these signs in your colleagues, friends, and loved ones; 3) Acquire a valuable tool for professional development; 4) Receive a certificate for becoming trained in Mental Health First Aid that is good for 3 years.

RSVP HERE >>

 . READING MARX'S CAPITAL WITH DAVID HARVEY[Tuesday] Feb. 19, 2019 fr/ 6:00 to  8:00pm | FREE
A close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx’s Capital with Professor David Harvey. This semester-long class meets on Tuesdays from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. It began on
Feb. 5th and is ending on May 7. It will be 12 weeks total, and will not meet on Feb. 12 or April 23.
Watch Class 1, Introduction
LIVE-STREAM FOR THIS CLASS IS AVAILABLE HERE >>

Copyright © 2019. The People's Forum. All rights reserved.

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Housing Movie Night + Potluck
Sunday, Feb. 17, 5:30 to 7:30 PM at Big Irv`s
381 Hooper St., Brooklyn at South 1st St.
J Train to Hewes St.; G to Metropolitan; L to Lorimer St.;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8lgDT?node=2838678471
https://goo.gl/maps/bouVVVGchjB2
Public · Hosted by NYC Cooperative Housing Exchange and Big Irv's

Movie night, BYO snacks/drinks, discussion and socializing! Let's learn about some unique and inspiring housing history while getting the chance to meet new people and have a good time. Stay tuned for more info!

THE PLAN: We'll be hosting a documentary screening of the film At Home in Utopia, which tells the story of the union-built cooperative houses in the Bronx in the 1920s and "bears witness to an epic social experiment, following two generations of residents and their commitment to radical ideas of racial equality and rights for tenants and workers." http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/athomeinutopia/film.html

For more info on rad union/coop housing efforts:

*The United Workers Cooperative Colony (aka the "Coops"):
http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1795.pdf)
*Bread + Butter Socialism: A History of Finnish-American Co-ops: https://opencitymag.aaww.org/finntown-esther-wang/
*How Unions Can Solve the Housing Crisis: (http://inthesetimes.com/features/unions-housing-crisis-labor-coop-apartments-new-york-homeless-rent-control.html)
*Radical Co-ops in the Roaring:
(https://citylimits.org/2004/12/15/radical-co-ops-in-the-roaring/)

Amazon Send-Off Rally
Sunday, Feb. 17, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
at or near 47th Ave & Center Blvd., L.I.C.,
near a Gantry Plaza State Park entrance
#7 Train to Vernon-Jackson; G to 21 St.-Van Alst;
E to Court Sq.-23 St.;
maps http://tripplanner.mta.info https://goo.gl/T3exHT
https://osm.org/go/Zct9hM8z?way=25428484
https://goo.gl/maps/bfLDHk9Y3BC2 http://mta.info/weekender
[Consider allowing yourself search time & carrying live phone numbers.  -t.]
event https://facebook.com/events/2181559038826560/
with Queens Anti-Gentrification Project, Decolonize This Place, Why Accountability,   BAD Barcode, NYC Cultural Workers, Take Back The Bronx,   Craash: An Asian American Student Union, CUNY Not HQ2,   No Amazon NYC,   Black Rose / Rosa Negra - NYC
(917) 745-3479 m.me/QueensAntiGentrification
queensantigentrification@gmail.com https://queensantigentrification.org
https://www.instagram.com/queens_antigentrification/
m.me/decolonizethisplace decolonizethisplace@gmail.com
https://decolonizethisplace.org (646) 856-9847
info@whyaccountability.com http://www.WhyAccountability.com
m.me/badbarcodenyc studio.bar.barcode@gmail.com
http://badbarcode.net (347) 974-0029 m.me/takebackthebx
bxsocialcenter@gmail.com http://bronxsocialcenter.org
m.me/huntercraash craashhunter@gmail.com
http://www.huntercraash.org m.me/cunynothq2
m.me/queensagainstamazon queensagainstamazon@protonmail.com
m.me/blackrosenyc blackrosefednyc@riseup.net
http://www.blackrosefed.org 

The Amazon deal was just one apex of a long and violent process of planned corporate and techno-financial development, working class displacement, racial violence, and corrupt, real estate driven rezoning that has had disastrous effects on our neighborhoods for decades.

HQ2 was proposed to be built across the street from Queensbridge, the biggest public housing complex in the Western Hemisphere, run by NYCHA. Many buildings run by NYCHA have been without heat, without working elevators, and facing general conditions of non-livability for years. Politicians are slowly moving to privatize NYCHA, handing the desperately necessary maintenance of affordable housing from an underfunded and understaffed program to the very developers who inflate rent prices in NYC.

Apart from being one of the world’s biggest collectors of data (given their cloud platform), Amazon has deep ties to the American military (currently bidding on a 10 billion contract) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (providing facial recognition tech, running algorithms which target persons of color).  Moreover, Amazon is known worldwide for low paying wages, precarious working conditions and anti-labor policies.

New York is home to over 8 million people and hosts some of the strongest economic engines in the world. Amazon was not about 20-40,000 jobs, but rather a developer class ruling our cities, demanding constant expansion at the cost of the very things that have kept our cities great - people, communities and livelihoods. It won’t end with Amazon and it won’t end unless we fight back.

Now is the time to celebrate, but it is also the time to stay organized, build off this momentum, and move to the offensive! We have to continue our work in New York City by opposing tech capitalism in its entirety; working to end the restructuring of our neighborhoods by state and corporate developers; lending our energy to Amazon employees and other workers across the city; and supporting nationwide and global struggles for freedom.  Lastly - Amazon has stated they intend to slowly increase their presence in NYC - let’s let them know we’ll be giving them hell!

NO AMAZON
NO TECH-CAPITALISM
NO GENTRIFICATION
NO PRIVATIZATION
NO POLICE VIOLENCE

NOTE: This is an unpermitted demonstration. Internal security and legal observers will be present  [...or at least, way more likely, L.O.s were requested on necessarily short notice, if usual NYC pattern is any guide.  that's just my counter-guess, cuz recruiting typically takes several days minimum, AYMK.  YMMV.  -t.].  No politicians or political parties of any kind will be platformed at this event.

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Housing Justice For All / HJ4A Canvassing
Monday Feb. 18, 2019 starting 1:00PM from Golden Crust
3812 Whiteplains Rd., Bronx, NY 10467, btw. E. 219th & E. 220th
#2, 5 to 219 St. (at White Plains Rd.)
http://metcouncilonhousing.nationbuilder.com/hj4a_canvas_20190218
https://facebook.com/metcouncilonhousing/events/
http://metcouncilonhousing.org
FOR CLARIFICATION TRY 212-979-6238 Ava@metcouncilonhousing.org Andrea@metcouncilonhousing.org Johanna@metcouncilonhousing.org  info@metcouncilonhousing.org   (212) 453-9500

[Typist's note.  WHAT IS CANVASSING?  Please research or ask whether organizers mean leafleting, or  working petitions and street outreach, or door knocking, or retailer outreach.  Since the fashion for that term re-emerged (or maybe migrated Back East), various local group contacts keep replying variously that they in each case intended one or more of those possible meanings.  So ask or just be prepared to do all three.   Meeting point may not last long, I dunno.  Then again some groups seem to offer quick mini-trainings before these things.  Godspeed.   -t]

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Canvass for Statewide Universal Rent Control
Monday Feb. 18, 1:00 to 4:00 PM leaving from Golden Krust
3812 White Plains Rd, Bronx (10467),
btw E. 219th & E. 220th;  #2, 5 Train to 219 St.
https://goo.gl/maps/ve5Nzu3MiHM2
https://facebook.com/events/2262822493958490/a
m.me/metcouncilonhousing Call (212) 979-6238
info@metcouncilonhousing.org http://www.metcouncilonhousing.org m.me/realrentreform realrentreform@gmail.com
http://realrentreform.blogspot.com  m.me/nycdsa
info@socialists.nyc http://www.socialists.nyc
http://twitter.com/nycDSA m.me/housing4allNY
https://www.housingjusticeforall.org

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Description:Independence for Puerto Rico Rally at the UN     
Every third Monday in Ralph Bunche Park at 1st Av. & E. 43rd St.
nr. #7, 4, 5, 6 & 42nd St. bus; maps https://goo.gl/maps/xqWuCn5yNEn
https://osm.org/go/Zct9MmxSV-?way=385106972
Monday Dec. 17 event graphic https://goo.gl/3kDgqC
https://facebook.com/events/194014731504970/
https://facebook.com/events/352553011951809/
m.me/frenteindependentistaboricua
https://facebook.com/groups/285841525501686/events/

November 2018
MON 19  5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

December 2018
MON 17   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

January 2019
MON 21   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

February 2019
MON 18   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

March 2019
MON 18   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

April 2019
MON 15   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

May 2019
MON 20   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

June 2019
MON 17  5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Join A Call to Action on Puerto Rico’s campaign to demand the decolonization and independence of Puerto Rico.

120 MINUTES OF PROTEST FOR 120 YEARS OF COLONIALISM!
For the past 120 years, the archipelago of Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States. This colonial relationship has brought a humanitarian and economic crisis to the people of Puerto Rico. We must end the policies of genocide, the selling of our natural resources and public lands, school closures, labor reforms that erode workers rights, closures of hospitals and healthcare facilities, and environmental hazards such as coal ash deposits among many others. Every third Monday from 5:00 PM - 7:00 pm, we will be at Ralph Bunche Park on 1st Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Street. Bring signs and banners that educate the public about why we seek our self-determination. ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!

Independence for Puerto Rico Rally at the UN
Every Third Monday, 5:00 PM
Feb. 18, Mar. 18, Apr. 15, May 20 & Jun. 17, 2019
Ralph Bunche Park at East 43 St. & 1st Av.
nr. #7, 4, 5, 6, S, E, M stops & cross town buses via 42nd or 50th

https://facebook.com/events/352553011951809/
Public · Hosted by Luis Cordero Santoni and Lorraine Liriano Chávez ask ending time.

Join A Call to Action on Puerto Rico’s campaign to demand the decolonization and independence of Puerto Rico.
120 MINUTES OF PROTEST FOR 120 YEARS OF COLONIALISM!

For the past 120 years, the archipelago of Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States. This colonial relationship has brought a humanitarian and economic crisis to the people of Puerto Rico. We must end the policies of genocide, the selling of our natural resources and public lands, school closures, labor reforms that erode workers rights, closures of hospitals and healthcare facilities, and environmental hazards such as coal ash deposits among many others. 
Every third Monday from 5:00 PM - 7:00 pm, we will be at Ralph Bunche Park on 1st Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Street. Bring signs and banners that educate the public about why we seek our self-determination.  ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!

https://www.facebook.com/events/352553011951809/

No to Fake Emergency
Monday, Feb. 18, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in
Union Sq. Park, presumably nr. E.14th St.
L Train or #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, F, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E; 14th St. cross town buses;
https://www.crisisresponse.us/event/crisis-response/17201
https://twitter.com/hashtag/fakenationalemergency

apparently fake spam reports have caused spamhaus filters to block mail containing the event host's link, above.  so if mailing this, use instead:

www {dot} crisisresponse {dot} us

U.S. Hands Off: Ukraine - Honduras - Venezuela
Monday Feb. 18, 5:00 to 6:00 PM at
U.S. Army Career Center Times Square
200 W 43rd St.
https://www.facebook.com/events/603599613419242/    

Join us for an informational picket and leafleting to mark the 5th anniversary of the far-right coup in Ukraine. U.S. hands off Ukraine, Honduras, Venezuela and everywhere!

When: Mon. Feb. 18, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Where: U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station
Times Square, 7th Avenue and 43rd St., Manhattan
Called by: Solidarity with Novorossiya & Antifascists in Ukraine

Five years ago, Washington worked with neo-Nazis and wealthy oligarchs to overthrow the elected government of Ukraine. The new regime imprisoned hundreds of opponents and journalists, banned leftist and workers' organizations, and started a war against the Donbass mining region that has cost more than 10,000 lives. U.S. corporations and banks have reaped the benefits of a massive sell-off of the country's land and industry, while the NATO military alliance has encroached on Russia’s Western border, threatening to ignite a new global conflict.

Ten years ago, Washington orchestrated a right-wing military coup against the elected government of Honduras. The result was a war of terror against workers, Indigenous people, LGBTQ and women, which continues today. U.S. big business and the Pentagon are firmly in the saddle. Eighty percent of those seeking asylum as part of the Central American refugee caravans are fleeing the political and economic violence in Honduras.

Today, the U.S. government is trying to do the same thing AGAIN -- this time in Venezuela. Trump & Co. have declared Venezuela's presidential election of 2018 invalid and unilaterally appointed their own puppet Juan Guaido as the "rightful" president – yet he didn't even run in the last election! Guaido has already announced his intention to sell off the country's oil industry if he gets the chance. Big Oil and Big Banks are salivating at the prospect.

WE SAY NO! We stand with the people of Ukraine and Donbass, Honduras and Venezuela. No more U.S. sanctions, coups and military interventions that destroy sovereign countries for the benefit of Wall Street, Big Oil and the Pentagon. No more provocations that threaten to plunge the world into war.

We need money for jobs, education and healthcare, not war! Yes to solidarity, reparations and unity with the people of the world fighting to end U.S. domination. #USHANDSOFF

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Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison
Bruce Western
Monday, Feb 18, 6:15pm at Columbia School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Av., Rm. 311/312, btw. W.121st & W.122nd;
map https://goo.gl/maps/vPNcq4bQA242
event http://iserp.columbia.edu/event/homeward-life-year-after-prison
https://facebook.com/pg/CUjusticelab/events/
(https://mailchi.mp/columbia/new-books-in-the-society-of-fellows-celebrating-recent-work-by-maggie-cao-dalia-judovitz-and-william-sharpe-thursday-13-september-at-615pm-437269) ask correct ending time -t.

In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In these circumstances, how do former prisoners navigate reentering society? In Homeward, sociologist Bruce Western examines the tumultuous first year after release from prison. Drawing from in-depth interviews with over one hundred individuals, he describes the lives of the formerly incarcerated and demonstrates how poverty, racial inequality, and failures of social support trap many in a cycle of vulnerability despite their efforts to rejoin society.

Western and his research team conducted comprehensive interviews with men and women released from the Massachusetts state prison system who returned to neighborhoods around Boston. Western finds that for most, leaving prison is associated with acute material hardship. In the first year after prison, most respondents could not afford their own housing and relied on family support and government programs, with half living in deep poverty. Many struggled with chronic pain, mental illnesses, or addiction—the most important predictor of recidivism. Most respondents were also unemployed. Some older white men found union jobs in the construction industry through their social networks, but many others, particularly those who were black or Latino, were unable to obtain full-time work due to few social connections to good jobs, discrimination, and lack of credentials. Violence was common in their lives, and often preceded their incarceration. In contrast to the stereotype of tough criminals preying upon helpless citizens, Western shows that many former prisoners were themselves subject to lifetimes of violence and abuse and encountered more violence after leaving prison, blurring the line between victims and perpetrators.

Western concludes that boosting the social integration of former prisoners is key to both ameliorating deep disadvantage and strengthening public safety. He advocates policies that increase assistance to those in their first year after prison, including guaranteed housing and health care, drug treatment, and transitional employment. By foregrounding the stories of people struggling against the odds to exit the criminal justice system, Homeward shows how overhauling the process of prisoner reentry and rethinking the foundations of justice policy could address the harms of mass incarceration.
 
Bruce Western is the Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and Co-Director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. His research has examined the causes, scope, and consequences of the historic growth in U.S. prison populations. Current projects include a randomized experiment assessing the effects of criminal justice fines and fees on misdemeanor defendants in Oklahoma City, and a field study of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania state prisons. Western is also the Principal Investigator of the Square One Project that aims re-imagine the public policy response to violence under conditions of poverty and racial inequality. He was the Vice Chair of the National Academy of Sciences panel on the causes and consequences of high incarceration rates in the United States. He is the author of Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison (Russell Sage Foundation, 2018), and Punishment and Inequality in America (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, and a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. Western received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was born in Canberra, Australia.
 

Adam Reich is an associate professor of Sociology at Columbia Univeristy. He received his PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley in 2012, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at Columbia from 2012 to 2014. He focuses on economic and cultural sociology. Much of his research concerns how people make sense of their economic activities and economic positions within organizations.  Reich is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States (Princeton, 2014). He is also the author of several peer-reviewed articles, which have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology and Social Science & Medicine.

Ronald B. Mincy is the Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, and director of the Center for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family Well-Being at Columbia University. He is a co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, and a faculty member of the Columbia Population Research Center. Dr. Mincy came to Columbia in 2001 from the Ford Foundation, where he served as a senior program officer and worked on issues including improving U.S. social welfare policies for low-income fathers, especially child support and workforce development. He also served on the Clinton Administration’s Welfare Reform Task Force. Dr. Mincy is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and is the editor of Black Males Left Behind (The Urban Institute Press, 2006). In 2009, he received the Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for Best Research Article in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Dr. Mincy is an advisory board member for the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, the Technical Work Group for the Office of Policy Research and Evaluation, the Transition to Fatherhood project at Cornell University, the National Fatherhood Leaders Group, the Longitudinal Evaluation of the Harlem Children’s Zone, and The Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Mincy is a former member of the National Institute of Child and Human Development council, the Policy Council, and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He served as co-chair of the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce and as a board member of the Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families. Dr. Mincy holds an AB from Harvard College and a PhD from MIT.

DeAnna Hoskins is President of JustLeadershipUSA (JLUSA). Dedicated to cutting the US correctional population in #halfby2030, JLUSA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. Ms. Hoskins has been committed to the movement for justice, working alongside people impacted by incarceration for nearly two decades. She leads with her own life experience having been directly impacted by the system of incarceration and the war on drugs. Ms. Hoskins has been a part of JLUSA’s national alumni network since 2016, as a Leading with Conviction Fellow. She came to JLUSA from the Department of Justice where she worked as a Senior Policy Advisor (Corrections/Reentry) for the Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance during the Obama administration. Prior to joining the DOJ, Ms. Hoskins was the founding Director of Reentry for Ohio’s Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners. Ms. Hoskins is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelors of Social Work from the College of Mount St. Joseph.

Shamus Khan, Chair and 
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Copyright © 2019 The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, All rights reserved.

ABC's of Capitalism Reading Series
3 Dates
FEB 11 Mon 7:00 PM
FEB 18 Mon 7:00 PM
FEB 25 Mon 7:00 PM (ask correct ending times)
242 E. 2nd St. 7th Fl. (10009-8031), btw. Aves. B & C
map https://osm.org/go/Zct8TrCnE-?way=250265543
https://goo.gl/maps/fqLtarTzCvR2
event description https://facebook.com/events/1013622615492423/
Hosted by NYC Democratic Socialists of America
apparently relevant
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/introducing-the-abcs-of-capitalism

What makes life so exhausting and miserable? You might be seeing some of your friends and comrades saying 'the problem is capitalism'. But what is Capitalism? Is it just how things are? Does it have specific rules? How do we know Capitalism when we see it? And if it is a specific system with specific rules, how do we change it or get rid of it?

Lower Manhattan DSA will be hosting a reading group on a series of new pamphlets put out by Jacobin Magazine + Catalyst Journal, written by professor of sociology, Vivek Chibber.

These pamphlets, in brilliantly simple and clear language, cover the rules and logic of our economic system (capitalism), the role of the state in society, and explain why socialists talk so much about the working class.

They currently cost $10 on Jacobin.com, but we're giving them out for free! Please contact the Lower Manhattan OC at lowermanhattandsa@gmail.com and we'll get you a copy before the meetings.

The group meets at 242 East 2nd Street, 7th Floor Community Room. See you there!

Pamphlet A - Feb 11th - “Understanding Capitalism”
Pamphlet B - Feb 18th - “Capitalism and the State”
Pamphlet C - Feb 25th - “Capitalism and Class Struggle”
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NYC Democratic Socialists of America
Political Organization · New York, New York
NYC chapter of the largest socialist organization in the country. We fight, and organize for more democracy in more places with activism and education.
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 . Movement Ecología: XR, Standing Rock, EarthStrike, Permacultura
Monday Feb. 18, 8:00 to 9:30 PM in
168 Canal St. at Elizabeth St. nr. J, N, Q, #6, B, D, R, W stops;
https://facebook.com/events/284715622206818/
If possible please also RSVP karlosbasak@gmail.com
with Farming Against Extinction,Extinction Rebellion,Earth Strike NYC ,
https://facebook.com/groups/1672323049669241/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/RebellionFarming/events/
m.me/RebellionFarming https://facebook.com/pg/RebellionFarming/events https://facebook.com/pg/ExtinctionRebellion/events  m.me/ExtinctionRebellion
https://risingup.org.uk/XR https://facebook.com/pg/EarthStrikeNYC/events/ m.me/EarthStrikeNYC EarthStrikeNYC@Protonmail.com http://earth-strike.com

 . EARTH STRIKE SEPTEMBER 27 

Two events...


   ``walk through Madison Sq. Park then down
     Broadway to conclude in Union Sq. Park...if
    possible, wear 1940s style.``
 . Silent Vigil: New York Day of Remembrance 2019
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, walking from
Broadway & E. 23rd St. nr. Madison Sq. Park & Flatiron Triangle,
nr. R, F, M, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 23rd St. bus;
https://osm.org/go/Zct9CWynx-?way=474864229
https://goo.gl/maps/aCqYtSFqzbs
event https://jacl-ny.org/events/event/annual-silent-peace-walk
https://facebook.com/events/349480045907175/  Public · Hosted by
New York Day of Remembrance and JACL - New York Chapter
https://facebook.com/pg/nydayofremembrance/events/
m.me/nydayofremembrance dayofremembrancenyc@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/DOR_NYC  https://facebook.com/pg/JACLNY/events 
(917)8338123 m.me/JACLNY jacl@jacl-ny.org mbr@jacl.org
http://jacl-ny.org  https://twitter.com/nyjacl 415-921-5225 https://jacl.org/contact/

The Silent Vigil draws parallels between the WWII forced removal of Japanese Americans to concentration camps and the
  == >  actions being taken currently against Muslim and immigrant communities in NYC and across the United States.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the mass forced removal and incarceration of people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens. The order authorized the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” More than 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were sent to inland concentration camps. The order was upheld by the Supreme Court in a highly controversial decision.

Participants are encouraged to
 == > wear 40's style clothing.  We will be gathering at the south entrance of
 == > Madison Square Park at Broadway and [EAST] 23rd Street. We will then walk through Madison Square Park and then down
  == > Broadway to conclude the walk in Union Square Park.

Both parks are fully accessible but accessibility is not guaranteed along the walk route.

 . New York Day of Remembrance 2019
Saturday, Feb. 23, 1:00 to 4:00 PM inside
Japanese American United Church (JAUC)

255 7th Ave. btw. W. 24th & W. 25th nr. #1, C, E, F, R, 2, 3, N, Q, D stops & 23rd St. bus;
https://facebook.com/events/554055505066955/

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Talk by Dr. Kimberly Tallbear
Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, almost certainly at or near a Columbia University NYC campus;
SUGGESTED SOURCES FOR LOCATION UPDATES
https://socialdifference.columbia.edu/events-1/2019/2/19/talk-by-dr-kimberly-tallbear

https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/events/ (212) 854-5665
socialdifference@columbia.edu mh2349@columbia.edu, cl2866@columbia.edu , ma3652@columbia.edu

A public talk by Dr. Kimberly Tallbear (Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta), presented by CSSD working group Precision Medicine.

Nonhuman Empire and Its Afterlives
Parama Roy, Ezra Rashkow, Naisargi Dave, Rajbir Judge
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Heyman Center Common Room [Enter Heyman via next door IAB/SIPA Bldg. at
420 W.118th St., 6th Fl., btw. Amsterdam Av. & Morningside Dr.
nr. #1, B, C, A, D stops & M60 bus;
Registration is recommended.
http://icls.columbia.edu/events/nonhuman-empire-and-its-afterlives/ (https://eventbrite.com/e/nonhuman-empire-and-its-afterlives-tickets-54998748738) (masalahq.com/city/new-york/event/a-panel-discussion-on-nonhuman-empire-and-its-afterlives/)
(212) 854-4541

This panel examines the various linkages between South Asia and the nonhuman. The nonhuman–whether animal, vegetal, telluric/elemental/mineral/topographical, extra-terrestrial, monstrous, or spectral—has called into question colonial and postcolonial imaginative circuits, political formations, and bodily registers, creating new forms of ethical engagement and analysis. These papers continue this important inquiry and, through a range of methods, explore how the non-human, in its questioning and surpassing of given forms, helps us to grasp as well as unravel the coordinates that structure(d) empire and its afterlives.

Panelists:
Parama Roy, Professor of English, UC Davis
Ezra Rashkow, Associate Professor of History, Montclair State University
Naisargi Dave, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Moderated by Rajbir Judge, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IRCPL

Parama Roy is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Indian Traffic: Identities in Questions in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1998) and Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial (2010) and coeditor of States of Trauma (2009). She is working on a monograph tentatively titled "Empire's Nonhumans."

Ezra Rashkow is a scholar of modern South Asian history, environmental history, and the history of anthropology. Much of his work engages with the experiences of indigenous peoples in modernity, and global debates over the relationship between biological and cultural diversity. In particular, the concept of “endangerment” has become a unifying strand throughout his body of work to date. His research thus explores historical discourses and policies that project biological and cultural diversity as similarly endangered, and in need of similar or simultaneous forms of conservation. Working in western and central India, he collects oral histories of Bhil, Gond, Baiga, Kurku and other adivasi communities facing conservation- and/or development-induced displacement. He then situates these oral histories in dialog with the colonial archive, anthropological accounts, and activist engagements with these communities’ histories - one goal here being to show how people's own perceptions of their histories and life experiences contrast markedly with the meta-narratives of "endangerment" so often produced by outsiders.

Naisargi Dave’s research concerns emergent forms of politics and relationality in contemporary urban India. Her book, Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (Duke 2012) explores the relationship among queer politics, activism, and affect. Her second book project, The Social Skin: Humans and Animals in India engages critically with humanism and the privileging of reason to consider myriad facets of working with and for urban and working animals in India. Professor Dave teaches courses on animality and posthumanism, affect, ethics, anthropological theory, activism, gender and sexuality, and the anthropology of South Asia.

Rajbir Judge is a historian with affiliations in the Department of Religion and Institute of South Asia. His current project examines the ways in which Sikhism at the end of the 19th Century remained a generative site through which Sikhs and their diverse milieu in the Punjab contested not only British rule, but the very nature of sovereignty, refusing closures enacted by the colonial state. More broadly, he specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia, with a particular emphasis on the Punjab. His most recent publications can be found in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and History & Theory.

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

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Toward A Weak Posthumanism with Christopher Peterson
September 13, 2017

Radhika Mongia: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State
January 22, 2019

Beyond the Secular State? Secularism, Empire, Hegemony
October 7, 2016

Repeating event.  Please check for cancellations before traveling to attend. -t.

YA-YA Action CommitteeThird Tuesday of each month,
incl. Jan. 29, Feb. 5, Feb. 19, 2019, 4:30 to 7:00 PM at Ya-Ya Network
224 W 29th St., 14th Fl., btw. 7th & 8th Aves.;  #1 Train to 28 St. (at 7th Av.);
#2, 3 to 34 St.-Penn Sta. (exit to W.32nd & 7th); A, C, E to 34 St.-Penn Sta. (exit to W. 33rd & 8th); R, W to 28 St. (at Broadway, nr, 5th & 6th Aves.); D, F, N, Q, R, W to 34 St.-Herald Sq. (exit to 6th Av. & 32nd St.); cross town buses via 34th or 23rd; LIRR & NJT trains; regional jitneys;
map https://goo.gl/maps/g9RCnSGQY6A2
event https://facebook.com/events/620630791665052/
https://facebook.com/pg/yayanetworknyc/events https://twitter.com/YA_YAnetwork

Action Committee (AC) is our activists hub open to all youth activists and allies across the city! AC is currently [check for updates -t.] focused on our
 == > campaign against metal detectors in schools to #MakeSchoolsSafeAgain . There are many different opportunities and projects you can get involved in through AC! Please come and help us organize. We are excited to invite any and all young people interested! Food will be served. For more information reach out to
  == >  shaktii@yayanetwork.org

(212) 239-0022 m.me/yayanetworknyc info@yayanetwork.org
media@yayanetwork.org http://www.yayanetwork.org 

Timothy J. Lombardo - Blue-Collar Conservatism Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 from 4:30pm - 6:00pm 
The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor / Room: 10-03
Cost: Free
https://twitter.com/TimLombard0/status/1086365222724685826
https://events.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/223502  tamiment.events@nyu.edu
[Allow time to request pass from 1st Floor Security.  Bring any standard public I.D.  Your name will be recorded. -t.]

Timothy J. Lombardo will discuss his book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadephia and Populist Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) on
Tuesday, February 19 (4:30 PM) at the Tamiment Library. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the lecture. This event is sponsored by the Frederic Ewen Center.

Timothy J. Lombardo is an author and historian with a scholarly focus on modern American urban and political history. His work has appeared in the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of American History, and the Washington Post. Born and raised in Philadelphia, he graduated from Temple University before moving to Indiana to complete his Ph.D. at Purdue University. He currently lives in Mobile, Alabama, where he is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Alabama. Blue-Collar Conservatism is his first book.

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Thank you for your interest in Tamiment Library’s public programs! Registration is encouraged, but not required to attend this event.

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What To Celebrate...and What NOT to Celebrate During Black History Month
Carl Dix
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7:00 PM at Revolution Books NYC
437 Malcolm X Blvd. / Lenox Ave. at W. 132nd St.
nr. #2, 3, B, C stops & W. 135th St. cross town bus;
$5-10 sugg. (https://eventbrite.com/e/black-history-month-what-to-celebrate-what-not-to-celebrate-with-carl-dix-tickets-56222957379) (https://eventbrite.com/e/carl-dix-on-black-history-month-what-to-celebrate-what-not-to-celebrate-tickets-55879420852)
https://facebook.com/events/371966653387999 
https://facebook.com/pg/revbooksnyc/events/ www.revolutionbooksnyc.org  revbooksnyc@yahoo.com (212)6913345  [please research or ask correct ending time -t.]

Celebrate those who rose up against slavery and who resist and rebel against the injustices of this capitalist-imperialist system of modern-day slavery!
 
But no way should we celebrate those who fought for the U.S. military. PLAYED by the oppressors then and now who enlist oppressed people to go slaughter other oppressed people: from the Buffalo Soldiers slaughtering the native peoples to Black bomber crews and infantry fighters in the imperialist world wars. This is not a source of pride but shameful.
 
We need an ACTUAL revolution to emancipate ALL of humanity.
 
Everyone welcome -- come discuss, debate, get into it.

[one talk, two blurbs found -t]

On Tuesday night, Carl Dix will host a discussion on why we should celebrate those who fought for emancipation like Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Colin Kaepernick -- NOT those who enlisted in or served the oppressor's military of empire, like the Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, Tuskegee Airmen... The talk will get into what this has to do with the liberation today of Black people and the emancipation of humanity.

Carl Dix is a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1970, he was one of six GIs who refused to ship out to Vietnam -- the largest refusal of orders to Vietnam during that genocidal war.

Suggested donation
          --
[same talk different blurb...]

A Talk by Carl Dix during Black History Month:
"WHAT TO CELEBRATE: Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Colin Kaepernick
WHAT *NOT* TO CELEBRATE: Buffalo Soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters, Tuskegee Airmen..."
Carl will discuss why we should celebrate those who fought for emancipation -- NOT those who enlisted in or served the oppressor's military of empire.
Carl is a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1970, he was one of six GIs who refused to ship out to Vietnam -- the largest refusal of orders to Vietnam during that genocidal war.
Suggested donation $5-10
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"The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism."
-- Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:3
Bob Avakian is the leader of the revolution who has developed a new synthesis of communism aimed at the emancipation of humanity.

Anarchx Feminist Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Bluestocking Books, 172 Allen St. btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St. nr. F, B, D, J, M, 6 stops & buses via Houston St. or 2nd Av. or Essex or Ave. C;
event (http://bluestockings.com/event/anarchx-feminist-monthly-meeting-6/?instance_id=195908)

this is a repeating event so you should probably double check, IMHO. - t.
The Anarchx-Feminist Caucus (a.k.a. “AnFem”) operates within the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC). MACC seeks to strengthen and support New York City’s anarchist movement through coordination of existing and emerging projects. AnFem critiques and confronts gendered and sexual violence, capitalism and patriarchy while aiming to dismantle the overlapping systems and institutions that keep oppression in place. We join a long tradition of anarchist feminist collectives that operate in smaller scale affinity groups to build trust within a community that feels safe. We welcome all women, trans, and genderqueer folks to join us and learn more about ongoing work and campaigns, and/or to start new projects. For more information on MACC, visit macc.nyc.

AnFem Statement of Intent:

We are a group committed to amplifying the voices of women of color and transgender, intersex, and other gender non-conforming people of color.
We actively support anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-sexist, and anti-transphobic strategies.
We are sex positive and embrace polyamory as well as queer gender and sexuality.
We align with sex workers and all workers in feminized labor including care and housework,
paid and unpaid.
We confront patriarchy and capitalism, especially in the structures of family, marriage, and private property.
We agree to a vision of a world that is non-hierarchical, unconstrained by gender, intersectional, and focused on attaining autonomy instead of perceived equality.
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Queer Socialist Mixer
Tuesday Feb. 19, 7:00 to 10:00 PM in
Ginger`s Bar
363 5th Ave, BROOKLYN, btw. 5th & 6th Aves.
nr. R, F, G, stops & buses via 5th Av. or 9th St.;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct5H3dPA-?node=5182473281
https://goo.gl/maps/qr4wojG9qLz
Public · Hosted by NYC Democratic Socialists of America and NYC DSA Queer Caucus
https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/ https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/
http://m.me/nycdsa
venue (718) 788-0924  http://www.gingersbarbklyn.com

[Contact info below is from https://www.socialists.nyc/contact-us/ , so IMHO, consider  remembering there is such a page, in case ever up against any seemingly unusually opaque working group or event producer.  My 2 cents.  YMMV.  Godspeed.  -t.]

General Questions / Help

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Branches

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    Anti-War: Lindsey Shaughnessy, antiwar [a] socialists.nyc
    Climate Justice: climate [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Bronx/Uptown: Annie Shields and Matthew Beatty, b-um.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Brooklyn: Samuel Lewis, bk.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Queens: Kara Nowakowski, queens.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Housing, Bronx/Uptown: Avi Garelick, b-um.housing [a] socialists.nyc
    Housing, Brooklyn: Chris Stevenson and Courtney, bk.housing [a] socialists.nyc
    Immigrant Justice: Sherry Baron, immigrant.justice [a] socialists.nyc
    Labor and Strike Solidarity: Frank Reynolds, strike.solidarity [a] socialists.nyc
    Media: media [a] socialists.nyc
    Racial Justice: Bianca Cunningham, racial.justice [a] socialists.nyc
    Religious Socialism: Maxine Phillips, religious.socialism [a] socialists.nyc
    Socialist Feminist: Rosie Clarke, socialist.feminism [a] socialists.nyc
    Tech Action: Will Luckman, tech.action [a] socialists.nyc

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic in a Profit-Driven Healthcare System:
Finding Solutions, Then and Now
Bruce G. Trigg, MD, Ashley Lewis, Paul Frazel, Walter Bosque
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7:30 to 9:00 PM
NEW LOCATION: NYS Nurses Association
131 W. 33rd St., 2nd Fl. (bet. 6th & 7th Aves.),
nr. #1, 2, 3, LIRR, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, A, C, E, #6 & 34th St. bus;
https://goo.gl/maps/kkcPsA7HU862 https://goo.gl/maps/kkcPsA7HU862
Free and open to the public / Wheelchair-accessible
http://pnhpnymetro.org/addressing_the_opioid_epidemic
https://facebook.com/events/593542667725277/  (https://mailchi.mp/jerichony.org/rnb-local-pp-tu-219-opioid-crisis-forum-incl-lincoln-detox-history) 
bob@pnhpnymetro.org m.me/pnhpnymetro (646) 866-7671 
organizing@pnhpnymetro.org https://facebook.com/pg/pnhpnymetro/events   http://www.pnhpnymetro.org 

Featured Speakers:
Bruce G. Trigg, MD
Harm Reduction and Addiction Medicine Consultant

 Ashley Lewis and Paul Frazel
Members of Students for a National Health Program – NYU
Co-coordinators of NYU student campaign against the Sackler family - owners of Purdue Pharma; affiliated with PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now)

Walter Bosque
Licensed Acupuncturist and co-founder of Lincoln Detox (1970-1978)

Film clip: “The People’s Detox” (trailer here)[ https://youtu.be/0dIH15DBzzc ]

Join PNHP - NY Metro for a wide-ranging discussion of this critical issue. Gothamist has reported that in 2017, “overdose rates among black New Yorkers surpassed rates among whites and Latinos for the first time in a decade, due in large part to growing fentanyl usage.” Nationwide, the epidemics of opioid-use disorder and overdose deaths have been growing among all communities and ethnicities. One cause of the crisis is iatrogenic (overprescribing), induced by pharmaceutical companies – such as Purdue Pharma, sellers of OxyContin. Other roots are the social, economic, and cultural “diseases of despair” created by late-stage capitalism. Effective and humane responses have always been hampered by the medical-industrial complex’s profit-seeking, along with bureaucratic inertia, racism, and cultural stigma. A single-payer system would eliminate major barriers to addressing this deadly epidemic.

Our panel will explore campaigns and models of treatment and care – currently and historically – that offer promising solutions. The major immediate needs, which will be discussed at this forum, are:

    Reducing prescription opioid painkiller abuse,
    Ensuring access to Medication-Assisted Treatment, and
    Expanding the use of Narcan/naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug.
    Implementing/expanding harm reduction programs: syringe exchange & safe injection facilities

Forty-plus years ago, a model community empowerment project was Lincoln Detox, a grassroots clinic run out of Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. This program sprang from a 1970 hospital occupation by Puerto Rican Young Lords, Black Panthers, and white radical health workers, addressing a grossly unmet need. Within two years, they discovered and received training in the power of acupuncture to help in the detox process – eventually becoming a world-renowned and widely-adopted model.

 
Other Upcoming PNHP-Related Events:

 . Sun., March 3 (11:00-1:00 PM) - Campaign for NY Health -
Rally to Confront Drug Industry Greed and Political Influence, Pfizer Headquarters, 42nd St. & 2nd Ave., Manhattan

 . Tues., March 19 (7:30-9:00 PM) - PNHP - NY Metro Forum:
Reproductive Health and the Healthcare System, Location TBA.

 . Tues., April 2 - LOBBY DAY IN ALBANY for the NY Health Act - for Healthcare Providers and Medical/Public Health Students.

 . Tues., April 16 (7:30-9:00 PM) - PNHP - NY Metro Forum:
Mental Health Care Services – Gaps and Struggles, Mt. Sinai / Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center, 10 Union Square East @ E. 14th Street, 2nd Floor Auditorium

Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter

THE EDUCATIONAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES OF MALCOLM X (PART A)
Dr. Richard D. Benson II
Wednesday, Feb. 20,  6:00 to 8:00pm at The People's Forum
https://peoplesforum.org/event/the-educational-political-philosophies-of-malcolm-x/
This workshop, taught by Dr. Richard D. Benson II, is a two-part lecture series in commemoration of Malcolm X's life and legacy as a human rights activist.
PART A will assess how Malcolm X’s educational practices and “glocal” political praxis influenced the Nation of Islam, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, Revolutionary Action Movement and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement from the the latter 1960s through the anti-imperialist struggles of the 1970s. (2019 marks the fifty-fourth anniversary of Malcolm X's untimely assassination.)

 . Unheralded Heroines:  Women Mentors & Comrades in Life of Malcolm X (PART B)
Monday, Feb. 21 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in The People's Forum
 
All events at The 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 stops & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
event graphic & listings: 
https://mailchi.mp/75eee6a5d63b/upcoming-events-at-the-peoples-forum-241087
347-695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/  info@peoplesforum.org, belen.m@peoplesforum.org

. Existence is Resistance 10th Anniversary at The People's Forum
Thursday, Jan. 17, 6:30 to 10:00 PM
https://eventbrite.com/e/eir-10-year-celebration-tickets-54063994864
{snip} guests include Marc Lamont Hill, Rosa Clemente, Charles Barron, Sekou Odinga, Pam Africa, Teresita Lah Tere Ayala, Comedian Stevie J (Steven Johnson). **Tickets must be purchased in advance.

. Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
Friday, Jan. 25, 7:00 to 9:00 PM   (https://peoplesforum.org/event/dread-poetry-and-freedom-linton-kwesi-johnson-and-the-unfinished-revolution/)

. "Black and Cuba" film with Venceremos Brigade
Saturday, Jan. 26, 2:30 to 5:00 pm
https://peoplesforum.org/event/black-and-cuba-film-screening/
Join the Venceremos Brigade in the screening of Black and Cuba, followed by a brief information session on the upcoming 50th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade {snip}
$5 – $15 / NOTA / proceeds support scholarships {snip}

 . Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness // with David Austin
Sunday, Jan. 27, 1:00 to 3:30 PM
$6/NOTA (https://peoplesforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MovingAgainst_Jan27.pdf) (https://peoplesforum.org/event/moving-against-the-system-the-1968-congress-of-black-writers-and-the-making-of-global-consciousness/)

 . RAIZ UP! Open Mic
Thursday, Jan. 31, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
$10 https://peoplesforum.org/event/raiz-up-hip-hop-showcase-open-mic/
Join us as we celebrate resistance, movement and art with King Capo, Audry Funk & Dj Loup Rouge, EliasThaHyyEst, Ameresoul and Po'Edik. Our monthly open mic and showcase welcomes emcee’s, singers, dancers, poets, and all other artists.

 . Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey
Tuesdays from Feb. 5, 6:00 to 8:00 PM // dates: (https://peoplesforum.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-1-with-david-harvey/all/) description (https://peoplesforum.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-1-with-david-harvey/2019-02-05/)

 . PAN AFRICANISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Tuesdays, Feb. 5, 12, and 26, 6:30 to 8:30 PM
{snip} the organizing approach {snip} “making the plight of Africans in the diaspora an international issue.” {snip} how religion and socialism has interacted {snip}

. ONE DEMOCRATIC STATE IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE: IT’S TIME // with Jeff Halper of Israeli Committee Ag. House Demolitions (ICAHD)
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
(https://peoplesforum.org/event/one-democratic-state-in-israel-palestine-its-time/)

 . Political Economy of Racism
Wednesdays, Feb. 6, 13, 20 & Mar. 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
https://peoplesforum.org/event/political-economy-of-racism/

 . Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
with Silvia Federici
Thursday, Feb. 7, 6:30 to 8:30 PM,
$10, (347) 695-1095 (https://peoplesforum.org/event/an-encounter-with-silvia-federici-and-caliban-and-the-witch/)

Black History Month 2019: The Black Experience in America
http://bit.ly/BlackExperienceInAmerica  (https://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/news-events/2019/the-black-experience-in-america.html)
https://facebook.com/events/1336904069768013 
Free and open to the public.
A Liberal Studies series curated by Kaia Niambi Shivers
Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law and NYU Liberal Studies

Liberal Studies presents its inaugural Black History Month series. The four-part series works to engage NYU and its surrounding communities in dialogues centering how Black people navigate, dialogue and make sense of their daily lives in the United States. The gatherings host authors, scholars, activists and artists to discuss their work in unfolding and understanding the complexities of identity in the age of globalization.

 . The Black Millennial
Dayo Adiatu, Reniqua Allen, R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Ari Melenciano and Afrodesia McCannon
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 6:00 to 8:00pm

 . Afro-Latinidad in the African Diaspora
Jillian Báez, Will Guzmán, Ademola Osinulu and Donavan Ramon
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6:00 to 8:00pm

 . Social Justice and the Criminal Justice System
Fareed Hayat, Carla Shedd, Rolanda West Spencer and Anthony Thompson
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 6:00 to 8:00pm

 . The Black Aesthetic with Special Guest Sheril Antonio
Moderated by Ifeona Fulani; Black National Anthem & Session with Leah Jenea
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 6:00 to 8:00pm

The Trial Before the Trial:  Author Ernie Larsen in conversation with Marlene Nava Ramos
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 6:00 to 8:00 PM in CUNY Graduate Ctr.
365 5th Av., Room 6112, btw. E. 34th St. & E. 35th St.
& nr. B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, W, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 34th St. bus;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9GisZF-?way=265301695
https://goo.gl/maps/z8tJ1VFu1FE2
event (https://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/2019/01/02-20-book-event-the-trial-before-the-trial-author-ernie-larson-in-conversation-with-marlene-nava-ramos/)
https://facebook.com/pg/placeculturepolitics/events
m.me/placeculturepolitics 212) 817-1876  pcp@gc.cuny.edu
https://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/category/events/

An exponent of oppositional culture, Ernie Larsen is a novelist, filmmaker, and media critic.  With his collaborator, Sherry Millner, in addition to photo-text projects, he has produced many anarchist films including Rock the Cradle (2012) on the December ’09 uprising in Greece and How Do Animals and Plants Live? (2018), on a self-organized migrant squat in Thessaloniki, and 41 Shots (2000) the first film to skewer the racist ‘broken windows’ theory of policing that underpinned  the notorious NYPD killing of Amadou Diallo. He co-curated Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power, two groundbreaking DVD sets (Facets Multimedia) that gather dozens of short-form experimental political films from 26 countries.

Marlene Nava Ramos is a member of the NYC Chapter of Critical Resistance and works with the No New Jails Campaign, a multiracial, intergenerational network of residents, community members, and activists fighting for the closure of Rikers Island and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s jail expansion plan. She is a doctoral student in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center where she studies the infrastructural expansion of immigration prisons/ jails in the states of Florida, New Jersey, and Texas since the 1980s as part of the country’s uneven prison build-up. Marlene is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences at Lehman College in the Bronx.

This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by The Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

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I <3 Transit 2019 Happy Hour!
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The Wooly Public
9 Barclay St. btw. Church St. & Broadway
nr. #2, 3, A, C, R, W, 4, 5, 6, E, PATH, #1
& buses via Broadway or Trinity Pl./Church St. or East Broadway
https://facebook.com/events/1043267519190444/
Public · Hosted by Riders Alliance

Using Pop Culture Stories to Mobilize and Organize
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 fr/ 6:30 to 7:45 PM
Empire State College of State University of New York
325 Hudson St. btw. Charlton St. & Van Dam St.;
nr. C, E, #1, A, B, D, E, F, M stops & Houston St. bus;
map https://goo.gl/maps/6tt7rZFYoxF2
https://facebook.com/events/2412785472336944/
Public · Hosted by Organizing 2.0 and Center for Story-based Strategy
https://facebook.com/pg/Organizing20/events
m.me/Organizing20 http://www.organizing20.org
https://facebook.com/StoryBasedStrategy/events/
(510) 903-1809 m.me/StoryBasedStrategy
info@storybasedstrategy.org http://storybasedstrategy.org

Radhika Mongia: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State   
Thursday, Feb. 21 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM 
Columbia U. Fayerweather Hall Rm. 411, north of College Walk/W. 116th St. (nr. Amsterdam Av., next to St. Paul's Chapel) #1 Train to 116 St.; B, C to 116 St. & climb Morningside Park cliff steps; A, D to 125 St. (at St. Nicholas);
M60 bus; buses via 116th or 125th; 
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4oa2v7B--?way=274995730
https://goo.gl/maps/yAvJ1jrFcho
event description (http://icls.columbia.edu/events/radhika-mongia-a-colonial-genealogy-of-the-modern-state/)  
Center for International History, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, South Asia Institute, and MESAAS 
http://icls.columbia.edu/events/  
book? (https://google.com/search?q=Radhika+Mongia%3A+A+Colonial+Genealogy+of+the+Modern+State+++)

Recent years have witnessed an increased attention to specifying the characteristics of the colonial state, largely focused on outlining its distinctiveness. Two epistemological frames subtend most inquiries: first, replicating the Weberian view that the state is a territorially circumscribed entity, analyses of the state are also similarly circumscribed. Second, if implicitly, the normative horizon of the inquiries is the European modern state. While recognizing the value and, oftentimes, the necessity of studies conceived in territorially delimited terms, this presentation will suggest ways to address the coproduction of the coeval formations of colonial state and the modern state. Through an assessment of state control of colonial Indian migration, I address how important features of historical state formation are obscured when analyses assume a presentist territorial closure, that modern elements are embedded in the colonial state form, and that a colonial dimension is an integral aspect of the modern state form, globally.

Radhika Mongia is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto. She is the author, most recently, of Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State (Duke University Press and Permanent Black Press, 2018).

Sanctuary means ICE OUT of the courts!
New date Thursday, Feb. 21 at 4:45 PM
March from "Charging Bull" at Bowling Green on Broadway nr. Morris St. & Beaver St.;
#4, 5 Train to Bowling Green; R, W to Whitehall-South Ferry; #1 to South Ferry; J to Broad St.; #2, 3 to Wall St.;
map https://goo.gl/maps/JntUbJqMXmQ2
event https://facebook.com/events/2362671503777043/
(https://google.com/search?q=Sanctuary+means+ICE+OUT+of+the+courts!+) Public · Hosted by NYC Socialists - ISO and NYC Democratic Socialists of America
https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/ https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/
http://m.me/nycdsa
 

Please join immigrant community members, activists, and legal staff workers in solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere, demanding an end to ICE courthouse arrests.
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Thursday, February 21, 4:45-6:00P
Bowling Green, Manhattan - We will be marching to the Office of Court Administration and Court Officers Association.
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Under Trump’s administration, ICE has been emboldened to use reprehensible tactics. They have formalized and escalated the use of courthouse arrests. There has been a 1700% increase in courthouse arrests since 2016, often entailing violent arrests by plainclothes officers. The NY Office of Court Administration has refused to take action to prevent these arrests, while denying any collusion with ICE, which we now know to be systemic.

We demand true sanctuary in New York City and across the state - an end to collusion with ICE by court officers and other court workers, the barring of ICE from the courts and the passage of the Protect Our Courts Act in the NY State legislature. But we also demand accountability and change from the criminal justice system and its decision-makers: the police, prosecutors, and district attorneys who disproportionately target working class people of color, including New York’s immigrant community, and push them into ICE’s hands.

Our demands can be found here: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eS3dc2U4OBJPeDS_u_yvLtHmCuGecPuDPILau6Th-_s/edit?usp=sharing)

NYC Socialists - ISO
We are the New York City district of the International Socialist Organization.
NYC Democratic Socialists of America

NYC chapter of the largest socialist organization in the country. We fight, and organize for more democracy in more places with activism and education.

Seeking Asylum Is Not A Crime!  Actions:

 ==  >  Friday, Feb. 15, 5:30 to 6:30 PM in Grand Central Term. Main Concourse

 ==  >  Thursday, Feb. 21, 5:30 to 6:30PM, WTC Oculus near Church St. & Dey St. https://goo.gl/maps/gyVxdvBN6As

 ==  > Friday, Mar. 1, 5:30 to 6:30PM in Grand Central Term. Main Concourse

https://facebook.com/events/410553869774762/
https://facebook.com/groups/RiseandResistNYC/events/
https://www.riseandresist.org/events http://twitter.com/RiseNResistNYC
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/
m.me/RiseandResistNYC info@riseandresist.org

A bipartisan Congressional committee needs to present a "border security" proposal to Trump by February 15 to avoid another government shutdown. We call on the Congress to refuse Trump's demands for a wall, and to

 == >  demand that the thousands of refugees on the border seeking asylum be admitted into the U.S. and released into the community while waiting for their hearings.

Join Rise and Resist in a  == > silent protest in the main hall of Grand Central Station. This is the second in a series of four weekly protests in February. Our message is that Seeking Asylum Is Not A Crime. There is no national security emergency on the border; there is a humanitarian emergency that can not be remedied by building a wall or by militarizing the border.

Crossing a border to seek asylum is a right guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is also established in U.S. law. Yet our government treats asylum seekers not only as criminals but as enemies of the state.

We will carry banners, photographs, and placards to remind everyone that there are thousands of refugees being prevented by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from legally seeking asylum at a port of entry.

Our other planned demonstrations are on  February 21 in the Oculus 5:30PM - 6:30PM and on  March 1 in the central hall in Grand Central Station from 5:30PM to 6:30PM.

Rise and Resist
We are taking direct action together for equality, justice, and human rights. We are rising against oppression and tyranny. We are building a better world.

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Justice for CAMBA Workers! Rally & March for a Fair Contract
Thursday, Feb. 21 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM
1720 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226-2630 at E. 18th St.
nr. B, Q stop & Church Av. bus;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct4f1xYl-?node=2494078775
https://goo.gl/maps/AKFEi5AuWDo
Public · Hosted by Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW 2325
(212) 343-0708  https://facebook.com/pg/alaa2325/events/
m.me/alaa2325 (http://www.alaa.org/index.php/2018/12/12/camba-workers-protest-at-camba-offices-to-demand-a-fair-contract/)
https://uaw.org/legal-services-workers-deserve-fair-wages/

Workers at CAMBA Legal Services unionized last summer, and since then we have been negotiating with CAMBA management to obtain a first contract.

CAMBA Management has refused to accept basic proposals like annual salary increases for support staff, parental leave for employees, and case caps to ensure quality services for CAMBA clients—all while CAMBA’s top executives make upwards of $400,000 a year.

We are fighting for respect for both CAMBA employees & CAMBA clients.

Join us outside CAMBA's Administrative Headquarters for a Rally & March to call on CAMBA to respect its workers and achieve a fair contract immediately.

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B/Q Train to Church Avenue

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Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking and the Politics of Freedom
Book talk panel and reception with author, Elizabeth Bernstein
Thursday, Feb. 21, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location in Barnard College TBA

Workshop to cultivate relationships between socially conscious media and NYS Poor People's Campaign

Media Matchmakers for a New World
Thursday, Feb. 21 fr/ 6:30 to 8:30 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
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
RSVP [ask whether required -t.]
https://peoplesforum.org/event/media-matchmakers-for-a-new-world/  Public · Hosted by Kairos Center  https://facebook.com/pg/povertyinitiative/events
m.me/povertyinitiative (212) 280-1439  info@kairoscenter.org http://kairoscenter.org

  “Our task is to make thinkers out of fighters and fighters out of thinkers.”
—General Gordon Baker, revolutionary educator

True stories of social change movements are essential for us to move forward as a united people. But these stories will not be told in mainstream media: they are either ignored, truncated or distorted. At the same time media makers and visual storytellers find it harder and harder to use our skills and resources to make serious social contributions. We are rich in skills, resources and will, so what is holding us back?

MEDIA MATCHMAKERS FOR A NEW WORLD will be an ongoing effort to develop and cultivate relationships between socially conscious media makers and communicators of all stripes, with local leaders and activists in a vibrant social movement,
the NYS Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Using screenings, discussions and a collaborative media project the workshop will present and explore potential partnerships between activists and media makers.

We will identify obstacles that may prevent us from working well together, and by getting to know and trust one another we will try to bridge those gulfs. Workshop facilitators will ensure that the workshop contains a mix of media makers/digital communicators and social activists. We welcome local leaders and activists as well as all types of media workers.

In this first session we will meet one another, learn a little bit about the Poor People’s Campaign, watch selected short films, and talk together about the problems facing us as media makers and social activists. After the first two sessions there will be the exciting possibility for some of the workshop participants to develop and produce a media project with the Poor People’s Campaign in the beginning of April.

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From Lawrence Hamm...

Please attend the Malcolm X Assassination Observance at People’s Organization For Progress meetingThursday, Feb. 21, 2019, 6:30pm at
Abyssinian Baptist Church,
224 West Kinney St. NEWARK btw. Prince St. & Broome St., east of Irvine Turner Blvd.
From WTC catch 5:45 NWK PATH *and then*
from Newark Penn, take 6:18PM #5 bus;
maps & transit options https://goo.gl/JquvZ8
The guest speaker will be Dr. William Sales, author of
From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization Of Afro-American Unity (https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1002513796625426&set=a.344164465793699&type=3) Lawrence Hamm17 hrs ·
(pls. ask correct ending time. -t.)

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Dr. William Sales, ``From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization Of Afro-American Unity``

Book Release Party for VIOLENCE: Humans in Dark Times
Thursday, Feb. 21, 7:00 to 9:30 pm at Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St. btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St.; F Train to 2 Av. (east exit to Allen St./1st Av.); J, M to Essex St. (at Delancey); B, D to Grand St. or Broadway-Lafayette; #6 to Spring St.; R, W to Prince St.;
(http://bluestockings.com/event/book-release-party-for-violence-humans-in-dark-times/?instance_id=195756)  (https://google.com/search?q=+Book+Release+Party+for+VIOLENCE%3A+Humans+in+Dark+Times+)
map https://goo.gl/maps/2Yumz7s7Mq52
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/

A book release party for VIOLENCE: Humans in Dark Times, with editor Natasha Lennard and contributors exploring the role of violence in politics, culture, the media, public speech, and against the environment.

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To Die in Madrid & Fury Over Spain
Thursday, Feb. 21 fr/ 7:30 to 11:30 PM in Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd St., Brooklyn, btw. Berry St. & Bedford Av.;
L Train to Bedford; J to Marcy; G to Metropolitan;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8PtjL?node=5483950744
https://goo.gl/maps/hQQHobXgkZ92
$5 https://tockify.com/mlsupport/detail/127/1550795400000
https://facebook.com/events/2134634079908968/  
Burning Frame Series screenings listed by Metro. Anarchist Coord. Council
https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events

CALLING ALL RADICAL LEFTISTS! Come join us for a welcome respite from endless organizing work. The past two years have been a whirlwind: exhausting, invigorating, and ever ripe with potential. It can be difficult to find moments of pause and reflection when in the thick of it. Especially when “it” refers to the rise of fascism on a global scale with any number of future cataclysms hovering just past the horizon. But we digress.

The films in this series (presented as double-features) have been specially chosen by anarchists for anarchists, but really anyone far left-of-center in their beliefs and actions will find much to identify with and mull over. Come for the great works of radical political filmmaking, stay for the generative discussions, or even just to commiserate about how little has fundamentally changed over the past 50 years (the span of time which the films in this series will cover). The overriding hope is that these films, and their authentic representations of successes, defeats, and the messy work of direct action will help grant us the willpower and imagination to break through cycles of repeated structures.

To butcher the title of a great film for the sake of a mildly applicable pun: “Throw away your dogma, rally in the cinema.”

At 7:30PM
TO DIE IN MADRID
Dir. Frederic Rossif, 1963
85 min.
Frederic Rossif’s masterful To Die In Madrid was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1963. Not that awards matter: plaudits or no, this is the greatest film about the Spanish Civil War ever made, and a seminal work in the documentary genre. Filled with indelible imagery from the war, and accompanied by narration that is by turns rousing and heartfelt, this is a vivid elegy to the brave efforts that were made against the fascist front. A film which demands to be seen by radical leftists, and anyone who believes that our revolution one day will come.

Tickets $5

At 10:00PM
FURY OVER SPAIN
Dir. Louis Frank, 1937
52 min.
An explicit work of docu-propaganda that was screened in London with assistance from Emma Goldman, Fury Over Spain resonates today, both as an insightful vision of from the past and a powerful call to arms today. Produced as a collaborative effort by, and featuring copious footage of, the F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation) and C.N.T. (Anarchist National Confederation of Labor) as they mounted a defense of the besieged Madrid and launched offensives in Catalonia.

playing with:
THE WILL OF A PEOPLE
Louis Frank, 1938
45 min.
An impressively wide-ranging survey of the terrain of lived experience during the Spanish Civil War, The Will of a People presents the nuts-and-bolts of the war effort (everything from weapon-making to food-harvesting) woven throughout with commentary on Spain’s historical iconography.

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Zahid Chaudhary: Aesthetics of Expropriation
Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at PRDSNYU
244 Greene St. btw. Waverly Pl. & Washington Pl., a block east of the park;
near R, W, #6, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH stops
maps https://goo.gl/maps/dBEQvzWA1Aw
https://osm.org/go/Zct8U5O_R-?m=&way=248166241
event https://facebook.com/events/607063376418107/
author (google.com/search?q=Zahid+Chaudhary%3A+Aesthetics+of+Expropriation)
producers The Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium at NYU
http://englishchannel.nyu.edu/working-groups/post-colonial
https://facebook.com/pg/PRDS.NYU/events/ https://wp.nyu.edu/nyupoco/

This lecture considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh’s photographic series entitled “Desert Bloom,” which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the lecture considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and political abstraction critical to settler colonialism in particular and capitalism more generally. How might abstraction be the very condition of politics? What might this imply for our understandings of documentary aesthetics?

Zahid Chaudhary, Princeton University Department of English

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Double Feature: Battle of Algiers and Burn
Friday Feb. 22 from 5:30 to 10:00 PM at The 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
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
event descriptions & contacts  (https://peoplesforum.org/event/pontecorvo-double-feature-the-battle-of-algiers-burn-quemada/)
https://facebook.com/events/1260728220734824/
Presented by The Left Academy & The Marxist Education Project
https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org marxedproject.org
info@marxedproject.org

5:30 pm The Battle of Algiers
1965, 100 minutes

7:45 pm Presentation and discussion of significance of Pontecorvo’s two great films during his time and ours

8:30 pm Quemada (Burn!)
With Marlon Brando
1969, 108 minutes

froman interview with Gillo Pontecorvo
by Maria Esposito for the World Socialist Web Site
June, 2004

“…About three years ago the BBC defined my work as “the dictatorship of truth”. In my cinema, when faced with the choice of distancing oneself from reality or using an effect that might be used to win the popularity with the public, I always renounce these possibilities and stay close to reality.
ME: Is this why you decided to make The Battle of Algiers in documentary style?
GP: Yes.
Let me explain how much this love for reality, the reality that surrounds us, weighed on me. I only spent four days doing the screen tests for the actors in The Battle of Algiers, but a month looking for the right kind of photography that would best convey this sense of truth.
The difficulty was to find the right sort of look that would imitate grainy photography with strong contrasts, like those of the newsreels, and yet, because it had to be shown in the cinemas where people paid to see it, it had to retain a certain formal dignity, a formal beauty. It therefore took us a month to discover the technique required. The method that finally guided us was to take the original negative and make a copy of it and then re-photograph the copy.”

From a 1999 Gerald Peary interview with Pontecorvo
Cineaste: Could you talk about your brilliant casting in Burn!, using a non-actor as the West Indian guerilla leader, Jose Dolores, opposite Marlon Brando.

Pontecorvo: It was a fight! United Artists wanted me to use Sidney Poitier. I didn’t want to, though I like him as an actor, because his face wasn’t wild. Then I went looking to off-Broadway for black actors. I didn’t find the right one.
In Colombia, during a location scout, we were searching for a forest to burn. We drove very far into the wild in a jeep. Suddenly we saw this peasant man on a horse. This is the face I’d been looking for for four months. But instead of coming to me, he ran away! It was very hot, people around me were furious when I said, “Sorry, we have to find this man.” We asked the local chief to order the playing of a drum. All the people came out, including this man, Evaristo Marquez. He’d never seen a movie but he understood money. He said, “OK.”
I called Marlon on his island. He said, “If you believe he’s right, don’t worry about me.”

The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

Events with Marxist Education Project *AT VARIOUS VENUES*

 . Black Reconstruction
Mon, February 4 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

 . Can the Working Class Change the World?
Thu, February 7 @ 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
|Recurring Event

 . Capitalism: Causes, Conditions, Consequences … and Beyond
Thu, February 7 @ 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
|Recurring Event (See all)

 . Globalization and Writing
Thu, February 7 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
|Recurring Event (See all)

 . Capital, Volume 1
Sat, February 9 @ 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
|Recurring Event (See all)

 . Punk Crisis
Wed, February 20 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

 . Pontecorvo Double Feature!
Fri, February 22 @ 5:30 PM - 10:00 PM  

 . Premonitions
Sat, March 9 @ 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM    New Perspectives Theatre,

 . Early American Resistance to Hamilton’s Capitalist Policies
Mon, March 11

 . Capitalism Discussion with Nancy Fraser
Wed, March 13

 . Celebrate the Limerick Soviet of 1919
Sat, March 16

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Empowering The Bronx: Why Bronx Needs Campaign Finance Reform

Friday, Feb. 22, 6:00 to 8:00 PM in

St. Paul's Lutheran Church

1891 McGraw Ave., Bronx, btw. White Plains Rd. & Virginia Ave., just NW of Hugh Grant Cir.; #6 to Parkchester;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4rh6R1d--?node=357612440
https://goo.gl/maps/zDy3e2d3M7u

event (https://actionnetwork.org/events/empowering-the-bronx-how-community-power-will-push-the-bronx-forward)
sfritz@citizenactionny.org

Income inequality in New York is
at it's highest, and our communities are suffering because of it. We're losing access to affordable housing, good paying jobs, and our public transportation is falling apart. If we want to improve our community, we have to start in Albany. To tackle the crises we face in housing, living wage jobs, criminal justice, affordable health care, transportation, climate, fair taxes, and more, we must transform a campaign finance system that advantages the interests of the few over those of the many. We must make fixing our democracy the first priority in Albany.

Join us on February 22 , as we have a community conversation around the issues plaguing our communities, and how campaign finance reform can help us balance the scales of power, and take back the Bronx.

Zahid Chaudhary: Aesthetics of Expropriation
Friday, Feb. 22, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
244 Greene St. btw. Washington Pl. & Waverly Pl., just east of the park
nr. R, W, #6, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH stops & cross town buses via W.8th or E.9th
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8UzuoI--?way=248166241
https://goo.gl/maps/T36UBuEkTSD2
event https://facebook.com/events/607063376418107/   Public · Hosted by The
Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium at NYU
m.me/PRDS.NYU https://facebook.com/pg/PRDS.NYU/events
(212) 998-8800 http://englishchannel.nyu.edu/working-groups/post-colonial
{caption} Zahid Chaudhary, Princeton University Department of English

This lecture considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh’s photographic series entitled “Desert Bloom,” which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the lecture considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and political abstraction critical to settler colonialism in particular and capitalism more generally. How might abstraction be the very condition of politics? What might this imply for our understandings of documentary aesthetics?

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Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council General Assembly
Friday, Feb. 22, 6:30 to 9:00 PM in Verso Books
https://facebook.com/events/2139028773081095/
20 Jay St., Brooklyn 11201, Ste. 1010 (10Fl.), btw. Plymouth St. & John St.;
F Train to York St.; A, C to High St.; #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.;
map & transit: https://osm.org/go/Zct8DZes https://goo.gl/vAJWX6   Public · Hosted
by Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC
https://macc.nyc/events  https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events
m.me/MACCnyc info@macc.nyc
venue
https://twitter.com/verso https://facebook.com/VersoBks/events
https://versobooks.com/events https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events

Predictive Policing & the Stalker State: Hamid Khan, Alex Vitale, Alice Speri
Friday, Feb. 22, 6:30 to 8:30 PM in
St Mary's Episcopal Church
521 W. 126th btw. Old Broadway & Amsterdam Av.
nr. #1, A, B, C, D stops, M60 & 125th St. bus lines;
(https://eventbrite.com/e/predictive-policing-the-stalker-state-hamid-khan-alex-vitale-alice-speri-tickets-55799340329)
https://facebook.com/events/400291980715386/
https://facebook.com/pg/PolicingProject/events m.me/PolicingProject
 
Hamid Khan (Stop LAPD Spying) in conversation with Alex Vitale (The End of Policing) on the problems with Predictive Policing and the state's expanded capacity to trace, track and monitor us. Moderated by Alice Speri (The Intercept).

Hamid Khan challenges LA Police Department surveillance and profiling practices that criminalize benign and legal activity, normalize racial profiling, and render people in certain communities as criminal suspects. Khan has a long-standing and deep commitment to social justice for marginalized communities in Southern California. As founder and executive director of the South Asian Network, Khan helped to create the first community-based organization dedicated to informing and empowering South Asians in Southern California.

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He has spent the last 25 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. He also serves on the New York State Advisory Committee of the US Commission on Civil Rights. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society, Police Practice and Research, Mobilization, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in The NY Times, NY Daily News, The Nation, Vice News, Jacobin, and USA Today.

Alice Speri writes about justice, immigration, and civil rights. She has reported extensively about the NYPD's use of gang databases and gang conspiracy cases. She is originally from Italy and lives in the Bronx.

Sponsored by: Justice Strategies, The Policing and Social Justice Project, Verso Books and The Intercept

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New Biography of Romare Bearden by Mary Schmidt Campbell
Friday Feb. 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
at Revolution Books New York
437 Malcolm X Boulevard/ Lenox Ave at W. 132nd St.
nr. #2, 3, B, C stops & Bx33 bus via Madison Av. Bridge & W. 135th St.;
M60 via RFK Triboro & 125th St.;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4ozwd7r https://goo.gl/maps/AdodxMpntJU2
https://facebook.com/events/314960375811395/
http://revolutionbooksnyc.org https://facebook.com/pg/revbooksnyc/events
http://m.me/revbooksnyc revolutionbooksnyc@yahoo.com h
(212) 691-3345                
An evening with author Mary Schmidt Campbell and her new biography "An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden."

Bearden was a major figure in 20-century art, best known by the time of his death in 1988 for his public murals and collages evoking the Black experience in America. He grew up in the era of the New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance (his studio was above the Apollo theater). In 1987, Bearden was awarded the National Medal of Arts and was described as “the nation’s foremost collagist” by The New York Times.
 
His billboard-size photographic collages burst on the scene in 1964 after years of creating abstract work. These works, called Projections, draw forth "a history of distortions of black life even as they also reenvision that life... [It was] both celebration and assault, as disturbing as it was joyful." (American Odyssey)

This evening at Revolution Books will be a chance to dig deep into the life and work of an artist who gave startling expression to the anger and fierce optimism of Black people in the 60s. His work resonates a half-century later... with the emancipation of Black people and all of humanity more urgently needed than ever -- and possible.

“Through her long association with Romare Bearden and his work, Mary Schmidt Campbell possesses a rare understanding of his life and artistry... By brilliantly interweaving the political history of African Americans throughout the 20th century with the emergence of one our foremost artists, she has written a book that speaks to anyone who is interested in American history, art, and culture.”
--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University     

FEB16     Meet Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Crown of Thunder

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NYC Anarchist Mental Health Conference
Saturday, Feb. 23, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM in Judson Memorial Church
https://goo.gl/maps/BUjnaYvovX32 https://osm.org/go/Zct8UbRIU-?way=248166298
239 Thompson St. btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. So.
Public · Hosted by AlanaLo Lita and Billy Somerville
REGISTRATION REQUIRED nycamhc@protonmail.com
event graphic https://goo.gl/V1Enjp
https://facebook.com/events/2058150960873257/

Attention anarchist (and other similarly leftist anti-capitalist anti-authoritarian*) mental health workers** and students!

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY FOLKS WHO REGISTER AT LEAST 5 DAYS BEFORE THE EVENT WILL BE ALLOWED IN

Please join us for a FREE one-day conference to resource- and skill-share, build community, and strategize for how to better incorporate anarchist values into our work.

We invite you to 1) share the ways you combat the capitalism, authoritarianism, patriarchy, White supremacy, etc that impacts your clients and infects your organizations, and 2) strategize for the radical re-humanization, healing, and empowerment we and our clients need.

Topics to be addressed include: radical case conferencing, non-hierarchical peer supervision, anti-capitalist private practice (yes it’s possible!), navigating and surviving authoritarian systems and institutions, creating horizontal alternatives, and whatever else you want to share in your own break-out session related to these themes.

To register or to submit a workshop proposal, send an email to nycamhc@protonmail.com

*values/ideologies that believe in non-hierarchy, communalism, horizonalism, and mutual aid as both a means AND an end

**specifically, psychotherapists, counselors, peer specialists, and psychopharm prescribers. Although the conference is focused on the learning and community needs of mental health professionals and students, it is open to anyone with a vested interest in the topic. We welcome anyone with related experience or knowledge to attend the conference and/or to submit proposals on any topic that falls under the intersections of anarchism, mental health, and direct service delivery.
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Dalit Film and Cultural Festival (DALIFF)
Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019 fr/ 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Barnard College Held Hall
Broadway btw. W.116th & W. 120th nr. #1, A, C, D, M60 & 125th St crosstown bus;
graphic (https://silverscreen.in/news/kaala-pariyerum-perumal-to-be-screened-at-dalit-film-and-cultural-festival-in-new-york/) 
http://icls.columbia.edu/events/dalit-film-and-cultural-festival-daliff/  
(212) 854-4541 
https://google.com/search?q=Dalit+Film+and+Cultural+Festival
https://google.com/search?q=barnard+campus+map

Boricua Contingent for the Feb. 23 Venezuela March
Saturday, Feb. 23, 12:30 to 3:30 PM from 40 Wall St.
btw. Nassau St. & William St.; #2, 3 to Wall St. (at William); J to Broad St. (north exit nr. Wall); #4, 5 to Wall St. (at Broadway); R to Rector (at Trinity Pl./Church St.); #1 to Rector St. (at Greenwich St.);
maps https://openstreetmap.org/way/278042253#map=17/40.70655/-74.01151 https://goo.gl/maps/MDnduqNEisv http://url.ie/zb2p
event https://facebook.com/events/619241375181261/  Public · Hosted by
Frente Independentista Boricua
https://facebook.com/groups/285841525501686/events/

https://facebook.com/pg/frenteindependentistaboricua/events   m.me/frenteindependentistaboricua

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 . Hands off Venezuela! March on Wall Street!
Saturday, Feb. 23, 1:00 pm fr/ 40 Wall St. btw. Broad St. & William St., nr. J, #2, 3, 4, 5, R stops; https://goo.gl/maps/TiNKH3ZZTa22
m.me/NoWarOnVenezuela  info@nowaronvenezuela.org (Ask correct ending time -t.)

. Many pro-Venezuela Feb. 23 events in other cities
https://www.nowaronvenezuela.org/23feb/
https://facebook.com/pg/NoWarOnVenezuela/events/
https:/facebook.com/events/2032989433405306/

 . National March on Washington: Hands off Venezuela!
Saturday, Mar. 16, Noon from Lafayette Square
Pennsylvania Av. btw. 15th St. NW & 17th St. NW,
across from White House in Washington, DC
Blue, Orange, Silver Metro to McPherson; Red to Metro Ctr.
https://goo.gl/maps/FJdFbqbajG32

 . Mass National Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War & Racism and Oppose US War on Venezuela at 2019 NATO Summit in Washington DC
Saturday, Mar. 30, 1:00 PM in Lafayette Square across from White House.

(Additional actions will take place at the opening of the NATO meeting on April 4.)

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More event listings https://goo.gl/eNTEVc

Two events...

 . New York Day of Remembrance 2019
Saturday, Feb. 23, 1:00 to 4:00 PM inside
Japanese American United Church (JAUC)
255 7th Ave. btw. W. 24th & W. 25th nr. #1, C, E, F, R, 2, 3, N, Q, D stops & 23rd St. bus;
https://facebook.com/events/554055505066955/

 . Silent Vigil: New York Day of Remembrance 2019
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, walking from
Broadway & E. 23rd St. nr. Madison Sq. Park & Flatiron Triangle,
nr. R, F, M, PATH, #6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E & 23rd St. bus;
https://osm.org/go/Zct9CWynx-?way=474864229
https://goo.gl/maps/aCqYtSFqzbs
event https://jacl-ny.org/events/event/annual-silent-peace-walk
https://facebook.com/events/349480045907175/  Public · Hosted by
New York Day of Remembrance and JACL - New York Chapter
https://facebook.com/pg/nydayofremembrance/events/
m.me/nydayofremembrance dayofremembrancenyc@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/DOR_NYC  https://facebook.com/pg/JACLNY/events
(917)8338123 m.me/JACLNY jacl@jacl-ny.org mbr@jacl.org
http://jacl-ny.org  https://twitter.com/nyjacl 415-921-5225 https://jacl.org/contact/

The Silent Vigil draws parallels between the WWII forced removal of Japanese Americans to concentration camps and the actions being taken currently against Muslim and immigrant communities in NYC and across the United States.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the mass forced removal and incarceration of people of Japanese descent, most of them American citizens. The order authorized the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” More than 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were sent to inland concentration camps. The order was upheld by the Supreme Court in a highly controversial decision.

Participants are encouraged to  wear 40's style clothing.  We will be gathering at the south entrance of  Madison Square Park at Broadway and [EAST] 23rd Street. We will then walk through Madison Square Park and then down Broadway to conclude the walk in Union Square Park.

Both parks are fully accessible but accessibility is not guaranteed along the walk route.

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ABCs Of Socialism
Saturday, Feb. 23, 1:30 to 3:30 PM
Carroll Gardens Library
396 Clinton St, Brooklyn
https://facebook.com/events/527122314443238/
https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/ https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/
http://m.me/nycdsa info@socialists.nyc

Contact Us  https://www.socialists.nyc/contact-us/

General Questions / Help

    Steering Committee and general questions: info [a] socialists.nyc
    Press inquiries: press [a] socialists.nyc
    Calendar/Facebook events: calendar [a] socialists.nyc
    Media (posters, illustrations, video, photography) needs: media [a] socialists.nyc
    Website issues: website [a] socialists.nyc

NYC-DSA is committed to providing a safe and inclusive space in the Chapter. We have a grievance policy to handle formal complaints, the full text of which is available here. To contact the Grievance Committee, email: grievance [a] socialists.nyc

Branches

    Bronx/Uptown: bronx.uptown [a] socialists.nyc
    Central Brooklyn: central.brooklyn [a] socialists.nyc
    CUNY: cuny [a] socialists.nyc
    Labor: labor [a] socialists.nyc
    Lower Manhattan: lower.manhattan [a] socialists.nyc
    North Brooklyn: north.brooklyn [a] socialists.nyc
    South Brooklyn: south.brooklyn [a] socialists.nyc
    Queens: queens [a] socialists.nyc

Working Groups

    Anti-War: Lindsey Shaughnessy, antiwar [a] socialists.nyc
    Climate Justice: climate [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Bronx/Uptown: Annie Shields and Matthew Beatty, b-um.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Brooklyn: Samuel Lewis, bk.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Queens: Kara Nowakowski, queens.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Housing, Bronx/Uptown: Avi Garelick, b-um.housing [a] socialists.nyc
    Housing, Brooklyn: Chris Stevenson and Courtney, bk.housing [a] socialists.nyc
    Immigrant Justice: Sherry Baron, immigrant.justice [a] socialists.nyc
    Labor and Strike Solidarity: Frank Reynolds, strike.solidarity [a] socialists.nyc
    Media: media [a] socialists.nyc
    Racial Justice: Bianca Cunningham, racial.justice [a] socialists.nyc
    Religious Socialism: Maxine Phillips, religious.socialism [a] socialists.nyc
    Socialist Feminist: Rosie Clarke, socialist.feminism [a] socialists.nyc
    Tech Action: Will Luckman, tech.action [a] socialists.nyc

Conflict Resolution: Building Towards Prison Abolition
Saturday, Feb 23 from 7:00 pm at The Base
1302 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, at Stockholm St. (off Dekalb Av.); M train to Central Av. (at Cedar St., then walk away from Manhattan); J to Myrtle Av. (NW exit, nearest Manhattan, then walk NE on Dekalb); L to DeKalb Av. (between the exits find Stockholm St. & walk SW, against traffic); buses via DeKalb or Myrtle; B60 via Wilson Av.;
http://tripplanner.mta.info/ https://goo.gl/maps/Zt46tKnkvHD2
https://osm.org/go/Zct8qVvc?node=5418692470
http://web.mta.info/weekender.html
event descriptions & contacts https://t.co/jgaBe7dep3
 = https://facebook.com/events/2198436063556460/
https://facebook.com/pg/TheBkBase/events/ http://thebasebk.org/event/ https://twitter.com/thebasebk thebasebk@gmail.com
apparently relevant http://anarchism.nyc/ https://macc.nyc

"looking at successful examples of conflict resolution and their potential role in prison abolition." #DismantlePrisons #NoNewJails #MDCBrooklyn

ask correct ending time -t.

Arabic for Social Justice: 2019 Registration
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Mayday Space

Support Not Suspensions! canvass in Harlem
Sunday, Feb. 24, 12:30 to 3:30 PM from
W 124th St. and 5th Ave. inside the entrance to Marcus Garvey Park
[That's a refreshingly specific location.  But IMHO, never hurts to swap phone numbers before first visit.  Meanwhile various event producers explain that this returning usage fashion, "canvassing` sometimes once again means doorknocking...but nowadays may instead mean leafleting, petition work & street outreach or even contacting retailers.  Or it may ambiguously refer to all three tasks.  So ask or just arrive prepared to do all three. -t.]

https://facebook.com/events/2057661980988113/
with School Justice - NYC Democratic Socialists of America,
Bronx/Upper Manhattan DSA,  NYC Democratic Socialists of America 
https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/ http://m.me/nycdsa
info@socialists.nyc  https://www.socialists.nyc/contact-us/

General Questions / Help

    Steering Committee and general questions: info [a] socialists.nyc
    Press inquiries: press [a] socialists.nyc
    Calendar/Facebook events: calendar [a] socialists.nyc
    Media (posters, illustrations, video, photography) needs: media [a] socialists.nyc
    Website issues: website [a] socialists.nyc

NYC-DSA is committed to providing a safe and inclusive space in the Chapter. We have a grievance policy to handle formal complaints, the full text of which is available here. To contact the Grievance Committee, email: grievance [a] socialists.nyc

Branches

    Bronx/Uptown: bronx.uptown [a] socialists.nyc
    Central Brooklyn: central.brooklyn [a] socialists.nyc
    CUNY: cuny [a] socialists.nyc
    Labor: labor [a] socialists.nyc
    Lower Manhattan: lower.manhattan [a] socialists.nyc
    North Brooklyn: north.brooklyn [a] socialists.nyc
    South Brooklyn: south.brooklyn [a] socialists.nyc
    Queens: queens [a] socialists.nyc

Working Groups

    Anti-War: Lindsey Shaughnessy, antiwar [a] socialists.nyc
    Climate Justice: climate [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Bronx/Uptown: Annie Shields and Matthew Beatty, b-um.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Brooklyn: Samuel Lewis, bk.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Electoral, Queens: Kara Nowakowski, queens.electoral [a] socialists.nyc
    Housing, Bronx/Uptown: Avi Garelick, b-um.housing [a] socialists.nyc
    Housing, Brooklyn: Chris Stevenson and Courtney, bk.housing [a] socialists.nyc
    Immigrant Justice: Sherry Baron, immigrant.justice [a] socialists.nyc
    Labor and Strike Solidarity: Frank Reynolds, strike.solidarity [a] socialists.nyc
    Media: media [a] socialists.nyc
    Racial Justice: Bianca Cunningham, racial.justice [a] socialists.nyc
    Religious Socialism: Maxine Phillips, religious.socialism [a] socialists.nyc
    Socialist Feminist: Rosie Clarke, socialist.feminism [a] socialists.nyc
    Tech Action: Will Luckman, tech.action [a] socialists.nyc

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Canvass for Statewide Universal Rent Control
Sunday, Feb. 24, 1:00 to 4:00 PM from
4275 White Plains Rd, Bronx (10466-3023), btw. E. 235th & E. 236th;
#2, 5 Train to 233 St. or to Nereid Av.
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4uyYxEw--?m=&way=277801221
https://goo.gl/maps/mwWtxVnbMrA2
event & contacts https://facebook.com/events/362685021218344/
m.me/metcouncilonhousing Call (212) 979-6238
info@metcouncilonhousing.org http://www.metcouncilonhousing.org m.me/realrentreform realrentreform@gmail.com
http://realrentreform.blogspot.com m.me/nycdsa
info@socialists.nyc http://www.socialists.nyc
http://twitter.com/nycDSA m.me/housing4allNY
https://www.housingjusticeforall.org
Also try 212-979-6238,  (212) 453-9500
Ava@metcouncilonhousing.org Andrea@metcouncilonhousing.org Johanna@metcouncilonhousing.org  info@metcouncilonhousing.org

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A Radically Different and Better World  IS Possible!
Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour
ORGANIZING MEETING: Sunday, Feb 24, 1:30 pm at Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. at W. 132nd St. [ask correct ending time -t.]
www.revolutionbooksnyc.org revbooksnyc@yahoo.com  212-691-3345
@RevBooksNYC  For information and how to donate, go to www.revcom.us.
 
Revolution Books is sharing with you this timely announcement and important call from Revolution/revcom.us
"You Think You're Woke...
But You're Sleepwalking Through A Nightmare --
This System Cannot Be Reformed, It Must Be Overthrown!"
The Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour
To you who are fed up with this society and "solutions" that are no solution...
 
To you who are angry and defiant and want to see an end to the white supremacy, the patriarchy and its many forms of gender oppression, the persecution of immigrants, the imperialist wars and occupations and threats, and the capitalist plunder and destruction of the environment--an end to all, or any, of the horrible forms of oppression and exploitation that define and intertwine with this capitalist-imperialist society...
 
To you who seek not justice for yourself or even just your own people, but the Emancipation of ALL Humanity...
 
To you who hate the fascism of Trump and Pence, but see through "vote for me and I'll set you free" and any road that just makes the present horrors a little more tolerable for some within the U.S., while people around the world suffer even more...
 
To you who choke on "I'm woke," "I'm good," "No worries" when the world is being torn asunder and who have no patience for the putrid morals and relations of this culture...
 
To each and every person who senses that none of these horrors will be solved by this dog eat dog capitalist/imperialist system and that something radical--a real revolution--is needed... even as you have a thousand questions as to what that revolution would look like and whether it is even possible:
There Is a Way Out of This Madness!
"Let's get down to basics:
We need a revolution. Anything else, in the final analysis, is bullshit."
--Bob Avakian
We are constantly told, openly and by implication, that there is no alternative to the present order. But that is wrong!
 
There is a scientific approach that makes clear this madness is unnecessary and indicates the potential pathways for change. There is an actual plan for a radically different--and radically better--society, on the road to wiping out all exploitation and oppression, and emancipating humanity. There is a strategy to draw forward the millions and millions needed to make that happen. There is the leadership, in Bob Avakian (BA), the architect of the new communism and the leader of the revolution. These are great strengths on the people's side. But, what is now missing and urgently needed is YOU--to get with, support, and become an organized part of the revolution.

There is a project to put this revolution before millions and organize thousands into it. That project is the Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour--starting out in Los Angeles in March and going around the country for the rest of the year. We're going to boldly bring forward that science, strategy, and leadership for revolution and go right up against all the bullshit-the outmoded, petty, self-deceiving, and self-seeking bullshit that just ends up perpetuating the outrages of today.

But that's not all. There's no revolution without organization. We're going to work: organizing for a revolution--enough now of everyone in "their lane," with eyeballs glued to their screens. We're gonna go everywhere, from the hard streets to the suburbs, from the hardscrabble rural areas to the campuses, and to wherever people are creating the new or debating the future. We'll be giving people the concrete ways and means to support, contribute to, and join this revolution, in many different ways, big and small--with ideas and with practical involvement, with support and with questions and criticisms.

The tour will go far and wide, spreading and showing the film of the historic 2018 speech by Bob Avakian, Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, that deeply answers the two questions in its title. And, the tour will get out the pamphlet, HOW WE CAN WIN--How We Can Really Make Revolution, which concisely lays out the principles for how we get from the situation we are in today to actually winning an actual revolution.

Busting the People Out of Mental Shackles

We'll call out the dead-end paths and mental shackles:

    The identity politics and all the similar rationales that end up with people looking out for themselves or their group, while the system grinds on, taking lives and crushing spirits, and dividing those who should oppose it;
    The religions that preach reconciliation and serve to keep minds away from confronting and changing reality as it really is;
    The entrepreneurialism--whether "legit," gangsta, or NGO-style--that keeps everyone locked in the destructive, horrific capitalist present;
    The phony "socialism" that raises people's hopes but only aims at repackaging and dividing up the spoils of U.S. domination of the world.

And we will definitely take on complicity with the Democratic Party, which poses as "the only alternative." When in fact:

The Republican Party Is Fascist
The Democratic Party Is Also a Machine of Massive War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
This System CANNOT Be Reformed--It MUST Be Overthrown!
We Need an Actual Revolution

The tour will IMPACT everywhere it goes--opening up debate, stirring up controversy, shaking up society so that people no longer feel they have to accept the unacceptable and adjust to injustice, and instead are inspired to get organized for a revolution to change everything.

The tour will work with the Revolution Clubs where they exist and help form new ones where they don't. The tour will connect with people protesting and resisting this system's crimes, especially those that concentrate the deep conflicts of this system. Stepping to people with revolution straight up, and coming from that place, we'll unite in fighting injustice and oppression, and we'll struggle with them to see the need and possibility for revolution. This is what it means to Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution. The tour and the Revolution Clubs are where you learn about the revolution while leading-contributing to building vanguard organization necessary to lead a revolution.

The tour kicks off in March in Los Angeles and Southern California. Your participation and your support are needed to start, sustain, popularize, and defend the tour.

    DONATE: Without hype, absent fundamental change, without revolution, the future of humanity and the planet hangs in the balance. This tour cannot be sustained without your contribution. Become a MONTHLY SUSTAINER and make it possible to keep the tour on the move through the rest of the year. People are pouring their money into politicians of the Democratic Party--who are nothing but war criminals or war criminals-in-training, competing to be commander in chief or representatives of this bloody empire. Make a Profound Difference and DONATE to the possibility of something that could get beyond this horror and radically change the whole world.
    Learn about this tour. Go to www.revcom.us to view the speech by Bob Avakian and to learn more about the tour, the movement for revolution, Bob Avakian, and the new communism.
    Get onboard. Go to revcom.us to see ways

 . Support the Tour, Ongoing BAKE SALE at Revolution Books
Revolution Books / Libros Revolución 

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Liberation School: Honoring Black Radical History & Women Leaders
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Justice Center en El Barrio
1637 Park Ave, btw. E. 115th & E. 116th,
nr. #6, 2, 3, C stops & 116th St. cross town bus
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4oluV8?m=&node=2714216785
https://goo.gl/maps/4dEJyH6pBvH2
https://facebook.com/events/378136459651425/
Public · Hosted by Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL

Join us for a special Liberation School class in honor of Black History Month!

This February holiday is full of forgotten radical history and leaders. The long history of Black communist organizing in particular has been intentionally sanitized or often totally wiped out of our history books and popular media.

Learn more about some of the great radical women who we often do not hear about, including Claudia Jones, Williana Burroughs and many others. We will discuss the role of women's leadership and socialist organizing in the Black liberation struggle.

This class is open to ALL! We will have refreshments as well we #SwipeItForward and offer free swipes home.

 Hope to see you Sunday Feb. 24 at 2 PM

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Wendy Red Star
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2:00 to 3:00 PM in Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
$16 (https://showclix.com/event/artist-talk-wendy-red-star/listing) (https://brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/artist_talk_wendy_red_star_february_2019)

Artist Wendy Red Star discusses her work, on view in our special exhibition
Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection. Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, and her practice explores the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Informed by her cultural heritage, she engages with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance.

Tickets are $16 and include Museum general admission. More info available here.

Professionals of Hope
Sunday Feb. 24 fr/ 4:00 to 6:00pm at Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St. btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St.; F Train to 2 Av. (east exit to Allen St./1st Av.); J, M to Essex St. (at Delancey); B, D to Grand St. or Broadway-Lafayette; #6 to Spring St.; R, W to Prince St.;
https://goo.gl/maps/2Yumz7s7Mq52
event https://tockify.com/mlsupport/detail/115/1551042000000
http://bluestockings.com/event/anarchists-care-about-books-a-book-discussion-series-from-the-metropolitan-anarchist-coordinating-council-13/
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/  http://anarchism.nyc/
https://macc.nyc/events

Join us to discuss Professionals of Hope by Subcomandante Marcos.

MACC events are open to all anarchists, antifascists, anti-authoritarians and those interested in anarchist ideas and organizing.   Bluestockings is wheelchair accessible, with no steps or platforms, and wide aisles between shelves. The bathroom is not wheelchair accessible. There is a Starbucks two short blocks down the street with an accessible bathroom (at Allen and Delancey). Metered street parking is available in the blocks surrounding Bluestockings. Bluestockings is not a scent-free space, but we encourage visitors to please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products (including essential oils) and smoke far away from the entrance to the space.

Fighting Anti-Asian Discrimination in the 19th Century: A Tour
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 4 PM – 7 PM
REGISTER: bit.ly/APATour424

Following the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Acts, thousands of Chinese Americans moved to New York City to escape the increase of racist violence sweeping the nation. Once here, they formed new organizations to defend their rights and assert their interests. While most of this took place in what would become Chinatown, Greenwich Village was also a center for Chinese American organizing in the late 1800s. Join A/P/A Institute at NYU Visiting Scholar Dylan Yeats for a guided tour of sites between Washington Square and Cooper Square, where Chinese American immigrant-rights activists lived and worked 130 years ago, and learn how their victories and defeats continue to resonate today. This hour-long outdoor accessible tour will begin at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU (8 Washington Mews), and will be offered at 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Dylan Yeats holds a doctorate in US History from NYU. His work focuses on how the politics of “culture war” have shaped Americans’ understandings of race, gender, and religion from the colonial period to the present day. Yeats co-edited Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear (Verso Press, 2014) with John Kuo Wei Tchen, and is currently working on a book, based on his dissertation, about how religious conflict between Protestant sects in the early nineteenth century shaped the very foundations of US political culture and practice. Yeats is a committed public historian and trained archivist. He has curated and consulted on numerous exhibits and public memory projects in New York City, where he also gives occasional walking tours as a licensed sightseeing guide.

“Fighting Anti-Asian Discrimination in Nineteenth Century Greenwich Village: A Guided Tour” is a program celebrating the Greenwich Village Historic District Fiftieth Anniversary with the Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation.

Note on accessibility: The meeting point is accessible via elevator. Restrooms are single-stalled, and all gender. The hour-long outdoor tour is accessible and fully outdoors.

Image: Certificate of Residence for Sun Yow Pang, 1894; Yoshio Kishi and Irene Yah-Ling Sun Collection; MSS 292; box 6; folder 38; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University Libraries.

Audre Lorde's Birthday Celebration
Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 from 6:00 to 9:30 PM
The 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
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
event graphic, descriptions & contacts
https://alp.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=142
https://facebook.com/events/761578017574029/
https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org    [As often happens, ALP entered their office address in the Location Field of their Facebook announcement.  Since their own website and the event graphic agree this event will instead be at The People's Forum, I suggest ignoring ALP's location misinfo in their FB page.  Consider helping me reach the contact to fix it.  In fact, for many years, it has been effectively institutional policy for ALP staffers to screw up this same location field with cruel misinfo, nearly every time.  Please help NYC to mother ALP trainees through challenges FB event announcement form. -t.]

Palaces for the People: Social Infrastructure and Civic Life
Eric Klinenberg and Beth Simone Noveck
Monday, Feb.25, 2019 fr/ 6:00 to 8:00PM
20 Cooper Sq., 2nd Fl. (physically Bowery opposite E.5th St., nr. #6, R, W, B, D, F, M stops & cross town buses via W.8th or E.9th or Houston St.)
 == > RSVP [ask whether required. -t.]
https://ipk.nyu.edu/registration-checkout-2/?uts=1549653567#checkout (https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/palaces-for-the-people-social-infrastructure-and-civic-life/)  (https://mailchi.mp/nyu/225-palaces-for-the-people-social-infrastructure-and-civic-life)
https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/nyuipk/events
(212) 998-8466  ipk.info@nyu.edu  m.me/nyuipk   http://thegovlab.org/
https://twitter.com/TheGovLab  http://thegovlab.org/ideas-lunch-page/
book? (https://google.com/search?q=Palaces+for+the+People%3A+Social+Infrastructure+and+Civic+Life)

The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and the GovLab at NYU invite you to a conversation between Eric Klinenberg and Beth Simone Noveck.

We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, churches, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather and linger, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the “social infrastructure.” This conversation will examine how they work, and what happens when they fail.

Eric Klinenberg is the director of the Institute for Public Knowledge and Professor of Sociology at NYU. He is the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (The Penguin Press, 2012), Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002). His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography, and he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Slate, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the radio program, This American Life.

Beth Simone Noveck directs the Governance Lab (GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is a Professor in Technology, Culture, and Society at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and a Fellow at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy appointed her as the state’s first Chief Innovation Officer in 2018. Previously, Beth served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative under President Obama. UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government.
Upcoming Events

    March 5, 6PM | Book Launch | Dying of Whiteness
    April 1, 6PM | Co-Opting AI: Machines

Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry, Author of La Batea
Monday, Feb. 25, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
King Juan Carlos I Center Auditorium
53 Washington Square South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St., next to Judson Memorial Church & nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH, R, W, #6 stops.
Free and public.  Requires any standard public I.D. such as NYCID or driver's license.
(https://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events/spring-2019/gold-mining-in-colombia--a-conversation-with-photographer-stephe.html)   (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gold-mining-in-colombia-a-conversation-with-photographer-stephen-ferry-author-of-la-batea-tickets-55999345550)
http://facebook.com/clacs.nyu http://twitter.com/clacs_nyu
https://eventbrite.com/o/clacs-nyu-3186587052

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) presents a conversation with human rights and visual imaging photographer Stephen Ferry author of La Batea.

La Batea is the fruit of a six-year collaboration between photographer Stephen Ferry and his sister, the anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry, La Batea book looks closely at small-scale gold mining in Colombia. The title refers to the wooden pan used in traditional mining since Pre- Columbian times. La Batea documents the struggles of gold mining communities in Colombia to defend their way of life against armed criminal organizations and multinational corporations seeking their gold. Colombia reflects the situation of local communities worldwide who face violent repression for opposing large-scale mining projects in their territories.

Co-sponsored by NYU Tisch's Institute of Emerging Media Department of Photography & Imaging.

This event is free and open to the public. ID required for entry.

About Stephen Ferry

Since the late 1980s, Stephen Ferry has traveled to dozens of countries, covering social and political change, human rights, and the environment, on assignment for publications such as National Geographic, GEO, TIME and the New York Times. A fluent Spanish speaker, Stephen has developed an understanding of Latin America from over twenty years of covering the region. Stephen’s first book, I Am Rich Potosí: The Mountain that Eats Men (Monacelli Press,1999), documents the lives of the Quechua miners of Potosí, Bolivia. His second book Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict (Umbrage, 2012) has become a referential work for the study of Colombian history, armed conflict and human rights.
Stephen has won honors from the World Press Photo, Picture of the Year, and Best of Photojournalism contests. He has also received grants from the National Geographic Expeditions Council, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Howard Chapnick Fund, the Knight International Press Fellowship, the Getty Images Grant for Good, Open Society Foundations and the Magnum Foundation. www.stephenferry.com

About Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She has a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in the anthropology of mining, global commodities, and value. She is the author of Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (Columbia, 2005) and Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexican Border (Indiana, 2013) and numerous articles in academic journals and edited volumes. In 2010, she was honored to receive the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer ’69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring from Brandeis University. www.elizabeth-ferry.com

 
Have questions about Gold Mining in Colombia: A Conversation with Photographer Stephen Ferry, Author of La Batea? Contact CLACS-NYU

Anti-capitalist Feminist Speaker Series: Art & Direct Action
Monday, Feb. 25, 6:30 to 9:00 PM, School of Visual Arts
133/141 W. 21st St. Rm 101C, Ground Floor Theater
https://facebook.com/events/231319691129185/  Public · Hosted by
International Women's Strike NYC/ Paro Internacional de Mujeres NYC
https://facebook.com/pg/womenstrikenyc/events m.me/womenstrikenyc internationalwomenstrikenyc@gmail.com http://www.womenstrikeus.org
To whom are artists and art institutions accountable? What role can artists, and especially art students, play in political organizing and anti-capitalist, anti-colonial political action? The International Women’s Strike Campus Coordinating Committee presents “Art & Direct Action.” Members of MTL+ collective, Chinatown Art Brigade, and others will speak on their experiences combining research, aesthetics, organizing and action, followed by a Q&A. This event is free and open to the public.

Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) is an intergenerational, women-led collective driven by the fundamental belief that our cultural, material, and aesthetic modes of production have the power to advance social change. CAB is comprised of Asian American and Asian diaspora identifying visual artists, media makers, writers, educators, and organizers with deep roots in Manhattan's Chinatown. Together we make work that centers art and culture as a way to support community-led campaigns around issues of gentrification and displacement.

Members of MTL+ collective created Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy magazine, Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), the direct action arm of Gulf Labor Artist Coalition, Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee, Direct Action Front for Palestine (DAFP), Decolonial Cultural Front, and most recently, Decolonize This Place, a movement space and decolonial formation in New York City that combines analysis, organizing, art, and action around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Free Palestine, Global Wage Worker, and De-Gentrification.

This venue is wheelchair accessible.

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Is Liberation Academic
Monday Feb. 25 from 630pm at NYU Skirball Ctr.
566 LaGuardia Pl. btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. South
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, R, W, #1, PATH & #6 stops
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8UxXPU-?node=5514171300
https://goo.gl/maps/Uz5pDM9DST72
event https://nyuskirball.org/events/skirball-talks-liberation-academic/
https://www.facebook.com/events/391608894741411/
Free & public.  
Stonewall50 Series:
https://nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/nyu-celebrates-stonewall-at-50.html
Skirball Talks: https://nyuskirball.org/events/#/?event_type=skirball-talks m.me/nyuskirball  (212) 998-4941 http://nyuskirball.org
https://facebook.com/pg/nyuskirball/events
newsletter (http://email.wordfly.com/view/?sid=ODgzXzM2NjRfMTUzNDA1XzcwNDc)

A roundtable of University faculty reflect on Gay Liberation – a movement whose story cannot be told without Stonewall – and consider to what extent liberation is an “academic” question, in both senses of the term. Among the issues to be explored: the contested legacies of Stonewall; NYU’s role, then and now; shifts and changes wrought by the last 50 years; and the promises and challenges of queer futures, in and beyond the academy.

The panel brings together leading NYU scholars from across campus.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU Arts & Science and School of Law
Caroline Dorsen (NUR ’97, NUR ’14), Assistant Professor, NYU Rory Meyers School of Nursing
A.B. Huber, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Ann Pellegrini, Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

Introduction by Katherine Fleming, NYU Provost

Moderated by Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for Humanities, NYU Arts & Science

Held weekly every Monday at 6:30pm during the academic terms,  Skirball Talks hosts visionaries from the worlds of politics, the arts, sciences, academia, and more. This event is free and open to the public.

Learn more about #Stonewall50 @ NYU.

PLEASE READ IN FULL REGARDING SEAT RESERVATIONS:
Limit 1 RSVP per person. RSVP does not guarantee a ticket. You can begin picking up tickets at the NYU Box Office (566 LaGuardia Pl) 2 hours prior to event. Tickets must be claimed by 6:10 pm. Unclaimed tickets may be released to those on the standby line. Even if you have picked up a ticket, please be aware that if you are not seated in the theater by 6:20pm, we will open seating to those on the standby line.

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Guerilla Theater Tactics Training with RAN
Monday, Feb. 25, 6:30 to 9:00 PM at
1 12th St., Brooklyn, btw. Gowanus Canal & 2nd Av.
[...but if first visit, seriously get some phone numbers plus some vigorous, humane directions, then allow yourself time to try reaching folks.  Godspeed. -t.]
area maps https://openstreetmap.org/node/6234680133
https://goo.gl/maps/VUBM7EpXzs92
Public · Hosted by Monica Hunken http://monicahunken.com
Monicahunken@gmail.com monica-hunken.squarespace.com/contact https://facebook.com/mohunk/timeline

Join Rainforest Action Network for a workshop in guerilla theater at sites of injustice.   We will practice skills in strategic performance that interrupts business as usual.  We will explore what physical, vocal and storytelling forms can be used in escalating a creative campaign and look at specific performative disruptions that have been used effectively in actions across the world.

The second half of the training will prepare us for an upcoming action targeting JP Morgan Chase Bank  for being Wall Street's biggest funder of fossil fuels, tar sands and private prisons as part of our ongoing campaign.

Participants will walk away with concrete skills and information to use in their own struggles and be able to have a role in an exciting action against Chase Bank.

Snacks provided!  FREE Workshop!

Learn more about the trainer Monica Hunken who has been conducting creative actions since 2001 and leading trainings since 2010.
monica-hunken.squarespace.org

Learn more about Rainforest Action Network :
https://www.ran.org/issue/banks_and_climate/

NBK Night School Series w/ Democratic Socialists of America NYC
Apparently always Mondays from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Av., Brooklyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St.;
L Train to Dekalb Av. or M to Myrtle-Wyckoff
maps & transit: https://goo.gl/maps/kfFmfuH4Vrn
https://goo.gl/CZ85GX https://osm.org/go/Zct8r97Ql-?node=5550519331
DSA listings https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA
https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/
questions https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/ http://m.me/nycdsa
venue https://facebook.com/MaydaySpace https://twitter.com/maydayspace
https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

. Gender & Capitalism
Monday Jan. 14, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/349259645815969/

. Socialists and the Working Class
Monday, Jan. 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/253836285333562

. Poor People’s Movements
Monday Feb. 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/268176130498747/

. Unions and the Labor Movement
Monday, Feb. 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/237606560244178/

. How Capitalism Makes Us Sick
Monday, March 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/178216109720968/

. The Rent Is Too Damn High
Monday, March 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/738821516464360/

. Education is a Right
Monday, April 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1853390398107811/

. Mass Incarceration
Monday, April 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/395574424312518/

. Foreign Policy and Imperialism
Monday, May 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/274200386538495/

. Israel-Palestine
Monday, May 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/256808268356519/

. Climate Change
Monday, June 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/236842033653922/

. The Russian Revolution
Monday, June 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/32837960459167

. The Lenin Controversy
Monday, July 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/271877923440185/

. Third World Revolutions
Monday, July 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1413696395432517/ .

. The Coup in Chile
Monday, July 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/1937917946514411/

. The Limits of Social Democracy
Monday, August 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/238710980333532/

. Today's Socialist Strategy
Monday, August 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
description & readings: https://facebook.com/events/286535555296574/

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Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Monday, Feb. 25, 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Verso Books
20 Jay St., Brooklyn 11201, Ste. 1010 (10 Fl.), btw. Plymouth St. & John St.;
F Train to York St.; A, C to High St.; #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.;
map & transit: https://osm.org/go/Zct8DZes https://goo.gl/vAJWX6
(https://versobooks.com/events/1883-gentrification-and-the-real-estate-state)  https://facebook.com/events/313300225958155/
Public · Hosted by Verso Books and Jacobin Magazine
https://facebook.com/VersoBks  https://facebook.com/pg/jacobinmag/events
https://twitter.com/verso https://facebook.com/VersoBks/events
https://versobooks.com/events https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events

Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60% of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer.

As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, it's through the seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.

Join Verso Books and Jacobin for the book launch of Samuel Stein's Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2870-capital-city

Speaker Bios:
Samuel Stein studies geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches urban studies at Hunter College. His writing on planning politics been published by Jacobin, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, and many other magazines and journals. In addition to studying and teaching urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives.

Raquel Namuche is a long-time tenant organizer.  Born in Peru and raised in Queens, she is an organizer with the Ridgewood Tenants Union, an independent tenant-led housing group she started in 2014.

Rob Robinson was a co-founder and member of the Leadership Committee of the Take Back the Land Movement and a staff volunteer at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). He came into the land and housing movement after spending two years homeless on the streets of Miami and ten months in a New York City Homeless shelter.

Shellyne Rodriguez is a community organizer and a visual artist.  As an organizer, she is an active member of radical grassroots collective Take Back the Bronx, who agitate and organize for community control of land and housing. As an artist, her work is a decolonial baroque practice which utilizes text, drawing, painting, found materials, and sculpture to depict subjects and spaces in contention with subjugation.

Esteban Girón is a member of the Crown Heights Tenant Union and serves on the board of Tenants PAC. He lives in Crown Heights with his husband Sean and his dog Chicochu, spending his days making life miserable for his landlord and the developers & politicians who are trying to empty his neighborhood of working-class people of color.

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ABC's of Capitalism Reading Series
3 Dates
FEB 11 Mon 7:00 PM
FEB 18 Mon 7:00 PM
FEB 25 Mon 7:00 PM (ask correct ending times)
242 E. 2nd St. 7th Fl. (10009-8031), btw. Aves. B & C
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8TrCnE-?way=250265543
https://goo.gl/maps/fqLtarTzCvR2
event description https://facebook.com/events/1013622615492423/
Hosted by NYC Democratic Socialists of America
apparently relevant:
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/introducing-the-abcs-of-capitalism

What makes life so exhausting and miserable? You might be seeing some of your friends and comrades saying 'the problem is capitalism'. But what is Capitalism? Is it just how things are? Does it have specific rules? How do we know Capitalism when we see it? And if it is a specific system with specific rules, how do we change it or get rid of it?

Lower Manhattan DSA will be hosting a reading group on a series of new pamphlets put out by Jacobin Magazine + Catalyst Journal, written by professor of sociology, Vivek Chibber.

These pamphlets, in brilliantly simple and clear language, cover the rules and logic of our economic system (capitalism), the role of the state in society, and explain why socialists talk so much about the working class.

They currently cost $10 on Jacobin.com, but we're giving them out for free! Please contact the Lower Manhattan OC at lowermanhattandsa@gmail.com and we'll get you a copy before the meetings.

The group meets at 242 East 2nd Street, 7th Floor Community Room. See you there!

Pamphlet A - Feb 11 - “Understanding Capitalism”
Pamphlet B - Feb 18 - “Capitalism and the State”
Pamphlet C - Feb 25 - “Capitalism and Class Struggle”
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Samuel Stein, ``Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State``
Monday, Feb. 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 at Verso Books
20 Jay St., Brooklyn 11201, Ste. 1010 (10Fl.), btw. Plymouth St. & John St.;
F Train to York St.; A, C to High St.; #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.;
map & transit: https://osm.org/go/Zct8DZes https://goo.gl/vAJWX6
https://facebook.com/events/313300225958155/
Public · Hosted by Verso Books and Jacobin Magazine
https://twitter.com/verso https://facebook.com/VersoBks/events
https://versobooks.com/events https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events
book https://versobooks.com/books/2870-capital-city

Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60% of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer.

As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, it's through the seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.

Join Verso Books and Jacobin for the book launch of Samuel Stein's Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State:
https://versobooks.com/books/2870-capital-city

Speaker Bios:
Samuel Stein studies geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches urban studies at Hunter College. His writing on planning politics been published by Jacobin, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, and many other magazines and journals. In addition to studying and teaching urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives.

Raquel Namuche is a long-time tenant organizer.  Born in Peru and raised in Queens, she is an organizer with the Ridgewood Tenants Union, an independent tenant-led housing group she started in 2014.

Rob Robinson was a co-founder and member of the Leadership Committee of the Take Back the Land Movement and a staff volunteer at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI). He came into the land and housing movement after spending two years homeless on the streets of Miami and ten months in a New York City Homeless shelter.

Shellyne Rodriguez is a community organizer and a visual artist.  As an organizer, she is an active member of radical grassroots collective Take Back the Bronx, who agitate and organize for community control of land and housing. As an artist, her work is a decolonial baroque practice which utilizes text, drawing, painting, found materials, and sculpture to depict subjects and spaces in contention with subjugation.

Esteban Girón is a member of the Crown Heights Tenant Union and serves on the board of Tenants PAC. He lives in Crown Heights with his husband Sean and his dog Chicochu, spending his days making life miserable for his landlord and the developers & politicians who are trying to empty his neighborhood of working-class people of color.
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Verso Books
Bookstore · London, United Kingdom
"Anglo-America's preeminent radical press."—Harper's Magazine/ "A rigorously intelligent publisher" —The Sunday Times
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Magazine
Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

DEC Public Hearings on the Williams NESE Pipeline
Tuesday Feb. 26, 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Bay Ridge Manor House,
476 76th St., Brooklyn btw. 4th & 5th Aves. (R to 77 St.)
maps https://osm.org/go/Zcty4B36w-?way=248518436
https://goo.gl/maps/azKXXn88VSD2     
https://facebook.com/events/315366185753532/
https://facebook.com/pg/StoptheWilliamsPipeline/events
m.me/StoptheWilliamsPipeline https://stopthewilliamspipeline.org
https://facebook.com/pg/nychange/events/  m.me/nychange
(347) 410-6919  http://nycommunities.org
https://facebook.com/pg/saneenergyproject/events
(646) 387-3180 contact@saneenergyproject.org http://saneenergyproject.org
https://facebook.com/pg/foodandwaterwatchNY/events/

m.me/foodandwaterwatchNY  (347) 778-2743 eweltman@fwwatch.org http://foodandwaterwatch.org 

background https://nyc.surfrider.org/williams-transco-enhancement-pipeline/

ATTENTION ALL PIPELINE FIGHTERS:

It’s time to testify!

We need all hands on deck at these public hearings (Feb 26, 2pm & 6pm), held by the NY Department of Environmental Conservation, on the Williams NESE pipeline, which would carry fracked gas for 23 miles through our thriving and beautiful New York Harbor. Come out and raise your voice against this dangerous, unneeded, climate-wrecking project and help us stop it for good. We’ll provide suggested talking points. All you need to do is SHOW UP.

This couldn’t be more urgent. Now that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has all but greenlighted the pipeline, it’s up to Governor Cuomo and the DEC to stop this backwards project, which would exacerbate climate change, harm our recovering harbor, threaten public health, and so much more. In other words, this is our last chance to stop the project, and we need your help to do it.

At these hearings, we’ll be pushing the DEC to deny a crucial water quality permit that the pipeline needs to be approved. (But again, don’t worry: we’ll have info sheets and suggested talking points). The DEC isn’t required to hold hearings on projects like this, so the fact that they’re holding them for this pipeline means that we have their attention and that they’re aware of the massive public opposition to the project. We've delivered over 14,000 petition signatures opposing the project and over 200 organizations across the state that have come out against it. That’s on top of public opposition from Comptroller Scott Stringer; numerous city council members, state senators and assembly members; community boards; community leaders; and countless  others. Now it’s time to add your voice into the mix. Come to the DEC hearings and help us stop this project for good!

Brujos, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV
screening & discussion with Ricardo Gamboa, Isaac Gomez, & Justin Ignatius Mitchell
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
285 Mercer St., 4th Fl. btw. Waverly Pl. & Washington Pl,
a block NE of the park, & nr. R, W, #6, A, B, C, D, E, F, M stops;
maps: https://osm.org/go/Zct8U5hDY--?node=2550067205
https://goo.gl/maps/ZaokmdpamjK2 
free & public; event: (http://csgsnyu.org/2019/01/february-26-brujos-beyond-representation-decolonizing-queering-tv)  (https://tisch.nyu.edu/art-public-policy/news/brujos--beyond-representation--decolonizing---queering-tv)

https://facebook.com/events/2035255393259789/  NYU
Ctr. for Study of Gender & Sexuality/CSGS (212)9929540, csgs@nyu.edu https://twitter.com/csgsnyu/ https://facebook.com/pg/csgsnyu/events/
CSGS Spring Calendar Graphic
http://csgsnyu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CSGS-Spring-2019-calendar.jpg

Brujos is a radically-politicized, queer-of-color web series following four gay Latino doctoral students that are also witches as they try and survive the semester and a witch hunt led by the straight, wealthy, white male descendants of the first New World colonizers. Brujos’ experimental approach to production and radical ethos has garnered the show significant recognition and a cult following. Come binge watch the 12 episode series and talk with creator Ricardo Gamboa and cast members Isaac Gomez and Justin Ignatius Mitchell.

Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, and Latinx Project.

This event is free & open to the public. Venue is wheelchair-accessible. For more information about this event, please contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgsnyu@nyu.edu or 212-992-9540 -- csgsnyu.org.

Ricardo Gamboa is an artist, activist, and academic creating radical art, cultural, and media work in Chicago and New York City. In Chicago, Gamboa is a member of Free Street Theater. In New York City, they are an alumni of the EmergeNYC program at Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and the New York Neo-Futurists. Gamboa is finishing their doctorate degree at New York University’s renowned American studies program and received their MA in arts politics (2013) from the Tisch School of the Arts. Gamboa has won several awards (and other things that other people care about) including an Arts Matters Fellowship, Joyce Award, and an International Connections Award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Their current projects includes the underground news show The Hoodoisie, the community-based theater piece Meet Juan(ito) Doe, and BRUJOS, the ground-breaking web series about four gay Latino grad who are also witches. Gamboa has worked with over 5,000 young people in the Americas using everything from photography to theater and mural painting to web media to advance young people’s dreams and visions for social change.

Isaac Gomez  is an award-winning Chicago-based playwright originally from El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. His play La Ruta received its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theater Company this Winter. His one-woman show the way she spoke will be receiving its Off-Broadway premiere at the Minetta Lane Theatre (produced by Audible) in Summer 2019. He is currently under commission from South Coast Repertory, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Steep Theatre, and StepUp Chicago Playwrights. His plays have been supported by Steppenwolf Theater Company, Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Northlight Theatre, Albany Park Theater Project, WaterTower Theater, Haven Theater, Teatro Vista, Greenhouse Theater Center, Jackalope Theater Company, Pivot Arts, Definition Theater Company, Broken Nose Theater, Stage Left, The VORTEX, and Something Marvelous. He is the recipient of the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the 2017 Jeffry Melnick New Playwright Award at Primary Stages, an inaugural 3Arts “Make A Wave” grantee, Co-Creative Director at the Alliance of Latinx Theatre, a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, an Artistic Associate with Victory Gardens Theater, Ensemble Member with Teatro Vista, Artistic Associate with Pivot Arts, an advisory committee member of the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) and a core producer with the Jubilee. He is a Professional Lecturer at The Theatre School at DePaul University, and is represented by The Gersh Agency and Circle of Confusion.

Justin Ignatius Mitchell is a Chicago based DJ and multimedia artist creating under the moniker Hijo Pródigo. Mitchell's practice is rooted in the exploration of "blood memory",  and serves to contribute to a sonic and physical dialogue regarding queer(ed) spirituality; communal tools of survival and sustenance; and the potentiality of the night. Mitchell is currently collaborating with the Chicago born record label and artist collective FUTUREHOOD, as well as the web series platform OTV (Open Teleision). The function of both media platforms are in service to the development and exhibition of work by marginalized voices. BRUJOS marks Mitchell's move from behind to camera to on screen acting. Libra Sun/ Leo Rising/ Pisces Moon

 . Thursday FEB 14 New Books, Old Sins: Early-Modern Sodomy, Bestiality, Cross-Dres

 . Tuesday FEB 26 Brujos, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV

 . Thursday FEB 28    Distinguished Faculty Lecture with Hortense Spillers

 . Friday MAR 8    Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, & the Unconscious

 . Tuesday MAR 12    ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants

Marxist Feminist Happy Hour
Tuesday, Feb.26, 6:00 to sometimes 9:00 PM in Starr Bar
214 Starr St., Brooklyn btw. Wyckoff St. & Irving St.;
L train to Jefferson (SE exit to Starr St.); M to Knickerbocker;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8uJXUw--?node=5550525387
https://goo.gl/N1P1aY
event https://facebook.com/events/606902649780401/
w/ Red Bloom: A Communist Collective,  Starr Bar, NYC Democratic Socialists of America
redbloom.nyc@gmail.com
https://facebook.com/NYCCommunists/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/nycdsa/events
venue http://starrbar.com  https://facebook.com/pg/StarrBarBK/events/
m.me/StarrBarBK  (718) 821-1100 bookings@starrbar.com
``usually no clear or definite ending time.  but on this date, there's another event at 9pm"

Race & Health Series: Could Tuskegee Happen Today?
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6:00 to 8:00 PM
The New York Academy of Medicine

1216 5th Ave
This event is free. RSVP here:
https://nyam.org/events/event/could-tuskegee-happen-today/
https://www.facebook.com/events/285164142175096/

The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis” was an unethical medical research study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service on hundreds of African-American men from 1932-1972. Approximately 400 study participants who had syphilis were told they were being treated for “bad blood” and never received the proper treatment for their illness, even after penicillin was widely adopted as a treatment for syphilis in the 1940s. The study failed to inform and protect these men, and has since influenced significant changes in U.S. laws and regulations relating to clinical research. This event will share first-person accounts from survivors of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, combined with expert perspectives and audience discussion, to address the history and legacy of the study and why it remains relevant today.

Moderator:
Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
Deputy Commissioner and Director of the Center for Health Equity, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Speakers:
Monique A. Guishard, PhD
Chair of the Bronx Community Research Review Board
Associate Professor of Psychology at Bronx Community College

Susan M. Reverby, PhD
Author of "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy"

Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas and Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College

The New York Academy of Medicine — Reminder: RSVP for "Could Tuskegee Happen Today?" here to reserve your spot:https://nyam.org/events/event/could-tuskegee-happen-today/RSVP's will close once the event reaches capacity.

The New York Academy of Medicine's Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health promotes understanding of the history of medicine and public health and the history of the book - www.nyamcenterforhistory.org

Could Tuskegee Happen Today?

Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart
By Adam Reich and Peter Bearman
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019  6:15pm The Heyman Center, 2nd Fl. 
event descriptions & contacts (http://heymancenter.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-adam-reich-and-peter-bearman/) (www.incite.columbia.edu/upcoming-events/2019/2/26/working-for-respect) (http://iserp.columbia.edu/event/working-respect-community-and-conflict-walmart) (https://twitter.com/heymancenter)
book (https://issuu.com/columbiaup/docs/cup_spring_2018_catalog)

Enter Heyman Center via next door IAB/SIPA Bldg. at
420 W.118th St., 6th Fl., btw. Amsterdam Av. & Morningside Dr. (or use Wein Gate from W.116th)
Free and open to the public/No registration necessary/First come, first seated
 212.854.3081
 Sponsors
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Department of Sociology

Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart
By: Adam Reich and Peter Bearman
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their working conditions and their lives.

In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. They show why traditional unions have been unable to organize service-sector workers in places like Walmart and offer provocative suggestions for new strategies and directions. Drawing on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy.

About the Authors:

Adam Reich is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Hidden Truth: The Young Men Navigating Lives in and out of Juvenile Prison (2010); With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in a Catholic Hospital (2012); and Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States(2014).

Peter Bearman is the Cole Professor of the Social Sciences and director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theories and Empirics at Columbia University. He is the author of Relations Into Rhetorics (1993) and Doormen (2005) and coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology (2009), as well as coeditor of the Middle Range series at Columbia University Press.

About the Speakers:

Suresh Naidu teaches economics, political economy and development at SIPA. Naidu previously served as a Harvard Academy Junior Scholar at Harvard University, and as an instructor in economics and political economy at the University of California, Berkeley. Naidu holds a BMath from University of Waterloo, an MA in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Shamus Khan: My work is primarily within the areas of cultural sociology and stratification, with a strong focus on elites. I am the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School (Princeton 2011); The Practice of Research (Oxford 2013, with Dana Fisher), and am completing Exceptional: The Astors, Elite New York, and the Story of American Inequality (Princeton, forthcoming). With Dorian Warren, I am the director of a Russell Sage Foundation working group on “The Political Influence of Economic Elites;” I also serve as the principal investigator on a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation project using the New York Philharmonic archives to uncover the character of their subscribers from the 1870s-present.  In addition to my primary focus, I also write in the areas of gender theory, deliberative politics, and research methodology. I recently served as an opinion columnist for Time Magazine and continue to write about sociology in the popular press.

Catherine J. Turco is the Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Economic Sociology and Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Turco is an ethnographer and economic sociologist who studies cultural dynamics in organizations, occupations, and markets, with particular focus on the role of meaning in people's lives and work. Turco is the author of The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media (New York: Columbia University Press). Her research has also appeared in the American Journal of Sociology and the American Sociological Review, and has been recognized with awards from the American Sociological Association. It has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, CNN, and Fortune. Prior to entering academia, Turco worked as a technology investment banker and then in the software industry, where she managed a corporate venture fund. She has consulted to a number of organizations on issues of corporate strategy and culture. Turco received her BA in economics from Harvard College, where in addition to her studies, she was president of Harvard Student Agencies/Let’s Go Inc., a 1,000-person company. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She received her MA and PhD in sociology from Harvard University, where she was a Presidential Scholar.

Pan Africanism and Social Movements
with Onleilove Chika Alston, M.Div., MSW
Three Tuesdays, Feb. 5, 12 & 26 fr/ 6:30 to 8:30 pm in
The People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. (in General Baker Seminar Room)
nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
$25 – $50
https://peoplesforum.org/event/pan-africanism-and-social-movements/2019-02-05/ https://peoplesforum.org/event/pan-africanism-and-social-movements/all/
https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
[ask but apparently NO Tuesday Feb. 19 session -t.]

This course is an introduction to Pan Africanism and its intersections with United States and international social movements. The course will cover the context for the development of Pan-Africanism, the history of Pan-Africanism, lessons from its successes and failures, and the organizing approach it helped to define –“making the plight of Africans in the diaspora an international issue.” We will also cover how religion and socialism has interacted Pan-Africanism and how this framework can help advance racial, economic, immigration and gender justice.
 
    Onleilove Chika Alston, M.Div., MSW is a faith rooted organizer, speaker, minister and writer. From the ranks of the poor having experienced poverty and homelessness as a child she has a passion for justice and compassion for people. Born and raised in East New York Brooklyn and now …

Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis
Oscar A. Chacón, Oliver Milman, Tiara R. Na’puti, and Ninaj Raoul, Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage
Tuesday Feb. 26 from 6:30 to 8:30pm
NYU King Juan Carlos I Center Auditorium
53 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St., next to Judson Memorial Church
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8UZ8~B-?way=248166256 (https://goo.gl/maps/NQbH2VhE3zL2)
event descriptions & contacts (https://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events/spring-2019/migration-as-survival-in-the-era-of-climate-crisis.html)  (https://eventbrite.com/e/migration-as-survival-in-the-era-of-climate-crisis-registration-54614373060) (https://facebook.com/events/928386834218581/) (https://wp.nyu.edu/freeandpublic/2018/11/05/february-26-migration-as-survival-in-the-era-of-climate-crisis/)
producers https://facebook.com/pg/APAInstitute/events/ m.me/APAInstitute
(212) 998-3700  apa.institute@nyu.edu http://apa.nyu.edu
https://facebook.com/pg/CLACS.NYU/events (212) 998-8686 http://clacs.as.nyu.edu m.me/CLACS.NYU  clacs@nyu.edu
venue https://www.kjcc.org/event/ https://twitter.com/kjcc_nyu
https://facebook.com/pg/kjccnyu/events

Featuring Oscar A. Chacón (Executive Director, Alianza Americas), Oliver Milman (Reporter, The Guardian), Tiara R. Na’puti (Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder), and Ninaj Raoul (Executive Director, Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees). Curated and moderated by Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage, the A/P/A Institute at NYU 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence.

UPDATE: Please note the new location. This event will now take place at the NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center located at 53 Washington Square South.

Rising sea levels, drought, food insecurity, intensified hurricanes, and wildfires are some of the many markers of the exacerbating climate crisis. Despite the clear and present danger of climate change, governments are failing to take the action needed to stave off its worst effects. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people, primarily from poor communities and the Global South, are displaced by climate impacts every year only to be met by rising xenophobia, anti-migrant sentiment, and militarized borders. This panel brings together journalists, activists, frontline organizers, academics, and artists to discuss the inextricable links between migration and climate catastrophe. We consider what an intersectional movement for migrant rights and climate justice could look like, the threat posed by right-wing populist governments to the rights of migrants, and the role of arts and culture in creating bold visions for a just future.

Oscar A. Chacón is a co‐founder and executive director of Alianza Americas, a Chicago-based national network of Latin American immigrant‐led and immigrant serving organizations in the US. Chacón is an immigrant from El Salvador. He has been an organizer and a leader on community justice issues at the local, national, and international levels for over thirty years. He has occupied leadership positions in multiple organizations including Oxfam America, Centro Presente, the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. Chacón is a frequent spokesperson, domestically and internationally, on economic, social, political, and cultural issues affecting Latin American immigrant communities, including the nexus between human mobility, economic inequality, white supremacy, and racial justice. Alianza Americas mission is to improve the quality of life of Latin American immigrant communities in the US, as well as of peoples throughout the Americas.

Oliver Milman is the environment correspondent for Guardian US, based in New York. He regularly reports on how climate change is altering the natural world, with a particular focus on the communities most vulnerable to these consequences. Before coming to the US, he covered the environment for the Guardian in Australia. His role has taken him to the melting Alaskan Arctic, the wildfire-scorched northern California, the magnificent yet ailing Great Barrier Reef, and people living in the shadow of the petrochemical industry in Texas. Originally from the UK, Millman has previously covered business and politics for a range of print and online publications.

Tiara R. Na’puti (Chamoru) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at University of Colorado Boulder with faculty affiliations in the Center for Communication and Democratic Engagement (CDE) and the Center for Native American Indigenous Studies (CNAIS). Her scholarship and activism addresses colonization, militarization, Indigenous social movements, and Indigenous cultural discourses—particularly throughout Oceania. She is currently working on a book project that examines the US military buildup plans for the Mariana Islands archipelago and how military aggression fuels the dangerous impacts of climate change. This work examines the communicative dimensions of resistance and connections among Indigenous-led struggles to protect sacred water and land from militarization and extractive industries.

Ninaj Raoul is a co-founder and community organizer at Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) in New York, an organization founded in 1992 to respond to the human needs of Haitian refugees and immigrants in the US fleeing persecution. Through education, community organizing, leadership development, and collective action, HWHR members empower themselves as they struggle for social and economic justice. Raoul is a Petra Foundation Fellow, and a recipient of the Union Square Awards, National Organization of Woman – Susan B. Anthony Award, and Dr. Antonia Pantoja Bilingual Advocacy Award. She continues to mobilize her community to deliver services, organize disaster relief efforts, and fight for workers’ rights. She travels to and from Haiti, where HWHR has provided solidarity support to women-run organizations that respond to manmade and natural disasters. Raoul seeks to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of the US agricultural subsidy programs that dump excess crop in Haiti, as well as other root causes of migration.

Thanushka (Thanu) Yakupitiyage is a Sri Lankan-born, Thailand-raised, Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, cultural producer, activist, and DJ who performs under the name Ushka. Her professional, political, and artistic interests focus on (im)migration. She uses writing, video, music, and audio to explore the everyday lives of brown and black communities from the Global South to the West. Yakupitiyage has worked as a storyteller and organizer in the immigrant rights movement for a decade and now does intersectional work in climate justice. As a DJ, she’s known for her genre-blending style across electronic club and bass music that deliberately traverses borders, creating soundscapes that reflect the immigrant experience in global migrant cities. She has performed at venues including the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, American Museum of Natural History, Rubin Museum of Art, Queens Museum, and Harbourfront Center Toronto. She holds degrees from Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

This venue is on the first floor and is accessible for wheelchair users. Restrooms (which are gender-segregated) are accessible via elevator. If you have any questions or need any accommodations, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.

Photo by Brooke Anderson, Survival Media Agency (provided by 350.org).

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, “I Tried To Make The Letter ‘M’: On Identity Politics And Invisible Wars.”
Wednesday Feb. 27 at NYU Skirball Ctr.
566 LaGuardia Pl. btw. Washington Sq. South & W. 3rd St.
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, R, W, #6 stops
This event is FREE with RSVP.  
https://tickets.nyu.edu/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=9203.  
https://nyuskirball.org/events/tony-judt-memorial-lecture-ta-nehisi-coates/  
 
The Tony Judt Memorial Lecture with Ta-Nehisi Coates, “I Tried To Make The Letter ‘M’: On Identity Politics And Invisible Wars.”

Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at NYU and the founding director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. One of the great historians of Europe in his generation, his many books include Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. He wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books. 

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. Coates is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is also the current author of the Marvel comics The Black Panther and Captain America.

apparently relevant:
(https://www.nybooks.com/event/the-tony-judt-memorial-lecture-with-ta-nehisi-coates/)

(smscommons.newschool.edu/news/2019/01/28/lecture-with-ta-nehisi-coates-february-27th-at-nyu-skirball/)

Action and Lobby Day to Divest the NY State Pension Fund

Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 fr/ 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
State St. and Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12224
//see rsvp instructions sentence//

For years, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has refused to listen to the people of New York and divest the state's public pension fund from fossil fuels. Instead of investing in climate solutions, he's handing $13 billion in New Yorkers' money over to companies like Exxon so they can keep driving the climate crisis and causing disasters like Superstorm Sandy.

That's why we're ==> going up to Albany to personally deliver 5000 postcards to Comptroller DiNapoli demanding he #DivestNY. Afterwards, we'll spend the day in the Capitol lobbying state legislators on the NY State Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. Join us!

After you RSVP on Facebook, please also RSVP on Action Network with your full details. This is important for scheduling purposes:

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/divest-ny-lobby-day/
https://facebook.com/events/1663181677314777/

Schedule · Wednesday, February 27, 2019

9:30 AM  #DivestNY Postcard delivery to State Comptroller DiNapoli

11:30 AM - 4:00 PM  NY State Fossil Fuel Divestment Act Lobby Day at State Capitol

Featuring

Fossil Free, 350.org, New York Communities for Change, 
Uniting Neighborhoods in the Fight for Economic Justice, 
350 NYC, Green Education and Legal Fund Inc.

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*Lobby to Divest NYS fr/ Fossil Fuels

2019 End Mass Incarceration Legislative Awaresness Day
Wednesday, Feb. 27 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at
New York State Capitol, State St, Albany, 12210
 == >  REGISTER: https://bit.ly/2GXw729
event graphic & descriptions https://goo.gl/xHtdtV
https://vocal.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=2028&cid=0
Hosted by Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY)
https://facebook.com/events/2120123184712781/
https://facebook.com/pg/VOCALNY/events/ http://www.VOCAL-NY.org
347-968-5054  devante@vocal-ny.orgJawanza
929-320-7824  jawanza@vocal-ny.org

Join advocates and formerly incarcerated/justice-system impacted folks from all across New York State to demand an end to mass incarceration.

We are committed to reducing the number of New Yorkers in prison today, and making sure that all of the state's policies and practices are fair and equitable!

We are providing transportation from NYC and Western New York, register above using the link to reserve your seat and receive more information.

Bible Study with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Wednesdays, Feb. 6, Feb. 27 and Mar. 20 at 5:30pm – 8:30pm in
The 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
https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/
347-695-1095 info@peoplesforum.org
event https://peoplesforum.org/event/bible-study-with-rev-dr-liz-theoharis/all/

This course will look at three different passages from the Bible and consider their history, economics, politics and morality. We will also relate the key messages from those passages to the moment we are in today.

Black History Month 2019: The Black Experience in America
http://bit.ly/BlackExperienceInAmerica  (https://liberalstudies.nyu.edu/news-events/2019/the-black-experience-in-america.html)
https://facebook.com/events/1336904069768013 
Free and open to the public.
A Liberal Studies series curated by Kaia Niambi Shivers
Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at NYU Law and NYU Liberal Studies

Liberal Studies presents its inaugural Black History Month series. The four-part series works to engage NYU and its surrounding communities in dialogues centering how Black people navigate, dialogue and make sense of their daily lives in the United States. The gatherings host authors, scholars, activists and artists to discuss their work in unfolding and understanding the complexities of identity in the age of globalization.

 . The Black Millennial
Dayo Adiatu, Reniqua Allen, R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Ari Melenciano and Afrodesia McCannon
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 6:00 to 8:00pm

 . Afro-Latinidad in the African Diaspora
Jillian Báez, Will Guzmán, Ademola Osinulu and Donavan Ramon
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 6:00 to 8:00pm

 . Social Justice and the Criminal Justice System
Fareed Hayat, Carla Shedd, Rolanda West Spencer and Anthony Thompson
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 6:00 to 8:00pm

 . The Black Aesthetic with Special Guest Sheril Antonio
Moderated by Ifeona Fulani; Black National Anthem & Session with Leah Jenea
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 6:00 to 8:00pm

Year of Return: Pan-African Interfaith 400 Years Dialogue
Sister Onleilove Alston, Dr. Samuel Cruz, Dowoti Desir. Mikail Deveaux, Professor James Smalls,  Dr. Sednak Yankson,Kobina Gilbert Bouhairie fo
Wednesday, Feb. 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute/CCCADI
120 E. 125th St. btw. Park & Lexington Aves.,
nr. #4, 5, 6, 2, 3 stops, M60 & 125th St. cross town buses
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4oykfHU-?way=271607964
https://goo.gl/maps/qU27CXJuxHp
$10 – $20 [but publicity conflicts about admission] (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/godboxtalk-year-of-return-pan-african-interfaith-400-years-dialogue-tickets-55732671922) (https://www.facebook.com/events/2085161831571292/)
http://www.cccadi.org (212) 307-7420 https://facebook.com/pg/CCCADI/events/
m.me/CCCADI

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Panel Discussion
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Q & A
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Wine & Cheese Reception

President Trump recently signed a bill (HR 1242) that marks the year 2019 being the 400 years since the first African slave was brought to America. In response to this commemoration, the Government of Ghana declared 2019 as the Year of Return for African Americans to return to Ghana and reconnect and reclaim their ancestral heritage.

For Pan African religious groups who interpret the Bible through an African lens, this acknowledgment correlates with the Exodus story in the Bible. Like our ancestors, Africans of the Diaspora have also been in bondage and under oppression for 400 years. Africa today, represents the proverbial wilderness and like our ancestors, Africans of the Diaspora are embarking on a sojourn into the wilderness with much wealth. Consequently, the year 2019 marks a time of liberation. However, our history, from this exodus story to the abolishment of slavery and decolonization, shows how complex freedom truly is. How then shall we meet the challenges that this proverbial wilderness in 2019 will bring?

#GodBoxTalk | The God Box Foundation (TGBF) in collaboration with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) presents God Box Talks “Into the Wilderness.” This will be an interfaith dialogue between Pan African religious and spiritual leaders addressing what the 400 years signifies, what liberation should look like for the Pan African family and whether Africa is indeed the answer.

Panelists include:

Sister Onleilove Alston [pronounced `Onlylove`], Dr. Samuel Cruz, Dowoti Desir. Mikail Deveaux, Professor James Smalls, and Dr. Sednak Yankson!

Moderated By:

Kobina Gilbert Bouhairie founder of The God Box Foundation

Program Schedule:

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Panel Discussion

7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Q & A

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Wine & Cheese Reception

Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Admission: Student: $15.00 | General Admission: $20.00

This event is brought to you by The God Box Foundation and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute.

The God Box Foundation (TGBF) is a Pan African Interfaith Organization that embraces, celebrates and promotes the spiritual and religious diversity of the Pan African family. TGBF provides a welcoming, loving, respectful and nurturing platform for religious scholars and bodies, spiritual and traditional practitioners, and all children of God. TGBF helps all to gain the experiential and intellectual knowledge of the multiplicity and universality of God within all our unique and diverse particularities.

*Program Subject to Change

Rally for #HALTsolitary at Gov Cuomo's NYC office
Thursday, Feb. 28, 11:00 AM to Noon

 633 3rd Ave. btw. E. 40th & E. 41st nr. #7, 4, 5, 6, S & 42nd St. bus
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9MNUeF-?way=159899677
https://goo.gl/maps/gMZJ4fhgngD2   Public · Hosted by
New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement

http://nycaic.org/events-2/ http://twitter.com/hashtag/HALTsolitary
https://twitter.com/NYCAIC

Please join us in front of Gov. Cuomo's office urging him to pass the
 == > HALT Solitary Confinement Act S. 1623 / A.2500. Now is a critical moment in the struggle for #HALTsolitary. There is a window of opportunity to push HALT's passage - along with other urgent changes to the injustice system. We need you to be there on the 28th to call for NY to finally end this torture!

New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement
The goal of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) is sweeping reform of New York’s use of solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation in state prisons and local jails.

LaborTalks: Ecology, Community, Prosperity – a Conversation with Eliza Griswold
Thursday, Feb. 28, 6:30 to 8:30PM at The Workmen’s Circle
247 W. 37th St, 10018, btw. 7th & 8th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, S, B, D, F, M, PATH;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9Fqiy?way=265296114
https://goo.gl/maps/rGSUqnjDf8u
(212) 532-7518 m.me/workmenscircle info@circle.org http://www.circle.org
Free.  RSVP here [Pls. ask whether required. -t.] (https://circle.org/event/labortalks-ecology-community-prosperity-conversation-eliza-griswold/)

What is the price of fracking? In the Appalachian town of Amity, PA, a Texas-based energy company struck deals with residents to frack the Marcellus shale that underlies their properties. Not long after the drill sites were built, farm animals and pets began to die, and children fell ill. As Eliza Griswold documents in her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, a group of town residents united to investigate and seek redress, commencing a long struggle against not only the frackers, but also the state and federal agencies with which the energy company colludes.

In #LaborTalks: Ecology, Community, Prosperity – a Conversation with Eliza Griswold, poet, translator, and journalist Eliza Griswold will join Brooklyn Institute for Social Research faculty Ajay Singh Chaudhary for wide-ranging conversation about fracking (what it is and what it does), energy politics, corporate and regulatory collusion, resistance, and the economics of ecological sustainability.
 

#LaborTalks is an ongoing series co-presented by The Workmen’s Circle, The Sidney Hillman Foundation, Union Communication Services, Dissent Magazine, the Jewish Labor Committee, the DSA Jewish Solidarity Caucus, and The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

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Palestinian Liberation & Orthodox Jewish Solidarity: A Teach-In
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 fr/ 6:30 to 10:00 PM at The 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;
maps: https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
Tickets  $20 (https://eventbrite.com/e/palestine-liberation-orthodox-jewish-solidarity-a-teach-in-w-the-rabbis-intifada-tickets-55781206089)
https://facebook.com/events/2227391800806619/ Public · Hosted by
The Rabbis' Intifada  http://therabbisintifada.com TheRabbisIntifada@gmail.com
https://facebook.com/pg/RabbisIntifadaFilm/events/ m.me/RabbisIntifadaFilm
https://twitter.com/RabbisIntifada
https://indiegogo.com/projects/the-rabbis-intifada-a-documentary-film#/
venue 347-695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/

Join THE RABBIS’ INTIFADA as we celebrate our documentary film-in-progress and the long history of Jewish resistance to Israeli occupation and violence.

The evening features a teach-in on Orthodox Jewish solidarity with Palestinians.

We’ll be screening exclusive unreleased scenes from our documentary film-in-progress about the anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews of Neturei Karta. We’ll introduce you to some of the Neturei Karta rabbis featured in our documentary film. And we’ll be hosting a conversation between the rabbis and prominent Palestinian scholars, activists, and human rights advocates.

…AND we bring you live music and cultural performances!

Join us for a lively and engaging conversation.

Featured panelists, Special guests, and performers to be announced soon. Stay tuned….

All proceeds from the event go towards the film’s completion.

 
THE RABBIS’ INTIFADA is a documentary film in progress about the anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews of Neturei Karta. Founded in Jerusalem 80 years ago, Neturei Karta rabbis object to Israeli violence and Jewish statehood. The film tells the story of a Jewish woman who follows some of these rabbis across the globe to find out why they support Palestinian liberation when most other rabbis won’t.

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Women and the Laws: Reading Le Code Noir
with Hortense Spillers
Thursday, Feb. 28 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (NYU)
NYU Gallatin College in Tisch Building
1 Washington Pl. at Broadway nr. R, W, #6, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, PATH, #1 &
cross town bus via W.8th or E.9th or Houston St.
(https://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2019/02/DFL_Hortense_Spillers.html)
https://facebook.com/events/1680902948722694/
https://facebook.com/pg/SCA.NYU/events  (212) 992-9650 sca@nyu.edu http://sca.as.nyu.edu/page/home https://twitter.com/SCAatNYU
https://nyuhumanities.org   w/ NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU, NYU Center for the Humanities, NYU Department of Comparative Literature,
The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora - CSAAD

Le Code Noir, the body of law advanced by the government of Louis XIV in the world
of 17th Century France, is one of the first codified legal documents regarding judicial conduct toward enslaved persons in the French colonies of the New World. As slavery increasingly established an iron-clad relationship between skin color and the absence of human and civil rights, what implications did it have for other colonial powers operating in the Atlantic context? The terrors of Le Code Noir for the bonded female and her children were determined by the dictum “partus sequitur ventrem”, Latin for “that which is brought forth follows the womb”.

The codification of hereditary racial slavery highlights the contradictions that throw into crisis our entire understanding today of the repertoire of intimacy and sentimentality.
Hortense Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt chair in English at Vanderbilt University; on leave this year from her home institution, she is serving this semester as the M.H. Abrams distinguished visiting professor in English at Cornell University where she taught from 1987 to 2006. Her essay collection, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture appeared in 2003 and has been the subject of various symposiums and critiques; currently at work on two large projects, the Idea of Black Culture and the status of women in the revolutionary context of the 18th century, she has recently published work in the African-American Review, Callaloo, and The Bloomsbury Companion to Feminist Theory; in 2017, she launched the A-Line, a quarterly of progressive thought and has been a recent recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Callaloo (2016), the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2017), and the Hubbell Prize for work in American Literature from the American Literature Association of MLA (2019). She lectures widely, most recently as an international visiting fellow at the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

This Distinguished Faculty Lecture is co-sponsored by NYU Gallatin and the Center for the Study of Africa & the African Diaspora, the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, the Department of English, and the NYU Center for the Humanities. Presented as a part of Gallatin’s Black History Month programming.

RSVP:
https://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2019/02/DFL_Hortense_Spillers.html

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NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis

The Department of Social & Cultural Analysis includes Africana Studies, American Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Latino Studies, and Metropolitan Studies

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
Located at New York University, CSGS organizes events around gender and sexuality and their intersections with other social phenomena such as race, religion, nation, class, ability/disability, and ethnicity.
NYU Center for the Humanities

To foster the humanities at NYU, the Center sponsors a number of endeavors aimed at promoting interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching & research.
NYU Department of Comparative Literature

Comp Lit is host to an array of events engaging renowned scholars from all over the world who explore literature's intersections across disciplines.
The Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora - CSAAD

Advancing cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research on both Africa and its diaspora in ways that bring that scholarship into sustained conversation.

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Cripping Aesthetics/ Maddening Creation
Danielle Peers,Lindsay Eales
Thursday, Feb. 28, 6:30 to 8:00 PM
721 Broadway, btw Washington Pl. & Waverly Pl. nr. R, W, #6, PATH, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1 stops & cross town bus via W.8th or E.9th;
map https://goo.gl/maps/APJrynAG6R22
Public · Hosted by Performance Studies @ NYU and NYU Center for Disability Studies
https://www.facebook.com/pg/cdsNYU/events/ m.me/cdsNYU tzoanni@nyu.edu
http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/hemispheric-new-york-events https://facebook.com/pg/hemisphericinstitute/events/

This theory talk/video/performance by visiting scholars and performance artists Danielle Peers and Lindsay Eales unpacks crip and mad theory, politics, and aesthetics.

Followed by discussion with Hentyle Yapp and André Lepecki.

RSVPs and access requests: https://goo.gl/forms/Q0aFH0a1ZUth3aXk2

Sponsors: Performance Studies @ NYU, NYU Center for Disability Studies, NYU Tisch Department of Art and Public Policy, and Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics

Capital City: Samuel Stein with Jeremiah Moss
Thursday, Feb. 28, 7:00 to 9:00 PM in McNally Jackson Books SOHO
52 Prince St. btw. Lafayette St. & Mulberry St. nr. R, W, #6, B, D, F, M, J, C, E stops; maps:  https://osm.org/go/Zct8RnaE7?node=4811897621 https://goo.gl/maps/Ka9oguLeF2m
(212) 274 1160 (212) 219-2789 https://mcnallyjackson.com/event/
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Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer.

As Samuel Stein makes clear in this tightly argued book, its through seemingly innocuous profession of city planners that we can best understand the transformations underway. Planners provide a window into the practical dynamics of urban change: the way the state uses and is used by organized capital, and the power of landlords and developers at every level of government. But crucially, planners also possess some of the powers we must leverage if we ever wish to reclaim our cities from real estate capital.

Samuel Stein studies geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches urban studies at Hunter College. His writing on planning politics been published by Jacobin, The Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, and many other magazines and journals. In addition to studying and teaching urban geography, he worked as a researcher, organizer, and planner on numerous New York City union campaigns, tenant mobilizations, and public policy initiatives.

Jeremiah Moss, creator of the award-winning blog Vanishing New York, is the pen name of Griffin Hansbury. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and online for The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Hansbury, he is the author of The Nostalgist, a novel, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.

Brooklyn Liberation Forum: Socialism and the Housing Struggle
Thursday Feb. 28, 7:00 to 10:00 PM
in Lafayette Ave. Presbyterian
85 South Oxford St, Brooklyn, btw. Lafayette Av & Fulton St.;
C Train to Lafayette; G to Fulton; Q, 2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, R to Atlantic-Barclays
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct5cbBeQ-?way=250361578
https://goo.gl/maps/ZBF3BeKyxzn
event https://facebook.com/events/1089493531253683/
Public · Hosted by Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL
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While housing is widely recognized as a right, capitalism denies it to millions of people. In the wealthiest country in the world, rampant homelessness and inadequate housing is testament to this. Capitalism fails to provide adequate living conditions precisely not because there aren’t enough homes but because housing is a commodity. The profit driven motive and the chaos of overproduction under capitalism mean that housing is a privilege, not a right, in this society. The right to profit off housing is protected at all levels by the capitalist state and the struggle for housing often puts the people’s movement in direct conflict with the state and the capitalist system.

Come learn about the history of socialists in the housing struggle in the US and see where and how the lessons of this struggle in the past can be applied to our work today. We will also discuss prospects for housing in a socialist society, based on the experiences of revolutionary movements in the global south.

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