Protest for Human Rights and Against Erdogan's Dictatorship!
Saturday Sept. 23, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Sheridan Cir NW, Washington, DC
Massachusetts Av. nr. Q St., NW & R St., NW; Red Metro to Dupont Cir.
Can't make our event at the United Nations General Assembly? Come take a stand against dictatorship outside the Turkish Ambassador's residence in Washington, DC!
The Turkish state has committed crimes against the Kurdish people for decades, and Erdogan himself has overseen the destruction of Kurdish cities, the imprisonment of HDP parliamentarians, unprovoked attacks on Rojava, and more.
The last time he was in the United States, his bodyguards attacked peaceful protestors in violation of our First Amendment on US soil. And while ISIS attacks peaceful European cities, rather than fight ISIS, Turkey attacks civilians in the Syrian Kurdish town of Afrin, which is home to refugees and internally displaced people due to its relative stability.

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Trade/itions Conference
Saturday, Sept. 23 fr/ 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM in CCNY Aaron Davis Hall
160 Convent Ave. at W. 140th St. (entrance on St. Nicholas Terr., just east of Convent Av.)
A, C, D to 145 St. (at St. Nicholas Av.); #1 to 137 St.-City College
map & transit: https://goo.gl/vY7sCt ; tix $20 to $45 (see bottom)
www.cccadi.org/tradeitions https://twitter.com/CCCADI/status/895404568024150021
https://facebook.com/events/121189931845330/

Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (212) 307-7420 info@cccadi.org
https://twitter.com/CCCADI https://facebook.com/pg/CCCADI/events/

In an era of systematic racism, rape culture, gender-based violence, neo-fascism, and religious intolerance, now more than ever, it is important to learn from our African sacred #Tradeitions and use them as tools to heal, empower, organize, and activate our communities.

On September 22 and 23 2017, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), in partnership with Aaron Davis Hall of the City University of New York, will present TRADE/ITIONS, a multidisciplinary two-day conference exploring contemporary retentions, re-creations, and representations of the African Spiritual traditions that came to the west with enslaved Africans during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

TRADE/ITIONS charts the trajectory of practices, philosophies and cultures in African spiritual traditions of the diaspora through the middle passages of space, time, and trade. Utilizing the lenses of gender, culture, commerce and technology, the conference will uncover collaborative spaces for spiritual growth and community development. Along the boundaries of cultural and ritual difference, TRADE/ITIONS identifies African Spiritual Traditions as trans-national treasures, storehouses of history, workshops of resistance and lighthouses to self-determination as we cross over new seas of globalization, displacement, technological proliferation and evolution.

More information email info@cccadi.org or call 212-307-7420 EXT 200.

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9:30 AM- 10:00 AM
Registration/Check-In

10:00 AM:
Welcoming Remarks
Multi-faith Libation

10:30 AM | PLENARY PANEL: Across the Water
Featuring Professor Jacob K. Olupona, Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, Ella Andall, and Rachel Harding, this conversation introduces some of the foundational themes of the conference. Scholars and practitioners who have devoted their academic, institution building, artistic and life work to looking across the water, across and throughout the Black Atlantic, to discover and articulate the specific roots and broad relevance of the spiritual communities in the African Diaspora.

11:30AM | Summer of Gods
(Film )
A screening of the much lauded film, Summer of Gods, and post screening conversation with director.
Panelists: Eliciana Nasciemento & Loira Limbal

12:30 PM | Session IA: Web Worship
(Panel Discussion)
From pen, paper, and shells, to the internet and smartphone apps, technological developments over time have had a big impact on the practice of religion around the world. This panel discussion, featuring new age digital influencers, will explore how the evolution of technology has impacted the practice and transmission of African Diaspora religions( ADR) and communities. Some of the guiding questions include: how have various technologies aided or hindered the development of ADRs? What role is the Internet, in particular, playing in the spread of ADRs and the development of religious communities?
Panelists: Funlayo Wood & Onaje Woodbine

Session IB: Transacting Tradition
(Moderated Roundtable Discussion )
Practitioners and scholars lead an interactive discussion about the changing metrics of value in traditional practice and confront both the contradictions and opportunities at the intersection of Resources and Religion. How do capitalism, urban settings, and other aspects of contemporary reality shift the currency of reciprocity. How does this dynamic open new platforms for collective work, support, and growth? How have these same circumstances opened new roads for financial misconduct and exploitation? What spiritual practices and business models, individually and organizationally, exist to stem greed and optimize abundance.
Panelists: Sheriden Booker, Ayoka Wiles, and Dowoti Desir.

2:00 PM: Lunch

2:30 PM | Human Rights and Human Rites
(Panel Discussion )
An interfaith survey of the most pressing human rights and social justice issues confronting African Tradition faith communities today. What inherent aspects of the traditions functions as assets in empowerment campaigns? What areas need attention in order to strengthen the collective power and political will of the various communities? What models and precedents exist for advancing visibility and collaboration on the world stage?
Panelists: Frank Malloy, IV, Valinizia Pereira, & Gloria Rodriguez.

2:30 PM (Children's Village)
Ifetayo: Visual art-making workshop

4:00 PM | Lemonade and Iron: Gender and Sexuality in Ritual and Imagination
(Panel Discussion)
A conversation with Cis, Trans, LGBTQ, and straight priests on negotiating, reconciling, or challenging the principles and science of masculine and feminine energies in everyday life, spiritual practice, and popular culture. Articulating Feminisms for traditional Faith and eroding rocks in the path of gender fluidity, this panel explores the historical, cultural and spiritual influences on gender and sexuality in traditional faith, this panel explores the historical, cultural and spiritual influences on gender and sexuality in traditional faith.
Panelists: Dr. Akissi Britton, Dominick Geureiro, and David Sosa.

4:00 PM
Film Screening and Discussion
Ancestral Voices: Part II
Directed by Verona Spence & Dalian Adofo and made in the United Kingdom, the film features individuals of different faiths sharing their experiences, knowledge and perceptions of traditional African systems in relation to others and mainstream media coverage of them. This program is presented in partnership with Dowoti Desir’s Afro Atlantic Theologies and Treaties Institute.
Dowoti Desir

4:00 PM
Children's Village
Sacred dance workshop
Ifetayo Cultural Arts

5:30 PM
Artist Lecture Demonstration
Rhythm Ascensions
A samba virtuoso, Rare maestro, and a DJ aficionado discuss how the rhythms they produce create gateways to personal ascension, spiritual transformation, and community formation. Program closes with a joint live performance by the three rhythm practitioners weaving together their sounds, electric and accoustic, into a soundscape mash-up of Power.
DJ Carlos Mena, Carlos De Oliveira, Neg Mawon

5:30 PM
Children's Village
Storytelling
Ifetayo Cultural Arts

7:00 PM
Closing Interactive Presentation and Performances

Screening
For The Groves
Afropolitan Vibes’ Ade Bantu talks With Doyin Olosun about the magic, meaning and maintenance of the Osun Grove in Osogbo, Nigeria.

Presentation
Moving Mirrors - A Multi-Media Call to Heart and Arms, Prayer and Power, Action and Ascension
In this magical multi-media narrative adaptation of a traditional apataki, story, about Ibu Kole, a DJ, percussionist, two dancers and a poet blend their geniuses to celebrate Oshun, the power of community, prayer, sacrifice, and the beautiful audacity of surviving, evolving and thriving through tumultuous times such as these. Featuring Wunmi, Roger Bonair-Agard, DJ Rich Medina, ( Sekou Alaje/ Neg Mawon) Maya Louisa, Cheredyn Martin. Video-scape of Erzuli Danto by Regine Roumain.

Performance
Yasser Tejeda, Natasha Diggs, (OCHUN )

8:30 PM
Program ends

Caribbean Cultural Center (CCCADI)
Nonprofit Organization · New York, New York
(CCCADI) preserves and presents African Diaspora cultures; trains the next generation of cultural leaders; and unites Diaspora communities. We leverage arts and culture as tools for personal transformation, community-building, and social justice.

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TRADE/ITIONS | Honoring African Spiritual Traditions!
Saturday, September 23, 2017 | 9:00am - 9:00pm
Aaron Davis Hall
160 Convent Avenue New York, Ny 10031
TRADE/ITIONS

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Ideally we shouldn't have to rely on learning self-defense, but our reality teaches us otherwise.
“What was she wearing? She must have provoked him. Was she drunk? Did she ‘lead him on?’” Victim blaming is an all too common response to sexual assault in our culture and it needs to stop. Abuse is never the fault of the abused person. Never!
While it doesn't stop, lets get ourselves ready for our reality at
Gentle Art Studio - Lotus Club Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & Wellness Center

You can do it!

For more information, please call us: (718) 406-9095
Address: 23-17 Broadway, Astoria, New York 11106

The Peace March on Washington is a nonpartisan effort to bring people of all backgrounds together in support of love, unity, equality and justice for all.

Peace Rally: The Peace March Rally will include inspiring messages from public figures that are known nationally for their good works and bringing people together. Our list of speakers, musicians, poets, and artists will be announced soon.

Event Website: PeaceMarch.com

Date: September 23rd, 2017 – World Peace Weekend

Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. – Schedule coming soon.

Location: Lincoln Memorial – 2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20037

Parking – Public lots are available near the venue.

March Route: (1.5 Miles) Lincoln Memorial to 23rd St NW, to Constitution Ave NW, to 17th St NW, to Indepence Ave...

Tenant Empowerment Conference (NYC)
Saturday Sept. 23 fr/ 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Middle Collegiate Church
50 E. 7th St. btw. 1st & 2nd Aves., nr. #6, R, W, F, L, B, D stops & buses via 8th St.
or 9th St.;
map, transit: https://goo.gl/t59UmH Public · Hosted by The Tenants Coalition and Cooper Square Committee
event graphic & description: https://goo.gl/XFZKhV
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committeecsc@coopersquare.org
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https://facebook.com/pg/thetenantscoalition/events/

The TTC (The Tenants Coalition, formerly the Toledano Tenants Coalition) and
Cooper Square Committee will co-host a Tenant Empowerment Conference on
Saturday, September 23, 2017, at the Middle Collegiate Church
(50 E. 7th St., east of 2nd Ave).

The goal of the conference is to celebrate all of the great work that's been done by tenant groups in New York City over the past few years.

This a free event. Breakfast and lunch provided. Join us!

We will also discuss the most effective means for tenants to assert their rights in the face of misbehaving landlords, rapacious developers and greedy banks.

In attendance will be tenants who have confronted predatory equity-practicing landlords (ie., Steve Croman, ICON Realty, Renaissance Properties, Jared Kushner, Samy Mahfar, Raphael Toledano, Madison Realty Capital etc.), as well as affordable housing advocates, local small business owners who are being threatened, local press, elected representatives and other interested parties from all over the city.

The conference will last from 10AM until 2PM. There will be a welcome address and a keynote speaker. There will be three panel discussions, run sequentially.

Tenant power packs, continental breakfast and lunchtime sandwiches will be provided to attendees.

*** FREE ***

A People’s History of the World
Saturday, Sept. 23 from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
and Saturdays throughout 2017-2018 school year
Fall (12 weeks): September 23 to December 16
Spring (16 weeks): January 20 to May 12
at Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom
$45 - $140
Convened by Branden Rippey
http://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world/
https://facebook.com/events/1978158255752834/ http://marxedproject.org/event/
The goal of the course is not to understand every moment or every place in global history, but to use a Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history, and how those trends and junctures have shaped our present.

Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to the near present. From September through May we will read the book in its entirety, with participant presentations of chapters followed by thorough discussion and additional context. The goal of the course is not to understand every moment or every place in global history, but to use a Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history, and how those trends and junctures have shaped our present.

Branden Rippey is a history teacher in Newark, New Jersey, a founding member of the Newark Education Workers (NEW Caucus), and active in socialist politics.

About Marxist Education Project
The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.
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MARXIST EDUCATION PROJECTS EVENT LISTINGS AS OF AUG. 4, 2017
Changes & additions at http://marxedproject.org/event/
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The Politics of the Unconscious: Four Sessions
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in New Perspectives Theatre,
456-458 W. 37th St. [btw. 9th & 10th Aves.] $40 - $60
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/
Through theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated.

Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital, Volume I
Saturday, Sept. 16 fr/ 2:00 to 3:30 PM, Brooklyn Commons, $6 - $15
marxedproject.org/event/five-explicit-and-implicit-notions-of-revolution-in-capital-volume-i
https://facebook.com/events/1238960042876615/
It is often said that Capital, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form, with many dialectical twists and turns, but not with revolution. However, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution.

Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Friday, Sept. 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM Brooklyn Commons, $95 - $125
https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/
https://facebook.com/events/108746789699237/
Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.

The October Revolution of 1917
Monday Oct. 2 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM Brooklyn Commons, $65 - $85
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-october-revolution-of-1917/
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=14225 revsgroup@gmail.com Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, defenders of the capitalist order, including respectable academic scholars, have attempted to portray it as a coup d’état by a small minority of revolutionary zealots, bent on imposing an authoritarian regime. These falsehoods have the aim of discrediting not only this revolution and its leaders, but the idea of revolution in general.

1st Annual Black Book Conference & Expo
Saturday Sep 23, 2017
National Black Theater Inc
2031 5th Avenue
by Black Expo America Inc.
$15 – $250

A 2-day literary event is expected by all who attend the 1st Annual Black Book Expo and Conference hosted by Black Expo America. The all-day book expo and conference will celebrate the diversity of the written and spoken word along with promoting emerging authors, poetry and spoken word performances, a children’s book corner, engaging panel discussions, and workshops.

Itinerary (Agenda Subject to Change):

Friday, September 22, 2017, 6:00 to 9:00pm, Private Reception (Location to be Announced)

Saturday, September 23, 2017, 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, Book Expo and Conference, Author Book Signings and Author Awards Ceremony.

The 1st Annual Black Book Expo and Conference hosted by Black Expo America will attract local, prominent and celebrity authors from across the nation. The mission of the expo is to expose the public to independently published books, encourage reading, and to showcase authors, editors, publishers, scholars, and writers.

Before the expo and conference, there will be an opening night reception Friday, September 22, 2017 (6 pm to 9pm) for exhibitors, book clubs and organizers to meet and mingle. The reception is by invitation only.

Author booths go on sale May 1, 2017. For more information, please call 917-501-0614. Authors, vendors, speakers, and sponsors send an email to info@blackexpoamerica.com to be involved in this literary event.
Fri, Sep 22, 2017, 6:00 PM –

NYC DOT along with Council Member Andrew Cohen will provide free bike helmets, fittings and distribution while supplies last. Helmets are available for all ages. You must be present to get a helmet and you must learn how to properly fit and wear it before you receive it. Adults over 18 receiving a helmet must sign a waiver, and a parent or legal guardian must be present to sign a waiver for children under age 18.

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Myeashea Alexander brings her Rockstar Anthro Bone Lab to Revolution Books: A hands-on learning experience that includes forensic anthropology, archaeology, history, math, art, culture and more. For ages 6 and up.

Myeashea's Bone Lab session at Revolution Books will focus on learning about NYC's African enslaved people through the African Burial Grounds at Wall Street and in East Harlem. Myeashea Alexander is a biological anthropology PhD-track student in NYC, and science and art enthusiast.

Myeashea: "Anthropology should not only be able learning about ourselves and our world, but also participating in active solutions and policies to help make the world better."

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NYC-Wide Renters Assembly!
Saturday, Sept. 23 from Noon to 6:00 PM in St. Francis College,
180 Remsen St., Brooklyn, btw. Clinton St. & Court St., nr. #4, R, A, C, F, G [also sometimes #5, 2, 3 so please check http://mta.info for transit deal.]
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(844) 844-7882 https://facebook.com/pg/righttothecityalliance/events/
(718) 715-1352 https://facebook.com/pg/FUREEous/events/ https://twitter.com/FUREEous

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SHATIA@FUREE.ORG (646) 678-2546 ``

What does a powerful ‘Renter Nation’ look like, what does it take to win equality, justice & housing for all, and how do we get there together in unity? All of these questions & more will be examined & discussed as we bring the residents of NYC together, to build relationships and unite our efforts towards the changes we all want and deserve!

This Renters Assembly will be a place for folks to share & gather information, network with other communities facing similar struggles, & brainstorm how to push the housing movement forward more united!

From Noon to 6:00pm on Saturday, September 23 FUREE and other housing organizing allies will be hosting this city-wide Renters Assembly as a way to bring residents from across the city together in order to build towards a more powerful housing movement that can win guaranteed low-income and affordable homes for all!

The agenda for the day includes collaborative community discussions, guest speakers who have been invited to lend their experiences and lessons learned in fight against housing injustice and elected officials who've committed their time to sharing their explicit positions on the NYC housing crisis and answering community questions/concerns. There will also be time for specific topic-based small group workshops that include leadership development and skills building as well as strategic brainstorming around current community housing fights being waged across our city!

The Renters Assembly will provide a light lunch, snacks and beverages will be available to all free-of-charge to all RSVP'd participants, and remaining participants who did not register in advance will have this available on a first-come first-served basis.

We will also provide a wealth of resources, swag and other perks for participants to take home ree-of-charge to all RSVP'd participants, and remaining participants who did not register in advance will have this available on a first-come first-served basis!

Register & full details at:
https://rwa-renters-assembly.eventbrite.com/

The Women's Building Block Party!
Sept. 23 from Noon to 6:00 PM at 10th Av. & W. 20th St.

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Public · Hosted by The Women's Building NYC

(was: "What's Up with LIC?") https://facebook.com/events/115050552535743/
(917) 745-3479 http://queensantigentrification.org queensantigentrification@gmail.com
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/queensantigentrification

Join us in for an interactive and creative exploration of Long Island City’s hyper-development and what it means for the future of our homes, communities, artist studios, and small businesses—not just in LIC, but across Queens. As Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer once said, “Wherever Long Island City goes, NYC will follow.”

This interactive quest is part oral history and part scavenger hunt. You’ll walk the neighborhood in small teams, meeting locals, activists, and artists along the way who live and work in the neighborhood. We will recollect at the end to create art, share observations and discuss tangible action steps we can take to protect our beloved borough.

• Bring friends, or come as an individual and meet new friends.
• Wear comfortable shoes. Participants will walk 60-90 minutes.
• Light refreshments will be provided at the end.
• No fee to participate. Just bring your curiosity and creativity.

This event is brought to you by the Queens Anti-Gentrification Project in collaboration with Long Island City-based artist Priscilla Stadler, and is part of the 2017 Queens Arts Intervention.

About Queens Anti-Gentrification Project
Queens Anti-Gentrification Project
Community Organization · Queens, New York
All-volunteer group of neighbors fighting gentrification and displacement in Woodside, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and all of Queens.

ADC Civil Rights Luncheon
Join us at the ADC Civil Rights Luncheon on September 23, 2007 at 12:30.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1259567440822212/

Our Keynote Speaker will be Vincent Warren from the Center for Constitution Rights.

At the luncheon, ADC is pleased to be honoring Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia,Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic, with the Excellence in Legal Advocacy Award.

Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, with the ADC Advocate of the Year Award.

Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program, with the Ralph Johns Award.
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2017 ADC National Convention
September 21 – September 24 Washington Marriott Wardman Park
2660 Woodley Rd NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20008
https://facebook.com/events/272549509815556/
Red Metro to Woodley Park
Public · Hosted by American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to extend an invitation to join us at the 37th Annual Convention to be held from September 21-24th, at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Every year the ADC National Convention is the largest gathering of Arab Americans in our Nation’s Capital.

This year’s theme “Resist Hate, Redefine America” explores the rise of hate rhetoric and crimes and what can be done to address it. Our Convention will be centered on getting to the sources of the issues impacting our community and other minority communities in the U.S. and providing our attendees with the knowledge and tools to implement change locally and nationally.

No doubt, these are challenging times. Our community has faced tough days before, and when we’ve rallied together we have repeatedly prevailed to defend our well-being. This fall, stand up alongside us as we renew our commitment to fight for justice and equality.

Register for the Convention before August 31st to get our discounted tickets with access to all luncheons, dinner events (including our annual gala), panel sessions, and receptions.

Festival de El Grito De Lares

Dia: Sábado 23 de Septiembre 2017
Lugar:Vyse Avenue
Entre 167 St. y Home St.
Bronx, New York
Hora: 1:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
https://www.facebook.com/events/114655612482743/
https://facebook.com/pg/pnpr.ny/events/ http://pnpr.org (646) 299-6507 elmaestrobx@gmail.com

Acto Cultural:
Grupo Maestro
Orquesta Son Borincano
Herencia De Mi Tambo
Oradores/Clases de Boxeo/Mesas de artesanias/ libros/ mesas de información Patriotica y de salud.
Información:
646-299-6507

Auspicia: El Maestro, Inc./Healthy Minds in Healthy Bodies Youth Project/Partido Nacionalista De Puerto Rico-Junta de Nueva York/Patriotas Softball Team/Vyse Avenue Friends.

https://www.facebook.com/events/114655612482743/

Prison Baby: Deborah Jiang-Stein and Gloria Steinem
https://facebook.com/events/344056539383936/
https://facebook.com/events/1894146680904144/
https://facebook.com/pg/feministart/events/ (718) 638-5000
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http://brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa https://facebook.com/pg/unprisonproject/events/ office.unprison@gmail.com http://unprisonproject.org
https://twitter.com/unprisonproject

Deborah Jiang-Stein, author of the memoir Prison Baby, will be joined by Gloria Steinem for an authentic and intimate conversation about the mass incarceration of women, mental illness and substance abuse within prisons nationwide, the collateral damage when mothers are incarcerated, and community alternatives to incarceration that work. This conversation will raise provocative questions about criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects individuals, families, and communities throughout the nation.

Part of the ongoing series “States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color.” [ https://t.co/b7uz6pQGEE
https://twitter.com/sacklersoapbox/status/838416514919333888 ]

Free with Museum admission and for Members.

Queering Immigration Film Program
Saturday Sept. 23 at Anthology Film Archives
part of Queering Immigration Conference 4: In Solidarity
Friday Sep 22 through Sunday Sep 24, 2017

September 22 is the Queering Immigration Awards
September 23 is the Queering Immigration Film Program at Anthology Film Archives
September 24 is a complete day of international strategy to end LGBTQI/ HIV+ detention, 63 5th Ave. btw. E. 13th St. & E. 14th St.
Register $25 – $300 http://tiny.cc/qi4 https://facebook.com/events/135849086967055/
eventbr... https://t.co/kQo8sjNyTw www.qdep.org/queering-immigration-conference/
https://twitter.com/QIConference
https://twitter.com/queerDEP/status/882009071578218497
Queer Detainee Empowerment Proj. (347) 645.9339 info@qdep.org http://qdep.org

QUEERING IMMIGRATION
September 23 6:30 PM at Anthology Film Archives
E. 2nd St. at 2nd Av., nr. F, #6, B, D, M, R, N Local, J

This screening is part of: THE CINEMA OF GENDER TRANSGRESSION: TRANS FILM
Film Notes

Isabel Castro, Luan Joy Sherman, Katrina Sorrentino, and members of Queer Detainee Empowerment Project in person!

This program is presented in conjunction with the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project’s Queering Immigration Conference at The New School, taking place September 22-24; for more info visit: www.qdep.org/queering-immigration-conference.

This will be a bilingual program; CROSSING OVER is in Spanish with English subtitles, while the other films and the discussion will be translated into Spanish.

The streets of Asheville are illuminated and claimed as safe public space for members of North Carolina’s trans community in ARTS ACTION AGAINST HB2: SAFE PUBLIC SPACE, made in support of advocacy organizations Southerners On New Ground (SONG) and Tranzmission. A panorama of personal stories in QUEERING IMMIGRATION (produced by SONG) acknowledge the undocumented struggle as a collective demand for true immigrant justice. CROSSING OVER: STORIES OF IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY interweaves the stories of three transgender Latina immigrants who came to the U.S. from Mexico in search of a better life.

Luan Joy Sherman, Stephen Zacks, and Adam Rush ARTS ACTION AGAINST HB2: SAFE PUBLIC SPACE (2016, 3 min, digital)

Sowjanya Kudva QUEERING IMMIGRATION (2013, 6 min, digital. In English with Spanish subtitles.)

Isabel Castro and Katrina Sorrentino
CROSSING OVER: STORIES OF IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY
(2014, 45 min, digital. In Spanish with English subtitles.)

Total running time: ca. 60 min. Followed by a reception.

The Queering Immigration Conference
The Queering Immigration Conference is the largest gathering of LGBTQI immigrants/previously detained/asylum seekers, organizers, service providers, legal workers, healthcare providers, community healers, and more in the world. We will highlight emerging strategies and new frameworks that focus on ending violence and provide resources for LGBTQI asylum seekers/ detainees/ undocumented/ and immigrants.

This year marks our second international conference, with folks based in four different countries attending! This also marks our first convening that will focus on international strategy to end LGBTQI detention. We look forward to seeing you there!

Timeline
Early bird registration open June 1, 2017 and closes on August 1, 2017
​Workshop proposals and scholarship applications are due August 1st, 2017.
Scholarship priority will be given to those that submit a workshop proposals.​
International proposals are notified of acceptance with one week of submission
All local/ national proposals are notified of acceptance by August 7th, 2017.

Registration Costs
Early Bird Impacted Community Member $25.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Early Bird Student/ Aging $50.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Early Bird Regular Registration $75.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Solidarity Registration $150.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Institutional Registration $300.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
**Comped registration for:
volunteers, email qi@qdep.org
25 Comped tickets available to New School Students and Staff, email qi@qdep.org with your New School email; one ticket per email.

​Go to tiny.cc/qi4 to register, submit a proposal, and for information on scholarships!​

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CopWatch is an effective and legal tool for empowering communities, ending police misconduct, unprofessional behavior, and discrimination. You have the right to observe and record all police activities in public places. Learn how to exercise your rights safely and legally. Workshop will be taught by comedian and activist Elsa Waithe.

Suggested donation of $5 to $10 to benefit the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, but no one will be turned away.

Spread the word!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/491443944546767/

Rent Party Against the Raids w BYP 100 and IWOC
Saturday Sept 23 until 1:00 AM at Raw Space,
2031 7th Ave./ACP, Jr. Blvd. btw W.121 & W.122 St. [#2, 3, A, C, D to 125 St. stops, M60]
event description https://facebook.com/events/1768751946487287/
Black Youth Project https://facebook.com/pg/BYP100/events/
https://twitter.com/IWW_IWOC http://lists.iww.org/listinfo/iwoc_alerts
https://facebook.com/iwocnyc/ nyc@incarceratedworkers.org

Join BYP 100 and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee NYC for a rent party against the so-called "gang" raids and against NYCHA's "Permanent Exclusion" policy that effectively kick entire families out of their houses and into the streets and shelters, just for having a loved one arrested. Meanwhile NYCHA works hand in hand with law enforcement to target people living in the projects and their families. NYCHA, NYPD, FBI, ICE, and other agencies work together to sell our youth into prison slavery. The families suffering behind this need your support for legal fees, transport to visit loved ones in prison, RENT and commissary.
Raffles, art, performances!

Fundraising Page:
https://www.youcaring.com/rent-party-against-raids

🔊 CALLING ALL FRIENDS & LOVERS OF JUSTICE 🔊

This fall Mayday Space and Starr Bar are celebrating our anniversaries! Mayday enters its third year hosting cutting-edge movement orgs and community programming while Starr Bar starts a new year of poppin' dance parties for the cause.

You already know what it do!

== Live music ==
== Food until 11pm ==
== Dancing all night long ==
== Fly bartenders serving up tasty cocktails ==
== Hosted by Shannon Matesky of Queer Abstract ==

FEATURING:
✨✨ Live performance by Carolina Oliveros y La Nación ✨✨
✨✨ DJ Austin Lebrón ✨✨
✨✨ DJ Sabine Blaizin ✨✨
✨✨ MAYDAY DRUNK HISTOR...

Queering Immigration Conference 4: In Solidarity
Friday Sep 22 through Sunday Sep 24, 2017

September 22 is the Queering Immigration Awards
September 23 is the Queering Immigration Film Program at Anthology Film Archives
September 24 [check sources for times] is a complete day of international strategy to end LGBTQI/ HIV+ detention,
63 5th Ave. btw. E. 13th St. & E. 14th St.
Register $25 – $300 http://tiny.cc/qi4 https://facebook.com/events/135849086967055/
eventbr... https://t.co/kQo8sjNyTw www.qdep.org/queering-immigration-conference/
https://twitter.com/QIConference
https://twitter.com/queerDEP/status/882009071578218497
Queer Detainee Empowerment Proj. (347) 645.9339 info@qdep.org http://qdep.org

The Queering Immigration Conference
The Queering Immigration Conference is the largest gathering of LGBTQI immigrants/previously detained/asylum seekers, organizers, service providers, legal workers, healthcare providers, community healers, and more in the world. We will highlight emerging strategies and new frameworks that focus on ending violence and provide resources for LGBTQI asylum seekers/ detainees/ undocumented/ and immigrants.

This year marks our second international conference, with folks based in four different countries attending! This also marks our first convening that will focus on international strategy to end LGBTQI detention. We look forward to seeing you there!

Timeline
Early bird registration open June 1, 2017 and closes on August 1, 2017
​Workshop proposals and scholarship applications are due August 1st, 2017.
Scholarship priority will be given to those that submit a workshop proposals.​
International proposals are notified of acceptance with one week of submission
All local/ national proposals are notified of acceptance by August 7th, 2017.

Registration Costs
Early Bird Impacted Community Member $25.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Early Bird Student/ Aging $50.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Early Bird Regular Registration $75.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Solidarity Registration $150.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
Institutional Registration $300.00 (includes Queering Immigration Awards Ticket & Trans Anthology Film Archives Ticket )
**Comped registration for:
volunteers, email qi@qdep.org
25 Comped tickets available to New School Students and Staff, email qi@qdep.org with your New School email; one ticket per email.

​Go to tiny.cc/qi4 to register, submit a proposal, and for information on scholarships!​

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Queering Immigration Film Program
September 23 6:30 PM at Anthology Film Archives
E. 2nd St. at 2nd Av., nr. F, #6, B, D, M, R, N Local, J

This screening is part of: THE CINEMA OF GENDER TRANSGRESSION: TRANS FILM
Film Notes

Isabel Castro, Luan Joy Sherman, Katrina Sorrentino, and members of Queer Detainee Empowerment Project in person!

This program is presented in conjunction with the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project’s Queering Immigration Conference at The New School, taking place September 22-24; for more info visit: www.qdep.org/queering-immigration-conference.

This will be a bilingual program; CROSSING OVER is in Spanish with English subtitles, while the other films and the discussion will be translated into Spanish.

The streets of Asheville are illuminated and claimed as safe public space for members of North Carolina’s trans community in ARTS ACTION AGAINST HB2: SAFE PUBLIC SPACE, made in support of advocacy organizations Southerners On New Ground (SONG) and Tranzmission. A panorama of personal stories in QUEERING IMMIGRATION (produced by SONG) acknowledge the undocumented struggle as a collective demand for true immigrant justice. CROSSING OVER: STORIES OF IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY interweaves the stories of three transgender Latina immigrants who came to the U.S. from Mexico in search of a better life.

Luan Joy Sherman, Stephen Zacks, and Adam Rush ARTS ACTION AGAINST HB2: SAFE PUBLIC SPACE (2016, 3 min, digital)

Sowjanya Kudva QUEERING IMMIGRATION (2013, 6 min, digital. In English with Spanish subtitles.)

Isabel Castro and Katrina Sorrentino
CROSSING OVER: STORIES OF IMMIGRATION AND IDENTITY
(2014, 45 min, digital. In Spanish with English subtitles.)

Total running time: ca. 60 min. Followed by a reception.

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https://facebook.com/events/643451522529642/
https://facebook.com/Another-World-is-Possible-NYC-474562302901538/ https://facebook.com/MarxistEducationProject/ anotherworldnyc@gmail.com

2017 taught us all that “No is not enough.” we need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet in the year 2117. Our project is to look backward a century to the year 2017 (the centenary of the unforeseen 1917 Soviet revolution) and reconstruct how our great-grandparents got us from here - today’s capitalist death-spiral - to there - a livable, sustainable, global society free of oppression and exploitation. We will meet weekly, in-person at our New York studio and via teleconference with participants across several time zones - including philosopher Peter Hudis in Chicago and ecosocialist Michel Löwy in Paris - with the goal of collectively creating a popular future fiction of a realistically plausible better world – a vision that might go viral and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Bronx Native American Festival
Sunday Sept. 24, 2017 from Noon to 4:00 PM
Pelham Bay Park South Picnic Area nr. entrance at Bruckner Blvd. & Wilkinson Av.
#6 to Pelham
description on graphic at https://goo.gl/RztCWt 718 430 1891 646.748.6639 htps://facebook.com/bronxtaino

If you would like to join us, please fill out this Google Form:
https://goo.gl/forms/TiYUxrFsh5l2akNC3 info@tpny.org (718) 886-9500 https://facebook.com/events/130486890828253/
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Muslim Day Parade: Marching with Turning Point
Turning Point invites YOU to march with us against bullying, Islamophobia, elder abuse and domestic violence at the 32nd Annual Muslim Day Parade!

**Note: The information provided in this form will only be used to contact you about the Parade.** Thank you for your interest in marching with us at the Muslim Day Parade, taking place on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Please note that we will meet in front of the
== > Chase Bank, E. 38th St. & Madison Ave. [NW corner] at Noon sharp.

Every year, Turning Point staff, youth members, volunteers, and supporters march at the parade with a large contingent. This year, we aim to gather the largest group we've ever had!

So, WHO IS READY TO MARCH WITH US?

Invite all your friends, make new friends, and band together to raise awareness about how bullying and domestic violence has got to go!

*Allies of all ages, genders, and backgrounds are welcome!*

We will meet at 12 Noon at the entrance of the parade at E. 38th St. & Madison Ave.

We do need a count so please fill out the Google form by Tuesday, September 19, 2017. Email info@tpny.org or call 718-886-9500 for more information.

We look forward to seeing you very soon!!

~Speak Up, Speak Now: At the Muslim Day Parade!~

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/TiYUxrFsh5l2akNC3

32nd Annual Muslim Day Parade: ``BUILDING BRIDGES`` [please look up event title]

With the increase of the wave of Islamophobia , it is time to get all together and show unity and solidarity, please join with friends and family the goal this year is to at least have 10000 Muslims Marching and these are very few compared to the Number of Muslims in New York City wich is not less than 800000, we are strong and powerful together , so let us show this power.

https://facebook.com/events/1636754319711870/
https://twitter.com/MuslimDayParade
https://facebook.com/pg/MuslimDayParade/photos/
https://facebook.com/pg/MuslimDayParade/about/
(718) 777-5563 @MuslimDayParade mdp@muslimdayparade.com http://muslimdayparade.com [site dead or denied as of Sept. 5?]

Movies at Riverside presents: I Am Not Your Negro
https://trcnyc.org/event/movies-riverside-presents-not-negro/
https://facebook.com/events/124131301655645/ welcome@trcnyc.org
(212) 870-6700 https://twitter.com/RiversideNYC

Movies At Riverside presents I Am Not Your Negro.
One screening at 1:30 p.m. Discussion following. Light refreshments available.

Breaking Down the PIC: Abolition in the Trump Era
Sunday, Sept. 24, 5:00 PM at Verso Books
20 Jay St., Ste. 1010, Brooklyn, btw. John St. & Plymouth St.;
F Train to York St.; A, C to High St.; #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.;
Map & Transit: https://goo.gl/oN9GQF
Event Descriptions, Contacts: https://t.co/EDt4NWaTKL = mailchi.mp/criticalresistance/save-the-date-sept-14-breaking-down-the-prison-industrial-complex
https://twitter.com/C_Resistance/status/898187457107308544
https://facebook.com/events/160747617824404/ jess@criticalresistance.org
http://criticalresistance.org/chapters/cr-new-york-city/our-work/ crnational@criticalresistance.org http://criticalresistance.org/videoproject/ https://facebook.com/pg/critical.resistance/events/
(510) 444-0484

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE AND TIME CHANGE. We apologize for any inconvenience. This event will now be held on
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 at 5pm.
(5pm Reception; 5:30pm Program start)

On Sunday September 24 , we invite you to join Critical Resistance for an evening of discussion and radical politics with friends and comrades.

At "Fighting for Liberation in the Trump Era: Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex in Urgent Times", we will explore how and why abolition is a neccessary, inspiring and intersectional way to fight state repression in this current moment, under the federal Trump regime and in the local and regional context.

With special guests:
- Marbre Stahly-Butts of Movement for Black Lives Policy Table and Law for Black Lives
- Mik Kinkead of Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

*artwork by Nidal El-Khairy*

At the event, we will also premiere videos from "Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex," the latest project in CR's Profiles in Abolition initiative. The videos in the series explore the current state of the prison industrial complex (PIC) and how people are fighting back to resist and abolish it. As always, we feature abolition as a strategy to dismantle systems of harm and punishment in favor of systems that increase health, stability, and self-determination. Learn more: www.criticalresistance.org/videoproject

We are excited to partner with community groups, educators, and organizations to share this resource. Email crnational@criticalresistance.org if you want to sponsor a screening + discussion in your community!

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Critical Resistance - New York City
Political Organization · New York, New York
CR is a grassroots organization working to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe

Critical Resistance
Nonprofit Organization · Oakland, California

**This facebook account is only for outreach. We do not check this account regularly. If you want to contact CR, check out our website: criticalresistance.org & contact one of our chapters**

Follow the life of activist Malcolm X from his early life that was filled with struggle to his rise to prominence as a legendary African American leader.

In partnership with NYC Parks, Randall's Island Park Alliance offers a wide range of movies that all ages will enjoy. Surrounded by stunning vistas, Randall's Island provides a gorgeous setting to enjoy a film with your friends and family under the stars throughout the summer season.

Featured Film: Malcolm X (PG-13) 3hr 22min
Location: Field 81
This is a FREE event!

Interactive Map: https://randallsisland.org/visit/randalls-island-park-map/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1470480686318454/

Rent Party Against the Raids w BYP 100 and IWOC
Saturday Sept 23 until 1:00 AM at Raw Space,
2031 7th Ave./ACP, Jr. Blvd. btw W.121 & W.122 St. [#2, 3, A, C, D to 125 St. stops, M60]
event description https://facebook.com/events/1768751946487287/
Black Youth Project https://facebook.com/pg/BYP100/events/
https://twitter.com/IWW_IWOC http://lists.iww.org/listinfo/iwoc_alerts
https://facebook.com/iwocnyc/ nyc@incarceratedworkers.org

Join BYP 100 and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee NYC for a rent party against the so-called "gang" raids and against NYCHA's "Permanent Exclusion" policy that effectively kick entire families out of their houses and into the streets and shelters, just for having a loved one arrested. Meanwhile NYCHA works hand in hand with law enforcement to target people living in the projects and their families. NYCHA, NYPD, FBI, ICE, and other agencies work together to sell our youth into prison slavery. The families suffering behind this need your support for legal fees, transport to visit loved ones in prison, RENT and commissary.
Raffles, art, performances!

Fundraising Page:
https://www.youcaring.com/rent-party-against-raids

🔊 CALLING ALL FRIENDS & LOVERS OF JUSTICE 🔊

This fall Mayday Space and Starr Bar are celebrating our anniversaries! Mayday enters its third year hosting cutting-edge movement orgs and community programming while Starr Bar starts a new year of poppin' dance parties for the cause.

You already know what it do!

== Live music ==
== Food until 11pm ==
== Dancing all night long ==
== Fly bartenders serving up tasty cocktails ==
== Hosted by Shannon Matesky of Queer Abstract ==

FEATURING:
✨✨ Live performance by Carolina Oliveros y La Nación ✨✨
✨✨ DJ Austin Lebrón ✨✨
✨✨ DJ Sabine Blaizin ✨✨
✨✨ MAYDAY DRUNK HISTOR...

Help Axel 11:00 A.M. with carrying chairs, drums,tables and supplies the amphitheater.

DRUM USA DAY PEOPLES JAM
Sunday Sept. 24, Noon to 6:00 PM in
Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater
W. 122nd St. & Mt. Morris Park West

Volunteer with axelgothe@mac.com to schlep drums & stuff at 11:00 AM. In previous years the alternate location (if rain) was right inside the park's rec center at W. 122nd. But if rain, please ask before traveling. Drummers of all skill levels & neighborhoods come and go all day. Request event graphic from Axel or from me. -t.]
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Subject: DRUM USA DAY PEOPLES JAM
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:25:55 -0400
From: Axel Gothe

Dear Friends:

Due to severe back pain I’ve been experiencing in recent month, I’m asking for help with carrying chairs, drums, two tables and miscellanies supplies to the amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park the day of Our upcoming event on September 24.

The Parks Department does not give out vehicle permits as in previous years, which had made this task much easier.

We will meet at Mount Morris Park West and 122nd Street in front of the parks center building at 11am.

Please let me know by September 15 at the latest if you are able to help, so I can make sure things will go smoothly.

thank YOU

“PEACE & drum”
Axel

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Discussing _Assembly_ with Michael Hardt
Monday, Sept. 25, 12:30 PM in NYU "20 Cooper Sq.", 5th Fl.,
on Bowery opposite E.5th St. & nr. #6, R, W, B, D, F, M
& cross town buses via 8th St. or 9th St. or Houston St.;
RSVP REQUIRED https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvUbLSVwnqFqftj
descriptions at https://t.co/ll7Lz4o1Kb =
http://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/discussing-assembly-with-michael-hardt/
http://as.nyu.edu/sca/events/fall-2017/michael-hardt--assembly.html
https://twitter.com/NYUMetStudies/status/908414748559118338 https://t.co/8M7e0XLaEc
"Assembly" by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/assembly-9780190677961

Oxford University Press blurb: In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political analysts as disorganized and ineffectual, or suppressed by disoriented and perplexed police forces and governments who fail to effectively engage them. Activists, too, struggle to harness the potential of these horizontal movements. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change and create a new, more democratic and just society? Some people assume that if only social movements could find new leaders they would return to their earlier glory. Where, they ask, are the new Martin Luther Kings, Rudi Dutschkes, and Stephen Bikos?

With the rise of right-wing political parties in many countries, the question of how to organize democratically and effectively has become increasingly urgent. Although today's leaderless political organizations are not sufficient, a return to traditional, centralized forms of political leadership is neither desirable nor possible. Instead, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue, familiar roles must be reversed: leaders should be responsible for short-term, tactical action, but it is the multitude that must drive strategy. In other words, if these new social movements are to achieve meaningful revolution, they must invent effective modes of assembly and decision-making structures that rely on the broadest democratic base. Drawing on ideas developed through their well-known Empire trilogy, Hardt and Negri have produced, in Assembly, a timely proposal for how current large-scale horizontal movements can develop the capacities for political strategy and decision-making to effect lasting and democratic change. We have not yet seen what is possible when the multitude assembles.

A Lecture by Rashid Khalidi, Modern Arab Studies History & MESAAS, Columbia University
http://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/fall-2017/balfour.html
The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Synopsis: The momentous statement made on behalf of the British cabinet on November 2, 1917 by Arthur James Balfour, His Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is usually regarded in light of the interests and designs of the great power that issued it, or in terms of its ostensible subject, a “national home for the Jewish people." What the sixty-seven words of Balfour’s statement actually meant for the Palestinian people, and how the latter perceived this and other British declarations involve a perspective that is rarely considered, and will be the topic of this presentation.

Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and has served as President of the Middle East Studies Association. Khalidi is author of over 110 scholarly articles and seven books, including Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013), Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East (2009), The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006), and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (rev. ed. 2010).

Rally to Defeat Graham-Cassidy
Monday Sept. 25, 5:00 PM outside 780 3rd Ave. btw. E. 48th & E. 49th;
#6 Train to 51 St. (at Lex); E or weekdays-only M to Lexington Av. - 53 St. (east exit onto 3rd Av.); #7 to 42 St.-Grand Central (east exit nr. 3rd Av.); #4, 5, S to 42 St.-Grand Central (at Park); D, F or weekdays-only B to 47-50 St./Rockefeller Ctr.; N, Q to 49 St.;
buses via 50th or via 42nd; map & transit: https://goo.gl/MpD3U6
event graphic & descriptions: https://act.indivisibleguide.com/event/killthebill/6803 https://goo.gl/ZSRFKm = (facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154778336072466&set=gm.352995408487380&type=3&theater) http://nyindivisible.com/
https://indivisiblenationbk.org https://facebook.com/pg/oneindivisiblenation/events/ oneindivisiblenation@gmail.com [ask correct ending time. -t.]

Join us on this National Day of Action and rally to defeat Graham-Cassidy and protect our health care. Show your constituent power: we are asking Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to withhold consent on all Senate business until the Graham-Cassidy bill is dead. Hosted by the NYC Indivisible coalition.

‘Song in a Weary Throat’: Pauli Murray’s Life and Legacy Featuring Rosalind Rosenberg, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) & Monica L. Miller
https://facebook.com/events/347466649042451/
(212) 854-2067 bcrw@barnard.edu http://bcrw.barnard.edu

Until recently Pauli Murray was an unsung figure in the Civil Rights and feminist movements. A poet, writer, activist, labor organizer, legal theorist, and Episcopal priest, Murray took on the key social and economic justice issues of her day. The subject of a new biography, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray, by emerita professor of history Rosalind Rosenberg, Murray is now being recognized and celebrated for her legal and activist work in the service of freedom and justice, as well as her more recently recognized work fighting for the lives of people who transgressed sexual and gender norms in her lifetime. Rosenberg is joined by Alexis Pauline Gumbs BC ’04, an independent scholar and activist, and Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace), a filmmaker, composer, theology scholar, and writer.

This venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. For additional accessibility requests, please contact bcrw@barnard.edu at your earliest convenience.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required and seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and the Athena Center for Leadership Studies

About the Speakers

Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University.A specialist in American history, with a focus on women’s legal, and social history, Rosalind Rosenberg was a distinguished member of the Barnard faculty for over 20 years. She is the author of Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, and Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black trouble-maker and a black feminist love evangelist. She walks in the legacy of black lady school teachers in post slavery communities who offered sacred educational space to the intergenerational newly free in exchange for the random necessities of life. As the first person to do archival research in the papers of Audre Lorde, June Jordan and Lucille Clifton while achieving her PhD in English, Africana Studies and Women’s Studies at Duke University, she honors the lives and creative works of Black feminist geniuses as sacred texts for all people. She believes that in the time we live in, access to the intersectional holistic brilliance of the black feminist tradition is as crucial as learning how to read.

Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) is a safe space for transformation. Julia is a filmmaker, multimedia collaborator & consultant, musician, composer, theologian and facilitator, building on her familial legacy of three generations of Black Baptist preachers working in communities in the South. Julia is the founder of Queer Renaissance, a multimedia movement based on the premise that we can create the world anew; co-founder of Mobile Homecoming, a national intergenerational experiential archive project that amplifies generations of Black LGBTQ brilliance, and co-founder of Black Feminist Film School.

Monica L. Miller is the Tow Family Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, which received the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for the best book in African American literature and culture from the Modern Language Association and was shortlisted for the 2010 Modernist Studies Association book prize. A grantee from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2012, 2001), the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2004), and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (2004), she is a specialist in contemporary African American and Afro-diasporic literature and cultural studies. She is currently at work on a new project, Blackness Swedish Style: Race, Diaspora, and Belonging, which considers cultural production by the emerging black community in Sweden and its connection to black European identity formation and cultural/political movements.

Free AdmissionPoetry

About Barnard Center for Research on Women - BCRW
Barnard Center for Research on Women - BCRW
Education · New York, New York
http://bcrw.barnard.edu BCRW hosts a programming series that explores a wide range of feminist and social justice issues like women's rights, gender and sexuality, democracy and voting, immigration and economics.

Queer/Trans/National Adoption Politics: An Adoptee Roundtable
Monday, Sept, 25 in CUNY Grad. Ctr. Room C205, 6:00 to 8:00pm
Register at: https://goo.gl/S424qe https://goo.gl/iWG5Vf = eventbrite.com/e/queertransnational-adoption-politics-an-adoptee-roundtable-tickets-37077770610
https://facebook.com/events/479204805792702/ https://facebook.com/pg/clags.org/events/
Center for LGBTQ Studies/CLAGS Fall 2017 graphic https://goo.gl/Z4C9Wt
CLAGS American Studies Fall 2017 https://goo.gl/7nVMTK =
americanstudiescp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/08/29/clags-fall-semester-2017-events/
(212) 817-1955 clagsinfo@gmail.com http://clags.org

Writer, activist, and adoptee Liz Latty hosts a roundtable on the intersections of queerness and adoption politics in the U.S. and abroad, featuring M Campbell, Amandine Gay, and Tara Linh Leaman. Currently, most adoption discourse and activism in American queer communities focuses on queer and trans subjects as parents, and is dominated by the voices of adoptive parents and non-adopted professionals. This convocation of LGBTQ adoptees will use queer and feminist lenses to consider the systems, institutions, and experiences of adoption from adoptee-centered perspectives.

How can queer and trans adoptee voices inform adoption discourse and practice in a climate where the fight for reproductive, gender, racial, and economic justice is increasingly urgent? Given the current rhetoric employed by LGBTQ communities around the "right to parent," how can queer and trans adoptees destabilize, expand, and situate this narrative within a larger human rights framework? In what ways can queer and trans adoptees challenge the hetero/homonormative family romance that has been used as a tool of separation, colonization, and nation-building within the context of adoption? These and other questions will guide the evening's discussion. A Q&A will follow. This event will be live streamed and recorded.

*This event is made possible in part by the generous co-sponsorship of All Together Now.

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:

M Campbell is a queer, gender non-conforming, transracial, Korean adoptee dedicated to racial, gender, and economic justice, healing, and transformation. M works on issues relating to youth, qtpoc and poc, Asian diaspora, mental health and wellness, adoption, and anti-oppression social work practices and education. They have served on the Undoing Racism Internship Project (URIP) steering committee, and worked with the New York Coalition of Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH), the Asian American Federation, and the Coalition on Race, Diversity and Intersectionality (CRDI) with the National Association of Social Workers NYC Chapter (NASW-NYC).

Amongst her many identities, Amandine GAY is a Black queer french transracial adoptee. She's also a Montreal-based afrofeminist filmmaker, activist, and journalist who defines herself as a political author. She divides her time between research and creation as for her, reclaiming the narrative is an act of emancipation

Tara Linh Leaman, JD is an African Vietnamese American transracial adoptee, and knows well the challenges and joys of transforming adversity to resilience. She currently serves as Program Director of Westchester County Department of Social Services’ Westchester Building Futures, a multiyear multimillion dollar initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau which assists youth and young adults in foster care and/or alumni of care. Tara also serves on the board of Holt International Children's Services and Family Equality Council’s National Board of Advisers, and is a graduate of Cornell University and Georgetown Law.

Liz Latty is a queer adoptee writer, activist, and educator whose writing has been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, as well as nominated for Best American Essays, Best of the Net, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the founder of Open Record Consulting, which offers adoptee-centric, trauma-informed support and education services with a social justice framework for families and professionals. Liz is currently at work on the The Adoption Museum Project’s new History Initiative, launching Fall 2017.
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CLAGS Fall Semester 2017 Events
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. Queer Pedagogies
Monday, Sept 11, 6:00 to 8:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C204
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A conversation for educators who are LGBTQ or allied, moderated bu María R. Scharrón-del Río (Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY), Kalle Westerling (Ph.D. Candidate and Futures Initiative Fellow, the Graduate Center, CUNY), and Stephanie Hsu (Associate Professor, Pace University). Hear from other educators (graduate, undergraduate, and K-12), share practical resources, and fortify your heart for teaching at this inaugural event of CLAGS’s Queer Pedagogy Network, cosponsored by the Futures Initiative.

. NYC Trans Oral History Project Workshop
Tuesday, Sept 12, 6:30 to 9:30pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C198
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Kiara St. James, AJ Lewis, Nadia Awad and Michelle Esther O’Brien make up this panel on the participatory NYC Trans Oral History Project hosted at the NYPL. Speakers will discuss the role of story-telling and personal narrative in queer movements and survival, reflect on institutional politics of oral history and trans studies, trans historiography, and the need to change practices in oral history collection.

. Politics of Queer/Trans/National Adoption
Monday, Sept 25, 6:00 to 8:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C205
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Writer, activist, and adoptee Liz Latty hosts a roundtable on the intersections of queerness and adoption politics in the U.S. and abroad. Currently, most adoption discourse and activism in American queer communities focuses on queer and trans subjects as adoptive parents, and is dominated by the voices of adoptive parents and non-adopted professionals. This convocation of queer, trans, and gender nonconforming adoptees will use queer and feminist lenses to consider the systems, institutions, and experiences of adoption from adoptee-centered perspectives.

. Workshop w/ What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective
Tuesday, Oct 3, fr/ 6:30 to 9:30pm in CUNY Grad. Ctr. Room 9206
Register Here https://goo.gl/zDcSQY
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The What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective will host a participatory workshop about how to honor, support and activate transitions in personal health and the political climate through the lens of the ongoing AIDS crisis. Using video, writing prompts and group discussion, Diana Cage and Ted Kerr will explore current realities for people living with HIV, those deeply impacted, and folks who wish to be more involved. == > People living with HIV, and those providing related care are encouraged to attend.

. Queer Performance Legacies: Charles Ludlam Lives! Book Launch
Wednesday, Oct 11, 6:00 to 8:00pm in CUNY Graduate Ctr. Skylight Room (9100)
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For the book launch of Charles Ludlam Lives!, CLAGS board member Dr. Sean Edgecomb introduces the concept of queer legacy by reconsidering the work of titular auteur, Ludlam. Though a pioneer of the Ridiculous theatre genre in post-Stonewall America, Ludlam has been largely overlooked in studies of contemporary American theatre. This book is the first full-length exegesis of Ludlam’s role as a founder of gay theatre and his posthumous impact on contemporary queer performance in New York City.

. Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City with Shanté Paradigm Smalls

Queer/Trans/National Adoption Politics: An Adoptee Roundtable
Monday, Sept. 25, 6:00 to 8:00pm in CUNY Grad Ctr. Rm. C205
Bldg. reception guards require any public identification such as driver's license, passport
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Writer, activist, and adoptee Liz Latty hosts a roundtable on the intersections of queerness and adoption politics in the U.S. and abroad, featuring M Campbell, Amandine Gay, and Tara Linh Leaman. Currently, most adoption discourse and activism in American queer communities focuses on queer and trans subjects as adoptive parents, and is dominated by the voices of adoptive parents and non-adopted professionals. This convocation of LGBTQ adoptees will use queer and feminist lenses to consider the systems, institutions, and experiences of adoption from adoptee-centered perspectives.

How can queer and trans adoptee voices inform adoption discourse and practice in a climate where the fight for reproductive, gender, racial, and economic justice is increasingly urgent? Given the current rhetoric employed by LGBTQ communities around the "right to parent," how can queer and trans adoptees destabilize, expand, and situate this narrative within a larger human rights framework? In what ways can queer and trans adoptees challenge the hetero/homonormative family romance that has been used as a tool of separation, colonization, and nation-building within the context of adoption? These and other questions will guide the evening's discussion. A Q&A will follow. This event will be live-streamed and recorded.

This event is made possible in part by the generous co-sponsorship of All Together Now. == > CLAGS events are free and open to the public, but space is limited. The building is wheelchair accessible.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

M Campbell is a queer, gender non-conforming, transracial, Korean adoptee dedicated to racial, gender, and economic justice, healing, and transformation. M works on issues relating to youth, qtpoc and poc, Asian diaspora, mental health and wellness, adoption, and anti-oppression social work practices and education. They have served on the Undoing Racism Internship Project (URIP) steering committee, and worked with the New York Coalition of Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH), the Asian American Federation, and the Coalition on Race, Diversity and Intersectionality (CRDI) with the National Association of Social Workers NYC Chapter (NASW-NYC).

Amongst her many identities, Amandine GAY is a Black queer french transracial adoptee. She's also a Montreal-based afrofeminist filmmaker, activist, and journalist who defines herself as a political author. She divides her time between research and creation as for her, reclaiming the narrative is an act of emancipation.

Tara Linh Leaman, JD is an African Vietnamese American transracial adoptee , and knows well the challenges and joys of transforming adversity to resilience. She currently serves as Program Director of Westchester County Department of Social Services’ Westchester Building Futures, a multiyear multimillion dollar initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau which assists youth and young adults in foster care and/or alumni of care. Tara also serves on the board of Holt International Children's Services and Family Equality Council’s National Board of Advisers, and is a graduate of Cornell University and Georgetown Law.

Liz Latty is a queer adoptee writer, activist, and educator whose writing has been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, as well as nominated for Best American Essays, Best of the Net, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the founder of Open Record Consulting, which offers adoptee-centric, trauma-informed support and education services with a social justice framework for families and professionals. Liz is currently at work on the The Adoption Museum Project’s new History Initiative, launching Fall 2017.

Mon, September 25, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
The Graduate Center, CUNY Room C205
365 5th Avenue

(was: "September Planning Meeting") Join us for our September meeting as we plan to defend against attacks on DACA, TPS and other programs.
Questions? Contact us at bayridgeforsocialjustice@gmail.com

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New York State Constitutional Convention: Process and Possibilities
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Curious about the New York State Constitutional Convention? Heard rumors [SIC] that the process might endanger state pensions? Want to know more what a "Yes" vote would do and how delegates would be elected? Want to learn how you could run as a delegate? Citizens Union and New York Law School are hosting an important public conversation to answer these questions about the Constitutional Convention and more. Join us as we unpack these questions one by one to explain the process and possibilities found in this historic November 2017 election.

Welcoming Remarks

Dean Anthony Crowell, New York Law School

Speakers

Art Chang, SanctuaryStateNY.org
Danielle DeMatteo, Forward March NY
Ross Sandler, Professor and Director of the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School
Brandon West, New Kings Democrats

Moderator

Dick Dadey, Citizens Union

"PEN Out Loud: I Write Banned Books"
Monday, Sept. 25, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM at Strand Books
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https://facebook.com/events/393507687730458/
https://twitter.com/artistic_AFI/status/902253494069022720

Censorship is happening today and it is infringing on the right of readers.

In celebration and defiance during Banned Books Week 2017, PEN America in partnership with Strand Books invites authors--whose books have been banned or challenged because of their cover art and content--to discuss their experiences, and how to get skeptical readers to live up to the saying "don't judge a book by its cover."

The discussion will feature David Levithan, author of Two Boys Kissing, which was challenged in part because of the cover photograph of two boys kissing, Coe Booth, whose honest portrayals of inner city life have met with challenges across the country, and Ariel Schrag, whose comics anthology Stuck in the Middle has received multiple challenges due to "explicit language and content."

David Levithan is an American young adult fiction author and editor. His first book, Boy Meets Boy, was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in 2003. He has written numerous works featuring strong male gay characters, most notably Boy Meets Boy and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. Levithan works for Scholastic as an editorial director and is also the founding editor of PUSH, a young-adult imprint of Scholastic Press focusing on new voices and new authors.

Coe Booth was born and raised in the Bronx. She has a master’s degree in psychology and has worked as a counselor for teenagers and families in crisis situations. She also has an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her first novel Tyrell won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and her novels Kendra and Bronxwood were selected by the American Library Association as Best Books for Young Adults. Her first middle-grade novel Kinda Like Brothers was selected as an ALA Notable Book for Children and an NPR Best Book of 2014.

Ariel Schrag is the author of the novel Adam and the graphic memoirs Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise. Her new graphic memoir, Part of It, is forthcoming in fall 2018.

== > Admission & Gift Card grants you admission for one, plus one $15 Strand gift card.

The event is in the Strand’s Rare Book Room, located on the 3rd floor of our store, at 828 Broadway and 12th Street, unless otherwise specified. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Admission and the gift card will only be available for pick-up at the event, so == > please select “in store pick-up” as your shipping method. Payment is required at the time the order is placed. You may also purchase admission in the store at the registers, or at the time of the event in the Rare Book Room. Please note that if you order a book but do not attend the event, your book will be held at the Strand’s basement holds desk for one week after the event.

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This summer Mayday transformed one of the second floor classrooms into our very own radical library and invite you to join the new monthly Mayday Book Club.

The Book Club will start by reading and discussing sci-fi feminist novels. We'll be rotating book genres and topics after four books for each topic/theme. September’s book (Sept 25th) is Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

We especially encourage POC, womyn, queer+GNC folks to join us!! Free but donations welcomed!!

We meet on the fourth Monday of each month on the second floor. For more information, email maydayspacelibrary@gmail.com. Come any/each month having read the book and bring your copy if you can!

Help Axel 11:00 A.M. with carrying chairs, drums,tables and supplies the amphitheater.

DRUM USA DAY PEOPLES JAM
Sunday Sept. 24, Noon to 6:00 PM in
Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheater
W. 122nd St. & Mt. Morris Park West

Volunteer with axelgothe@mac.com to schlep drums & stuff at 11:00 AM. In previous years the alternate location (if rain) was right inside the park's rec center at W. 122nd. But if rain, please ask before traveling. Drummers of all skill levels & neighborhoods come and go all day. Request event graphic from Axel or from me. -t.]
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Subject: DRUM USA DAY PEOPLES JAM
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:25:55 -0400
From: Axel Gothe

Dear Friends:

Due to severe back pain I’ve been experiencing in recent month, I’m asking for help with carrying chairs, drums, two tables and miscellanies supplies to the amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park the day of Our upcoming event on September 24.

The Parks Department does not give out vehicle permits as in previous years, which had made this task much easier.

We will meet at Mount Morris Park West and 122nd Street in front of the parks center building at 11am.

Please let me know by September 15 at the latest if you are able to help, so I can make sure things will go smoothly.

thank YOU

“PEACE & drum”
Axel

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Ban Toxic Pesticides in NYC’s Public Spaces!
Tuesday Sept. 26, 10:00 AM in NY City Hall at NYC Council Committee on Health mtg.
event description: https://goo.gl/kqknXD
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NYC Council calendar site entries:
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Int 0800-2015 Version: * Name: Pesticides by City agencies.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 5/27/2015
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the use of pesticides by City agencies.
Sponsors: Ben Kallos, Helen K. Rosenthal, Costa G. Constantinides, Mathieu Eugene, Peter A. Koo, Darlene Mealy, Carlos Menchaca
Summary: This bill would prohibit city agencies from applying to any property owned or leased by the city any chemically based pesticide.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 800, 2. May 27, 2015 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
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from Paula Rogovin...

Ban Roundup & Other Toxic Pesticides in NYC Parks and Properties!
Ban Toxic Pesticides in NYC’s Public Spaces!

Dear Environmental Activists and Friends: Good news!

On September 26, 2017, the New York City Council’s Committee on Health will hold a hearing to discuss bill #: Int. 0800-2015. This bill would ban the use of toxic pesticides and herbicides, including Monsanto’s “Roundup,” (containing the dangerous endocrine disruptor glyphosate) in all NYC City properties and parks. Find the bill here: http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/Legislation.aspx

In 2014, when my kindergarten class at PS 290,The Manhattan New School, was doing research about the watermelon served in our lunchroom, we learned about insects that feed on watermelon and other crops and the pest-weed killers used to control them. After more research, we learned that most pesticides/herbicides are toxic (especially those containing glyphosate), which can harm farmworkers, and those exposed to or who eat pesticide/herbicide-laden foods. Ingestion or exposure to glyphosate can disrupt the endocrine system, harming reproductive health, or cause other debilitating diseases.

Dismayed by what they’d learned, the children decided to do something to stop the use of toxic pesticides and weed killers. Students wrote poems, plays, and newsletter articles. We spoke with their Councilman, Ben Kallos when he came to our school. He invited my class to the City Council chamber at City Hall where we asked him lots of questions. He asked, "Is there anything you want me to do for you?" My wonderful students chanted as they marched around the mostly empty Council chamber, "Ban toxic pesticides, use only nature's pesticides! Make a law!” At our school in 2015, at a press conference with my students, their families, and other staff, Councilman Kallos announced the bill: INTRO. 0800-2015. Now, finally, there will be a hearing about INTRO 0800 at the City Council Committee on Health on September 26.

Now the students at Public School 290 need your help to get this important bill passed into law! Here’s what you can do to help.

1. Attend NYC Council hearing:
What: Hearing of Committee on Health regarding local law: Int. 0800-2015
When: September 26, 2017. 10:00 am
Where: Moved to a larger venue - City Hall - Council Chambers

2. Send a letter of support for local law: Int. 0800-2015 to all members of the Committee on Health: https://council.nyc.gov/committees/health/ (Sample letter below)

3. Call your Councilmember and urge them to support Int. 0800-2015.
Find your Councilmember here: https://council.nyc.gov/districts/

4. On September 26 , speak at the hearing of the NYC Council’s Committee on Health.

5. Spread the word to student, parent, labor, and community or environmental groups in NYC. Urge them to support the bill by sending letters and organizing groups to attend and/or speak at the 9/26 hearing.

Also, if you’d like to speak to the students at PS 290 about glyphosates or other topics, please contact Paula Rogovin: progovin@ps290.org

On behalf of class K-203 and former students of PS 290, thank you!

Sincerely,
Paula Rogovin,
Teacher (44 years in New York City public schools)
The Manhattan New School, PS 290, 311 East 82nd Street, NYC, NY 10028 progovin@ps290.org
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Sample letter:

To Members of the Committee on Health, New York City Council,

I urge you (Organization, ________, calls on you) to support local law: Int. 0800-2015, which would ban the use of toxic pesticides and herbicides, including “Roundup” (containing glyphosate-an endocrine disruptor) in all New York City properties and parks. This important piece of legislation is urgently needed to protect the health of New Yorkers and visitors to the City. Eliminating the use of toxic substances in parks and public spaces will also serve to protect our waterways from the harmful runoff resulting from these toxic substances.

We urge you to vote YES on local law: Int.0800-2015 on September 26, 2017.

Sincerely,

Name
Organization (if any)
Email Address
Phone number

(was: "Street Vendors' March in NYC City Hall")

https://facebook.com/events/506461866357142/
https://facebook.com/pg/StreetVendorProject/events/ http://streetvendor.org svp@urbanjustice.org (646) 602-5679 https://twitter.com/VendorPower

Join us as we ask Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC City Council to modernize street vending laws in the city. The number of vending permits has been frozen since the 1990s and it is time that we update the rules and make fairer vending laws. Join us as we march from City Hall over the Brooklyn Bridge and back demanding that NYC give vendors more permits. We will also have media and council members present.

March for Street Vendor Permits w/ Street Vendor Project
Tuesday Sept. 26, Noon to 3:00 PM at City Hall (probably steps but ask)
(was: "SVP March for More Permits")
https://facebook.com/events/506461866357142/ https://t.co/g4negAFq1W https://twitter.com/NYWorkerFed/status/908360419370250241 (646) 602-5679
(646) 602-5681 https://facebook.com/pg/StreetVendorProject/events/ svp@urbanjustice.org https://twitter.com/VendorPower

Join us as we ask Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC City Council to modernize street vending laws in the city. The number of vending permits has been frozen since the 1990s and it is time that we update the rules and make fairer vending laws. Join us as we march from City Hall over the Brooklyn Bridge and back demanding that NYC give vendors more permits. We will also have media and council members present.

We will meet at City Hall at 12:00 PM, and will hold a press conference with City Council Members supportive of Intro 1303. Then we will march over the Brooklyn Bridge and back. Call 646-602-5682 if you have any questions.

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Acompañenos a exigirle al Alcalde Bill de Blasio y a la ciudad de Nueva York para modernizar las leyes para vender en las called de la ciudad. Los numeros de permiso...

THE TAYLOR LAW IN PERSPECTIVE AT 50
Public Sector Collective Bargaining Yesterday and Today
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2:00 to 9:00pm in Hunter College Roosevelt House
RSVP to the event here: https://goo.gl/3ZJ8kQ = community.hunter.cuny.edu/roosevelt-house-pages/taylor-law-50th-anniversary-symposium-09-26-17
http://roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/

2:30pm Registration
3:30pm Welcome
3:45-5:15pm Panel 1: The Taylor Law & Public Sector Unionization in Historical Context
5:30-7:00pm Panel 2: Public Sector Collective Bargaining: Where Do We Go From Here?
7:00pm Reception

2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Public Employees Fair Employment Act, commonly known as the Taylor Law. Join us for a series of panels and conversations examining the Taylor Law in historical context, and exploring the future of public sector unionization and collective bargaining.

Speakers
Include Joshua Freeman, Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Ashwini Sukthankar, and Terry Melvin
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Divided Results: Voting and Partisan Gerrymandering
Friday, Sept. 15, fr/ 8:30 to 10:30am in 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Fl., btw. 5th & 6th Aves.
"RSVP to the event" (ask whether required) https://the-politics-of-voting.eventbrite.com
http://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/events/ http://facebook.com/MurphyInstitute
http://twitter.com/hashtag/murphytalks murphyinstitute@cuny.edu

In light of the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Gill vs Whitford, speakers will be asked to explore the history of gerrymandering and the effects of recent changes in technology, data mining, and dark money, to understand the implications of potential Supreme Court decisions. Before this case made it to the Supreme Court, what work had been taking place on the ground to address the effects of gerrymandering? How has the US Census influenced redistricting? What can we expect from the Supreme Court and how will this impact the future of electoral politics?

Speakers
David Daley, author, Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy and former Editor in chief of Salon.com
Joanna Cuevas Ingram, Associate Council, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Michael Li, Senior Counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and co-author of the report, Extreme Maps
Deuel Ross, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
Moderator: John Mollenkompf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate School and consortial faculty, Murphy Institute
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The Murphy Institute offers an ambitious array of public events throughout the year. These include panels, forums, and conferences that feature prominent scholars and public intellectuals, union and community-based leaders and activists, policy makers, journalists and artists.

Our public events are designed to stimulate debate and strategic thinking about the challenges and possibilities confronting working-class people and communities.

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From Institutionalization to Inclusion: Disability Justice Through Employment
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 fr/ 4:30 to 5:30 PM
Lester Pollack Colloquium, Furman Hall
245 Sullivan St. btw. W. 3rd St. & Washington Sq. South
RSVP (maybe required?): https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9YJLUFlFlfnZKa9
david.glasgow@nyu.edu
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From Institutionalization to Inclusion: Disability Justice Through Employment
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the closure of Willowbrook State School—a New York institution infamous for abuse and neglect of children with disabilities—we invite you to a dialogue on strategies for advancing disability justice in the workplace.Magistrate Judge Robert Levy '75, who was involved in the Willowbrook litigation as an attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union, will moderate a panel to discuss deinstitutionalization and the movement toward full inclusion for people with disabilities.Panelists:• Jack Callaghan, former resident of Willowbrook

• Roberta Mueller ‘85, Senior Supervising Counsel at NYLPI Disability Justice Program
• Rachel Pollock ‘84, General Counsel of Job Path
• Vilissa Thompson, LMSW, Founder and CEO of Ramp Your Voice!

The event is == > open to the public and co-sponsored by the Disability Allied Law Students Association (DALSA) and the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
Click here to RSVP.

Contact David Glasgow

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OVERNIGHT VIGIL AT QUEENS SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 6:00PM until Wednesday 5:00 AM [As of early Sept., the FB pg. says two conflicting start times for this action, so please check sources & contacts for updates.]
151-24 Beaver Rd, Jamaica, NY 11433, at 95th Av., nr. 150th St. underpass; E, J, Z to Jamaica Ctr.-Parsons/Archer; E, F to Parsons Blvd. map & transit: https://goo.gl/Vgx1ub
https://facebook.com/events/125118661450246/ https://t.co/eYnp87wRCz
http://269life.fr/en/night-standing-slaughterhouses/#comment-13

Activist in charge : Andrea Kallab

269Life Libération Animale : "Nuit Debout" in front of slaughterhouses.
Instructions to follow & proceedings of the event :

The french antispeciesist and abolitionist organization 269Life Libération Animale is preparing for the second time "Les Nuits Debout devant les abattoirs" (Silent vigil at night in front of slaughterhouses).

== > It will take place from the 26th September around 6pm to the 27th September around 5am (slaughterhouses opening time). This is a citizen action which wants to spread a large message and which wants to bring public and media attention to the animal holocaust that is tolerated by our society.

The antispeciesist movement, 269Life Libération Animale does not aim for better welfare for the animals but the abolition of livestock farming and exploitation which are undefendable.
This action is legal and will stay on the slaughterhouses entrance (roads or pavement areas, not in the private perimeter of the slaughterhouse) for a silent and static vigil.

You are very welcome to join us and to
== > stay one hour, two hours...etc or the entire night. For safety reasons, the vigil groups have to be built of at least 10 activists. It's
== > not a blockade of slaughterhouses or the trucks (like 269Life Libération Animale often do). The organization abandons all responsibilities if this instruction is not respected.

Readings can be prepared (text reading, witness statements, discussions...etc). You will be able to leave words, notes, flowers for the animals - to make a "269" with candles. You will be able to leave portraits of the victims. (We have many animal portraits which have been taken during our slaughterhouse blockades on our Facebook page, or use your own). Finally, you could observe a minute's silence to pay tribute to the animals at every fixed hour.

We'll be in front of a place where individuals lose their life. We want you to be respectful and calm in a solemn atmosphere. (No music, no megaphone, no picnic).

A banner of the organization will be brought to you. Signs and visuals have to contain abolitionist messages or animals' tribute messages. Please avoid bringing signs of other organizations as much as possible.

Media communication will be carried out by 269Life Libération Animale. Activists at each slaughterhouse ahould be prepared to respond to potential interviews on site. We wil be giving the press communiqués to the editorial boards in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, United States and all the other countries participating, in orderf or the message to be uniform and clear.

On site, an or several activist(s) will be responsible for taking photos and videos. All the photos & videos have to be posted on the main Facebook page of the event.

In the event of disruptions by livestock farmers or slaughterhouse employees: please remain calm. To the extent possible, avoid responding to verbal attacks. If there's a problem, you'll be able to message Tiphaine Lagarde (co-president of 269Life Libération Animale), Annie Bali, Romain Cassius, Vivi VeganGhost or Romain Perdrizet on messenger.

Thank you for your understanding.

.

Bikes are awesome! They're ecofriendly, good exercise, faster than the speed of light, and fun! Let’s be good to our metal and rubber friends.

At Time's Up Bike Repair class, learn how to fix bikes and do simple maintenance and tune-ups. Each class covers a different subject in a 4-week rotation beginning the first Tuesday of every month:

Come out to La Plaza Community Garden (SW corner of 9th St & Ave. C) every Tuesday to know how to treat your BFF (Bike friend forever).

https://www.facebook.com/events/1649359355076595/

The Future of Public Education? Seeking Public Good Amid Gentrification & Inequality
Tuesday Sept. 26, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM,
CUNY Segal Theatre 365 5th Av. Rm. 12/18, btw. E. 34th & E. 35th St.
description: https://goo.gl/HpbAXq = centerforthehumanities.org/programming/the-future-of-public-education-searching-for-the-public-good-amid-gentrification-privatization-and-inequality

ADMISSION: Free
212-817-2005

Join us for an evening of conversation with The Public Good Project and Epic Next Theatre Ensemble on promoting and preserving diversity in urban public schools threatened by gentrification.

Public schools are often the best institutions to bring people together across racial, ethnic and cultural lines for peace and reconciliation. But in New York City, as in hundreds of global cities, where the gentrification of historically working class or poor urban communities of color by upper-class white people has become the norm, public schools easily become the epicenters of cultural and political conflicts. Because gentrification agitates unhealed wounds of systemic segregation while fostering the material and cultural loss of long-time residents’ homes, the public schools in these contexts regularly embody struggles over who has the right to the city and the private resources that gentry families bring. It is within this context that public schools have the potential to either heal or further divide.

The Public Good, which works to foster greater inter-racial understanding about race, privilege and opportunity at the school and classroom levels, is a Public School Support Organization (PSSO), created at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2015. Members of the research team, along with youth performance group, Epic Next Theatre Ensemble, will highlight the promise of combining systematic research with public advocacy to promote socially just, high-quality and culturally relevant educational opportunities for students in racially and ethnically diverse schools.

Members of The Public Good Project will present findings from their research on and for three public schools in urban gentrifying areas of New York City, and their methods to co-construct opportunities for a transformative shift in educators’ and parents’ cross-racial understandings of their schools. Epic Theatre will then perform their own researched, written, and directed play “LAUNDRY CITY” to center the lived realities of NYC youth amid rampant gentrification. A dialogue between Epic Theatre, The Public Good and the audience will follow.

About the play "LAUNDRY CITY," presented by The Epic Theatre Ensemble:

Over 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York City is one of the most segregated school districts in the United States. Conceived, written, and performed by NYC Public High School students, "LAUNDRY CITY" is a hilarious and provocative exploration of what "Separate but Equal" means to us today.

Written by: Olivia Dunbar, Vickandy Figueroa, Jeremiah Green, Melysa Hierro, Davion Osbourne.

Performed by: Miguel Delacruz, Olivia Dunbar, Davion Osbourne, Nashali Perez, Nakkia Smalls.

Directed by: James Wallert.

Co-sponsored by The Public Good Project, Epic Next Theatre Ensemble, and What is the Public(s) in Public Education? Research, Teaching, and the Arts Seminar in Public Engagement and Collaborative Research.

. Pissed
a panel & conversation with Cassils, Jack Halberstam, Titus Kaphar, Joel Sanders, & Chase Strangio
Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 721 Broadway

Find all locations plus way more legible descriptions on
NYU Ctr. for Study of Gender & Sexuality/CSGS Fall lecture listings graphic
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== > http://csgsnyu.org/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/csgsnyu/events/
(212) 992-9540 csgs@nyu.edu http://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies

. Cixousversaire: A Celebration of Hélène Cixous
Thursday to Saturday, Sept. 14 to 16, 2017
description https://goo.gl/SaV8BF = as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/events/2017/cixousversaire--a-celebration-of-helene-cixous.html

. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of thePublic · Hosted by Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
Thursday, Sept. 21
https://facebook.com/events/346877502417677/

. Apparatus of Power: a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Shahzia Sikander
Monday, Sept. 25

. Pissed
a panel & conversation with Cassils, Jack Halberstam, Titus Kaphar, Joel Sanders, & Chase Strangio
Tuesday, Sept. 26

. Unchain My Feet
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Sama Alshaibi
Tuesday, Oct. 10 http://apa.nyu.edu/

. Queering Asian American Contemporary Art
a forum with Jan Christian Bernabe, Greyson Hong, Laura Kina, Kyoo Lee, Zavé Martohardjono, & Saya Woolfalk
Wednesday, Oct. 18; see description: https://goo.gl/bnfzsZ
= apa.nyu.edu/event/queering-contemporary-asian-american-art-laura-kina-jan-christian-bernabe-greyson-hong-kyoo-lee-zave-martohardjono-and-saya-woolfalk/

. Intimate Relations: A Genealogy of Queer/Performativity
a lecture by Amelia Jones
Wednesday, Oct. 25

. The Right to Maim
a panel discussion with Liat Ben-Moshe, André Lepecki, Jasbir Puar, Helga Tawil-Souri, & Hentyle Yapp
Friday, Nov. 3,

. Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape about Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!
a performance by Adrienne Truscott, & post-show conversation with Ann Pellegrini
Friday, Nov. 10 https://nyuskirball.org/events/adrienne-truscott-asking/

. Combahee River Collective Mixtape: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent Then & Now
a panel discussion with Daphne Brooks, Kara Keeling, & Jacqueline Stewart
Wednesday, Nov. 15

. All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism
a talk with Lydia X. Z. Brown & Sunny Taylor
Friday, Nov. 17

. Listening to Images
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series lecture by Tina Campt
Monday, Nov. 20
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. Apparatus of Power: a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Shahzia Sikander
Monday, Sept. 25, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Shahzia Sikander, visual artist
Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
This talk will explore Sikander’s pioneering practice that takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media. Informed by South Asian, American, Feminist and Muslim perspectives, Sikander has developed a unique, critically charged approach to this time-honored medium –– employing its continuous capacity for reinvention to interrogate ideas of language, trade and empire, and migration
Shahzia Sikander has been the subject of major international exhibitions around the world, including, amongst others, MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2016-17); Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2007); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007); The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (2004); the Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris/Altria Branch (2000); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1999); Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1998); and has participated in more than 400 group shows and international art forums. She has received numerous grants, fellowships and awards, including the Asia Society Award for Significant Contribution to Contemporary Art (2015), the U.S. Department of State National Medal of Arts Award (2012); and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Fellowship (2006). Sikander lives and works in New York.
For more information about this event, please contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgs(at)nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.
Co-Sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Department of Art & Art Professions; Department of Art History; Institute of Fine Arts; Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies; and Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies; and by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC).

. Pissed
a panel & conversation with Cassils, Jack Halberstam, Titus Kaphar, Joel Sanders, & Chase Strangio
Tuesday, Sept. 26
7 to 9 pm
Performance Studies Studio
721 Broadway, room 612
Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and Department of Performance Studies.

. Unchain My Feet
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Sama Alshaibi
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Sama Alshaibi, multi-media artist
Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
Co-Sponsored by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Department of Social & Cultural Analysis; and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

. Queering Asian American Contemporary Art
a forum with Jan Christian Bernabe, Greyson Hong, Laura Kina, Kyoo Lee, Zavé Martohardjono, & Saya Woolfalk
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Asian/Pacific/American Institute
8 Washington Mews
RSVP here.
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), edited by Laura Kina (DePaul University) and Jan Christian Bernabe (Center of Art and Thought), brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialism, and methodologies within the study of Asian American art and visual culture. The featured essays, artist interviews, and artworks explore the multiple axes of race and identity, queer bodies and forms, kinship and affect, and digital identities and performances.
Kina and Bernabe met at the A/P/A Institute at NYU’s 2012 NEH Summer Institute,
“Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research, and Teaching,” which was the genesis for their new book. We are excited to welcome them back to A/P/A alongside contributors Greyson Hong (artist), Kyoo Lee (John Jay College), Zavé Martohardjono (artist), and Saya Woolfalk (artist) to discuss and celebrate the publication.
For more information about & to RSVP to this event, please click here.
Presented by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute and co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality.

. Intimate Relations: A Genealogy of Queer/Performativity
a lecture by Amelia Jones
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Performance Studies Studio in 721 Broadway, Room 612
Amelia Jones, American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Dornsife
This talk is based on the book project Intimate Relations, where Jones traces the interrelated histories of the terms “queer” and “performative” since 1950 in anglophone discourse. This genealogy suggests that the terms have deeply informed not only our thinking about queer, about performance and the performative, and about queer performance, but as well our understanding of how art works and comes to have cultural value (or not) over the past 70 years. In this paper, the focus is on examples in art discou

Columbus: Jane Lazarre on The Communist and the Communist's Daughter
Tuesday, Sept. 26, from 7:00pm (ask correct ending time)
event description: https://goo.gl/VAqHoo
related: http://dukeupress.edu/the-communist-and-the-communists-daughter
interview https://goo.gl/evBPn5
review http://socialistreview.org.uk/426/communist-and-communists-daughter
https://twitter.com/marniemuell/status/888428807002050560

Please join us Tuesday, September 26 at 7pm as Book Culture on Columbus and Harper's Magazine present The Communist and the Communist's Daughter by Jane Lazarre.

In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that "unfortunately, despite the attempts by your grandpa and many others to present you with a better world, we were not very successful." Born in 1902 amid the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Lazarre dedicated his life to working for economic equality, racial justice, workers' rights, and a more just world. He was also dedicated to his family, especially his daughters, whom he raised as a single father following his wife's death. In The Communist and the Communist's Daughter Jane Lazarre weaves memories of her father with documentary materials--such as his massive FBI file--to tell her father's fascinating history as a communist, a Jew, and a husband, father, and grandfather.

Soon after immigrating to the United States as a young man, Lazarre began a long career as a radical activist, being convicted of sedition, holding leadership positions in the American Communist Party, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, organizing labor unions, testifying in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and resisting the FBI's efforts to recruit him as an informant. Through periods of heroism and deep despair Lazarre never abandoned his ideals or his sustained faith in the fundamental goodness of people.

This is also the story of Jane as she grew up, married an African-American civil rights activist, and became a mother and a writer while coming to terms with her father's legacy. She recounts her arguments with her father over ideology, but also his profound influence on her life. Throughout this poignant and beautifully written work, Jane examines memory, grief, love, and conscience while detailing the sacrifices, humanity, and unwavering convictions of a man who worked tirelessly to create a brighter future for us all.

Jane Lazarre is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoirs Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, Wet Earth and Dreams: A Narrative of Grief and Recovery, and The Mother Knot, all also published by Duke University Press, as well as the novels Inheritance and Some Place Quite Unknown. She has won awards for her fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Lazarre founded and directed the undergraduate writing program at Eugene Lang College at the New School for ten years and taught creative writing and literature there for twenty years. She has also taught at the City College of New York and Yale University. Lazarre lives in New York City.

Event address:
450 Columbus Ave

The Communist and the Communist's Daughter: A Memoir (Hardcover)
By Jane Lazarre
$27.95
ISBN: 9780822369370
Availability: On Our Shelves Now - Click Title to See Location Inventory.
Published: Duke University Press - September 8th, 2017

The Subways Belong to the People: Protest @the MTA Board Meeting
Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 9:00 AM to Noon in 2 Broadway, 20th Fl.
https://facebook.com/events/1292066240923010/ https://facebook.com/pg/pplsmta/events/

The subway system is run by working class people and used by working class people. So why is it run by a rich, unelected board of people who for the most part don’t use public transportation themselves? Recent polls have shown the MTA responsible for people constantly being late to their job – as well as losing their jobs! But the problems of public transportation go beyond the mass breakdowns. They include inaccessibility – 80% of New York subway stations don’t have working elevators and the Access-A-Ride system strands riders on a regular basis; and racist harassment – the NYPD targets riders of color for littering summons or fare evasion; and mistreatment of workers – recently a station agent was outrageously framed and suspended for merely doing his job, a situation many union members feel contributed to his untimely death at age 54. Why can’t public transportation serve the people? The problem is that the MTA Board is a creation of the banks, who each year take hundreds of millions of dollars from the system for debt repayment. Much of that is interest – money banks collect for doing nothing. The banks, the same institutions who were bailed out by trillions of dollars after the 2008 crash, are looting public transportation! The MTA has proven itself capable of serving only the banks and Wall Street. We need to take public transportation back and run it in the interests of the people, not the rich!

About The People's MTA
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The MTA was created by the banks to service debt, not the people. We need an MTA board made of the people for the people.

OVERNIGHT VIGIL AT QUEENS SLAUGHTERHOUSE
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 6:00PM until Wednesday 5:00 AM [As of early Sept., the FB pg. says two conflicting start times for this action, so please check sources & contacts for updates.]
151-24 Beaver Rd, Jamaica, NY 11433, at 95th Av., nr. 150th St. underpass; E, J, Z to Jamaica Ctr.-Parsons/Archer; E, F to Parsons Blvd. map & transit: https://goo.gl/Vgx1ub
https://facebook.com/events/125118661450246/ https://t.co/eYnp87wRCz
http://269life.fr/en/night-standing-slaughterhouses/#comment-13

Activist in charge : Andrea Kallab

269Life Libération Animale : "Nuit Debout" in front of slaughterhouses.
Instructions to follow & proceedings of the event :

The french antispeciesist and abolitionist organization 269Life Libération Animale is preparing for the second time "Les Nuits Debout devant les abattoirs" (Silent vigil at night in front of slaughterhouses).

== > It will take place from the 26th September around 6pm to the 27th September around 5am (slaughterhouses opening time). This is a citizen action which wants to spread a large message and which wants to bring public and media attention to the animal holocaust that is tolerated by our society.

The antispeciesist movement, 269Life Libération Animale does not aim for better welfare for the animals but the abolition of livestock farming and exploitation which are undefendable.
This action is legal and will stay on the slaughterhouses entrance (roads or pavement areas, not in the private perimeter of the slaughterhouse) for a silent and static vigil.

You are very welcome to join us and to
== > stay one hour, two hours...etc or the entire night. For safety reasons, the vigil groups have to be built of at least 10 activists. It's
== > not a blockade of slaughterhouses or the trucks (like 269Life Libération Animale often do). The organization abandons all responsibilities if this instruction is not respected.

Readings can be prepared (text reading, witness statements, discussions...etc). You will be able to leave words, notes, flowers for the animals - to make a "269" with candles. You will be able to leave portraits of the victims. (We have many animal portraits which have been taken during our slaughterhouse blockades on our Facebook page, or use your own). Finally, you could observe a minute's silence to pay tribute to the animals at every fixed hour.

We'll be in front of a place where individuals lose their life. We want you to be respectful and calm in a solemn atmosphere. (No music, no megaphone, no picnic).

A banner of the organization will be brought to you. Signs and visuals have to contain abolitionist messages or animals' tribute messages. Please avoid bringing signs of other organizations as much as possible.

Media communication will be carried out by 269Life Libération Animale. Activists at each slaughterhouse ahould be prepared to respond to potential interviews on site. We wil be giving the press communiqués to the editorial boards in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, United States and all the other countries participating, in orderf or the message to be uniform and clear.

On site, an or several activist(s) will be responsible for taking photos and videos. All the photos & videos have to be posted on the main Facebook page of the event.

In the event of disruptions by livestock farmers or slaughterhouse employees: please remain calm. To the extent possible, avoid responding to verbal attacks. If there's a problem, you'll be able to message Tiphaine Lagarde (co-president of 269Life Libération Animale), Annie Bali, Romain Cassius, Vivi VeganGhost or Romain Perdrizet on messenger.

Thank you for your understanding.

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http://marxedproject.org/event/highlights-of-marxs-capital-volume-one/
https://facebook.com/events/892152487600160/
(347) 9874966 info@thecommonsbrooklyn.org http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/events-list

Highlights of Marx’s Capital, Volume I
A 10 Session Class and Discussion with Juliet Ucelli
Wednesdays, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
September 27-December 6, 2017

Capital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy, politics and struggles. Many of us have less time to study it because, as Marx predicted, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of Volume I offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics. With current conditions, we’ve been offering this highlights approach, breaking down key concepts and sections:

• use value, value and surplus value;
• why capitalism has needed conquest, enslavement and white supremacy;
• why capitalism drives technological innovation, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;
• how working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions.

Participant reports and life experiences are welcome!

The course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies, which Marx calls its laws of motion.

Juliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for labor unions, and was a public high school social worker. She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory, the politics of inner city public schooling and Marxist understandings of human development.

marxist education project

Wrestling with Zionism Readers' Theater
Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West btw. 1st & 2nd Aves.
map & transit: https://goo.gl/p7EVC8
https://eventbrite.com/e/wrestling-with-zionism-readers-theater-tickets-36594847173

Please join us for an evening of storytelling as a lens to grapple with our relationships to Israel/Palestine.

Organizer: Jewish Voice for Peace - NYC and the Ethical Living Committee of BSEC

HemiPress Celebration
https://facebook.com/events/1660369137328219/

The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics invites you to an evening reception in honor of HemiPress.

Please join us as we celebrate our 2017 Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship, awarded by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).

We will also be celebrating the release of our most recent publications.

HemiPress is the Hemispheric Institute’s digital publications imprint, created to house and centralize our diverse publication initiatives. Using a variety of customized open-source digital humanities platforms, HemiPress includes the Gesture short works series, the Duke U.P./HemiPress digital books, stand-alone essays, and the Institute’s peer-reviewed journal emisférica, alongside interviews, Cuadernos, and other online teaching resources. It also provides state-of-the-art multilingual publication capacities and immersive formats for capturing the “live” of performance, as well as a digital “bookshelf”—the interface that houses all of the Institute’s publications and connects communities of readers across the Americas.

Protest and the Free Press in America Under Trump - Panel & #J20 Fundraiser
Wednesday, Sep 27, 7:00 to 9:00 PM (doors at 6:00)
RSVP: https://pressprotestandtrump.eventbrite.com
descriptions (on NYSEC): https://goo.gl/63pcJw ; (at Eventbrite) https://goo.gl/6xaNxt
http://ethical.nyc/calendar-date_nysec https://thebaffler.com/events
Free - $10 suggested donation. All proceeds go toward J20 legal defense.
Larger donations encouraged. Beer/wine available.
Co-sponsored by The New York Society for Ethical Culture, The Nation and The Baffler

Since Trump has taken the stage, the United States has been engulfed in protest and dissent, as well as a crackdown from the Trump administration and local government forces. From #NoDAPL at Standing Rock to the #J20 inauguration protests in Washington, journalists face threats for doing their jobs, and protesters face legal sanction for criticizing authority. This panel tackles the future of dissent in America.

Moderator:

Sarah Leonard, @sarahrlnrd, Senior Editor, The Nation. Contributing editor to Dissent and The New Inquiry

Panelists:

Jenni Monet, @jennimonet, freelance journalist. Arrested covering NoDAPL
Murtaza Hussain, @MazMHussain, The Intercept
Jack Smith IV, @JackSmithIV, Senior Writer, Mic. Arrested covering NoDAPL

More panelists TBA.

The New York Society for Ethical Culture is the cornerstone of the Ethical Culture movement founded in 1876 by Dr. Felix Adler. Ethical Culture is a religion centered on ethics, not theology, whose mission is to encourage respect for humanity and nature and to create a better world. Members are committed to personal ethical development in their relationships with others and in activities involving social justice and environmental stewardship.Throughout our history we have helped create significant community institutions that have had a long-lasting effect in promoting civil society.

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A Life with MLK — The Perils of Biographical History: Taylor Branch
Wednesday Sept. 27, 6:30 PM in CUNY Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Av., Rm. C200
Free; Reservations Required == > https://goo.gl/NoJbBR = eventbrite.com/e/a-life-with-mlk-the-perils-of-biographical-history-taylor-branch-registration-37248801167
descriptions: http://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=41549
https://goo.gl/qg6tmj https://facebook.com/pg/leonlevycenterforbiography/events/ biography@gc.cuny.edu 212-817-2008 212-817-2008 https://twitter.com/GC_CUNY
SPONSOR: Public Programs http://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/GC-Presents
(212) 817-7000 https://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar

Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a landmark trilogy chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of the Civil Rights Movement, gives this annual talk on the process of writing and researching biography. Branch’s bestselling works include the three-volume America in the King Years; a selected summary, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement; and The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.

Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography.

[ask correct ending time]

Upstander Intervention Training
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 from 6:30 9:00 PM at 14th Street Y
344 East 14th St. btw. 1st & 2nd Aves.; L to 1 Av.; #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, W to 14 St.-Union Sq.
14th St. bus lines;
6:30pm Registration and Networking
7:00pm Training
$0 – $40 https://eventbrite.com/e/upstander-intervention-training-tickets-37149140078
https://facebook.com/events/334481503665426/
https://facebook.com/events/1900024453652153/ https://twitter.com/iHollaback
https://facebook.com/pg/ihollaback/events/ http://ihollaback.org
https://facebook.com/pg/nyc.mjsc/events/ https://twitter.com/NYCMJSC

With the uptick in hate crimes and aggressive acts, come together and learn the tools to be an upstander, who stands up instead of sitting idly by. Experts from Hollaback! will offer a training on how to respond to situations we may witness in private and public settings and will give us tools and ideas for deescalation and productive intervention.

Thank you to our partners for their support, 14 Street Y, Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ), Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Lab/Shul, and Temple Shaaray Tefila.
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Speak Your Peace (September)
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 from 7:00 to 9:00PM
@ our home base Benincasa
133 W 70th St.
https://www.facebook.com/events/828398247329545/
#speakyourpeace #thepeacepoeta #peacepoets

All are welcome, to The Peace Poets Free Monthly Open Mic!

Speak Your Peace is back and we hope y'all will come through and be in circle with us Family!
Speak Your Peace has been one of the gatherings that we've invested in for our NYC community to connect, share and build through! And after a little summer break, with all our travels and exchanges Journeying WE'RE BACK! Come through and fill the house with your energy and presence!

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Muhammad Yunus presents A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm in BPL Central Library Dweck Center
BPL Presents Adults Author Talks Arts and Culture RSVP business [
https://bklynlibrary.org/calendar/muhammad-yunus-presents-central-library-dweck-092717
https://facebook.com/events/160091234550120/ venue: (718) 230-2100
https://www.facebook.com/pg/GreenlightBklyn/events/
(718) 246-0200 http://www.greenlightbookstore.com ]

Muhammad Yunus, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet in A World of Three Zeros. Yunus, who created microcredit as founder of Grameen Bank and invented social business, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. A World of Three Zeros outlines a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest. Yunus discusses his work and takes questions, followed by a signing.

Co-presented with Greenlight Book store and BPL’s Business & Career Center.

Central Library, Dweck Center
10 Grand Army Plaza

© 2017 Brooklyn Public Library

New Sanctuary: A Speculative Film by Andre' Daughtry
A night of art and discussion on Immigration and Spirituality from a Black perspective
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 8:00 PM in Judson Memorial Church [Ask correct ending time. See map on the splashthat page.]

==> RSVP [Consider asking whether actually required -t.] :

https://newsanctuary.splashthat.com/

New Sanctuary is a speculative film and photography exhibit that follows the deportation case of a former US green card holder of African descent named “Ramesh” who is currently fighting his deportation back to Guyana where he is a naturalized citizen. Ramesh was convicted of a crime for which he served his time and was released but which ultimately stripped him of his Green card. As a result of his previous conviction and an escalation of deportations as a result of changes in US immigration policies, Ramesh was detained for a year and a half by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Upon release, Ramesh was ordered to wear an electronic tracking device around his ankle and ordered to report regularly to ICE offices in downtown Manhattan. The film depicts the support of the New Sanctuary Coalition, which is an interfaith coalition of activists [that] assists impacted individuals under current immigration policies.

ABOUT The Artist
André Daughtry is an interdisciplinary photography and media artist who lives in Brooklyn. He holds an MFA in Photography and Media from The California Institute of the Arts(Calarts) and an MA in Theology and the Arts from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. André is currently Sr. Community Minister of the Arts at The Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, NYC. [SO TO ME, THIS STRONGLY IMPLIES ANDRE WILL BE PRESENT, BUT CONSIDER ASKING THAT, TOO. -t]

Your Hosts

Art at the Intersections
A consultancy that builds, implements, and evaluates cultural strategies that are at the intersections of art, culture and social justice.

Judson Art Wednesdays
A night of food and art on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Wednesdays of the month at Judson Memorial Church.

#NewSanctuary
Have you been working on immigration issues? Share your strategies and questions with us! Tag your Tweets and Instagram photos with #NewSanctuary and share your vision of social change with other attendees!

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Please websearch or ask producers for correct start and end times, this year. -t

Celebrate CDP 2017 CDP's annual celebration of our work in support of movements for change takes place this year on
Thursday, Sept. 28 at Zanger Hall
347 W. 34th St.btw. 8th & 9th Aves.
nr. A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, B, D, F, M, PATH, N, Q, R, W trains & 34th St. bus
https://cdp.urbanjustice.org/celebratecdp
https://facebook.com/pg/CommunityDevelopmentProject/events/
https://twitter.com/UrbanJustice (646) 602-5600
View photos from our 2016 event in our Facebook album.

Tower League Trip to African Burial Ground National Monument
https://facebook.com/events/1457802240976121/
Join us for a guided tour of African Burial Ground National Monument sacred space in Manhattan. From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York. Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building.

11:00 a.m.: Lunch in 9T
12:00 Noon: Depart from Riverside’s Claremont Avenue Entrance
4:00 p.m.: Return to church
Suggested donation: $20

Please sign up by September 21 by contacting Rev. Lynn Harper
lharper@trcnyc.org or 212-870-6753.

WFP 19th Annual Gala Celebration
Thursday, Sept. 28, from 6:00 to 9:00pm
Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
524 W. 59th St. (btwn 10th & 11th Ave.), New York, NY
Tix https://goo.gl/2enfMQ
http://workingfamilies.org/2017/09/rsvp-wfps-19th-annual-gala-nyc/
https://twitter.com/NYWFP

This year, we're proud to be honoring progressive champions who are helping to make New York a national leader in the resistance against Trump and working to build a state that works for all of us, including New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, New York State Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Just Leadership USA Founder and President Glenn Martin, and Amalgamated Bank.

Can you join us?

Become a WFP sustainer with a monthly contribution of $10 or more and receive an Activist Rate ticket to our 19th Annual Gala Celebration on September 28th in NYC:

RSVP and Purchase Tickets

Capacity for the event is limited, so make sure to RSVP and purchase your tickets soon. (If you are already a WFP sustainer and are interested in attending, please reply to this email.)

Thanks and hope to see you there!

Bill Lipton
Working Families Party

P.S. Interested in sponsoring the Gala? Standard ticket and sponsorship options are still available, starting at $250 and up. Click here to learn more.

Join us on 9/28 when @hthompsn presents
"Blood In The Water: The #Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy":
$5 tix http://bit.ly/2i6auA5
https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory/status/909896109681672193
@brooklynhistory http://twitter.com/brooklynhistory 718.222.4111 www.brooklynhistory.org

Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History, Heather Ann Thompson shares the complicated and gripping tale of the five-day prison uprising, as well as the muddied investigations, lawsuits, and untold stories that followed.

Book Talk: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971
Thursday, September 28
Doors: 6:00 pm
Event: 6:30 pm
$5 General Admission / Free for Members

BHS Members: to reserve tickets at the member price, click on "Tickets" and enter your Member ID on the following page after clicking on "Enter Promotional Code."

REFUND POLICY Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days.

Thu, September 28, 2017
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Brooklyn Historical SocietY
128 Pierrepont St
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Organizer of Book Talk: "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971"

Founded in 1863, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) is a library, museum, and urban education center dedicated to the people of Brooklyn, providing opportunities for civic dialogue and thoughtful engagement.

. Transparency, Journalism, and the White House tickets
$5
Tue, Oct 3 6:30 PM
Transparency, Journalism, and the White House

. Criminalizing Poverty, Community Organizations, and Fighting Back tickets
Free
Thu, Oct 5 6:30 PM

© 2017 Eventbrite

Talking Black in America, Film Screening and Talkback
Thursday Sep. 28 from 6:30 to 8:30pm in NYU Cantor Film Ctr. Theater 102
36 E. 8th St. btw. University Pl. & Greene St., nr. R, W, #6, PATH, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, L, #1 stops & buses via W.8th St. or via E.9th St. & E.10th St.
Map & transit: https://goo.gl/B2P6eC
Public. RSVP probably required, but please ask: http://tinyurl.com/TBAFILM
Event graphic & descriptions: https://goo.gl/UAtcKf = (as.nyu.edu/sca/events/fall-2017/talking-black-in-america--film-screening-and-talkback.html)
https://goo.gl/qZrieb
= (jamilalyiscott.com/event/talking-black-in-america-film-screening-and-talkback/)
http://as.nyu.edu/metropolitanstudies/events.html

ONE-HOUR FILM SCREENING FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION WITH SCHOLARS AND ACTIVISTS
RENÉE BLAKE (Talking Black Contributor and Associate Producer)
CECELIA CUTLER (Author of White Hip Hop Youth Language and Identity in Post Modern America)
JAMILA LYISCOTT (TED.com talk, 3 Ways to Speak English)
[videos https://goo.gl/z5gi3b ]

(was: "Screening of Care in Chaos and Q&A with filmmakers")
https://facebook.com/events/672981782895742/?
https://facebook.com/pg/NYCforAbortionRights/events/

Join NYC for Abortion Rights for a screening of "Care in Chaos," a Rewire original documentary.

Following the screening of this 20-minute documentary there will be a moderated discussion and audience Q&A with directors Lindsay Beyerstein and Martyna Starosta and producer Marc Faletti, director of multimedia at Rewire.

About the film:
Calla Hales is the 27-year-old administrator of the busiest abortion clinic in North Carolina, and she’s at the end of her rope. Hundreds of protesters congregate daily outside her clinic, yelling on loudspeakers and jumping in front of cars, while the police look on indifferently. How chaotic will it have to get for officers to take action on behalf of Calla, her staff, and her patients? And is there any other clinic in the United States she can look to for hope?
https://rewire.news/videos/2017/07/11/care-in-chaos/

More on NYC for Abortion Rights: www.facebook.com/NYCforAbortionRights

The Unauthorized Psychoanalysis of Donald J. Trump & the Fight Against Fascism ROUND 2
Thursday Sept. 28, 2017, 7:00 PM at Abyssinian Baptist Church
224 W. Kinney St. Newark, NJ [ask correct ending time -t.]
(973) 801 0001
event graphic https://goo.gl/SiLvdd = https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=708985549311587&set=a.344164465793699.1073741827.100006004457773&type=3&theater

. DC: Black Voices Matter National March events
from Friday Sept. 29 // please look up details //
https://goo.gl/gPeXwX
= www.weprotest.org/events/united-states/district-of-columbia/washington/us-protests/black-voices-matter-national-march-1/

. Black Music Matters DC Mall Concert Sept. 29, 8:00 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/1247682978687360

We Are One Foundation will be hosting a Black Music Matters on September 29th, the concert will kick off a three day event. Over the decades, black music has consistently had a significant cultural and political impact on real-world events and provided power for positive change and unity at historic moments. So will are going to bring a night where, we will come together and celebrate the culture of African-American music.

If you're an artist or dancer and you like to be a part of the concert please inbox us on Facebook!

Tower League Trip to African Burial Ground National Monument
https://facebook.com/events/1457802240976121/
Join us for a guided tour of African Burial Ground National Monument sacred space in Manhattan. From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York. Lost to history due to landfill and development, the grounds were rediscovered in 1991 as a consequence of the planned construction of a Federal office building.

11:00 a.m.: Lunch in 9T
12:00 Noon: Depart from Riverside’s Claremont Avenue Entrance
4:00 p.m.: Return to church
Suggested donation: $20

Please sign up by September 21 by contacting Rev. Lynn Harper
lharper@trcnyc.org or 212-870-6753.

Santiago Álvarez: Cuban Documentary Cinema, Racial Justice, and the Third World
Friday Sep. 29, fr/ 6:00 to 8:00pm in NYU King Juan Carlos Ctr at
53 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St., next to Judson Memorial & nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, PATH, #1, R, W, #6 stops;
event graphic & description: https://goo.gl/GbzA7x , https://goo.gl/1DKTYL = (as.nyu.edu/sca/events/fall-2017/santiago-alvarez--cuban-documentary-cinema--racial-justice--and-.html)

Film screening Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
09/29/17, 6:30pm, Goethe-Institut New York
30 Irving Pl. at E. 16th St., a block east of Union Sq.
nr. #4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W, F, M, PATH, 1, 2, 3 stops & 14th St. buses; description:
https://goethe.de/ins/us/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21000851
Venue calendar https://goethe.de/ins/us/en/ver.cfm
212 4398700 info@newyork.goethe.org https://goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/ney.html

Munich, 1943. As Hitler wages a devastating war in Europe, a group of young people, mostly university students, resorts to passive resistance as the only effective way to cripple the Nazis and their inhuman war machine. The White Rose is formed, a resistance movement dedicated to the downfall of the Third Reich. Sophie Scholl joins the group as its only female member – an innocent young girl who matures into a committed and fearless anti-Nazi. On 18 February 1943, Sophie and her brother Hans are caught distributing leaflets at the university and arrested. Over the next few days, Sophie's interrogation by the Gestapo officer Mohr evolves into an intense psychological duel. She lies and denies, schemes and challenges, lays down her arms and picks them up again, with greater force, nearly disarming her opponent. Then, the crushing evidence, the confession, and Sophie's last, desperate attempt to protect her brother and the other members of the White Rose. Moved by Sophie's uncommon bravery, Mohr even offers her a way out – but at the price of betraying her ideals. She refuses the offer, sealing her fate ...

Marc Rothemund, Deutschland, 2005

Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Sept. 29 & Fridays fr/ 7:00 to 9:00 PM, Brooklyn Commons, $95 - $125
12 meetings, September 29 through December 22
No session on Friday, November 24
https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/
https://facebook.com/events/108746789699237/
In traditional hard-boiled and crime novels, women either provoke violence as femme fatales or need protection as paying clients or wandering daughters. Some authors were dissatisfied with this pulp convention and worked in an extension of pulp, film noir, writing scripts with more complicated women. Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. As women’s opportunities improved and the conventions of the detective novel changed, women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.

Our Friday readings will consist of the following:

Lisa Brackmann, Rock Paper Tiger
Brackman introduces us to Ellie McEnroe, a veteran Iraqi War medic. Since she is unemployed and estranged from her veteran husband turned government contractor whom she had followed to China, she has the time to travel to tourist destinations on orders from computer game avatars. The avatars’ unknown alliances place Ellie in a modern void of dread and suspicion where the surveillance state and militarized government contractors contaminate all human exchanges while a commercialized art scene provides comic and human connection.

Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
Driving toward Phoenix, Densmore sees a young white woman hitchhiking. Even though he knows that a black man should not offer a white girl a ride, he fears for her safety. Then, he gets charged with her murder. Complicating his lackluster defense is that the woman has died from complications of an illegal abortion and he is a medical student.

Attica Locke, The Cutting Season
The body of a migrant worker is found on the grounds of a former plantation turned into an historical amusement park, complete with slave quarters. Outside the plantation, the hard-pressed owners of sugar cane fields are selling their land to a corporation that relies upon undocumented migrants. A mystery from the time of slavery parallels the modern murder.

Jean-Patrick Manchette, Fatale
Can a man portray a woman with a gun differently? Maybe when by Manchette. A woman comes to town to kill the corrupt. Stripped down language. Bloodier than Red Harvest. Manchette brought politics back to French thrillers.

Nina Revoyr, Lost Canyon
Four hikers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds represent a diverse Los Angeles get lost in the mountains and find a murder. Moving effortlessly between city and wilderness, Lost Canyon explores the ways that race, class, and culture shape experience and perception while examining the choices good people must face in desperate situations.

Jacqueline Cantwell has explored the depths of crime fiction along with the heights the desperate will often want to throw themselves from. These fictions will lay bare many of the facts of the cold as ice killings and cover-ups present in a modern world where we are expected to behave better—but very often do not. What better night than Fridays in Autumn for murder and mayhem.
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MARXIST EDUCATION PROJECTS EVENT LISTINGS AS OF AUG. 4, 2017
Changes & additions at http://marxedproject.org/event/
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events/ info@marxedproject.org

The Politics of the Unconscious: Four Sessions
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in New Perspectives Theatre,
456-458 W. 37th St. [btw. 9th & 10th Aves.] $40 - $60
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/
Through theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated.

Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital, Volume I
Saturday, Sept. 16 fr/ 2:00 to 3:30 PM, Brooklyn Commons, $6 - $15
marxedproject.org/event/five-explicit-and-implicit-notions-of-revolution-in-capital-volume-i
https://facebook.com/events/1238960042876615/
It is often said that Capital, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form, with many dialectical twists and turns, but not with revolution. However, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution.

A People’s History of the World
Saturday, Sept. 23 from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom, $45 - $140
http://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world/
https://facebook.com/events/1978158255752834/
The goal of the course is not to understand every moment or every place in global history, but to use a Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history, and how those trends and junctures have shaped our present.

The October Revolution of 1917
Monday Oct. 2 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM Brooklyn Commons, $65 - $85
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-october-revolution-of-1917/
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=14225 revsgroup@gmail.com Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, defenders of the capitalist order, including respectable academic scholars, have attempted to portray it as a coup d’état by a small minority of revolutionary zealots, bent on imposing an authoritarian regime. These falsehoods have the aim of discrediting not only this revolution and its leaders, but the idea of revolution in general.

Ban This Book (If You Can)
Fri, Sep 29 // 7:00 p.m. at Strand Bookstore
$20
http://thinkolio.org/olios/ban-book-if-you-can/ http://strandbooks.com/event/ban-this-book
Presented with Strand Bookstore
For many of the greats of literary Modernism, including James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, the ultimate cat and mouse game with the censors was played on a global scale. More than a decade before the Nazi book burnings turned public opinion against the obscenity laws, writers and their publishers defied the law, and we will examine the extraordinary symbolic richness of the writing that fooled the censors (Solzhenitsyn, Du Fu) as well as the ways that some writers and editors caved in to the authorities (Dos Passos).

Charles Riley, who taught and wrote under extreme government censorship in China while helping dissidents, tracks the network of censorship that targeted Joyce's Ulysses and other "obscene" books.

Teacher: Charles Riley
Charles Riley II, PhD, is an arts journalist, curator and professor at Clarkson University. He is the author of thirty-two books on art, architecture and public policy. Upcoming books include Free as Gods (University Press of New England) and Rodin and his Circle (Chimei Museum, Taiwan).
Watch a clip of Charles Riley in action

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Other upcoming Olios

Sep 10
Meditations: A Wisdom of the Everyday
Taught by Michael Prettyman
4 p.m. at IDIO Gallery

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Sep 12
What Exactly is Neo About Neo-Nazism? Violence in Politics
Taught by Ward Regan
7:30 p.m. at Nowadays

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Sep 13
Black to the Future: Afrofuturism & Black Sci-Fi
Taught by Makeba Lavan
7:30 p.m. at Cafe Erzulie

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Sep 15
Urban Inspiration & Suburban Sprawl in the Lyrics of the Talking Heads
Taught by Jessica Rogers
8:15 p.m. at Strand Bookstore

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Sep 17
Unlocking Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, and the Monstrous Hollywood Dream Machine
Taught by Geoff Klock
2 p.m. at Neuehouse Madison Sq.

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Sep 24
*Olio Seminar* Fighting the Loneliness: How and Why We Crave Alternate Ways of Being
Taught by Michael Haltenberger
3 p.m. at Nowhere Studios

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March for Black Women
Saturday, Sept. 30 from 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Washington, District of Columbia
https://facebook.com/events/665201540335608/
Public · Hosted by Black Women's Blueprint
https://www.mamablack.org/march-for-black-women
On September 30, 2017 Black women in all their diversity will march on the National Mall and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. to denounce the propagation of state-violence and the widespread incarceration of Black women and girls, rape and all sexualized violence, the murders and brutalization of transwomen and the disappearances of our girls from our streets, our schools and our homes.

Moreover, in this highly political moment of the twentieth year anniversary of the Million Women March, we amplify the struggles of Black women in the rural South—the “Black Belt”, and demand a cease and desist of all threats to those of us who are immigrant women across the country, living in fear of deportation.

Go to http://www.mamablack.org/march-for-black-women to learn about:
_The D.C. march route
_The Partners Black Women's Blueprint, BYP100 and Trans Sistas of Color Project and more
_How to organize a march in your City
_Standing in solidarity with Black women of the Global South
_Membership
_Resources
_Facts/Why we must rally, speak, organize, protest and/or march

We have always put it simply: Black women's issues are racial justice issues. Black lived-experiences related to gender, sexuality, gender identity are--racial-- justice--issues. On September 30, 2017, Black women and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically at the center of the scheduled MARCH FOR RACIAL JUSTICE as our very own MARCH FOR BLACK WOMEN.

We need you to show up for Black women.

Our March within a March is not only a mass mobilization centered on Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women are killed by the cops; so long as Black women are taken or go missing; so long as we are raped by state officials, by friends, by strangers or by nationally renown membes of our communities -- there can be NO JUSTICE.
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FACTS
8 Black trans women were murdered in the first four months of 2017 = #NOJUSTICE

60 women report rape by Cosby including 22 Black women. Cosby admits he drugged and “had sex” with them but there’s a hung jury = #NOJUSTICE

June 2017 Pregnant Charleena Lyles shot and killed by Seattle police = #NOJUSTICE

May 2017, 27 year old Jonie Block was killed by police = #NOJUSTICE

April 2017, Glenda Taylor stabbed and strangled by a probation officer, the officer was also her fiance = #NOJUSTICE

In March 2017, 38 year old Sherida Davis was shot and killed by police, the officer was also her husband = #NOJUSTICE

In March 2017, 21 year old pregnant Alteria Woods was shot and killed by police = #NOJUSTICE

In February 2017, 30 year old Morgan Rankins was shot and killed by police = #NOJUSTICE

In March 2017, 10 of our children went missing in less than 2-weeks in the I-495 corridor that stretches between Baltimore and D.C., most of them Black girls = #NOJUSTICE

As of 2014, 64,000 Black women were MISSING in the United States = #NOJUSTICE

Thousands of Black girls under 18 are pimped out by men from our own communities = #NOJUSTICE

40% of young people trafficked in the U.S. are Black, most of them girls = #NOJUSTICE

Black women are 13% of U.S. women, but make up about half of domestic violence homicide victims = #NOJUSTICE

Black women are beaten by their partners at a rate of 35% higher than white women = #NOJUSTICE

In April 2017, Karen Smith is shot and killed by her husband and hundreds more such cases go unnoticed = #NOJUSTICE

In California, 81% of girls in the juvenile justice system suffered sexual abuse before being arrested = #NOJUSTICE

40% of girls in the juvenile justice system have been raped or sodomized in their lifetime = #NOJUSTICE

The media doesn’t seem to care = #NOJUSTICE

Black women don’t seem to matter = #NOJUSTICE

For more facts: Go to mamablack.org

My sisters and comrades, we have always known that our very survival as Black women is political. Whether your demands are for reproductive justice, ending police murders, rapes and brutalization, ending the beatings, strangulations and harassment, ending sex trafficking and sexual exploitation, or demanding access to housing, economic security, education or child care, Black women's ability to control our own bodies and our own lives are at stake. Join us!

Contact: Farah Tanis email BlackWomen@Blueprintny.org

Talk to the Author: Alia Malek & "The Home That Was Our Country"
Saturday, Sept. 30, 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 PM at NYU Kevorkian
RSVP required: https://goo.gl/V1JPTJ https://facebook.com/events/273553889815210/ https://facebook.com/pg/naapny/events/ http://naaponline.org/ny naapny@naaponline.org
https://twitter.com/NAAPNY

Join us on 9/30 in collaboration with the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies Outreach Program for k12 educators for a book discussion with award-winning journalist & author, Alia Malek about her masterful new book, "The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria."

No cover, however space is limited and RSVPs through the following form are required (not just here on FB): https://goo.gl/forms/OBzwuRwGtpfRBPbB3

Also, read the book ahead of time so we can have a great discussion! https://smile.amazon.com/Home-That-Was-Our-Country/dp/1568585322/

What: Discussion with Alia Malek
When: Sat. 9/30, 11:00 - 1:00
Where: Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
Cover: Free, but RSVP is needed

Join the NAAP-NY Book club: https://www.facebook.com/events/1371377189574664

Learn more about the author at http://www.aliamalek.com/

Thank you!

NAAP-NY

Fall Uprising: Share Skills. Build Power. End AIDS
https://www.facebook.com/events/265872243905166/
http://studentglobalaidscampaign.org https://facebook.com/fightglobalaids/about

**More details to come soon**

We're really excited to share an upcoming event with you. This September, we are organizing a radical activist skill-share for folks from any movement. Come join us from September 30-October 2 where we'll learn with each other about how we can reach beyond the tactics we know and love to achieve an AIDS-free generation. What else is in our activist toolbox?

More details to come. If you're interested now, sign up here:
www.studentglobalaidscampaign.org/fall_uprising_event

If you have any questions, message SGAC National Organizer Emily Sanderson, or email Emily@healthgap.org

The Stony Stone and Ben Robey Show Podcast host a
30th Anniversary gathering for the bike courier documentary,
Fifth, Park and Madison - Starring Steve Athineos.
Special Guest Bandit, and hopefully everyone that should be there.
This http://www.8ballradio.nyc is the 8 BALL RADIO page for the show, and their complete programming. The Anniversary Show's September 30, 6 - 8 PM.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1315090535277496/

https://www.facebook.com/events/134878767130588/

Lawyers' March on Washington
Sunday Oct. 1 CANCELLED
https://www.facebook.com/events/624252661080516

Fall Uprising: Share Skills. Build Power. End AIDS
https://www.facebook.com/events/265872243905166/
http://studentglobalaidscampaign.org https://facebook.com/fightglobalaids/about

**More details to come soon**

We're really excited to share an upcoming event with you. This September, we are organizing a radical activist skill-share for folks from any movement. Come join us from September 30-October 2 where we'll learn with each other about how we can reach beyond the tactics we know and love to achieve an AIDS-free generation. What else is in our activist toolbox?

More details to come. If you're interested now, sign up here:
www.studentglobalaidscampaign.org/fall_uprising_event

If you have any questions, message SGAC National Organizer Emily Sanderson, or email Emily@healthgap.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/473981202979262/

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ON OCTOBER 1st, WE WILL MOBILIZE ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS, TO STAND TOGETHER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN NEW YORK, NY.

Rally at 1pm, gather at 12:30
*Exact location details closer to march.

When thinking about racism on a local level, there are many systematic issues that affect the New York City communities of color:

• Housing/Gentrification/Terraforming/Real Estate Gerrymandering
• Broken Windows Policing
• Rikers Island/Mass Incarceration
• Public Education/Charter Schools
• Immigration

The March for Racial Justice on Sunday October 1st, 2017 is a Call to Action to give support to grassroots organizations ...

March for Racial Justice NYC
ON OCTOBER 1, WE WILL MOBILIZE ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS, AND INDIVIDUALS, TO STAND TOGETHER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN NYC.

Our mission is to harness the national unrest and dissatisfaction with institutionalized violence, and mobilize into a national movement to strengthen local and nationwide efforts for racial equity and justice.

The day Philando Castile's murderer was acquitted we as a group had had enough. We are ready to host a march for Racial Justice, and we expect thousands of people to show up from all ethnicities and racial backgrounds. This campaign is to help us cover the costs of the NYC march, including security, permits, staging, and other required costs that will arise.

Take a stand with us. None of us are free until all of us are free.

To read more about our vision and mission visit www.m4rj.com.

fb/ig/twitter @M4RJNYC

Text "M4RJNYC" to 66866 to receive march updates.
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We need racial equality to be a priority in our country. As a white woman, I want POC to feel safe and feel that their children are safe when they are going to school, the store, work, et.al. ***Save D.A.C.A.*** As a Christian, I want the administration to realise that Muslims are peaceful people who are productive members of their communities. Grouping all Muslims together with al-Quaeda or ISIS, is comparable to grouping all Christians with the KKK. In addition, fellow Christians, Jesus was Jewish, and Judaism, Islam and Christianity have the same deity. Thomas Aquinas wrote the definition of God, Theism, to spitefully refute that. One of my religion professors wrote his doctoral dissertation about Theism, and it was our textbook for the class Doctrine of God at a private United Methodist college.

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https://thebasebk.org/open-house-and-fundraiser/
https://twitter.com/TheBaseBK

Stop by the Base to visit our seed library and swap garden stories, transplants and materials.
We will tend to our indoor and street gardens around the Base over tea and snacks.
We are an autonomous, anti-capitalist garden network working collectively with existing or new garden spaces. Free seeds, soil, and building materials. in exchange, a portion of what we grow will be harvested for revolutionary food sharing programs at The Base.

To get involved email: radgardener@protonmail.com
or stop by The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221
Sundays
1-3PM

THIS IS AN AUTOMATICALLY REPEATING THIRD PARTY GOOGLE CALENDAR EVENT. IT IS NOT RARE THAT NYC EVENT PRODUCERS RE-SCHEDULE OR CANCEL STUFF WITHOUT LETTING THE PUBLIC KNOW. BEFORE TRAVELING TO ATTEND, CONSIDER CONTACTING VENUE OR PRODUCER. IF YOU KNOW A CONTACT, TELL ME. IF YOU NEED CONTACTS, ASK ME.

Beekeeping 101: Honey Tasting
Sunday, October 1, 2017
2:00pm 4:00pm
$45
Brooklyn Grange Clinton Avenue and Flushing Avenue https://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com/upcoming/honey-tasting

nyc@blackandpink.org http://blackandpink.org (617) 519 4387
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar (212) 777 6028
(347) 645 9339 http://qdep.org info@qdep.org,

NYC Black & Pink & the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project would like to invite you to our afternoon letter writing. What can you bring? Writing materials, stamps if you want! We can always use more postage.

Help us in alleviating the isolation of prison!

[ THIS IS A THIRD PARTY'S AUTOMATICALLY REPEATING, GOOGLE CALENDAR ENTRY ANNOUNCING A PERIODIC EVENT. So before traveling to attend, consider asking organizers or venue to confirm the meeting is actually happening: -t.]

For event city & location, first check: https://facebook.com/events/169337946962706/

Come together to honor all of the lives lost to the heroin epidemic. 66,000 Americans overdosed and died from opioid overdoses in 2017. Last year, addiction caused more American deaths than the 12-year U.S. War in Vietnam. Many of us also lost our family members to police brutality and street violence. Join us for a vigil to honor their lives. Bring a picture or share a memory of your loved one. You are not alone. Mourning together, remembering and realizing that we can overcome this epidemic is part of our healing.

Fall Uprising: Share Skills. Build Power. End AIDS
https://www.facebook.com/events/265872243905166/
http://studentglobalaidscampaign.org https://facebook.com/fightglobalaids/about

**More details to come soon**

We're really excited to share an upcoming event with you. This September, we are organizing a radical activist skill-share for folks from any movement. Come join us from September 30-October 2 where we'll learn with each other about how we can reach beyond the tactics we know and love to achieve an AIDS-free generation. What else is in our activist toolbox?

More details to come. If you're interested now, sign up here:
www.studentglobalaidscampaign.org/fall_uprising_event

If you have any questions, message SGAC National Organizer Emily Sanderson, or email Emily@healthgap.org

Oktoberfest 2017 on Monday October 2, 2017 at SolarOne
On East River at E. 22nd St., across FDR Drive
http://mailchi.mp/solar1/45jfe1wjbp

Sustainable Development in the Amazon
Monday, Oct. 2 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM in CUNY Rm. 9100/Skyline Room
Speaker: Thomas Rudel
Free
http://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=41183

The Future of Healthcare in America
Monday Oct. 2, 6:30 in CUNY Proshansky Auditorium, 365 5th Av., Rm. C200
Free Reservations Required == > https://goo.gl/ioEG84
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SPONSOR: Public Programs www.gc.cuny.edu/Public-Programs/
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Healthcare policy is one of the most complex and highly politicized issues in America today. Learn more about what is at stake as Margot Sanger-Katz (New York Times) hosts a panel of experts with diverse points of view. Participants include Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at MIT; Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and GC distinguished professor; Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity; and others.

Presented with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality.

Join us for our monthly meeting!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1409678772461643/

The October Revolution of 1917
An eight-week overview
Mondays at 7:30 PM, October 2 through November 13 at Brooklyn Commons
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-october-revolution-of-1917/
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=14225
http://marxedproject.org/event/ https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events/
w/ The Revolutions Study Group revsgroup@gmail.com info@marxedproject.org
Sliding scale: $65 / $75 / $85
no one turned away for inability to pay

Few historical events have been as widely misrepresented as the Russian Revolution of November, 1917 (called the "October Revolution", according to the old Russian calendar). Especially since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, defenders of the capitalist order, including respectable academic scholars, have attempted to portray it as a coup d’état by a small minority of revolutionary zealots, bent on imposing an authoritarian regime. These falsehoods have the aim of discrediting not only this revolution and its leaders, but the idea of revolution in general. The Revolutions Study Group—which has recently taken an in-depth look at the events that brought Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power—is marking the centennial of the October Revolution by offering an eight-week course for anyone interested in finding out what actually happened at this defining moment of the twentieth century, and beyond.

We will read Verso Books’ recently published October, by China Miéville, along with other short readings, where appropriate.

The Revolutions Study Group (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2008. Individual participants have come and gone. However the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of 1848, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy in 1969, the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the Socialist (2nd) International, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.

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MARXIST EDUCATION PROJECTS EVENT LISTINGS AS OF AUG. 4, 2017
Changes & additions at http://marxedproject.org/event/
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The Politics of the Unconscious: Four Sessions
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in New Perspectives Theatre,
456-458 W. 37th St. [btw. 9th & 10th Aves.] $40 - $60
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/
Through theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated.

Five Explicit and Implicit Notions of Revolution in Capital, Volume I
Saturday, Sept. 16 fr/ 2:00 to 3:30 PM, Brooklyn Commons, $6 - $15
marxedproject.org/event/five-explicit-and-implicit-notions-of-revolution-in-capital-volume-i
https://facebook.com/events/1238960042876615/
It is often said that Capital, Volume I is concerned with the enfoldment of the capital form, with many dialectical twists and turns, but not with revolution. However, such a picture severs Marx the revolutionary from Marx the social theorist. In fact, Capital I can be connected to five different notions of revolution.

A People’s History of the World
Saturday, Sept. 23 from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom, $45 - $140
http://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-the-world/
https://facebook.com/events/1978158255752834/
The goal of the course is not to understand every moment or every place in global history, but to use a Marxist perspective to understand major trends and significant junctures in world history, and how those trends and junctures have shaped our present.

Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Friday, Sept. 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM Brooklyn Commons, $95 - $125
https://marxedproject.org/event/fridays-as-in-murder-women-violence-genre-formulas/
https://facebook.com/events/108746789699237/
Drawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.

The October Revolution of 1917
Monday Oct. 2 from 7:30 to 9:30 PM Brooklyn Commons, $65 - $85
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-october-revolution-of-1917/
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=14225 revsgroup@gmail.com Since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, defenders of the capitalist order, including respectable academic scholars, have attempted to portray it as a coup d’état by a small minority of revolutionary zealots, bent on imposing an authoritarian regime. These falsehoods have the aim of discrediting not only this revolution and its leaders, but the idea of revolution in general.

Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for the Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman with Jim O’Grady
Tue, Oct 3, 2017, Noon [ask correct ending time -t.]
Tickets from $25 at https://www.92y.org/event/gilded-suffragists

Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites “trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris,” numerous women of New York’s most affluent families such as the Astors, Whitneys and Rockefellers, served a vital role in the suffrage movement in the early twentieth century.

In her new book. Gilded Suffragists, author Johanna Neuman explains how these socialites used their wealth and power to excite mainstream interest and makes a case for their rightful place in the story of women’s suffrage.

There will be a book signing following this event.

Johanna Neuman
Johanna Neuman is a writer, historian and scholar in residence at American University in Washington, D.C.
Jim O'Grady

Jim O'Grady is a features reporter at WNYC. He has also told stories on This American Life, Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen and The Moth podcast.
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Johanna Neuman on Gilded Suffragists www.johannaneuman.com/
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, in the context of how social change is made in America

New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution.

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like—carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause.

Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites “trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris,” these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the streets of New York City.

Johanna Neuman restores these women to their rightful place in the story of women’s suffrage. Understanding the need for popular approval for any social change, these socialites used their wealth, power, social connections and style to excite mainstream interest and to diffuse resistance to the cause. In the end, as Neuman says, when change was in the air, these women helped push women’s suffrage over the finish line.

Johanna Neuman is a writer, historian and scholar in residence at American University in Washington, D.C. An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she covered the White House, the State Department and Congress for the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.

Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote (Hardcover)
By Johanna Neuman
$24.95
ISBN: 9781479837069
Published: New York University Press - September 5 , 2017

Bikes are awesome! They're ecofriendly, good exercise, faster than the speed of light, and fun! Let’s be good to our metal and rubber friends.

At Time's Up Bike Repair class, learn how to fix bikes and do simple maintenance and tune-ups. Each class covers a different subject in a 4-week rotation beginning the first Tuesday of every month:

Come out to La Plaza Community Garden (SW corner of 9th St & Ave. C) every Tuesday to know how to treat your BFF (Bike friend forever).

https://www.facebook.com/events/274843876350330/

Workshop w/ What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective
Tuesday, Oct 3, fr/ 6:30 to 9:30pm in CUNY Grad. Ctr. Room 9206
Register Here https://goo.gl/zDcSQY
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The What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective will host a participatory workshop about how to honor, support and activate transitions in personal health and the political climate through the lens of the ongoing AIDS crisis. Using video, writing prompts and group discussion, Diana Cage and Ted Kerr will explore current realities for people living with HIV, those deeply impacted, and folks who wish to be more involved. == > People living with HIV, and those providing related care are encouraged to attend.
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CLAGS Fall Semester 2017 Events
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Queer Pedagogies
Monday, Sept 11, 6:00 to 8:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C204
Register Here https://goo.gl/kQuFHF
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A conversation for educators who are LGBTQ or allied, moderated bu María R. Scharrón-del Río (Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY), Kalle Westerling (Ph.D. Candidate and Futures Initiative Fellow, the Graduate Center, CUNY), and Stephanie Hsu (Associate Professor, Pace University). Hear from other educators (graduate, undergraduate, and K-12), share practical resources, and fortify your heart for teaching at this inaugural event of CLAGS’s Queer Pedagogy Network, cosponsored by the Futures Initiative.

NYC Trans Oral History Project Workshop
Tuesday, Sept 12, 6:30 to 9:30pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C198
Register Here https://goo.gl/S1ivGz
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Kiara St. James, AJ Lewis, Nadia Awad and Michelle Esther O’Brien make up this panel on the participatory NYC Trans Oral History Project hosted at the NYPL. Speakers will discuss the role of story-telling and personal narrative in queer movements and survival, reflect on institutional politics of oral history and trans studies, trans historiography, and the need to change practices in oral history collection.

Politics of Queer/Trans/National Adoption
Monday, Sept 25, 6:00 to 8:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C205
Register Here https://goo.gl/iWG5Vf = eventbrite.com/e/queertransnational-adoption-politics-an-adoptee-roundtable-tickets-37077770610
Writer, activist, and adoptee Liz Latty hosts a roundtable on the intersections of queerness and adoption politics in the U.S. and abroad. Currently, most adoption discourse and activism in American queer communities focuses on queer and trans subjects as adoptive parents, and is dominated by the voices of adoptive parents and non-adopted professionals. This convocation of queer, trans, and gender nonconforming adoptees will use queer and feminist lenses to consider the systems, institutions, and experiences of adoption from adoptee-centered perspectives.

Queer Performance Legacies: Charles Ludlam Lives! Book Launch
Wednesday, Oct 11, 6:00 to 8:00pm in CUNY Graduate Ctr. Skylight Room (9100)
Register Here https://goo.gl/RHb4Jq = eventbrite.com/e/queer-performance-legacies-charles-ludlam-lives-book-launch-tickets-33441567629
For the book launch of Charles Ludlam Lives!, CLAGS board member Dr. Sean Edgecomb introduces the concept of queer legacy by reconsidering the work of titular auteur, Ludlam. Though a pioneer of the Ridiculous theatre genre in post-Stonewall America, Ludlam has been largely overlooked in studies of contemporary American theatre. This book is the first full-length exegesis of Ludlam’s role as a founder of gay theatre and his posthumous impact on contemporary queer performance in New York City.

Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City with Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Wednesday, Oct 18 from 6:30 to 8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center Rm. C205
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Shanté Paradigm Smalls won CLAGS’ 2016 Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBTQ Studies. Hip Hop Heresies proposes new ways to think about the “authentic” hip hop body and the ways hip hop artists, DJs, rappers, and filmmakers, in this case, deploy New York City and its specific artistic, racial, gender, and sexual populations and traditions, to remake hip hop meaning and doing. Particularly, this manuscript troves the rich and untapped alternate hip hop historiographies—the queer(ed) bodies, Afro-Asian cultural production, sonic gender drag, graphic novel avatars, and the mash-up of rap and Broadway musicals.

CLAGS Visiting Scholar Lecture: Emily Paine
Thursday, Nov 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 in CUNY Graduate Center Room 9205
Register Here https://goo.gl/skJ6Qj
eventbrite.com/e/clags-visiting-scholar-emily-paine-on-lgbtq-access-to-healthcare-tickets-37076471725
LGBTQ people seek healthcare less often than their straight peers and report more unmet healthcare needs. Moreover, care-seeking patterns among LGBQ people are reversed from those in the general population: cis straight women are more likely to access healthcare compared to cis straight men, but cis LGBQ women are less likely to seek care compared to cis GBQ men. Among trans people, however, the pattern again reverses: trans men are less likely to seek care than trans women. In this lecture, we explore what keeps LGBTQ people from accessing care, in light of sexual, gender, and racial identities—with a focus on those least likely to get their health care needs met.

Queerness in Flamenco: Flamenco Vivo!
Wednesday, Nov 29, fr/ 7:00 to 9:00pm, CUNY Graduate Ctr. Segal Theater
Register Here https://goo.gl/H2Jd9y
eventbrite.com/e/flamenco-rosado-gender-sexual-identity-in-flamenco-tickets-37077223975
This performance and talk back with flamenco artists and choreographers from the company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, tackles queerness within this art form originating from disenfranchised communities in Spain including the Moors, Sephardic Jews, African slaves, and Gypsies. Presenting new works based on multiple intersectionalities, Flamenco Vivo’s Director of the Center for Flamenco Arts, Leslie Roybal will facilitate a discussion with the artists about queerness, gender performativity, identity, and social justice within flamenco.

2017 Kessler Award Lecture & Reception: Sara Ahmed
Monday, Dec 4, from 6:00 to 9:30pm, CUNY Grad. Ctr. Proshansky Auditorium
Register here
https://eventbrite.com/e/2017-kessler-award-sara-ahmed-tickets-37391924252
The Kessler Award is given to a scholar who has, over the course of their career, produced a substantiative body of work that has made a significant impact on the field of LGBTQ Studies. Sara Ahmed is the 2017 Kessler Award recipient for her critical examinations of Feminist Theory, Queer Studies, Cultural Pedagogy, and their intersections.

Film Screening: GUAO with Eduardo Velázquez and Roksana Filipowska
Thu, Dec 7, fr/ 6:30 to 8:30pm, CUNY Grad. Ctr. Segal Theatre
Register Here
https://eventbrite.com/e/guao-film-director-discussion-tickets-33442254684
Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Guao tells the story of Luperón, a Caribbean immigrant, a naïve and shy boy and his profound love for Catherine Deneuve. Luperón, who has lived protected by his sister Ana, an aspiring actress and waitress is a caregiver to Luperón due to a mysterious brain degenerative disease. Luperón decides to transition and become Catherine Deneuve and falls in love with Federico, a religious fanatic. Following the film will be a discussion with the director, Eduardo Velázquez and Roksana Filipowska.

COURT SUPPORT PART 4: #nojusticenopride
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 6:00 to 8:15 pm • NY RAPP Coalition meeting •
22 Cortlandt St, 33rd Fl., btw. Church St. & Broadway, (above Century 21) in Correctional Assoc. of NY office • pizza and discussion • all are welcome!
http://rappcampaign.com/events/ https://twitter.com/RAPPcampaign nyrappcampaign@gmail.com, (646) 793-9082 Ext. 1014
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THURSDAY, Sept. 14, 1:00 to 1:50 pm • RAPP on panel, “Access to Justice Issues Arising During and After Incarceration” • Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue, NY 10003 • This panel is part of a conference, “Redeeming the Pledge…And Justice for All,” sponsored by the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights • conference runs from 8:45 am-5:00 pm; preparation materials
https://goo.gl/G5Mc5z http://rappcampaign.com/events/

TUESDAY, Sept. 19, 6:00 to 8:00 pm • “Prison Abolition & the Fight for Justice: screening/discussion of ‘Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex'” • Free event • Brooklyn Public Library, Eastern Parkway Branch, 1044 Eastern Pkwy. at Schenectady Ave (2/3/4/5 trains to Utica stop) • sponsored by Challenging Incarceration, Critical Resistance, and RAPP https://goo.gl/mKNqGc https://goo.gl/JKiSCT
https://goo.gl/JjFVa8 https://facebook.com/events/113993429271417/ http://criticalresistance.org/chapters/cr-new-york-city challengingincarceration@gmail.com
https://nationinside.org/campaign/challenging-incarceration crnyc@criticalresistance.org
(212) 203-0512

Greenlight Bookstore and The Atlantic Present Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wednesday, Oct. 4 from 7:30 to 10:00 PM in Kings Theatre
$44 https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/300052FCDC5F1BAC
https://facebook.com/events/105513260162806

Greenlight Bookstore and The Atlantic are proud to announce that award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent at The Atlantic and author of #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, will appear at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn for one night only to present his newest book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Part memoir and part polemic, We Were Eight Years in Power powerfully examines the threads between the unprecedented election of Barack Obama and the vicious backlash that fueled the election of Donald Trump, through Coates' intimate and revealing perspective — the point of view of a young writer who begins his journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing the President of the United States. Coates returns to the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, which he once called home, to discuss his work and perspectives with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

You’re invited to the exhibition opening of, "FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures." Enjoy *free admission on October 5 from 11 AM–9 PM. The exhibition is on view through March 25, 2018.
www.mocanyc.org/exhibitions/fold_golden_venture_paper_sculptures https://www.facebook.com/events/136754663578210/

The journey of the Golden Venture passengers unfolded in the context of their representation by the media on June 6, 1993– news footage of Chinese immigrants who had been at sea for months leaping from a 150-foot cargo ship that ran aground on Rockaway Beach, and images of their rescue, were mobilized by the media and political commentators, to situate this incident in relation to events, such as the first World Trade Center attack and the Oklahoma City bombing, that created anxiety around national security threats and borders.

"FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures...

ARC Seminar: Brian Nolan: Inequality and Prosperity
Thursday, Oct. 5, 4:30 to 6:30 PM CUNY Rm. 5318 (Advanced Research Collaborative)
https://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=41235 http://gc.cuny.edu/arc 212-817-7544
ADMISSION: Free

ARC Seminar: Brian Nolan: Inequality and Prosperity
Inequality is centre-stage in political debate both globally and in individual countries, being blamed for everything from Brexit and the rise of populism to stagnating wages and growth. This talk, based on the findings of a three-year research programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford, will seek to tease out why this is so and identify central unanswered questions about the drivers of inequality and what policy responses to it should be.

Brian Nolan is Director of the Employment, Equity and Growth Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School, Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford. His main areas of research are income inequality, poverty, and the economics of social policy. He has led and participated in a wide range of comparative studies on poverty, income inequality, social policies, tax and transfer policies, the labour market, the minimum wage, and health inequalities and healthcare. His publications include The Handbook of Economic Inequality (2008) co-edited with W. Salverda and T. Smeeding, Poverty and Deprivation in Europe (2011) co-authored with C. T. Whelan, The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Income (2013), co-edited with S. Jenkins, A. Brandolini and J. Micklewright, two co-edited volumes with W. Salverda et al., Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives and Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries’ Experiences (2014), and Children of Austerity: The Impact of the Great Recession on Child Poverty in Rich Countries, co-edited with B. Cantillon, Y. Czhzen, and S. Handa, all from Oxford University Press.

Criminalizing Poverty, Community Organizations, and Fighting Back
Thursday, Oct. 5, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM (doors 6pm) in
Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton St.
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It's been four years since courts determined that New York City's "stop-and-frisk" policy was unconstitutional, but communities across the city continue to be subjected to "broken windows" policing. The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund sees the impact of these policies every day as it pays bail for New Yorkers who would otherwise be incarcerated. Join the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund in a discussion of how community organizations are fighting back against the criminalization of poverty in New York City. Panel discussion moderated by Brooklyn Law School Professor and author Jocelyn Simonson, with panelists Josmar Trujillo with the Coalition to End Broken Windows and Alyssa Aguilera with VOCAL-NY.

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Apartment Complex
Thursday, Oct. 5 at 7:00 PM
Location info conflicts. So help other interested folks ask holly@tonyc.nyc for corrected location. Then hopefully simply check publicity links below, nearer to the date. But I'd guess Judson.
http://tonyc.nyc/housingworksapartmentcomplex
https://facebook.com/events/1490908480988767/
(646) 504-4582 info@tonyc.nyc

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and Housing Works present Apartment Complex, a forum play about the challenges faced by New Yorkers trying to access and hold on to safe and affordable housing. Created and performed by the Housing Works Theatre Troupe, based on the real-life experiences of the actors.

Restoring “Faith” in Activism
Friday 10/6, 1:00 to 6:00 pm and
Saturday 10/7, 9:00 am to 5:00pm
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway [opposite W.121st St. & nr. #1, A, C, D & weekdays-only B train stops, M60 bus & 125th St. bus lines]
$20.00 [presumably pays for both dates but ask. Consider trying to advance register. -t.]
https://utsnyc.edu/life/programs-events/ (212) 662-7100 info@utsnyc.edu @UnionSeminary https://twitter.com/UnionSeminary

New York City is witnessing a surge of grassroots’ multi-faith activism that is pushing local government to adopt more just policies on issues of workers’ rights, LGTBQ rights, racial justice, immigrant inclusion and restorative justice. As trust in the federal government wanes, multi-faith activists can broaden the moral imagination of social justice movements through an inclusive and co-creative organizing process. This course will (1) explore the contributions of successful multi-faith coalitions in recent NYC history, (2) analyze the relationships between multi-faith coalitions and local government, and (3) re-imagine the impact grassroots organizing can have on national policy.

Jonathan Soto serves as the Executive Director of the newly formed Center for Faith and Community Partnerships at the Mayor’s Office, which empowers neighborhoods and forges partnerships with faith and community leaders by building capacity to mobilize civic action. Prior to joining the Mayor’s Office, Jonathan served as an activist and community organizer committed to inclusivity and progress for communities throughout New York City, and particularly communities of faith. He has served as Borough Director for the Bronx Long Term Recovery Group, dedicated to the physical and economic rehabilitation of communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, and partnered with the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Soto has also served as Policy Director for the Bronx Clergy Roundtable, where he launched anti-recidivism programs, spearheaded advocacy efforts in support of fast food workers and the living wage campaign. In June of 2015, Mayor de Blasio appointed Soto to serve as the Senior Community Liaison for the Mayor’s Clergy Advisory Council, which engages communities of faith in the formation of City policy and administration of City services. Soto is a graduate of Fordham University and from Brooklyn Law School.

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Restoring “Faith” in Activism
Friday 10/6, 1:00 to 6:00 pm and
Saturday 10/7, 9:00 am to 5:00pm
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway [opposite W.121st St. & nr. #1, A, C, D & weekdays-only B train stops, M60 bus & 125th St. bus lines]
$20.00 [presumably pays for both dates but ask. Consider trying to advance register. -t.]
https://utsnyc.edu/life/programs-events/ (212) 662-7100 info@utsnyc.edu @UnionSeminary https://twitter.com/UnionSeminary

New York City is witnessing a surge of grassroots’ multi-faith activism that is pushing local government to adopt more just policies on issues of workers’ rights, LGTBQ rights, racial justice, immigrant inclusion and restorative justice. As trust in the federal government wanes, multi-faith activists can broaden the moral imagination of social justice movements through an inclusive and co-creative organizing process. This course will (1) explore the contributions of successful multi-faith coalitions in recent NYC history, (2) analyze the relationships between multi-faith coalitions and local government, and (3) re-imagine the impact grassroots organizing can have on national policy.

Jonathan Soto serves as the Executive Director of the newly formed Center for Faith and Community Partnerships at the Mayor’s Office, which empowers neighborhoods and forges partnerships with faith and community leaders by building capacity to mobilize civic action. Prior to joining the Mayor’s Office, Jonathan served as an activist and community organizer committed to inclusivity and progress for communities throughout New York City, and particularly communities of faith. He has served as Borough Director for the Bronx Long Term Recovery Group, dedicated to the physical and economic rehabilitation of communities affected by Hurricane Sandy, and partnered with the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Soto has also served as Policy Director for the Bronx Clergy Roundtable, where he launched anti-recidivism programs, spearheaded advocacy efforts in support of fast food workers and the living wage campaign. In June of 2015, Mayor de Blasio appointed Soto to serve as the Senior Community Liaison for the Mayor’s Clergy Advisory Council, which engages communities of faith in the formation of City policy and administration of City services. Soto is a graduate of Fordham University and from Brooklyn Law School.

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20
Bricks and Mortals: The Nitty Gr... @ Union Theological Seminary
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Global Call for Total Ivory Sales Ban in DC
Saturday, Oct. 7; assemble 11:00 AM for Noon march from
Chinese Embassy to U.S., 3505 International Pl., N.W.,
WASHINGTON, DC
https://facebook.com/events/1458104994249913/
https://facebook.com/pg/ElephantsDC/events/
#Justice for All & Justice for #Earth #LifeNotExtinction
Join us in Washington, District of Columbia, on October 7 for worldwide unification to end all ivory trade, protect the innocent from harm, and save wild lives!

Share widely to support local effort to Ban Ivory Sales in the District of Columbia & worldwide advocates raising their voices & taking action to save endangered species from extinction WHILE we still can.

DC event begins 11:00 a.m. for assembly with official march kicking off at noon before the Embassy of Peoples Republic of China near the University of the District of Columbia.

Special thanks to global organizer: Global March for Elephants and Rhinos xo

More: Ivory Consumption Consumes Elephants

Join Elephants DC and friends for a provocative and peaceful rally FOR Elephants and endangered species beginning
NOON [?-t.] Saturday, Oct. 7, outside the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America, 3505 International Place, N.W. Washington, District of Columbia.

We are calling for the full restoration of all elephants to Appendix I standing to prevent live wild-caught elephant trade and ivory trade. Concurrently, China and other nations are signing a new trade agreement on vulnerable, threatened, and endangered species in South Africa at the CITES Convention. Help us trumpet and roar for the elephants.

"Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences. As global citizens, we need to take responsibility by learning more about the potential impacts of our lifestyle choices," explained actress Li Bingbing while visiting Africa.

100,000 wild elephants were illegally killed in Africa between 2010 and 2012. An estimated 35,000 were slaughtered in 2015.

"The Chinese government will not relent in its support for the fight against illegal trade of wildlife products.” said Wan Ziming in 2015. He is the Director of Enforcement and Training at the Endangered Species Office of the State Forestry Administration of China.

If you would like to volunteer at this event, or to learn more, send an email to jensamuel@elephantsdc.org.

Inspiration: https://www.facebook.com/March4Elephants/photos/a.621673867850768.1073741826.621668134518008/1689644144387063/

www.elephantsdc.org

VIGIL & MARCH TO STOP ENDLESS WAR
Saturday, Oct. 7, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM from Washington Sq. Park to Union Sq.
https://nycwarresisters.org/demonstrations/
https://facebook.com/events/870146323141701/ nycWRL@nycwarresisters.org 718-768-7306 http://grannypeacebrigade.org/ grannypeace@gmail.com

Gather at 11:30 am in Washington Square Park (exact location TBA) for a [short]
vigil on this 16th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, then at
12:00 Noon join a solemn march to Union Square for a demonstration against U.S. war threats to North Korea, and endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, among other countries. [Then, I'm told, joining the weekly Union Sq. vigil, soon after it starts at Noon.]

Sponsored by NYC War Resisters League, Catholic Worker/NYC, Veterans for Peace/Chapter 34, Pax Christi Metro NY, Peace Action NYS, Granny Peace Brigade, Raging Grannies, Peace Action/Manhattan, Green Party of Brooklyn, Brooklyn For Peace (list in formation)

From a Granny Peace Brigade mailing...

Friends,

Saturday, October 7 marks the start of a 17th year of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The Granny Peace Brigade will join the War Resisters League, Catholic Workers and others on this anniversary. Your presence will send a message and support the Granny mantra - WE WILL NOT BE SILENT.

Saturday, Oct. 7

11:30 AM - Vigil at Washington Sq. Park

Noon - Solemn march to Union Square...

...to join a vigil against U.S. war threats to North Korea, and endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen. More info: War Resisters League FB event page.

We hope you will join us and that you will spread the word!
Nydia with Ann, Barbara H, Barbara W, Edith, Eva-Lee and Joan

The political writings of Marx and Engels: Lessons for Today’s Politics
A reading group convened by Lisa Maya Knauer
Saturdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
October 7-December 9 (no meeting November 25)
Nine-Session class

"It was the first time that the bourgeoisie showed to what insane cruelties of revenge it will be goaded the moment the proletariat dares to take its stand against them as a separate class, with its own interests and demands."

This sentence was written by Karl Marx in 1871, just weeks after the French bourgeoisie crushed the Paris Commune, but it is just as applicable to today’s political situation in the U.S. and elsewhere. This reading group will delve into a selection of Marx and Engels’ political writings to gain both a better understanding of the history of working-class and socialist...

Danny Goldberg: “1967 and the Hippie Idea”
Sunday, Oct 8, 2017, 11:00am [ask or look up correct ending time]
NYSEC Ceremonial Hall - 4th Fl.

Based on my book, a reflection on diverse elements of 50 years ago: spiritual, protest, black power, psychedelics, hippies, rock and roll, and how it relates to the Trump era.

Danny Goldberg is President of Gold Village Entertainment, an artist management company whose clients include Steve Earle. Danny formerly managed Bonnie Raitt and Nirvana, and ran several major record companies. He is the author of the book “Bumping Into Geniuses” and graduated form Fieldston in 1967.

Park Slope Community Church Serve The Servers Event
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(347) 689-3125 https://facebook.com/pg/PSCCBrooklyn/events/ http://psccbrooklyn.org https://twitter.com/psccbrooklyn

Join us in celebrating the vast history and contributions of the Native American groups of the Northeast region.

Bring your family to hear folk stories of groups such as the Lenape, and explore the exhibition New York at Its Core to view special artifacts. Get hands on with objects like wampum and animal hides, and create your very own cornhusk doll. Then enjoy a free snack made of traditional corn from the White Corn Project.

FREE with Museum Admission. Family programs are is aimed at children ages 6-12 years old and are designed for adults and children to complete the activities together.

Image: Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1940492449532237/

No Muslim Ban Ever - Rally at the Supreme Court
Tuesday, Oct 10 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, at, near or to/from
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First St., NE, Washington, D.C.
https://facebook.com/events/1142753212491355/
https://twitter.com/abdelazizusa/status/904400758619205632 info@womensmarch.com http://womensmarch.com https://facebook.com/pg/womensmarchonwash/events https://twitter.com/womensmarch Public · Hosted by Women's March and 7 others [incl...]
https://facebook.com/pg/MPowerChange/about/ https://www.facebook.com/thenyic/about
https://facebook.com/pg/aclupeoplepower/about/ https://facebook.com/quakerlobby/
https://niacouncil.org/events/ facebook.com/pg/NIACouncil/about/
[See also legal-ish words at bottom of event description. -t.]

Not even a week into his presidency, Donald Trump began making good on his campaign promise of "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" by instituting his Muslim Ban, starting with seven Muslim-majority countries. After the executive order was successfully challenged in courts across the country, its fate now lies in the hands of the Supreme Court of the United States.

On October 10, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in the Muslim Ban case. This is an important moment—win or lose—that will set a major legal, political, and moral precedent. We believe it is critical that there be a strong, loud, mass mobilization outside the Supreme Court that sends a message to the Justices and to this Administration: Muslim communities are organized, and our allies have our back. We will not be silent and we will stand up for our communities in the face of any and all discriminatory policies.

We will rally outside the Supreme Court and then march to the White House. If you stand with Muslim communities and those who seek refuge—from the 7 impacted countries and beyond—join us as we proclaim: #NoMuslimBanEver

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Note: By participating in this event, you agree (i) not to engage in any act of violence or violation of any applicable law, and (ii) to obey the orders of authorized event marshals and law enforcement authorities.

Past as Present: Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of 1948
A Lecture by Shira Robinson, History and International Affairs, George Washington University
Tuesday, Oct. 10 from 5:00 to 6:30pm
The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan St. at Washington Sq. South
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Synopsis: May 2018 will mark seven decades since the establishment of the State of Israel and the mass dispossession of Arab Palestinians that made it possible. This talk will reflect on patterns of continuity and change in the politics and culture of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict since 1948, as well on the ongoing clashes over its representation in academia and the American public.

Shira Robinson is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University, where teaches the history of the Modern Middle East, with an emphasis on colonialism, citizenship, and nationalism after World War I. Her first book, Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State (Stanford University Press, 2013), examined Israel's imposition of military rule on the Palestinian Arabs who remained within its borders after 1948. In 2014 Choice named the book an "Outstanding Academic Title” and listed it as one of the Top 25 academic books of the year. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Institute, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Palestinian American Research Center. For several years Prof. Robinson served on the editorial committee of the Middle East Report and co-edited its blog.

Homes for All, Cages for None: Housing Justice in an Age of Abolition
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM
Event Oval, Diana Center, Barnard College
descriptions: https://goo.gl/uzEUBX https://goo.gl/kNHUHv https://twitter.com/bcrwtweets https://bcrw.barnard.edu https://facebook.com/pg/BCRW.Feminism/events/
by Barnard Center for Research on Women
Free

In 2016, the Barnard Center for Research on Women assembled a Poverty Working Group to examine the state’s neglect and abandonment of poor people, people of color, and people with disabilities. The group asks how can we deepen our understanding of and resistance to the ways that the neoliberal state and racialized, classed, gendered, and ableist logics target the most vulnerable members of our communities for surveillance, control, precarious lives, and premature deaths. In the first public event in this series, scholars and activists who work on issues of housing and homelessness in New York City imagine how we can take an abolitionist approach to resistance and how we can begin to build social systems that offer safety and equal resources to all citizens. Participants include Craig Willse, author of The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States.

About the Speaker

Craig Willse is the author of The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). He is co-editor, with Patricia Clough, of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (Duke University Press, 2011). Willse also works in queer/LGBT studies in an on-going collaboration with legal scholar Dean Spade. Their joint writing has appeared in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Widener Law Review, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage (ed. Ryan Conrad, 2010) and Left Turn. Their multi-media project Free State Epitaph has been produced and screened in New York, Berkeley, Seattle, and Kansas City, MO. Willse’s scholarship is informed by his political work outside the academy, which has included community organizing around housing access, social movements for trans justice and prison abolition, and queer anarchist anti-war activism. As Associate Professor at George Mason University, he is a faculty adviser to GMU Students Against Israeli Apartheid.

This venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. For additional accessibility requests, please contact bcrw@barnard.edu at your earliest convenience.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required and seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Art as Activism: An Evening with Ai Weiwei
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 from 6:00 to 7:30 pm in Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
2537 Broadway at 95th St., nr. #1, 2, 3, B, C & 96th St. cross town bus;
Tickets: $30 https://goo.gl/bQsRCg
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Box Office (Tuesdays - Sundays, 1:00 to 6:00 pm): (212) 864-5400 or
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(212) 334-1660 https://twitter.com/gettingsome/status/902222165176614912
https://facebook.com/events/167565257140344/ info@pen.org
https://facebook.com/pg/PENamerican/events/

Since 2008, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has become a household name in the United States and around the world. Celebrated for both his creativity and his activism—and the unique place where they meet—Ai Weiwei has led the fight against censorship, shed light on the international refugee crisis, exposed government corruption, and more.

“Literature is a place where we can construct new realities together, but unless the literature available to us is representative, those new realities threaten to reconstruct the prejudice and discrimination of the world we live in,” says Ai Weiwei. The artist will share the stage with PEN America President and writer Andrew Solomon for an intimate conversation on life as a dissident, the impact of his celebrity status on his art, and new and renewed threats to artistic expression in both China and the United States.

This event is presented in collaboration with PEN America’s newest initiative, the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC).

Tickets: $30 / $24 for PEN America Members.

Ai Weiwei is renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world. From architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. Recent exhibitions include: “Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn” at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., “Maybe, Maybe Not” at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, “Law of the Journey” at the National Gallery in Prague, “Ai Weiwei. Libero” at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, “#SafePassage” at Foam in Amsterdam, “translocation – transformation” at 21er Haus in Vienna, and “Ai Weiwei” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Ai was born in Beijing in 1957 and currently resides and works in both Beijing and Berlin. Ai is the current Einstein Visiting Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), and he is the recipient of the 2015 Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International and the 2012 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation. Photo credit Ai Weiwei Studio.

Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture, and psychology; a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center; and the president of PEN America. He is the author of, most recently, Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change, an anthology of his international reporting, and Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction as well as more than 25 other national awards. His previous book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; it was published in 24 languages. He is also the author of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost, and of a novel, A Stone Boat. His writing appears frequently in The New Yorker and in The New York Times, and he is often on NPR. His TED talks have been viewed over 10 million times. Solomon is an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, education, and the arts. He is founder of the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University and a member of the board of the National LGBTQ Force and Trans Youth Family Allies. Additionally, Solomon serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Monuments Fund, Yaddo, and The Alex Fund. He joined the PEN America Board in 2012.

Bikes are awesome! They're ecofriendly, good exercise, faster than the speed of light, and fun! Let’s be good to our metal and rubber friends.

At Time's Up Bike Repair class, learn how to fix bikes and do simple maintenance and tune-ups. Each class covers a different subject in a 4-week rotation beginning the first Tuesday of every month:

Come out to La Plaza Community Garden (SW corner of 9th St & Ave. C) every Tuesday to know how to treat your BFF (Bike friend forever).

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Unchain My Feet
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Sama Alshaibi
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 6:00 to 8:00 PM, 285 Mercer St. at Waverly Pl.
http://apa.nyu.edu/
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi, Photography/Video Art, University of Arizona

This talk explores the intersections of contemporary migration crises through a selection of Alshaibi’s work. The lecture is informed by Alshaibi’s own biography and considers the impact of socio-political conditions on individuals under threat of the state or statelessness. These forces are contextualized when resources and land, mobility, political agency, and self-affirmation are compromised.

Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor

This event is free & open to the public. Venue is accessible.

For more information about this event, please contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgs(at)nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.

Co-Sponsored by...

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. Cixousversaire: A Celebration of Hélène Cixous
Thursday to Saturday, Sept. 14 to 16, 2017
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. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of thePublic · Hosted by Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU
Thursday, Sept. 21
https://facebook.com/events/346877502417677/

. Apparatus of Power: a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Shahzia Sikander
Monday, Sept. 25

. Pissed
a panel & conversation with Cassils, Jack Halberstam, Titus Kaphar, Joel Sanders, & Chase Strangio
Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 721 Broadway

. Queering Asian American Contemporary Art
a forum with Jan Christian Bernabe, Greyson Hong, Laura Kina, Kyoo Lee, Zavé Martohardjono, & Saya Woolfalk
Wednesday, Oct. 18; see description: https://goo.gl/bnfzsZ
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. Intimate Relations: A Genealogy of Queer/Performativity
a lecture by Amelia Jones
Wednesday, Oct. 25

. The Right to Maim
a panel discussion with Liat Ben-Moshe, André Lepecki, Jasbir Puar, Helga Tawil-Souri, & Hentyle Yapp
Friday, Nov. 3,

. Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape about Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!
a performance by Adrienne Truscott, & post-show conversation with Ann Pellegrini
Friday, Nov. 10 https://nyuskirball.org/events/adrienne-truscott-asking/

. Combahee River Collective Mixtape: Black Feminist Sonic Dissent Then & Now
a panel discussion with Daphne Brooks, Kara Keeling, & Jacqueline Stewart
Wednesday, Nov. 15

. All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism
a talk with Lydia X. Z. Brown & Sunny Taylor
Friday, Nov. 17

. Listening to Images
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series lecture by Tina Campt
Monday, Nov. 20
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. Apparatus of Power: a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Shahzia Sikander
Monday, Sept. 25, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Shahzia Sikander, visual artist
Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
This talk will explore Sikander’s pioneering practice that takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media. Informed by South Asian, American, Feminist and Muslim perspectives, Sikander has developed a unique, critically charged approach to this time-honored medium –– employing its continuous capacity for reinvention to interrogate ideas of language, trade and empire, and migration
Shahzia Sikander has been the subject of major international exhibitions around the world, including, amongst others, MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2016-17); Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2007); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007); The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (2004); the Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris/Altria Branch (2000); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1999); Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1998); and has participated in more than 400 group shows and international art forums. She has received numerous grants, fellowships and awards, including the Asia Society Award for Significant Contribution to Contemporary Art (2015), the U.S. Department of State National Medal of Arts Award (2012); and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Fellowship (2006). Sikander lives and works in New York.
For more information about this event, please contact the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at csgs(at)nyu.edu or 212-992-9540.
Co-Sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Department of Art & Art Professions; Department of Art History; Institute of Fine Arts; Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies; and Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies; and by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC).

. Pissed
a panel & conversation with Cassils, Jack Halberstam, Titus Kaphar, Joel Sanders, & Chase Strangio
Tuesday, Sept. 26
7 to 9 pm
Performance Studies Studio
721 Broadway, room 612
Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and Department of Performance Studies.

. Unchain My Feet
a Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series artist talk with Sama Alshaibi
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Sama Alshaibi, multi-media artist
Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality
285 Mercer Street, 4th Floor
Co-Sponsored by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; Department of Social & Cultural Analysis; and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

. Queering Asian American Contemporary Art
a forum with Jan Christian Bernabe, Greyson Hong, Laura Kina, Kyoo Lee, Zavé Martohardjono, & Saya Woolfalk
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Asian/Pacific/American Institute
8 Washington Mews
RSVP here.
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), edited by Laura Kina (DePaul University) and Jan Christian Bernabe (Center of Art and Thought), brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialism, and methodologies within the study of Asian American art and visual culture. The featured essays, artist interviews, and artworks explore the multiple axes of race and identity, queer bodies and forms, kinship and affect, and digital identities and performances.
Kina and Bernabe met at the A/P/A Institute at NYU’s 2012 NEH Summer Institute,
“Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research, and Teaching,” which was the genesis for their new book. We are excited to welcome them back to A/P/A alongside contributors Greyson Hong (artist), Kyoo Lee (John Jay College), Zavé Martohardjono (artist), and Saya Woolfalk (artist) to discuss and celebrate the publication.
For more information about & to RSVP to this event, please click here.
Presented by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute and co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality.

. Intimate Relations: A Genealogy of Queer/Performativity
a lecture by Amelia Jones
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Performance Studies Studio in 721 Broadway, Room 612
Amelia Jones, American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Dornsife
This talk is based on the book project Intimate Relations, where Jones traces the interrelated histories of the terms “queer” and “performative” since 1950 in anglophone discourse. This genealog

Alex Vitale, The End of Policing: launch & panel
Tuesday Oct. 10 from 6:30 to 9:30 PM at Verso Books,
20 Jay St. Brooklyn, nr. F, A, C, #2, 3, R stops
map & transit: https://goo.gl/FnVZZi
Descriptions, etc.: https://facebook.com/events/123062178351774/
www.alex-vitale.info https://versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing
https://t.co/pPgk3nopHI https://twitter.com/avitale/status/805451135066763265
https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events/
maybe relevant: https://thenation.com/article/how-end-militarized-policing/

Join Alex Vitale for the launch of his new book The End of Policing and a conversation with a panel of activists about how the book relates to their organzing work to end police violence. The discussion will be moderated by Sarah Jaffe.

Books will be available for sale and there will be beer and wine available. Reception to follow the panel discussion.

Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. He has written recent pieces in the New York Daily News, the Nation, and the New Inquiry.

Josmar Trujillo is a writer and community activist in East Harlem and a member of the Coalition to End Broken Windows, the Swipe it Forward campaign, and is working to end large scale gang raids in NYC.

Dante Barry is a Black writer, grassroots organizer, and digital campaigner. Dante is currently at the helm of the Black and Brown led national racial justice network to end mass criminalization and gun violence, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice.

Melissa Gira Grant is a writer and activist covering the intersection of sex, politics, and technology. She is the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work published by Verso. She is also co-producer of the new podcast Terrific City.

Keegan Stephan is a writer and political organizer who's worked to support numerous direct action campaigns such as Occupy Wall Street and Critical Mass. He is also actively involved in documenting and resisting NYPD suppression of social movements.

Sarah Jaffe is a Nation Institute fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture.

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Van Jones: Beyond the Messy Truth
Tuesday Oct. 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at NYPL Schwarzman Bldg.
Celeste Bartos Forum entrance on W.42nd St. just off 5th Av. & nr. #7, B, D, F, M, S, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E & 42nd St. bus;
$40 / $10 https://showclix.com/event/beyondthemessytruth/tag/fbevent
https://nypl.org/events/programs/2017/10/10/van-jones
https://facebook.com/events/107027466683050/

Become a Friend of the Library for pre-sale access from August 11-13 and 20% off tickets!
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CNN political contributor Van Jones has been hailed as one who tries to “fight the right way.” In Beyond the Messy Truth, Jones draws on his years of activism and political analysis to take aim at the failures of both parties and to show the nation how to focus on practical answers to problems that affect us regardless of region or political ideology.
In a special event with NYPL, Jones will share his blueprint for the fight we must wage as a nation. He will ask guests to abandon the politics of accusation and set fire to the traditional ways of political problem-solving. Jones will challenge us to change the way we think about politics so we can all get down to the vital business of solving—together—some of our nation’s toughest problems.

NYSNA 2017 Convention, Oct. 11-12, NYC
www.nysna.org/events/nysna-2017-convention-oct-11-12-nyc
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NYSNA nurses are committed to health care for all and safe staffing for all New Yorkers. Join us for two days of solidarity, education, advocacy and fun — the 2017 NYSNA Convention! On October 11 and...
Event Address:
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center

Anti-Violence Project Annual Award Event
Wednesday Oct. 11 (at 6:00 PM ? ) ask correct start and ending times.
41 Broad St. btw. Exchange Pl. & Beaver St.;
J Train to Broad St. (south exit to Exchange Pl. but check whether running); #4, 5 to Bowling Green or Wall St.; #2, 3 to Wall St.; R, W to Rector St. (at Trinity Pl.); #1 to Rector St. (at Greenwich St.);
maps & transit: http://url.ie/zb2p https://goo.gl/N56uLC
https://avp.org/events/2017-courage-awards/
212 714 1184 webmaster@avp.org http://www.avp.org
https://facebook.com/pg/antiviolence/events/
http://mailchi.mp/avp/save-the-date-avps-courage-awards-oct-11
We empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and advocacy.

$12
http://my.mocanyc.org/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=2242 www.mocanyc.org/mocafilms_goldenventure
https://twitter.com/LeviathanLab/status/904433827556274177
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venue https://twitter.com/mocanyc (855) 955-6622 info@mocanyc.org
please look up film & exhibit title/s & trailer. screening event description excerpt:

Please join MOCA for a screening of Golden Venture, the film that explores the ongoing struggles of the Chinese migrants whose artwork is featured in FOLD: Golden Venture Paper Sculptures.

This 2006 documentary follows the Golden Venture passengers from Queens to York County Jail in Pennsylvania, where many were imprisoned for years while activists and lawyers fought for their release against a public opinion increasingly hostile to foreign immigration. An examination of how political pressures, media scrutiny, and reactionary policies can warp human lives, Golden Venture is a timely meditation on the state of the U.S. immigration detention system. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Peter Cohn.

About the filmmaker
Peter Cohn is a New York based filmmaker. His most recent film is Holy Land, a documentary about a group of remarkable heroes...

Part 1: The Criminalization of Womxn in America - Black Womxn and Girls
Oct. 12, 5:00 PM in The Puck Bldg., 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl., at E. Houston St. in
Rice Conf. Rm. & Newman Reception Area
w/ NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Presented by Students for Criminal Justice Reform and Wagner Women's Caucus
event description https://goo.gl/AyNnGT = (https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/events/part-1-criminalization-womxn-america-black-womxn-and-girls-2017-10-12)
REGISTER (prob. required): https://goo.gl/FWajnk = (urbandemos.nyu.edu/the-criminalization-of-womxn-in-america-black-womxn-and-girls/)
https://twitter.com/WagnerSCJR https://facebook.com/pg/Wagner.SCJR/events/ wagner.justice@gmail.com http://scjr.altervista.org/wp
Free
Womxn challenges the prevailing patriarchal belief that women are a subset of men and the lack of intersectionality on traditional feminist movements and discourse around “women's issues.” At the height of mass incarceration, where approximately 2.3 million individuals are incarcerated, the conversation has been centered around the impact on men of color. Although that is a crucial conversation to have, it is important to discuss the rapid rate at which womxn are being incarcerated and marginalized as well.

Through a series of conversations, we will challenge the notion of criminalization through an intersectional lens. We will discuss the impact mass incarceration has had on womxn, but also broaden the conversation of criminalization to include the different ways womxn identities are oppressed. Note: Each conversation will have a different group and topic (ex. reproductive justice, trans women, etc.)

Speakers: Mariame Kaba, educator, organizer, curator and Founder & Director of Project NIA & Co-founder of Survived & Punished; Miyhosi Benton, Associate with the Women and Justice Project; Myaisha Hayes, Community Organizer
Thu, October 12, 2017

NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service prepares public service leaders to translate ideas into actions that have an effective and lasting impact on the public good. Our faculty’s research changes the way people frame, understand, and act on important public issues. We provide our students with critical skills, access to all that New York City has to offer, and a deep understanding of context surrounding public service challenges—which they use to improve cities and communities across the globe. Since 1938, NYU Wagner has been educating the world’s future public service leaders. We offer a Master of Public Administration in Public & Nonprofit Management & Policy, Master of Public Administration in Health Policy & Management, Master of Urban Planning, Master of Science in Public Policy, Executive Master of Public Administration, and PhD in Public Administration.

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Part 1: The Criminalization of Womxn in America - Black Womxn and Girls at The Puck Building

295 Lafayette Street Rice Conference Room & Newman Reception Area, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012

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Mass Incarceration and Violence: Are We Over-Punishing Violent Offenders?
Thursday, Oct. 12 from 6:00 to 9:30 PM at Fordham Lincoln Ctr.
Free
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Nearly 2.3 million men and women are currently incarcerated in America’s jails and prisons, 88% of which are in state prisons. According recent data, approximately 53% of all state prisoners are in prison for violent offenses. Reducing prison populations in the future will require that we re-conceptualize why and how we prosecute violence.

Join us at the Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus on
Thursday, October 12 to hear an exclusive conversation among America’s leading criminal justice professors — Douglass Husak [is] Professor of Philosophy and Law at Rutgers University and Barry Latzer is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY — on the facts of the national prison population and new solutions for prosecuting and sentencing violent offenders.

Panelists

Brett Dignam, Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

Douglas Husak, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University

Barry Latzer, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; former member of the Doctoral Faculty in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center

Moderators

Bryan Pilkington, Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Ethics Education at Fordham University

Anthony B. Bradley, Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Program Chair, Religious and Theological Studies; Director, Center For The Study of Human Flourishing at The King's College

Timeline

6:00 PM – Reception begins with hors d’evours and beverages.
7:15 PM – Discussion begins.
8:00 PM – Q&A with panelists begins.
8:30 PM – Discussion concludes. Hors d’evours and beverages resume.
9:00 PM – Event concludes.

Visiting Fordham University Lincoln Center
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MEET THE PANEL

Brett Dignam, Panelist
Brett Dignam is a Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. An award-winning teacher, Dignam has supervised students in a broad range of litigation matters. She has designed and overseen workshops conducted by students for prisoners at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn. on issues, including immigration, sexual assault, and exhaustion under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Dignam came to the Law School following her time at Yale Law School, where she led the Prison Legal Services, Complex Federal Litigation and Supreme Court Advocacy clinics. Before entering the legal academy, Dignam served as a law clerk for the Honorable William H. Orrick, U.S. District Court in San Francisco, CA. She also served as an attorney in the Department of Justice’s criminal appeals and tax enforcement policy section, tax division from 1990 to 1992. Dignam has both a criminal and civil trial and appellate practice in both federal and state courts. As an associate professor at Yale Law School, Dignam taught and supervised students in prison legal services; poverty and HIV issues; landlord and tenant isses; and immigration clinics.

Dignam received her J.D. from the University of Southern California, where she was student director of the USC Prison Law Project and chair of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program. She has a M.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.

Douglas Husak, Panelist
Douglas Husak is the author of over one-hundred scholarly articles and six books, most notably: Ignorance of Law (Oxford, 2016), The Philosophy of Criminal Law (Oxford, 2010), Overcriminalization (Oxford, 2008), and Drugs and Rights (1992). He has been a Visiting Professor at several law schools and philosophy departments and specializes in philosophical issues involving criminal law. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of Criminal Law and Philosophy and a past Editor-in-Chief of Law and Philosophy. Professor Husak holds a Ph.D. and J.D. from Ohio State University and has been at Rutgers since 1977.

Barry Latzer, Panelist
Barry Latzer received a JD from Fordham University (1985) and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1977). Professor Latzer has published widely on capital punishment and criminal procedure law. His casebook, Death Penalty Cases (Butterworth-Heinemann 2011, co-authored with David McCord), is now in its third edition. He also wrote two books on state constitutional criminal procedure: State Constitutional Criminal Law (Clark, Boardman, Callaghan 1995) and State Constitutions and Criminal Justice (Greenwood Press 1991). Professor Latzer briefly served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn and as appellate counsel for indigent criminal defendants in New York City.

Bryan Pilkington, Moderator
Bryan Pilkington, Ph.D., is Director of Academic Programs at Fordham University’s Center for Ethics Education, where he directs the MA program in Ethics and Society and the minor in Bioethics. Prior to joining Fordham, he taught at Aquinas College and at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on questions in moral and political philosophy, in particular on the concept of dignity, and in bioethics, where he is especially interested in questions of conscience, moral responsibility, and the practice of medicine.

Pilkington has published work in bioethics in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, and lectures on practical ethical challenges in medicine for health care professionals. He teaches courses in normative and applied ethics, including courses in ethical theory, medical ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, and courses in political philosophy.

Anthony B. Bradley, Moderator
Anthony B. Bradley is associate professor of religious studies at The King’s College in New York City and a research fellow at the Acton Institute. Dr. Bradley lectures at colleges, universities, business organizations, conferences, and churches throughout the U.S. and abroad. His writings on religious and cultural issues have been published in a variety of journals, including Al Jazeera,the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Detroit News, and World Magazine.

Dr. Bradley is called upon by members of the broadcast media for comment on current issues and has appeared on C-SPAN, NPR, CNN/Headline News, Fox News, and Court TV Radio, among others. He studies and writes on issues of race, overcriminalization, political economy, ecology, sustainable architecture and design, Abraham Kuyper, education policy, welfare policy, marriage and family, African American studies, youth culture, and Reformed theology.

His books include: Liberating Black Theology (2010), Black and Tired (2011), The Political Economy of Liberation (2012), Keep Your Head Up (2012), Aliens In The Promised Land (2013), John Rawls and Christian Social Engagement (2014) and Black Scholars In White Space (2015).

CONTACT
Contact the Conferences and Events department at events@tkc.edu or 212-659-7200 with questions.

This event is co-sponsored by The King's College and Fordham University's Center for Ethics Education.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 6:30 P.M.
Tahrir: Liberation Square
Stefano Savona, 2012, 91 min.
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/tahrir-liberation-square
https://eventbrite.com/e/tahrir-liberation-square-tickets-37041372743
Screening followed by discussion with Professor Jane Gaines and curator Nora Philippe.
Event Location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
From facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, Tahrir is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists.

Part of Cinema of Resistance, a film series curated by Nora Philippe and presented by the Columbia Maison Française and School of the Arts
Updated listings: http://maisonfrancaise.org/cinema-of-resistance
Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.
Screenings take place as indicated at the Columbia Maison Française/Buell Hall at
W. 116th Street and Broadway [ https://goo.gl/dxb4qK ], and at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Broadway and W.129th Street.

Series description: For decades, France has been and remains a country where directors immigrate from all over the world to make political films freely, and French productions have continuously challenged forms of power and censorship, shaping what has been called a "cinéma de résistance." Because the French film industry is currently the first most active in Europe, and notably cosmopolitan, the selected films will offer a variety of voices, perspectives, and treatments on the urgent theme of resistance. Although resistance can be mounted to many different kinds of forces, for the purpose of this film series, we have selected films, some historic and some more recent, that treat in particular resistance to political regimes, in various historical contexts. The films share a connection to France, the French-speaking world, and/or the French cinematic tradition.

FEATURED FILMS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30 P.M.
The Battle of Algiers (La Bataille d’Alger)
Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, 120 min.
More information and RSVP: https://goo.gl/dJakPJ
http://maisonfrancaise.org/battle-of-algiers
Screening followed by discussion with Professor Madeleine Dobie and curator Nora Philippe
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
The Battle of Algiers reconstructs the events that occurred in the capital city of French Algeria between November 1954 and December 1957, during the Algerian War of Independence. The tactics of the FLN guerrilla insurgency and the French counter insurgency, and the uglier incidents of the war, are depicted.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 6:30 P.M.
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Peter Watkins, 2000, 345 min.
Information & RSVP https://goo.gl/MdUv1E http://maisonfrancaise.org/la-commune
Screening introduced by Professor Emmanuelle Saada
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the 1871 Paris Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms. The telling of this story rests primarily on depicting the people of the Commune, and those who suppressed them.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7:00 P.M.
Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres)
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, 145 min.
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/army-of-shadows
http://eventbrite.com/e/cinema-of-resistance-army-of-shadows-tickets-37620321394 Screening followed by a discussion with Professor Richard Pena, and Emeritus Professor Robert Paxton
Event location: Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 129th and Broadway
Surely the most famous and subtle French production about underground Resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, told through a compelling thriller story.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 6:30 P.M.
Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015, 97 min.
More information and RSVP
https://eventbrite.com/e/the-assembly-tickets-37042551268
http://maisonfrancaise.org/mustang
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
It is the beginning of summertime in the Turkish countryside. When five orphan sisters are seen innocently playing with boys on the beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them, while forced marriages are arranged. They all resist the best they can.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 6:30 P.M.
The Assembly (L’assemblée)
Mariana Otero, 2017, 98 min.
U.S. Premiere
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/the-assembly
https://eventbrite.com/e/the-assembly-tickets-37042551268
Screening followed by discussion with Bernard Harcourt and Etienne Balibar
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
This documentary examines how the Nuit Debout (Arise at Night) protest that took place in March 2016 in Paris turned into a kind of movement in the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, a new form of democratic Assembly, without a leader or elected representatives, in which each person was given an opportunity to speak and participate in the collective.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7:00 P.M.
Swagger
Olivier Babinet, 2016, 90 min.
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/swagger
https://eventbrite.com/e/cinema-of-resistance-swagger-tickets-37620388595
Screening followed by discussion with director Olivier Babinet
Event location: Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 129th and Broadway
The public housing projects in the banlieues outside Paris have been the setting for many a gritty saga of desperation and despair. Swagger is not one of those movies. Instead, this joyously innovative documentary immerses viewers in the hopes, dreams, and rich inner lives of eleven teenagers growing up in one of France's most diverse neighborhoods.

Support for this series on the CINEMA OF RESISTANCE is provided by the Knapp Family Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. Additional support provided by our co-sponsors at Columbia: the School of the Arts; MA Program in Film Studies at the School of the Arts; European Institute, Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies; Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Committee on Global Thought, and Columbia Global Centers.

Columbus: Colleen Eren on Bernie Madoff and the Crisis
Thursday Oct. 12 from 7:00pm at Book Culture on Columbus [ask correct ending time]
http://www.bookculture.com/event/columbus-colleen-eren-bernie-madoff-and-crisis
http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25123
https://twitter.com/claudiakincaid/status/867499082868285440

On Thursday, October 12 at 7:00 pm, Book Culture on Columbus and Harper's Magazine present Bernie Madoff and the Crisis: The Public Trial of Capitalism, by Colleen Eren.

Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm—Madoff's story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public.

Bernie Madoff and the Crisis goes beyond purely investigative accounts to examine how and why Madoff became the epicenter of public fury and titillation. Rooting her argument in critical sociology, Colleen P. Eren analyzes media coverage of this landmark case alongside original interviews with dozens of journalists and editors involved in the reportage, the SEC Director of Public Affairs, and Bernie Madoff himself.

Turning the mirror back onto society, Eren locates Madoff within a broader reckoning about free market capitalism. She argues that our ideological and cultural tendencies to
== > attribute blame to individuals — be they regulators, victims, or "monsters" like Madoff — distracts us from more systemic critiques. Bernie Madoff and the Crisis offers fresh insight into the 2008 crisis, whether we have come to terms with it, and what we have yet to gain from the case of the century.

Colleen P. Eren is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College.
Bernie Madoff and the Crisis: The Public Trial of Capitalism (Paperback)
By Colleen P. Eren
$25.95
ISBN: 9781503602724
Published: Stanford University Press - July 4th, 2017

Fall 2017
The Caribbean: Breaking bonds before and after betrayed revolutions
10 Weeks, October 12 through December 21
descriptions: https://goo.gl/eZ61pU = marxedproject.org/event/caribbean-literature-breaking-bonds-before-and-after-betrayed-revolutions
https://facebook.com/events/268197706917591/
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events/ venue (347) 9874966
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/events-list info@thecommonsbrooklyn.org

During this term we will begin with Aimé Césaire’s cultural statement from the 30s, issued from the Caribbean to all those colonized by the capitalist powers, primarily of Europe. Following our discourse on his groundbreaking discourse we will consider three novels on the colonized Caribbean, long engaged in revolutionary struggle with just as long gains towards liberation and the centuries long experiences of counter-revolution, and the consequences of compromise and collaboration with former colonizers and the colossus US that treats the Caribbean like a backyard swimming pool and those of the islands, whether local agent of capital or exploited worker, as servants by that pool.

“I admit that it is a good thing to place different civilizations in contact with each other that it is an excellent thing to blend different worlds; that whatever its own particular genius may be, a civilization that withdraws into itself atrophies; that for civilizations, exchange is oxygen; that the great good fortune of Europe is to have been a crossroads, and that because it was the locus of all ideas, the receptacle of all philosophies, the meeting place of all sentiments, it was the best center for the redistribution of energy.
But then I ask the following question: has colonization really placed civilizations in contact? Or, if you prefer, of all the ways of establishing contact, was it the best?
I answer no.
And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries, there could not come a single human value.”
` —Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Fernand David Césaire
This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements.

All Souls Rising
Madison Smartt Bell
1995
The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
Antigua, 2000
In A Small Place, Kincaid calls attention to the fact that in many ways, conditions in Antigua worsened with the achievement of independence; she communicates her frustration with her people and capitalism. In a nation free from colonialism, Antiguans “do to [themselves] the very things [colonists] used to do to [them]”. Through her critique of colonialism and the development of an exploitative tourist industry in A Small Place, Kincaid addresses several other major themes which include the influence of homeland on identity, culture, and the desire for independence.

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
Jamaica, 2014
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
The first part of the novel is set in Kingston, Jamaica, in the build-up to the Smile Jamaica Concert, and describes politically motivated violence between gangs associated with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP), especially in the West Kingston neighborhoods of Tivoli Gardens and Mathews Lane (renamed in the novel as Copenhagen City and Eight Lanes), including involvement of the CIA in the Jamaican politics of the time. As well as Marley (who is referred to as "the Singer" throughout), other real life characters depicted or fictionalized in the book include Kingston gangsters Winston "Burry Boy" Blake and George "Feathermop" Spence, Claude Massop and Lester Lloyd Coke (Jim Brown) of the JLP and Aston Thomson (Buckie Marshall) of the PNP.

The Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

About Marxist Education Project
Marxist Education Project

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Join us for "Who is Funding All This and How Do We Stop Them?," a workshop with Richelle Brown on
Friday, Oct. 13 from 2:00 to 5:00pm in Room 9205 of The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Join us for "Who is Funding All This and How Do We Stop Them?," a workshop with Richelle Brown on Fri, Oct 13 from 2pm-5pm in Room 9205 of The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Because corporate interests and fossil fuel industries fund much cultural and social infrastructure, divestment is an increasingly important tactic for activists and organizers. But how do we trace the flow of money and capital? At this workshop, activist and librarian Richelle Brown will teach participants how to research and write about divestment campaigns - be they focused on fossil fuel struggles or the prison industrial complex. Come learn, analyze, network, and hone skills for building a better world!

Richelle Brown is an archivist, librarian, and activist. Since 2011, she has been involved in grassroots organizing for a variety of environmental justice issues, including mountaintop removal coal mining, hydraulic fracturing, and the siting and regulation of energy infrastructure. Her essay, "Power Line: Memory and the March on Blair Mountain" was published last year in the edited volume Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting.

Organized by Iemanja Brown and Ashley Dawson.

Cosponsored by the Ecocriticism Working Group.

Vist out website for more information: https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/who-is-funding-all-this-and-how-do-we-stop-them

Free and open to the public.

Image: "Bank of America Action." Photograph provided by We Are Cove Point.

Film/Panel Discussion[s]: Cinema of Resistance
http://maisonfrancaise.org/cinema-of-resistance http://maisonfrancaise.org/events
A Film Series Curated by Nora Philippe and presented by the Columbia Maison Française and School of the Arts
Films are free and open to the public. Subtitles are in English.
http://maisonfrancaise.org/cinema-of-resistance
Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall & Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Screenings take place as indicated at the Columbia Maison Française/Buell Hall at
W. 116th Street and Broadway [ https://goo.gl/dxb4qK ], and at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Broadway and W.129th Street.

For decades, France has been and remains a country where directors immigrate from all over the world to make political films freely, and French productions have continuously challenged forms of power and censorship, shaping what has been called a "cinéma de résistance." Because the French film industry is currently the first most active in Europe, and notably cosmopolitan, the selected films will offer a variety of voices, perspectives, and treatments on the urgent theme of resistance. Although resistance can be mounted to many different kinds of forces, for the purpose of this film series, we have selected films, some historic and some more recent, that treat in particular resistance to political regimes, in various historical contexts. The films share a connection to France, the French-speaking world, and/or the French cinematic tradition.

FEATURED FILMS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 6:30 P.M.
Tahrir: Liberation Square
Stefano Savona, 2012, 91 min.
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/tahrir-liberation-square
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Screening followed by discussion with Professor Jane Gaines and curator Nora Philippe.
Event Location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
From facebook thumbs up to the battle of stones, a history of hope, fear, despair, anger, pride and elation, Tahrir is the real-time chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history of modern Egypt as lived by their protagonists.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30 P.M.
The Battle of Algiers (La Bataille d’Alger)
Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, 120 min.
More information and RSVP: https://goo.gl/dJakPJ
http://maisonfrancaise.org/battle-of-algiers
Screening followed by discussion with Professor Madeleine Dobie and curator Nora Philippe
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
The Battle of Algiers reconstructs the events that occurred in the capital city of French Algeria between November 1954 and December 1957, during the Algerian War of Independence. The tactics of the FLN guerrilla insurgency and the French counter insurgency, and the uglier incidents of the war, are depicted.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 6:30 P.M.
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Peter Watkins, 2000, 345 min.
Information & RSVP https://goo.gl/MdUv1E http://maisonfrancaise.org/la-commune
Screening introduced by Professor Emmanuelle Saada
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the 1871 Paris Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms. The telling of this story rests primarily on depicting the people of the Commune, and those who suppressed them.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7:00 P.M.
Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres)
Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, 145 min.
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/army-of-shadows
http://eventbrite.com/e/cinema-of-resistance-army-of-shadows-tickets-37620321394 Screening followed by a discussion with Professor Richard Pena, and Emeritus Professor Robert Paxton
Event location: Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 129th and Broadway
Surely the most famous and subtle French production about underground Resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, told through a compelling thriller story.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 6:30 P.M.
Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015, 97 min.
More information and RSVP
https://eventbrite.com/e/the-assembly-tickets-37042551268
http://maisonfrancaise.org/mustang
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
It is the beginning of summertime in the Turkish countryside. When five orphan sisters are seen innocently playing with boys on the beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them, while forced marriages are arranged. They all resist the best they can.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 6:30 P.M.
The Assembly (L’assemblée)
Mariana Otero, 2017, 98 min.
U.S. Premiere
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/the-assembly
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Screening followed by discussion with Bernard Harcourt and Etienne Balibar
Event location: Maison Française, Buell Hall
This documentary examines how the Nuit Debout (Arise at Night) protest that took place in March 2016 in Paris turned into a kind of movement in the spirit of Occupy Wall Street, a new form of democratic Assembly, without a leader or elected representatives, in which each person was given an opportunity to speak and participate in the collective.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7:00 P.M.
Swagger
Olivier Babinet, 2016, 90 min.
More information and RSVP http://maisonfrancaise.org/swagger
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Screening followed by discussion with director Olivier Babinet
Event location: Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, 129th and Broadway
The public housing projects in the banlieues outside Paris have been the setting for many a gritty saga of desperation and despair. Swagger is not one of those movies. Instead, this joyously innovative documentary immerses viewers in the hopes, dreams, and rich inner lives of eleven teenagers growing up in one of France's most diverse neighborhoods.

Support for this series on the CINEMA OF RESISTANCE is provided by the Knapp Family Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. Additional support provided by our co-sponsors at Columbia: the School of the Arts; MA Program in Film Studies at the School of the Arts; European Institute, Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies; Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Committee on Global Thought, and Columbia Global Centers.

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Promesa: The Fiscal Crisis in Puerto Rico and the Debt of Artists
Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017, 1:00PM in El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave. btw. E. 104th & E. 105th
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As part of our OCCUPY MUSEUM: Debtfair exhibition on view in Las Galerias, join us for a special panel discussion about the research-based project, featuring works by 10 artists from Puerto Rico, organized by Occupy Museums. The discussion will focus on the debt crisis, the implications of Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) and artists’ relationship to this economic reality in Puerto Rico.

Featured speakers include: Yarimar Bonilla, professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University; Noah Fischer, artist, activist and co-founder of Occupy Museums, Yasmin Hernández, artist, activist and educator; Christopher Lew, curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Celestino Ortiz, artist, musician and performer, and Adrián Viajero Román, artist, activist, and educator.

Promesa: The Fiscal Crisis in Puerto Rico and the Debt of Artist
Saturday, Oct. 14 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Ave. btw. E. 104th & E. 105th
Free registration [ask (212) 831-7272 whether required]:
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10199963
http://elmuseo.org/event/promesa-panel-discussion/
https://facebook.com/events/1699594100082777

As part of our OCCUPY MUSEUM: Debtfair exhibition on view in Las Galerias, join us for a special panel discussion about the research-based project, featuring works by 10 artists from Puerto Rico, organized by Occupy Museums. The discussion will focus on the debt crisis, the implications of Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) and artists’ relationship to this economic reality in Puerto Rico.

Featured speakers include: Yarimar Bonilla, professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University; Noah Fischer, artist, activist and co-founder of Occupy Museums, Yasmin Hernández, artist, activist and educator; Christopher Lew, curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Celestino Ortiz, artist, musician and performer, and Adrián Viajero Román, artist, activist, and educator.

FREE ADMISSION.
To RSVP, click here.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS

Yarimar Bonilla is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University where she teaches and writes about social movements, colonial legacies, and questions of race, sovereignty, and nation across the Americas. Bonilla has written about the politics of hashtag activism within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and the semiotics of digital protest in the context of Guadeloupe. Professor Bonilla has been the recipient of multiple grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Chateaubriand Fellowship Program, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University. Bonilla is currently Section Editor of Public Anthropologies for the journal American Anthropologist, and serves on the editorial committee for Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism, and the board of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

Noah Fischer works at the crossroads between the political road of economic and social inequity and poetic pathway of art practice. His sculpture, drawing, performance, writing, and organizing practice fluctuate between object making and direct action as well as an ongoing theatrical collaboration with Berlin based andcompany&Co. Fischer has a particular focus on art institutions; He is the initiating member of Occupy Museums and a member of GULF/ Gulf Labor; his collaborative work has been seen (with and without invitation) at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Guggenheim, Brooklyn Museum, ZKM, and Venice, Athens, and Berlin Biennales among other venues. With Occupy Museums, Noah participated in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Noah teaches at Parsons School of Art and Design and maintains a studio practice in Brooklyn New York.

Occupy Museums (Arthur Polendo, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Kenneth Pietrobono, Noah Fischer, and Tal Beery)
Formed during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, Occupy Museums connects the struggle for economic and social equity to art institutions, highlighting instances when they propagate and normalize injustice. The collective has worked in tandem with activist networks to stage numerous direct actions in major museums in NYC and abroad and was a participant in the 2017 Whitney Biennial where they exhibited Debtfair, a platform that categorizes artists according to their debts and other financial realities. The system reveals the relationships binding individuals to the banks holding their loans—a hidden but highly consequential factor underlying American art that is relevant to the economic crisis in Puerto Rico.

Yasmin Hernández is a Brooklyn-born and raised artist whose work is rooted in struggles for personal, political and spiritual liberation. She explores these themes through her paintings and mixed-media works, portraits primarily, that weave storytelling through layered images, text and calligraphy. Yasmin has received various recognitions for her commitment to community building through the arts. Yasmin’s art projects have been supported by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Puffin Foundation, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies and the George Sugarman Foundation. Yasmin attended the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan and holds a BFA in Painting from Cornell University. Yasmin has developed community education initiatives on themes of art and liberation and has worked as an educator with the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio in New York City and Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. in Philadelphia, among other arts and cultural institutions.

Christopher Y. Lewis an American art curator, an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and with (Mia Locks) co-curator of the 2017 edition of the Whitney Biennial. Prior to his position at the Whitney he was an associate curator at MoMA PS1. In 2017, he was appointed co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The Biennial was the first one to be held in the museum’s new Meatpacking District structure designed by Renzo Piano.

Celestino Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has taken various courses in drawing and painting with artists such as Freddie Mercado, Besty Padín, Carmelo Sobrino and Noemi Ruiz. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Y Gallery and at the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance both in New York, and at various other venues in Puerto Rico. He has been included in a number of group exhibitions in Paris, Houston, New York and throughout Puerto Rico. His work is represented in several private collections in New York, New Jersey, Argentina and Puerto Rico. He has performed or has been featured on a variety of media programs. Through his Estudio Celestino, he interviews significant figures in the arts, music an culture scene of the island.

Adrián Viajero Román was born in New York City of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his travels to the Caribbean, Central America, Africa, and a number of cities across the United States, he has come into contact with a variety of cultures that have influenced his work. Viajero is an artist resident of the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn New York, and works closely with the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Disapora Institute in New York City. In 2012, he exhibited at Museo de Arte de Caguas, Puerto Rico as part of the group show AFROLATINOS, which was awarded Best Exhibit 2012 by the International Association of Art Critics. Viajero was most recently nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant for painters and sculptors. He has exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and Puerto Rico.

October 14
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
FREE
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue

Voices 4 Chechnya - A March from Stonewall to Trump World Tower at UN
Saturday, Oct. 14, 2:00 to 5:00 PM from The Stonewall Inn
53 Christopher St. at 7th Av. South, nr. #1, A, C, D, E, F & PATH stops
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WE MARCH
On October 14 2017 we march from Stonewall to Trump World Tower at United Nations Plaza [845 1st Av. btw. E.47th & E.48th, nr. E, #7, 6, 4, 5 stops, M50 & M42].

We demand visas be issued to our family fleeing Chechnya. Our marchers will be sponsored and all of the money raised will be donated to RUSA LGBT - Russian-Speaking American LGBT Association .

RUSA LGBT has welcomed many LGBTQ asylum seekers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and other countries of the Former Soviet Union.More details, website and registration to come.For any inquires please
email adamewerner@gmail.com

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Please join us for a leisurely, peaceful ride to some of downtown Manhattan's peaceful sites, including: Tibet House, Anthroposophical Society, former residence of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Point Thank You, Teardrop Park, and more! Great ride for kids and cyclists new to group rides. Subject to change, not all sites are visited on every ride. Dress for the weather! Co-sponser: PEACE MUSEUM NY.
Meets 3rd Sunday of every month.

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National Hunger March 2017
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Calling all Food Not Bombs chapters, homeless rights groups, soup kitchens and those who are poor or live without housing to organize a National Hunger March.

Over 42 million Americans live in food insecure households, including 29.1 million adults and 13.1 million children. Those of us that share food with America’s hungry experience the increased need every week.

I am proposing we start on Monday, October 16, 2017, first taking the march to our local Congressional offices or town hall meetings to be followed by campaign to march on Washington DC as was done during the Great Depression. October 16th is not only the World Food Day used by corporate agriculture to promote themselves it is also the first day that U.S. Congresspeople will be in their local districts. The demands should be simple and...
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National Hunger March
Monday, Oct. 16 at Noon to 6:00 PM
United States Capitol [ask for a specific location.]
Washington, District of Columbia 20515
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National Hunger March 2017
Calling all Food Not Bombs chapters, homeless rights groups, soup kitchens and those who are poor or live without housing to organize a National Hunger March.

Over 42 million Americans live in food insecure households, including 29.1 million adults and 13.1 million children. Those of us that share food with America’s hungry experience the increased need every week.

I am proposing we start on Monday, October 16, 2017, first taking the march to our local Congressional offices or town hall meetings to be followed by campaign to march on Washington DC as was done during the Great Depression. October 16th is not only the World Food Day used by corporate agriculture to promote themselves it is also the first day that U.S. Congresspeople will be in their local districts. The demands should be simple and direct.
People could march to the US Capital possibly arriving in Washington DC on November 22 to have a rally and share food on Thanksgiving Day. Congress returns to the capital on Tuesday, November 28th. Since many people will not be able afford to go to Washington DC we can hold local marches. I propose we use Congress as a vehicle to reach the public about failure of our political and economic system and highlighting failure of America to feed its people.

PROPOSED DEMANDS:

SNAP food stamps for prepared meals, a 25% increase in benefits and eliminate work requirements.
End all restrictions on the right to share food
Housing and medical care for all.

Over 42 million people are already facing hunger and live in extreme poverty every month. For those of us sharing food with the hungry conditions look more and more like those of Great Depression. The National Center for Family Homelessness reports that there are 2.5 million homeless children on the streets of America. Who really know how many millions of adults live without housing?

The first National Hunger March was organized in 1931. A story on Progressive Historians offers some insights to the first National Hunger March.

“Local hunger marches started on April 1, 1931, when a large group of unemployed forced their way into the Maryland State legislature to demand relief. Columns of unemployed represented by all races would leave from Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, and St. Louis, and all arrive on December 6. Marches from the West coast would leave earlier and meet up in either Chicago or St. Louis.”

“Each delegate wore an armband that said ‘National Hunger March, December 7, 1931’, which was the day that Congress would open for a new session. There were ten marchers to a truck as well as a smaller car that would run ahead looking for hostile crowds and/or police. While the media and local governments were extremely hostile to the marchers (Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia advised them to "pass by" his city. Hartford closed its streets to them), the public often turned out in large numbers to cheer them on and protect them from the local police. The marches were given $40 for all expenses, but frequently local communities would furnish them food and medical care free of charge, or at cost.”

“All of the columns reached Washington D.C. on December 6, as scheduled.” ( http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2008/02/hunger-on-march.html )

Again this year Congress will be in their home offices starting on of all things World Food Day, October 16th. Maybe we could do nationwide actions in our own communities on October 16th. Those that would like to march to Washington DC would be supported locally.

PROPOSED NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH
Starts Monday, October 16, 2017

PROPOSED DEMANDS

SNAP food stamps for prepared meals, a 25% increase in benefits and eliminate work requirements.
End all restrictions on the right to share food
Housing and medical care for all.
�What do you think?

email menu@foodnotbombs.net if your group wants to participate and has suggestions.

THIS IS THE FILM MADE OF THE NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH IN 1931.
https://archive.org/details/National_Hunger_March_1931_The#

Inequalities in the Sustainable Development Goals
Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM
International Affairs Building/SIPA,
420 W. 118 St., Room 707, btw. Amsterdam Av. & Morningside Dr.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted two years ago, making it an opportune time for a first stocktaking. The SDGs make the central promise to Leave No One Behind and include a dedicated goal to reduce inequalities. Human rights advocates have put great hopes in the SDGs as an instrument for transformative change. But do they bring about the much-needed paradigm shift? Or were the extensive consultations and negotiations much ado about nothing?

At the event, we will launch a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights on the “Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights: A Critical Early Review” co-edited by Inga Winkler and Carmel Williams. Speakers will focus on monitoring and policies for the way forward with a focus on invisible and marginalized population groups.

• Margaret L. Satterthwaite, NYU Law School
• Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights
• Sara L. M. Davis, NYU Center for Human Rights & Global Justice
• Mila Rosenthal, United Nations Development Programme & Institute for the Study of Human Rights
• Lauren Barredo, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
• Chaired by Inga Winkler, Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Co-sponsored by
• Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
• SIPA Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration
• Human Rights Graduate Group
• Columbia University Students for Human Rights
• Center for Economic and Social Rights
• Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Lorraine Hansberry Plaque Unveiling
Monday Oct. 16 from 5:00 to 6:00 PM
112 Waverly Pl. btw. 6th Av. MacDougal St. nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, PATH & buses via 8th St. or 9th St. or 6th Av.
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The first African American woman to write a play performed on Broadway, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry bought this Greenwich Village home in 1960. Already a Villager at the time, Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in the neighborhood. Best known for her play A Raisin in the Sun about living under racial segregation in Chicago, she was a New School graduate, a political organizer, a furtive participant in the LGBT rights struggle, and a social justice advocate. Her political engagement drew the attention and surveillance of the FBI. Although she died young, her creative spirit and activism continued to inspire her fellow Villagers and artistic peers; Hansberry even inspired Nina Simone's song “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.”

Join GVSHP on Waverly Place to mark this important site of Greenwich Village and African American culture. Guest speakers will highlight the many ways Hansberry inspired and influenced the world around her.

Presented in partnership with The Historic Landmarks Preservation Center.

Free. Reservations required.
[This event is fully accessible.]

The Institutional as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-institutional-as-usual-a-lecture-by-sara-ahmed/
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The Institutional as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection
With Sara Ahmed
Monday, October 16, 2017
6 PM
Event Oval, The Diana Center
Broadway at approx. W. 119th St. on Barnard campus (Broadway btw W.116th & W.120th)
In the annual Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture, Sara Ahmed, independent scholar and feminist writer, explores how institutions are built from small acts of use. What usually happens seems to keep happening without having to be made into official policy and sometimes even despite an official policy. We learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who are trying to transform institutions.

Ahmed will bring together data from her study of diversity work in universities first presented in On Being Included (2012) and developed in the middle section of Living a Feminist Life (2017) with her current research into “the uses of use” and complaint. She considers how social justice projects require making usage into a crisis.

Co-Sponsored by Institute for Research on Women and Gender Studies, Columbia University.
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