Refuse Fascism Weekly Organizing Meeting
Tuesday Dec. 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Ctr./LGBT Ctr.
208 W. 13 St. btw. Greenwich Av. & 7th Av. nr. L, A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, F, M, PATH, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 stops & buses via 14th St. or via E.9th St.;The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
https://osm.org/go/Zct9ADApU-?way=250490670 (https://goo.gl/maps/6JTjBSuy1Tk)
https://facebook.com/events/378787852892563/
venue 646.358.1714 212.620.7310 msteyer@gaycenter.org
https://gaycenter.org/calendar/ https://twitter.com/lgbtcenternyc

Urgent! No to the irreversible landfill for a US base in Okinawa
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
outside Japanese Consulate - NYC
299 Park Ave. btw. E. 48th & E. 49th; E, M to Lexington Av.-53 St.; B, D, F
to 47-50 St./Rock. Ctr.; #4, 5, 6, 7, S to 42 St.-Grand Central;
maps https://goo.gl/maps/SooR8b7nEB22
https://osm.org/go/Zct9NPmh?way=144919878
event https://facebook.com/events/731028127291709/
Public · Hosted by Hideko Otake and Shizu Takasu;
apparently relevant (https://facebook.com/Okinawa-Focus-1563588530572120)

A vigil protesting Japanese government for its decision to start full-fledged land reclamation to build a new US military base on Dec 14 despite the strong and determined opposition by Governor Denny Tamaki and the Okinawans who voted for him in the election held on September 30th. Abe administration has ignored the people’s will and plans to throw even just a bucket of earth into the enclosed coastal area on the day. Their strategy is clear. They want to make the people give up before the referendum is conducted over the new base on Feb 24, next year.

Join us to show your support for Okinawa and raise your voice with us. You can show up anytime between 11:30-1:30

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International Day of the Migrant - New York
Tuesday Dec. 18, Noon to 1:00 PM in or from Columbus Cir.
nr. W.59th St./Central Pk South, 8th Av./Central Pk West & Broadway
#1, A, B, C, D, N, Q, R, F stops, 57th St. bus; maps & transit
https://goo.gl/maps/AEunw7FuHDC2 https://osm.org/go/Zct9ZEayU-?way=608965023
event https://facebook.com/events/2152926818302412  Public · Hosted by RevBilly & Stop Shopping Choir http://revbilly.com/get-involved
https://facebook.com/pg/revbilly/events m.me/revbilly  revbilly@revbilly.com

On the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE MIGRANT
We remind Donald Trump and the United States Government that they hold all the cards, and all the keys.

Whatever crisis exists at the border can be solved instantly by them. OPEN THE BORDERS

demilitarize the border. JUDGES NOT SOLDIERS
honor the legal right to seek asylum. JUSTICE FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS
stop the deportations. NOT ONE MORE. ABOLISH ICE
stop the detentions. NOT ONE MORE. STOP PRISON PROFITEERS
end to all family separation. KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER
reunify families. RETURN THE CHILDREN
end border deaths and death at the border. ACCOUNTABILITY at CUSTOMS & BORDER PATROL

white supremacy is NOT an immigration policy.
This is a peaceful march & rally. We have no permit.
Initial sponsors: Reverend Billy, Savitri D, The Church of Stop Shopping, The New Sanctuary Coalition

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Caravan Demands

Demand Congress pass the Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act to end all military and police aid to the dictator in Honduras. H.R.1299

Facilitate access to the asylum process in the US and immediately increase the number of asylum seekers processed in San Ysidro ports of entry to 300 people per day.

Remove the troops from the border. Not one more dollar of funding for the Department of Homeland Security: no money for border enforcement, no money for the wall, no money for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and no more boots on ground

Zulu Sharod — All Power! Don't allow our oppressors to divide us! We are one people! One Comrade! Our oppressors are the same and it's called capitalism imperialism, racism and State violence! Stand with the people traveling as a caravan! Our support will help push back against the tyranny of the government! Panther Love!
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RevBilly & Stop Shopping Choir
We are a community of eco-activists, artists and musicians. Get involved.

. Protest La Granja Live Poultry
Tuesday, Dec. 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
1355 Amsterdam Ave. at W. 126th, nr. #1, A, (B), C, D stops, M60 via RFK Triboro & 125th St.;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4oxXSJ?node=2768245708
https://goo.gl/maps/8ApkCDkVY7M2
event description & contacts https://facebook.com/events/1783602015081701/
(412) 452-2791 (https://facebook.com/Harlem-Animal-Save-327353584717258/)
m.me/327353584717258  http://www.thesavemovement.org
https://facebook.com/pg/Harlem-Animal-Save-327353584717258/community/

Caravan Solidarity on International Migrants Day
with Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere/FIRE

. Gather 4:00pm at Honduran Mission to the UN
1st Ave between E. 48th and E. 49th (866 United Nations Plaza
nr. E, M, #7, 4, 5, 6, S stops & cross town buses via 50th or via 42nd)

. 5:30 March to US Mission to the UN
1st Ave between E. 44th and E. 45th (799 Unite. d Nations Plaza)

. Rally at US Mission till 7:00pm

event graphic https://goo.gl/VbHbxi http://fb.com/fightformigrants
http://twitter.com/fight4migrants https://facebook.com/events/346945575883669/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2212518882406596/

ENDORSERS:
Coalición Fortaleza Latina PA; May 1st Coalition-NYC; Kenia Murillo-daughter of Margarita Murillo killed by Honduran military; International Migrant Alliance; Peoples Power
Assembly-NYC; NYC Shut It Down; La Peña del Bronx; New Orleans Workers Group; FIEL (Familias Imigrantes y Estudiantes en Lucha) Houston; Alianza Latina Internacional-Houston; Migrant
Rights Collective-Houston; UNAC (United National Anti-War Coalition)

LLAMADA PARA ACCIONES DE SOLIDARIDAD EN EL DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LOS MIGRANTES

FIRE (Fight for Immigrant and Refugees Everywhere/Lucha para migrantes y refugiados en todas partes), una organización nacional recientemente formada en los Estados Unidos que lucha para defender a trabajadores migrantes, está llamando para acciones en el Día Internacional de Acción, el 18 de diciembre.

El 4 de diciembre de 2000, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas proclamó el 18 de diciembre el Día Internacional de los Migrantes. Las proclamaciones de las Naciones Unidas
están bien, pero están lejos de ser suficientes para abordar la creciente crisis humanitaria, económica y política que millones de trabajadores enfrentan, obligándolos a migrar. Lo que urgentemente se necesita, es que continuemos movilizaciones y que continuemos organizando para detener este tsunami de ataques contra los migrantes.

Caravana centroamericana en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México.
El mundo entero vio cómo miles de hondureños, salvadoreños y guatemaltecos caminaron de sus países hacia la frontera en busca de un asilo bien merecido. Después de un viaje difícil, fueron “recibidos” en la frontera de California y Tijuana con gas lacrimógeno, tropas militares de los Estados Unidos y reaccionarios mexicanos de clase alta que los han aterrorizado.

Mantengamos la presión sobre la Administración Trump.
Durante el año pasado, decenas de miles de personas en los Estados Unidos han mostrado su solidaridad con los migrantes. Sin embargo, la presión para exigir justicia para los trabajadores migrantes y refugiados debe continuar.

Deje entrar a la caravana.
Progresistas, estudiantes, sindicalistas, organizaciones religiosas y comunitarias exigen que dejen entrar a la caravana. Miles de personas han colectado ayuda material, han viajado a la frontera en solidaridad, y han opuesto a la demagogia y el racismo de Trump, que existe para avivar a su base de racistas.

El 18 de diciembre, salgamos a las calles en
todas partes de los EE. UU. para exigir:
¡DEJEN ENTRAR A LA CARAVANA!
NO HAY FRONTERAS EN LA LUCHA DE LOS TRABAJADORES!
¡ASILO PARA LOS REFUGIADOS DE AMÉRICA CENTRAL!

A CALL FOR SOLIDARITY ACTIONS ON
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY

FIRE (Fight for Im/Migrant & Refugees Everywhere), a newly formed national organization in the U.S. that fights to defend migrant workers, is calling for International Days of Action on December 18.

On December 4th, 2000, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed Dec. 18 International Migrants Day. While U.N. proclamations are fine, they are far from enough to address the growing humanitarian, economic and political crisis that millions of workers are facing forcing them to migrate. What is urgently needed is continues mass mobilizations and organizing going on to stop this tsunami of anti-migrant attacks.

Central American Caravan at US/Mexican border.
The whole world watched as thousands of Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans walked and rode from their countries to the US border in search of well-deserved asylum. After a treacherous journey they have been “welcomed” at the border in California & Tijuana with tear gas, U.S. military troops and reactionary upper-class Mexicans who have terrorized them.

Keep the pressure on the Trump Administration.
For the past year, tens of thousands of people in the U.S. have come out to show their solidarity with migrants. The pressure to demand justice for migrant and refugee workers must continue, however.

Let the caravan in.
Progressives, students, unionists, faith-based and community organizations demand that the Caravan be let in. Thousands have raised material aid, traveled to the border in solidarity and opposed Trump’s demagogy and racism which is only used to whip up his white supremacist base.

On December 18, take to the streets in cities throughout the U.S. to demand:

LET THE CARAVAN IN!
NO BORDERS IN THE WORKERS STRUGGLE!
ASYLUM FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEES!

ourfire.net
fb.com/fightformigrants
twitter: @fight4migrants

insta: @fightformigrants
Schedule · Tuesday, December 18, 2018
4:00 PM
Rally at Honduran Mission to the UN (866 United Nations Plaza 1st Ave between 48th and 49th)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Rally at US Mission (799 United Nations Plaza 1st Ave btwn 44th and 45th)
5:30 PM
March to US Mission ot the UN (799 United Nations Plaza 1st Ave btwn 44th and 45th)

About FIRE - Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere
FIRE - Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere
We’re FIRE: Fight for Im/migrants & Refugees Everywhere | We fight to abolish ICE, and connect the struggles of im/migrants, refugees and all workers

#JusticeForJakelin / Justicia para Jakelin "Vigilia"
Tuesday, Dec. 18 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM in Foley Sq.
nr. J, 4, 5, 6, R, W, 2, 3, A, C, 1, E, PATH stops;
maps url.ie/zb2p https://osm.org/go/Zct2v85O?way=496150719
https://goo.gl/maps/xFiNRtQNCpQ2
event https://facebook.com/events/199013631045624/
https://facebook.com/gapimny/posts/10156218774773737
contacts https://facebook.com/Riszard/about https://facebook.com/Bianey.Dlao
 
Jakelin Ameí Rosemery Caal Maquinthe 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration & shock after being taken in by CBP. We lost another baby at the hands of agencies that Congress and Donald Trump keeps funding.

No child should be in a cage. No child should be denied food, water, and basic medical care. No child should be treated inhumanely. Border patrol had 90 minutes and they did not act. 90 minutes to act humanely. They treated her worse than an animal. We failed you, Jakelin Ameí Rosemery Caal Maquin.

You went on a grueling journey hoping to find refuge and we failed you. Rest in power. #JusticeForJakelin #JakelinCaal

Bring Candles please!

Bianey Garcia — 🔴Folks please invite all your friends and don't forget to bring a candle!
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December 18 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Kairos Center Evaluation ClassThis session has been canceled .
https://peoplesforum.org/calendar/

FILM SCREENING + POETRY READING WITH MOHAMMED EL-KURD
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 6:00 to 8:30 PM at People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32
event (https://peoplesforum.org/event/film-screening-poetry-reading-with-mohammed-el-kurd/)
venue 347-695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/ info@peoplesforum.org

Join us for a screening of Just Vision’s award-winning documentary, My Neighbourhood, and original poetry by the film’s protagonist, Mohammed El-Kurd. A Q&A with Mohammed, moderated by Aber Kwas (Take On Hate) to follow.

About the protagonist: Palestinian poet, Mohammed El-Kurd, grew up in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in the heart of East Jerusalem, Palestine. When Mohammed turns 11, his family is forced to give up part of their home to Israeli settlers who are leading a campaign of court-sanctioned evictions to guarantee Jewish control of the area. Through personal stories, the JustVision short, “My Neighbourhood,” goes beyond the sensational headlines that normally dominate discussions of Jerusalem and captures voices rarely heard, of those striving for a future of equality and pluralism in the city.

*Donations welcome and deeply appreciated.

International Migrants Day Celebration/ Dia del Immigrante
Tuesday, Dec. 18 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in St. Francis House
135 W. 31st St, 10001-3403, btw. 6th & 7th Aves.,
nr. #1, 2, 3, (B), D, F, (M), N, Q, R, (W), PATH, A, C, E & cross town bus via 34th St. or 23rd St.;
maps https://goo.gl/maps/2U7nW2fxQfx https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/264685148
Public · Hosted by IMA USA International Migrants Alliance - USA Chapter
https://facebook.com/events/441968653000267/ https://facebook.com/ima.usa2011/events  m.me/ima.usa2011 ima.usa2011@gmail.com http://ima2008.wordpress.com

IMA USA International Migrants Alliance - USA Chapter
The International Migrants’ Alliance (IMA) is the first-ever global alliance of organizations of grassroots migrants, refugees and displaced peoples.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Settler Colonialism and US Social Movement
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in Frederick P. Rose Auditorium of
Cooper Union's ``41 Cooper Sq.`` Bldg., physically at 3rd Av. btw. E. 6th & E. 7th St., NYC,
nr. #6, R, W, B, D, F, M, L stops & cross town buses via 8th St. or via E.9th St. or Houston St.;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8Uvrv?way=241833326 https://goo.gl/maps/PwRfuWrPqLo
free and public; event descriptions & contacts: (https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/settler-colonialism-land-capitalism-and-us-social-movements) (https://facebook.com/events/575255429579896/) (https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions) (https://readymag.com/u23078901/1135233/15/) (https://artandeducation.net/announcements/209694/ids-public-lecture-series-fall-2018)
Part of Cooper Union IDS Public Lecture Series https://twitter.com/idscooper
venue  212-353-4196 or sarkis@cooper.edu

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz gives a free, public lecture as part of the 2018 Fall Intra-Disciplinary Seminar (IDS) lecture series.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma.  As a veteran of the ‘60s revolution, she has been involved in movements against the Vietnam War and imperialism, union organizing, and was one of the founders of the WomOrtizen's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s. Since 1973, she has worked with indigenous communities for sovereignty and land rights and helped build the international indigenous movement. With a doctorate in history, she is professor emerita at California State University East Bay, and author of numerous scholarly indigenous related books and articles, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico and The Great Sioux Nation, as well as a memoir trilogy and the award-winning book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Her most recent book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, was published by City Lights in 2018.

The Fall 2018 IDS Lecture Series at The Cooper Union is organized by Leslie Hewitt and Omar Berrada. The IDS Public Lecture Series is part of the Robert Lehman Visiting Artist Program at The Cooper Union. We are grateful for major funding and support from the Robert Lehman Foundation for the series. The IDS Public Lecture Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Letter-Writing Dinner For Mumia Abu-Jamal
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 7:00 PM at The Base
1302 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, at Stockholm St. (off Dekalb Av.); M train to Central Av. (at Cedar St., then walk away from Manhattan); J to Myrtle Av. (NW exit, nearest Manhattan, then walk NE on Dekalb); L to DeKalb Av. (between the exits find Stockholm St. & walk SW, against traffic); buses via DeKalb or Myrtle; B60 via Wilson Av.;
https://goo.gl/maps/Zt46tKnkvHD2 (https://osm.org/go/Zct8qVvc?node=5418692470)
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/  https://facebook.com/pg/TheBkBase/events/ http://thebasebk.org/event/ https://twitter.com/thebasebk thebasebk@gmail.com

ask correct ending time. -t.
WHAT: Political Prisoner Letter-Writing Dinner
WHEN: 7pm sharp, Tuesday, December 18, [2018]
WHERE: The Base – 1302 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11221 (directions below)
NOTE: The Base is on the ground floor, is wheelchair accessible, and has a gender neutral toilet.
COST: Free

With folks lining up in droves to take part in their consumerist rituals for the holidays, one may think that all is well.  The fact that political prisoners are still being held captive by the State tells us otherwise.  In the spirit of love and solidarity we ask folks to join NYC ABC this Tuesday as we end another year of our every-other-week letter writing dinners by writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an African-American writer and journalist, author of six books and hundreds of columns and articles, who has spent the last 30 years on Pennsylvania’s death row and now general population. Mumia was wrongfully convicted and sentenced for the murder of a Philadelphia cop. The demand for a new trial and freedom is supported by heads of state, Nobel laureates, distinguished human rights organizations, scholars, religious leaders, artists, scientists and, as important, millions of folks like you and us. For more information, be sure to visit bringmumiahome.com.

We expect to see you on Tuesday. If you can’t make it, please take the time to write a letter to Mumia:
Smart Communications/PA DOC
Mumia Abu-Jamal #AM8335
SCI Mahanoy
Post Office Box 33028
St Petersburg, Florida 33733

The deal, as always, is that you come bringing only yourself (and your friends and comrades), and we provide you with a delicious vegan meal, information about the prisoners as well as all of the letter-writing materials and prisoner-letter-writing info you could ever want to use in one evening. In return, you write a thoughtful letter to a political prisoner or prisoner of war of your choosing or, better yet, keep up a long-term correspondence. We’ll also provide some brief updates and pass around birthday cards for the PP/POWs whose birthdays fall in the next two weeks thanks to the PP/POW Birthday Calendar.

Directions

Getting to The Base is simple

From the M Train:
Central Avenue Stop: Walk east on Myrtle Avenue (away from Hart Street, toward Cedar Street). We’re about two blocks down on the south side of the street.

Knickerbocker Avenue Stop: Walk west on Myrtle Avenue (away from Harman Street, toward Himrod Street). We’re about three blocks down on the south side of the street.

From the L Train:
DeKalb Avenue Stop: Walk south on Stockholm Street (away from Wyckoff Avenue, toward Irving Avenue). We’re about four blocks down, at the intersection of Stockholm Street and Myrtle Avenue.

From the J Train:
Myrtle Avenue Stop: Transfer to the M train and follow the above directions

TRIAL SUPPORT f/ ACCUSED STATUE CLIMBER PATRICIA OKOUMOU
Monday, Dec. 17, 2018 fr/ 9:00 AM in U.S. Dist. Court Moynihan Courthouse
500 Pearl St. btw. Centre St. & Park Row OR enter on Worth opp. Baxter & Mulberry, nr. J, #4, 5, 6, R, W, 2, 3, A, C, E, PATH, 1, B, D & buses via E. Broadway or Broadway or Chambers; maps: https://osm.org/go/Zct8FTZMh-?way=278105948
https://goo.gl/maps/HSTL6zWjvZr
(https://facebook.com/events/2210388935858519/permalink/2221793754718037)
#ReturnTheChildren m.me/516PANIC  (https://facebook.com/pg/516PANIC/events)
https://twitter.com/pokoumou https://facebook.com/patricia.okoumou.735/about
https://instagram.com/officialpatriciaokoumou/ ; arrest pic https://goo.gl/XkVtJT
Please research (or guess) correct ending time.  -t.

Update: A judge has denied Patricia’s motion to have a trial by jury. Instead she will receive a bench trial. Her new trial date in December 17 at 9:00 am. The location is the same.  Now more than ever Patricia needs us to show up to support her and demand #ReturnTheChildren.   Join PANIC members at Manhattan District Court [sic] when we turn out in solidarity with Patricia Okoumou, Lady Liberty climber and #ReturnTheChildren activist.

On July 4, Patricia Okoumou scaled the Statue of Liberty in protest of the Trump administration’s draconian “zero tolerance” immigration policy resulting in the sadistic kidnapping and imprisonment of immigrant children by the US federal government. She now faces jail time and will be tried by a judge on December 17, having had her request for a trial by jury denied and her original date of November 5 postponed.

Patricia Okoumou is a true modern-day folk hero who risked her life to call for justice. Now it is our turn to show up for her.

PANIC members and friends from Long Island are encouraged to carpool or take the LIRR together. Use this page to make arrangements with each other.
PANIC - Prison Abolitionists of Nassau Inciting Change — The case against Patricia Okoumou proves what we already know. What we need no more proof of. That policing and “criminal justice” in the United States is always more concerned with protecting property and power than protecting people. We see it in the use of mass incarceration as a tool of social control and racial repression. We see it in the impunity of corrupt, brutal, and murderous police executing Black children in the street. We saw it in the slave patrols of the 1800s and the violent police crackdowns on labor strikes and civil rights demonstrators in the 1900s. We saw it in Standing Rock. And we see it in the evil sadistic kidnapping and caging of babies carried out by ICE and Customs and Border Protection officers in the name of protecting an imaginary line that defines the physical borders of this racist imperialist project called “America”.On December 17, demand freedom for Patricia. Demand freedom for the children and their families. And demand a new set of institutions and systems designed to protect WE, the PEOPLE, not the wealthy white male elite.#AbolishICE#AbolishPrisons#AbolishPolice#AbolishAllBorders
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PANIC - Prison Abolitionists of Nassau Inciting Change — “There is no excuse for stealing children from their parents. No person or government has the right to rip a child from caring adults without proper due diligence in the court of law. Arrest I.C.E. agents and Donald J. Trump’s Administration. We call for another Nuremberg for crimes against humanity🗽.”- Patricia Okoumou
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PANIC - Prison Abolitionists of Nassau Inciting Change
PANIC is committed to the creation of safe, healthy, and equitable communities in Nassau County, achieved through the abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) and a paradigm shift away from criminal justice toward public health...

Disabled Women's Non-March
Saturday, Jan. 19 from Noon to 2:00 PM in Grand Central Terminal
nr. #4, 5, 6, 7, S, D, F Train & 42nd St. bus
https://osm.org/go/Zct9MVKEh-?node=1912138148  https://goo.gl/maps/qY73wYT9ySw
event descriptions https://facebook.com/events/2421618191188204
Public · Hosted by Jennifer Marie Bartlett

The Disabled Women's Non-March is a response to the exclusion of disabled women and their allies by the NYC Women's Alliance which sponsors the NYC Women's March. The DWNM will occur the same day as the NYC Women's March. It will be sponsored and designed by disabled women and will highlight disability issues that are excluded by the women's alliance. It will occur indoors and will not involve marching. You will not be turned away. Join us!

Recent Posts
Jennifer Marie Bartlett — This is a list of demands that I am working on to send to the NYC Women's March regarding disability. Any suggestions?
1. That the Women's Alliance appoints a disabled woman from the NYC disability community to serve on their board. This person must be open about their disability and have done work in the community.
2. That the march have an accessibility team of at least four people (both abled and disabled). The names of people on this team should be public and readily accessible for questions.
3. That the board, president, and accessibility team host a town hall with the New York Police Department so that the community can speak openly about their concerns.
4. That the March have Marshals.
5. That the route is readily published in large enough text to read marking every accessible subway stop along the route. They should also put out a notice as to what streets will be closed and how people can take a taxi or bus. Finally, they should work with the MTA to find a place for access-a-ride to led passengers on and off.…November 14, 2018Read MoreJennifer Marie Bartlett — The March NOT sponsored by OKCupid.…November 13, 2018Read MoreJennifer Marie Bartlett — Please spread the word because facebook will not allow me to invite any other people. Thanks.…November 13, 20

Rally on de Blasio's Townhall: No to AmazonHQ2
Wednesday, Dec. 19 from 6:00 to 6:30 PM at
Hunter College West Bldg.

904 Lexington Ave. at E.68th St.; #6 to 68 St.-Hunter; F, Q to Lexington Av.-63 St.; M66 cross town via W.65th & E.68th; maps:  https://goo.gl/maps/uBAhqgsQXF82 https://osm.org/go/Zct9blpf?node=2723858478 
NOTE THERE WAS LOCATION MISINFO CIRCULATING.
event description https://facebook.com/events/373181886764028/
w/ Queens Anti-Gentrification Project,  CUNY Struggle,    Fuck Off Amazon,  
CUNY Not HQ2

Mayor DeBlasio is having a townhall at Hunter College December 19 at 6:30 PM. It appears he suddenly cares about community input. Does he think he can fake a sense of community after he has made tremendous decisions that effect our community?

 - CUNY is underfunded, adjuncts are underfunded, food staff workers live in poverty, schools are crumbling, tuition is rising
 - NYCHA residents consistently lose access to hot water and heat at night. Some night thousands of residents are without heat or hot water. His answer is to introduce private management of these apartments.
 - The MTA is in shambles, with raising fares, tiles crumbling, and a CEO fo City Transit Authority blaming the underfunding on US!

We can not stand by while this mayor sits on a stage and preforms his role in this bureaucracy. It is time for NYC to SHUT IT DOWN!

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6PM  Rally
6:30PM  Townhall

RSVP for the townhall and make student voices heard!
https://our.cityofnewyork.us/page/s/cd4townhall

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Charlie Baker — Heads up, the event location (695 Park Ave) doesn't match the location in the cover photo (904 Lex). You should fix whichever one is wrong or else a lot of people will go to the wrong place!
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How to Read A Protest: L.A. Kauffman with Avram Finkelstein
Wednesday, Dec. 19 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at
NY Public Library Mid Manhattan Library Program Rm in Schwartzman Bldg.

476 Fifth Ave., entrance on W.42nd St.; #7 Train to 5 Av.; B, D, F, M to 42 St.-Bryant Pk.; #4, 5, 6 to 42 St.-Grand Central; #1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, S to Times Sq.-42 St.; A, C E to 42 St.-Port Authority;

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When and why does marching matter?
This illustrated history documents America’s major demonstrations, beginning with the 1963 March on Washington, by showing the ways protests work and how their character has shifted over time. Using the very signs that demonstrators carried as indicators of the organization behind various actions, How to Read a Protest explores the relationship between the way movements are built and the ultimate impact they have on fomenting change.

Author and grassroots organizer L.A. Kauffman will be joined in conversation by Avram Finkelstein, an artist and founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives.

FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED
Registration does not guarantee admission. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A stand by line will form 30 minutes before the program.
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. Wednesday, December 19, 7:00pm
A screening at Rev Books of
Roma
New film by Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien). A "luminous, lyrical drama is named for a Mexico City neighborhood... Set in the early 70s, the story charts a tumultuous year in the lives of a young, live-in maid and the upper-middle class family she works for..." [please either ask correct ending time or look up event.  -t.]

at Revolution Books New York, 437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave at W.132nd,
nr. #2, 3, (B), C stops & 135th St. cross town bus;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4o2IIFh-?node=2767552427 ;
https://goo.gl/maps/AC1a3SrXjzK2
212-691-3345 www.revolutionbooksnyc.org https://twitter.com/RevBooksNYC
https://facebook.com/pg/revbooksnyc/events

EVENTS COMING in DECEMBER and JANUARY
 
 . Thursday, December 6, 7:00pm
Author event:  Garrard Conley author of the memoir Boy Erased.
Conley, son of a Baptist pastor in small town Arkansas, terrified and conflicted about his sexuality as a young man, was forced at age 19 to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program to "cure" him of homosexuality, or risk losing family and friends. Boy Erased is now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Lucas Hedges.
 
 . Thursday, December 13, 7:00pm
Author event: Jean Cullander Krasno author of the novel
The Train to Skeleton Coast: A Tale of Murder and the Struggle for Freedom
A page-turner set in 1989, the novel follows a young woman from Yale to Africa where she tries to reunite a young boy with his family in South West Africa (later Namibia). She and the boy become a target of a white South African intelligence agency, amidst the tumult of an independence movement in Namibia.
   
 . Saturday, December 22, 11:00AM
MC Veggie Fresh Rocks the Mic
A Children's Hour with author Shanon Morris
Clementine, who loves good food that's good for you, runs for Healthy Hero against the Junk Food Patrol at her school. Winning is no easy feat. Reading, live rapping, activities for ages 3 and up. All welcome.
 
 . Wednesday, January 9, 7:00pm
Film screening followed by panel discussion
Jackson
An intimate documentary telling the story of 3 women in Jackson, Mississippi. The film gives a deep look into the struggle to defend the right to abortion, revolving around access to the only remaining abortion clinic in the entire state. Award-winning film, 2017. Directed by Maisie Crow.
 
 . Thursday, January 17, 7:00pm
Writing on the Edge:  An Evening of Prose and Poetry by Local Writers
Curated by Janelle Poe, Creative Writing Program--CCNY
 
 . January 22, 7:00pm
Author reading: Andrew Delbanco author of the new historical work
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
"Delbanco reminds us of the stakes of moral testing in every generation, and how the agents of change often begin their journeys under the most desperate circumstances."
-- Henry Louis Gates
 
 . Date in January TBA
Author reading: Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
 

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Revolution Books is all-volunteer and not-for-profit.

Alfonso Cuaron film, ``Roma`` at Revolution Books

Profiting from Pain: Social Crisis & America's Opioid Epidemic
w/ Nikki Blazek, Ansley Hobbs
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Brooklyn Free School
372 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, 11238, btw. Lafayette & Greene Aves.;
G Train to Clinton-Washington (at Lafayette); C to Clinton-Washington (at Fulton);
transit https://goo.gl/maps/BxY8HXowPKu
event graphic, descriptions & contacts https://goo.gl/zDBjph
https://facebook.com/events/267934937221273/
https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynSocialists/events https://facebook.com/pg/nyciso/events https://nycsocialist.org/events/list/ nyc-iso@nycsocialist.org
https://m.me/BrooklynSocialistsnyc
venue (718) 499-2707 http://brooklynfreeschool.org/

Tens of thousands have died from opioid overdoses, American life expectancy has fallen for two years in a row, and drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans younger than 55—and the people responsible have names and addresses. Exhibit A: the Sackler family.

Come hear socialists and health workers Nikki Blazek and Ansley Hobbs give a socialist and intersectional analysis of this public health crisis and offer some short and long term solutions that activists can organize around.
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#endtheopioidepidemic #opioidprofiteers #opioidepidemic #opioidcrisis #publichealth #sacklerpain
Illustration by Javier Zarracina'

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Brooklyn Socialists - ISO
Official page of the Brooklyn branch of the International Socialist Organization, a group of revolutionary socialist activists.

350NYC Holiday Potluck at Monthly Volunteer Meeting
Wednesday Dec. 19 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W. 64th St., NY, NY, at Central Park West,
nr. #1, A, B, C, D, N, Q, R, F stops & M66 via E.67th & W.65th;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9WrJU?node=357620634
(https://goo.gl/maps/qCkXYNG9t1w)
https://facebook.com/events/792165927800727/
Public · Hosted by 350 NYC  m.me/350NYC http://350nyc.org
https://twitter.com/350NYC  https://www.instagram.com/350nyc/

Letter Writing & Discussion: Free Cyntoia Brown!
Thursday, Dec. 19 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at Solidarity Ctr.
147 W. 24th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves. nr. #1, F, M, PATH, C, E, R, #6 stops & 23rd St. bus; maps
https://osm.org/go/Zct9BjcXg-?way=248144090 https://goo.gl/maps/p62UCs5JuqH2
event https://facebook.com/events/210483973215597/
 http://m.me/PeoplesPowerAssemblies info@peoplespowerassemblies.org http://peoplespowerassemblies.org

This week Peoples Power Nyc will be writing letters and making phone calls demanding that the governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam grant Cyntoia Brown clemency.
Cyntoia Brown, a thirty year old black woman has been imprisoned for thirteen years. Sixteen year old Cyntoia was tried as an adult and convicted of murder and robbery for the killing of a 43 year old man who attempted to rape her, despite her plea of self defense. This past week the Tennessee Supreme Court sentenced Cyntoia to 51 more years in prison.

We will have a discussion about how our racist system has failed Cyntoia and countless others with similar cases, who are often young, black, trans or queer and who are many times survivors of violence, like Cyntoia.
We will connect Cyntoia’s case to the recent “anti-sex trafficking ” bills SESTA/FOSTA and discuss how these new laws in fact have nothing to do with protecting victims of sex trafficking.

Join us and warm up with snacks, tea, letter writing, phone call making and discussion!

Free Cyntoia Brown! Justice for all victims and survivors of violence.

Yiddish Anarchism: New Scholarship on a Forgotten Tradition
Conference Sunday, Jan. 20 from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM in
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 W. 16th St. btw. 5th & 6th Aves., nr F Train, N, Q, R, L, PATH, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E stops;
http://tripplanner.mta.info https://osm.org/go/Zct9AjKc?way=264638552
https://goo.gl/maps/z7ictsjLB242  http://mta.info/weekender
www.yivo.org/anarchism https://facebook.com/events/2383421448352055/
(212) 246-6080 yivomail@yivo.cjh.org https://facebook.com/pg/YIVOInstitute/events m.me/YIVOInstitute

Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists were one of the pillars of the U.S. anarchist movement before World War II. This largely immigrant radical milieu was centered in New York City and opposed capitalism, the state, and organized religion. Yiddish-speaking anarchists built militant unions, anarchist newspapers, and other organizations to further their cause. Many famous anarchists were linked to this movement, including Johann Most, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Rudolf Rocker. Yiddish-speaking anarchists played a pivotal role in unions like the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), while the Yiddish anarchist newspaper the Fraye Arbeter Shtime (The Free Voice of Labor) was the largest and longest-lasting U.S. anarchist publication and formed a significant part of the Yiddish cultural landscape. In the 1930s a second generation of bilingual Jewish anarchists emerged, including Sam and Esther Dolgoff, and Audrey Goodfriend, whose influence is still felt in today’s anarchist movement.

Despite the importance of Yiddish anarchism to the histories of both the U.S. Left and the Jewish community, it has been largely forgotten and written out of historical scholarship. This conference, the first of its kind, highlights the emerging new scholarship on the forgotten world of Yiddish-speaking anarchists. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars whose multilingual research examines the origin, evolution, and contributions of Jewish anarchism in New York City and beyond.

Scholars presenting will include Kenyon Zimmer, Tom Goyens, Anna Elena Torres, Mark Grueter, Nina Gurianova, Tony Michels, Reynolds Hahamovitch, Lilian Türk, Diana Clarke, and Anatole Dolgoff.

(Please note: the conference will be conducted in English.)

To register for the conference, and for more information, go t

Noa Tsaushu — Looking for the program and can't find it online - is it possible to post the schedule here? Thanks!

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Las Posadas Procession: Tell ICE to Let Debora Stay
Thursday, Dec. 20 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM in Lafayette Plaza
outside Javits Fed Bldg./26 Federal Plaza (Lafayette St.
btw. Worth St. & Duane St., opposite Foley Sq.)
nr. J Train, #4, 5, 6, R, W, 2, 3, A, C, E, 1, PATH stops;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct2v~dtR-?node=421266014 https://goo.gl/NhR5x2
event graphic https://goo.gl/KykU4f
https://facebook.com/events/1203870966445287/  Public · Hosted by
St. Paul & St. Andrew and New Sanctuary Coalition
https://facebook.com/pg/stpaulandstandrewnyc/events m.me/stpaulandstandrewnyc  (212) 362-3179 socialmedia@stpaulandstandrew.org http://www.stpaulandstandrew.org  https://facebook.com/pg/NewSanctuaryCoalition/events/ m.me/NewSanctuaryCoalition (646) 395-2925 info@newsanctuarynyc.org http://newsanctuarynyc.org
http://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC

Please join the community of St. Paul and St. Andrew and the New Sanctuary Coalition for a Las Posadas Procession

This day marks the ninth day of visits to the ICE office on the 9th floor requesting that ICE grant Debora’s Stay of Removal.

Las Posadas Procession
Thursday, December 20  at 4pm
in front of 26 Federal Plaza
east side across from Foley Square

Tell I.C.E. to Let Debora Stay!

We demand that Debora — who has taken sanctuary ON the Upper West Side — be granted a Stay of Removal and be reunited with her family and community

Debora entered the sanctuary at St. Paul and St. Andrew’s at the beginning of summer in order to avoid forced separation from her children and community. Debora came here 13 years ago at age 19 escaping a very dangerous situation. Debora is a vital member of her family, church and community. ICE has the discretionary power to free her while she waits for the results of her pending immigration case. Instead ICE terrorizes her with the threat of deportation making it impossible for her to leave the church where she has been confined since June.

It is the season of shelter, of hospitality, and refuge.
It is time to let Debora stay. Free from the terror of deportation.

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St. Paul & St. Andrew
We seek to build a community of radical welcome that follows Jesus into the streets of the city to increase the amount of love and justice in the world.

New Sanctuary Coalition
The New Sanctuary Coalition is an interfaith network of congregations, organizations and individuals, standing publicly in solidarity with families and communities resisting detention and deportation in order to stay together.

VOCAL NY: Civil Rights Town Hall
Thursday, Dec. 20, 5:30 to 7:00 PM in
NYPL Pacific Branch Library
25 4th Av., Brooklyn, 11217, btw. Pacific St. & Bergen St. nr. D, N, R, #2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, C, G stops;
https://osm.org/go/Zct5cJtg1-?way=248165018 https://goo.gl/maps/1QmxZDo61EU2
REGISTER (ask whether required):   https://goo.gl/dFfuAa
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https://facebook.com/events/375049206567432/  Public · Hosted by
Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY)  https://facebook.com/VOCALNY/ https://twitter.com/vocalnewyork (929) 363-4713 devante@vocal-ny.org

Join community members in New York who are committed to protecting and expaning Civil Rights for all New Yorks in our efforts to end the scourge of mass incarceration that has damaged our communities for generations. On Thursday, December 20th at 5:30PM at the Pacific Library at 25 4th Ave in Brooklyn we gather for a Civil RIghts Town Hall!

Topics:

Ending Money Bail
Prosecutor Misconduct
Parolee Voting Rights
NYPD Accountability
Discovery Reform

DETAILS
What: Civil Rights Town Hall
When: Thursday, December 20th @ 5:30PM
Where: Pacific Library-- 25 4th Avenue (at Pacific Street)
Subway: B,D,2,3,4,5,N,Q,R to Atlantic Ave/Barclays Center [C to Lafayette; G to Fulton]

Devante Tate
Civil Rights Organizer
929-363-4713
devante@vocal-ny.org

Civic Direct — We are sharing on FB, Twitter, and our activism social network: https://nyc.civicaction.center/event/vocal-ny-civil-rights-town-hall
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Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY)
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VOCAL New York is a statewide grassroots membership organization building power among low-income people who are living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, drug use and incarceration working to create healthy and just communities.
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Breaking Bank: Issue 31 release party
Thursday Dec. 20 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM in Verso Books
20 Jay St., Ste. 1010, Brooklyn, btw. Plymouth St. & John St.;
F Train to York St.; A, C to High St.; #2, 3 to Clark St.-Brooklyn Hts.;
map & transit: https://osm.org/go/Zct8DZes https://goo.gl/vAJWX6
https://facebook.com/events/2206389519599972/
https://twitter.com/verso https://facebook.com/VersoBks/events
https://versobooks.com/events https://facebook.com/pg/VersoBks/events

More than any Marxist tract could ever do, the 2008 crisis taught the world how capitalism subjugates human life to the forces of money.

The global economy has returned to sustained growth, yet the social and psychic scars refuse to disappear. Economically, the effects have been permanent: thanks to the crash, American households born in the 1970s now hold 40 percent less wealth than those in the same age bracket held thirty years ago.

Join Jacobin at the Verso Loft on Thursday, Dec. 20 for the launch of "Breaking Bank," our issue covering the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis. Jacobin's Seth Ackerman and issue contributor Doug Henwood will join in the conversation.

The discussion will be followed by a party. The new issue, swag, and plenty of beer and wine will be available.

This event will be live-streamed on facebook.com/jacobinmag .

They Walked Off Documentary Screening

Thursday, Dec. 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PMin Project Reach NYC
39 Eldridge St., 4th Fl., btw. Hester St. & Canal St.; F Train to East Broadway (NW exit to Canal & Essex); (B), D to Grand St. (nr. Forsyth); J, M to Essex (at Delancey); #6 to Canal (at Lafayette);
maps & transit (https://osm.org/go/Zct8QoJx0-?way=250267950) (https://goo.gl/U3bNPX)
event https://facebook.com/events/2010585882361357/  Public · Hosted by ?
IfNotNow NYC and IfNotNow

venue  (212)966-4227 socialjustice@projectreachnyc.org gonzalo@projectreachnyc.org www.projectreachnyc.org https://twitter.com/ProjectReachNYC

*** https://tinyurl.com/TheyWalkedOff ***

Update: Following the doc screening there will be an open discussion about the film + 2 Birthright goers who walked off their trips this summer will be there to answer your questions!

We will be taking donations for Project Reach at the door to help save the space and keep them from having to shut their doors. Any amount is appreciated but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

This past summer, 13 people walked off of their Birthright trips. They did so because it became clear that Birthright was not going to tell them the full story about the Occupation. To learn the truth, they had to walk off and see it for themselves.

Their actions went viral. Pretty soon nearly everyone in the American Jewish community was talking about ‘The Walk-Offs’. They received widespread coverage in Huffington Post, NowThis, Newsweek and many more. In all of these pieces people started to ask the same question, why does Birthright hide the Occupation from its participants?

Almost overnight, the entire conversation around Birthright completely changed. Whereas many thought of Birthright as just a fun, free trip for young American Jews, people started to realize that Birthright is #NotJustAFreeTrip; People stopped asking ‘when’ you would go on Birthright, and instead started asking ‘if’ you would do so.

Now, a few months later, a documentary has been made about this monumental shift in the American Jewish community. The documentary, titled ‘They Walked Off’, explores how Birthright and the Jewish community at large uphold the Occupation by hiding it from their youth, and how a new generation of Jews is fighting against that trend. In the documentary, you’ll hear from experts as well as those who walked off their Birthright trips on why the American Jewish community needs to transform its support of the Occupation into a call for freedom and dignity for all.

Watch the trailer https://tinyurl.com/TheyWalkedOff and then join us to see the full documentary

IfNotNow NYC — Update: Following the doc screening there will be an open discussion about the film + 2 Birthright goers who walked off their trips this summer will be there to answer your questions!We will be taking donations for Project Reach at the door to help save the space and keep them from having to shut their doors. Any amount is appreciated but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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IfNotNow NYC  
A movement in NYC to end the American Jewish community's support for the occupation and gain freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians.
IfNotNow
Community Organization
A movement to end the American Jewish community's support for the occupation and gain freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians.

Shadow Traffic`s Burning of Grievances:  A Catharsis Parade and Effigy Burning

Thursday, December 20 at 7:30PM in [Brooklyn locations] 
https://withfriends.co/Event/968331/Burning_of_Grievances

Reduce your 2018 anxieties and bogeymen to a pile of smoldering ashes at our brass band-tastic, mask-wearing, parasol-twirling Burning of Grievances.

We will gather at a secret location in DUMBO (RSVP for more info) to acknowledge the historic foundation of injustice that we've found our society built upon. After an invocation of these injuries and a blessing of gratitude for our collective strength, a brass band will commence the release of burdens as we dance along the water’s edge.

We will board the NYC Ferry (Download the app ahead of time to purchase a $2.75 ticket!) and blast across the dark waters as the skyline of Manhattan glints and the sting of tears are pulled by the cold wind. A quick march through Williamsburg will bring us to the L train and the final leg of our journey. The soon-to-be-aggrieved underground chariot will rocket us through the bones of Brooklyn while the band wraps up their bacchanalian triumph.

The effigy burning will take place at a TBD location in off the Halsey L stop that serves affordable drinks and hot food. Our MC will read aloud the rants, cries and proclamations of our crowd, whether prepared beforehand via this form (linkgoo.gl/forms/zhE7FmnC4g6bHgpC2) or in the passion of the night. Fire performers will set them alight in a flash of catharsis before setting aflame the effigy we've prepared for midnight of the longest night of this very long year.

ALSO:

Dark Surprises
Destruction!
Puppets!
Performance Art!
DJS!

SAFER SPACES POLICY
At this event we intend to engage collectively to reinforce one another and hold space for the healing and releasing of burdens. While the physical location of the burning is TBD, we will establish safer space policies at said location. A safer space is a supportive, non-threatening environment that encourages open-mindedness, respect, a willingness to learn from others, as well as physical and mental safety. It is a space that is critical of the power structures that affect our everyday lives, and where power dynamics, backgrounds, and the effects of our behavior on others are prioritized. It’s a space that strives to respect and understand survivors’ specific needs. Everyone who enters a safer space has a responsibility to uphold the values of the space.

Preparation
Dress in festive layers of warmth for a cathartic release of ash and smoke (and marching outside).
Consider a homemade mask to chase away your demons.
Download the NYC Ferry app and purchase a one-way pass
Consider your grievance as it pertains to our Safer Spaces policy.
Imbibing alcohol in open containers and the use of illegal drugs will not be tolerated.
Food and beverages will be served at the final destination.
This is an all ages event.

Schedule of events
7:30p sharp: Gather at DUMBO location.
7:45p: Invocation of Injuries and Benediction of Gratitude
8:00p: Brass Band will lead us to DUMBO/BBP Pier 1 ferry terminal @ East River
8:29p: Ferry departs for North Williamsburg
8:45p: Arrival at North Williamsburg
9:00pm: Board L train at Bedford st stop
9:30p: Arrive at TBD location off Halsey st stop
10:00p: MC/crowd to read grievances aloud
10:30p: Burning of Effigy
330a: Last call
Sliding Scale: $3 - $10

2018 Homeless Memorial Service
Friday, Dec. 21 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St.
nr. A Train & B, C, D, E, F, M, #1 & PATH stops;
maps & transit https://osm.org/go/Zct8UbUsx-?node=2550067227
https://goo.gl/maps/2J7dSEiReBm
description https://facebook.com/events/519892768515647/
https://facebook.com/samjmiller/about https://twitter.com/judsonchurchnyc https://facebook.com/pg/judsonchurchnyc/events  https://judson.org/events/?view=list

December 21st is the Winter Solstice, and the longest night of the year. It’s on this night, when the cold and the darkness seem most overwhelming, that communities across the United States come together to honor the lives of homeless men and women who passed away this year, and to draw attention to the fact that many homeless lives are cut short because we, as a society, can’t find a way to end homelessness.

Picture the Homeless has held a memorial on this date every year since its founding. It’s a powerful, deeply moving event, and we encourage all friends and allies to come join us.

Support Trump/Pence Must Go: Holiday Bake Sale!
Friday, Dec. 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Asian American Writers' Workshop
112 W. 27th St., 6th Fl., btw. 6th & 7th Aves.; #1 Train to 28 St. (at 7th Av.); R, W to 28 St. (at Broadway nr. 5th & 6th Aves.); F, M, PATH to 23 St. (at 6th); B, D, N, Q to 34 St.-Herald Sq. (exit to W.32nd & 6th); #2, 3 to 34 St.-Penn Sta. (exit to W.32nd & 7th); C, E to 23 St.; A to 34 St.-Penn Sta. (exit to W.33rd & 8th); map
https://osm.org/go/Zct9BufIV-?node=2549960825
transit https://goo.gl/maps/ZyJWoNSYEZR2
Public · Hosted by Refuse Fascism NYC

Come support the mission of RefuseFascism.org of forcing the Trump/Pence Regime out of office this holiday season by buying cookies, brownies, pies and cakes to take to your holiday gatherings. All proceeds will go to fund our work in the New Year, to reach thousands of people and organize them into a movement that will take to the streets in great determination, not just one day but day after day, creating a political crisis that forces Trump and Pence a out of office

BAKERS NEEDED!

Forum: Yellow Vests Movement | Women & Mass Incarceration
Friday, Dec. 21, 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Justice Center en El Barrio
1637 Park Ave. btw. E. 115th & E. 116th; #2, 3 Train to 116 St. (at Malcolm X/Lenox);
#6 to 116 St. (at Lex.); C to 116 St. (at Frederick Douglass Blvd.); cross town bus via 116th St.; maps https://goo.gl/maps/UkKrEjxFoEp (https://osm.org/go/Zc4onJcH?node=2714216785)
event description & contacts https://facebook.com/events/222341035345317/          
Public · Hosted by Justice Center en El Barrio and Party for Socialism and Liberation https://facebook.com/pslweb/events/ https://m.me/pslweb info@pslweb.org http://www.PSLweb.org https://m.me/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio
https://facebook.com/pg/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio/events
https://facebook.com/pg/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio/events/

The French ruling class is being shaken to the core and the huge people’s struggle has just begun. It began with the now familiar Yellow Vests movement, a militant street rebellion against intolerable economic conditions of poverty as the super-rich flaunt their wealth stolen from the workers. With each day, the movement is rapidly deepening, sweeping across France, with mass popular sectors, high-school, university, working and unemployed youth, postal, port, firefighters, transportation and other unionists, and more, joining in.
Organizers have come up with a list of demands addressing a broad range of issues from housing to environmental protections and taxes. As per these demands, the French parliament is set to raise the minimum wage and pass tax cuts for working class people. Join us for an analysis on this movement and its significance for workers around the world.
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The cases of Cyntoia Brown and Jazmine Headley have gained nationwide attention in the past week. Though both situations differ in many ways, each highlight the important connections between women's oppression and the prison industrial complex. Over the last few decades, the number of incarcerated women in the US has grown at twice the rate of men. A quarter of women locked up have yet to see a trial. Black women and lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be incarcerated and tend to serve longer sentences than women of other races and straight women.

Come through for a presentation and discussion on women, mass incarceration, and the prison industrial complex.

*We #SwipeItForward and offer free Metrocard swipes after our events*

Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama
Wednesday Feb. 21 in Barclays Ctr. at Flatbush & Atlantic Aves.

FB event page Description Field at (https://facebook.com/events/249660979085398/) says tix on sale Wednesday Feb. 21. Or something.

But ticketmaster page at (https://www1.ticketmaster.com/becoming-an-intimate-conversation-with-michelle-brooklyn-new-york-12-19-2018/event/00005531DEA781EF)
instead just says SOLD OUT.

In Facebook event page Discussion Section at (https://facebook.com/events/249660979085398/?active_tab=discussion), Dems are scalping tix. Really cannot make up material like this.

XX00

-t.

Canada Goose - Animal Murderers
Saturday, Dec. 22 from Noon to 1:30 PM, ``meetup point TBA``
https://facebook.com/events/797208000617473/
Public · Hosted by Total Liberation New York

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

▪️▪️When a brand ignores the repeated appeal of concern for the millions of animals they torture - abuse - murder...there’s no question we will visit them again and again!❗️There will undoubtedly be a line of seekers unashamed to wait for an hour to step into the morgue during one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. Let’s make it worth their while.
FUR TRADE • DEATH TRADE

Join us and PROTEST CANADA GOOSE NYC Saturday Dec. 22nd at noon (meetup point TBA)

Bring IPads/tablets. We created a new video compilation you can download.

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/b9a85da9b5b5a2cd58a3e9bdb630f4ff20181126194127/45ae7d

Signs and leaflets will be provided

You can also make these events

Day of Action Against PRADA: 1-3pm
March of Silence NYC: 2-5pm

Leo Nardo — ...looking forward to a fantastic day of activism...as this event will also fall right before the march of silence...
https://www.facebook.com/events/2167970593416903/

Yellow Vest NYC Protest
Saturday, Dec. 22 from 1:00 to 6:00 PM at NYC French Consulate
934 5th Av. btw. E. 74th & E.75th; #6 Train to 77 St. (at Lex); Q to 72 St. (at 2nd Av.);
maps & transit  https://goo.gl/maps/ZE9Pwt7SEjk
https://osm.org/go/Zct9ejxXx-?way=266894764
event description https://facebook.com/events/879681905756074/
Public · Hosted by Arno Forte

It's time for the neoliberal project to end! Let the working people of this country finally unite outside our decrepit political establishment to come together against the common enemy: the ruling class and its politicians. Both parties are to blame for the situation we are in and as a result vastly unpopular, and as society crumbles it's clear neither are interested in seeking real meaningful solutions. Only we the people can end this failed neoliberal nightmare to bring freedom and prosperity to all.

No labels. No division. Only unity.

Peacefully and respectfully we march for... (in no particular order)

 . Solidarity between all working people around the world.
 . Getting money out of politics.
 . Raising the federal minimum wage.
 . Ending the war on drugs.
 . Breaking up the banks.
 . Criminal justice reform.
 . Demanding climate justice.
 . LGTBQ rights.
 . Women's reproductive rights.
 . Ending the war economy and military industrial complex.
 . A federal jobs guarantee.
 . Equal pay for equal work.
 . Ending corporate welfare and subsidies.
 . Healthcare as a right for all.
 . Stopping welfare for the rich and austerity for the poor.

#yellowvest #yellowvests #yellowvestprotest #yellowvestsnyc

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Elizabeth Melas — Is this event a March?
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16 hours ago
Basila Mike — Romanticizing movement that over simplify system of oppression in US is not a movement. I understand the value the need of social movement, but to copy and paste the yellow vest movement from France into the US lead by angry colonized mind white cis men then under sell it as “the system is at fault”, I’m like pause, you benefit to a system you whine against, while building your western post colonial life on top of every BBIPOC backs. So, stop trying to carbon copy movement from Europe and start focusing your desired to resist on the one that need support here that is indicative to the type of systemic violences this US racial capitalist system project. No disrespect to Yellow Vest movement but that is their movement rooted to their own struggle. NOTE: stop trying to import revolutionary frontline from European lenses when one of the branches of systems of oppression Up and down Americas is unpack and unresolved implication of European expansion. Supporting a movement does not mean imitating it but to be inspired to get your ass to resist with the people who are target by American plantation you stand on.

Macy's NYC Holiday-Time Anti Fur Protest
Saturday, Dec. 22 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM at Macy`s Herald Square
151 W. 34th btw. Broadway & 7th Av. [please check all entrances -t.]
nr. D Train & F, N, Q, R, #1, 2, 3, A, C, E, 6 stops
http://tripplanner.mta.info https://osm.org/go/Zct9GGNhB-?way=265302069
https://goo.gl/maps/S7cvmaf82x12 http://mta.info/weekender
descriptions & contacts:  https://facebook.com/events/1171097586376530/
www.shameonfur.com information@caafgroup.com 

Day Of Action against PRADA
Saturday, Dec. 22, 1:00 to 3:00 PM, marching from
Astor Place Cube (``Alamo``) at Lafayette St., St. Mark`s Place/E.8th St., 4th Av. & Bowery, nr. #6 Train & R, Weekend N Local, L, D, F, PATH stops & cross town buses via W.8th or E.9th or Houston St.;
maps & transit http://tripplanner.mta.info  https://goo.gl/maps/4aXiCZRz7vC2
https://osm.org/go/Zct8WRLZQ-?node=3421054404 http://mta.info/weekender
Public · Hosted by Robert Banks and 4 others

ACTIVISTS WORLDWIDE.  Let’s amp up the pressure against Prada, and protest during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.  Fashion designers are dropping fur left and right, so it’s VITAL that they remain targets.  Prada IS achievable, so let’s all work together to get them on the list of fur free designers...so set up those protests
for December 22.

NEW YORK CITY-
We will meet at the black cube at Astor Place at 1pm or so, and then
 == >  head to our destination at 1:30 SHARP. Please do not be late.
Posters will be provided but you’re encouraged to make/bring your own if you’re able to.
See you all there.

SAN DIEGO-
https://facebook.com/events/2186959041542823/

NEW JERSEY-
https://facebook.com/events/911233739071682

March of Silence NYC Holiday Edition
Saturday, Dec  22, 2:00 to 5:00 PM in or from Union Sq. Park, NYC
https://facebook.com/events/2167970593416903/
Public · Hosted by V for Veganism  https://facebook.com/pg/vforveganism/events/ m.me/vforveganism http://twitter.com/vforveganism

If you were with us on September 12th, 2018 for the very first March of Silence, you know how successful this type of activism can be and how successful this particular action was. With just about 60 activists, we handed out over 700 pieces of literature about veganism, turned many heads and even had 2 passersby join us.

If you were not with us check out our video from 9/12/18
https://youtu.be/rrAZTpsTaRE

This holiday season we want to recreate the same intrigue for unassuming tourists as they spend their time in Union Square, Times Square and potentially Roc Center (if we can fight the crowds) for the holidays.

Love, No Border
Reverend Billy and Stop Shopping Choir
Sundays, Dec. 9, Dec. 16, Dec. 23, fr/ 2:00 to 3:00 PM (doors at 1:30PM) in
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. btw. E.4th St. & Astor Pl.,
nr. #6 Train & R, Weekend N Local, D, F, L, A, C, D, E, F, PATH stops & cross town buses via W.8th St. or E.9th St. or Houston St.
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8U6r4l-?node=2889066126 (https://goo.gl/maps/MQpARDtbqsy)
 == > $13 - $18 in person or $15 - $20 by phone (212) 539.8500 (https://publictheater.org/en/Tickets/Calendar/PlayDetailsCollection/Joes-Pub/2018/R/Reverend-Billy--The-Stop-Shopping-Choir/) (www.revbilly.com/events) (https://facebook.com/pg/revbilly/events) (https://joespub.org/Tickets/Box-Office-Details)
Bill, Church & Choir: (646) 299-3019 https://twitter.com/revbillytalen revbilly@revbilly.com
venue calendar: https://joespub.org/Tickets/
Bill hugging a tree: https://goo.gl/j3HKse

Seeking Asylum Is Not A Crime - A Resistance Procession
Sunday, Dec. 23, 2:00 to 3:30 PM from 5th Av. & 58th St.
N, R Train to 5 Av. (at CPS or E.60th); E, M to 5 Av. (at 53rd); F to 57 St. (at 6th); #4, 5, 6
to 59 St. (at Lex.); Q to 57 St.-7 Av.; A, C, D to 59 St.-Columbus Cir.; 57th St. bus;
maps & transit http://tripplanner.mta.info https://osm.org/go/Zct9Ye90?node=357620536
https://goo.gl/maps/BJJpERcxfwH2 http://mta.info/weekender
event https://facebook.com/events/487328671673254/ Public · Hosted by
Rise and Resist https://facebook.com/RiseandResistNYC/events/
http://twitter.com/RiseNResistNYC https://riseandresist.org/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/groups/ https://m.me/RiseandResistNYC info@riseandresist.org

Join Rise and Resist in a procession starting from 58th Street and 5th Avenue, and then winding our way through the Xmas shopping district.

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

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

We call on the Trump administration to immediately process all asylum seekers on the border, and to stop arresting and detaining refugees.

Rise and Resist will be holding another Resistance Procession on Thursday, December 20, at 5:30PM starting at Fox News (48th Street and 6th Avenue).

 . Bank of America Presents History Makers: Journalist, Activist and Anti-Lynching Crusader, Ida B. Wells
Wed, Jan 23, 6:30 pm doors at 6:00PM
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/bank-of-america-presents-history-makers-journalist-activist-and-anti-lynching-crusader-ida-b-wells-tickets-52724082149)
Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in 1862 and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, devoted her life to the fight against racism, sexism and anti-black violence. Hear her story as told by Paula J. Giddings, Smith College professor and author of the award-winning biography, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching.

More events at Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops;maps: https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck
https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034
listings https://eventbrite.com/o/brooklyn-historical-society-3153875664
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory
https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/
718-222-4111 http://m.me/BrooklynHistory

 

 . Fifty Years and Counting: Lessons from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Teachers Strike
Monday, Jan 14, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/fifty-years-and-counting-lessons-from-the-ocean-hill-brownsville-teachers-strike-tickets-52716221638)
The 1968-69 school year was shattered when the local Brooklyn community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, in an effort to gain educational self-determination, clashed with the United Federation of Teachers. The conflict escalated into a citywide strike, laying bare the city’s simmering racial anxiety and stark academic disparity. Hear past voices from the front lines of this history, including Charles Isaacs, former teacher and author of Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville A Teacher's Education, 1968-69, and Monifa Edwards, the 1969 valedictorian at the school that started it all, JHS 271. Joining them are Pratt Institute’s Heather Lewis, author of New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg: The Community Control Movement and its Legacy. Moderated by Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director of Brooklyn Movement Center.

 . Race and Gender in American Politics
Christina Greer, Tsedale M. Melaku, Jamila Michener
Wednesday, Jan 16, 6:30 pm at BHS
$5  (https://eventbrite.com/e/race-and-gender-in-american-politics-tickets-52718722117)
As a new Congress convenes in Washington, Brooklyn Historical Society and the Social Science Research Council gather a panel of experts to discuss the role that race and gender continue to play in American politics. Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and author of the book, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream, Tsedale M. Melaku, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of the 2019 forthcoming book You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism, and
Jamila Michener, author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics, will reflect on the implications of the midterm elections, given the successes (and setbacks) of women and people of color as candidates, and the evolving nature of participation and representation in American politics.  

 . Leading While Muslim: School Principals as a Case StudyLeading While Muslim: School Principals as a Case Study
Thu, Jan 24, 6:30 pm
$5  (https://eventbrite.com/e/leading-while-muslim-school-principals-as-a-case-study-tickets-52727377004)
How have the events of September 11th impacted American Muslim leaders? What effects do today’s media coverage of Muslims and political discourse have? Join us for an exploration of post-9/11 Islamophobia and its impact on American Muslim leaders, as seen through the lens of Muslim public school principals. Dr. Debbie Almontaser, author of Leading While Muslim: The Experiences of American Muslim Principals After 9/11, NYU Professor of Educational Leadership Gary Anderson, and HuffPost’s Rowaida Abdelaziz are moderated by BHS Oral Historian, Zaheer Ali.

 . Petty Crimes and Petty Laws: A Hard Look at the Broken Misdemeanor System
Mon, Jan 28, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/petty-crimes-and-petty-laws-a-hard-look-at-the-broken-misdemeanor-system-tickets-52728415109)
When misdemeanors carry disproportionate punishments, and bail is unreasonably sought, the upshot is a tragically unjust justice system. Join Alexandra Natapoff, author of the new book Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal, along with Executive Director of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, Peter Goldberg, and Darryl Herring, Community Leader with VOCAL-NY, as they dismantle the predatory nature of our inflated misdemeanor and bail systems, which too often target the low-income and communities of color. Moderated by BuzzFeed News criminal justice reporter Albert Samaha.  Presented in partn....

 . Martha Rubin Conversation on Racial Equity:
The Blinding of a Soldier and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
Wed, Jan 30, 6:30 pm
$10 / $5  (https://eventbrite.com/e/annual-martha-rubin-conversation-on-racial-equity-the-blinding-of-a-soldier-and-the-dawn-of-the-tickets-52817042195)
In February 1946, black WWII veteran Sergeant Isaac Woodard was forced off the bus he rode home from the War, arrested, beaten, and blinded in the sheriff’s custody. This act of violence propelled Judge J. Waties Waring, who presided over the criminal case brought against the sheriff, to take on landmark civil rights cases, including some that laid the groundwork for the legal milestone Brown v. Board of Education. Revisit this history with Judge Richard Gergel, who today sits on Judge Waring's bench and recounts this story in his book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Igniting of the Civil Rights Movement. Gergel is joined in a conversation by Woodard’s nephew and caretaker, Robert Young, and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill. Moderated by legal scholar Leon Friedman.
 

If These Walls Could Talk
Saturday, Feb. 2, 10:00 am
$20  (https://eventbrite.com/e/if-these-walls-could-talk-tickets-52817063258)
Uncover the secret history of your Brooklyn home or block! In this intensive workshop you’ll gain hands-on experience conducting house research in our library, using archival images, records, and documents. Led by Brooklyn Historical Society Reference Librarian Cecily Dyer.

 . Grassy Grassroots: Citizens Creating ParksGrassy Grassroots: Citizens Creating Parks
Monday, Feb. 4, 6:30 pm
$5  (https://eventbrite.com/e/grassy-grassroots-citizens-creating-parks-tickets-52827566674)
In a time of accelerating real estate development and a pressing need for equitable access to green space, how can everyday citizens organize to bring vacant land and unrealized landscapes into the public realm? Join The Trust for Public Land Senior Vice President and Director of City Park Development Adrian Benepe in a conversation with Bronx River Alliance Outreach Manager Joseph Sanchez, The Tanks at Bushwick Inlet Park Co-Founder and Executive Director Stacey Anderson, NYCH2O Founder and Executive Director and Ridgewood Reservoir project leader Matthew Malina.

Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
with David Austin
Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2019 from 7:00 to 9:30 pm at The People's Forum
320 W. 37th St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, S, B, D, F, M & cross town bus via 34th or 42nd;
maps: https://osm.org/go/Zct9FqW1c-- https://goo.gl/maps/SKDuXz3JSe32  donations: $6 to $15 sugg.:  (https://peoplesforum.org/event/dread-poetry-and-freedom-linton-kwesi-johnson-and-the-unfinished-revolution/)
venue 347-695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/

What is the relationship between poetry and social change?

Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been ‘a political act’ and poetry ‘a cultural weapon’.

In Dread Poetry and Freedom — the first book dedicated to the work of this ‘political poet par excellence’ – David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness and social transformation through the prism of Johnson’s work. Drawing from the Bible, reggae and Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism and feminism, and in dialogue with Aime Cesaire and Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, and W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d’bi young anitafrika, Johnson’s work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study.

In the process, Austin demonstrates why art, and particularly poetry, is a vital part of our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread.

Speaker: David Austin
with an introduction by Lewis Gordon

David Austin is the author of the Casa de las Americas Prize-winning Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution. He is also the editor of You Don’t Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James.

Lewis Gordon teaches in the United States and in South Africa, where he is the Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of Politics and International Studies, and in Toulouse, France, where he holds the European Union Visiting Chair in philosophy. His recent book What Fanon Said has become a primary source on understanding the work of Fanon. He is known not only for his writings on Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Steve Bantu Biko, and many others, but also his work in philosophy, politics, and varieties of thought in the global south.

Suggested donations: $6 / $10 / $15 sliding scale
No one turned away for inability to pay

Read and Resist - Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
Saturday, Jan. 26 from Noon to 2:00 PM in
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 W. 13 St. btw. Greenwich Av. & 7th Av. nr. L Train & A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, F, M, PATH, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 stops; buses via 14th St. or via E.9th St.
http://tripplanner.mta.info (https://osm.org/go/Zct9ADApU-?way=250490670)
https://goo.gl/maps/6JTjBSuy1Tk
event & contacts https://facebook.com/events/320476055218703/  Public · Hosted by
Read and Resist NYC and Rise and Resist . https://riseandresist.org/readandresistny/
https://goo.gl/3S6CD5  https://facebook.com/groups/readandresistny/events/
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venue (646) 358.1714, (212) 620.7310 https://gaycenter.org/calendar/
https://twitter.com/lgbtcenternyc
 
With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel—from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Here Traister explores women’s anger at both men and other women; anger between ideological allies and foes; the varied ways anger is perceived based on its owner; as well as the history of caricaturing and delegitimizing female anger; and the way women’s collective fury has become transformative political fuel—as is most certainly occurring today. She deconstructs society’s (and the media’s) condemnation of female emotion (notably, rage) and the impact of their resulting repercussions.

The LGBT Center is wheelchair accessible via an elevator. If it is an economic hardship, we can provide a MTA card to use the bus or subway to attend this event. Please email info@riseandresist.org to request a metro card with two swipes.

The book can be purchased online at Simon and Schuster, and is available at NYC book stores:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Good-and-Mad/Rebecca-Traister/9781501181795

To join the Read and Resist email list, please fill out this form:
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If you have any questions or comments, please email readandresistnyc@gmail.com

December Liberation Mic!
Friday, Dec. 28, 7:00 to 10:00 PM in
Justice Center en El Barrio 
1637 Park Ave. btw. E. 115th & E. 116th; #2, 3 Train to 116 St. (@ Malcolm X/Lenox); #6 to 116 St. (at Lex.); C to 116 St. (at Frederick Douglass Blvd.); cross town bus via 116th St.; maps https://goo.gl/maps/UkKrEjxFoEp https://osm.org/go/Zc4onJcH?node=2714216785
event graphic, description & contacts https://goo.gl/yWWgcn
https://facebook.com/events/218156065768673/ Public · Hosted by
Justice Center en El Barrio and Party for Socialism and Liberation http://www.PSLweb.org
https://facebook.com/pslweb/events/ https://m.me/pslweb info@pslweb.org  https://m.me/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio https://facebook.com/pg/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio/events
 
 December Liberation Mic!

Join us at the Justice Center for our monthly community open mic! All forms of art are welcome!

**Snacks and refreshments will be available**

Cypurr Sessions: Holiday #CryptoParty!
Sunday, Dec. 30, 2:00 PM in Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
10 Flatbush Ave. at Eastern Pkwy, off Grand Army Plz.
https://osm.org/go/Zct5aGWM?way=250229992 https://goo.gl/maps/khio1PMktdv
event description https://facebook.com/events/981907231993303/
Public · Hosted by The CyPurr Collective and Brooklyn Public Library
(Ask correct ending time -t.)

Happy Holircraze!

For the last Cypurr Session of the year, we have put together a list of privacy-stealing things that should NOT be on your holiday gift list (or at the very least, keep your receipts).

We will have a workshop on apps you can give yourself and your loved ones to keep privacy and security safe in the New Year, and we will have a fun game of "Are You In Jeopardy" that will be based on big privacy and security news from the past year. Come play, learn and be merry!

The CyPurr Collective is a group of some tech-minded folks who are very jazzed about cybersecurity, cats, and helping folks out with their digital dilemmas. We offer workshops for activists, journalists, educators, and everyday folks who want to up their encryption game!

The CyPurr CollectiveThe Cypurr Collective on FB! Please use this page to find upcoming events, get some useful resources, and to generally get in touch with us! #letsCryptoParty

Photos of The CyPurr Collective

 . Martha Rubin Conversation on Racial Equity:
The Blinding of a Soldier and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
w/ Judge Richard Gergel,  Robert Young, Sherrilyn Ifill.
Wed, Jan 30, 6:30 pm
$10 / $5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/annual-martha-rubin-conversation-on-racial-equity-the-blinding-of-a-soldier-and-the-dawn-of-the-tickets-52817042195) (https://facebook.com/events/1111035969074112/)     In February 1946, black WWII veteran Sergeant Isaac Woodard was forced off the bus he rode home from the War, arrested, beaten, and blinded in the sheriff’s custody. This act of violence propelled Judge J. Waties Waring, who presided over the criminal case brought against the sheriff, to take on landmark civil rights cases, including some that laid the groundwork for the legal milestone Brown v. Board of Education. Revisit this history with Judge Richard Gergel, who recounts this story in his book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Igniting of the Civil Rights Movement. Gergel is joined in a conversation by Woodard’s nephew and caretaker, Robert Young, and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill. Moderated by legal scholar Leon Friedman.

More events at Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops;
maps: https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck
https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034
listings https://eventbrite.com/o/brooklyn-historical-society-3153875664
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory
https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/
718-222-4111 http://m.me/BrooklynHistory

  . Fifty Years and Counting: Lessons from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Teachers Strike
Monday, Jan 14, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/fifty-years-and-counting-lessons-from-the-ocean-hill-brownsville-teachers-strike-tickets-52716221638) (https://facebook.com/events/288984491822890/)
The 1968-69 school year was shattered when the local Brooklyn community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, in an effort to gain educational self-determination, clashed with the United Federation of Teachers. The conflict escalated into a citywide strike, laying bare the city’s simmering racial anxiety and stark academic disparity. Hear past voices from the front lines of this history, including Charles Isaacs, former teacher and author of Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville A Teacher's Education, 1968-69, and Monifa Edwards, the 1969 valedictorian at the school that started it all, JHS 271. Joining them are Pratt Institute’s Heather Lewis, author of New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg: The Community Control Movement and its Legacy. Moderated by Mark Winston Griffith, Executive Director of Brooklyn Movement Center.

 . Race and Gender in American Politics
Christina Greer, Tsedale M. Melaku, Jamila Michener
Wed., Jan 16, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/race-and-gender-in-american-politics-tickets-52718722117)
www.facebook.com/events/201491674061158/
As a new Congress convenes in Washington, Brooklyn Historical Society and the Social Science Research Council gather a panel of experts to discuss the role that race and gender continue to play in American politics. Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and author of the book, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream, Tsedale M. Melaku, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of the 2019 forthcoming book You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism, and
Jamila Michener, author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics, will reflect on the implications of the midterm elections, given the successes (and setbacks) of women and people of color as candidates, and the evolving nature of participation and representation in American politics. Part of BHS's ongoing programming collaboration with the Social Science Research Council

 . Bank of America Presents History Makers: Journalist, Activist and Anti-Lynching Crusader, Ida B. Wells
w/ Paula J. Giddings
Wed, Jan 23, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/bank-of-america-presents-history-makers-journalist-activist-and-anti-lynching-crusader-ida-b-wells-tickets-52724082149) (https://facebook.com/events/2023112024443303/)

 . Leading While Muslim: School Principals as a Case Study
Thu, Jan 24, 6:30 pm
w/  Dr. Debbie Almontaser, Gary Anderson, Rowaida Abdelaziz
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/leading-while-muslim-school-principals-as-a-case-study-tickets-52727377004) (https://facebook.com/events/261972044518243/)

 . Petty Crimes and Petty Laws: A Hard Look at the Broken Misdemeanor System
Mon, Jan 28, 6:30 pm
w/ Alexandra Natapoff, Peter Goldberg, Darryl Herring
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/petty-crimes-and-petty-laws-a-hard-look-at-the-broken-misdemeanor-system-tickets-52728415109) (https://facebook.com/events/904616853066837/)

 . If These Walls Could Talk
Sat., Feb. 2, 10:00 am
$20 (https://eventbrite.com/e/if-these-walls-could-talk-tickets-52817063258)
https://facebook.com/events/2172060536158330/
Uncover the secret history of your Brooklyn home or block! In this intensive workshop you’ll ... Reference Librarian Cecily Dyer.

 . Grassy Grassroots: Citizens Creating Parks
Mon., Feb. 4, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/grassy-grassroots-citizens-creating-parks-tickets-52827566674)
In a time of accelerating real estate development and a pressing need for equitable access to...

Future Positive New Year’s Eve Dance Party
Monday, December 31, 8:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M.
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - MORUS
155 Avenue C at E. 10th St.; L Train to 1 Av.; F to 2 Av.; #6 to Astor; M9 bus via Essex St. & Ave. C; M14D via 14th St. & Ave. D; $5 to $25  event graphic, descriptions & contacts:
http://morusnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/future-positive.jpg
(https://eventbrite.com/e/future-positive-new-years-eve-party-tickets-52286938641)
(www.morusnyc.org/future-positive-new-years-eve-party-monday-december-31st-8pm/)
https://facebook.com/events/266324983949207/ (646) 340-8341 info@morusnyc.org
m.me/morusnyc https://twitter.com/MoRUSNYC www.morusnyc.org/category/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/morusnyc/events/ m.me/timesupnyc (212) 802-8222
timesup.events@gmail.com https://facebook.com/pg/timesupnyc/events
http://times-up.org

This Future Positive New Year’s celebration is brought to you by two amazing all volunteer non-profit groups that have been partnering for several years and are celebrating together. The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is celebrating its 6th anniversary. Time’s Up environmental organization, which has made so many sustainable positive changes in NYC, is celebrating its 31st year. Check out their timeline 25th Anniversary timeline.

The New Year’s Eve bash will be held at the museum in the legendary C-Squat, which is located at 155 Avenue C, LES, NYC. Multimedia presentations by East Village activist/artists including Fly, Seth Tobocman and Eric Drooker. Live music by Banji and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. So put on your best dancing shoes and join us for this Future Positive start to 2019.

If you would like to you can join one of our free feeder New Year’s Eve bike rides, equipped with the latest sound bike technology. The bike rides will start at 9:30pm, New Year’s Eve:
 •9:30 PM Start at the park in front of the Plaza Hotel, 59th St and 5th Ave, Manhattan
 •9:30 PM in Brooklyn, meet at the Brooklyn-side entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, to ride into Manhattan
 •10:00 PM feeder pickup at Madison Square Park, 23rd & Broadway, Flatiron Side

THIS YEAR THE BIKE RIDE IS REVERSING DIRECTION. IT IS GOING DOWNTOWN INSTEAD OF UPTOWN, ENDING UP AT AN INDOOR DANCE PARTY! Both rides will end up at TIME’S UP’s Musical After-Party at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. After-party will include free valet bike parking.

If you would like to help please let us know. Also please invite your friends and share this event! Sliding scale from $5 to $25 at the door.

New Year’s Rides to Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space - MORUS

Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex, In Solidarity with PPs and POWs
Monday, Dec. 31, 9:00 PM at Metropolitan Correction Ctr. (ask correct ending time -t.)
150 Park Row at Pearl St., a block east of Foley Sq.
maps http://tripplanner.mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/SFUBZx4B5xt (https://osm.org/go/Zct2v739E-?way=278112877) http://mta.info/weekender
descriptions https://twitter.com/nycabc/status/1072153280875253760
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/nye2018/
https://facebook.com/groups/anarchistblackcross/events/

WHAT: Noise Demo Against the PIC, for the Liberation of PPs + POWs
WHEN: 9:00pm, Monday, December 31
WHERE: Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC, the federal prison in downtown Manhattan); Pearl Street, between Cardinal Hayes Place and Park Row (J to Chambers Street or 4/5/6/ to City Hall)
BRING: Noisemakers, air horns, drums, anything that is loud!

On the noisiest night of the year in New York City, come help us remind folks locked up that they are not alone. NYC Anarchist Black Cross, in response to an international call for noise demonstrations outside of prisons, is asking folks to join us outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan. Come, not to appeal to authority, speak truth to power, or any other contrivance, but rather to stand arm in arm with comrades and show direct solidarity to those on the other side of the wall.

The state, writ large, is targeting anarchists all across the United States and abroad. This will be both protest and celebration. To keep the cold at bay, comrades from MACC will be on hand with cookies and hot cocoa to keep the vocal cords nice and warm.

International Call For New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations
with NYC Anarchist Black Cross
https://www.facebook.com/events/500038207163144/
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/nye_call_2018
https://www.facebook.com/pg/nycabc/events
En español sigue el inglés abajo

This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state on one of the noisiest nights of the year. On New Year’s Eve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself and come together to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not alone.

Internationally, noise demonstrations outside of prisons are a way to remember those who are held captive by the state and a way to show solidarity with imprisoned comrades and loved ones. We come together to break the loneliness and isolation.

We know that prison is beyond reform and must be completely abolished. It is a mechanism of repression used by the state to maintain a social order rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. To come together outside of the sites of repression is to also stand in defiance of what they represent.

The logic of the state and capital—of punishment and imprisonment, must be replaced by a rejection of oppression and exploitation. This call is one step in that direction.

Wherever you are, meet on New Year’s Eve at the prisons, jails, and detention centers, be loud in solidarity with those imprisoned and to push forward the idea of a world free from domination.

We send this call in solidarity with those defying state repression of large scale dissent: from the Yogyakarta prisoners in Indonesia to those in Russia facing repression as anarchist anti-state organizers, to all of those in the spaces between.

We want a world without walls and borders.

We will fight together until everyone is free!

EN ESPAÑOL

Este es un llamado para una noche estridente en solidaridad con la gente que ha sido encarcelada por el estado en una de las noches más ruidosas del año. En la víspera de Año Nuevo, junta a tus amigxs, a tú comunidad, a tu familia o simplemente ven tú y únete para hacer ruido y recordarles a los que están adentro que no están solos.

A nivel internacional, las manifestaciones de ruido afuera de las cárceles son una forma de recordar a aquellos que están cautivos por el estado y una forma de mostrar solidaridad con nuestrxs camaradas y seres queridos que están tras las rejas. Nos unimos para romper la soledad y el aislamiento.

Sabemos que la prisión está más allá del reformismo y debe ser completamente abolida. Es un mecanismo de represión utilizado por el estado para mantener un orden social sustentado en la supremacía blanca, el patriarcado y la heteronormatividad. Reunirse afuera de éstos sitios de represión es también desafiar lo que representan.

La lógica del estado y el capital -del castigo y la prisión- debe ser reemplazada por un rechazo a la opresión y la explotación. Esta llamada es un paso hacia esa dirección.

Estés donde estés, reúnete en la víspera de Año Nuevo en las cárceles y centros de detención, alcemos nuestras voces en solidaridad con lxs encarceladxs e impulsa la idea de un mundo libre de dominación.

Enviamos este llamado en solidaridad con aquellos que desafían la represión estatal de la disidencia a gran escala: desde los prisionerios Yogyakarta ​​en Indonesia hasta los activistas anarquistas anti-Estado enfrentando represión en Rusia, así como a todxs aquellxs en medio del camino.

Queremos un mundo sin muros y sin fronteras.

¡Lucharemos juntxs hasta que todxs sean libres!
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NYC Anarchist Black Cross — BAHASA INDONESIAN translationIni adalah seruan untuk malam penuh parau atas solidaritas yang kuat bersama mereka yang sedang dipenjara oleh Negara pada salah satu malam yang akan kita buat penuh kebisingan. Pada Malam Tahun Baru mari organisir kru, kolektif, komunitas, organisasi atau hanya diri anda sendiri dan bersama-sama untuk membuat keributan dan mengingatkan kepada kamerad-kamerad di dalam penjara bahwa mereka tidak sendirian.Secara internasional, demontrasi kebisingan di luar penjara adalah bentuk untuk mengingat mereka yang ditahan oleh Negara dan juga bentuk untuk menunjukkan solidaritas dengan kamerad-kamerad yang dipenjara dan orang-orang yang terkasih. Kami datang bersama untuk memecahkan kesepian dan isolasi kalian,Kita tahu bahwa penjara berada di luar reformasi dan sudah seharusnya dihapus sepenuhnya. Penjara adalah mekanisme represi yang digunakan oleh Negara untuk mempertahankan tatanan sosial yang berakar pada supremasi kulit putih, patriarki, dan hetero-normativitas. Untuk bersatu dari situs penindasan, kita juga harus menentang apa yang mereka wakilkan.Logika negara dan modal—hukuman dan pemenjaraan, harus diganti dengan penolakan terhadap penindasan dan eksploitasi. Seruan ini adlaah satu langkah ke arah itu.Di mana pun anda berada, mari mengorganisir diri di Malam Tahun Baru di penjara, dan pusat penahanan lainnya, berbicaralah dengan mereka yang dipernjara dengan solidaritas dan solidaritas ini mendorong gagasan tentang dunia yang bebas dari dominasi.Kami mengirim seruan ini dalam solidaritas dengan mereka yang menentang penindasan mereka terhadap perbedaan skala besar: dari tahanan Yogyakarta, Indonesia sampai dengan mereka di Rusia yang menghadapi penindasan sebagai pengorganisir anarkis anti-negara, dan juga kepada semua orang disetiap ruang-ruang penindasan.Kami menginginkan dunia tanpa tembok dan batasan.Kami akan bertarung bersama sampai semua orang bebas!
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The People's New Years Eve Party
Monday, Dec. 31 from 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM in

147 W. 24th St., 3rd Fl.,  btw. 6th & 7th Aves., nr. #1, F, M, PATH, C, E, R, W, 6 stops & 23rd St. bus;maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9BmSa?way=248144090  https://goo.gl/maps/LyDG1uj8Hvn

https://facebook.com/events/257630064933702/ 
Public · Hosted by Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL http://PSLweb.org
https://facebook.com/pg/pslweb/events/ m.me/pslweb info@pslweb.org

We all have spent this year organizing, struggling, building and surviving. We, the people demand a celebration and here it is! We will be hosting the people's new years eve! We will have drinks, food, sounds by DJ Kay Kay 47 and a special performance by Elias Alicea. Dress code is anywhere from t-shirts to sequins! All proceeds raised will go to help with the Justice for Ronald Williams Campaign and continued community organizing efforts.
Joins on Monday, December 31 at 147 W24th St, 3rd floor, as we bring in the 2019 right!
1 or C train to 23rd Street.

seeking a contact for date/time/location info

https://twitter.com/hashtag/workplaceproject https://twitter.com/OneFairWageNY https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneFairWageNY/events https://twitter.com/OneFairWageNY https://www.facebook.com/pg/Restaurant-Opportunities-Center-of-New-York-ROC-NY-187796714578396/events/?ref=page_internal https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneFairWageNY/events/ http://onefairwage.org/NY https://twitter.com/hashtag/1FairWage info@workplaceprojectny.org http://www.workplaceprojectny.org (516) 565-5377

Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford St. btw. Lafayette Av. & Fulton St.; G to Fulton; C to Lafayette; B, Q, 2, 3, 4, 5, D, N, R to Atlantic-Barclays; #2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins;
transit https://goo.gl/maps/DhUdTEAMLxE2

(718) 596-0342 https://alp.org/events 212.463.0342 147 West 24th Street, 3rd Fl

(212) 463-0342, info@alp.org, http://www.alp.org https://facebook.com/AudreLordeProject/events/

Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex, In Solidarity with PPs and POWs
Monday, Dec. 31, 9:00 PM at Metropolitan Correction Ctr. (ask correct ending time -t.)
150 Park Row at Pearl St., a block east of Foley Sq.
maps http://tripplanner.mta.info https://goo.gl/maps/SFUBZx4B5xt (https://osm.org/go/Zct2v739E-?way=278112877) http://mta.info/weekender
descriptions https://twitter.com/nycabc/status/1072153280875253760
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/nye2018/
https://facebook.com/groups/anarchistblackcross/events/

WHAT: Noise Demo Against the PIC, for the Liberation of PPs + POWs
WHEN: 9:00pm, Monday, December 31
WHERE: Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC, the federal prison in downtown Manhattan); Pearl Street, between Cardinal Hayes Place and Park Row (J to Chambers Street or 4/5/6/ to City Hall)
BRING: Noisemakers, air horns, drums, anything that is loud!

On the noisiest night of the year in New York City, come help us remind folks locked up that they are not alone. NYC Anarchist Black Cross, in response to an international call for noise demonstrations outside of prisons, is asking folks to join us outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan. Come, not to appeal to authority, speak truth to power, or any other contrivance, but rather to stand arm in arm with comrades and show direct solidarity to those on the other side of the wall.

The state, writ large, is targeting anarchists all across the United States and abroad. This will be both protest and celebration. To keep the cold at bay, comrades from MACC will be on hand with cookies and hot cocoa to keep the vocal cords nice and warm.

International Call For New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations
with NYC Anarchist Black Cross
https://www.facebook.com/events/500038207163144/
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/nye_call_2018
https://www.facebook.com/pg/nycabc/events
En español sigue el inglés abajo

This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state on one of the noisiest nights of the year. On New Year’s Eve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself and come together to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not alone.

Internationally, noise demonstrations outside of prisons are a way to remember those who are held captive by the state and a way to show solidarity with imprisoned comrades and loved ones. We come together to break the loneliness and isolation.

We know that prison is beyond reform and must be completely abolished. It is a mechanism of repression used by the state to maintain a social order rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. To come together outside of the sites of repression is to also stand in defiance of what they represent.

The logic of the state and capital—of punishment and imprisonment, must be replaced by a rejection of oppression and exploitation. This call is one step in that direction.

Wherever you are, meet on New Year’s Eve at the prisons, jails, and detention centers, be loud in solidarity with those imprisoned and to push forward the idea of a world free from domination.

We send this call in solidarity with those defying state repression of large scale dissent: from the Yogyakarta prisoners in Indonesia to those in Russia facing repression as anarchist anti-state organizers, to all of those in the spaces between.

We want a world without walls and borders.

We will fight together until everyone is free!

EN ESPAÑOL

Este es un llamado para una noche estridente en solidaridad con la gente que ha sido encarcelada por el estado en una de las noches más ruidosas del año. En la víspera de Año Nuevo, junta a tus amigxs, a tú comunidad, a tu familia o simplemente ven tú y únete para hacer ruido y recordarles a los que están adentro que no están solos.

A nivel internacional, las manifestaciones de ruido afuera de las cárceles son una forma de recordar a aquellos que están cautivos por el estado y una forma de mostrar solidaridad con nuestrxs camaradas y seres queridos que están tras las rejas. Nos unimos para romper la soledad y el aislamiento.

Sabemos que la prisión está más allá del reformismo y debe ser completamente abolida. Es un mecanismo de represión utilizado por el estado para mantener un orden social sustentado en la supremacía blanca, el patriarcado y la heteronormatividad. Reunirse afuera de éstos sitios de represión es también desafiar lo que representan.

La lógica del estado y el capital -del castigo y la prisión- debe ser reemplazada por un rechazo a la opresión y la explotación. Esta llamada es un paso hacia esa dirección.

Estés donde estés, reúnete en la víspera de Año Nuevo en las cárceles y centros de detención, alcemos nuestras voces en solidaridad con lxs encarceladxs e impulsa la idea de un mundo libre de dominación.

Enviamos este llamado en solidaridad con aquellos que desafían la represión estatal de la disidencia a gran escala: desde los prisionerios Yogyakarta ​​en Indonesia hasta los activistas anarquistas anti-Estado enfrentando represión en Rusia, así como a todxs aquellxs en medio del camino.

Queremos un mundo sin muros y sin fronteras.

¡Lucharemos juntxs hasta que todxs sean libres!
See Less
Recent Post
NYC Anarchist Black Cross — BAHASA INDONESIAN translationIni adalah seruan untuk malam penuh parau atas solidaritas yang kuat bersama mereka yang sedang dipenjara oleh Negara pada salah satu malam yang akan kita buat penuh kebisingan. Pada Malam Tahun Baru mari organisir kru, kolektif, komunitas, organisasi atau hanya diri anda sendiri dan bersama-sama untuk membuat keributan dan mengingatkan kepada kamerad-kamerad di dalam penjara bahwa mereka tidak sendirian.Secara internasional, demontrasi kebisingan di luar penjara adalah bentuk untuk mengingat mereka yang ditahan oleh Negara dan juga bentuk untuk menunjukkan solidaritas dengan kamerad-kamerad yang dipenjara dan orang-orang yang terkasih. Kami datang bersama untuk memecahkan kesepian dan isolasi kalian,Kita tahu bahwa penjara berada di luar reformasi dan sudah seharusnya dihapus sepenuhnya. Penjara adalah mekanisme represi yang digunakan oleh Negara untuk mempertahankan tatanan sosial yang berakar pada supremasi kulit putih, patriarki, dan hetero-normativitas. Untuk bersatu dari situs penindasan, kita juga harus menentang apa yang mereka wakilkan.Logika negara dan modal—hukuman dan pemenjaraan, harus diganti dengan penolakan terhadap penindasan dan eksploitasi. Seruan ini adlaah satu langkah ke arah itu.Di mana pun anda berada, mari mengorganisir diri di Malam Tahun Baru di penjara, dan pusat penahanan lainnya, berbicaralah dengan mereka yang dipernjara dengan solidaritas dan solidaritas ini mendorong gagasan tentang dunia yang bebas dari dominasi.Kami mengirim seruan ini dalam solidaritas dengan mereka yang menentang penindasan mereka terhadap perbedaan skala besar: dari tahanan Yogyakarta, Indonesia sampai dengan mereka di Rusia yang menghadapi penindasan sebagai pengorganisir anarkis anti-negara, dan juga kepada semua orang disetiap ruang-ruang penindasan.Kami menginginkan dunia tanpa tembok dan batasan.Kami akan bertarung bersama sampai semua orang bebas!
…

The National Impeachment Protest
Saturday, Jan. 5 from Noon to 3:00 PM at The White House
https://facebook.com/events/1945449135750986/
(please research specifics -t.)

Launch Silvia Federici`s ``Witches, Witch-Hunting`` &  ``Women and Re-enchanting the World``

Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM in Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St. btw. Stanton St. & Rivington St. nr. F, J, M, B, D, 6, R, W stops transit https://goo.gl/maps/hqrbkYQDbBv https://osm.org/go/Zct8TA_K?node=1681677555 (212) 777-6028 Bluestockings has a bathroom. Accessible bathroom is the Starbucks on Allen St. & Delancey St.
(http://bluestockings.com/event/silvia-federici-book-launch-for-witches-witch-hunting-and-women-and-re-enchanting-the-world/?instance_id=195160)
 bluestockings.com/events/calendar/ https://twitter.com/bluestockings
https://facebook.com/pg/bluestockingsnyc/events/

Join us for a book launch and discussion on Silvia Federici’s two new books. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women is feminist call to arms providing new ways of understanding the methods in which women resist victimization and offers a reminder that reconstructing the memory of the past is crucial for the struggles of the present. Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions of capital.

 . Wednesday, January 9, 7:00pm
Film screening followed by panel discussion
Jackson
An intimate documentary telling the story of 3 women in Jackson, Mississippi. The film gives a deep look into the struggle to defend the right to abortion, revolving around access to the only remaining abortion clinic in the entire state. Award-winning film, 2017. Directed by Maisie Crow. [pls. research correct ending time -t.]
 
Revolution Books New York, 437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave at W.132nd,
nr. #2, 3, (B), C stops & 135th St. cross town bus;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zc4o2IIFh-?node=2767552427 ;
https://goo.gl/maps/AC1a3SrXjzK2
212-691-3345 www.revolutionbooksnyc.org https://twitter.com/RevBooksNYC
https://facebook.com/pg/revbooksnyc/events

EVENTS COMING in DECEMBER and JANUARY
 
 . Thursday, December 6, 7:00pm
Author event:  Garrard Conley author of the memoir Boy Erased.
Conley, son of a Baptist pastor in small town Arkansas, terrified and conflicted about his sexuality as a young man, was forced at age 19 to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program to "cure" him of homosexuality, or risk losing family and friends. Boy Erased is now a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Lucas Hedges.
 
 . Thursday, December 13, 7:00pm
Author event: Jean Cullander Krasno author of the novel
The Train to Skeleton Coast: A Tale of Murder and the Struggle for Freedom
A page-turner set in 1989, the novel follows a young woman from Yale to Africa where she tries to reunite a young boy with his family in South West Africa (later Namibia). She and the boy become a target of a white South African intelligence agency, amidst the tumult of an independence movement in Namibia.
 
 . Wednesday, December 19, 7:00pm
A screening at Rev Books of
Roma
New film by Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien). A "luminous, lyrical drama is named for a Mexico City neighborhood... Set in the early 70s, the story charts a tumultuous year in the lives of a young, live-in maid and the upper-middle class family she works for..."
 
 . Saturday, December 22, 11:00AM
MC Veggie Fresh Rocks the Mic
A Children's Hour with author Shanon Morris
Clementine, who loves good food that's good for you, runs for Healthy Hero against the Junk Food Patrol at her school. Winning is no easy feat. Reading, live rapping, activities for ages 3 and up. All welcome.
 
 . Thursday, January 17, 7:00pm
Writing on the Edge:  An Evening of Prose and Poetry by Local Writers
Curated by Janelle Poe, Creative Writing Program--CCNY
 
 . January 22, 7:00pm
Author reading: Andrew Delbanco author of the new historical work
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
"Delbanco reminds us of the stakes of moral testing in every generation, and how the agents of change often begin their journeys under the most desperate circumstances."
-- Henry Louis Gates
 
 . Date in January TBA
Author reading: Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing.
 
 
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Global Capitalism: Monthly Economic Update
Wednesdays at 7:30 PM on Apr. 11, May 9, July 11, Sept. 12, Nov. 14, & Jan. 9 in
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St.
nr. A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1 & PATH Train
map & transit https://goo.gl/maps/2J7dSEiReBm
description https://facebook.com/events/1907297862858157/
Public · Hosted by Democracy at Work NYC and Democracy at Work. 
https://democracyatwork.info/calendar  https://twitter.com/democracyatwrk  https://facebook.com/pg/democracyatwrk/events/   info@democracyatwork.info
https://facebook.com/pg/DemocracyAtWorkNYC/events  https://twitter.com/profwolff  https://youtube.com/user/democracyatwrk

These programs begin with 30 minutes of short updates on important economic events of the last month. Then Wolff analyzes several major economic issues. Our goal is to develop all participants’ understanding and ability to explain current economic events and trends to others. When time permits, we open the floor to questions and comments.

Requested Fee/Donation: $10 per person. If you access the videos of these monthly updates posted on YouTube and our websites, we ask you to join our attendees who contribute at least $10 at each event to help defray costs of producing, video-taping, and distributing these videos. Please contribute via our donate page. Contributions to Democracy at Work are tax deductible (we will gladly provide receipts at the event).

Book Discussion: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Thursday, Jan. 10 at 2:30 and at 7:00 PM in
Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch
10 Flatbush Av. at Eastern Pkwy, off Grand Army Plz.
https://osm.org/go/Zct5aGWM?way=250229992  https://goo.gl/maps/khio1PMktdv
   2:30 PM (https://bklynlibrary.org/calendar/book-discussion-sixth-central-library-second-20190110/)
   7:00 PM (https://bklynlibrary.org/calendar/book-discussion-sixth-central-library-second-20190110-0)
https://facebook.com/events/206232796921176/
ebook https://borrow.bklynlibrary.org/r1s/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12127127?lang=eng
Public · Hosted by Brooklyn Public Library (please ask correct ending times.)

In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, she provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert forces readers to consider the threat posed by human behavior to a world of astonishing diversity.

This discussion will be held in the second floor meeting room--located on the second floor of the library between the entrance to the History, Biography & Religion division and the Business & Career Center. An alternate session is being held on the same day/same location at 7:00pm.

Reserve a special Discussion Sets copy of the novel, or download the ebook version. Click here for more information about the Discussion Sets collection.

Finished the book early, check out William T. Vollmann's Carbon Ideologies Vol. 1 No Immediate Danger, or read ahead to the next installment in our discussion series Sinan Antoon's The Corpse Washer. Have a suggestion for our next discussion? Email me ebobilin@bklynlibrary.org

Childcare Training for Dem Socialists of America mtgs & events
Red Sprouts Caregiver Training
Saturday, Jan. 12 from Noon to 2:00 PM at The Tank
312 W. 36th St., First Fl., btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, PATH, #7, S stops & cross town buses via 34th St. or via 42nd St.
maps http://tripplanner.mta.info https://osm.org/go/Zct9E7oYF-?node=2709402203
https://goo.gl/maps/dnJh4XvTPTH2 http://mta.info/weekender
REGISTER https://nyc-dsasocial.media/redsprouts-training
https://facebook.com/events/344328176122685/
Public · Hosted by NYC Democratic Socialists of America

Are you passionate about making DSA a more family friendly space? Interested in providing volunteer childcare for DSA meetings, but nervous about your lack of experience? A new DSA member looking for a fun and engaging way to get involved with the organization? An experienced caregiver, looking to hone your skills?

All are welcome at the Red Sprouts Childcare Collective's Caregiver Training. This training will be on Saturday, January 12, 2019, from 12-2 pm at The Tank in Midtown (312 W 36th St, 1st Fl). It will cover the basics of safety, care-taking, a radical approach to consent, some fun lefty kids games, and much more! Light snacks will be provided and no previous childcare experience is required. However, RSVP is mandatory, so that we can get a headcount for food and toolkits.

Please register here: https://nyc-dsasocial.media/redsprouts-training

If you'd like to find out more about the Red Sprouts, fill out our interest form and check out our proposal. Questions? Email: fetterolf.elizabeth@gmail.com

Interest form: https://nyc-dsasocial.media/join-redsprouts

Proposal: https://nyc-dsasocial.media/redsprouts-proposal

 . Fifty Years and Counting: Lessons from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Teachers Strike
Monday, Jan. 14 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Brooklyn Historical Society
$5  (https://eventbrite.com/e/fifty-years-and-counting-lessons-from-the-ocean-hill-brownsville-teachers-strike-tickets-52716221638) (https://facebook.com/events/288984491822890/)
The 1968-69 school year was shattered when the local Brooklyn community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, in an effort to gain educational self-determination, clashed with the United Federation of Teachers. The conflict escalated into a citywide strike, laying bare the city’s simmering racial anxiety and stark academic disparity. Hear past voices from the front lines of this history, including Charles Isaacs, former teacher and author of Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville A Teacher's Education, 1968-69, and Monifa Edwards, the 1969 valedictorian at the school that started it all, JHS 271. Joining them are Pratt Institute’s Heather Lewis, author of New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg: The Community Control Movement and its Legacy. Moderated by Mark Winston Griffith,  

More events at Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops;
maps: https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck
https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034
listings https://eventbrite.com/o/brooklyn-historical-society-3153875664
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory
https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/
718-222-4111 http://m.me/BrooklynHistory
More events at Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St. btw. Henry St. & Clinton St. nr. R, #2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, F, G stops;
maps: https://goo.gl/maps/y8VamgvB4ck
https://osm.org/go/Zct8CEOlD?m=&way=241833034
listings https://eventbrite.com/o/brooklyn-historical-society-3153875664
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory
https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/
718-222-4111 http://m.me/BrooklynHistory
 
 . Race and Gender in American Politics
Christina Greer, Tsedale M. Melaku, Jamila Michener
Wed., Jan 16, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/race-and-gender-in-american-politics-tickets-52718722117)
www.facebook.com/events/201491674061158/
As a new Congress convenes in Washington, Brooklyn Historical Society and the Social Science Research Council gather a panel of experts to discuss the role that race and gender continue to play in American politics. Christina Greer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University and author of the book, Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream, Tsedale M. Melaku, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of the 2019 forthcoming book You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism, and
Jamila Michener, author of Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics, will reflect on the implications of the midterm elections, given the successes (and setbacks) of women and people of color as candidates, and the evolving nature of participation and representation in American politics. Part of BHS's ongoing programming collaboration with the Social Science Research Council

 . Bank of America Presents History Makers: Journalist, Activist and Anti-Lynching Crusader, Ida B. Wells
w/ Paula J. Giddings
Wed, Jan 23, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/bank-of-america-presents-history-makers-journalist-activist-and-anti-lynching-crusader-ida-b-wells-tickets-52724082149) (https://facebook.com/events/2023112024443303/)

 . Leading While Muslim: School Principals as a Case Study
Thu, Jan 24, 6:30 pm
w/  Dr. Debbie Almontaser, Gary Anderson, Rowaida Abdelaziz
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/leading-while-muslim-school-principals-as-a-case-study-tickets-52727377004) (https://facebook.com/events/261972044518243/)

 . Petty Crimes and Petty Laws: A Hard Look at the Broken Misdemeanor System
Mon, Jan 28, 6:30 pm
w/ Alexandra Natapoff, Peter Goldberg, Darryl Herring
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/petty-crimes-and-petty-laws-a-hard-look-at-the-broken-misdemeanor-system-tickets-52728415109) (https://facebook.com/events/904616853066837/)

 . Martha Rubin Conversation on Racial Equity:
The Blinding of a Soldier and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
w/ Judge Richard Gergel,  Robert Young, Sherrilyn Ifill.
Wed, Jan 30, 6:30 pm
$10 / $5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/annual-martha-rubin-conversation-on-racial-equity-the-blinding-of-a-soldier-and-the-dawn-of-the-tickets-52817042195) (https://facebook.com/events/1111035969074112/)

If These Walls Could Talk
Sat., Feb. 2, 10:00 am
$20 (https://eventbrite.com/e/if-these-walls-could-talk-tickets-52817063258)
https://facebook.com/events/2172060536158330/
Uncover the secret history of your Brooklyn home or block! In this intensive workshop you’ll ... Reference Librarian Cecily Dyer.

 . Grassy Grassroots: Citizens Creating Parks
Mon., Feb. 4, 6:30 pm
$5 (https://eventbrite.com/e/grassy-grassroots-citizens-creating-parks-tickets-52827566674)
In a time of accelerating real estate development and a pressing need for equitable access to... access to
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Exposing the Lies of “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”
``Lighthouse`` film + filmmaker Q & A w/ Heba Elorbany and Danielle Castaldi-Micca
Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in
58 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016-3007, btw. E. 37th & E. 38th,
nr. #6, 4, 5, 7, S, B, D, F, M stops & cross town buses via 34th or via 42nd;
maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9GsSg?way=265875643 (https://goo.gl/maps/EthXP51UPFF2)  == > $10 ``RSVP`` http://bit.ly/2FN0KXl  ; event graphic https://goo.gl/aQxKZV
https://facebook.com/events/1890355894366390/  Public · Hosted by IAmProTruth and National Council of Jewish Women New York  m.me/Iamprotruth 
http://Www.protruthny.org m.me/NCJWNewYork  (212) 687-5030 info@ncjwny.org http://ncjwny.org
Every day, women are being lied to about their bodies and their health.

Fake women’s healthcare centers, also known as “Crisis Pregnancy Centers,” exist all over this country, including here in New York City, with the sole mission of keeping women from accessing abortion care. These fake clinics are the new front lines of the anti-choice movement, and they brazenly manipulate, deceive and mislead patients about their pregnancy options.

Join us to learn more about this danger to reproductive health and what you can do to stop it!

Exposing the Lies of “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”: A Film Screening of Lifehouse and discussion

Lifehouse is a powerful short documentary that takes viewers behind the scenes of these fake clinics, putting you in the room as volunteer recruits are taught how to trick women.
The film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the filmmaker, Heba Elorbany, along with Danielle Castaldi-Micca, Director of Governmental and Political Affairs at the National Institute for Reproductive Health.

January 14 , 2019
6:30 -8:30 pm
Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave
(Between 37th and 38th St.)

Featuring

IAmProTruth#ProTruth is a campaign and a movement to fight the deceptive tactics of fake clinics, also known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” in New York City.

National Council of Jewish Women New YorkA faith in the future.

A belief in action.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Unpack Your Israel Trip
Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Alphabet City Sanctuary
638 E 6th St., 10009, btw. Aves. B & C; map https://goo.gl/maps/8ua3uKZagAJ2
descriptions https://notjustafreetrip.com
https://facebook.com/events/285951302122857/
Public · Hosted by IfNotNow NYC and IfNotNow   info@ifnotnowmovement.org
https://facebook.com/pg/IfNotNowNYC/events m.me/IfNotNowNYC  http://ifnotnowmovement.org m.me/IfNotNowOrghttp://ifnotnowmovement.org

You've returned from Israel with a lot on your mind. Come find a space to talk about everything good, bad, or messy and complicated about the experience.

We’ve been reflecting on IfNotNow’s Birthright campaign and want to invite you to a repurposed synagogue in Alphabet City for debriefing your Israel/Palestine experience. Bring a friend, a side dish, and a drink. All are welcome.

Accessibility info: the event is on the 3rd floor (3 flights of stairs).

A movement in NYC to end the American Jewish community's support for the occupation and gain freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians.

A movement to end the American Jewish community's support for the occupation and gain freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians.
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