Justice Duckling

	November 2019
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				1 100 Years of Lolita Lebron (w/ Boricua Resistance) Agenda View 100 Years of Lolita Lebron (w/ Boricua Resistance) November 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm 100 Years of Lolita Friday, November 1, 2019 at 6:00 to 11:00 PM 120 S 1 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249 map https://goo.gl/maps/Zv1MNHvzzda6x9Nj9 event graphics, descriptions, contacts (https://facebook.com/nyboricuaresistance/photos/gm.828294574253715/465114307545036/?type=3&theater) https://instagram.com/p/B35raFjBPPW/ Public · Hosted by New York Boricua Resistance and Las Lolitas NYC https://facebook.com/pg/nyboricuaresistance/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/nyboricuaresistance/posts https://facebook.com/laslolitasnyc/posts https://facebook.com/laslolitasnyc/events m.me/nyboricuaresistance m.me/laslolitasnyc https://elfrentepr.org/contact-us nyboricuaresistance@gmail.com NYBR x Las Lolitas NYC present: 100 YEARS OF LOLITA. An exhibition honoring Lolita Lebron's centennial. Join us for the exhibition opening night at El Museo de Los Sures {snip} Friday, November 1 from 6:00 - 11:00 PM. There will be light food, spoken word, tunes and more. ARTISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED. Que viva Lolita! Que viva Puerto Rico libre! See more details •	2 * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN Agenda View * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN November 2, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tompkins Square Park, NYC ``We have a vigil for peace in Yemen on Saturdays 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, at Tompkins Square Park [near] Avenue A and St. Marks Place`` [ This is a repeating calendar entry. Ask davisfelton3@yahoo.comin whether vigil ever cancels, like for weather, maybe. Need a quicker answer? In past, folks answering Mary House NYC phone at (212) 777-9617 seemed also to know about cancellations. So I'd try both. -t.] See more details * PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. Agenda View * PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. November 2, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 10:00 pm PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS IN UNION SQ. NYC: Launch of Mass Sustained Protest: Trump/Pence Must Go -NOW! Union Square, New York, New York Saturday, Oct. 19, 5:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Oct. 26, 2:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 2 from 2:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 9 from 2:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 16 from 2:00 to 10:00 PM https://facebook.com/events/727946144334158/ (https://refusefascism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/meme-for-october2.jpg) 917.407.1286 https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascismNYC/events #TrumpPenceOutNow @RefuseFascism m.me/RefuseFascismNYC https://facebook.com/messages/t/lillian.forman/ https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascism/events JOIN US and DEMAND: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go – NOW! The time has come to launch mass, sustained, non-violent protests that come back week after week, refusing to stop until the Trump/Pence Regime has been removed from power. *IT BEGINS: Saturday, October 19 New York, 5pm at Union Square NATIONWIDE PROTESTS Saturday, October 26 and the following Saturday (11/2)... and the next (11/9)... and the next (11/16)... Puerto Rico and Hong Kong show us how: TrumpPenceOutNOW! Concentration Camps on the border... the earth melts and burns... the danger of war, even nuclear... white supremacy rules... fascist mobs and mass murderers... truth and science erased... the right to abortion near gone... democratic and civil rights are stripped away... THIS IS FASCISM UNFOLDING. The Trump/Pence regime must go now because of the danger it poses to humanity. It must go now because fascism eliminates the right to dissent, undermining every aspiration and struggle for justice... it has direction and momentum that must be stopped before it becomes too late. Impeachment hearings have begun – opening a new stage of struggle. The Trump/Pence regime and their hardcore base are gearing up and will not give up. The Democratic Party leadership refuses to utter the word Fascism and have conciliated and facilitated the assault on fundamental rights. Any illusions that “we can leave things to the Democrats” or wait til 2020 would be extremely dangerous. The only way to stop is by manifesting the power of millions in the streets. We must seize on the crisis now erupting to take history into our own hands – turning dread for the future into a force for hope. The world as we have known it is being torn asunder. We must cast off fear and passivity because the future depends on it. Let's refuse to allow our differences to stand in the way of rising together in an unprecedented, unrelenting mass struggle to confront the danger of a Trump/Pence fascist America. In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! See more details PROTEST U.S. - TURKEY ROJAVA INVASION Agenda View * PROTEST U.S. - TURKEY ROJAVA INVASION November 2, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Defend Rojava - #BoycottTurkey Defend Rojava - #BoycottTurkey Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 2 PM – 5 PM Turkish Consulate General in New York 605 3rd Ave. btw. E. 39th & E. 40th nr. #7, 4, 5, 6, S, D, F, N, Q, PATH stops & cross town buses via 42nd or 34th; https://goo.gl/maps/1bF9WdCfrEadBGsx5 https://facebook.com/events/393587784926554/ https://t.co/QXJ4YAVdbU https://twitter.com/macc_nyc/status/1186775351453736960 https://riseup4rojava.org/ [site may still be down? -t.] Public · Hosted by Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC https://macc.nyc/events https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events/ https://twitter.com/macc_nyc Join us to demand an end to the Turkish state invading Rojava and to #BoycottTurkey. With tensions rising everyday we are ready to march! Meet us = = > at the Turkish Consulate with your banners and energy as we say, NO TO TURKEY IN SYRIA, NO TO TURKEY IN ROJAVA. MACC stands in solidarity with the people of Rojava as they defend themselves against invasion by the Turkish state. We categorically condemn this invasion, which is unprovoked, indiscriminate, and waged against Kurds and other ethnic minorities. In a region plagued by violent extremism and patriarchy, Rojava stands as a positive alternative vision for society—one based on feminist democracy and a sustainable relationship with nature. Turkey’s invasion imperils not just the people of Rojava, but also this radical experiment in social ecology. We stand in solidarity with all groups taking direct action to end this genocide. #RiseUp4Rojava #BoycottTurkey . See more details Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 Agenda View Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 November 2, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm [PLEASE CHECK CORRECT DATES & TIMES, BUT I COPIED THE FOLLOWING -t.] Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18...then 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Sept. 18 ...then 7:00 PM on consecutive Saturdays, Sept. 21 & 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7. (BUT CHECK. NO, SERIOUSLY, CHECK.) 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 course descriptions, correct class dates & times: (https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-engels-political-and-historical-works-part-1/all/) (https://marxedproject.org/events/category/classes-and-programs/multi-session-classes/) venue: (347)695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/ https://facebook.com/pg/peoplesforumNYC/events/ m.me/peoplesforumNYC (347) 695-1095 https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC info@peoplesforum.org revsgroup@gmail.com On January 8 and 9 of this year, 150 million workers went on a general strike in India, the biggest work stoppage in history. This strike marked another first when agricultural workers and small farmers calling for a solidarity shutdown of rural India joined the striking workers from many sectors including manufacturing, mining, energy, transportation, banking, public services, construction, and many more. These 150 million striking Indian workers corresponds roughly to the total working population of the United States. Here in the U.S. during 2018 a record number of workers went on strike or stopped working because of labor disputes—485,000 workers from major sectors were involved over that year. This was the largest number of workers on strike or work stoppages since 1986, when flight attendants, garbage collectors, and steelworkers walked off the job. Although the international rumblings of a wakening proletariat are of greater or smaller magnitude they indicate the possibility of the workers of all lands to unite on a scale like never before, and in numbers Marx and Engels could only dream of when they wrote these closing words to The Communist Manifesto in 1848. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” During their lives working together, Marx and Engels kept abreast of all working class movements and developments within all societies that they could get news from. Their work in doing so predates their partnership as anti-capitalist revolutionaries, but flourished especially upon meeting and thereafter. As Engels stated at the grave of Marx in 1883: “…Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success such as few could rival. His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorwarts (1844), the Deutsche Brusseler Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and, in addition to these, a host of militant pamphlets, work in organizations in Paris, Brussels and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the great International Working Men’s Association — this was indeed an achievement of which its founder might well have been proud even if he had done nothing else. “And, consequently, Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers….” This term we begin the careful reading of the investigative journalism, political works, and organizational correspondence within the revolutionary movements by both Marx and Engels. We will begin with early works. As we begin, we shall read Frederich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England which as Eric Hobsbawm stated “is the first book in Britain or any other country which dealt with the working class as a whole and not merely with particular sections and industries. Secondly, and more important, it was not merely a survey of working class conditions, but a general analysis of the evolution of industrial capitalism, of the social impact of industrialization and its political and social consequences — including the rise of the labor movement. In fact, it was the first large-scale attempt to apply the Marxist method to the concrete study of society, and probably the first work by either Marx or Engels which the founders of Marxism regarded as sufficiently valuable to merit permanent preservation. As a guide to our readings over several terms of study, we shall read from the Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution series written over many years by Hal Draper. As Draper states in his introduction to the work: “…the answer to pseudodemocracy is real democracy; the abuses of “scientism” can be countered only by a genuinely scientific attitude; and the obfuscations of various contemporary ‘Marxisms’ can be understood only with the help of Marx’s Marxism…” Between this May and through our spring and summer terms of this study the plan is the read The Condition of the English Working Class, The German Ideology, and selections of works by the young Marx and Engels leading up to the revolutions of 1848. We will begin the fall term continuing with the works of Draper and a careful reading of The Communist Manifesto, followed by Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, along with selections from Marx and Engels journalism and reports of various activities throughout the world at the time of this revolutionary wave, including their beginning assessments of anarchism, utopian socialists and more. All fees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. . See more details • • • •	3
4 Launch Dana R. Fisher`s ``American Resistance`` Agenda View Launch Dana R. Fisher`s ``American Resistance`` November 4, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm Book Launch \| American Resistance Dana R. Fisher, Jeff Goodwin Monday Nov. 4, \| 6pm at Institute for Public Knowledge in NYU`s "20 Cooper Square" Bldg., 5th Floor physically Bowery opposite E. 5th St. https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-american-resistance/ https://ipk.nyu.edu/registration-checkout-2/?uts=1571858519#checkout The Future of Democracy Working Group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave, featuring the author Dana R. Fisher in conversation with Jeff Goodwin. Since Donald Trump’s first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots “Resistance” has taken to the streets to protest his administration’s plans for the United States. Millions marched in pussy hats on the day after the inauguration; outraged citizens flocked to airports to declare that America must be open to immigrants; masses of demonstrators circled the White House to demand action on climate change; and that was only the beginning. Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration, how are they connected to the Blue Wave that washed over the U.S. Congress in 2018—and what does it all mean for the future of American democracy? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communities and congressional districts around the country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative survey data and interviews with key players, Dana R. Fisher analyzes how Resistance groups have channeled outrage into activism, using distributed organizing to make activism possible by anyone from anywhere, whenever and wherever it is needed most. Beginning with the first Women’s March and following the movement through the 2018 midterms, Fisher demonstrates how the energy and enthusiasm of the Resistance paid off in a wave of Democratic victories. She reveals how the Left rebounded from the devastating 2016 election, the lessons for turning grassroots passion into electoral gains, and what comes next. American Resistance explains the organizing that is revitalizing democracy to counter Trump’s presidency. Dana R. Fisher is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on studying democracy, civic participation, activism and environmental policymaking. Professor Fisher has appeared on CNN and MSNBC to discuss her work on activism and protest. She has also published a series of pieces on this topic in the Monkey Cage at the Washington Post, as well as in the American Prospect. Her research has been featured in media outlets such as the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Science Magazine, and on various programs on National Public Radio. American Resistance (Columbia University Press 2019) is her sixth book. Jeff Goodwin is a professor of sociology at New York University. He holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research interests include social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism. He is currently editing a volume called The Political Economy of Social Movements. November 4, 2019 6pm - 8pm RSVP Venue 2129988466 See more details Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy Agenda View Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy November 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy 7:00 PM every Monday, Sept. 16 - Dec. 16 James Baldwin HS 351 East 18th St, btw. 1st & 2nd Aves. nr. L, #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, (W) stops; maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8Xi9BB-?way=264755092 https://goo.gl/maps/5C8PaaSPZhmJweTP6 $110 – $140 (https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/all/) https://facebook.com/events/2404432073124143/ m.me/RevolutionsStudyGroup (917) 306-8066 RSG events https://eventbrite.com/o/the-marxist-education-project-14588960836 https://facebook.com/RevolutionsStudyGroup/events MEP m.me/MarxistEducationProject marxedproject@gmail.com https://marxedproject.org/events/ A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group The white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” The Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the 1848 European Revolutions, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. Admission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please follow and like us: . See more details The Working Class and the Labor Movement Agenda View The Working Class and the Labor Movement November 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Upcoming NYC Actions & Talks http://bit.ly/nycprotest The Working Class and the Labor Movement Monday, Nov. 4, 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Mayday Space 176 St. Nicholas Av., B`klyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St.; L to Dekalb Av.; M to Myrtle-Wyckoff; map & transit: https://goo.gl/CZ85GX http://nbknightschool.wordpress.com https://facebook.com/events/476990942882120/ Public · Hosted by NYC Democratic Socialists of America https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/ https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/ http://m.me/nycdsa info@socialists.nyc venue https://twitter.com/maydayspace https://maydayspace.org https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/ Why do socialists think workers have the capacity and incentive to drive social change? At the peak of the US Labor movement, one out of every three workers was organized. Over the past 40 years, capital has waged a devastating counterattack on labor, resulting in a decline in living standards for the many and the growth of corporate profits. This session sets out to understand what happened and where to go from here. Readings: Vivek Chibber, “Why we still talk about the working class”? https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/abcs-socialism-working-class-workers-capitalism-power-vivek-chibber/ Jane McAlevey, No Shortcuts, Introduction https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-AvdhaV7HNFIQPv_lPUmjl9NdNJ2npPz/view Barry Eidlin, “The U.S. doesn’t have a strong third party, and it hurts labor unions the most” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/08/11/the-u-s-doesnt-have-a-strong-third-party-and-it-hurts-labor-unions-the-most/ Next Session: NBK Night School: Race & Class . See more details • • •	5 Million Mask March 2019 Agenda View Million Mask March 2019 November 5, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm . 7th Annual Million Mask March 2019 Washington, DC Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Washington Monument https://facebook.com/events/2157254587860306/ . November 5, 2020 https://facebook.com/events/1622760681356262/ both events Hosted by Anonymous National Capital District m.me/AnonymousOfWashingtonDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh0V11lFZgA&feature=share Anonymous National Capital District is a Freedom Rights Activist Idea that is supportive to the cause of fighting for and protecting human rights globally! FREE-THINKERS, HYPERBOREANS, BUILDERS OF THE FUTURE, We are ANONYMOUS. Because many of you seem to think the very fact of our existence is indeed rather confusi... See More Anonymous is not a group, it is not a person. ... See More #‎WeAreAnonymousWeAreLegionWeDoNotForgiveWeDoNotForgetExpectUs‬! See more details •	6 Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Coal. Mtg.? Agenda View Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Coal. Mtg.? November 6, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:15 pm This is repeating event. PLEASE CONFIRM MY INFO BEFORE TRAVELING TO ATTEND. Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Sept. 4 & every First Wednesday, 6:00-8:15 pm 168 Canal St., 6th Fl. at Elizabeth St. nr. J, N, Q, #6, B, D stops pizza & discussion • all welcome! PLEASE CHECK FOR CHANGES: http://rappcampaign.com/events/ nyrappcampaign@gmail.com See more details HBO's Looking: Whiteness in Queer Media (video, talk) Agenda View HBO's Looking: Whiteness in Queer Media (video, talk) November 6, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality/IRWGS Feminist Mediation Series at Schermerhorn Extension Rm. 754 Feminist Media(tions): HBO's Looking Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM Columbia Univ. Schermerhorn Extension Rm. 754 Directions to Schermerhorn Extension Bldg.: https://is.gd/GePRaK event descriptions & contacts (https://irwgs.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Feminist-Mediations-Jack-Becker-1.png) https://facebook.com/events/784496542006288/ https://irwgs.columbia.edu/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/irwgs/events Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality/IRWGS m.me/irwgs (212) 854-3277 irwgs@columbia.edu Join IRWGS and Jack Becker (CC'21) for a screening of the episode "Looking for Uncut" from HBO's Looking and a discussion centered around the role of whiteness in queer media. See more details • •	7 * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine Agenda View * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine November 7, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm please check for cancellations before traveling to attend. Women In Black Union Square Vigil expected to resume Mar. 7, 2019 and ``every Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM during the occupation of Palestine,`` along E. 14th St. nr NE corner of Broadway, across from Union Square Park L, N, Q, R, W, #4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; F, M, PATH to 14 St. (at 6th Av.); #1, 2, 3 to 14 St. (at 7th); A, C, E to 14 St. (at 8th); 14th St. cross town bus lines. Cancels for extreme weather. Check with == > sherrygorelick@rcn.com before traveling to attend. Sign up for notifications. See more details Brooklyn For Peace `Pathmakers` Gala Agenda View Brooklyn For Peace `Pathmakers` Gala November 7, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm PathMakers to Peace Gala 2019 Thursday, Nov. 7 in Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims 57 Orange St. btw. Hicks St. & Henry St. nr. A, C, #2, 3, R, F, 4, 5, G stops; maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8Brn6?way=241852892 https://goo.gl/maps/J4RevwTM7YEDGTWKA $150 (https://brooklynpeace.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?&id=428) (https://brooklynpeace.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/view?&id=338) 718-624-5921 pathmakers@brooklynpeace.org bfp@brooklynpeace.org PathMakers to Peace Gala 2019 Thursday, November 7 PathMakers to Peace honors individuals and organizations who have played a leadership role in forging new pathways to the elimination of war and the social and economic injustices which lead to war. We are pleased to present our awards this year to: Zephyr Teachout For her progressive positions and voice on social and economic justice issues Ray Acheson For her leadership as Director of Reaching Critical Will and for her indispensable work on the United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons Jim Anderson For his leadership as President of Peace Action New York State, and for his life-long commitment to peace and social justice Tickets are $150 and may be purchased online or by mailing a check to Brooklyn For Peace 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY 11217. Please consider supporting our efforts even more by sponsoring of the gala with an additional contribution! When: Thursday, November 7 from 6:00 to 9:30 pm Where: Plymouth Church, 57 Orange St, Brooklyn NY. Enter through Beecher Garden This event is wheelchair accessible. Our work for peace is more urgent than ever; we can't do it without your generous support. Brooklyn For Peace 388 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn NY 11217 . See more details Year of Upheaval: 1919 and Its Legacies Agenda View Year of Upheaval: 1919 and Its Legacies November 7, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Year of Upheaval: 1919 and Its Legacies Thursday, Nov. 7, 6:30 to 8:30pm Museum of the City of NY 1220 Fifth Ave btw. E. 103rd & E. 104th Museum & probably exhibit open 10am–6pm $15 https://mcny.org/event/year-upheaval-1919-and-its-legacies https://www.mcny.org/events/all https://mcny.org/visit 212.534.1672 info@mcny.org RELATED City of Workers, City of Struggle Exhibit (probably pay what you wish or else PWYW for local residents.) https://mcny.org/exhibition/city-workers-city-struggle See more details • • •	8 * IN DC: MARCH TO REMOVE TRUMP Agenda View * IN DC: MARCH TO REMOVE TRUMP November 8, 2019 @ 12:01 am - 11:59 pm PLEASE RESEARCH EVENT TIMES AND LOCATIONS IN WASHINGTON DC . DAILY WHITE HOUSE ACTIONS SATURDAY, NOV. 2 THROUGH MONDAY, NOV. 11 please check dates; please research additional actions and convergence events . MARCH FOR REMOVAL FRIDAY NOV. 8, 2019 IN D.C. https://remove45.org (https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-us-we-are-rising-up-to-remove-trump-from-office) https://facebook.com/events/394885651463760/ UPDATES BY E-MAIL & PHONE TEXT https://www.remove45.org/logistics-and-details See more details IN DC: MARCH TO REMOVE TRUMP Agenda View IN DC: MARCH TO REMOVE TRUMP November 8, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm National March for Trump's Removal Friday, Nov. 8 from Noon in Washington, DC (https://facebook.com/100560134699859/photos/gm.396580781294247/102364997852706/?type=3) https://facebook.com/events/394885651463760/ https://facebook.com/Tick-Tock-Times-Up-100560134699859/events/ https://facebook.com/Tick-Tock-Times-Up-100560134699859/about/ https://facebook.com/Tick-Tock-Times-Up-100560134699859/posts/ = = > CONVERGE AT THE WHITE HOUSE, [ Saturday Nov. 2 through Monday, Nov. 11 ] We will converge at the White House from November 2-11 to demand Trump’s immediate removal from office and to stand up for our our democracy, our humanity, and our future. = = > On Friday, November 8, the anniversary of the election that put Trump in the White House, we will hold a mass March for Removal. This is a people's uprising and mass collaboration. No one owns this, no one person or group is calling the shots. Organize your people, gather the resources you need, and show up however you can. Bring your signs and banners, your puppets, your whistles and art-making supplies, your marching bands! . See more details • •	9 * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN Agenda View * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN November 9, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tompkins Square Park, NYC ``We have a vigil for peace in Yemen on Saturdays 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, at Tompkins Square Park [near] Avenue A and St. Marks Place`` [ This is a repeating calendar entry. Ask davisfelton3@yahoo.comin whether vigil ever cancels, like for weather, maybe. Need a quicker answer? In past, folks answering Mary House NYC phone at (212) 777-9617 seemed also to know about cancellations. So I'd try both. -t.] See more details * PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. Agenda View * PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. November 9, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 10:00 pm PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS IN UNION SQ. NYC: Launch of Mass Sustained Protest: Trump/Pence Must Go -NOW! Union Square, New York, New York Saturday, Oct. 19, 5:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Oct. 26, 2:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 2 from 2:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 9 from 2:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 16 from 2:00 to 10:00 PM https://facebook.com/events/727946144334158/ (https://refusefascism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/meme-for-october2.jpg) 917.407.1286 https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascismNYC/events #TrumpPenceOutNow @RefuseFascism m.me/RefuseFascismNYC https://facebook.com/messages/t/lillian.forman/ https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascism/events JOIN US and DEMAND: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go – NOW! The time has come to launch mass, sustained, non-violent protests that come back week after week, refusing to stop until the Trump/Pence Regime has been removed from power. **IT BEGINS: Saturday, October 19 New York, 5pm at Union Square NATIONWIDE PROTESTS Saturday, October 26 and the following Saturday (11/2)... and the next (11/9)... and the next (11/16)... Puerto Rico and Hong Kong show us how: TrumpPenceOutNOW! Concentration Camps on the border... the earth melts and burns... the danger of war, even nuclear... white supremacy rules... fascist mobs and mass murderers... truth and science erased... the right to abortion near gone... democratic and civil rights are stripped away... THIS IS FASCISM UNFOLDING. The Trump/Pence regime must go now because of the danger it poses to humanity. It must go now because fascism eliminates the right to dissent, undermining every aspiration and struggle for justice... it has direction and momentum that must be stopped before it becomes too late. Impeachment hearings have begun – opening a new stage of struggle. The Trump/Pence regime and their hardcore base are gearing up and will not give up. The Democratic Party leadership refuses to utter the word Fascism and have conciliated and facilitated the assault on fundamental rights. Any illusions that “we can leave things to the Democrats” or wait til 2020 would be extremely dangerous. The only way to stop is by manifesting the power of millions in the streets. We must seize on the crisis now erupting to take history into our own hands – turning dread for the future into a force for hope. The world as we have known it is being torn asunder. We must cast off fear and passivity because the future depends on it. Let's refuse to allow our differences to stand in the way of rising together in an unprecedented, unrelenting mass struggle to confront the danger of a Trump/Pence fascist America. In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! See more details Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 Agenda View Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 November 9, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm [PLEASE CHECK CORRECT DATES & TIMES, BUT I COPIED THE FOLLOWING -t.] Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18...then 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Sept. 18 ...then 7:00 PM on consecutive Saturdays, Sept. 21 & 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7. (BUT CHECK. NO, SERIOUSLY, CHECK.) 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 course descriptions, correct class dates & times: (https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-engels-political-and-historical-works-part-1/all/) (https://marxedproject.org/events/category/classes-and-programs/multi-session-classes/) venue: (347)695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/ https://facebook.com/pg/peoplesforumNYC/events/ m.me/peoplesforumNYC (347) 695-1095 https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC info@peoplesforum.org revsgroup@gmail.com On January 8 and 9 of this year, 150 million workers went on a general strike in India, the biggest work stoppage in history. This strike marked another first when agricultural workers and small farmers calling for a solidarity shutdown of rural India joined the striking workers from many sectors including manufacturing, mining, energy, transportation, banking, public services, construction, and many more. These 150 million striking Indian workers corresponds roughly to the total working population of the United States. Here in the U.S. during 2018 a record number of workers went on strike or stopped working because of labor disputes—485,000 workers from major sectors were involved over that year. This was the largest number of workers on strike or work stoppages since 1986, when flight attendants, garbage collectors, and steelworkers walked off the job. Although the international rumblings of a wakening proletariat are of greater or smaller magnitude they indicate the possibility of the workers of all lands to unite on a scale like never before, and in numbers Marx and Engels could only dream of when they wrote these closing words to The Communist Manifesto in 1848. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” During their lives working together, Marx and Engels kept abreast of all working class movements and developments within all societies that they could get news from. Their work in doing so predates their partnership as anti-capitalist revolutionaries, but flourished especially upon meeting and thereafter. As Engels stated at the grave of Marx in 1883: “…Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success such as few could rival. His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorwarts (1844), the Deutsche Brusseler Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and, in addition to these, a host of militant pamphlets, work in organizations in Paris, Brussels and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the great International Working Men’s Association — this was indeed an achievement of which its founder might well have been proud even if he had done nothing else. “And, consequently, Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers….” This term we begin the careful reading of the investigative journalism, political works, and organizational correspondence within the revolutionary movements by both Marx and Engels. We will begin with early works. As we begin, we shall read Frederich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England which as Eric Hobsbawm stated “is the first book in Britain or any other country which dealt with the working class as a whole and not merely with particular sections and industries. Secondly, and more important, it was not merely a survey of working class conditions, but a general analysis of the evolution of industrial capitalism, of the social impact of industrialization and its political and social consequences — including the rise of the labor movement. In fact, it was the first large-scale attempt to apply the Marxist method to the concrete study of society, and probably the first work by either Marx or Engels which the founders of Marxism regarded as sufficiently valuable to merit permanent preservation. As a guide to our readings over several terms of study, we shall read from the Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution series written over many years by Hal Draper. As Draper states in his introduction to the work: “…the answer to pseudodemocracy is real democracy; the abuses of “scientism” can be countered only by a genuinely scientific attitude; and the obfuscations of various contemporary ‘Marxisms’ can be understood only with the help of Marx’s Marxism…” Between this May and through our spring and summer terms of this study the plan is the read The Condition of the English Working Class, The German Ideology, and selections of works by the young Marx and Engels leading up to the revolutions of 1848. We will begin the fall term continuing with the works of Draper and a careful reading of The Communist Manifesto, followed by Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, along with selections from Marx and Engels journalism and reports of various activities throughout the world at the time of this revolutionary wave, including their beginning assessments of anarchism, utopian socialists and more. All fees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. . See more details • • •	10
11 Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build (film, talk) Agenda View Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build (film, talk) November 11, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Screening and Discussion: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build Amanda Andere, Marc Dones, and Vivian Vázquez Irizarry Monday, Nov. 11, 6:30 to 8:00 PM Barnard College Milstein Center 40 Claremont Ave 6th Floor nr. Broadway & W.119th St. & nr. #1, A, (B), C, D stops & M60 bus; https://goo.gl/maps/4yP8VNjX9NcRT6tz9 http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/transforming-harm-experiments-in-accountability/ https://facebook.com/events/2312099692384055/ Public · Hosted by Barnard Center for Research on Women - BCRW and Decade Of Fire http://bcrw.barnard.edu/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/BCRW.Feminism/events/ m.me/BCRW.Feminism (212) 854-2067 bcrw@barnard.edu http://bcrw.barnard.edu Film screening: Decade of Fire: Stay, Fight, Build Amanda Andere, Marc Dones, and Vivian Vázquez Irizarry Nov 11, 2019 \| 6:30pm Screening and Discussion Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Throughout the 1970s, while fires consumed the South Bronx, Black and Puerto Rican residents were blamed for the devastation even as they battled daily to save their neighborhoods. In “Decade of Fire,” Bronx-born Vivian Vázquez Irizarry pursues the truth surrounding the fires, uncovering policies of racism and neglect that still shape our cities, and offering hope to communities on the brink today. RSVP TO ATTEND Through a rich seam of archival and home movie footage, “Decade of Fire” confronts the racially-charged stereotypes that dehumanized residents of the South Bronx in the 1970s, and rationalized their abandonment by city, state and federal governments. Vázquez Irizarry, in her role as the film’s central character and co-director seeks not only healing for her community, but to redeem them from the harmful mythology spread by the media that has continued largely unchallenged to this day. She tells the story of a people who held on, worked to save their community and start anew against impossible odds. The accounts she gathers are supported by extensive research, archival footage, print and broadcast news excerpts, testimonials from retired FDNY firefighters and brass, as well as Bronx historians. Through exposing the history, and lifting up the stories of survivors whose deep commitment to their homes and communities saved the borough, “Decade of Fire” offers the emergence of a new narrative for the South Bronx and places like it across the nation. Following the screening, we will be joined by filmmaker, organizer, and educator Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, and Marc Dones, anti-racist educator and anthropologist, and Amanda Andere, CEO of Funders Together to End Homelessness. for a discussion and Q&A with the audience. Learn more about the film at decadeoffire.com. Events are free and open to the public. RSVP is preferred but not required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. . . See more details Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy Agenda View Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy November 11, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy 7:00 PM every Monday, Sept. 16 - Dec. 16 James Baldwin HS 351 East 18th St, btw. 1st & 2nd Aves. nr. L, #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, (W) stops; maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8Xi9BB-?way=264755092 https://goo.gl/maps/5C8PaaSPZhmJweTP6 $110 – $140 (https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/all/) https://facebook.com/events/2404432073124143/ m.me/RevolutionsStudyGroup (917) 306-8066 RSG events https://eventbrite.com/o/the-marxist-education-project-14588960836 https://facebook.com/RevolutionsStudyGroup/events MEP m.me/MarxistEducationProject marxedproject@gmail.com https://marxedproject.org/events/ A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group The white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” The Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the 1848 European Revolutions, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. Admission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please follow and like us: . See more details • •	12 Arundhati Roy + Naomi Klein: on the Fate of the Agenda View Arundhati Roy + Naomi Klein: on the Fate of the November 12, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm The Cooper Union - 7 East 7th Street - New York, NY 10003 Arundhati Roy with Naomi Klein: on the Fate of the Earth Tuesday, Nov. 12, 7:30 to 9:30 PM The Cooper Union 7 E. 7th St. btw. Bowery/Cooper Sq. & 3rd Av., nr. #6, R, (W), (B), D, F, (M) & cross town bus via W.8th or via E.9th; https://goo.gl/maps/mLBZMS7eceoaskoa8 == > Free gen. admission tickets ``do not guarantee a seat``: https://fateoftheearth.eventbrite.com (https://eventbrite.com/e/arundhati-roy-with-naomi-klein-on-the-fate-of-the-tickets-72377149001) https://facebook.com/events/1707431959386684 https://typemediacenter.org/schell2019/ https://events.newschool.edu/event/the_jonathan_schell_memorial_lecture_on_the_fate_of_the_earth_elizabeth_kolbert_7303 (212) 822-0250 m.me/typemediacenter 212–822–0250 Join Arundhati Roy for a rare US appearance, in conversation with Naomi Klein, on life on earth at the brink of environmental crisis. Join internationally-renowned author and activist Arundhati Roy for a rare US appearance, in conversation with journalist and activist Naomi Klein, in which she will discuss life on earth at the brink of environmental collapse. Humanity is at a cross-roads, facing two possible futures. One sees ecological collapse and dispossession of billions people and wildlife, provoked by unchecked corporate greed. A more hopeful future has its roots in the millions joining a movement to save our planet. After winning a global following for The God of Small Things, Roy has spent over two decades exposing crises of ecology, human rights, and democracy — and chronicling the noble resistance of ordinary people. This event will be live-streamed at facebook.com/jacobinmag from 7:30pm. Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, My Seditious Heart, was recently published by Haymarket Books. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, and No Is Not Enough. Senior Correspondent for The Intercept and Puffin Writing Fellow at the Type Media Center, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is ON FIRE: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art This event is part of The Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture Series on the Fate of the Earth, established by the Gould Family Foundation in honor of Type Media Center fellow Jonathan Schell, and each year features original work covering issues on which the future of the earth, on which humanity and other life depend. The lecture series is presented each year by Type Media Center, a non-profit home for a community of independent journalists, authors, and writing fellows that produce work to spotlight injustice, catalyze change, and empower social movements. The event is free and open to the public. General public should reserve a space. Please note seating is on a first come basis; an RSVP does not guarantee admission as we generally overbook to ensure a full house. . See more details Race, Systems, and Society Agenda View Race, Systems, and Society November 12, 2019 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm Race, Systems, and Society Dr. Richard Koral Monthly, 2nd Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:00 pm $5 suggested July 9, August 13, September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10 https://ethical.nyc/event/race-systems-and-society/all/ We continue to explore the features of systemic racism and classism in America to better understand the ways in which society can recreate itself to enable all people to thrive. Moderated by Leader . See more details • •	13 Extinction Thresholds...Enviro Theory of Early Sexuality Agenda View Extinction Thresholds...Enviro Theory of Early Sexuality November 13, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm in C. U. Schermerhorn Ext. 754 w/ IRWGS Upcoming NYC Area Street Actions & Talks http://bit.ly/nycprotest Extinction Thresholds: Toward an Environmental Theory of Early Sexuality with Greta LaFleur Wednesday Nov. 13, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Columbia Univ. Inst. for Research on Gender Women Sexuality/IRWGS Seminar Room in Schermerhorn Extention Building (Rm. 754) nr. #1, B, C, A, D stops, M60 bus & 125th St. cross town bus lines https://osm.org/go/Zc4oa81tR-?way=274995736 https://goo.gl/maps/wHMtf5EDAbt event graphic, descriptions & contacts (https://irwgs.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/extinction-thresholdslafleur.png) (https://irwgs.columbia.edu/events/extinction-thresholds-with-greta-lafleur/) https://facebook.com/events/485052149003265/ http://irwgs.columbia.edu/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/irwgs/events/ m.me/irwgs (212) 854-3277 irwag@columbia.edu apparently relevant (https://environmentalhumanities.yale.edu/news/greta-lafleur-natural-history-sexuality-early-america-johns-hopkins-university-press) If sexology -the science of sex- came into being in the nineteenth century, the how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make meaning out of sex before that point? In this talk, Greta LaFleur explores how eighteenth century natural history -the study of organic life in its environment, and a major source of development for early race science- actually provided the intellectual foundations for the later development of the scientific study of sex. About the Speaker Greta LaFleur is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), reveals how eighteenth-century race science contributed to emerging sciences of sex in the colonial Atlantic world. See more details Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor & the Latinx Question Agenda View Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor & the Latinx Question November 13, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm w/ Latinx Proj. & Lázaro Lima & Cristina Beltrán Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latinx Question Lázaro Lima Cristina Beltrán Wednesday, Nov. 13, 6:00 PM in NYU`s "20 Cooper Sq." Bldg., 4th Fl.,hysically Bowery opposite E. 5th St., nr. #6, R, (W), (B), D, F, (M) stops & cross town buses via W.8th or E.9th or via Houston St.; https://goo.gl/maps/bec7zF8vUFvpAtk86 (https://eventbrite.com/e/ing-brown-sonia-sotomayor-and-the-latinx-question-tickets-63437036885) https://facebook.com/events/2490304664539251/ https://wp.nyu.edu/latinxproject/http-wp-nyu-edu-latinxproject-events/ https://facebook.com/pg/thelatinxproject/events m.me/thelatinxproject http://wp.nyu.edu/latinxproject https://eventbrite.com/o/the-latinx-project-17906339062 In the book Being Brown , Lázaro Lima frames the conditions that have led to the unrelenting assault on Latinx lives, communities and histories by contrasting our historical moment with the storied biography of the country’s first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. In a moment of state-sanctioned violence against Latinxs, and previously unimaginable “blood and soil” Nazism, this conversation discusses what we stand to lose when we allow democratic values to be trampled through forms of symbolic inclusion that do little to redress systemic exclusion and democratic state failures under neoliberal austerity. Lázaro Lima is Professor of Latinx Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, & Latinx Studies. Lima is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (NYU Press, 2007), Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, with Felice Picano (U of Wisconsin Press, 2011), and Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question (U of California Press, 2019). His documentary film-work includes Las mujeres: Latina Lives, American Dreams (Deronda Productions, 2016), and the award-winning Rubí: A DACA Dreamer in Trump’s America (Deronda Productions, 2019). Follow him on Twitter: @LazLima Cristina Beltrán is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author of The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press), which received numerous awards, including the Casa de la Américas prize for the best book on Latinos in the United States. Her research has appeared in the journals Political Theory, Aztlán, Politics & Gender, Contemporary Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, and the Du Bois Review as well as various edited volumes. She is co-editor of the journal Theory & Event. Wed, November 13, 2019 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latinx Question by The Latinx Project Wed, November 13, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST Free . . See more details • •	14 * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine Agenda View * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine November 14, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm please check for cancellations before traveling to attend. Women In Black Union Square Vigil expected to resume Mar. 7, 2019 and ``every Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM during the occupation of Palestine,`` along E. 14th St. nr NE corner of Broadway, across from Union Square Park L, N, Q, R, W, #4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; F, M, PATH to 14 St. (at 6th Av.); #1, 2, 3 to 14 St. (at 7th); A, C, E to 14 St. (at 8th); 14th St. cross town bus lines. Cancels for extreme weather. Check with == > sherrygorelick@rcn.com before traveling to attend. Sign up for notifications. See more details Race and Capitalism or Racial Capitalism? Agenda View Race and Capitalism or Racial Capitalism? November 14, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Kellen Auditorium at The New School - 66 5th Ave - New York, NY 10011 Upcoming NYC Area Street Actions & Talks http://bit.ly/nycprotest Race and Capitalism or Racial Capitalism? A Discussion on History, Theory, and World Building Destin Jenkins, Raúl Carrillo, Ryan Jobson Thursday, Nov. 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM Kellen Auditorium at The New School in Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 5th Ave., Rm. N101 at SW corner of W.13th St., nr. L, PATH, F, (M), #1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, (W), #4, 5, 6, A, C, E & cross town buses via 14th St. or via 9th St.; map https://goo.gl/maps/YE7Huy8gDKoXcieT8 (https://eventbrite.com/e/race-and-capitalism-or-racial-capitalism-tickets-72618831881) (https://facebook.com/events/2545055529060510/) by Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies https://twitter.com/capstudies m.me/CapitalismStudiesTNS capitalismstudies@newschool.edu http://capitalismstudies.org @CapStudies https://facebook.com/pg/CapitalismStudiesTNS/events/ apparently relevant https://capitalismstudies.org/fellow/destin-jenkins destin@uchicago.edu More NSSR talks: (https://twitter.com/aaronjakes/status/1177572767807528960) Panelists: Destin Jenkins, History, University of Chicago Raúl Carrillo, The Next Economy Project & Modern Money Network Ryan Jobson, Anthropology, University of Chicago In recent years, the inseparable procedures of racialization and capitalism have been magnified in the public eye. Scholarship has moved alongside debt crises and the ongoing profitability of punishment, and taken clues from social movements that have dramatized the connections between the dynamics of race, finance, extraction, selective success and economic immiseration. In this conversation we ask, what are some of the important hermeneutics used to understand and critique the intertwined processes of race and capital? What can two of the more powerful left-leaning critiques, the Movement for Black Lives and Modern Monetary Theory, learn from the other? Of what use is the concept of racial capitalism to both movements? This event is sponsored by The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. See more details • •	15 Household Waste Drop-Off Agenda View Household Waste Drop-Off November 15, 2019 Hunts Point at Farragut Street and the East River Household Special Waste Drop-Off Site: Hunts Point at Farragut Street and the East River, next to the Fulton Fish Market. Enter on Farragut Street, off Food Center Drive.Hours of Operation:10AM - 5PM on the last Friday of each month. Every Saturday, except for the last Saturday of each month These sites operate on a monitored “do-it-yourself” basis. A DSNY official will instruct residents to empty their Special Wastes into labeled storage containers. Be sure to dress accordingly — for example, sturdy shoes, casual clothing, and work gloves are recommended. If dropping off lithium or rechargeable batteries there are special handling requirements, see Safety and Packaging Requirements. Residents are expected to deposit their empty paint cans, corrugated cardboard, and any trash into designated containers for proper recycling or disposal after emptying their Special Waste. ALSO SEE:"take it back nyc" for manufacturer and retailer take-back programs. See more details Going Big: Reversing Trump's Agenda & Modernizing Labor Rights Agenda View Going Big: Reversing Trump's Agenda & Modernizing Labor Rights November 15, 2019 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 am Going Big: Reversing Trump's Agenda & Modernizing Labor Rights Friday, Nov. 15, 8:30 to 10:30 AM CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd St., 19th Fl., btw. 5th & 6th Aves.; nr. #7, (B), D, F, (M), 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, (W), A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus; (https://eventbrite.com/e/going-big-reversing-trumps-agenda-modernizing-labor-rights-tickets-71439165467) (https://facebook.com/events/the-murphy-institute-cuny-school-of-labor-urban-studies/going-big-reversing-trumps-agenda-modernizing-labor-rights/508097783095528/) https://facebook.com/pg/MurphyInstituteCUNY/events https://slu.cuny.edu/public-engagement/murphy-public-engagement (https://slu.cuny.edu/public-engagement/public-programming/upcoming-event/) 212-827-0200 212-642-2074 information@slu.cuny.edu events@slu.cuny.edu m.me/MurphyInstituteCUNY Featured speakers include: Randi Weingarten -- President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); Steven Greenhouse -- Veteran New York Times labor journalist and author of the new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. Vincent Alvarez -- President of the NYC Central Labor Council Although union density is near an all-time low, labor activism has surged in many sectors. From adjunct faculty to video game developers, digital media workers, platform app drivers, and public school teachers, labor movement activism is growing in a number of key sectors. This is happening as many full-time jobs with benefits are disappearing, consumer/student debt is skyrocketing, the “gig economy” is expanding, and economic insecurity is increasing for American workers and families. Housing and child care costs – which heavily impact workers’ income, wealth, and health – have also become more burdensome for many families. Under President Trump, a number of worker rights and protections have been weakened or denied, including: • No movement toward federal minimum wage increase • Weak overtime protections for salaried workers • Allowing employers to self-report wage violations and escape penalties • Siding with employers against rights of gay and transgender workers • (Mis)classifying Uber drivers and others as independent contractors, denying them basic rights • Continuing ‘Right-to-Work’ efforts kickstarted by Supreme Court’s Janus decision • Restricting workers’ right to organize at franchised businesses like McDonald’s • De-funding and weakening OSHA What should be Democrats’ top policy priorities to strengthen all workers’ rights? What are the most significant gaps and weaknesses in protections for worker organizing and economic rights today? ‘Right-to-work’ laws? Legal constraints against strikes and other worker actions? Minimum wage? The growing numbers of workers who fall outside the protections of the NLRA? Lack of livable safety net benefits for displaced and underemployed workers? Lack of protections for flex/gig workers? What new policies would best promote stronger worker protections and greater economic justice? FIRST COME, FIRST SEATEDEvents are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested. We generally overbook to ensure a full house. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all OCT11 Medicare-For-All & Its Competitors: A Debate OCT28 Beaten Down, Worked Up: An Evening With Author Steven Greenhouse NOV15 Going Big: Reversing Trump's Agenda & Modernizing Labor Rights DEC3 Democrats & Immigration: Humanitarian Crisis & Worker Protection . See more details * EMERGENCY ACTION FOR GAZA Agenda View * EMERGENCY ACTION FOR GAZA November 15, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Emergency Action for Gaza NYC Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at 5:00 – 7:00 PM W 42nd St and 7th Ave. nr. #1, 2, 3, 7, S, N, Q, R, (W), (B), D, F, (M), A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus; map https://goo.gl/maps/n6GcKdMzMsHjQBmA7 description https://facebook.com/events/430591794295735Public · Hosted by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and 9 others m.me/SamidounPrisonerSolidarity samidoun@samidoun.net https://samidoun.net 212-633-6646 m.me/internationalactioncenter iacenter@iacenter.org http://www.iacenter.org https://facebook.com/pg/SamidounPrisonerSolidarity/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/codepinkalert/about m.me/codepinkalert (310) 827-4320 https://facebook.com/pg/LaborForPalestine/about https://facebook.com/pg/AlAwdaNY/about https://facebook.com/pg/NY4Palestine/about/ https://facebook.com/pg/JewsForPalestinianRightOfReturn/about/ https://facebook.com/pg/AMPNJChapter/about https://facebook.com/pg/internationalactioncenter/about/ (323) 306-6240 m.me/strugglelalucha info@struggle-la-lucha.org https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org with... Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network; CODEPINK: Women For Peace; Labor for Palestine; Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition; NY4Palestine; Jews for Palestinian Right of Return; American Muslims for Palestine - NJ Chapter; Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine; International Action Center; Struggle - La Lucha for Socialism 34 Palestinians, including 8 children, have been killed in the last 48 hours. 111 injured, this is genocide. ALL OUT tomorrow 11/15 for the International Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian Resistance — Emergency Action For Gaza Join us as we mobilize alongside the Palestinian community in NYC to honor our martyrs and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. Times Square. 42nd and 7th. 5 pm. Event page: bit.ly/2NKhoc6 Select attending, invite your friends, share everywhere #GazaUnderAttack #FreePalestine #WithinOurLifetime #StandwithGaza, remember the martyrs, and support Palestinian resistance! Co-sponsored by Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Labor for Palestine Struggle - La Lucha for Socialism CUNY International Law Society Palestinian Youth Movement - N #BDS #ArmsEmbargo #StopArmingIsrael See more details Lolita Lebrón Centennial Celebration at 1199 MLK Ctr. Agenda View Lolita Lebrón Centennial Celebration at 1199 MLK Ctr. November 15, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm Lolita Lebrón’s Centennial events from two different producers... . Lolita Lebrón’s Centennial Celebration Friday, Nov. 15, 6:30 to 10:00 PM Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center 310 W. 43rd St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, (W), (B), D, F, (M) & 42nd St. bus; https://goo.gl/maps/2UsbA6uRaVzqYb8U8 event graphic, descriptions & contacts https://is.gd/8xdmbR $25 (https://eventbrite.com/e/lolita-lebrons-centennial-celebration-tickets-74416043389) https://facebook.com/events/523146578503846/ by Las Lolitas NYC https://facebook.com/pg/laslolitasnyc/events https://eventbrite.com/o/las-lolitas-nyc-27351885271 https://instagram.com/siempresente.nyc/ venue (212) 582 1890 A celebration of Lolita’s social justice and anti colonial legacy. An evening of live music, dance, food and special guests. Join us as we celebrate Lolita's powerful legacy! This will be an evening of food, live music, art, and special guests! Guests will be able to dance salsa and enjoy a presentation by NYC salsa band, Tres del Solar! Hosted by: Marinieves Alba Suggested Donation: $25, includes a plate of food. A Silent Auction will be available. = = > Proceeds will go to Nina Droz and Ana Belen. Co-Sponsored by: SiemPResente LAS LOLITAS NYC is a group of Puerto Rican women from New York City committed to honoring and celebrating the life of social justice & anti-colonial activist LolitaLebrón as her Centennial celebration approaches, on November 19th2019, when a final commemoration will be held. Las Lolitas NYC is an extension of Las Lolita en su Centenario, a group initially formed late last year in Puerto Rico. A year round jornada of events is taking place each month, welcoming anyone to join us in celebrating the life of Puerto Rican heroin, Lolita Lebron. LOLITA LEBRÓN, born Dolores Lebrón Sotomayor, was born in Lares, Puerto Rico on November 19, 1919. At the age of 18, she began to develop her political views outraged by the event known as the Ponce masacre, when police indiscriminately opened fire to peaceful protestors. She became part of the Puerto Rican diaspora of New York City in 1940. A mother of two, she earned her life working as a seamstress while vocally advocating for better treatment towards her community and inevitably transforming into a leader. As a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party which advocated for Puerto Rico’s Independence during early US occupation, she developed a close bond with its leader, Harvard educated, Don Pedro Albizu Campos. 1953 the UN removed Puerto Rico from the list of non-self-governing territories, condemning the island to a perpetual colonial status. This event inspired LolitaLebrón to lead one of the most courageous acts of political activism in Puerto Rican history, know as the 1954 attack on congress, along with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andres Figueroa Cordero. Despite the absence of casualties she was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. Lolita returned to her beloved island in 1979 after being pardoned by President Jimmy Carter. In 2001 she took part in acts of civil disobedience demanding closure of the US military base in Vieques, a municipal island off the east coast of Puerto Rico. Up until her passing in 2010 at the age of 91, Lebron continued to dedicate her life to Puerto Rico’s Independence becoming a revered symbol of resistance, earning the title of Puerto Rican heroin. Las Lolitas NYC — The event will be hosted by our sister and friend Marinieves Alba. October 15, 2019 at 4:09 AM “Las Lolitas NYC” is a collective the aims to educate about the legacy of Puerto Rican activist Lolita Lebrón, as her centennial celebration approaches in November 2019. . Conmemoración de Lolita Lebron en su Centenario Sunday, Nov. 17, 2:00 PM at or in El Maestro, Inc. 1300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, btw. Freeman St. & Jennings St. #2, 5 to Freeman St. (at Southern Blvd.) map https://goo.gl/maps/jHcRmQwsk8CYNsoU7 https://facebook.com/events/377872966485878/ Public · Hosted by Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico - Junta de Nueva York https://facebook.com/elmaestrobx/events/ m.me/elmaestrobx elmaestrobx@gmail.com (646) 299-6507 https://facebook.com/messages/t/fernando.laspina/ tuconsentido5@aol.com m.me/pnpr.ny http://www.pnpr.org https://facebook.com/pg/pnpr.ny/events/ (https://facebook.com/pg/Fundaci%C3%B3n-Andr%C3%A9s-Figueroa-Cordero-366958500553795/events/) m.me/366958500553795 Acto cultural: Grupo Maestro Herencia de Mi Tambó Poesía patriotica Speakers/Poetry Mensaje de Zoraida Collazo ( hija de Oscar Collazo) Exhicibición de fotos de Lolita: Por Bolivar Arellano. = = > Donación: $10.00 ( incluye comida). El Maestro, Inc. 1300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, New York 10459 Trenes: #5 & # 2 hasta Freeman Street. Auspician:Junta de Nueva York Del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, El Maestro Inc., Junta Nacionalista de Nueva Jersey, Fundación Andrés Figueroa Cordero, Comité Amigos de Irvin Flores. See more details ANARCHIST GENERAL ASSEMBLY Agenda View ANARCHIST GENERAL ASSEMBLY November 15, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm . Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC General Assembly Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 at 6:30 PM in Verso Books 20 Jay St, Brooklyn, Suite 1010, btw. John St. & Plymouth St. nr. F, A, C, R stops; https://goo.gl/maps/XvCvjQDcn5KTipYz5 event descriptions, contacts, changes https://tockify.com/mlsupport/detail/181/1573860600000 https://facebook.com/events/2520305448061792/ Public · Hosted by Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC https://macc.nyc/events m.me/MACCnyc info@macc.nyc . Rojava Action Planning Coalition Meeting Mon Oct 28, 7:30pm - 9:00pm . Anarchists Care About Books: The Undying Sun Nov 17, 4:00pm - 6:00pm See more details • • • • •	16 * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN Agenda View * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN November 16, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tompkins Square Park, NYC ``We have a vigil for peace in Yemen on Saturdays 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, at Tompkins Square Park [near] Avenue A and St. Marks Place`` [ This is a repeating calendar entry. Ask davisfelton3@yahoo.comin whether vigil ever cancels, like for weather, maybe. Need a quicker answer? In past, folks answering Mary House NYC phone at (212) 777-9617 seemed also to know about cancellations. So I'd try both. -t.] See more details * PROTEST PROUD BOYS FASCISTS IN NYC Agenda View * PROTEST PROUD BOYS FASCISTS IN NYC November 16, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm New York City Antifa is supporting the @UARFNYC call for New Yorkers to come together against the Proud Boys, Saturday, Nov. 16, Noon at 59th St. & 5th Ave., nr. Pulitzer Fountain & N, R, F, Q, #4, 5, 6, A, C, D stops, 57th St. bus; Proud Boys are planning to rally at Trump Tower. We will rally against fascism, the Far Right, and all racism, antisemitism, and bigotry. #AllOutNYC event graphics, descriptions & contacts: https://twitter.com/NYCAntifa/status/1194401003799535617 https://twitter.com/UARFNYC/status/1192935874872455168 https://facebook.com/events/470603343579157/ (https://facebook.com/events/470603343579157/?active_tab=discussion) with... United Against Racism and Fascism NYC; IWW NYC; Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council - MACC; Occupy Wall St.; Brigada71 / Cosmos AFA; MuJew Antifa: Muslim Jewish Anti-Fascist Front; Rise and Resist; Outlive Them NYC; Black Rose / Rosa Negra - NYC; Marx21 US; NYC Democratic Socialists of America; Reclaim Pride Coalition; https://twitter.com/uarfnyc m.me/UARFNYC uarf-ny@protonmail.com https://uarf-nyc.org [fixed? blocked? -t.]; https://facebook.com/pg/UARFNYC/events/ m.me/iwwnyc organize@iww.nyc https://iww.nyc https://twitter.com/iwwnyc m.me/MACCnyc info@macc.nyc http://macc.nyc https://facebook.com/pg/MACCnyc/events/ m.me/OccupyWallSt tweetship@googlegroups.com http://occupywallst.nyc https://twitter.com/OccupyWallStNYC https://facebook.com/pg/OccupyWallSt/events/ m.me/Brigada71 cosmoantifa@gmail.com http://brigada71.org https://twitter.com/cosmopolitanAFA m.me/MuJewAntifa http://mujewantifa.tumblr.com m.me/RiseandResistNYC info@riseandresist.org http://riseandresist.org http://twitter.com/RiseNResistNYC https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/ m.me/outlivethemnyc outlivethemnyc@gmail.com http://twitter.com/outlivethemnyc https://facebook.com/blackrosenyc m.me/Marx21us marx21us@protonmail.com https://marx21us.org https://facebook.com/pg/nycdsa/events/ https://socialists.nyc/events/?view=LIST http://twitter.com/nycDSA https://facebook.com/nycdsa/events/ https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/ http://m.me/nycdsa info@socialists.nyc DSA contacts page https://socialists.nyc/contact-us/ m.me/queermarch info@reclaimpridenyc.org http://reclaimpridenyc.org http://instagram.com/queermarch https://twitter.com/queermarch m.me/outlivethemnyc outlivethemnyc@gmail.com http://twitter.com/outlivethemnyc https://facebook.com/pg/outlivethemnyc/events Noise Demonstration on November 16th, 12PM -- All out against Fascism and the Far Right! All out against the Proud Boys! at Pulitzer Fountain 59th Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan (below the SE corner of Central Park, two blocks north of Trump Tower) On Saturday, November 16th, Proud Boys are planning to descend on New York City and rally at Trump Tower in support of two of their most violent members, who were recently convicted of a brutal assault on antifascist protesters in October 2018. These two members were part of a larger group of Proud Boys and outright Nazis who attended an event at the Metropolitan Republican Club on the Upper East Side, where the founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInnes, celebrated the murder of a Japanese socialist. After the event concluded, the Proud Boys attacked a small group of antifascists who were separated from the larger group of counter-protesters. Proud Boys and Nazis beat and stomped people on the ground, using homophobic and anti-immigrant slurs. Proud Boys Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were sentenced to four years in prison for their actions that night. The Proud Boys are now trying to paint themselves as victims and use this outcome of their own violent ideology to muscle their way onto New York City streets. They are also using their support for Trump and his policies to try and legitimize themselves in mainstream society by using a Far Right group, "Latinos for Trump," as a sponsor of the November 16th rally. The director of "Latinos for Trump" is Proud Boy leader, Enrique Tarrio, who attended the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 as a member of the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, a division of the Proud Boys dedicated to street fighting. Like many Proud Boys, he has been known to sport a "Right Wing Death Squads" patch. Proud Boys and other Far Right ideologues like Milo Yiannopolous and Joey Gibson (the leader of the Far Right group, Patriot Prayer, which has organized attacks with the Proud Boys in Portland, Oregon) have been advertising this rally. They are claiming that Proud Boys from around the country are coming to New York City on November 16th. --- United Against Racism and Fascism-NYC is calling for all New Yorkers to come out and stand together against fascism, the Far Right, and every form of racism, anti-Semitism, and bigotry. When fascists rallied in Madison Square Garden in 1939 under the guise of a "pro-America" rally, thousands of New Yorkers came out in opposition. New York City is an anti-fascist town and it will always be that way. We need 'everyday' antifascists - ordinary New Yorkers - who don't want to sit on the sidelines as the Far Right mobilizes and continues their campaigns of violence and murder against people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic and religious minorities, and their own political opponents. The important thing is for everyone to show up and make sure the Proud Boys and their supporters know that they are not welcome here and never will be. Whenever and wherever they show up, so do we. We are proud: of our unity, diversity, and love for one another. On Saturday, November 16th, New York City will stand together in solidarity with all targets of Far Right violence and in defense of our city. (photo credit: Loni Fredryx) Saturday, November 16 12PM noon Pulitzer Fountain 59th Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan (below the SE corner of Central Park two blocks north of Trump Tower) N/R trains to 59th Street/5th Avenue __ To offer your organization's endorsement or otherwise get involved, please email: contact-uarf-nyc@lists.riseup.net uarf-nyc.org [?] facebook.com/uarfnyc twitter.com/uarfnyc Recent Posts United Against Racism and Fascism NYC — NYC Unites Against the Proud Boys will start at 12 noon at the Pulitzer Fountain, below the SE corner of Central Park.This will be a noise demo, so please bring drums, instruments, pots, vuvuzelas - anything to drown them out! - as well as ear plugs (especially if you are sensitive to noise), antifascist banners, and signs. (But please no amplified sound.)It will be cold, so bundle up! We will also have some warm drinks on hand. Please bring water, and stay hydrated. Event organizers are committed to keeping attendees as safe as possible. Event organizers have arranged for security, legal observers, medics, jail support, and legal support. Please come and leave with a friend for safety; security will also accompany attendees as needed. Try to maintain situational awareness during the protest.To ensure the safety of attendees who may be at risk of identification from the Far Right and/or police, attendees should not livestream the event or take pictures of attendees' faces without their permission. November 13, 2019 at 11:58 PM Read More Outlive Them NYC — This is a noise demo, so bring drums, instruments, pots, pans, vuvuzelas - anything to drown them out! - as well as ear plugs (especially if you are sensitive to noise), banners, and signs.And it will be cold on Saturday, so bundle up! We will also have some warm drinks on hand. November 13, 2019 at 6:33 PM Read More United Against Racism and Fascism NYC — Three more days to build for drowning out the "Proud Boys" November 13, 2019 at 4:09 PM Read More See All Posts Featuring . See more details * HANDS OFF BOLIVIA! ACTION Agenda View * HANDS OFF BOLIVIA! ACTION November 16, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm ANSWER Coalition Join us this Saturday to say NO Coup in Bolivia! HANDS OFF BOLIVIA ACTION SATURDAY, NOV. 16, 1:00PM @ COLUMBUS CIRCLE [nr. #1, A, C, D, N, Q, R, F stops & 57th St. bus] https://www.facebook.com/events/1995915900511400/ Join the ANSWER Coalition as we condemn the military coup in Bolivia, and extend our solidarity to the Bolivian people! The people of Bolivia, who are struggling to defend the massive gains won under the leadership of President Evo Morales, are fighting in the face of this counter-revolution. U.S. imperialism is clearly the sponsor of the coup and we are outraged at this crime against Bolivian sovereignty and democracy. We know the goal of the coup is to restore the absolute authority of the Bolivian elites who rule as clients of the United States. They despise the country’s Indigenous majority and want to repress the rights of the working class. The Bolivian ruling class and their military are following the dictates of the U.S. government, which has worked overtime to turn back the leftwing tide sweeping Latin America. We see this in Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and in the failed coup of Venezuela. The battle in Bolivia and all of Latin America continues between the forces that want to empower the people and those that want to restore the power and wealth of the rich. BUT WE SAY NO! Our role is to stand with Bolivia, with Latin America here in the United States and demand that this government ends its war on the people in Latin America and the Caribbean! U.S. hands off Bolivia! ANSWER NYC http://www.answercoalition.org/ ANSWER Coalition · United States This email was sent to nyprotest@lists.riseup.net. . See more details TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! MARCH Agenda View TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! MARCH November 16, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm Two NYC actions Saturday... TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! Saturday, November 16 == > 1:00 pm Union Square @ E. 14th St. nr. L, N, Q, R, 4, 5, 6, F, PATH, 1, 2, 3 stops & 14th St. cross town buses; https://www.facebook.com/events/727946144334158/ == > 2:00 pm Harlem State Office Building W. 125th St. & 7th Ave./Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. nr. #2, 3, A, C, D, M60 & 125th St. buses https://facebook.com/events/416792169265862/ == > OTHER TOWNS: https://refusefascism.org/ Join us to demand The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go - NOW! 1pm: Union Square DJ set: A-Track, Eli Escobar, Nicole Sky, Stretch Armstrong. 2pm: Rally Begins 3:30pm: March to Trump Tower If you are anguished by what the Trump/Pence regime has already done and filled with dread for the future, will you bury your hopes and conscience? Or, will you join us in protest? Come on out and make a real difference. NOW IS THE TIME. NOW IS THE TIME to TAKE to the STREETS to DEMAND: TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! 2:00pm gather for rally @ 125th & Adam Clayton Powell, then march to 125th & Lexington, then onward to 116th, then back to the starting location to take the train to Trump Tower (around 4:30). If you are anguished by what the Trump/Pence regime has already done and filled with dread for the future, will you bury your hopes and conscience? Or, will you join us in protest? Come on out and make a real difference. NOW IS THE TIME. Political lines are drawn, impeachment hearings have begun. We must not be spectators…it’s time for the people to act. THERE IS A WAY TO REMOVE THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME Public televised hearings to impeach Trump begin this week. Sharp political lines are drawn with high stakes. Trump and Pence have ordered the Republicans to obstruct the hearings..Yet, the Democratic leadership has all but conceded that Trump will not be removed by the Senate. What can change all of this? WE CAN – the power of the people taking to the streets in sustained non-violent protest raising one simple and unifying demand: Trump/Pence #OUTNOW! and then, continuing week after week all across the country growing in numbers and determination until this demand is met. Gather your friends, your school, place of worship, community, organization, and come out this Saturday. Spread the word. Let’s show people in this country and the world that we will not adjust to the injustice and crimes of Trump and Pence. We will protest again and again until this regime is gone. There’s still a chance to stop a regime that imperils humanity and the planet, let’s stand together with conviction and courage overcoming fear and uncertainty, to struggle with all we’ve got to demand: TRUMP/PENCE OUT NOW! #OUTNOW! brings together people of many different views and experiences around the single, basic demand: Trump/Pence Must Go—Now! in mass sustained nonviolent protests that continue until the Trump/Pence Regime is removed from power. (RefuseFascism.org / 646-450-5448 for more info) See more details * PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. Agenda View * PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. November 16, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 10:00 pm Launch of Mass Sustained Protest: Trump/Pence Must Go -NOW! Union Square, New York, Saturday, Oct. 19, 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM Saturday, Oct. 26, 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 2 from 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 9 from 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 16 from 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM https://facebook.com/events/727946144334158/ (https://refusefascism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/meme-for-october2.jpg) 917.407.1286 https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascismNYC/events #TrumpPenceOutNow @RefuseFascism m.me/RefuseFascismNYC https://facebook.com/messages/t/lillian.forman/ https://facebook.com/pg/RefuseFascism/events JOIN US and DEMAND: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go – NOW! The time has come to launch mass, sustained, non-violent protests that come back week after week, refusing to stop until the Trump/Pence Regime has been removed from power. *IT BEGINS: Saturday, October 19 New York, 5pm at Union 5pm. Saturday, October 26 NATIONWIDE PROTESTS and the next Saturday (11/2)... and the next (11/9)... and the next (11/16)... Puerto Rico and Hong Kong show us how: TrumpPenceOutNOW! Concentration Camps on the border... the earth melts and burns... the danger of war, even nuclear... white supremacy rules... fascist mobs and mass murderers... truth and science erased... the right to abortion near gone... democratic and civil rights are stripped away... THIS IS FASCISM UNFOLDING. The Trump/Pence regime must go now because of the danger it poses to humanity. It must go now because fascism eliminates the right to dissent, undermining every aspiration and struggle for justice... it has direction and momentum that must be stopped before it becomes too late. Impeachment hearings have begun – opening a new stage of struggle. The Trump/Pence regime and their hardcore base are gearing up and will not give up. The Democratic Party leadership refuses to utter the word Fascism and have conciliated and facilitated the assault on fundamental rights. Any illusions that “we can leave things to the Democrats” or wait til 2020 would be extremely dangerous. The only way to stop is by manifesting the power of millions in the streets. We must seize on the crisis now erupting to take history into our own hands – turning dread for the future into a force for hope. The world as we have known it is being torn asunder. We must cast off fear and passivity because the future depends on it. Let's refuse to allow our differences to stand in the way of rising together in an unprecedented, unrelenting mass struggle to confront the danger of a Trump/Pence fascist America. In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! PROTEST TRUMP/PENCE: 5 SATURDAYS, UNION SQ. See more details Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 Agenda View Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 November 16, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm [PLEASE CHECK CORRECT DATES & TIMES, BUT I COPIED THE FOLLOWING -t.] Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18...then 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Sept. 18 ...then 7:00 PM on consecutive Saturdays, Sept. 21 & 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7. (BUT CHECK. NO, SERIOUSLY, CHECK.) 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 course descriptions, correct class dates & times: (https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-engels-political-and-historical-works-part-1/all/) (https://marxedproject.org/events/category/classes-and-programs/multi-session-classes/) venue: (347)695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/ https://facebook.com/pg/peoplesforumNYC/events/ m.me/peoplesforumNYC (347) 695-1095 https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC info@peoplesforum.org revsgroup@gmail.com On January 8 and 9 of this year, 150 million workers went on a general strike in India, the biggest work stoppage in history. This strike marked another first when agricultural workers and small farmers calling for a solidarity shutdown of rural India joined the striking workers from many sectors including manufacturing, mining, energy, transportation, banking, public services, construction, and many more. These 150 million striking Indian workers corresponds roughly to the total working population of the United States. Here in the U.S. during 2018 a record number of workers went on strike or stopped working because of labor disputes—485,000 workers from major sectors were involved over that year. This was the largest number of workers on strike or work stoppages since 1986, when flight attendants, garbage collectors, and steelworkers walked off the job. Although the international rumblings of a wakening proletariat are of greater or smaller magnitude they indicate the possibility of the workers of all lands to unite on a scale like never before, and in numbers Marx and Engels could only dream of when they wrote these closing words to The Communist Manifesto in 1848. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” During their lives working together, Marx and Engels kept abreast of all working class movements and developments within all societies that they could get news from. Their work in doing so predates their partnership as anti-capitalist revolutionaries, but flourished especially upon meeting and thereafter. As Engels stated at the grave of Marx in 1883: “…Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success such as few could rival. His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorwarts (1844), the Deutsche Brusseler Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and, in addition to these, a host of militant pamphlets, work in organizations in Paris, Brussels and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the great International Working Men’s Association — this was indeed an achievement of which its founder might well have been proud even if he had done nothing else. “And, consequently, Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers….” This term we begin the careful reading of the investigative journalism, political works, and organizational correspondence within the revolutionary movements by both Marx and Engels. We will begin with early works. As we begin, we shall read Frederich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England which as Eric Hobsbawm stated “is the first book in Britain or any other country which dealt with the working class as a whole and not merely with particular sections and industries. Secondly, and more important, it was not merely a survey of working class conditions, but a general analysis of the evolution of industrial capitalism, of the social impact of industrialization and its political and social consequences — including the rise of the labor movement. In fact, it was the first large-scale attempt to apply the Marxist method to the concrete study of society, and probably the first work by either Marx or Engels which the founders of Marxism regarded as sufficiently valuable to merit permanent preservation. As a guide to our readings over several terms of study, we shall read from the Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution series written over many years by Hal Draper. As Draper states in his introduction to the work: “…the answer to pseudodemocracy is real democracy; the abuses of “scientism” can be countered only by a genuinely scientific attitude; and the obfuscations of various contemporary ‘Marxisms’ can be understood only with the help of Marx’s Marxism…” Between this May and through our spring and summer terms of this study the plan is the read The Condition of the English Working Class, The German Ideology, and selections of works by the young Marx and Engels leading up to the revolutions of 1848. We will begin the fall term continuing with the works of Draper and a careful reading of The Communist Manifesto, followed by Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, along with selections from Marx and Engels journalism and reports of various activities throughout the world at the time of this revolutionary wave, including their beginning assessments of anarchism, utopian socialists and more. All fees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. . See more details Launch: ``A Planet to Win...Green New Deal`` Agenda View Launch: ``A Planet to Win...Green New Deal`` November 16, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Book Launch: A Planet to Win Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos Saturday, Nov. 16, 7pm at Verso Books 20 Jay St, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, btw. Plymouth St. & John St. nr. F, A, C, R, 2, 3, 4, 5, G stops... https://facebook.com/events/2499137223506406/ Verso Books Dissent MagazinJacobin MagazinBroklyn Institute for Social Researc https://facebook.com/VersoBks/about https://facebook.com/VersoBks/events https://facebook.com/dissentmag/about https://facebook.com/nplusonemag/about https://facebook.com/jacobinmag/about https://facebook.com/TheBrooklynInstitute/about Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos in conversation around their new book, A Planet to Win. What could a radical Green New Deal look like, and how can we connect the politics of a Green New Deal with the fight for economic and racial justice? Moderated by New Republic staff writer Osita Nwanevu. Panel discussion followed by reception with drinks available and books for sale. This event is free and open to the public. A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry and building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, guaranteeing climate-friendly work and no-carbon housing and free public transit. And it shows how a Green New Deal in the United States can strengthen climate justice movements worldwide. A Planet to Win is on sale November 12: https://versobooks.com/books/3107-a-planet-to-win Kate Aronoff is a fellow at the Type Media Center and a contributing writer to The Intercept. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Intercept, The Nation, Harpers, Jacobin, Dissent, and In These Times, among other outlets. She has appeared on Democracy Now, On The Media, and numerous other television shows, radio programs, and podcasts. Alyssa Battistoni is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, editor at Jacobin, and an Associate Faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, n+1, The Nation, Jacobin, In These Times, Dissent, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other outlets. Daniel Aldana Cohen is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Nature, The Nation, Jacobin, Public Books, the Verso blog, and Dissent among other outlets. He has been interviewed on The Dig and Behind the News, and numerous other podcasts and radio programs. Thea Riofrancos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College and the author of Resource Radicalisms, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, n+1, Jacobin, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, and In These Times, among other outlets. She has been interviewed on the The Dig and Behind The News, and numerous other podcasts and radio programs. She also serves on the Steering Committee of DSA's Ecosocialist Working Group. Osita Nwanevu is a staff writer at The New Republic and a former staff writer at The New Yorker and Slate. His work has also appeared in Harper's, In These Times, and the Chicago Reader. He is the former editor in chief of the South Side Weekly, a Chicago alternative newspaper. Co-sponsored by Jacobin and Brooklyn Institute of Social Research. . See more details • • • • • • •	17 Conmemoración de Lolita Lebron en su Centenario Agenda View Conmemoración de Lolita Lebron en su Centenario November 17, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lolita Lebrón’s Centennial events from two different producers... . Conmemoración de Lolita Lebron en su Centenario Sunday, Nov. 17, 2:00 PM at or in El Maestro, Inc. 1300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, btw. Freeman St. & Jennings St. #2, 5 to Freeman St. (at Southern Blvd.) map https://goo.gl/maps/jHcRmQwsk8CYNsoU7 https://facebook.com/events/377872966485878/ Public · Hosted by Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico - Junta de Nueva York https://facebook.com/elmaestrobx/events/ m.me/elmaestrobx elmaestrobx@gmail.com (646) 299-6507 https://facebook.com/messages/t/fernando.laspina/ tuconsentido5@aol.com m.me/pnpr.ny http://www.pnpr.org https://facebook.com/pg/pnpr.ny/events/ (https://facebook.com/pg/Fundaci%C3%B3n-Andr%C3%A9s-Figueroa-Cordero-366958500553795/events/) m.me/366958500553795 Acto cultural: Grupo Maestro Herencia de Mi Tambó Poesía patriotica Speakers/Poetry Mensaje de Zoraida Collazo ( hija de Oscar Collazo) Exhicibición de fotos de Lolita: Por Bolivar Arellano. = = > Donación:$10.00 ( incluye comida). El Maestro, Inc. 1300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, New York 10459 Trenes: #5 & # 2 hasta Freeman Street. Auspician:Junta de Nueva York Del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, El Maestro Inc., Junta Nacionalista de Nueva Jersey, Fundación Andrés Figueroa Cordero, Comité Amigos de Irvin Flores. . Lolita Lebrón’s Centennial Celebration Friday Nov. 15, 6:30 to 10:00 PM Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center 310 W. 43rd St. btw. 8th & 9th Aves. nr. A, C, E, #7, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, (W), (B), D, F, (M) & 42nd St. bus; https://goo.gl/maps/2UsbA6uRaVzqYb8U8 $25 (https://eventbrite.com/e/lolita-lebrons-centennial-celebration-tickets-74416043389) https://facebook.com/events/523146578503846/ by Las Lolitas NYC https://facebook.com/pg/laslolitasnyc/events https://eventbrite.com/o/las-lolitas-nyc-27351885271 https://instagram.com/siempresente.nyc/ venue (212) 582 1890 A celebration of Lolita’s social justice and anti colonial legacy. An evening of live music, dance, food and special guests. Join us as we celebrate Lolita's powerful legacy! This will be an evening of food, live music, art, and special guests! Guests will be able to dance salsa and enjoy a presentation by NYC salsa band, Tres del Solar! Hosted by: Marinieves Alba Suggested Donation: $25, includes a plate of food. A Silent Auction will be available. = = > Proceeds will go to Nina Droz and Ana Belen. Co-Sponsored by: SiemPResente LAS LOLITAS NYC is a group of Puerto Rican women from New York City committed to honoring and celebrating the life of social justice & anti-colonial activist LolitaLebrón as her Centennial celebration approaches, on November 19th2019, when a final commemoration will be held. Las Lolitas NYC is an extension of Las Lolita en su Centenario, a group initially formed late last year in Puerto Rico. A year round jornada of events is taking place each month, welcoming anyone to join us in celebrating the life of Puerto Rican heroin, Lolita Lebron. LOLITA LEBRÓN, born Dolores Lebrón Sotomayor, was born in Lares, Puerto Rico on November 19, 1919. At the age of 18, she began to develop her political views outraged by the event known as the Ponce masacre, when police indiscriminately opened fire to peaceful protestors. She became part of the Puerto Rican diaspora of New York City in 1940. A mother of two, she earned her life working as a seamstress while vocally advocating for better treatment towards her community and inevitably transforming into a leader. As a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party which advocated for Puerto Rico’s Independence during early US occupation, she developed a close bond with its leader, Harvard educated, Don Pedro Albizu Campos. 1953 the UN removed Puerto Rico from the list of non-self-governing territories, condemning the island to a perpetual colonial status. This event inspired LolitaLebrón to lead one of the most courageous acts of political activism in Puerto Rican history, know as the 1954 attack on congress, along with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and Andres Figueroa Cordero. Despite the absence of casualties she was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. Lolita returned to her beloved island in 1979 after being pardoned by President Jimmy Carter. In 2001 she took part in acts of civil disobedience demanding closure of the US military base in Vieques, a municipal island off the east coast of Puerto Rico. Up until her passing in 2010 at the age of 91, Lebron continued to dedicate her life to Puerto Rico’s Independence becoming a revered symbol of resistance, earning the title of Puerto Rican heroin. Las Lolitas NYC — The event will be hosted by our sister and friend Marinieves Alba. October 15, 2019 at 4:09 AM “Las Lolitas NYC” is a collective the aims to educate about the legacy of Puerto Rican activist Lolita Lebrón, as her centennial celebration approaches in November 2019. . See more details •
18 * NYC Wendy`s Boycott March Agenda View * NYC Wendy`s Boycott March November 18, 2019 @ 12:01 am - 11:59 pm PLEASE RESEARCH LOCATION & CORRECT EVENT TIME. Farmworkers announce major Wendy’s Boycott mobilization in NYC, [Monday] Nov. 18, 2019! http://ciw-online.org/blog/2019/09/save-the-date-nov-wendys-action/ (239) 657-8311 workers@ciw-online.org with Coalition of Immokalee Workers Campaign for Fair Food https://facebook.com/pg/CIWonFB/events Get ready, Big Apple! Farmworkers and consumers will converge on New York City November 18 for Wendy’s Boycott march! The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is coming back to New York! As plans for ramping up the Wendy’s Boycott on campuses and in communities around the country begin to take root for the fall – with the Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro just two short weeks away – farmworkers in Immokalee want YOU to save the date for a major mobilization this November in New York City. Following 2018’s two powerful marches through the streets of Manhattan – the Time’s Up Wendy’s March, which marked the culmination of the Freedom Fast and was joined by thousands of consumers, and the “How Much Longer, Wendy’s?” March – farmworkers and consumers from across the region will be gathering in New York to once again take to the streets to demand farm labor justice from Wendy’s on November 18 of this year. {pic caption?}Fair Food marchers flood the streets of New York in July 2018. Following the 2018 Freedom Fast and Time’s Up Wendy’s March, the fast food giant announced at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in June of that same year that it would be shifting its tomato purchases from Mexico to U.S. and Canadian greenhouses, responding to consumer pressure over the abysmal human rights conditions in Mexico’s produce industry. But as Wendy’s has seen with the major mobilizations that have followed, from the “How Much Longer, Wendy’s” March in New York to the 4 for Fair Food Tour this past spring, the Fair Food Nation will not rest until Wendy’s joins other fast-food giants – McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Subway, and Chipotle – in supporting the only proven solution to ending human rights abuse in U.S. agriculture, the Fair Food Program. We’ll leave the last word to the CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo, speaking to hundreds of cheering consumers in New York last July: … Once again, we are here to demonstrate our strength. We have made it clear to Wendy’s that we will not give up until they join the Fair Food Program. After our fast of five days in this very same place, in the cold, enduring hunger, marching with 2,000 people in the streets of New York, we have taken an important step forward: Wendy’s will now only buy tomatoes from the U.S. and Canada. But another, bigger step remains – and that is to sign a Fair Food Agreement. We will not be satisfied until Wendy’s responds directly to us as workers – because to simply buy from greenhouses is not equivalent to ensuring justice and human rights. So make sure to mark November 18 on your calendar, and stay tuned for more on November’s major mobilization in the weeks ahead! . See more details * PROTEST WENDY`S w/ FARM WORKERS Agenda View * PROTEST WENDY`S w/ FARM WORKERS November 18, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Upcoming Street Actions & Talks: http://bit.ly/nycprotest PROTEST WENDY`S w/ FARM WORKERS March & Rally: What are you hiding, Wendy's? Monday, Nov. 18, 2019 at 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM Trian Fund Management 280 Park Ave at E. 49th St. nr. E, (M), (B), D, F, S, 4, 5, 6, 7, N, R, #1 stops & cross town buses via W.50th or E.49th; https://goo.gl/maps/DEUHJpjY9oggLUAe7 https://facebook.com/events/1526715417470579 (305) 305-1212 uriel@allianceforfairfood.org (239) 657-8311 workers@ciw-online.org http://www.ciw-online.org m.me/Alliance4ff (239) 657-8311 organize@allianceforfairfood.org http://www.allianceforfairfood.orgm.me/sfalliance http://www.sfalliance.org ~ español abajo Join dozens of farmworkers from Immokalee, FL, their children and hundreds of allies in demanding real transparency and human rights protections in Wendy’s produce supply chain. Join us in telling Wendy’s leaders that it’s time to stop hiding! We will gather at 280 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan at 5pm, march will kick off at 5:30pm. Please email organize@allianceforfairfood.org or call 239-692-1482 if you have any questions. See you on Nov. 18 in NYC! ---------------------------- CAMPAIGN BACKGROUND: Farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) have built the Fair Food Program, a uniquely successful program of worker-led monitoring and enforcement that has ended sexual harassment, forced labor and other long-standing human rights violations in the fields. All of the largest fast-food companies — McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Taco Bell and Chipotle — along with nine other major food retailers, from Whole Foods to Walmart, have joined. But for years now, Wendy’s has stubbornly refused to open its supply chain to the Fair Food Program. Instead, Wendy’s has turned to widely-discredited, for-profit social auditing companies to monitor its suppliers’ operations. These infrequent, superficial audits effectively deny the workers who harvest Wendy’s produce a voice if their rights are violated and leave them vulnerable to rampant sexual assault, widespread violence and systemic wage theft. If there truly are no human rights violations occurring in Wendy’s suppliers’ operations, why not join the Fair Food Program, the most comprehensive, most widely-respected human rights program in agriculture? On November 18, farmworkers from Immokalee, together with their consumer allies, will return to Manhattan for a major march demanding real transparency and human rights protections in Wendy’s supply chain. We will march to the hedge fund Trian Partners, Wendy’s largest institutional shareholder and the home office of several members of Wendy’s Board of Directors. Wendy’s, it’s time to stop hiding! ---------------------------- Acompaña a docenas de trabajadores agrícolas de Immokalee, FL, sus hijxs y cientos de aliadxs para exigir transparencia y protecciones de los derechos humanos en la cadena de surtidores de Wendy's. ¡Juntxs exigimos a los líderes de Wendy's que ya es hora de dejar de esconderse! Nos reuniremos en 280 Park Avenue en Manhattan a las 5 p.m., la marcha comenzará a las 5:30 p.m. Favor de contactar a organize@allianceforfairfood.org o llame al 239-692-1482 si tiene alguna pregunta. ¡Nos vemos el 18 de noviembre en Nueva York! MÁS INFORMACIÓN SOBRE LA CAMPAÑA: Los trabajadores agrícolas con la Coalición de Trabajadores de Immokalee (CIW) han creado el Programa de Comida Justa, un programa excepcionalmente exitoso en protecciones de derechos humanos que ha terminado con el acoso sexual, el trabajo forzado y otros abusos en los campos. Se han unido todas las empresas de comida rápida más grandes — McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Taco Bell y Chipotle — junto con otras nueve corporaciones de comida, desde Whole Foods hasta Walmart. Pero por varios años, Wendy's se ha negado obstinadamente a abrir su cadena de surtidores al Programa de Comida Justa. En cambio, Wendy's ha recurrido a compañías de auditoría social con fines de lucro y ampliamente desacreditadas para monitorear las operaciones de sus proveedores. Estas auditorías poco frecuentes y superficiales efectivamente niegan que los trabajadores que cosechan los productos de Wendy's la tengan una voz si se violan sus derechos y los dejan vulnerables a la agresión sexual desenfrenada, la violencia generalizada y el robo salarial sistémico. Si realmente no hay violaciones de los derechos humanos en las operaciones de los proveedores de Wendy's, ¿por qué no unirse al Programa de Comida Justa, el programa de derechos humanos más completo y respetado de la agricultura? El 18 de noviembre, los trabajadores agrícolas de Immokalee, junto con sus aliados consumidores, regresarán a Manhattan para una gran marcha exigiendo transparencia real y protección de los derechos humanos. Marcharemos hacia Trian Partners, el mayor accionista institucional de Wendy's y las oficinas central de varios miembros de la Mesa Directiva de Wendy's. Wendy's, ¡ya basta de esconderte! Coalition of Immokalee Workers — March with us on Nov. 18! Here is the route we will be taking. We will gather at 5pm at Trian Partners (280 Park Ave) and end in the same location. The march will kick off around 5:30pm. Featuring Coalition of Immokalee Workers Nonprofit Organization · Immokalee, Florida "Consciousness + Commitment = Change" Alliance for Fair Food Community Organization · Immokalee, Florida The Alliance for Fair Food is a national network of people working in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for farmworker justice. Student/ Farmworker Alliance Nonprofit Organization · Immokalee, Florida "We work with — not for — farmworkers." For decades the farm workers of Imokalee County in Florida have mobilized and won better pay, working conditions and a decrease in sexual harassment on the job. Now they are once again calling on our help to force Wendy's to require that their tomato supply chain adheres to humane and fair work standards. Here is a message we received from the organizers. If you can, attend their action on Monday and spread the word. It will be at 5 PM, 280 Park Ave. The message has a link describing the action. Dave Greetings, I'm following up to share info about the CIW farmworker protest happening this coming Monday. Here's the FB event page - /. I've also attached our flyer below. Please share it with any friends and colleagues. We look forward to seeing you, Uriel -- AFF logo Uriel Zelaya-Perez Pronouns: he/him/his National Faith Co-coordinator Alliance for Fair Food See more details Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy Agenda View Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy November 18, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy 7:00 PM every Monday, Sept. 16 - Dec. 16 James Baldwin HS 351 East 18th St, btw. 1st & 2nd Aves. nr. L, #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, (W) stops; maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8Xi9BB-?way=264755092 https://goo.gl/maps/5C8PaaSPZhmJweTP6 $110 – $140 (https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/all/) https://facebook.com/events/2404432073124143/ m.me/RevolutionsStudyGroup (917) 306-8066 RSG events https://eventbrite.com/o/the-marxist-education-project-14588960836 https://facebook.com/RevolutionsStudyGroup/events MEP m.me/MarxistEducationProject marxedproject@gmail.com https://marxedproject.org/events/ A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group The white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” The Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the 1848 European Revolutions, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. Admission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please follow and like us: . See more details • • •	19	20 * PROTEST CUOMO, DEMAND WAGE THEFT BILL Agenda View * PROTEST CUOMO, DEMAND WAGE THEFT BILL November 20, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 1:30 pm . Direct Actions vs. Wage Theft Wednesday Nov. 20... == > 8:00 AM at Proyeto Justica Laboral, 2111 Bath Av. Brooklyn 11214 at Bay 26th St. (D to 20 Ave.) https://goo.gl/maps/DV64n81Wr6VtLemt7 == > 10:30 AM at 365 Broadway Brooklyn 11211, btw. Keap St. & Hooper St. nr. J, (M), G stops; (https://goo.gl/maps/8487nj3Uo456rVsz5) == > 12:30 PM outside Gov. Cuomo NYC office at 633 3rd Av. btw. E. 40th St. & E. 41st St. (Manhattan), nr. #7, 4, 5, 6, S & 42nd St. bus; https://goo.gl/maps/7tdEubimEsrZKdxy8 event graphics, descriptions & contacts: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJxPBYnXkAE8Ae3.png (https://eldiariony.com/2019/11/19/ruta-hacia-la-justicia-no-al-robo-de-salario/) https://twitter.com/workersjusticep/status/1196918491036737536 . Stop Wage Theft! Demand Governor Cuomo Sign the SWEAT bill! Rally Wednesday, Nov. 20, 12:30 to 1:30 PM outside Gov. Cuomo NYC office 633 3rd Ave., NYC, btw. E. 40th St. & E. 41st St. nr. #7, 4, 5, 6, S, (B), D, F, (M) stops & 42nd St. cross town bus; https://goo.gl/maps/KnUM2RHZ7ZKgVjGu8(https://facebook.com/ChineseStaffWorkersAssociation/photos/gm.3146023035426513/2507112026008995/?type=3&theater) https://facebook.com/events/3135424659819684/ https://facebook.com/coo.man2/posts/10220027197937615 with Chinese Staff & Workers' Association - 華人職工會 (CSWA) NMASS (National Mobilization Against Sweatshops) Organization Workers Justice Project - Proyecto Justicia Laboral; Catholic Migration Services; Laundry Workers Center Justice Will Be Served Community; Flushing Workers Center; Coalition to Protect Chinatown m.me/ChineseStaffWorkersAssociation (212) 334-2333 http://www.cswa.org https://facebook.com/messages/t/coo.man2/ https://facebook.com/pg/ChineseStaffWorkersAssociation/posts/ (212) 358-0295 m.me/NMASSWorkersCenter nmassworkerscenter@gmail.com http://www.nmass.org m.me/workersjustice.org (347) 889-6347 info@workersjustice.org http://workersjustice.org . See more details Transgender Day of Remembrance Agenda View Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20, 2019 @ 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Queens College Dining Hall Main Stage in Flushing, NY Transgender Day of Remembrance Wednesday Nov. 20, 12:15 to 1:30 PM Queens College Dining Hall Main Stage 64-36 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367, on campus nr. 65th Ave. entrance Maps https://goo.gl/maps/r1U9gzDZetEoVrLL8 Yet another twisted CUNY campus map with east at top of page: (https://api.dineoncampus.com/files/images/6f4b8a38-8654-42de-9696-c7cfec61e69e.jpg) https://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions/2d/PublishingImages/qcmap.gif event graphic & descriptions (https://facebook.com/QueensCollege/photos/gm.555722998614454/10157841009454166/?type=3) https://facebook.com/events/555722978614456/ Public · Hosted by Queens College (718) 997-5000 Transgender Day of Remembrance Wednesday, November 20 12:15-1:30 pm Dining Hall You are invited to honor the lives of transpeople lost to hate violence. Long Island Transgender Day of Remembrance/LITDOR founder and Gender Equality New York/GENY board member, Barbara Salva, will preside over the memorial on the main stage at the QC Dining Hall. Refreshments will be served. This event is made possible through the generous support of LaGuardia Community College/CUNY and the New York City Council through the offices of Speaker Corey Johnson and Daniel Dromm (District 25). Additional support provided by the QC Office of Student Development & Leadership, the Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs at Queens College and the QC Gender, Love & Sexuality Alliance/GLASA. See more details Sharon Hom: Resistance Movement in Hong Kong Agenda View Sharon Hom: Resistance Movement in Hong Kong November 20, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Critical Voices: Resistance Movement in Hong Kong with Sharon Hom Wednesday, Nov. 20 fr/ 5:00 to 6:30 PM in CUNY Law School Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice 2 Court Square West, Long Island City 11101, physically on Hunter St. btw. 44th Drive & Crescent St. nr. 44th Rd. & E, (M), G, #7, N, (W) stops; map & transit https://goo.gl/maps/bcqP2mKvtyvhSt1n9 = = > RSVP required: https://surveymonkey.com/r/SCHom19 http://bit.ly/SCHom19 https://facebook.com/events/1045248502473560/ https://www.hrichina.org/en https://twitter.com/hrichina https://facebook.com/pg/hrichina/events/ (212) 239-4495 m.me/hrichina hrichina@hrichina.org https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandWithHongKong venue m.me/SorensenCenter (718) 340-4209 sorensencenter@law.cuny.edu http://sorensencenter.org https://twitter.com/SorensenCenter/ Join us for a "Critical Voices: From Local to Global" discussion with Sharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China, about the people’s resistance against the authoritarian regime in Beijing. Sharon Hom leads Human Rights in China’s human rights and media advocacy, as well as strategic policy engagement with NGOs, governments, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Hom recently testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China’s Hearing: “Hong Kong’s Summer of Discontent and U.S. Policy Responses.” The Sorensen Center’s “Critical Voices: From Local to Global” speaker series features extraordinary leaders from around the world discussing groundbreaking issues. Human Rights in China (HRIC) is a Chinese non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in March 1989 by overseas Chinese students and scientists. We actively engage in case and policy advocacy, media and press work, and capacity building. Through our original publications and extensive translation work, HRIC provides bridges and uncensored platforms for diverse Chinese voices. Our activities promote fundamental rights and freedoms and provide solidarity for rights defenders and their families by supporting citizens’ efforts to effectively communicate, as well as organize and participate in rights defense activities. Through our media and advocacy work, we raise international awareness of and support for the diverse and expanding civil society activism in China. To accomplish these goals, we engage with a wide range of high-level authorities, including United Nations human rights bodies and national governments, as well as the business community and international media outlets. With an international office in New York and a China office in Hong Kong, HRIC actively works on local, regional, and global platforms. Please support our work! hrichina.org/en/node/7844 See more details Transgender Day of Remembrance Agenda View Transgender Day of Remembrance November 20, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Christopher Street Pier Transgender Day of Remembrance Wednesday, Nov. 20 fr/ 6:00 to 7:30 PM on Christopher Street Pier Public · Hosted by New York Transgender Advocacy Group and Gays Against Guns https://facebook.com/events/2510836252479401/ m.me/NewYorkTAG 646-643 6306 amanda@nytag.org http://www.nytag.org https://facebook.com/messages/t/AsapansaJohnson/ https://facebook.com/amanda.babine https://twitter.com/NYTransAdvocacy https://twitter.com/GAGnoguns m.me/GaysAgainstGunsNYC gagnycoutreach@gmail.com http://www.gaysagainstguns.net . See more details Write to Prisoners w/ Critical Resistance NYC Agenda View Write to Prisoners w/ Critical Resistance NYC November 20, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm REPEATING EVENT: Be sure to confirm my info with producers before traveling to attend. Critical Resistance NYC in staying connected to our imprisoned comrades! Every third Wednesday of the month, we hold our monthly letter writing night. Join us {snip} Wednesday, July 17 and help us get this news about the jail fight inside to our comrades! WHEN: Wednesday, 7/17 from 7:00 to 9:00pm WHERE: Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), 147 W. 24th St., 5th Fl., [btw. 6th & 7th Aves.] TRANSIT: #1 [to] 23 Street, C, E [to] 23 Street, or elevator at 34 St-Penn Station [stops, #2, 3 exit at W. 32nd & 7th Av., or A Train exit to W. 33rd & 8th Av.] or F/M [or PATH] to 23 Street, or elevator at 34 St-Herald Square. [B, D, N, Q, R, W Trains -t.] ACCESS: No ID is required for building entry. This office is accessible by elevator. Please buzz and wait in the elevator to be brought up to the 5th floor. For questions please reply to crnyc@criticalresistance.org . [ TYPIST'S NOTE: PLEASE RESEARCH WHETHER THIS NOMINALLY REPEATING EVENT IS STILL HAPPENING. PLEASE REPORT COMMUNICATION-AMBIVALENT EVENT PUBLICISTS, PRODUCERS & ONLINE PRANKSTERS. TOGETHER WE CAN SURVIVE THE NYC NONPROFIT DEATH CULTURE. YOUR HELP IS CRITICAL. BE WELL. -t.] See more details • • • • •	21 * Brooklyn Rally f/ Green New Deal Agenda View * Brooklyn Rally f/ Green New Deal November 21, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am Rally for a Green New Deal & Petition Delivery Thursday, Nov. 21 fr/ 9:30 to 10:30 AM in front of 55 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, 11217, btw. Fort Greene Pl. & South Elliot Pl., nr. C, G, Q, #2, 3, 4, 5, (B), D, N, R stops; https://goo.gl/maps/7E2SBpwFpWQKXvDr7 Public https://www.facebook.com/events/2140505486245784/ m.me/350Brooklyn 350brooklyn@gmail.com http://350brooklyn.org instagram.com/350brooklyn twitter.com/350brooklyn m.me/foodandwaterwatchNY (347) 778-2743 eweltman@fwwatch.org http://foodandwaterwatch.org with 350 Brooklyn Friends of the Earth U.S. Food & Water Watch - New York Indivisible Nation BK . See more details * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine Agenda View * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine November 21, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm please check for cancellations before traveling to attend. Women In Black Union Square Vigil expected to resume Mar. 7, 2019 and ``every Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM during the occupation of Palestine,`` along E. 14th St. nr NE corner of Broadway, across from Union Square Park L, N, Q, R, W, #4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; F, M, PATH to 14 St. (at 6th Av.); #1, 2, 3 to 14 St. (at 7th); A, C, E to 14 St. (at 8th); 14th St. cross town bus lines. Cancels for extreme weather. Check with == > sherrygorelick@rcn.com before traveling to attend. Sign up for notifications. See more details NEW SANCTUARY COALITION GALA ($) Agenda View NEW SANCTUARY COALITION GALA ($) November 21, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm SEIU 32BJ at 25 W. 18th St. btw. 5th & 6th Aves. Thursday, Nov. 21 from 6:30 PM in SEIU 32BJ 25 W. 18th St. [ btw. 5th & 6th Aves., nr. F, (M), #1, L, PATH, N, Q, R, (W), 4, 5, 6, A, C, E stops & 14th St. cross town buses maps https://osm.org/go/Zct9Ajbh?way=264645717 https://goo.gl/maps/ai1tUhynqJhwmk5z7 ] ($100+) https://www.newsanctuarynyc.org/gala_2019 https://twitter.com/NewSanctuaryNYC/ New Sanctuary Coalition is led by & for immigrants to stop the inhumane system of deportations & detentions in the U.S. #youcantdeportamovement Please join New Sanctuary Coalition as we celebrate our Friends and honor the achievements of two great labor leaders and champions of immigrants' rights--the late Hector Figueroa, President of SEIU 32BJ, and Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director of the Taxi Workers’ Alliance. 6:30 pm Reception (drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and live music) 7:30 pm Program including musical performances by outstanding NYC musicians Festive attire requested For general information or corporate sponsorship, please contact marty@newsanctuarynyc.org See more details • • •	22 * VIGIL FOR A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD Agenda View * VIGIL FOR A NUCLEAR FREE WORLD November 22, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Three upcoming NYC Area street actions (see bottom of page)... . Vigil in front of the Japanese Consulate NYC Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 at 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM 299 Park Ave. at E. 48th St., nr. E, (M), (B), D, F, #4, 5, 6, 7, N, R, (W), #1 stops & cross town bus via W.50th or via 42nd St.; map https://goo.gl/maps/9Bcq2MUinwYyYCqc7 event graphic, descriptions & contacts (https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3758902090802037&set=gm.1292181177631806&type=3&theater) mp-nuclear-free.com https://facebook.com/events/1288442311339026/ https://facebook.com/messages/t/americaiminvisa/ info (at) mp-nuclear-free.com https://twitter.com/mpnuclearfree https://facebook.com/groups/315779711824317/events/ * Please share widely. ** If your organization is interested in co-sponsoring the event, please contact us. Catholic Worker, members of Kings Bay Plowshares 7, Pax Christi Metro New York, Veterans For Peace - NYC Chapter 34, Granny Peace Brigade, Stand With Okinawa NY, The Ribbon International and Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World present: Vigil to promote a nuclear-free world in front of the Japanese Consulate in NY on Friday, November 22, from 11AM to 1PM. Please join us. This is planned to coincide with Pope Francis’s visit to Japan from November 23 to 26. When: November 22, 2019, Friday, from 11AM to 1:00PM (EST) Where: In front of the building of the Consulate General of Japan in NY, 299 Park Avenue, NY, NY (Park Avenue & 48th Street) At Noon, we will deliver a letter to a representative of the Consulate in solidarity with the Pope's message of peace, nuclear abolition, and supporting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Pope's visit to Japan is very historic in that: (1) The last time a Pope was in Japan was in 1981, over 38 years ago (St. John Paul II); (2) Pope Francis will visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima on November 24. He will give a speech on nuclear weapons at the Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki in the morning, and he will deliver a message on peace at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in the evening; and, (3) He plans to have a meeting with people affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster while he is in Tokyo. This vigil is co-sponsored by: Catholic Worker Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Pax Christi Metro New York Veterans For Peace - NYC Chapter 34 Granny Peace Brigade Stand With Okinawa NY The Ribbon International Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World (List in formation) ---- . Saturday, Nov. 23, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM Vigil outside the St. Patrick's Cathedral, 5th Avenue @ 50th St. We will have signs, and hand out leaflets supporting and echoing the Pope's message, calling on increased awareness of all. Supporting the various measures in NYC. (There is 5:30 Mass, which some will attend, as vigil continues outside). . Sunday, Nov. 24, 8:45 AM to 12 Noon Vigil outside and around St. Patrick's Cathedral. 5th Avenue @ 50th St. (same as above) High mass is 10:30 AM; some might attend. . See more details Know Your Rights in Housing Trans Forum Agenda View Know Your Rights in Housing Trans Forum November 22, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Queens LGBT Community Center in Long Is. City (Queens) Know Your Rights in Housing Trans Forum Friday, November 22, 2019 2:00pm – 4:00pm Queens LGBT Community Center in Standard Motor Products Bldg. 37-18 Northern Blvd, Suite #107 Long Island City, NY 11101 opposite 38th St., nr. (M), N, R, (W), #7 stops https://goo.gl/maps/Kvro7buehaFbA67m8 https://eventbrite.com/e/trans-day-of-remembrance-2019-tickets-81505131041 NYC Commission on Human Rights will commemorate Trans Day of Remembrance by providing a forum on protections in housing in NYC under the Law To request an assistive listening device, interpretation, or another accommodation, please email Chanel Lopez at CLopez1@cchr.nyc.gov by November 18. Wheelchair accessible entrance on 37-18 Northern Blvd. See more details Emergency Action vs. NYPD and MTA Agenda View Emergency Action vs. NYPD and MTA November 22, 2019 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm 2nd FTP Emergency Action Against NYPD and MTA Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 fr/ 5:15 to 7:00 PM at Harriet Tubman Memorial nr. W. 122nd St. & Frederick Douglass Blvd. & nr. A, (B), C, D, #2, 3 stops, M60 bus; https://goo.gl/maps/bjPdWZx4DGUtuNQB9 (https://facebook.com/decolonizethisplace/photos/gm.521069855405669/809004042853901/?type=3&theater) https://facebook.com/events/520219345490720/ (https://facebook.com/decolonizethisplace/photos/gm.525118935000761/813226652431640/?type=3&theater) related training: (https://facebook.com/events/520219345490720/permalink/525891494923505/) with Decolonize This Place; South Asia Solidarity Initiative ; Crystal House ; Why Accountability ; Take Back The Bronx ; Peoples Power Assemblies NYC ; Equality for Flatbush : E4F ; Comité Boricua En La Diáspora ; NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew #blacklivesmatter ; Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine ; Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: Illumination Against Gentrification ; m.me/decolonizethisplace decolonizethisplace@gmail.com https://decolonizethisplace.org m.me/SouthAsiaSolidarityInitiative sasionblogs@gmail.com https://southasiasolidarityinitiative.wordpress.com https://instagram.com/sasi.nyc https://facebook.com/pg/SouthAsiaSolidarityInitiative/events (646) 483-0514 m.me/Crystalhouse2001 crystalhousebk@gmail.com http://CrystalHouseBk.com (646) 856-9847 info@whyaccountability.com http://WhyAccountability.com 347-974-0029 m.me/takebackthebx bxsocialcenter@gmail.com http://bronxsocialcenter.org (212) 627-2994 m.me/PeoplesPowerAssemblies info@peoplespowerassemblies.org http://peoplespowerassemblies.org https://facebook.com/pg/PeoplesPowerAssemblies/events 646-820 6039 m.me/EqualityForFlatbush b4g@equalityforflatbush.org http://EqualityforFlatbush.org m.me/comiteboricua comiteboricua@gmail.com https://instagram.com/comiteboricua m.me/nycshutitdown https://nycshutitdown.org https://facebook.com/messages/t/kimberly.ortiz.961/ m.me/WOL.Palestine wol.palestine@gmail.com http://wolpalestine.com m.me/MiCasaResiste micasanoessucasanyc@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/micasaresiste @MiCasaResiste https://twitter.com/MiCasaResiste On Nov.1st, 2,000 of us took the streets of Brooklyn to warn De Blasio, Cuomo, and their lapdog army the NYPD that we wasn’t playing fucking games with them no more! We drew a line in the fucking sand. That we refuse to tolerate their escalation of violence against poor people, against the black, brown, indigenous, undocumented, and trans folk on the streets and in our subways. We said FUCK YOUR $2.75! Cops out of the MTA! We said No new jails on stolen land. We said you got 11 billion for new jails?! You got it to repair NYCHA and free transit! WE MEANT THAT SHIT! This city, from Brooklyn to Harlem and beyond is at war with its own people. Denying us housing while you build luxury condos, new museum wings, and jails. Hiring an army of pigs to beat us down and harass us in the subways cuz we can’t pay. Now, they hired Dermont Shea who is the bastard behind the gang database as the new police commissioner. His work will be used to sweep all of the youth off our blocks en masse. WE SAY FUCK THAT! We ain’t taking this shit no more! NOV.22nd... ALLL OUT NEW YORK. Keep your eyes wide open. IMPORTANT NOTE 📝 More info will be released and made public beginning Monday of next week, including specific location to gather, risk levels, accessibility, etc. But know that where groups are calling the gathering will be accessible, and this is a prime consideration; also, low risk as we come together in the beginning. #FTP #FMTA . See more details Trans Day of Resilience, Trans Power - TDoR Agenda View Trans Day of Resilience, Trans Power - TDoR November 22, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm please research date, time, location (917)601.6047 (646)639.6802 Trans Day of Resilience, Trans Power - TDoR Friday, Nov. 22, 6:00 to 9:00 PM apparently in Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo 3763 83rd St., Suite 1B, Jackson Hts, at Roosevelt Av. [#7 to 82 St., E, F, M, R to Jackson Hts.-Roosevelt] https://goo.gl/maps/AiAK81vqU7hiU1z69 https://facebook.com/events/281025085841356/ Public · Hosted by Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo http://twitter.com/citgny https://facebook.com/pg/CITGny/events/ m.me/CITGny hello@ourvoicesarefree.org http://ourvoicesarefree.org (917)601.6047 (646)639.6802 See more details • • • •	23 * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN Agenda View * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN November 23, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tompkins Square Park, NYC ``We have a vigil for peace in Yemen on Saturdays 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, at Tompkins Square Park [near] Avenue A and St. Marks Place`` [ This is a repeating calendar entry. Ask davisfelton3@yahoo.comin whether vigil ever cancels, like for weather, maybe. Need a quicker answer? In past, folks answering Mary House NYC phone at (212) 777-9617 seemed also to know about cancellations. So I'd try both. -t.] See more details Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 Agenda View Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 November 23, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm [PLEASE CHECK CORRECT DATES & TIMES, BUT I COPIED THE FOLLOWING -t.] Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18...then 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Sept. 18 ...then 7:00 PM on consecutive Saturdays, Sept. 21 & 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7. (BUT CHECK. NO, SERIOUSLY, CHECK.) 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 course descriptions, correct class dates & times: (https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-engels-political-and-historical-works-part-1/all/) (https://marxedproject.org/events/category/classes-and-programs/multi-session-classes/) venue: (347)695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/ https://facebook.com/pg/peoplesforumNYC/events/ m.me/peoplesforumNYC (347) 695-1095 https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC info@peoplesforum.org revsgroup@gmail.com On January 8 and 9 of this year, 150 million workers went on a general strike in India, the biggest work stoppage in history. This strike marked another first when agricultural workers and small farmers calling for a solidarity shutdown of rural India joined the striking workers from many sectors including manufacturing, mining, energy, transportation, banking, public services, construction, and many more. These 150 million striking Indian workers corresponds roughly to the total working population of the United States. Here in the U.S. during 2018 a record number of workers went on strike or stopped working because of labor disputes—485,000 workers from major sectors were involved over that year. This was the largest number of workers on strike or work stoppages since 1986, when flight attendants, garbage collectors, and steelworkers walked off the job. Although the international rumblings of a wakening proletariat are of greater or smaller magnitude they indicate the possibility of the workers of all lands to unite on a scale like never before, and in numbers Marx and Engels could only dream of when they wrote these closing words to The Communist Manifesto in 1848. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” During their lives working together, Marx and Engels kept abreast of all working class movements and developments within all societies that they could get news from. Their work in doing so predates their partnership as anti-capitalist revolutionaries, but flourished especially upon meeting and thereafter. As Engels stated at the grave of Marx in 1883: “…Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success such as few could rival. His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorwarts (1844), the Deutsche Brusseler Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and, in addition to these, a host of militant pamphlets, work in organizations in Paris, Brussels and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the great International Working Men’s Association — this was indeed an achievement of which its founder might well have been proud even if he had done nothing else. “And, consequently, Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers….” This term we begin the careful reading of the investigative journalism, political works, and organizational correspondence within the revolutionary movements by both Marx and Engels. We will begin with early works. As we begin, we shall read Frederich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England which as Eric Hobsbawm stated “is the first book in Britain or any other country which dealt with the working class as a whole and not merely with particular sections and industries. Secondly, and more important, it was not merely a survey of working class conditions, but a general analysis of the evolution of industrial capitalism, of the social impact of industrialization and its political and social consequences — including the rise of the labor movement. In fact, it was the first large-scale attempt to apply the Marxist method to the concrete study of society, and probably the first work by either Marx or Engels which the founders of Marxism regarded as sufficiently valuable to merit permanent preservation. As a guide to our readings over several terms of study, we shall read from the Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution series written over many years by Hal Draper. As Draper states in his introduction to the work: “…the answer to pseudodemocracy is real democracy; the abuses of “scientism” can be countered only by a genuinely scientific attitude; and the obfuscations of various contemporary ‘Marxisms’ can be understood only with the help of Marx’s Marxism…” Between this May and through our spring and summer terms of this study the plan is the read The Condition of the English Working Class, The German Ideology, and selections of works by the young Marx and Engels leading up to the revolutions of 1848. We will begin the fall term continuing with the works of Draper and a careful reading of The Communist Manifesto, followed by Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, along with selections from Marx and Engels journalism and reports of various activities throughout the world at the time of this revolutionary wave, including their beginning assessments of anarchism, utopian socialists and more. All fees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. . See more details • •	24
25 Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy Agenda View Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy November 25, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm Foundations of American Bourgeois White Male Supremacy 7:00 PM every Monday, Sept. 16 - Dec. 16 James Baldwin HS 351 East 18th St, btw. 1st & 2nd Aves. nr. L, #4, 5, 6, N, Q, R, (W) stops; maps https://osm.org/go/Zct8Xi9BB-?way=264755092 https://goo.gl/maps/5C8PaaSPZhmJweTP6 $110 – $140 (https://marxedproject.org/event/foundations-of-american-bourgeois-white-male-supremacy/all/) https://facebook.com/events/2404432073124143/ m.me/RevolutionsStudyGroup (917) 306-8066 RSG events https://eventbrite.com/o/the-marxist-education-project-14588960836 https://facebook.com/RevolutionsStudyGroup/events MEP m.me/MarxistEducationProject marxedproject@gmail.com https://marxedproject.org/events/ A 14 week study with the Revolutions Study Group The white race remains the most peculiar and contentious identity in American life since its origin in the class struggle of colonial Virginia and Maryland. In The Invention of the White Race Volumes I & II, Theodore W. Allen offers a historical materialist analysis of racial slavery; a system put in place in the decades following the second phase of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 when an army of European and African chattel bond laborers burnt Jamestown to the ground and temporarily drove Governor Berkeley into exile across the Chesapeake Bay. In a conscious response to labor solidarity the plantation bourgeoisie enacted a series of laws and practices in the late 17th and early 18th century which first put in place the system of white racial privileges which enabled the imposition of racial slavery and “white” male supremacy. Allen defines racial slavery as a particular form of racial oppression homologous with gender and class oppression. The system of racial privileges defined and established the “white” race as a bourgeois social control formation with consequences ruinous to the interests of the Afro-Americans but also disastrous for the white worker. Allen concludes Volume II with the following message to a new generation of activists: “Perhaps in the impending renewal of the struggle of ‘the common people’ and the ‘Titans,’ the Great Safety Valve of white-skin privileges may finally come to be seen and rejected by laboring-class European-Americans as the incubus that for three centuries has paralyzed their will in defense of their class interests vis-a-vis those of the ruling class.” The Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed a year-long study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the 1848 European Revolutions, the May 68 movement in France and the Hot Autumn of Italy and much more. Admission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please follow and like us: . See more details •	26	27 * PROTEST U.S.-YEMEN WAR FAMINE Agenda View * PROTEST U.S.-YEMEN WAR FAMINE November 27, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm No Famine While Congress Feasts Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019 3:00 to 4:00 PM in front of Sen. Schumer & Sen. Gillibrand NYC offices 780 3rd Ave. btw. E.48th & E. 49th St. nr. E, (M), #4, 5, 6, 7, S, (B), D, F, (M), N, R, (W), #1, C, E stops & 50th St. cross town bus; https://goo.gl/maps/1Guy9yhHUvMMkRvf7 https://facebook.com/events/512759409454839/ https://facebook.com/nationalactioncorps/posts/2549634641785539 https://www.actioncorps.org/nyc actioncorps.nyc@gmail.com m.me/ActionCorpsNYC actioncorps.nyc@gmail.com https://actioncorps.org/contact https://facebook.com/messages/t/ActionCorpsNYC https://www.facebook.com/messages/t/isaac.evansfrantz/ https://facebook.com/elizabeth.tillman.96 https://twitter.com/ActionCorpsNYC Half of Yemen's population is on the brink of famine after five years of conflict. The blockade of major ports stop humanitarian assistance and imports from entering the country and multiple checkpoints throughout the region have driven up prices of any food, fuel, and water that is able to enter. A child dies of preventable causes every 10 minutes in Yemen. Congress, however, has a chance to end U.S. participation in the war, pulling support from the Saudi-led coalition by halting weapon sales and tactical support to Saudi Arabia. The day before Thanksgiving, join us in sending this important message to Senator Schumer's office, advocating for amendments in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will pull U.S. support for these atrocities. We ask that he make a public statement, supporting amendments in the NDAA that will end U.S. participation in this war, which is starving and killing people every day. We say #NoFamineWhileCongressFeasts #YemenCantWait . See more details •	28 * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine Agenda View * Women In Black Union Square Vigil f/ Palestine November 28, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm please check for cancellations before traveling to attend. Women In Black Union Square Vigil expected to resume Mar. 7, 2019 and ``every Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM during the occupation of Palestine,`` along E. 14th St. nr NE corner of Broadway, across from Union Square Park L, N, Q, R, W, #4, 5, 6 to 14 St.-Union Sq.; F, M, PATH to 14 St. (at 6th Av.); #1, 2, 3 to 14 St. (at 7th); A, C, E to 14 St. (at 8th); 14th St. cross town bus lines. Cancels for extreme weather. Check with == > sherrygorelick@rcn.com before traveling to attend. Sign up for notifications. See more details •	29 Extinction Rebellion Black Friday Meditation Rebellion Agenda View Extinction Rebellion Black Friday Meditation Rebellion November 29, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm "We will gather at the New York Public Library on 42nd and 5th, beginning at 12 pm sharp with a brief centering and ceremony before a meditative walk to the space where we will sit." Extinction Rebellion NYC Black Friday Meditation Rebellion Friday, November 29, 2019 Noon to 3:00 pm Gather outside New York Public Library at main steps on 5th Ave., midway btw. W.40th St. & W.42nd St., nr. #7, (B), D, F, (M), N, Q, R, (W), 1, 2, 3, S, 4, 5, 6, A, C, E stops & 42nd St. bus (then walking to another location). map & transit https://osm.org/go/Zct9G_9CG?layers=N https://goo.gl/maps/NcYRiy3k459psGBQ6 RSVP [``important`` but maybe optional?]: https://forms.gle/YveLaB1K9LzXAee99 https://xrebellion.nyc/events/non-violent-direct-action-training-ab https://eventbrite.com/e/meditation-rebellion-tickets-80981165847 https://facebook.com/events/2294755573963263/ https://twitter.com/xr_nyc https://xrebellion.nyc/the-demands https://facebook.com/pg/xrnyc/events nyc@extinctionrebellion.us [Two versions of this action's publicity follow, w/ very slightly different assembly locations. -t.] Act Now for All Beings Social and ecological collapse driven by climate chaos is threatening us all. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying annually, hundreds of millions of lives are in jeopardy, countless species are going extinct. The enormity of suffering and injustice we face is staggering. Together, we will sit in silence and stillness, in love and connection, to tell the truth about this crisis; to protect ourselves and all beings, our future, and all we hold dear. In the spirit of nonviolent civil disobedience, with fierce compassion, we will stop business as usual to send a clear message: we must act now. Join us in meditation this Black Friday, Nov. 29. New York Public Library: 5th ave and E 41st street https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPa4c7-vIbGGWbEzhCSJ7fECA0pBPjPNAFx4ORLxlQwVoQIw/viewform (Please! Sign up using the link above. Important!) ~~ We are inviting everyone to sign this Call to Action Petition and to join us for this meditation: On Black Friday, November 29, 2019, people from all walks of life will join together in New York City in the name of the moral imperative of our time: responding to the climate and ecological crisis. Continuing in the long and vibrant lineage of nonviolent civil disobedience in this country and around the world, Extinction Rebellion NYC (XR NYC) is organizing a mass sitting meditation in loving, but fierce, disruption of business as usual. This meditation will be part of actions throughout the city led by local neighborhood groups. Though some will risk arrest, many will not: the collective energy we generate is what is important. RSVP for the Black Friday Meditation We will gather at the New York Public Library on 42nd and 5th, beginning at 12 pm sharp with a brief centering and ceremony before a meditative walk to the space where we will sit. We invite everyone, people of every origin and background, of every religious and spiritual tradition, and none, to represent their unique voices and communities. This is about our common humanity and all of the threads of justice weaving together to protect life. If you are not in the NYC area please sit with friends in solidarity in a public space near you. Please do not risk arrest unless you have appropriate support and training. Please act only in the spirit of love and nonviolence. . See more details •	30 * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN Agenda View * VIGIL FOR PEACE IN YEMEN November 30, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tompkins Square Park, NYC ``We have a vigil for peace in Yemen on Saturdays 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, at Tompkins Square Park [near] Avenue A and St. Marks Place`` [ This is a repeating calendar entry. Ask davisfelton3@yahoo.comin whether vigil ever cancels, like for weather, maybe. Need a quicker answer? In past, folks answering Mary House NYC phone at (212) 777-9617 seemed also to know about cancellations. So I'd try both. -t.] See more details Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 Agenda View Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 November 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm [PLEASE CHECK CORRECT DATES & TIMES, BUT I COPIED THE FOLLOWING -t.] Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18...then 7:00 PM on Wednesday, Sept. 18 ...then 7:00 PM on consecutive Saturdays, Sept. 21 & 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec. 7. (BUT CHECK. NO, SERIOUSLY, CHECK.) 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 course descriptions, correct class dates & times: (https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-engels-political-and-historical-works-part-1/all/) (https://marxedproject.org/events/category/classes-and-programs/multi-session-classes/) venue: (347)695-1095 https://peoplesforum.org/calendar https://peoplesforum.org/event/ https://facebook.com/pg/peoplesforumNYC/events/ m.me/peoplesforumNYC (347) 695-1095 https://twitter.com/PeoplesForumNYC info@peoplesforum.org revsgroup@gmail.com On January 8 and 9 of this year, 150 million workers went on a general strike in India, the biggest work stoppage in history. This strike marked another first when agricultural workers and small farmers calling for a solidarity shutdown of rural India joined the striking workers from many sectors including manufacturing, mining, energy, transportation, banking, public services, construction, and many more. These 150 million striking Indian workers corresponds roughly to the total working population of the United States. Here in the U.S. during 2018 a record number of workers went on strike or stopped working because of labor disputes—485,000 workers from major sectors were involved over that year. This was the largest number of workers on strike or work stoppages since 1986, when flight attendants, garbage collectors, and steelworkers walked off the job. Although the international rumblings of a wakening proletariat are of greater or smaller magnitude they indicate the possibility of the workers of all lands to unite on a scale like never before, and in numbers Marx and Engels could only dream of when they wrote these closing words to The Communist Manifesto in 1848. “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!” During their lives working together, Marx and Engels kept abreast of all working class movements and developments within all societies that they could get news from. Their work in doing so predates their partnership as anti-capitalist revolutionaries, but flourished especially upon meeting and thereafter. As Engels stated at the grave of Marx in 1883: “…Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success such as few could rival. His work on the first Rheinische Zeitung (1842), the Paris Vorwarts (1844), the Deutsche Brusseler Zeitung (1847), the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49), the New York Tribune (1852-61), and, in addition to these, a host of militant pamphlets, work in organizations in Paris, Brussels and London, and finally, crowning all, the formation of the great International Working Men’s Association — this was indeed an achievement of which its founder might well have been proud even if he had done nothing else. “And, consequently, Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he died beloved, revered and mourned by millions of revolutionary fellow workers….” This term we begin the careful reading of the investigative journalism, political works, and organizational correspondence within the revolutionary movements by both Marx and Engels. We will begin with early works. As we begin, we shall read Frederich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England which as Eric Hobsbawm stated “is the first book in Britain or any other country which dealt with the working class as a whole and not merely with particular sections and industries. Secondly, and more important, it was not merely a survey of working class conditions, but a general analysis of the evolution of industrial capitalism, of the social impact of industrialization and its political and social consequences — including the rise of the labor movement. In fact, it was the first large-scale attempt to apply the Marxist method to the concrete study of society, and probably the first work by either Marx or Engels which the founders of Marxism regarded as sufficiently valuable to merit permanent preservation. As a guide to our readings over several terms of study, we shall read from the Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution series written over many years by Hal Draper. As Draper states in his introduction to the work: “…the answer to pseudodemocracy is real democracy; the abuses of “scientism” can be countered only by a genuinely scientific attitude; and the obfuscations of various contemporary ‘Marxisms’ can be understood only with the help of Marx’s Marxism…” Between this May and through our spring and summer terms of this study the plan is the read The Condition of the English Working Class, The German Ideology, and selections of works by the young Marx and Engels leading up to the revolutions of 1848. We will begin the fall term continuing with the works of Draper and a careful reading of The Communist Manifesto, followed by Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, along with selections from Marx and Engels journalism and reports of various activities throughout the world at the time of this revolutionary wave, including their beginning assessments of anarchism, utopian socialists and more. All fees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. . See more details • •

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