Japan Dolphins Day - Washington, DC
Friday, Sept. 1 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM from Dupont Circle Station
1525 20th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20036
https://facebook.com/events/1754218498208541/
Public · Hosted by Kimberly Lynn and Kevin Starboard

EVENT DETAILS:
We will meet at Dupont Circle Station at 11am. From there we will march to the Japanese Embassy to protest. The march is approximately 0.7 miles.

Dupont Circle Station: 1525 20th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
Japanese Embassy: 2520 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008

As most of you know, the capture and slaughter of dolphins takes place in the infamous cove in Taiji, Japan, every year on or shortly after September 1st.

The Taiji dolphin hunters, along with dolphin trainers, will capture and kill about 2000 dolphins in the Cove from September through March. However, we ARE making a difference, as last year the final numbers were well beneath the quota.

We CAN do something to end this massacre – by letting the Japanese government know that these crimes against nature are unacceptable to the rest of the world. We must speak out against this atrocity loudly and proudly, while enlightening others who may not be aware of the dolphin killings in Taiji.

A POSITIVE EVENT for Japan Dolphins

via: https://dolphinproject.net/japan-dolphins-day-2017/

NYC RALLY vs. JAPANESE DOLPHIN SLAUGHTER

via Taffy Williams tlwilliams@optonline.net...

NYC location of the
Worldwide Condemnation of the Japanese Dolphin Slaughter/Drive Fisheries
Friday Sept. 1, 2017 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM opposite Japanese Consulate
299 Park Ave. btw. E. 48th St. & E. 49th St.; #6 to 51 St.; E to Lexington Av.-53 St. (west exit to Lexington); D, F to 47-50 St./Rock. Ctr.; S, 4, 5, 7 to 42 St.-Grand Central; N, Q, R to 49 St. (at 7 Av.); #1 to 50 St. (at Broadway); map: https://goo.gl/NtzZge
BE THERE!

A WORD FROM RIC O'BARRY:

Boots on the Ground: https://buff.ly/2ghwDLB

DolphinProject.com (not .org) are on the ground in Taiji now. We will be livestreaming and reporting for the entire six months.

It ain't easy, folks. Your support is greatly appreciated.

It imperative to keep Taiji in the news. When enough people rise up against the annual dolphin slaughter it will end. To that end, we are asking you to contact your MEMBERS and get them in front of the closest Japanese embassy or consulate office on September 1st.

Thank you,
- Ric

Richard O'Barry
Dolphin Project,
Founder/Director
171 Pier Ave, #234
Santa Monica CA.
90405, USA
DolphinProject.com

via Taffy Williams tlwilliams@optonline.net
NY4Whales/NY4Wildlife
Yonkers, NY 10707 USA
914-793-9186
www.ny4whales.org
www.ny4wildlife.org
A 501(c)(3) non-profit for whales and wildlife
Follow/Tweet @ny4whales
Cetacean Society International
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Licensed Wildlife Rehabilitator
FAA Certified Remote Pilot
ny4whales@optonline.net
914-793-9186

DSA's Got Talent Fundraiser
Friday, September 1, 2017, from 8:00 to 9:30pm at Starr Bar
http://socialists.nyc/events/2017/9/1/dsas-got-talent-fundraiser
www.socialists.nyc/events/?view=calendar&month=September-2017
https://facebook.com/events/327477284367741/
with Democratic Socialists of America
Join us for the first DSA's Got Talent fundraiser! We welcome performers and audience members from DSA and the greater community. All talents are welcome, and DSA members will get the first performing slots. Sign up at this link right away!

https://goo.gl/forms/fJ24RnlMI9Jns82z1

We recommend a donation of $5 or more at the door to support our NYC-DSA Immigration Justice Working Group.

(was: "Abolitionist Forum")
Join the Abolitionist Forum and get connected to organizations in the community working on abolition of police and prisons, for Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed people.

BEDSTUY: 9/2/17 || HARLEM: 9/3/17

https://facebook.com/events/258125354687111
https://facebook.com/pg/abolitionistforum/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/nycshutitdown/events/
http://nycshutitdown.net https://twitter.com/NYC_ShutItDown

Events will include:

A panel or organizers and the formerly incarcerated speaking on what it means to be an abolitionist today.

Educationals: Learn how to begin making abolition a reality in your communities with:

- Self Defense Training
- Alternatives to 911 and the police
-Know Your Rights and Copwatch Training
- A Free Legal Clinic: receive professional advice to help you fight your criminal or immigration case

MASS INCARCERATION = NEW SLAVERY

POLICE MURDER = NEW LYNCHINGS

GENTRIFICATION = NEW COLONIALISM

Abolish the Police! Abolish the Prisons! Liberate your Hood!

Convened by: NYC Shut it Down #BlackLivesMatter , Peoples Power Assemblies, Why Accountability, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Worker's World Party

Interference Archive Block Party
Saturday, Sept. 2, 2:00 to 6:00pm...ASK LOCATION BUT POSSIBLY NEAR:
131 8th St., #4, Brooklyn, btw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.
http://interferencearchive.org/interference-archive-block-party/
http://interferencearchive.org/category/events/ info@interferencearchive.org

The Official Animal Rights March (NYC)
Saturday, Sept. 2 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM outside Flatiron Bldg.
NEW LOCATION Broadway btw. 22nd & 23rd nr. Flatiron Bldg.;
R Train or weekend N Local, #6, F, PATH, #1, C, E to various 23rd St. stops; buses via 23rd St. or via Broadway;

https://t.co/XoO4ODfjRH = https://facebook.com/events/936538766485922/
https://facebook.com/rob.banks.56/events
https://twitter.com/honestnotes/status/882013055734906880
Join us on the streets of New York as we march through the city demanding an end to all animal oppression. The animal rights movement is growing at an unprecedented rate and now is the time to join together and unify, let’s make our voices heard and show that the future is vegan.

Last year Surge hosted The Official Animal Rights March in London and gathered together nearly 3,000 activists in what was one of last year’s most iconic days for the animal rights movement. We will be joining London this year by marching on the same day as them, showing our solidarity and unity as an unstoppable movement. Until all are free we will be on the streets fighting for animal liberation.

BE THERE ON SEPTEMBER 2 !

NEW YORK ANIMAL RIGHTS

Check out last years powerful march in London.

SHORT FILM (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-GRFu5IOh0

PHOTOSET (2016):
http://bit.ly/2jjfCzC

(was: "Gardens and Sustainability Tour")
https://facebook.com/events/126945777951168/ http://morusnyc.org/category/events/ https://facebook.com/pg/morusnyc/events/ (646) 340-8341 973.818.8495 info@morusnyc.org https://twitter.com/morusnyc www.morusnyc.org/category/tours/

Join the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space this Saturday at 3pm for our Gardens & Sustainability walking tour. The tour takes you through Manhattan's Lower East Side, an area that has the highest concentration of community gardens and squats of any neighborhood in the country. You'll learn about the history of these community spaces and the sustainable ideas that came from them. So come explore these cutting-edge, sustainable buildings and spaces on this one-of-a-kind, full-access walking tour.

The tour starts at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, located at
155 Avenue C, between E. 9th and E. 10th St., costs $20 and is led by local residents who have witnessed the neighborhood's activist history and thriving community spirit firsthand. The tour requires a minimum three people, and lasts for about two hours.

For more info, reviews and videos about our tours, check out :

http://morusnyc.org/category/tours/about-our-tours/

Film, "Winter Soldier", Saturday Sept. 2, 7:00 PM at Anthology Archives
Questions Bob Keilbach
Venue (212) 505-5181 http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/contact/directions
. . .
Subject: FREE SCREENING AT THE ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVE
From: Date: 8/21/2017 10:18 PM
FLASH ––
On Saturday, 9/2, at 7:00 pm – come to a FREE SCREENING AT THE ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVE, corner of 2nd Street and Second Avenue...

... in anticipation of the PBS Ken Burns/Lynn Novick epic, 18 hour long "explanation" of The Vietnam War, running nightly, 9/17 to 9/28, at 8:00 pm…

VFP – Veterans for Peace: Full Disclosure: Toward an Honest Commemoration of the War in Vietnam
&
VVAW –Vietnam Veterans Against the War

… invite you to see the film, WINTER SOLDIER. In February, 1971, one month after the revelation of the My Lai massacre, VVAW organized a conference in a Detroit hotel where 125 vets from the war in Vietnam came together to heal a nation and themselves. Risking everything – careers, friendships and family – they talked about the atrocities they had committed serving in Vietnam. They saw themselves as "winter soldiers", battling the wrongs of the war and the brutal training that had made them capable of unthinkable violence.

18 filmmakers organized the Winterfilm Collective and captured this extraordinary event on film. It's been called one of the most powerful anti-war films ever made and remains, yet to this day, a remarkable plea for peace.

Let's fill the 187 seats with veterans of all wars, old and new, and anyone else who wants to see a courageous film about moral injury and how it can be addressed.

"It will shock, move, appall or anger..." Variety
"A live hand grenade, brought home from a distant battlefield.”
David Halbfinger, New York Times

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Jill Godmilow, Professor Emerita, Department of Film, Television & Theatre, University of Notre Dame

http://www.nd.edu/~jgodmilo/ jgodmilo@nd.edu

212-226-2462, 135 Hudson Street, #3R, New York, NY 10013

Celebrate the strength of our diversity and join our next community interfaith breakfast on Sunday, September 3, 8:30-10am, at Flushing Meeting House (137-16 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354).

Please bring prayers, concerns, poetry, songs (or food) to share. We'll have bagels, coffee, tea, and refreshments. Limited parking available in the back. RSVP @ interfaithbreakfast.eventbrite.com.

All are welcome. Feel free to invite others.

See you soon!

John

https://www.facebook.com/events/1942346809356697/

(was: "Abolitionist Forum")
Join the Abolitionist Forum and get connected to organizations in the community working on abolition of police and prisons, for Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed people.

BEDSTUY: 9/2/17 || HARLEM: 9/3/17

https://facebook.com/events/258125354687111
https://facebook.com/pg/abolitionistforum/events/
https://facebook.com/pg/nycshutitdown/events/
http://nycshutitdown.net https://twitter.com/NYC_ShutItDown

Events will include:

A panel or organizers and the formerly incarcerated speaking on what it means to be an abolitionist today.

Educationals: Learn how to begin making abolition a reality in your communities with:

- Self Defense Training
- Alternatives to 911 and the police
-Know Your Rights and Copwatch Training
- A Free Legal Clinic: receive professional advice to help you fight your criminal or immigration case

MASS INCARCERATION = NEW SLAVERY

POLICE MURDER = NEW LYNCHINGS

GENTRIFICATION = NEW COLONIALISM

Abolish the Police! Abolish the Prisons! Liberate your Hood!

Convened by: NYC Shut it Down #BlackLivesMatter , Peoples Power Assemblies, Why Accountability, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Worker's World Party

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

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

Art Build for March Against Gentrification
(was: "Procession Art Build for March Against Gentrification")
Sunday, Sept. 3, 2:00 PM, Mayday Space,
176 St. Nicholas Av., Brooklyn, btw. Stanhope St. & Himrod St.;
L to Dekalb Av.; M to Myrtle-Wyckoff;
map & transit: https://goo.gl/yEfoyk
description: https://facebook.com/events/110259639669218/
posted by Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: Illumination Against Gentrification
micasanoessucasanyc@gmail.com https://twitter.com/MiCasaResiste
https://facebook.com/MiCasaResiste/
apparently hosted by People's Collective Arts//Colectivo de Arte Popular
https://facebook.com/MaydaySpace https://twitter.com/maydayspace https://maydayspace.org https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

English Below

El Colectivo de Arte Popular abre sus puertas para crear arte para la Marcha de Brooklyn contra la gentrificación y desplazamiento este 9 de septiembre.

Traigan sus ideas, diseños, buenas vibras y comunidad a esta para hacer arte! Tendremos bocadillos ligeros y refrescos - tambien sugerimo que traigan comidad para compartir .

Aqui se puede encontrar mas información sobre la marcha:
https://www.facebook.com/events/833546563459181/
〰〰〰
People's Collective Arts//Collectivo de arte popular is opening up the space for an anti gentrification march that's happening September 9 .

Bring your ideas, designs, good vibes, and community to this open art build. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided but feel free to bring food for the community.

More info on the March: https://www.facebook.com/events/833546563459181/

Write to prisoners with Black and Pink (at Bluestockings)
nyc@blackandpink.org http://blackandpink.org (617) 519 4387
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar (212) 777 6028
(347) 645 9339 http://qdep.org info@qdep.org,

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

Help us in alleviating the isolation of prison!

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

[This is an automatically repeating announcement about a periodic event. Before traveling to attend, consider asking producers or venue whether club really is meeting.
http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/ 212-777-6028. -t.]

The Feminist Book Club reads and discusses feminism. We make no claims to any particular feminist platform. We read theoretical texts, literature and primary works. All are welcome inclusive of gender, political persuasion, and familiarity.
For more information, email feministbookclubnyc@gmail.com.

BROOKLYN BIKE REPAIR CLASS
Sunday, Sept. 3 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM and
First & Second Sunday of every month
99 South 6th Street, off Bedford Ave., under the Williamsburg Bridge
Please check for changes: https://facebook.com/pg/timesupnyc/events/
https://times-up.org/event-locations/times-brooklyn-99-south-6th-st

Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike repair classes in Time’s Up’s Brooklyn bicycle co-op. Classes are free and open to the public. Donations are always appreicated.

Time's Up is a 30 year-old New York City-based not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that uses events and educational programs to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city. More about our classes, workshops and events here: http://www.times-up.org/

Free Admission

About Time's Up
Time's Up is a not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that
uses events and educational programs to promote positive,
thought-provoking, sustainable lifestyles.

PROTEST: It's Not Food, It's Violence
DATE: Sunday, September 3
TIME: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
MEETING LOCATION: Madison Square Park - Enter at 23rd Street & Broadway
[nr. R, weekend N Local, #6, F, M, PATH, #1, C, E & 23rd St. bus]
https://facebook.com/events/113434509332627/
https://facebook.com/pg/DxENYC/events/
http://directactioneverywhere.com/itsnotfooditsviolence/

ACTION PLAN
Activists will enter a place of violence and disrupt the normalization of eating the flesh, dairy, and eggs of exploited non-human animals. Further details will be disclosed at the pre-action meeting, beginning promptly at 4:00 PM.

ABOUT THE VENUE
This event will take place at a famous high-end market that specializes in "artisinal foods" of cruelty, where special events that glorify the butchering and purveying of non-human animals are frequently held.

ABOUT US
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is a grassroots network of animal rights activists. Through open rescue, demonstration, and disruption, we are creating a world where every animal is safe, happy and free.

Our demonstrations adhere to a model of non-violence in action, word, and tone.

Please research time/s and confirm date. So far I cannot make heads or tails of producers' site. -t.

Event graphic for NY Caribbean Carnival Week 2017 ending on U.S. Labor Day, Sept. 4...
https://wiadcacarnival.org/wp-content/uploads/save-the-date-940x430.jpg
wiadcainc@gmail.com 718-467-1797 https://twitter.com/wiadca
Parade Route: http://wiadcacarnival.org/carnival/visitors-for-carnival/

PLEASE LOOK UP DESCRIPTION & LOGISTICS

The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering
https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen/attending/cost-and-gifts https://www.facebook.com/events/706513382876383/
https://www.facebook.com/NortheastWomynInPermaculture/
nepcwomen@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen

We invite all womyn** in the US/Canadian Northeast who practice permaculture in their personal and/or professional lives to gather for exchange and renewal at:
The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering.
Monday, September 4 to Thursday, September 7, 2017

This includes womyn who have not completed a course for a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) but who embrace the ethics and principles of permaculture, share the vision of this gathering, and have strong interest in furthering its mission.

We invite all womyn*...
** Though the roots of this gathering name 'womyn' in the title, both the group and the gathering are open to all gender-queer and trans-folk, as well as those who otherwise self-identify as belonging there.*

Registration closes on August 21, 2017.
Please have all...

Take a stand with Puerto Rico at the Annual Caribbean Day Parade in Brooklyn, NY!

#EndColonialismNow!
#SolidarityWithPuertoRico!
#UniteTheTribes!!!

https://facebook.com/events/163808507501331/
https://facebook.com/LoaizaYari/about

People's Monday for #ReynaldoCuevas
Sept. 4, 7:00 to 9:00 PM at or starting from
1299 Franklin Ave, Bronx, at E. 169th St.
[#2 or 5 Train to Freeman Av.; B, D to 167 St.; #6 to Whitlock Av.;
map & transit: https://goo.gl/5ES1su - t.]
description: https://facebook.com/events/229214924274020/

September 7, 2012 at 2:00 am, the grocery store where Reynaldo and his uncle worked was robbed by three masked and armed men. Reynaldo and his uncle were held hostage, but were able to escape when police pulled up outside. Reynaldo's uncle ran outside. Reynaldo followed. In the confusion, Reynaldo tripped and collided with officer Bengali. Officer Bengali fired one shot, hitting Reynaldo in the torso, killing him. After Reynaldo was shot, his body was dragged 25 feet and he was left to bleed out for approximately 20 minutes.

Injustice to one, is injustice to all! We will not be silenced anymore. Join us and together we will shut it down for #ReynaldoCuevas.

PLEASE LOOK UP DESCRIPTION & LOGISTICS

The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering
https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen/attending/cost-and-gifts https://www.facebook.com/events/706513382876383/
https://www.facebook.com/NortheastWomynInPermaculture/
nepcwomen@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen

We invite all womyn** in the US/Canadian Northeast who practice permaculture in their personal and/or professional lives to gather for exchange and renewal at:
The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering.
Monday, September 4 to Thursday, September 7, 2017

This includes womyn who have not completed a course for a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) but who embrace the ethics and principles of permaculture, share the vision of this gathering, and have strong interest in furthering its mission.

We invite all womyn*...
** Though the roots of this gathering name 'womyn' in the title, both the group and the gathering are open to all gender-queer and trans-folk, as well as those who otherwise self-identify as belonging there.*

Registration closes on August 21, 2017.
Please have all...

https://facebook.com/events/1956622981279758/

[ESPAÑOL ABAJO]
On September 5 , Cosecha is calling on DACA recipients, the immigrant community, and allies to join us as we take direct action to fight for all 11 million in New York.

Pledge to take action: http://bit.ly/dacaaction

This is not a fight just for DREAMers -- this is a fight to win permanent protection, dignity, and respect for all 11 million undocumented immigrants. It’s a fight to get recognition for our humanity and our economic power that immigrants have and that this country depends on. Just like our parents, our biggest power comes from being workers. We are not just “DREAMers,” we are workers and families who contribute billions of dollars into the economy. We are part of a workforce that is 11 million strong, and without us, this country cannot function.

Join us as DACAmented folks take the street to say that we are the 11 million. #Somos11millones.

Sign up here: bit.ly/dacaaction

---ESPAÑOL---
El 5 de septiembre, Cosecha está llamando a los beneficiarios de DACA, a la comunidad de inmigrantes y aliados a unirse a nosotros mientras tomamos acciones directas para luchar con los 11 millones.

Promesa de tomar acción: bit.ly/dacaaction

Esto no es una lucha sólo para DREAMers/Sonadores - esta es una lucha para ganar protección permanente, dignidad y respeto por los 11 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados. Es una lucha para obtener el reconocimiento de nuestra humanidad y el poder economico que tenemos los inmigrantes, que este pais depende de. Al igual que nuestros padres, nuestro mayor poder proviene de ser trabajadores. No somos sólo "SOÑADORES", somos trabajadores y familias que aportan miles de millones de dólares a la economía. Somos parte de una fuerza laboral de 11 millones de personas, y sin nosotros, este país no puede funcionar.

Únete a nosotros mientras beneficiarios de DACA toman las calles para decir que somos los 11 millones. # Somos11millones.

Regístrese aquí: bit.ly/dacaaction

We will be marching in support of better health care from the New York Public Library to Sen. Schumer and Gillibrand's offices at 48th St.

Our Senators are going back to D.C. on the 6th, so we're having a "Back to Work" send off to urge them to make healthcare available and affordable for everyone. We will have giant lunchboxes filled with people's ideas on how to improve healthcare in the U.S. Leave your ideas on this page and we will include them in the lunchboxes!

https://facebook.com/events/166476343899066/
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/
info@riseandresist.org http://riseandresist.org

Location: Leon & Toby Cooperman Library
Hunter East Building, 3rd Floor
Time: Sep 5, Tuesday 3:00 to 4:00 pm
Location: Leon & Toby Cooperman Library
(Swipe in with CUNY ID card)

https://facebook.com/events/112314189486825/
https://facebook.com/pg/huntermarxists/events
http://www.SocialistRevolution.org

On August 12, Neo-Nazis converged on Charlottesville with their hateful rhetoric and violence. Since then, they have attempted further rallies. However, across the country, tens of thousands responded by taking to the streets with anti-Fascist demonstrations, dwarfing the turnout of the far-right.

As more and more students and workers are looking to revolutionary struggle against the growth of far-right poison under decaying capitalism, we can study the lessons of history to clarify our tasks and strategy.

What is the root cause of Fascism, and how can we build a mass movement to stop it? Join us in discussion and learn how to get involved!

Note: We'll be meeting at the 3rd floor entrance of the Library. Text (347)677-4162 if you need directions.

Suggested reading:
https://socialistrevolution.org/after-charlottesville-how-the-working-class-can-defeat-the-right

Worksession for #BKMarch2017 Our next (and final) planning meeting for the Brooklyn-wide March Against Gentrification, Racism and Police Violence is scheduled for Tuesday Sept 5, 7:00 to 9:00pm at Solidarity Center (147 W 24th St, 2nd Fl, elevator available)

There will also be a work session to make placards for the march starting at 3pm that same day--so come by anytime after 3 to help build placards for the event. There will be food.

Tuesday Sept 5

3:00 to 7:00pm placard making/work session
7:00 to 9:00pm Final planning meeting for the march!

https://facebook.com/events/2029835503906464/

https://facebook.com/events/253746318455130/
Dist. 4 map: https://meetup.com/LWVNYC/events/242360642/ http://lwvnyc.org/index.html
(212) 725-3541 @LWVNYC http://twitter.com/LWVNYC

(Doors open at 6:30.)

The League of Women Voters of the City of New York will partner with Hunter College, under the auspices of the New York City Campaign Finance Board, to host a debate for an open council seat in New York City Council District 4
(see http://lwvnyc.org/candidate_forum.html for map). The nine candidates, moderated by WABC-TV news anchor Diana Williams, are running to replace three-term Democratic Council Member Daniel Garodnick, who is term-limited.

The candidates will be invited to address issues currently affecting the district, including school overcrowding and Midtown East rezoning, which will affect 78 blocks in the district. The candidates include Democrats Jeffrey Mailman, Keith Powers, Bessie Schachter, Martha Speranza, Rachel Honig, Vanessa Aronson, Maria Castro, Barry Shapiro and Alec Hartman.

“The League of Women Voters of the City of New York encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government. The League is pleased to host a forum where voters can get to know the nine candidates and learn their positions on key issues affecting City Council District Four,” said Cathy Gray, League President.

Jennifer J. Raab, President of Hunter College, says “We are pleased to welcome the League of Women Voters, our students, neighbors and the candidates for the New York City Council 4th District primary race to our campus. Hunter College has a long history of involvement within its communities. We strongly believe in the open exchange of ideas, whether it be in the classroom, in our performance spaces, or during a political debate.”

The forum is open to the public.

Be part of the forum! Whether you can attend or not, submit your questions to us
at http://www.lwvnyc.org/candidate_forum.html. If you are not in City Council District 4, we will send your questions over to the other organizations holding similar forums in your district.

The next Rise & Resist meeting will be on Tuesday, September 5th from 7PM to 9PM at the LGBT Center (208 W 13 St New York, NY 10011)

We are a direct action group committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties.

An agenda will be sent out via email ahead of time. If you are not yet on our email list, you can sign up using this form: http://eepurl.com/cCzq1X

The LGBT Center is wheelchair accesible. Their website is here: https://gaycenter.org/

Transportation: The nearest subway stops are the 14th Street stop on the 1/2/3/F/M/L, or the 14th Street stop on the A/C/E (this one is accessible).

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: riseandresist.org

If...

PLEASE LOOK UP DESCRIPTION & LOGISTICS

The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering
https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen/attending/cost-and-gifts https://www.facebook.com/events/706513382876383/
https://www.facebook.com/NortheastWomynInPermaculture/
nepcwomen@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen

We invite all womyn** in the US/Canadian Northeast who practice permaculture in their personal and/or professional lives to gather for exchange and renewal at:
The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering.
Monday, September 4 to Thursday, September 7, 2017

This includes womyn who have not completed a course for a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) but who embrace the ethics and principles of permaculture, share the vision of this gathering, and have strong interest in furthering its mission.

We invite all womyn*...
** Though the roots of this gathering name 'womyn' in the title, both the group and the gathering are open to all gender-queer and trans-folk, as well as those who otherwise self-identify as belonging there.*

Registration closes on August 21, 2017.
Please have all...

Stop Sabotaging Our Health Care!
Sign up to join this peaceful national action (we want folks from EVERY state):
http://bit.ly/ACANotTaxCuts
https://facebook.com/events/135980847011602/ https://facebook.com/lingkohsu https://facebook.com/pdavisx/events

Sign up to join this peaceful national action (we want folks from EVERY state):
http://bit.ly/ACANotTaxCuts

Donate to support this national action via either link:
Housing Works: http://bit.ly/HousingWorksKilltheBill
CPD: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/healthcarejuly2017

Join us in D.C. Wednesday 9/6 to "welcome" back our members of Congress, LOUDLY.

We are calling on them to:
1. stop the sabotage of the ACA
2. fund the fixes we need (not give tax cuts to the rich)
3. establish universal, high-quality, affordable health care (like every other industrialized nation already has)!
#ImprovedMedicare4All #SinglePayerNow #AllOfUs #EveryoneInNoOneOut

Make our voices heard nationwide that we will not accept any legislation that would, for example, cut Medicaid, allow insurance companies to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions, or increase the total number of people without coverage.

A. Large action on Capitol Hill.
B. March to the Senate office buildings.
C. Peaceful acts of civil disobedience (you do not need to risk arrest).

We’ll be hitting some critical Senate targets who are *not* supporting any of the bipartisan work for solutions—we’re definitely looking for lots of folks from states where your MOCs are not helping!

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RISK ARREST! There are lots of roles for people to join who aren’t participating in civil disobedience.

Housing Works and CPD will fundraise to cover transportation, legal expenses and accommodations.

Whether you can join or not, can you help fundraise to get more people to DC, by committing to raise $300 or more for this massive action? If you can help, please send an email to killthebillj19@gmail.com with a subject line “fundraising” — we need you!

*PRE-ACTION activities 8pm September 5th. Please join this if you are able!

THANK YOU.

Sponsored by Housing Works, the Center for Popular Democracy, and a nation-wide network of patients, providers, and other activists who were a presence at town hall meetings this year that stopped the repeal so far.

DC Welcome Rally: #Cville2DC
Wednesday Sept. 6 from 3 PM - 6 PM
Gateway Park, 1300 Lee Hwy, Arlington, VA 22209
https://facebook.com/events/366493240447960/
or look up title & hashtag Public · Hosted by Resist Here and 8 others

Join us as we rally to welcome the #Cville2DC Marchers into DC.

We will be meeting at Gateway Park at 3pm to welcome our marchers into DC and cross the Francis Scott Key Bridge together.

We will then march to the MLK memorial in the district.

Want to get more involved? Register for the sustained nonviolent DC takeover here
—> http://bit.ly/action-cville2dc

. Support DACA and #DefundHate: end detention and deportation
Wednesday, Sept. 6, 4:00 PM outside Peter Rodino Fed. Bldg.
970 Broad St., Newark, NJ, near Court St.
map & transit: https://goo.gl/RC6nkt
RSVP now » [one assumes it's optional, but please consider asking
== > info@peoplepower.org .]
https://go.peoplepower.org/event/action/9170/signup/

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Join Us for a youth-led non-partisan debate among candidates to represent the NYC Council's 38 District. Learn how the candidates propose to address the community's most important concerns.

https://www.facebook.com/events/107018713309888/

Workers at Tom Cat bakery have voted to launch the next phase of their campaign, starting with a protest at the premises of Tom Cat customers this coming Thursday 9th September during the lunch rush.

https://www.facebook.com/events/127572651212771

Join Brandworkers, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and supporters this coming Wednesday to help the workers in their fight for justice by making signs, placards and banners for the action, and find out more about the campaign and the issues behind it.

BRING:
- yourself
- inspiration
- slogan ideas

(all materials provided; Spanish-speakers will be available to assist with translating slogans)

LOCATION:

We'll be meeting at the Brandworkers office in Long Island City in Queens:
43-32 22nd St Suite 202
https://goo.gl/maps/AAuajErCNvT2

The office...

ContinuED: Art and Activism
"interdisciplinary response to our uncertain times"
w/ Steve Brodner, Nancy Giles and Ed Woodham
https://facebook.com/events/323864558056804/
(877) 242-7200 https://facebook.com/pg/SVACE/events/

In response to the unfolding stories of our present, artistic expression is both an archive of our times and a projection of possible futures. Please join the SVA Continuing Education community for an evening of interdisciplinary response to our uncertain times. Presenters will include Steve Brodner, Nancy Giles and Ed Woodham.

• Steve Brodner is an acclaimed satirical illustrator and caricaturist who has worked for publications in the US since the 1970s. He is a regular contributor to GQ, The Nation, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times and has had art journalism appear in most major magazines and newspapers in the United States, including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic.

• Nancy Giles is an actress, comedian and news commentator known for her ongoing role on the Emmy Award-winning CBS News Sunday Morning. She has appeared in numerous television theatre productions and is a frequent guest on The Today Show, The Joy Behar Show, and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

• Ed Woodham is active in community art, education, and civic interventions across media and culture for more than twenty-five years. He is a visual and performance artist, puppeteer, curator, and founder and director of Art in Odd Places, a public art project based in New York City focused on public interventions.

*LOCATION: SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street

Vanessa Grigoriadis: Blurred Lines
Wednesday Sept. 6 from 6:30 to 7:30PM at Strand Books
Tix: https://goo.gl/yB8KiL
http://strandbooks.com/event/vanessa-grigoriadis-blurred-lines
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https://twitter.com/vanessagrigor
In the new sexual revolution that is erupting across modern America, college students are often the ones basked in the limelight.. Young women are combating entrenched sexism while celebrating their own sexual experience more freely than ever before. Young men continue to become "woke" and treat women with the respect they deserve, while other men continue to perpetuate the mire of misogyny. In these concentrated areas of rapid change, confusion and miscommunication are both rampant concerning the issue of sex on campus.

Vanessa Grigoriadis is working to clear up the confusion by going to schools large and small, immersing herself in their social world, and speaking candidly with dozens of students – among them, both accusers and accused-- as well as faculty, parents, and researchers. Her groundbreaking investigation reveals a number of modern truths about college life. She reveals the times and settings most dangerous for women (beware the “red zone”); she demystifies the slew of conflicting statistics concerning campus rape; she makes a strong case that not all “sexual assault” should legally be considered assault; and she offers compelling, if controversial, advice on how schools, students, and parents can make college a safer, richer experience for everyone. The culmination of her engaging, fly-on-the-wall reportage is a revolutionary chronicle of how the rules of sex and power are being re-written, starting on college campuses.

Vanessa Grigoradis is a contributing editor at the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, specializing in pop culture, youth movements, and crime reporting. She is a National Magazine Award winner and has been featured on MSNBC, CNN, Dateline, and Investigation/Discovery shows.

This event is a part of the Strand Takes a Stand series, which focuses on programming that encourages awareness, activism, and education on current events and issues.

Behind the smiling faces of cashiers, wait staff, and workers of all sorts, a war is going on, usually without the knowledge of official political and labor organizations. Guerrillas of Desire maps these undercurrents, documenting the history of everyday resistance under slavery, in peasant life, and throughout modern capitalism, while showing that it remains an important factor in revolution and something radicals of all stripes must understand. Join the author for a reading and discussion.

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Our lives matter more than their profits!

Join a town hall meeting featuring healthcare workers and activists from across the left. Discussion period to follow, then reception.

http://nycsocialist.org/event/the-fight-for-healthcare-for-all/
https://facebook.com/events/1688754201136613/ nycbrooklyniso@gmail.com http://nycsocialist.org https://facebook.com/pg/ISOBrooklyn/events/

Can't make the event? Watch from home via livestream at 7:30pm from https://www.facebook.com/ISOBrooklyn

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We can breathe a short sigh of relief. The Republican disaster known as TrumpCare has been declared dead-on-arrival. It’s a rare victory that will keep as many as 30 million people from being dropped by insurance companies.

But we can’t be complacent. While the draconian Republican plans would have been worse, the system we have now is terrible. Medical costs and insurance premiums have skyrocketed in recent years and an estimated 29 million people remain without coverage. All this while insurance and health care companies have posted record profits.

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Our speakers*:

Oliver Fein, M.D. is a Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), immediate past vice president of the American Public Health Association, and the current chair of the NY Chapter of PNHP.

Sean Petty is a Registered Nurse and serves on the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) Board of Directors. He is also a member of the International Socialist Organization.

Megan Lessard is a Data Analyst at Bronx Health Access and is on the NYC for Abortion Rights coordinating committee.

Dustin Guastella is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and has written about health care activism at Jacobin Magazine. Guestella is also a graduate student in sociology at Rutgers University.

Moderated by Laura Bartkoviak, health care analyst.

*organization listed for identification purposes only.

Adam Gopnik + Patricia Marx
Wednesday Sept. 6 from 7:00 to 8:00PM in Strand Books at Broadway & E. 12th St.
$15 incl. gift card at https://goo.gl/Z6yoGG = strandbooks.com/biography-2/0907-event-at-the-strangers-gate/_/searchString/adam gopnik strangers www.strandbooks.com/event/adam-gopnik-patricia-marx
https://facebook.com/events/1921187831228546/ https://twitter.com/adamgopnik

From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon, a heartfelt memoir that encapsulates the now faded soul of 1980's New York City. When Adam Gopnik and his fiancee Martha emigrated to New York from the comfort of their home in Montreal, the city then, much like today, was a destination for the young, the artsy, and the ambitious. However, under the surface, it was becoming a city that catered to it's wealthiest citizens, where pleasures and comforts would go only those greedy enough to snatch them by use of their stature. At the Stranger's Gate portrays this era of New York through the story of this couple's journey--from the moment they set foot on the island as aspiring artists, to the establishment of their family. Throughout the book, Gopnik takes us to locals like the Upper East Side, and Soho, to his rare affordable apartment, all the while painting a beautiful portrait of the enduring hopefulness of New York and it's citizens.

Come join us in the Rare Book Room as Adam Gopnik talks to Patricia Marx about his new memoir At the Stranger's Gate.

Event Admission Signed Copy, No Admission

Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, and in March of 2013, Gopnik was awarded the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.

Patricia Marx is an American humorist and author. She is currently a staff writer for The New Yorker, and has taught screenwriting and humor writing at Princeton University and 92nd Street Y. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University in 1975, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue and The Atlantic Monthly.

Admission & Signed Copy grants you admission for one, plus one signed copy of the book.

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Signed Copy, no admission does not grant admission to the event, but reserves a signed copy of the book for you, pending availability of signed copies after the event has concluded.

The event is in the Strand’s Rare Book Room, located on the 3rd floor of our store, at 828 Broadway and 12th Street, unless otherwise specified. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Admission and the signed copy / gift card will only be available for pick-up at the event, so please select “in store pick-up” as your shipping method. Payment is required at the time the order is placed. You may also purchase admission in the store at the registers, or at the time of the event in the Rare Book Room. Please note that if you order a book but do not attend the event, your book will be held at the Strand’s basement holds desk for one week after the event. Orders for just a signed copy and no admission will be processed 1-2 days after the event, pending availability of signed copies.

Signed Copy, no admission does not grant admission to the event, but reserves a signed copy of the book for you, pending availability of signed copies after the event has concluded. We cannot guarantee that signed copies will be available after completing all orders for event books. In the event that signed copies are not available after the event has concluded, you will not be charged. In the event that signed copies are available, orders will be processed 1-2 days after the event.

Deborah Blum on Margaret Mead
Wednesday Sept. 6, 7:00 PM at Book Culture on Columbus Av. & W.82nd
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www.bookculture.com/event/columbus-deborah-blum-margaret-mead
https://twitter.com/deborahblum https://facebook.com/pg/DeborahBeatrizBlum/events/
venue (212) 595-1962

Join us Wednesday, September 6 at 7:00pm for a reading and discussion of Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead with the author, Deborah Blum, and professor Kenneth Friedman.

Coming of Age focuses on five years in Mead's young life when she began to question the traditional attitudes toward sex, courtship and marriage that dominated the early 20th century.

The story begins in 1921, when Mead is a young woman of twenty and a student at Barnard College in New York City. Conventional enough to accept the role society has handed to her, and defiant enough to rise up against it, she struggles to find her own path. Life begins to change as she experiences new friendships and many firsts, including marriage and an affair.

In 1925, following her interest in anthropology, Mead takes a step that shocks both family and colleagues. She decides to go alone to Samoa to study how girls in this very different culture mature into women. There on a tiny island in the South Pacific, with an ocean between her and the people she loves, she begins to understand how the invisible chains of society can imprison one's body and mind.

Mead's voyage of self-discovery is both painful, exciting and enlightening. She returns from her fieldwork ready to do something no woman before her has dared to do: write with frankness and clarity about the sexual awakening of young girls. And America, it turns out, is ready to hear what she has to say.

Drawing on letters, diaries and memoirs, Blum reconstructs the colorful and dramatic life of one of the most provocative thinkers of the 20th century.

Deborah Beatriz Blum’s interest in other cultures and far-away lands began when she traveled the world as a writer on the television series In Search Of…. Her first book, Bad Karma: A True Story of Obsession and Murder, took her on an extended journey through India. Since then she has produced the feature film Clean and Sober and written and directed documentaries for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. Her latest book, Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead was released July 11 from Thomas Dunne Books.

Professor Kenneth Friedman, born in New York, is a graduate of the NYU School of Film. As a student he wrote and directed Showdown, winner of the National Student Film Festival. Professor Friedman has written numerous movies including White Line Fever (Jan Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz), Heart Like a Wheel (Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges), Johnny Handsome (Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Forrest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman) and Cadillac Man (Robin Williams, Tim Robbins). Professor Friedman often works as a rewriter, including the films The Fugitive, Unlawful Entry, Bad Girls and The Getaway. In television, he wrote and was Co-executive Producer of the six hour limited series, The Grid (Julianna Margulies, Dylan McDermott). Professor Friedman also directed and wrote the feature Made in USA (Chris Penn, Lori Singer, Adrian Pasdar), which premiered at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes and was featured at many film festivals including Sundance and Munich.

Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead (Hardcover)
By Deborah Beatriz Blum
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250055729 Thomas Dunne Books

Residents of Upper West Side & Lincoln Center: Join us to learn where our City Council candidates stand on the issues that matter most to our communities.

To RSVP: https://goo.gl/STXGqW = http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/2115/c/10406/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=96138

For more information, contact Maya Bhardwaj at maya@finyaction.org
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The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering
https://sites.google.com/site/nepcwomen/attending/cost-and-gifts https://www.facebook.com/events/706513382876383/
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We invite all womyn** in the US/Canadian Northeast who practice permaculture in their personal and/or professional lives to gather for exchange and renewal at:
The 5th annual Northeast Womyn in Permaculture Gathering.
Monday, September 4 to Thursday, September 7, 2017

This includes womyn who have not completed a course for a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) but who embrace the ethics and principles of permaculture, share the vision of this gathering, and have strong interest in furthering its mission.

We invite all womyn*...
** Though the roots of this gathering name 'womyn' in the title, both the group and the gathering are open to all gender-queer and trans-folk, as well as those who otherwise self-identify as belonging there.*

Registration closes on August 21, 2017.
Please have all...

Opportunity or Threat? A Forum on the New York State Constitutional Convention
Thursday Sept. 14, 6:00 to 8:00 PM All Souls Unitarian,
1157 Lexington btw. E. 79th & E. 80th;
#6 to 77 St. (at Lex.); #4, 5 to 86 St. (at Lex.); Q to 72 St. or 86 St. (at 2nd Av.);
M79 cross town via W.81st & E.79th;
RSVP (ask whether req'd): http://tinyurl.com/ConConForum or (212) 4909535
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Tom Cat Worker Rally to Launch Next Phase of Campaign
Thursday, Sept. 7, from 12:30 PM
Meet up at W 51st St. & 7th Ave. in Manhattan
https://goo.gl/przHfA
https://twitter.com/foodchainworker/status/902561839439073281
https://facebook.com/events/127572651212771/ (646) 568-5870
https://facebook.com/pg/brandworkers2007/events/ info@brandworkers.org https://brandworkers.org https://twitter.com/brandworkers
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ImmigrantsOccupyNYC/events/
https://twitter.com/ImmigrantsOWS

Tom Cat workers resisting the company's collaboration with a Trump administration ICE audit are ready to launch the next phase of their campaign and they need you to stand with them. Workers are demanding that Tom Cat
(a.) pay dignified severance so they can rebuild their lives and
(b.) adopt an immigrant worker protection policy for those who remain, which will serve as a model to other employers in the Trump-era.

The rally is hosted by Brandworkers, Immigrant Worker Justice, and the Food Chain Workers Alliance.

Langston Hughes Performance & Blues Poetry Workshop
1:00 pm September 17, 2017 Brooklyn Law School, Room 601 [ask correct ending time -t.]
www.brooklynbookfestival.org/events/langston-hughes-performance-blues-poetry-workshop/

David Mills is an actor and poet and author of The Dream Detective. He has performed programs he has written based on the letters and writings of Dr. Martin Luther King and Langston Hughes and he lived in the Langston Hughes House as a writer-in-residence. He will perform Hughes poetry and conduct a workshop on writing blues poetry using a Hughes blues poem as a model for participants.

David Mills
David Mills is the author of The Dream Detective and The Sudden Country, a book-prize finalist. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts Link, Henry James Fellowship, the Hughes/Knight Poetry Award and a BRIO award. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MA from New York University. His poems have appeared in == > Ploughshares, Jubilat, Fence, Vermont Review, Callaloo, Transitions, Rattapallax, Hanging Loose, Aspeers, Prairie Review and Brooklyn Rail. He has also had poems displayed at the Venice Biennale. He lived in Langston Hughes’ landmark Harlem home for three years.

Huddled Masses: Who Do We Let In?
September 17, 2017, 1:00 pm [please ask correct ending time. -t.]
Brooklyn Law School Moot Courtroom,
https://goo.gl/Q9Jbmz
www.brooklynbookfestival.org/events/huddled-masses-let-presented-new-york-review-books/
Presented by the New York Review of Books.

A conversation on legal immigration moderated by Ian Buruma, Editor of The New York Review of Books, with Masha Gessen, Darryl Pinckney and Yasmine El Rashidi (The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution).

Ian Buruma is the new editor of The New York Review of Books. He has been a frequent contributor to the NYRB since 1985. From 2003 to 2017 he was professor of human rights, democracy and journalism at Bard College. Buruma has written seventeen books, including The Wages of Guilt, Murder in Amsterdam, Year Zero, and Theater of Cruelty.

Darryl Pinckney, a long time contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of two novels, High Cotton and Black Deutschland, and two works of non-fiction, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature and Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy. He has worked for Robert Wilson on his productions of The Forest, Orlando, Time Rocker, The Old Woman, Letter to a Man, and Garrincha: A Musical of the Streets.

Yasmine El Rashidi is an Egyptian writer and the authors of The Battle for Egypt: Dispatches from the Revolution and the novel Chronicle of a Last Summer.
 She is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and an editor of the Middle East arts and culture quarterly Bidoun. She lives in Cairo, where she is currently translating the works of Egyptian novelist Khairallah Ali.

Masha Gessen is the author of several books on Russia, including The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin and The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, forthcoming from Riverhead in October 2017.

JACKSON HEIGHTS MARCH w/ IMMIGRANT YOUTH

. Martin @MaketheRoadNY is taking Trump 2 court 4 ending #DACA. Our youth stand together. Court conference 9/14, 230pm [presumably in one of NYC`s district courthouses -t.] https://twitter.com/MaketheRoadNY/status/905180872231530499
"Text ROAD to 52886" (718) 418-7690, (718) 565-8500,

. Immigrant youth to Trump: We are #HereToStay!
Thursday Sept. 7 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM [from]
92-10 Roosevelt Ave, Jackson Heights, NY 11372, nr. #7 Train
map & transit: https://goo.gl/bVX7ja
descriptions: https://facebook.com/events/1071990236237146/
https://twitter.com/MaketheRoadNY
Donald Trump has chosen to stand with white supremacy and has made the despicable decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and put the lives of 800,000 immigrant youth and their families at risk.

We’re fighting back! We're taking this to court and continuing to take this fight to the streets.

This THURSDAY SEPT 7 @ 5:00PM we will march through Jackson Heights, led by immigrant youth with a message for Trump: We are here to stay!

Meet at our Queens offices at 5pm. March through Jackson Heights starts soon after.
92-10 Roosevelt Avenue
Jackson Heights, New York 11372

https://www.facebook.com/events/270580260097724/

Where is Suu Kyi? What is this silence about?
Stop Rohingya genocide, and stop pushing them out of their land: state of Rakhine.

For many decades Myanmar, a country in South East Asia also known as Burma, has been pushing out their indigenous Rohingya people out into neighboring country Bangladesh. They are not recognised as citizens of Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have taken shelter at camps in bordering areas of Bangladesh.

In the past ten days Myanmar military has been performing genocide, killing Rohingya people including women and children.

Myanmar helicopters have violated Bangladesh airspace on three different occasions in the past one week. Military tension is escalating on both sides!

We want this to stop immediately!

At 5:30pm on Thursday September 7, 2017, we will voice this in front of the Myanmar Embassy at Manhattan. Come join us! Bring your banner and posters.

Permanent Mission of Myanmar
10 E 77th St. [ btw. 5th & Madison Aves.; #6 Train to 77 St. (at Lex); Q to 72 St. (at 2nd Av.); M79 bus via W.81st St. & E. 79th St.]

Press: please contact shahana.hanif@gmail.com

Fifty years after the 1960s Newark and Detroit rebellions, their causes, meanings and legacies remain controversial. Were hundreds of black rebellions the “Harvest of Racism?” Why did the police and National Guard shoot thousands of bullets into black residential buildings, claiming they were hunting snipers and terrorists? Do the police and National Guard shoot into white residential buildings during race riots-- or is that an exclusive policy for African-Americans and Puerto Ricans? Join our estemeed panel--Say Burgin, Mark Krasovic, and Junius Williams--for this riveting program in our Conversations in Black Freedom studies series.

https://www.facebook.com/events/463012094054509/

Discuss Columbus Circle Statue
(was: ``Community Forum Discussion about Columbus Circle's Statue``)
Thursday Sept. 7, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in American Indian Community House,
39 Eldridge St. btw. Canal St. & Hester St.; B, D Train to Grand St.; F to East Broadway; J, N, Q to Canal St. (east stairs via J platform to Centre St.); J, M to Essex St.;
map & transit: https://goo.gl/Vnkdv4

Join us! At our AICH location in Chinatown for a community forum.

event graphic & descriptions: https://goo.gl/wDGRuf
https://facebook.com/events/1794425043919397/

NYC Council District 8 Candidate Forum on Affordable Housing and Civil Rights
Thursday Sept. 7 at Childrens Aid Society
Graphic: https://goo.gl/MvjNdT Free. Register: https://goo.gl/3C1k9K
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East Harlem Preservation has invited ballot-certified candidates seeking to represent East Harlem and South Bronx residents in the 8th NYC Councilmanic District to debate housing issues such as permanent affordability, rezoning, homelessness, NYCHA, community land trusts, vacancy warehousing, tenant rights, and gentrification.

We will also question candidates on civil rights issues such as shelter warrant sweeps, fair access to public space, illegal “gang” raids and property seizures, selective enforcement of “vagrancy” &“quality-of-life” ordinances, and harrassment of immigrants and street vendors.

Confirmed Candidates: Diana Ayala, Daby B. Carreras. Tamika Mapp, and Robert J. Rodriguez

Email policy questions to: EHP10029@gmail.com. The event is FREE, but RSVPs may be required to ensure seating. Livestream video will be available.

East Harlem Preservation has invited ballot-certified candidates seeking to represent East Harlem and South Bronx residents in the 8th NYC Councilmanic District to debate housing issues such as permanent affordability, rezoning, homelessness, NYCHA, community land trusts, vacancy warehousing, tenant rights, and gentrification.

We will also question candidates on civil rights issues such as shelter warrant sweeps, fair access to public space, illegal “gang” raids and property seizures, selective enforcement of “vagrancy” &“quality-of-life” ordinances, and harrassment of immigrants and street vendors.

Confirmed Candidates: Diana Ayala, Tamika Mapp, and Robert J. Rodriguez.

Email policy questions to: EHP10029@gmail.com. The event is FREE, but RSVPs may be required to ensure seating. Livestream video will be available.

Have questions about NYC Council District 8 Candidate Forum on Affordable Housing and Civil Rights? Contact East Harlem Preservation, Inc. (EHP)

Children's Aid Society
130 East 101st Street
NW corner of Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10029

Thursday, September 7, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)

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. L Train Shutdown Candidate Forum - Manhattan
The New School - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Wednesday, Sept. 6, 6:00 pm in 66 W. 12th St. btw. 5th & 6th Aves. [ask ending time]
RSVP REQUIRED https:/t.co/SmRzHOquco
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graphic & descriptions https://twitter.com/CenterNYC/status/902949539602206721
https://transalt.org/calendar/10533
In 2019 the L Train will shut down for 15 months in Manhattan for repairs - affecting subways, buses and traffic congestion. 300,000 daily riders will need to find affordable and practical commuting and travel alternatives. Learn how your candidates for City Council Districts 1, 2, 3 & 4 plan to navigate the coming crisis. RSVP required. Tickets are going fast!

. North Brooklyn L Train Council Candidate and Neighborhood Partner Forum
Thursday, Sept. 7, 6:30 pm at or in Brooklyn Bazaar [ask correct ending time -t.]
150 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Av.; G Train to Nassau St.; L to Bedford Av.
map & transit https://goo.gl/twqaTJ
description & any changes: https://transalt.org/calendar/10534
https://facebook.com/events/289911214826372/
In 2019 the L Train will shut down for 15 months – affecting subways, buses and traffic. Learn how your local leaders in City Council Districts 33 and 34 as well as neighborhood partners plan to navigate the coming crisis.

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After Charlottesville: A Conversation with Local Law Enforcement
Thursday, Sept. 7, 7:00 PM at the new WESPAC Office location
77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2W in White Plains/Greenburgh, NY 10607

Join the Westchester Coalition for Police Reform as we speak with Detective Keith Olson, President of the Yonkers Police Benevolent Association and Damon Jones, Blacks in Law Enforcement of America's NY Representative, about policing, community relations and accountability in an era of emboldened white supremacy. This community forum is free and open to the public and will be facilitated by WESPAC Director Nada Khader. There is plenty of free parking on site. Take the driveway all the way to the top behind the building. For more information, call the WESPAC office at 914.449.6514.

https://www.facebook.com/events/171741245856418...

Join us for a forum in your district in partnership with NYC Votes! 2017 is a New York City-wide election year and an important moment for New Yorkers to decide who will represent their interests in City Government. To better ensure that voters hear from those seeking to represent them, Food Bank For New York City presents a series of Candidate Forums in select competitive New York City Council races. Learn more at http://www.foodbanknyc.org/forums/
Download Flyer: https://goo.gl/EEwwe1 =
http://fodbanknyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-Candidate-Forum-Flyer_District_21.pdf
https://facebook.com/events/1986514784915595/ https://faithinnewyork.org/faithoverfear
https://facebook.com/pg/finyaction/events/ info@finyaction.org
(718) 426 6564 @finyaction https://twitter.com/finyaction

Trailer https://vimeo.com/199465036
https://facebook.com/pg/TheLostVillage2017/events/
Roger Paradiso https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002944728928

. Award Winning Film, The Lost Village at Jefferson Market Library
Thursday, Sept. 7, from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
425 6th Ave. at W. 10th St.
https://facebook.com/events/1887012751550300/

. Award Winning "The Lost Village" at Historic Judson Church
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM
55 Washington Sq. South at Thompson St.
https://facebook.com/events/1887012751550300/
Q and A after the screening

Ugly Head of Extremism, From USA to Europe to India:
What Extremism: Religious, Political, Social, Cultural, or Economic?
Or All of the Above? How Can We Fight Back?
Thursday Sept. 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at The Brooklyn Common
388 Atlantic Av. btw. Hoyt St. & Bond St.; A, C, G train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn;
#2, 3 to Hoyt St. (at Fulton); F to Bergen St. (at Smith St.); #4, 5 to Nevins (at Flatbush); D, N, R, Q or weekdays-only B to Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr.
Buses via Atlantic or 3rd Av. or Bergen or Smith St. or 5th Av. or Flatbush Av.;
Map & Transit https://goo.gl/XoCgXk (but heck http://mta.info before any Brooklyn weekend travel.)
Event Descriptions: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?id=14237
https://facebook.com/events/1819998874738460/ https://twitter.com/brooklyn4peace
https://facebook.com/pg/brooklynforpeace/events/ (718) 624-5921 bfp@brooklynpeace.org http://brooklynpeace.org venue: (347) 987 4966 info@thecommonsbrooklyn.org http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/events-list
Free admission.Wheelchair accessible
Sponsor: Brooklyn For Peace

Speaker:
Dr. Partha Banerjee: Human Rights Activist,
Immigrant Rights Organizer, Labor Educator.

Partha Banerjee is a first-generation Bengali immigrant from India. He is a labor educator, human rights activist, and writer. He has personal experience with the fundamental militarist doctrines of right-wing parties in India, which he has rejected, without disavowing his deep roots in ecumenical and secular Hinduism.

Banerjee published his Bengali memoir in 2016, and is looking for a literary agent to publish the English version, a different book written from his American activism point of view. He is also exploring possibilities...\\

Sponsor: Brooklyn For Peace
Partha Banerjee is a first-generation Bengali immigrant from India. He is a labor educator, human rights activist, and writer. He has personal experience with the fundamental militarist doctrines of right-wing parties in India, which he has rejected, without disavowing his deep roots in ecumenical and secular Hinduism.
Q & A will follow the presentation.

. Thurs 9/7, 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Office-Warming party!
Join Brooklyn For Peace for an office-warming party at our new office on the second floor of the Brooklyn Commons! (Accessible by elevator.) Take a tour, learn more about our work, meet board members and our Program Director, enjoy light snacks and drinks, make a button, and see what our new space allows us to do. Not only are we showcasing and getting comfortable in our new digs, we're also kicking off our new open office hours on Fridays from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, when we'll be open to the public as a peace and justice educational resource center.

https://www.comedycuntcollective.com
http://bluestockings.com/event/comedy-cunt-collective/

An evening featuring marginalized comedians from various communities each performing and sharing their own life experiences using comedy as a medium. Hosted by Arti Gollapudi this night will feature a diverse line up of stand up comedians, writers, character actors, etc in hopes to inspire dialogue about representation and build connections.

. ‘The Garden’ presented by Green Carpet Movies @ MoRUS-
Thursday, Sept 7, 7:30pm, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space [ask correct ending time]
Green Carpet Movies @ MoRUS
https://goo.gl/WQPSuL = morusnyc.org/the-garden-presented-by-green-carpet-movies-morus-thursday-sept-27th-730pm/
https://twitter.com/MoRUSNYC/status/898251911672979457

part of its current exhibition Grow Me A Garden, MoRUS presents a summer movie night series, Green Carpet Movies @ MoRUS. The third and final movie of the series is ‘The Garden,’ directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.

“From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush 14-acre community garden, thelargest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.If everyone told you to give up, would you?”
– http://www.thegardenmovie.com/

Read more about the current exhibition ‘Grow Me a Garden’ here.

. Grow Me A Garden: Seeding A Community Garden District in NYC-
Saturday, June 24 - September 7 https://goo.gl/PN6UuE
= www.morusnyc.org/grow-me-a-garden-seeding-a-community-garden-district-in-nyc/

NYC resident Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Advisor to Donald Trump, has privately said he was 'disgusted' after Donald Trump said "many sides" were responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, thus further emboldening the white supremacist movement.

Cohn has even written a resignation letter. So why hasn't he resigned? Why is he aligning himself with an administration that has spent the year encouraging racism and prejudice, and a Republican Party that allows it to happen?

We demand that Gary Cohn resigns and publicly, resoundingly denounces this administation's destructive actions.

We will convene at E. 85th and [5th Av.] at 8:00AM, march to
Cohn's apartment on East 85th and Park Ave, and hold a short rally there.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1478507332217041/

Monthly activity. Weather permitting. Join Us! T.A.'s campaign to bring a complete street to the Grand Concourse continues to build momentum with First Friday Action Rides! We will ride a complete lap around the Grand Concourse in order to bring attention to the need for a protected bike lane, promote safe cycling practices, and reclaim our current space on the Grand Concourse. We are replicating succesful strategies that were applied on Queens Blvd and ask that anyone who supports our campaign join us for this monthly sign of solidarity. Council Member Cohen and Council Member Torres are already in favor of this campaign. Help us continue to build the support necessary to bring DOT to action! Meet up at 6:30PM, Wheels down at 7PM

Press Release Coming Soon!

https://www.facebook.com/events/796656583826983/

Say NO to de Blasio! Mayor of Displacement, Broken Windows Policing, Corruption
Friday, Sept. 8, fr/ 4:00 to 5:30 PM, Broadway & Murray St., west of City Hall
R, W Train to City Hall; #2, 3 to Park Pl.; A, C to Chambers; #4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; J to Chambers; E, PATH to WTC;
buses via Broadway or Chambers or Trinity Pl./Church St. or East Broadway
maps & transit: http://url.ie/zb2p https://goo.gl/HjSB1M
event graphic & descriptions: https://goo.gl/XswNna
https://facebook.com/events/337389946706719/
Citywide Alliance Against Displacement NYCNotForSale@gmail.com
646-856-9205 youthagainst.displacement@gmail.com
https://facebook.com/pg/YouthAgainstDisplacement/events/
The communities are fed up with Mayor de Blasio! Throughout his first term in office, de Blasio has been perpetuating Bloomberg administration's pro-developer zoning policies. He colludes with big developers and encourages luxury developments in communities of color like Harlem, Williamsburg, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Rents are going up; real estate tax is increasing; the homeless population has reached record highs; workers, tenants, artists and small businesses are being forced out of their communities. In return, more and more big retail chain stores that are not affordable to the communities are moving in, so are empty luxury condos for speculative and money-laundering purposes for the rich. All of these are happening under the guise of "affordable housing," a "big achievement" of the de Blasio administration!

It is clear that Mayor de Blasio is worsening the racism that Bloomberg started. Low-income working people of color communities are being uprooted as he tells his lies to the media and buys his votes. We urge workers, residents and small businesses from around the city to join us to say NO to de Blasio and his agenda of racism and displacement!

Join us to demand:
• End racism in city planning. Pass community-based “People First” plans like the Chinatown Working Group rezoning plan.
• End public funding for luxury development, such as 421-a. Instead, use public resources to preserve and build more permanent low-income housing.
• Stop privatization of public land and assets.
• Mayor de Blasio and those in City Council who also collude with developers to step down.

About Youth Against Displacement
Youth Against Displacement
Community
A group of young people across NYC to fight displacement by demanding community-led rezoning plans and the "gentrifier-in-chief" Mayor de Blasio step down.

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Behind the smiling faces of cashiers, wait staff, and workers of all sorts, a war is going on, usually without the knowledge of official political and labor organizations. Guerrillas of Desire maps these undercurrents, documenting the history of everyday resistance under slavery, in peasant life, and throughout modern capitalism, while showing that it remains an important factor in revolution and something radicals of all stripes must understand. Join the author for a reading and discussion.

https://www.facebook.com/events/771910082978948/
(212) 777-6028 info@bluestockings.com http://bluestockings.com/events/calendar/

Natashia Deon with her novel "Grace"
https://facebook.com/events/1656628997702049/ http://revolutionbooksnyc.org
(212) 691-3345 @revolutionbooksnyc https://twitter.com/RevBooksNYC
revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
Suggested donation $5-10- sliding scale.

Natashia Deon reading from and discussing her haunting, visceral debut novel, "Grace."
A New York Times Top Book 2016.

"This is the violent, terrifying world of the antebellum South, where African-American women were prey and their babies sold like livestock. This is the story of mothers and daughters—of violence, absence, love, and legacies. Deón's vivid imagery, deft characterization, and spellbinding language carry the reader through this suspenseful tale... heralds the birth of a powerful new voice in American fiction.”—Kirkus, Starred Review

"...a swirling wild ride into the sheer terror of slavery and the aftermath..."
-- Susan Straight, Between Heaven and Here

"Deon explores, with psychological acuity and absolutely no mercy, what the institution [of slavery] did to slave women -- specifically, how it deprived them of the most basic chance to love, delight in and protect their own children."
-- New York Times

Natashia Deon is a practicing lawyer; she has taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, PEN Center USA, and 826LA; she's the creator of the popular LA-based reading series Dirty Laundry Lit.

Residents of Inwood and Washington Heights: Join us to learn where our City Council candidates stand on the issues that matter most to our communities.

For more information, contact Maya Bhardwaj at maya@finyaction.org
On Salsalabs: https://goo.gl/bnTQUx
https://facebook.com/events/712984588912855/
https://facebook.com/pg/finyaction/events/ info@finyaction.org
https://faithinnewyork.org/faithoverfear https://facebook.com/pg/finyaction/events/
(718) 426 6564 @finyaction https://twitter.com/finyaction info@finyaction.org
venue (212) 567-3190

"Council District 38...Sunset Park, Red Hook y Windsor Terrace"
Tix (free?) at: https://goo.gl/NKn11R = eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-sunset-park-candidate-forum-for-nyc-district-38-tickets-37476508245
https://facebook.com/events/208345369700739/ http://mixteca.org info@mixteca.org
(718) 965-4795 https://facebook.com/pg/MixtecaOrganization/events/
http://twitter.com/FutureofSunsetPark

Únete a Mixteca Organization, Inc. y Love Trumps Hate Sunset Park para un foro con candidatos al 38º Distrito del Concejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Nueva York (que representa a Sunset Park, Red Hook y Windsor Terrace). Los candidatos discutirán temas como inmigración, vivienda y asuntos policiales.

Se proveerá interpretación en Español.

Mixteca Organization Inc es una organización sin fines de lucro 501 C3 y no apoya a ningún candidato. Este es un foro apartidista con el propósito de proveer información sobre proposiciones y candidatos para el 38º Distrito del Concejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Nueva York.

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Join Mixteca Organization, Inc. and Love Trumps Hate Sunset Park for a forum with candidates to New York City Council District 38 (representing Sunset Park, Red Hook, and Windsor Terrace). Candidates will discuss topics like immigration, housing, and policing.

Spanish language translation will be provided.

Mixteca Organization, Inc. is a 501 C3 nonprofit organization and does not endorse any candidate. This is a nonpartisan forum with the purpose of providing information on issues related to Sunset Park and New York City Council District 38.

Liberation Flicks: Crossing The Line (2006), Hands Off the DPRK!
Friday Sept. 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Justice Center en El Barrio,
1637 Park Av. btw. E.115th & E.116th, nr. #6, 2, 3 & 116th St. bus
https://facebook.com/events/1786038021687503/ http://www.PSLweb.org
https://facebook.com/pg/JusticeCenterEnElBarrio/events/ https://twitter.com/pslweb
(415) 821.6171 info@pslweb.org https://facebook.com/pg/pslweb/events/

a special presentation by LIBERATION FLICKS

*After the film, we will be joined by Derek Ford via Skype. Derek is a professor at DePauw University and is an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation as well as the ANSWER Coalition. Derek recently returned from a fact-finding trip to the DPRK.

Crossing the Line (2006) tells the story of James Dresnok, a former U.S. Army soldier who defected to the DPRK (North Korea) after the Korean War. Mistreated by the military and alienated from his life back home, Dresnok crossed into North Korea in 1962 with a small band of fellow soldiers. Dresnok chose to remain in the DPRK, where he lived until his death in 2016. Over the decades, he grew increasingly attached to Korean socialism and the Korean people. He learned Korean, acted in Korean films and raised a family in Korea.

Dresnok's life reveals a hospitable, proud and nuanced North Korea that flies in the face of the corporate media's reductive narrative of North Korea as a totalitarian nightmare with a brainwashed, helpless population. Through interviews with Dresnok and footage taken throughout Pyongyang, a more human view of this vilified country comes into focus. While Dresnok's circumstances are extraordinary, his life is in many ways quite normal. He is seen fishing with friends, being scolded by his doctor and spending time with his family.

To this day, the United States refuses to sign a peace treaty with North Korea, has thousands of troops stationed in South Korea, annually simulates the destruction of North Korea through joint military exercises with South Korea and has engaged in economic war with North Korea through the use of sanctions. So as to stand up to a new destructive imperialist war, it is important for all people of conscience in the United States to learn the real story of North Korea and the history of U.S. aggression in the region.

Free Admission

About Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL
Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL
Political Party
The official page of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. To get the latest news and views of the PSL, go to http://www.LiberationNews.org
Public · Hosted by Justice Center en El Barrio and Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL

Behind the smiling faces of cashiers, wait staff, and workers of all sorts, a war is going on, usually without the knowledge of official political and labor organizations. Guerrillas of Desire maps these undercurrents, documenting the history of everyday resistance under slavery, in peasant life, and throughout modern capitalism, while showing that it remains an important factor in revolution and something radicals of all stripes must understand. Join the author for a reading and discussion.

https://www.facebook.com/events/771910082978948/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1601595086527066/

The March for Racial Justice is a multi-community movement led by a coalition united in our demands for civil and human rights. We march because as long as U.S. laws, policies and practices remain steeped in racism and white supremacy, basic human rights and civil rights for all, will never be fully realized. We march to strengthen local and nationwide efforts for racial equity and justice. It is our duty to dismantle oppression, and to challenge, reverse and put an end to laws, policies and practices that dehumanize people of color while sustaining white supremacy and racism. Our vision is to create a just and equitable future for our communities and country.

Join us, volunteer, donate and support the March for Racial Justice!

For updates and more information join our email list by texting “M4RJ” to 66866. None of us are free, until we’re all free.

In solidarity!
March for Racial Justice Organizing Team

Twitter/Instagram @MFRJNow
Email: info@m4rj.com
#M4RJ

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#CharleenaLyles = ?

And THIS is why we need to remind EVERYONE that #BlackLivesMatter

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS:

Maurice Cook is the Founder/ED of Serve Your City (SYC), a DC-based nonprofit serving underserved youth.

Dorcas Davis is an activist, facilitator, educator, writer and artist. Dorcas works nationally and internationally, consulting organizations devoted to equity and social change through capacity-building, training, dialogue and economic empowerment. Formerly a NYC public school educator, Dorcas began her activism work as an advocate for students and parents. Both education and activism are in her blood, as she comes from a lineage of freedom fighter - including Mary McCleod Bethune. She was the founder and executive director of Smiling Down productions - dedicated to creating student-centered arts programming to NYC. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the City University of New York - School of Professional Studies.

Farah Tanis is a transnational Black feminist, human rights activist and co-founder of the Black Women’s Blueprint working to address violence against women, girls and gender non-conforming people. She is committed to working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the nation on issues of gender, race, sexuality, anti-violence policy, practice and prevention. In 2016 Tanis chaired the six-year long Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first of its kind in the U.S. ever to focus on Black women and their historical and contemporary experiences with sexual assault. She is founder and lead curator at the Museum of Women's Resistance (MoWRe), a Site of Conscience. Tanis created Mother Tongue, a theatrical and multimedia art vehicle addressing Black sexual politics in African American, African, Afro-Caribbean and other communities of the Black Diaspora. Tanis is a NoVo Foundation-Move to End Violence Movement Maker and serves on the NY steering committee of Cities for CEDAW--the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Tanis is a 2012 U.S. Human Rights Institute Fellow and a current member of the U.S. Human Rights Network's Committees on the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Convention Against Torture (CAT), and Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Tanis served on the Advisory Board of SurvJustice and Faculty Against Rape, dedicated to confronting campus sexual assault as survivors' advocates, researchers, teachers and policy reformers. Tanis is the recipient of several awards for her human rights work, including a 2014 Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Magazine Wonder Award, and a 2016 Visionary Voice Award.

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Labor Mass
Saturday, Sep 9, 2017 at 08:30 AM
Saint Patrick's Cathedral

For Unions and Friends of Labor

LABOR MASS

WE CELEBRATE THE DIGNITY OF THE WORKER

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2017 8:30 AM
(Parade Kicks-Off 10:00 AM)

CATHEDRAL OF SAINT PATRICK

Note: Please bring your organization’s banner (with stands) and arrive at 8:00 AM
for the opening processional.

FOR INFORMATION: CALL (212) 604-9552

WWW.NYCCLC.ORG

https://facebook.com/events/118939532057808/ https://facebook.com/MaydaySpace https://twitter.com/maydayspace https://maydayspace.org
(212) 827-0200 https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

If you are planning to attend the July Worker Cooperative Training Series, you are invited to apply to a weekend long training in September on starting, or converting an existing business into, a worker cooperative.

Throughout this weekend we will explore Basic Financial Projections, Cooperative Finances, Governance and Management, Facilitation and Decision Making Processes and Legal Entity Options for Cooperatives. We will also refer groups who go through the training to technical assistance providers who can support your emerging cooperative.

This training is a continuation of the Worker Cooperative Tranining Series hosted by NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNOWC), the Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) at the The Murphy Institute for Labor Studies at CUNY and The Mayday Space. The trainings are free, but we will ask for a suggested donation for those who are able in order to support the Mayday Space.

We strongly suggest you attend this training with at least three people interested in starting a cooperative or converting a business. You can't cooperate alone!

This series will be run in English.

Applications for this event will be sent out soon, so make sure to hit "Going" or "Interested" on this event page if you want to participate. More details soon.

For any other questions, please email tammy@nycworker.coop

Free Admission

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College & University · New York, New York
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Nonprofit Organization · New York, New York
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Mayday Space

Join us on Saturday, September 9th for the 2017 NYC Labor Day Parade!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1867137473503048/

Labor Day Parade
Saturday, Sep 9, 2017 at 10:00 AM from Fifth Ave & 44th St
www.nycclc.org/event/2017-nyc-labor-day-parade-sep-09-2017

Anyone know anything about producer/s? -t.

March for Black Women
Saturday, September 9 at 10 AM - 10 PM
Washington, District of Columbia
Farah Tanis BlackWomen@Blueprintny.org
Public · Hosted by Black Women's Blueprint www.blackwomensblueprint '
https://facebook.com/pg/blackwomens.BWBNY/events/
347-533-9102 info@blueprintny.org http://www.blackwomensblueprint.org

We have always put it simply: Black women's issues are racial justice issues. Black lived-experiences related to gender, sexuality, gender identity are--racial-- justice--issues. On September 9, 2017, Black women and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically at the center of the scheduled MARCH FOR RACIAL JUSTICE as our very own MARCH FOR BLACK WOMEN.

We need you to show up for Black women.

Our March within a March is not only a mass mobilization centered on Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women are killed by the cops; so long as Black women are taken or go missing; so long as we are raped by friends or by strangers or by nationally renown predators -- there can be NO JUSTICE.

8 Black trans women are murdered in the first four months of 2017 = #NOJUSTICE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The media doesn’t seem to care = #NOJUSTICE

Black women don’t seem to matter = #NOJUSTICE

Over this past Juneteenth weekend, all of us at Black Women’s Blueprint have meditated on the many violent systems failures that our sisters are forced to endure and which too many of us do not survive.

This is our collective response. We can and must refuse to be subsumed within a broader movement that does not see us as fully human. We will resist! See you at the March on September 9.

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

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Brooklyn March against Gentrification, Racism & Police Violence
Saturday, Sept. 9 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
https://facebook.com/events/833546563459181/
Public · Hosted by The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network - BAN To have your group, business or organization endorse the Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification & Police Violence email: info@bangentrification.org (646) 820 -6039 @BANgentrifying https://twitter.com/BANgentrifying
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Please Endorse TODAY! To have your community group, anti-police brutality group or family, place of worship, small business, tenant organization, etc. endorse the Brooklyn-wide Day of Action against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality
Contact : info@bangentrification.org
or call/text (646) 820 -6039
https://www.facebook.com/events/833546563459181/
#BKMarch2017
#BANGentrification
#TakeBackOurCommunities

FLOW of the DAY
11:00am GATHER at Barclays Center
12:00 MARCH
1:30 RALLY at Ebbets Field (Crown Heights)
3:30 RALLY at Herbert Von King Park (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
5:30 RALLY at Myrtle Wyckoff Plaza (Bushwick/Ridgewood)
6:30 Join us after the march to relax with community at Starr Bar in Bushwick! We will be walking over together after the Bushwick rally and speakout.

Where to Pick up #BKMarch2017 Flyers: as of August 14th

Bushwick
Mayday Space
176 St. Nicholas Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11237
info@maydayspace.org

Crown Heights
MTOPP: (718) 703-3086

Downtown BK
FUREE
388 Atlantic Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 715-1352 x202

Flatbush
Equality for Flatbush
646 820 6039

Manhattan
The Solidarity Center
147 West 24th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10011
Call 212 633 6646 for office hours

Sunset Park
UPROSE
166A 22nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11232
Phone: (718) 492-9307

Main Hashtags :
#BKMarch2017
#BANGentrification
#TakeBackOurCommunities

Hashtags we will also use :
#BKRiseUp
#BKFightsRacism
#BlackLivesMatter
#BrownLivesMatter
#EndBrokenWindows
#HereToStay

Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or displaced by gentrification while our city is being made over into a playground for the super rich.
We say NO MORE!

Mobilize with The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network - BAN for a Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification and Police Violence on SATURDAY September 9th at 12 noon
Check The BAN Facebook page and website for the next planning meeting

Please post widely to your networks -
Endorse TODAY! To have your group, business or organization endorse the Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification & Police Violence email:
info@bangentrification.org
or call/text (646) 820 -6039

Whose City? Our City! Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality
#BKMarch2017
#BANGentrification
#TakeBackOurCommunities
#BKRiseUp
#BKFightsRacism
#BlackLivesMatter
#BrownLivesMatter
#EndBrokenWindows
#HereToStay

http://bangentrification.org/
Follow us Twitter
https://twitter.com/BANgentrifying
@BANgentrifying

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The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network - BAN — Where to Pick up #BKMarch2017 Flyers: as of August 14th

The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network - BAN
Community
The Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN), fights to stop rampant corporate gentrification that is causing displacement of residents.
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a previous description...

Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or displaced by gentrification while our city is being made over into a playground for the super rich.
We say NO MORE!

Mobilize with The Brooklyn Anti-gentrification Network - BAN for a Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification and Police Violence on SATURDAY September 9th at 12 noon

Check The BAN Facebook page and website for the next planning meeting

Please post widely to your networks -
Endorse TODAY! To have your group, business or organization endorse the Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification & Police Violence email:
info@bangentrification.org
or call/text (646) 820 -6039

Whose City? Our City! Brooklyn-wide March against Racism, Gentrification & Police Brutality
#TAKEBACKOURCOMMUNITIES
http://bangentrification.org/

Follow us Twitter
https://twitter.com/BANgentrifying
@BANgentrifying

Press Release Coming Soon!

https://www.facebook.com/events/796656583826983/

Dreaming up North Panel Discussion
Saturday, Sept. 9 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave. btw. E. 104th & E. 105th
FREE. RSVP: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10201625
descriptions: www.elmuseo.org/event/dreaming-up-north-panel/
https://facebook.com/events/279965202480007/
https://twitter.com/rachelgnew/status/898954992933101568 groupvisits@elmuseo.org (212) 831-7272 info@elmuseo.org www.elmuseo.org/events/ https://twitter.com/elmuseo
https://facebook.com/pg/elmuseo/events/ [Consider asking whether RSVP required. -t.]

As part of its month-long programming initiative focused on Migration, El Museo del Barrio presents a special panel discussion about the migrant child experience. The discussion complements the new exhibition Dreaming up North: Children on the Move Across the Americas, on-view in our Cuentame Galleries (behind Visitor Services area) throughout the month of September.

Panelists include Mexican social anthropologist Valentina Glockner Fagetti; Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Nara Milanich; Mexican documentary photographer and photojournalist, Cinthya Santos Briones; and assistant professor of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, Sarah Gallo.

Meet candidates for citywide office and engage in a community conversation with your neighbors. Light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. RSVP IS REQUIRED ON EVENTBRITE (see link below). Ticket-holders are only guaranteed entry up to 15 minutes prior to the event start time, at which point we will let in anyone waiting outside the bookshop.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James
Saturday, September 9 – 2–4pm
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/wordup-tishjames

This Summer Meet & Greet Series is being presented by The Barack Obama Democratic Club, Word Up Community Bookshop, Hudson Heights Owners Coalition, and Uptown Collective.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1548149165251417/

At this informative workshop, learn all you need to know about composting and how-to repurpose organic waste into quality soil in a laidback atmosphere. Also, help nurture the Museum of Reclaimed
Urban Space's medicinal garden!

Nothing stinky about this workshop.

Info at www.laplazacultural.com

https://facebook.com/events/1529952707084956/

NEW LOCATION: "Columbus Circle". Groups sometimes meet at U.S. Maine Monument, NE corner of Central Park South/W.59th St. & Central Park West/8th Av., outside Merchants` Gate. But recently PD spreads large stage actions north along CPW, with protest cage entrances every few blocks from Broadway in the W. 60s.
#1, A, C, D, N, Q, R or F Train, 57th St. bus or M66 via E.67th & W.66th
. .
Fight For DACA!
Saturday Sept. 9, 2:00 PM at Columbus Circle
https://facebook.com/events/115279182477964/ Public · Hosted by Political Revolution
https://facebook.com/pg/ShowMeWhatDemocracyLooksLike/events/

We showed them once, now we'll show them again!

Trump wants to end DACA, which protects almost 1 million Americans from deportation. Trump wants to deport us, deport our friends, deport our family, deport our neighbors. We won't let them attack our communities. We have two demands:

1) Don't end DACA
2) Pass the DREAM Act

Let's make our voices heard!

Join New Jersey organizers of the People's Congress of Resistance for an afternoon of building and organizing.

https://facebook.com/events/345314589251025/
https://facebook.com/pg/pslweb/events/ 4158216171
@pslweb http://twitter.com/pslweb info@pslweb.org http://PSLweb.org

On September 16 & 17, organizers from around the country will converge on
Washington D.C. to confront the major issues confronting working people, including police brutality, rebuilding Texas, defending DACA and opposing U.S. wars against North Korea, Venezuela and beyond. The billionaires have their congress, we need to build a People's Congress.

#SinDACASinMiedo Rally w/ Movimiento Cosecha
Somos 11 Millones: Fight for DACA and ALL Immigrants

. RALLY Saturday Sept. 9, 2:00 pm Columbus Circle
Event graphic https://goo.gl/uAXNY1
http://bit.ly/sept9rally = https://facebook.com/events/114447679248707/

MARSHALL TRAININGS
Saturday 10:00 AM & Noon https://airtable.com/shr5SjLDjfmpP4TuP
https://facebook.com/pg/movimientocosecha/events/ http://www.lahuelga.com https://twitter.com/CosechaMovement

Public · Hosted by Movimiento Cosecha and Political Revolution
Local contacts: https://facebook.com/pg/movimientocosecha/about/

Join our #SinDACASinMiedo rally!The repeal of DACA is an attack on the humanity of the immigrant community. We will NOT stand for it. Join us on Saturday as we make our voices heard.We expect this event to be a massive, peaceful protest. To keep it that way, we will need volunteers to help control the crowd and provide support for participants. We are also looking for social media volunteers and speakers.

Trump’s decision to end DACA will cause a crisis for the entire immigrant community. Nearly one million DACA recipients will lose their livelihoods, become targets for deportation, and no longer be able to provide for their families.

PLEDGE TO TAKE ACTION --> sindacasinmiedo.com

The White House plans to use our pain as a “bargaining chip” to get Congress to fund a border wall. Trump wants us to be desperate enough to negotiate our humanity. We will not let that happen.

We are a movement of thousands fighting for permanent protection, dignity, and respect for ALL immigrants! We are taking the streets and making our voices heard. Join our undocumented leaders as we stand up for our community.

#SinDACASinMiedo
#Somos11Millones

***Undocumented leadership is explicit that this event is nonviolent in its entirety. Nonviolence is the shield that reflects the true perpetrators of the state violence that our people suffer from daily. We feel pain from the abuses of the police and others, and we will keep exposing their violence through our discipline.***

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Movimiento Cosecha is a movement fighting for the permanent protection, dignity and respect for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.

Cosecha needs your help in this time of urgency.

Take a role during this action: http://bit.ly/sept9signup
Be a crowd marshal! Join our training: Marshal Training
Make art for the action: Art Build for #Somos11Millones Rally
Make a donation: http://sindacasinmiedo.com/donate
What's next? Join our nightly calls: http://bit.ly/dacamasscalls

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https://facebook.com/events/866404530180668/ (718) 447-2204 office@uucsi.org http://www.uucsi.org https://twitter.com/uucsi

For PASI's general meeting, we will host an evening consisting of video clips, readings and discussions about various progressive responses to violent hate groups.

In this Presidency, and particularly after Charlottesville, progressives have taken up an intense debate on how to best respond to hate groups and their bold expressions of fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny.

How can progressives and activists act to disrupt and challenge hate? Through video clips and readings, we will explore tactics and perspectives, past and present, and how hate develops and manifests, in hate groups and throughout society.

Historian Debbie-Ann Paige will speak on societal racism and add historical context.

We hope to see everyone there!

https://facebook.com/events/875486529269289/
info@bangentrification.org 646 820 6039
https://facebook.com/pg/BANgentrification/events/

Join us after the first ever BROOKLYN wide march against Gentrification, Racism, and Police Violence ( https://facebook.com/events/833546563459181/ ) as we celebrate our community at Starr Bar in Bushwick.

There will be drinks, food, DJ Libr8 and dancing all night long!

ALL are welcome: those who marched, or want to rejoin from an earlier part of the route, and folks who may not be able to make it out during the day.

18+ (with ID at door)
Suggested donation $5-25 sliding scale to help cover the cost of the march--no one turned away for lack of funds.
To Donate to #BKMarch2017 : http://bit.ly/DonateToBAN or www.venmo.com/EqualityforFlatbush

Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or displaced by gentrification while our city is being made over into a playground for the super rich.

We say NO MORE!

Whose City? Our City!

#BKMarch2017
#BANGentrification
#TakeBackOurCommunities
#BKRiseUp
#BKFightsRacism
#BlackLivesMatter
#BrownLivesMatter
#EndBrokenWindows
#HereToStay

http://bangentrification.org/

Follow us Twitter
https://twitter.com/BANgentrifying
@BANgentrifying

www.nyccentury.org
https://www.facebook.com/events/1974056402913418/

Join cyclists from many different states and skill levels for the 28th Annual NYC Century Bike Tour! As the nation's only all-urban 100-mile bike tour option, the NYC Century is the best way to explore NYC by bike, and unlike any other bike tour you’ll find. This year’s Tour includes 5 different distance options - 15, 35, 55, 75, and 100 miles. Each route has been carefully designed to showcase the diversity and beauty of New York City to riders. Depending on the route chosen, riders will pedal their way through 8 state parks, over 5 panoramic bridges, miles of sheltered greenways, intercoastal bay views, and countless diverse neighborhoods.

To illustrate bicyclists' rights to the streets, there are no street closings for the NYC Century Bike Tour aside from the 15-mile option, which will be accompanied by a police escort.

All NYC Century route options will end in Central Park at the 2017 NYC Century Festival, which will feature live music, free food and more.

Hosted by Transportation Alternatives, the NYC Century Bike Tour is the most extensive all-urban bike ride in the U.S. All proceeds fund advocacy efforts to make NYC streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. In the past year, TransAlt efforts have succeeded in getting more than 35,000+ petitions signed to support safer streets, more than 30 new bike lanes installed, 140 new CitiBike stations installed, and multiple new pedestrian-first public spaces opened up on formerly congested streets.

When you ride the NYC Century, you’re helping us carry out our mission to reclaim New York City’s streets from the automobile, and to promote bicycling, walking, and public transit.

https://facebook.com/events/118939532057808/ https://facebook.com/MaydaySpace https://twitter.com/maydayspace https://maydayspace.org
(212) 827-0200 https://facebook.com/pg/MaydaySpace/events/

If you are planning to attend the July Worker Cooperative Training Series, you are invited to apply to a weekend long training in September on starting, or converting an existing business into, a worker cooperative.

Throughout this weekend we will explore Basic Financial Projections, Cooperative Finances, Governance and Management, Facilitation and Decision Making Processes and Legal Entity Options for Cooperatives. We will also refer groups who go through the training to technical assistance providers who can support your emerging cooperative.

This training is a continuation of the Worker Cooperative Tranining Series hosted by NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNOWC), the Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) at the The Murphy Institute for Labor Studies at CUNY and The Mayday Space. The trainings are free, but we will ask for a suggested donation for those who are able in order to support the Mayday Space.

We strongly suggest you attend this training with at least three people interested in starting a cooperative or converting a business. You can't cooperate alone!

This series will be run in English.

Applications for this event will be sent out soon, so make sure to hit "Going" or "Interested" on this event page if you want to participate. More details soon.

For any other questions, please email tammy@nycworker.coop

Free Admission

NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives — Hi Folks, there is still room for more folks at our worker cooperative weekend intensive September 9th and 10th. If you are interested in attending, ...
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volunteer@gowanuscanalconservancy.org
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Sunday, June 4, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Clean & Green : Welcome Summer!
Location: northern end of Gowanus, exact location TBD
Description: Join us to steward street trees and gardens at the northern end of Gowanus.

Saturday, July 8, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green
Location: TBD
Description: TBD

Saturday, August 5, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green
Location: Red Hook, exact location TBD
Description: Help us create a new garden!

Sunday, September 9, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green - Carroll Gardens Street Tree Stewardship
Location: 2nd Place & Smith Street, Brooklyn, 11231
Description: Take care of local gardens and street trees in Carroll Gardens! Volunteers will be using hand tools to aerate tree bed soil, applying compost, and removing debris.

Sunday, September 24, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green
Location: TBD
Description: TBD

Sunday, October 15, 11:00am-2:00pm
Clean & Green - Gowanus Open Studios, Open House NY, and Plant Sale
Location: The Salt Lot, 2 Second Avenue, Brooklyn 11215 (make sure to enter zip code in Google Maps!)
Description: Stop by during Gowanus Open Studios and Open House NY Weekend to help take care of local gardens and street trees, and purchase plants to take home.

Sunday, October 29, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green - Park Slope & Fourth Avenue Tree Stewardship
Location: Greenspace on Fourth, 207 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Description: Help GCC steward street trees along 4th Avenue! We will be weeding, aerating the soil, and applying compost.

Saturday, November 4, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green - Garden and Street Tree Stewardship
Location: TBD
Description: TBD

Sunday, November 19, 10:00am-1:00pm
Clean & Green - End of Season Event
Location: TBD
Description: Help the Gowanus Canal Conservancy send off its 2016 volunteer season by participating in stewardship activities around the Gowanus Watershed! More information coming soon.

The Clean & Green Program is sponsored by:

NYC Councilmembers Steve Levin and Brad Lander - District 33 and District 39, Patagonia, Citi Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Piper Jaffray & Co., Veolia North America

Our mission is to facilitate the environmental health of the Gowanus Canal and its watershed by serving as a trusted resource and guiding the vision and transformation of the watershed with respect for the history of the community.

ask volunteer@gowanuscanalconservancy.org

Russell Neufeld: “The Federal Death Penalty in the Age of Trump”
Sunday, Sept. 10, 11:00am in NYSEC Ceremonial Hall (check correct ending time)
2 W. 64th St., 4th Fl.
Descriptions: https://goo.gl/CT9oqz http://ethical.nyc/calendar-date_nysec/month/2017-10
The takeover of the Department of Justice by Jeff Sessions has had an enormous impact on the politicizing of the criminal justice system ~ none more seriously than in policies affecting the death penalty.

Russell Neufeld graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1982. He spent the next 22 years at The Legal Aid Society. He created and led the Capital Division of The Legal Aid Society from 1995 - 2002. He was co-counsel in New York State's first death penalty trial in the modem era and was co-counsel in the first full acquittal verdict in Kings County under the then new first degree murder statute. He was the Attorney-in-Charge of the Criminal Defense Division and Criminal Practice at the Legal Aid Society from 2002 - 2004.. He taught in the BLS criminal clinic and legal writing programs. Mr. Neufeld taught a course on the death penalty at New York Law School from 1996 - 2002. He has published numerous articles on capital punishment and human rights. While at The Legal Aid Society, he started and coordinated the Alabama Death Row Project which handled capital post-conviction cases. In2004 he went into private practice, initially associated with the firm of Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck. Since 2000 he has represented capital clients in federal district courts, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.. He is a board member of Witness To Innocense - the national organization of death row exonerees.

Shared charity: Witness to Innocence, Philadelphia, PA

Press Release Coming Soon!

https://www.facebook.com/events/796656583826983/

Join us for a ribbon cutting for a new worker center for domestic workers and day laborers who live and work in Brooklyn

Sunday, September 10 , 2017
Noon to 4:00PM
365 Broadway Brooklyn NY 11211
https://facebook.com/events/270811103408891/
https://twitter.com/workersjusticep https://facebook.com/pg/workersjustice.org/events/ (347) 889-6347 (718) 600-0425 http://workersjustice.org info@workersjustice.org
https://facebook.com/pg/BayParkwayCommunityJobCenter/events/

We live in hard times and the odds seem against us. But it’s still possible to win dignity and respect for day laborers, domestic workers and all immigrant workers through the sheer power of organizing. Across the U.S., day laborer centers are under attack. But on Sunday, September 10, 2017, Brooklyn inaugurates a new worker center even in the midst of the racist and anti-immigrant sentiment of a Trump nation.

Join us and meet workers who are organizing to defend their right stay and right to work with dignity. Let's inspire a city to act on principles of inclusion, opportunity, and access for all.

7th Annual Bed-Stuy Pride w/ Audre Lorde Project
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 1:00 to 6:00 PM
Herbert Von King Park (formerly Tompkins Park, Brooklyn), nr.
670 Lafayette, Brooklyn, btw. Marcy Av. & Tompkins Av.;
G Train to Bedford-Nostrand or C to Kingston-Throop & THEN Throop Av. bus; A, C to Nostrand & walk 13 blocks north against traffic;
Descriptions: https://facebook.com/events/1353467368102109/

Come celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, transgender and gender-non-conforming people of color living in the Bed-Stuy and Central Brooklyn community. The day will feature local artists, performances, workshops, music, vendors, family friendly wellness & fitness activities and more!

Want to support or get involved in the 7th Annual Bed-Stuy Pride?
- If you are inquiring about volunteering please email cleo@alp.org.
- If you'd like to be a vendor, performer, or host a workshop, please
contact == > bedstuypride@gmail.com.

Notes on access: It is our intention to create an accessible and welcoming space for LGBTSTGNC POC families, communities, and allies in Central Brooklyn. The venue is physically accessible (flat venue with ramps to the bathrooms), can be accessed by public transit (B38, B43, and G to Bedford-Nostrand), and provides gender neutral public bathrooms. We will offer Spanish language interpretation. Audre Lorde Project community practitioners and other community members will provide a variety of wellness and physical activities for event goers. ALP members trained in security and de-escalation will support the safety and well-being of our community members throughout the event. Please contact bedstuypride@gmail.com if you have any suggestions or additions on how to make the space more accessible, and if you have any particular concerns about security.

Who we are: The Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective is an anti-violence program led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non Conforming people of color. We are devoted to challenging hate and police violence by using community based strategies rather than relying on the police. SOS is a project of the Audre Lorde Project, a LGBTSTGNC people of color community organizing center.

== > www.alp.org

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Ven a celebrar con la comunidad de color lésbica, gay, bisexual, dos espíritu, trans y disidente de género (LGBDETDDG) que viven en la comunidad de Bedford-Stuyvesant y en el Centro de Brooklyn. ¡ Este día habrá artistas, espectáculos, talleres, música, vendedores, actividades de salud y bienestar para toda la familia y mucho más!

¿Quieres apoyar o participar en el sexto festival anual del orgullo en Bedford-Stuyvesant?

- Si necesitas información sobre cómo ser voluntaria/o, por favor comunícate con cleo@alp.org.
- Para cualquier otra consulta, por favor, escribe a bedstuypride@gmail.com.

Acerca del acceso: Queremos crear un espacio amigable y accesible para lxs aliadxs, familiares y comunidades LGBDETDDG de color del centro de Brooklyn. El lugar del evento es físicamente accesible (es un piso plano con rampas para los baños). Puede llegarse en bus (líneas B38 y B43) y por metro (estación Bedford-Nostrand de la línea G). Tiene baños públicos unisex. Ofreceremos interpretación en español. El equipo profesional del Proyecto Audre Lorde y otros miembros de la comunidad proporcionarán varias actividades de salud y bienestar para lxs asistentes al evento. Lxs miembros de ALP entrenadxs en seguridad y en la reducción de conflicto apoyarán con la seguridad y el bienestar de lxs miembros de nuestra comunidad durante todo el evento. Por favor, escribe a bedstuypride@gmail.com si tienes alguna sugerencia o comentario adicionales sobre cómo hacer el espacio más accesible, o si tienes alguna preocupación en particular sobre la seguridad.

Quiénes somos: El colectivo “Segurxs Fuera del Sistema” (SOS, por sus siglas en inglés) es un programa de anti-violencia dirigido por y para lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, dos espíritus, trans, y gente disidente de género de color. Estamos dedicadxs a desafiar el odio y la violencia policial mediante el uso de estrategias comunitarias en lugar de depender de la Policía. SOS es un proyecto del Proyecto Audre Lorde, un centro de organización comunitaria para personas de color LGBDETDDG

www.alp.org.

The Politics of the Unconscious: Four Sessions
Four Sundays, September 10 through October 1, 2017, 2:00 to 4:00 pm
New Perspectives Theatre at 456-458 W. 37th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.
$40 - $60 [or $12/session]
Hysteria, Surrealism, and Avant-Garde Dance
Marija Krtolica
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
New Perspectives Theatre at 456-458 West 37th Street
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/
https://facebook.com/pg/MarxistEducationProject/events/ info@marxedproject.org
Through theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated. We will first engage the writing of Freud and Lacan on hysteria, and then consider feminist and other recent refinements and critiques of their work. We will then look at the images of the mental patients of this period, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. Next, we will examine the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art, film and poetry and discuss grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era), and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). On the one hand, we will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and makers. On the other, we will open up the concept of the unconscious and re-create it through imaginative practices. Performance practices will be related to the texts by Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière.

Marija Krtolica (b. 1973, Belgrade) is an international movement artist, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU, MFA UC Davis, MA NYU, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance, NCSA Caucus in Charleston, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015), ACLA 2015 in Seattle, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014), and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014), At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015), the University of Arts Belgrade (2015), and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011), and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra.

Fees are sliding scale. No one is denied participation for inability to pay. Tickets are for all four sessions. Individual sessions are $12.

Tickets
Politics of the Unconscious $40.00
Politics of the Unconscious $50.00
Politics of the Unconscious $60.00
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MARXIST EDUCATION PROJECTS EVENT LISTINGS AS OF AUG. 4, 2017
Changes & additions at http://marxedproject.org/event/
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The Politics of the Unconscious: Four Sessions
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in New Perspectives Theatre,
456-458 W. 37th St. [btw. 9th & 10th Aves.] $40 - $60
http://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious/
Through theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated.

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

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

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

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

End Global LGBTQ Persecution NOW!
A Rally in Advance of the 2017 United Nations General Assembly
https://facebook.com/events/1773296712969716/
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/ info@riseandresist.org http://riseandresist.org https://twitter.com/hashtag/RiseandResistNYC

Join us as we rally in solidarity with the global LGBTQ community and demand that human rights be universal. Speakers with experiences as immigrants, asylum seekers and asylees, and representatives from human rights organizations will share their stories.

Internationally, LGBTQ people are increasingly facing violence and persecution from either the state, religious institutions acting in the name of the state, or extra-judicial mobs operating with impunity from the state. Even in countries that have signed on to the 2006 General Assembly declaration of LGBT rights, not enough is being done to ensure that LGBTQ people are protected within their borders.

As activists and people of conscience worldwide watch in horror as LGBTQ people are rounded up, detained, imprisoned, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, it is imperative that the United Nations take a forceful stand in denouncing these horrific acts. It is equally imperative that the United States and other signators of the declaration of LGBT rights adopt less restrictive and less onerous asylum policies and procedures in order to adequately address the unique traumas that persecuted LGBTQ people can be forced to endure.

Finally, it is also imperative that the moral, ethical Americans take a forceful stand on all of these issues, as our current presidential regime possesses neither the ethical understanding nor moral strength necessary to ensure that the USA continues to strive to be a beacon for global human rights.

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

JOIN RISE AND RESSIST NY TO DENOUNCE GLOBAL LGBTQ PERSECUTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

On behalf of Rise and Resist, we invite the Raging Grannies and allies to join us for a Demonstration to Highlight GLOBAL LGBTQ PERSECUTION, 2:00 PM Sunday, September 10, at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, E. 47th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenues. [please ask correct ending time or -t.]

Two days before the United Nations General Assembly convenes we:
1. Call attention to the 80+ UN member nations where violent persecution of their LGBTQ citizens is sanctioned, allowed, and/or unaddressed.

2. Highlight the UN’s failure to address this persecution and to call on ALL member states to recognize that the UN's Global Declaration of Human Rights fully applies to all sexual and gender minorities.

3. Point out how the Trump administration has failed to position the United States among the leaders on global Human Rights issues and global LGBT rights specifically.

4. Demand that the US improve its asylum processes which presently subjects already traumatized LGBTQ asylum seekers to inhumane and further traumatizing detentions.

5. Highlight how federal, state, and municipal polices which discriminate against LGBTQ Americans creates an environment that emboldens and incites bigots to acts of violence and murder.

Join RUSA LGBT, Venezuela Diversa, and SOS Venezuela by endorsing this action, inviting your membership and allies to attend, and sharing our event on social media.

Here is a link to the Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1773296712969716/
www.riseanddresist.org

Contact Jay Walker with any questions you may have. jayw.walker@gmail.com

Rise and Resist formed in response to the 2016 U.S. election, is a direct action group made up of both new and experienced activists committed to opposing, disrupting, and defeating any government act that threatens democracy, equality, and our civil liberties. We work collaboratively, creatively, respectfully, and with all the joy we can muster for the health of the people and the planet.

We reject State sanctioned violence, bigotry, and systemic discrimination in all its forms, including those directed at people because of their disability, gender identity/expression, immigration status, race, religion, sex, and sexuality. We condemn all the oppressive policies that define the current government regime.

We strive to intentionally honor the complex challenges we face. Join us in fighting for justice.

"WORLD PEACE FESTIVAL - 2017"
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2017
Time: 3pm - 6pm
Venue: 4 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City
Agenda: Panel Discussion, Music, Dance, Mantra for World Peace, Interfaith Prayers, Art Show, Award Ceremony, Potluck Party and much more!
Admission: Early Bird $20 (On the day at the desk will be $30)
More details are coming soon!
www.worldyogacommunity.us

https://www.facebook.com/events/1872315436351637/

BROOKLYN BIKE REPAIR CLASS
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM and
First & Second Sunday of every month
99 South 6th Street, off Bedford Ave., under the Williamsburg Bridge
Please check for changes: https://facebook.com/pg/timesupnyc/events/
https://times-up.org/event-locations/times-brooklyn-99-south-6th-st

Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike repair classes in Time’s Up’s Brooklyn bicycle co-op. Classes are free and open to the public. Donations are always appreicated.

Time's Up is a 30 year-old New York City-based not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that uses events and educational programs to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city. More about our classes, workshops and events here: http://www.times-up.org/

Free Admission

About Time's Up
Time's Up is a not-for-profit direct-action environmental group that
uses events and educational programs to promote positive,
thought-provoking, sustainable lifestyles.

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

At Time's Up Bike Repair class, learn how to fix bikes and do simple maintenance and tune-ups. Each class covers a different subject in a 2-week rotation beginning on the first Sunday and ending on the second Sunday of every month.

Come out to Time's Up Brooklyn Headquarters (99 South 6th Street, off Bedford Avenue under the Williamsburg Bridge) to know how to treat your BFF (Bike friend forever).

https://www.facebook.com/events/124611304851819/

Silvio Rodríguez
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 5:00 to 10:00 PM
SummerStage NYC
Public · Hosted by SummerStage NYC cityparksfoundation.org
By purchasing tickets to SummerStage Benefit Concerts, you are continuing to support over 100 free performances in parks throughout the five boroughs.

City Parks Foundation, En Otro Tono, and La Marqueta Retona are thrilled to announce that renowned Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez​ will perform a SummerStage Concert in Central Park on
Sunday, September 10, 2017. The concert will mark the first time in 7 years that the celebrated leader of the Cuban “Nueva Trova” movement will perform in the United States. Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist Tito Auger will open the show.

The iconic poet and guitarist will perform songs from his latest album, Amoríos (2015), alongside his classic hits. He will be accompanied by Rachid López (guitar), Maikel Elizarde (tres), Niurka González (flutist and clarinetist), Oliver Valdés (drummer and percussionist), Jorge Reyes (double bassist), Jorge Aragón (pianist), and Emilio Vega (vibraphonist).

Silvio Rodríguez last performed in New York in 2010 to a sold-out crowd. The show was his first performance in the United States in 30 years.

Queer Book Club reads Adam Silvera's ``More Happy than Not``
Sunday, Sept. 10, 5:00pm at Book Culture (ask correct ending time)
450 Columbus Ave. btw. W.81st & W.82nd nr. C, weekend A Local, #1 stops
M79 via E.79th & W.81st; 86th St. bus; venue: (212) 595-1962
description: https://goo.gl/BSNpVL =
bookculture.com/event/columbus-queer-book-club-reads-adam-silveras-more-happy-not

In the months after his father's suicide, it's been tough for sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again--but he's still gunning for it. With the support of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he's slowly remembering what that might feel like. But grief and the smile-shaped scar on his wrist prevent him from forgetting completely.

When Genevieve leaves for a couple of weeks, Aaron spends all his time hanging out with this new guy, Thomas. Aaron's crew notices, and they're not exactly thrilled. But Aaron can't deny the happiness Thomas brings or how Thomas makes him feel safe from himself, despite the tensions their friendship is stirring with his girlfriend and friends. Since Aaron can't stay away from Thomas or turn off his newfound feelings for him, he considers turning to the Leteo Institute's revolutionary memory-alteration procedure to straighten himself out, even if it means forgetting who he truly is.

Why does happiness have to be so hard?

The Queer Book Club meets on the second Sunday of every month at 5pm to discuss queer fiction, nonfiction and poetry titles. All are welcome to attend, LGBT-identifying or otherwise. Discussion is expected to run for about an hour, and may include extension into contemporary issues surrounding LGBT-identifying people. This space may also be used to discuss LGBT activism and opportunities to engage social actions. Respectful, invitational dialogue is expected of all participants. Tanmoy Tom Das Lala and Casey Beck are the facilitators of the book club. Tom and Casey will collect feedback on what members wish to read and discuss as the book club grows and evolves. Check the event calendar to see what the book is for each month. Please submit questions to queerbc@bookculture.com.

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https://facebook.com/events/875486529269289/
info@bangentrification.org 646 820 6039
https://facebook.com/pg/BANgentrification/events/

Join us after the first ever BROOKLYN wide march against Gentrification, Racism, and Police Violence ( https://facebook.com/events/833546563459181/ ) as we celebrate our community at Starr Bar in Bushwick.

There will be drinks, food, DJ Libr8 and dancing all night long!

ALL are welcome: those who marched, or want to rejoin from an earlier part of the route, and folks who may not be able to make it out during the day.

18+ (with ID at door)
Suggested donation $5-25 sliding scale to help cover the cost of the march--no one turned away for lack of funds.
To Donate to #BKMarch2017 : http://bit.ly/DonateToBAN or www.venmo.com/EqualityforFlatbush

Our neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or displaced by gentrification while our city is being made over into a playground for the super rich.

We say NO MORE!

Whose City? Our City!

#BKMarch2017
#BANGentrification
#TakeBackOurCommunities
#BKRiseUp
#BKFightsRacism
#BlackLivesMatter
#BrownLivesMatter
#EndBrokenWindows
#HereToStay

http://bangentrification.org/

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https://facebook.com/events/1965429567037313/
https://facebook.com/pg/herstoryarchives/events/ lesbianherstoryarchives@gmail.com (718) 768-3953 http://lesbianherstoryarchives.org
Trailer https://vimeo.com/58462469 http://pbs.org/pov/outinthenight/ www.outinthenight.com/screenings/

Interference Archive and the Lesbian Herstory Archives are offering a screening of the film Out in the Night.

Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians who are out, one hot August night in 2006, in the gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They are all in their late teens and early twenties and come from a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. Two of the women are the focus – gender non-conforming Renata Hill, a single mother with a soft heart and keen sense of humor, and petite femme Patreese Johnson, a shy and tender poet.

As they and their friends walk under the hot neon lights of tattoo parlors in the West Village, an older man sexually and violently confronts them. He says to Patreese “let me get some of that” as he points below her waist. When she says that they are gay, the man becomes violent and threatens to “fuck them straight”. He spits and throws a lit cigarette. Renata and Venice defend the group and a fight begins, captured by security cameras nearby. The man yanks out hair from Venice’s head and chokes Renata. Then, Patreese pulls a knife from her purse and swings at him. Strangers jump in to defend the women and the fight escalates. As the fight comes to an end, all get up and walk away. But 911 has been called and the man involved has a puncture wound from the knife. Police swarm to the scene as their radios blast out warning of a gang attack. The women are rounded up and charged with gang assault, assault and attempted murder.

Three of the women plead guilty. But Renata, Patreese, Venice and Terrain claim their innocence. They are called a “Gang of Killer Lesbians” by the media. In activist circles they become known as The New Jersey 4 (NJ4).

Through the lives of these four young women, Out in the Night reveals how their race, gender identity and sexuality became criminalized in the mainstream news media and criminal legal system.

http://www.outinthenight.com/

Above images are stills taken from the Out in the Night trailer.

Suggested donation $5-$10

Trailer https://vimeo.com/199465036
https://facebook.com/pg/TheLostVillage2017/events/

.`` The Lost Village`` at Jefferson Market Library
Thursday, Sept. 7, from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
425 6th Ave. at W. 10th St. nr. PATH, A, B, C, D, E, F, M, #1, R, W stops & M8 via 9th St.
https://facebook.com/events/1887012751550300/

. "The Lost Village" at Judson Memorial Church
Sunday, Sept. 10 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM
55 Washington Sq. South at Thompson St.
https://facebook.com/events/1887012751550300/
Q and A after the screening

Join us for a ribbon cutting for a new worker center for domestic workers and day laborers who live and work in Brooklyn

Sunday, September 10 , 2017
Noon to 4:00PM
365 Broadway Brooklyn NY 11211
https://facebook.com/events/270811103408891/
https://twitter.com/workersjusticep https://facebook.com/pg/workersjustice.org/events/ (347) 889-6347 (718) 600-0425 http://workersjustice.org info@workersjustice.org
https://facebook.com/pg/BayParkwayCommunityJobCenter/events/

We live in hard times and the odds seem against us. But it’s still possible to win dignity and respect for day laborers, domestic workers and all immigrant workers through the sheer power of organizing. Across the U.S., day laborer centers are under attack. But on Sunday, September 10, 2017, Brooklyn inaugurates a new worker center even in the midst of the racist and anti-immigrant sentiment of a Trump nation.

Join us and meet workers who are organizing to defend their right stay and right to work with dignity. Let's inspire a city to act on principles of inclusion, opportunity, and access for all.

Queer Pedagogies and Pedagogy for LGBTQ Instructors
with Kalle Westerling and Stephanie Hsu
Monday, Sept. 11 fr/ 6:00 to 8:00 PM, 365 5th Av., Rm. C204, btw. E.34th & E.35th
descriptions: https://goo.gl/w7nh8A
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https://eventbrite.com/e/queer-pedagogies-for-lgbtq-instructors-tickets-37015589625
https://facebook.com/events/1151663644977966/
Center for LGBTQ Studies/CLAGS Fall 2017 graphic https://goo.gl/Z4C9Wt
CLAGS American Studies Fall 2017 https://goo.gl/7nVMTK =
americanstudiescp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/08/29/clags-fall-semester-2017-events/
https://facebook.com/pg/thefuturesinitiative/events/ futuresinitiative@gc.cuny.edu http://futures.gc.cuny.edu (212) 817-1955 https://facebook.com/pg/clags.org/events/ https://twitter.com/CLAGSNY http://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/GC-Presents
http://gc.cuny.edu/publicprograms http://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar?scope=week
http://events.cuny.edu/c/cuny-graduate-center/ 212-817-7544, 877-428-6942
ADMISSION: Free SPONSOR:The Futures Initiative

[text below compiled from two description pages; see links above. -t. ]

Co-sponsored by the Futures Initiative, this panel organized by Kalle Westerling and Stephanie Hsu will explore queer pedagogy as a practice across material, discipline, and identity.

Queer Pedagogies for LGBTQ Instructors
Mon, Sept 11 | The Graduate Center, CUNY | C204
6:00pm – 8:00pm

In this conversation for educators who are LGBTQ or allies, moderators María R. Scharrón-del Río (Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY), Kalle Westerling (Ph.D. Candidate and Futures Initiative Fellow, the Graduate Center, CUNY), and Stephanie Hsu (Associate Professor, Pace University), ask you:

- What are your pedagogical priorities now? How have they changed?
- What do we need to unlearn? Where does learning start?
- What does intersectionality really mean? How have we gotten it wrong so far?
- How do you take care of yourself? How will you perform self-care this semester?

Hear from other educators (graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 welcome), share practical resources, and fortify your heart for teaching at this inaugural event of CLAGS’s Queer Pedagogy Network. Registration for this free event is required. Co-sponsored by the Futures Initiative and CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.
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CLAGS Fall Semester 2017 Events
https://goo.gl/cqvS65
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. Queer Pedagogies
Monday, Sept 11, 6:00 to 8:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C204
Register Here https://goo.gl/kQuFHF
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A conversation for educators who are LGBTQ or allied, moderated bu María R. Scharrón-del Río (Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY), Kalle Westerling (Ph.D. Candidate and Futures Initiative Fellow, the Graduate Center, CUNY), and Stephanie Hsu (Associate Professor, Pace University). Hear from other educators (graduate, undergraduate, and K-12), share practical resources, and fortify your heart for teaching at this inaugural event of CLAGS’s Queer Pedagogy Network, cosponsored by the Futures Initiative.

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

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

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

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

. Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City with Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Wednesday, Oct 18 from 6:30 to 8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center Rm. C205
Register Here https://goo.gl/v5apUo = eventbrite.com/e/hip-hop-heresies-queer-aesthetics-in-new-york-city-with-shante-paradigm-smalls-tickets-33441735130
Shanté Paradigm Smalls won CLAGS’ 2016 Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBTQ Studies. Hip Hop Heresies proposes new ways to think about the “authentic” hip hop body and the ways hip hop artists, DJs, rappers, and filmmakers, in this case, deploy New York City and its specific artistic, racial, gender, and sexual populations and traditions, to remake hip hop meaning and doing. Particularly, this manuscript troves the rich and untapped alternate hip hop historiographies—the queer(ed) bodies, Afro-Asian cultural production, sonic gender drag, graphic novel avatars, and the mash-up of rap and Broadway musicals.

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

. Queerness in Flamenco: Flamenco Vivo!
Wednesday, Nov

Rachel Sherman, ``Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence``
Monday, Sept. 11, 6:00 PM in
63 5th Av., 7th Fl. (Rm. 700), btw. E. 13th St. & E. 14th St.,
https://twitter.com/CapStudies/status/900356132543356928
https://newschool.edu/nssr/events/
Contacts: capitalismstudies@newschool.edu https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/about-us/

Race in the United States: The Social Construction of Race and Islamophobia
Sept.11 & Mondays at New School University Ctr.
descriptions: https://goo.gl/F2Gwr2 = eventbrite.com/e/race-in-the-united-states-the-social-construction-of-race-and-islamophobia-tickets-37769044228
https://twitter.com/TheCamilleAE/status/906308749886988288
https://livestream.com/thenewschool/Race-in-the-US
The 2016 U.S. Presidential election revealed the stubborn persistence of bigotry in the United States, and demonstrated that race continues to play a significant, if changing, role in how we define our communities, develop our public policy, and shape our democratic institutions. This course brings together scholars, experts, thought leaders and activists to examine such issues as racial stratification, implicit bias, and the complex, intersectional relationships between race, gender, and class. What is race and how do we understand it today? How are demographic shifts driving wedges between communities and/or fostering pluralism? How democratic is our pluralist society? What is the role of racial divides in fomenting political partisanship? What impact does racialized discourse have on such issues as the social safety net, immigration, criminal justice, technology, voting, and urban policy?

This guest lecture will be presented by Linda Sarsour, Organizer of the Women’s March, Former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York.

“Race in the USA” is The New School’s second University course on post-election America, and is sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the 2017 Henry Cohen Lecture Series of The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy.

If you can’t make it to our NYC campus, watch + engage live with each week’s lecture on Facebook or Livestream. Follow the conversation on social media using #RaceInTheUS.

Mon, September 11, 2017

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

The New School, Starr Foundation Hall, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue
Organizer of Race in the United States: The Social Construction of Race and Islamophobia

We, Too, Sing America: Celebrating Langston’s Legacy
Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, 6:30 to 8:00 pm
The Langston Hughes HouseLangston Hughes House
20 E. 127th St., btw. 5th & Park Aves.
Free with RSVP: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/10198174
https://pen.org/event/sing-america-celebrating-langstons-legacy/
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(212) 334-1660 http://itooarts.com https://twitter.com/ITooArts/status/903339110600978434
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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2017 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT. Find out what we’re up to during Brooklyn Book Festival here.

PEN America and the I, Too, Arts Collective present an evening of poetry in the Langston Hughes brownstone in Harlem. Calling on talented poets from across New York City, this inter-generational event will feature 2016 NYC Youth Poet Laureate Nkosi Nkululeko and 2016 Queens Youth Poet Laureate Trace DePass, along with poets Ellen Hagan, Haydil Henriquez, and Vincent Toro, all of whom will bring Langston’s legacy to life: filling the brownstone with light, life, and poetry.

Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. Her collections of poetry include: Crowned, Sawyer House Press 2010 and Hemisphere, Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found on ESPNW, in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin.

Haydil Henriquez is an arts educator, activist and poet born and raised in the South Bronx. Daughter of diligent Dominican parents, a taxi driver and a waitress with many dreams, she was raised to value her Caribbean culture and celebrate her black roots. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Education; throughout her college education she worked with displaced youth in Bogotá, Colombia coordinating and teaching summer workshop series’ on oral storytelling, spoken word poetry and women empowerment for a project called Taller de Paz. She joined the DreamYard Art Center team in 2014 as a Program Associate and now serves as the Co-Director of the DreamYard Art Center.

Nkosi Nkululeko is Callaloo and Poets House Fellow. A speaker for TEDxNewYork and Aspen Ideas Festival, he is a finalist for the 2016 Winter Tangerine Awards for Poetry, Best of the Net anthology, and nominee for the Pushcart Prize. His work is currently published in Pank, Apogee, VINYL, and other publications. Nkosi lives in Harlem, New York.

Trace Howard DePass is the 2016 Teen Poet Laureate for the Borough of Queens and editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2017. His work has been featured on BET Next Level, Billboard, Blavity, NPR’s The Takeaway, and also resides within literary homes – Entropy Magazine, Split This Rock!, The Other Side of Violet, & Penmanship’s East Coast Voices Anthology.

Vincent Toro is the author of STEREO.ISLAND.MOSAIC., which was awarded Ahsahta Press’s Sawtooth Poetry Prize and The Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. He has an MFA in poetry from Rutgers and is contributing editor for Kweli Literary Journal. Vincent is recipient of a Poet’s House Emerging Poets Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, The Caribbean Writer’s Cecile De Jongh Poetry Prize, and the Metlife Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award. Vincent’s poems have been published in The Buenos Aires Review, Codex, Rattle, The Cortland Review, Vinyl, The Hawai’I Review, Washington Square Review, The Paterson Review, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015. Vincent teaches at Bronx Community College, is writing liaison at The Cooper Union’s Saturday Program, and is a poet in the schools for The Dreamyard Project and the Dodge Poetry Foundation.

An evening with Kamau Ware, author of "The Other Side of Wall Street," a graphic novel about the enslaved people in the early days of New York City.

Kamau Ware has become known for creating walking tours of slavery sites in downtown New York City, and he wrote this book to bring to life the stories of enslaved people, which have largely been lost. ( Recent profile of Kamau in The Atlantic:
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/black-gotham/528720/ )

This event is one of the official "Bookend" events of the Brooklyn Book Fair, and will take place at Revolution Books in Harlem.

https://facebook.com/events/1126461434165473/

(was: "Book Release- Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray")

NYC Book Release Event for Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
https://facebook.com/events/1914826795426147/
Graphic, tour schedule, Democracy Now clip: http://static.mhpbooks.com/antifa/
https://mhpbooks.com/books/antifa/

Historian and former Occupy Wall St. organizer Mark Bray will discuss the history of the anti-fascist movement, as detailed in his new book ANTIFA. He will also look at its past successes in fighting fascism throughout history, and discuss the impact the movement could potentially have in America today.
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As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism — also known as “antifa.” Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and ’30s, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amidst opposition to the Trump administration and the alt-right. They could be seen in news reports, clad all in black with balaclavas covering their faces, fighting police at the presidential inauguration, and on California college campuses protesting right-wing speakers …

Simply, antifa aims to deny fascists the opportunity to promote their oppressive politics — by any means necessary. Critics say shutting down political adversaries is anti-democratic; antifa adherents argue that the horrors of fascism must never be allowed the slightest chance to triumph again.

In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a one-of-a-kind look inside the movement, including a detailed survey of its history from its origins to the present day — the first transnational history of postwar anti-fascism in English. Based on interviews with anti-fascists from around the world, Antifa details the tactics of the movement and the philosophy behind it, offering insight into the growing but little understood resistance fighting back against the alt-right.

Fashion, Culture & Justice
Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 fr/ 7:00 to 8:30 pm
John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center
63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, btw. E. 13th & E. 14th, nr. L, F, M, PATH, 1, 2, 3, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 & 14th St. buses;
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http://events.newschool.edu/calendar?event_types[]=19319
https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/fashion-school/
JenkinsK@newschool.edu www.kimberlymjenkins.com
https://newschool.edu/nth-degree/

Situated during the fashion industry's highlight week in New York, this event will serve to identify, address, and deepen our understanding of the social and systemic issues that challenge and pervade the fashion system. Topics that will be the focal point of this solutions-based discussion will include cultural appropriation and cultural sensitivity, and what fashion makes possible in a tense political climate.

Kim Jenkins, part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design, will moderate a panel discussion with change makers of color in fashion:

Elaine Welteroth, Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue

Aurora James, Creative Director of Brother Vellies

Amy Farid, Fashion industry hairstylist

Anastasia Garcia, Photographer and body positive activist

This event is free and open to the public, and made possible through the support of CHROMAT and the School of Fashion at Parsons.

Part of The Nth Degree Series: Creative Minds Creating Change.

General Public

Parsons School of Design, School of Fashion
Free and open to the public
#FashionJustice

see description, contacts & any changes at
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excerpt...
Join the Justice for Keenan and Anthony Coalition at a rally at the Suffolk County DA's office. On June 22, Vigilante Christopher Bouchard was arrested and only charged with reckless endangerment for mowing down 19 year old Keenan King and 20 year old Anthony Holmes-Garriques in Suffolk County Long Island.
Bouchard claims he believed the bikes to have been stolen and pursued the two despite calling the police earlier that day to report a stolen bike.
Witnesses reported seeing Bouchard driving at least 100 mph and making a u-turn in traffic to have a full-on collision with the two young men, killing King on the spot and injuring Holmes-Garriques who later that same day died in the hospital.

Witnesses also reported Bouchard and his brother, after killing King...

No Nazis at UF - Protest Richard Spencer
Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 6:00 PM
University of Florida Performing Arts
3201 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida 32611
https://www.facebook.com/events/160699957823265/ Public · Hosted by Mitch Emerson
Well documented white supremacist Richard Spencer will be speaking at the University of Florida on September 12. We will share informations and support any actions taken to not allow this event to take place. However, so long as this event is still scheduled, we will be coordinating rides from across the state to protest the event and not allow a repeat of the recent events from UVA to happen here at the University of Florida.

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

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

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/113978436003188/

NYC Trans Oral History Project Panel
Tuesday, Sept. 12 from 6:30 to 9:30pm, CUNY Grad. Ctr. Room C198
Register at: https://goo.gl/wQh14m https://facebook.com/events/479204805792702/
https://facebook.com/pg/NYC.TOHP/events/ https://nyctransoralhistory.org
nyctransoralhistory@nypl.org https://facebook.com/pg/clags.org/events/
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Kiara St. James, AJ Lewis, Nadia Awad and Michelle Esther O'Brien make up this panel on the participatory NYC Trans Oral History Project hosted at the NYPL. Speakers will discuss the role of story-telling and personal narrative in queer movements and survival, reflect on institutional politics of oral history and trans studies, trans historiography, and the need to change practices in oral history collection.

CLAGS events are free and open to the public, but space is limited. The building is wheelchair accessible. Photo credit: Diana Davies

SPEAKERS:

Kiara St. James has been a community organizer for some 20 years. She has been instrumental in changing shelter policies that were discriminatory towards the Trans community. Kiara has spoken on a panel hosted by the United Nations on marginalized communities, and for last 17 years has been meeting with legislators to discuss the importance of passing Gender Expression Non Discrimination Act, a bill that will enrich the lives of all New Yorkers through creating culturally affirming spaces. Kiara is the Founder of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group (NYTAG inc), an organization that is Trans-led and intent on creating new opportunities for the Trans community, and is currently the head of NYTAG Downstate. Kiara has contributed her oral history to NYC Trans Oral History Project.

Michelle Esther O’Brien works with the NYC Trans Oral History Project. She is a writing a dissertation at New York University on how changes in capitalism, industry and class politics shaped NYC LGBTQ and AIDS movements. She brings to that work years of organizing with AIDS advocacy, trans rights, and socialist movement struggle.

Nadia Awad is a visual artist and oral history enthusiast. Her work spans collage, painting, and video, and explores the relationship between memory and power. Selected exhibitions include: Iraqi Civilian Memorial Exhibition, Elizabeth Foundation Gallery, works gallery, flux factory and Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery. She has written about Palestinian cinema and video for New Inquiry and Camera Obscura (co-authored with Colleen Jankovic). Nadia Awad received 2015-2016 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship, a BRIC Media Fellowship, and a residency at Smack Mellon Studio Program. Nadia conducts interviews with NYC Trans Oral History Project as a volunteer.

Abram J Lewis is a founder and co-coordinator of the NYC Trans Oral History Project, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Sexualities Project at Northwestern University. AJ's teaching and research focuses on queer and trans activist history, with an emphasis on the politics of race, disability, capitalism, and religion. Some of his writing has appeared in Radical History Review, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Scholar & Feminist Online, and Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility.

The NYC Trans Oral History Project is a collective, community archive working to document transgender resistance and resilience in New York City. We work to confront the erasure of trans lives and to record diverse histories of gender as intersecting with race and racism, poverty, dis/ability, aging, housing migration, sexism, and the AIDS crisis. We privilege the insights of vulnerable trans communities fighting the structural dismantling of public benefits, housing insecurity and homelessness, policing, and surveillance.

We are inspired by the public history activism of the ACT Up Oral History Project to build knowledge as a part of our anti-oppression work. We believe oral history is a powerful part of social justice work, and that building an alternative archive of transgender histories can transform our organizing for transgender liberation. You can listen to interviews here: http://oralhistory.nypl.org/neighborhoods/trans-history

Anyone who identifies as trans / gender non conforming and as a sometime resident of New York City is invited to contribute and interview. All interviews are accessible to the public and part of the Creative Commons license for free and open use.
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CLAGS Fall Semester 2017 Events
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. NYC Trans Oral History Project Workshop
Tuesday, Sept 12, 6:30 to 9:30pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY | C198
Register Here https://goo.gl/S1ivGz
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Kiara St. James, AJ Lewis, Nadia Awad and Michelle Esther O’Brien make up this panel on the participatory NYC Trans Oral History Project hosted at the NYPL. Speakers will discuss the role of story-telling and personal narrative in queer movements and survival, reflect on institutional politics of oral history and trans studies, trans historiography, and the need to change practices in oral history collection.

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

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

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

. Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City with Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Wednesday, Oct 18 from 6:30 to 8:30pm, CUNY Graduate Center Rm. C205
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NEXT Refuse Fascism NYC Organizing meeting
Tues Sept 12 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in LGBT Center
208 W. 13th St. [ btw. Greenwich Av. & 7th Av.; L to 8 Av.; A, C, E, #1, 2, 3, F, M, PATH to various 14th St. stops; buses via 14th St. or 9th St.;
organizer: (646) 851-6785 ]

This morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump/Pence regime has decided to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Protests have begun and will continue throughout the country. Go to one, call one if there isn’t one near you. Bring NO! signs and calls for November 4. This is a straight up fascist move that must be defeated.

Thousands of students & others are protesting today around the US. Join them, and bring the demand -- This Nightmare Must End! Trump/Pence Regime MUST GO! November 4 It Begins...

[photo caption] today outside Trump Tower

Sunsara Taylor, of RefuseFascism.org says, “Today’s decision by the Trump/Pence Regime to end DACA, coming in the wake of the pardon of the racist Sherriff Arpiao; Trump’s support for white supremacists in Charlottesville and his threats of nuclear war against North Korea are a massive escalation of fascism in America. It is clear, the whole Trump/Pence Regime is illegitimate and they must go! November 4, it begins. Many thousands will take to the streets day after day, night after night, growing to involve millions of people refusing to stop until our demand is met: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!”

Today’s announcement means that 800,00 Dreamers, undocumented youth brought to this country as children, will be deemed illegal and targeted for deportation. For many of them this is the only country they have ever known.

This is cruel, inhumane and unacceptable! It is also just one piece of the whole Trump/Pence fascist agenda!

Here’s just a taste of what they have done already. Read more on what this regime has done and intends to do.

—Trump’s first act in office was an executive order targeting ALL 11 million undocumented immigrants for deportation regardless of any criminal record.

—Arrests of immigrants are up almost 40% from record highs under Obama.

—Every day since Trump/Pence came to office over 400 people have been ripped away from their lives, families, and jobs by ICE.

This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

As we have said since RefuseFascism.org first formed in response to the election of the Trump/Pence Regime, this regime will keep launching repressive measures, eventually clamping down on all the resistance unless they are driven from power. All this makes our work organizing and spreading the word about November 4 more important than ever!

On November 4, many thousands will take to the streets day after day and night after night, growing eventually to millions and refusing to stop until our demand is met: This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!

Refuse Fascism — NYC

Race, Systems, and Society
Tuesday, Sept. 12, from 6:30 to 8:00pm in NYSEC Elliott Library, Room 507
Guests $5 per session. This seems to be a regular NYSEC meeting.
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With Leader Dr. Richard Koral
Even among those who are mindful of the subtle racial, ethnic, and class distinctions that persist in society, we are all participants in a larger societal structure that perpetuates injustices. We will read and discuss books and articles that explore the features of systemic racism and classism in America to better understand the ways in which society can recreate itself to permit all people to flourish and thrive.

NYC Says: Do it Like Durham!
Join us as we rally in solidarity with the brave freedom fighters in Durham, NC, who are facing arrests, house raids and trumped up charges after pulling down a Confederate soldiers' monument on August 14.

On September 12 many of those arrested in Durham will have their first court date since their arraignment. Workers World Party is calling solidarity actions all around the country:
facebook.com/events/267032350459968/

We'll rally at the statue of Christopher Columbus, a genocidal pillager whose monuments belong in the dustbin of history. It is an insult to all oppressed peoples, and in particular the First Nations of the Western Hemisphere, that a monument to him continues to stand in New York City.

#DefendDurham
#DoItLikeDurham
#TakEmDown

https://www.facebook.com/events/365319293905970/

Johanna Neuman on Gilded Suffragists
Tuesday Sept. 12 from 7:00 PM in Book Culture on Columbus
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www.johannaneuman.com/book/gilded-suffragists/ FB: https://goo.gl/tcdYzB

Johanna Neuman will speak and be interviewed by a Harper Magazine editor at New York’s premier independent bookstore. She will discuss her book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, in the context of how social change is made in America
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Join Book Culture and Harper's Magazine on Tuesday, September 12 at 7:00pm for a discussion of Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote by Johanna Neuman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tuesday, Sept. 12, 7:00 PM at The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, at Stockholm St.,
off Dekalb Av.; M Train to Central Av. (at Cedar St. & walk east, away from Manhattan); J to Myrtle Av. (NW exit, nearest Manhattan, then walk NE on Dekalb); L to DeKalb Av. (between the exits find Stockholm St. & walk SW, against traffic); buses via DeKalb or Myrtle; B60 via Wilson Av.;
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[nycabc] BK/NY – Tuesday, September 12 – Letter Writing Dinner for Xinachitli
From: NYC ABC

WHAT: Political Prisoner Letter Writing Dinner
WHEN: 7pm sharp, Tuesday, September 12 , 2017
WHERE: The Base – 1302 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11221
(directions below)
NOTE: The Base is on the ground floor, is wheelchair accessible, and has
a gender neutral toilet.
COST: Free

Just last month the “left” was in agreement that fighting fascists was a
good thing. Apparently, that sentiment was short-lived, as centrist
liberals and progressives are now taking the same stance as Trump in
comparing antifa to the nazis, with their status quo, zero-analysis
critique of qualifying all “extremism” as bad. Meanwhile, it is
antifascists and anarchists who are taking up direct action in the wake
of Hurricane Harvey, creating a system of mutual aid while the state
proves itself useless to those who are struggling.

Speaking of fighting fascists, this week NYC ABC is focusing on
Xinachitli (formerly known as Alvaro Luna Hernandez), a Chicano-Mexicano
political prisoner sentenced to 50 years in prison for aggravated
assault on a cop when he disarmed a sheriff attempting to shoot him.

This will be our last letter-writing dinner before Running Down the
Walls coming up on September 17th in Prospect Park! You can donate at
https://gumroad.com/nycabc. This year’s local beneficiary is the 5
Borough Anti-Repression Committee (5BARC). 5BARC is dedicated to
defending NYC #DisruptJ20 defendants who were mass arrested on
inauguration day in Washington D.C. while protesting against everything
Trump stands for. Each defendant now faces at least 8 felony charges
which amount to 75 years in prison. 5BARC aims to build a local
coalition of organized supporters who will voice their opposition to
these absurd charges. #DISMISSJ20

Deeply impacted by witnessing the murder of one of his friends by a
known racist cop, Xinachitli dedicated his life to fighting police
brutality, especially as it was manifest against the Chicano community.
From 1976 through 1990, Xinachitli was falsely accused of murder (and
after public outcry eventually released) and severely beaten by police,
all the result of his work to end police brutality in Houston, Texas.

In 1996, Brewster County Sheriff Jack McDaniel came to his house,
allegedly to arrest him for robbery. The cop didn’t have an arrest
warrant and when Xinachitli, unarmed, questioned the cop’s abuse of
power, the cop pulled his gun. Before he could shoot, Xinachitli
disarmed the cop without injuring him, and fled. Upon his capture,
Xinachitli was found guilty and sentenced to 50 years in prison for the
bogus charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Xinachitli is
going 15 consecutive years in prolonged solitary confinement in supermax
prison, and has been repeatedly denied treatment for life-threatening
Hepatitis C.

As Xinachitli would say, La Lucha Continua! The struggle continues!

If you can’t make it out on Tuesday, take a minute to write from home:
Alvaro Luna Hernández #255735
James V Allred Unit
2101 FM 369 North
Iowa Park, Texas 76367

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

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

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

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

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

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https://facebook.com/pg/pnhpnymetro/events/ organizing@pnhpnymetro.org http://pnhpnymetro.org (646) 866-7671 https://twitter.com/PNHPNYMetro www.pnhpnymetro.org

Featured Speakers:

Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD: Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health

Michael Zingman, MPH: 2nd year Medical Student, College of Physicians & Surgeons - Columbia University; Board Member, NY Metro Chapter of PNHP

To kick off the academic year, join PNHP NY Metro and student leaders from medical and public health schools across the city for a presentation with Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun on the history of health activism on medical campuses during the 1960s and 70s. The presentation will be followed by reports from student leaders about the growth of the student movement for single payer health care and tactics that unite students to oppose cuts to our current health care system, while pushing for improved Medicare for All.

The student arm of PNHP—Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)—has grown to over 50 chapters nationwide with 8 chapters in the NY Metro area. To find out more about our student movement, visit http://student.pnhp.org/

You're Invited to PNHP NY Metro's Annual Student Forum

Health Activism on Campus: 1960s and 2017
http://www.pnhpnymetro.org/student_forum_2017 646-866-7671 • www.pnhpnymetro.org info@pnhpnymetro.org www.pnhpnymetro.org/student_forum_2017

Featured Speakers:

Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD: Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health

Michael Zingman, MPH: 2nd year Medical Student, College of Physicians & Surgeons - Columbia University; BoardMember, NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program

When: Tuesday, September 12, 7:30pm

Where: Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center, 10 Union Square East @ E 14th Street, 2nd Floor

To kick off the academic year, join PNHP NY Metro and student leaders from medical and public health schools across the city for a presentation with Professor Merlin Chowkwanyun on the history of health activism on campus during the 1960s and 70s.

The student arm of PNHP—Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)—has grown to over 50 chapters nationwide with 8 chapters in the NY Metro area. The presentation will be followed by reports from student leaders about the growth of the student movement for single payer health care and tactics that unite students to oppose cuts to our current health care system, while pushing for improved Medicare for All.

Help spread the word on Facebook or download the flyer.

After the event, join students for "SNaHPPY" hour at a local bar [TBD].

Endorsed by: Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)

All PNHP-NY Metro forums are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE

September 12, 2017 at 7:30pm - 9pm
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East @ E 14th Street 2nd Floor

PNHP NY Metro

Film Screening & Discussion. "I Came to Testify"
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, 6:00pm in Harriman Institute Atrium in
International Affairs Building/SIPA, 420 W. 118th St. 12th Fl.
http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-discussion-i-came-testify
Trailers, film info: https://goo.gl/5WAcKd https://youtu.be/ayMCtiVzG2s
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2063551/

Please join us for a screening of the documentary film I Came to Testify, followed by a discussion with filmmaker and media executive Pamela Hogan, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, Chief of Cabinet and Spokesperson for the High-Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Nihal Saad, and film producer and President of the Post-Conflict Research Center Velma Šarić. The discussion will be moderated by Tanya Domi (SIPA/Harriman Institute).

Run Time: 60 Minutes

When the Balkans exploded into war in the 1990s, reports that tens of thousands of women were being systematically raped as a tactic of ethnic cleansing captured the international spotlight. I Came to Testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke history’s great silence – and stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law. Now, as Bosnia is once again in the headlines with the capture of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, the women agree to speak for the first time since then, on condition that we keep their identities hidden for their protection. “Witness 99,” who was held at gunpoint for a month with dozens of other women in a sports hall in the center of town remembers: “We were treated like animals. But that was the goal: to kill a woman’s dignity.” Their remarkable courage resulted in a triumphant verdict that led to new international laws about sexual violence in war. Returning to Bosnia 16 years after the end of the conflict, I Came to Testify also explores the chasm between this seismic legal shift and the post-war justice experienced by most of Bosnia’s women war survivors. Narrated by Matt Damon.

Pamela Hogan is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and media executive. Her film Looks Like Laury Sounds Like Laury - about the mother of two young children confronting a neurological breakdown – was named one of "The Best TV Shows of 2015" by The New York Times. She was Co-creator, with Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker, of the series Women, War & Peace and directed one episode, I Came to Testify, about the Bosnian women who changed international law by testifying about wartime rape for the first time in history. Previously, Pamela was Executive Producer of PBS's acclaimed series Wide Angle where she worked closely with global filmmakers on 70 programs spotlighting under-reported international stories. Her speaking engagements include the White House, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Capitol Hill, the Asia Society, the U.N., the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard and UC Berkeley Law Schools. A Board Member of the International Center for Transitional Justice and honoree of the National Council for Research on Women's Making a Difference for Women campaign, she has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for the past five years. She is currently making a documentary about the women of Iceland.

Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is a faculty member at New York University. She graduated from Brown University in 1987, with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. After two years in West Africa working on local fiction and documentary film projects, she attended the French National Film School (FEMIS) in Paris. Her film credits include Derrida (2002), a documentary on French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the documentary Darfur Now (2006), and Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) which won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary.

Nihal Saad is Chief of Cabinet & Spokesperson for the High-Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC). Prior to that she was the Spokesperson for the President of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly. As Chief of Cabinet for the High Representative of UANOC, Ms. Saad led UNAOC task force team in organizing UNAOC 6th and 7th Global Forums in Bali in 2014, and Baku in 2016. With more than twenty two years of experience in Journalism, Ms. Saad was the Head of the Press & Information Bureau at the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN. Before moving to New York, she was Senior Political Correspondent and TV host for Egypt’s TV. She holds a Masters degree in TV Journalism from the American University in Cairo and a Diploma in Linguistics from Ain Shams University in Cairo. She has moderated several panel discussions in international and regional meetings. Ms. Saad has appeared on several TV shows as a commentator on International affairs, with Larry King (CNN), Al Arabyia TV, France 24, Egypt’s TV and other media outlets.

Velma Šarić is a researcher, journalist, peacebuilding expert and human rights defender from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to her position as Founder and President of the Post-Conflict Research Center, she is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Balkan Diskurs, and Project Manager of the War Art Reporting and Memory (WARM) Foundation, Sarajevo Branch. As a researcher and producer she has worked on numerous publications and films about the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, including Uspomene 677, In the Land of Blood and Honey by Angelina Jolie, and I Came to Testify and War Redefined from the PBS series Women, War & Peace. Velma has held fellowships at both Columbia University in New York and the Robert Bosch Foundation. As part of her fellowship with the Robert Bosch Foundation, she attended the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Fellowship Program. In 2014 Ms. Šarić and the Post-Conflict Research Center were awarded the Intercultural Innovation Award by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group.

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Court presence vs. Delrawn Small`s killer
NYC Weds 9/13 is final pre-trial hearing of NYPD cop who murdered #DelrawnSmall
on July 4, 2016.
Support Delrawn's fam & help #PackTheCourt
https://twitter.com/JooHyun_Kang/status/907590208954269696
https://facebook.com/pg/Justice4Delrawn/events/

[ Brooklyn Supreme Court - Criminal Term opens 9am. Allow time & arrive prepared for airport-style magnetometer body search with no lockers. See also:
``Wayne Isaacs``, Case #05873-2016 on webcrims: https://goo.gl/bmCYyf ]

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

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

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Celebrating the return to local control of the Newark Public Schools District after 22 years of State control. Event will be held outside, weather permitting. Students, teachers, school district employees, parents, education advocates and the general public are invited to attend.

https://www.facebook.com/events/339025856510387/

Greet the arrival of the members of the March for Justice which began in New York City and walked all the way to Albany to demand human rights of people in prison, justice and an end to abusive prison conditions! Join us for speakers and a rally with community members from across NYS:

Wednesday, September 13 , 5:00 p.m.
West Capitol Park, Corner of State and S. Swan at the Capitol in Albany

The March for Justice is an undertaking by the Alliance of Families for Justice–NY (AFJ-NY) to bring to the attention of the New York State Legislative body, Governor, and the general public, human rights abuses in New York State prisons and jails. Some of the prominent key issues the March will address include:

Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility
Family Visitation to Prisons
Meaningful reform of the use...
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March for Justice w. The Alliance of Families for Justice
19 - day march from Saturday Aug. 26 to Wednesday Sept. 13
Sign up to march! https://afj-ny.org/sign-up-for-march-info
https://afj-ny.org/events/ 347-973-0580
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ORGANIZERS' NOTE: Facebook would not allow an event to span more than two weeks so the end date is not reflected in this event. The march will span AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 13, beginning in Harlem and ending in Albany. Please follow this page for updates!

The March for Justice is an undertaking by the Alliance of Families for Justice–NY (AFJ-NY) to bring to the attention of the New York State legislative body, governor and the general public the human rights abuses in New York State prisons and jails. Below are some of the prominent key issues the March will address:

Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility

Family Visitation to Prisons

Meaningful reform of the use of solitary confinement

Close Attica and eliminate human rights abuse in prisons and jails

Meaningful reform of parole

Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) Campaign

The March will start in New York on Saturday, August 26, 2017, and culminate in a major press conference and rally in Albany on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 -- the anniversary of the 1971 Attica uprising and massacre*. A core team of marchers will complete the entire route joined daily by others who want to contribute their efforts to this March as a demonstration of support for the cause. Please join us!

Registration closed. Details below.

On the Front Lines of Reproductive Rights
When: Wednesday, Sept. 13, 6:30pm [ask ending time -t.]
Price: Registration closed!
Please note this program takes place here at the Museum of the City of New York
at 1220 Fifth Avenue
http://mcny.org/event/front-lines-reproductive-rights 917.492.3395 programs@mcny.org

This event is now at capacity and registration is closed. There will be a
== > wait list starting at 5:45 pm on the evening of the event. Any additional seats will be released at 6:30 pm in the order the names were received. You must be physically present when your name is called or your place will be forfeited. We do not guarantee that any seats will become available.

Seating for ticket holders will be on a first come, first served basis. Latecomers may be seated in a separate overflow theater to watch a simultaneous broadcast of the program.

Free! As the first African American (and the first woman) to lead the Planned Parenthood Federation of America since Margaret Sanger founded the organization, Faye Wattleton has played a crucial role in defining our national debate over sex education, contraception, and abortion. In the second program in our series Who Controls Women’s Health?: A Century of Struggle, Wattleton sits down with Marcela Micucci, a scholar of women’s history and gender, to discuss the fraught history of women’s access to birth control and the role of Planned Parenthood in debates over female reproductive autonomy.

Who Controls Women’s Health?: A Century of Struggle is a free, three-part talk series that examines key battles over women’s ability to control their bodies, health choices, and fertility. It is developed in collaboration with the New York Academy of Medicine and supported by a grant from the Humanities New York. To view all programs in this series, click here.

About the Speakers:
Faye Wattleton served as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992. She is the author of a memoir, Life on the Line (1998), and now serves as a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in New York.

Marcela Micucci is the Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral curatorial fellow at the Museum of the City of New York. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Binghamton University, where she specialized in nineteenth-century women and gender history.

This event is free and open to the public but pre-registration is encouraged.
Includes Museum admission.

Assistive listening devices are available during our events. Our auditorium can accommodate manual wheelchairs, however, our wheelchair lift cannot currently accommodate electric or motorized wheelchairs. Please contact the Public Programs Department at 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org with any questions or concerns.

Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
Wednesday, Sept. 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at
Word Up Books, W. 165th & Amsterdam Av. nr. A, C, #1
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venue (347) 688-4456 https://wordupbooks.wordpress.com/wordupevents/ info@wordupbooks.com https://twitter.com/wordupbooks
https://facebook.com/pg/WordUpBooks/events/ https://twitter.com/SocialistActNYC
https://socialistaction.org https://facebook.com/pg/SocialistActionNYC/events/

Recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have brought fascism back into the national spotlight, and raised questions: What is fascism? What is its relationship to racism and government? Is the Trump administration fascist? And how do we confront fascism? We will be addressing these questions while working to build the movement to resist Trump and his racist system.

Participants:

Glen Ford is a veteran of more than 40 years in broadcast, print and internet journalism. Glen founded the BlackAgendaReport.com (BAR), a weekly magazine of news, commentary and analysis from the Black left. BAR is known for its’ stinging critiques of Barack Obama and the racism and elitism of the Democratic and Republican parties.

International spokesperson, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Lifelong international solidarity activist.

Daniel Vila is Chair of Manhattan Greens and labor coordinator at Sisa Pataki Cultural and Labor Center, Queens, New York City. He was the 2016 Green Party candidate for the 13th Congressional District, Harlem.

Marty Goodman is a retired NYC transit worker and
Cultural and Labor Center, Queens, former member of the TWU Local 100 Executive Board. Goodman is an activist in the B&H Photo workers’ struggle against union-busting and a member of Socialist Action.

Voices 4 Chechnya Instead of QDEP
Today at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Congregation Beit Simchat Torah - CBST
130 W 30th Street, New York, New York 10001
Public · Hosted by Adam Eli and RUSA LGBT - Russian-Speaking American LGBT Association
We have to postpone the meeting with Queer Detainee Epowerment Project because Jamilla is pretty [busy] these days. Instead of that meeting we are inviting you to attend the planning meeting for our march -

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Дорогие друзья!

Мы вынуждены перенести встречу с Queer Detainee Epowerment Project, поскольку Джамила безумно занята в эти дни. Вместо этой встречи, мы приглашаем вас на встречу планированию нашего марша Voices 4 Chechnya, намеченный на 14 октября!

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We have to postpone this meeting due Jamila is pretty busy these days!

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Dear all!

We wuld like to invite you to meet with Jamila Hammami from Queer Detainee Empowerement Project!

The Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) is a collective Alternative to Detention Program (ATD),direct service, and community organizing project that works with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, queer, Two Spirit, Trans, Gender Non- Conforming, and HIV+ detainees and their families currently in detention centers, those that are recently released from detention centers, and undocumented folks in New York City.

http://www.qdep.org/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/queerdep/about/?ref=page_internal

Друзья!

Приглашаем вам на встречу с Дж...

(was: "Meanwhile, Elsewhere: New York Launch Party")

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Experience Post-Reality as a Transgender Human! We are launching our fabulous new project, "Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers" at Bluestockings!

"This book changed the way I dream"- Zoey Leigh Peterson, author of "The Time, Next Year"

Featured readers include:

Rachel K. Zall
Jeanne Thornton
Nat Buchbinder

And probably more!

Hosted by half of the books' enthusiastic editing team: Cat Fitzpatrick!

Come down, see the future, go out for beer afterwards.

LGBTQIA Representations and Italian Media
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www.queeritalia.com https://twitter.com/queeritalia/

Join us for a 2-day workshop “LGBTQIA+ Representations and Italian Media” hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY (September 14 ) and the Casa Italiana of NYU (September 15 ). This event is part of a series of workshops organized by QuIR, the Queer Italia Network.

Throughout a series of brief scholarly interventions, the participants of this workshop will look at representations of LGBTQIA+ minority communities produced by Italian socio-political media economies. Scholars working on topics ranging from AIDS narratives of famous writers, to group discourses on popular reality television, to dissident cinematic strategies of self-revelation, will share their work in a collaborative space. Participants of the workshop will directly engage with key questions that will serve as catalysts for discussions about the Italian media’s relationship to a variety of queer theories, methodologies, and identities. Open sessions and smaller group workshops will create an opportunity for dialogic engagement and possible future collaboration.

RSVP required: Those interested in attending should reserve their spots as soon as possible by emailing queeritalia@gmail.com. Please be advised that spaces are extremely limited to insure a free exchange of ideas in a communal more intimate atmosphere.

Friday, Sept. 15 , 6:30 to 8:30pm, at NYU Casa Italiana, “Queer Media Italian Style: Film Screenings.”
Join us for an evening of film screenings of shorts films. These film screenings are free and open to the public. Click here for list of films and more information.

Cosponsored by the Comparative Literature Department at the Graduate Center, CUNY and The Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Casa Italiana of New York University.

Urban Food Policy Forum: Litigation as a Strategy for Defending and Advancing Food Policy
Thursday, Sept. 14, 9:00 to 10:30 AM,
CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy
55 W. 125th St., Room 717, 7th Fl.
www.cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org/events/2017/8/16/urban-food-policy-forum http://cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org/events/
by CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute
urbanfoodpolicy@sph.cuny.edu https://twitter.com/cunyurbanfood/
https://twitter.com/cunyurbanfood/
Free
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Calorie or food labeling, misleading food advertising, taxes on sugary beverages, eligibility requirements for public food benefits—all these and more are food policy debates that have reached the court room for resolution. Food and nutrition advocates, government officials and the food industry have each used litigation to advance their food policy objectives. This panel discussion will explore the advantages and disadvantages of litigation as a strategy for policy change and promoting food equity. It will also explore the role of litigation in defending food policies that The Trump Administration or Congress are seeking to reverse. A discussion will follow the panel.

Panelists

Peter Lehner, Senior Strategic Advisor, Senior Attorney, Earth Justice. Lehner directs Earthjustice's Sustainable Food & Farming Program, developing strategies to reduce health, environmental, and climate harms from production of our food and to promote a more environmentally sound agricultural system. From 1999–2006, Peter served as chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's office. He supervised all environmental litigation by and against the state, prosecuting a wide variety of polluters and developing innovative multi-state strategies targeting global warming and air pollution emissions from the nation's largest electric utilities.

Thomas Merrill, General Counsel for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. For nearly ten years, Merrill has been counsel to the largest municipal health Department in the country. His work include policy development in the areas of chronic disease, including food and nutrition policy, and substance abuse.

Margaret Brown, Staff Attorney, New York Program, Natural Resources Defense Council. Brown advocates for more just and sustainable food systems in New York and other regions around the country. She uses legal and policy tools to improve school food, develop the growing field of food law, and implement NRDC’s national food campaigns—concerning pollinators, food waste. and many other issues—at the state and city levels.

Moderator: Nicholas Freudenberg, Director, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

Doors open at 8:45am. Panel begins promptly at 9am. Please allow additional time to check in at security desks.

Please note that your RSVP automatically adds you to our mailing list. To unsubscribe please email urbanfoodpolicy@sph.cuny.edu.

Learn more about the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute: cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org

Learn more about the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy: sph.cuny.edu

Organizer: CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

Organizer of Urban Food Policy Forum: Litigation as a Strategy for Defending and Advancing Food Policy
The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute is an academic research and action center at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy located in Harlem, NYC. We provide evidence to inform municipal policies that promote equitable access to healthy, affordable food. We apply an intersectoral perspective that links nutrition and health to sustainable community and workforce development, and we engage partners from city government, community organizations, and the university in food policy research and action.

Green States: Energy, Climate, and a Different Federalism - Sept. 26, 2017 tickets

Mass Incarceration and Violence: Are We Over-Punishing Violent Offenders? tickets

Greening New York City's Homes: Transatlantic Dialogue w/ Baden-Wurttemberg

Offshore Wind In NY: What's Next? tickets

Impact Hour: Understanding Our Impact
Amplifying and Inspiring Impact: 2017 Impact Hours
Wednesday, Sept. 14, Noon to 1:00 PM
312 So. 3rd St., # 7, Brooklyn, btw. Rodney St. & Keap St.;
J, M to Marcy Av.; G to Metropolitan Av.; map & transit: https://goo.gl/WR1Bex
descriptions: https://goo.gl/XBbwFT https://facebook.com/events/278159112610541/
https://facebook.com/pg/HumanImpactsInstitute/events/ http://humanimpactsinstitute.org
(917) 727-9761 @humanimpacts http://twitter.com/humanimpacts info@humanimpactsinstitute.org

Helping people navigate the current climate of information “clutter” is more important than ever. Our 2017 Impact Hours series will dig into ongoing environmental and social justice work, while sharing tools for more effective personal and organizational action. Each Impact Hour will include perspectives from an artist, activist, and academic on issues of communication, engagement, action, and impact. Together, we will challenge each other’s assumptions and share practical tactics for sparking social change. Join us in-person in NYC (space is limited) or online from around the world.

9/14/2017 12-1pm EDT
Impact Hour: Understanding Our Impact
We want to know…What tools do we need to see how we’re doing?
We’re going to learn…how to know you’re making a difference, taking it to the next level, diverse ways to support
Superpower you will develop….tracking and amplifying your impact

Invited Guests:
Artist: Isobel Yeung, Correspondent and Producer for HBO's Emmy-winning documentary show, VICE

Activist: Ezra Levin, President of the Board, Indivisible or Mark Connelly, Director of Online Campaigns, Moveon.org

Academic: Sophia Catsambis, Professor of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York

All events are free and open-to-the-public. Register here to participate. Doors open at 11:30. FREE lunch will be provided.

Mission
The Human Impacts Institute's mission is to foster sustainable human impacts on ecosystems through inspired engagement, leadership, collaboration, knowledge-building and creative expression.

https://facebook.com/events/1881194242145921/

In September, Congress is scheduled to vote on the budget -- and the Environmental Protection Agency is on the chopping block.

Join us on September 14 in calling on Senator Schumer to oppose any and all cuts to the EPA budget.

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are proposing massive cuts to the EPA budget, which would undermine its ability to protect our water, air and climate.

As the nation's most powerful Democrat, we need Schumer to draw a line in the sand and use his authority to block any EPA budget cuts.

On September 14, we're delivering thousands of petitions to Schumer -- come join us!

For more information, contact Eric Weltman at eweltman@fwwatch.org; 347-778-2743.

Weissman Global Seminar: Death and Taxes: The Depletion of a Natural Resource Caused by Europeans in the American Continent
Thursday Sept. 14, 12:30 to 2:00 pm
Newman Vertical Campus, Room-8-210, at Lexington Av. & E. 24th St.
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Light refreshments served
omairys.rodriguez@baruch.cuny.edu

Please join us for the next Weissman Global Seminar featuring

Dean Aldemaro Romero Jr., Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Interdisciplinary approaches have been used not only to interpret past patterns of natural resource utilization but also to provide useful tools for conservation biology and resource management. I report the == > depletion of the pearl oyster (Pinctada imbricata) beds off the coasts of the island of Cubagua, Venezuela, in the sixteenth century and the replacement of the oyster by the turkey-wind mussel (Arca zebra). I used historical tax data to conclude that the rapid depletion of this resource was the result not only of overexploitation in a short period of time but also the ecology of the place used by humans to carry out such activity. Under conditions of ecological stress generated by overexploitation, the turkey-wing mussel outcompeted the pearl oyster, thus preventing its recovery. Finally, I propose that the exploitation of the pearl oyster beds directly influenced the demographic, social, and cultural conditions of the indigenous human population in the Caribbean and, to a certain extent, Africa.

Aldemaro Romero Jr. is the Weissman Dean of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College in New York. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona, Spain and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Miami, Florida. He has published more than 1,000 pieces including more than 20 books and monographs. His academic interests range from environmental to evolutionary biology, to history and philosophy of science, to science communication and higher education. He has been awarded numerous grants as well as prizes for his research and science communication work.

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Thursday, Sep. 14 from 12:30 to 1:45pm
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South)
A Reading and signing by Zohra Drif; Translated from the French by Andrew Farrand; With Response by Willam B. Quandt
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The New Book Series at the Hagop Kevorkian Center features new publications in the interdisciplinary field of Middle East Studies.

Cosponsored by Just World Books

This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why the author, as a young French-educated woman in 1950s Algiers, joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders, driven underground by the French security services, turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for French aggression against the local population, they leapt at the chance, engraving their names among Algeria’s most iconic historical figures. (Their actions were later portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo’s famed film “The Battle of Algiers”.)

When first published in French in 2013, this intimate memoir met with great acclaim—and no small amount of controversy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the anti-colonial struggles of the twentieth century and their relevance today, but also the specific challenges that women often confronted (and overcame) in those movements.

Zohra Drif is a hero of Algeria’s war of national liberation. Born in 1934 in Tiaret, in western Algeria, she studied law at the University of Algiers before joining the National Liberation Front. As a core member of the movement’s armed wing in Algiers, she conducted or supported several high-profile operations that advanced the revolutionaries’ struggle to draw international attention to France’s abuses against the local population and the Algerians’ need for freedom. Ultimately captured by the French and condemned to twenty years of forced labor for “terrorism”, she spent five years in prison in Algeria and France, during which she continued her legal studies and her activism. In 1962, upon her country’s independence, she was freed from prison, and was soon elected to Algeria’s first National Constituent Assembly. She co-founded an organization to support youth orphaned in the liberation struggle, and went on to practice as a criminal lawyer in Algiers for several decades. A senator in Algeria’s Council of the Nation from 2001 to 2016, she served as a senate vice president from 2003 onward. In 1962 she married Rabah Bitat, one of the founding architects of Algeria’s liberation movement, with whom she had three children. Today she lives in Algiers and has five grandchildren.

Andrew G. Farrand, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, is fluent in French and North African Arabic. Since moving to Algiers, Algeria in 2013, he has worked as a writer, photographer, and freelance translator alongside his day job managing youth exchange and training programs. He blogs at ibnibnbattuta.com.

William B. Quandt is an Emeritus Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Virginia, where he spent 20 years teaching after a distinguished career in government and public affairs. Two of his nine books have dealt with political developments in Algeria. They are: Revolution and Political Leadership: Algeria, 1954–1968, (MIT Press, 1969), and Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism, (Brookings, 1998.)

THURSDAY, Sept. 14, 1:00 to 1:50 pm • RAPP on panel, “Access to Justice Issues Arising During and After Incarceration” • Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue, NY 10003 • This panel is part of a conference, “Redeeming the Pledge…And Justice for All,” sponsored by the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights • conference runs from 8:45 am-5:00 pm; preparation materials
https://goo.gl/G5Mc5z http://rappcampaign.com/events/

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

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4, 6:00 to 8:15 pm • NY RAPP Coalition meeting • 22 Cortlandt St, 33rd Fl., btw. Church St. & Broadway, (above Century 21) in Correctional Assoc. of NY office • pizza and discussion • all are welcome!

How Do Multiracial People Identify Their Children and What Does This Tell Us?
Thursday Sept. 14, 4:30 to 6:30 PM in CUNY ARC, 365 5th Av., Rm. 5318
http://gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=41233
https://twitter.com/ARCCUNY/status/902944616592355328
ADMISSION: Free
Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) http://gc.cuny.edu/arc/ 212-817-7544

ARC Seminar: Miri Song: How Do Multiracial People Identify Their Children -- and What Does This Tell Us?
While there has been significant growth in studies about ‘multiracial’ (or ‘mixed race’) individuals – that is, the children of so-called interracial unions’ – very few studies have investigated the experiences of people who are the descendants of multiracial individuals (such as the children or grandchildren of multiracial people). In Britain, the majority of mixed people are known to partner with White Britons, therefore, their children, whose minority ancestries are at a generational remove, can be called ‘multigeneration’ (2nd or 3rd generation) multiracials. As ‘mixing’ continues in many societies, and down the generations, what are the social, political and theoretical implications of this? Generational (and genealogical) distance from a minority ancestry means that some people may possess little awareness of or interest in a minority or multiracial heritage. I argue that increasingly, we must specify the generational locus of ‘mixing’ in studies of multiracial people, so that we clearly differentiate between 1st and 2nd (and even conceivably 3rd) generation mixed people, and explore the differential ways in which multigeneration multiracials do or do not value the generational transmission of minority ancestries. In doing so, in the case of individuals whose ancestries are predominantly White over successive generations, we can investigate whether there is a generational ‘tipping point’ at which one’s multiracial ancestry is no longer meaningful; thus, individual choices are inextricably linked with societal understandings of ‘who we are’, and of what constitutes minority status. And how does Britain compare with the USA, where some analysts point to an ineluctable trend toward ‘whitening’, in the case of many (non-Black) mixed people.

Miri Song is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England. She received her BA in History & Literature from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in social policy from the London School of Economics. She is the author of several books: Helping Out: Children’s Labor in Ethnic Businesses (Temple University Press 1999), Choosing Ethnic Identity (Polity Press 2003), and Mixed Race Identities (with Peter Aspinall) (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). She has just completed her latest book: Multiracial Parents: Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race (NYU Press 2017). Her research interests include ethnicity and race, migration, racisms, multiracial people and families.

Elections Under Attack: Saving Our Democracy
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 fr/ 5:00 to 7:00pm in NYSEC Ceremonial Hall (4th Fl.)
Admission: Ethical and League of Women Voters members: $10; Public: $15
Presented by the Ethical NYC and the League of Women Voters.
Click here to register: https://electionsunderattack.eventbrite.com
ethical.nyc/elections-under-attack-saving-our-democracy eventbr https://goo.gl/aQKqew https://twitter.com/LWVNYC/status/903638310794514434 https://www.facebook.com/events/135373003740043/

Speaker: Christopher Famighetti is Policy and Research Analyst with the Democracy Program at The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. Famighetti’s work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post and NPR; his commentary has appeared in Wired, Slate and the Atlantic.

The evening’s presentation will be preceded by a wine reception at 5, and followed by a Q&A.

Protest Rohingya Genocide (NYC)
Come join us in our second protest. We are meeting at
E. 47th St, between 1st and 2nd Ave. (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza)
Thursday Sept. 14, 2017 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/1932137387055177/
https://facebook.com/pg/BanglaBrigadeNYC/about/ banglabrigadenyc@gmail.com https://twitter.com/hshahana Bangla4Justice@gmail.com

Stop Rohingya genocide, and stop pushing them out of their land: state of Rakhine.

For many decades Myanmar, a country in South East Asia also known as Burma, has been pushing out their indigenous Rohingya people out into neighboring country Bangladesh. They are not recognised as citizens of Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have taken shelter at camps in bordering areas of Bangladesh.

Myanmar military is carrying out a genocide against the Rohingya people, displacing them violently. We know this displacement through persecution has been ongoing for several decades. As of August 25, 2017 military attacks have intensified and over the last two weeks, over 300,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh (RohingyaBlogger.com).

The UN General Assembly will convene on Tuesday September 12, 2017 and will be attended by world leaders. We are expecting tight security but need to mobilize and make our stance on the Rohingya genocide be known to international leaders.

We ask:
1) to stop military crackdown and attacks (genocide, ethnic cleansing) on Rohingyas
2) allow the UN to provide food, water, and medicine
3) for no military cooperation with Myanmar's army: stop sending arms
4) for Bangladesh and neighboring countries to open their borders for refugees

PLEASE BRING BANNERS & POSTERS.

Contact: BanglaBrigadeNYC@gmail.com
Media release available upon request.

The Center for the Study of Women and Society presents:
Dr. Robyn Spencer on
“Black Power and Women’s Liberation: Reconsidering the History of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA”
graphic & descriptions: https://facebook.com/events/257818128044837/
https://twitter.com/GCCenterWomen/status/900025267929927681
more talks: https://goo.gl/4CxGsx https://facebook.com/pg/GCCenterWomen/events/
https://goo.gl/6q7ZEv (212) 817-8905 ddavis@gc.cuny.edu esmall@gc.cuny.edu
IRADAC@gc.cuny.edu (212) 817-2076

In this talk, Dr. ROBYN C. SPENCER, will explore how the Black Panther Party attempted to provide an alternative space where black men and women could challenge sexism and patriarchy, as well as reconceptualize gender roles. The Panthers provided a space where they could develop their consciousness and find the tools to critique male chauvinism and female socialization. These politically conscious women transformed the Panthers internal gender politics, and by extension, their overall political agenda.

This event will take place on Thursday, September 14,
from 6:00-7:30pm, in Room 9207.

The event is free and open to the public, is part of the Center’s Fall 2017 Speaker Series, and is co-sponsored with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora (IRADAC).

(was: "Rally for a Complete Concourse") https://facebook.com/events/1912517379014496/
Transportation Alternatives https://facebook.com/pg/TABronxCommittee/events/
bronx@transalt.org http://transalt.org/bronx

Grand Concourse is the lifeline of the Bronx. Every day, thousands of Bronxites use the Grand Concourse to commute to work and school, run errands and shop on the many local businesses in the corridor. Unfortunately, over 1,000 people have been injured in a 4 year span.

While the current improvements to the Grand Concourse have been greatly beneficial to improve safety, it still falls short of the complete street design that the Bronx deserves.

Join TransAlt and the Complete the Concourse Coalition as they demand for transportation equity on the Grand Concourse to be on par with other Great Streets in New York City, including more pedestrian improvements, protected bike lanes and dedicated bus lanes. The Bronx needs a Complete Concourse for all!
:

About Transportation Alternatives Bronx Activist Committee
Transportation Alternatives Bronx Activist Committee
Community
The TABx Activist Committee is a group of volunteers advocating for safer streets for people who walk, bike and use public transit in the Bronx.

* PLEASE CHECK SOURCE OR CALL PROGRAM FOR
CLARIFICATION AS TO WHICH EVENTS ARE FREE AND
PUBLIC AND/OR MAY REQUIRE RSVP, ETC. -t. *

Center for the Study of Women and Society
https://goo.gl/tYMbgU 1-877-428-6942

WOMEN’S STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES, FALL 2017
Women’s Studies Certificate Program
Center for the Study of Women and Society at CUNY Graduate Center

SEPTEMBER

. Black Power and Women’s Liberation: Reconsidering the History of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA
Robyn Spencer
Thursday, September 14, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9207
Robyn C. Spencer is a historian whose research centers on social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. In this talk, she will explore how the Black Panther Party attempted to provide an alternative space where black men and women could challenge sexism and patriarchy, as well as reconceptualize gender roles. The Panthers provided a space where they could develop their consciousness and find the tools to critique male chauvinism and female socialization. These politically conscious women transformed the Panthers internal gender politics, and by extension, their overall political agenda.
Co-sponsored with Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)

. Othello’s Gypsy Handkerchief
Sydnee Wagner
Thursday, September 14, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9206
While the “Egyptian charmer” who purportedly created the handkerchief in Shakespeare’s Othello (1604) has been regarded as nothing more than a simple signifier for bad omens, the presence of the Gypsy woman imbues the handkerchief with associations of hypersexuality, counterfeit nature, and a seemingly unnatural relationship to magic. In attending to the Gypsy woman lurking behind the origin of the handkerchief, this talk will explore how the materiality of such objects often constitutes the immateriality of certain racialized subjects on the early modern stage, who are rendered ghostly matter in the wake of a memory in flux.
Sydnee Wagner is a PhD Candidate studying early modern English literature and culture at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Co-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) and the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences

OCTOBER

. Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki
Perry Gilmore
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 8:00pm Room: 6304.01
Perry Gilmore, Ph.D., a sociolinguist, educational anthropologist, professor of Language, Reading and Culture (LRC), and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) faculty at the University of Arizona, will speak about her most recent book, Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki. Kisisi documents the creative invention of a private Swahili pidgin language by two five-year-old friends in postcolonial Kenya. Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study, and part a mother’s memoir, this mixed genre study presents an unfolding interdisciplinary narrative that explores the complex and nuanced story of these two young language activists that effectively interrupted the colonial linguistic landscape to carve a safe space for their friendship.
Part of the Public Science Project Book Series, Fall 2017

. Women Writing Women’s Lives (Dorothy O.Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture): A Bio/Memoir, or: Seven years (for each) of working with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir
Deirdre Bair
Monday, October 16, 2017 Time: 4:00 to 5:30pm Room: 9204-9205
Deirdre Bair was a newly minted Ph.D. who thought she was going to write a critical study of Samuel Beckett. One thing led to another, and she--who had never read biography--suddenly found herself writing one. Her talk will describe the privilege (and the trials and tribulations) of working with two living subjects. It will include her coming of age as a scholar and feminist, and why now is the proper time to tell these stories.
Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of award winning biographies; Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, C. G. Jung, Saul Steinberg and Al Capone. She is also the author of the cultural study, Calling it Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over. Her innumerable, prestigious prizes include the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett.
Co-sponsored with the Leon Levy Center for Bibliography, CUNY Graduate Center’s PhD Programs in History and English, MA Program in Liberal Studies, MA Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, The Center for the Humanities, and The Feminist Press

. A Critique of Sara Soh’s Rejection of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” System as Sexual Slavery
Pyong Gap Min
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Time: 4:30 to 6:30pm Room: Sociology Lounge
Pyong Gap Min, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, will give a talk on his critique of Sara Soh’s rejection of the Japanese “comfort women” system as sexual slavery. According to Min, Soh’s 2008 book, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan, is the only comprehensive English-language book that covers both the “comfort women” issue and the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, but it has provided many controversial arguments. Prof. Min will try to show that many of Soh’s arguments provided to reject the sexual slavery thesis conflict with facts and logically unsound. Prof. Min is completing a book project focusing the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery.
Co-sponsored with the Sociology Immigration Speaker Series

. Troubling Devotion: Laywomen and the making of colonial Catholicism in New Spain
Jessica Delgado
Thursday, October 19, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9205
Jessica Delgado is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. In this talk, she will present some of the significant historiographical contributions of studying religion in colonial Mexico from the starting point of laywomen's participation and experience. Looking at laywomen's interactions with clergy, ecclesiastical courts, sacraments and other church rituals, and cloisters, the larger study from which this talk is taken argues that women were central in the gradual process of creating colonial religious culture in New Spain. This talk synthesizes some of the most important findings of this larger study, focusing on the ways that centering laywomen impacts a number of historical and theoretical debates in the field of colonial Latin American history the history of early modern Catholicism.
Co-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) and the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences

. A Challenging Journey in-between Turkey and the U.S.: Woman’s Touch in Architectural Practice
Meral Ekincioglu
Thursday, October 26, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9205
Dr. Meral Ekincioglu, a visiting scholar at the MIT, HTC program (2014-2016) who received her Ph.D. in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 2011, will elaborate and discuss some significant Turkish women practitioners dealing with commercial architecture, urban planning, historic preservation in the U.S. architecture and their contribution to the built environment from the 1960s until today. Most of those Turkish women practitioners are silent on their career and their cross-cultural encounters have been left out of the established history of postwar architecture. Considering the lack of a collective memory that recognizes those women architects in the U.S. and the Republic of Turkey, their continued absence in the scholarly literature raises a question: Can their presence in their practice be strategically constructed and maintained in architecture history?"

. [please ask topic or check source for updated listings]
Leith Mullings
Friday, October 27, 2017 Time: 4:15 to 6:15pm Room: C415A
Dr. Leith Mullings is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is an anthropologist, author, lecturer and

https://goo.gl/tYMbgU

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* PLEASE CHECK SOURCE OR CALL PROGRAM FOR
CLARIFICATION AS TO WHICH EVENTS ARE FREE AND
PUBLIC AND/OR MAY REQUIRE RSVP, ETC. -t. *

Center for the Study of Women and Society
https://goo.gl/tYMbgU 1-877-428-6942

WOMEN’S STUDIES SPEAKER SERIES, FALL 2017
Women’s Studies Certificate Program
Center for the Study of Women and Society at CUNY Graduate Center

SEPTEMBER

. Black Power and Women’s Liberation: Reconsidering the History of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA
Robyn Spencer
Thursday, September 14, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9207
Robyn C. Spencer is a historian whose research centers on social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. In this talk, she will explore how the Black Panther Party attempted to provide an alternative space where black men and women could challenge sexism and patriarchy, as well as reconceptualize gender roles. The Panthers provided a space where they could develop their consciousness and find the tools to critique male chauvinism and female socialization. These politically conscious women transformed the Panthers internal gender politics, and by extension, their overall political agenda.
Co-sponsored with Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)

. Othello’s Gypsy Handkerchief
Sydnee Wagner
Thursday, September 14, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9206
While the “Egyptian charmer” who purportedly created the handkerchief in Shakespeare’s Othello (1604) has been regarded as nothing more than a simple signifier for bad omens, the presence of the Gypsy woman imbues the handkerchief with associations of hypersexuality, counterfeit nature, and a seemingly unnatural relationship to magic. In attending to the Gypsy woman lurking behind the origin of the handkerchief, this talk will explore how the materiality of such objects often constitutes the immateriality of certain racialized subjects on the early modern stage, who are rendered ghostly matter in the wake of a memory in flux.
Sydnee Wagner is a PhD Candidate studying early modern English literature and culture at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Co-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) and the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences

OCTOBER

. Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki
Perry Gilmore
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 8:00pm Room: 6304.01
Perry Gilmore, Ph.D., a sociolinguist, educational anthropologist, professor of Language, Reading and Culture (LRC), and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) faculty at the University of Arizona, will speak about her most recent book, Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki. Kisisi documents the creative invention of a private Swahili pidgin language by two five-year-old friends in postcolonial Kenya. Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study, and part a mother’s memoir, this mixed genre study presents an unfolding interdisciplinary narrative that explores the complex and nuanced story of these two young language activists that effectively interrupted the colonial linguistic landscape to carve a safe space for their friendship.
Part of the Public Science Project Book Series, Fall 2017

. Women Writing Women’s Lives (Dorothy O.Helly Works-in-Progress Lecture): A Bio/Memoir, or: Seven years (for each) of working with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir
Deirdre Bair
Monday, October 16, 2017 Time: 4:00 to 5:30pm Room: 9204-9205
Deirdre Bair was a newly minted Ph.D. who thought she was going to write a critical study of Samuel Beckett. One thing led to another, and she--who had never read biography--suddenly found herself writing one. Her talk will describe the privilege (and the trials and tribulations) of working with two living subjects. It will include her coming of age as a scholar and feminist, and why now is the proper time to tell these stories.
Deirdre Bair is the critically acclaimed author of award winning biographies; Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, C. G. Jung, Saul Steinberg and Al Capone. She is also the author of the cultural study, Calling it Quits: Late-Life Divorce and Starting Over. Her innumerable, prestigious prizes include the National Book Award for Samuel Beckett.
Co-sponsored with the Leon Levy Center for Bibliography, CUNY Graduate Center’s PhD Programs in History and English, MA Program in Liberal Studies, MA Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, The Center for the Humanities, and The Feminist Press

. A Critique of Sara Soh’s Rejection of the Japanese Military “Comfort Women” System as Sexual Slavery
Pyong Gap Min
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Time: 4:30 to 6:30pm Room: Sociology Lounge
Pyong Gap Min, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, will give a talk on his critique of Sara Soh’s rejection of the Japanese “comfort women” system as sexual slavery. According to Min, Soh’s 2008 book, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan, is the only comprehensive English-language book that covers both the “comfort women” issue and the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery, but it has provided many controversial arguments. Prof. Min will try to show that many of Soh’s arguments provided to reject the sexual slavery thesis conflict with facts and logically unsound. Prof. Min is completing a book project focusing the redress movement for the victims of Japanese military sexual slavery.
Co-sponsored with the Sociology Immigration Speaker Series

. Troubling Devotion: Laywomen and the making of colonial Catholicism in New Spain
Jessica Delgado
Thursday, October 19, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9205
Jessica Delgado is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. In this talk, she will present some of the significant historiographical contributions of studying religion in colonial Mexico from the starting point of laywomen's participation and experience. Looking at laywomen's interactions with clergy, ecclesiastical courts, sacraments and other church rituals, and cloisters, the larger study from which this talk is taken argues that women were central in the gradual process of creating colonial religious culture in New Spain. This talk synthesizes some of the most important findings of this larger study, focusing on the ways that centering laywomen impacts a number of historical and theoretical debates in the field of colonial Latin American history the history of early modern Catholicism.
Co-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) and the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences

. A Challenging Journey in-between Turkey and the U.S.: Woman’s Touch in Architectural Practice
Meral Ekincioglu
Thursday, October 26, 2017 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Room: 9205
Dr. Meral Ekincioglu, a visiting scholar at the MIT, HTC program (2014-2016) who received her Ph.D. in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 2011, will elaborate and discuss some significant Turkish women practitioners dealing with commercial architecture, urban planning, historic preservation in the U.S. architecture and their contribution to the built environment from the 1960s until today. Most of those Turkish women practitioners are silent on their career and their cross-cultural encounters have been left out of the established history of postwar architecture. Considering the lack of a collective memory that recognizes those women architects in the U.S. and the Republic of Turkey, their continued absence in the scholarly literature raises a question: Can their presence in their practice be strategically constructed and maintained in architecture history?"

. [please ask topic or check source for updated listings]
Leith Mullings
Friday, October 27, 2017 Time: 4:15 to 6:15pm Room: C415A
Dr. Leith Mullings is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the Graduate Center CUNY. She is an anthropologist, author, lecturer and

https://goo.gl/tYMbgU

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UNTIL WE FIND YOU: THE DISAPPEARED OF AYOTZINAPA
Exhibition Opening / Digital Publication Launch / Opening Panel
Thursday Sept. 14 in 20 Cooper Sq. Building w/ Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics on Bowery opposite E. 5th St.
https://facebook.com/events/1470126289732861/
https://twitter.com/Hemisferico/status/908050579313905665
https://facebook.com/pg/hemisphericinstitute/events/
http://hemisphericinstitute.org https://twitter.com/Hemisferico

Live video broadcasting will begin at 6:00 pm EST here:
http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/hny-video

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6:00 pm | Exhibition Opening and Publication Launch

On September 26, 2014, a group of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College, traveling by bus in Iguala, Guerrero, came under armed attack by police. The police abducted 43 of the students. They have not been seen since. Emily Pederson’s photographs capture the relentless struggle to find the missing 43, and amplify the demand for truth and justice that has reverberated across Mexico and the world.

As we approach the third anniversary of the events in Iguala, the Hemispheric Institute invites you to an evening honoring the missing 43 students and the ongoing struggle to find them. Please join us for the opening of the exhibition, the launch of the accompanying digital publication, and a panel discussion on human rights and impunity in the aftermath of Ayotzinapa.

Emily Pederson is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. She has spent most of the last four years in Mexico, covering social movements and the impact of the Drug War on Mexican society. Her first short film, They Took Them Alive, delves deep into the Mexican government’s coverup of the disappearance of 43 students at the hands of police. Created for Field of Vision, it has been selected for U.S. and international film festivals and won the Emerging Filmmaker Grand Prize at the March on Washington Film Festival. Emily’s documentary work has also been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, La Jornada, The Huffington Post and El Faro. She holds a degree in Photography and Human Rights from New York University.

Anna Norris is a curator and photo editor with a special interest in social issues and a focus on the Americas.

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6:30-8:00 pm | Opening Panel (Reception to follow)

Kate Doyle is a Senior Analyst of U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. Since 1992, Doyle has worked with Latin American human rights groups, truth commissions, prosecutors and judges to obtain secret government archives that shed light on state violence. She has edited several books and written dozens of reports, book chapters, articles, and blogs in Spanish-language and U.S. media. Her work has been featured in the award-winning documentary Granito: How to Nail a Dictator and in the Stephen Spielberg production of Finding Oscar, which tells the story of the decades-long search for a child survivor of a massacre in Guatemala.

Leonor Arteaga is a Salvadoran attorney and the Senior Program Officer for the Transitional Justice Program at the Due Process of Law Foundation. She worked previously as the Deputy Ombudsman for the Rights of the Child and Youth at the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office (Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, PDDH). She also worked at the Association for the Search for Disappeared Children (Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos), where she accompanied victims and families at the community level and litigated criminal cases on forced disappearances.

Descriptions & any changes for all events:
https://mailchi.mp/45a0d6f7c197/nyu-clacs-upcoming-events
http://as.nyu.edu/clacs/events/fall-2017.html
https://twitter.com/clacs_nyu https://facebook.com/pg/CLACS.NYU/events/

Some event listings excerpted with added links...

Until We Find You: The Disappeared of Ayotzinapa
Exhibition & Panel
Sept. 14, 6:00pm in NYU Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Sq. [Bowery opposite E. 5th St., nr. #6, B, D, F, M, R, W]
https://twitter.com/Hemisferico/status/908050579313905665
https://facebook.com/events/1470126289732861/
An evening to honor 43 students abducted by armed police in Iguala, Guerrero. Emily Pederson's photographs capture the relentless struggle to find the students, and amplify the demand for truth and justice that has reverberated across Mexico and the world.
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When the People Dance: Salsa, Power and Performance in New York City
Performance & Panel
Sunday, Sept. 17, 2:00pm in Museum of the City of New York,
1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.
http://mcny.org/event/when-people-dance-salsa-power-and-performance-new-york-city
Join leading scholars to examine salsa today as both a cultural and commercial production, and delve into the inseparable links that exist between music and dance
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Race, Labor, Migration and the Transformation of the U.S. South (Panel)
Tuesday Sept. 19 Noon in NYU Social & Cultural Analysis, 20 Cooper Sq, 4th Fl. (Bowery opposite E. 5th St.; https://goo.gl/nrg6w5 = as.nyu.edu/sca/events/fall-2017/race--labor--migration-and-the-transformation-of-the-u-s--south.html
A conversation between Cecila Marquez and Thuy Linh Tu on the historic and contemporary transformation in the U.S. South brought on by migration. [Moderated] by Cristina Beltran.
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Yanick Lahens Book Presentation
Tuesday Sept. 19, 7:00pm in La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews at University Pl. [nr. Washington Sq. North/Waverly Pl.]
http://eventbrite.com/e/yanick-lahens-tickets-37708706757
Haitian author Yanick Lahens will be in conversation with Michael Dash (French Literature, Thought & Culture, NYU) about her book Moonbath
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Buenos Noches: Guided Tour of NKAME (Exhibit)
Wednesday Sept. 20, 8:00pm, El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Ave. btw. E.104th & E.105th
[#6 Train to 103 St. (at Lex); #2, 3 to CPN/110 St (at Malcolm X/Lenox);
cross town buses via 106th or 96th; M2, M3, M4 via 110 St. & 5th Av.]
http://elmuseo.org/event/buenas-noches-curator-led-tour-of-nkame-sept/
Private tour of the latest exhibition, NKAME: A Retrospective of Cuban Artist Belkis Ayon with El Museo's Curatorial Department
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Elsie Rockwell, "Divergent Policies from a Common Source? Mexican Educators Trained at Teachers College and the Issue of 'Adapted Education'"
(NYC Latin American History Workshop)
Friday, Sept. 29, 53 Washington Sq. South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St.
Event Description https://goo.gl/uBRNWL = as.nyu.edu/clacs/events/fall-2017/new-york-city-latin-american-history-workshop.html
brendan.jordan@nyu.edu
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Momenta Festival: Schoenberg, Fernandez, and Cuban Hip-Hop( Concert)
Monday, Oct. 2, 7:00pm in AS/COA, 680 Park Ave. btw. E.68th & E.69th
nr. #6, F, Q & M66 This concert is hosted by violinist Stephanie Griffin and spotlights Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon featuring Cuban rapper Telmary Díaz and pianist Christopher Oldfather.
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A Celebration to Honor the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Juan Rulfo
Book Presentation
Monday Oct. 16, 7:00pm in NYU King Juan Carlos Ctr./KJCC,
53 Washington Sq South btw. Sullivan St. & Thompson St., (next to Judson Memorial) Juan Rulfo was one Latin America's finest 20th century novelists as well as an extraordinary photographer. This event coincides with the New York premiere of the documentary "100 years with Juan Ruldo. A wanderer."
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Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico, A 21st Century Colony?
Colloquium
Friday, Oct. 20, 10:00am in Princeton University, East Pyne 010
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https://goo.gl/hBwVSr = plas.princeton.edu/events/bankruptcy-and-citizenship-puerto-rico-21st-century-colony

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Uprising 13/13: The Modern Concept of Revolution
Thursday, Sept. 14 from 6:15 to 8:45pm, C.U. Maison Francaise/Buell Hall
Registration required https://goo.gl/PAqcy2 ak4035@columbia.edu
Event & series descriptions http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/
http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/1-13/
http://heymancenter.org/events/uprising-13-13-revolution/
13/13 Seminar Series: http://maisonfrancaise.org/uprising-113
http://heymancenter.org/events/current/ https://facebook.com/pg/HeymanCenter/events @HeymanCenter http://twitter.com/HeymanCenter (212) 854-4631 (212) 854-8443 heymancenter@columbia.edu
venue 212 854-4482


Sponsors
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Though
The Heyman Center for the Humanities
The Society of Fellows in the Humanities

1/13 | THE MODERN CONCEPT OF REVOLUTION
Etienne Balibar (Columbia University)
Simona Forti (Columbia University)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco
The purpose of this seminar series is to explore various modalities of uprising, disobedience, inservitude, revolt, or other forms of political contestation. Instead of including them all under the name of “revolution”—a term that has become conceptually and historically fraught—the seminar will consider how specific experiences and discourses articulate new forms of upheaval or reformulate well-known ones. By focusing on this conceptual, historical and political problematic, we intend to shine a light on experiences and manifestations that take place at the local and at the global level, as well as at the subjective and the collective level. The idea is to articulate how critical political practice is expressed and understood today.

Uprising 13/13 will look much like the two previous CCCCT seminar series, namely Foucault 13/13 and Nietzsche 13/13. At each session, two or three guests, from different disciplines, will be invited to present on the themes of the seminar. Each seminar will host specialists from across the disciplines, from Columbia University and from outside campus. With two exceptions—Breaking Silence, which will be held in the Nave of Riverside Church, and Disobedience, which will be hosted at Columbia Global Centers—Paris, all seminars will be held at various locations around Columbia University. Visit the series websitefor more details on the readings, guests, and themes of each seminar and the series as a whole.

The seminars will be open to all. If you are interested in attending, please inform us by sending an email explaining your interest to Anna Krauthamer at ak4035@columbia.edu.

For seminar details and more information, click here

I dunno. Sounded sorta political. Though in recent months, nearly every event does. -t.

Please register on Eventbrite:
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Bookend 2017's Brooklyn Book Festival with Words Without Borders and Guernica! Writers from Colombia, Iran, and Korea will read from their work on the theme of “crossing” at this outdoor event by the water. Guests are encouraged to bring a picnic and a picnic blanket. Beverages will be for sale on site.

Date: Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 7:00pm
Location: North Brooklyn Farms, 320 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30pm. Reception to follow.

Our readers are Salar Abdoh, Giuseppe Caputo, Young-ha Kim, Krys Lee and the event will be moderated by Jessie Chaffee.

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2017 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT
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Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt Featuring Tina Campt, Rizvana Bradley, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, and Deborah Thomas
Thursday, Sept. 14, 6:30 PM at Barnard Center for Research on Women - BCRW
Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway at W. 117th St. nr. #1, A, B, C, D, M60 & 125th St. buses
https://facebook.com/events/1632269556791668/ (212) 854-2067
bcrw@barnard.edu http://bcrw.barnard.edu

What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina Campt, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, delves into lost archives of historically dismissed photographs to deepen our understanding of the lives of black subjects throughout the black diaspora. Campt invites us to open our ears to photographs of rural African women in the late 19th-century and 1960s mug shots of the Freedom Riders, and to hear in them the quiet intensity and quotidian practices of refusal. Originally intended to dehumanize, police, and restrict their subjects, these photographs convey the softly buzzing tension of colonialism, the low hum of resistance and subversion, and the anticipation of a boldly imagined and more just future.

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

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

About the Speakers

Tina Campt is Claire Tow and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Africana and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at Barnard. Campt joined the Barnard faculty in 2010, prior to which she held faculty positions at Duke University, the University of California-Santa Cruz and the Technical University of Berlin. Originally trained in modern German history at Cornell University, Professor Campt’s published work explores gender, racial and diasporic formation in black communities in Germany, and Europe more broadly. She is the author of three books. Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press, 2004) is a historical inquiry based on oral histories and archival documents that explores the experiences of Black Germans during the Third Reich. Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012) theorizes the affects of family photography in early twentieth century Black German and Black British communities. Her most recent book, Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017) theorizes the everyday practices of refusal and fugitivity enacted in a frequently overlooked genre of black vernacular photographs she calls ‘quiet photography.’ Campt has edited special issues of Feminist Review, Callaloo and Small Axe, and together with Paul Gilroy, co-edited Der Black Atlantik (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2004), the first German language collection of key texts on the Black Atlantic. Professor Campt is the recipient of research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the American Association of University Women, The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Social Science Research Council, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

Rizvana Bradley received her PhD in Literature from Duke University in 2013, and her B.A. (Highest Honors) from Williams College, where she studied English and Political Theory. She was a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York from 2012-2013. Before coming to Yale, Bradley was as an Assistant Professor at Emory University, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of the History of Art at the University College London. Born in Kenya, and raised in the U.K., Germany, Poland, Tanzania, and the U.S., Bradley’s research and teaching focus on the study of film and media at the intersections of contemporary art and performance (with a particular interest in the development of the moving image in relation to cinema). Her scholarly approach to artistic practices in the fields of African-American cultural production, as well as the wider black diaspora expands and develops frameworks for thinking across these contexts, specifically in relation to global and transnational artistic and cinematic practices.

Bradley is currently at work on two new scholarly book projects. The first is a recipient of a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and offers a critical examination of the black body across a range of experimental artistic practices that integrate film and other media. The second project examines the relationships between newer forms of experimental film and video practices, and traditional film genres. Recent and forthcoming articles and essays have focused on Black British video artists and The Art of the Moving Image in Britain After 1989 (forthcoming, Yale University Press, 2018); the cinematic development of black dance forms in relation to the critical interrogation of the loss of gesture in the history of cinema (forthcoming, TDR: The Drama Review, MIT Press, 2017); British artist and director, Steve McQueen (Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Indiana University Press, 2015); the televised 1991 Anita Hill hearings and centrality of black femininity in reimagining the stakes of black embodiment (Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge: Special Issue: Black Holes: Afro-Pessimism, Blackness and the Discourses of Modernity, 2016); the relevance of film theorist Laura Marks’ notion of ‘hapticality’ or ‘haptic visuality’ for art and performance (Women and Performance: The Haptic, Routledge, 2015); Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Maria Beatriz Nascimento and the philosopher Édouard Glissant (Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, Wayne State University Press, 2014). Bradley’s writing has also been featured in Parkett, e-flux, and Art in America.

Jack Halberstam is a Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections. Halberstam has co-edited a number of anthologies including Posthuman Bodies with Ira Livingston (Indiana University Press, 1995) and a special issue of Social Text with Jose Munoz and David Eng titled “What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?” Jack is a popular speaker and gives lectures around the country and internationally every year. Lecture topics include: queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, animation. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book titled WILD THING on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture, the visual representation of anarchy and the intersections between animality, the human and the environment. Halberstam is also finishing up a short book titled Trans* for UC Press, forthcoming in 2017.

Deborah Thomas (Ph.D. New York University 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2004), focused on the changing relationships among the political and cultural dimensions of nationalism, globalization, and popular culture. Thomas also co-edited the volume Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (Duke University Press, 2006) with Kamari Clarke, a special issue of the journal Identities titled “Caribbeanist Anthropologies at the Crossroads” with Karla Slocum, and a special issue

[from Standing Up for Racial Justice]
SURJ Base Building: Unlearning Racism & Building a Movement
Join us September 14 for our monthly Base Building Meeting on Unlearning Racism & Building a Movement
6:30-8:30pm, Project Reach 39 Eldridge Street, 4th Floor
[btw. Hester & Canal nr. F, J, M, B, D, N, Q stops]

What's the role of personal transformation in building a strong anti-racist movement and dismantling white supremacy? And how do we change ourselves? At this month's meeting, we'll talk about why it is important to challenge how racism shows up in us, share strategies for changing our own hearts & minds, and think together about why unlearning racism is essential to building a strong racial justice movement. (And there will be opportunities to plug into work with ongoing SURJ projects!)

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https://twitter.com/rosaluxnyc/status/901157803682877441 info@rosalux-nyc.org http://rosalux-nyc.org https://twitter.com/rosaluxnyc http://goethe.de/newyork info@newyork.goethe.org (212) 439-8700

On September 14, 1867, the Börsenblatt des deutschen Buchhandels informed the public about the publication of Karl Marx’s magnum opus, "Capital, Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital." Exactly 150 years after this truly historic date, we invite you to join us to celebrate the anniversary of this influential publication.

We are delighted to invite the preeminent Marxist scholar David Harvey to discuss the context of the publication of Capital as well as the book’s relevance to theory and movements, from 1867 to 2017. Harvey will be joined in discussion by Nancy Holmstrom, Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, and Ajay Singh Chaudhary, of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

David Harvey is one of the world’s leading Marxist scholars. He works as distinguished professor of anthropology & geography at CUNY, where he has been teaching Marx’s “Capital: Critique of Political Economy” for more than four decades. Harvey is the author of numerous books, including The Limits of Capital (1982), Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography (2001), A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), and The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (2010).

Why was Capital so influential? Why has it been so durable? How can what we have learned since its publication strengthen our understanding of its core theoretical message? How can it help us to better understand the world we live in and to fight for a better world for our children?

Join us to answer these questions and more, on Thursday, September 14, from 7:00-8:30pm at the Goethe-Institut (30 Irving Place, New York). The discussion will be followed by a reception.

This event is a co-production of the Goethe-Institut New York and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office.

The Goethe-Institut promotes knowledge of the German language abroad and fosters international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive image of Germany ... See

Judson Arts Wednesdays at Judson Memorial Church - New York City presents:

TELL ME HOW IT ENDS:
An Evening with Acclaimed Author Valeria Luiselli*
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South at Thompson St.

For ticketing options or child care, see below or https://goo.gl/vYsrtu = eventbrite.com/e/tell-me-how-it-ends-an-evening-with-valeria-luiselli-jaw-artists-tickets-37359021840
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Join us on September 14, 2017 to celebrate those who imagine and work for new and better endings to contemporary stories of migration and immigration.
Featuring live music by Judson Arts Wednesdays artists Nate Weida and Raquel Quiñones-Rivera, and a reading and conversation with Valeria Luiselli about her recent book TELL ME HOW IT ENDS: AN ESSAY IN 40 QUESTIONS.

Free and Open to the Public - Seating is limited so RSVP to guarantee a seat
Optional Donations for this event support the New Sanctuary Coalition, an alliance of faith communities and individuals that accompanies and advocates for families and communities that are living under the threat of separation and deportation

Donate $15+ in advance (receive gift copy of Tell Me How It Ends at event, fair market value of $12.95)
Donate $20+ at the door (receive gift copy of Tell Me How It Ends at event, fair market value of $12.95)

Questions: tellmehowitends0914@gmail.com

FAQs

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

Take the A, C, E, B, D, F subway lines to the WEST FOURTH STREET STATION; No. 1 to CHRISTOPHER or HOUSTON STREET; N, R to EIGHTH STREET; No. 6 to ASTOR PLACE.

The M8, M55, and M20 buses all have stops within three to five blocks of Judson Memorial Church.

Metered parking is available on the streets around Judson and pay for parking garages are located nearby on Thompson and West Third Streets as well as just north of the park on Fifth Avenue.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

email: tellmehowitends0914@gmail.com

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

== > Please bring a print out or a legible image of your ticket on your phone in case your name is inadvertently left off the eventbrite RSVP list.

Is child care available?

We plan to provide child care from 6:45 to 9 p.m. at 239 Thompson Street. Please email the organizer ( tellmehowitends0914@gmail.com ) with the age and name of the child(ren) for whom you will need care.

. Reading + Ritual: Ariel Gore Launches We Were Witches
Thursday Sept. 14, 2017 from 7:00 pm at Bluestockings Books
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. Becoming Your Inner Black Cat:
@ariel_gore 's writing the surrealist memoir workshop
Saturday, Sept. 16, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at @BGSQD in LGBTQ Ctr.
208 W. 13th St. btw. Greenwich Av. & 7th Av.;
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Reading + Ritual: Ariel Gore Launches We Were Witches
Thursday Sept. 14, 2017 from 7:00 pm at Bluestockings Books
Join Ariel Gore for a reading + money magic ritual to ward off student loan debt in this special launch for We Were Witches, a novel about a teen mom trying to get a college education during the first Bush Administration.

Set your money worries aside as you’re bolstered by the story of a woman determined to live on her own terms in the face of custody disputes, homophobia, and America’s obsession with a universal story of success.

"Gore's magic-infused narrative. . . .is a moving account of a young writer and mother striving to claim her own agency and find her voice." —Publishers Weekly

"This book mimics the messy, discursive texture of memory—of life. . . . Inventive and affecting." —Kirkus Reviews

Cashing into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself, gets on welfare rolls, and talks her way into college. But once she’s there, the phallocratic story of “overcoming” permeates every subject. Creative writing professors depend heavily on Freytag’s pyramid to analyze life. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldúa, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker.

Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother. She’s beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America’s ever-present obsession with shaming odd women into passive citizenship. But even as the narrator struggles to graduate—often the triumphant climax of a dramatic narrative—the question lingers uncomfortably. If you’re dealing with precarious parenthood, queer identity, and debt: What is the true narrative shape of your experience?

Magick spells and inverted fairly tales combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans.

To celebrate the second installment of the AMETHYST EDITIONS imprint, SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN, snag this limited edition tote to show your love of Michelle Tea, FP, amethysts, and queer writers!
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Main Event - Days of Action 2017
Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7:00 to 10:00 PM in Calvary Baptist Church
755 8th St NW, Washington, DC 20001-3721
[ Green, Red Yellow Metro to Gallery Pl.-Chinatown; Blue, Orange, Silver to Metro Ctr.;
Map & transit: https://goo.gl/NZCyny
Event graphic & description: https://facebook.com/events/454782588222100/
...A part of Days of Action Against the Blockade.Washington DC.
September 11-16, 2017
Organized by International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity
https://facebook.com/DaysOfAction2017/events/
@DaysOfAction2017 info@theinternationalcommittee.org
http://TheInternationalCommittee.org/days-of-action
https://facebook.com/pg/ifcop4p/events/ (212) 926-5757 http://ifconews.org https://twitter.com/ifcop4p info@popularresistance.org http://popularresistance.org https://www.facebook.com/pg/PopularResistanceOrg/events/ ]

Invited guests, Cuban Ambassador: José Ramón Cabañas

Moderator: Stephen Kimber

Speakers:
Special guests from Cuba
ELAM graduates
Margaret Flowers, Co-director Popular Resistance, and candidate for US Senate.
Representative from National Nurses United

Musical Performance by Swamp Guinee's Crank LuKomgo

Calvary Baptist Church
Woodward Hall
755 8th St NW,
Washington, DC 20001

Featuring
Days of Action Against the Blockade - 2017
Community Organization
Third Annual Days of Action Against the Blockade.
Washington DC. September 11-16, 2017.
IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Nonprofit Organization · New York, New York
The U.S. Government Doesn't Want You to Go to Cuba. We Say Come With Us and See for Yourself!
Stop the Machine! Create a New World
Community
PopularResistance.org

Divided Results: Voting and Partisan Gerrymandering
Friday, Sept. 15, fr/ 8:30 to 10:30am in 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Fl., btw. 5th & 6th Aves.
"RSVP to the event" (ask whether required) https://the-politics-of-voting.eventbrite.com
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In light of the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Gill vs Whitford, speakers will be asked to explore the history of gerrymandering and the effects of recent changes in technology, data mining, and dark money, to understand the implications of potential Supreme Court decisions. Before this case made it to the Supreme Court, what work had been taking place on the ground to address the effects of gerrymandering? How has the US Census influenced redistricting? What can we expect from the Supreme Court and how will this impact the future of electoral politics?

Speakers
David Daley, author, Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy and former Editor in chief of Salon.com
Joanna Cuevas Ingram, Associate Council, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Michael Li, Senior Counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program and co-author of the report, Extreme Maps
Deuel Ross, Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
Moderator: John Mollenkompf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate School and consortial faculty, Murphy Institute
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The Taylor Law in Perspective at 50
September 26, 2:00pm-9:00pm
Roosevelt House, Hunter College
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Public Employees Fair Employment Act, commonly known as the Taylor Law. Join us for a series of panels and conversations examining the Taylor Law in historical context, and exploring the future of public sector unionization and collective bargaining.

Speakers
Include Joshua Freeman, Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Ashwini Sukthankar, and Terry Melvin

RSVP to the event here: https://community.hunter.cuny.edu/roosevelt-house-pages/taylor-law-50th-anniversary-symposium-09-26-17
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The Murphy Institute offers an ambitious array of public events throughout the year. These include panels, forums, and conferences that feature prominent scholars and public intellectuals, union and community-based leaders and activists, policy makers, journalists and artists.

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

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Solidarity Rally - Stand with B&H Workers
Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 Noon outside B&H Photo,
420 9th Ave. btw. W.33rd & W.34th,
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Sexuality and Gender: Real Talk in Faith Communities
Fri. 9/15, 1:00 to 6:00 pm and
Sat. 9/16, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway [opposite W.121st St. & nr. #1, A, C, D & weekdays-only B train stops, M60 bus & 125th St. bus lines]
$20.00 [apparently pays admission for both days, but ask. Consider trying to advance register. -t.]
https://utsnyc.edu/life/programs-events/ (212) 662-7100 info@utsnyc.edu @UnionSeminary https://twitter.com/UnionSeminary

Theorizing and theologizing about sexuality and gender happens in many progressive seminaries, but how do seminarians, recent graduates, and new clergy take these topics into a congregation? How does theology about sexuality and gender move from the seminary to the sanctuary? This course will explore ways of assessing a congregation’s readiness to engage with sexuality and gender. It will provide ideas about how to broach these normally taboo subjects and provide strategies for teaching, preaching, providing pastoral counseling, and creating a congregational culture where complex understandings of gender and sexuality can be discussed and explored. The course will be highly participatory, and students should bring situations and questions from congregational settings. Students will leave with an outline of a sermon, teaching resource, or other educational programs that could be used in a congregation.

Rev. Marie Alford-Harkey is the president and CEO of the Religious Institute, a national multifaith nonprofit dedicated to advocating for sexual health, education, and justice in faith communities and society. Religious Institute programs address reproductive health, rights, and justice; full inclusion of LGBTQ people in faith communities and society; comprehensive sexuality education; and prevention of sexual abuse, harassment, and misconduct in faith communities.

Marie is the lead author of the Religious Institute publication Making the Invisible Visible: Bisexuality in Faith Communities, and speaks regularly on faith and sexuality. She is a pastor with Metropolitan Community Churches and serves as a volunteer assisting clergy at MCC Hartford, CT.

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Schools, Immigrants and the Politics of Identity and Tolerance
Friday, Sept. 15, 2:30 to 5:00 PM in CUNY 365 5th Av., Rm. 5318, btw. E.34th & E.35th
Ariana Mangual Figueroa & Inmaculada Garcia-Sanchez
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and www.lesecologycenter.org/calendar/

Lower East Side Ecology Center Open House
Friday, Sept. 15 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM
East River Park Fireboat House on Grand St
map & transit https://goo.gl/MiaHHj
TIX https://goo.gl/4eDYXE
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https://lesecologycenter.org/ecology-center-open-house-2017-09-15/
Directions to the park here.
Come take a look at how we run our programs! Fill out our passport of activities, open and free to the public! Each activity will highlight one of our core programs- after you complete each activity your passport will be stamped!

Composting - A tour of the East River Park Compost Yard
Environmental Education - Fishing Clinic on Grand Street
Stewardship - Native Flower Pressing
E-Waste - Electric Wire Lanyard Workshop

We look forward to meeting everyone who is able to attend! Mark your calendars and stay tuned in our September newsletter for more information!

Electronic Waste Collect Event
8/26 - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Rain or Shine - Morris Park - Ben Abram's Playground - Bronx Park East at Lydig Street
www.lesecologycenter.org/calendar/

SAFE POP UP EVENT
Solvents | Automotive | Flammable | Electronics
8/27 - 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Rain or Shine - Midwood - Avenue P between Bedord Avenue & E 26th Street
https://goo.gl/rXBdg7
We are partnering with DSNY to offer the e-waste collection portion of this SAFE event. Accepted Items:
Automotive products such as motor oil, transmission fluid, and batteries
Personal care items like unwanted medicines or cosmetics
Thermometers
Syringes (clearly labeled and packaged in a “Sharps” Container)
Household products such as pesticides, paint, hazardous cleaners, compact fluorescent lightbulbs
Electronics
For more information, click here. Also check our calendar on our website!

BIO/CULTURE Blitz
Sunday August 20th 4:00 - 8:00 PM
Pier 42, East River Greenway (Directions)
How much diversity can we discover in 4 HOURS? Come discover all the organisms that inhabit the Pier 42 with the Lower East Side Ecology Center. We will be looking for all the mammals (yes! RATS and mice, bats, {maybe even a wayward seal or whale!}); all the insects (yes! Spiders, flies, ants and cockroaches); all the fish (yes! Crabs, sea robins, shad, (no sharks); plants (yes! Phragmites, hallucinatory mugwort, golden rod and sedges) all the birds (yes! Crows, seagulls, cormorants, hawks); but also much more.
* 4-6pm Dive into the East River and learn to fish as part of the Bio Blitz
More information on our flyer here. https://goo.gl/cq2DTt

Fishing Clinics 2017
Get hooked on the East River! The schedule is up for our most popular summer program— catch-and-release fishing clinics! Bait and tackle will be provided (or bring your own), plus basic fishing instruction and other activities to explore the estuary. Fishing Clinics are free and open to the public. Kids under 15 must be accompanied by an adult. Materials are limited, registration is recommended.
Photo credit to Catrina Genovese.
The summer 2017 Fishing Clinics are made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund through the Hudson River Estuary Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the The Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation

Waste Reduction Bike Tour
Saturday August 12, 12:00 - 6:30 PM (Rain Date August 13)
462 Halsey St Community Farm in Brooklyn, NY
description: https://is.gd/zUjuWk
Using the EPA’s Food Reduction hierarchy, this bike tour will visit projects across the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens that are actively pursuing these concepts.
The tour will begin at the 462 Halsey St. Community Farm in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and end in Long Island City, Queens at Smiling Hogshead Ranch. Register Here

Rat Prevention for Community Composting: Part 1: Biology and Behavior
Thursday August 24, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Fire Boat House (directions)
East River Promenade at Grand Street\
Description: https://goo.gl/wPHkFZ Register https://goo.gl/aq8UWq
Caroline Bragdon, NYC's rat expert, will be sharing her expertise and knowledge on urban rat prevention. Learn how to prevent rats and identify signs of rat activity by understanding their biology, behavior and habitat.
The New York City Compost Project hosted at the Lower East Side Ecology Center is funded and managed by the NYC Department of Sanitation Bureau of Recycling & Sustainability.

Stewardship with LES Ecology Center! https://goo.gl/bsMNuX
We have surpassed 3400 volunteer hours this summer stewarding the Lower East Side and East River Park!
We'd like to thank and recognize the SYEP youth who we have gotten to know and work with in the past 6 weeks.
You can still help us do amazing things at East River Park! Help keep our neighborhood park clean and green and learn about this surprising urban eco-system right in New York City.
Meeting spot for Saturday volunteer days is the Fire Boat House behind the Grand Street seal plaza (Directions). Please sign up here . Hours of service can be verified.

P.O. Box 20488
New York, NY 10009
212-477-4022

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$125 – $1,250
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Water Ecology Community Tour with NYC H2O
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https://facebook.com/pg/NYCH2O/events/ https://twitter.com/nyc_h2o

Silver Lake was a popular resort in the 19th century that even served as a speed skating venue. It became Staten Island’s first municipal park after the 1898 consolidation into New York City. By 1907, Silver Lake was tapped to become a reservoir linking Staten Island to New York’s Catskill Mountains water system. Come explore one of the most beautiful parks in Staten Island—the “Borough of Parks”—with NYC H2O.

$10 Admission

Matt Malina founded NYC H2O in 2009. As Executive Director of NYC H2O, he initiated its tour, lecture, field trip and beach cleanup programs. By 2017, under his leadership, NYC H2O reached over 7400 public school students on 284 Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips in the five boroughs. Malina is a native New Yorker and studied engineering at the University of Virginia, graduating with a bachelors and masters in Applied Math. He was a public school math teacher and since 2006, a math tutor.

Learn more about Matt:
http://nych2o.org/about.html

Learn more about the history of Silver Lake Reservoir:
http://nych2o.org/silver-lake-reservoir.html

NYC H2O’s mission is to educate and inspire New York’s citizenry about its incredible water system. We want to create a generation of concerned, educated New Yorkers who conserve and advocate for natural resources. We empower citizens including students and teachers to think about the role of water in their lives so that they don’t take water for granted and can knowledgeably be involved with responsible public policy in the future.

cre-a-tion dance collective moves as a catalyst and collaborator for holsitic planetary (re)generation. We aim to be a space for integnerational and interdisiplinary movement exploration, experimentation and performance.

(was: "Marshal Training for Protests - Friday, September 15th")

Marshal Training - FOR FOLKS NEW TO MARSHALING
Friday, September 15 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at
The LGBT Center - Room 310, 208 West 13th Street
https://facebook.com/events/334355490343712/ http://riseandresist.org
https://facebook.com/pg/RiseandResistNYC/events/ info@riseandresist.org
Q. Hey! What's marshaling?

A. Marshaling is a form of resistance.
Marshals help build community by supporting direct action protests.

As marshals, we know the scenario for an action because we've been involved in the action's planning, and we work together to support protesters do what they need to do while keeping the action as safe as possible.

We don't ask for permission to demonstrate, we don't ask for the NYPD to "help" us demonstrate. We protect our First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of assembly by using these rights.

We set up our own pickets, we decide whether or...

Naomi Klein + Richard Kim
Friday, Sept. 15 from 6:00 to 7:00PM at Strand
$15 ticket includes copy of No Is Not Enough: https://goo.gl/tuYoaW http://strandbooks.com/event/naomi-klein-richard-kim https://noisnotenough.org/events.html

Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment.

Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and “brand bullies.” She argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say “no.” Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring “yes,” a road map to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.

Join us at 6:00pm in the Rare Book Room as Naomi Klein discusses her book with The Nation's Richard Kim.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo.

Richard Kim is the executive editor of The Nation. He is co-editor, with Betsy Reed, of the New York Times bestselling anthology Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare. Kim has appeared on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, Up with Chris Hayes/Steve Kornacki, Melissa Harris-Perry, CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now! and other media outlets. He has taught at New York University and Skidmore College.

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www.casaitaliananyu.org/node/2131
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The Queer Italia Networks presents:

QUEER MEDIA ITALIAN STYLE

Join us for an evening of film screenings of the following shorts.

This event is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(Films are subtitled in English when necessary)

This is the culminating public event of "LGBTQIA+ Representations and Italian Media", a 2-day series of workshops organized by the Queer Italia Network:

Giganti (Fabio Mollo, 2008) - In his attempt to become a man, Pietro, a 15 years old boy who lives in Calabria, faces reality and the most violent expression of mafia: silence.

10 percento (BADhOLE, 2015) – is a webseries created for Instagram. 1 elevator, 2 women, 10 seconds, 100 episodes.

Shroom Trip Opera (created by Joseph Keckler and directed by Liam Lynch, 2013) ...

Join us for a wonderful event with author Jan Clausen, who will read from and discuss her seminal text “Apples & Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity” now available after a decade out of print. Originally published in the late 1990’s, Clausen’s beautifully written memoir meditates on the concept of sexual identity as not just a noun but a narrative.

Apples & Oranges is available in stores and from online retailers such as Amazon, Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Powell's, or from Seven Stories Press directly: https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3984-apples-amp-oranges

https://www.facebook.com/events/322023534935486/

Mama Takes the Mic: Magic and Madness from Storytellers at MUTHA and Hip Mama Magazine
Friday Sept 15, 2017 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in POWERHOUSE @ the Archway
28 Adams St. at Water St.
RSVP appreciated. Please fill out the “Bookings” form at the bottom of this page.
-or-
Send the name of the event and number of attendees to our RSVP email.
*Disregard the notification that will appear after Booking.*
https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-we-were-witches-by-ariel-gore/ https://powerhousearena.com/events/ arielgore.com/?m=201708 www.brooklynbookfestival.org/authors/ariel-gore/

Mama Takes the Mic — Magic and Madness from Storytellers at MUTHA and Hip Mama Magazine

Alternative Parenting Mags Hip Mama and MUTHA, and the Feminist Press, team up to bring you a radical night of readings from mothers who speak their mind. Join them for a night of fiction, poetry, memoir, and live-reading of projected comics from new graphic novels, headlined by Hip Mama founder Ariel Gore (We Were Witches). With Aya de Leon (The Boss), Elisa Albert (After Birth), Katherine Arnoldi (The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom), Thi Bui (The Best We Could Do), and Samantha Barrow (Jelly), emcee’d by MUTHA’s editor-in-chief, Meg Lemke. Mixing up genre, format, and feminist voices for an unforgettable event. An official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event.

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2017 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

About We Were Witches:

Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother. She’s beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America’s ever-present obsession with shaming strange women into passive citizenship. But even as the narrator struggles to graduate―often the triumphant climax of a dramatic plot―a question uncomfortably lingers. If you’re dealing with precarious parenthood, queer identity, and debt, what is the true narrative shape of your experience?

About Ariel Gore:
Gore,ArielAriel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood.

Her memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her anthology Portland Queer: Tales of the Rose City won a LAMBDA Literary Award in 2010. She has taught at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.

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The Abortion Access Hackathon is coming to New York City!
Please register at www.abortionaccesshackathon.com
https://facebook.com/events/759673030874154/
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The Abortion Access Hackathon is coming to New York City!
Please register at www.abortionaccesshackathon.com
AbAccessHackathon@Gmail.com

We are gathering techies, media experts, legal analysts, and grassroots activists to develop innovative and tactical solutions to support abortion funds and providers in their work. Join us for a weekend of collaboration, hacking, and of course free food.

Join sponsor Pandora and partners Planned Parenthood, NOW-NYC, National Institute for Reproductive Health, New York Abortion Access Fund and more to assist on the projects that help directly advance the increasingly critical work of abortion access. Read more about the kinds of projects created at our last hackathon in this piece from Rewire:

Not a "tech person"? We need all kinds of expertise including policy, writing and content, user experience, design, marketing and more, as well as volunteers (for part or all of the weekend) to help this event be a success. Make sure you sign up at abortionaccesshackathon.com!

https://goo.gl/7a1sf5 = rewire.news/article/2017/03/07/abortion-access-hackathon-seek-solve-problems-experiencing/

MORE INFOAboutThe Abortion Access Hackathon brings together tech and repro rights to develop innovative solutions to supporting the work of abortion funds and providers.

Celebrate the life of Che: Spoken Word fundraiser for Cuba trip
Friday Sept. 15 from 7:00 to 11:59 PM in Solidarity Center NYC
147 W. 24th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves. nr. #1, F, M, PATH, C, E & 23rd St. bus
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Public · Hosted by GREBLS and Workers World Party

Come out to listen to powerful performers and party to support comrades going to Cuba!

We'll have spoken word performances from activists in the streets. Afterwards,a party with DJ Libr8. Wear clothes for dancing!

Comrades from Workers World Party and G-Rebls will be going to Cuba this October as part of the "Footsteps of Che" Brigade to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara's assassination. So this event is also about celebrating the life of Che and the inspiration he still provides to the struggle for revolution today. We need your help to cover the costs for the trip. Come out to help and enjoy the revolutionary spirit of spoken word performances and then party afterwards!

Spoken word performances will begin at 7pm and the party will begin at 8pm. Come early to not miss anything!

We are asking for $10 - $20 at the door, but of course no on will be turned away for lack of funds. If anyone would like an alternative way to help donate to the trip they can do so on our Fundly page:

https://fundly.com/footsteps-of-che-brigade-nyc-delegation

GREBLS
Political Organization
Workers World Party
Political Organization · New York, New York
Workers World Party is a working-class party that fights against capitalism and for socialism with branches across the U.S. To find a branch near you and for the latest news and analysis, visit http://workers.org

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Sept. 16-17
Blackburn Center at Howard University
Washington, D.C.
www.congressofresistance.org

Join the first People's Congress! The U.S. Congress does not represent the people who live and work in the United States. Given the threat posed by the Trump regime, the people must take matters into our own hands, together, and claim the power we already have. Help us build a new fighting Congress from the ground up of resisters and all the communities under attack!