Programs
Saturday, July 31
4:00 pm
Resurgent White Supremacy?
SB 1070 and the Racial Order
Daryl Lamont Jenkins,Joel Olson,
As the Tea Party movement gains legitimacy and racist legislation
spreads from Arizona across the U.S, right-wing groups are already
...
Monday, August 2
7:30 pm
Visual Liberation Film Festival
Red Channels
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
An Event Marking the 86th Anniversary of James Baldwin's Birth
Alexis Birdsong, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Ajamu Sankofa,, Rich Blint(Moderator)
Dick Fontanie| 85 minutes | 1982 | USA
This striking documentary charting the post-civil rights return of James Baldwin to cities of struggle
in the South begins with a central...
Wednesday, August 4
7:30 pm
The Second US Social Forum, Detroit, Michigan: 3rd World Report Back
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Sam Anderson, Monami Maulik, Leah Obias, Rafael Samanez & Jaime Veve
Some 15,000 activists from across the US gathered in Detroit from June 22-26 to network, build and strengthen their activist work. Among this...
Thursday, August 5
7:30 pm
A New Notion:
Two Works by C. L. R. James: Every Cook Can Govern and The Invading Socialist Society
Noel Ignatiev
Portraying C. L. R. James as a leading figure in the independence
movement in the West Indies and in the black and working-class
...
Wednesday, August 18
7:30 pm
Visual Liberation Film Festival
Co-sponsor: Red Channels
Poetry is a Weapon
Walter Rodney and the Poetics of Revolution on Film
Lincoln Van Slutyman
Lewanne Jones | 28 minutes| 1983| Guyana & The Victor Jara Collective | (75 minutes) | 1978 | Guyana
"THE TERROR AND THE TIME is a breathtaking film, one that is so complex in its imagery — so poetic in fact — that I find it...
Friday, August 20
9:00 am
- 6:00 pm
3-Day Seminar Begins
Return to the Source
32nd Annual Intensive Intro to Marxism
Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Silvia Federici, Lisa Maya Knauer, Joel Kovel, Richard Levins, Jeff Perry, Juliet Ucelli, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
In building as we fight, activists dream of a new world, one that puts human needs over profits and provides for all. But how do we get there?...
Tuesday, September 14
7:30 pm
Global Capitalism
A Monthly Update & Discussion
Rick Wolff
These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month as well as longer-term economic...
Friday, September 24
7:30 pm
Book Party/Forum
The Anti-American Manifesto
Ted Rall
Cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he always wanted to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and...
Thursday, September 30
5:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
10-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Modern Background to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Russell Dale
Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more...
Tuesday, October 5
7:30 pm
4-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Antonio Gramsci: Revolutionary Strategy and the Historic Bloc
Harmony Goldberg
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is one of the most powerful left strategy documents developed in the last hundred years. One of...
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