Forums
Thursday, September 2
7:30 pm
Forum
Co-sponsor: Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) & International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
The United States & Yemen
Destroying Lives in the Name of National Security
Ezz-Adeen Saeed Ahmed Al-Asbahi, Mohammed Naji Saleh Allaw, Tawakkol Karman, Leili Kashani, & Pardiss Kebriaei
Leading Yemeni activists and a CCR human rights attorney speak on state violence, targeted killings, and human rights abuses enabled by the so-...
Tuesday, September 7
7:30 pm
Healing Organizers
Healers from 3 Cities Talk about the Role of Healing and Wellness for Social Justice Movements
What does healing have to do with social justice? If we all are healing internalized oppression and colonialism and seeking care and support to do...
Wednesday, September 8
7:30 pm
Book Party/Forum
Tunnel People
Teun Voeten
By the end of the millennium, thousands of homeless people roamed the streets of Manhattan. A small group of them went underground. Invisible to...
Sunday, September 12
7:00 pm
Book Party/Forum
God's Demon Warriors
Michael Parenti
“Parenti offers a valuable rebuttal to the drumbeat . . . from the right.”
— New York Times Book Review...
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...
Wednesday, September 15
7:30 pm
Co-sponsor: Left Forum
How Does the US Social Forum Contribute to Building a New Progressive Movement in the US?
Reflections from 3 Forums—Left Forum, Brecht Forum & USSF
Seth Adler, Sam Anderson, Kazembe Balagun, Rod Bush, Jerry Jeremie, Alfredo Lopez, Liz Mestres, Frances Fox Piven, Maliha Safri & Max Uhlenbeck, Moderated by Lori Minnite
The accomplishments of public forums are often elusive. People come together—sometimes in massive numbers—to strategize, engage...
Saturday, September 18
7:00 pm
SPECIAL FORUM
Climate Justice
From Bolivia to the Bronx and Beyond!
Miguel D'Escoto, Tanya Fields, Monique Harden, Mychal Johnson & Pablo Solón
Join Father Miguel D'Escoto for a People's Council on Climate Justice. Strategize about how the Cochabamba People's Accord and the Environmental...
Monday, September 20
7:30 pm
Book Party/Forum
Co-sponsor: Verso Books
The Obama Syndrome
Surrender at Home, War Abroad
Tariq Ali, Rick MacArthur & Frances Fox Piven
What has really changed since Bush left the White House? Very little, argues Tariq Ali, apart from the mood music. The hopes aroused during...
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...
Tuesday, October 5
7:30 pm
Book Party / Forum
Ecology and Socialism
Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
Chris Williams
Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs...
Tuesday, October 12
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...
Thursday, October 14
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY & FORUM
The Hidden 1970s
Histories of Radicalism
Dan Berger, Andy Cornell, Vikki Law, Matt Meyer, Ben Sheppard & Meg Starr
The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound societal change. The Hidden 1970s explores the distinctiveness...
Wednesday, October 27
7:30 pm
Co-sponsor: Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism
Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Why One State Is the Only Feasible Solution
Joel Kovel & Norton Mezvinksy
Join Professors Joel Kovel and Norton Mezvinsky as each presents his respective argument for a one-state solution to the...
Tuesday, November 9
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...
Friday, November 12
7:30 pm
Book Party/Forum
The Sweetest Dream
Love, Lies, & Assassination
Lillian Pollack
A novel that addresses the experience of United States Trotskyism, Lillian Pollack’s The Sweetest Dream is set in momentous...
Tuesday, December 7
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...
Wednesday, December 8
7:30 pm
Book Party / Workshop
Facilitating Group Learning
Tools that Build on Freire for Today's Multi-Cultural World
George Lakey
This combination workshop-and-book-party invites participants to experience a set of teaching/training tools and to go behind them to explore...
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