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Thursday, June 20
7:00 pm
Book Party
Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks
The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory
Penny Lewis with Stanley Aronowitz & Francis Fox Piven

Please join Stanley Aronowitz, Frances Fox Piven, and author Penny Lewis to discuss and celebrate the publication of Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks, The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory (...

Monday, June 24
7:30 pm
BOOK SIGNING & DISCUSSION
An Unlikely Warrior
Evolution of a Black Nationalist Revolutionary
Iyaluua Ferguson & Herman Ferguson

An Unlikely Warrior tells the amazing biographic story of Herman Ferguson. The book chronicles his evolution from an “ all- american “ boy growing up in the Jim Crow South to a Pan Africanist/...

Thursday, June 27
7:30 pm
Film Screening/Discussion
Greek American Radicals
The Untold Story
Dan Georgakas, Kostis Karpozilos, Eric Poulos

The historical documentary  Greek American Radicals - the untold story  presents  a forgotten page of Greek immigrant experience in America: the role of immigrants in the radical labor...

Friday, July 5
8:00 pm
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Marxism & the THeater of the Oppressed
Julian Boal

Julian Boal is based in Rio de Janeiro and is an international practitioner of Theater of the Oppressed. He is a founder of Groupe du Théâtre de l'Opprimé and author of Images of...

Thursday, July 11
7:00 pm
Co-Sponsors: Third Root Community Health Center
South Asian Perspectives on Yoga in America
Speakers TBA

Does it matter that popular yoga magazines rarely feature South Asians on the...

Wednesday, July 24
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY
Co-Sponsor: Verso Books
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
Vijay Prashad in conversation with Andrew Hsiao

Peace, Bread, and Justice: in the 1970's, this was the banner under which the Global South united. The time seemed ripe for massive change in the global order, where the old superstructure would be...

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