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Tuesday, July 08
7:30 pm
May Day West Coast Ports Shutdown to Stop the War
Jack Heyman
On May Day, 2008 all U.S. West Coast ports were shutdown by longshoremen protesting the imperialist war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Longshoremen, angered by Democrats continuing to fund the war and recognizing the inability of street protests to end the war, decided to strike, the first strike by workers in this country to stop a war
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Wednesday, July 09
7:30 pm
The Internet
Protecting It, Expanding It, Using It
With Members of Democracy in Action & May First/People Link
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Thursday, July 10
7:30 pm
Co-sponsor: War Resisters League
Where to From Here?
Assessing the Antiwar Movement
Judith Leblanc, Monami Maulik, Jose Vasquez, Matthew Smucker & Others TBA
The War Resisters League recently interviewed grassroots organizers from across the county to reflect on the state of antiwar organizing...
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Friday, July 11
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
3-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM
JULY 11-13
"Them belly full, but we hungry"
The Global Food Crisis & What Capitalism Has To Do With It
Teachers & Organizers include: Sam Anderson, Kazembe Balagun, Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Lisa Maya Knauer, Roberto Lovato, Fred Magdoff, Randy Martin, Liz Mestres, Bertell Ollman, Merle Ratner, Heather Rogers, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
Why is the most productive social system humanity has ever created also so destructive? What are the alternatives to capitalism? How do we get there from here?...
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Monday, July 14
5:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Beginning Spanish
Marisol Ruiz
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Tuesday, July 15
6:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Presented by GoLeft
Bulworth: Ten Years Later
Race, Class & The Democratic Party
Andrew Boyd & Jeremy Pikser
On the 10th anniversary of the political comedy, turned cult classic, Bulworth, join its screenwriter and others as they lead a discussion on race, class and politics. Just in time for the 2008 elections.
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Tuesday, July 15
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Intermediate Spanish
Jose Rosa
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Wednesday, July 16
7:30 pm
Resisting No Child Left Behind
Stanley Aronowitz, Jerry Mintz & Zoe Davis-Chanin
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Thursday, July 17
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS
Advanced Spanish
Teacher TBA
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Thursday, July 17
7:30 pm
3rd Thursdays
Speakers TBA
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Wednesday, July 23
7:30 pm
Okupas!
Towards an Anarchist Ecology
Throughout Europe, networks of politically conscious squatters are uniting against capitalist exploitation...
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Wednesday, July 30
7:30 pm
FILM & DISCUSSION
Machetero
Q &A with Vagabond & Not4Prophet
Dir: Vagabond | 2004 | USA
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Thursday, July 31
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING DISCUSSION
ZIZEK'S PICK
They Live!
Discussants TBA
Dir. John Carpenter | 1988 | 93 min | USA
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Friday, August 01
7:00 pm
EXHIBIT OPENING / RECEPTION
Chases Me 1968
Pleasant
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Sunday, August 03
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
SEMINAR
Psychology & Economics
A Marxian Perspective – Part 2
Harriet Fraad & Richard Wolff
The personal contradictions and intimate lives of individuals both reflect and shape the economy in which we live. Psychology and economics are interdependent...
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Wednesday, August 06
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Frame Up!
The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre
Q &A with Martin Sostre
Dirs. Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher and Howard Blatt | 1974 | 30 mins | USA
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Thursday, August 07
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Cuba: An African Odyssey
Discussants TBA
Dir. Jihan El Tahri | 117 mins | 2007 | France
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Tuesday, August 12
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
IVAN DIXON TRIBUTE
Nothing But a Man
Discussants TBA
Dir.Michael Roemer | 95 mins | 1964 | USA
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Wednesday, August 13
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
IVAN DIXON TRIBUTE
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
Discussants TBA
Dir: Ivan Dixon | 102 min | USA | 1973
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Thursday, August 14
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
IVAN DIXON TRIBUTE
Car Wash
Discussants TBA
Dir: Michael Schultz | 1976 | 97 mins
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Wednesday, August 20
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
American Revolution 2
Discussants TBA
Dirs Howard Alk & Mike Gray | 1969 | 76 mins
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Thursday, August 21
7:30 pm
3rd Thursdays
Speakers TBA
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Wednesday, August 27
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
WEB Dubois
A Biography in Four Voices
Discussants TBA
Dir. Louis Massiah | 116 mins | 1996
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Thursday, August 28
7:30 pm
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
The Bombing of Osage Avenue
Discussants TBA
Dir. Louis Massiah | Narrator Toni Cade Bambara | 1986 | 58 mins
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Wednesday, September 03
7:30 pm
1968 REVISITED
BOOK LAUNCH & DISCUSSION
A Peoples History of Sports in the United States
250 Years of Politics, Protest, the People, & Play
Dave Zirin in Conversation with Robert Lipsyte
There is often a perception that sports and politics belong in different universes, just as they belong in different sections of the daily newspaper...
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Wednesday, September 10
7:30 pm
FILM & DISCUSSION
Lumumba
Discussion with Elombe Brath
Dir. Raoul Peck | 2001 | 115 mins | France / Belgium / Haiti / Germany | In French and Lingala with English subtitles
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Saturday, September 13
9:00 pm
NEUES KABARETT
William Hooker & Katie Down
9:00 pm ~ William Hooker
10:00 pm ~ Katie Down
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Wednesday, September 17
7:30 pm
REVOLUTION SERIES
FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Let Joy Reign Supreme
(Que la fête commence…)
Discussion with Mike Lardner
Dir: Bertrand Tavernier | 119 min | 1975 | France
ertrand Tavernier's Let Joy Reign Supreme, is a detailed look at French monarchy, diplomacy and debauchery on the threshold of the French Revolution...
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Thursday, September 18
7:30 pm
3rd Thursdays
Speakers TBA
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Friday, September 19
8:00 pm
PERFORMANCE
The Report of My Death
Ron Crawford Plays Mark Twain in a Docudrama by Adam Klasfeld
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Saturday, September 20
8:00 pm
PERFORMANCE
The Report of My Death
Ron Crawford Plays Mark Twain in a Docudrama by Adam Klasfeld
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Monday, September 22
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
WORKSHOP & STUDY GROUP
Part 1- 12 SESSIONS
Revolutions
Our Heritage & Prospects for Our Time
Michael Lardner with Others TBA
A compelling series has been issued by Verso Books titled Revolutions. It is a series concerning works that “took center-stage during a period of revolution, incendiary words that roused populations to insurrection. Major contemporary radical writers introduce each book, discovering that the words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions....”
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Thursday, September 25
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY / FORUM
Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya Hartman with Commentary by Sam Anderson
The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger—torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider...
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Friday, September 26
6:00 pm
DINNER / DISCUSSION
4th ANNUAL HARVEY GOLDBERG CLASSROOM BENEFIT GALA
Green Economics & the Revival of the U.S. Working Class
Robert Pollin
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Saturday, September 27
9:15 am - 6:00 pm
A 2-DAY WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Introduction to the Theater of the Oppressed
Image Theater & the Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Facilitated by Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory TBA
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Friday, October 03
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY / FORUM
Bury the Chains
The Story of How Slavery Was Abolished in the British Empire--Myth and Fact
Adam Hochschild
