Upcoming Events

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@ SURREAL ESTATE
15 Thames St., Brooklyn, NY
L train to Morgan Avenue

Co-sponsored by: Brecht Forum, Left Turn and Surreal Estate

4th on Fire!

A Benefit Concert for the Brecht Forum & Left Turn Magazine

Mahina Movement, Earthdriver, Rebel Diaz, Young Lady, Koba, Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mustglow Fuego

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Solidarity with Guadeloupe and Haiti

Trade Union Movements in Haiti and Guadeloupe

Elie Domota & Fignole Saint Cy

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A WRITING WORKSHOP

Co-sponsors: Broken Beautiful Press, UBUNTU and Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative

Mother Ourselves

Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Community Building

Ebony Noelle Golden & Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ebony Noelle Golden present an interactive performance and writing workshop about the poetic process of community building. Using the poetry and theory of black lesbian feminist warrior mother Audre Lorde to create activities and discussion topics, this performance/workshop is especially designed for those seeking to build community through progressive organizing and creative transformation.

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OFFSTAGE FORUMS 2009

Co-sponsor: Freedom Train Production

FAMILIES NOW!

Working Class & LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession

The econ can't stop these alternative and working-folk families from surviving and thriving...

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8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

Pamela Brown & Russell Dale

Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the socialist tradition in its varied aspects...

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EXHIBIT OPENING

Co-sponsors: Adalah-NY & The Middle East Committee of The WESPAC Foundation

The Art of Palestinian Children

The Art of Palestinian Children is a traveling exhibition. The paintings in this exhibition all come from Al-Jana, the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts, in Beirut where the children (ages 8 to 13) attended art classes.

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4-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Marxian Economics

An Intensive Introduction

Rick Wolff

This course provides a working foundation in the core concepts of Marxian economic theory – necessary and surplus labor, labor power, surplus value, exploitation, capital accumulation, distributions of the surplus, capitalist crises, and the differences between capitalist and other class structures...

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Sponsors: Adallah, Brecht Forum, Brooklyn For Peace, Code Pink, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, Jews Against the Occupation, Jews Say No!, Women in Black

Reportback from Gaza & the West Bank

Invited speakers include: Medea Benjamin, Felice Gelmon, Manijeh Saba, & Phil Weiss

Hear eye witness accounts from members of delegations trying to break through the blockade of Gaza-some successfully and some not...

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4-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM JULY 18-19 & 25-26

Marxism

A Revolutionary Cure for Capitalism's Depression?

Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Harriet Fraad, Harmony Goldberg, Lisa Maya Knauer, Peter Marcuse, Liz Mestres, Wasir Mohammed, Manny Ness, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Rick Wolff & Others TBA

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the “cures’ that are prescribed for capitalism’s ills just temporarily suppress the symptoms--only to have the disorder reemerge more virulently a bit later...

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Co-sponsor: Freedom Train Productions

Offstage Forum

Post Apocalyptic. New Freedoms. New Communities.

Forever war. Economic disaster. Global warming. You ready? Come listen and dialogue...

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Sponsored by New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel

Benefit Concert for Motorola Boycott

Dave Lippman,"Bard of the Bankers" Wild Bill Bailout, Remi Kanazi, Mahina Movement, & the Goodbye Moto Players

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5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Beginning Spanish

Jairo Jimenez Ruiz

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5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Intermediate Spanish

Jose Rosa

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5-SESSION WORKSHOP BEGINS

Introduction to Poetry for Social Activists

A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer

Steve Bloom

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5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Beginning Spanish

Jairo Jimenez Ruiz

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5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Intermediate Spanish

Jose Rosa

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8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Beginning Spanish

Marisol Ruiz

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8-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Intermediate Spanish

Marisol Ruiz