Upcoming Programs
Upcoming Programs
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 (...
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/...
Sica, a friend of the Brecht Forum since its first days, has been active creating visual art for over forty years. Sica works in several mediums: oil painting, ceramics and metal sculpture. She also...
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...
This three-day workshop is an outgrowth of a collaboration and some conversations that took place over the years between Julian Boal, TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire Picher and other members of TOPLAB. When...
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...
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend...
Does it matter that popular yoga magazines rarely feature South Asians on the...
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...
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 (...
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/...
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...
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...
Does it matter that popular yoga magazines rarely feature South Asians on the...
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...
This reading group will take up Alan Knight’s in-depth two-volume study, The Mexican Revolution, as our main text along with other readings to be provided during the sessions.
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Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates...
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...
On Monday, February 11, Richard Greeman will deliver thei lecture originally sceduled for Saturday, February 9, that was postponed due to the storm. The event is open to the general public as well as those...
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy. Kant's works are the starting point of “classical German philosophy” which culminates...
Theodore W. Allen’s The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century’s major contributions to historical...
Black Reconstruction is an essential and primary building block in understanding the culture and politics of the United States. It is also an excellent (arguably the best) place to start...
Government policies to address climate change after Sandy are geared towards protecting private property and reproduce deep social and environmental inequalities. How can our communities advance alternative...
Are you tired of capitalism (and its good buddies like racism, patriarchy, homophobia and militarism)? Are you tired of the life you find yourself living, a life you're seemingly forced to live? Are you...
A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills...
Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical...
“The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America,” the second volume of “The Invention of the White Race” (Verso Books, 2012) by Theodore W. Allen will be discussed this Friday night...
In the last three decades federal, state and local housing agencies have drastically reduced public housing subsidies, demolished many projects, and entered into public-private partnerships that give banks...
The course will serve as a ‘primer’ for progressives and leftists on contemporary South Asian politics in the region, while also providing a historical context for current events. The...
NOTE: Due to illness, this session is POSTPONED to APRIL 6.
How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them...
How can residents in homes being foreclosed best be helped to stay in their homes? Should only those who can afford them be helped to stay? Should banks or lenders be made whole by government help if there...
What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...
What are the net economic effects of rent controls? Do they restrict private development, keep the middle class in the city, slow gentrification, help the poor, endanger good housing maintenance, or punish...
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is widely considered to be one of the giants of European philosophy in spite of the fact that he explicitly defended the most outrageous views about people of color. Kant...
Schedule:
June 17: Opening discussion
June 24, July 1 & 8: Philip Roth’s I Married A Communist
July 15, 22 & 29: E.L. Doctorow’s...
Sica, a friend of the Brecht Forum since its first days, has been active creating visual art for over forty years. Sica works in several mediums: oil painting, ceramics and metal sculpture. She also...
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend...
This three-day workshop is an outgrowth of a collaboration and some conversations that took place over the years between Julian Boal, TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire Picher and other members of TOPLAB. When...
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