2009 Programs
2009 Programs
Eric & Marikler Girón Toensmeier
La Permacultura es un movimiento internacional para la sostenibilidad, que usa principios de diseño ecológico para proveer necesidades humanos como comida, vivienda, y energía.
Permaculture is an...
a Forum & Concert Considering New Uses of an Old Language
7:30 pm
Panel discussion with Steve Cannon, Cooper-Moore, Elliott Sharp, Greg Tate and other guests TBA - moderated by Kurt Gottschalk
8:30 pm
Solo performances by Loren Connors, Elliott...
Performers TBA
Couldn't make it to DC for the Inauguration?
Want to watch the highlights in the company of some progressive activists?
& strategize & party too?
Join us at the Brecht Forum's...
Forest Hylton, Mario Murillo & Gerardo Renique
During the past months Indigenous Peoples in Latin America have
again occupied center stage in the struggle for democratic rights and
defense of national resources and autonomy. In Bolivia, Indian...
Visions, Practices & Strategies
Pasqualino Colombaro, Michael Menser & Nancy Romer
Since its formulation in the 1970s, the solidarity economy framework (SE) has sought to connect existing non-capitalist and anticapitalist economic forms so as to construct an alternative economy while...
Robbie McCauley
Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead
a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter
from her performance piece, Sugar, which...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Discussion with Michael Lardner & Members of the "Revolutions" Class
Adapted from the 1963 play by Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade is almost entirely a "play within a play." Set in the historical Charenton Asylum, now d’Hôpital Esquirol, the main story takes place on July 13, 1808,...
The Internet has become an essential tool for political activism, education, employment and more, but half the city lacks a cable or DSL connection. Those of us who are online don't really understand what...
Conversations on the NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
Harry Allen, Anika Lani Haynes & Michael Partis
With the release of Notorious, once again the famed rapper NOTORIOUS B.I.G. has taken center stage in the consciousness of the hip hop generation. Tonight our panel of experts will examine the film as...
Collages by Theodore A. Harris with Captions by Amiri Baraka
The Brecht Forum is proud to exhibit Our Flesh of Flames featuring the collages of Theodore A. Harris and the poetic captions of legendary writer and social activist Amiri Baraka.
Posed against...
Is Now the Time?
Members of the 15th Street Manifesto Group & Others TBA
Motivated by the current cultural, economic and political crisis facing all of us, a gathering of leftist intellectuals founded the 15th Street Manifesto Group (Stanley Aronowitz, Rick Wolff, William DiFazio,...
The American Dream
Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher
In the context of economic collapse, regime change in the US, the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other political and social factors in play, this Forum Theater workshop will focus on the...
& Floriculture with Stephanie Griffin, John Hebert, Oscar Noriega, Dan Weiss
Acclaimed by Downtown Music Gallery as "one of the best pianists and composers to emerge from the downtown network over the past few years," Carl Maguire is active as a performer and collaborator with a...
Bill DiFazio
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse (Penguin/Vintage), the unfinished notebooks to the volumes of Capital is the basic theorizing for his radical project the critique of political economy and capitalism. The...
Facilitated by Sam Anderson
This 4-part intensive meets daily from Monday, February 2 to Thursday, January 5, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. We will cover the centrality of Black resistance to slavery, Jim Crow and post-Jim Crowism. The intensive will...
Part 2. The Haitian Revolution
Jeremy Glick & Michael Lardner
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...
Discussion with Michael Lardner Jeremy Glick & Members of the "Revolutions" Class
A Caribbean island in the mid-1800s. Nature has made it a paradise; man has made it a hell. Slaves on vast Portuguese sugar plantations are ready to turn their misery into rebellion - and the British are ready...
A Marxian Analysis
Richard Wolff
This course will systematically use Marxian economic theory to analyze the current economic crisis.
We will focus on (1) why capitalism finds itself in so profound a global crisis, (2) why...
Autumn Brown
Consensus Mechanics is a study of Consensus Decision-making as a
revolutionary and liberating tradition. This course will explore Consensus
as historically cultural practice, and examine the...
The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Jeff Perry
Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist...
Russell Dale
Anarchism and communism are, historically, the two main wings of the socialist movement. Anarchism is represented by such thinkers and writers as Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker,...
Where They Are, What They're Doing, Why They're Important
Diana Leafe Christian
"Diana's Ecovillage Slide Show is simply unforgettable. She delivers it
with great style, wit, and heart, not to mention an encyclopedic authority
borne of nearly two decades at the forefront of...
Harriet Fraad & Richard Wolff
Psychology and Economy IV will continue the focus on how the unfolding economic deterioration (credit crisis, rising food and energy prices, falling home prices, looming recession, fiscal crises of states and...
Robbie McCauley
Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead
a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter
from her performance piece, Sugar, which...
Facilitated by Kira-Laura Ferrand
Our inability to adapt to stress causes hypertension, ulcers, gastric disorders, sleep and sexual dysfunction, anxiety, and both endocrine and general central nervous system overload.
Heal the Healer is...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War
Pratap Chatterjee
The New York launch of muckraker Pratap Chatterjee's brilliant expose of Halliburton, the Texas oil company that transformed how America wages war. Chatterjee will discuss the history of Halliburton’s...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Marisol Ruiz
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
1. A Critical Survey of the Issues
Rust Gilbert
As the current economic crisis deepens and threatens to become a full-blown, worldwide depression as deep or deeper than that of the 1930s, there is much talk of a “New New Deal.” This class will examine the...
Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships
Discussion with Chyng Sun, Tess Fraad-Wolff & Robert Wosnitzer
Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries in the United States. It is estimated that the pornography industry's...
Collage, Abstraction & African American Art
Theodore A. Harris, Geoffrey Jacques & Howardena Pindell
The collage emerged at the time of social reproduction of everyday life and has been a primary tool for social activists seeking to subvert the established order of capitalist logic. As part of the exhibition...
Theodore A Harris & Fred Moten. Moderated by Jeremy Glick
Join us for an historic evening as painter Theodore A Harris (featured artist of Our Flesh and Flames exhibit at the Brecht Forum) is joined by critic Fred Moten. Moten, a collaborator with Harris will...
A Workshop for People of Color
Facilitated by Gail Burton & Kayhan Irani
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression. This workshop will allow people of color to hear...
What makes you a REVOLUTIONARY SINGLE???
*You are Single and looking for like-minded and hearted individuals who are
committed to making a difference in the world!!!!
*You want...
Variants of Post-Neoliberal Strategies
Ulrich Brand & David Harvey
In the last 30 years, neoliberal policies have been implemented in almost every country. The multiple crises that have resulted and the obvious incapacity of neoliberal politics to deal with its own...
Marisol Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization
Melissa Draper, Roberto Fernandez Teran & Jim Shultz
Dignity and Defiance is the product of three years of work by a team of a dozen people. It uses eight well-researched and well-told stories of what globalization means -- good, bad, and in between -- in...
Discussion with Lauren Hauser, Liz Miller & Leah Sapin
The award winning documentary, “The Water Front” is the story of one community fighting against the seemingly inevitable path to water privatization.
This contemporary portrait of environmental racism /...
Grassroots Fundraising in Times of Economic Crisis
Sha Grogan-Brown, Bhairavi Desai, Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Margie Grace, Arun Gupta, Hugh Hogan, Randy Jackson, Nadia Abou-Karr, Mallory Knodel, Jeanette Lee, Brooke Lehman, Charles Lenchner, Lynn Lewis, Akinlabi E. A. Mackall,Tej Nagaraja, Emily Nepon, Yasmeen Perez, Alexandra Lopez Reitzes, Wanda Salaman, Ben Shepard, Dara Silverman, Christy Thornton, Helena Tubis, Max Uhlenbeck & Manish Vaidya
Join us Friday evening for our opening plenary and all day Saturday for a series of exciting discussions and hands-on workshops and skill shares.
Did Barack Obama get elected because of his...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Discussion with Nana Soul & U-Savior
In the controversial, original and provocative documentary Disappearing
Voices – The Decline of Black Radio, director U-Savior Washington
takes an unprecedented look at the rise and fall of...
Politics in the Age of Obama
Jasmin Young, Lee Bynum and Garrett Felber
Join a panel of activists and intellectuals to discuss the legacy of
Malcolm X and if he is still relevant in today's society. As one of
the foremost Black orator, agitator and activist of Black...
Onome Djere & Jeremiah Hosea
Join us for the closing party of Our Flesh of Flames, collages by Theodore Harris and Amiri Baraka. Featuring performances by spoken word artist Onome Djere and Jeremiah Hosea (Earthdriver)
Innocents Abroad is a new screenplay by Adam Klasfeld based on the Beacon High School's class trip to Cuba in Spring 2005, which brought students, teachers and administrators of the New York City high...
Olivia De Prato, Joshua Modney, Victor Lowrie, Isabel Castellvi
Featuring solos, string quartets and clarinet quintets by Rothenberg (clarinet/bass clarinet) with Olivia De Prato (violin), Joshua Modney (violin), Victor Lowrie (viola) and Isabel Castellvi (cello).
...
Revolutionary Strategy & the War of Position
Harmony Goldberg
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is one of the most powerful left strategy documents developed in the last hundred years, giving us unique insights about how the revolutionary process would unfold...
Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies
Arnold Farr with Stephen Eric Bronner, Peter Marcuse & Russell Rockwell
Panelists will engage in critical discussion of the themes and perspectives that author Arnold Farr develops in his new book on Herbert Marcuse and recent liberation philosophies. Themes in Farr's book that...
Going Beneath the Surface of HIV
Helen Epstein, Lipuo Moteete & Jonny Steinberg with a Musical Performance by the Peace Trio & Special Guests
This public opening of a weekend residence in Theater for Development features South African jornalist Jonny Steinberg and science writer Helen Epstein along with a perfomance of music from southern Africa and...
A Workshop in Healing through Storytelling
Facilitated by Potri Ranka Manis
Saturday: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
A practical workshop combining the Paulo Freire methodology and storytelling to look at how people are stereotyped, how such...
In January, 2005, Ocean Ana Rising produced the creation of a private mixed media installation which commemorated the lives of survivors and victims of domestic violence. In March, 2009, these same artists--...
[img_assist|nid=2484|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=250|height=344]A dynamic all-female ensemble drawing upon traditional Caribbean music, jazz and blues
6-8 pm
Pauline Jean,...
A History of Struggle
Discussion with Filmmaker Kathleen Foster, Fawzia Afzal Khan & Fahima Vorgetts
Crafts Sale: 7:00 pm
Afghan Women: A History of Struggle captures the resilience and courage of women who risk their lives on a daily basis to stand up for their rights. The film examines...
Speaking Tour with Palestinian Refugee Ziad Abbas
Ziad Abbas is part of the generation of Palestinian refugees who learned strength and commitment to their right of return from their elders, who passed on their keys to homes in villages destroyed by Israeli...
The Economic Crisis & What it All Means
William Tabb, Marta Vega & Max Fraad Wolff
Join us for a live in-studio town hall meeting on the state of the economic crisis.
How do we account for the current economic crisis? An unlucky streak or a system that's gone haywire? Join us for a...
Premiere of Tammen's new, open-form composition for the Third Eye Orchestra and live electronics fusing contemporary classical elements with minimal music.
featuring
Jason Hwang, David Soldier -...
Kathleen Chalfant, Brian Jones, Daren Kelly, Ellen McLaughlin, Una Aya Osato & Brian Pickett
In memory of Rachel Corrie and the children of Gaza, Theaters Against War and Rachel's Words invite you to the first New York reading of Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill. The evening will also...
Remembering the casualties of Iraq, Afghanistan, & Palestine
This event is organized in response to the following appeal to poets, writern and all creative artists:
From Poets Gathered March 20-23 2008
at “Split This Rock” Poetry Festival, Washington DC...
What They Don’t Want You to Know About Shock Treatment
Linda Andre
Doctors say that shock treatment (ECT) is a perfectly safe and effective treatment for mental illness...but should you believe them? In this new history of shock treatment, Linda Andre reveals how the American...
Discussion with Filmmaker Maryam Habbibian & Kathleen Foster
In spite of the social limitations imposed by the Islamic regime, Iran today is alive with youthful energy. With over seventy percent of the population under 40 years of age, a new culture of art, literature,...
***POSTPONED***
Robbie McCauley
Award-winning actress Robbie McCauley returns to the Brecht Forum to lead
a series of workshops called "Diabetic Dramas" based on subject matter
from her performance piece, Sugar, which...
This newly-formed group takes its inspiration from the colloquial term "sambumbia" -- a mixture of elements that lend unique flavor to a dish. This is a perfect description of the Afro-Puerto Rican traditions...
Autumn Brown, Krista Franklin, Anika Lani Haynes & Jonathan Scott
Octavia Estelle Butler was a pioneer in the field of science fiction. An African American women in a genre dominated by white men, her writing drew from the traditions of folklore and challenged conventional...
Queer Black Cinema presents the 4th Annual Fades of Black Womyn Film Showcase 2009. Come celebrate with Queer Black Cinema as we honor and pay tribute to Black Hall of Fame Filmmaker, (Campbell X formerly...
with Tami Gold & Jennifer Miller
[img_assist|nid=2375|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=150|height=182]Join us for an exciting evening with:
• Screening of the new video Still Juggling (with Jennifer Miller 15 years later)...
Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher & Others TBA
Rainbow of Desire, an Image Theater technique, is a technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire deals...
Ocean Ana Rising
How do we live at home when it can often be a mortally dangerous space? How do we make and maintain home when it is so often a space of both refuge and resistance? How do we reclaim and celebrate home despite...
Reflections on the FMLN Presidential Election Victory
The March 15th victory of the...
Paintings by Francisco Verastegui
Living and working in Oaxaca,...
A Workshop Series for People of Color
Facilitated by Gail Burton & Kayhan Irani
Building on the explorations of the Cop-in-the-Head workshop on Internalized Racism in February 2009, we have started a new series for people of color to examine internalized racism using the tools from the...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
RECEPTION AT 6:30
The birth place of writer Eduardo Galeano and home to a thriving folk and rock scene, Uruguay is a small country with enormous cultural output. In anticipation of Uruguay's...
An Open Forum on Issues Raised by the <I>Manifesto for a Left Turn</i>
The 15th Street Manifesto Group
The 15th Street Manifesto Group will open the evening with a short presentation updating the current state of the political, economic, familial and cultural crisis facing us. Michael Pelias will introduce the...
William Tabb & Max Fraad Wolfe
The Brecht Forum along with Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) is proud to present a broadcast of a town hall meeting on the economic crisis that took place last month. The show will broadcast tonight on...
"Broe puts the red back in the black"
--Ester Leslie, author of Walter Benjamin
Dennis Broe's Film Noir, American Workers and Postwar Hollywood, just released from University...
RECEPTION AT 6:30
The protagonists of this documentary are the veterans of Murga (a traditional musical and theatrical performance at Montevideo carnival). In 2004, they got together again to...
Revolution from the Inside Out
Discussion with Filmmaker Clifton Ross
Clifton Ross will show his film, "Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out" (2008, PM Press), a critical look at the Bolivarian Process drawn mostly from the experiences of the participants themselves. In the...
Rev. Rachel Guidera, Ramsey Kanaan, Colin Robinson & Amy Scholder
These are hardly auspicious times for media, publishing, and the dissemination of words, and ideas. Since the rise of "movement" and radical publishers, bookstores, magazines et al. in the 1960s, publishing...
Chesa Boudin
In the early months of 1999, an 18-year-old American from Chicago arrived in Guatemala City. He sought adventure and planned to learn Spanish but, beyond that, had no particular goal or destination in mind. He...
Facilitators TBA
Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that uses games and exercises to recognize and confront...
Join friends and comrades as we'll unwind and celebrate The Left Forum 2009.
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
RECEPTION AT 6:30
Desperate and unfortunate, lazy and hesitant, David, a 25-year-old guy, has failed as a student and lost the scholarship which supported him in the capital city. To get it back...
Discussion with Filmmaker Ernesto Ardito
Zanon/...
Discussion with Filmmaker Ernesto Ardito
Zanon/...
Kahlil Almustafa
The beginning of this year marked the historic election of Barack Obama. A Black president is something I never thought I would see. Like most of us, so many conflicting thoughts and emotions went through me....
Political Crisis, Indigenous Movement & Evo Morales
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
A discussion with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Bolivian sociologist, prominent public intellectual and political activist engaged with the indigenous, women and coca growers movements. She is author of several...
Robbie McCauley
Saturday, April 25
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
WORKSHOP
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Confronting Diabetes through Drama
Robbie McCauley
Calling actors, activists,...
A Strategic Round Table on the NYC Student Movement
Tim Hearin, Yotam Marom, Tara Mulqueen, Drew Phillips, Banu Quadir & Doug Sinsen
Featuring organizers at the forefront of the student movement in New York, this event will address the successes and failures of student organizing from the perspective of activists engaged in ongoing...
RECEPTION AT 6:30
PLUMAS AL CIELO – FEATHERS TO THE SKY details a forgotten town in Latin America, where Tamara, a nine year old girl, has to walk many miles a day selling feathers...
The Most Important Irish Revolutionary You May Never Have Heard Of
Cliff Conner
Although Arthur O'Connor has not become an icon of romantic legend, he was the most important leader of the United Irishmen, the powerful conspiracy that culminated in the Rebellion of 1798. While that...
The Cold War Against Labor & the New Deal
Sam Sills with Bob Schrank
The anti-communist campaign that exploded on the American scene after WWII reshaped the character and goals of organized labor. Today, few remember the historic militancy and creativity of industrial workers...
Street Photographs 2008
Photography by Ana Ratner & Jacob Ratner
It has been fifty years since Fidel arrived in Havana to meet the enormous crowd that awaited him in the streets, but today the city looks largely unchanged, simply a bit more weathered from the spray of the...
Connecting the Dots Between Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kashmir & Pakistan
Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Faheed Bitar, Miriam Cooke, Nawal El Saadawi, Kathleen Foster, Remi Kanazi, Bruce Lawrence, Brant Lyon, Barbara Nimri Aziz, Michael Schwartz, Roger Sedarat, Miriam Stanley, Carmela Tal Baron & Others TBA
Join us for an evening of documentary film, music, poetry, personal narratives and discussion with:
A We Are Gaza Concert
Mohammad Kundos & MOCHILA
Join our friends at Alwan for the Arts as celebrate the release of Green Bullets by Mohammad Kundos and MOCHILA.
Mohammad Kundos - 'Oud and Arabic Percussion
and featuring
Eric...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
A Panel Discussion Featuring Artists & Activists Offering New Models for Leadership
Autumn Brown, Andre Lancaster, Ione Lloyd, Gaurav Jashnani/RJ Maccani & Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
In the age of a biracial, center-progressive U.S. leader with a mandate for change, there is a real specter of a character flaw revelation that could derail the good and the bad of his agenda. And in the...
Scelsi Morning
Neues Kabarett is delighted to help kick off a week-long, city-wide retrospective celebrating one of our favorite guitarists, and to welcome the fantastic Ensemble Dissonanzen from Italy!
featuring...
MuKha & the Angsudden Ensemble
MuKha and the Angsudden Ensemble present “The Ängsudden Song Cycle” featuring an eight member chamber group, led by Michael McGinnis (saxophones/clarinets), perform music written to a series of ink paintings...
Neues Kabarett is delighted to present a special evening with Italy's acclaimed Ensemble Dissonanzen performing an evening of early music and avant-garde improvisation.
The starting point is the music...
This reading of a one act play by Nina Howes and directed by Gloria Zelaya, explores the impact of Depleted Uranium (DU) * on the lives of a young couple. When Nick, a survivor of Desert Storm, realizes he was...
An Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Concepts & Techniques
Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Sally Hyppolite, Esperanza Martell, Julie Novas & Others TBA
This is an introductory hands-on workshop in the use of popular education concepts and techniques based on the complementary approaches to Education for Liberation developed by two Brazilian cultural activists...
Benefit for the New Jersey 4
Annual Roses and Bread- performance slam benefiting the New Jersey 4 -for childcare, to perform or to reserve tickets please call 212-748-9829 (women and trans only)
An Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Concepts & Techniques
Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Sally Hyppolite, Esperanza Martell, Julie Novas & Others TBA
This is an introductory hands-on workshop in the use of popular education concepts and techniques based on the complementary approaches to Education for Liberation developed by two Brazilian cultural activists...
A Discussion with Miami's Take Back the Land Movement on Housing, Squatting, Showdowns, & Takeovers in the Face of Economic Crisis
Max Rameau
We all know the government is bailing out banks, while many of these same
banks are ramping up foreclosures, and profiting from housing and land that
people need. Take Back the Land (...
Bashir Mchawi & Bernard White
"Armed with the knowledge of our past we can chart a course of our future"- Malcolm X
Known as a fiery orator and skilled organizer Malcolm X was also a deft educator and independent media maker...
The Music Anarch-atory doesn’t presuppose the existence of a canonized body of knowledge which must be transmitted, but creates a space where students can ask how their own projects/practice/concerns relate to...
Seventeen years after laying down their weapons to become a peaceful political party, the former guerillas of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won a resounding victory this March in El...
Facilitated by Julian Boal & Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Saturday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Monday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Monday evening: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (performance/demonstration at The Riverside Church)
...
in a Performance/Demonstration of Forum Theater
With Assistance of Members of his Intensive Master Workshop at the Brecht Forum
This Performance/Demonstration will take place at the Assembly Hall of the Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue at West 120 Street (one block west of Broadway), Manhattan.
A major memorial...
Facilitated by Julian Boal & Members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory
Tuesday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Thursday evening: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (performance/demonstration)
Rainbow of Desire is...
Learning from Ecovillages & Intentional Communities
Diana Leafe Christian
Ecovillages and other kinds of intentional communities often produce their
own organic food onsite and support local farmers. In times of financial
downturn and energy descent, we can learn about...
Summer Brenner & Owen Hill
Through reading and discussion, come celebrate the launch of two new (decidedly lefty) crime novels, and discover how literature might just be one of the best ways to illuminate such harrowing topics as sex-...
A Workshop Series for People of Color
Facilitated by Gail Burton & Kayhan Irani
Building on the explorations of the Cop-in-the-Head workshop on Internalized Racism in February 2009, we have started a new series for people of color to examine internalized racism using the tools from the...
A Workshop for Puerto Ricans Only
Saulo Colon & Others with the Puerto Rican Political Education Project (PREP)
The Brecht Forum as a collective space for socialist political education has historically been linked to and supported by the socialist Boricua community. In fact, one of the founders of the Brecht was a...
Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist. Fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars. Enterprising, independent reporter and avid amateur classicist. As D. D. Guttenplan...
A Night of Performance and Partying!
Judy Gorman, Mark Hurwitt, Mimi LaValley and Members of Picture the Homeless
* the music of Judy Gorman ...Judy's songs get their wings from her imagination and their roots from the folk, blues, jazz and gospel music she's been surrounded by all her life. "*Shoots the arrow straight...
A Debate & Discussion on Obama & the Left
Brian Jones, Katie Robbins, Jeremy Scahill & a Representative from the Radical Student Union at the New School
Obama’s victory was an historic moment: the election of the United States’ first African American president, the end of eight years of the Bush Regime. It was rightly seen by millions of people as the...
Noam Chomsky<br>Introduced by Amy Goodman with Music by Earthdriver & Mahina Movement
5:30 pm Pre-event Benefit Reception is SOLD OUT
6:00 pm - Doors Open & Pre-Event Concert with Earth Driver and Mahina Movement
7:00 pm - Main event with Noam Chomsky & Amy Goodman...
A Workshop for LGBT People
Facilitated by Gail A. Burton
Expanding from our series on Internalized Racism, in February through May 2009, we have started a new series for LGBT people to examine internalized homophobia using tools from the Theater of the Oppressed...
A Bilingual Presentation in English and Spanish
Eric Toensmeier & Marikler Girón
Perennial vegetables can provide years of harvests with very little care.
They are ideal for community gardens, small yards, and guerilla gardening.
This workshop will feature an overview of...
Marisol Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Marisol Ruiz
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Marisol Ruiz
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
An Interview with Bill Tabb
This interview with noted political theorist Bill Tabb will be recorded for a class at the Sustainability Institute at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. It will be one of several interviews with...
Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home
Steve Early
"This is an exciting collection not only for the ideas presented, but for its potential contribution to developing a working class readership base that could dramatically widen the discussions and debates...
Harvey Goldberg in Madison's Golden Age
Paul Buhle <i>Plus</i> The SDS Comic Show Exhibit & a Musical Performance TBA
We are pleased to announce that this year's Goldberg lecture will be given by the eminent American historian and UW graduate student, Paul Buhle. Paul is currently teaching at Brown University and has written...
Harvey Goldberg in Madison's Golden Age
Paul Buhle <i>Plus</i> The SDS Comic Show Exhibit & a Musical Performance TBA
We are pleased to announce that this year's Goldberg lecture will be given by the eminent American historian and UW graduate student, Paul Buhle. Paul is currently teaching at Brown University and has written...
A Workshop for LGBT People
Facilitated by Ellen Baxt & Gail A. Burton
Saturday: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Following the workshop session on Saturday come to a special Pride Mixer at 6:00 pm, sponsored by members of the Theater of the...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
A Workshop for LGBT People
Facilitated by Ellen Baxt & Gail A. Burton
Saturday: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Following the workshop session on Saturday come to a special Pride Mixer at 6:00 pm, sponsored by members of the Theater of the...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Following the “Cop-in-the-Head to Look at Internalized Homophobia” workshop, held earlier in the day, the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory and the Brecht Forum invite you to a special Pride Mixer! This is a...
Following the “Cop-in-the-Head to Look at Internalized Homophobia” workshop, held earlier in the day, the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory and the Brecht Forum invite you to a special Pride Mixer! This is a...
Background to 1848
Led by Russell Dale & Michael Lardner
...
Alternative Responses to the Crisis
Diana Aguiar, Sarah Anderson, Larry Holmes, Arjun Karki, Pedro Paez, Jana Silverman & Steve Suppan
Despite optimistic claims in the mainstream media that the global economic crisis is entering its final phases, more realistic analysts confirm that this worldwide financial downturn continues to worsen, with...
Alternative Responses to the Crisis
Diana Aguiar, Sarah Anderson, Larry Holmes, Arjun Karki, Pedro Paez, Jana Silverman & Steve Suppan
Despite optimistic claims in the mainstream media that the global economic crisis is entering its final phases, more realistic analysts confirm that this worldwide financial downturn continues to worsen, with...
1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli
Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri
Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies.
In addition to conventional theater...
1. The Birth of the Jongleur, 2. The Birth of the Worker, & 3. The Fool at the Foot of the Cross with a Prologue by Machiavelli
Adapted & Performed by Tony Palmieri
Dario Fo was born in 1926 in Lombardy, Italy. He began his career as a comic and mime and became a highly successful actor, director and writer of satirical comedies.
In addition to conventional theater...
François Houtart, Donna Katzin, Michele Kervyn, Chris Rude & David Wilson
For activists in the US, the UN conference on the Economic Crisis represents an "eruption" into the usual politics of the General Assembly. What does it mean to the Left in the US? How are we to relate to it...
François Houtart, Donna Katzin, Michele Kervyn, Chris Rude & David Wilson
For activists in the US, the UN conference on the Economic Crisis represents an "eruption" into the usual politics of the General Assembly. What does it mean to the Left in the US? How are we to relate to it...
Regional & Global Resistance
Syed Armughan al-Asar, Immanuel Ness & Karin Astrid Siegmann
The panel examines the regional and global dimensions of South Asian migrant labor struggle against multinational corporate exploitation through examining the erosion of working conditions through...
Regional & Global Resistance
Syed Armughan al-Asar, Immanuel Ness & Karin Astrid Siegmann
The panel examines the regional and global dimensions of South Asian migrant labor struggle against multinational corporate exploitation through examining the erosion of working conditions through...
Gil Noble, Dr. Yaa Lengi M. Ngemi, Vinie Burrows, Charles Daniel Dawson
Over 250,000 people have been internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Still, the plight of the Congolese people has not made a blip on the radar in the US media.
Join us for a...
Gil Noble, Dr. Yaa Lengi M. Ngemi, Vinie Burrows, Charles Daniel Dawson
Over 250,000 people have been internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Still, the plight of the Congolese people has not made a blip on the radar in the US media.
Join us for a...
A Benefit Concert for the Brecht Forum & Left Turn Magazine
Mahina Movement, Earthdriver, Rebel Diaz, Young Lady, Koba, Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mustglow Fuego
[img_assist|nid=2859|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=424|height=275]Join your favorite revolutionaries and rebel rousers for a rousting anti-July 4th celebration and concert.
Concert! Cookout...
A Benefit Concert for the Brecht Forum & Left Turn Magazine
Mahina Movement, Earthdriver, Rebel Diaz, Young Lady, Koba, Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Mustglow Fuego
[img_assist|nid=2859|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=424|height=275]Join your favorite revolutionaries and rebel rousers for a rousting anti-July 4th celebration and concert.
Concert! Cookout...
Trade Union Movements in Haiti and Guadeloupe
Elie Domota & Fignole Saint Cy
In Haiti, the unions are playing a amjor role in the struggle to restore democracy after the U.S. government removed democratically elected Prsident Aristide and U.N. troops continue to occupy the country....
Trade Union Movements in Haiti and Guadeloupe
Elie Domota & Fignole Saint Cy
In Haiti, the unions are playing a amjor role in the struggle to restore democracy after the U.S. government removed democratically elected Prsident Aristide and U.N. troops continue to occupy the country....
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...
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...
Working Class & LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH @ 730PM:
Families Now!
Working class and LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession.
Brecht Forum
451 West Street in Manhattan
As if it wasn't hard enough...
Working Class & LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH @ 730PM:
Families Now!
Working class and LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession.
Brecht Forum
451 West Street in Manhattan
As if it wasn't hard enough...
Pamela Brown & Russell Dale
...
The Art of Palestinian Children is a traveling exhibition, co-sponsored by Adalah-NY (www.adalahny.org) and the Middle East Committee of The WESPAC Foundation (...
The Art of Palestinian Children is a traveling exhibition, co-sponsored by Adalah-NY (www.adalahny.org) and the Middle East Committee of The WESPAC Foundation (...
An Intensive Introduction
Rick Wolff
Due to the time error in the announcements, Rick has agreed to teach the first session again this Wednesday the 15th at 5:30 for those who missed the first session....
An Intensive Introduction
Rick Wolff
Due to the time error in the announcements, Rick has agreed to teach the first session again this Wednesday the 15th at 5:30 for those who missed the first session....
Ervand Abrahamian, Hamid Dabashi, Leili Kashani & Arang Keshavarzian
In the aftermath of Iran’s disputed June 12, 2009 presidential elections, between one and three million Iranians across the country took to the streets to protest severe irregularities and intimidation during...
Ervand Abrahamian, Hamid Dabashi, Leili Kashani & Arang Keshavarzian
In the aftermath of Iran’s disputed June 12, 2009 presidential elections, between one and three million Iranians across the country took to the streets to protest severe irregularities and intimidation during...
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. Hear first hand their experiences challenging the Egyptian and Israeli...
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. Hear first hand their experiences challenging the Egyptian and Israeli...
Latin America After the Honduran Coup
Andres Conteris, Audelia Guadalupe Lopez de Kleutgens, Roberto Lovato
Latin America After the Honduran Coup
Andres Conteris, Audelia Guadalupe Lopez de Kleutgens, Roberto Lovato
The Intersection of Capitalism, Food & Disease
Dr. Laura S. Boylan & Arun Gupta
For at least the third time in recent years, the threat of a
deadly viral pandemic has swept the globe. Starting with SARS in 2003, then
Avian flu, and now Swine flu, fear and panic have gripped...
The Intersection of Capitalism, Food & Disease
Dr. Laura S. Boylan & Arun Gupta
For at least the third time in recent years, the threat of a
deadly viral pandemic has swept the globe. Starting with SARS in 2003, then
Avian flu, and now Swine flu, fear and panic have gripped...
Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Live Music by COMA
7:30
New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market | Dir. James Blair Smith | 1903 | 2 min
Skyscrapers of New York City from the North River | Dir. James Blair Smith, 1903 | 3 min
...Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Live Music by COMA
7:30
New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market | Dir. James Blair Smith | 1903 | 2 min
Skyscrapers of New York City from the North River | Dir. James Blair Smith, 1903 | 3 min
...Post Apocalyptic. New Freedoms. New Communities.
Forever war. Economic disaster. Global warming. Is all lost? Just as in Octavia Butler's post-apocalyptic futures, there are many groups of people today whose seemingly dis-utopic work actually serve a hopeful...
Post Apocalyptic. New Freedoms. New Communities.
Forever war. Economic disaster. Global warming. Is all lost? Just as in Octavia Butler's post-apocalyptic futures, there are many groups of people today whose seemingly dis-utopic work actually serve a hopeful...
Brecht on British Television
The Brecht Forum celebrates the genius of Bertolt Brecht with two rarely seen Brecht performances on British television, including Lotte Lenya singing from her husband's (Kurt Weill)song book and the Alan...
Brecht on British Television
The Brecht Forum celebrates the genius of Bertolt Brecht with two rarely seen Brecht performances on British television, including Lotte Lenya singing from her husband's (Kurt Weill)song book and the Alan...
Dave Lippman,"Bard of the Bankers" Wild Bill Bailout, Remi Kanazi, Mahina Movement, & the Goodbye Moto Players
A benefit concert for the movement to boycott Israeli colonialism will feature investigative satirist Dave Lippman, Bard of the Bankers Wild Bill Bailout, Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi and music of ruthless...
Dave Lippman,"Bard of the Bankers" Wild Bill Bailout, Remi Kanazi, Mahina Movement, & the Goodbye Moto Players
A benefit concert for the movement to boycott Israeli colonialism will feature investigative satirist Dave Lippman, Bard of the Bankers Wild Bill Bailout, Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi and music of ruthless...
A Revolutionary Cure for Capitalism's Depression?
Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Bhairavi Desai, Harriet Fraad, Harmony Goldberg, Jon Kim, Lisa Maya Knauer, Lynn Lewis, Peter Marcuse, Liz Mestres, Wazir Mohamed, Manny Ness, Brian Purnell, Merle Ratner, Jean Rice, Rob Robinson, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Hank Williams, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the “cures’ that are prescribed for capitalism’s ills just temporarily suppress the...
A Revolutionary Cure for Capitalism's Depression?
Humberto Brown, Vivek Chibber, Bhairavi Desai, Harriet Fraad, Harmony Goldberg, Jon Kim, Lisa Maya Knauer, Lynn Lewis, Peter Marcuse, Liz Mestres, Wazir Mohamed, Manny Ness, Brian Purnell, Merle Ratner, Jean Rice, Rob Robinson, Cleo Silvers, Bill Tabb, Lincoln Van Sluytman, Hank Williams, Rick Wolff & Others TBA
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the “cures’ that are prescribed for capitalism’s ills just temporarily suppress the...
Mediated Iran
Discussion with Leili Kashani
Our Visual Liberation film series continues looking at Iran through the prism of historical films and documentaries. Leili Kashani will conduct an after film Q and A.
Iran | Dir. Kenneth Richter...
Mediated Iran
Discussion with Leili Kashani
Our Visual Liberation film series continues looking at Iran through the prism of historical films and documentaries. Leili Kashani will conduct an after film Q and A.
Iran | Dir. Kenneth Richter...
Pasolini's Non-Fiction Films
Tonight we present two groundbreaking works of fames Italian communist director Pier Paolo Pasolini. La Rabbia is a personal mediation on politics; Seeking Locations in Palestine details...
Pasolini's Non-Fiction Films
Tonight we present two groundbreaking works of fames Italian communist director Pier Paolo Pasolini. La Rabbia is a personal mediation on politics; Seeking Locations in Palestine details...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
City of the Dead
The Alternative Arts Association presents NECROPOLIS, city of the dead, a multimedia arts production of epic proportion. Over 30 artists from all backgrounds will come together to explore the metaphoric...
City of the Dead
The Alternative Arts Association presents NECROPOLIS, city of the dead, a multimedia arts production of epic proportion. Over 30 artists from all backgrounds will come together to explore the metaphoric...
Discussion with Peter Derrick, Marty Goodman, Manny Kirchheimer, Steve Lambert, Cassim Shepard, Jon Zazove
New York's vaulted train system is the envy of the world and the thermometer of the changes in the city. Tonight's program focuses on the history of the New York City transit system and the relation to race,...
Discussion with Peter Derrick, Marty Goodman, Manny Kirchheimer, Steve Lambert, Cassim Shepard, Jon Zazove
New York's vaulted train system is the envy of the world and the thermometer of the changes in the city. Tonight's program focuses on the history of the New York City transit system and the relation to race,...
African-Americans & US Militarism
The Negro Soldier | Dir. Stuart Heisler | 1944 | 43 min
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger | Dir. David Loeb Weiss | 1968 | 68 min Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell
African-Americans & US Militarism
The Negro Soldier | Dir. Stuart Heisler | 1944 | 43 min
No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger | Dir. David Loeb Weiss | 1968 | 68 min
Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell
A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer
Steve Bloom
Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include: “What is poetry?” “What is political ...
René Francisco Poitevin
We will use Henri Lefebvre’s book by the same title to explore the intersection between urbanism, capitalism, and class struggle. Our goal is to analyze the relevance of urban space (and Urban Marxism) for...
A Workshop for the Aspiring Writer
Steve Bloom
Have you ever felt an inner poet is lurking, somewhere? The assumption of this workshop is that every human being has one. Come and explore. Discussion topics include: “What is poetry?” “What is political ...
René Francisco Poitevin
We will use Henri Lefebvre’s book by the same title to explore the intersection between urbanism, capitalism, and class struggle. Our goal is to analyze the relevance of urban space (and Urban Marxism) for...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Oral Histories - Moore and Patterson
Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison | People's Communication Network | 1973 | 63 min
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words | Dir. Louis Massiah | 2002 |18 min
...
3 Short Films
Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Teri Tynes
Join us for a film/discussion on gentrification and urban planning through the lens of rare documentaries.
For the Living | Dirs. Lewis Jacobs & Leo Seltzer | 1949 | 21 min
Sunday...
3 Short Films
Discussion with Cassim Shepard & Teri Tynes
Join us for a film/discussion on gentrification and urban planning through the lens of rare documentaries.
For the Living | Dirs. Lewis Jacobs & Leo Seltzer | 1949 | 21 min
Sunday...
North Korean Propaganda, Theirs and Ours
The Crime of Korea | US Army Signal Corps | 1950, 15 min
The Parade of the Korean People's Army | DPRK | 2002 | 30 min
Always Working Together for the People | DPRK | ca. 1993...
The South African Shack Dwellers Movement
Mazwi Nzimande
The city of Durban, South Africa, has promised to ‘eradicate the slums’ by 2010 in time for the Soccer World Cup and is evicting shack dwellers from their homes at gunpoint. ‘Dear Mandela’ is a feature...
South Africa & the First Black Precedents
Discussion with Reverend Mavuso Mbhekiseni & Mazwi Nzimande
The Life and Death of Steve Biko | World in Action | 1977 | 25 min
A Savage War of Peace | Video News Service| 1993 | 50 min
Dear Mandela | Dirs. Dara Kell & Christopher...
Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
Dahr Jamail
Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone and winner with Mohammed Omer of the 2007 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, brings us inside the movement of military resistance to the occupation of...
The Library in 1956
Discussion with Members of Radical Reference
Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory of the World) | Dir. Alain Resnais |1956 |21 min
Storm Center | Dir. Daniel Taradash | 1956 | 86 min
The Library in 1956
Discussion with Members of Radical Reference
Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory of the World) | Dir. Alain Resnais |1956 |21 min
Storm Center | Dir. Daniel Taradash | 1956 | 86 min
Black Panthers 68-71
Huey!| Dir. Sally Pugh| 1968 | 86 min
Bobby Seale | Newsreel| 1969 | 15 min
Black Panthers in Chicago| Videofreex| 1969 | 24 min
The Death of a Revolutionary |...
Talking History| Dir. HO Nazareth| 1983 | 56 min
Featuring CLR James with EP Thompson
How Does it Go with the Black Movement?| Firing Line| 1973| 56 min
Huey P Newton Debates...
Break and Enter (Rompiendo Puertas)| Newsreel | 1970 | 42 min
At Home in Utopia | Michal Goldman| 2008| 57 min
René Francisco Poitevin
Este curso examina, desde una perspective Marxista, la relación entre el espacio urbano, el capitalismo, y la lucha de clases. La premisa inspirando esta conversación es la intuición de que en el siglo XXI las...
René Francisco Poitevin
Este curso examina, desde una perspective Marxista, la relación entre el espacio urbano, el capitalismo, y la lucha de clases. La premisa inspirando esta conversación es la intuición de que en el siglo XXI las...
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire| various newsreels| 1946 | 12 min
A Tale of Two Cities | Army-Navy Screen Magazine| 1946| 56 min
Night and Fog | Alain Resnais| 1955|32 min...
Words of Truth searches for the keys of this illustrious citizen of Montevideo -Mario Benedetti- in his life and especially in his poetry. Here is a man who has had to face various periods in exile yet...
Jairo Jimenez Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Facilitated by Kayhan Irani & Christina Marin
In his book Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics, Augusto Boal explains how certain circumstances, both social and political, “signaled the necessity to create a new category of...
Facilitated by Kayhan Irani & Christina Marin
In his book Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics, Augusto Boal explains how certain circumstances, both social and political, “signaled the necessity to create a new category of popular...
Marisol Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Marisol Ruiz
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Pam Africa, Alton Maddox & Daniel Meyers
The Campaign for a Civil Rights Investigation of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal demands that Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department conduct a civil rights investigation to assess the suppression...
Marisol Ruiz
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas...
Marisol Ruiz
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
Bitter comedy about a couple in their thirties living an uncertain life. The main character (who smokes marijuana cigarrettes all day) and his wife live between Montevideo -the capital city- and Piriápolis. It...
Right Wing Frenzy, Inside/Out Strategies & the Red Scare
Jed Brandt, Rosa Clemente, Harmony Goldberg, Arun Gupta, Randy Jackson, Jee Kim, Terry Marshall & Lenina Nadal
“We must start having the necessary critical discussion of, do we want communists, radicals, revolutionaries in the United States government as special advisors to the president of the United States? Do we...
Featuring Mzuri Moyo
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Mzuri Moyo brings the indomitable spirit of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer to The Riverside Church as...
Featuring Mzuri Moyo
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Mzuri Moyo brings the indomitable spirit of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer to The Riverside Church as...
with Liberty Ellman, Ches Smith & Skuli Sverrisson
Okkyung Lee - cello
Liberty Ellman - guitar
Ches Smith - drums
Skuli Sverrisson - bass
Luz Angela Fonseca
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 while learning about Spanish and...
Jose Rosa
Students will continue to develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this...
A sensitive reconstruction of the Anarchist movement in the River Plate area, and specifically in the city of Montevideo during the first third of the XX Century. To build this documentary Virginia Martinez...
Joel Kovel
We are living through a great crisis in the relations between humanity and nature, so severe that it might potentially signal the extinction of our species, along with innumerable others. This "Ecological...
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
Farah-Jasmin Griffin, Joyce Jones, Atiba Kwabena-Wilson, Salim Washington & Hank Williams
During the 1950s and ’60s, Miles Davis reinvented jazz several times over while maintaining an aura of implacable cool; meanwhile, John Coltrane embarked on an intense spiritual-musical quest, in the process...
When democracy starts to impose itself over the weakened Latin American dictatorships, a man flees through the forest of a Uruguayan seaside resort. He is from Chile and hides at a police station of the town....
Marisol Ruiz
Students learn to read advanced texts, express themselves fluently, write long texts, and appreciate humor, irony, and wit in literary and non-literary texts. Depending on the students' needs, increased...
His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East
Fred Jerome
"Reading the newly-revealed correspondence in Fred Jerome's book makes it clear that Einstein was a social commentator and humanitarian with a worldview worthy of his scientific genius. It's a pity that the...
Russell Dale
...
William DiFazio
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse, the unfinished notebooks to the volumes of Capital is the basic theorizing for his radical project the critique of political economy and of capitalism. This is a...
The Living Heritage & Prospects for Our Time
Rust Gilbert & Michael Lardner
Revolutionary Movements: 1848-1875
Eric Hobsbawm’s Age of Capital 1848-1875 analyzes the quarter century during which capitalism came to dominate Europe, transforming all social relations...
Harmony Goldberg
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks is one of the most powerful left strategy documents developed in the last hundred years. One of Gramsci’s central political concepts was the concept of "hegemony," the...
Joint Reportback from Cuba & Venezuela Solidarity Delegations
Kazembe Balagun, Isolina De La Cruz, Julie Novas & Others TBA
Another world is possible and is in action in Latin America. Join us as members of the food sovereignty delegation to Venezuela and the 40th Vencenremos Brigade to Cuba discuss racial identity, food justice...
Maliha Safri
This class examines some crucial debates: do immigrants exert negative wage or employment effects on native workers? If so, which ones? In other words, how have most researchers in the migration field answered...
Towards a Left Theory of the American Presidency
Noble Bratton
We have just seen the longest and most expensive presidential race in American history, a unique contest in many ways. But what of the presidency itself, an institution well over 200 years old? How are...
Followed by an All-Star Musical Tribute to Thelonious Monk
Robin DG Kelley
“Robin Kelley’s new biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a breath of fresh air amongst the biographies of our legendary jazz musicians. This book is thorough,...
Stanley Aronowitz, Slavoj Zizek & the Public Sphere
Stanley Aronowitz Reads the New York Times: A Timely Look at Labor | Paper Tiger TV | 1983 | 28 min
United Victorian Workers | Dara Greenwald | 2006 | 6 min
Liebe Dien Symptom...
Neoliberalism & the Corporate Control of Food<br>Lessons from India & the US
Arun Gupta, Nancy Romer & Devinder Sharma <br>Moderated by Vinay Gidwani
Often called the “Green Chomsky” Devinder Sharma will discuss how US-sponsored neoliberal policies have willfully marginalized farming communities, damaging rural livelihoods and aggravating food insecurity in...
Slavoj Žižek
"Žižek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation."
—New Yorker
"Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop...
Fred Jerome
“Though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me,” Einstein said towards the end of his life. Indeed, it is hard if not impossible to find anyone as world-famous as Einstein who is...
Shlomo Sand with Commentary by Joel Kovel
All modern nation states have a story of their origins, passed down through both official and popular culture, and yet few of these accounts have proved as divisive and influential as the Israeli national myth...
An Introduction to Paulo Freire’s Concepts & Techniques
Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Sally Hyppolite, Esperanza Martell, Onaji Muid, Julie Novas, Javier Salamanca & Others TBA
This is an introductory hands-on workshop in the use of popular education concepts and techniques based on the complementary approaches to Education for Liberation developed by two Brazilian Marxist educators...
Premieres and New Works for Large Ensemble
with Thomas Buckner, Taylor Ho Bynum, Gamelan Son of Lion ensemble (Barbara Benary, Lisa Karrer, Skip LaPlante, Denman Maroney, David Simons), Carl McGuire & Shoko Nagai
Neues Kabarett is pleased to present New York-based, Argentinean composer and conductor Laura Andel. She will premiere new works that balance composition, textural improvisation, and compositional conducting,...
Solidarity with Workers & Communities In Struggle<br>
Special Tribute to the Strikers of Stella D'Oro
With Poets of the Activist Poets Roundtable
Rick Wolff
We will assess how the crisis is evolving with special attention to its broad social effects. We will cover these topics: where is “recovery” underway and where further decline? What are the successes and...
Facilitated by Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Trainers TBA
Image Theater, part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed, created by Brasilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal as organizing tools for communities in struggle, is designed to develop...
Capital & Community Interests
This is the first in a series of screenings we are doing to highlight some of the programming done uptown at the Maysles Cinema. The first two films in this program come from a series they did, "Rent Control:...
Discussion with Filmmaker Bill Haney
On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations...
Popular Mobilization & the Imperial Presidency in Colombia<br><i>PLUS</i> a Screening of "A Country of Peoples Without Owners: <br>The MInga 2008"
Rafael Coicué & Gerardo Renique
In October 2008, tens of thousands of indigenous people mobilized for
weeks throughout Colombia, demanding a change in the government's
security and development policies. Since then, President...
Decision-making as Change
Autumn Brown
Consensus Mechanics is a study of consensus decision-making as a revolutionary and liberating tradition. This course will explore consensus as historically cultural practice, and examine the diverse threads...
Fred Goldstein
Low-Wage Capitalism describes in sweeping detail the drastic effect on the working class in the United States of new technology and the restructuring of global capitalism in the post-Soviet era. It uses Karl...
Masks by Amir Bey<br>with Performance by SYNERGY Sight and Sound
Mixed media sculptor and curator Amir Bey is presenting an exhibition of one of his favorite areas, the mask. A variety of media and approaches of over 70 masks will be presented, including plaster, copper...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Ethnicity, Nationalism and non-Western Societies
Kevin Anderson
Marx's writings have been criticized as Eurocentric and blind to issues of race and nationalism. Anderson's examination of Marx's writings, especially those from his often-neglected last decade of life, will...
Poster Art & Politics
Luba Lukova & Others TBA
The War Resisters League has just published its 2010 peace calendar, Sparking Change: Poster Art & Politics, featuring 52 posters from artists young and old from around the world. The posters...
Investigating Disasters & Destructive Beliefs
Lee Clarke, Rebecca Solnit & A.C. Thompson
The first version of what happened in Hurricane Katrina was devastatingly untrue--the savage marauding hordes the mass media portrayed didn't quite exist, but those portrayals helped fuel a response focused on...
Sadik Al-Azm
Sadik Al-Azm will discuss the political consequences of the contemporary struggle to control and define Islam in the Midde East and other parts of the Muslim World. Islam has never been homogeneous or...
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media experience – a ‘happening’ in which art leaps off the wall and into the...
Indie Music as Labor
Stanley Aronowitz, David Harvey, Sheebani Patel, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts & Others TBA
This forum will address the question: can collective economic action effect positive change in the post-modern music industry, and, if so, what form(s) might that action and the collective that organizes it...
Alan Garcia's Law of the Jungle
Javier Diez Canseco
The recent Amazonian Uprising has shifted the political landscape in Peru and has led to the creation of a broad front bringing together the more traditional left with the emerging indigenous/popular movement...
Members of Bristol Radical History Group
The 'History Workshop' movement was founded in 1966 in Ruskin College, Oxford, U.K. by the Marxist academic Raphael Samuel, a champion of 'history from below.' He famously defined this movement as being "the...
Possibilities for the 21st Century
“Minqi Li has accomplished something different and very important. He has placed the ‘Rise of China’ from the Mao era to today in the context of the history of the entire world-system. He makes a persuasive...
Panoply Performance Laboratory
Workforce/Forcedwork documents the emotional and physical patterns of American workers and uses them to map connections between private, personal experience and public, political structures. Using multi...
A Cultural Celebration of the Uruguayan Left
Join us for a celebration for the Frente Amplio, the "Broad Front"of the Uruguayan left. The Frente Amplio has secured the majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Now we are getting...
Black Student Power in the late 1960s
Stefan M Bradley
In 1968-69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. Black Power, student power, antiwar, New Left, and Civil Rights movements all clashed with local and state politics...
An Evening of Solidarity with the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Ashraf Cassem
South Africa will be on the global stage as host of the 2010 World Cup. Yet, with one of the world's highest rates of economic inequality and social protest, it is likely that the country's glaring...
Discussion with Filmmaker Bert Schultz & Others TBA<br>Moderated by Mark Naison
The 60s on campus are often portrayed as an idyll of peace and love, punctuated by Ivy League antiwar mad bombers. Lost to this narrative are the gritty struggles against capitalism and the Vietnam War waged...
Emphasizing Gender Oppression
Facilitated by Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Trainers TBA
This workshop will focus on gender oppression in all of its forms and manifestations.
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that uses games and exercises to recognize...
Monologues by Tony Palmieri
Prior to his accident in 1994 which left him in a wheelchair, Tony performed Off Broadway in community theaters and on cable TV playing such roles as the drug pusher in Hatfull of Rain and Henry Higgins...
Harriet Fraad & Richard Wolff
The theme of the presentation will try to answer this question: Why are the people of the US so remarkably politically passive in the...
Norman Finkelstein
On the morning of 27 December 2008, Israeli occupying forces launched 'Operation Cast Lead,' a wide-ranging military offensive against the Gaza Strip. 80 warplanes carried out a devastating surprise airstrike...
The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Carol Boyce Davies
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist....
Chip Berlet
From the murder of Dr George Tiller this past spring, to the disruptions at town hall meetings on health care all over the country, to the racist attacks on cable television news shows, it is clear that Right...
Gilbert Galindo, John Glover, John McGill, Darien Shulman, ai ensemble, MIVOS Quartet & Possible Special Guests
Dionysian Circuit brings you a continuous musical and visual experience of alternating live instrumentalists, singers, electronic music artists, DJ sets, video artists, dancers, and lighting design that are...
Selections from <i>The Grundrisse</i>
Bruno Gulli
The current crisis within the global capitalist system highlights the importance of the question of which kind of labor counts as productive. On this Marx was unequivocal: productive labor is the labor that...
Join us on occasional Sundays for music and dance from some of the many Afro-Latino communities in the New York region. A mainstay of the Cafe is Cuban rumba -- a celebratory, sometimes raucous, percussion-...
Jeffrey Haas, Michael Steven Smith, Cleo Silvers
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY & FILM SCREENING
Co-Sponsor:...
1500 to the Present
Marcelline Block, Stephen Eric Bronner, Clifford D. Conner, Lawrence Davidson, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Rowena Griem, Immanuel Ness, Paul LeBlanc, Amy Linch, Frances Fox Piven, Gerardo Rénique, Guillermina S. Seri, Michael Thompson, Joseph Wilson & Others TBA
Join us for a celebration of the publication of The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. An 8-volume set in print, this work is the most comprehensive resource covering the history of...
Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble
“The Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble merges music, theater, improvisation, and structured composition into a total multi-media experience – a ‘happening’ in which art leaps off the wall and into the...
Facilitated by <em>Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory Trainers</em> TBA
This weekend workshop focuses on exercises, games, and improvised scene work from the Theater of the Oppressed repertory developed by Brasilian director, popular educator and Workers Party...