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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the “cures’ that are prescribed for capitalism’s ills just temporarily suppress the...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...