Andy Worthington and attorneys and advocates from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Witness Against Torture...

Jesus (Tito) Sandoval has been one of the most consistent participants in the Central Park rumba -- and the New York rumba scene in general -- for over 20 years. Almost every Sunday in the summers, rain or...

What does healing have to do with social justice? What role does trauma play in our movements? How do we ensure that our coworkers are in good health and good spirits? How is our work compromised when we do...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

Image Theater, part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed, was created by the late Brazilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal (1931-2009).

Drawing on the theories of popular education...

The presentation will draw on Erlinder's experience as a UN-ICTR defense lawyer and Rwandan prisoner to critically analyze the role of U.S. influence over international judical bodies and the effects on the...

A close reading of the text of Volume II and some of Volume III of Marx’s Capital. A limited number of seats are available for Brecht Forum subscribers who register online here. The Union...

Hegel's...

The “Ladies First: Beyond 28 Days” art exhibition at the Brecht Forum is a celebration of Black female expression through a visual and vocal dialogue surrounding the diversity...

One of the most important African American leaders of the 20th century, Ella Baker helped shaped the modern civil rights movement. A key advisor of Martin Luther King and a driving force behind the Student Non...

The Brecht Forum in association with Betty's Daughter Arts Collabarative and Ocean Ana Rising presents Women on Wednesdays Arts and Culture Project (Wow), a month-long series that highlights Black girls and...

Horace Ove's 1969 documentary captures the fierce political energy of Black London by capturing a conversation between activist-comedian Dick Gregory and gay Black author James Baldwin. 

This screening...

Join us for a rare evening with legendary documentary photographer Eugene Richards, author of the newly released War is Personal, in conversation with Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Chris Hedges. On your...

This year WoW organizers are pleased to offer a day-long teach-in to deepen our exploration of our motto "Engage. Create. Empower". Save your spot by RSVP with an email to...

February 21 marks 46 years since the assassination of El Hadj Malik Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X. Malcolm's rise from precocious child of Garveyites to a drug dealer to icon of human rights in the 1960s is...

Students will develop everyday conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical forms. Emphasis will be placed on increasing vocabulary and expressing more sophisticated ideas. At this level...

This class will introduce participants to Vol 1 of Marx's Capital in a seminar  and discussion format. We will focus on Marx’s presentation of the production of...

Friday Opening Plenary: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday Workshops: 10:00am - 6:00pm

Whether you are part of a small collective, a medium sized local non-profit or a national organization, now more than...

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...

On October 1, 2010, the UN finally released the so-called “Mapping Report, 1993 – 2003” on the Democratic Republic of Congo, which documented most serious violations of human rights and international...

“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...

Steeped in the volatile political conflicts taking place in Italy at the time, the Hot Autumn of 1969, the rejection of the compromises of the Italian communist Party (PCI), the refusal of work, factory and...

Pulse, Harmony, Progress: Music for International Women's Month, a two-part mini-series featuring four women-centered groups, will perform music from around the world commemorating working women, at...

An Evening with Nawal el Saadawi and Fawzia Afzal-Khan reading from her controversial memoir of Pakistan: Lahore With Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani Style....

Pulse, Harmony, Progress: Music for International Women's Month, a two-part mini-series featuring four women-centered groups, will perform music from around the world commemorating working women, at...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

This past...

If you have spent any amount of time with Picture the Homeless- whether in the office, at actions, or on a trip out of town, you have likely encountered the wit and warmth of our elder statesman Jean Rice. A...

Forgiveness, Friendship, Fear, Fidelity, Falling (in love), Finding (your way in love); A Conversation about Relationships & Love
2 hours, 1 All Male Power Panel,...

Originally part of a Lenape trail running the entire length of Manhattan Island, the Bowery has become one of the most notorious thoroughfares in America. Developed in stages by the Dutch, British and then...

Join veteran organizers Willie Baptist and Jean Rice as they discuss the current organizing efforts against budget cuts as well as the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, some 42 years after his assassination...

This Spring, the Chiapas Media Project (CMP) is partnering with Cuba's TV Serrana, to organize their first US tour. TV Serrana is the award winning community media project that trains youth from the Sierra...

This course will provide an overview of the main currents in radical movements and thought. Topics include: The Left before 1900; the Rise of the Socialist Party; the Industrial Workers of the World and...

This short course will build a sturdy bridge between the two worlds we live in: the world of political economy, and the world of personal relationships. This is particularly urgent now that desperate...

In January 2003, at New York's 1199 Union Hall, poets Chris Brandt, Veronica Golos and Angelo Verga organized a huge outpouring of poetic protest against the Iraq war. Theirs was a voice of outrage, one that...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that meets...

A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

David Harvey and the co-authors of the new book, The Rights of Nature, will discuss how to transform our relationship with the environment to address climate change and related problems like natural...

Revolutionary composer and Afro-Asian creator-extraordinaire Fred Ho has created another innovative "first": a double manga-cd project, featuring the music and text to two explosive new works: DEADLY SHE WOLF ...

“A powerful examination of a struggle that has become more relevant in the aftermath of September 11--with the conflict over Kashmir and the possibility of nuclear war--but remains one that most Westerners...

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a ...

Giovanni Arrighi’s 1994 work, The Long Twentieth Century, is a masterpiece of historical sociology and political economy of the capitalist world system over seven long centuries of accumulation and...

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?
• ...

As we mark the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War in the U.S., Anderson will examine Marx's extensive writings on the Civil War, which focused on the connections of race, class, and slavery.  ...

In the "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,” the young Marx elliptically alludes to a "true democracy" whose advent would go hand in hand with the disappearance of the State. Miguel Abensour’s rigorous...

"In this deeply moving history of the so-called Great War, those opposing its mindless folly receive equal billing with the politicians, generals, and propagandists obdurately insisting on its perpetuation...

James Joyce and Sergei Eisenstein met in 1929 to discuss filming Marx's Das Kapital which had been written 60 years beforehand. Now, eighty years later, Alexander Kluge joins the party and takes up...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that meets...

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...

The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this...

Saturday, May 28, - Monday, May 30

Invisible Theater is one of the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed, in which "actors" create "theatrical" situations in public places, but where the public...

The Manhattan International students are back! For the 3rd consecutive year, students from SA's partnership school will perform alongside the professional ensemble in a night of Ancient Greek inspired...

Due to a sudden family emergency, Julian Boal has been compelled to cancel the workshop scheduled for this weekend, June 11 and 12, 2011, and fly back to Paris immediately.

We wish Julian and his...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that meets...

Beginning in the 1950s with a focus on the Puerto Rican independence movement and continuing through the 1960s and into the 1970s when much of its focus had shifted to the Black Liberation, Chicano...

“People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics and so on. But that’s just tinkering. What really is called for is a revolution of the Human mind.
(Ibsen,...

In honor of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month, the Brecht Forum is proud to present a special screening of the  critical acclaimed Gun Hill Road.  This film was nominee for the prestigious...

“People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics and so on. But that’s just tinkering. What really is called for is a revolution of the Human mind.
(Ibsen,...

 This workshop will introduce Soundpainting to musicians of all ages and skill levels....

Dr. Thomas Fasy, Susan Schnall RN, and Geoffrey Millard, will discuss what countries and their populations have to deal with when “the war is over,” focusing on depleted uranium, Agent Orange, Post Traumatic...

In this session we will explore the theme of this year’s Marxist intensive, “They Say Austerity, We Say Solidarity,” by placing it within a global perspective.  Proceeding from the idea that capitalism has...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that...

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...

People's Firehouse #1 Third World Newsreel | 25 min | 1979 | USA
Lincoln Hospital | Third World Newsreel | 12 min | 1970| USA
Civil Indigent...

In lieu of a series of attacks this year against the Jenin Freedom Theater in the West Bank, the Brecht Forum invites you to join us in revisiting Arna’s Children, a documentary that traces the...

Join us for the opening of the second annual Black August Arts Show, co-sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). This year's art show and auction will benefit political prisoners and prisoners...

Solitaire, a play by Egyptian writer and director Dalia Basiouny, is a multi-media performance that connects the events of September 11, 2001 in the United States to the Egyptian Revolution, highlighting...

Lebanese/Canadian artist Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman, a Palestinian filmmaker living in New York, have taken on our accumulated (mis)impressions of the Palestinian Intifada by tracing their genesis in...

Solitaire, a play by Egyptian writer and director Dalia Basiouny, is a multi-media performance that connects the events of September 11, 2001 in the United States to the Egyptian Revolution, highlighting...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that...

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of how Muslim and Christian women in Liberia came together courageously to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered...

The tragic events of 9/11 injected a new level of generalized fear into an already anxious and insecure environment. The fallout led directly to new wars and an intensification of the impunity of the U.S....

"Sophia" is a novel that spans the years 1913-1919 in Europe, Russia and America. Its central characters are a young artist, Sophia Rublevskaya, who is a Russian aristocrat running away to Paris from an "...

Join us on September 16th 5:30pm in Times Square 42nd and 7th Avenue as we demand that the Georgia Board of Pardons &
Paroles commute Troy’s sentence – a final chance to prevent Troy Davis from...

Join Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), at the Brecht Forum for a special...

The Durban + 10 Coalition is composed of over 40 organizations from throughout the world that affirm the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) and have joined together to ensure its full...

Training teaches harmony necessary for personal and community development. A fitness lifestyle will make you feel better while increasing your ability to perform at a higher level, helping yourself and...

To celebrate the publication of Dean Spade's first book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (South End Press) and the recent appointment of...

Howard Pflanzer, introduced by Robert Roth, will read/perform with El Tahra Ibrahim from his new book, Dead Birds or Avian Blues, celebrating the birds and animals commenting on the human condition...

Occupy Wall Street continues to capture the imagination of millions across the globe. Join us for a series "People's University at Occupy Walls Street" as we connect the dots, build bridges and move forward...

Gáspár Miklós Tamás, a prominent dissident in the 1980s and a parliamentarian in the first years of the Hungarian government following the end of Communism, is a political philosopher.  He emigrated from his...

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...

The rise of China in the world economy has invited considerable speculation on the nature of Chinese growth and development from writers and scholars across the spectrum. Giovanni Arrighi 's (2007) Adam...

Many Marxists take Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to be a crucial text for understanding Hegel’s dialectical method and much more that was quite important to Marx and Engels. Reading and...

An exploration of Marxist political economy, which seeks both to capture the core elements in the foundational work of Marx, and to reconstruct that legacy using tools from conventional (capitalist) economic...

Marx’s Civil War writings show an incomparable grasp of the dialectics of race and class and still speak to us today.  In these writings, which included journalism, letters, and passages in Capital,...

Paul Mishler is a labor educator and historian of radicalism in the US. His book Raising Reds looks at the ways that 20th century radicals tried to pass their values on to their children. He is...

Join us for a reception at 7:30pm. The program will begin at 8:00pm.

Published quarterly since 1936, Science & Society is the longest continuously-published journal of Marxist...

This course will continue the investigation of the philosophical struggle between idealism and materialism through close readings of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach the sections on historical materialism...

This course traces the development of the US left from the Khrushev  revelations of the crimes of stain in 1956 to the present. Among the topics: the breakup of the Communist movement; the rise of the black...

Oppressors and Capitalists Beware: The Liberation Poker League is coming to NYC!

Learn a great game, show off your poker face, and fund local causes fighting for a better world. Where? At the 1st...

This autumn we will look at the history of Spain beginning with the resistance to the Napoleonic invasions at the beginning of the 19th century. We will also look at the stages of capitalist development in...

A series of lectures/screenings with filmmaker Kevin Keating. An opportunity to analyse and discuss American documentary long-form films, their production, potential audiences, social change impulses and...

In December 1924 Germans elected fourteen members of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Workers Party) to the Reichstag out of a total of 493.  From the moment they entered the Reichstag the Nazi tactic was...

This class will introduce participants to Vol 1 of Marx's Capital in a seminar  and discussion format. We will focus on Marx’s presentation of the production of...

The influenza scares of the past decade aren't going away anytime soon. Bird flu H5N1 and swine flu H1N1 are only two of a veritable menagerie of influenza strains now capable of infecting humans: H7N1, H7N3...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that meets...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...

Throughout the United States, immigration policies are transforming the communities we live in. UNDIVIDED is a 30-minute documentary film sharing the portraits of three young activists and their relationship...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...

Youth and student advocates from a Brooklyn community are working to change the education system with an inter-active theatrical event—Pedagogy of the Oppressed: The Musical! Based on the famous work by...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Square.) The purpose of the...

Organized in collaboration with OWS Education and Empowerment Committee and OWS Performance Guild

Theater of the Oppressed is a tool for building groups and communities, challenging power and...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Plaza.) The purpose of the...

1. The housing problem from a Marxist perspective: Engels and after  
2. Subprime foreclosures, rent control, land speculation: Marxist perspectives 
3. Socialist and social democratic...

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a series of special "OPEN FORUM" teach-ins at Zucotti Park (aka Liberty Plaza.) The purpose of the...

This year, two books were published under the name. The Beach Beneath the Street or Streets. Both owe a great dept to the history of Situationism. The authors of these two works will discuss the legacy of...

For more info, http://www.nycga.net/events

The Brecht Forum is participating in the OWS Education and Empowerment working group and collaborating on a...

In early 2009, following the crash and government bail outs, an astro turf right populist mobilization appeared that would question the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate and disrupt town hall meetings...

The Heal the Healer PLaYlab offers a grab bag of time-efficient techniques that emphasize self-care, particularly around stress management and burnout. The PLaYlab means just that--an opportunity to spend a...

In these structured movement lessons, the teacher uses a combination of pleasant, purposeful movement and guided attention. This emphasis on sensory learning results in movement that is more flexible,...

Training teaches harmony necessary for personal and community development. A fitness lifestyle will make you feel better while increasing your ability to perform at a higher level, helping yourself and...

Yoga practices for body, breath and mind can help to fight stress, sustain energy, and combat alienation. It is a flexible practice adaptable to any physical condition...

Organized in collaboration with OWS Education and Empowerment Committee and OWS Performance Guild

Theater of the Oppressed is a tool for building groups and communities, challenging power and...

10 Years On: Afghanistan, Pakistan, shows conditions in Afghanistan right now, after more than a decade of war and how Afghans are struggling to change a world increasingly dominated by violence and...

Do you write poetry? Are you opposed to war and social injustice? Would you be interested in feedback from other socially-conscious poets about your work?

Join us for this monthly workshop that...

"We must emphasize: What Brecht does not want is that the spectators continue to leave their brains with their hats upon entering the theater, as do bourgeois spectators." —Augusto Boal

...

Organized in collaboration with OWS Education and Empowerment Committee and OWS Performance Guild

Theater of the Oppressed is a tool for building groups and communities, challenging power and...

Sick of walking by expensive holiday markets every December?
Want to get your holiday shopping done, support local artists and keep your money in your community?

Come to the Grassroots Holiday...

Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho portrays the return of Marx roughly a century after his death. Embedded in some secular afterlife where intellectuals, artists, and radicals are sent, Marx is given permission by...

These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....

Join NYT eXaminer to look at one of the biggest stories of 2011—your story. A public discussion about mainstream media’s representation of Occupied Wall Street and lessons for the new year. This event will...