2012 Programs
2012 Programs
Building a Movement to Close the Prison & End All Unjust U.S. Detentions
Faisal Hashmi, Ramzi Kassem, Leili Kashani, Pardiss Kebriaei, Silky Shah & Laura Whitehorn
January 11, 2012 marks the shameful tenth anniversary of Guantánamo's opening. Join us in advance of this anniversary and participate in a critical town hall discussion with a range of activists...
A Monthly Update & Discussion
Rick Wolff
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....
Reflections & Rising Movement
Saulo Colon, Harmony Goldberg, Lenina Nadal, Michelle O'Brien & Lee Schere
The New York Study Group (NYSG) was a network of activists and organizers, mostly people of color, based in diverse communities and organizations in New York City. NYSG provided a space for reflection and...
Part 1: Blackberry Curve
Marietta Hedges, Matt Higgins, Terry Runnels, Kevin Scott and Alyssa Simon
"We Live in Financial Times" is a play by Julia Lee Barclay and directed by Rik Walter; featuring Marietta Hedges*, Matt Higgins, Terry Runnels, Kevin Scott and Alyssa Simon*
A darkly funny...
Progressive Moral Agenda for the 21st Century
Dr. Serene Jones, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Rev. Stephen H. Phelps, Prof. James Vrettos, Dr. Cornel West, Richard D. Wolff,
This special evening of thoughtful conversation and discussion will be held in the Nave of Riverside Church on Sunday, January 22nd starting at 6:00 pm. The event is free and will be live streamed on the...
A Conversation Between the Brecht Forum Community and the Board of Directors
Over the past several weeks many long time Brecht Forum subscribers and supporters have begun to take an increasingly active interest in how the Brecht Forum is run and in what the role of the board of...
Tectonic Shifts
Manolia Charlotin, Lisa Davis, Etant Dupain, Melinda Miles, Pablo Morales, Mark Schuller & Gina Ulysse
Haiti Since the Earthquake: ‘Tectonic Shifts’ Book Launch & Panel Discussion Featuring contributors Manolia Charlotin, Melinda Miles, Lisa Davis and Etant Dupain, together with editors Mark Schuller and...
Suzanne Adely, Maurizio Atzeni & Frances Fox Piven. Moderated by Manny Ness
Panelists will discuss the dramatic growth of precarious labor on a comparative international basis and the decline of traditional labor unions and rise of new social movements. The discussion will examine...
Faith, Revolution and Movement Building
In this lively interactive dialogue, writers Kazembe Balagun and Anika Lani Haynes will discuss the specific ways their faith, visionary organizing and movement building have been contradictory and yet...
Communes and Utopia in Northern California
Iain Boal and others
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a large portion of the population had become disenchanted with the American way of life that they did not feel they belonged to. While some openly revolted in the streets...
African American Spirituality at the Crossroads of Christianity and Voudun
Anika Lani Haynes (Moderated by Kazembe Balagun)
In this lively interactive dialogue, writers Kazembe Balagun and Anika Lani Haynes will discuss the specific ways their faith, visionary organizing and movement building have been contradictory and yet...
A Talk with Marian Kramer(Moderated by David Harvey)
Mass unemployment. School closures. Rampant misogyny. Police shootings. What does a revolutionary struggle look like today? Marian Kramer comes to the Brecht Forum to talk...
An Evening with William Loren Katz
William Loren Katz is the noted author of over 40 books. He is a truth-seeker. Dedicated to researching America’s celebrated, but gap-filled history, he brings the deliberately lost, misconstrued and...
The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan
A discussion with author Eric Laursen
The People's Pension is both groundbreaking history and an indispensable guide for anyone concerned about one of the biggest issues in the upcoming election. With 95 percent of Americans participating...
The State of Play in the “Designing Socialism” Discussion
David Laibman
Believe it or not, the possibilities are just starting to emerge. The insufficient socialisms of the past (and present) have left us rich legacies. New information technologies, grass roots activism,...
South Asians in America Today
Vijay Prashad
Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning,...
A Report Back from Tunisia
This Tuesday we will host a reportback from some comrades who spent some weeks in April traveling around Tunisia, meeting with militants, rebels, anarchists, Stalinists, council communists, unionists,...
Resistance to Open-Pit Mining in Peru & Fracking in New York
Robert Jereski & Gerardo Renique
Thousands of farmers occupying four lakes in Peru's highlands of Cajamarca have sparked a nationwide ,movement in defense of like and water. The four lakes are threatened by destruction by Colorado-...
Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
Donna Murch
In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a...
A Monthly Update & Discussion
Rick Wolff
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....
Reflections on the State of Black America
Esther Armah, Joanne Griffith, Akiba Solomon, Michaela angela Davis
The Obama presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for political, economic and cultural equality in the United States. But how--if at all--has the first black presidency...
Benjamin Ramos Rosado and Micheal Tarif Warren
Join us for this special Black History Month...
An Anthology
Gerardo Renique
José Carlos Mariátegui is one of Latin America’s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist from Peru, he was the first to emphasize that those fighting...
Two Books & 2 Discussions on Malcolm X
Noble Bratton
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the iconic Malcolm X, remains an indelible figure on the American political landscape some forty-seven years after his assassination. His workds, his stance, and his behaviors bring...
A Monthly Update & Discussion
Rick Wolff
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....
Same Counter-Revolution, Different Day
Mick Collins
Mick Collins draws a thread between the collapse of the Soviet Union, the subsequent break-up of Yugoslavia and Rwanda's regime change with recent events in North Africa. He argues that “this model for...
Women, Trans & the Prison Industrial Complex
Tanisha Douglas, Sonni Farrow, Victoria Law, Tina Reynolds &
Laura Whitehorn
Many statistics and conversations alike about prisons, seem to present a uniform image of prison populations. If one were to believe the contrived image created by our contemporary culture about...
Solidarity or Sabotage?
Kim Scipes
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed...
Care Providers, Care Receivers, and the Struggle for Justice and Dignity in the Home
Allison Julien, Jennifer Klein, Premilla Nadasen & Sarah Strnad. Moderated by Rosemari Mealy
As America’s population ages, home care has become one of the fastest growing occupations in the U.S. economy. Nannies, housekeepers, and aides labor in private spaces meeting individual and family needs....
A Conversation Series on Feminism, Anti-Racism, Leadership & the 99%
Melanie Butler, Nicole Carty, Ynestra King & Rob Robinson
We are now in a promising period of political imagination for a broad new anti-capitalist movement. This movement, primarily referred to as "The Occupy Movement" is of course much broader then just the...
A Conversation with Alexander Buzgalin
Alex Buzgalin is Professor of Political Economy at Moscow State University, and Editor of Alternativy. He is a leading figure in contemporary Russian, and post-Soviet, Marxism, author of many books...
Two Books & 2 Discussions on Malcolm X
Herb Boyd
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the iconic Malcolm X, remains an indelible figure on the American political landscape some forty-seven years after his assassination. His workds, his stance, and his behaviors bring...
Race, Sex and Class- Current Perspectives on the Movement
Selma James
In 1972, Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed...
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
Lumumba Bandele, Dan Berger, Terry Bisson, Kenyon Farrow, Matt Meyer, Dequi Sadiki, Meg Starr, Challenging Male Supremacy Group & Laura Whitehorn. Moderated by Kazembe Balagun
Join us as we celebrate the release of Love and Struggle, the autobiography...
Communes and Utopia in Northern California
Iain Boal
In the shadow of the Vietnam war, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the...
Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective
scott crow
Join us for a presentation by scott crow from his new book Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective issued last year on PM Press.
The book is used as a...
A Report-Back on Theater and Solidarity in Afghanistan
Kayhan Irani
In 2010 and 2011 Kayhan Irani, playwright and Theater of the Oppressed facilitator, worked in Afghanistan using Theater of the Oppressed with Afghan Education Projects, a media for development organization....
Race After MultiCulturalism
Sophia Chang, Carolina Gonzalez, dream hampton, Vijay Prashad, Rinku Sen, John Wuo Wei Tchen.
DJ hit replay! Or shall we manually rewind this nostalgic cassette tape with a discerning finger to your favorite awkward 1990s multiculti blunders? The 1990s gave us “Sister Souljah moments,” the OJ Simpson...
Winning the War on Women and Girls
Bryonn Bain, Mikey Jay, Darnell Moore & Diallo Shabazz. Moderated by Esther Armah
Too Short, XXL magazine, Rush Limbaugh, parts of hip hop, the GOP plus 44% of sexual assaults happen to girls under 18; the world is 'waging war on women and girls. How can men help end this war? Challenge,...
Mark Rudd, Michael Strom & Challenging Male Supremacy Project
The second of a series of conversations interrogating questions of feminism, anti-racism, male chauvinism and leadership within the "99%" - this forum will focus specifically on the question of male...
A Monthly Update & Discussion
Rick Wolff
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....
A Monthly Update & Discussion
Rick Wolff
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....
A Conversation with Members of the First US LGBTQ Delegate to Palestine
Katherine Franke, Lisa Weiner-Mahfuz, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Darnell L. Moore, Pauline Park & Jasbir Puar
In January 2012, several prominent LGBTQ activists/scholars/cultural workers from the United States traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories as part of the first delegation of its kind. This panel...
South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century
George Katsiaficas
South Korea's social movements are legendary yet relatively little is known about them. In this presentation, slides and other historical materials will be used to illustrate the history and unfolding logic...
Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Monica L Miller
Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New...
How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
Barbara Garson
The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an...
The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America
Writers for the 99% members including: A.J. Bauer, Jed Bickman, Suzanne Collado, Kate Doyle Griffiths-Dingani, Liza Featherstone, Danny Katch, Sean Larson, Kat Mahaney, Brian Merchant, Lisa Montanarelli, Amity Paye, Jon L Peacock, Colin Robinson & Christine Utz
"An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain."
-Jonathan Lethem
"There are many books about #...
Eric Holt Gimenez
Come to the NYC launch event of Food Movements Unite!, with remarks by the book’s editor Eric Holt Gimenez of Food First and dynamic discussion and debate on how to grow and strengthen the food movement here...
Stories From the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration
Michelle Dammon Loyalka & Barbara Foley
Every year over 200 million peasants flock to China’s urban centers, providing a profusion of cheap labor that helps fuel the country’s staggering economic growth. Award-winning journalist Michelle Dammon...
Kazembe Balagun, Harmony Goldberg, Lee Schere and moderated by Brooke Lehman
Organization for a Free Society invites you to a discussion on the role of revolutionary organizations in broad based movement building. The Occupy movement has catalyzed momentum within the US unseen in...
From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
Costas Panayotakis and Cathy Mulder
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is...
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Labor
Paul Buhle, John Kim & Terry Marshall
Social movements since at least the late 1960s have been intimately connected with the comic art that their artists produced. We will celebrate the publication of It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from...
Healthcare Activism from the Black Panthers to Now
Alondra Nelson
The Brecht Forum is taking the show on the road! As part of the inaugural Brecht Beyond Walls, we are happy to partner with our sister organization
Third Root Community Health Center (...
Post Protest Celebration
TheHistory of Eugenics in the United States & How It Affects Psychiatric Care Today
Robert Whitaker
Although we usually associate eugenics with Nazi Germany, it was here in the United States that eugenic laws were first passed. In the early part of the 20th century, states passed laws that prevented the “...
A Special Presentation by William Loren Katz
William Loren Katz is the author of Black Indians and 40 other books on African American history. His research, writing and lectures have earned widespread praise from noted scholars such as John Hope...
Challenging Capitalism
Rick Wolff
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As...
Paul Werner
Is it an accident that all of the major art museums in New York have a real-estate developer at the head of their Board of Trustees? Or that the Museum of Modern Art was founded and run by the Rockefellers?...
Intimate Life in Market Times
Arlie Russell Hochschild
“What happens to us as we outsource more and more of our personal—even intimate—tasks to paid "coaches," caretakers, companions, event planners and third world surrogate mothers? It takes a social...
(and why we shouldn't eat them)
David Nibert, Adam Weissman, Mickey Z. & Others TBA
What we choose to eat (and wear) has an impact far beyond each of us as individuals. This discussion--the first in a series--will look at the societal underpinnings of the commodification of sentient beings...
Bill Weinberg
Bill Weinberg, just returned from Peru, where he was on assignment for The...
The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism
Roger Burbach & Michael Fox
Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical...
Love: Lessons, Legacy, Losses, Learning
Esther Armah, Marc Lamont Hill & Robert Cornegy Junior
There is nothing more revolutionary than black love.
How do you define love? How have those who raised you shaped who you became when it comes to love? How have...
An Evening with Michael Moore & Cornel West
Moderated by Esther Armah
DIRECTIONS:
7:00 - The main event is in the Hunter College Assembly Hall, in the North Building entrance on 69th Street between Lexington Avenue & Park Avenue.
5:30 -...
Q &A with M1 of Dead Prez, Mazzi of SOUL PURPOSE, Marcel Cartier, Saeed and others from the documentary.
Existence is Resistence presents a documentary about a ten- day journey of artists traveling through Palestine, teaching and performing Non Violent Resistance through the arts to children in refugee camps. The...
Nimah Nawwab
Saudi Arabian poet Nimah Ismail Nawwab is an internationally published and recognized writer, best-selling poet, editor, photographer, women- and youth-empowerment activist,
Notably, she is the...
The Struggle in Defense of the Rights to Health & a Clean Eenvironment in La Oroya, Peru
Esther Hinostroza & Conrado Olivera
La Oroya, Peru is often considered one of the ten most contaminated cities in the world. In a town of 35,000, 99% of the children have been tested to have extreme levels of lead poisoning. The cause of the...
The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan
Eric Laursen
Social Security, not for nothing do politicians call it the “third rail of American politics—touch it, and you die.” Yet a powerful, well-funded movement to phase out Social Security or even privatize it has...
The Resilience Advocacy Project
Join youth, artists, activists, and advocates for a dynamic dialogue and art showcase exploring young people's experiences with - and responses to - the City's current stop-and-frisk practices.
The...
Mark Doten, Kevin Gosztola, Ted Hearne & Chase Madar
Who is wikileaks activist Bradley Manning? What are his values and goals, and what is happening as his court martial proceeds? This 4-part series will explore Manning's revelations and his legal case, the...
A Reportback from Tunisia
This Tuesday we will host a reportback from some comrades who spent some weeks in April traveling around Tunisia, meeting with militants, rebels, anarchists, Stalinists, council communists, unionists,...
South Asians in America Today
Vijay Prashad
Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning,...
The Campaign to Suppress Radical Activism & Publishing Online
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Alfredo Lopez & Trevor Timm
Old-fashioned government opacity and secrecy face new challenges from online media and activism. Since the leaks of numerous diplomatic cables and Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, a massive legal, political,...
Monthly Update with a Report on Mondragon, Spain
Rick Wolff
This monthly update will feature, in addition to our usual review of the last month's major economic news, a Report on Mondragon, Spain. This unified community of worker cooperatives is now the...
Tribune of the People
Cliff Conner
Cliff Conner's biography is a fresh, welcome look at one of the most complex and fascinating figures of the French Revolution. Marat's tumultuous career has many echoes for our own time, among them...
The State of Play in the “Designing Socialism” Discussion
David Laibman
“Central planning is a failure.” “Market socialism is an oxymoron.” Is anything left?
Believe it or not, the possibilities are just starting to emerge. The insufficient socialisms...
Tod Ensign & Kimber Heinz
Daniel Ellsberg, the Defense Department and RAND Corporation analyst who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, said "I was the Bradley Manning of my day. In 1971 I too faced life in prison for exposing...
OFS Revolutionary Potluck Discussion Series
The occupation of Zucotti Park was for thousands of people an absolutely core aspect of the success of Occupy Wall Street, and when it was lost, the movement had to struggle to maintain its momentum. The...
Moments of Wonder & Betrayal in the English Revolution (1640-49)
Bristol Radical History Group
Despite the cheerleading you may have seen in the media about the Diamond Jubilee of the British Monarch, a wave of nausea and apathy, rather than nationalism has suffused 'Albion' of late. Echoes of the...
An evening with Arjun Gosh
Jana Natya Manch (Janam) was and is a sociopolitical phenomenon, a Delhi-based radical theater group active since 1973, whose work has long asserted the inseparability of art and politics.
A History...
Emma Cape, Shayana Kadidal & Betty Yu
The focus of this fourth discussion in the series will be twofold:
1) How the Bradley Manning case and WikiLeaks has impacted the media, shifted editorial standards, particularly concerning...
From Jack Johnson to Metta World Peace
Theresa Runstedtler in conversation with David J. Leonard
Moderated by Marc Lamont Hill
Sports are central to American public life in the twenty-first century – evidenced by the power and profitability of ESPN, the congressional hearings about steroids, and the ubiquity of sports programming in...
The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Alondra Nelson
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable aspect of the...
Between the 501c-3 & Zuccotti The Question of Political Organization in the US Today
Kali Akuno, Raquel Lavina, Meaghan Linick, Shaun Lin, Eric Odell, Chloe Tribich, Max Uhlenbeck & Helena Wong
(With Special Performance by Desis Rising Up and Moving Youth)
The final sentence of Karl Marx's Theses on Feuerbach famously reads "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it." So how to go about changing the world?...
A Conversation on American Justice
Alexis Goldstein, Natasha Lennard, Joe Macaré & Liliana Segura
It is now almost uncontested that in the United States the most privileged tier of society gets impunity while those on the bottom get criminalized and punished largely for their marginalized place in our...
Kazembe Balagun, Iyanna "Nana Soul" Jones & A. Shahid Stover
Are we living in a new progressive POSTRACIAL era? What is the relationship between claims of a POSTBLACK identity and advanced neo-liberal capitalist globalization? Does the overwhelming prevalence of an...
Grand juries are tools of government harassment and repression that have long been used to intimidate and destroy radical movements. Currently there are grand juries convened on the West Coast in the...
An Interactive Seminar for People Who Encounter Resistance in Their Work
Facilitated by Tony Cealy
This is an interactive seminar for people who lead/work with groups who encounter “resistance” when working. The seminar will follow an agenda determined largely by the experience and concerns of the...
Conversation with South African Activist Mazibuko Jara
Discussants-Ruthie Gilmore,Harmony Goldberg
Mazibuko Jara will discuss the current political situation in South Africa in the aftermath of the Lonmin-Marikana mineworker massacre and its broader context, including the internal ANC battles in the lead...
Kazembe Balagun, Iyanna “Nana Soul” Jones, A. Shahid Stover & Preach D Truth Freedom (Occupy the Hood Movement)
Western imperialism responded to the real threat of Black liberation praxis, which arose in the late 60’s and early 70’s, by employing a classic neo-colonial strategy of isolating Black social unrest from...
The Ideas of Rosa Luxemburg
Paul LeBlanc
We are pleased to announce that this year's Goldberg lecture will be given by the renowned historian, author, and activist since his days in SDS, Paul LeBlanc. The lecture will follow a sumptuous Indian...
Firoze Manji
Few books have been as influential in understanding African impoverishment as this groundbreaking analysis. Rodney shows how the imperial countries of Europe, and subsequently the US, bear major...
One State for Israel & Palestine
Ahmed Moor, Antony Loewenstein & Phil Weiss
After Zionism brings together prominent thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state...
Its Immediate Political Challenges in the US, Europe & China
Rick Wolff
Our Monthly Economic Update for Wednesday, Sept 19, will focus on global capitalism's evolution this summer. The US economy stalled (its short and shallow "recovery” over), its politics became electorally...
Donald-Nicholson Smith
Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the "society of the spectacle...
Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin with Doug Henwood
Panitch and Gindin’s newest book offers a significant rethinking of the development of global capitalism....
From Social Oppression to Radical Action
Sr. Clare Marie Therese, ICM
Street Theater, as conceived and presented in India, is a theater form that was evolved by Badal Sircar (1925-2011), one of the greatest playwrights of all times. Sircar, originally from Calcutta, began his...
Monthly Update & Book Launch
Rick Wolff
This monthly update will be special because it will launch Professor Wolff's latest book, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
Discussion will focus workers' self-directed enterprises...
A Public Conversation between Protagonists of Hemispheric Student Struggles in Chile, Quebec, & New York
Featuring Camila Vallejo & Noam Titelman of the Chilean Student Movement. Moderated by David Harvey
Reserved seating has filled. The remaining 200 or so seats in the Proshansky Auditorium will be open on a first-come, first-serve basis. Arrive early and please bring a photo ID.
...Join the Brecht Forum for a conversation and Presidential debate viewing. We promise a sweet time with salty snacks and tart commentary. 8 pm ore debate comments, 9 pm main event.
Jodi Dean in conversation with Bruno Bosteels (Moderated by Astra Taylor)
In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of international banking has alerted...
Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad & Maya Mikdashi
The uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria, which began in March 2011, has polarized the U.S. left. Some denounce the rebels, whom they view as fighting to overthrow a regional bulwark against...
Cliff DuRand
Recreating Democracy in a Globalized State treats the key question for anti-capitalist movements around the world: how can the national state be democratized in an era when transnational...
Lessons from Libya
Younes Abouyoub & Horace Campbell
The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ started as a genuine popular uprising but has been hijacked gradually. It has had different developments and consequences in different African and Arab countries. Why is the...
Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Silvia Federici
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally...
Michelle Chen, Dana Frank, Richard Greenwald & Jacob Remes. Moderated by Daniel Katz.
When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state’s public sector employees in early 2011, the massive protests that erupted inresponse put the labor movement back...
S.E. Anderson, Herb Boyd, Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Iyanna "Nana Soul" Jones, A. Shahid Stover, members of the Paul Robeson FreedomSchool
Martin Duberman
Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the twentieth century, renowned as a bestselling author, a political activist, a lecturer, and one...
The Brecht Forum will be open all night to watch the election results- join us for sweet comrades, salty snacks and punchy commentary as we debate the future of the country. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Monthly Update
Rick Wolff
Actual economic developments shape the agenda for each of these monthly Tuesday meetings. Rick Wolff, with occasional guests, presents an economic update and an analysis of some particular economic topics...
Deconstructing Empire at Home and Abroad
Deepa Kumar, Rupal Oza, Sonny Singh & Saadia Toor
The summer of 2012 witnessed a rash of anti-Muslim attacks from homemade chemical bombs being thrown at Muslim schools to attacks at mosques. A mosque in Joplin, Missouri was burned to the ground in an...
Making Sustainability a Reality
Tony Sirna
Our society is wrestling with questions of sustainability and climate change, with many groups working towards a sustainable future. At Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage that sustainable future is here now. If you...
Transforming Disaster Response
In what was the largest Atlantic Hurricane ever recorded, Hurricane Sandy killed at least 193 people in 7 countries. In the United States, the storm was felt most severely in New York City...
Speakers include: Mizue Aizeki, Kazembe Balagun, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, David Harvey, Marian Kramer, Peter Marcuse, Frances Fox Piven, Rob Robinson, Miguel Robles-Duràn, Nancy Romer, Pete White & Many Others
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(1931 – 2012)
Tito’s father was a Turkish Jew, who became a philosopher and friend of Heidegger’s in Germany in the 1920s, a painter and friend of Sartre’s and Picasso’s in France in the early 1930s, a general in the...
Monthly Update
Rick Wolff
Actual economic developments shape the agenda for each of these monthly Tuesday meetings. Rick Wolff, with occasional guests, presents an economic update and an analysis of some particular economic topics...
Martin Duberman & Gerald Meyer
*Note: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT BARNES AND NOBLE, 2289 BROADWAY (AT 82 STREET)
Howard Zinn was perhaps the best-known and most widely celebrated popular interpreter of American history in the...
Tom Adcock, S.J. Rozan & Steve Wishnia. Moderated by Kenneth Wishnia
A group of progressive crime writers discuss the ups and downs of working in a popular genre with a long history of social commentary (going back to Hammett in the 1920s), the importance of incorporating...
The Evolution of Community, Education, and Agriculture in the 21st Century
Eric Herm
A Retirement Party for Liz Mestres | Celebrating the Founders of the Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School
Join us for a special evening! As you may know, our Executive Director for the past 18 years, Liz Mestres, is stepping down at the end of the 2012. Liz along with Arthur Felberbaum...
Debt is an integral part of our capitalist economy that keeps us increasingly dependent on oppressive power structures. The vast majority of our lives are characterized not only by our personal debts--credit...