Join us for an evening with Demetrius Noble, Raymond Nat Turner, Ricardo Levins Morales, and others.
Populism! Peril or Promise in US Politics, November 19, 2020
On November 19th we will take a deep dive into the history, myths, practices, and legacies of popular politics and “small-d” democracy in the United States with scholar and public historian Michael Lansing.The populist tradition is a significant, controversial, and often misunderstood strain of U.S. history. Lansing’s book, Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North…
What Just Happened?! Election Day & Next Steps for the Left, November 5, 2020
On Thursday, November 5, 2020, DSA-affiliated David Duhalde, The Nation’s Liza Featherstone, the Green Party’s Jill Stein, and sociologist Ben Manski engaged in a lively conversation about the US elections – together with host Joe Ramsey.
Trump’s Walls Must Fall – Greg Grandin and Avi Chomsky, October 15, 2020
We take a deep dive with 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (among many other books). We will also be joined by scholar and activist Aviva Chomsky, (author of Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!” and 20…
Mass Murder and the Making of Our Times, October 1, 2020
October 1 marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of one of the worst episodes of mass murder in the twentieth century: the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in 1965-1966. Organized and directed by Indonesia’s military, the killings targeted people associated with the country’s communist party, the world’s largest outside of China and…
Weaponizing Antisemitism Allegations, September 24, 2020
Amid a resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and racism more generally, how do we refute charges of Antisemitism that are broadly leveled against advocates for Black liberation, immigrant justice and national self-determination for the Palestinian people? To help us navigate these questions, Lara Kiswani from Beit Iksa and Aqir, Palestine, and Executive Director of…
Many Movements, Many Steps Forward, September 4, 2020
Co-sponsored Event: Perspectives from Turtle Island/Abya Yala in a Global Context Conversations with and between Kali Akuno, Jeff Corntassel, Silvia Federici, and Xochitl Leyva Solano Moderated by Matt Meyer and Magdalene Moonsamy A Movements of Movements Conversation The conversations across movements that the book series The Movements of Movements promoted, were resumed as a “Movements…
Know Your Enemy: Grasping the Nature of the Right-Wing Threat, September 3, 2020
Recent years have seen a resurgence of right-wing nationalism and authoritarian political movements, from Trump in the US to Bolsanaro in Brazil and to Modi in India. How are we best to grasp the nature of these contemporary political trends? Are Trump and the movement to support him usefully understood as a form of neo-fascism?…
Sustaining Ourselves & Each Other Through Crisis Times with Victor Narro & Michal Osterweil, August 27, 2020
Feeling stressed? Seeking strategies for keeping healthy and connected during this period of protracted pandemic, economic crisis, and physical isolation? Join us for our third Shelter & Solidarity social hour – a community discussion about how we can best sustain ourselves, each other, our organizations and movements during these pandemic times. We’ll be led into…
John Lawrence on Organizing the Democratic Capacity for Transformative Change, August 20, 2020
Building on a recent paper by John W. Lawrence, “Organizing the Democratic Capacity for Transformative Change: The 2020 Election and Beyond” published in Socialism and Democracy, this conversation discusses and debates the organizational and political requirements for the left to grow and become an organized voice and transformative force based in the working class. Speaker…