Join us Thursday, Oct. 15 from 7-8:30 p.m. EST for 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…
Mass Murder in the Making of Our Times, October 1, 2020
Framed out of existence or otherwise sidelined as an aberration, the US-backed massacre of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in 1965 has yet to fully emerge in public consciousness. And yet the brutal events fifty-five years ago this month, re-shaped national and global politics for the succeeding decades with its physical dismembering of an entire…
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…
Contingent Times: Adjuncts Organize, August 15, 2020
Buried in student loan debt, often suffering with no health insurance, no job security, no retirement, no office space, multiple passwords, invisibility, low wages and a myriad of other injustices; adjuncts have had enough to deal with. But now, things have reached a tipping point for contingent faculty as a result of the pandemic and…
Back to School Blues? The Fight for a Just & Safe School Year, August 13, 2020
As we roll into late August, the start of the school year is upon us. What will this Fall look like for students, for teachers and staff, for parents and our communities? What threats to safety, to the quality and equity of education, and to working conditions are people facing? And how are they responding…
75 Years After Hiroshima with Avi Chomsky, Marie Cruz Soto, Joseph Gerson & Gar Alperovitz, August 6, 2020
Avi Chomsky, Marie Cruz Soto, Joseph Gerson & Gar Alperovitz consider the legacy of the Hiroshima, its roots in Empire and colonial rivalries. They also examine resistance to empire from Vieques to Okinawa and across diasporas and homelands.