Join us Thursday, July 30, at 7pm EST for a deep dive with Victor Wallis (author of Democracy Denied, and Red-Green Revolution) about how the Left can and should relate to elections and to threats to democracy in the United States. Victor will be joined in conversation by nationally renowned organizers Medea Benjamin (Code Pink)….
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Imagining Apocalypse Now with Mark Soderstrom & Gerry Canavan, July 23, 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, this episode explores the significance of apocalyptic and dystopian narratives for our current crisis-laden moment. While typically associated with large-scale death and destruction, the word ‘apocalypse’ also means a revelation or uncovering of what was hidden in plain sight. Joined by noted science and speculative fiction and film scholars…
What Is the Nature, and Meaning, of Our Political Moment? July 24, 2020
A Movements of Movements Conversation (Co-sponsored by Shelter & Solidarity) Continuing the conversations begun in “The Movements of Movements” series (PM Press), this event brings together several original contributors to the series together with Rose Brewer (People’s Strike) and Johanna Fernandez (activist and author). Jai Sen and Gina Vargas facilitated the conversation. Suren Moodliar (encuentro5)…
In a Time of Pandemics, What Are We Watching? And Why? July 16, 2020
S&S’s second social hour explores what we are watching and/or reading these days and attempts to tease out the ‘whys.’ Other than the persistently grim march of the news, what kinds of media and narratives have we been drawn to lately? Whether it’s escapist fantasies or pandemic-themed movies, are we looking for solace, distraction, frisson,…
What Must Fall, What Must Be Built – Demita Frazier, Ross Caputi, & Suren Moodliar, July 9, 2020
Join Demita Frazier, Ross Caputi, and Suren Moodliar in a conversation with Shelter & Solidarity: A Deep Dive with Artists and Activists host Joe Ramsey about monuments and public art in a moment of rebellion. After the event, the video will be posted here.
Police, Race, Labor & the Left with Cedric Johnson and Clare Hammonds, July 2, 2020
Nationally renowned scholar Cedric Johnson (author of the forthcoming book on Race, Policing and Anti-Capitalist Politics) joins us for a deep dive discussion into what comes next following the recent uprisings against police violence, and the broader state of Left politics in the US. We will also be joined by labor scholar and activist Clare…
The Anti-Racist University? Race, Class & Contingency in Higher Education, June 25, 2020
Join our discussion of the contradictions of anti-racist work in the University, with a particular focus on race, class, and contingency. The panel will address the place institutions of higher education occupy in our racialized class society, assess the official “anti-racist” strategies universities promote, and highlight the anti-racist work of on- and off-campus activism within…
Love and Struggle Know No Bars: Prisoners and Families Speak Out, June 18, 2020
Join us for Shelter and Solidarity #11 as we co-host a discussion about resisting the system of mass incarceration with members of the New York-based frontline organization Its Up to Us to End Mass Incarceration. We will be joined by IUTU organizer Michael Nugent as well as Tydina Brown and Nicole James, family members of…
Poets of the Rebellion, June 11, 2020
Join us for performances from Lorraine Currelley, Bronx Beat Poet Laureate & Activist, as well as Raymond Nat Turner, members of the Harlem Poets Guild, and North Carolina-based poet-critic-activist Demetrius Noble. w/ co-hosts Joe Ramsey and Tim Sheard.
Threats to Democracy with August Nimtz and Bill Fletcher, June 4, 2020
As the frontline communities and others of good conscience grieve and revolt, the US’s democratic trappings yield to its iron fist core. What are must be done to re-energize the long revolution against slavery and capitalism and for democracy and freedom? Long-time radical intellectual and pan-Africanist, Bill Fletcher and the Marxist activist-scholar August Nimtz join…
Contingent Faculty Struggles, May 28, 2020
COVID-19 has exposed the brittle core of higher education today: super-exploited academic workers going by dozens of titles–temporary, part-timer, adjunct, visiting, precarious, etc.–all meaning “contingent” i.e. workers who provide most of the teaching but who receive few benefits and next to no job security. It has also raised sharply the question of the university’s relationship…
Public Institutions Under Attack: Threats to the Common Good, May 21, 2020
A conversation about the government and corporate class campaigns to use the COVID moment to privatize or destroy our most critical public services: The US Postal Service, public K-12, and higher education, public hospitals, the Veterans Affairs health services, and more. We are joined by postal worker organizer, Charles Zlatkin, New York Labor Communications Council,…
What Are We Reading? What Are We Learning? May 14, 2020
S&S’s first social hour! Framing questions: What book has most resonated with you during this unprecedented time, and why? Share with others what you are enjoying and what you are taking away from the text. Reading and sharing what’s valuable on the page can help us cope with–and deepen our grasp of– the challenges we…
Immigrant Struggles for Justice During the COVID-19 Crisis, May 7, 2020
In our fifth episode of Shelter & Solidarity, we are scholar-activists Aviva Chomsky (author of Undocumented, ‘They Take Our Jobs!’ and Twenty Other Myths about Immigration), Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki (co-authors of the book, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid), as well as veteran organizerAlma De…
The Battle for the Future of Higher Education; Organizing for May Day, April 30, 2020
Shelter & Solidarity show 4, a two-part episode, addresses higher education and also the organizing for May Day in a time of global pandemic and economic depression. In the first part, Joe Ramsey interviews Anna Kornbluh, Ben Manski, Barbara Madeloni, and Chris Newfield. Together they address the paradoxes of increased militancy and reduced organizational capacity….