March 10
Public Forum
6:30 pm
NYU - Kimmel Center
Room 802
60 Washington Square South (between Thompson and LaGuardia)
Please note: While this event is held in the NYU student center, it is open to the public; simply tell security that you are here for the Occupy at the Crossroads forum.
Trains: A, B, C, D to West 4th Street; 1 to Christopher; N, R to 8th Street; 6 to Astor Place.
Occupy Wall Street transformed the political landscape of this country. Almost overnight, the accumulated discontent and bitterness that had been seething beneath the surface found expression in a mass movement - summed up by the slogan "we are the 99%." In our thousands and tens of thousands, across the country we became active, began discussions with one another and began the process of building a new political movement the likes of which has not been seen in generations.
But ever since the mass clearing of the encampments, our movement has struggled to find its way. The grievances that drove this struggle have not disappeared. In fact, they continue to intensify. The foreclosures of homes continues; the city is planning to shut down over 50 schools; 4 young Black men were shot in 2 weeks by the NYPD; tens of thousands of workers remain without contracts; and the list goes on. But we have not been able to summon the mass numbers onto the streets that we saw in the fall.
This has led some activists to focus on the need for escalating actions (and tactics) in hopes of sparking renewed resistance. These actions frequently substitute the daring of the few for mass action. But in the current context, such actions run the danger of isolating us from the broader social forces that are critical to the building of this movement. How do we connect with and bring into political activity those who are most directly affected by the current economic crisis? How do we bring together issues of oppression and economic injustice so that both struggles may be stronger? How do we deepen our roots in the working-class and in communities of color? And how do we take up specific issues while retaining the breadth of vision that made Occupy so powerful? These are the questions our movement must address in order to move forward. This forum will provide an opportunity to discuss and debate strategy and vision.
Hosted by the International Socialist Organization.
For more information on the meeting, contact nyciso@gmail.com.
For more coverage of the Occupy movement, check out SocialistWorker.org; a recent editorial addresses the debates within the movement that this meeting is organized to discuss.
PLANET OVER PROFIT: How Capitalism Poisons the Earth And How to Stop It
Meeting on the environment
2/28/12
Planet Over Profit: How Capitalism Poisons the Earth and How to Stop It
With Chris Williams
Tuesday, February 28
7 pm
The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
near Atlantic Terminal
2/3/4/5/B/D/N/Q/R
The rate of ecological devastation is intensifying as capitalists' reap profits at the expense of workers, the planet and our future. But there is hope. A new, grassroots environmental movement is on the ascent, challenging the order of the day--oil, coal, nuclear power, fracking, deforestation, industrial agriculture and global warming-- and fighting for a just and sustainable future. For us to win the green world we are struggling for we must understand the system we are up against: capitalism and its imperial tentacles. To insure long term and impactful ecological change we must also fight for economic and political change. Socialism, a cooperative society based on human needs and ecological sustainability, is the alternative.
Chris Williams is a professor in the Dept of Chemistry & Physical Science at Pace University and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2010). He recently returned from Fukushima Prefecture, where he reported on the ongoing nuclear disaster there and the resistance Japanese activists are mounting to the nuclear industry.
For more information:
nyciso@gmail.com | nycsocialist.org
Sponsored by International Socialist Organization
2/28/12
Planet Over Profit: How Capitalism Poisons the Earth and How to Stop It
With Chris Williams
Tuesday, February 28
7 pm
The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
near Atlantic Terminal
2/3/4/5/B/D/N/Q/R
The rate of ecological devastation is intensifying as capitalists' reap profits at the expense of workers, the planet and our future. But there is hope. A new, grassroots environmental movement is on the ascent, challenging the order of the day--oil, coal, nuclear power, fracking, deforestation, industrial agriculture and global warming-- and fighting for a just and sustainable future. For us to win the green world we are struggling for we must understand the system we are up against: capitalism and its imperial tentacles. To insure long term and impactful ecological change we must also fight for economic and political change. Socialism, a cooperative society based on human needs and ecological sustainability, is the alternative.
Chris Williams is a professor in the Dept of Chemistry & Physical Science at Pace University and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2010). He recently returned from Fukushima Prefecture, where he reported on the ongoing nuclear disaster there and the resistance Japanese activists are mounting to the nuclear industry.
For more information:
nyciso@gmail.com | nycsocialist.org
Sponsored by International Socialist Organization
Queens ISO Public Meeting: IRAN: The Next War?
Iran Meeting
Thursday February 23
Thursday February 23
7pm
The Queens Pride House
76-11 37th Avenue
Jackson Heights, Queens
Take the E,F,R,M,7 to Roosevelt Avenue
With greeting from a representative of Raha Iranian Feminist Collective
There is growing talk about military conflict with Iran by the
US & Israel. Meanwhile, crippling sanctions have already
brought devastating hardship to the Iranian people, while leaving
the Ahmadinejad regime in place. The last thing most
Americans want is another disastrous war, but thanks to
government & media distortions, most people know very little
about Iranian history & society, including the struggle of the
Iranian people against the regime.
Come to a presentation and discussion about how we can stop
a new war from breaking out while building concrete
solidarity with the Iranian people in their
fight for democracy.
For more info contact westernqueensiso@gmail.com www.nycsocialist.org*
Thursday February 23
Thursday February 23
7pm
The Queens Pride House
76-11 37th Avenue
Jackson Heights, Queens
Take the E,F,R,M,7 to Roosevelt Avenue
With greeting from a representative of Raha Iranian Feminist Collective
There is growing talk about military conflict with Iran by the
US & Israel. Meanwhile, crippling sanctions have already
brought devastating hardship to the Iranian people, while leaving
the Ahmadinejad regime in place. The last thing most
Americans want is another disastrous war, but thanks to
government & media distortions, most people know very little
about Iranian history & society, including the struggle of the
Iranian people against the regime.
Come to a presentation and discussion about how we can stop
a new war from breaking out while building concrete
solidarity with the Iranian people in their
fight for democracy.
For more info contact westernqueensiso@gmail.com www.nycsocialist.org*
Book Launch: "Why Its Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions"
Book Launch
February 21
Paul Mason to kick off his US tour at the Graduate Center for Worker Education in New York City
Join the Graduate Center for Worker Education, Verso Books, and Haymarket Books for the launch of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions!!
Tuesday, February 21
6.00 - 8.00pm
Graduate Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
Midtown West, Manhattan
Incisive grassroots account of the new global revolutions by acclaimed BBC journalist and author of Meltdown
The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history-democratic revolt and social revolution-are being lived by millions of people.
In this compelling new book, Paul Mason explores the causes and consequences of this great unrest. From Cairo to Athens, Wall Street and Westminster to Manila, Mason goes in search of the changes in society, technology and human behavior that have propelled a generation onto the streets in search of social justice. In a narrative that blends historical insight with first-person reportage, Mason shines a light on these new forms of activism, from the vast, agile networks of cyberprotest to the culture wars and tent camps of the #occupy movement. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new political alternatives to elite rule and global poverty.
February 21
Paul Mason to kick off his US tour at the Graduate Center for Worker Education in New York City
Join the Graduate Center for Worker Education, Verso Books, and Haymarket Books for the launch of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions!!
Tuesday, February 21
6.00 - 8.00pm
Graduate Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
Midtown West, Manhattan
Incisive grassroots account of the new global revolutions by acclaimed BBC journalist and author of Meltdown
The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history-democratic revolt and social revolution-are being lived by millions of people.
In this compelling new book, Paul Mason explores the causes and consequences of this great unrest. From Cairo to Athens, Wall Street and Westminster to Manila, Mason goes in search of the changes in society, technology and human behavior that have propelled a generation onto the streets in search of social justice. In a narrative that blends historical insight with first-person reportage, Mason shines a light on these new forms of activism, from the vast, agile networks of cyberprotest to the culture wars and tent camps of the #occupy movement. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new political alternatives to elite rule and global poverty.
Our Enemies in Blue: Why is the NYPD After Me?
Panel Discussion
2/22/12
Our Enemies in Blue
Why is the NYPD After Me?
with Mary Black, Alfredo Carrasquillo, Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Reverend Bernard Walker
Wednesday, February 22
6:30 pm
Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Ave
(btwn 141st and 145th)
The racist practices of the NYPD are nothing new. But in recent weeks and months, the NYPD's brutality has been exposed to the world: from a New York Times op-ed by a young black man who is one of the hundreds of thousands stopped and frisked each year because of the color of his skin, to the videos of the beating and pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, and recent revelations that the NYPD showed its officers the Islamophobic "Third Jihad" film featuring Commissioner Ray Kelly.
And more and more people are standing up, from the outburst of anger after the NYPD's beating of Jateik Reed and murder of Ramarley Graham, to a growing movement against stop and frisk, to marches against NYPD brutality and in defense of Jazz Hayden, who is standing up to retaliation from the NYPD for his tireless efforts in documenting and exposing their harassment of Black and Brown people in Harlem.
Join us for a discussion of the struggle against NYPD racism and brutality, the role of the police in our society, and what we can do to change it.
Mary Black is a Harlem mom speaking out against her son's victimization by stop & frisk.
Alfredo Carrasquillo is an organizer with VOCAL-NY.
Jazz Hayden is a member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and the recent victim of an illegal stop and frisk retaliatory arrest.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a member of the International Socialist Organization and an activist for housing justice.
Rev. Bernard Walker is the father of Jateik Reed, victim of police brutality in the Bronx.
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization.
2/22/12
Our Enemies in Blue
Why is the NYPD After Me?
with Mary Black, Alfredo Carrasquillo, Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Reverend Bernard Walker
Wednesday, February 22
6:30 pm
Harlem School of the Arts
645 St. Nicholas Ave
(btwn 141st and 145th)
The racist practices of the NYPD are nothing new. But in recent weeks and months, the NYPD's brutality has been exposed to the world: from a New York Times op-ed by a young black man who is one of the hundreds of thousands stopped and frisked each year because of the color of his skin, to the videos of the beating and pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, and recent revelations that the NYPD showed its officers the Islamophobic "Third Jihad" film featuring Commissioner Ray Kelly.
And more and more people are standing up, from the outburst of anger after the NYPD's beating of Jateik Reed and murder of Ramarley Graham, to a growing movement against stop and frisk, to marches against NYPD brutality and in defense of Jazz Hayden, who is standing up to retaliation from the NYPD for his tireless efforts in documenting and exposing their harassment of Black and Brown people in Harlem.
Join us for a discussion of the struggle against NYPD racism and brutality, the role of the police in our society, and what we can do to change it.
Mary Black is a Harlem mom speaking out against her son's victimization by stop & frisk.
Alfredo Carrasquillo is an organizer with VOCAL-NY.
Jazz Hayden is a member of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow and the recent victim of an illegal stop and frisk retaliatory arrest.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a member of the International Socialist Organization and an activist for housing justice.
Rev. Bernard Walker is the father of Jateik Reed, victim of police brutality in the Bronx.
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization.
An Evening with Wallace Shawn!
Wallace Shawn Reading
March 3
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change and Haymarket Books present a special evening with the acclaimed playwright and actor Wallace Shawn at
Saturday March 3
7 pm
Dance New Amsterdam
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Entrance on Chambers Street, north side, East of Broadway
Civic Center, Manhattan
For Info on Dance New Amsterdam, HERE
WHY I CALL MYSELF A SOCIALIST
Written and Read by Wallace Shawn
followed by audience discussion and a separate ticket reception
Join actor and playwright Wallace Shawn for a reading of his provocative essay "Why I Call Myself a Socialist" from the expanded paperback edition of his nonfiction book Essays. With his distinctive humor and insight, Shawn invites us to look at the world with new eyes, the better to understand and change it.
"Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought provoking."
--Toni Morrison
running time: 90 minutes (no intermission)
$15.00 tickets, reading only (on sale now through Dance New Amsterdam box office)
** Separate ticketed reception to follow! **
$100.00 tickets, includes reading and reception and a signed copy of Essays (on sale now through Dance New Amsterdam box office)
Wallace Shawn is an Obie Award-winning playwright and a noted stage and screen actor. He is co-author of the movie My Dinner with Andre and author of the plays Marie and Bruce, The Fever, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Designated Mourner, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. His nonfiction collection Essays (Haymarket Books) is out now in an expanded paperback edition featuring "Why I Call Myself a Socialist," as well as in an audio edition read by Shawn himself.
Tickets may be purchased in person during DNA Box-Office hours or at any time online.
BOX OFFICE HOURS:
The box-office is open two hours prior to the scheduled performance time.
Subway Directions
R/W to City Hall
4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge
J/M/Z to Chambers Street
A/C/E to Chambers Street
1/2/3 to Chambers Street
2/3 to Park Place
Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment
Sam Farber on Cuba
March 8
Public Meeting with SAMUEL FARBER
Sponsored by the Radical Film and Lecture Series, NYU
Thursday
March 8
7pm
Puck Building, 4th Floor
295 Lafayette at Houston
SOHO, Manhattan
As struggle explodes across the globe, it will become increasingly important what we are struggling to achieve. Are the solutions Cuba has pursued for the past half century something we should emulate?
Uncritically lauded by many on the left, and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban revolution is almost universally viewed in one-dimensional terms. Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical assessment of the revolution’s impact and legacy.
Praise for Farber's Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment, out now from Haymarket Books:
“A courageous and formidable balance-sheet of the Cuban Revolution, including a sobering analysis of a draconian ‘reform’ program that will only deepen the gulf between revolutionary slogans and the actual life of the people.” — Mike Davis
“Samuel Farber is an excellent teacher … I found myself ending the book humbly grateful to the author for so many things, including his impeccable scholarship and his implacable commitment to the truth.” — Havana Times
