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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass:
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and May 31\, 2021. We are hosting many new series including a new literature class\, MAD Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War  beginning on January 14\, a continuation of Capital\, Volume 1 class\, a repeat of the popular Blood and Money\, Considerations on Bolshevism before Stalinism\, a reading and discussion group of Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\, a multi-session series covering the Socialist Register 2021 annual\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\, and  the 4 new events related to the Pluto Press Fireworks Series which begins on January 23 with Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar on Pandemic Solidarity\, the first book to be presented. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through May 21. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. You can also attend the new series sponsored by Palsgrave on Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms along with Rowan and Littlefield’s new Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series of events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/until-mid-winter-pass-now-through-january-31-2021/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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SUMMARY:Hispaniola in Revolt
DESCRIPTION:Critical Perspectives on Haiti and Santo Domingo\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Virgilio Oscar Aràn\, France Francois\, Lionel Legros and Amaury Rodriguez\n  \nCome to participate with presentations and discussion on the revolutionary legacies of Hispaniola\, the island shared by both Haiti and Santo Domingo. \nPanelists: \nMITCH ABIDOR has translated many of the key documents and accounts of the Haitian Revolution. His latest book is Down With the Law\, an anthology of French individualist anarchist writings. He will discuss the contradictions of the Haitian revolution. \nVIRGILIO OSCAR ARÁN is the National Field Home Care Organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Arán has participated in different forums to talk about the inhumane conditions Haitian immigrants suffer under in his native country\, the Dominican Republic. He will discuss race and class in the Dominican Republic. \nFRANCE FRANCOIS is the Founder and CEO of In Cultured Company\, an organization that works on conflict resolution and reconciliation between Haitians and Dominicans. She is a multi-passionate writer\, activist\, and change agent transforming communities of color around the globe by redefining the way their stories are told and how we impact their lives. France will also reconsider the Haitian revolts of 1946 and 1986. \nLIONEL LEGROS is a longtime NYC-based activist and educator originally from Haiti. He fought the Duvalier dictatorship and founded L’Heure Haitienne Radio in New York City in the 1960s. He will discuss the current Haitian revolt. \nModerator: AMAURY RODRIGUEZ is a Dominican-born translator and independent researcher. He is a frequent contributor to the Marxists Internet Archives (MIA) and co-author\, with Raj Chetty\, of Dominican Black Studies\, a special issue of The Black Scholar journal. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hispaniola-in-revolt/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Melancholia Africana
DESCRIPTION:The Caribbean Philosophy Association and The Marxist Education Project present \nMelancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition\nWith author Nathalie Etoke and conversation with fellow panelists Lewis R. Gordon and Souleymane Bachir Diagne\nThis year marks the publication of the English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition. In richly poetic prose Etoke considers pain singing the happiness to come\, memories of forgetting\, and on va faire comment? She argues that Africana melancholy is distinct. Rooted in collective and historical experiences of enslavement\, colonization\, and neocolonialism marked by loss of land\, freedom\, language\, culture\, and self. Put differently\, expropriation of labor and of land also annihilated age-old cycles of life. Considering what to do in the wake of such annihilation\, Etoke explores how diasporic Africans reconcile that which has been destroyed with what is newly introduced\, framing this inherent tension as the character of Africana historical becoming. On October 30th\, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon\, who authored its new foreword\, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses. \nNathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures\, French Politics and Culture\, Nouvelles Études Francophones\, Présence Francophone\, International Journal of Francophone Studies\, and Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. She is the author of L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and of Melancholia Africana l’indispensable dépassement de la condition noire\, which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011\, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities\, a documentary on race\, identity and citizenship in contemporary France. \nLewis R. Gordon co-edits Rowman & Littlefield International’s Global Critical Caribbean Thought series.  He is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; the 2018–2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra\, Portugal; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  His public Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/LewisGordonPhilosopher/ and he is on Twitter @lewgord. \nSouleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor and Chair of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and recipient of the Edouard Glissant Prize. He is the author of Boole\, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour (a book on Boolean algebra); Islam and the Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal; African Art as Philosophy: Senghor\, Bergson\, and the Idea of Negritude; The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa; and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition. An English version of his book\, Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal\, which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011\, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press. \nAll tickets are sliding scale
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/melancholia-africana/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Literature: Breaking bonds before and after betrayed revolutions
DESCRIPTION:10 Weeks beginning October 12 through December 21 \nA reading and discussion group with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nDuring this term we will begin with Aimé Césaire’s cultural statement from the 30s\, issued from the Caribbean to all those colonized by the capitalist powers\, primarily of Europe. Following our discourse on his groundbreaking discourse we will consider three novels on the colonized Caribbean\, long engaged in revolutionary struggle with just as long gains towards liberation and the centuries long experiences of counter-revolution\, and the consequences of compromise and collaboration with former colonizers and the colossus US that treats the Caribbean like a backyard swimming pool and those of the islands\, whether local agent of capital or exploited worker\, as servants by that pool.  \n“I admit that it is a good thing to place different civilizations in contact with each other that it is an excellent thing to blend different worlds; that whatever its own particular genius may be\, a civilization that withdraws into itself atrophies; that for civilizations\, exchange is oxygen; that the great good fortune of Europe is to have been a crossroads\, and that because it was the locus of all ideas\, the receptacle of all philosophies\, the meeting place of all sentiments\, it was the best center for the redistribution of energy.\nBut then I ask the following question: has colonization really placed civilizations in contact? Or\, if you prefer\, of all the ways of establishing contact\, was it the best?\n“I answer no.\n“And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken\, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up\, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries\, there could not come a single human value.”\n`	—Aimé Césaire\, Discourse on Colonialism \nDiscourse on Colonialism\nAimé Fernand David Césaire\nThis classic work\, first published in France in 1955\, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa\, Latin America\, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later\, when published for the first time in English\, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements. \nAll Souls Rising \nMadison Smartt Bell \n1995\nThe slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery\, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom\, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal\, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.  \nA Small Place\nJamaica Kincaid\nAntigua\, 2000\nIn A Small Place\, Kincaid calls attention to the fact that in many ways\, conditions in Antigua worsened with the achievement of independence; she communicates her frustration with her people and capitalism. In a nation free from colonialism\, Antiguans “do to [themselves] the very things [colonists] used to do to [them]”. Through her critique of colonialism and the development of an exploitative tourist industry in A Small Place\, Kincaid addresses several other major themes which include the influence of homeland on identity\, culture\, and the desire for independence. \nA Brief History of Seven Killings \nMarlon James\nJamaica\, 2014\nWinner of the Man Booker Prize\nThe first part of the novel is set in Kingston\, Jamaica\, in the build-up to the Smile Jamaica Concert\, and describes politically motivated violence between gangs associated with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP)\, especially in the West Kingston neighborhoods of Tivoli Gardens and Mathews Lane (renamed in the novel as Copenhagen City and Eight Lanes)\, including involvement of the CIA in the Jamaican politics of the time. As well as Marley (who is referred to as “the Singer” throughout)\, other real life characters depicted or fictionalized in the book include Kingston gangsters Winston “Burry Boy” Blake and George “Feathermop” Spence\, Claude Massop and Lester Lloyd Coke (Jim Brown) of the JLP and Aston Thomson (Buckie Marshall) of the PNP. \nThe Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group\, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
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LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies
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SUMMARY:Paget Henry’s 70th Year: A Symposium and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Organized by The Caribbean Philosophical Association\nCo-sponsors: The Caribbean Philosophical Association and The Marxist Education Project \nSpecial tributes by:\nDonna Edmonds Mitchell\nFirst Nation activist\, community scholar\, poet and creative artist\nElaine Olaoye\nProfessor and poet \nParticipants Include:\nLinda Alcoff\, Philosophy\, Hunter College & CUNY\nKarida Brown\, Sociology\, Brown University\nDrucilla Cornell\, Political Science and WGSS\, Rutgers University\nJane Gordon\, Political Science and Africana Studies\, UCONN\nLewis Gordon\, Philosophy and Africana Studies\, UCONN\nAaron Kamugisha\, Cultural Studies\, UWI\, Cave Hill\, Barbados\nAshmita Khasnabish\, Writing\, Literature and Publishing\, Emerson College\nTeodros Kiros\, Liberal Arts\, Berklee College of Music\nNatasha Lightfoot\, History\, Columbia University\nSusan Lowes\, Teacher’s College\, Columbia University\nJames Manigault-Bryant\, Africana Studies\, Williams College\nRekha Menon\, Liberal Arts\, Berklee College of Music\nTracey Nicholls\, Philosophy\, Lewis University\nRowan Ricardo Phillips\, Stony Brook; New York Institute for the Arts\, NYU\nNeil Roberts\, Africana Studies and Political Science\, Williams College\nAmbassador Walton Watson \nAll are welcome. Attendance is free.\nFor more information contact info@marxedproject.org or Jane Gordon (janeannagordon@gmail.com)
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LOCATION:United States
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