BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20130310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20131103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20140309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20141102T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20150308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20151101T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180412T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180412T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003825-1523561400-1523568600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-04-12/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180405T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180405T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003824-1522956600-1522963800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-04-05/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180329T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180329T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003823-1522351800-1522359000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-03-29/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180322T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180322T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003822-1521747000-1521754200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-03-22/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180315T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180315T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003821-1521142200-1521149400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-03-15/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180308T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180308T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003820-1520537400-1520544600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-03-08/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180301T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180301T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003819-1519932600-1519939800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-03-01/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180222T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003818-1519327800-1519335000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-02-22/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180215T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180215T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003817-1518723000-1518730200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-02-15/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180208T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180208T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003816-1518118200-1518125400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-02-08/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180201T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180201T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003815-1517513400-1517520600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-02-01/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180125T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180125T213000 DTSTAMP:20171120T140643Z CREATED:20171115T054212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T140643Z UID:10003814-1516908600-1516915800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:B. Traven’s Jungle Novels DESCRIPTION:convened with the Indigenous Peoples Reading Group \n“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers\, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books\, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven \nThe writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925\, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts\, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany\, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon\, it published Traven’s first novel\, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers)\, of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly\, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven’s other works his name is Gale\, or Gerard Gales)\, an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico\, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation\, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution\, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920\, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven\, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture\, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\, Death Ship\, and the six volume series we will read this term. \nThe Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change\, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt. \nThe Jungle Novels are: \nThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations\,\nGovernment (1931) Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico\, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel\, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.\nMarch to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933) March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven’s six Jungle Novels\, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca\, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.\nTrozas (1936) Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas\, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz’s rule.\nThe Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) This fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps\, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.\nA General from the Jungle (1940) Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning\, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters\, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate\, uneducated\, and poor\, but resourceful and dangerous. \nTHE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES 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. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/b-travens-jungle-novels/2018-01-25/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TravenTitle_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170502T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170502T213000 DTSTAMP:20170430T063053Z CREATED:20170125T073236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T063053Z UID:10006133-1493753400-1493760600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:60s New Left: National and International DESCRIPTION:A New Left Begins\n2nd sessions\nBeginning Tuesday\, May 2 — sessions continue through July\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Jenny Brown\, Michael Pelias and others \nMay 2\, a reading and discussion of Marat/Sade. Watch the film if you have the opportunity\nMay 9 and 16\, RD Laing\, counter-psychiatric / anti-psychiatry. The Politics of Experience and more. Presentations and discussion with Michael Pelias on May 9 and May 16.\nMay 23 and 30. Paris. May\, 1968. These talks will investigate the events May 68 in France through an analysis of the writings of Daniel Cohn-Bendit\, one of the most important and interesting of its leaders\, as well as the experiences of rank and file militants interviewed by Mitch Abidor for his forthcoming oral history\, May Made Me.\nMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published several collections of his translations\, among them Jean Jaurès’ Socialist History of the French Revolution and A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove\, and previously untranslated works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guerin\, as well as writings from the French Revolution\, are forthcoming. His May Made Me will appear in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the May events in France.\nJune 6 and 13. The music didn’t die. A look at the many cultural influences of the first generation born with the bomb and mutually assured destruction from day one. An overview and music and a reading and discussion of Jeff Nuttal’s Bomb Culture.\nThe growth of Women’s liberation and the experience of the growth of this mass movement in the 1960s and what this meant for the new left. Jenny Brown from National Women’s Liberation will select and help focus these our discussion at dates to be determined.\nJenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and has been involved in feminist theory and organizing since 1988\, first with Gainesville Women’s Liberation in Gainesville\, Florida and then with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action\, a movement think-tank and archive based in New York. She co-authored the Redstockings book\, Women’s Liberation and National Healthcare: Confronting the Myth of America and the Labor Notes book How to Jump Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers along with numerous essays and articles. She was also a co-chair of a Labor Party Local Organizing Committee in Gainesville\, Florida and is a former editor of Labor Notes. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mills-port-huron-the-u-s-new-left-begins/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Paris68_Site.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20160716T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20160716T120000 DTSTAMP:20160709T174356Z CREATED:20160706T154400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160709T174356Z UID:10003729-1468663200-1468670400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Day 3\, Session 1: Slackers\, Sabotage\, and Syndicalism DESCRIPTION:American Labor History and the Refusal of Work\nKristin Lawler\n\nIn this session\, we will consider the labor movement tactic most associated with the Industrial Workers of the World — sabotage\, or the collective withdrawal of efficiency — engaging the history of the American slacker to think through possibilities for working-class freedom and power vis-a-vis capital today. The term slacker originated during WWI and disparaged those (primarily Irish) coded “lazy\,” “vagrant\,” and resistant to a proper Protestant work ethic; it also referred to those who would not fight on the side of the Americans (and of course\, the British) during WWI. We can deploy this history to analyze the relationship between labor supply and worker power\, and between anti-imperialist national liberation struggles (like Ireland’s) and struggles at the point of production\, drawing out these connections for a new generation of scholars taking a look at the militant radicalism of the IWW in the context of a resurgence in the US and Europe\, since at least 1999\, of an anarcho-syndicalist\, direct action-oriented politics. \nKristin Lawler is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. Her first book\, The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism\, was published by Routledge in 2011 and examined the politics of American surf culture during the twentieth century. She is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination; her work has been published there as well as in several edited collections\, Z Magazine\, and the digital forum of the Social Science Research Council. She is currently at work on her new book\, Shanty Irish: the Roots of American Syndicalism. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-3-session-1-slackers-sabotage-and-syndicalism/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/SlackersSyndicalists.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Marxist Summer Intensive":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20160715T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20160715T213000 DTSTAMP:20160715T052716Z CREATED:20160705T023552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160715T052716Z UID:10006039-1468576800-1468618200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marxist Summer Intensive: July 15-17 DESCRIPTION:21st Century Class Struggles and the Generalized Proletariat:\nFurther Lessons towards Working Class Consciousness within our Social Movements\nThursday\, July 14 through Sunday\, July 17 \nFeaturing: Mitch Abidor\, Kazembe Balagun\, Mark Bergfeld\, Rebecca Boger\, Dennis Broe\, Charmaine Chua\, Claude Copeland\, Marika Diaz\, Russell Dale\, Walter Daum\, Pete Dolack\, Kate Doyle-Griffiths\, Mark Dudzic\, Anthony Galluzzo\, Janet Gerson. Harmony Goldberg\, Marcus Graetsch\, Ursula Huws\, Dan Karan\, Lisa Maya Knauer\, Kristin Lawler\, Laurel Mei-Singh\, Ras Moshe\, Fred Murphy\, Manny Ness\, Stuart Newman\, Marie-Claire Picher\, David Schwartzman and Yuko Tonohira.\n \nWritings to read if you have the time: \nSusan Watkins from New Left Review\, survey 2014 \nhttps://newleftreview.org/II/90/susan-watkins-the-political-state-of-the-union \nSusan Watkins\, 2016\nhttps://newleftreview.org/II/98/susan-watkins-oppositions\nMarc Dudzic and Adolf Reed Jr from Socialist Register on Crisis of Left and Labor in the US \nhttp://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/dudzic_and_reed_the_crisis_of_labour_and_the_left_in_the_united_states_sr_2015.pdf \nA Selection from the blog of Ursula Huws (if you have time read more of her postings\, listed off to the side on her blog) \nhttps://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/the-unmaking-of-the-english-working-class/ \nhttps://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/uber-and-under/ \nhttps://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/a-workhouse-without-walls/ \nMitch Abidor\nOn Paris\, May ’68 \nhttp://insurgentnotes.com/2016/06/may-68-revisited/ \nIan Birchall’s response to Mitch: \nhttp://insurgentnotes.com/2016/06/response-to-may-68-revisited/ \nKazembe Balagun\nIn The Guardian\, 2011 \nhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/17/race-protest\non the Fanon Phenomenon in The Indypendent: https://indypendent.org/2014/12/16/fanon-phenomenon-documentary-unearths-africas-anti-colonial-struggles \nMark Bergfeld \nhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/05/the-next-portuguese-revolution/ \nAbout Mark in 2011 as activist: \nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8440413/Student-protests-The-Marxist-revolutionary-aiming-to-lead-the-NUS.html \nDennis Broe\nOn the World Film Beat with recent Cannes reports: \nhttp://politicalfilmcritics.blogspot.fr/p/world-film-beat.html? \nThe most most recent article of Dennis in Situations on Mediterranean Noir: \nhttp://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/1706/1614? \nRussell Dale from Situtations: \nhttp://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/situations/article/view/1631/1581 \nCharmaine Chua: \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/2014/09/09/logistics-capitalist-circulation-chokepoints/ \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/author/charmchua/ \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/02/07/the-chinese-logistical-sublime-and-its-wasted-remains/ \nhttps://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/01/27/landlessness-and-the-life-of-seamen/ \nHarmony Goldberg\nOn McDonald’s \nhttp://www.salon.com/2014/04/06/how_mcdonalds_gets_away_with_rampant_wage_theft_partner/ \nRas Moshe\nAn interview from Jazz Right Now: \nhttps://jazzrightnow.com/2014/03/10/interview-ras-moshe/ \nWalter Daum\nExchange in NY Review of Books: \nhttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/04/03/imperialism-and-world-war-i-exchange/ \nStuart Newman\nall – \nhttps://legacy.nymc.edu/sanewman/social.htm \nespecially \nhttps://legacy.nymc.edu/sanewman/PDFs/CNS_GM_foods_09.pdf \nhttps://legacy.nymc.edu/sanewman/PDFs/CNS%20Synbio_12.pdf \nDavid Schwartzman \nhttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/cop-21-paris-climate-change-global-warming-fossil-fuels/ \nhttp://tratarde.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Schwartzman-Saul-CNS-2015.pdf \nhttp://www.redandgreen.org/Documents/Solar_Communism.htm \nAs capitalist relations penetrate every nook and cranny of our planet and the most intimate realms of our lives\, a growing proportion of the world’s population is incorporated into the global proletariat—paid and unpaid workers and our families\, the unemployed and underemployed\, and the growing numbers who will never work. The laboring part of today’s global proletariat is greater than the world’s entire population 40 years ago. Now there are workers from all parts of the globe working for the same set of bosses. \nCapitalists continually seek new avenues to expand their capital and commodify all that exists. The digital revolution has sped all this up\, quickening accumulation which lays the basis for more frequent crises. Capital continues in ever new forms the process of enclosures that began with the forcible removal of the peasantry from the land in medieval Europe. Throughout the global south\, displaced peasants are forced to migrate to cities or internationally\, working in factories or informal economies. Many others are conscripted into comprador armies to protect the extractive industries ravaging their regions. There is also outright robbery: the Panama Papers reveal the extent to which capital has fleeced the global proletariat. After more than three decades of assault on organized labor\, privatization\, austerity and structural adjustment have gutted hard-won social programs. Automation\, digitization and strategic relocation of work\, combined with just-in-time assembly\, make millions “redundant”. At the same time Walmartization\, Uberization\, Amazonification exemplify our marginalization and precarity. \nAs we plan this intensive\, workers and students are in motion throughout France\, from Nuit Debout gatherings to general strikes against austerity. Greek workers\, hit harder still by austerity\, are reaching out to support the tide of refugees. The contract just won by the Verizon workers in the U.S. after a nation-wide strike represents a major victory. The Sanders campaign has helped normalize the concept of socialism\, but the Left and social movements have not figured out how to articulate a viable socialist alternative and build a corresponding movement. \nOver the four days of this Intensive\, we will study the causes behind these developments\, learn about some obstacles to organizing and the challenges facing workers at work and in their communities\, and consider various left analyses about social realities and the prospects for organizing. We will assess the lessons of workers’ movements globally and historically\, with emphasis on prospects in the US and the global south. Through collaborative study and discussion\, we aim to provide a challenging learning environment so each participant can develop his/her own theoretical and analytic tools to advance our organizing and movement building work in order to broaden opposition to capital locally\, nationally and internationally. \nFRIDAY\, JULY 15 / 10:00 am • Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation & Marxist Theory • WALTER DAUM • 1:00- 4:00 pm • Class Consciousness\, Class Struggle & Self-Organizing Using Image Theater • presented by The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • facilitated by JANET GERSON • MARIE-CLAIRE PICHER • 5:30 pm • Public Banking: A Marxist Response to Finance Capital • DAN KARAN • 7:30 pm • Southern Insurgency: Mass Movements Throughout the Global South • LISA MAYA KNAUER \nSATURDAY\, JULY 16 / 10:00 am • Slackers\, Sabotage\, & Syndicalism: American Labor History & The Refusal of Work • KRISTIN LAWLER • 1:00 pm • Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States • MARK DUDZIC • 3:30 pm • Prometheus in Ruins?: Uses & Abuses of the Hero Who Stole Fire • ANTHONY GALLUZZO • 5:30 pm • Logistics\, Capitalist Circulation\, Chokepoints • CHARMAINE CHUA • 7:30 pm • Devils & Dust: Resisting War in New York\, the Pacific\, & the Middle East • CLAUDE COPELAND • LAUREL MEI-SINGH • YUKO TONOHIRA \nSUNDAY\, JULY 17 / 11:00 am • It’s Not Over: Lessons for Socialists from the October Revolution\, Prague Spring and the Sandinistas • PETE DOLACK • 1:00 pm • Labor in the Global Digital Economy • URSULA HUWS • 3:30 pm • Sexuality\, Gender & Neoliberal Capitalism • KATE DOYLE-GRIFFITHS • LISA MAYA KNAUER • 5:30 pm • Approaching Science from the Left: Uses & Abuses of Knowledge in the Planetary Crisis • REBECCA BOGER • STUART NEWMAN • DAVE SCHWARTZMAN • moderated by FRED MURPHY \nAs capitalist relations penetrate every nook and cranny of our planet and the most intimate realms of our lives\, a growing proportion of the world’s population is incorporated into the global proletariat—paid and unpaid workers and our families\, the unemployed and underemployed\, and the growing numbers who will never work. The laboring part of today’s global proletariat is greater than the world’s entire population 40 years ago. Now there are workers from all parts of the globe working for the same set of bosses. \nCapitalists continually seek new avenues to expand their capital and commodify all that exists. The digital revolution has sped all this up\, quickening accumulation which lays the basis for more frequent crises. Capital continues in ever new forms the process of enclosures that began with the forcible removal of the peasantry from the land in medieval Europe. Throughout the global south\, displaced peasants are forced to migrate to cities or internationally\, working in factories or informal economies. Many others are conscripted into comprador armies to protect the extractive industries ravaging their regions. There is also outright robbery: the Panama Papers reveal the extent to which capital has fleeced the global proletariat. After more than three decades of assault on organized labor\, privatization\, austerity and structural adjustment have gutted hard-won social programs. Automation\, digitization and strategic relocation of work\, combined with just-in-time assembly\, make millions “redundant”. At the same time Walmartization\, Uberization\, Amazonification exemplify our marginalization and precarity. \nAs we plan this intensive\, workers and students are in motion throughout France\, from Nuit Debout gatherings to general strikes against austerity. Greek workers\, hit harder still by austerity\, are reaching out to support the tide of refugees. The contract just won by the Verizon workers in the U.S. after a nation-wide strike represents a major victory. The Sanders campaign has helped normalize the concept of socialism\, but the Left and social movements have not figured out how to articulate a viable socialist alternative and build a corresponding movement. \nOver the four days of this Intensive\, we will study the causes behind these developments\, learn about some obstacles to organizing and the challenges facing workers at work and in their communities\, and consider various left analyses about social realities and the prospects for organizing. We will assess the lessons of workers’ movements globally and historically\, with emphasis on prospects in the US and the global south. Through collaborative study and discussion\, we aim to provide a challenging learning environment so each participant can develop his/her own theoretical and analytic tools to advance our organizing and movement building work in order to broaden opposition to capital locally\, nationally and internationally. \nTHURSDAY\, JULY 14 / 10:00 am • Marx and Engels & Classical German Philosophy • RUSSELL DALE • 1:00 pm • Anti-Austerity in France: Live Report from Paris on Bastille Day • DENNIS BROE • 3:30 pm • May ’68 in France: Revisited • MITCH ABIDOR • 5:30 pm • What Jazz Would Karl Marx Listen to in 2016 • RAS MOSHE • 7:30 pm • Solidarity Without Borders • KAZEMBE BALAGUN • MARK BERGFELD • HARMONY GOLDBERG • MARCUS GRAETSCH • moderated by MARIKA DIAS \nFRIDAY\, JULY 15 / 10:00 am • Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation & Marxist Theory • WALTER DAUM • 1:00- 4:00 pm • Class Consciousness\, Class Struggle & Self-Organizing Using Image Theater • presented by The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) • facilitated by JANET GERSON • MARIE-CLAIRE PICHER • 5:30 pm • Public Banking: A Marxist Response to Finance Capital • DAN KARAN • 7:30 pm • Southern Insurgency: Mass Movements Throughout the Global South • MANNY NESS • LISA MAYA KNAUER \nSATURDAY\, JULY 16 / 10:00 am • Slackers\, Sabotage\, & Syndicalism: American Labor History & The Refusal of Work • KRISTIN LAWLER • 1:00 pm • Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States • MARK DUDZIC • 3:30 pm • Prometheus in Ruins?: Uses & Abuses of the Hero Who Stole Fire • ANTHONY GALLUZZO • 5:30 pm • Logistics\, Capitalist Circulation\, Chokepoints • CHARMAINE CHUA • 7:30 pm • Devils & Dust: Resisting War in New York\, the Pacific\, & the Middle East • CLAUDE COPELAND • LAUREL MEI-SINGH • YUKO TONOHIRA \nSUNDAY\, JULY 17 / 11:00 am • It’s Not Over: Lessons for Socialists from the October Revolution\, Prague Spring and the Sandinistas • PETE DOLACK • 1:00 pm • Labor in the Global Digital Economy • URSULA HUWS • 3:30 pm • Sexuality\, Gender & Neoliberal Capitalism • KATE DOYLE-GRIFFITHS • LISA MAYA KNAUER • 5:30 pm • Approaching Science from the Left: Uses & Abuses of Knowledge in the Planetary Crisis • REBECCA BOGER • STUART NEWMAN • DAVE SCHWARTZMAN • moderated by FRED MURPHY URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-summer-intensive-july-14-17/ LOCATION:NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FistDebout.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Unnamed Organizer":MAILTO: info@marxedproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20141012T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20141012T170000 DTSTAMP:20141025T211917Z CREATED:20141025T211917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141025T211917Z UID:10003687-1413106200-1413133200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:The Commons: An All-Day Seminar with Siliva Federici DESCRIPTION:While evoking a pre-capitalist past\, the idea of the “common(s)” is embraced today by feminists\, anarchists\, greens\, Marxists/socialists as the formative principle of a non-capitalist society. \nThe workshop will examine : \n\nA. What the concept of “the common” has represented historically\, especially in the Marxist/socialist as well as the anarchist and feminist traditions and the social consequences of the capitalist process of enclosure\nB. What has prompted its recent revival in militant circles\, beginning with the ‘new enclosures’ driven by theglobalization process\nC. What it signifies practically and theoretically in the politics of contemporary social movements and the main issues it raises and has raised (the question of scale\, the threat of institutional co-optation\, the relation between commons-building and other struggles)\nD. Most important\, we will discuss how the politics of the commons is being realized today and the different forms of commons that are being constructed with special emphasis on “reproductive commons” and their contribution to the construction of communities of resistance.\nSilvia Federici is a feminist activist\, writer\, and a teacher. In 1972 she was one of the co-founders of the International Feminist Collective\, the organization that launched the international campaign for Wages For Housework. From 1987 to 2005 she taught international studies\, women studies\, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead\, NY. All through these years she has written books and essays on philosophy and feminist theory\, women’s history\, education and culture\, and more recently the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons. \nSuggested donation: $35 to $55\nNo one turned away for inability to pay URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-commons-an-all-day-seminar-with-siliva-federici/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR