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SUMMARY:Victor Serge Read-In Day
DESCRIPTION:A Victor Serge Sunday at the Brooklyn Commons\nFeaturing Mitch Abidor\, Mallory Brooks\, Silvia Federici\, Jenny Greeman\, Richard Greeman and Christopher Winks\nComplete with a Serge Book Fair and other participation of Serge’s American publishers\, Haymarket Books\, New York Review Books and PM Press \n“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity\, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years\, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time\, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia’s revolution and Spain’s agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.”  – I. F. Stone \n2:00 pm: Talks and Discussion:\nVictor Serge: Revolution and its Illusions by Mitchell Abidor\, translator of Serge’s Anarchists Never Surrender (PM Press) and Notebooks (NYRB Classics). Serge’s autobiography bears the title Memoirs of a Revolutionary (a title he didn’t choose)\, but at the beginning and end of his political life he posed serious questions about the efficacy of revolution and revolutionary activity. Inspired by Serge’s article “The Revolutionary Illusion\,” Mitch Abidor will examine this aspect of Serge’s thought. \nVictor Serge’s Novels of Resistance by Richard Greeman\, Serge  scholar\, translator and prefacer of five Serge novels (NYRB Classics\, PM Press) \nVictor Serge and the Poetics of Revolutionary Memory by Christopher Winks\, (Comparative Literature\, Queens College\, CUNY). A discussion of Serge’s poetry as a prolonged elegy for the fallen —“the cortège of his executed brothers” —and an affirmation of love and hope amidst the darkness of world counter-revolution. \n3:30 pm: SERGE READ-IN:  Pick your favorite Serge passage and join with other fans including Sylvia Federici (feminist writer)\, Christopher Winks\, Melody Brooks and Jenny Greeman\, New Perpectives Theater) who will be reading their own favorites and discussing them.
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SUMMARY:When Droplets Become Rain
DESCRIPTION:A film on the anti-austerity movement in Spain\nColectivo Miradas\, 2015 (77 mins)\nDirector and photographer: José Gayà\nProducer and assistant director: Enrique González\nMusic: Oscar Jareño\nIn co-production with Telesur \nIntroduction and discussion with Enrique González \nHuman rights vs. neoliberal “democracy”\nWhen Droplets Become Rain is a feature length-documentary that explores the dynamics of capitalism in present-day Spain\, and the increasingly disobedient social movements that are challenging the social and political landscape in the “kingdom”. The documentary is a “sui generis” road movie that takes place in five different regions of the State\, portraying several social movements in collective struggle for basic human rights and needs: right to health\, right to education\, right to housing\, right to land and labor\, and right to the city and to social services.\nSocial movements on the move:\n• We witness the occupation of a building by the Platform of People Affected by the Crisis and the Mortgage Credits (PAHC)\, a massive social movement that has sprung to life as a result of countless evictions that followed the housing bubble.\n• We accompany the failed occupation of large estate land by Andalusian Workers’ Union (SAT)\, a social movement whose leader\, Juan Manuel Gordillo\, has been in office in the small township of Marinaleda for almost four decades\, setting out a collective\, participatory and alternative organization model that aims at guaranteeing social rights for all.\n• We smile at the debate of young students discussing the exploitative nature of the education system\, who later take to the streets to protest against the Free Trade Agreement that is being secretly negotiated between the government of the US and the unelected elite that rules the European Union.\n• We feel the rage of Hepatits C patients that struggle for a life-saving treatment that is been denied by the government\, in a criminal twist of the decades long process of privatization of the social health public system.\nReflection leads to action:\nThe documentary aims at promoting reflection\, through an emotional\, collective portrayal from the inside of these and other social movements\, in collective action for social struggle. It offers a historical background to authoritarianism\, inequality and the debt crisis in Spain\, emphasizes alternative organization and increasing disobedience of popular movements affected by the so called “austerity measures”\, and includes a radical critique of capitalism and its present and future consequences through the action of both urban and peasant social movements\, and the voice of intellectual activists.\nIncreasing repression against social movements and police violence are put in the spotlight\, and critique includes mainstream media\, climate change denial\, migration crisis and more. At the same time\, When Droplets Become Rain is a celebration of collective values and organization\, and offers a message of hope through popular mobilization and love for living beings and mother earth\, as summarized in the title.\nThe film takes place in five different regions\, along five areas of concern of social struggle\, and portrays several social movements in action: \nAndalucía – Right to land and to work\nSindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores and Coordinadora Unitaria de los Trabajadores (SAT/CUT) – rural and urban worker’s union struggling for land and collective self-labor\, and corresponding labor party that leads for decades now the alternative anti-capitalistic government of the rural township of Marinaleda\nMadrid – Right to health\nMarea Blanca – social movement for the defense of public health\nPlataforma de Afectados por la Hepatitis (PlafHC) – plataform of Hepatitis C patients fighting for last generation live-saving treatment\nYo Sí Sanidad Universal – doctors/activists desobedient plataform against a decree excluding migrants with no papers from health assistance service\nMadres contra la Represión (Mothers against Repression) – part of the movement against increasing represion of social and political activism\nSabadell (Barcelona) – Right to housing\nPlataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca y la Crisis – plataform of people affected by mortgage credits and the crisis\nGamonal (Burgos) – Ritght to the city and to social services\nAsamblea de Gamonal – popular assembly of a workers’ barrio\nLa Marina Alta (Alicante) – Right to education\nMoviment Juvenil L’Espenta – youth organization \nDirector José Gayà has spent over a decade between Chiapas\, Central America\, Venezuela and Cuba\, documenting social struggle\, alternative organization\, and crimes against humanity\, among other subjects. He has directed over 30 documentaries about issues such as the Guatemalan genocide\, the Honduran resistance movement against the US-backed 2009 coup\, Plan Puebla Panama (an extension of CAFTA that is related with the recent killing of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres\, whom he was close friends with)\, the Caracazo (the Venezuelan 1989 uprising against neoliberal agenda imposed by the IMF and so-called liberal “democracy”)\, and more.\nProducer Enrique González has lived for over 15 years in Caracas\, where he worked as a human rights activist\, was involved in alternative communication movement\, and took part in several documentary projects. They both met in Venezuela\, and teamed for the first time to produce this film\, when coming home to Spain where they are both from.\nComposer and musician Oscar Jareño is leader of the Valencian folk fussion group Felah Mengus. His brilliant work for the movie is key for the cinematographic experience sought by Colectivo Miradas.
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