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SUMMARY:Zones of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Global Capital and the Fight to End It\nPanel Discussion with Salonee Bhaman\, George Caffentzis\, Silvia Federici\, Gabriel Rockhill and others. with workshops on developing and defending areas of opposition to and transition from capital. \nAt this late and moribund stage of capitalist development nothing is sacred to profit making as the capitalists deforest the Amazon and exploit the deepest marine life of the Marianas Trench. Meanwhile\, the working classes the world over are engaged of necessity in an array of movements in opposition to these life-destroying practices. Nonetheless\, workers deliver through their labors—which they must sell in order to survive\, losing control over the use of their labor power in this act of selling—the means by which capital is digitally speeding us towards a metabolic endgame. Each decade going forward will lead to the demise of ever more species from the microbial to fully sentient beings like ourselves\, all the result of the insatiable proliferation of the capitalists pursuit for ever greater profit and continuous expanding accumulation of their money capital even if to do so requires the end of life on this planet as we know it. \nIn response to this\, The Marxist Education Project is closing this summer and revving up to meet the challenges of 2020 with an inaugural event on Global Capital and the Fight to End It. We will begin on August 24 with an afternoon panel with Salonee Bhaman\, George Caffentzis\, Silvia Federici\, Gabriel Rockhill and others\, followed by evening workshop discussions. \nThe focus of the workshop discussions is to identify what needs to be done to support\, build\, develop and defend the developing arenas of working class and dispossessed peoples resistance\, towards nurturing a unified counter-capitalist force that can be sustained locally\, nationally\, and in solidarity with the struggles of our brothers and sisters throughout the world. \nThe various workshops will be meeting grounds to identify areas where working classes the world over are organizing resistance and the new left re/formations as collectives\, parties\, and political spaces are forming. To do this\, in the workshops we will explore the array of struggles around such concerns as education\, housing\, healthcare\, jobs\, libraries\, preservation of natural resources and species\, climate\, poverty and hunger\, return of epidemics like measles\, the needs of the aging and physically or emotionally disabled\, and the continued divisions and discriminations within our class be it sexism\, race\, ethic/national/religious origins\, gender identity\, that only serve to enable increasing exploitation of the class as a whole. \nWe will also identify the existing and developing meeting spaces for collectives\, parties\, and political discussion and organizing like the many that are growing in New York City such as Verso Space\, Flux Factory\, The People’s Forum\, MayDay Space\, Woodbine\, Starr Bar\, Bluestockings\, The Base\, Interference Archive\, The Marxist Education Project\, Rosa Luxemburg Institute\, Brooklyn Institute\, Jacobin and Nation reading groups\, The Institute for the Radical Imagination\, Red Bloom\, Democracy at Work\, DSA\, the self-identified cadre political parties and other locales and organizations. \nTo counter this stage of a rapacious dying capitalism that requires ever-deeper exploitation of workers and nature\, we propose to explore where our class has been staking out\, claiming and defending zones of liberation. We look to movements such as our own Occupy movement to the current Yellow Vest movement in France\, the long-standing Zapatista opposition in Mexico that has secured liberated zones\, the ZAD in France\, and our own zones that we are staking out in our daily lives here\, and other instances that panelists and attendess/participants will bring attention to. \nSalonee Bhaman is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. Her research focuses on punitive welfare\, housing\, and austerity politics with particular attention towards questions of race\, gender\, migration\, and care. Her dissertation in progress explores the first years of the AIDS epidemic with regards to the American welfare state—thinking through issues of  care work\, immigration policy\, and intimate space. She has also done significant work on the struggles of women who are brought to the US for marriage\, very often to extra-exploitative and isolated situations with little or no community to turn to for support. \nGeorge Caffentzis is a political philosopher and autonomist Marxist. He was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and a founding member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He is the author of Clipped Coins\, Abused Words\, and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money\, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work\, Machines\, and the Crisis of Capitalism and the coeditor of A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities. George’s most recent book is No Blood For Oil! Essays on Energy\, Class Struggle and War 1998–2016\, published by Autonomedia. \nSilvia Federici is a long-time feminist\, writer\, and teacher living in Brooklyn\, NY. Her most recent book is Re-enchanting the World. Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press 2019). Other works include Caliban and the Witch Women\, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia 2004)\,  Revolution at Point Zero: Housework\, Reproduction\, and Feminist Struggle (Common Notions/PM Press\, 2012)\, The New York Wages For Housework Committee : History\, Theory\, Documents. 1972-1977. (Autonomedia\, 2017)\, and Witch-hunting Witches and Women\, (PM Press\, 2018). Born in Italy\, Federici has lectured and taught widely in Europe\, Latin America\, Africa\, and the U.S. She has participated in numerous international movements and social struggles\, including feminist\, education\, anti-death penalty\, as well as anti-nuclear and anti-globalization movements. \nGabriel Rockhill is a philosopher\, cultural critic and political theorist. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop. His recent books include La guerre intellectuelle de la CIA (forthcoming)\, Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization\, Technology\, Democracy (2017)\, Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History\, Politics\, Aesthetics (2016) and Radical History & the Politics of Art  (2014). In addition to his scholarly work\, he has been actively engaged in extra-academic activities in the art and activist worlds\, as well as a regular contributor to public intellectual debate. For more information: https://gabrielrockhill.com. For some time Gabriel has been active with the Yellow Vests movement. You can listen to his take on the Yellow Vest movement on KPFA in an interview and read his coverage on the Counterpunch website. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/zones-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Verso Books\, 20 Jay Street #1010\, Brooklyn\, 11210
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SUMMARY:Climate Leviathan
DESCRIPTION:The Political Challenge of Global Warming \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight \nHow will anthropogenic climate disruption transform alter the world’s basic political arrangements? In their new book Climate Leviathan\, Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright warn that global warming will push capitalist elites toward an authoritarian imposition of “planetary sovereignty” to confront the crisis. In this four-week reading group we will examine their argument and the alternative they present: “a global\, grassroots\, and broad-based network … driven by a desire for a deeper form of democracy\, one that provides communities with real control over those resources that are most critical to collective survival—the health of the water\, air\, and soil.” \nFRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\,  and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/climate-leviathan/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Small Is Necessary
DESCRIPTION:Shared Living on a Shared Planet\nwith author Anitra Nelson \nA presentation and discussion with activist-scholar Anitra Nelson\, whose new book Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (Pluto Press) argues for ‘eco-collaborative housing’\, i.e. smaller homes with shared spaces and facilities. \nHouses and apartments in countries like the US\, Canada and Australia grew larger in the 20th century even as household sizes shrank. This has made housing less environmentally sustainable and it contributes to the housing affordability crisis. Since the US mortgage fiasco triggered the Global Financial Crisis many countries have experienced skyrocketing house prices. Meanwhile\, the withdrawal of state support for social and public housing means that private ownership or rental are the only options. \nSmall is Necessary advocates not only for smaller dwellings in compact settlements but for shared spaces and facilities. Anitra presents a range of practical options from co-living in a household to co-housing and eco-villages. She weighs the pros and cons of the tiny house movement and assesses the potential and limits of radical squats along the way. She considers the future of eco-collaborative housing managed by various different drivers—governments\, market developers\, and sharing economy initiatives\, and grassroots communities.  \nAnitra has had ten years’ experience living in two different Australian housing collectives\, but her new book is research-based\, especially drawing on ecological footprint studies. \nThe author will sign books at the end of the program. \nAnitra Nelson is an activist-scholar whose research interests focus on housing and community-based sustainability\, environmental justice and non-monetary futures. She is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Research\, RMIT University (Melbourne\, Australia). She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2016–2017) and was a Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (2012). She is a co-editor of Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011) and Housing for Degrowth: Principles\, Models\, Challenges and Opportunities (forthcoming).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/small-is-necessary/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
DESCRIPTION:with Jason W. Moore \nNature\, money\, work\, care\, food\, energy\, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap\, modern commerce has transformed\, governed\, and devastated Earth. Jason W. Moore presents a new book authored with Raj Patel\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.  \nBringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism\, indigenous struggles\, slave revolts\, and other rebellions and uprisings\, Moore and Patel demonstrate that throughout the history of capitalism\, crises have always prompted fresh efforts to restore the seven cheap things – regardless of the cost to working people and the environment. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things\, they propose radical new ways of understanding—and reclaiming—the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century. \nJason W. Moore teaches world history and world-ecology at Binghamton University\, and is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. He is the author of Capitalism in the Web of Life and numerous award-winning essays in environmental history\, political economy\, and social theory.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Science\, Politics\, and Culture in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:Science\, Politics\, and Culture in the Anthropocene\nFred Murphy and Steve Knight\nA Reading Group\, September 25 through November 20\n9 sessions remain \n“Thinking the Anthropocene\,” say Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, authors of Shock of the Anthropocene\, “means taking the measure of industrialization and commodification\, which have derailed the Earth beyond the stable parameters of the Holocene\, and of the need to give our freedom different material foundations; it means mobilizing new environmental humanities and new political radicalisms (movements for common goods\, transition\, degrowth\, eco-socialism and many more) in order to escape the blind alleys of industrial modernity.” This study group will take up three recent works on the scientific\, political\, and cultural implications of global warming and the crisis of the Earth system: Birth of the Anthropocene\, by Jeremy Davies; Shock of the Anthropocene; and Richard Smith’s Green Capitalism: The God That Failed. \nFred Murphy has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism\, science\, nature\, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.\nSteve Knight has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/science-politics-and-culture-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Anthropocene or Capitalocene?: Nature\, History\, & the Crisis of Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Jason W. Moore\n and Christian Parenti\nJason W. Moore and Christian Parenti introduce a new essay collection\, Anthropocene or Capitalocene?  Nature\, History\, and the Crisis of Capitalism. The book challenges the theory and history offered by proponents of the “Anthropocene” and stresses how climate change and related crises are rooted in the rise and domination of capital.The book challenges the theory and history offered by proponents of the “Anthropocene” and stresses how climate change and related crises are rooted in the rise and domination of capital – hence the “Capitalocene.” This work offers a  more nuanced and dialectical view of human environment-making\, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. \nJason W. Moore is a historical geographer and world historian at Binghamton University\, where he is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow at the Fernand Braudel Center. He is author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso\, 2015)  and editor of Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature\, History\, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press\, 2016). He writes frequently on the history of capitalism\, environmental history\, and social theory. Moore is presently completing Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism\, an environmental history of the rise of capitalism\, and with Raj Patel\, Seven Cheap Things: A World-Ecological Manifesto – both with the University of California Press. He is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. \nChristian Parenti is a professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. His latest book\, Tropic of Chaos\, explores how climate change is already causing violence as it interacts with the legacies of economic neoliberalism and cold-war militarism. Previous works analyzed the US occupation of Iraq and surveillance\, police\, and prisons in the United States. His contribution to Anthropocene or Capitalocene? focuses on the role of national states as environment-making institutions.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/anthropocene-vs-capitalocene-nature-history-the-crisis-of-capitalism/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Ecology\, Justice and Revolution in Pope Francis’s ‘Laudato Si’”
DESCRIPTION:A Study Group Convened by Steve Knight\n3 more Tuesdays\, July 19 thru August 2\, 2016\, 7:00 to 9:00 PM\nPope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home has become a rallying cry for environmental and social justice activists since its publication in June 2015. Francis calls upon all segments of civil society to join in creating a healing “integral ecology” that hears both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. In the process\, he constructs a scathing critique of neoliberal capitalism that challenges dominant paradigms of technology\, bioethics\, preservation of the commons\, and many other issues. We will undertake a close reading of Laudato Si supplemented by selected readings in liberation theology\, the movement from the Global South combining Christian principles and Marxist praxis that is a major influence on Laudato Si. \nSteve Knight is a former college English instructor who has been both a co-convenor and student in Marxist Education Project study groups on ecosocialism and Hegel.  He has also been active in faith-centered eco-justice advocacy as a GreenFaith Fellow\, and as a member of The Beloved Earth Community at Manhattan’s Riverside Church.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ecology-justice-and-revolution-in-pope-franciss-laudato-si/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Day 4\, Session 4—Approaching Science from the Left
DESCRIPTION:Approaching Science from the Left: Uses and Abuses of Knowledge in the Planetary Crisis\nRebecca Boger\, Stuart Newman\, Dave Schwartzman\, moderated by Fred Murphy \nAs awareness has grown – among both working people and the global capitalist class – about the scope and complexity of the multiple crises facing the planet and its biosphere\, a wide gamut of solutions and palliatives have been put forward across the physical and biological sciences. These range from dystopian geoengineering projects to genetic modification schemes to renewable and sustainable forms of energy use and agriculture. With this closing panel we aim to open a conversation among scholars and activists about how scientific knowledge and practice can help point the way forward\, as well as about how science is abused in efforts to preserve and extend capitalist power over labor and resources. \nRebecca Boger has a background in geospatial technologies\, marine science\, and science education. Before coming to Brooklyn College\, she worked for an international science and education program\, GLOBE\, where she worked with teams of scientists and educators to develop classroom materials\, conduct workshops\, and facilitate international collaborations. She continues to work with GLOBE to develop online training materials and a citizen science network. At Brooklyn College\, CUNY\, she teaches geospatial technologies and works with anthropologists and archaeologists in Barbuda on socio-ecological resilience research\, community based mapping\, and environmental modeling. In the NYC area\, she works with NYC Parks and Gateway National Recreation on historical mapping and trends analysis of marshes and shoreline. She continues her education work with a greater emphasis on sustainability\, resilience\, and climate change topics where she is helping to build an urban sustainability program and online materials. \nStuart Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College\, Valhalla\, New York. He has contributed to several scientific fields\, including biophysical chemistry\, developmental biology\, and evolutionary theory. He has been a critic of genetic determinism in biology and an opponent of eugenic applications of biotechnology since his student days in the 1960s. Newman was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and is a columnist for Capitalism Nature Socialism.\n\nDavid Schwartzman is Professor Emeritus\, Howard University (biogeochemist\, environmental scientist\, PhD\, Brown University). An active member of the DC Statehood Green Party/Green Party of the United States. Website with his older son Peter Schwartzman is www.solarUtopia.org. Publications include: Life\, Temperature and the Earth (2002)\, several recent papers in Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS). Member of the following Advisory Boards: Science & Society\, Capitalism Nature Socialism\, Institute for Policy Research & Development.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-4-session-4-approaching-science-from-the-left/
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