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SUMMARY:Hispaniola in Revolt
DESCRIPTION:Critical Perspectives on Haiti and Santo Domingo\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Virgilio Oscar Aràn\, France Francois\, Lionel Legros and Amaury Rodriguez\n  \nCome to participate with presentations and discussion on the revolutionary legacies of Hispaniola\, the island shared by both Haiti and Santo Domingo. \nPanelists: \nMITCH ABIDOR has translated many of the key documents and accounts of the Haitian Revolution. His latest book is Down With the Law\, an anthology of French individualist anarchist writings. He will discuss the contradictions of the Haitian revolution. \nVIRGILIO OSCAR ARÁN is the National Field Home Care Organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Arán has participated in different forums to talk about the inhumane conditions Haitian immigrants suffer under in his native country\, the Dominican Republic. He will discuss race and class in the Dominican Republic. \nFRANCE FRANCOIS is the Founder and CEO of In Cultured Company\, an organization that works on conflict resolution and reconciliation between Haitians and Dominicans. She is a multi-passionate writer\, activist\, and change agent transforming communities of color around the globe by redefining the way their stories are told and how we impact their lives. France will also reconsider the Haitian revolts of 1946 and 1986. \nLIONEL LEGROS is a longtime NYC-based activist and educator originally from Haiti. He fought the Duvalier dictatorship and founded L’Heure Haitienne Radio in New York City in the 1960s. He will discuss the current Haitian revolt. \nModerator: AMAURY RODRIGUEZ is a Dominican-born translator and independent researcher. He is a frequent contributor to the Marxists Internet Archives (MIA) and co-author\, with Raj Chetty\, of Dominican Black Studies\, a special issue of The Black Scholar journal. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hispaniola-in-revolt/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2020-01-16/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2020-01-09/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:Crises and Uprisings in Latin America Today
DESCRIPTION:Four Thursdays with Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\n \nJoin us for a closer look at the political and economic background to dramatic recent events in Latin America\, where a tremendous struggle is taking place between popular movements opposed to neoliberalism and authoritarianism\, and capitalist elites determined to defend their profits and privileges. Recent months have seen enormous uprisings by popular movements in Ecuador and Chile\, a violent right-wing coup in Bolivia\, the rise of a massive feminist movement in Argentina\, and in Haiti prolonged protests against President Jovenel Moïse. These developments come in the wake of crises and setbacks experienced by so-called “pink tide” governments that had sought to redistribute wealth and challenge decades of domination by US imperialism\, the IMF\, and local elites. \nGerardo Rénique teaches history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nAll fees are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/crises-and-uprisings-in-latin-america-today/2019-12-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pontecorvo Double Feature!
DESCRIPTION:Anti-Bourgeois Film Festival\n9th Anniversary Double Feature \nPontecorvo Night @ The People’s Forum \nPresented by The Left Academy & The Marxist Education Project \n5:30 pm\nThe Battle of Algiers\n1965\, 100 minutes\nThe celebrated\, newsreel-like film\, shot in Algiers in black and white details the national war for independence as fought in Algiers against the occupying French forces. Director Gillo Pontecorvo and writer Franco Solinas created several protagonists in their screenplay\, who are based on historical war figures. The story begins and ends from the perspective of Ali la Pointe (Brahim Haggiag)\, a petty criminal who is politically radicalized while in prison. He is recruited by FLN commander El-hadi Jafar. This character is played by Saadi Yacef\, who was a veteran FLN commander. \n7:45 pm\nPresentation and discussion of significance of Pontecorvo’s two great films during his time and ours \n8:30 pm\nQuemada (Burn!)\n1969\, 108 minutes\n \nA film of revolt set in the Caribbean\, could be any of the colonized islands. Marlon Brando plays a British agent who advises Jose Dolores as leader of a slave revolt\, to advance English colonial interests. In 1848\, revolutionary Jose Dolores\, disgusted by the white government’s collaboration with British interests–leads a second uprising\, jeopardizing the Antilles Royal Sugar Company. After six years of the uprising\, in 1854\, the company brings Walker (the Brando character) back to Queimada with the consent of the British Admiralty\, tasking him with suppressing the revolt and pacifying the island. Walker attempts to save Dolores’s life but the rebel leader rejects his assistance\, asserting that freedom is earned\, not received. \nSoundtracks to both films by Ennio Morricone \nFrom an interview with Gillo Pontecorvo by Maria Esposito for the World Socialist Web Site\nJune\, 2004 \n“…About three years ago the BBC defined my work as “the dictatorship of truth”. In my cinema\, when faced with the choice of distancing oneself from reality or using an effect that might be used to win the popularity with the public\, I always renounce these possibilities and stay close to reality. \nME: Is this why you decided to make The Battle of Algiers in documentary style? \nGP: Yes. \nLet me explain how much this love for reality\, the reality that surrounds us\, weighed on me. I only spent four days doing the screen tests for the actors in The Battle of Algiers\, but a month looking for the right kind of photography that would best convey this sense of truth. \nThe difficulty was to find the right sort of look that would imitate grainy photography with strong contrasts\, like those of the newsreels\, and yet\, because it had to be shown in the cinemas where people paid to see it\, it had to retain a certain formal dignity\, a formal beauty. It therefore took us a month to discover the technique required. The method that finally guided us was to take the original negative and make a copy of it and then re-photograph the copy.” \nFrom a 1999 Gerald Peary interview with Pontecorvo \nCineaste: Could you talk about your brilliant casting in Burn!\, using a non-actor as the West Indian guerilla leader\, Jose Dolores\, opposite Marlon Brando. \nPontecorvo: It was a fight! United Artists wanted me to use Sidney Poitier. I didn’t want to\, though I like him as an actor\, because his face wasn’t wild. Then I went looking to off-Broadway for black actors. I didn’t find the right one. \nIn Colombia\, during a location scout\, we were searching for a forest to burn. We drove very far into the wild in a jeep. Suddenly we saw this peasant man on a horse. This is the face I’d been looking for for four months. But instead of coming to me\, he ran away! It was very hot\, people around me were furious when I said\, “Sorry\, we have to find this man.” We asked the local chief to order the playing of a drum. All the people came out\, including this man\, Evaristo Marquez. He’d never seen a movie but he understood money. He said\, “OK.” \nI called Marlon on his island. He said\, “If you believe he’s right\, don’t worry about me.”
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pontecorvo-double-feature/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Literature: Breaking bonds before and after betrayed revolutions
DESCRIPTION:10 Weeks beginning October 12 through December 21 \nA reading and discussion group with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nDuring this term we will begin with Aimé Césaire’s cultural statement from the 30s\, issued from the Caribbean to all those colonized by the capitalist powers\, primarily of Europe. Following our discourse on his groundbreaking discourse we will consider three novels on the colonized Caribbean\, long engaged in revolutionary struggle with just as long gains towards liberation and the centuries long experiences of counter-revolution\, and the consequences of compromise and collaboration with former colonizers and the colossus US that treats the Caribbean like a backyard swimming pool and those of the islands\, whether local agent of capital or exploited worker\, as servants by that pool.  \n“I admit that it is a good thing to place different civilizations in contact with each other that it is an excellent thing to blend different worlds; that whatever its own particular genius may be\, a civilization that withdraws into itself atrophies; that for civilizations\, exchange is oxygen; that the great good fortune of Europe is to have been a crossroads\, and that because it was the locus of all ideas\, the receptacle of all philosophies\, the meeting place of all sentiments\, it was the best center for the redistribution of energy.\nBut then I ask the following question: has colonization really placed civilizations in contact? Or\, if you prefer\, of all the ways of establishing contact\, was it the best?\n“I answer no.\n“And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken\, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up\, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries\, there could not come a single human value.”\n`	—Aimé Césaire\, Discourse on Colonialism \nDiscourse on Colonialism\nAimé Fernand David Césaire\nThis classic work\, first published in France in 1955\, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa\, Latin America\, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later\, when published for the first time in English\, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements. \nAll Souls Rising \nMadison Smartt Bell \n1995\nThe slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery\, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom\, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal\, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.  \nA Small Place\nJamaica Kincaid\nAntigua\, 2000\nIn A Small Place\, Kincaid calls attention to the fact that in many ways\, conditions in Antigua worsened with the achievement of independence; she communicates her frustration with her people and capitalism. In a nation free from colonialism\, Antiguans “do to [themselves] the very things [colonists] used to do to [them]”. Through her critique of colonialism and the development of an exploitative tourist industry in A Small Place\, Kincaid addresses several other major themes which include the influence of homeland on identity\, culture\, and the desire for independence. \nA Brief History of Seven Killings \nMarlon James\nJamaica\, 2014\nWinner of the Man Booker Prize\nThe first part of the novel is set in Kingston\, Jamaica\, in the build-up to the Smile Jamaica Concert\, and describes politically motivated violence between gangs associated with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP)\, especially in the West Kingston neighborhoods of Tivoli Gardens and Mathews Lane (renamed in the novel as Copenhagen City and Eight Lanes)\, including involvement of the CIA in the Jamaican politics of the time. As well as Marley (who is referred to as “the Singer” throughout)\, other real life characters depicted or fictionalized in the book include Kingston gangsters Winston “Burry Boy” Blake and George “Feathermop” Spence\, Claude Massop and Lester Lloyd Coke (Jim Brown) of the JLP and Aston Thomson (Buckie Marshall) of the PNP. \nThe Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group\, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/caribbean-literature-breaking-bonds-before-and-after-betrayed-revolutions/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies
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