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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:Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties
DESCRIPTION:Presentation and discussion with author Thomas Grace \nIn Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties\, Thomas M. Grace details how the National Guard killings of antiwar students at Kent State University on May 4\, 1970\, were not a mere tragic anomaly. Rather they were grounded in a tradition of student political activism that extended back to Ohio’s labor battles of the 1950s. The vast expansion of the\nuniversity after World War II brought in growing numbers of working-class enrollees from the industrial centers of northeast Ohio\, members of the same demographic cohort that eventually made up the core of American combat forces in Vietnam. As the Vietnam War’s rising costs came to be felt acutely in their home communities\, Kent’s students joined the growing antiwar movement and clashed with the university administration and the political conservatives who dominated county and state government in Ohio. The battle over the memory and meaning of May 4 has continued to the present day. \nTHOMAS M. GRACE is adjunct professor of history at Erie Community College. A 1972 graduate of Kent State University\, he earned a PhD in history from SUNY Buffalo after many years as a social worker and union representative.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/kent-state-death-and-dissent-in-the-long-sixties/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:We Make Our Own History: On Marxism and Social Movements
DESCRIPTION:We Make Our Own History: On Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism\nTalk and Discussion with Alf Gunvald Nilsen \nWe live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before\, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s\, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this — “ya basta!” — appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North.  \nWe Make Our Own History — a book co-written by Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen — investigates this scenario through an exploration of how social movements are forging new visions of a future beyond neoliberalism and by reclaiming Marxism as a theory born from activist experience and practice. In this talk\, Alf Gunvald Nilsen will discuss some of the main arguments and ideas put forward in the book with reference to changing movement landscapes in different parts of the world-system.  \nAlf Gunvald Nilsen is associate professor of sociology at the University of Bergen (Norway) and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Society\, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (Routledge\, 2010) and the co-editor of numerous books on social movement theory and research\, including Marxism and Social Movements (Brill/Haymarket\, 2013) and New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press\, 2015).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/we-make-our-own-history-on-marxism-and-social-movements/
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