Beginnings of a New Left

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  • Emergence of a New Left: Civil Rights from Reform to Revolution

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out! —Malcolm X, 1964

    $10 – $15

  • Existentialism and the Anti-Psychiatry Movement

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    We are normal, and we want our freedom!
    We will read a selection of this new approach to psychic individuation alongside the Laing/Cooper nexus that sprung the anti-psychiatry movement and resulted in open psychiatric institutions, mental health liberation activity, and an on-going critique of “bourgeois” psychiatry and contemporary behaviorism, cognitive and psycho-pharmacological approaches to the question of what is mental health.

    $10 – $15

  • Existentialism, Anti-Psychiatry: 1960s and beyond

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    e will read a selection of this new approach to psychic individuation alongside the Laing/Cooper nexus that sprung the anti-psychiatry movement and resulted in open psychiatric institutions, mental health liberation activity, and an on-going critique of “bourgeois” psychiatry and contemporary behaviorism.

    $10 – $15

  • Paris, May 1968

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    This talk will investigate the events May 1968 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

    $6 – $15

  • Women’s Liberation Movement: 1968-1975

    Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    As the Black Freedom movement turned to Black Power, feminists took theory from Black Power and applied it to their newborn movement. We'll read original sources from both the Black-led and majority-white branches of women's liberation.

    $10 – $30