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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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SUMMARY:Day 4\, Session 3—Sexuality\, Gender and Globalization
DESCRIPTION:Sexuality\, Gender and Globalization\nKate Doyle Griffiths and Lisa Maya Knauer \nWhat do sexuality and gender have to do with the global economy? What role do sex and desire — some of the most intimate aspects of our lives — play in the emergence and evolution of capitalism\, and how are they in turn shaped by capital? Why have women\, particularly in the global South\, often been at the forefront of resistance to neoliberal capitalism? How can Marxism(s) help us understand these issues\, and formulate strategies for change? This workshop will explore these questions from multiple perspectives — spanning generations and different local\, regional and national contexts. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a founding member of the MEP and its predecessor\, the Brecht Forum. She has taught a variety of classes on feminism and Marxism\, and gender and capitalism. She is currently working with indigenous resistance movements in Guatemala\, and with immigrant women workers in the U.S. In her day job\, she is the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. (you don’t need to include the academic affiliation if you don’t want) \nKate Doyle Griffiths is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center\, and teaches at Hunter College. She has conducted research in South Africa\, on reproductive labor\, health\, gender and politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-4-session-3-sexuality-gender-and-globalization/
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SUMMARY:Day 4\, Session 2—Labor in the Global Digital Economy: Ursula Huws
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Ursula Huws \nThis presentation will tie together disparate economic\, cultural\, and political phenomena of our last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. Ursula will examine the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts\, in the privatization of public services\, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements\, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. \nUrsula Huws is Professor of Labour and Globalisation at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK\, and founder of Analytica Social and Economic Research. She is the author of Labor in the Global Digital Economy and The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World. \nCopies of Labor in the Global Digital Economy will be available for purchase during the Intensive. \nThe supplied image is from a protest staged within China by Chinese workers against conditions imposed in factories manufacturing iPads.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-4-session-2-labor-in-the-global-digital-economy-ursula-huws/
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SUMMARY:Day 4\, Session 1—It's Not Over: Lessons for Socialists with Pete Dolack
DESCRIPTION:It’s Not Over: Lessons for Socialists from the October Revolution\, Prague Spring and the Sandinistas\nPete Dolack \nThe transition from feudalism to capitalism spanned centuries\, and although humanity does not have the luxury of waiting for a transition to socialism taking that length of time\, the struggle to overcome capitalism has already spanned a century with no victory in sight. Countries as diverse as the Soviet Union\, Czechoslovakia and Nicaragua fell back into capitalism\, but that does not mean we have nothing to learn from a study of those revolutions.  \nThis is history that was shaped by flesh-and-blood human beings — leaders of movements and uncounted men and women in the streets and in the workplaces motivated by a desire to create a better world. That the results of uprisings as diverse as the October Revolution\, the Prague Spring and the Sandinista Revolution did not meet the revolutionaries’ expectations is a tragedy that requires explanation\, but does not require us to deem those revolutionaries as failures. \nThe edifice of the Soviet Union was something akin to a statue undermined by water freezing inside it; it appears strong on the outside until the tipping point when the ice suddenly breaks it apart from within. The “ice” here were black marketeers; networks of people who used connections to obtain supplies for official and illegal operations; and the managers of enterprises who grabbed their operations for themselves. Soviet bureaucrats eventually began to privatize the economy for their own benefit (fulfilling a prediction made by Leon Trotsky half a century earlier); party officials\, for all their desire to find a way out of crisis\, lacked firm ideas and direction; and Soviet working people\, discouraged by experiencing the reforms as coming at their expense and exhausted by perpetual struggle\, were unable to intervene.  \nThe Prague Spring and the Sandinista Revolution provide disparate examples. History has concentrated on the tragedy of Czechoslovakia’s political leaders\, but much of the innovation of Prague Spring came at the grassroots level\, where self-organized workers began to devise the beginnings of a system of social control over industry free of bureaucratic shackles. Grassroots creativity propelled forward a Spring begun by leaders of a monopoly party who believed that the full democratic and human potential of socialism had to be allowed to blossom\, requiring dramatic changes. The Sandinista Revolution’s goal was a mixed economy\, not the creation of a socialist system\, but although that mixed economy created a new set of problems it also improved the lives of Nicaraguans. Nonetheless\, the Sandinistas left economic power in the hands of the country’s capitalists\, leaving them with the ability to undermine the revolution. \nThinking about the basic contours of a better world is a prerequisite to becoming effective in bringing it into being. The march forward of human history is not a gift from gods above nor presents handed us from benevolent rulers\, governments\, institutions or markets — it is the product of collective human struggle on the ground. Toward this end\, an understanding of today and finding a path to the future is impossible without an understanding of the past: Erasing the past is erasing the future.  \nPete Dolack is the author of It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment\, which includes studies of each of these revolutions and a final chapter that looks to the future. Different nations will find different paths forward and it is impossible to apply any formula across multiple societies at differing levels of development and possessing divergent cultural traditions\, so no blueprint for the future is possible. Nonetheless\, with capitalism in deep crisis with no answer for working people\, the time is now for us to think about the contours of a better world.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-4-session-1-its-not-over-lessons-for-socialists-with-pete-dolack/
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SUMMARY:Day 3\, Session 5—Devils & Dust: Resisting War in New York\, the Pacific\, & the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Panel presentation with discussion\nClaude Copeland\, Laurel Mei-Singh\, Yuko Tonohira\n\nClaude\, Laurel and Yuko will survey the tremendous resistance to US and other capitalist occupations taking place in the Pacific\, the Middle East and speak about the network of resistance that is developing in NYC. \nClaude Copeland is active in community organizing in the Bronx and is a long-time member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. \nLaurel Mei-Singh serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in American Studies at Princeton University. Her current research develops a genealogy of military fences and their relationship to Hawaiian struggles for national liberation and self-determination in Wai‘anae on the island of O‘ahu in Hawai‘i. She has worked with the Wai‘anae Environmental Justice Working Group\, Hawai‘i Peace and Justice\, and CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. \nYuko Tonohira is a member of Sloths Against Nuclear State (SANS). She is a graphic designer and illustrator working in a wide range of fields in healthcare\, book publications\, music\, and across environmental and social justice movements internationally.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-3-session-5-devils-dust-resisting-war-in-new-york-the-pacific-the-middle-east-2/
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SUMMARY:Day 3\, Session 4—Logistics\, Capitalist Circulation\, Chokepoints with Charmaine Chua
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1970s\, capital’s encounters with the crisis of profitability has led it to seek out new strategies of accumulation\, notably\, in shifting its focus from sites of production to the conduits of circulation. No longer able to generate substantial profit from the mechanized and labor-saving technologies of factory manufacturing\, firms began to experiment with increasing the speed and efficiency through which commodities could circulate across the globe. Thus the rise of business logistics: the management of complex networks that coordinate the stocking\, distribution\, and transportation of services and commodities in international space. In the process\, logistics has led to a profound reorganization of the global working class\, fragmenting sites of production far from their sites of consumption\, and stretching the industrial working class far across the globe. Yet\, in anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggle across the deindustrialized North\, activists and organizers have repeatedly found ways to interrupt these intensifying circuits of distribution\, responding to the rapid spatial expansion of logistics with their own strategic seizures of the chokepoints of capital flow. Chokepoints – the concentration of the circulation of commodities at certain key sites along the supply chain – might thus present the possibility for resistance to be waged not only symbolically but also materially\, by literally grounding capitalist circulation to a halt. Can we understand the highway takeover\, the port blockade\, and the storefront die-in as connected instances of disruption\, revealing an arena of struggle that capital’s turn to accumulation through logistical circulation has made available? What do they teach us about the possibilities of disrupting capital’s circuits as a whole? In short\, why occupy chokepoints\, and why now? \nCharmaine Chua is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Minnesota and visiting instructor at Macalester College. She works on the rise of logistics capitalism in the context of labor along the U.S.-China supply chain\, and is part of the Empire Logistics collective.  \nTo read: https://thedisorderofthings.com/2014/09/09/logistics-capitalist-circulation-chokepoints/
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-3-session-4-logistics-capitalist-circulation-chokepoints-with-charmaine-chua/
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SUMMARY:Day 3\, Session 3: Prometheus in Ruins? Uses and Abuses of the Hero Who Stole Fire
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Anthony Galluzzo\nMechanical Prometheanism was for long the signature myth of Western modernization. Both capitalists and socialists embraced the Greek myth of Prometheus’s theft of fire from the gods as shorthand for Progress — technological determinism and human domination of the natural world — while neglecting the ethico-political dimensions of the myth. Prometheanism achieved its apotheosis during the twentieth century\, when futurism and productivism shaped capitalism and state socialism alike. Today the taste for such techno-scientific drive to mastery has waned\, at least among many Marxists and ecosocialists coming to grips with the environmental costs of industrial modernization. But as planetary civilization and the planet itself confront ecological collapse\, techno-utopianism is making a come-back\, from the cyber-libertarian solutionists of Silicon Valley to the ostensibly left accelerationists who seek to revive Prometheus — without ever asking which Prometheus they want to revive. This talk will trace the history of Promethean ideology\, beginning with the Godwin/Malthus debates of the 1790s\, through its current revival within certain precincts of the left\, particularly as it intersects with the ecological crisis and Anthropocene theory today. We will contrast this to alternative Prometheanisms\, from the Shelleys through Marx to present-day ecosocialist currents. \nAnthony Galluzzo is a lecturer at NYU. He studies radical transatlantic literary culture of the 1790s and its afterlives in socialism\, utopian fiction\, and the gothic novel. He has contributed several articles to Jacobin and other journals. His home base is in Brooklyn\, where he grew up.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-3-session-3-prometheus-in-ruins-uses-and-abuses-of-the-hero-who-stole-fire/
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SUMMARY:Day 3\, Session 2—Beyond Bernie: The Crisis of Labor & The Left in the United States
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Mark Dudzic \nThe rise of neoliberalism has weakened and demoralized labor and left movements throughout the advanced capitalist world but its impact has been particularly devastating in the U.S. We will discuss the reasons for that as well as the various dysfunctional responses from the U.S. left to this crisis as it became increasingly marginalized and powerless. We will review the 1990’s effort to launch a Labor Party in the U.S. based primarily in the institutional labor movement and the reasons for its demise. We will explore the prospects and possibilities for independent working class politics in the wake of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.  \nMark Dudzic is the National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and is a former local union and district council president of the Oil\, Chemical and Atomic Workers (now part of the United Steelworkers). He served as National Organizer of the Labor Party after the death of party founder Tony Mazzocchi.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-3-session-2-beyond-bernie-the-crisis-of-labor-the-left-in-the-united-states/
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SUMMARY:Day 3\, Session 1: Slackers\, Sabotage\, and Syndicalism
DESCRIPTION:American Labor History and the Refusal of Work\nKristin Lawler\n\nIn this session\, we will consider the labor movement tactic most associated with the Industrial Workers of the World — sabotage\, or the collective withdrawal of efficiency — engaging the history of the American slacker to think through possibilities for working-class freedom and power vis-a-vis capital today. The term slacker originated during WWI and disparaged those (primarily Irish) coded “lazy\,” “vagrant\,” and resistant to a proper Protestant work ethic; it also referred to those who would not fight on the side of the Americans (and of course\, the British) during WWI. We can deploy this history to analyze the relationship between labor supply and worker power\, and between anti-imperialist national liberation struggles (like Ireland’s) and struggles at the point of production\, drawing out these connections for a new generation of scholars taking a look at the militant radicalism of the IWW in the context of a resurgence in the US and Europe\, since at least 1999\, of an anarcho-syndicalist\, direct action-oriented politics. \nKristin Lawler is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx. Her first book\, The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism\, was published by Routledge in 2011 and examined the politics of American surf culture during the twentieth century. She is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination; her work has been published there as well as in several edited collections\, Z Magazine\, and the digital forum of the Social Science Research Council. She is currently at work on her new book\, Shanty Irish: the Roots of American Syndicalism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-3-session-1-slackers-sabotage-and-syndicalism/
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SUMMARY:Day 2\, Session 4—Southern Insurgency: Mass Movements Throughout the Global South
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Manny Ness and Lisa Maya Knauer\nManny Ness provides an expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China\, India\, and South Africa. He considers the broader historical forces in play\, such as the effects of imperialism\, the decline of the international union movement\, class struggle\, and the growing reserve of available labor. Lisa Maya Knauer will look at other responses to neoliberal capitalism focusing on the Americas: resistance to anti-extractivist projects\, refugee/migrant flows to the U.S.\, and organizing efforts by Central American workers in the U.S. \nLisa Maya Knauer is a founding member of the MEP and its predecessor\, the Brecht Forum. She has taught a variety of classes on feminism and Marxism\, and gender and capitalism. She is currently working with indigenous resistance movements in Guatemala\, and with immigrant women workers in the U.S. In her day job\, she is the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. (you don’t need to include the academic affiliation if you don’t want) \nImmanuel Ness is a political economist and professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He edits Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society and is the author of numerous works including Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism. He has worked and organized in the food\, maintenance\, and publishing industries.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-2-session-4-southern-insurgency-mass-movements-throughout-the-global-south/
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SUMMARY:Day 2\, Session 3: Public Banking
DESCRIPTION:A Marxist Response to the Financial Crisis and the “Financialization” of Capitalism?\nPresentation and discussion with Dan Karan\n\nFinancial crises and “financialization” are nothing new for capitalism.  Yet\, the vast majority of self-proclaimed “Marxists” have only two responses: Revolution or reregulation i.e.\, a new 21st “Glass Steagall” that once again separates commercial and investment banks. Reregulating the banks\, however\, is the very (Einsteinian) definition of insanity i.e.\, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. The private banksters will always be at least two steps ahead of the regulators. Moreover\, it doesn’t get to the fundamental question of who should control public monies and decide how they should be invested. There is a third alternative however: Public Banking. There is also an existing model: The Bank of North Dakota. Founded in 1919 after populist North Dakota farmers organized the Nonpartisan League and won both houses of the state legislature in the elections of 1918\, The Bank of North Dakota is the only public state bank in the country. It collects state tax revenues and then invests them in public projects. There should be 50 state banks along with a public federal bank so that all public monies (taxes and public pension funds) are deposited in them and invested for public purposes. In New York\, for example\, the public pension funds of New York City municipal workers has over $160 billion in assets.  Imagine what “we” could do with $160 billion invested in everything from affordable housing to rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure\, to making all of our buildings energy efficient to reduce our use of fossil fuels and creating a 21st century clean-energy economy to supporting worker-owned cooperative businesses to give workers ownership over the means of production etc. \nThis session will explore the concept of public banking as an organizing and programmatic strategy for fighting the power of the private banksters and for raising the fundamental question of who should control public monies and decide how they are invested.  \nDan Karan has worked for NYC housing and community development organizations for 25 years and studied Marxism for nearly 40.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-2-session-3-public-banking/
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SUMMARY:Day 2\, Session 2: Looking at Class Consciousness\, Class Struggle and Self-Organizing Using Image Theater
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)\nFacilitated by Janet Gerson and Marie-Claire Picher \n“The philosophers have only interpreted the world\, in various ways. The point is to change it.” —Karl Marx \nIn capitalist society\, class is the hub from which other forms of oppression emanate; class is the foundation that gives rise to racism\, sexism\, xenophobia\, homophobia and other modes of injustice\, cruelty and systemic brutality. These various -isms function as bulwarks of hierarchical class society—they are necessities for perpetuating class division and the domination and control of society\, social structures and people by capitalism and its ruling elites. Such bigotry divides people; instead of acting in a unified manner to defend their collective self-interests\, sizable sectors of the populace fall prey to capital’s cynical use of prejudice\, bias and hatred as mechanisms to separate people from each other and compromise societal cohesion and solidarity—and always based on superficial qualities and characteristics such as skin color\, place of familial origin\, sexual orientation or gender identity\, etc. This dynamic maintains and enables class division\, and allows the elites to continue to assert and legitimize their proprietary claims to social wealth and their control over society. Oppression\, in the many forms it takes\, causes people vs. people strife to keep going\, unfettered\, and gives the rulers of society potent tools to extract and claim for themselves unfathomable profits through the exploitation of people\, the natural world and the social commons. Never before\, in the history of the United States\, have class divisions and polarity been as pronounced or extreme as they are today\, in these first decades of the twenty-first century. This country is on a precipice. The ruling class is moving rightward at an accelerated pace\, yet society is moving to the left. Class awareness is becoming increasingly heightened and socialism\, once a dreaded bugaboo\, is now a credible part of national political discourse\, with more and more people seriously embracing socialism as a critically needed antidote to the systemic and ongoing crisis that has negatively impacted so much of the population. \nThis three-hour Theater of the Oppressed (TO) workshop is a shortened version of a full-day workshop on the same topic\, which will be presented on Saturday\, July 30 (for more details or registration information write to toplabnyc@gmail.com). This workshop will use Image Theater—a basic TO technique—to look at class\, how it affects us collectively\, and how awareness and consciousness of one’s place and role in class society can be used as a tool for mobilizing and organizing people and communities to fight for social justice\, economic equality and a world where wealth is shared by all\, for the benefit of all\, and not owned by a small clique of capitalists who have appropriated it for their own use. \nDrawing on the theories of popular education developed by his friend and colleague\, Paulo Freire\, Augusto Boal (1931-2009)\, who created and founded the methodology called Theater of the Oppressed\, appropriated theater games and exercises for use as organizing tools by communities in struggle. These tools are designed to develop individual skills of observation and self-reflection\, and cooperative group interactions. Image Theater is the ideal starting point for training in Theater of the Oppressed techniques. In Image Theater\, leadership- and consensus-building games and techniques are used to explore relations of power and group solutions to concrete problems of oppression through “living body imagery”. Discussions begin to take place through the language of images\, offering a fresh approach to power analysis and new opportunities for the exchange of ideas. \nSuggested reading for this workshop: The Retreat from Class: A New “True” Socialism\, by Ellen Meiksins Wood. London and New York: Verso\, 1986\, revised 1998\, 202 pp. ISBN: 978-1-85984-270-6. \nThis three-hour workshop is open to people participating in the MEP’s Summer Marxist Intensive and there will be no extra tuition fee. People not enrolled in the Intensive are also invited to attend this workshop. The tuition is on a sliding scale\, from $15 to $25. No prior theater experience is necessary to participate.  \n“I believe that all the truly revolutionary theatrical groups should transfer to the people the means of production in the theater so that the people themselves may utilize them. The theater is a weapon\, and it is the people who should wield it. —Augusto Boal \nJanet Gerson\, has been a TOPLAB facilitator since 1997\, and studied with Augusto Boal and TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire Picher. She is the Education Director of the International Institute on Peace Education. She won the Peace and Justice Studies Association 2014 Award for Public Deliberation on Global Justice for her work on the World Tribunal on Iraq. She was the Co-Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College in New York from 2001 to 2010\, and was the Founder-Director of Dance Stream\, a community-based organization that produced professional and children’s dance\, outdoor arts festivals\, and community television throughout New York City from 1981 to 2000.  \nMarie-Claire Picher\, Ph.D\, is a co-founder (1990) of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)\, the oldest group in the United States offering facilitation training in the techniques and methodology of the Theater of the Oppressed (TO). She has worked and collaborated closely with TO founder and creator Augusto Boal until his death in 2009. One of the most experienced Theater of the Oppressed practitioners in North America\, she has presented thousands of hours of training workshops in New York and throughout the United States. She has worked in Cuba; in Quiche\, Guatemala on several projects involving community rebuilding and healing following the 36-year-long civil war that resulted in the near-genocide of the Mayan people and the murders of more than 200\,000 indigenous Guatemalans; in Mexico City with street children\, and also with peace and social justice groups; in Tabasco\, Mexico with a youth community; and in the Mexican state of Chiapas with the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas in the cities of Comitan and San Cristobal\, and in autonomous Zapatista communities elsewhere in the state. \n“We must emphasize: What Brecht does not want is that the spectators continue to leave their brains with their hats upon entering the theater\, as do bourgeois spectators.” —Augusto Boal \nThe Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)\, is an all-women facilitation-training collective. It was founded in 1990 and is the oldest group in the United States offering training in the techniques and methodology of the Theater of the Oppressed (TO). We have enjoyed a warm relationship with Augusto Boal\, the founder of TO\, and our facilitators have collaborated closely with him from our start until his death in 2009. TOPLAB offers monthly training workshops\, open to the general public\, and also creates and facilitates workshops for specific communities\, organizations and constituencies designed to meet the needs of the people involved. Since our beginning\, TOPLAB has been committed to making TO accessible to as many people as possible by keeping our fees and tuition rates low. We do not seek funding from foundations or government agencies\, and we certainly do not seek money from corporations and for-profit enterprises—and we never will. Most of all\, we are committed to being active players seeking to change the world by abolishing the unjust\, exploitative capitalist economic system and transforming the world into a place where wealth is owned\, shared and controlled by society as a whole\, for the benefit of all.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-2-session-2-looking-at-class-consciousness-class-struggle-and-self-organizing-using-image-theater/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Day 2\, Session 1: Imperialism Today: Super-Exploitation and Marxist Theory
DESCRIPTION:Presentation and discussion with Walter Daum\n\nImperialism was first analyzed by Marxist theorists a century ago. Today it still dominates the world but has greatly changed: production\, not just trade\, is globalized; profits rely on the super-exploitation of hundreds of millions of proletarians in the Global South. This session will discuss the transformation of the imperialist-ruled world and what it means for Marxist theory. \nInitial reading: John Smith\, “Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century\,” Monthly Review July-August 2015; online at http://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-in-the-twenty-first-century/ \nWalter Daum taught mathematics at City College in New York for 37 years. He has been a revolutionary activist and Marxist theorist\, affiliated with the League for the Revolutionary Party. He wrote a book\, The Life and Death of Stalinism and is working on another\, on the subject of imperialism. He is proud to have been denounced by the New York Post and  the CUNY Board of Trustees in 2001 for explaining at a teach-in that the 9/11 terrorist attack was “ultimately the responsibility of U.S. imperialism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-2-session-1-imperialism-today-super-exploitation-and-marxist-theory/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Day 1\, Session 5—Solidarity Without Borders
DESCRIPTION:A panel with Kazembe Balagun\, Mark Bergfeld\, Harmony Goldberg and Marcus Grätsch — moderated by Marika Dias \nWar\, ecological crisis\, automation\, blurring of the rural and urban\, the global North and the global South\, along with development of precarity for all of global generalized proletariat lays material basis for internationalist solidarity. \nKazembe Balagun has been featured in Time Out New York\, The Guardian\, German Public Radio and The New York Times and contributed “We Be Reading Marx Where We From” to Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA. As a cultural activist he has sought to create intersections between Marxism\, queer theory\, feminism and Black liberation movements. He works as project manager at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\, New York Office. \nMark Bergfeld is a writer and organizer. He has written for media outlets such as Al-Jazeera English\, The Nation\, New Statesman among others. He has been active in social movements in Europe and served on the Executive Council of the National Union of students in the UK. He currently is writing his PhD on the relationship between trade unions and immigrant workers at Queen Mary University of London. \nA founding member of SOUL: School of Unity & Liberation in Oakland\, Harmony Goldberg has run left political education programs for grassroots organizations in the Bay Area and New York City for more than a decade.  Recently completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center\, and she continues to support grassroots organizations and the broader left as a popular educator\, writer and facilitator. \nMarcus Grätsch is a political scientist and activist. He currently works as Program Coordinator for Left Forum in New York. He is member of the large post-autonomous group “Interventionist Left” in Germany (introduction to this group: https://vimeo.com/167657035) ” in Berlin\, he took part in the euromayday movement which fought against precarity and for the freedom of movement between 2004 and 2008 for more see here  http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Precarity_Movement . In 2009 he co-founded the “Meuterei” bar and social space operated as worker cooperative/collective in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In 2012 he took part in initiating the transnational “Blockupy” coalition which is a major actor of the European resistance against austerity. For more of this coalition see here: https://blockupy.org/en/
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-1-session-5-solidarity-without-borders/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Day 1\, Session 4: What Would Karl Marx be Listening to on Bastille Day in 2016
DESCRIPTION:with Ras Moshe and John Pietaro \nRas Moshe hails from a musical and political family in Brooklyn. Ras has been playing music for 30 years and keeps the family tradition going as a life-long radical political activist. He was part of the Neues Kabarett series and founder of the Music Now series\, which presented new revolutionary jazz at The New York Marxist School for 14 years\, continuing today at The Brooklyn Commons. Ras believes strongly in the power of creativity involved with jazz as one of the main components of socio/poltical engagement.\nJohn Pietaro is a revolutionary writer\, percussionist and cultural organizer. A native of Brooklyn\, his work has been published in Z\, The Nation\, CounterPunch\, People’s World and many other progressive journals; he is a Staff Writer of the NYC Jazz Record newspaper. As a musician Pietaro has performed with Karl Berger\, Amina Baraka\, Pete Seeger\, Ras Moshe\, among others and frequently performs on the current Free Jazz scene. He is the producer of the annual Dissident Arts Festival. For more info see DissidentArts.com and theCulturalWorker.blogspot.com
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-one-session-4-what-would-karl-marx-be-listening-to-on-bastille-day-in-2016/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Day 1\, Session 3: May 1968 in France: Learning from the Participants
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by and discussion with Mitch Abidor\n\nIn preparation for an oral history of the events of May 1968 in France\, Mitch Abidor interviewed over thirty participants in the events from all political tendencies and from all over the country. He’ll discuss what he learned of the experiences of those who were there and what can be learned from them. \nMitchell Abidor’s translation work and studies include anthologies of Victor Serge\, the Paris Commune\, the left of the French Revolution\, as well as the novella A Raskolnikoff by Emmanuel Bove. He lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/day-1-session-3-may-1968-in-france-learning-from-the-participants/
LOCATION:United States
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