Brooklyn Commons
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynCallahan’s meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated.
Sartre’s Search For A Method
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn“Sartre insists that history is the history of human initiatives. What emerges as the crucial problem is how to map the jungle of obscure connections between historical movements and individual actions.” —Ronald Hayman
Small is Necessary: Shared Housing on a Shared Planet
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynThe solutions that will be analyzed are not just smaller dwellings in compact settlements but also shared spaces and facilities. The presentation will look at a range of practical options from co-living in a household to cohousing and ecovillages, weighing up the pros and cons of the tiny house movement and assessing the potential and limits of radical squats along the way.
The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynThe Three Worlds of Social Democracy offers cutting-edge case studies to present a truly global exploration of the methods, meanings, and limits of social democracy. It also explores the potential for left alternatives to social democracy and the dangers of surging right-wing populism.
Emergence of a New Left: The Black Panther Party (extended to April 11)
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynFrom the time that college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves and announced that they were going to patrol the police and fight police brutality, a cultural match was lit that sparked a revolution.
The Emancipation of Labor
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynNorthern workers “took up arms because they understood the importance of the conflict in shaping the future value of ‘free labor,’” and a “rolling strike of the slaves” in the South became “the great incontrovertible and irreversible fact of the war”.
The Life and Thought of Louis-Auguste Blanqui
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn...during his lifetime, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. He inspired revolutionary actions from the late 1820s until his death in 1881 and beyond.
Popular Struggles in South Africa
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynWhat began as a discussion about wage increases between two workers in the changing rooms at one mine became a rallying cry for economic freedom and basic dignity.
Emergence of a New Left: Civil Rights from Reform to Revolution
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynIf 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