[URPE] [NYC] Brecht Forum: Fascism, Oaxaca, Coatlique Theater, Poverty, Class and more...

Wed Oct 11 20:17:30 MDT 2006

P L E A S E     F O R W A R D    W I D E L Y

The Brecht Forum
451 West St.  (Betw Bank & Bethune)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 242- 4201
www.brechtforum.org

1,2,3 A,C,E to 14th st.
14A,11,20 buses to Abingdon Square/12th Street
8 bus to Christopher St.
L to 8th Ave @14th st.
F,V to 14th St. B,D to W. 4th
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We want to encourage folks to come out, in force, next week to support 
Lynne Stewart. She is being sentenced on Monday. Let your dissent be heard!

1.) Friday, October 13, 2006 at 6PM at St. Ambrose's Church in Harlem at 
9 West 130th Street between 5th and Lenox Avenue.  (2/3 train to 125th 
Street)
2.) Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 4 PM at Riverside Church between 120th 
and 122nd Streets on Riverside Drive (#1 train to 125th Street)

3.) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: Monday, October 16, 2006 at 8 AM - Rally at 
Tom Paine Park at 40 Foley Square before LYNNE'S SENTENCING.  (4/5/6 
trains to Brooklyn Bridge; J/M/Z trains to Chambers Street)

Please spread the word!
For more information, go to www.lynnestewart.org
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In this email:
10/11  If It's Not Fascism, What Is It? The Constitutional Crisis-- Who 
Benefits & Why Now?
10/12  Teachers Strike & Democratic Insurgency in Oaxaca, Mexico: 
Eyewitness Report & Video Presentation
10/16   Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food & Cold Storage
10/17  Palestine/ Lebanon:  Part I   CANCELLED: TO BE COMBINED W/ 
PALESTINE & LEBANON EVENT SCHED. FOR 10/24 (see below)
10/17   Film: "Arna's Children."  At Pioneer Theater, 155 E 3rd St (benefit)
10/17   Tariq Ali  cocktail party 139 W. 19th Street, Apt. 3E, between 
6th and 7th Avenues (benefit)
10/17   Tariq Ali & Mahmood Mamdani: Global Confrontations:A Dialogue on 
Imperialism &Oppositional MovementsCUNY Grad Center  365 5th Ave
10/18  Class in the United States: A Discussion of Monthly Review's 
Special Issue
10/19  Graffiti NYC
10/ 20 & 10/21  Caracoles: Heart of the Earth-Flower of Hope
10/21  WORKSHOP BEGINS  Introduction to the Image Theater:  Theme: 
Immigration
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Wednesday, October 11
7:30 pm
Co-sponsor: Law & Disorder

If It's Not Fascism, What Is It? The Constitutional Crisis-- Who 
Benefits & Why Now?

Heidi Boghosian, Mark Crispin Miller, Dalia Hashad, Bertell Ollman, 
Michael Ratner & Lynne Stewart. Moderated by Michael Steven Smith

 There appears to be a major transformation in progress. Bourgeois 
democracy, however limited and constricted it has been, is being 
revamped. The separation of powers, first enunciated by the founders, 
harldly exists any more. The Executive branch has overpowered Congress 
and the Judiciary. Neither the two-party system, the corporate media, 
nor the unions provide much of a countervailing force. With the demise 
of the Soviet Union and the "Socialist Block" imperialism has marched 
unimpeded in wars in Yugoslavia, Afganistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. Control 
over the world's diminishing oil supplies is almost consolidated. The 
standard of living for the American working classes and middle classes 
is being rolled back, only profit margins of the large corporations and 
the wealth of the top one percent are expanding. Democracy is not an 
abstraction, but an aspect of the class struggle, and thus we are 
experiencing a consolidation of power at the top that historically is 
qualitatively transformative. Understanding what is going on is the 
first step in fighting it.

 Panelists include: Heidi Boghosian, an attorney and executive director 
of the National Lawyers Guild; Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled 
Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections & Why They'll Steal the 
Next One Too--Unless We Stop Them., teaches media studies at New York 
University; Dalia Hashad, an attorney, is head of the American program 
for Amnesty International; Bertell Ollman, author, teaches politics at 
New York University and is chairperson of the International Endowment 
for Democracy; Michael Ratner: attorney and president of the Center for 
Constitutional Rights, is author with Ellen Ray of Guantanamo: What the 
World Should Know.; and Lynne Stewart , a former defense attorney and 
victim of the "war" on terrorism. Moderated by MIchael Steven Smith, 
attorney and board member of Brecht Forum/The New York Marxist School, 
is author with Michael Ratner of Lawyers You'll Like: Putting Human 
Rights First.

 Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No OneTurned Away
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Thursday, October 12
7:30 pm

Teachers Strike & Democratic Insurgency in Oaxaca, Mexico: Eyewitness 
Report & Video Presentation

Tammy Gold & Gerardo Renique

 Far from discouraging mobilization, the June 14 violent repression 
against Oaxaca's striking teachers triggered an unprecedented wave of 
protest. Unions, peasants, indigenous groups, students, intellectuals, 
human rights groups and ngos have joined forces in the Asamblea Popular 
del Pueblo de Oaxaca (APPO) demanding the resignation of the corrupt and 
repressive governor Ulises Ruiz. Through massive marches and 
demonstrations, civil disobedience actions, occupation of radio 
stations, road blockades, popular festivals and artistic expressions, 
Oaxacan people have paralyzed government for more than two months. In a 
political field polarized by the post-electoral conflict that followed 
Mexico's still inconclusive July 2 presidential election, the Oaxacan 
democratic insurgency stands as an exemplary case of autonomous popular 
mobilization.

 Tammy Gold, communications professor and documentary filmmaker, teaches 
at Hunter College (CUNY) and has directed among other films: Another 
Brother; Every Mother's Son; and Out At Work: America Undercover.
Gerardo Renique is a professor of history at City College (CUNY) and 
editor of "The Reawakening of Revolution in Latin America" a special 
issue of Socialism and Democracy.

 Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No one turned away
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Monday, October 16
7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY / FORUM 

Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food & Cold Storage

William DiFazio

 At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant 
section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast 
and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare 
reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. 
John's and throughout New York City. In Ordinary Poverty, DiFazio 
presents the results of welfare reform--from ending entitlements to 
diminished welfare benefits--through the eyes and voices of those who 
were most directly affected by it. He concludes by advancing a program 
to guarantee universal rights to a living wage as a crucial way to end 
poverty. Ultimately, DiFazio presents a vision of the form a true poor 
people's movement would take--one that would link the interests of all 
social movements with the interests of ending poverty.
This Book Party/Forum also serves as an introduction to the 4-session 
class on Ordinary Poverty that will begin the following week.

 William DiFazio teaches sociology at St. John's University and is 
co-host with Deena Kolbert of "City Watch" on WBAI Radio. He is author, 
with Stanley Aronowitz of The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of 
Work.

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No one turned away
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Tuesday, October 17
7:30 pm

Palestine and Lebanon: A Primer for Activists

Part I - History: Colonialism, Occupation, Dispossession, & Resistance

CANCELLED: TO BE COMBINED WITH THE ALREADY SCHEDULED "PALESTINE & 
LEBANON" EVENT SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 24

We cancelled due to the 3 related events (see below) that are happening 
on the same night.
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10/17  7 pm - Film: "Arna's Children." Story of a children's theatre 
group in Jenin refugee camp that was established by an
Israeli, Arna Mer Khamis, w/followup after battle of Jenin in April, 
2002. At Pioneer Theater, 155 E 3rd St (btw Aves A & B, F/V
train to 2nd Ave). $9 adults/$6.50 Pioneer members; benefits Freedom 
Theatre in Jenin. Tix: http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=72364
Info: justiceME at gmail.com

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10/17            5 to 7 PM
Come meet Tariq Ali and hear him read from his new book at a cocktail 
party to support Left Forum
139 W. 19th Street, Apt. 3E, between 6th and 7th Avenues
$50 per person, $75 per couple
Please RSVP to rsvp at leftforum.org so we can reserve a place for you and 
your guests.

This cocktail party will be immediately followed by an important event:
10/17        7:30 PM
TARIQ ALI and MAHMOOD MAMDANI in discussion:
Global Confrontations: A Dialogue on Imperialism and Oppositional Movements
Moderated by Nancy Holmstrom
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Avenue at 34th St., New York City
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Wednesday, October 18
7:30 pm

Class in the United States: A Discussion of Monthly Review's Special Issue

Liza Featherstone, Bill Tabb, Michael Zweig & Others TBA

 We welcome contributors and commentators to a discussion of Monthly 
Review's lively exploration of the many dimensions of class in the U.S.

 Liza Featherstone is author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle 
for Workers Rights at Walmart. Bill Tabb teaches economics at Queens 
College and is author of The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the 
Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Michael Zweig, 
director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY 
Stonybrook, is the author of What's Class Got to Do With It? American 
Society in the Twenty-First Century.

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No One Turned Away
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Thursday, October 19
7:30 pm
BOOK LAUNCH 

Graffiti NYC

 "This book is based on a fundamental conviction that graffiti is not an 
anthropological phenomenon to be dissected nor a social malady to be 
cured, but a legitimate aesthetic and cultural movement, born of a 
revolutionary spirit and a will to resistance." ---Antonio Zaya
Graffiti NYC, by Hugo Martinez, NATO & Antonio Zaya, features a 
collection of 145 photographs interspersed with thematically organized 
quotations from graffiti "writers," police, politicians and cultural 
commentators.
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Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 21
 8:00 pm

Caracoles: Heart of the Earth-Flower of Hope

Coatlicue Theater Company

 Caracoles is based on stories and thoughts of Zapatista women in the 
southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, their struggle, resistance and hope 
for a world where many worlds fit.
In March of 2005 the play was presented at the Performing "Heritage": 
Contemporary Indigenous and Community-Based Practices Conference in Belo 
Horizonte, Brazil and subsequently toured the U.S. west coast at 
University of California, Davis, Sacramento and San Francisco.

 The Coatlicue Theater Company was founded in 1987 by Elvira Colorado 
and Hortencia Colorado to give voice to ther experiences and to the 
social, political, cultrual and traditional stuggles that impact the 
lives of their communities and to nurture awareness and create social 
change through the healing power of stories.

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No OneTurned Away
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Saturday, October 21
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS 
Co-sponsor: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory

Introduction to the Image Theater:  Theme: Immigration

Facilitators: Kayhan Irani, Lisa Lindstrom & Potri Ranka Manis

Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sunday, October 22, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Registration: Saturday, October 21, 9:30 - 10:00am
Image Theater is part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed, 
created by Brazilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal as 
organizing tools for communities in struggle. It is designed to develop 
individual skills of observation and self-reflection, and cooperative 
group interaction. Leadership- and consensus-building games and 
techniques, such as Image of the Word, and Images of Oppression, explore 
relations of power and group solutions to concrete problems 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.
This workshop is open to all and there is no formal registration 
process, but please write to toplab at toplab.org or call (212) 924-1858 to 
let us know that you will be attending.

Sliding scale $75-$125

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