[URPE] [NYC]Brecht Events: Change in Harvey schedule, Cross-Class Alliance Wkshp, Poetry and More...

Thu Mar 2 18:51:40 MST 2006

  PLEASE NOTE:  DAVID HARVEY WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO JOIN US FOR THE FRIDAY 
NIGHT TALK. AN EMERGENCY CAME UP AND HE CAN NO LONGER DO THE SATURDAY 
SEMINAR ON NEOLIBERALISM. WE HOPE YOU CAN STILL JOIN US FOR THE FRIDAY 
EVENING  DISCUSSION.

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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In this Email:

1.)  3/3 ONLY   A Brief History of Neoliberalism  (David Harvey)
2.)  3/5 Building Stronger Cross-Class Alliances
3.)  3/ 8 Class, Race & Immigration: Possibilities and Pitfalls for 
Progressive Politics
4.) 3/10   Habib Albi is...Not a Man  (a performed poetry show)
5.) 3/11 (WOMEN & TRANS FOLK ONLY) Sonia Sanchez @ Roses & Bread: 
Poetry/Performance Benefit
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Friday, March 3 
7:30 pm
(SATURDAY SEMINAR POSTPONED. DAVID HARVEY WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO JOIN US FOR
THE FRIDAY EVENING TALK)

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

(David Harvey)
Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, 
capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant 
in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.
his latest book, David Harvey sets out to tell the story of where 
neoliberalism came from and how it proliferated so comprehensively on 
the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary 
authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, 
from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also 
played their part. Through critical engagement with this history, Harvey 
constructs a framework for analysis and assessment of possible alternatives.

 David Harvey, author among other books of The Urban Experience, The 
Limits to Capital, The Condition of Postmodernity, Spaces of Hope, 
Spaces of Capital. and, most recently, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 
is a Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has been 
a supporter of rent control and living wage campaigns in Baltimore, and 
has been active on a variety of political questions.

Sliding Scale $6,$10,$15
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Sunday, March 5
1:00 - 5:00 pm
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP

Building Stronger Cross-Class Alliances

(Betsy Leondar-Wright)
 Class is the elephant under the carpet in many groups working for 
progressive social change. We may have the best intentions of creating 
class-diverse organizations, but if we live a class-segregated life and 
recruit from our social networks, we often end up with members at 
roughly the same education and income level. Middle-class activists may 
overlook the contributions that working class and poor people could make 
to our organizaitons, and may repel interested people with our unawar 
class attitudes. We we do manage to create a diverse coalition, 
misunderstandings, different ways of doing things, and different amounts 
of money and clout often tear the group apart. This workshop will use 
interactive exercises to let participants practice the skills of 
cross-class collaboration.

Betsy Leondar-Wright, the Communications Director at United for a Fair 
Economy, is a long-time economic justice activist. Her book, Class 
Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists is 
excerpted on the web at ClassMatters.org.

Sliding scale: $5 to $50
More if you can, less if you can't.
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Wednesday, March 8
7:30 pm

Class, Race & Immigration: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Progressive 
Politics

Angela Dillard, Peter Kwong, René Francisco Poitevin, Rinku Sen & 
Stephen Steinberg

 In the last forty years, migration from Latin America, Asia and the 
Caribean has changed the racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. 
population - creating a new landscape for class-based solidarity and 
anti-racist organizing. This panel takes a look at how these changes in 
demographics are creating both tensions and possibilities between and 
among people of color groups. Are the new immigrants becoming the 'new 
whites'? Or are they becoming instead the 'new blacks'? What does this 
mean for African Americans? For Latinos? For Asians? How does this play 
out in public policy debates? How can we translate this into more 
effective models of anti-racist and anti-capitalist organizing.

 Angela D. Dillard, author of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: 
Multicultural Conservatism in America, teaches at New York University. 
Her articles have appeared in such publications as the Chronicle of 
Higher Education, Dissent, New York Press, and the Washington Post's 
"Book World." She has been a featured commentator on various radio and 
television shows including a historians' roundtable on the News Hour 
with Jim Lehrer.
Peter Kwong is the author of several books, including Chinatown, N.Y. 
and Forbidden Workers. He teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate 
Center, City University of New Yorkand is a regular contributor to The 
Nation and The Village Voice.
René Francisco Poitevin teaches at New York University. He has written 
on Marxist theory and Puerto Rican colonialism. A sociologist by 
training, his research interests are in the areas of day labor markets, 
urban theory, and Latinos in the US.
Rinku Sen, author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing, is the 
publisher of ColorLines magazine and Communications Director of the 
Applied Research Center. She has written extensively about immigration, 
community organizing and women's lives for a wide variety of 
publications including Third Force, AlterNet, tompaine.com, Race, 
Poverty & the Environment, Amerasia Journal and ColorLines.
Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial 
Justice in American Thought and Policy and The Ethnic Myth: Race, 
Ethnicity, and Class in America, teaches at Queens College and the CUNY 
Graduate Center. His articles have appeared in such publications as The 
Nation, New Politics and Socialism & Democracy.

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No One Turned Away
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Friday, March 10
7:30 pm

Habib Albi is...Not a Man

a performed poetry show

Moheb Soliman

 Poems staged around an overhead projector / the midwest and 9/11 / a 
fake fire / gas stations / stenciled sets and affects / the stars and 
sexuality / a video of the twin Budweiser towers / a new Arabic love 
poetry / part installation ~ monologues ~ recital/ provocative language, 
and more / from BFE USA

 Moheb Soliman was born in Egypt, grew up in Oklahoma and Ohio, is 
living and working in Queens and the Bronx, and by way of the Nuyorican 
Poets Café, Bowery Poetry Club, and Galapagos Art Space, Habib Albi is 
... Not a Man

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
No One Turned Away
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Saturday, March 11
6:00 pm
A WOMEN & TRANS FOLK ONLY EVENT 

Resistance in Brooklyn and the Brecht Forum present

Roses & Bread: 11th Annual Women's Open Poetry/Performance Celebration

Featuring Sonia Sanchez

 Join us in celebrating International Working Women's Day. To benefit 
the New Orleans chapter of INCITE!, a women of color organization, 
working to end violence against women and their communities.

Resistance in Brooklyn is an anti-racist, anti-imperialist affinity 
group. To perform or to reserve childcare, please contact Liz Roberts 
(212) 242-4201 or lizr at brechtforum.org by March 3. Limited spaces for 
performers. Light supper provided. Wine and desserts available to raise 
funds.

Suggested donation: $10/$15/$20

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