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In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, a reading group that considers what a dignified life looks like?
In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, a reading group that considers what a dignified life looks like?
Join to learn how to play Land and Freedom! Copies are available for play and purchase. A discussion on anti-fascist alliances will followBetween 1936-39, the Spanish working class built the largest experiment in self-managed collectivization in a modern economy. At the same time, a well-trained Fascist military, armed and funded by Italy and Germany, waged war against the Spanish Republic, itself deeply divided along political and revolutionary lines. Can an anti-fascist alliance stand up to this kind of pressure without succumbing to internal distrust over competing agendas?Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War is a brand-new board game
In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, a reading group that considers what a dignified life looks like?
Join us for a discussion of the book, Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack Jr, with labor organizer Gene Bruskin.What would it take to topple Amazon? To beat back the austerity budgets polarizing our city? To rebuild the labor movement? How is it possible to organize those without hope who are working on the margins?John Womack’s new book Labor Power and Strategy explores these questions and more, and his lively, illuminating thoughts are built upon by ten labor organizers and educators. Join Philly native Gene Bruskin, one of those labor organizers, in conversation with local unionizing workers to discuss.
How are spiritual and moral imaginations opening us to new, just worlds?Abolition and Dignity: Spiritual Resources for RevolutionHow are spiritual and moral imaginations opening us to new, just worlds? Three writers and activists will open a conversation about this question: Jasmine Syedullah and Jared Ware, contributors to the book Spirituality and Abolition, and Vincent Lloyd, author of Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination. Bringing expertise organizing against incarceration and advancing racial justice, drawing on Buddhism, Christianity, African syncretic religions, and other traditions, the three speakers will explore the complex, ambivalent ways that religious and spiritual traditions hinder and help struggles
Join the Making Worlds Staff Collective for a community reading and discussion of Take Care of Your Self over a series of five sessions.Join the Making Worlds Staff Collective for a community reading and discussion of Take Care of Your Self by multimedia artist and writer, Sundus Abdul Hadi. Each session will focus on a different section of the book and the series will culminate with a Q&A and discussion with the author for the final session.Advanced registration is required for each session. You do not need to have attended a prior session to attend any of the following sessions.
A screening on ecological struggle and resistance to state power.IF A TREE FALLS is a documentary looking at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.' The documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan, an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The film examines larger questions about environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.The police killing of Manuel Teranat / Tortuguita and repression of forest defenders in Atlanta / Cop City this month adds dire weight to our abilty to undersand ecological defense