Friday, May 5th 6PM-9PM
Saturday, May 6th 10AM-6PM
The People’s Forum
320 W 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

The State: Abolitionist? Fascist? Communist? Bourgeois?

In imagining and forging the future there is much talk of the state, but often with little detail.  What should public goods consist of, and how might they be organized? Can the need for coercion (eg to pay taxes for public goods) be realized without the carceral and its underlying apparatuses of organized violence? What forms of sovereignty and its delegation (above or below) are possible and desirable?  We are particularly interested in lessons from people struggling for resource sovereignty in the global south — across the entire scope of dispossession: land, water, housing, freedom to move or stay put. We are also interested in creative approaches to reflecting on the state — including fiction, film, visual and aural arts.

Tentative Schedule: 

FRIDAY, May 5 
6PM: THE MEASURES TAKEN 

written by Bertolt Brecht
staging and concept by Jurrell Lewis and Lucas Kane
directed by Lucas Kane
performed by Malachi Brown, Ava Kaplan, Nashwa Zaman, Adi Blaustein Rejto, and Kaiden Talesh
music by Malachi Brown and Livia Reiner
costumes by Willa Schwabsky and Zelda Mazor-Freedman
set design by Eliza Williamson
painting by Adi Blaustein Rejto

SATURDAY, May 6

10AM PANEL 1
12PM PANEL 2
2PM PANEL 3
5PM PANEL 4

This event is organized and sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center, CUNY and cosponsored by The People’s Forum.

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