BOOK EVENT: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited

Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank

A conversation with author Kareem Rabie and Mezna Qato, moderated by David Harvey

Due to the ongoing events in Palestine and need for other pressing conversations, we have decided to postpone this event. We hope to be able to return to it in the coming weeks. 

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Revisiting the Riot Discussion and Launch

Revisiting the Riot Discussion and Launch

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics via zoom

Thursday, April 29, 7pm EST

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Earlier this year, the journal Theory in Action released a special issue entitled Revisiting the Riot: 10th Anniversary of AK Thompson’s Black Bloc, White Riot, (Vol. 14, No. 1). Join contributors Robert F. Carley, Benjamin S. Case, Clare O’Connor,  Heath Schultz, and Claryn Spies as they share their analyses and debate the implications of Thompson’s work for our new era of global uprisings.

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Transforming CUNY: admissions, studies, movements

Transforming CUNY: admissions, studies, movements

January 20, 6-8:15 PM EST

This is an online event and will take place on Zoom. 
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This event will include live 
captioning in English.
Livestreaming will also occur on Youtube.

The history of how Black and Puerto Rican youth movements led the transformation of CUNY’s admissions and curricula contains lessons for public education/city struggles nationwide. Tami Gold, Pam Sporn, and Gisely Colón López will share their new film MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE, about how Black and Puerto Rican student-led struggles won Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College in the late 1960s. Ricardo Gabriel will speak about the historical and geopolitical context that led to the Puerto Rican student movement and the demand for Puerto Rican studies at CUNY from 1969 through the early 1970s. Amaka Okechukwu will present about the 1970 creation and 1999 termination of the Open Admissions policy at CUNY, detailed in her new book To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open AdmissionsAnna Zeemont will discuss gender justice and intersectionality in 1990s CUNY activist/arts publications and movements.

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