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Wednesday, October 12, 6pm – Non-Fiction Annie Sonnie & James Tracy authors of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times ($16.95 Melville House) The story of some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960’s, in a deeply sourced narrative history. The historians of the late 1960s …
Thursday September 8, 5:30 – exhibit opening, film, panel discussion Class Warfare in Philadelphia, Part 1- The Financial Sector Class Warfare in Philadelphia is a five part series of educational programs that look at aspects of the current economic condition of America as reflected in Philadelphia. The last several decades have seen a steady increase …
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Thursday August 25, 5:30 – $5 Cover – Against Censorship Artists Against Censorship: A Literary Event “Poet Saw Wei was imprisoned for two and a half years for hiding an anti-government message in a poem. Mao Thawka, also a poet, died while serving 20 years for writing a poem critical of the military. Burmese comedian …
Thursday August 18, 7pm – Non- Fiction – Alternative Media The LA Vanguard, ThisCantBeHappening!, and the Future of Alternative Journalism The staffs of two remarkable alternative news organizations, the Los Angeles Vanguard of 1976, and ThisCantBeHappening!, a current online alternative newspaper, will come together to tell the stories of these two publications, and discuss the …
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Saturday, April 30, 5pm – Discussion The Philly Collaborative for Reproductive Justice and Support Kick-Off: Community Discussion and Pre-screening: National and Local Attacks on our Bodies, Health and Communities. Speakers from: One Love Movement, Positive Women’s Network, Planned Parenthood, Philadelphia Women’s Center, and more.
Sunday May 1, 2pm – Film, Discussion & Exhibit of Collages Red Ink May Day Celebration Political Prisoners, Isolation & Torture in America With Hakim Green, Bonnie Kerness, Ojore Lutalo, Luis Sanabria & TJ Whitaker Hakim Green is Hip-Hop. He uses it to address the ills affecting black culture and he founded the For Life …
Wednesday, April 27, 6pm – Discussion Forclosures
Monday, December 6, 7pm – Non-Fiction Panel Dan Berger editor of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (26.95 Rutgers University Press) Moderator Panel includes: Barbara Easley Cox (Black Panther Party), Michael Simmons (SNCC), Sharon McConnell (October 4th Organization), Sherrie Cohen (Dyketactics) The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of …
Sunday, October 17, 2pm – Group Reading Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams: Anthology edited and introduced by M. L. Liebler ($22.00 Coffee House Press) Presenters include M.L. Lieber, W.D. Ehrhart, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lamont Steptoe and Richard Peabody. Jobs are at the forefront of the national consciousness, yet there is …
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Thursday, July 15, 6pm – MoveOn.org Fight Washington Corruption House Party If we’ve learned anything since President Obama took office, it’s that the fundamental changes we all want for America will be impossible until we end the stranglehold that big corporations and lobbyists have on our democracy. We know the solutions to the big problems. …
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