The Brecht Forum/New York Marxist School 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor New York, New York 10001 (212) 242-4201 (212) 741-4563 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) Audiotapes of Brecht Forum/NYMS Lectures and Seminars All lectures and seminars sponsored by The Brecht Forum and its projects, The New York Marxist School and the Institute for Popular Education, are available on audiotape. Prices are $7 for lecture tapes (single cassette) and $20 for seminar tapes (usually three or more cassettes). Listings of recent lectures and other events can be found in misc.activism.progressive, alt.activism, nyc.announce, and other newsgroups under the heading "[month] New York Marxist School Events." The following audiotapes of recent lectures and seminars are available: Lectures: **Mimi Abramovitz (Hunter College School of Social Work; author, _Regulating the Lives of Women_); Welfare Reform Today: Myths and Facts **Theresa Amott (author, _Caught in the Crisis: Women and the U.S. Economy Today_; Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University); Women in the U.S. Economy **Phyllis Bennis (FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Pacifica Radio/WBAI-FM, New York) and Laura Flanders (FAIR; WBAI); Gerry Adams and Yasir Arafat: A Kinder, Gentler Treatment? **Ellen Braune (New Channels Communications) and Steve Rendell (FAIR--Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting); Today's News: The Other Point of View [two panels available: Mexico and the Media, recorded in February, and Analyzing and Confronting Right-wing Media, recorded in March; various speakers on each panel] **David Brooks (Director, Mexico-U.S. Dialogos; U.S. correspondent for _La Jornada_) and Doug Henwood (economist; editor and publisher, _Left Business Observer_); The Mexican Miracle--Out of Order: What's Happening to the Bush/Clinton World Vision? **Dennis Brutus (South African writer, poet, anti- apartheid activist; University of Pittsburgh) and Erich Mathias (Fifty Years Is Enough Campaign); Fifty Years Is Enough: Time to Transform the World Bank and IMF **Paul Buhle (co-editor, _Encyclopedia of the American Left_) and Walter Bernstein (scriptwriter for Woody Allen's _The Front_ and television's _You Are There_); Political Amnesia and Popular Culture: The Entertainment Blacklist and the Left Writer **Jan Carew (author, _Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean_); The Malcolm X Biographies: Gender and Class--Historiography Gone Astray **Lynn Chancer (Barnard College; author, _Sado-Masochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness_); Sado-Masochism in Everyday Life **Ron Daniels (Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; former Executive Director, National Rainbow Coalition); The Politics of Social Transformation **Matthew Dumont (psychiatrist; author, _Treating the Poor_ and _The Absurd Healer_); The Global Economy and the Privatization of Mental Health **Bob Fitch (journalist, New York); The Rudy Revolution: Giuliani's Assault on the Poor, People of Color, and the Public Sector **Eric Foner (historian, Columbia University; author, _Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863- 1877_); Race and Citizenship in American History **Robert Guttmann (Hofstra University and Universite Paris Nord; author, _How Credit Money Shapes the Economy_); Credit and the Economy **David Harvey (geographer, urban theorist, Oxford University and Johns Hopkins University); Politics in an Urban World: The Relevance of Marxist Theory **Doug Henwood (economist; editor/publisher _Left Business Observer_); Economy Up, People Down **Joel Kovel (Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies, Bard College; author, _White Racism: A Psychohistory_ and _History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation_); The Roots of U.S. Anti-Communism **William Kunstler (attorney, New York); Crime, Justice, and the Right to Counsel **Michael Lerner (editor, _Tikkun_ magazine; author, _The Socialism of Fools: Anti-Semitism on the Left_); Anti- Semitism on the Left **Richard Levins (biologist, Harvard University); Science in Politics, Politics in Science: Prediction, Surprise, Chaos **Richard Levins and Joan Gibbs (human and civil rights activist); Out from under the Bell Curve **Clarence Lusane (author, _African Americans at the Crossroads_); The Duboisian Challenge **Manning Marable (writer; Institute for Research in Black Culture, Columbia University); Beyond the Politics of Identity **Mzwanele Mayekiso (leader of Alexandra civic movement; U.S. representative of South African National Civic Organizations [SANCO]); The Civic Movement in South Africa: Current Challenges and Prospects **Jakob Moneta (member, Federal Executive, German Party of Democratic Socialism; former labor attache in Paris for Metal Workers Union); Trade Unions in Germany and Europe **David Nasaw (author, _Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements_ and _Children of the City: At Work and at Play_); Popular Amusements and the Politics of Whiteness **June Nash (writer; professor, City University of New York); Chiapas in Context **Stuart Newman (developmental biologist; board member, Council for Responsible Genetics); The Gene-ing of America: Use and Abuse of Genetic Science **Sheila Rowbotham (author, _Woman's Consciousness, Man's World_); New Visions of Socialism **Nan Rubin (founder, Community Media Services); The Global Information Superhighway **Annette Rubinstein (activist; literary critic; author, _American Literature: Root and Flower_ and _The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw_); The Hidden Dorothy Parker **John Saul (York University, Toronto; author, "Globalism, Socialism and Democracy in the South African Transition"); What Kind of Transition in South Africa? **Bob Weil, Barbara, Ed Vernoff, and Helene Dunkelblau (teachers who taught in China); Students in China: First- hand Accounts **Steffie Woolhandler, M.D. (founder, Physicians for a National Health Care Policy); Health Care Goes Corporate: Where Do We Go from Here? **Erik Olin Wright (coauthor, _Reconstructing Marxism_); Marxism: Class Analysis _or_ Historical Materialism? Seminars: **Chip Berlet (journalist; Political Research Associates) and Matthew Lyons (PRA); The Resistible Rise of Neo- Fascism **Joseph Buttigieg (writer; political scientist; Fellow, Center for European Studies, University of Notre Dame); Which Gramsci? Why Now? **Boris Kagarlitsky (founder, Russian Socialist Party; Russian Party of Labor; former member, Moscow City Council; author, _The Mirage of Modernization_); The Russian Left and Mass Movements **Jakob Moneta (member, Federal Executive, German Party of Democratic Socialism; former labor attache in Paris for Metal Workers Union); Trade Unions in Germany and Europe **Leo Panitch (editor, _Socialist Register_); Globalization and A "Different Kind of State" To order tapes, please make checks or money orders payable to *The Brecht Forum* and send to The Brecht Forum, 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor, New York, New York 10001. Please enclose an additional $1.00 per order to cover postage costs. (For orders outside the United States, send an international money order or bank check payable in U.S. funds and enclose an additional US$5 per order to cover air postage.) *** Videotapes of selected Brecht Forum events are available from Turning the Tide, PO Box 631, Wilton, New Hampshire 03086; (603) 654-2672. Contact TTT for catalog or price information. //end
