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Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Brecht Forum: 23rd Annual Intensive Study of Marxism From: "Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory" <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>toplab@. toplab.org</A> Date: 7/1/01 3:15 PM Mountain Daylight Time Message-id: <9ho3uc$2om$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Koehnlein [<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]";> mailto:bkoehnlein@. nyc.rr.com]</A> Sent: Miircoles, 27 de Junio de 2001 19:58 To: bill koehnlein (rr acct) Subject: Brecht Forum: 23rd Annual Intensive Study of Marxism Please forward or repost The Brecht Forum is pleased to offer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GLOBAL CAPITAL,GLOBAL RESISTANCE 23rd Annual Intensive Study of Marxism ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHEN: Thursday July 12 - Sunday July 15 9:30 am - 6:30 pm WHERE: The Brecht Forum 122 West 27th St. 10th Floor NYC (Between Aves 6th and 7th) CALL: 212.242.4201 OR EMAIL: info@. brechtforum.org This 4-day intensive will explore what Marx, Engels and others in the tradition they founded have to offer in helping us address the questions of our time: What is giving rise to the growing polarization of wealth and poverty--here in New York City and around the world? Why, in the richest country in the world, is medical care a luxury, why are schools in disarray and prisons full and overflowing? What are the social and economic forces that fuel racism and white supremacy worldwide? Why are we experiencing an intensifying militarization both at home and abroad? Marx's approach to participating in social change means that we think before we act, but learn to think by doing. Analysis is essential to our political resistance in the streets. With today's global economy as our starting point, we will look at the elements of marxist theory from Das Capital, to the historical method, to issues of science and technology, to society and culture. We will examine some of the basic works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels as well as some of the more recent theorists of social change--from the work of Antonio Gramsci on developing a revolutionary movement in the face of Italian facism to the lessons of Malcolm X on the obstacles posed by racism in the United States and around the world. Partial List of Instructors SAM ANDERSON is education director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College and author of The Black Holocaust for Beginners. ELLEN BRAUNE is a media consultant with Fenton Communications. While working with the National Labor Committee, she implemented the year-long Gap campaign and the Kathie Lee Gifford/Wal-Mart exposi. STEVE BRIER is a founder of the American Social History Project at CUNY Graduate Center, and co-author of Who Built America? HECTOR FIGUEROA, a political economist, works with the SEIU and is on Board of Directors of the Brecht Forum and the editorial board of New Labor Forum. STEPHEN JAY GOULD is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist and teaches at Harvard University and New York University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Brecht Forum and author of, among other books, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, and The Mismeasure of Man He is internationally acclaimed for developing the theory of punctuated equilibrium. GINA NEFF is a member of the Brecht Forum Board of Directors and writes on political issues relating to the New Economy. GERARDO RENIQUE, co-author of Peru, Time of Fear, teaches history at the City College of New York. and is a member of the Brecht Forum Board of Directors. ANNETTE T. RUBINSTEIN, a member of the Brecht Forum Advisory Board, is the author of American Literature: Root and Flower and The Great Tradition in English Literature from Shakespeare to Shaw. NEIL SMITH teaches anthropology and geography at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. BRENDA STOKELY serves as chair of the New York Labor Party and is president of Local 215/DC1701/ AFSCME that represents close to 6,000 social service workers employed in non-profit organizations. BILL TABB teaches economics at Queens College. He is the author of, among other books, The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation and The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century. He is a member of the Brecht Forum's Advisory Board. Sliding Scale: $75/$125 Registration: Thursday, July 12, 8:30 a.m. Partial scholarships are available. Pre-registration is advised www.brechtforum.org ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
