A weekly guide to action.
The times may be dark, but they’re not hopeless. We have the power to join together and fight back. Now more than ever, we need to shore up our bonds of community, activate our networks, and make our voices heard. To this end, Blunderbuss is compiling a weekly roundup of events in our hometown of New York City that offer a chance to push back against the rising tide of hate and authoritarianism. Don’t expect this list to be exhaustive – this city is too full of energy and activism for us to be on top of everything. But if you’ve got an event you’d like to see listed, feel free to hit up Travis at tmushett@gmail.com. All descriptions are authored by event organizers, and occasionally trimmed for length.
Friday, December 9
Trump World Order? What to Expect from US Foreign Politics
Time: Fri. 12/9, 4:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Asian American Writers Workshop, 112 W. 27th St., 6th Floor, Manhattan
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Free and open to the public.
RSVP here: http://
With Medea Benjamin, Vijay Prashad, Jillian Schwedler, and Ingar Solty.
Donald Trump’s shocking election victory presents itself not only as a national catastrophe for the American people, but as a threat to the entire globe. On December 9, RLS–NYC will host a panel discussion on future President Trump’s impact in the global arena. Focusing on different regions, we will look at what to expect in terms of strategic alliances, shifting partnerships, conflict resolution, multilateralism, environmental policies, and more.
All around the globe, the news of Trump’s triumph has provoked distress. While Trump’s views on foreign policy are usually described as ill-informed and plagued with contradictions, he has consistently supported a global role for the United States completely different from the bipartisan consensus that has dominated US foreign policy for at least 60 years.
This panel will bring together international and American experts who will try to explain how the new administration might reshape the current world order, and what the progressive global community should expect in coming years.
Medea Benjamin will lead the discussion, providing an overview on the potentially radical shifts expected in US foreign policy. Ingar Solty will then discuss impacts on Europe. Jillian Schwedler will tackle the challenges facing the Middle East under this new administration, and Vijay Prashad will close by analyzing the implications of a Trump presidency for the global South. Afterwards, the speakers will sit together for a more open-ended discussion of US foreign policy under Trump.
Triggered by the unpredictability of a Trump administration, this event will seek to offer a peek toward the deeply difficult years ahead of us. It will also try to provide tools to help us make sense of the world we live in and to understand how the struggle for a new system of global governance is more relevant today than ever.
A Palestine Action
Time: Fri. 12/9, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker St., Manhattan
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TURN UP!
FOR PALESTINE.
BRING FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
This will be a low risk yet strategic and highly visible action led by people of color where #BDS is the floor and not the ceiling for what our solidarity with the Palestinian people looks like and what resistance is.
SHARE WIDELY. WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER.
#DecolonizeThisPlace #FreePalestine #BDS #No2Artwashing
The Rise of Trump: Where Do We Go From Here?
Time: Fri. 12/9, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Location: The New School, UL104, University Center, 66 W. 12th St., Manhattan
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Scot Nakagawa, Senior Partner at Change Lab, and Tarso Luis Ramos, Executive Director of Political Research Associates will join Mab Segrest of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) NYC for a discussion about the rise of Donald Trump, the mainstreaming of the Right and white supremacy, and how white people can show up to disrupt racism in the context of a Trump presidency.
TICKETS
You can buy your tickets on Eventbrite: https://
AGENDA
6:00-7:00 Mab facilitates a conversation with Scot and Tarso
7:00-7:45 Q&A with the audience
8:00-8:30 (optional) SURJ NYC Orientation for interested attendees
Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
Time: Friday 12/9, 6:00pm
Location: Picture the Homeless, 104 E. 126th St., #1B, Manhattan
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How can we claim land in the city? What does it really mean to own land collectively? To decommodify housing?
This event will use the story of Lower East Side squatters, who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and are now completing a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership, to explore these questions. Amy Starecheski’s new book, Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City, tells the oral history of that movement. Ours to Lose not only tells a little-known New York story, it also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America.
How are squatters’ experiences relevant to present-day activists working to create land trusts and claim rights to warehoused buildings?
In this listening party and discussion Amy Starecheski, an oral historian, anthropologist, and former squatter, will play some of the oral histories on which the book is based and facilitate a conversation about the relevance of this history in the present moment. All are welcome. Books will be for sale, and refreshments will be served. All royalties from the sale of Ours to Lose go to Picture the Homeless.
Amy Starecheski is co-director of the Oral History Master of Arts program at Columbia University. She received a PhD in cultural anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she was a Public Humanities Fellow.
A Poets Resistance (a Poets’ Resistance)
Time: Fri. 12/9, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 141 Front St., Brooklyn
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A POETS RESISTANCE (A POETS’ RESISTANCE) is a community forum for writers to respond to the recent US election and voice their fear, grief, outrage, and concerns for the future.
Readers will include Emily Skillings, Catherine Pond, and Jen Hyde among others. The floor will be open to any and all writers.
Please feel free to bring any work to present, either your own or by others, that has helped you through this turbulent political season.
We also welcome reflections, commentaries, and discussion. If you cannot make it in person and would like to submit material to offer via projection please contact us at berlspoetry@gmail.com.
This event will be hosted by Gabriela Garcia and Halley Furlong-Mitchell.
We hope you may join us as we mobilize together through poetry to help process this moment and to empower and support each other, especially those most at risk. We hope that this will be a gathering in the spirit of community and togetherness, meeting intolerance and atrocity with love, empathy, imagination and resistance.
NYC Socialists Red Holiday Party
Time: Fri. 12/9, 7:30pm – Midnight
Location: Verso Books, 20 Jay St., Suite 1010, Brooklyn
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ISO Holiday Party Fundraiser
*$20 all-you-can drink; or individual drinks or donation
*Drinks, music, dancing, conversation
*Eyewitness from Standing Rock and other solidarity greetings
*Haymarket Books holiday book sale with all your gift-buying needs
2016 has been a rollercoaster of a year! From millions supporting an open socialist Presidential candidate to the election of billionaire bigot Donald Trump. Trump’s victory has already given confidence to the right-wing and he is building an administration that will target all the oppressed while attacking working class living standards and rights.
But the end of 2016 has also seen tens of thousands come out to the streets in protest – showing that this bigotry will not be unopposed. And 2016 is the year in which the Standing Rock Sioux have stood up to the combined forces of the oil companies and the state to protect their sovereign land rights and our water. They have inspired solidarity around the country and internationally – with thousands going to join the struggle there and millions looking to it with hope.
2016 is the year in which large numbers of people have decided they can’t stand on the sidelines anymore, that the system has failed us and that it is time to stand up and be counted. There is no better time to come together and both celebrate the high points and consider how we are going to go forward into 2017, especially with building mobilization planned for the Inauguration on January 20! There could also be no better time to become an organized socialist. Capitalism is certainly not working for most of us and we need a answer to this madness. So, please join us for this year’s International Socialist Organization’s Red Holiday Party, were we will gather to consider all of this with food, drinks and fun!
NoDAPL Benefit – Ka Baird / Power Mystery / Jessica Cook / Dawn of Man
Time: Fri. 12/9, 8:00pm – 11:30pm
Location: 925 Bergen St., Brooklyn
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Please come join us on Dec. 9th for an evening of music, dance and solidarity with the water protectors at Standing Rock. All proceeds from the door and bar will be donated to a) the Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council and b) the Water Protector Legal Collective (formerly Red Owl Legal Collective).
$10 minimum donation. Cash bar. No byob.
Saturday, December 10
Organizer Training
Time: Sat. 12/10, 11:30am – 5:30pm
Location: Hunter College, E. 68th St. & Lexington Ave., Thomas Hunter Room 105, Manhattan
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Help us build a student union to make CUNY free again and stop the rising tide of fascism!
Please RSVP through the “Tickets” link so we can get an accurate count for food!!
This organizer training will focus on: 1) how to talk to people about politics without being awkward or pedantic 2) how to get interested parties involved with your efforts 3) how to keep people involved through efficient meeting structure (it’s more exciting than it sounds).
***Lunch at 11:30***Workshops at 12:30***
Join the Hunter College Graduate Student Association for a day of workshops and free food.
OPEN TO EVERYONE. Non-CUNY peeps have to sign in at the West Building, so have an ID.
Please note: Some portions will be CUNY-centric, but the techniques we will be going over are easily applied elsewhere.
C.A.P.S. – Comprehensive Assault Prevention Seminar
Time: Sat. 12/10, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Westside Rifle & Pistol Range, 20 W. 20th St., Basement, Manhattan
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This workshop will cover prevention, defense and navigating the legal system in the event of an assault.
Please RSVP so a head count can be determined.
Admission is free, but if you wish to contribute then make a donation to RAINN. https://www.rainn.org/
All are welcome
Send Love Through the Walls
Time: Sat. 12/10, 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: 263 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 5D, Brooklyn
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In what many prisoners have told us is their favorite event of the year, Resistance in Brooklyn and NYC Anarchist Black Cross again join forces to bring you the annual holiday card-writing party for U.S. held political prisoners, prisoners of war, and prisoners of conscience. This event is always a lot of fun, the food outstanding, the camaraderie lively, and the handmade cards flat out amazing. This year will be no different. So plan to bring your friends, your creativity, and a healthy appetite. We’ll have updates on the pp/pow campaigns as well as paints, markers, crayons, and envelopes.
Directions:
Getting to 263 Eastern Parkway is simple:
From the 2/3/4/5 or Franklin Avenue Shuttle:
Franklin Avenue Stop: Walk west on Eastern Parkway (away from Franklin Avenue, toward Classon Avenue). We’re about half a block down on the north side of the street. When you go into the building, take the elevator to your left.
For more information, contact:
Resistance in Brooklyn– resistanceinbrooklyn07 at gmail dot com
NYC Anarchist Black Cross– nycabc at riseup dot net
Wages of Whiteness in the Art Economy
Time: Sat. 12/10, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker St., Manhattan
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The art world’s economy is sustained by underpaid or free labor across many of its sectors, from the production of art to the construction and maintenance of museums. This is manifest through the dual expectation that cultural producers work for exposure whilst institutional staff and contracted laborers work for less than a living wage. Arts-activist campaigns like W.A.G.E. and Gulf Labor have strategically focused on correcting certain inbuilt inequalities, but neither have yet incorporated a discussion of the economic underpinnings of white supremacy in the art system, despite it regularly being cited as one of the least diverse professional sectors. To cite one question, can solely economic factors account for the highly racialized split between producers, on the one hand, and ground staff, on the other?
Decolonize This Place has operated on a maintenance economy that is more germane to movement-building work than the professional compensation structure of the established art world. How can such projects—which, like much movement work, rely on a political and personal commitment that is rarely remunerated—be promoted and sustained when they so evidently fall outside of art’s established commodity system of display and discrete consumption? To what degree can wider movements for reparations inflect upon the art world? In the years to come, with a Trump presidency likely to be hostile to the lifeblood of free and critical expression, movement art will be needed more than ever. Who’s going to be paying for it?
Nitasha Dhillon
Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E.)
Mabel Wilson
David Joselit
Eva Mayhabal Davis
A Gallery Intern
NoDAPL Party & Fundraiser with DJ Red Daughter & Flwrshrk
Time: Sat. 12/10, 11:00pm – 4:00am
Location: Starr Bar, 214 Starr St., Brooklyn
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The Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit for the construction of a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline, granting a major victory to protesters and water protectors!
Late night dance party with DJ Red Daughter and FLWRSHRK spinning.
The fight still continues. We’re collecting $5 DONATIONS at the door for Water Protector Legal Collective (http://
Sunday, December 11
On the Ground Running: Protest Support Training
Time: Sun. 12/11, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Manhattan – Given with RSVP
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If you’ve ever wanted to be in support of street actions, this is a day full of resources for you — legal observation and court support training for both legal professionals and non-legal professionals, medic and trauma medic training, and jail support training!
Our comrades are putting their bodies on the line, and they need our support in specific and tangible ways. In the spirit of solidarity and sustainability, join us as we practice and share skills for the difficult times ahead.
****NOTE: RSVPing to this facebook event will not get you the address of the training location! You must RSVP by email to NLGNYC@IGC.ORG****
National Lawyers Guild – NYC Chapter Training for the Legal & Activist Communities
The NLG-NYC Chapter is holding a day-long training for the legal and activist community on Sunday, December 11, 2016 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. The training is co-sponsored by the A.J. Muste Institute.
Write for Rights!
Time: Sat. 12/11, 11:00am – 6:00pm
Location: 190 Court St., Brooklyn
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Join us for Write 4 Rights on 12/11 from 11-6pm! We are hosting a letter writing party where members, the local community and market shoppers can write and sign letters for the 12 Amnesty International cases identified for this campaign.
These letters have been known to: help convince government officials to free prisoners of conscience, support human rights defenders, and end other urgent cases of abuse.
We hope to see you there!
Illumination Against Gentrification: Sign-Building Workshop
Time: Sun. 12/11, Noon – 8:00pm
Location: Mayday Space, 176 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn
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During the winter of 2015, Bushwick witnessed phrases of illumination signs displayed in homes of peoples negatively affected by gentrification. Three of the twenty one signs read “No Me Mudo”, “Gentrification is the New Colonialism”, and “Bushwick Not For Sale”.
In an effort to stand in solidarity with other gentrified communities of NYC, we at Mi Casa have organized an “Illumination Sign-Creation Workshop” on Sunday 11 December 2016 at Mayday Space from 12pm-10pm.
Please help by donating to pay for materials to create the signs here: https://www.gofundme.com/
And support our efforts by volunteering time to construct illumination signs at our Sign-Building Days:
*Every night after 7pm THIS WEEK- for details: 917-499-3804
*Sunday 11 December, 12:00pm-8:00pm (Mayday First Floor)
Peace & Light,
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa
1930s Anti-Fascism, Black-Jewish Solidarity, Spanish Revolution
Time: Sun. 12/11, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker St., Manhattan
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Cops, clergy, and racial supremacists nestle up side-by-side. Politicians and liberals emphasize “non-aggression” and patience with the system. Meanwhile, anarchists, Black nationalists, communists, and socialists debate how to oppose capitalism and build the world anew. Anti-racist and anti-fascist brigades create marches, fundraisers, defense trainings, and direct actions. Cultural workers weaponize arts and literatures to counter the rise of a new imperial order.
The 1930s offer abundant lessons for us today in the wake of Trump’s narrow election and the emboldened resurgence of the far right in the U.S. and around the world. As post-Depression fascist regimes arose in the Dominican Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain, Black and Jewish radicals co-organized against Jim Crow and anti-Semitic terror to form mass anti-capitalist coalitions. Solidarity in action was learned via Black-led aid to Ethiopia after Italy’s 1935 invasion, which pivoted to defending Spain when General Franco led a 1936 fascist coup with the support of Hitler and Mussolini.
An introductory slide show presentation by Conor Tomás Reed and group dialogue will explore this turbulent decade. We’ll devote special attention to arts, anti-fascist coalitions, Black-Jewish solidarity, and how the Spanish revolution contextualizes lessons across the radical spectrum today. The event will be livestreamed and recorded, and a guide will be shared for future studies.
#DecolonizeThisPlace
ICE FREE QUEENS
Time: Sun. 12/11, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Jackson Heights, Queens – Email icefreequeens@googlegroups
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At our last meeting, members of ICE FREE QUEENS came together to discuss future strategies and potential plans for our communities. Our informal gathering allowed us to connect with what is at stake for each of us in this work and continue building deeper together.
From the conversation we had, we identified three elements that we’d like to embed into upcoming work to help shift the social practices of our neighborhood: emergency planning, community defense, and sanctuary spaces.
— Emergency Planning —
Inform our neighbors about helpful personal documents to organize, plans to set in place (childcare, bills, etc), and information to share with family/neighbors (medical, contacts, etc) in case of emergency situations. This can be disseminated through flyers, detailed packets of resources, and community workshops, perhaps by targeting schools, small businesses, and public space.
— Community Defense —
Raise consciousness around immigrant rights with KYR workshops and demonstrations, with the intent of building capacity amongst our community members to share knowledge. Beyond the typical KYR workshops in which activists/organizers provide a lecture about rights, a demonstration could be done by reclaiming public space with the support of neighbors who will practice performing a popular theater mock ICE raid.
— Sanctuary Spaces —
Connect with religious/social organizations of our communities to discuss potential sanctuary spaces for those vulnerable to deportation.
In extension of community defense, we want our neighbors to visualize themselves in scenarios where they can protect their community members by plugging into a rapid response network that aims to intervene and can connect folks to sanctuary spaces in cases of emergencies.
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We will be meeting this SUNDAY 12/11 from 1-5 PM to map out concrete strategies and plan out how to actualize this work in the neighborhood over the next few months. All are welcomed to attend and join the work, please bring some food to share.
Please let us know who can make it!
The State of Trans Health Care in New York
Time: Sun. 12/11, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
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For many transgender and gender nonconforming folks (and those that love them), the upcoming administration change is worrisome. We’ve made major steps forward to secure trans-inclusive health insurance coverage in New York State and we currently benefit from non-discrimination protections based on gender identity and transgender status in health care settings on the federal level. This workshop will broadly address some of the changes that may occur with the next administration change, featuring insight from legal, medical and public health experts in transgender medical care services. Speakers include:
Ronica Mukerjee, FNP, LAc – SUNY Downstate STAR Program
Ezra Young, Esq – Staff Attorney, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF)
Ali Harris, MPH, CPH – LGBTQ Health Project Coordinator, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
This workshop will feature short presentations from the speakers and offer space to answer questions.
Location: InfoCommons Lab
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Immigrant’s Know Your Rights Training/Entrenamiento de derechos
Time: Sun. 12/11, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Inwood Branch of the NY Public Library, 4790 Broadway, Manhattan
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We are #heretostay! Join us this Sunday at Inwood Library, to learn how to protect our communities of Washington Heights/Inwood from immigration raids and how to come together to take action!
Estamos aquí para quedarnos. Vengan para aprender como proteger y defender nuestra comunidad de las redadas inmigratorias.
With Angela Fernandez, esq., E.D. of Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
And Yajaira Saavedra and Tereza Lee, DREAMers
Contacts: immigrantrights@uptown4ber
Inwood Library: 212-942-2445
Resistencia: Puerto Rico’s Anti-Colonial Resistance Movement
Time: Sun. 12/11, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker St., Manhattan
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In 2016, we must drop all false pretenses. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States. Puerto Rico will not be free until all of our political prisoners are free, until all U.S military bases are closed, until the undemocratically elected fiscal control board is abolished, until our land, beaches, and natural resources are back in the hands of the Puerto Rican people, until we RISE UP.
How much longer will we allow them to continue telling us that we don’t matter? -We mattered when they came into our motherlands to rape and pillage our land and the women. -We mattered when they imposed a military draft on our people and stole the warriors off our land to die for one that didn’t belong to them. – We mattered when they came to our land and experimented with birth control and sterilization. -We mattered when our sugarcane, coffee, and tobacco fields were full and busting at the seams. -We mattered until they drained us of our natural resources and they began to poison our lands so that future generations could not revive them! -We mattered until we stood up and demanded a better quality of life and an actual future for our people. -We mattered until we began to see them for who they truly were and rose up to demand our freedom!! We matter because if we didn’t they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop us from using our voices!
Our liberation is contingent on unity. Join us Decolonize This Place for an evening of resistance, where we will discuss the anti colonial struggle in Puerto Rico. There will be a presentation and panel that showcases voices from the island and the diaspora that are a part of the movement for Puerto Rican liberation.
Light refreshments will be served.
Art photography by Ana Francesca
The Ongoing Struggle
Time: Sun. 12/11, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Verso Books, 20 Jay St., Suite 1010, Brooklyn
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AN INTERGENERATIONAL PANEL ON ACTIVISM AND MOVEMENT BUILDING
None of the challenges we face these next four years will be new. To build the movement of resilience and resistance we’ll need, we turn to those who have been fighting for justice since long before Trump.
On Sunday, join The New Inquiry to hear from activists and movement builders whose struggles we inherit. The event will feature organizers who have been working on the front lines of climate, anti-police brutality, prison abolition, queer health, anti-War on Terror, anti-racist, and anti-bigotry movements. It will be livestreamed and recorded.
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Livestream will be available on our Facebook page (The New Inquiry) shortly after the event begins.
Feminist Urgent – Going Forward: Post-Election Strategy Session
Time: Sun. 12/11, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: SOHO20 Gallery, 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn
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Feminist Urgent and SOHO20 invite the public to join us for a second meeting to openly discuss possible organizational strategies for going forward post-election, through analysis of tactics utilized in the past by art/activist groups. Come with examples of historical groups, along with what actions worked in the past, how they could be applied today, and ideas for collaborations and how we can organize ourselves further as artists + art workers.
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Feminist Urgent is an in-flux open-forum, discussion, journal, social-practice, community, founded by artist Katya Grokhovsky
https://www.facebook.com/
SOHO20 is an organization that started in response to a time when women were disenfranchised in the art world and beyond. We will continue to do everything we can to be a platform womens’ (as well as people of color, immigrants and LGBTQ people’s) voices during this time of uncertainty.
http://soho20gallery.com/
Stand With Standing Rock: A NoDAPL Benefit Festival
Time: Sun. 12/11, 7:00pm – Midnight
Location: The Silent Barn, 603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn
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A festival for expressing solidarity and support with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the water protectors risking their well-being in Cannon Ball, ND.
Energy Transfer Partners and their Dakota Access Pipeline project endanger indigenous land, lives, and the Missouri River — a water source for millions of Americans. DAPL has used mace, attack dogs, rubber bullets, and now water cannons against peaceful and unarmed protestors. This is not just an indigenous issue, it’s a human issue.
Please come by for a night of live music and words by indigenous artists and allies. All proceeds from the benefit will go directly to Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, a collaborative effort of volunteer medics, physicians, and other healers available to the water protectors in the face of police brutality.
#NoDAPL #MniWiconi #WaterIsLife
FEATURED ARTISTS:
OSHUN
Bunny Michael
Professor Caveman
Laura Ortman
Esoteric Ayanna + Benjamin Lundberg
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7pm doors | $8-20 | all ages
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Monday, December 12
Women and Allies – Nationwide Protest
Time: Mon. 12/12, Noon
Location: Columbus Circle, 10 Columbus Circle, Manhattan
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Vision: Protection of women’s rights and the rights of all vulnerable groups in this country.
Mission: Mobilizing women and allies to leverage our collective power as citizens for immediate action against any effort to erode the rights of women and other vulnerable groups.
Strike out message: The president-elect has demonstrated overt contempt for women and a troubling sexual misogyny before and during his campaign. As such, we have no reason to believe that the new president or his nominees or the Republican Congress will stand up for women’s rights. So we must take action ourselves. By striking out on December 12th we demonstrate our collective power as citizens and our determination to act as a check against any effort to erode the rights of women. In addition, we stand in solidarity with the myriad other groups the president-elect has maligned during his shameful campaign.
Victory: On the 12th of December, women and allies in cities across the country unify to demonstrate our collective power. We deliver the message in a unified voice that we are ready to stand against any government action that would serve to erode the rights of women and other vulnerable groups. Join us!
We will be updating on when we begin to march on our twitter account, and event page.
NYC Twitter Handle: @Women_AlliesNYC
We will announce at the event when we depart and march on Trump Tower. We have permits.
If you cannot take off of work that day, please know we’d appreciate for you to take your lunch break protesting with us, or participating in an ALL DAY SPENDING BOYCOTT.
Any other events asking to advertise on this platform, please message the event page to get more info on forming an alliance with us.
Thank you.
Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in NYC
Time: Mon. 12/12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St., Manhattan
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Book launch of “Zoned Out!” (UR Press, 2016). Join community organizers and authors in highlighting how City zoning policies have perpetuated racial segregation, gentrification and displacement in neighborhoods like the Lower East Side and Chinatown. Discussion includes a look at community-led rezoning plan as solution to protect the area.
RSVP: https://
Book website: http://www.urpub.org/
Gender Justice in Media Under Trump
Time: Mon. 12/12, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Starr Bar, 214 Starr St., Brooklyn
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Please join us for a facilitated discussion with media makers and activists about what is at stake under the upcoming administration and where to focus our respective energies. This event is presented jointly by WAM!NYC, #GOPHandsOffMe (a WOC led resistance collective) and Black Women’s Blueprint (a renowned Brooklyn-based Black feminist organization). We will mingle from 7pm and begin the conversation at 7:30pm.
#MichelleShirley #PeoplesMonday #BlackLivesMatter
Time: Mon. 12/12, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Grand Central Terminal, 87 E. 42nd St., Manhattan
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Every Monday since January 2015, NYC Shut It Down has taken to the streets of NYC, forcing attention to the ever-growing Black Lives Matter movement and the struggle for Black liberation. Through our weekly #PeoplesMonday actions, NYC Shut It Down highlights different cases of police brutality against people of color. Some stories, like those of Sean Bell, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice are highly publicized. Other stories receive little to no media attention. It is our duty to amplify these stories and we need your help to do that!
Michelle Shirley’s life ended in a hail of gunfire in California by Police. Michelle also suffered from bipolar disorder. Police encountered the 39-year-old Shirley on Monday after she was seen driving erratically on the wrong side of a road in Torrance, California. The chase ended with Shirley’s car boxed in as officers fired several shots into her car.
Give, Gather, Grab Back: Stand with Planned Parenthood
Time: Mon. 12/12, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Angry Wade’s, 222 Smith St., Brooklyn
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In the wake of the election, we choose to act by supporting organizations that work with ALL people. Please join us to support Planned Parenthood Monday, December 12th, 7pm – 11pm. All proceeds will benefit Planned Parenthood!!!
#StandWithStandingRock Benefit Concert
Time: Mon. 12/12, 7:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Whythe Ave., Brooklyn
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#STANDWITHSTANDINGROCK Benefit Concert feat. Immortal Technique, Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), The Skins, Holly Miranda, St. Lucia (DJ Set) + more! at Brooklyn Bowl
Rebel Music in the Hour of Chaos
Time: Mon. 12/12, 8:00pm
Location: Decolonize This Place, 55 Walker St., Manhattan
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REBEL MUSIC IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS is an evening of performance and dialogue to infuse our struggle and share knowledge about the power of song in resistance and winning.
Kandia Crazy Horse is a southern-born singer/songwriter/
This program features a dialogue on such activism & the performance of a selection of past and present freedom songs with her Native Americana band, Cactus Rose: Jeff McLaughlin & Kimberly Robison/KAR. Special guests who will share their experience in movements and as composers of rebel music are Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets & Mahina Movement.
Free event. Spread the word. #decolonizethisplace
Tuesday, December 13
Anti-Incarceration Speak-Out & Press Conference
Time: Tues. 12/13, Noon – 1:00pm
Location: Steps of City Hall, Manhattan
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A broad cross-section of campaigns, groups, coalitions, and organizations have come together to collectively challenge incarceration in New York State. Join us as we publicly announce our multi-campaign/
New York must end mass incarceration, promote community empowerment, stop state violence and torture, and end structural racism while protecting the rights of Black, Latino, Muslim, and Native people; women; LGBTI people; poor people of all backgrounds; people with mental health needs; and all New Yorkers.
Toward these ends, New York must adopt parole and bail reform, HALT solitary confinement, close Rikers and Attica, raise the age of criminal responsibility, revamp all sentencing, restore voting rights and college access to people in prison, protect domestic violence survivors, and promote racial justice including through a truth, justice, and reconciliation commission.
Please join us in the launch of this collective effort on Tues., Dec. 13 at the NYC City Hall front steps.
Revolutionary Role Play: De-Escalation
Time: Tues. 12/13, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Audrey Lorde Project, 85 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn
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Let’s role play… de-escalation!
Join us for a night of Revolutionary Role Play as we practice de-escalation, intervention, survivor support, accountability, and other skills that can keep ourselves and each other safe in these streets!
Dinner will be served at 6:30pm and our training will begin at 7pm!
** This training is open to queer and trans people of color and people of color allies**
Trump Resistance Town Hall
Time: Tues. 12/13, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: West-Park Presbyterian Church, 165 W. 86th, Manhattan
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The next NYC Trump Resistance Meeting will be on Tuesday from 7PM to 9PM at the Sanctuary at West Park Presbyterian Church, 165 West 86th Street, just east of Amsterdam Ave. The space is accessible for people with disabilities, with the exception of the restroom down a flight of stairs.
An agenda will be sent out via email ahead of time. If you are not yet on our email list you can sign up using this form: tinyurl.com/TrumpTownHallEmail.
And if you haven’t joined our Facebook group, please click here:
https://www.facebook.com/
We’re in the beginning stages of developing a flat, all volunteer group united in anger, organized into working groups, and committed to direct action. We’re focusing on everything from policy and data analysis to organizing protests to ensure that we have the largest impact possible.
We need people with all skills and interests. Whether you are an artist or a software developer or just somebody who wants to get involved, everybody’s contribution is valuable.
Crimethinc: Preparing for the Trump Era: An Anarchist Viewpoint
Time: Tues. 12/13, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn
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How did Trump come to power, and what does that tell us about the era we are entering? What strategies will be effective in countering repressive government policies and the rise of grassroots nationalism?
Framing Trump’s victory in a global context, the presenters will explore various approaches to self-organization and self-defense, drawing on the principles of mutual aid and direct action.
This talk will be presented by Crimethinc:
The Crimethinc. Ex-Workers’ Collective (CWC) is a decentralized anarchist collective composed of many cells which act independently in pursuit of a freer and more joyous world.
Their website:
http://crimethinc.com/
Politics in Public Space in Words and Pictures
Time: Tues. 12/13, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Interference Archive, 131 8th St., Brooklyn
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The comics of Seth Tobocman with discussion by AK Thompson
Music by Eric Blitz, Jenny Gonzalez Blitz, Andy Laties & Rebecca Migdal
Artist, author and teacher Seth Tobocman shares lessons we can learn from the past for our current moment, by drawing on two of his recent publications. LEN (a lawyer in history) provides us with historic perspectives on occupation from the case of the Chicago 7, and the newly re-issued War in the Neighborhood gives insight into gentrification and displacement from the viewpoint of the 1980s Lower East Side. AK Thompson will facilitate a critical discussion with the audience regarding how history informs our tactics for organizing.
LEN (A LAWYER IN HISTORY) is a a graphical biography of radical attorney Leonard Weinglass who represented the Chicago 7, Daniel Ellsberg, the Cuban 5 and many other political defendants. This book examines 60 years of American history through the life and work of one man, and is available now from AK Press.
War in the Neighborhood is a 328 page graphic novel about the struggles over homelessness, gentrification, police brutality and human rights that raged in the area surrounding New York’s Tompkins Square park in the 1980s and 90s. Now available in a new edition with an introduction by AK Thompson, it is a first hand account of the Squatters movement during which abandoned buildings were seized to make low income housing, and then had to be defended within a divided community.
Women: Continue Building Resistance!
Time: Tues. 12/13, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Verso Books, 20 Jay St., Suite 1010, Brooklyn
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After the election, hundreds and hundreds of women turned up to our November feminist meeting. So many, that not all could fit in the space and many held a speak out at a nearby park. It was the largest meeting turn out in National Women’s Liberation’s history.
Committees are meeting this week. At this monthly meeting, we will hear report backs and learn how to get involved with committees such as, Women Strike the Inauguration, Abortion/Birth Control Organizing, the Women of Color Caucus, and the Radical Research Think Tank. This meeting will be a mix of reporting, speaking-out and breaking up into groups so we can get to know each other better and get to work!
The anger is ripe, women are showing up for the movement in droves. We have the momentum to build real power. Let’s work to make this momentum be more than a moment. Let’s do this.
For more on NWL, www.womensliberation.org
Wednesday, December 14
Panel on Intergenerational Trauma
Time: Wed. 12/14, 5:45pm – 8:30pm
Location: Barnard Center for Research on Women, 101 Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, Manhattan
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**RSVP to reserve your seat at bit.ly/healinglegacies – seats are limited. Thanks!***
The collective impacts of oppression and harm are passed down from one generation to the next. How do we trace the trauma that we have inherited? How does this show up in the contexts of racism, queer- & transphobia, sexism, and other forms of violence and discrimination? And, in this critical moment, how do we interrupt and heal from these cycles of trauma?
Join us for a panel discussion with moderator Agustina Vidal (The Icarus Project) and panelists Amber Hollibaugh (Queer Survival Economies, Queers for Economic Justice), Cara Page (Audre Lorde Project, Kindred Southern Healing Justice), and Julia Bennett (Harriet’s Apothecary, Third Root Community Health Center).
RSVP required at bit.ly/healinglegacies – Sliding scale $0-20
Doors are at 5:45. Light reception will follow.
This evening was organized by the Icarus Project and co-sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
This event is located in the James Room on the 4th Floor of Barnard Hall. Barnard Hall is located immediately upon entering through the main gate of the Barnard College campus at Broadway and 117th Street (Manhattan).
Workers’ Forum: Making $15 Real in the Era of Trump
Time: Wed. 12/14, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: New York Law School, 185 W. Broadway, Manhattan
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The workers’ organizing team wants to invite you to join us Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm to participate in an important conversation about the role New York City and State have to play in protecting and defending immigrant workers during the presidency of Trump.
Hosted by Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change
Low-wage immigrant workers, elected leaders, regulators, and community organizations discuss innovative strategies
for ensuring that all New York’s workers benefit from the historic $15 minimum wage increase.
It won’t come as a surprise to any of you that low wage workers and particularly immigrant workers are feeling increasingly vulnerable -and will be even more susceptible to wage theft, unsafe working conditions, discrimination, and other forms of exploitation. We must also expect that Trump and his cronies will halt, abandon or repeal recent progressive improvements in workers rights protections at the federal level. The results will worsen abuse in immigrant communities and weaken high-road employers’ ability to compete and thrive.
This forum will be an opportunity to strategize how we will continue to fight for economic justice and respect in the workplace, but also to tell our legislators, regulators, and allies the ways in which we expect them to stand up for and defend immigrant workers in New York.
We hope you can join us!
Thursday, December 15
Protest at Trump’s Press Conference
Time: Thurs. 12/15, TBD
Location: Manhattan – Site TBD
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Donald will be holding a press conference on Dec. 15th in NYC to allegedly announce that he will be “severing” ties with his family business. While this seems like a positive step in the right direction, we all know how Trump likes to say one thing and then do the exact opposite. Sort of like how he denounced White Supremacy and then appointed Stephen Bannon as his Chief Strategist. I’m getting off topic……
Trump has refused to sell the family business , which means that his children will be put in charge. The same children who have appeared at numerous state functions and Trump administration planning meetings. Doesn’t really sound like he’s going to divest himself of his business interests, more like push them slightly to the side. It’s not enough to exit business operations, he must also exit business ownership through a blind trust. I mean really, when has Trump ever done something for the greater good without any personal gain? People don’t change overnight.
Let’s protest at the press conference and be heard. He needs to understand that he will be held accountable every step of the way, and that we will hold him to his promises. Protest against the racist, misogynistic, anti-science appointments Trump has made, Protest against his implicit encouragement of hate crimes across the country, and against government corruption, nepotism, and favoritism to special interest groups. The list could go on and on……
The protest will take place wherever the press conference is going to occur, location and time TBD. I will update when we have more info. Bring signs and most of all energy and a loud voice.
Please share this and invite your friends!
Art After Trump
Time: Thurs. 12/15, 5:00pm – Midnight
Location: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby St., Manhattan
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Please save the date for a gathering and marathon-style reading of responses by and for artists and arts organizers. Line-up to be announced. Artists of all disciplines will read their short responses – of any form – to the results of election 2016 and the imminent administration.
This event will directly benefit Housing Works, and no other entities involved are spending money or making money on the event. All performances at Housing Works are donations.
Housing Works was started out of ACT UP, and we knew then that raising our own money would be essential to our survival and the survival of the communities we served, because the state and federal government was refusing to help. That’s why the bookstore exists, why it is staffed almost entirely by volunteers, and why we rely on the sales of beers, of our donated books, of goods in our Thrift stores, and of event revenue to support programs that have at many, many turns been defunded and denied by the government.
Trump and the Republican Party have pledged to overturn the Affordable Care Act, a critical platform Housing Works has leveraged to address disparities in health based on poverty, race, sexual orientation, and other markers. And we now know we are facing a federal assault on reproductive rights, LGBT rights, on immigrants and the cities and states that protect them. On December 15, we will gather members of the creative and artistic communities to speak for human rights, just as the founders of the AIDS movement did thirty years ago. We hope you will join us.
On December 15, we will gather members of the creative and artistic communities to speak for human rights, just as the founders of the AIDS movement did thirty years ago. We hope you will join us.
Protest Hillary Clinton Party to Thank Millionaire Donors
Time: Thurs. 12/15, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: The Plaza Hotel, 768 Fifth Ave., Manhattan
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If you were upset at the result of the outcome of the election this is event is made just for you.
Limousine Democrats gave us Trump and weve just about had it with them.
At a time where change was demanded, the DNC decided to give us the same type of campaign that catered to the millionaire and billionaire class as well as Wall Street while ignoring the working people..
As Hillary Clinton dims away from her political life, she decides to throw a “thank you” party at the Plaza Hotel to the millionaires and billionaires that donated to her campaign.
This is exactly why the Democratic party lost. Americans are turned off by the tone deaf approach that was carried out throught the primary and election.
Other than being a protest for the “Millionaire Party”, this should be a reminder to the Democratic Party that change is needed in the party. No we dont want Pelosi as minority leader and we want a DNC chair that will bring about the transformation that we desperately need.
Enough is Enough!