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 stay 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, January 6
The Journey (Peter Watkins, 1987, 16mm, 870 mins)
Time: Shown in 7 installments through the weekend. 1st installment is Fri. 1/6, 7pm.
Location: Light Industry, 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn
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Since the late 1950s, Peter Watkins has engineered a unique form of moving image practice, making collaborative, hybrid non-fiction as interventionist art. His films, including The War Game, Edvard Munch, Punishment Park, and La Commune (Paris, 1871), are complex, deeply engaged essays on social struggle and the mediation of history and contemporary life. His career-long preoccupation has been with turning historical drama and future speculation into insurgent political cinema, through a method of production that invites both participants and spectators to think critically about the ways in which media shape our understanding of the past and the present.
The Journey is Watkins’s most ambitious experiment with form: at once a documentary, a dystopian science fiction film, a handbook for media analysis, and an organizational structure linking activist groups throughout the world. From 1983 to 1986, he undertook a transcontinental project to map the corrosive anticipation of impending nuclear catastrophe. Watkins worked with an international network of support groups to raise money and assemble crews while shooting the film in the US, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France, West Germany, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Polynesia, Mexico, and the Soviet Union. The result is a fourteen-hour cartography of capitalism, historical memory, and fear that weaves together an analysis of the global arms race, recollections of survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Hamburg, and community preenactments of possible disaster scenarios. It is also a sustained critique of the media’s role in distraction, misinformation, and the normalization of nuclear geopolitical strategy, environmental destruction, gender inequality, the erosion of public education, and the spread of world hunger. Mixing nighttime news tropes, culture-jamming tactics, and even a dash of comedic animation, The Journey also continually questions and makes visible its own formal strategies. Watkins encourages us to challenge how we take in media, information, and entertainment, and, furthermore, to take them over.
Once again, we face political and social crises similar to the conditions of the 1980s, now with an updated vocabulary for disasters in progress—Standing Rock, Flint, Fukushima, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, India, China, Diablo Canyon, San Onofre, Sequoyah, Watts Bar, Indian Point. Once again, the helplessness of the citizen, the artist, and the activist are pitted against hysterical militarization and the relentless pursuit of energy in its most volatile forms. Thirty years on, The Journey has lost little of its relevance, and the long and complex struggle that it stages is now more urgent than ever.
Tickets – Pay what you wish ($10 suggested donation), available at door. A single ticket is valid for entry to the entire sequence of screenings.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens 30 minutes prior to the day’s first screening.
Saturday, January 6
Tell Schumer + the Dems: TOTAL Obstruction on the Trump Agenda
Time: Sat. 1/6, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Sidewalk in front of Schumer’s apartment, 9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
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JOIN NEW YORKERS IN TELLING CHUCK SCHUMER + CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS:
#NotOneInch !!!!!!
OBSTRUCT THE TRUMP/RIGHT-WING AGENDA 100 PERCENT, OR WE’LL OBSTRUCT *YOU* FROM BUSINESS AS USUAL…& FROM GETTING REELECTED.
If you’re worried that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is going to lead Democrats to cut soul-selling deals with Trump and his right-wing Republicans, then join us on Sat Jan 7 at 1pm in front of Schumer’s apartment building at 9 Prospect Park West to send a MASSIVE MESSAGE:
DON’T ACCOMMODATE… #NotOneInch !!!
TRUMP AND HIS HATE-BAITING RIGHT WING DON’T DESERVE ONE CRUMB OF SUCCESS!
Stop Police Violence with ECRB – Open Organizing Meeting
Time: Sat. 1/7, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Freedom Hall, 113 W. 128th St., Manhattan
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We are coalition of groups and individuals organizing for an Elected Civilian Review Board (ECRB) – a grassroots body that would be empowered to discipline the NYPD and work with an independent Special Prosecutor to bring justice to victims of police violence.
Join the NYC Campaign for an Elected Civilian Review Board! Come out to the next organizing meeting to learn more and contribute your ideas.
We work together democratically and consciously build the participation and leadership of those most affected by police violence.
Orange is the New President: A Non-Profit Political Arts Showcase
Time: Sat. 1/7, 2:30pm – 5:00pm
Location: Broadway Comedy Club, 318 W. 53rd St., Manhattan
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“Orange Is The New President” is a peaceful protest against Trump’s presidency through artistic expression! This non-profit show (100% of proceeds donated to Planned Parenthood and The Trevor Project) is a showcase of original political one acts, sketch comedy, music, spoken word, and dance. If you can’t afford a ticket, please message me for a comp. If you’d like to donate a ticket to someone who can’t afford to buy one, please also message me.
Native American Realness
Time: Sat. 1/7, 3:45pm – 5:15pm
Location: 22 Boerum Pl., Brooklyn
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Following recent protest of the originally released American Realness 2017 performance program, and the festivals’ historic curatorial blindness towards Native American artists, this conversation welcomes Native Contemporary Choreographers Rosy Simas (Seneca) and Christopher K. Morgan (Native Hawaiian) to discuss the state of Native American performance work across the US and the epidemic of institutional negligence, insensitivity and attempted erasure of and towards Native American / Indigenous / First Nations’ values, histories and contributions to contemporary artistic practice. This conversation seeks to investigate how our dominant culture’s historical insensitivity aids in forms of cultural appropriation, Redface, and racism in artistic practice, spectatorship and presenting. Does Redface sell? Is curating Native artists seen as risky, unsellable, or uninteresting, or does this speak to institutional and societal ignorance? In dialogue with Sara Nash (New England Foundation for the Arts), Simas and Morgan will share action strategies artists, administrators, and audiences can take in order resist our complicity in settler colonial cultural practices. This conversation will additionally include presentations on the work of contemporary practicing Native artists.
Queer Style as Resistance in Post-Trump Activism
Time: Sat. 1/7, 5:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
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Join dapperQ for a community screening of HBO’s documentary Suited followed by “Queer Style as Resistance in Post-Trump Activism” talkback during Target First Saturday’s at Brooklyn Museum. This program is part a larger celebration of the Museum’s “A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum,” the 10th anniversary of this important Institution’s Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
*FREE ADMISSION*
► Happy hour is 4–6 p.m.
► 310 free tickets to screening (pick-up 5pm at admissions)
► 6pm screening of Suited
Suited (Jason Benjamin, 2016, 85 min.) follows transformative moments at Bindle & Keep, a bespoke tailoring company based in Brooklyn that caters to gender-nonconforming and trans clients. Followed by a talkback on “Queer Style as Resistance in Post-Trump Activism,” hosted by dapperQ with Anita Dolce Vita, Jason Benjamin, Daniel Friedman, Debbie-Jean Lemonte, and Rae Tutera.
Bay Ridge Resistance Series: Know Your Rights
Time: Sat. 1/7, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Location: Salam Arabic Lutheran Church of Brooklyn, 414 80th St., Brooklyn
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In light of the increase in violent attacks on Arab and Muslim communities followed by Donald Trump’s election, NYC Students for Justice in Palestine will be holding a series of self-defense trainings, know your rights legal workshops, discussions on mental health and wellness, and more as part of our Bay Ridge Resistance Workshop Series.
Our first session will consist of a Know Your Rights session with labor and human rights attorney Suzanne Adely where community members will learn about their legal rights in dealing with discrimination, police brutality, surveillance, and entrapment.
Organizing and resistance begins in our communities. We encourage everyone to join us in our struggle against the rise of racism, Islamophobia, and white supremacy in America.
We encourage all community members, students, youth, and families to come out to these sessions!
MAAC Assembly: Preparing for “Disrupt J20”
Time: Sat. 1/7, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Location: The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn
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The Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) is holding its 2nd assembly on January 7th at The Base starting at 7 PM. We’re getting concrete about our plans for the inauguration (Disrupt J20): finalizing travel plans, proposed actions in NYC & DC, and tending to logistics. We’ll also briefly address plans for a MACC press collective and our potential participation in “anti-Trump” activist coalition meetings scheduled for early January.
In our present historical moment our task is vast, but so are the possibilities. As MACC develops we aspire not only to be at the forefront of the struggle against xenophobia, racism, misogyny and right-wing reaction, but to also go on the offensive – seeding these struggles with a form of radical, participatory politics that undermines capitalist logic at its root.
Sunday, January 8
Socialist Alternative Organizing Meeting for J20 #ResistTrump Protest
Time: Sun. 1/8, 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: 302 Morgan Ave., Bsmt. Unit #2, Brooklyn
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Join us for an organizing meeting to prepare for the next chapter in New York’s growing #ResistTrump movement. If you’re interested in collaborating to build a bold resistance action on #J20 in NYC, join us at this meeting.
Representatives from labor unions, community/student groups, and other organizations who can mobilize their membership and collaborate on this event are especially encouraged to attend.
No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes – Our View from the Border
Time: Sun. 1/8, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn
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Odds are you’ve seen some form of immigration coverage on the local, evening, or cable news. You’ve probably been bombarded with repeated images of shadowy figures being led away in cuffs, running across tracts of land, or hopping fences. You’ve probably heard pundits and politicians call immigrants criminals even terrorists. However, humanitarian aid group, No More Deaths has a very different view of the border—one in which cartel violence and macroeconomic policies compel people’s northward migration, one in which US border enforcement strategies result in thousands of deaths and the needless suffering of countless more. Our vantage allows us a clear view of the racial profiling laws that have deported and separated more than 1.5 million families.
Please join desert aid workers from No More Deaths as we present: Our View From the Border. This 45 minute presentation will offer firsthand accounts of trends in migration; human rights abuse documentation in Nogales, Sonora; migrant support in the Sonoran desert; and allied movement building in communities throughout Arizona. In addition to the presentation we will hold time for questions during which we look forward to opening a more comprehensive dialogue about our southern border.
Monday, January 9
Stop Climate Deniers in the Trump Cabinet
Time: Mon. 1/9, 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location: Offices of Sens. Schumer & Gillibrand, 780 3rd Ave., Manhattan
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The Day Against Denial will fight back against some of Trump’s most dangerous cabinet picks:
– Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon, for Secretary of State
– Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator
– Ex-Gov. Rick Perry for Secretary of Energy
– Rep. Ryan Zinke for Department of Interior
The climate is changing, and anyone who denies it shouldn’t be in the White House cabinet. It’s up to the Senate to stop these nominations — and up to us to show up in person to tell our Senators to fight Trump’s Climate Denial Cabinet.
That starts with rallies with all of our friends and neighbors, calling out our Senators to do the right thing and reject the nominations, and having direct conversation with the Senator’s staff to pass along the message that we, as constituents and voters, do not accept Trump’s dangerous nominations. Senator Schumer in particular has a pivotal role to play in this resistance movement as the leader of the Senate Democrats. We need him to assert strong leadership to fight Trump’s Climate Denial Cabinet.
New Year, Eternal Flame: #JewishResistance in 2017
Time: Mon. 1/9, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: William Tecumseh Sherman Monument, 764 5th Ave., Manhattan
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Join IfNotNow at the start of 2017 in taking a stand against the hatred facing our country. The Jewish establishment has failed to speak out against Stephen Bannon, a white nationalist and anti-Semite, who will be chief strategist to President-elect Trump.
At Breitbart, Bannon was the megaphone for anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, sexist, and racist vitriol. There should be no doubt that he will bring these ideologies inside of the White House. While promoting hatred at home, Bannon supports the right-wing Israeli government and the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian people.
As we enter a New Year surrounded in the glow of our last Hannukah candles, we must rise up and be the moral leaders our institutions refuse to be. The #JewishResistance will only burn brighter in the face of institutional complicity.
The Jewish establishment’s silence in the face of Bannon shows how out of touch they are with the American Jewish community, deepening our doubt in their ability to lead our community at this moment of crisis. We’ve taken to the streets and we’ve asked our leaders to join us in the call to #FireBannon.
Join IfNotNow as we shed light on the hypocrisy of institutional silence, and bring normalized hatred and endless occupation out of the shadows. The urgency of this moment compels us to put our bodies on the line. The eternal flame of #JewishResistance will guide us in creating freedom and dignity for all throughout 2017.
ReThinking the Gentrification Fight – Team & Strategy Building
Time: Mon. 1/9, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Mayday Space, 176 St. Nicholas Ave., Brooklyn
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We are a commited and growing group of community members that are completely fed up and disatisfied with the intentionally incomplete, uncomprehensive and limited false narratives *produced* to describe what is causeing Gentrification and Displacement. We intend to do something about that. We are everyday folks – NOT a funded organization.
WTF Fake News!
Time: Mon. 1/9, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Everyman Espresso, 136 E. 13th St., Manhattan
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How to read will be the challenge of our times, as we sift through the bombardment of opinion, conjecture, entertainment, propaganda and maybe every now and then a more or less down the middle news article that’s blasted at us at every turn.
All of these things serve a purpose. They do not serve the same purpose.
It’s not easy to tell what’s what. I get that. I want to help.
For those of you who don’t know, my whole name is Stacy China. I’ve been a reporter and a copy editor, in both news and sports departments, at newspapers, magazines and websites all around NYC for a good long while. Yes, long. Long enough. The point is, I can help. We’ll break down this fake news/credible news/that’s-not-even-news maze. And then you can go forth and resist with clarity.
Chuck, Step it Up! Rally
Time: Mon. 1/9, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: 9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
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350.org is leading a nation-wide Day Against Denial in which Americans across the country will stand against the Trump appointments, both the climate-change deniers, and all of the appointments who want to turn back the clock on economic justice, women and immigrant rights.
Join to demand that Senator Schumer truly lead in his pivotal role as Senate Minority Leader, to ensure that members of his party ask hard questions of Trump’s nominees during their committee hearings and to do everything possible to ensure that Trump’s appointments are not confirmed.
Tuesday, January 10
Tearing Down Walls: Fighting Deportations Under Trump
Time: Tues. 1/10, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Flatbush Public Library, 22 Linden Blvd., Brooklyn
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Over the past 8 years the government has been ramping up its attack on immigrants like never before with over 2.5 million people deported since 2009. On January 20th Trump and his hardline anti-immigrant administration will be inheriting the infrastructure needed to keep his campaign promises of deporting millions more. Going into 2017 we need to get organized to protect ourselves, our loved ones, and our neighbors from these attacks.
Join Red Bloom to discuss how we can organize against the coming waves of deportations and attacks on immigrants. We will be talking about our plans for working closely with the Brooklyn Defense Committee in support of the New Sanctuary Movement and how we can build power in our neighborhoods to aid those under threat and protect our neighborhoods.
For more information on Red Bloom, our work, and how to get involved please message us on facebook or by email at redbloom.nyc[at]gmail.com!
Resist Trump Tuesdays: Sen. Schumer – Resist Trump
Time: Tues. 1/10, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
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Confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions, Andrew Puzder and Rex Tillerson start the week of January 10th and we need to ensure that our Senator, the most powerful Democrat in Congress, Chuck Schumer, will play a leadership role in asking hard hitting questions and properly vetting these racist, sexist, hateful people.
Bring the questions you want Schumer to ask on large signs as we march past his home.
This is a kid friendly rally and there may or may not be PBJs for hungry little and big protestors.
Hacking Capitalism Working Group: Divesting
Time: Tues. 1/10, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Location: Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
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FREE working group to practice #hackingcapitalism! Need more than motivation to get your finances sorted? Hang out with other people who are working on their stuff, work on your stuff, get it done.
Join us for a free bimonthly meetup, online or in-person at Brooklyn Public Library. FREE RSVP at the ticket link.
Here’s a resource list of banks to avoid AND banks to look into: http://
NYC Young Democratic Socialists Meeting
Time: Tues. 1/10, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: 256 W. 38th St., 12th Fl., Manhattan
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From the Counter-Inauguration to “Revolution at the Crossroads,” the Young Democratic Socialists (YDS), the student wing of the Democratic Socialists of America, are organizing to defeat the Trump administration, continue the political revolution, and build a socialist alternative. Now is the time to organize and raise socialist ideas on our campuses, in our workplaces, and in our communities.
On Tuesday, 1/10 at 7:30pm, we invite students to join us for a YDS meetup at 256 W 38th St on the 12th floor to discuss ideas and strategies for building YDS and preparing for the upcoming conference. Whether you’re a student in New York City, or just home from school for the holidays, we’d love to see you there. And don’t worry if you’re not a YDS or DSA member yet, or don’t have a YDS chapter on your school–the meeting is open to anyone interested in learning more.
The Crunk Feminist Collection – Panel Discussion
Time: Tues. 1/10, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Location: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St., Brooklyn
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Featuring editors Robin M. Boylorn, Brittney C. Cooper, and Susana M. Morris
Moderated by Jamilah Lemieux
For the members of the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted to have: relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. With the publication of their new essay collection, the Crunk Feminist Collective tackles life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism. The book’s distinguished editors take the stage at Greenlight for a discussion moderated by Jamilah Lemieux about the book, the project, and the increasing relevance and necessity of their work.
Wednesday, January 11
Neighborhood Anti-Racist Defense: Training Session
Time: Wed. 1/11, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: The Base, 1302 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn
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The Kuwasi Balagoon Liberation School presents: an intensive course to prepare groups and to be able to combat violent racists and ICE deportations in the coming months.
Red flags have been raised over Trump’s announcement that he plans to immediately deport or detain millions of people. Even before a team of white nationalists descends on the white house, we have seen a massive increase in hate-based attacks and threatening graffiti across New York City. It is imperative that we take concrete steps to prepare people to defend their friends and neighbors.
We invite groups of friends and neighbors to attend this intensive course to receive the basics of anti-fascist tactics, tech security, and resisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We will cover how to make a neighborhood unwelcoming to bigots, keep your organizing work secret, know-your-rights for dealing with ICE officials and how to create a sanctuary space.
After this training, you and your group will be ready to start the process of defending physical space in a strategic way. We will be holding an assembly of all the associated groups in January to plan future trainings, workshop any problems groups may have encountered, and strategize ways to build our network stronger.
Thursday, January 12
Unmask LinkNYC – A Rally for Privacy
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 12:30pm – 1:00pm
Location: Southeast corner of W. 61st St. and Broadway, Manhattan
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Come be a part of the first organized resistance to LinkNYC!
On Thursday Jan 12th LinkNYC kiosk will come to life and dialogue with New Yorkers over lunch hour. We are staging a street theater intervention to raise questions about kiosk surveillance.
LinkNYC kiosks are springing up all over the city. They are marketed as “free” public wifi and a general public service. We are not being told that LinkNYC is tracking New Yorkers movements, association patterns, browser habits, and online activities.
RethnkLinkNYC is a group of concerned citizens whi are demanding to Rethink the Link.nyc program. We believe LinkNYC is not true community wifi. Instead, LinkNYC is mass surveillance and corporate profit boxed and marketed as free wifi. True community WiFi unites and connects people. It affirms freedom, openness and trust.
Non-Facebook URL: http://rethinklink.nyc/
Palestine Winter School
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: NYU Vanderbilt Hall, Rm. 210, 40 Washington Sq. S., Manhattan
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NYC Students for Justice in Palestine is holding political education classes, and all community members are encouraged to come out to discuss Palestine and collectively think about what this means as we organize in the United States.
This week – Palestine 101
What are the basics of the situation in Palestine? How did we get here? This study will cover a short history of Zionism and the Israeli state as well as the current situation of Palestine, the Palestinian people, and the liberation movement.
Black Power 50: Public Television and the Black Arts Movement
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan
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In the wake of the Black Power movement, Amiri Baraka along with other poets, writers, dramatists, and musicians, formed The Black Arts Movement (BAM). Those artists and many entertainers found their culture and politics featured prominently on Soul!, the groundbreaking one-hour series produced by Ellis Haizlip for PBS stations (1968-73) in the New York area. Leading cultural critic and musician Greg Tate will examine the relationship between Soul! and the Black Arts Movement–with renowned poets Nikki Giovanni, Askia M. Touré, and Gayle Wald, author of “It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television.”
Watch on livestream: https://livestream.com/
Nasty Women Exhibition – Opening Reception
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave., Queens
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*** STAY NASTY ***
A series of music, performances, and workshops accompanying Nasty Women Exhibition. Proceeds in benefit of select organizations working towards women’s reproductive health and community health initiatives. In partnership with The FADER and AdHoc Presents….
FULL DETAILS: http://knockdown.center/
Documentary Night: Land Defense in the Americas
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Starr Bar, 214 Starr St., Brooklyn
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Join us for a night of short films that offer intimate encounters with land defense movements in Mexico and Central America.
Documentaries feature indigenous and farming communities that are defending their mountains and rivers from mines, pipelines, dams, and other extractive projects. Through the voices of land and water protectors, these shorts explore both the strategies used by corporations to expropriate land, as well as the diverse ways that communities are defending what is theirs and cultivating autonomous alternatives.
The films were produced in 2015 – 2016 as part of the Mesoamerican Caravan, a Mexico-based project led by 12 autonomous collectives that worked with communities fighting resource extraction from Mexico to Costa Rica.
The screening will be introduced by Caravan member Thel Ess, and followed by a discussion of how we can support these frontline communities and connect their struggles with land and water protectors closer to home.
This event is free & open to all!
Stop Police Violence with ECRB – Open Organizing Meeting
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Freedom Hall, 113 W. 128th St., Manhattan
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We are coalition of groups and individuals organizing for an Elected Civilian Review Board (ECRB) – a grassroots body that would be empowered to discipline the NYPD and work with an independent Special Prosecutor to bring justice to victims of police violence.
Join the NYC Campaign for an Elected Civilian Review Board! Come out to the next organizing meeting to learn more and contribute your ideas.
We work together democratically and consciously build the participation and leadership of those most affected by police violence.
Broadening the Lens on Indigenous Resistance
Time: Thurs. 1/12, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
Location: UnionDocs, 322 Union Ave., Brooklyn
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In this session we lay out the main ideas for the coming year; what are roles for human rights filmmaking in the face of our deeply divided country, and how do we build and strengthen human rights media in this new era? Reflecting the historic organizing and resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline spearheaded by the Standing Rock Sioux people we will highlight several media makers who have been involved in this resistance. We are interested in discussing the relationship between human rights media making and the organizing of resistance movements. What does this collaboration look like and how does it work? Who has final cut, and who has content control? In what way is media used to further the organizing, and does it help to bridge ideological divides?
This program is a part of our monthly series BK@24FPS with Skylight Pictures where we explore documentary as a way to to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art.
Discussion moderated by Melvin Estrella with Julia Bridgham, Angelo Baco, and Matt Peterson will follow the program.
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Illustration by Yvonne Martinez.
