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The
Institute for the Critical Study of Society
at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Sunday
Morning at the Marxist Library
OUR CURRENT SCHEDULE
(NOTE: These are all tentative
and may be changed. Please check back the week before, or sign up for our
weekly reminders/updates at cuyleruyle@mac.com)
Sun, Feb 28, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm
The Recent Past and Future of Peace and
Solidarity Movements, 2008 - 2021 and Beyond
The anti-war movements in the US and across the globe were at their peaks
through the first years of the post-9/11 wars. They were broad,
diverse, international, and powerful. They did not succeed in
preventing the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq, but they set the stage for future
movements and future victories, including stopping US bombing campaigns
in Syria and escalation in Iran, parts of the Arab Spring uprisings,
and more. By the time the Obama administration came into office in
2008, the movement in the US was already facing new challenges. And
over the next several years its power, size, breadth, and influence had
all diminished. Many blamed it on "oh the peace movement was just
too enthralled with Obama" and they stopped working. But that
claim, while holding a grain of truth among a few sectors of the movement,
does not explain the changes. Phyllis will discuss that history, and
look forward to today's legacy and new anti-war organizations, and the rise
of anti-war/anti-militarism components in a broad range of
intersectional organizations.
About the speaker: Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for
Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where she directs the New Internationalism
Project, focusing on Middle East, U.S. wars and UN issues. For many years she
has been a role model for those who would change US foreign policy by
combining activism with crucial research and analysis. In 2001
Phyllis helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves
on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She works with many anti-war
and Palestinian rights organizations, writing and speaking widely across the
U.S. and around the world. She has served as an informal adviser to several
top UN officials on Middle East issues and was twice short-listed to become
the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory. Phyllis has written and edited eleven books. Among her
latest is the just-published 7th updated edition of her popular Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Other
important works include Before
& After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror and Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy
U.S. Power.
LOGIN INFORMATION
The meeting will be opened up, as usual, at
10:15 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each
other, say Hi, etc. We Intend to start the presentation as close to
10:30 am as possible. The program (and recording) will end at 12:30, but the
Waiting Room will remain open for informal discussion.
Raj Sahai
will provide log-in info here by Friday.
PLANNED
FUTURE PROGRAMS
The following programs are in various stages of planning.
Sun, Mar 7, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
TENTATIVE: Ecology
We have scheduled ICSS member Raj Sahai to speak on this or a related topic on this date.
Sun, Mar 14, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Collective Worker Action in the Tech Industry
A look at both the history of collective actions
taken by workers in the tech industry and the current state of the movement.
Tech has long been seen as an industry that has resisted worker organization
for many reasons. However, there has actually been a long history of
organization among tech workers. And, in the last few years, there has been a
groundswell of worker organizing in many of the largest tech companies
including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. What are the strategies that have
been taken by the movement to build worker power and how successful have they
been? What is different and unique about organizing workers in the tech
industry? Come find out!
Bios:
Sarvesh Rajasekaran has been working in the tech industry as an
engineer and product manager for over a decade and helps maintain Collective
Action in Tech. He has also been a community organizer for Bernie 2020 and
Homes not Handcuffs among other electoral and issue campaigns.
Kristen will provide her bio shortly!
Sun, Mar 21, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
History of the U. S. Working Class
We have invited John Holmes to
speak on this topic.
Sun, Mar 28, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Apr 4, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Apr 11, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm
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Sun, Apr 18, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Apr 25, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, May 2, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, May 9, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, May 16, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, May 23 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, May 30, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Sun, Jun 6, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
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Sun, Dec 5, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
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Sun, Jan 2, 2022: 10:30 am to 12:30
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Sun, Jan 9, 2022: 10:30 am to 12:30
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Sun, Jan 16, 2022: 10:30 am to
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Sun, Jan 23, 2022: 10:30 am to
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Sun, Jan 30, 2022: 10:30 am to
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UNDER CONSIDERATION
Sun, Jan xx, 20XX: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
AS NEEDED: Group Reading: The Communist Manifesto
This is the foundational work of Marxism and we will go through it paragraph
by paragraph, with ample opportunity for discussion. Be prepared to voice,
and defend, your views!
Sun, Jan xx, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm
PERHAPS: Is Facebook Rewiring Our Brains? "If you are not paying for the
product, you are the product."
Open discussion of Netflix film.
The Social Dilemma. Gene might organize.
Sun, Jan xx, 2021: 10:30 am to
12:30 pm
PERHAPS?: The Social Metabolism of Imperialism This will
continue the theoretical work of ICSS member Eugene E Ruyle which applies
Marx’s labor theory of value to the analysis of non-capitalist as well as
capitalist systems, leading to a theoretic framework Ruyle calls social
thermodynamics or social metabolism. Ruyle’s tslk will be part of a larger project, “The Evolution of Human Energetic Systems”
Sunday near May 3, 2021: 10:30 am
to 12:30 pm
TENTATIVE Postponed from last
year: Elazar on the Scientific Analysis of Stalinism.
(Elazar 88th Birthday celebration after)
Sunday, Sep 5, 2021: 10:30 am to 12:30
TENTATIVE (Postponed from 2020): Reclaiming the True Legacy
of Labor Day
This will an updated repeat of a talk given at the San Jose Peace Center
in 2017 by ICSS member Eugene
E Ruyle.
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