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Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
At NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609
Info: contact Gene Ruyle: Ph: 510-332-3865.
Email: cuyleruyle@mac.com
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
(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)
NOTE:
Many of our programs are being recorded and placed on the "icss
marxist" channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=icss+marxist+
Our Sunday
morning programs are scheduled pretty much on a “first come, first served”
basis and confirmed at our planning sessions. The opinions expressed are
those of the speakers only and do not represent a group consensus on the
issues by the members of ICSS. Our general practice is to allot at least half
of the time to comradely discussion of the issues including as many voices as
practical.
Sun, Nov
10, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open Mic/Political Karaoke
What’s bugging you, politics-wise?
Here’s your chance to talk about any and every thing
from the PG&E Power Shutdown to Brexit, from Nancy Pelosi to Greta
Thunberg, maybe even the riots in Chile. Sign up for 5 minute slots!
***PLAN AHEAD FOR BERKELEY HALF MARATHON***NOV
18 8AM-NOON
Sun, Nov 17, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter.
Representatives of the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police
Brutality and State Repression have been invited to discuss their position on
this matter.
Awaiting better blurb..
Sun, Nov 24, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Women and War
Women have a long association with
violent intergroup conflict and war going back to early human times.
This presentation will survey women in the highly genderized
institutions of war and the military in various periods and types of
societies. Although women have been impacted in multiple ways and
played many roles, the focus of this talk is on women's role as
fighter/combatant and direct supporters of this activity. Also covered
are women in some of the revolutionary wars and militaries in the past two
centuries. The fighter/combatant perspective on women is usually
omitted or "hidden" in accounts by both conventional and feminist
analysts who stress women as victims, survivors, peacemakers and supporters
of men who fight. Women as fighters not only redresses this imbalance
but indicates a role whose impact is as significant as the other roles that
are more widely promulgated.
Presented by Al Sargis,
Founder/Director of the Friedrich Engels Institute of Marxist War and
Military Analysis (FEIMWAMA).
Sun, Dec 1, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open (After Thanksgiving)
Sun, Dec
8, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Bitcoin and crypto currencies
We have invited Josh, one of
our new members, to do a presentation about the history and fundamental value
of Bitcoin and crypto currencie. Blurb soon.
Sun, Dec 15, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Protests in Chile and elsewhere
We’ve invited our comrade Ricardo to put something together on
this. Awaiting a blurb.
Sun, Dec 22, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open (befoe Christmas)
Sun, Dec 29, 2019: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open (after Christmas)
PLANNED FORUMS FOR 2020 (OR MAYBE IN 2019)
What Is Socialism and What Good Is It.
ICSS member, Professor Eugene
E Ruyle, will discuss his forthcoming book, Socialism for Americans: A
scientific Introduction to the Global Struggle for Socialism.
What Do We Mean, “Democracy?”
What did Marx, Engels, and Lenin have to
say about democracy? We will invite participants to bring quotes from Marx,
Engels, and Lenin and have a round-table discussion.
TENTATIVE This is a “filler,” in
case no one else suggests a proper program.
Sun, Jan 5, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open (After New Year’s Day)
Sun, Jan 12, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Jan
19, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Beyond Vietnam: MLK’s Finest Speech
TENTATIVE. This is the greatest speech of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. It was also the one that signed his death
warrant. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond
Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence [Full Speech]
Sun, Jan 26, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Feb 2, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Feb 9, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Feb 16, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
The Storm Before the Conflagration.
A Marxist view of the United States in the 1850s, and applicable
lessons for today’s political struggles, with ICSS Member Gary Hicks. NOTE:
This may be moved to a later date.
Sun, Jan 23, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Mar 1, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
Sun, Mar 8, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
In the Spirit of Alexandra Kollentai. TENTATIVE. A repeat
of a slide presentation previously given at the Starry Plough Pub.
Sun, Mar 15, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open
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