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03-10-2014, 09:45 AM
March Events Calendar: Center for Marxist Education
by worker
Events and Hours
Center for Marxist Education | 550 Mass Ave, Cambridge
An Evening with Grover Furr
Saturday, March 8th - 6:00 PM
Distinguished educator and author Professor Grover Furr will discuss his research into the Stalin-era and the challenge that recent scholarship poses to the Cold-War and anti-communist interpretations of Soviet History.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1399781586950497
China Discussion Group - Film Screening: Manufactured Landscapes
Thursday, March 13th - 7-8:30 PM
Modern China is facing serious environmental problems created during the drive for rapid industrialization. The beautifully filmed Manufactured Landscapes documents the industrial landscapes and environmental impacts of the Three Gorges Dam, a shipyard, and the city of Shanghai in China as well as oil tankers from Bangladesh. The documentary was made by renowned filmmaker Edward Burtynsky. We will be following the film with a discussion of changes in China's environmental policies, based on its commitment in 2007 to using environmentally as well as socially sustainable practices to meet human needs.
https://www.facebook.com/events/251855724992184
Sunday Film & Discussion Night
Hosted by Richard Pendleton
Please join us on the following Sundays for showing of various movies and documentaries followed by a discussion on the evening’s topic
Women's Prison
Sunday, March 16th - 6PM
This taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, using the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society.
Her protagonist, Mitra, is in prison for killing her violent stepfather. On the eve of a prison riot she confronts Tahereh, the new warden, whose dogmatic views she challenges fearlessly. Over the course of the next 20 years, Tahereh's attitude toward her prisoners changes and softens, which reflects the country's shifting political stance. Eventually Mitra, aged and exhausted, is finally released, but Tahereh is now more like a prisoner herself. (Farsi with English subtitles, 2013) 106 minutes.
-AND-
SALT OF THIS SEA
Sunday, March 30th - 6:00 PM
An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, Salt of This Sea is essential viewing. Sixty years after her grandparents exile from Jaffa, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) leaves Brooklyn to live in her homeland. Discovering that her family's bank account was frozen after the Arab- Israeli way, she decides to leave Brooklyn for her homeland, determined to reclaim her birthright, through whatever means necessary. With the help of her disillusioned lover Emad (Saleh Bakri) and his filmmaker pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis), they plan on one big heist to settle the historical debt. Driving through the countryside like an Arab (and pacifist) Bonnie and Clyde, Soraya and Emad discover their roots while rejecting their status as exiles. Hammad and Bakri attack their roles with feral intensity, electrifying the screen. The first fiction feature of Palestinian-American director Annemarie Jacir, and the first feature film from Palestine by a female director, it is an intimate, urgent and rousing piece of political filmmaking. (English, 2011) 105 minutes.
EXTRA MOVIE NIGHT!
Hosted by Sandy Eaton. Sandy is a retired nurse who is still tirelessly organizing with Massachusetts Nurses Association and is an advocate for things like Single Payer and the Robin Hood Tax. Sandy is also a member of CCDS and has been a long time friend of the Center. Join Sandy and the CME for a discussion of The Healthcare Movie followed by a discussion on the state of the healthcare system today.
The Healthcare Movie
Sunday, March 23rd 6 PM
Feature length film narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. The issue of healthcare in America goes far beyond a line in the budget. It reaches into the center of the American soul and answers the question, "How in the world do we want to treat each other?"
In Canada, healthcare is regarded as a social service, and treated as a responsibility of the government, to be provided to every citizen. Not so in the United States. In America, health care is regarded as a profit-making commodity, to be operated for the financial gain of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, doctors and hospitals. This documentary considers how it came to be that the two systems ended up in such different places.. It explores the health care system in Canada: how it came to be, how it works for ordinary Canadians, how it is paid for, and how it compares to its American counterpart.
More info on the movie here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Healthcare-Movie/312652158857
https://www.facebook.com/events/1450857491815195/
SOLEDAD BROTHER and BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE: A Discussion of Black Panther Legacies
Wednesday, March 26th 6:30 PM
Join us for an open discussion of George Jackson's powerful and popular book, SOLEDAD BROTHER, as well as selections of Bloom and Martin's new study of the Black Panther Party, BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE. Together we will be working to draw out the powerful legacies and lessons, insights and inspirations of the these home-grown revolutionary anti-imperialists. Discussion led by Joe Ramsey.
https://www.facebook.com/events/558755077556725
"Walking with the Comrades....Is the Torch Passing?"
A discussion of the Maoist Movement in South Asia
Saturday, March 29th 3-5 PM
Join us at the CME for a Saturday discussion --kicked off by radical post-colonialism scholar John Maerhofer--on the state of the Maoist movement in South Asia, and what these movements mean for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles across the world.
As a launching point, participants are encouraged to read Arundhati Roy's essay "Walking with the Comrades" as well as Robert Weil's article "Is the Torch Passing?"
https://www.facebook.com/events/573853062709860
Victor Serge: On the Borders of Victory and Defeat
Saturday, April 5th 4-6 PM
Communist historian Doug Enaa Greene will lecture on the activist, historian and novelist Victor Serge (1890-1947) at the Center for Marxist Education. Serge was originally an anarchist in his youth, who became a communist after 1917, an ally of Leon Trotsky and a heterodox Marxist. Victor Serge's many works chronicle, in eloquent and brutal honesty, the revolutionary experience of his generation.
https://www.facebook.com/events/687215757989026
Bolshevism:How the Party was Built - A Talk with Steve Iverson
Saturday, April 19th 3-5 PM
100 years ago, Europe was beset by WWI. Just 3 years later, Lenin’s Bolshevik Party led workers to power in Russia. How did a party of only 8,000 members in February 1917 grow to a quarter of a million in less than nine months, and win the majority of workers, peasants, and soldiers to take power in a virtually bloodless October Revolution? How was this party constructed? How were its members educated and developed? How did it weather repression and the ebbs and flows of the struggle? What practical lessons can 21st-century socialists gain from a careful study of Bolshevism?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1480706885482589
Winter Hours
Monday - 4pm to 8pm
Tuesday - 4pm - 8pm
Wednesday 4pm - 8pm
Thursday 6pm - 8pm
For updated information on hours and events please follow us on facebook at:
facebook.com/CenterForMarxistEducation
http://houstoncommunistparty.com/march-events-calendar-center-for-marxist-education/
Facebook, sheesh...Suppose I could use the better half's account.
by worker
Events and Hours
Center for Marxist Education | 550 Mass Ave, Cambridge
An Evening with Grover Furr
Saturday, March 8th - 6:00 PM
Distinguished educator and author Professor Grover Furr will discuss his research into the Stalin-era and the challenge that recent scholarship poses to the Cold-War and anti-communist interpretations of Soviet History.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1399781586950497
China Discussion Group - Film Screening: Manufactured Landscapes
Thursday, March 13th - 7-8:30 PM
Modern China is facing serious environmental problems created during the drive for rapid industrialization. The beautifully filmed Manufactured Landscapes documents the industrial landscapes and environmental impacts of the Three Gorges Dam, a shipyard, and the city of Shanghai in China as well as oil tankers from Bangladesh. The documentary was made by renowned filmmaker Edward Burtynsky. We will be following the film with a discussion of changes in China's environmental policies, based on its commitment in 2007 to using environmentally as well as socially sustainable practices to meet human needs.
https://www.facebook.com/events/251855724992184
Sunday Film & Discussion Night
Hosted by Richard Pendleton
Please join us on the following Sundays for showing of various movies and documentaries followed by a discussion on the evening’s topic
Women's Prison
Sunday, March 16th - 6PM
This taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, using the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society.
Her protagonist, Mitra, is in prison for killing her violent stepfather. On the eve of a prison riot she confronts Tahereh, the new warden, whose dogmatic views she challenges fearlessly. Over the course of the next 20 years, Tahereh's attitude toward her prisoners changes and softens, which reflects the country's shifting political stance. Eventually Mitra, aged and exhausted, is finally released, but Tahereh is now more like a prisoner herself. (Farsi with English subtitles, 2013) 106 minutes.
-AND-
SALT OF THIS SEA
Sunday, March 30th - 6:00 PM
An urgent and devastating portrait of life in Palestine, Salt of This Sea is essential viewing. Sixty years after her grandparents exile from Jaffa, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) leaves Brooklyn to live in her homeland. Discovering that her family's bank account was frozen after the Arab- Israeli way, she decides to leave Brooklyn for her homeland, determined to reclaim her birthright, through whatever means necessary. With the help of her disillusioned lover Emad (Saleh Bakri) and his filmmaker pal Marwan (Riyad Ideis), they plan on one big heist to settle the historical debt. Driving through the countryside like an Arab (and pacifist) Bonnie and Clyde, Soraya and Emad discover their roots while rejecting their status as exiles. Hammad and Bakri attack their roles with feral intensity, electrifying the screen. The first fiction feature of Palestinian-American director Annemarie Jacir, and the first feature film from Palestine by a female director, it is an intimate, urgent and rousing piece of political filmmaking. (English, 2011) 105 minutes.
EXTRA MOVIE NIGHT!
Hosted by Sandy Eaton. Sandy is a retired nurse who is still tirelessly organizing with Massachusetts Nurses Association and is an advocate for things like Single Payer and the Robin Hood Tax. Sandy is also a member of CCDS and has been a long time friend of the Center. Join Sandy and the CME for a discussion of The Healthcare Movie followed by a discussion on the state of the healthcare system today.
The Healthcare Movie
Sunday, March 23rd 6 PM
Feature length film narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. The issue of healthcare in America goes far beyond a line in the budget. It reaches into the center of the American soul and answers the question, "How in the world do we want to treat each other?"
In Canada, healthcare is regarded as a social service, and treated as a responsibility of the government, to be provided to every citizen. Not so in the United States. In America, health care is regarded as a profit-making commodity, to be operated for the financial gain of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, doctors and hospitals. This documentary considers how it came to be that the two systems ended up in such different places.. It explores the health care system in Canada: how it came to be, how it works for ordinary Canadians, how it is paid for, and how it compares to its American counterpart.
More info on the movie here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Healthcare-Movie/312652158857
https://www.facebook.com/events/1450857491815195/
SOLEDAD BROTHER and BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE: A Discussion of Black Panther Legacies
Wednesday, March 26th 6:30 PM
Join us for an open discussion of George Jackson's powerful and popular book, SOLEDAD BROTHER, as well as selections of Bloom and Martin's new study of the Black Panther Party, BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE. Together we will be working to draw out the powerful legacies and lessons, insights and inspirations of the these home-grown revolutionary anti-imperialists. Discussion led by Joe Ramsey.
https://www.facebook.com/events/558755077556725
"Walking with the Comrades....Is the Torch Passing?"
A discussion of the Maoist Movement in South Asia
Saturday, March 29th 3-5 PM
Join us at the CME for a Saturday discussion --kicked off by radical post-colonialism scholar John Maerhofer--on the state of the Maoist movement in South Asia, and what these movements mean for anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggles across the world.
As a launching point, participants are encouraged to read Arundhati Roy's essay "Walking with the Comrades" as well as Robert Weil's article "Is the Torch Passing?"
https://www.facebook.com/events/573853062709860
Victor Serge: On the Borders of Victory and Defeat
Saturday, April 5th 4-6 PM
Communist historian Doug Enaa Greene will lecture on the activist, historian and novelist Victor Serge (1890-1947) at the Center for Marxist Education. Serge was originally an anarchist in his youth, who became a communist after 1917, an ally of Leon Trotsky and a heterodox Marxist. Victor Serge's many works chronicle, in eloquent and brutal honesty, the revolutionary experience of his generation.
https://www.facebook.com/events/687215757989026
Bolshevism:How the Party was Built - A Talk with Steve Iverson
Saturday, April 19th 3-5 PM
100 years ago, Europe was beset by WWI. Just 3 years later, Lenin’s Bolshevik Party led workers to power in Russia. How did a party of only 8,000 members in February 1917 grow to a quarter of a million in less than nine months, and win the majority of workers, peasants, and soldiers to take power in a virtually bloodless October Revolution? How was this party constructed? How were its members educated and developed? How did it weather repression and the ebbs and flows of the struggle? What practical lessons can 21st-century socialists gain from a careful study of Bolshevism?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1480706885482589
Winter Hours
Monday - 4pm to 8pm
Tuesday - 4pm - 8pm
Wednesday 4pm - 8pm
Thursday 6pm - 8pm
For updated information on hours and events please follow us on facebook at:
facebook.com/CenterForMarxistEducation
http://houstoncommunistparty.com/march-events-calendar-center-for-marxist-education/
Facebook, sheesh...Suppose I could use the better half's account.