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Oct 1, 2018

Imagining Community, Living In Community

Cape Cod Lounge, UMass Amherst Student Union(map)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

An exploration of efforts to create intentional communities based on visions of more just and harmonious social relationships. A panel conversation with Ousmane Power-Greene (Clark University),...

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Oct 17, 2018

21st-Century Socialism: Venezuela's Communes in Historical Perspective

Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Hall, UMass Amherst(map)
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

A Conversation with Atenea Jiménez Lemón and George Ciccariello-Maher...

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Nov 1, 2018

Domestic Workers Building Dignity and Power, Past and Present

Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Hall(map)
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Domestic workers are organizing on a massive scale to build economies that respect the labor of women of color. This panel of organizers and historians will discuss the goals and challenges facing...

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Nov 5, 2018

Dreams and Nightmares: The Promises and Perils of Revolutionary Visions

Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies, UMass Amherst
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

What is at stake, and what is at risk, in the building of new worlds? Five College faculty will deliver short presentations and lead a community conversation on the nightmarish visions of social...

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Nov 13, 2018

People's Encyclopedia and Zine Making Workshop 

University Museum of Contemporary Art
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm

It has been 50 years since the historic Civil Rights and Liberation Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In this workshop with Walidah Imarisha, participants will imagine themselves 55 years in the...

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All Organizing is Science Fiction

Student Union Ballroom, UMass Amherst
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Educator, writer, public scholar and spoken word artist Walidah Imarisha will explore the history of sci-fi and social change, sharing tools for using science fiction as a practice ground for...

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Nov 27, 2018

Escaping Slavery, Envisioning Freedom

Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Distinguished historians Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Barbara Krauthamer will explore how enslaved and formerly enslaved African American women envisioned and experienced freedom. This is the...

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