[Brecht-press] Please List: Racial Profiling of Hip Hop, Politics of Tsunami Relief and more...

[Liz Roberts]

*The Brecht Forum
451 West St.  (Betw Bank & Bethune)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 242- 4201*
www.brechtforum.org

 
Contact: Liz Roberts 212.242.4201 or lizr at brechtforum.org


*For Immediate Release*
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Thursday, May 26
6:30 pm
Co-sponsor: Soul Survivors

The HipHop Police and the Racial Profiling of HipHop:   From Assata 
Shakur to Tupac Shakur

(Dasun Allah, Rosa Clemente & King Downing)

 Presentation 6:30pm - Panel @ 7pm
The disproportionate criminalization of Black and Latino working-class 
communities continues at breakneck speed. Emerging hand in hand with 
soaring prison rates is the criminalization of the HipHop culture. 
Police Agencies across the country have begun to develop special units 
that profile and conduct surveillance of HipHop artists, venues and culture.
Our panel will discuss the complicated history of racial profiling 
cases, the threat to civil liberties and the systematic attack against 
HipHop culture. Find out what YOU can do to fight this trend.
We will also delve into the shadowy history of "cointelpro" in which 
'60s activists were profiled and why there are so many similarities with 
today's programs against HipHop culture.

 Dasun Allah is a writer and editor with /Source Magazine/ and /Village 
Voice/ and author of /The HipHop Cop: A Tale of NYPD's Rap Intelligence 
Unit /
Rosa Clemente works with the MalcolmX Grassroots Movement Hands off 
Assata Campaign
King Downing works with the Campaign against Racial Profiling of the 
American Civil Liberties Union

 Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
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Friday, May 27
8:30 pm
NEUES KABARETT

Charles Gayle

 "Possibly the most important free jazz saxophonist to emerge since the 
death of Albert Ayler."
(jazztalent.com)

Charles Gayle (sax) joined by Hill Greene (bass) and Jay Rosen (drums).
Born in Buffalo, Gayle studied piano and eventually took up tenor 
saxophone, playing in the New York avant-garde scene in the 60s. He has 
worked with artists like Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, 
John Tchicai, William Parker and Rashied Ali in the U.S. and Europe. For 
much of his career Gayle struggled for work, playing underground venues 
and in the subway. He was homeless for two decades, playing for change 
on the street. He also plays viola, bass clarinet, piano and other 
instruments. Gayle's work has a "captivating resonance" as well as a 
"hard, industrial edge." (All About Jazz)
"There is no player on the scene today with the emotional wallop of 
Charles Gayle. His later discs - particularly 'Ancient of Days' - 
manifest a mature improvisational talent that can stand with any 
saxophonist's today. If you are interested in improvised music, you owe 
it to yourself to hear him." (All About Jazz)
Neues Kabarett's 2005 season is made possible by the New York State 
Council on the Arts, through the Fund for Creative Communities of the 
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Admission: $10
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Wednesday, June 1
7:30 pm
VIDEO SCREENINGS & DISCUSSION  Co-sponsor: The World Tribunal on Iraq

"Fallujah" & "The World Tribunal on Iraq" : 2 Documentaries on the 
Reality of War

(Discussion with Brandon Jourdan, Alpa Patel & World Tribunal on Iraq 
Organizers)

"Fallujah" (2005, 28 min.) is the latest film from Brandon Jourdan (Deep 
Dish TV, NYC Indymedia) and Jacque Soohen (Big Noise Films). It uses 
never-before seen footage of the violent US assault on the small Iraqi 
city during November. The footage used was shot almost entirely by the 
Iraqi people and shows a very different perspective of the attack than 
offered in US media. "Fallujah" is an ambitious attempt to show the 
history of a city and its destruction.

"The World Tribunal on Iraq" (2005, 58 min.) is the finale to Deep Dish 
TV's award-winning "Shocking & Awful" series. It brings testimony from 
the New York Tribunal on Iraq, part of a world-wide series of hearings 
that will conclude in Istanbul on June 23rd-25th. With a Court TV-esqe 
spin and a little DragNet spoof thrown in, producer & editor Alpa Patel 
creates an informative and engaging view of the World Tribunal.
Participants include: Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch; Roger 
Normand, the Center for Economic & Social Rights; Jennifer Ridha, 
Iraqi-American attorney; Dr. Gert van Moorter, Medical Aid for the Third 
World; Mike Hoffman, Iraq Veterans Against the War; Eve Ensler, author 
of the Vagina Monologues; Dennis Brutus, anti-apartheid activist; Sinan 
Antoon, Iraqi-American poet, and many others.
Check out 30 sec. trailer at: 
http://www.deepdishtv.org/shocking/worldtribunal.htm
After the screenings, producers Alpa Patel & Brandon Jourdan as well as 
World Tribunal on Iraq organizers will discuss the latest crisis in Iraq 
as well as the upcoming final WTI session in Istanbul, which will 
include participants such as acclaimed author Arundhati Roy.

Proceeds from the screening will be shared by the World Tribunal on Iraq 
and the Brecht Forum. Additional donations towards funding Deep Dish TV 
& the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul would be appreciated.

www.deepdishtv.org
www.worldtribunal.org

Suggested donation: $6/ $10/$15
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Wednesday, June 1
7:29 m
5-SESSION CLASS BEGINS

Gender & Detective Fiction

(Annette T. Rubinstein)

 Even when we rule out such related forms as crime, adventure and spy 
stories, there are now more detective novels published here annually 
than the sum total of others plus biographies, autobiographies, memoirs 
and literary essay collections. Furthermore, since our most intellectual 
president, Woodrow Wilson, "came out" as an aficionado of this 
frequently condemned genre such other intellectuals as the poet W.H. 
Auden, the churchman Monsignor Ronald Knox and the political economist 
Ernest Mandel have become known as devotees.
Many of them not only read but also write about detective stories. In 
fact twenty-five years ago, Mandel devoted an entire book, /Delightful 
Murder,/ to "a social history of the crime story" presenting it as a 
barometer of changing class consciousness from feudalism to date. His 
examples, drawn for the most part from continental authors, are 
relatively unfamiliar and he nowhere acknowledges the existence, let 
alone the importance, of gender his general approach is one we will find 
stimulating and insightful. Long unavailable, the work has recently been 
republished by the University of Minnesota Press and is worth buying for 
general background reading.
Our first session will discuss probable reasons for the phenomenal 
growth of popularity since WWI and the part played by women writers and 
women detectives they created. While we will use such well known figures 
as Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, 
etc., and the growing number of African American writers, we will 
consider them as representatives rather than individuals. Similarly, we 
will be more concerned with the worlds and situations they create than 
with details of plot or stylistic questions. We will also consider the 
increasing number of such special sub-genres as the lesbian or American 
Indian novels.

 Class will meet at the home of Dr. Annette T. Rubinstein, author of 
/American Literature: Root and Flower/ and /The Great Tradition in 
English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw/. Please call for advance 
registration and location information.

 Sliding scale: $40-$60
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Thursday, June 9
7:30 pm

Man Made Disasters in Post-Tsunami India:
Relief and Rehabilitation as a Zone of Disempowerment

(V. Suresh)

 In India, Sri Lanka and Aceh, as in many other parts of the world along 
the African and South East Asian coastline, the human tragedy of the 
tsunami has been complicated and magnified by the States role in Tsunami 
relief. In India, both the Federal and the State governments approached 
the Tsunami relief work from within the governing logic of neo-liberal 
economic restructuring creating what might be called further zones of 
disempowerment.

 V. Suresh is a leading lawyer from Chennai, India and General Secretary 
of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, Tamilnadu India. He was 
amongst those responsible for creating the Peoples Platform immediately 
after the Tsunami as it became evident that some of the poorest who 
suffered would be further marginalized. Speaking from within a context 
of how the State of Tamilnadu is being restructured under neo-liberal 
government, Suresh will report on the state of the struggle in 
post-Tsunami tamilandu.

 Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
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Friday, June 10
 7:30 pm
BOOK PARTY/FORUM

The Party:  The Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988, A Political Memoir

(Barry Sheppard)

 Author Barry Sheppard was a member of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party 
for 29 years and a central leader for most of that time. This is the 
first of two volumes recounting his life in the party. It is a case 
study in the inspiration and difficulties involved in building the 
nucleus of a revolutionary socialist party and important source material 
for those interested in the history of the U.S. left.
Volume one covers the period from 1960 to 1973, the period of 
radicalization known as "The Sixties." Walking picket lines for Black 
civil rights, helping to organize the anti-Vietnam-war movement, 
interviewing Malcolm X, meeting the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, defending 
the Cuban revolution, collaborating with socialists worldwide including 
in Australia, India, France and Japan, Barry Sheppard shares invaluable 
memories of some of the most prominent popular struggles of the last 
half-century.

Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15

     

 


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