Category: Events

A Plastic Ocean

Wednesday, March 14, 6:45pm In A Plastic Ocean (directed by Craig Leeson), a journalist teams up with environmental activists and an international team of scientists and researchers, who travel to twenty locations around the world to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.

Complicit

Wednesday, March 7, 6:45pm Shot below the radar, Complicit (directed by Heather White and Lynn Zhang) follows the journey of Chinese migrant factory-worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage, confronting some of the world’s largest corporations, including Apple, Samsung, and Foxconn.

Company Town

Wednesday, February 28, 6:45pm A grassroots movement challenges Citizens United, corporate power, and moguls of the "sharing economy" to stop gentrification and wrest back control of San Francisco's future. Company Town (directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow) shows how a grassroots coalition of unions, tenants, neighborhoods of color, activists and artists can come together and win.

Bruce Cumings, History, University of Chicago

Myth & Reality in US-North Korean Relations Monday, December 3, 2018

David McNally, History and Business, University of Houston

Class, Oppression & Social Reproduction in an Age of Reaction & Resistance December 4-6, 2018

Shadow World

Wednesday, February 21, 6:45pm Shadow World (directed by Johan Grimonprez) reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade, the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Shadow World explores how governments, their militaries and intelligence agencies, defense contractors, arms dealers and agents are intertwined.

David Bacon, Author, Photographer

The Right to Stay Home: Justice for Migrant Workers and Sending Communities October 31- November 2, 2017

Alexander Anievas, Political Science, University of Connecticut

Legacies of Fascism: Race and the Far-Right in the Making of the Cold War October 10-12, 2017

Nancy MacLean, History, Duke University

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America October 5, 2017

Michael McCarthy, Social and Cultural Studies, Marquette University

Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and Retirement Income since the New Deal October 2, 2017