Marxist School of Sacramento

06/24/2019

Odd ... I was sure I had created an event for our Marxist School Reading Group (session 3 scheduled for Tuesday June 25), and came here to delete it, but I guess I never finished creating it. Everything works our for the best? Anyway, thanks to scheduling conflicts we can't meet on the Fourth Tuesdays, so we're suspending the reading group until we get things sorted out.

05/27/2019

June 9, 2019 3:30pm, DSA Socialist-Feminist Reading Group at Lavender Library, 1414 21st Street, Sacto :
International solidarity and women led movements in Bangladesh textile factories in the news now.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/2019/04/24/2-fall-sick-on-day-3-of-rana-plaza-hunger-strike

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/what-international-solidarity-looks-like

The protestors have said the strike will continue until all their demands are met

11/14/2018

Friday, November 16, 2018
6-9 pm
Health Care Revolt: a doctor’s manifesto
Shriners Auditorium, Sacramento
2425 Stockton Boulevard, 95817
(Stockton Boulevard and Y Streets
Free Parking in Shriners parking structure)

Michael Fine, MD
David Siegel, MD
Keith McCallin, PA

Family physician Michael Fine attends to patients at the Blackstone Valley Community Health Center in Rhode Island. After serving as the state’s public health director, he wrote a book published in 2018 by PM Press about what ails the US health care system.

After his talk about his book, Health Care Revolt, Dr. Fine will be joined by two panelists: David Siegel, MD, former regional director of Northern California Veterans Administration Hospitals, and Keith McCallin, a physician assistant/health care activist.

For more information, see www.marxistschool.org

Marxist School of Sacramento

10/21/2018

Mat Callahan: "1968 and Beyond: Culture, Counterculture and Revolution", Thursday, October 25, 7-9 pm, Sierra 2 Center, Room 9, 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, CA (between Castro Way and 4th Ave.)

In his book The Explosion of Deferred Dreams Callahan explores these questions:
—why did "culture" suddenly assume such prominence in the Sixties?
—what distinguished the New Left and the Counterculture?
—why did the Reagan/Thatcher counterrevolution launch the "Culture Wars?"
—does "culture" have any usefulness for revolutionaries today?

As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love flooded the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, "flower power," "acid rock," and "hippies", The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone, the United Farm Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the counterculture.
www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/MatCallahan

Mat Callahan is an author, musician and native San Franciscan. Most recently he re-published Songs of Freedom by James Connolly and launched the Songs of Slavery and Emancipation project. He is the author of five books including in 2017 The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975, (PM Press) and A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property (Zed Books). Callahan can be reached at: www.matcallahan.com.

05/18/2018

The Marxist School of Sacramento, with Democratic Socialist of America - Sacramento
is pleased to sponsor
MAX ELBAUM, presenting the new, updated edition of Revolution In The Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, with a Forward by Alicia Garza, co-founder
The current rise of movements for revolutionary change in the US leave many wondering about the history and lineage of the wide variety of acronyms, organizations and political parties active on the US left. “Revolution in the Air” explains it all!
Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and a leader of one of the main efforts to build a new revolutionary party in the 70s and 80s. His writings have appeared in the Nation, the US Guardian, CrossRoads, and the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He currently lives in Oakland.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
May 20, 2018, 4-6 PM
LOCATION: TIME TESTED BOOKS
1114 21ST SACRAMENTO, CA

03/14/2018

The Marxist School Of Sacramento
Point Of View (POV) Lecture Series
New Location, New Time and New Format
STARTING MARCH 15, 2018
Our Point Of View Lecture Series continues at a new location, new time, and new format. We will hold the POV lectures at Cafe & Brew, 925 Third Street (at J Street)., Sacramento, 6:30–8:30pm.
The café is located just off the J Street off-ramp on Interstate 5.
It has bus, rail, and light rail service nearby and there is plenty of parking. The café gives us an opportunity to have a meal with our speakers before they make their presentations. We will meet in the café's private meeting room at 5:30 pm for a meal with the speaker.
The lectures and presentations will begin in the same room at 6:30 pm, and end at 8:30 pm. Optionally, food may be ordered during that time. Individuals are responsible for their own, separate checks for their meals, beverages, desserts, etc.
The Marxist School of Sacramento reimburses speakers for their travel costs, and purchases a meal for them. The school depends upon the generous support of tax-deductible donations from the community to meet its expenses to continue to feature the POV Lecture Series.
We decided to change the location and format of the Point Of View Lecture Series so that it could continue, without charge to public participants, to feature activists, academics, and writers whose work investigates and demonstrates the analysis of Karl Marx.

Thursday, March 15: Jewels Smith; 6:30–8:30pm, Café and Brew
Juliana "Jewels" Smith is the creator and writer of (H)afrocentric that features four disgruntled undergrads of color and their adventures at Ronald Reagan University. In 2016, Smith took home the Glyph Award for Best Writer for Volume 4 of her independent series. She was also honored by the African American Library and Museum of Oakland with the first annual Excellence in Comics and Graphic Novels Award. She created (H)afrocentric as a way to challenge students and readers alike about the presumptions around race, class, gender and sexuality through character dialogue. She has given talks about the relationship between comics, humor, racial justice, and gender equity at The Schomburg Center, New York Comic Con, Studio Museum of Harlem, The Cooper Union, and more.

05/11/2017

Thursday, May 18, 2017
7-9pm, Room 9*, Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St, Sacramento, CA (*please note: Room 9 is along the main hall, not our usual room!)

Water Forum 2017: The Marxist School of Sacramento presents a discussion of water issues and social justice

Listen to experienced local, grassroots, state-wide water policy perspectives from legal, social, and media experts.

* Dan Bacher is a seasoned reporter for FishSniffer magazine, a sportsmans' newsletter with an environmental edge. Dan's journalism is published by AlterNet, CounterPunch, and other, alternative outlets. He can be heard at 5:30 am Saturday mornings on KFBK, 93.1 FM, on the Bob Simms' Outdoor Show, mixing fish tales with the latest news on the corporate r**e of our watersheds.

* The Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW) is a resource for local communities engaged in social justice battles against corporations, including access to water. Its attorney, Colin Bailey, is a Marxist School Praxis Award winner. He fought plans by Sacramento Natural Gas to store millions of cubic feet of the stuff under South Sacramento's Glen Elder community. Today, he and coordinator Reverend Amanda Ford are consulting people to keep their water clean and under their control.

04/06/2015

Tuesday, April 7, April 23, 2015, 7pm, Colonial Heights Library, 2799 Stockton Blvd., Sacramento. we'll have a discussion of March 2015 Monthly Review article, "A Rational Agriculture is Incompatible with Capitalism", by Fred Magdoff. The link is on our web page, www.marxistschool.org.

Marxist School of Sacramento

01/08/2015

Getting ready for a great year. First class (David Harvey video) will be on January 13, and first Point of View Event is January 15.

We're holding our classes at the Colonial Heights Library, more or less on the second and third Tuesdays, 7pm. That's instead of the SMUD customer service center. Benefits: you don't have to walk across a street in the dark from the parking lot, and the door to the community room opens to the outside so no wandering around in the SMUD building looking for us. (Disadvantage: not near the light rail). It's at 2799 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento (at 21st Ave).

And our Point of View event on January 15 is a new film on the workers uprising in Wisconsin, documenting the occupation of the state Capitol and the national attention as Wisconsinites attempted to preserve collective bargaining power for the state's public employees. The film's director, Sam Mayfield, will be on hand to answer questions after the film, which runs for about an hour.

As the story unfolds, democracy itself is at stake. The government in Wisconsin looks like a circus, as Republicans invent new laws daily, restricting citizens’—and even elected officials’—access to the State House. Our cameras are rolling on March 9th, 2011, when Republican Senators attempt to vote on the bill with no public notice as over 10,000 people pour into the Capitol, occupying its halls overnight. Dramatic footage shows Republican Senators fleeing the state capitol on a secret shuttle as thousands of Wisconsinites fill the State House and Capitol grounds in protest.

04/11/2010

And this Thursday, April 15, (two days after the beginning of Anti-Duhring classes), come back to the Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St., to hear Julio Huato, professor of economics, Drew University, speak on "The political economy of Mexico today". Always free and open to the public. http://www.marxistschool.org

Marxist School of Sacramento

03/30/2010

Another speaker: Tuesday, March 30, Sol Collective, 2574 21st Street, Sacramento, 7-9pm. Karl Beitel, “Global finance in the current economic crisis and restructuring of capitalism--the class aspects of the global townturn.” Sounds erudite, but I love this stuff: it's like getting to see how the universe works.
The Sol Collective is on 21st Street a block south of Broadway. Plenty of street parking on 21st or around the corner in the lot on 1st Ave. http://www.marxistschool.org

Marxist School of Sacramento

02/26/2010

Friday, March 5, Sonoma State University's Jonah Raskin will speak on "Imperialism and revolution: yesterday and today." Sierra 2 Center, Garden Room, 2791 – 24th St., Sacramento, 7-9pm. http://www.marxistschool.org

Marxist School of Sacramento

02/05/2010

Our next Point of View Lecture will be Thursday, February 18, 2010, Sierra 2 Center, Garden Room, 2791 – 24th St., Sacramento, 7-9pm.
Al Sandine will speak on his book The Taming of the American Crowd: From Stamp Riots to Shopping Sprees. Barbara Ehrenreich says: If you’ve ever participated in a demonstration, gone crazy in the bleachers, or danced all night, you’ll love this book.” http://www.marxistschool.org

Marxist School of Sacramento

01/12/2010

Spring 2010 lectures begin at the Marxist School: Thursday January 21, Sierra 2 Center, Garden Room 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, 7-9pm, Karl Beitel, “Global finance in the current economic crisis and restructuring of capitalism.” More info at http://www.marxistschool.org

Marxist School of Sacramento