RECONSTRUCTION IN OUR TIMES: A CPE TRACK AT THE 2017 ZINN BOOK FAIR SAVE THE DATE! November 19, 2017 City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia St. Center for Political Education is excited to bring together authors from across the country with Bay Area organizers for “Black Reconstruction in Our Times”, a 5-session track at this year’s Howard Zinn Book Fair on November 19, at City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus.
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OCCUPATION & INTERVENTION: US MILITARISM IN THE CURRENT MOMENT August 17, 2017 Featuring: Rhonda Ramiro (vice-chair, BAYAN USA) Max Elbaum (long-time anti-war activist and author of Revolution in the Air) Yousef K. Baker (Professor of International Studies at Cal State Long Beach and member of the Iraqi Transnational Collective) Moderated by Clare Bayard (Catalyst Project) The “fall” of Mosul? 
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Do you think work, health, education, and land are vital issues? Do you hate war, exploitation, and displacement? Do you fight to win political power, social change, and freedom? Over 150 years ago philosopher, economist, and activist Karl Marx’s work and thought on these same issues went on to change the course of human history, with his ideas driving some of the most momentous political struggles in the past century.
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Join CPE for  the first installment of our summer film series. Wednesday, July 26, at 7pm Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia St., San Francisco The Brother from Another Planet Directed by John Sayles (1984) https://youtu.be/nBG140hMCu8 A comic meditation on slavery and fugitivity, migration, racism, and life under capitalism, John Sayles’ The Brother from Another Planet follows an alien (played by Joe Morton) who escapes from his planet only to land in 1980s Harlem. 
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