Chicago, IL
Monday, May 5, 7 pm
Community Panel: Revolution in the Air
DePaul University
Schmitt Academic Center
2320 N. Kenmore Rm 161
Admission Free
What happened to the ideals of the late sixties and early seventies? Why did
popular opinion turn away from embracing radical social justice movements
and towards embracing right-wing reactionaries like Reagan and Bush in the
1980s? Max Elbaum, the author of Revolution in the Air, posits some
provocative answers to these questions in his remarkable history of the New
Left.
The dialogue this evening will center on questions of the role
cultural work has played in building radical social change movements in the
U.S. Come join Max and panelists Aislinn Pulley, poet performance artists,
activist and founding member of Insight Arts; and tammy ko Robinson, Ph.D.
Candidate from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who works in new
media such as video and internet art.
This panel is part of the Creative Movements Festival, a month-long series
of performances, exhibitions, panels and community dialogues exploring the
relation of contemporary cultural work to social change movements.
For a
full Festival program and more information, contact Insight Arts,
773-973-1521.
Chicago, IL
Sunday, May 4, 7 pm
Is the War Really Over?
Will There be Another War?
What Should the Anti-War Movement Do Now?
DePaul University
Schmitt Academic Center
2320 N. Kenmore Rm 254
Come hear Max Elbaum, one of the editors of War Times,
speak to these and other issues facing the anti-war movement.
This is a benefit for War Times sponsored by the Chicago Ad Hoc Committee
to Support War Times.
For more information, call 312-409-5150.
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, May 1, 7:30 pm
Resisting the Empire
Presentation & Discussion with Max Elbaum
Ohio State University
31 Hitchcock, 2070 Neil Ave.
Columbus, Ohio
Free & Open to All
Max Elbaum has been involved in peace and anti-racist movements since joining Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Madison, Wisconsin in the 1960s. Through the 1970s and 1980s he participated in campaigns defending affirmative action and opposing U.S. military interventions in the Third World while writing extensively for the radical press and taking part in then-widespread efforts to construct a new US revolutionary political party. In the 1990s, he was the editor of CrossRoads, a magazine featuring dialogue and debate among socialists and radicals from different left political traditions.
Elbaum is the author of "Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che" (Verso, 2002), termed by Pultizer Prize-winning historian David Garrow "an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship" (Village Voice, July 3-9, 2002). Elbaum's writings have appeared in the Nation, Radical History Review, the Guardian, and the Encyclopedia of the American Left. Most recently, he was among the founders of War Times, a new bilingual nationwide antiwar newspaper, and serves as one of its editors. Elbaum lives in Oakland, California.
Elbaum will discuss how to develop anti-war activism into a movement to resist US imperialism and create a world emancipated from exploitation and all forms of oppression -- a world that meets human needs and desires rather than sacrificing bodies and souls at the altar of "more profit at any cost."
Sponsors: Student International Forum & Social Welfare Action Alliance
Campus Map: http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/map/linkbuildings/hitchcockhall.html
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554; & Keith Kilty, 614-292-7181.
Hartford, Conn.
Saturday, April 26, 2:10 pm and 6:10 pm
University of Hartford
Village Lawn
April Festival 2003
12:30-1:20pm not for scholars (music; www.notforscholars.com)
1:20-1:35pm Steve Thornton speaking
1:35-2:35pm Moonwalk Trio (music)
2:10-2:25pm Max Elbaum speaking
2:25-2:35pm Rage Against the machine song
2:35-3:05pm Stop laughing mom (improv group)
3:05-3:35pm School for the gifted (music)
3:35-3:50pm Cliff Thortan speaking (www.efficacy.org)
3:50-5:20pm Jamie NotarThomas (music; www.jamienotarthomas.com)
4:30-4:45pm Tim Black speaking
5:20-5:35pm Elizabeth Hortan Sheff speaking
5:35-7:00pm Flowers and cops (music; www.flowersandcops.com)
6:10-6:25pm Max Elbaum speaking
Everything is free, Food not Bombs will also be on hand to distribute food.
For more information, contact: people_of_tomorrow@hotmail.com
Bronxville, New York
Thursday, April 24, 1 pm
Sarah Lawrence College
Bates Classroom
Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air:
Sixties Radicals Turn to
Lenin, Mao and Che will be speaking in Shahnaz Rouse's class on "Marx and
Marxisms" on Thursday, April 24 from 1-3:25 p.m. in Bates Classroom. Elbaum
was a member of the Students for Democratic Society and a leader of the New
Communist Movement during the seveties and eighties. His writings have
appeared in The Nation, the Guardian, Radical History Review, and the
Encylcopedia of the American Left. His most recent work, Revolution in the
Air is a pathbreaking study of Third World Marxism in the U.S. Open to any
interested member of the college community.
Detroit, MI
Monday, April 7, 6:30 pm
Revolution in the Air:
Lessons from the radical movements of the 60s and
70s
for anti-war and anti-racist activists today.
Wayne State University, Student Center,
Look
for Room Announcement
Max Elbaum is an editor of the national anti-war newspaper War Times, and
author of the book Revolution in the Air, a history of those activists
from
the Civil Rights and anti-war movement of the 60s who became committed
anti-capitalist revolutionaries in
the 70's and 80's.
What do the lessons of that history hold for
activists
today involved in the anti-war movement? What are the next steps for the
anti-war movement? How do we connect today's movements with the struggles
of
working people at home to build a new force for radical social change? All
invited for an open discussion.
Sponsored by Students Movement for Justice, Detroit Left Turn
Contact: 313-833-7796, alexmh17@yahoo.com
Philadelphia
Thursday, April 3, 2:00 pm
Lessons from the 60's Student Movement for Today's
Anti-War Movement
with Max Elbaum, Editor, War Times (anti-war movement weekly);
Former SDS leader and veteran progressive activist;
Author of Revolution in the Air, a history of the promise and problems of the post-60s American left
Temple University
Gladfelter Hall 914 (History Department Lounge, 9th Floor)
"If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful
middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig."
Robin D. G. Kelly, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
Discussion to follow with comments by Joseph Schwartz,
chair, Department of Political Science, Temple U.
Sponsors: Radical Education Collective (REC) and Dept. of Political Science.
Philadelphia
Thursday, April 3, 7:30 pm
Reclaiming Radical History:
What Happened After 1968
The A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave.
West Philadelphia.
Max Elbaum,
co-editor of War Times newspaper and author of
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin,
Mao, and Che, will speak about the successes and
failures of the large contingent of 1960s-era
activists who turned to Third World-oriented versions
of Marxism in the period of "two, three, many
Vietnams."
These thousands of aspiring revolutionaries set their
sights on building a base in the working class and
communities of color. Organizationally, they adopted
the model of the multi-racial Marxist-Leninist
"vanguard" party and termed themselves the New
Communist Movement.
Max Elbaum will speak candidly about the political
outlook and tactics developed by these organizations,
as well as the role dogmatism, sectarianism, and
democratic centralism played in their ultimate
collapse.
Following his presentation Max will be available to
strategize about building movements in the 21st
Century that incorporate the positive contributions
and insights of past struggles without repeating their
errors.
Plenty of room for car and bicycle parking or take the
34 Trolley to 47th and Baltimore.
A donation of $3-5 is requested to cover expenses. No
one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Phone 215-727-0882 for more information.
San Francisco
Saturday, March 29, 10am to 6pm
8th Annual SF/Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
San Francisco County Fair Bldg.
9th and Lincoln, Golden Gate Park
Spoken word, cafe, art, over fifty exhibitors
Admission is, as always, free.
Speakers:
Rita D. "Bo" Brown, prison activist, served eight years in federal prison after
being convicted for a politically motivated bank robbery in 1978 as part the
George Jackson Brigade, co-founded Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to
Support Women Political Prisoners, helped organize the Norma Jean Croy
Support Committee, which gained freedom for Croy after she was wrongfully
imprisoned for 19 years by the state of California, and helped plan Critical
Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.
Diane Di Prima, author of Revolutionary Letters, Memoirs of a Beatnik,
Recollections of My Life As a Woman: The New York Years, Dinners and
Nightmares, Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems, Seminary Poems and
Selected Poems, 1956-1976
Ron Sakolsky, editor (with James Koehnline) of Gone to Croatan an
Anthology, editor (with Stephen Dunifer) of Seizing the Air Waves: A Free
Radio Handbook, author of Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images
by the Surrealist Movement in the United States and Sounding Off!: Music
As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Haymarket
Series), Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975, Roots of
Resistance: Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980 and Indians of the
Americas: Self-Determination and Human Rights
Max Elbaum, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to
Lenin, Mao and Che 3:30 pm
Eric Drooker, author of Blood Song, Flood!: A Novel in Pictures and
(with Allen Ginsberg) Street Posters & Ballads: A Selection of Poems, Songs
& Graphics and Illuminated Poems
Chris Carlsson, editor of Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration,
Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology and (with James Brook)
Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture: A City Lights
Anthology
Roy San Filippo, editor of A New World in Our Hearts: eight Years of Writings
from the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation
Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap
