QEJ’s February Events in NYC!
Posted by Q4EJ on February 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Hey Folks,
Just wanted to let you know about some upcoming events in which QEJ is participating. We hope to see you at one or more!
Monday Feb 15th, 730pm: Take This Hammer: James Baldwin & The Right to the City
Followed by a discussion with Rich Blint (Doctoral Candidate, NYU American Studies) and Kenyon Farrow (Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice)
A documentary that was lost for more than 40 years, Take This Hammer follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community.
Brecht Forum: 451 West Street (bet. Bank & Bethune). NYC.
Wednesday Feb 17th, 10am: Welfare Justice Campaign Press Conference.
On December 23, 2009 — after five years of organizing by Trans and Gender Non Conforming communities — the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) passed a procedure to stop rampant transphobic discrimination and harassment in New York City’s welfare system. Speakers include Jane Corbett, Executive Deputy Commissioner of HRA and members of the Welfare Justice Campaign (TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project, Housing Works, Queers for Economic Justice, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project).
Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby Street (between Prince St. and East Houston), NYC.
Saturday, Feb 20th, 7pm: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society.
Post-Obama, has America become colorblind—and is that even a worthy or achievable goal in this country? How does the supposed “post-racial” society measure up to the reality of poor and working people’s lives, 60 years after the Black civil rights movement? Join a freewheeling discussion and celebrate the ongoing struggle for “Freedom Now!”
Speakers include: Norma Abdulah, a retired school teacher and longtime Harlem civil rights leader; Kenyon Farrow, from Queers for Economic Justice and co-editor of Letters from Young Activists; and Emily Woo Yamasaki, representing the Comrades of Color Caucus of Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
Door donation, $3. Savory southern supper, 6pm, $9 donation. Work exchanges available for students, low-income and unemployed people.
Freedom Hall, 113 West 128th Street, Harlem (b/t Malcolm X Blvd. & 7th Ave.) Childcare is provided.