Podcasts about saturday free school

We discuss the three-day celebration of James Baldwin's 100th birthday. We also briefly discuss the upcoming Democratic Party Convention.

We continue our review and discussion of our three-day celebration of James Baldwin's 100th birthday and where we go from here. We also report on our upcoming livestream event on the Democratic Party National Convention. Lastly, we report on what is going on in Bangladesh and its impact upon South Asia.

We reviewed and discussed our livestream event on the Democratic Party National Convention called "Breaking Free from the House of Bondage: James Baldwin Speaks to the 2024 Election". Lastly, we further discussed how the Saturday Free School will go forward and our future.

We discuss the deepening political crisis: assassinations, coups, and the US State. Finally, we discuss preparations for the upcoming Baldwin birthday celebration.

We respond to the recent New York Times article " Donald Trump, Man of Destiny" and use Karl Marx's concept of tragedy and farce to discuss Martin Luther King Jr. as the man of destiny. We also discuss Oren Cass's interviews and the political crisis in the U.S.

We discuss African Americans and the labor movement in the midst of the existential crisis of the Democratic Party. Alice reports back on her trip to China. Finally, we provide an update on August events celebrating James Baldwin's birthday.

Note to Audience: We have resolved our recent technical issues with Spotify and are currently uploading our previous recordings. We give updates on our June 1st and 2nd Year of James Baldwin symposium on science. Then we discuss poetry and art. Finally, we discuss recent polls on the 2024 presidential election.

Note to Audience: We have resolved our recent technical issues with Spotify and are currently uploading our previous recordings. Kathie Jiang will report on her observations of New China based on her recent trip. We provide an update on our upcoming Symposium on the crisis of knowledge and the American university.

Note to Audience: We have resolved our recent technical issues with Spotify and are currently uploading our previous recordings. We talk about the Black family gender and the Black social system, as well as the failures of contemporary gender and social theory to understand it. We also report on our recent symposium, "The Crisis of Knowledge and the American University: James Baldwin and the Struggle for Our Human Future."

Note to Audience: We have resolved our recent technical issues with Spotify and are currently uploading our previous recordings. We discuss the white supremacist social system, war, and the case of China.

Note to Audience: We have resolved our recent technical issues with Spotify and are currently uploading our previous recordings. We assess our recent Year of Baldwin symposium on the crisis of knowledge and discuss how it sets up the ideological direction and revolutionary political imperative of the Year of Baldwin moving forward. We also have a brief discussion of the presidential debate between Trump and Biden and its implications.

We discuss "April 4, 1967 to April 2024: Where do we go from here and what is the next stage of struggle." Also, we report on our June 1st and June 2nd symposium on the crisis of science and the struggle of a revolutionary epistemology. Finally, we discuss the Penn Gaza solidarity encampment.

We share updates planning for our April 4th Year of Baldwin event and report back on the “Philly Reads Baldwin” reading groups. We also discuss Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and Martin Luther King, the father of the new American people. Lastly, we discuss Judith Butler, fourth wave feminism, and James Baldwin.

We update on our Year of Baldwin event on April 4 and 6 commemorating Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech. We also share about the second issue of Avant Garde.

We discuss preparations for our upcoming April 4th and 6th event commemorating Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech, as part of the Year of James Baldwin.

We share updates on planning for our April 4th Year of Baldwin event and report back on the “Philly Reads Baldwin” reading groups. We also discuss Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and Martin Luther King, the father of the new American people. Lastly, we discuss Judith Butler, fourth wave feminism, and James Baldwin.

We discuss our next event of the Year of James Baldwin on April 4. We also discuss how the reading groups are going

We discuss the crisis of the U.S. two party system, and whether there is a way to reform the system. Also, we examine the prospects for new radical revolutionary parties. Lastly, we report on where we are in the inaugural event for the Year of James Baldwin as well as the status of Issue II of Avant Garde Journal.

We talk about our final preparations for the inauguration of Year of James Baldwin. We also explore our thinking about the reading groups as part of the People of Philadelphia Read James Baldwin.

We assess the inauguration of Year of James Baldwin and the first podcast episode, as well as discuss how we're preparing for the reading groups. We also discuss the press conference announcing the Abandon Biden movement in Philly and the 2024 election.

We discuss the revolutionary historical chronology and James Baldwin's place in it. We also prepare for framing the reading groups of the Year of James Baldwin.

We assess the March on Washington for Gaza that happened last Saturday. We also report on where we are for the inauguration of the Year of James Baldwin.

We discuss what's happening in the 2024 election in light of Trump's Iowa and New Hampshire victories, and what is happening among young voters, Black people, Hispanics, and the working class. Will Biden be the Democratic candidate in 2024? We also discuss what is the fate of the delusional left, including CPUSA, PSL, DSA, and the liberal left like Bernie Sanders and others. Lastly, we discuss Cornel West's candidacy.

This Saturday, we discuss the ideological history of the modern world and the crisis of American empire.

We discuss two articles, one from the New York Times on the United Methodist Church and the other in the Financial Times on the Unitarian Universalist Church. We discuss the social, civilizational, and political meanings of this. We look at Christianity and its undoing in light of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin. The articles are here: "The United Methodist Church Comes Apart" - The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us... "The culture wars dividing America's most liberal church" - Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/ec58bccb-6...

We discuss Patti LaBelle, and we also discuss the political realignment in the U.S.

We discuss 2024: A year of war, economic uncertainty, the most consequential presidential election in U.S. history, and the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Arthur Baldwin. The Saturday Free School wishes you a Happy New Year.

We discuss Martin Luther King's speech called “A New Sense of Direction:" https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media.... Finally, we receive an update on planning for the Year of Baldwin.

We discuss the Saturday Free School on the cusp of the Year of James Baldwin and in the throes of the deepening political crisis in the U.S. We also discuss Robert Kagan's recent article in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...

We report back an assessment of our symposium on Henry Winston. We report on continuing genocide against Gaza and protests. Lastly, we report on the 2024 election, the Democratic Party, and the Philadelphia election.

This week we discuss what a new and emerging peace movement means for the possibilities of new democracy emerging, including the United States.

We read aloud Dr. Monteiro's essay on Henry Winston. We also read aloud and discuss Jeremiah's presentation on Korea and Palestine. Finally, we update on preparations for the Henry Winston symposium, which will be on November 11th & 12th at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia.

We report back on the progress being made for the journal being released during next week's symposium, Avant-Garde. We also discuss the Henry Winston Symposium, which will take place on November 11th doors opening at 9AM and November 12th doors opening at 12PM.

We discuss the Israeli war on Palestinians and Gaza. We also discuss Putin's recent speech on civilization.

We discuss Israel genocide against Palestinians in its ongoing war and whether the world is moving to world war. We also discuss the presidential race and the Biden administration. Finally, we update on preparations for the Henry Winston symposium.

We report on the organizing for our Henry Winston symposium in November, as well as the journal Avant-Garde. We also assess where we are in terms of the 2024 election.

This Saturday, we discuss whether the two parties of the state—the Democrats and Republicans—are on the verge of collapse. We also discuss James Baldwin's novels and how to approach reading them, as well as what we can learn for the Year of Baldwin from the Lotus group's reading of Baldwin at Penn.

We continue our discussion of Kwame Nkrumah's "Neocolonialism," the crisis of neocolonialism, and the recent G20 summit. We also continue our discussion of George Soros.

We discuss free jazz and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet's performance at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki in 1962. We also provide an update on our preparations for the November Henry Winston symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of his book, "Strategy for a Black Agenda."

We discuss Kwame Nkrumah's "Neocolonialism", the crisis of neocolonialism, and the crisis of the US empire.

This Saturday, we discuss The State in theory and practice, and in a time of deep political crisis. We also discuss what Du Bois means in this time of crisis.

We discuss that the political path of all progressives in 2024 is to defeat Biden. We also complete our discussion of Coretta Scott King.

This Saturday, we'll discuss Pan-Africanism, the Black Liberation Struggle, and the destabilizing policies of the U.S. government and deep state. We will look at the U.S. government's efforts through the lens of a National Security Council Memorandum in 1978. We will discuss how this relates to events in Niger and the struggle against neocolonialism. Lastly, we will report on our science reading group. 1978 Memorandum: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU10/20210217/111198/HHRG-117-JU10-20210217-SD013.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3KXBk8SCS0nfQb37QhINwV_7uFnWzJpemJyBdiKMQ91UbNz6KVoFr80_c

This week, we discuss the federal indictment of President Trump and recent polls of the 2024 Presidential election. We also discuss Archishman Raju's review of Martin Wolf's book "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism".

This past Saturday, we discussed the "Summer of Strikes," as well as the recent film "Oppenheimer."

We return to the thesis of Richard Haass, the retiring head of the Council of Foreign Relations, that the greatest challenge to America's foreign and military policy is the domestic political struggle. In this light we examine the 50 or so Republican members of Congress calling for an end to military funding for Ukraine and withdrawal from NATO. We look at the editor of Jacobin Bhaskar Sunkara's argument against Cornel West running as the Green Party's candidate. Lastly, we discuss the possibility of building a peace industrial economy, and Trotskyism's position on war and peace.

We discuss whether the current domestic and global crises can lead to a transition to a new domestic and international democracy.

We discuss the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action and what it means. Then we return to a discussion of the 2024 election and the imminent decline of and growing irrelevancy of the Left in both its broad and narrow definitions.

We give an update on our June 17th event celebrating Paul Robeson and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad." We discuss our event's relationship to our recent event in Chicago for Paul Robeson's 125th birthday, including Mosque Maryam's mention of the Saturday Free School. Then we continue our reading of Hegel's Science of Logic.

We discuss our final preparations for our event "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad." Then we discuss Cornel West's presidential run. "Unconquered Love: The Magnificent Lives of Paul Robeson and The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad" began on Friday, June 16th with a screening of the documentary Paul Robeson: Man For the Future at the Church of the Overcomer (1010 Sunset St, Trainer, PA 19061). On Saturday, June 17th, the event continued with an intercivilizational festival featuring singing, dance, and musical performances, jazz, and special speakers such as Student Minister Abdul Haqq who spoke on the teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and their relevance for the urgency of now. Program: https://www.robesonelijahmuhammad.org/