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Upcoming events

Corinna Barrett Lain presents "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection" in conversation w/ Omavi Shukur

Tuesday, May 6th 2025

7:00 pm

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Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story.

Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) presents "An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing" in conversation w/ Mark Gunnery

Wednesday, May 7th 2025

7:00 pm

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Body-based tools and faith-based practices for processing trauma, reclaiming our agency, and building a world where “never again” means “never again for anyone.”

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Spread the Jam May 2025

Wednesday, May 7th 2025

6:00 pm

“Spread the Jam” is a jam session meant to welcome every musician with open arms—no matter what.

Queer Art Hang May 2025

Sunday, May 11th 2025

1:00 pm

Be Queer and make art!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò presents "Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism" in conversation w/Derecka Purnell

Thursday, May 8th 2025

7:00 pm

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A clear, new case for reparations as a “constructive,” future-oriented project that responds to the weight of history’s injustices with the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens.

Staged Reading: "Selkie" by Betse Lyons, directed by Vicky Graham

Friday, May 9th 2025

6:30 pm

Free School Classroom

Kim Kelly presents "Fight to Win! Heroes of American Labor" (for young readers!!)

Saturday, May 10th 2025

4:00 pm

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The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now adapted for young readers.

Red Emma’s Mother Earth Poetry Vibe featuring Will Cook

Saturday, May 10th 2025

6:00 pm

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Now, as much as ever, it’s time for all artists of all genres to use our skills in the service of the Struggle! We will gather again to strengthen each other through one of those genres, poetry, that we may move forward while in the midst of the current dystopia.

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Mindful Journaling w/ Keveda Madison Aud

Sunday, May 18th 2025

12:00 pm

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Mindful Journaling is a space for internal & external processing with community. This is a MASKED event.

Solidarity Tarot May 2025

Sunday, May 25th 2025

2:00 pm

A magical meet-up for conjuring a better world!

Nafis Hasan presents "Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care"

Tuesday, May 13th 2025

7:00 pm

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A bold rethinking of cancer as a biological phenomenon, an indictment of science that serves capitalism, and a radical vision of liberated health and well-being.

Exploring identity: Engaging in Critical Conversations that Shape Our Lives and the Lens from Which We See the World with Certified NVC Trainer, Educator and Storyteller Morris H. Ervin Jr.

Saturday, May 17th 2025

5:00 pm

Free School Classroom

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This workshop will explore and critically examine racial, ethnic and other identities through a Mindfulness/Restorative Justice Lens.

Miranda S. Spivack presents "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards" in conversation w/Jaisal Noor

Tuesday, May 20th 2025

7:00 pm

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A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to keep their communities safe, by an award-winning journalist.

Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Mariah Parker present "No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement" in conversation w/Erica Caines (Black Alliance for Peace) and Sam Master (Organizing Black)

Wednesday, May 21st 2025

7:00 pm

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A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for all, with gripping reporting from activists on the ground and rousing articles from renowned radical academics

Noah Grigni presents "Mama Moon"

Friday, May 23rd 2025

5:30 pm

Free School Classroom

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Deeply felt and beautifully told, MAMA MOON is the story of a child who muses that their mother is like the moon—ever changing, sometimes blue, sometimes bright.

Anand Pandian presents "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down"

Tuesday, May 27th 2025

7:00 pm

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An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.

Akinyele Umoja presents "The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity"

Thursday, June 26th 2025

7:00 pm

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Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighters.

Andrew Hartman presents"Karl Marx in America"

Wednesday, August 6th 2025

7:00 pm

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The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life.

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Screening: Maestra with the MD-Cuba Solidarity Committee

Saturday, May 31st 2025

4:00 pm

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The Maryland-Cuba Solidarity Coalition invites you to a film screening of MAESTRA (2012), which explores the story of the 1961 Cuban literacy campaign through the personal testimonies of the young women who eradicated illiteracy in rural communities throughout Cuba – transforming the island, and themselves, in the process.