New College Events / Live Webcast

Stephen Zunes: "The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: Exploring It From Both Sides"

Sunday August 18th, 2-5 pm.

New College of California, Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Live Webcast: Click here to listen at 2 pm on Sunday August 18th:
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Confused about the Middle East Situation? Weary of polarized, knee-jerk options? Wish you could somehow do something to promote peace? Come to this talk by Stephen Zunes, Associate Professor of Politics and Chair of the Peace & Justice Program at the University of San Francisco. Followed by facilitated small group discussions. (Donation Requested: $5-$10, No one will be turned away for lack of funds). Sponsored by Bay Area Tikkun Community Education Committee and New College of California. For more information contact: Liat, Bay Area Tikkun, tikkuneducation [at] yahoo.com, 415-575-1200, http://www.tikkun.org/community.

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ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ & MAX ELBAUM: TWO FRESH LOOKS at 1960s MOVEMENTS

Tuesday, August 27th, 7 pm

New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

With the authors of two new books: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 and Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin Mao and Che. ”Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Outlaw Woman is a memoir of an extraordinary time in U.S. history, and it is one that doesn’t get bogged down in accusation, scandal, or idealistic reverie. The roots of contemporary feminism are here. The United States war in Vietnam is here. Native American and African American struggles are here. And other struggles that shaped generations of U.S. revolutionaries—Cuba, South Africa, Chile, Nicaragua.... Outlaw Woman is stark, unrelenting, honest, and evocative—of a time when a diverse subculture cared, a time that should make us proud.”—Margaret Randall, poet and memoirist. ”Max Elbaum has given us an incisive and critical history of the Other New Left - the radicals who brought class struggle and Third World liberation to the forefront, looked to the world for allies, and tried their best to work through the dynamics of race and class. 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. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Free. Sponsored by New College Center for Education & Social Action. For information call: Jon Garfield: 415-437-3425.