107 past events with the reading tag

"This upcoming Wednesday, we will continue our study session of “Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States” by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly for Black Study Group. This book discusses the long history of anti-Black and anti-communist/radical repression that has been integral in domestic and foreign US policies and governance, and how racism and racial hierarchy are at the heart of capitalist exploitation and US society.

We will be reading a condensed version of chapter 5 entitled “Wall Street Imperialism and Expropriation Abroad.” This chapter explains how the profit motives of Wall Street Imperialism extended beyond the U.S. border to exploit and expropriate the Caribbean and Africa. Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly connects the economic exploitation, racial violence, and surveillance of Black people in the imperial core to the militaristic violence, resource theft, and U.S. occupation of Black people abroad. Join us on November 11th as we read through this chapter together while engaging in a robust discussion along the way.

This event will be available in-person and on zoom!

Introducing our weekly study group! Third World Study Group, hosted on Tuesday’s from 5-7, is a place where we can come together and engage in a collective study to develop a more holistic understanding of global politics and the people, organizations and movements that led struggles for liberation while also deepening our understanding of the role of U.S imperialism in shaping today’s world.

This week for Third World Study Group, we will be reading about the Indian Communist Movement and the key figures and events that attributed to the development of communism in the past 100+ years within India, specifically in the state of Kerala. We hope to see you there!

⁨📷⁩ ⁨This upcoming Wednesday, we will continue our study session of “Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States” by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly for Black Study Group. This book discusses the long history of anti-Black and anti-communist/radical repression that has been integral in domestic and foreign US policies and governance, and how racism and racial hierarchy are at the heart of capitalist exploitation and US society.

We will be reading an abridged version of chapter 4 titled, “The Negro Question as a National Question, the Structural Location of Blackness, and the Problem of Black Self-Determination”, discussing how Black self-determination, particularity in the form of the right to self-defense, analyzing the Negro Question as a National Question, and asserting Black self-determination in the Black Belt of the U.S., was deemed subversive, foreign inspired, and un-American, and how it was subjected to the Black Scare/Red Scare.

This event will be available in-person and on zoom! For zoom link, see the QR code on the flyer. 

Introducing our weekly study group! Third World Study Group, hosted on Tuesday’s from 5-7, is a place where we can come together and engage in a collective study to develop a more holistic understanding of global politics and the people, organizations and movements that led struggles for liberation while also deepening our understanding of the role of U.S imperialism in shaping today’s world.

Introducing our weekly study group! Third World Study Group, hosted on Tuesday’s from 5-7, is a place where we can come together and engage in a collective study to develop a more holistic understanding of global politics and the people, organizations and movements that led struggles for liberation while also deepening our understanding of the role of U.S imperialism in shaping today’s world.

This upcoming Wednesday, we will continue our study session of “Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States” by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly for Black Study Group. This book discusses the long history of anti-Black and anti-communist/radical repression that has been integral in domestic and foreign US policies and governance, and how racism and racial hierarchy are at the heart of capitalist exploitation and US society.

We will be reading an abridged version of chapter 3, “Genres of Black Radicalism”, and discussing how Radical Blackness embodied the pre-eminent threat of the Black Scare and the Red Scare, exemplified the ultimate threat to the US Capitalist Racist Society, and could be understood through 3 genres: 1) The West Indian, 2) the Outside Agitator, and 3)  Red Black / Black Red

This event will be available in-person and on zoom! 

This week for TWSG, we will be reading about Leonard Peltier, Wounded Knee and the lifespan of the American Indian Movement. Hope to see you there!

This week for our Third World Study Group we will be looking at selected writings from Africans in America who connected their struggle for liberation with the struggle for liberation and decolonization in Palestine. Organizers and theoreticians such as Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, and Shaka Shakur have demonstrated through practice what internationalism really means and looks like. 

This Wednesday, we will be reading excerpts from “Black Scare, Red Scare” by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. This book examines how the state used anti-black repression and anti-communist repression to continue to entrench the country into capitalist domination and as a tool of imperialism.

We will be focusing on Chapter 2 and how radical blackness became the predominant threat of the U.S. capitalist racist system as the Red Scare/Black Scare challenged the Americanism and White supremacy that is imbedded in the roots of this country.

Join us in person or over zoom to read and explore these topics further!

This week for our Study Group we’ll be learning about Venezuela and why it has been a primary target of the imperialist system. 

Our reading will cover the most recent aggressions against Venezuela and gives us a better framework to understand how imperialism operates. 

⁨📷⁩ ⁨This Wednesday, we will be reading excerpts from “Black Scare, Red Scare” by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly. This book examines how the state used anti-black repression and anti-communist repression to continue to entrench the country into capitalist domination and as a tool of imperialism. Join us in person or over zoom to read and explore these topics further! Attend in person or online via Zoom!

Tomorrow for our weekly Third World Study Group session we’ll be reading about the U.S backed coup against the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende.

We’ll be reading a brief history of Chile and Allende’s policies that sought to uplift the Chilean people rather than the private corporations. Then we’ll close out by reading Allende’s famous last speech that he gave over radio as the enemy troops where advancing.

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Bring your little ones to Storytime Saturday! Join one of our experience guides for a cozy storytime perfect for children 5 and under and their families. Each month, we’ll feature a special seasonal story that celebrates the time of year. 

Betty’s Cabin Activities are presented in partnership with Patterson Block Muncie.

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage

Please join us for Cuplets, live “open mic” poetry at The Cup! 🎙️ Everyone is welcome! Read your words! Read the words of others! Come to enjoy others reading words! We are all looking forward to listening to everyone’s words! 

Cuplets is for fellowship, not critique. We all clap at all the poems and we want to make friends. You CAN sit with us, every 4th Sunday at 5p. The Cup is in The Village, near the campus of Ball State University, at 1606 West University Avenue in Muncie, Indiana - parking is in the back. Please support our host small business venue with your purchase from their menu as admission to Cuplets! ☕️ 🥯 

∙ Cuplets has a YouTube Channel! 🍿 Check it out:

YouTube.com/Muncie.Cuplets

∙ Cuplets Facebook Group:

Facebook.com/groups/1596819023887658

∙ The Cup is on Instagram:

Instagram.com/TheCupInTheVillage