DC Premier screening of the new film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein featuring seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Join us for an engaging conversation on black women and work in the U.S. as Premilla Nadasen discusses and signs her new book, telling the stories of African American domestic workers and the little-known history of the domestic worker movement.
Hear about and discuss the current situation in Iraq, Syria and what we should know about the President's recent announcement to extend the presence of U.S. troops " in Afghanistan and beyond.
You're cordially invited to attend a DC screening featuring IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis followed by a Q&A with the film's Director, Amir Amirani.
The Institute for Policy Studies proudly joins endorsers of an historic visit and speaking engagement with Kenia Serrano Puig, President of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and Parliamentarian in Cuba's National Assembly.
IPS Fellow Manuel Pérez-Rocha will be a panelist for "Session VI: Moving forward with IIA Reform" in the conference on "Investment Treaty Reform: Reshaping Economic Governance in the Era of Sustainable Development."
Three experts on the Syrian crisis will address the issues faced by refugees and what moral obligation we have to assist.
A Politics and Prose DC book launch with a conversation between IPS' and WPFW's Netfa Freeman and the book’s editor and close friend of Mumia, Johanna Fernández who is a Baruch College Professor, former Fulbright Scholar, and a coordinator of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home.
Terrorism survives wars, people don't. Last week's attacks in Paris left over 100 people dead. In Beirut, car bombs killed 43 people. Shortly before these attacks, President Obama defended his "war […]
The Future of Thomas Sankara's Legacy in a Democratic Burkina Faso after the victory of the president-elect Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
A discussion about Syria, Iraq, ISIS, refugees, war, and terrorism with IPS's Phyllis Bennis and David Wildman of United Methodist Church's General Board of Global Ministries.
Following the performance of Wrestling Jerusalem at Mosaic Theater, join us for a panel discussion with John Feffer (facilitator), Zeina Azzam (executive director of the Jerusalem Fund) and Lara Friedman (director of policy and government relations at Americans for Peace Now).
IPS's Phyllis Bennis joins a line up of special guests for an inter-generational teach-In on the triple evils of militarism, economic exploitation, racism.
This Institute for Policy Studies is a proud co-sponsor of this DMV Community Town Hall for a UN Working Group to hear from the Black community directly impacted by issues like gentrification, police brutality, and gender oppressions.
An IPS and Indie Lens Pop-Up (formerly Community Cinema) preview screening that intimately portrays four young Polynesian football players struggling to overcome gang violence, family pressures and near poverty as they enter the high stakes world of college recruiting and the promise of professional sports.