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Public Interview: South African Labor Leader Irvin Jim

Katie Murphy Amphitheater at Fashion Institute of Technology Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, New York City, NY, United States

A public Q&A with the General Secretary of the largest union in South Africa to shed light on the social, political, and economic challenges facing workers, students, and the poor in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Organizing for Care

Kaiser Family Foundation’s Barbara Jordan Conference Center 1330 G St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join IPS's Josh Hoxie to discuss the current landscape and opportunities for long-term care in the US.

Film: The Same Heart

Friends of the Earth 1100 15th St NW, 11th Floor, Washington, DC, United States

Don't miss the film that tackles what it will take to actually end the extreme poverty children live with today.

Book Launch: The Butler’s Child

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

A Politics and Prose DC book launch with author and IPS board member Lewis M. Steel, whose new book tells his personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer.

Film: People Are the Sky

Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

A film by North Korea born, Korean American filmmaker, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson who was given permission to film in North Korea and weave in her firsthand experience with the contentious history surrounding the North/South split.

Book Event: The Way to Spring

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

Join us for a Politics and Prose reading and discussion with author Ben Ehrenreich who will present his new book on life and death in Occupied Palestine.

Brown Bag: The Kurdish Freedom Struggle in Perspective

Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

Join us for a brown bag where organizer and editor Giran Ozcan will lead a conversation on the Kurdish question.

Film: All Guantánamo is Ours

The Festival Center 1640 Columbia Road NW , Washington, DC, United States

A film followed by a discussion on one of the only two issues standing in the way of the normalization in U.S.-Cuban relations.

The Emerging Racial Justice Agenda

Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

Join us in honoring and examining the just-released "Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice” by the Movement for Black Lives.

Film: The Walls of Jericho and the Movement That’s Shaking Them

The Potter's House 1658 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC, United States

In honor of Black August, a documentary about the movement to free U.S. political prisoners jailed for their involvement in the civil and human rights uprisings of the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Labor Organizing and the Left in Colombia During Dynamic Times

Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC

The Center for Popular Democracy and the Institute for Policy Studies invite you to a talk with two organizers from SINTRACIHOBI, the union of in-home childcare providers.

George Jackson: Releasing The Dragon (A Video Mixtape)

Anacostia Neighborhood Library 1800 Good Hope Road SE, Washington, DC, United States

The Institute for Policy Studies, with Black Lives Matter DC, BYP 100, API Resistance, and Pan-African Community Action, host a showing of this video mixtape created by Bashi Rose and Jared Ball, part of the imixwhatilike crew, to commemorate the life and politics of George Jackson.