A-Infos (en) US, Opposing Antisemitism in the Movement* Workshop NYC July 23

When: Sunday, July 23, 6:30 p.m. --- Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, 
between Stanton and Rivington Streets, Manhattan (directions below). --- 
Antiauthoritarians and social justice activists often think they're immune from 
racism and prejudice. But many Jewish activists' experience shows that forms of 
antisemitism are alive and well in the social justice movement. This not only 
drives away many Jewish activists, but profoundly affects our work as a 
movement. This workshop brings together two longtime activists who have studied 
how the left responds to antisemitism for an evening of instruction and 
experience-sharing that will help us understand and combat its effects in the 
activist community. --- Antisemitism is more than a "prejudice." It's a 
political worldview that can creep into the work of even dedicated fighters 
against oppression and injustice. This workshop will begin with the essentials: 
What is antisemitism? How is it different from what we've been taught it is? We 
will then explore the ways that antisemitism manifests itself today within 
movements against capitalism, the state, corporate globalization, and other 
forms of oppression, and what problems have kept the left from tackling 
antisemitism historically. We will look at how antisemitism damages the struggle 
for justice. Finally, we will discuss how we as activists can get better at 
seeing and fighting antisemitism where it arises.
	

	
This workshop is designed to be an interactive learning experience, where 
participants are encouraged to discuss their own experiences and concerns. The 
panelists are:

April Rosenblum, a Philadelphia-based activist and author of "The Past Didn't Go 
Anywhere," a pamphlet for radicals on resisting antisemitism.

Peter Staudenmeier, a faculty member, Institute for Social Ecology and author of 
"Fascist Ecology: The 'Green Wing' of the Nazi Party and its Historical 
Antecedents."

Eric Laursen (moderator), a writer, organizer, and longtime global justice and 
antiwar activist.

$5 suggested. No one turned away.

Directions: Bluestockings, 1 block south of the Second Avenue stop (F train) and 
5 blocks from the Essex-Delancey Street stop (J,M,Z trains).
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* Only members of the antiauthoritarian anticapitalists their
opposing of antisemitism is not in question can efectively struggle
against Zionism and other Israeli atrocities. I. S.
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