The People's Forum

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Today, France took to the streets in a GENERAL STRIKE! What began weeks ago as a student movement—demanding decent schools, fair pay for teachers, and an end to austerity—has grown into something far bigger, a struggle uniting unions and students, workers and youth, all issuing one joint call. What started as uprisings over classroom conditions is now a nationwide demand to end the Macron government spending that cuts public spending and prioritize spending on war and policing! France doesn’t stand alone! Italy just last week took to the streets in a general strike and all across Europe workers & youth are standing against unending crisis. Together, in France, and internationally the struggle continues, and we stand in solidarity!

LIVE FROM FRANCE Today the people of France took to the streets in the millions for a general strike! For several weeks there have been non-stop demonstrations, sparked by a student movement demanding better school conditions, wage increases for teachers, and a stance against austerity policies as a whole. The uprisings of the last few weeks have created a convergence of struggles that has brought together the entire movement, with the major unions all issuing a joint call. Together, people all over the country are transforming what began as a student revolt over crumbling schools into a nationwide demand to end the government budget that freezes social benefits while cutting public services.

Remembering Dolores Huerta Dolores Huerta was a movement builder and working class leader. As a co-founder of the United Farm Workers she drove the strikes, boycotts, and bargaining campaigns that brought drinking water, bathrooms, and health coverage and rights to the fields. “¡Sí, se puede!” rang loudly in her voice, and she carried it through decades of fighting for workers, women, and immigrants, still fighting for working and oppressed people everyone well into her nineties. Her leadership also illuminates the fight women take up in the class struggle—organizing at the intersection of labor, gender, and community, insisting that the workers’ cause and women’s cause are one. We celebrate her life which cannot be separated from the movements that she served; Huerta stands among a long history of fighting leaders of the working class that we will always honor!

The World Stands with Cuba! Today at the UN, 130 countries voted to lift the U.S. blockade against Cuba. Since 1992, the vast majority of the planet—except the U.S., Israel, and the states they coerce—has voted in favor of the motion, year after year, rejecting the daily impositions by the U.S. that prevent the Cuban people from meeting their basic needs. The people of the world say: #CubaIsNotAThreat #LetCubaLive!

We’re continuing The Story of Capital with David Harvey. Participants are doing a close reading of David’s book The Story of Capital, supplemented by anecdotal analysis drawing on Marx’s Capital and other works. The course also takes a deep dive into the development of capitalism to help us understand today’s crises. 🗓️ Tuesdays, now through December 1 ⏰ 4:15–6:15pm 💻 Virtual 🔗 Register at peoplesforum.org/harvey This course is virtual only. A limited number of in-person seats are available. To inquire about in-person participation, please email education@peoplesforum.org.

Join us Fri. Nov. 6th at 7pm for an evening with our friends Mariachi Reyes and singer-songwriter Linda Paúla Marcos ⁠ First Fridays at The People’s Forum is a monthly concert series curated and co-presented by Artists Against Apartheid, featuring artists on the cutting edge of culture whose work speaks to the political and social moment. Each show is a live, intimate, and immersive experience—a space where music & art are understood as tools in the struggle for collective liberation.⁠ ⁠ 📆 Friday, Nov 6, 2026⁠ ⏰ 7PM⁠ 📍The People’s Forum⁠ 🎟️ Details & tickets at peoplesforum.org/nov26ff

Today, the UN debate on the resolution to end the U.S. blockade on Cuba began. Already a majority of countries have spoken on the brutality of the U.S. blockade, its consequences on the Cuban people, and its illegality under international law. While the U.S. government spreads outright lies about its own policy, which blocks Cuba from making financial transactions and prevents essential medicine, food, and energy from reaching the Cuban people, it simultaneously continues to threaten the island with intervention and war. The people of the world stand with Cuba and against the U.S. blockade - LET CUBA LIVE! #letcubalive

🇨🇺As the annual UN resolution vote to lift the blockade on Cuba approaches, we must stand in solidarity with Cuba. Solidarity is not a crime the blockade is! The Trump administration, Marco Rubio, and ultra-right interventionists want you to believe their genocidal lies. The only threat to the lives of millions of Cubans is the blockade, which blocks food, medicine, and fuel and disrupts everyday life—it is a silent war. Cuba is not a threat, the blockade is. We say no to the blockade and no to war. Let Cuba Live!

🎬 Join us for a screening of The Platform (2019), directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, as part of our October film series, “Horrors of the Ruling Class.” Set in a vertical prison where food is distributed from the top floor to the bottom, The Platform follows prisoners forced to survive within a system of extreme inequality. As those at the top feast and those below starve, the film exposes the violence of class hierarchy, the unequal distribution of resources, and the struggle for solidarity in a system built on scarcity and competition. 📅 Thursday, October 29 🕕 6:00 PM 🎟️ $8 — eventbrite.com/e/film-screen…

TPF Responds To Congress: We won’t surrender our First Amendment rights or our civil liberties. Yesterday, through our attorneys, The People’s Forum responded to House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, after they threatened to drag eight of our staff members to Washington for depositions if we didn’t comply with its demands. This is an escalation of the same MAGA-led witch-hunt. In our response, our attorneys wrote: “Allowing a congressional committee to haul political activists and organizers into deposition rooms to grill them on domestic and foreign policy viewpoints and expression sets a dangerous precedent of state-sponsored intimidation that chills the right to free speech nationwide and infringes on core First Amendment protections.” This fight isn’t only about The People’s Forum. It’s about whether anyone in this country can organize, educate, and speak out without being hauled before Congress for it. We will not be intimidated. We’re in this fight together & we need your support now more than ever! Donate now at peoplesforum.org/fight Read the full response from our legal team at peoplesforum.org/response

🇨🇺 Solidarity is not a crime, the inhumane U.S. blockade on Cuba is. The blockade is a silent genocide, a decades-long war designed by the U.S. government. It is collective punishment aimed at inflicting maximum damage on the island, its people, and their everyday lives. Last month, during UN General Assembly week, hundreds of peace activists, progressive leaders, and artists filled the Schomburg Center in Harlem for Voices for Peace: Cuba Is Not A Threat. We stood with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez and a powerful lineup of speakers — including Rosemari Mealy (former Black Panther Party member), Rachel Domond (ANSWER Coalition), Dailyn Briñas (Cubans4Cuba), and NYC Council Member Alexa Avilés — to demand an end to the U.S. blockade and its unending threats against Cuban sovereignty. Together, we declared: the blockade must end. Let Cuba live. Solidarity is not a crime the blockade is!

Join us Fri. Nov. 6th at 7pm for an evening with our friends Mariachi Reyes and singer-songwriter Linda Paúla Marcos.⁠ ⁠ 📆 Friday, Nov 6, 2026⁠ ⏰ 7PM⁠ 📍The People’s Forum⁠ 🎟️ Details & tickets at peoplesforum.org/nov26ff or at the link in our bio

INTRO TO CROCHET w/ CAMRYN EASLEY In this one-day workshop, Camryn will teach you how to begin any crochet project and lead you through the steps to create your own handmade crochet coaster: a decorative kitchen essential and resting place for your glasses and mugs. Taught from the perspective that fiber arts has and can continue to serve as a center for community care, this workshop will include an introduction to the history of crochet, as well as the anatomy of basic stitches. 🗓️ 1 session | Thurs, Nov 12 • 5:30-8:30PM 📍 Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio, TPF⁠ ➡️ Led by Camryn Easley 💲 30-50 Register now at PEOPLESFORUM.ORG/ART

HAND QUILTING WITH APPLIQUE w/ RALLI COLLECTIVE Build your own 8×8 in mini quilt from start to finish in this beginner-friendly hands-on session. In this session, we’ll go through the basics of quilting step by step: designing your front panel by cutting and piecing fabric together, measuring and cutting the backing and batting, sewing it all together with simple hand sewing techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring any fabric from home—sentimental or scrap—that they might want to incorporate into their quilt. 🗓️ 1 session | Wed, Nov 11 • 5:30-8:30PM 📍 Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio, TPF⁠ ➡️ Led by Ralli Collective 💲 30-50 Register now at PEOPLESFORUM.ORG/ART

THE PEOPLE’S SOUNDSYSTEM w/ SHIRINE SAAD How to reimagine a liberatory digging, remixing, gathering and dance culture for our times? The People’s Soundsystem will explore the archives of underground selecting, mixing, MCing and experimentations from early Jamaican dancehalls to the clubs, streets and warehouses of Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore and New York. DJ, Professor, and Curator Shirine Saad aka DJ Lovelite* teaches us the 1s and 2s of DJ skills, and we will collage a liberation mixtape together. 🗓️ 1 session | Wed, Nov 4 • 5:30-8:30PM 📍 TPF⁠ ➡️ Led by Shirine Saad 💲 30-50 Register now at PEOPLESFORUM.ORG/ART

🎬 Join us this Thursday at the Robeson Cinema for a screening of Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976), directed by Felipe Cazals, as part of our October film series, Horrors of the Ruling Class. Based on true events, Canoa recounts the brutal 1968 attack on a group of university workers in a rural Mexican village, where a local priest exploits anti-communist hysteria to incite violence against innocent visitors. Through a chilling portrayal of political manipulation, religious authority, and mob violence, the film exposes how fear of communism can be weaponized to protect existing power structures and turn ordinary people against one another. 📍 Robeson Cinema | The People’s Forum 🎟️ $8 — eventbrite.com/e/20002692501…

ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY w/ AIYAH SIBAY This one-day workshop invites participants to experience the ancient art of the Arabic language and its sacred rituals. The calligraphic session will begin with somatic breathwork and meditation. You will then be led through exercises that will teach you the technical foundations of Arabic calligraphy using reed and ink. 🗓️ 1 session | Wed, Oct 28 • 6-8:30PM 📍 Elizabeth Catlett Art Space & Printmaking Studio, TPF⁠ ➡️ Led by Aiyah Sibay 💲 30-50 eventbrite.com/e/20030218582…

THREE YEARS OF GENOCIDE: the struggle continues—from Palestine to Cuba, and the whole world. We will continue to build the movement against US empire. Join & get organized!

🚨 ICE OUT! New York City is marching now to demand justice for all victims of ICE terror.