Praxis Peace Institute

Even though we will host a few Live events every year, the majority of our programs will be on Zoom. Tickets are non-refundable, but all programs are recorded and available on video, which you can still register for after the live program. Donate Here.

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You can still register for programs with Aviva Chomsky, Denis Hayes, and Ofer Zur and get YouTube links. Click Here.

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FRIDAY, MAY 17 at 4:00 pm on Zoom

Tickets: $15 for Praxis Members ($20 General) - Click Here

TOM ANGOTTI

Zoned Out: The Housing Crisis and Realistic Solutions

City Planning, Zoning, and Public Land Ownership

Using New York City as an example, Zoned Out, a book by Tom Agnotti and Sylvia Morse, offers strategies to address inequalities, promote authentic community-based and city-wide planning, and develop housing in the public domain. The authors developed case studies of neighborhoods where rezonings have reproduced historic patterns of racial discrimination and separation. We will talk about "affordable housing," and how even that category is not affordable to those most in need of housing. Invisible forms of redlining have surfaced in recent years, and market-based "solutions" kick the can down the road but do not address the housing crisis or the systems that perpetuate it. This program will look at realistic solutions that transcend the "market" straight jacket.

Tom Angotti is professor emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He directed the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development and is also adjunct professor at Parsons and The New School. Agnotti is the author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the 2009 Davidoff Book Award.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 7 at 4:00 pm on Zoom

Tickets: $15 for Praxis Members ($20 General) - Click Here

MARJORIE COHN

Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism

Marjorie Cohn is an American legal scholar and professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and is the former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She has served as a legal and political commentator on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, etc., and her column appears in Common Dreams, Consortium News, ZNet, and several others. Cohn is the U.S. representative to the Advisory Board of the Association of American Jurists and a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. She has testified at military courts-martial about the illegality of the wars, the duty to obey lawful orders, and the duty to disobey unlawful orders. She is a contributor to the book, "Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation." She delivered a brilliant address on this topic to a reunion of Stanford activists on May 4th. Every concerned peace activist -- Jewish or not -- should attend this very timely program.
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Sunday, November 10, 2019
GEORGE LAKOFF, Cognitive Scientist, author

June 16 - 22, 2019 - Mondragón, SPAIN
Mondragón Seminar & Tour

Saturday, April 13, 2019
PETER GABEL, author and founder of New College of CA

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
MICHAEL BRUNE, Executive Director of the Sierra Club

Sunday, January 27, 2019
GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN, Former Mayor of Richmond, CA and founder of the California Progressive Alliance

Sunday, December 2, 2018
H. BRUCE FRANKLIN, Cultural Historian and Author

Monday, October 22, 2018
GAR ALPEROVITZ, Historian and Political Economist

October 22, 2018
ELLEN BROWN, Attorney, Co-Founder of the Public Banking Institute, Author

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