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A Wind Blows from the East (Coast)
A Wind Blows from the East (Coast): The 1970s "New Communist Movement" in Halifax. A Public Interview with Herb Gamberg and Tony Thomson Thursday 1 March 2012, Room 1020 Rowe Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at Dalhousie co-sponsored by NSPIRG and the Halifax Media Co-op The 1970s are [...]
Platypus Review #43: Feat. David Graeber on OWS
February 2012 The movement as an end-in-itself? An interview with David Graeber by Ross Wolfe On December 16, 2011, Ross Wolfe interviewed David Graeber, Reader at Goldsmiths College in London, author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004), and central figure in the early stages of the #Occupy Wall Street Movement. What follows is an [...]
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg Dir. Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 1986 Screening and Discussion 7PM Wednesday 8 February 2012 Rm 224 Student Union Building Dalhousie University Part of the Dalhousie Introducing Platypus Reading Group Series. Cannes Palme D’Or nominee and Best Actress winner (for Barbara Sukowa’s luminous performance), this is a sweeping biopic of radical socialist Rosa Luxemburg [...]
Forum. The 3Rs: Reform, Revolution and “Resistance”
The Platypus Affiliated Society at Dalhousie presents a public forum on: The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance”: The problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today. Click link to download recording Thursday, 19 Jan, 7 PM Room 224, Student Union Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on problems of strategies and tactics [...]
What is the #Occupy Movement?
A series of roundtable discussions hosted by The Platypus Affiliated Society. First roundtable discussion, (fb invite) Audio files (click here) 7:30pm | November 16, 2011 Room 224, DSU Dalhousie University Speakers: Anna Bishop (King’s University), Miles Howe (Halifax Media Co-op), Jd Hutton (Dalhousie), Asaf Rashid (From the Margins host, CKDU), Hamish Russell (Dalhousie) The recent #Occupy [...]
The Battle on Wall Street? Film Screening Mini-Series
A film screening series in two parts: Part 1: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) “Want to know what the mother of all bubbles was? Came out of nowhere, by chance. They called it the Cambrian Explosion. It happened around 530 million years ago. And, over the next 70-80 million years, the rate of evolution accelerated [...]
Does Marxism Even Matter?!
A Teach-In on the Communist Manifesto Tuesday, September 27 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm Dalhousie University, Council Chambers, SUB Audio: Click to download mp3 In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed in the Communist Manifesto that a ‘specter’ was haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. 160 years later, it is ‘Marxism’ itself that haunts us. In the 21st century, it [...]