Paul Goodman: Anarchist

Sunday Mar 18, 4PM @ Red Emma's

Paul Goodman was a pacifist & anarchist whose beliefs, expressed in prose, poetry, & social criticism, helped shape the doctrine of the New Left of the 1960s. Committed to personal & sexual freedom, he believed that society's institutions inhibited innate human creativity, caring, & nonviolence. His writings covered a wide range of topics -- education, city planning, psychotherapy, & literary criticism -- reflecting some of the varied careers he had while continuing to work for social change. During the Indochina War, Paul Goodman was a staunch supporter of the Resistance to the Draft movement & its participants, & an articulate proponent of a mass-based nonviolent movement against the War. Join us for a Sunday afternoon discussion of Paul Goodman's writings and ruminations on anarchism, hosted by Taylor Stoehr, cultural and literary scholar, editor of numerous volumes of Goodman's work, and current literary executor of Goodman's work. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn more about Goodman's tragically underappreciated work!

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Red Emma's is open Monday through Friday from 10AM-10PM, Saturday from 10AM-8PM, and Sunday from 10AM-6PM. Our weekly collective meetings are Sunday at 7PM, and are open to anyone interested in the project, except for the first Sunday of every month, which is closed to everyone except collective members. Red Emma's is part of IU 660 of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the only unions to recognize that worker collectives can stand in solidarity with those fighting the bosses as part of one big union.