Past Events

Presented by City Lights & Democracy Now! CLICK HERE to register. Amy Goodman in discussion with Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox about the prospects for the Green New Deal, how the pandemic does–and does not—affect the struggle for climatic and economic justice, among other relevant topics. Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and the host Democracy Now! She joins us from New York City. Stan Cox is the author of the new book The Green New Deal…

Click Here to register. YES! Magazine, City Lights, and The Land Institute present "How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly: The Green New Deal and Beyond" About this Event Stan Cox, author of The Green New Deal and Beyond, will join his Ecosphere Studies colleagues Wes Jackson, Aubrey Streit Krug, and Robert Jensen in a discussion of the need for climate policies that go far beyond new technology, carbon taxes, and other market-based approaches. The event is hosted by…

Book Release Party for Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power by Jennifer Worley from Harper Collins A riveting true story of a young woman's days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms. When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco, auditioning on…

Join us in a Virtual Reading Thursday, June 18 @ 7:00 p.m. to celebrate the poetry and prose of LTCC students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Contributors to the 2019 issue will be on hand to read their work. Please attend and support these writers! Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://zoom.us/j/96192205224 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +14086380968,,96192205224# or +16699006833,,96192205224# Or Telephone: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 408 638…

celebrating the release of Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 published by City Lights Books From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. "The real in Nduka's work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric."—Joyelle McSweeney, Boston Review Facing You is…