It’s Time… For
Big, Beautiful, Basic Change
It’s time to gather, explore, organize, and implement a significant, beautiful, and fundamental change, and we invite you to join us!
Thursday, October 9th, 2025, 6-8 pm (Doors @ 5:30)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street 1st Fl Theater
New York, NY 10019
Featured Speakers:
Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor of Economics at the New School University, New York. Recent publications include Understanding Capitalism (2024), Understanding Socialism (2020), Understanding Marxism (2019), New Directions in Marxian Theory [with Stephen Resnick] (Routledge, 2006), Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian [with Stephen Resnick] (MIT Press, 2012), Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Haymarket, 2016). Wolff produces/hosts the weekly program, “Economic Update,” broadcast on over 100 radio stations and to millions globally via TV networks, Substack, and YouTube. All his work is available at www.democracyatwork.info and www.rdwolff.com.
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-prize Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He spent two decades covering conflicts in Latin America, Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East, where he spent seven years and served as the paper's Middle East Bureau Chief. He is the author of sixteen books, including several New York Times bestsellers. His latest book is A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has also taught for over a decade in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system. You can find his work at chrishedges.substack.com
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people about the key questions of our time on Laura Flanders & Friends, the nationally syndicated public affairs program, where "The people who say it can't be done take a backseat to the people who are doing it." Laura Flanders & Friends airs every week on PBS TV stations across the country as well as on YouTube and as a podcast. In New York, catch the show weeknights on CUNYtv, WLIW, or on radio on WBAI or WNYE. A contributing writer to The Nation magazine, Flanders is also the author of six books. She is the recipient of a 2019 Izzy Award for excellence in independent journalism, the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing women’s and girls’ visibility, and a 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship for her reporting and advocacy for public media. Subscribe to her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@LauraFlandersAndFriends . For more information visit lauraflanders.org.
Dr. Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West, affectionately known to many as Brother West, is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.