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Labor of Love: True Stories by Real People

Thursday, February 12, 7pm
$5 admission
We each have experience with the Labors of Love. So you will relate as some of New York City’s finest storytellers tell stories of how Love with a capital L has been Work with a capital W. They will explore the relationship we have with relationships. They will ask what we are willing to do and why we are willing to do it for love. Are we seeking wholeness through another? Are we simply following a narrative we’ve been told before? Do we have desires that are too nuanced to put into words? The Labor of Love storytellers will ask all these questions through a series of true personal stories. The Storytellers are Caitlin Brodnick, Kate Greathead, Nisse Greenberg, Eli Reiter and Aaron Wolfe.

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When Labor Was Capital: the Slave-Breeding Industry

Thursday, January 22, 7:30pm
$5 admission

When Labor Was Capital: The Slave-Breeding Industry looks at how US slavery differed from the other slaveries of the hemisphere in having a domestically supplied slave trade, with Virginia, “the mother of slavery,” as the largest supplier of native-born human beings for market. Ned Sublette, author of The World That Made New Orleans and the co-author (with Constance Sublette) of the forthcoming The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Chicago Review Press, October 2015), will talk about how labor was capital in the making of the United States. [continue reading…]

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Labor: the New Gold Standard with Paul Glover

Saturday, January 10, 7-9 pm
Admission: $5

Paul Glover, social activist and social entrepreneur, believes that real money is measured in hours of labor, steady as the clock. In conjunction with the Proteus exhibit, Labor, he will describe the benefits and processes for creating, growing, and managing labor currencies. The Ithaca HOURS program he created in 1991 has traded millions of dollars value, among thousands of residents and 500 businesses. HOURS have sparked an international movement to stimulate grassroots control of money.http://www.paulglover.org/hourintro.html  [continue reading…]

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