Filmed in The Great Hall, The Cooper Union Great Hall on April 28, 2014 during the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night. Judith Butler speaks of turning rage and grief into theory and reflection which is inspired by her 2006 book and was one of 8 people to speak that evening. Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has influenced the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" challenge the sex/gender distinction and develops her theory of gender performativity Butler's conception of gender performativity has shaped the scholarship of feminist and queer studies. Butler has also been outspoken on many contemporary political issues. She has been active in ...

American comic actor, radio and TV personality, puppeteer and voice artist Daws Butler reminisces about his life and varied career.

In this very timely presentation after the collapse of the US brokered Palestine-Israeli peace talks on April 29, 2014, Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT on May 6, 2014 on the future Prospects for Palestine. The speech was sponsored by the Palestine@MIT group. Noam Chomsky spoke for the first 46 minutes about why the American-brokered Middle East peace negotiations failed, including the history and political situations that lead up to this event. The main speech is then followed by a 22 minute question and answer period. As is often the case, Noam's answers are extremely thought provoking while he further elaborates on the Palestine Peace Process. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator and activist

Noam Chomsky spoke at MIT Wong Auditorium on November 18, 2013. The event was sponsored by the Boston Review. This event was based on the topic of Noam Chomsky new volume, On Anarchism. This is the first part of his lecture where he spoke on the event subject. It is missing the Q&A section that merited being on its own separate and distinct video. Noam Chomsky a world-renowned public intellectual and MIT Professor emeritus discussed the reasoning behind his fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. Noam Chomsky anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. It is an evolving tradition which emphasizes the power of collective. Noam Chomsky critiques of capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda are often topics of his lectures and numerous publications he has written.

Featuring enlightening interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker, this essential documentary is an exuberant celebration of Black American women and their achievements. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power, feminist, and LGBT movements, the trio reassess how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society and the world.

A vengeance-filled mother, enraged by the miscarriage of justice over her daughter's brutal murder, traps the ruthless gangster responsible and his gang of killers in an abandoned factory, intending to elicit a taped confession. But nothing goes according to plan, when the bait for the trap happens to be the gangster's younger brother and her dead daughter's lover.

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Nathan, a student at a Talmudic school, meets a stripper at a bachelor party. An intimacy develops between him, who cannot see or touch a woman's body, and her, who earns her living by giving her body to see and touch.

At a pivotal moment in her singing career, Rocío discovers that her mother is ill and that her final wish is to meet with her again before she dies. After evading the past for 10 years, Rocío returns to her hometown from where she was once expelled. When confronting her family, she comes to understand that forgiveness is the key that will allow her to realize her full potential.

Dedicated boxers square off against trigger-happy drug pushers