Left Forum Screening: “Antifa” & “The Battle for The Real”
524 W 59th St
New York, NY 10019
USA
The Left Forum will be held June 1-3 at John Jay College in New York City, and we definitely want to encourage everyone to come out for the entire thing. On it’s last day, One People’s Project is the sponsor of an important presentation. The following is from Left Forum’s announcement:
Two films about the rise of the fascist right will be screened, one a ten-minute short “The Battle for the Real”, a film that shows how both activists and fascists have used media tools, while calling for an ethical use of platforms, and “Antifa”, a 30-minute film about who Antifascists are and how they have fought the racists and misogynists that are taking advantage of the momentum given to them since the campaign and election of Donald Trump to the White House. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Executive Director of the Philadelphia-based antifascist organization One People’s Project, and feature antifascist activists who have been on the frontlines over the past two years.
Moderator:
Daryle Lamont Jenkins
Daryle Lamont Jenkins is the Founder and Executive Director of One People’s Project a Philadelphia-based anti-hate organization that monitors the activities of far right and racist groups around the world. Founded in 2000 after a White Supremacist rally in New Jersey, One People’s Project has become a go to resource for those wanting to learn more about hate groups, the people behind them and the connections they have to mainstream politics. With Trump’s rise to power and with it the rise of the so-called “alt-right”, Jenkins and OPP have been prominent in the media representing Antifascists and explaining what it is that antifa fights and why the public needs to join the fight. This week, shooting wrapped on a major motion picture based on the documentary Erasing Hate, which was about a former neo-Nazi that Jenkins helped out of the fascist circles he was a part of for 13 years.
Panelists:
Ash J.
Ash J. is a writer and journalist born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. When he’s not driving out the hipster colonizers and their occupying army of cops, he’s live-tweeting protests at @AshAgony! He has written for Mask Magazine Truthout, Waging Nonviolence and Injustice Today.