Sunday May 19th, 2013 – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Korea and the Global Struggle for Socialism
 
When Che Guevara visited North Korea in the 1960s, he considered it to be an inspiration for Cuba and revolutionaries everywhere. Since the overthrow of the Soviet Union, North Korea has experienced not only the death of Kim Il Sung, but a series of natural disasters which left it impoverished and struggling to feed its people. Critics label it an Orwellian-Stalinist-Oriental nightmare. Do we dare call it socialist? The answer to this question reveals much about how we view socialism and the struggle to build a communist future for humanity. Open discussion will follow a presentation by Gene Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, CSU, Long Beach. For background, see Ruyle’s paper of the same title at http://www.csulb.edu/~eruyle/Korea-socialism-LATEST.pdf
 
Wednesday May 22nd, 2013 – 7 pm
Holding the FBI Responsible
Who Bombed Judi Bari? Documentary
A Judi Bari Week event! Join film maker Darryl Cherney and Earth First! Co-Founder Mike Roselle for a screening and intimate Q&A afterward
Learn about upcoming actions on Who Bombed Judi Day–May 24, the anniversary of the car-bombing that almost killed the two Earth First! organizers in 1990. They were bombed and almost framed by the FBI and OPD but sued them and won $4 million. An inspiring story we can all learn from. Plus it’s got tons of music and humor, too. Optional donations support the film and continuing the investigation.
Light snacks & beverages.
Watch trailer at: http://whobombedjudibari.com/
 
Sunday May 26th, 2013 – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Veterans Speak Out on Memorial Day
Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars
The first Memorial Day was on May 1, 1865. “African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the War had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.” Over the years, Memorial has come to be remembered on the last Monday of May, a time to honor the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in the wars of the United States. Local members of Veterans for Peace will speak out on the meaning that Memorial Day holds for them.
 
Saturday afternoon June 1st, 2013 – 2 pm to 4:30 pm
The Legacy of Stalin
The monthly “Suds, Snacks, and Socialism at the Starry Plough” forum will deal with this important topic. Speakers will include Gene Ruyle of the ICSS.
Note: This forum will not be at the Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library. Instead, it will be at the Starry Plough Pub, 3101 Shattuck Avenue at Prince Street in Berkeley, a short walk about 5 blocks NE of the NPML.
 
Sunday June 2nd, 2013 – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
E.P. Thompson: Muggletonian Marxist
A discussion of the Great British Historian, Blake Scholar, and William Morris Biographer. Presentation by Lew Finzel.
 
Sunday June 2, 2013 – 12:30 to 1 pm
Planning Collective Meeting
The Planning Collective meets following the talk on the first Sunday of every month. This is an open meeting. Everyone is welcome to help plan our future sessions.

Documentary shows you how to win a Judi Bari Week event!
Join film maker Darryl Cherney and Earth First! Co-Founder Mike Roselle for a screening and intimate Q&A afterward
Light snacks & beverages.
Watch trailer at: http://whobombedjudibari.com/

Learn about upcoming actions on Who Bombed Judi Day–May 24, the anniversary of the car-bombing that almost killed the two Earth First! organizers in 1990. They were bombed and almost framed by the FBI and OPD but sued them and won $4 million. An inspiring story we can all learn from. Plus it’s got tons of music and humor, too. Optional donations support the film and continuing the investigation
Optional donations support the film and continuing the investigation.

We have gathered some links to celebrate the 1st great Socialist leader of the 21st century. May his legacy live on in the hearts of our comrades in Venezuela, and the world.

On the Legacy of Hugo Chávez

A 60 minutes interview from 2002

Wikipedia Bio of Comrade Chavez this article has more links to related posts.

We will be adding more as we move forward.

Karl Niebyl was a professor of economics who escaped from Nazi Germany and taught for the rest of his life in various North American universities. His last post was at San Jose State.

Professor Niebyl died on April 4th, 1985, leaving his library to be made available to the public. He wanted this library to be named after his wife, Elizabeth Hale Niebyl, who was a leading figure in public housing in the days of the New Deal.

The Niebyl collection was stored for two years, until we found a home for it in Berkeley’s historic Finnish Hall. We moved in on January 20th, 1987 with 253 cartons of books.

Shortly, thereafter we inherited the books and papers of Roscoe Proctor, teacher, labor organizer, African-American activist. Hence the name: NIEBYL-PROCTOR LIBRARY.

In 1996 we moved into our own building at 6501 Telegraph Ave, in Oakland California.,

Our holdings consist of about 15,000 books, and over twenty thousand rare pamphlets, some dating back to the early 1920′s. The scope of the Karl Niebyl library reflects his wide interests: including world history, economics, philosophy, Marxism-Leninism, labor history, art and aesthetics.

The Proctor legacy dovetails nicely with that of Niebyl. The two collections overlap in basic areas such as economics and philosophy, but Proctor has left us with a unique collection of archival material relating to the history of radical politics, the labor and trade unions movements, and struggles for racial, national and sexual equality.

Our goal is to preserve our written heritage, as well as support emerging struggles for racial and gender equality, and for Socialism..

The NPML makes available its resources to organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.