MAY DAY — P.I.T. will not be open for business
We will be using the space for open organizing purposes and for gathering — more info TBA
AFL Reading Group: Argentina, A Tale Of Two Utopias: Anarchism, Soccer, Neoliberalism
Author Tomas Rothaus will be presenting remotely
WW3 Illustrated Presents: A Commemoration and Benefit for MOVE
Monthly presentation of radical comix artists and musicians by Seth Tobocman and WW3 Illustrated - this one falls after the 41st anniversary of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. This will be a celebration to commemorate the end of the 40th year of the bombing and a benefit for the survivors’ radical efforts.
Intro to Meshtastic: Off-Grid Communications for Contingencies
Intro to Meshtastic: Off-Grid Communications for Contingencies
Meshtastic is an Open Source messaging program with encryption capabilities using Bluetooth and license free radio frequencies to relay simple messages between users
P.I.T. Benefit Show ft. Kortex/Cool Whip/Xullah
Rad show of comradely bands playing to benefit our space! More info TBA.
PIT Care Collective Open Workshop and Monthly Meeting
Monthly meeting and workshop presented by PIT Care Collective, a group of medical practitioners and healers seeking to establish community healing protocols and strategies outside of western capitalist medical logics.
Film Screening: WTO/99
An immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.
Film Screening: Cultural Capital
The documentary CULTURAL CAPITAL interrogates New York City’s status as an “art capital,” tracing the shift from experimental practices to a market dominated industry. Through artists and critics, it examines how artistic production is entangled with economic power and urban transformation, revealing a struggle over whether art can still challenge the forces reshaping the city. Filmmaker Malcolm Hearn will be present for Q&A.
PIT Care Collective: PMDD, PCOS & Endometriosis Talking Circle
Join us this Wednesday evening for snacks, discussion, resources, and peer support for those experiencing PMDD, endometriosis, and PCOS.
Chronic conditions involving the reproductive system are too often under-diagnosed, dismissed, and not properly addressed by the Medical Industrial Complex. We are creating this space for people to gather, share experiences, share resources, & support one another. This space is open for all bodies and gender identities.
This conversation will be facilitated by Frieda, a Brooklyn-based Midwife and Reproductive Health Nurse Practitioner.
P.I.T. Care Collective are health workers building a vision toward a Healing Commons beyond institutional logic and boundaries.
- All welcome. Registration not required.
- Please bring food + drinks to share if able.
- Masks required and provided.
- Wheelchair ramp access to building but not bathroom.
Audrey Chen/C. Spencer Yeh/Alex Zhang Hungtai/Che Chen/Grace Villamil/Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
2 sets - mixed groupings
Ibrahima Sow w David Beal//Paco Cathcart
Latest edition in benefit performances by radical Mauritanian poet and singer
Book Talk: Liquid Handcuffs with author Helen Redmond
Methadone is a life-saving medication. But the current system for obtaining it — the opioid treatment program, commonly known as the methadone clinic — is punitive, unjust, and often humiliating. In this eye-opening book, social worker and journalist Helen Redmond takes readers inside the hidden world of methadone clinics, exposing the “culture of cruelty” that policies, punishes, and profits from those they’re meant to serve
PIT Care Collective: SOMA - An Anarchist Therapy
Join us for this special screening of documentary film SOMA: An Anarchist Therapy. Produced Nick Cooper. The screening will be followed by a discussion and meal.
“Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy.” Autonomedia
P.I.T. Care Collective are health workers building a vision toward a Healing Commons beyond institutional logic and boundaries.
- All welcome. Registration not required.
- Please bring food + drinks to share if able.
- Masks available but not required.
- Wheelchair ramp access to building but not bathroom.
Book Launch: Corridors of Contagion by Victoria Law
out on Haymarket Press, will feature reading and discussion with anticarceral activist and author Victoria Law
MASKS PROVIDED AND REQUIRED
Punk Archives for the Present from CBGB to Gilman and Beyond: We’re Having Much More Fun
Celebrating new book of essays, interviews and photos of punk scenes in NYC, Chicago, LA, the SF Bay Area, Olympia, WA and more. Authors, editors and contributors will be present for discussion at the event.
Contributors include Aaron Cometbus, Victoria Ruiz (Downtown Boys), Jayne County, Martín Sorrondeguy (Los Crudos and Limp Wrist), Anna Joy Springer (Blatz, Gr'ups, Cypher in the Snow), Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, etc), Sylvia Reed, Orlando X (Special Forces and United Blood), and KK Barret and Tommy Gear (The Screamers).
Activist Art & Graphic History ft Susan Simensky Bietila, John Vasquez Mejias and Seth Tobocman
ACTIVIST ART & GRAPHIC HISTORY
A multimedia presentation featuring
Susan Simensky Bietila (Author of Front Lines)
John Vasquez Mejias (Author of The Puerto Rican War)
With music by False Starts
Seth Tobocman (Author War In The Neighborhood)
With music by
CONTINUITY OF STRUGGLE
(Eric Blitz, Andy Laties, Marc Sloan,
Doug Principato, Jenny Gonzalez Blitz)
March 25th 7pm
At PIT (property is theft)
411 South 5th Street, Brooklyn
$15 Suggested donation
Screening: 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Film screening to mark four years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Fundraiser for antiauthoritarian Ukrainian mutual aid collective.
