Celebrate Labor Day with Si Kahn an Elizabeth Minnich

Southern Civil Rights and Labor Songs Singalong with Si Kahn
Date: Monday, September 4, 7 pm
Place: The Old Labor Hall

Acclaimed songwriter and community organizer Si Kahn will lead the audience in great and anthemic songs of struggle and protest. Si will also tell the stories behind many of the songs and provide audience members with a free songbook they can take home. Local favorites Anything Goes (Mark Greenberg & Ben Koenig) will open the evening with songs fit for the occasion.

Tickets: $15, under 12 free, $12 for seniors, students, union members.

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Organizing Workshop with Si Kahn

Date: Monday, September 4, 4-5:30 pm
Place: The Old Labor Hall
Free

A civil rights, labor, and community organizer, and musician for 52 years, Si Kahn is the current lead organizer for Musicians United To Protect Bristol Bay, an international network of over 650 grassroots and community musicians who use their music and media access to help stop the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska. Kahn is the author of three widely-used organizing handbooks, including Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists and Quiet Lovers of Justice, and The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy, co-authored with Elizabeth Minnich.

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Community Conversation and Book Reading with author Elizabeth Minnich
When: Wednesday, September 6, 7 pm
Place: Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier
Free

As Hannah Arendt's teaching assistant, Elizabeth Minnich went with Arendt to defend the philosopher’s controversial concept, the “banality of evil.” Minnich’s new book, The Evil of Banality: The Life and Death Importance of Thinking, continues her quest to comprehend how ordinarily decent people make “extensive evils” (genocide, slavery) and “extensive good” possible. Minnich will discuss these concepts and read from the book.