In the need to take a closer look at societies around the world that are too often overlooked by the mainstream media, we are reading the literature of countries around the world to gain a better understanding of their history, societies, ways of thinking, and political changes and their interactions with society and the struggles of people hoping to gain more rights and freedom.

In celebration of the upcoming Women's History Month and International Women's Day, Orlando navigates the joys and challenges of four centuries of sexual politics. As a loose adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name, this film dazzlingly bends time, gender, and artistic convention.

Join us for a film followed by an informal discussion.

In the Critical Readings we are currently reading David Harvey's Seventeeth Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2014).

Kanpur, India, is a city of 3 million—but also one that suffers from blackouts up to 15 hours a day. In response, Loha, a 'Robin Hood of electricity', charges the rich to power impoverished neighborhoods. As he and others like him conflict with power companies and government officials, a portrait of urban decay and people power in the world's fastest developing country takes shape.

Join us for a film followed by an informal discussion.

In the latest installment of D-Zóna's Critical Readings book club, we are reading "Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism" by Marx scholar and urbanist David Harvey. In this book, Harvey discusses how the contradictions inherent in the modern form of capitalism inevitably lead to crises which will eventually become this system's undoing.

This meeting will discuss contradictions (chapters) 2-4, "The Social Value of Labour and Its Representation by Money", "Private Property and the Capitalist State", and "Private Appropriation and Common Wealth".

In the Critical Readings book reading group, we are currently reading 'The Murray Bookchin Reader', of Murray Bookchin.

Murray, in this book, spans five decades and encompass subject matter or revolutionary philosophy, politics and histoiry, which are far less known than the specify controversies that deserve ar greater attention.

In this meeting we will present and discuss chapters 6 and 7 of 'The Murray Bookchin Reader, of Murray Bookchin: 'Anarchism' and 'Libertarian Municipalism'.

The book is accesible here:

Screening of the documentary "The Albanian Renaissance", portraying a depiction of post-communist Albania, struggling its way through transitions.

Communist Albania of Hoxha was a fortress state, seeing enemies everywhere. There were regular purges, the death penalty was applied, and there were a large number of political prisoners. There were thousands of executions of political enemies and of enemies of communism. Albanians did not have the right to a passport until May 1990.

In his latest movie, director Sean Baker takes us on a colorful journey through the life of kids living on the fringes of US society. The film follows a group of children growing up in poverty just outside the iconic Disney World – a place that they are never able to enter. Baker neatly treads the line between showing the sheer joy of being a kid out of school (familiar to all of us) and the tragedy of people living on the edge.

A discussion will follow the screening.