[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR AUG 1 - 19

[Peter Miller]

>To: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:00:16 -0500
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR AUG 1 - 19
>X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11
>From: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>
>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
>Aug 1 –  19
>
>Sponsored by: New World Resource Center
>A Non-Profit Bookstore and Meeting Center
>2600 West Fullerton, Chicago IL USA 60647
>(773) 227 4011; (773) 489-5942 fax
>Open Tues-Fri, 3-9 pm; Sat-Sun 12-7 pm
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>Really new books below!
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>[Calendar listings begin Thursday thru following 2.5 weeks,
>includes submissions received by 5 pm Tuesday. 600 subscribers.
>To submit events or subscribe: NWRC2600 at juno.com]
>
>--Aug 1, Thurs, 8 pm, American Theatre Company, 1909 W Byron
>DOPE
>Defiant Theatre’s comedy on the drug wars, thru 8/10
>Info: 312-409-0585
>
>--Aug 1-Aug 4, Chicago Filmmakers, various locations
>CHICAGO LESBIAN & GAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
>Info: www.chicagofilmmakers.org/reeling/
>
>--Aug 1, Thurs, 7:30 am, Geneva Train station
>3rd St & South St, Geneva IL
>FOX VALLEY PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE PEACE VIGIL
>Info: 847-742-6602 or marysedrop at aol.com
>
>--Aug 1, Thurs, 6:30 pm, 5th City, 3350 W Jackson
>TAKING LEAD TO ELECT NEW CHICAGO MAYOR FEB 2003
>Open meeting. Sponsor: Accountability Committee
>Info: 773-252-7653 or newmayor2003 at juno.com
>
>--Aug 1, Thurs, 9:30 pm, CAN-TV channel 19
>BADEMAR VELASQUEZ
>Hear the Farm Labor Organizing Committee leader
>Also, radical poet and artist Carlos Cortez, repeats 7/2 4:30pm
>Info: 312-226-3330 or laborbeat at findourinfo.com
>
>--Aug 1-4, Thus-Sun, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
>180/MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION'S
>3RD CAMPUS DEMOCRACY CONVENTION
>Info: www.corporations.org/180mde
>
>--Aug 2, Fri, 6 pm, 1180 N. Milwaukee
>VIDEO MACHETE: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INTERNATIONAL DEBT
>Video programs
>Info: 773-546-1272 of www.videomachete.org
>
>--Aug 2-11, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
>BLACK HARVEST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILM & VIDEO
>Info: www.siskelfilmcenter.org
>
>--Aug 3-10, Dublin City University, Ireland
>WAR RESISTERS' INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
>Info: triennial2002 at wri-irg.org or http://www.wri-irg.org
>
>--Aug 5-19, Peaton Wood, Coulport, UK
>ANNUAL TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES
>INTERNATIONAL DISARMAMENT CAMP
>Includes Hiroshima day blockade of
>Royal Navy’s Trident nukes at Falsane
>Info: 0845 458 2564 or www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk
>
>--Aug 6, Tuesday
>HIROSHIMA DAY
>Also marking 12 years of sanctions against Iraq
>Info: www.warresisters.org or www.endthewar.org or
>www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/English/Stage0/0-2E.html
>
>--Aug 6, Tues, times & locations tba
>IRAQ PEACE PLEDGE DRIVE
>Info: 427-2533 x23 or lseverns at afsc.org
>
>--Aug 7, Wed, 8 pm, Annex 3, 3160 N Clark
>CHICAGO ANTI-BASHING NETWORK BENEFIT
>Music by Scott Free
>Info: 888.471.0874 or CABNstopthehate at aol.com
>
>--Aug 8, Thurs, 6:30 pm, Stone Soup Cooperative, 4637 N Ashland
>TAKING LEAD TO ELECT NEW CHICAGO MAYOR FEB 2003
>Open meeting. Sponsor: Accountability Committee
>Info: 773-252-7653 or newmayor2003 at juno.com
>
>--Aug 8-11, Thurs-Sun, Boston MA
>5TH ANNUAL UNITED STUDENTS
>AGAINST SWEATSHOPS MINI-CONFERENCE
>Workshops, organizing, etc
>Info: 616-873-1000 or talkalot83 at hotmail.com
>
>--Aug 9, Friday
>NAGASAKI DAY
>Once wasn’t enough
>Info: www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/bombing-hiroshima.html
>
>--Aug 9-12, Fri-Sun, Middle Tennessee State University
>STUDENTS TRANSFORMING AND RESISTING
>CORPORATIONS (STARC) CONFERENCE
>Hear Suzanne Pharr from Highlander Center, more
>Info: lauraclose at yahoo.com or www.starcalliance.org
>
>--Aug 9-15, Fri-Thurs, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
>FILM: YELLOW ASPHALT
>Drama depicts Israeli & Bedouin neighbors
>Info: 773-281-4114
>
>--Aug 10, Sat, 6 pm, 6210 N. Rockwell
>FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN GUATEMALA FUNDRAISER
>Screening of Digging for the Truth video, food, etc
>Info: (773) 250-3407 or www.fhrg.org
>
>--Aug 10-11, Sat-Sun, 9 am, Oregon IL
>Ogle County Fairgrounds, 1440 Limekiln Rd
>ILLINOIS RENWABLE ENERGY FAIR
>careful, ComEd’s a co-sponsor
>Info: 618 893 1717 or sonia at essex1.com
>
>--Aug 12-16, Mon-Fri, York University, Toronto
>9TH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN & HEALTH MEETING
>Info: www.iwhm-rifs.org/
>
>-Aug 13, Tues, 7 pm, Palatine Public Library, 700 N North Court
>NW SUBURBAN CHAPTER OF SUSTAIN:
>STOP US TAX-FUNDED AID TO ISRAEL NOW
>Hear Mahmud Ahmad of Free Palestine Alliance
>Info: 847-359-7267or www.SUSTAINCAMPAIGN.org
>
>--Aug 15, Thursday
>MONTHLY DIRECT MAIL CALENDAR DEADLINE
>Infamous New World Resource Center Monthly Calendar returns!!
>Info below or nwrc_2600 at yahoo.com
>
>--Aug 15, Thurs, 9 am, International Conference Center
>4750 N Sheridan
>ISLAM & LABOR CONFERENCE
>Info: 773-728-8400 ext 24
>
>--Aug 15, Thurs, 7 pm, Modern Bookstore, 3118 S Halsted
>OPEN MIC
>Sponsor: Young Communist League
>Info: 773) 209-6861 or Commiebear at yahoo.com
>
>--Aug 17, Sat, Washington DC
>RALLY: MILLIONS FOR REPARATIONS
>Info: www.millionsforreparations.com
>
>--Aug 17, Sat, 5 pm, Hot House, 31 E Balbo
>CHICAGO COALITION AGAINST U.S. MILITARISM &
>PALESTINE AID SOCIETY FUNDRAISER
>Paintings, photos; performers include Carlos Cortez,
>Lani Montreal Pintig, Nikki Patin, more
>Info: 773-278-6706
>
>--Aug 17-18, Sat-Sun, 10 am, North Avenue Beach footbridge
>PROTEST CHICAGO'S AIR & WATER SHOW
>Fund human needs, no to military spending
>Info: 773-275-9516 or www.8thdaycenter.org
>
>--Aug 17-20, Sat-Tues, Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, CT
>URPE 2002 SUMMER WORKSHOP / RETREAT:
>THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WAR & GLOBAL RECESSION
>Hear Mimi Abramovitz, Bill Tabb, Wadi'h Halibi, more
>Sponsor: Union of Radical Political Economists
>Info: www.urpe.org
>
>--CALENDAR INFO: Send event title, date, time, location,
>phone & sponsor to NWRC2600 at juno.com
>by 5 pm Tuesday for events beginning Thursday
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>
>WEEKLY EVENTS
>Thurs, 7:30 pm, 2204 Green Bay Road, Evanston
>NEIGHBORS FOR PEACE WEEKLY MEETING
>Info: www.neighborsforpeace.org/
>
>Fri, 5 pm, First & Lincoln, City Clock Park, DeKalb IL
>DEKALB AREA PEACE GATHERING
>Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
>
>Sat, 10 am – 3 pm, 1406 W Cullerton
>GIANT HUMANITARIAN BIKE SALE
>Info:708-466-6054 or www.geocities.com/workingbikes
>
>Sun, 12 pm, Water Tower
>END ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE
>Sponsor: Not In My Name. Info: www.nimn.org/
>
>Sun, 1 pm, corner Fullerton & Lincoln
>FOOD NOT BOMBS: MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY
>
>Tues, 6:30 pm, Ravenswood United Church, 2050 W Pensacola
>RAVENSWOOD FOR PEACE MEETINGS
>Info: ravenswood4peace at yahoo.com
>
>Tues, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University
>HYDE PARK COMMITTEE AGAINST WAR & RACISM
>WEEKLY MEETING
>Info: 773-377-5002 ext 5676 or hpstopwar at onebox.com
>
>Wed, 3 pm, Loyola El Station
>FOOD NOT BOMBS: MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY
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>
>NEW BOOKS AT NWRC:
>--Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism, 24.95
>--Made in Indonesia; Indonesian workers since Suharto, $18
>--Can We Put An End To Sweatshops? $12
>--The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism. $9.50
>--Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, 17.95
>--Race Riot; Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919, $19.95
>--Behind the Poison Cloud; Union Carbide’s Bhopal Massacre, 8.95
>--Lost Ground; welfare, reform, poverty and beyond, $18
>--Detroit: I Do Mind Dying,$18
>--Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining & Oil Corporations, $18
>--Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution & Profit, $14
>--The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968, $20
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>TO HOLD YOUR EVENT AT NWRC: Phone (773) 227 4011
>or nwrc_2600 at yahoo.com. New World is a centrally located
>storefront accessible by public transportation (California Blue Line
>train stop, #74 Fullerton bus); street-side parking available;
>wheelchairs welcome. Small donation requested.
>
>MONTHLY CALENDAR MAILING: NWRC prints a monthly calendar
>of events around the region (circulation 4,000). Groups, organizers
>& activists use this as an effective & affordable outreach tool &
>essential complement to internet media.
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>
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>
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