[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR FEB 7 - FEB 25

[Peter Miller]

>To: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:28:37 -0600
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR FEB 7 - FEB 25
>X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11
>From: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>
>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
>February 7 – February 25
>
>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
>email: nwrc_2600 at yahoo.com
>Open Tues-Fri, 3-9 pm; Sat-Sun 12-7 pm
>-------------------------------------------------------
>[To list events, send info to nwrc2600 at juno.com]
>
>--Feb 7, Thurs, WLUW 88.7 FM Radio
>WLUW COMMUNITY RADIO BENEFIT
>Pledge drive thru 2/15 for home of Radio Nation,
>Alternative Radio, Free Speech Radio News,
>Heartland Radio, etc; may lose its Loyola funding
>Info: www.wluw.org
>
>--Feb 7, Thurs, 6:30 pm, Agape House
>1046 W. Polk, Downstairs
>WHAT AFGHANISTAN HAS TO TEACH US
>Hear Gene Stoltzfus, Director, Christian Peacemaker Teams
>Info: 312-455-1199
>
>--Feb 7, Thurs, 7 pm, New World Resource Center
>2600 W. Fullerton
>BLACK HAWK DOWN: THE TRUE STORY
>Discussion sponsored by Workers World Party
>Info: 773-381-5839 or wwchi at enteract.com
>
>--Feb 7, Thurs, 7:30 pm, DePaul University
>SAC, 2230 N Kenmore, Room 154
>EVENING OF SOLIDARITY WITH ARABS AND MUSLIMS
>Panelists: Seema Iman-Vice President of Muslim Civil
>Rights Center, Melinda Power-National Lawyers Guild.
>Sponsor: DePaul Activist Student Union
>& DePaul Students Against The War
>Info: nasserhadeed at hotmail.com
>
>--Feb 8, Friday, Salt Lake City, Utah
>MARCH FOR OUR LIVES:
>WINTER OLYMPICS PROTEST
>Rally against human rights violations caused by
>welfare reform. Part of weeklong teach-in.
>Sponsor: Kensington Welfare Rights Union
>Info: 215-203-1945 or www.kwru.org
>
>--Feb 8, Fri, 5 pm, corner First & Lincoln, DeKalb
>DEKALB AREA PEACE GATHERING
>Rally against war, every Friday.
>Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
>
>--Feb 8, Fri, 7 pm, New World Resource Center
>2600 W. Fullerton
>THE AMERICAN WAR IN AFGHANISTAN:
>A VIEW FROM THE GROUND IN TAKHAR PROVINCE
>Speaker: Doug Hostetter, recently returned from a
>relief mission to Afghanistan
>Sponsors: Chicago Solidarity, Chicago Socialist Party
>Info: 773-227-4011
>
>--Feb 8, Fri, 7 pm, DePaul University
>Schmidt Academic Center Room 254, 2320 N. Kenmore
>FILM: HEARTS & MINDS
>Terrific documentary on the US war in Vietnam
>Sponsors: DePaul Activist Student Union,
>Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
>Info: 773-278-6706, or mpwr2502 at earthlink.net
>
>--Feb 8, Fri, 8 pm, The Crachouse, 1626 S. Newberry
>BENEFIT SHOW FOR UNBOUND BOOKS & CRACHOUSE
>Info: Dowachist at aol.com
>
>--Feb 9, Sat, Noon, Daley Plaza
>5TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW PROTEST
>Sponsor: Chicago Critical Mass
>Info: http://www.bikewinter.org
>
>--Feb 9, Sat, 3 pm, Myopic Books
>1468 N. Milwaukee
>COLD CHICAGO: A HAYMARKET FABLE
>Author Warren Leming reads from his new
>book, illustrated by Carlos Cortez.
>Info: www.coldchicagocompany.org
>
>--Feb 9, Sat, 6 pm, Roosevelt University
>400 S. Michigan, Rm 326
>GLOBALIZATION & REVOLT: REPORT FROM
>WEF/NEW YORK & WORLD SOCIAL FORUM/BRAZIL
>Sponsor: International Socialist Organization
>Info: 312-458-9920
>
>--Feb 9, Saturday, 7 pm, Tel-Aviv, Israel
>THE OCCUPATION IS KILLING US ALL
>HAKIBUSH HOREG ET KULANU
>Rally against the demolitions & illegal
>occupation of the West Bank and Gaza,
>rescheduled from 2/2. Sponsor: Women for Peace,
>ICAHD, Gush Shalom, Ta'ayush, New Profile, more
>Info: www.batshalom.org
>
>--Feb 9, Sat , 7pm, Heaven Gallery
>1550 N. Milwaukee
>5th ANNUAL CRITICAL MASS ART SHOW
>Info: 773-486-4861
>
>--Feb 10, Sun, 12 pm, Water Tower
>END ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION OF
>WEST BANK, GAZA & EAST JERUSALEM
>Every Sunday. Sponsor: Not In My Name
>Info: www.nimn.org/
>
>--Feb 10, Sun, 1 pm, corner Fullerton & Lincoln
>FOOD NOT BOMBS: MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY
>Help prepare & serve. Every Sunday.
>
>--Feb 10, Sun, 1 pm, Siskel Film Center
>164 N. State
>FILM: KANDAHAR
>Benefit Chicago premier of award-winning drama on
>Afghanistan, followed by discussion with Afghan women.
>Sponsor: Afghan Women’s Task Force, tix $20-$75
>Info: ghareebchand at yahoo.com or 847-390-0320
>
>--Feb 10, Sun, 6 pm, South Chicago Library
>9055 S. Houston
>IS THE WAR STOPPING TERRORISM?
>DO YOU FEEL SAFER NOW?
>Panelists: Joe Davis & Apolinar Quiroz, USWA;
>Roberta Wood, CLUW
>Sponsor: Peace & Jobs Petitioners
>Info: 773-968-9814
>
>--Feb 10, Sun, 6 pm, Siskel Theatre
>164 N. State
>VIDEO: SWING UNDER THE SWASTIKA
>Documentary chronicles how jazz &
>jazz musicians challenged fascism
>Info: 312-846-2600
>
>--Feb 10, Sun, 7:30 pm, Catholic Worker House
>4652 N. Kenmore
>MARLYN LEMAK CASE & THE DEATH PENALTY
>Roundtable with John & Rose Bagley, Naperville Pax Christi
>Info: 773-561-5073
>
>--Feb 11, Monday, Faslane, Scotland
>BLOCK ‘N ROLL
>Start of 3-day rolling blockade of Faslane, the UK
>weapons & munitions stockpile. Sponsors: Trident
>Ploughshares, Scottish CND, Faslane Peace Camp
>Info: big_blockade at hotmail.com
>
>--Feb 11, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters
>36 S. Wabash, Room 1440
>THE POWER OF NEGATIVITY
>First of 4 discussions of Raya Dunayevskaya's
>writings, continues 2/25, 3/11, 3/25
>Info: 312 236 0799 or nandl at igc.org
>
>--Feb 12, Tues, noon, INS, 10 W. Jackson Blvd
>RALLY TO DEFEND RABIH HADDAD
>Held in solitary confinement since 12/14
>Sponsor: Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
>Info: 312-458-9559 or nowarnoracism at hotmail.com
>
>--Feb 12, Tues, 7 pm, Christo Rey/Zion Lutheran Church
>2255 N Lawndale
>IMMIGRATION & CIVIL LIBERTIES
>BEFORE & AFTER SEPTEMBER 11
>Panelists: Melinda Power-West Town Community Law Office,
>Diego Bonesatti-Illinois Coalition Immigrant & Refugee Rights
>Info: 773-489-7464
>
>--Feb 13, Wed, 4 pm, Weymouth-Kirkland Courtroom
>UC Law School, 1111 E 60th St
>SYMPOSIUM: COERCED CONFESSIONS & IMPUNITY:
>A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS?
>Sponsors: Black Law Students Association,
>Latino Law Students, American Civil Liberties Union,
>International Human Rights Law Students
>Info: 773-834-0957 or human-rights at uchicago.edu
>
>--Feb 13, Wed, 7 pm, Cafe Luna, 1910 W 99th
>SOUTH METRO GREENS MEETING
>Info: 708-218-8434 or Lionel at Greens.org
>
>--Feb 13, Wed, 7 pm, DePaul University
>Faculty Hall, 2233 N Kenmore
>ILLINOIS SOA WATCH MEETING
>Info: jjspeer at flash.net
>
>--Feb 13, Wed, 8:30 pm, CAN-TV Channel 19
>THE CAMPAIGN TO END SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAQ
>Repeats 2/16-9:30pm, 2/20-8:30pm, 2/23-9pm
>
>--Feb 14, Thur, 12 pm, City/County Building
>118 N. Clark
>RALLY FOR LESBIAN & GAY MARRIAGE
>Sponsor: Chicago Anti-Bashing Network
>Info: 888-471-0874 or CABNstopthehate at aol.com
>
>--Feb 14, Thursday
>WAR TIMES
>New national anti-war publication out today
>Info: wartimes at attbi.com
>
>--Feb 15, Fri, 7 pm, New World Resource Center
>2600 W. Fullerton
>IRAQ SANCTIONS: AXIS OF EVIL?
>Panelists: Laurel Severns, AFSC;
>Rahman Minachi, Iraqi House
>Sponsor: New World Resource Center
>Info: 773-227-4011
>
>--Feb 15, Fri, 7 pm, Music Box Theatre
>3733 N. Southport
>FILM: KANDAHAR
>Award-winning drama about Afghanistan
>Info: 773-871-6604
>
>--Feb 16, Sat, Montgomery, Alabama
>RALLY IN SUPPORT OF PUBLIC
>& ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION
>Sponsor: Montgomery Transportation Coalition
>Info: www.motranco.org/
>
>--Feb 16, Sat, 9am, Forum High School for Creative Studies
>11024 S. Bell
>ILLINOIS CAUCUS OF GREENS/ GREEN PARTY USA
>Info: 708-218-8434 or greenpartyusa at igc.org
>
>--Feb 16, Sat, Fireside Bowl, 2646 W. Fullerton
>THREE DOLLAR BILL
>Queercore band’s CD release party
>Info: 773-486-2700 or www.threedollar.net
>
>--Feb 16, Sat, 6 pm, Women in the Director's Chair
>941 W. Lawrence
>BENEFIT FILM SCREENING TO FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS
>2 films: Out: The Making of a Revolutionary,
>also Eyes of the Rainbow
>Info: 773-907-0610
>
>--Feb 16, Sat, 8 pm, Camden Centre, London
>Bidborough St, N1
>I LOVE CUBA CABARET
>Videos, bands, more
>Sponsor: Cuba Solidarity UK
>Info: www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk
>
>--Feb 16, Sat, 9 pm, Heartland Cafe
>7000 N. Glenwood
>NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE'S ANNUAL
>VALENTINE'S DAY SALSA DANCE
>features Orquesta Nabori, Tx $10-12
>Info: 773-465-8005
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 8 am, Heartland Cafe
>7000 N. Glenwood
>ATHLETES UNITED FOR PEACE
>SWEETHEART 5K RUN
>Info: 773-465-8005
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 9 am, CAN-TV Channel 19
>CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM
>Coverage of panel of scholars & activists provides living history
>of the Socialist Party since its founding 100 years ago by
>Eugene V. Debs. With Milwaukee socialist mayoral
>candidate Wendell Harris, many others.
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 3 pm, No Exit Cafe
>6970 N Glenwood
>CHICAGO GREENS MONTHLY MEETING & FORUM
>Forum on public housing crisis
>Info: 312-939-2539 or info at chicagogreens.org
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 3 pm, Harris YWCA, 6200 S. Drexel
>FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL FORUM
>Speaker: Sam Jordan, former director,
>Amnesty International's Death Penalty Project.
>Info: 773-404-0176
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 5 pm, CAN-TV Channel 19
>THE TERROR ECONOMY
>Panelists: Margaret Blackshere, Ron Baiman
>& Bernice Bild
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 5 pm, Women & Children First
>5233 N. Clark
>LANI GUINIER
>Legal scholar reads from her new book, The Miner's Canary:
>Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy.
>Info: 773) 769-9299
>
>--Feb 17, Sun, 7 pm, St. Francis Catholic Worker
>4652 N. Kenmore
>CHICAGO PEACE AND JUSTICE SONG CIRCLE
>Info: 773-561-5073
>
>--Feb 18, Mon, 4 pm, Catholic Theological Union
>5401 S. Cornell
>LANDMINES, MEMORY & SUFFERING
>Hear Jody Williams, founder,
>International Campaign to Ban Landmines
>Info: 773-256-4258
>
>--Feb 19, Tues, 6 pm, UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland
>JOBS WITH JUSTICE:
>GLOBAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEETING.
>Info: redjerry at prodigy.net
>
>--Feb 19, Tues, 9 pm, CAN-TV Channel 19
>BEAT BACK THE ATTACK ON CIVIL LIBERTIES
>Video of the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
>Teach-in of 12/ 8. Repeats 2/20, 4 pm
>
>--Feb 20, Wednesday
>NATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY
>WITH ARABS, SOUTH ASIANS & MUSLIMS
>Info: laresistencia at laresistencia.org or 312-683-5194
>
>--Feb 20, Wed, 7 pm, International House
>1414 E 59th St
>HOLLER IF YOU HEAR ME:
>SEARCHING FOR TUPAC SHAKUR
>Author Michael Eric Dyson discusses his book
>
>--Feb 21, Thurs, 4 pm, UIC School of Public Health
>1603 W. Taylor
>GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE FORUM
>ON HEALTH CARE
>Info: www.cbhonline.org
>
>--Feb 21, Thurs, 4 pm, South Loop Apartments
>1521 S. Wabash
>THE PEOPLE'S STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS
>Info: 312-663-0960 or interns at jcua.org
>
>--Feb 22, Fri., 5:30pm, Daley Plaza
>CHICAGO CRITICAL MASS MONTHLY BIKE RIDE
>Info: http://www.chicagocriticalmass.org
>
>--Feb 22-24, Fri-Sun, St. Scholastica High School
>7416 N. Ridge
>2002 CONFERENCE ON JUSTICE & GLOBAL SECURITY.
>Panelists: Medea Benjamin, Salim Muwakkil,
>Ali Abunimah, Soren Ambrose, Bal Pinguel, more
>Info: 312-427-2533 or www.grassrootsvoices.org
>
>--Feb 22-24, Fri-Sun, Columbia University, New York
>NATIONAL STUDENT ANTIWAR CONFERENCE
>Sponsor: People for Peace, Columbia Coalition
>Against War & Racism
>Info: www.antiwarconference.org
>
>--Feb 23, Sat, 3 pm, Siskel Theatre
>164 N State
>FIM: TIME OUT
>Laurent Cantet's gripping drama depicts the
>desperation of the white-collar working class
>Info: 312-846-2600
>
>--Feb 23, Sat, 7 pm, Autonomous Zone
>2129 N. Milwaukee
>GRAND OPENING GALA: AUTONOMOUS ZONE
>Bands, etc. Tix $7-15
>Info: whatsgoingon at azone.org
>
>--Feb 24, Sun, 6 pm, Siskel Theatre
>164 N State
>VIDEO: JAZZMAN FROM THE GULAG
>Documentary chronicles jazz trumpeter
>Eddie Rosner’s persecution under Stalinism
>Info: 312-846-2600
>
>--Feb 24, Sun, 7pm, St. Francis Catholic Worker
>4652 N. Kenmore
>ROUND TABLE: LIBERATION ISSUES IN THE PHILIPPINES
>Info: 773-561-5073
>
>--Feb 25, Monday, 6-9 pm
>MONTHLY CALENDAR MAILING AT
>NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER
>Free monthly event calendar,
>2,500 subscribers. Details below.
>(Next mailing March 25)
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>
>NEW BOOKS AT NWRC:
>
>--NEW PAMPHLETS $1 EACH: Rosa Luxemburg, MLK,
>Barbara Deming, A. J. Muste, Emma Goldman, Paul Goodman,
>Sid Lens, Jeannette Rankin, David McReynolds, more
>--The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid, intro by Chomsky, $20
>--The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers
>Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine, $13.95
>--The Culture of Terrorism, Chomsky, $16
>--Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers
>Take on the Global Factory, $18
>--The Catholic Church & the Holocaust, 1930-1965, $14.95
>--You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train:
>A Personal History of Our Times, by Howard Zinn, $14
>--Global Village or Global Pillage, 2nd edition, $16
>--Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order,
>Chomsky, $15.95
>--Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries
>of African American History Told By Those Who Lived It, $15
>--Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, $19.95
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>
>HOLD YOUR EVENT AT NWRC!! New World is a centrally
>located storefront that’s hosted hundreds of public meetings.
>Accessible by public transportation (California Blue Line train
>stop, #74 Fullerton bus); street-side parking available;
>wheelchairs welcome. Small donation requested.
>Phone (773) 227 4011 or nwrc_2600 at yahoo.com.
>
>MONTHLY CALENDAR MAILING: NWRC produces a monthly postal
>mailing (2,500 subscribers) containing a calendar of events around
>the region. Groups, organizers and activists use this as an effective
>& affordable outreach tool & essential complement to internet media.
>
>--TO SUBSCRIBE: calendar mailing subscriptions are free, so
>send your postal address. TO LIST YOUR EVENT OR INCLUDE
>A FLYER IN THE MAILING, call 773-227-4011. The cost for listing
>an event in the calendar is $25/quarter page, $50/half page,
>$100 full page. To include a flyer, bring two people, 2,500 leaflets
>and $50 on the last Monday of every month (except July & December)
>to the bookstore at 6 pm sharp and be prepared to stay & help until 9 pm.
>
>
>WHO WE ARE: The New World Resource Center is Chicago’s oldest
>independent left-wing & labor bookstore and meeting center, providing
>books, periodicals, t-shirts, etc. to progressives and activists. Founded
>
>in 1971, NWRC is owned and operated by a not-for-profit collective.
>Volunteers always welcome; phone (773) 227-4011 for info.
>
>THANKS to everyone for your support.
>
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