[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JAN 17 - FEB 4

[Peter Miller]

>From: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>To: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:14:03 -0600
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JAN 17 - FEB 4
>X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11
>
>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
>January 17 – February 4
>
>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]
>
>--Jan 17, Thursday
>ACT NOW TO CLOSE THE SOA!
>Illinois call-in & e-mail day to Sen. Durbin.
>Contact: dick at durbin.senate.gov or 312/353-4952
>
>--Jan 17, Thurs, 5 pm, Colombian Consulate
>500 N. Michigan
>EMERGENCY PROTEST AGAINST
>MILITARY BUILD-UP IN COLUMBIA
>National Day of Action, many sponsors
>
>--Jan 17, Thurs, 9:30 pm, CAN-TV Channel 19
>VIDEO: TRADE UNIONS FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
>Documentary on Pakistan labor movement
>Also 1/18 at 4:30 pm
>
>--Jan 17, Thursday
>ORGANIZING CONFERENCE CALL FOR
>NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CAMPUSES
>& SCHOOLS AGAINST WAR
>scheduled for 2/22-24, Columbia University, NYC
>Info: www.antiwarconference.org.
>
>--Jan 18, Fri, 12 pm, 1200 W. Fulton St.
>FIGHT FOR THE DREAM: JUSTICE FOR CDT WORKERS
>Rally for ATU Local 1702
>Info: chicagojwj at mindspring.com
>
>--Jan 18, Fri, 5 pm, corner First & Lincoln, DeKalb
>DEKALB AREA PEACE GATHERING
>Rally against war, every Friday.
>Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
>
>--Jan 18, Fri, 7 pm, 18th & Morgan
>HARDCORE AGAINST FASCISM:
>BENEFIT FOR ANTI-RACIST ACTION
>Seven bands, five bucks
>Info: 312-409-1432 or ara_chicago at ziplip.com
>
>--Jan 18, Fri, 7:30 pm, New World Resource Center
>2600 W. Fullerton
>THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM & LABOR
>Panelists: Joana Misnik, Solidarity Political Committee;
>Rodney Ward, unemployed US Airways worker & member
>Association of Flight Attendants;
>David McReynolds, Socialist Party USA
>Sponsor: Chicago Socialist Party & Chicago Solidarity
>Info: ChgoSP at juno.com
>
>--Jan 19, Sat, 1 pm, UIC School of Public Health
>1601 W. Taylor
>PREVENT WHAT WE CAN'T CURE:
>A PUBLIC HEALTH SYMPOSIUM ON GLOBAL
>SECURITY & WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
>Organized by Physicians for Social Responsibility
>
>--Jan 19, Sat, 2 pm, Harold Washington Library
>400 S. State
>LIFE & WORK OF RAYA DUNAYEVSKA
>Discussants: Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson
>Info: (312) 747-4050
>
>--Jan 19, Sat, 3 pm, Harold Washington Library
>400 S. State
>FILM: THE GOOD WAR &
>THOSE WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT IT
>New documentary on World War II American
>conscientious objectors, narrated by Ed Asner
>Info: (312) 747-4050
>
>--Jan 19, Sat, 7 pm, Al-Khaymeith Restaurant
>4742 N. Kedzie
>DAVID McREYNOLDS
>Dinner celebrates the anti-war activist, socialist &
>presidential candidate. Sponsors: DSA Chicago,
>Vietnam Veterans Against War, Chicago Solidarity,
>Open University of the Left, Chicago Socialist Party, others.
>Info/rsvp: ChgoSP at juno.com
>
>--Jan 19, Sat, 8 pm, Chicago Filmmakers
>5243 N. Clark St, 2nd Floor
>VIDEO: THE HIDDEN WARS OF DESERT STORM
>Must-see documentary expose by Gerard Ungerman
>& Audrey Brohy, narrated by John Hurt (60 mins)
>Info: 773-293-1447
>
>--Jan 19, Sat, 8 pm, Siskel Film Center
>164 N. State St
>FILM: ADRIFT IN THE HEARTLAND
>Premier of Brigid Maher’s drama on two women,
>one African American & one Palestinian
>
>--Jan 19-20, Sat-Sun, New Orleans, LA
>GREEN ALLIANCE: FOUNDING CONVENTION
>Green Party activists organizing alongside & within Green Party
>Info: greenalliancecc at yahoo.com
>
>--Jan 19-22, Sat-Mon, New York City
>IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN: FROM CHAOS TO COMMUNITY
>Educational & protest events on the war against the people
>of Iraq and the bombing of Afghanistan. Sponsors:
>War Resisters League & Voices in the Wilderness
>Info: 212-228-0450 or www.warresisters.org/
>
>--Jan 20, 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/
>
>--Jan 20, Sun, 1 pm, corner Fullerton & Lincoln
>FOOD NOT BOMBS: MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY
>Help prepare & serve. Every Sunday.
>
>--Jan 20, Sun, No Exit Cafe
>6970 N. Glenwood
>NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATIONS
>Keynote: Rita Bogolub. Part of
>Chicago Greens monthly meeting & forum
>Info: 312-939-2539
>
>--Jan 21, Monday, U.S. holiday
>HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
>“When machines and computers, profit and
>property rights are considered more important
>than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism
>and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
>(‘Declaration of Independence From the War in
>Vietnam,’ Riverside Church speech, 4/4/67)
>
>--Jan 21, Monday, Women & Children First
>5233 N. Clark
>MLK DAY TEACHER’S SALE
>Children’s books 20%-40% off, teachers only
>Info: 773-769-9299
>
>--Mon, Jan 21, 10 am, Church of the Open Door
>5954 S. Albany
>A RECIPE FOR HEALING: 7TH ANNUAL
>MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY BREAKFAST
>Keynotes: Dr. Cathy J. Cohen,
>Father Juan Reed, Rev. Alma Crawford
>Sponsor: Chicago Black Lesbians and Gays
>Info: 312-409-4917
>
>--Mon, Jan 21, 5 pm, Union Park
>1500 W. Washington Blvd
>PROTEST CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT BUDGET CUTS
>Join SEIU Local 73 in opposing cuts
>Info: 312-738-6209 or chicagojwj at mindspring.com
>
>--Mon, Jan 21, 6:30 pm, News & Letters
>36 S. Wabash, Room 1440
>FROM POLITICAL TO HUMAN EMANCIPATION:
>PHILOSOPHIC LEGACY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
>Speaker: John Alan
>Info: 312-236-0799
>
>--Jan 22, Tues,  226 S. Wabash #600
>PLANNING MEETING FOR PEOPLE'S EARTHDAY
>Info: 312-939-2539
>
>--Jan 23, Wed, 4 pm, Loylola University
>Galvin Library, Science Building
>NIKE SWEATSHOPS EXPOSED
>Speakers: Leslie Kretzu and Jim Keady
>Info: educate4justice at aol.
>
>--Jan 23, Wed, 6 pm, Harold Washington Library
>400 S. State
>bell hooks
>Activist & writer discusses her new book,
>Communion: The Female Search for Love
>Info: (312) 747-4050
>
>--Jan 23, Wed, 7 pm, Doc Films
>Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th St
>FILM: SPARTACUS
>Stanley Kubrick’s slave revolt drama
>Info: 773-702-8575
>
>--Jan 23, Wed, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First
>5233 N. Clark
>SHATTERED BONDS: THE COLOR OF CHILD WELFARE
>Law professor & author Dorothy Roberts discusses her
>book on why African American parents receiving welfare
>are singled out for removal of their children
>Info: 773-769-9299
>
>--Jan 24, Thurs, 7pm, Agape House, UIC
>CURRENT ECONOMIC &
>POLITICAL SITUATION IN ARGENTINA
>Forum organized by Jubilee Chicago
>Info: chicagojwj at mindspring.com
>
>--Jan 24, Thurs, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First
>5233 N. Clark
>THE PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD: WHY THE MOST
>IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD IS STILL THE LEAST VALUED
>Author Anne Crittenden discusses her book
>Info: 773-769-9299
>
>--Jan 25, Fri, 5:30 pm, Daley Plaza
>CHICAGO CRITICAL MASS
>ANNUAL POLKA RIDE
>Info: http://www.chicagocriticalmass.org
>
>--Jan 25-27, Fri-Sun, Washington DC
>NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZED RESISTANCE
>Activist conference: numerous speakers/workshops
>Info: www.organizedresistance.org/main.html
>
>--Jan 26, Sat, 8 pm, Chicago Filmmakers
>5243 N. Clark St, 2nd Floor
>VIDEOS: UNVEILED - TALES OF AFGHAN WOMEN
>Two documentary video presentations:
>Where Women Are Banned (16mins)
>Kabul, Kabul (46 mins)
>Info: 773-293-447
>
>--Jan 27, Sun, Chicago Historical Society
>Clark St & North Ave
>FILM: MAXWELL STREET: A LIVING MEMORY
>Premier of new documentary, benefit for
>Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition
>Info: 312-642-4600
>
>--Jan 27, Sun, 3 pm, Chicago Cultural Center
>Preston Bradley Hall, 78 E. Washington St
>EMERGENCY BENEFIT FOR
>ARAB AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK
>With Sharq Ensemble. Tix $50/$25
>Info: 773-476-3534 Ext. 61 or 312-560-6661
>
>Jan. 27, 7:30 PM, St. Francis Catholic Worker
>4652 N. Kenmore
>HOW I EXPERIENCED LIFE IN CUBA
>Discussion with activist Rebecca Burwell who
>studied motherhood in Cuba
>Info: 773-283-5156
>
>--Jan 28, Monday, 6-9 pm
>MONTHLY CALENDAR MAILING AT
>NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER
>Free monthly event calendar,
>2,500 subscribers. Details below.
>(Next mailing February 25)
>
>--Jan 31, Thurs, 7 pm, United Church of Hyde Park
>1448 E. 53rd
>THE DEATH PENALTY: TOO FLAWED TO FIX
>2nd anniversary of Illinois' death penalty moratorium.
>With Rev. Jesse Jackson & former death row inmates
>Sponsor: Campaign to End the Death Penalty
>Info: 773-955-4841
>
>--Jan 31-Feb 1, Brussels, Belgium
>CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH THE EUROPEAN
>NETWORK FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
>Info: http://www.russfound.org/
>
>--Jan 31-Feb 4, New York City
>ANTI-CAPITALIST CONVERGANCE AGAINST
>WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
>Protests, rallies, conference, lots more
>Chicago ride share: DAN, yippie5 at aol.com
>Event info: www.studentsforglobaljustice.org/ or
>www.abolishthebank.org or
>www.anotherworldispossible.com
>
>--Jan 31-Feb 5, Porto Alegre, Brazil
>2002 WORLD SOCIAL FORUM, PORTO ALEGRE
>Building a better world, 2nd annual conference
>Info: www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/eng/abre_pedra.asp
>
>--Feb 2, Sat, 8 pm, Heartland Café
>7000 N. Glenwood
>TRIUMPH OF INEQUALITY: DANCE & POETRY
>Featuring Hard Left Life Productions
>
>--Feb 3, Sun, 3 pm, Unitarian Church of Evanston
>1330 Ridge, Evanston (Dempster El)
>AFTER 9/11: RECONSTRUCTING THE WORLD
>Speakers from Amnesty International, Seeds of Peace,
>Voices in the Wilderness. Sponsors: Unitarian Church of
>Evanston Peace & Justice Group, Neighbors for Peace.
>Info: 773-764-6110
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>
>NEW BOOKS AT NWRC:
>--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 New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo, Chomsky, $15.95
>--Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Worlds Oldest Colony in the World,
>$17.95
>--Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers
>Take on the Global Factory, $18
>--Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future,
>by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, et. al., $22.95
>--The Shadow University:
>The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, $27.50
>--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
>--Sacco & Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, $18.95
>--Orientalism, by Edward W. Said, $15
>--The Hidden War: A  Russian Journalist's Account of
>The Soviet War in Afghanistan, $14
>--Peace and Its Discontents, by Edward W. Said, $12
>--Loving In the War Years, 2nd edition, $17
>--Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order,
>Chomsky, $15.95
>--A Muslim Primer, $14.95
>--Holy War, Inc: Inside Secret World of Osama Bin Laden, $26.00
>--No Logo, by Naomi Klein, $17
>--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
>--Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America
>& the Struggle for Peace, Chomsky, $19
>--Lies My Teacher Told Me:
>Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, $15
>--The Culture of Terrorism, Chomsky, $16
>--Acts of Agression: Policing "Rogue" States,
>Chomsky & Edward W. Said, $6.95
>--Jews For Buchanan, by John Nichols, $14.95
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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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