[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JAN 24 - FEB 9

Fri Jan 25 12:50:18 CST 2002

>From: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>To: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:04:27 -0600
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JAN 24 - FEB 9
>X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11
>
>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
>January 24 – February 9
>
>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 24, Thursday
>CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS:
>INTERFAITH WORKER'S RIGHTS CENTER
>Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues needs
>help building center for workers, persons of faith,
>union organizers, workers rights advocates, etc
>Info: 773-728-8400 x20
>
>--Jan 24, Thurs, 6 pm, Chicago Cultural Center
>78 E. Randolph
>WORDJAZZ IN CELEBRATION OF
>LANGSTON HUGHES' CENTENNIAL
>Poet Quraysh Ali Lansana reads Weary Blues,
>with many local jazz musicians
>Info: 773-227-6117
>
>--Jan 24, Thurs, 7pm, Agape House, UIC
>ARGENTINA UPDATE
>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 24, Thurs, 9:30 pm, CAN-TV Channel 19
>VIDEO: OUR WORLD THROUGH JENKINS' EYES
>Commemoration of activist & videographer William Jenkins
>Repeats 1/25 @ 4:30 pm, also 1/31 and 2/1
>Info: 312-226-3330 or laborbeat at findourinfo.com
>
>--Jan 25, Fri, 5 pm, corner First & Lincoln, DeKalb
>DEKALB AREA PEACE GATHERING
>Rally against war, every Friday.
>Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
>
>--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, 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 27, Sun, 1 pm, corner Fullerton & Lincoln
>FOOD NOT BOMBS: MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY
>Help prepare & serve. Every Sunday.
>
>--Jan 27, Sun, 2:30 pm, 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, Sun, 3 pm, 3 pm, St. Gertrude's
>1420 W. Granville
>IL-SOA POTLUCK
>Food, music, video of Ft. Benning action, speakers, etc
>Info: jjspeer at flash.net
>
>--Jan 27, Sun, 4 pm, New World Resource Center
>2600 W. Fullerton
>TACO BELL TRUTH TOUR: FARMWORKER POVERTY,
>FAST-FOOD PROFITS & YOU
>Taco Bell Boycott to win higher wages, with farmworkers
>from Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida
>Sponsor: Student Farmworker Alliance
>Info: 773-583-7728
>
>--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 28, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters
>36 S. Wabash, Room 1440
>EMPIRE
>Discussion led by Kevin Michaels
>of Negri & Hardt's book
>Info: 312-236-0799
>
>--Jan 29, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First
>5233 N. Clark
>CHILDREN OF THE DEPRESSION
>Authors Kathleen Thompson & Hilary Mac Austin show
>slides & discuss history of impoverished kids in the 1930s
>Info: 773-769-9299
>
>--Jan 30, Wed, 7 pm, Modern Bookstore
>3116 S. Halsted
>SOUTH AMERICA & THE CRISIS OF
>CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION
>Speakers Sarah Staggs & Dee Myles were guests at recent
>Congresses of Communist Parties of Columbia & Brazil
>Sponsor: People's Weekly World
>Info: 312-842-5665
>
>--Jan 30, Wed, 7:30 pm, Guild Complex
>Chopin Theater, 1543 W. Division
>HEARTS & HANDS: CREATING COMMUNITY IN VIOLENT TIMES
>Author & poet Luis Rodriguez examines community
>building & creating non-violent opportunities for youth
>Info: 773-227-6117
>
>--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
>THE TRIUMPH OF INEQUALITY &
>ENRON INVESTOR DANCE & POETRY PARTY
>Premier of Handle Bar Howl, Warren Leming’s Cantos for
>Critical Mass, ‘the greatest bike poetry since Greg Le Monde
>took the Tour de France.’ With Jim Tomasello, music by
>Santez, Al Wittek, Dr. Brad, Scott Parrish.
>
>--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
>
>--Feb 4, Mon, 10 am, Albuquerque, New Mexico
>Hyatt Regency, 330 Tijeras NW
>NO NUKES IN SPACE PROTEST & VIGIL at 19th
>Annual Symposium on Space, Nuclear Power & Propulsion
>Info: www.space4peace.org
>
>--Feb 5, Tues, 2 pm, City Council Chambers
>PUBLIC HEARING: REDEVELOPMENT
>OF UPTOWN’S GOLDBLATT'S BUILDING
>Protest against gentrification.
>
>--Feb 5, Tues, 6 & 9 pm, Facets Cinematheque
>1517 W. Fullerton
>FILM: JUNG (WAR) IN THE LAND OF THE MUJAHEDDIN
>Documentary of civil war in Afghanistan, with filmmakers
>Lazzaretti, Petito & Vendemmiati present for discussion
>Info: 773-281-9075 or www.facets.org
>
>--Feb 5, Tues, 7 pm, University of Chicago
>Biological Science Learning Center, Rm 001
>924 E. 57th St.
>ENERGY DEBATE: BUSH’S ENERGY POLICY
>Panel discussion sponsored by Sierra Club,
>Citizen Action/Illinois, Canadian Consulate General
>Info: 312-427-2114 or ashley at citizenaction-il.org
>
>--Feb 6 Wednesday, 7 pm, Doc Films
>Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th St
>FILM: DR. STRANGELOVE
>Stanley Kubrick’s 1960s send-up of U.S.
>cold-war militarism is more relevant than ever
>Info: 773-702-8575
>
>--Feb 6, Wed, 7:30 pm, Guild Complex
>Chopin Theater, 1543 W. Division
>THE PROMISE LANDERS: THE 100-YEAR HISTORY
>OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN OAK PARK
>Authors Stan West & Professor Timuel Black
>discuss the new book
>Info: 773-227-6117
>
>--Feb 6, Wednesday
>27 YEARS OF SHAME:
>FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!
>27th anniversary of incarceration
>Info: 785-842-5774 or www.freepeltier.org
>
>--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 9, Sat., Noon, Daley Plaza
>5TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW PROTEST
>Sponsor: Chicago Critical Mass
>Info: http://www.bikewinter.org
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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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