[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JAN 31 - FEB 18

Thu Jan 31 16:29:58 CST 2002

>To: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:29:51 -0600
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JAN 31 - FEB 18
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>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
>January 31 – February 18
>
>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 31, Thurs, 7 am, Geneva, IL
>Corner of Fabyan Pkwy & Randall Rd, near KMart
>FOX RIVER VALLEY PEACE GROUP SILENT VIGIL
>Dress in black, burqa style or black hood
>Info: 630-232-0780 ext. 264
>
>--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 1, Fri, 2:45PM, Abbott Labs
>1500 N. Sheridan, North Chicago
>RALLY TO SUPPORT STRIKING CAROUSEL WORKERS
>Carousel Linen workers have been on strike for 4 months,
>Abbot Labs is Carousel’s biggest customer
>Info/directions: 312-738-6159 or 312-738-6140
>
>--Feb 1, Fri, 5 pm, corner First & Lincoln, DeKalb
>DEKALB AREA PEACE GATHERING
>Rally against war, every Friday.
>Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
>
>--Feb 1, Fri, 5:30 pm, Daley Plaza
>CHICAGO CRITICAL MASS
>ANNUAL POLKA RIDE
>Info: http://www.chicagocriticalmass.org
>
>--Feb 1, Fri, 7 pm, UIC Lecture Center D, Rm. D-4
>TEACH-IN ON PALESTINE: CURRENT SITUATION &
>WHERE TO GO FROM HERE
>Sponsored by Palestine Aid Society
>Info: 773-732-9018 or hakim22269 at yahoo.com
>
>--Feb 2, Saturday, 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
>Sponsor: Women for Peace, ICAHD,
>Gush Shalom, Ta'ayush, New Profile, more
>Info: www.batshalom.org
>
>--Feb 2, Sat, 7 pm, Field Museum
>ROBBEN ISLAND SINGERS
>South African singers and ANC veterans,
>part of African Heritage Festival
>Info: 312-665-7400
>
>--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, 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 3, Sun, 1 pm, corner Fullerton & Lincoln
>FOOD NOT BOMBS: MEALS FOR THE HUNGRY
>Help prepare & serve. Every Sunday.
>
>--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 4, Mon, 7 pm, Northwestern University, Evanston
>PROTEST NETANYAHU AT NORTHWESTERN
>Sponsors: ISO, Palestine Aid Society, others
>
>--Feb 4, Mon, 6:30  pm, News & Letters
>36 S. Wabash, Room 1440
>HAITI AND BLACK AMERICA
>Speaker: George Wilfrid Smith Jr.
>Info: 312-236-0799 of nandl at igc.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 5, Tues, 7 pm, LaGrange Park Public Library
>555 N. LaGrange Road
>FILM: GREETINGS FROM MISSILE STREET
>Documentary on impact of sanctions on Iraq, repeats 2/9,
>1 pm. Sponsors: St. Francis Xavier Peace & Justice
>Committee of LaGrange, AFSC, Voices in the Wilderness
>Info: 312-427-2533, Ext. 14
>
>--Feb 5, Tues, 10 pm, Channel 11
>TRADING DEMOCRACY
>Documentary on NAFTA’s pro-corporate policies
>
>--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, 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 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 9, Sat., Noon, Daley Plaza
>5TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW PROTEST
>Sponsor: Chicago Critical Mass
>Info: http://www.bikewinter.org
>
>--Feb 10, Sunday, 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 11, Monday, Faslane, Scotland
>BLOCK ‘N ROLL
>Start of 3-day rolling blockade of Faslane, a UK weapons
>& munitions stockpile. Sponsors: Trident Ploughshares,
>Scottish CND, Faslane Peace Camp
>Info: big_blockade at hotmail.com
>
>--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 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, 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, 9 pm, Heartland Cafe
>NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE'S ANNUAL
>VALENTINE'S DAY SALSA DANCE
>features Orquesta Nabori, Tx $10-12
>
>--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 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
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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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