[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JULY 11 - JULY 29

[Peter Miller]

>To: NWRC2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:43:56 -0500
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR JULY 11 - JULY 29
>X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11
>From: nwrc2600 at juno.com
>
>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
>July 11 – July 29
>
>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
>-------------------------------------------------------
>[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]
>
>--July 11, Thurs, 2:30 pm, Azteca Foods, 5005 S Nagle
>AZTECA FOODS WORKERS PICKET
>Support UE Local 1159
>Info: 312-738-6209
>
>--July 11, Thurs, 7 pm, DePaul University
>Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N Kenmore, Rm 161
>EYEWITNESS PALESTINE with Mahmud Ahmad of
>Free Palestine & Richard Becker of International Action
>Center. Also video: Palestine Fights for Freedom
>Info: 773-878-0166 or BillBeth at rcnchicago.com
>
>--July 11, Thurs, 8 pm, Doc Films, University of Chicago
>Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St
>FILM: I AM CUBA
>1964 documentary on the Cuban revolution
>Info: 773-702-8575
>
>--July 11-13, Thurs-Sat, Baltimore
>RECLAIMING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
>Conference, workshops. Sponsor: Good Jobs First
>Info: www.goodjobsfirst.org/
>
>--July 12, Fri, 6:30 pm, Fullerton & Lincoln Park West
>PICKET FOR BBJ LINEN WOKERS
>Support union drive at zoo event
>Sponsor: UNITE!, Jobs With Justice
>Info: 312-738-6209
>
>--July 12, Fri, 7 pm Al-Aqsa School
>7361 W 92nd St, Bridgeview IL
>EYEWITNESS PALESTINE with Mahmud Ahmad of
>Free Palestine & Richard Becker of International Action
>Center. Also video: Palestine Fights for Freedom
>Info: 773-878-0166 or BillBeth at rcnchicago.com
>
>--July 12, Fri, 7 pm, Tel Aviv harbor
>SOLIDARITY CONCERT FOR JAILED REFUSENICKS
>Many musicians & speakers. Benefits families of
>those refusing to soldier in Israeli army
>Info: www.batshalom.org
>
>--July 12, Fri, 12 pm, Boeing, 100 N Riverside
>VIGIL: BOEING-PROFITEERS OF WAR
>Info: 312-566-9780
>
>--July 13, Sat, 8 am, Autonomous Zone, 2129 N Milwaukee
>GUERRILLA LOVE RADIO PANCAKE BENEFIT
>Info: 773-276-1159 or cdesperdicio at hotmail.com
>
>--July 13, Sat, 12 pm, Kennington Park, London
>RALLY: END FACTORY FARMING
>Info: www.factoryfarming.org.uk/
>
>--July 13, Sat, 7 pm, Heartland Café, 7000 N Glenwood
>SURREALISM HERE AND NOW!
>Exhibit of paintings, etc by participants in Chicago Surrealist Group
>Info: 773-262-1329
>
>--July 13-14, Sat-Sun, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
>FILM: GAZA STRIP
>Documentary focuses on ordinary Palestinians
>Info: 773-281-4114
>
>--July 14, Sunday
>HAPPY BASTILLE DAY
>
>--July 15, Monday
>DELEGATION TO NICARAGUA APPLICATION DEADLINE
>Nicaragua Network, Quest for Peace, & IFCO/Pastors for
>Peace co-lead fact-finding delegation
>Info: 212-926-5757 or www.ifconews.org
>
>--July 17, Wed, 7 pm, Autonomous Zone, 2129 N Milwaukee
>FEMINIST FILM NIGHT, films tba
>Info: www.azone.org/
>
>--July 18, Thurs, 7:30 am, Monsanto, St Louis, MO
>DIRECT ACTION AT MONSANTO
>Stop sales of Roundup Ultra for aerial eradication programs in Colombia
>Info: www.witnessforpeace.org/
>
>--July 18-21, Philadelphia, PA
>GREEN PARTY USA MIDTERM CONVENTION
>Info: http://gpus.org/convention.html
>
>--July 19, Fri, 12 pm, Boeing, 100 N Riverside
>VIGIL: BOEING-PROFITEERS OF WAR
>Info: 312-566-9780
>
>--July 19, Fri, 7 pm, St. Gertrude's Church, 1401 W Granville
>COFFEEHOUSE BENEFIT FOR SOA PROTESTORS
>Music by Sones de Mexico, poetry, theater, etc.
>Info: 312-641-5151
>
>--July 19, Fri, 8 pm, Southwest Youth Collaborative, 6400 S Kedzie
>CAFE INTIFADA
>Poetry, spoken word, open mic, etc, for the liberation of Palestine
>Info: jlahoud at juno.com
>
>--July 19-21, Fri-Sun, Athens, GA
>SOUTHERN GIRLS CONVENTION
>Annual grassroots meet of pro-woman activists
>devoted to empowering women & girls in South
>www.southerngirlsconvention.com/
>
>--July 20, Sat, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark,
>ANNUAL BOOK SALE thru 7/28
>Info: 773-769-9299
>
>--July 20, Sat, 1 pm, Riis Park, 6100 W Fullerton
>PROTEST POLICE MISCONDUCT
>Sponsor: Comite Exigimos Justicia
>Info: 773-772-9117
>
>--July 21, Sun, 2 pm, Montrose Harbor Park
>PEACE & JUSTICE PICNIC
>Sponsor: Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
>Info: 312-458-9559
>
>--July 23, Tues, 8:30 pm, Grant Park, Butler Field
>FILM: DR. STRANGELOVE
>Free outdoor showing of the cold-war satire
>
>--July 24, Wed, 7 pm, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
>HANS VON SPONECK
>Hear the former UN Assistant Secretary General &
>UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinator to Iraq
>Sponsor: McHenry County Peace Group
>Info: 815-455-3683
>
>--July 24, Wed, 7:30 pm, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W Division
>BOONDOCKS CARTOONIST AARON MCGRUDER
>Sponsor: Guild Complex
>Info: 773-278-2210
>
>--July 25-28, Thurs-Sun, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton
>NEWBERRY LIBRARY ANNUAL BOOK FAIR &
>BUGHOUSE SQUARE DEBATES
>Debates: 6 pm 5/26, 1 pm 5/27
>Info: 312-255-3510 or www.newberry.org
>
>--July 25-29, Thurs-Mon, San Francisco State University
>STRATEGIES FOR PEACE, EQUALITY & JUSTICE
>IN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
>Tenth Anniversary Convention-Conference of
>Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism
>Info: www.cofc.org
>
>--July 25-Aug 4, Chicago Filmmakers
>CHICAGO LESBIAN & GAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
>Info: www.chicagofilmmakers.org/reeling/
>
>--July 26, Fri, 5 pm, Boeing, 100 N Riverside
>ANTI-BOEING DEMONSTRATION
>Protest the builder of the nuclear Star Wars system
>Info: 312-566-9780 or ilpeace at igc.org
>
>--July 26, Fri, 5:30 pm, Daley Plaza
>CHICAGO CRITICAL MASS MONTHLY BIKE RIDE
>Info: http://www.chicagocriticalmass.org
>
>--July 26-27, Fri-Sat, 6 am, Armory, North & Kedzie
>HOMELESS VETERANS STANDOWN
>Help prepare serve food & care for homeless Vets
>Sponsor: Vietnam Veterans Against War
>Info: Rromobarry at aol.com
>
>--July 26-28, Fri-Sun
>CUBA LABOR CONFERENCE
>Sponsor: US/Cuba Labor Exchange
>Info: 313-561 8330 or laborexchange at aol.com
>
>--July 26-28, Fri-Sun, John Marshall Law School, 315 S Plymouth
>PEACE ACTION NATIONAL CONGRESS
>Retreats, plenaries, workshops, actions, etc
>Info: www.peace-action.org/home/
>
>--July 28, Sun, 1 pm, Garfield Park Field House, 100 N Central Park
>WHO'S WATCHING WHAT YOU READ?
>Hear Judith Krug, Intellectual Freedom Director of
>American Library Association, also Cliff Kelly
>$25/$10 tix benefit Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
>Info: 312-939-0675 or CCDBR at pobox.com
>
>--July 28, Sun, 7 pm, Wellington United Church, 615 W Wellington
>A CALL TO END SANCTIONS ON IRAQ
>Hear Hans von Sponeck & Kathy Kelly,
>Sponsor: Voices in the Wilderness
>Info: 773-784-8065
>
>--July 29, Mon, 7:30 pm, Fitzgerald’s, 6615 Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn
>GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO REBUILD PALESTINIAN HOMES BENEFIT
>Live music, etc to aid Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions
>& Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights
>Info: amagoc at hotmail.com
>
>--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, 5 pm, Randall Road & Route 36, Geneva IL
>FOX VALLEY PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE PEACE VIGIL
>Info: 847-742-6602 or marysedrop at aol.com
>
>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, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University Ave
>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:
>--Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, $19.95
>--The Catholic Church and 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
>--The Question of Palestine, by Edward W. Said, $14.95
>--Voices From A "Promised Land": Palestinian & Israeli Peace Activists
>Speak Their Hearts, $12.95
>--Can We Put An End To Sweatshops? $12
>--Whose Vote Counts? $12
>--The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, $14
>--Peace and Its Discontents, by Edward W. Said $12
>--War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression,
>by Huey P. Newton $14
>--Terror In the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence 16.95
>--Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries
>of African American History Told By Those Who Lived It, $15
>--Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, & the Fighting Spirit
>of Labor's Last Century, by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D.G. Kelly,
>$23
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>train stop, #74 Fullerton bus); street-side parking available;
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>
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>NEXT MAILING DEADLINE is August 23, for September events
>
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>independent left-wing & labor bookstore and meeting center. Founded
>in 1971, NWRC is owned and operated by an all-volunteer, not-for-profit
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>
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