[Imc-newsroom] Fwd: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR OCT 3 - OCT 21

[Peter Miller]

>To: NWRC2600 at juno.com
>Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:31:01 -0500
>Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR OCT 3 - OCT 21
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>CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: OCT 3 - OCT 21
>
>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
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>Open Tues-Fri, 3-9 pm; Sat-Sun 12-7 pm
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>[Calendar listings for Thursday or later for following 2.5 weeks,
>includes submissions received by 5 pm Tuesday. 600+ subscribers.
>To submit events or subscribe: NWRC2600 at juno.com]
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>--Oct 3, Thu, 6 pm, Roosevelt University, Gage Building, 18 S Michigan
>STEELTOWN USA: WORK & MEMORY IN YOUNGSTOWN
>Hear authors Sherry Lee Linkon & John Russo
>Sponsor: Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies
>Info: 312-996-2491 or 312-996-2623
>
>--Oct 3, Thu, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University
>FILM: THE HIDDEN WARS OF DESERT STORM
>Discussion with Lauren Cannon of Voices in the Wilderness follows
>Info: 773-324-4821
>
>--Oct 3, Thu, 7 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
>LEMING LITERARY SERIES: W. H. AUDEN
>Discussion with author Warren Leming
>Info: 773-244-1480 or 773-235-1522
>
>--Oct 3, Thu, 7:30 pm, Wheadon Church, 2214 Ridge, Evanston
>KINDRED HEARTS BOOK GROUP READS
>BARBARA EHRENREICH'S NICKEL & DIMED
>Info: 847-604-0913 or kindred_hearts at yahoo.com
>
>--Oct 3, Thu, Loyola University, Chicago
>CONFERENCE CALL: SOCIAL JUSTICE
>IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION & COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
>Paper proposals sought for 2/22/03 conference
>Info: 312-915-7727 or mmaher at luc.edu
>
>--Oct 3-17
>CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
>Info: www.chicagofilmfestival.com
>
>--Oct 4, Fri, noon, corner Broad & Wall St, New York City
>TIME FOR WORKERS, INVESTORS & PENSIONERS TO UNITE!
>Ralph Nader, Patti Smith, Frances Fox Piven, Tom Tomorrow, lots more
>Info: 212-822-0282 or www.DemocracyRising.org
>
>--Oct 4, Fri, 7 pm, 1811 West 21st St
>REPORT FROM PALESTINE
>Includes video, Images from Palestine, by Alexis Lanza
>Info: 312-733-1172 or kisr94 at hotmail.com
>
>--Oct 4, Fri, 7:30 pm, New World Resource Center, 2600 W Fullerton
>REVOLUTION IN THE AIR
>Hear author Max Elbaum on the history of the 1960s left
>Info: www.ChicagoSocialistParty.com/events/
>
>--Oct 4-6, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK
>FROM THE FRONT LINE: STAR WARS & GLOBALIZATION
>International conference on missile defense, globalization
>& militarization of space. Sponsor: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
>Info: www.yorkshirecnd.org.uk/
>
>--Oct 4-11
>KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK
>Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
>Info: 352-337-9274 or www.space4peace.org or globalnet at mindspring.com
>
>--Oct 5, Sat, 1 pm, Winnetka Presbyterian Church, 1255 Willow
>AMERICA'S PENDING WAR AGAINST IRAQ
>Hear author Doug Cassel
>Info: 847-475-3692
>
>--Oct 5, Sat, 1 pm, DuPage County Court Complex, Wheaton
>Bldg 421, South Lot, County Farm Road, just north of Roosevelt Rd
>OPPOSE WAR RALLY, MARCH & VIGIL
>Sponsors: DuPage Peace through Justice Coalition, others
>Info: DuPagePeace at att.net or 630-268-8639 or
>http://DuPagePeace.home.att.net
>
>--Oct 5, Sat, 2 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
>APPEAL TO REASON: 25 YEARS OF IN THESE TIMES
>Paula Kamen, David Moberg, Joel Bleifuss read from the new book,
>Sponsors: Democratic Socialists of America & Open University of the Left
>Info: 773-772-0100 or itt at inthesetimes.com
>
>--Oct 5, Sat, 7 pm, Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge
>CRIS WILLIAMSON & HOLLY NEAR
>Benefit for Housing for Women.
>Info: www.ucevanston.org
>
>--Oct 5, Sat, 7 pm, Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn
>TOWN HALL MEETING: WHY GOV RYAN
>SHOULD COMMUTE ALL DEATH SENTENCES
>Hear Larry Marshall, NU Center on Wrongful Convictions;
>Marlene Martin, Campaign to End the Death Penalty; Calvin Morris,
>Community Renewal Society; Darby Tillis, exonerated from Illinois death
>row
>Info: (773) 955-484 or www.nodeathpenalty.org
>
>--Oct 5, Sat, 8 pm, corner Halsted & Roscoe
>4TH ANNUAL MARCH AGAINST ANTI-GAY HATE
>Info: www.cabn.org
>
>--Oct 5 - Nov 3, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
>FESTIVAL OF FILMS FROM IRAN
>Info: 312-573-8081 or www.siskelfilmcenter.org
>
>--Oct 5-6, Sat-Sun, 7 pm, Prop Theatre, 4225 N. Lincoln
>SAVING FACE
>Laurie Jo Reynolds play on Coca-Cola capitalism & Helen Keller
>Info: 773-327-6666
>
>--Oct 6, Sun, 1 pm, Tribune Towers
>FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF US BOMBING OF AFGHANISTAN
>Sponsor: Not In Our Name
>Info: 773-250-3196
>
>--Oct 6, Sunday
>15TH ANNUAL PEDAL FOR PEACE BIKE-A-THON
>Benefits peace projects in Guatemala & El Salvador
>Info: cmsa at chicagosanctuary.org
>
>--Oct 7, Mon, 11 am, Loyola University, Centennial Forum lobby,
>Lake Shore Campus
>TEACH-IN ON THE IMPENDING INVASION OF IRAQ
>Hear Jeff Guntzel, Voices in the Wilderness, Stan West,
>former reporter in Iraq, others
>Sponsor: University Ministry & the Jesuit Community
>Info: 773-508-2022 or peace at jesuits.net
>
>--Oct 7, Mon, 5 pm, Federal Building
>ACT NOW: NO WAR ON IRAQ MARCH & RALLY
>Info: 733-278-6706
>
>--Oct 7, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters Library, 36 S Wabash
>IRAQ: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
>Hear author Kevin Anderson
>Info: 312-236-0799 or www.newsandletters.org
>
>--Oct 7, Mon, 6:30 pm, 3411 W Diversey
>BIWEEKLY MEETING OF CHICAGO A.N.S.W.E.R.
>
>--Oct 8, Tue, noon, Hyatt Regency O'Hare, 9300 W Bryn Mawr, Rosemont
>PROTEST AK STEEL
>Support the 620 locked out USWA Local 169 steelworkers!
>Info: 219-881-6212.
>
>--Oct 8, Tue, 5 pm, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Clark & Van Buren
>VIGIL FOR JAILED ARAB COMMUNITY LEADER ENEAM AMSOUT
>
>--Oct 8, Tue, 7 pm, Lake Street Church, 607 Lake St, Evanston
>PEACE IN PALESTINE
>Hear Jeff Halper & Salim Shawamreh
>Sponsor: Not In My Name, American Friends Service Committee,
>Arab American Action Network, Palestine Aid Society,
>North Park University Middle Eastern Center
>Info: 312-409-4845 or cindy at clevitt.com
>
>--Oct 9, Wed, 6:30 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
>OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE LEFT EDUCATIONAL SERIES:
>HISTORY OF PALESTINE
>Sessions 10/23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4, 12/18
>Info: 773-244-1480
>
>--Oct 10, Thu, 4 pm, UNITE Hall, 333 S. Ashland
>JOBS WITH JUSTICE PHONE BANK FUNDRAISER
>Info: 312 738 6209 or chicagojwj at mindspring.com
>
>--Oct 10, Thu, 7 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
>LEMING LITERARY SERIES: ROBERT LOWELL'S ‘LIFE STUDIES’
>Discussion with author Warren Leming
>Info: 773-244-1480 or 773-235-1522
>
>--Oct 10, Thu, 7 pm, Loyola University
>PUBLIC HEARING ON FREE TRADE AREA
>OF THE AMERICAS AGREEMENT
>Speakers: Ana Maria Hernandez, Border Women Workers Committee,
>Albeiro Martinez, Public Workers Union (Colombia)
>Sponsor: Mexico Solidarity Network
>Info: 773-583 7728
>
>--Oct 11, Friday
>NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY
>Info: 312-409-9129 or www.hrc.org/chicago
>
>--Oct 11, Fri, 7 pm, Revolution Books, 1103 N Ashland
>VIDEO: GAZA STRIP
>Documentary about the second Palestinian intifada
>Info: 773-489-0930
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, 9:30 am, Pulaski Park Fieldhouse
>BREAK THE GRIDLOCK CONFERENCE
>Info: www.breakthegridlock.org
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, noon, Devonport dockyard, Plymouth, UK
>SCRAP TRIDENT DEMONSTRATION
>Info: www.cnduk.org/
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, 1 pm, Palatine Public Library, 700 North Court
>PALESTINE 101: TEACH-IN & CALL TO ACTION
>Sponsored by Northwest Sububran SUSTAIN
>Info: 847-359-7267 or Sustainnwburbs at aol.com
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, 3 pm, Revolution Books, 1103 N Ashland
>REVOLUTIONARY CONVERSATIONS DISCUSSION GROUP
>Info: 773-489-0930.
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, 3 pm, corner 18th St at Loomis
>CELEBRATION OF 510 YEARS OF RESISTANCE IN THE AMERICAS
>Protest Colombus Day, celebrate indigenous resistance to FTAA/ALCA,
>PPP, CAFTA, Plan Colombia. La lucha sigue! Music, dance, more.
>Info: www.lasolidarity.org
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, 5 pm, University of Illinois Springfield, PAC Building
>Cafeteria
>MOTHER JONES ANNUAL DINNER
>Hear Margaret Blackshere, IL AFL-CIO president
>Info: 217-522-1182 or 217-523-3722
>
>--Oct 12, Sat, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 2600 W Fullerton
>CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIALIST-FEMINIST OFFICE HOLDER
>Reception for author & activist Karen Kubby
>Info: www.chicagosocialistparty.com/events/
>
>--Oct 17, Thu, 7 pm, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W Fullerton
>LEMING LITERARY SERIES: ROBERT LOWELL'S ‘LIFE STUDIES’
>Discussion with author Warren Leming
>Info: 773-244-1480 or 773-235-1522
>
>--Oct 18, Fri, 8 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N Clark
>INFO2AACTION
>Review & discussion on ability of documentaries
>to impact social organizing & activism
>Info: www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
>
>--Oct 18-20, Fri-Sun, Autonomous Zone, 2129 N Milwaukee
>2002 ANTI-RACIST ACTION CONFERENCE
>Info: ara_chicago at ziplip.com or 312.409.1432
>
>--Oct 19, Sat, 9 am, Columbia College, Hokin Center, 623 S Wabash
>SAY IT LOUD: I'M BLACK & I'M PROUD
>Symposium on Black LGBT communities & histories
>Info: 312-344-8594
>
>--Oct 19, Sat, 10 am, UIC, Lecture Hall D2 & classrooms in Lincoln Hall
>TEACH-IN ON CUBA
>Hear Dr. Felix Mazud-Piloto, Rafael Ravelo, Olga Fernandez-Rios
>Sponsors: Chicago Cuba Coalition, UIC Latin-American Studies Department
>Info: 312-663-0527.
>
>--Oct 19, Sat, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 2600 W Fullerton
>POETRY & POLITICS
>Activist & author Quinn Brisben reads from
>The Significance of the Frontier, Selected Poems, 1966-2002
>Info: www.chicagosocialistparty.com/events/
>
>--Oct 20, Sun, UIC, 750 S Halsted
>ANNUAL CHICAGO CROP WALK
>Against world hunger
>Info: www.cropwalk.kintera.org/chicago
>
>--Oct 20, Sun, 2 pm, Three Happiness Restaurant, 2130 S Wentworth
>2002 PEOPLE'S WEEKLY WORLD BANQUET
>Keynotes: Kathy Kelly, Ishmael Flory, Barbara Moore
>Tix: $40/$45
>
>--Oct 20, Sun, 3 pm, Cook County Jail
>ANTI-PRISON RALLY
>Info: 708-534-1334 or chicagoabc at azone.org
>
>--Oct 21, Mon, 7 pm, Doc Films, University of Chicago
>Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E 59th St
>FILM: TRACE OF STONES
>Frank Beyer’s 1966 drama about life in East Germany
>Info: 773-702-8575
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>CALENDAR POSTINGS: 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
>
>Thu, 7:30 pm, 806 Ridge Avenue, Evanston
>NEIGHBORS FOR PEACE WEEKLY MEETING
>Info: www.neighborsforpeace.org/
>
>Fri, 12 pm, 100 N Riverside
>ANTI-BOEING VIGIL
>Sponsors: Voices in the Wilderness, Illinois Peace Action, others
>Info: 312-566-9780
>
>Fri, 5 pm, First & Lincoln, City Clock Park, DeKalb IL
>DEKALB AREA PEACE GATHERING
>Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
>
>Sat, 9 am, wnur 89.3 FM radio
>THIS IS HELL
>Info: www.thisishell.net
>
>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
>
>Tue, 6:30 pm, Ravenswood United Church, 2050 W Pensacola
>RAVENSWOOD FOR PEACE MEETINGS
>Info: ravenswood4peace at yahoo.com
>
>2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University
>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
>
>Wed, 7 pm, Autonomous Zone, 2129 N. Milwaukee
>QUEER ZONE
>Info: www.azone.org
>
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>NEW BOOKS AT NWRC:
>--Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, $30
>--Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, 17.95
>--Made in Indonesia; Indonesian workers since Suharto, $18
>--Can We Put An End To Sweatshops? $12
>--The Two Revolutions: Gramsci and the Dilemmas of Western Marxism. $9.50
>--Race Riot; Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919, $19.95
>--Behind the Poison Cloud; Union Carbide’s Bhopal Massacre, 8.95
>--Lost Ground; welfare, reform, poverty and beyond, $18
>--Detroit: I Do Mind Dying,$18
>--Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining & Oil Corporations, $18
>--Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution & Profit, $14
>--The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968, $20
>--Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism, 24.95
>--Mao badges, own your own piece of the cultural revolution, $7.50
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