[Peace] [nwrc2600@juno.com: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR DEC 13- DEC 31]

Thu Dec 13 17:47:04 CST 2001

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| From: nwrc2600 at juno.com
| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:08:16 -0600
| Subject: CHICAGO EVENTS CALENDAR DEC 13- DEC 31
| 
| CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR
| December 13 – December 31
| 
| 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
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| [To list events, send info to nwrc2600 at juno.com]
| 
| --Dec 13, Thurs, 9:30 am DuPage Courthouse
| 505 N County Farm Rd., Wheaton, Rm 4007
| WARRENVILLE 2: ANTI-NUKE ACTIVISTS TRIAL 
| Info: 773-561-5073 or lucky at newcity.com
| 
| --Dec 13, Thurs, 12 pm, United Airlines ticket office
| Michigan & Randolph
| JUMPSTART THE ECONOMY: END THE LAY OFFS
| Rally to demand a return to work for 
| laid off airline caterers. Sponsor: HERE Local 1
| Info: 312-663-4373
| 
| --Dec 13, Thurs, 7 pm, 365 N. Deere Park 
| Highland Park
| PLANNING MEETING: FUTURE OF ZION NUKE PLANT
| Evacuation planning, distribution of potassium iodide, 
| reactor insecurity video, plans for local actions, etc
| Info: 847-432-8247 or 847-869-7650
| 
| --Dec 14, Fri, 12 pm, 1200 W. Fulton
| SUPPORT ATU LOCAL 1702 MEMBERS
| Drivers for disabled services deserve a better contract
| Info: chicagojwj at mindspring.com or 312-738-6209
| 
| --Dec 14, Fri, 12 pm, Tribune Tower
| END ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION OF 
| WEST BANK, GAZA & EAST JERUSALEM
| Every Friday. Sponsor: Not In My Name
| Info: www.nimn.org/
| 
| --Dec 14, Fri, 5 pm, DeKalb
| First Street & Lincoln Highway
| RALLY: DEKALB DAY OF PEACE
| Info: garthliebhaber at hotmail.com
| 
| --Dec 14, Fri, 7 pm, Facets Cinematheque
| 1517 W. Fullerton
| FILM: OTOMO
| Frieder Schlaich’s stark drama depicts racism against 
| immigrants in contemporary Germany. Thru 12/20
| Info: 773-281-9075
| 
| --Dec 14, Fri, 8 pm, College of Complexes
| Future World Cyber Cafe, 1744 E. 55th St
| U.S. GOVERNMENT'S BACKLASH AGAINST ISLAM
| Speaker: Salim Abdul-Khaliq  
| Info: 312-353-0446 or cpaidock at hotmail.com
| 
| --Dec 15, Sat, 10 am, UIUC Urbana Campus
| McKinley Foundation, 5th & Daniel
| TEACH-IN: US WAR ON AFGHANISTAN & BEYOND
| Info: www.anti-war.net
| 
| --Dec 15, Sat, 12 pm, Niketown, 669 N. Michigan
| PROTEST SWEATSHOPS AT NIKE FACTORIES
| Sponsor: Labor Rights Task Force of Nicaragua 
| Solidarity Committee, Jobs With Justice,
| Students Against Sweatshops
| 
| --Dec 15, Sat, 8pm, Quencher’s Saloon
| 2401 N. Western
| WINTERFEST PARTY & HOLIDAY BASH
| 7th (or 8th) annual shindig for activists, trade unionists, 
| reds of every hue, & everyone else. Bands, cash bar.
| No cover! Sponsor: Chicago Socialist Party
| Info: www.ilsp.org/news/winterfest.html or
| ChgoSP at juno.com
| 
| --Dec 15-16, Sat-Sun, 11 am – 5 pm, Hot House
| 31 E. Balbo
| HOTHOUSE HOLIDAY MARKET with local artisans
| Info: 312-362-9707
| 
| --Dec 16, Sunday
| CLOTHING DRIVE FOR AFGHAN REFUGEES
| Lake Street Church, 607 Lake St, Evanston, 12-2 pm Sundays
| Islamic Center of Chicago, 5933 N Lincoln, anytime
| Info: 773-262-3483 or 847-570-9335 
| 
| --Dec 16, Sun, 1pm, St. Francis Catholic Worker
| 4652 N. Kenmore
| AD HOC PEACE CHORUS PRACTICE SESSION
| Performs every other week to at downtown 
| CTA stations to call for end to Afghanistan bombing.
| Info: 630-268-8639
| 
| --Dec 16, Sun, 2 pm, Hancock Building
| 875 N. Michigan
| PROTEST SALVATION ARMY’S 
| ANTI-GAY JOB DISCRIMINATION 
| at Salvation Army exhibit at the Hancock
| Sponsor: Chicago Anti-Bashing Network, 
| Metropolitan Community Churches, Glenview PFLAG
| Info: 773-878-3697
| 
| --Dec 16, Sun, 3 pm, Naperville Post Office
| Washington & Benton, Naperville
| PEACE VIGIL
| Sponsor: DuPage Peace Through Justice Coalition
| Info: DuPagePeace at att.net
| 
| --Dec 17, Mon, 7:30 am, Suburban Heights Medical Center
| 333 Dixie Highway, Chicago Heights
| HEALTH CARE WORKERS UNION DRIVE
| Help Suburban Heights MC workers 
| win their upcoming USWA vote
| Info: 312-738-6203
| 
| --Dec 17, Mon, 6:30 pm, News and Letters Library
| 36 S. Wabash, Room 1440
| A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE 
| ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT: WHERE TO NOW?
| Sonia Bergonzi, feminist activist & News & Letters writer;
| Jerry Mead, Pilsen Greens; activist Nate Holdren 
| Info: 312 236 0799
| 
| --Dec 18, Tues, 6 pm, 226 S. Wabash, Rm 600
| PEOPLE'S EARTHDAY 2002 PLANNING MEETING 
| Against ComEd/Exelon's takeover of Earthday Chicago
| Info: brudner at arcologize.org
| 
| --Dec 19, Wed, 7 pm, Sultan's Palace Restaurant
| 6345 N. Western
| EMERGENCY BENEFIT FOR 
| ARAB AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER 
| Help rebuild following arson attack of 12/3. Tix $25
| Sponsor: Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
| Info: 773.209.1187 or CABNstopthehate at aol.com
| 
| --Dec 19, Wed, 7 pm, Modern Bookstore
| 3118 S. Halsted
| WHAT'S BEHIND THE WAR ON TERRORISM:  
| PUBLIC SAFETY OR CORPORATE LOOTING?
| Speaker: Scott Marshall, Vice Chair, 
| Communist Party USA
| Info: 312-842-5770.
| 
| --Dec 19, Wed, 8 pm, Cafe Luna 
| 1910 W. 99th 
| SOUTH METRO GREENS MEETING
| Info: 708-218-8434 or Lionel at Greens.org
| 
| --Dec 20, Thurs, 7 pm, location tba
| PROTEST LOCK-OUT OF V&V SUPREMO WORKERS
| Info: chicagojwj at mindspring.com or 312-738-6209
| 
| --Dec 22, Sat, 12 pm, Michigan & Kinzie
| RALLY: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST 
| AGAINST THE WAR
| Info: www.shiitakemushrooms.org/dec22protest.html 
| or lids359 at hotmail.com
| 
| --Dec 28, Fri, 5:30 pm, Daley Plaza
| CHICAGO CRITICAL MASS NEW YEAR'S BIKE RIDE.
| Info: www.chicagocriticalmass.org 
| 
| --Dec 28, Fri, College of Complexes
| Future World Cyber Cafe, 1744 E. 55th St
| THE CONNECTION BETWEEN RACIST ART 
| & GOVERNMENT POLICIES
| Speaker: Finley C. Campbell of Racial Justice Taskforce
| Info: 312-353-0446 or cpaidock at hotmail.com
| 
| --Dec 31, Mon, 9:30 am, WLUW, 88.7 FM
| CHICAGO INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER 
| MONTHLY RADIO PROGRAM
| Info: chicago.indymedia.org/radio/index.html.
| 
| --Dec 31, Mon, 9 pm, 3935 N. Marshfield
| VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST WAR:
| NEW YEARS EVE PARTY!!
| $7-$10 includes beer & chili
| Info: 773-327-5756 or www.prairienet.org/vvaw/ 
| or vvaw at prairienet.org
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| 
| NEW BOOKS AT NWRC:
| --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
| --The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers 
| Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine, $13.95
| --Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers 
| Take on the Global Factory, $18
| --Global Village or Global Pillage, 2nd edition, $16
| --Holy War, Inc: Inside Secret World of Osama Bin Laden, $26.00
| --Sacco & Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, $18.95
| --Orientalism, by Edward W. Said, $15
| --The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo, Chomsky, $15.95
| --Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Worlds Oldest Colony in the World,
| $17.95
| --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
| --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
| --The Culture of Terrorism, Chomsky, $16
| --The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid, intro by Chomsky, $20
| --Acts of Agression: Policing "Rogue" States,
| Chomsky & Edward W. Said, $6.95
| --Jews For Buchanan, by John Nichols, $14.95
| 
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| Contact nwrc_2600 at yahoo.com for a list of what’s needed. 
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| 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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