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#22 May 2008 Events
by AREA | Published April 30, 200801) 05.01 Thu - May Day March 02) 05.01 Thu - Discussion - What is Precarity? Are you Precarious in your labor/life? 03) 05.01 Thu - Precarity Chicago Launch Party 04) 05.01 Thu - The Wobblies and 1968 on May Day @ Newberry Library 05) 05.02 Fri - Cafe Intifada: Commemorating 60 Years of Struggle 06) 05.02 Fri - Prison Abolition Discussion at Hull House 07) 05.02 Fri - the 8th Annual Chicago Anarchist Film Festival 08) 05.02 Fri - 4,000 Words for 4,000 Dead Soldiers - Downtown Public Art Project 09) 05.02 Fri - Neighborhood Writing Alliance @ Looptopia 10) 05.06 Tue - Hull House Free Soup Discussion Event 11) 05.07 Wed - Mingus Awareness Project 12) 05.08 Thu - 40 Years After 1968 Panel with Klonsky/Ayers/Nesbitt 13) 05.08 Thu - Harvey Milk Event @ Chicago Freedom School (CFS) 14) 05.10 and 11 Sat/Sun: FreeStore in Pullman - get stuff/givestuff 15) 05.12 Mon - AREA Chicago Fundraiser @ Danny's Tavern - Dance and Drink 16) 05.17 Sat - Communiversity about Labor Movements and Immigration @ CFS 17) 05.19 Mon - Neighborhood Writing Alliance/Journal of Ordinary Thought Fundraiser 18) 05.21 Wed - Women and Elections Event @ Hull House 19) 05.22 Thu - Work Against Work: Autonomism Potluck @ Mess Hall 01) MARCH MAY FIRST - MARCHA PRIMERO DE MAYO For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers We Demand: Equal Rights in the Workplace for All Workers The Right to Unionize Employee Free Choice Act Fair Wages End the Occupation of Iraq Equal Access to Education Universal Health Care May 1st, 2008 International Workers Day Día Internacional de los Trabajadores When: Meet at 10:00 A.M Where: Union Park (Ashland and Lake) March at 12:00 PM If you or your organization would like to endorse the May First March, please send us an e-mail to:info@movimiento10demarzo.org Movimiento 10 de Marzo http://www.movimiento10demarzo.org/ 02) Thursday May 1, 2008 - 4:00PM New World Resource Center 1300 N. Western Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 Precarity : Chicago presents - "Centering the Margin: Chicago Theory and Practice in Action" - Topic: What is precarity? Can Chicago activism benefit from it? - a new and irreguarly held series that will explore and crystallize the Chicago progressive/radical community's formulation of theory, strategy, and application. A central theoretical idea or topic will guide the discussion, with the intent of exploring what that idea/topic means to Chicago activism and whether there is a strategic usefulness to it. A social and friendly atmosphere will be stressed, where the intent is to foster non-hierarchical forms of debate and organization. Co-sponsored by Finding Our Roots, the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, and the 49th Street Underground. 03) Thursday May 1, 2008 - 7:00PM Quenchers Saloon 2401 N Western Ave Chicago, IL 60647 Precarity : Chicago Debut Celebration Help celebrate the founding of Precarity : Chicago, a militant research collective organized around analyzing society and culture from the framework of precarity. The idea of precarity centers upon the belief that once welfare and industrial economies shifted toward neo-liberal capitalism, life has become more unpredictable, more intensified, and more oppressive globally. Precarity : Chicago will attempt to link this idea to Chicago activism through discussion, research and publication, social events, direct action, and artistic expression. So come out and help us start off right! Come for a fun night, come to get more information, come to see what this is all about, but just come! There will be a safe and fun atmosphere, entertainment, prizes, and other great stuff! A $5-$10 suggested donation is asked. Raffle prizes from Early To Bed, New World Resource Center, Caffe RoM, Fall of Autumn Press, and The Comic Vault. For more information on Precarity : Chicago or any of our events contact PrecarityChicago@gmail.com 04) Thursday, May 1, 2008, 6pm At the Newberry Library Celebrate May Day The WOBBLIES: Memory & Model, An Event about the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, two activists from 1968 Franklin & Penelope Rosemont and David Roediger & Leon M. Despres will speak. At the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago IL 60626 Featuring noted historians and speakers, including David Roediger, Leon M. Despres, and Franklin & Penelope Rosemont, this special event celebrates the comprehensive IWW Collection (books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and other items) now open to the public. This collection at Newberry is the only major collection of historic IWW material available in Chicago, the city in which the union began, and in which it maintained its headquarters for some eighty years. Roediger will speak on the 1886-87 Haymarket events, the origins of May Day and its influence on the IWW. Leon Despres will speak on the IWW's impressive traditions of Free Speech (The 1918 infamous trial of 101 Wobblies and their imprisonment was also a Chicago event). Franklin Rosemont will relate his adventures as a young IWW organizer hitchhiking across the country meeting and talking with old Wobblies in the 1960s, and its activities in 1968. Penelope Rosemont will speak about the IWW's legendary Solidarity Bookshop in Lincoln Park, in that same decade, and the later role of such old-time Wobblies as Fred Thompson, Jack Sheridan, Carlos Cortez, and Jenny Lahti Velsek in revitalizing the Chicago's Charles H. Kerr Company, the world's oldest working class publishing house. Contact Information: Rachel Bohlmann 312-255-3665 or Mary Janzen 312-255-3593janzenm@newberry.org Franklin Rosemont 773-465-7774 or 773-262-1329 arcane@ripco.com 05) -- On Friday, May 2nd, 2008, please join the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in commemorating 60 years of Palestinian resistance to colonialism and occupation. This month of May marks the 60th anniversary of *al-Nakba* (Arabic for "catastrophe"), a time when more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced into exile and more than 500 Palestinian villages destroyed by Israeli Zionist forces. Join us as we continue the resistance through spoken word, hip-hop, music and art! *CAFE INTIFADA!* WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2008 Doors open at 6pm Shows starts at 7pm WHERE: Arab American Action Network 3148 W. 63rd Street, 2nd Floor Performances by: the AAAN's own Spoken Word & Hip Hop Youth Group, *SILENT ECHOES!* Breakdancing by *Power Breaking* of the SWYC University of Hip Hop Reggae/Hip-Hop Music by the *Ital Conquerors* Sounds by *DJ Robyo* And much more! $7-10 sliding scale $5 with student ID (no one turned away for lack of funds!) Food, drinks, and merchandise will be sold. All proceeds will support the AAAN's youth programs and the U.S. Palestine Conference Network's (USPCN's) efforts to mobilize for a Popular Palestinian Community Conference on August 8-10, 2008 in Chicago (palestineconference.com). For more information about the Cafe, or to perform, please call the AAAN at 773.436.6060, x. 105, or email aaanevent@gmail.com. Sponsored by: Arab American Action Network (AAAN), the Southwest Youth Collaborative (SWYC), Students for Justice in Palestine-UIC, Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago, Al-Awda-Chicago, and the U.S. Palestine Conference Network (USPCN), www.aaan.org www.myspace.com/italconquerors www.palestineconference.org www.swyc.org www.psgchicago.org www.sjp-uic.blogspot.com 06) Friday May 2 2 - 3:30 PM Imagine and Enact a World Without Prisons Coffee and cookies and conversation with Critical Resistance / CR 10 with Kai Barrow from Critical Resistance @ Hull House http://www.hullhousemuseum.org 800 South Halsted, Chicago For more information about CR see http://www.criticalresistance.org/article.php?list=type&type=36 07) Friday May 2nd Chicago Anarchist Film Festival http://home.comcast.net/~more_about_it/ 08) You are invited to a performance of 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD Poet and artist Jennifer Karmin is collecting 4000 WORDS for the 4000 DEAD in Iraq. All words will be used to create a public poem. After reading the poem aloud, each word will be given away to passing pedestrians. Participating writers include: Manan Ahmed, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Maxine Chernoff, Catherine Daly, Arielle Greenberg, David Hernandez, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Joyelle McSweeney, Juliana Spahr, Stacy Szymaszek, Andrew Zawacki and more. Friday, May 2nd 5pm beginning in front of the Vietnam War Memorial Wabash & Wacker along the Chicago River 8:30pm ending at the DePaul Center 1 East Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL Sponsored by Looptopia 2008 http://www.looptopia.com "I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?" -- Martha Raddatz, ABC News' White House correspondent to Vice President Dick Cheney 09) Friday, May 2 – Defining Our Place in History. Chicago Temple (77 W Washington St.). 6:30-7:30pm. Free. As part of Looptopia, writers from Neighborhood Writing Alliance workshops will read pieces connecting their personal stories to historical moments. For more information, see www.jot.org or call Mairead at 773.684.2742. 10) Hull-House Kitchen: Re-thinking Soup Tuesdays at noon, beginning May 6 12-1:30pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 South Halsted FREE (donations from $.01 to $1,000,000 gladly accepted) Please join us for free soup and conversation regarding food, sustainable living, and other issues. We will meet in the historic Resident's Dining Hall, where Jane Addams and other important social reformers met daily to share meals and ideas. http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/Events/kitchen/ 11) What: Mingus Awareness Project 2 Where: Velvet Lounge 67 E. Cermak Road When: Wednesday, May 7 (8 p.m.) On Wednesday, May 7th, a group of musicians and a poet will gather at the Velvet Lounge (67 E. Cermak Road in Chicago) to celebrate the life and music of Charles Mingus, and to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Mingus, an American musical hero who died of ALS, is one of the greatest figures in jazz history. His bass playing, compositions and philosophy have transcended his genre and left indelible marks on music history. The Mingus Awareness Project 2 is being organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective. For more information about MAP2, please call 312.543.7027. For more information about the Les Turner ALS Foundation, please contact 847.679.3311 or events@lesturnerals.org. www.mingusawarenessproject.org www.velvetlounge.net 12) 40 years of 1968 The problematic drama of the past in the present with Bill Ayers, Mike Klonsky, and Prexy Nesbitt Thursday, May 8, 2008, 6PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago 280 S. Columbus Drive main auditorium co-sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society and Platypus http://platypus1789.home.comcast.net/~platypus1789/platypus_fora.htm 13) Thursday, May 8 – Campaign Trailblazers: Harvey Milk – 5:30 – 8 pm @ http://www.chicagofreedomschool.org/ 719 S. State St., Suite 3N Chicago, IL 60605 p: 312.435.1201 f: 312.435.1203 Email: info@chicagofreedomschool.org 14) Everything is Coming to You You Better Get Ready The Free Store in PULLMAN At the Pullman State Historic Site (home of the historic Hotel Florence) 11111 South Forrestville Avenue The Free Store returns for May! 10th and 11th. Come by and get your mom something nice. Saturday, May 10 from Noon – 6 pm Sunday, May 11 from Noon – 4 pm Feel free to bring stuff to give away. Be prepared to take stuff home! We're going to have a BBQ going both afternoons so feel free to bring food/beverage to eat, drink, and share with others. DIRECTIONS TO THE PULLMAN STATE HISTORIC SITE and information about the neighborhood: http://www.pullman-museum.org The Pullman State Historic Site and Hotel Florence is located at 11111 South Forrestville. Drivers: The Pullman State Historic Site is easily accessible from Interstate 94, using either exit 66A (111th Street) or 66B (115th Street). Take a left before the viaduct – it's a huge building, you can't miss it! Parking is available on Forrestville in front of the Hotel and throughout the neighborhood. By Public Transit: The Metra Electric train stations at 111th Street and 115th Street are within a short walking distance. The Chicago South Shore and South Bend commuter rail also stops at the 115th Street station. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus route #111 provides direct service to Pullman and connects with the CTA Red Line at 95th/Dan Ryan station. The Hotel site, which is under restoration, will be open for viewing during the Free Store. ////////////////////////// We have very limited ability to pick things up from you this round. Please ask us for a pick-up only if you have a full truckload within the city of Chicago. Idea: you may want to coordinate with friends and neighbors who live nearby to create a full truckload. TO HELP: Best way to help us for this particular Free Store is to drive your own stuff down to Pullman on the day(s) of and/or volunteer to be available to drive others home after their shopping is done. If you have a car, truck, or van and strong bodies available for bringing pick-ups down to Pullman the week of the Free Store, please contact us. More Free Stores to follow this season. Please join us for the fun in Pullman! More info: contact Salem salem@temporaryservices.org or (773) 562-1428 The Free Store is put together by Melinda Fries, Zena Sakowski, Rob Kelly, and Salem Collo-Julin. Thanks to Erika Mikkalo, Shari Parker, and the Pullman State Historic Site for their help this round. Feel free to forward this message to others. 15) Come Drink to Support AREA Chicago, your favorite magazine about the City and its social movements Monday, May 12th 2008 9pm-2am Danny's Tavern 1951 W Dickens Ave (Cross Street: Damen Avenue) View Map (http://tinyurl.com/yz8st4 ) Directions: Bus: 50 to Dickens Ave; 73 to Damen Ave Peace Party is a monthly program organized by danny's tavern to fund small operation non-profits in the Chicago area. This month the money gets split between AREA Chicago and Arts for Life. DJs: Naomi Walker, Jeff Parker, Jocelyn Brown, and Josh Abrams. 16) Saturday, May 17 – Communiversity: Labor Movements and Immigration – 10 am – 4 pm @ http://www.chicagofreedomschool.org/ 719 S. State St., Suite 3N Chicago, IL 60605 p: 312.435.1201 f: 312.435.1203 Email: info@chicagofreedomschool.org 17) Monday, May 19 – Every Person Is a Philosopher: An Evening with the Journal of Ordinary Thought. Roosevelt University Library (430 S. Michigan Ave, 10th fl.) 5:30-7:30pm. Tickets at www.jot.org. Includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, with student fee available. This year, the Neighborhood Writing Alliance’s annual benefit features readings from Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer prize-winning critic (and author of On Michael Jackson), Brad Norris (St. Leonard’s House Writing Workshop), and Kamilyn Baskerville (The CARA Program Writing Workshop). For more information, see www.jot.org or call Mairead at 773.684.2742. 18) Wednesday, May 21 – The Fight for the Right: Women, Voting and Elections in America @ Hull House Museum – 6 – 8:30 pm Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Residents' Dining Hall 800 South Halsted 19) Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:30p-9:30p "Work Against Work" TheLegacy of the Ultra Left, part 3. Potluck and discussion. Bring something to share. Join Joe Feinberg for potluck and discussion. This is a continuation in a series exploring the changing nature of work in our time and in history. All events approach work as a complex activity thru which we may be utterly debased or magnificently elevated; thru which we may destroy the world or revolutionize it. Texts to be discussed are available online at http://49underground.org/nextevents.php_. Attendees are not expected to read all the articles, but please come prepared to discuss what you are able to read. The series is co-organized by the 49th Street Underground (http://.49underground.org), Finding Roots (http://mayfirst.wordpress.com) and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (http://iww.org) This month's discussion: Autonomism Today Concurrent with a recent resurgence of radical street protests in many parts of the world, there has been a rebirth of interest in many of the theories that informed the last major global wave of insurrection, in the 1960s. At the same time, there been many new attempts to re-formulate older theoretical formulations in ways appropriate for the current historical moment. The combination of these two tendencies can be seen most clearly in the most recent contributions coming from the “autonomist” tradition, including especially the works of Toni Negri and John Holloway. @ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue messhall.orgpermalink / comments -
#21 April 2008 Events
by AREA | Published April 30, 2008~~~~~~~~~ AREA Chicago's "Another Chicago" Newsletter April 2008 ~~~~~~~~~ :::April Summary:::Fwd To Your People:::You Never Who Knows What::: AREA Chicago is wishing you a happy and active April 08. We have just moved into a new office in the historic Congress Theater building. We are happy to be sharing the space with the arts and ideas organization "Incubate" who do fantastic project such as the Sunday Soup series where you can buy cheap delicious soup every week and then the profits go into a grant fund for your projects. Check them out and stop by sometime and say hello! Also, please look out for our announcements about future projects and blogs and a presentation about AREA Chicago at the Finding Our Roots conference (see below) at Roosevelt University April 18-20. * 01) 03.02-06 - Goat Island Performance Group's final show after 20 years * 02) 03.02 Wed - Advicates for Urban Agriculture Potluck Dinner * 03) 04.03 Thu - Heat Wave play continues for last weekend * 04) 04.03Thu - Discussion: Anarchist Labor Organizing in Spain @ Messhall * 05) 04.04 Fri - Insight Arts Fundraiser @ Funky Buddah * 06) 04.04 Fri - Benefit for new 61st St Farmers Market @ Exp Station - Our friends and Fiscal Sponsor - See the article about ES in AREA #1 * 07) 04.04 Fri (ongoing through may 11)- Theater Oobleck play - The Stranger * 08) 04.05 Sat - France 1968 Panel @ NWRC * 09) 04.07 Mon - Community Justice for Youth - Poetry and reflection event Event - with AREA#4 Editor Ryan Hollon * 10) 04.10 Thu - Labor and Ecology Discussion and Potluck @ Messhall * 11) 04.11 Fri - Release Event for "Finding Food in Chicago and the Suburbs" Report - A 4 year Research Project by AREA#2 Contributor Danny Block * 11) 04.11 Fri- Umoja School Annual Fundraiser * 12) 04.12 Sat - Co-Op Image Fundraiser @ Q4 - AREA#2 Contributors * 13) 04.17 Thu - Screening of video art about prisons @ Gene Siskel Center * 14) 04.17 Thu - Versionfest Begins with Networking Fair on April 18-20 * 15) 04.18-20 Finding Our Roots: Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest @ Roosevelt * 16) 04.19 Sar - Black Tie, Black Flag - Anarchist Formal Dance * 17) 04.19 Sat- Nicole Garneau's Uprising Project #4 - Contributor to AREA #2 * 18) 04.26 Sat - Green and Growing Fair @ Garfield Park Conservatory * 19) 04.26 Sat - Teach In About Prison Industrial Complex with contributors to AREA#4 * 20) 04.28 Mon - Public Hearings about Closing Tamms Supermax Prison * 21) 04.29 Tue - "Torture in the Era of Democracy" Lecture @ Northwestern * 22) 05.01 Thu - The Wobblies and 1968 on May Day @ Newberry Library * 23) 05.02 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival April Details 01) Goat Island's Final Show THE LASTMAKER April 2, 3, 5, 6 7:30pm Cost:20-24 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 220 E Chicago Avenue mcachicago.org We end Goat Island in order to make a space for the unknown that will follow. We intend this ending to present itself as a beginning, and we invite you to join us on the occasion. goatislandperformance.org ROUNDTABLE Friday, April 4 at 2:00pm free Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State Street artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter Ensemble members are joined by art historian Claire Bishop for a discussion about the significance of architecture, art, and theology addressed in Goat Island's work, and the group's decision, after more than 20 years of practice, to create a last performance. WEB-BASED WRITING PROJECT The Last Performance is created to evolve alongside the creation and performance of The Lastmaker. The work is being collectively authored by Goat Island, invited artists and critics, the Goat Island community at large, and you. thelastperformance.org 02) April 2 (Wed) 5:30pm AUA (Advocates for Urban Agriculture) Spring Meeting at Garfield Park Conservatory, Potluck, bring a dish to share 03) Thursday April 3-6th Every Night Heat wave Play Tickets Cost:17-25 Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 pm Sunday at 3:00 pm For more information call (773) 878-9761or see Based on the book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg, this moving new play looks at the heat wave of 1995 which took the lives of 739 Chicagoans. More people died in our city than in New Orleans or Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina. Could it have been prevented? Who was listening? The play examines one of the country's worst weather-related disasters from all perspectives, creating a vivid portrait of a city in crisis, but with its resources and humanity firmly intact.Heat Wave tells the story no one wanted to listen to. Come join us for an evening of exploration and healing as we struggle to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. Directed by Ilesa Duncan 04) Apr 3, Thu, 7:30 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood ANARCHO-SYNDICALISM & SHIPYARD RESISTANCE: THE CNT IN PUERTO REAL, SPAIN. Part of Work Against Work series Sponsor: 49th St. Underground, Finding Our Roots, Industrial Workers of the World 05) On Friday April 4, Insight Arts presents: JAMNESTY an Amnesty International / Insight Arts Benefit @ FUNKY BUDDHA LOUNGE 728 W. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60610 Dancers, Music, Spoken Word, Live Art, & More 06) The Experimental Station cordially invites you to a fundraising benefit for the 61ST STREET FARMERS MARKET that will take place at the Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Avenue, on Friday, April 4, from 5-8pm. This community endeavor, organized under the auspices of the Experimental Station, an Illinois non-profit, aims to create an oasis in our local 'food desert' by establishing a weekend farmers market at 61st Street and Dorchester Avenue that will serve the Woodlawn, Hyde Park, Kenwood, and South Shore neighborhoods. The market is scheduled to begin this spring and will take place on Saturdays from May 17 thru October 25. As a non-City-sponsored market, we are working to establish a strong and dedi- cated base of community volunteers, financial supporters, and market-goers. We invite you to become a part of this effort by attending this benefit event! The evening will feature emcee Theaster Gates, music by the Josh Abrams Quartet, hors d'ouvres and beverages, wine tastings by Damien Casten of sustainably produced Candid Wines, bread baking and other food demon-strations, raffles of regionally and sustainably grown foods and products, and the opportunity to become a Founding Member of the 61st Street Farmers Market. We are delighted that the Honorable Alderman Willie B. Cochran and other local and state representatives will be in attendance.We look forward to an entertaining, food-filled, community- building evening and hope that you will be a part of it! Note: Dorchester Avenue is currently closed to vehicular traffic for construction between 60th and 61st Street. If driving, please take Woodlawn Avenue south to 61st Street and then east to 6100 S. Blackstone. For more information about the event, please email info@experimentalstation.org. Advance tickets Cost:20, tickets at the door will be Cost:25. 07) Theater Oobleck Presents Mickle Maher's The Strangerer re-opens on Friday and runs through May 11 Thurs/Fri/Sat at 8pm Sundays at 3pm at the Chopin Theatre 1543 W. Division Street Cost:10 suggested donation. More if you've got it. Free if you're broke. For more info or to reserve seats see theateroobleck.com "It is funny, it is beyond brilliant. it's the best piece you'll see this year about American politics, the news business, or existentialism." WBEZ, critic's pick of the week 08) Saturday, April 5, 4 PM PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION: MAY-JUNE 1968 IN FRANCE Panelists: Michael Lowy, Joanna Misnik, William A. Pelz Forty years ago, poetry ruled the streets. Join us as we examine this remarkable chapter of 20th century history, and reflect on how May-June 1968 has influenced contemporary social justice movements in Chicago and around the world. Michael Lowy, born in Brazil, has lived in France since the 1960s. He is emeritus research director in sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A prolific author of many books in several languages, his publications include: The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (2005), Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History (2005), The Marxism of Che Guevara (1970), Marxism and Liberation Theology (1988) Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity (2001), Erlösung und Utopie. Judischer Messianismus und libertares Denken (2002), Capital contre nature (2003), Politics of Combined and Uneven Development (1987), Dialectica Y Revolucion: Ensayos de sociologia e historia del marxismo (1983), Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the National Question (1998), Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the Present: An Anthology (1992), and many others. Joanna Misnik was expelled from France for her trade union and political activism. A life-long anti-war and labor union militant, she is a member of SEIU Local 73. Historian Dr. William A. Pelz is the author of Against Capitalism: The European Left on the March (2007), The Spartkusbund and the German Working Class Movement (1988), and Wilhelm Liebknecht and German Social Democracy (1994). He also edited the recently re-issued Eugene V. Debs Reader (2000, 2007). Bill's articles and book reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, International Labor and Working Class History, German History, Sozialismus, JahrBuch fuar Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, and International Labor History Yearbook, among others. This public forum is co-sponsored by Open University of the Left, the Chicago Socialist Party, Solidarity-Chicago Chapter, Democratic Socialists of America-Chicago, and the New World Resource Center. Info: openuniversityoftheleft.org 09) Steppenwolf Garage Theater 1624 N. Halsted April 7th 2008, 7pm to 8:30pm Cost:20 at the Door. Space is limited please RSVP to Ryan Hollon 312/860-0097 or Sylvia Ewing 312/654-5633 Poetic performances for peace & power - to benefit the the Community Justice for Youth Insititute. Come ready to relax and reflect with: Kuumba Lynx, the winners of the 2008 Louder Than A Bomb Poetry Festival, songs from Avery R Young, and Hip Hop artist Jeff Baraka, Drumming and spoken word from Keith Kelley, plus Sylvia Ewing, Ryan Hollon, and many others committed to bringing community-led justice to Chicago's blocks. And: Hear the hidden truth about youth justice in a discussion with Xavier Bey . 10) Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:30p-10:00p @ Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood Work Against Work: The Labor of Ecology Potluck followed by 3 presentations. Bring something to share. This is a continuation in a series exploring the changing nature of work in our time and in history. All events approach work as a complex activity thru which we may be utterly debased or magnificently elevated; thru which we may destroy the world or revolutionize it. Texts to be discussed are available online at 49underground.org/nextevents.php_. Attendees are not expected to read all the articles, but please come prepared to discuss what you are able to read. The series is co-organized by the 49th Street Underground (49underground.org), Finding Roots (mayfirst.wordpress.com) and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (iww.org) 11) Finding Food in Chicago and the Suburbs Chicago State University, Academic Library Auditorium 9501 S. Martin Luther King Dr., Chicago, IL 60628 US When: Friday, April 11, 9:15AM Please come to Finding Food in Chicago, the release of the final results of the Northeastern Illinois Community Food Assessment. We will have a light breakfast beginning at 9:15, followed by speakers and discussion from 10:00 until 11:45. Parking passes will be provided for those who RSVP. Chicago State is located at 95th St. and King Dr. We are about 1/2 mile east of the 95th St. Red Line stop. You may also take the 95E bus from the station. The Metra Electric Line also stops at 95th, directly east of campus. Service is infrequent but there is a train from both the south and north stopping at CSU at 9:40. You must tell the conductor you wish to get off at 95th or the train will not stop. Driving from the north, take the Dan Ryan to 95th St., exit and take a left and then look for the gate on the right after King Dr. You may also take Stony Island to 95th and turn right. The gate will be on the left after Cottage Grove. From the south, take I-94 to Stony Island, take a left at 95th and then look for the gate after Cottage Grove. The library is located on the north end of campus. It is the large, new building. The auditorium is on the 4th Floor (there will be signs). For more information, please contact Daniel Block at findingfood@sbcglobal.net. This is the largest food access study ever completed in the Chicago region. It includes results of a mapping (GIS) study led by Dr. Daniel Block of Chicago of access to independent and chain supermarkets in the entire six county region, as well as other food access sites such as chain convenience stores and food pantries. In addition, Dr. Noel Chavez of UIC will present the results of a "market basket study" of food availability and price at stores in five Chicago communities. Finally, Dr. Judy Birgen will present the results of a door-to-door hunger and food access study completed in three Chicago communities. The Northeastern Illinois Community Food Assessment is funded by the Searle Funds at the Chicago Community Trust. Dissemination of results is funded by the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation through the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children at Children's Memorial Hospital. 12) Umoja School Spring Fling and Silent Auction Friday, April 11, 2008 6-930pm @ Galleria Marchetti 825 W. Erie, Chicago (valet parking available) Umoja Student Development Corporation was formed in 1997 to link the educational efforts of Manley Career Academy High School to the broader community and to serve as an advocate for young people. 6:00-7:00 pm Cooking demonstration with Chef Julius & open bar, dinner and auction to follow. 6:30-9:30 pm Drinks, Buffet Dinner, Silent and Live Auction. Silent Auction closes at 9:30 pm. How to Purchase: Tickets can be purchased by credit card through PayPal via umojacorporation.org/NewsandEvents/2008spring_fling.htm, or by sending a check payable to Umoja Student Development Corporation to: Umoja Student Development Corporation 2935 West Polk, Room 116 Chicago, IL 60612. Regular Ticket: Cost:46.60 (includes Cost:1.60 processing fee), Cost:55 at the door VIP Ticket - Cooking demonstration with Chef Julius: Cost:103.20 (includes Cost:3.20 processing fee), Cost:110 at the door umojacorporation.org/news_events.htm 13) Back 2 Basics - Coop Image Group Spring Fundraiser @ 2716 W North Ave 9pm-12pm w/ Live hiphop coopimage.org or jessica@coopimage.org for more info 14) 4/17-Thursday-6PM. Gene Siskel Film Center co-sponsored between Tamms Year Ten and the Campaign to End the Death Penalty You Don't Remember The Time You Do: Moments in the Lives of Prisoners Space Ghost by Laurie Jo Reynolds and In Loving Memory by Rob Todd. With exciting special guests! 164 N. State St, Chicago IL 60601 Program Description Prison has long been a popular setting for motion pictures, from the oft-remade Man in the Iron Mask to recent Oscar-nominated hits Dead Man Walking and The Shawshank Redemption. Rarer is the film that examines the prison system's complicated impact on individuals, families, and communities. Artists Laurie Jo Reynolds and Robert Todd take on this challenge in a pair of lyrical essays on the experiences of incarcerated men and women. Weaving together pop cultural imagery and prison phone conversations, Reynolds' collage-like Space Ghost (2007) explores confinement and isolation in the lives of astronauts and the imprisoned. Todd's In Loving Memory (2005) juxtaposes the reflections of prisoners on their lives with haunting landscape shots of prisons around the country, in a moving meditation on memory and a compelling critique of the death penalty. Presented as part of a series of events organized by the Tamms Year Ten Campaign, marking the ten-year anniversary of the Tamms C-MAX prison in Tamms, Illinois. (2005-07, various directors, USA, multiple formats, ca 90 min.) 15) Version08 DARK MATTER April 17 - APRIL 27 2008 see versionfest.org for more information Saturday, April 19 and Sunday, April 20: LUMPEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Version08 Festival's NFO XPO Door time: Saturday 1pm to 2am @ The Viaduct Theater3111 N. Western Ave. Sunday 1pm - 2am Ticket price: Cost:8 for each day or Cost:10 for two -day The NFO XPO (pronounced info expo) brings art groups, community organizations and artists together to exchange information and ideas as well as provide a public platform for each group to present themselves. We view it as a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It's our version of what an art fair should be. It's a big part of Version Festival, our annual convergence. The NFO XPO features booths with artist and gallery projects, installations, interactive works, science fair style exhibits and more. The NFO XPO also features talks presentations, video screenings, performances and live music. 16) April 18-20, 2008 Finding Our Roots is a yearly conference in Chicago to discuss anarchist theory and action. The next conference is planned for April 18-20, 2008 and will focus on Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest. There will be a presentation about AREA Chicago as a local networking/research tool at this year's conference. mayfirst.wordpress.com/ 17) Black Tie, Black Flag Formal Dance and Party Organized by Chicago Anarchist Film Fest in conjunction with the Finding Our Roots Conference mayfirst.wordpress.com/ 7pm-1230am @ 2328 N Milwaukee 18) Nicole Garneau's UPRISING #4 takes place during Version>08 on Saturday, April 19 around 10pm at The Viaduct Theater3111 N. Western Ave. UPRISING: monthly performance project 2008 nicolegarneau.com/UPRISING.html 19) April 26 (Sat) 10am-4pm Green and Growing Fair, Garfield Park Conservatory 20) 4/26-Saturday-11AM to 4PM. Freedom School Communiversity All day education on the prison industrial complex. Participants will write letters to Tamms prisoners. 719 S. State St., Suite 3N, Chicago IL 60605 21) 4/28-Monday-10AM-3PM. HEARINGS ABOUT TAMMS C-MAX Save the date and please be part of our public press event at 3pm. Definitely check the website for more specific details. YearTen.org House Prison Reform Committee of the Illinois General Assembly James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, Chicago IL 60601 22) 4/29-Tuesday-4PM to 5:30PM. Northwestern University lecture Center for International and Comparative Studies series: Torture in the Era of Democracy Ex-prisoner Akkeem Berry and attorney Jean Maclean Snyder will speak about Tamms as Torture. Moderated by Professor Stephen F. Eisenman. Northwestern University, BCSIS conference room 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60208 (free parking behind the building) 23) Thursday, May 1, 2008, 6pm At the Newberry Library Celebrate May Day The WOBBLIES: Memory & Model, An Event about the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World, two activists from 1968 Franklin & Penelope Rosemont and David Roediger & Leon M. Despres will speak. At the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago IL 60626 Featuring noted historians and speakers, including David Roediger, Leon M. Despres, and Franklin & Penelope Rosemont, this special event celebrates the comprehensive IWW Collection (books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and other items) now open to the public. This collection at Newberry is the only major collection of historic IWW material available in Chicago, the city in which the union began, and in which it maintained its headquarters for some eighty years. Roediger will speak on the 1886-87 Haymarket events, the origins of May Day and its influence on the IWW. Leon Despres will speak on the IWW's impressive traditions of Free Speech (The 1918 infamous trial of 101 Wobblies and their imprisonment was also a Chicago event). Franklin Rosemont will relate his adventures as a young IWW organizer hitchhiking across the country meeting and talking with old Wobblies in the 1960s, and its activities in 1968. Penelope Rosemont will speak about the IWW's legendary Solidarity Bookshop in Lincoln Park, in that same decade, and the later role of such old-time Wobblies as Fred Thompson, Jack Sheridan, Carlos Cortez, and Jenny Lahti Velsek in revitalizing the Chicago's Charles H. Kerr Company, the world's oldest working class publishing house. Contact Information: Rachel Bohlmann 312-255-3665 or Mary Janzen 312-255-3593janzenm@newberry.org Franklin Rosemont 773-465-7774 or 773-262-1329 arcane@ripco.com 24) Friday May 2nd Chicago Anarchist Film Festival Thank your customer, tell them how valuable they are to you, but don't go overboard. Insincerity is easy to spot. mayfirst.wordpress.com/permalink / comments -
#20 March 2008 Events
by AREA | Published April 30, 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter Events for March 08 (Tamms Year 10/Anti Gravity Surprise/Young Chicago Authors/Versionfest/49th St Underground/More) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :::Please Repost and Spread the Word Widely, We Never Know Who Knows What::: Mar 08 Events Summary (Details Below) 01) 03.01 Sat - Start Your Own Farm Workshop - RSVP For Space! 02) 03.01 Sat - GunViolence Workshop with Journal of Ordinary Thought 03) 03.01 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: A talk on "Human Contact Deprivation" 04) 03.02 Sun - Self Care for Social Justice @ Albany Park Workers Center 05) 03.02 Sun + 03.04 Tue - Critical Conversation about Climate 06) 03.03 Mon - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Press conference/spoken-word event 07) 03.03 Mon - Talking Point with Anti Gravity Surprise @ HPAC 08) 03.04 Tue - Women in the Global City Discussion @ Lozano Library 09) 03.04 Tue - Douglas Crimp On Gay Districts and Urban Space @ SAIC 10) 03.06 Thu - Eyes Wide Open Installation @ Depaul 11) 03.06 Thu - Screening of film about League of Revolutionary Black workers 12) 03.06 Thu - Gender, Human Rights and Media Panel @ Columbia College 13) 03.07 Fri - Aaron Hughes/Iraq Vets Against War @ Vietnam Vets Art Museum 14) 03.08 Sat - International Womens Day! 15) 03.08 Sat - Letter-writing to Tamms prisoners event @ Mess Hall 16) 03.09 Sun - Louder Than a Bomb Finals @ Vic Theater 17) 03.09 Sun - Rosa Luxembourg Revisited with Peter Hudis 18) 03.10 Mon - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Fundraiser Party @ Danny's 19) 03.13 Thu - 49th Street Underground Presents Readings on the 60s "UltraLeft" 20) 03.14 Fri - Lectures: International Women's Conferences/Black Chicago 1938-47 21) 03.14 Fri - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Live Performance Art About in Pilsen 22) 03.15 Sat - King Corn Screening with Claire Pentecost and Ladonna Redmond 23) 03.15 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Fundraiser @ the Hideout 24) 03.19 Wed - Opening Reception for "Secrets" by the 6+ Women's Art Collective 25) 03.19 Wed - Anti War Protest 26) 03.22 Sat - Fundraiser for Arrested Anti War Protesters @ Decima Musa 27) 03.28-30 Fri - Midwest Social Forum - Spring Organizers Retreat 28) 03.29 Sat - Tamms Year Ten Campaign: Organizing Meeting 29) Get Ready: Version Fest 2008 Call For Participation - Do the the "Nfo Xpo" 30) Ongoing: Go see Chicago 10 @ Landmark Theater Today Until Mach 6th Event Details Below and Archived Here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 01)============= Farm Dreams, March 1, 11am-3pm Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N Sacramento Have you ever dreamed of starting your own farm? This interactive course is designed to help you explore whether a farming business is the right choice for you. Learn about regional business and training opportunities and get a chance to ask questions about the development of successful local farms. Join us for this class in the Center for Green Technology's new Resource Center! Get in touch with Angelic Organics Learning Center. You can contact our office by email (workshops@learngrowconnect.org) or phone (815.389.8455) to reserve your spot for any of the workshops below. If we do not meet a minimum registration of 8, classes may be cancelled. 02)============= A Call to Conscience: workshop on non-violent responses to gun violence. In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. Code Pink, Women for Peace, the National Lawyers' Guild, the Strictly Flow Poetry Slam and the Neighborhood Writing Alliance invite you to attend this three-part workshop. Includes non-violent response training, a writing workshop and an open mic. Sat. Mar.1, 12-3pm, North Branch Library Community Room, 310 W. Division Street. RSVP to Rupal at (773) 684-2742 or rsoni@jot.org. 03)============= March 1-Saturday-10:30AM. A talk on "Human Contact Deprivation" Sacred Heart Parish, 337 S. Ottawa Street, Joliet, IL 60436 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 04)============= --Mar 2, Sunday, 1 pm, Albany Park Workers Center 3416 W Bryn Mawr SELF CARE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Benefit for Chicory Center & On-The-Fly Farms Sponsor: Acudetox Healing Collective Info: www.chicorycenter.org, lizappel@yahoo.com 05)============= --Mar 2 & 4, Sun & Tue SOLVING OUR CLIMATE CRISIS: A CRITICAL CONVERSATION ON CARBON TRADING Hear Larry Lohmann of Durban Group for Climate Justice 3/2, 2 pm, Good News Community Church, 7649 N Paulina 3/4, 1:30 pm, DePaul Loop, 1 E Jackson, Rm 8009 3/4, 6 pm, DePaul Lincoln Park, Student Center Rm 220 Info: www.ecojusticecollaborative.org 06)============= March 3-Monday-4PM. Press conference and spoken-word event Jane Addams Hull-House Museum The University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted (M/C 051), Chicago, IL 60607 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 07)============= TalkingPoint: Anti Gravity Surprise 6pm Monday, March 3rd at the Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Avenue Muller Meeting Room http://www.hydeparkart.org TalkingPoint is a free monthly Monday evening series in which Chicago-based cultural producers share their ideas as a starting point for conversation in an intimate setting. Since 2001, public art group Anti Gravity Surprise has addressed the concept of world peace in 9/11-themed multimedia project Gathering Motion; mounted a full eight-hour day of art and discussion about work with Second Shift; and hosted $election community art events to engage voters. Co-founders Kathleen Duffy and Jennifer Karmin will speak about their collaborative approach and ongoing work Tell Us What You Think, an evolving public art project that will be distributed as a free workbook. http://www.antigravitysurprise.org Come down to the Hyde Park Art Center for a chance to listen, discuss, and learn. Food and drink provided. TalkingPoint is curated by Dan Wang. Past guests include Industry of the Ordinary, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Theaster Gates, and Jeanne Dunning. 08)============= --Mar 4, Tue, 6 pm, Lozano Library, 1805 S Loomis WOMEN IN THE GLOBAL CITY Panelists: Janet Smith of UIC College of Urban Planning & Public Affairs, Pauline Lipman of UIC College of Education, Kim Wasserman of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Kim Daykin of Housing Opportunities for Women Sponsor: Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies Info: www.workingclassstudies.org 09)============= March 4 6pm SAIC Ballroom 112 S Michigan Ave Douglas Crimp the art historian and critic discusses the 1970s transformation of Manhattan's Lower West Side, as both artists and gay men sought the neighborhood's abandoned spaces. For more information, visit saic.edu. 10)============= --Mar 6, Thu, 11 am & 8 pm, DePaul University Student Center, 2250 N Sheffield EYES WIDE OPEN 140 pairs of combat boots, one for each Illinois service person killed in the Iraq War; also screening of The Ground Truth Sponsor: AFSC 11)============= March 6th Film: "Finally Got the News" 7:30pm (bring food to share) at the Mess Hall (6932 N. Glenwood; 'Morse' stop on the Red Line; 773-465-4033) A documentary about the League of Revolutionary Black workers inside and outside of auto factories in Detroit, and their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, would respond to workers' problems. After Party Benegit for Finding Our Roots @ 6748 N. Newgard. 12)============= GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA March 6, 2008 Reception 5:30pm. Program 6:00pm. Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Open to the Public & Free of Charge In recognition of International Women's Day, the Institute presents the 2nd annual panel program on gender and media, with this year's focus on human rights. Gender, Human Rights and Media brings together five leading writers, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars whose work ranges from broadcast reporting on Hurricane Katrina and South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to a film on Argentina's state terrorism in the 1970s. Through individual presentations, media clips and discussion, the panelists will engage in personal and scholarly interpretations of the complicated role that media can play in reflecting, influencing and broadening our understanding of human rights. Introduced by Jane M. Saks (Executive Director, Institute) and moderated by Laura S. Washington (Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor in Journalism, DePaul University), the panel discussion will feature Cheryl Corley (reporter, National Public Radio), Antjie Krog (poet, writer and journalist), Silvia Malagrino (visual artist and filmmaker), and Joe Richman (independent producer, National Public Radio's Radio Diaries). 13)============= March 7th, 7-10pm @ National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum 1801 South Indiana Ave. Aaron Hughes of Iraq Veterans Against the War has a Closing Reception for his Exhibit "You Are Not My Enemy" and a Book release for IVAW's Warrior Writers Publications http://ivaw.org/node/2653 14)============= --Mar 8, Sat INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 15)============= March 8-Saturday-6:00-8:30PM. Letter-writing to Tamms prisoners event and kick-off for Supermax Subscriptions - an initiative to get the residents of Tamms prison magazine subscriptions Mess Hall. 6932 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago 60626 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 16)============= Louder Than a Bomb 2008 Finals! Sunday, March 9th, 2007 The Vic Theater 3145 N. Sheffield Ave. Doors at 5PM, Show from 6PM-9PM For specific questions, contact Robbie Q: robbieq@youngchicagoauthors.org or call 773-486-4331 17)============= --Mar 9, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield ROSA LUXEMBURG REVISITED Hear Peter Hudis of News & Letters 18)============= March 10-Monday-10PM. Chicago Peace Party at Danny's Benefit for Tamms Year Ten Campaign-half of bar proceeds go to our campaign. Danny's Bar. 1951 W Dickens Ave, Chicago, IL 60614 Get all the details here http://yearten.wordpress.com/ 19)============= March 13th - The Legacy of the "Ultraleft," Part II: Workerists and Gauchistes around 1968* 7:30pm (bring food to share) at the Mess Hallpermalink / comments -
#19 February 2008 Events
by AREA | Published Jan. 29, 2008Dear Friends of AREA Chicago: Please come out on THIS SUNDAY to hear the public discussion between Feel Tank Chicago, AREA Chicago and the AREA contributor and prolific artist/organizer/writer Dan S. Wang about last summer's How We Learn series. It should be a great chance to critically reflect on some of the energy mobilized around our summer series and the last issue of AREA (details below). People will also be meeting 1 hour early at the Experimental Station (6100 S. Blackstone - starting at 4pm) to discuss events and ideas around AREA's fall issue about 1968. The events/issue will deal with the legacy of the new left and its impact/influence on local social movements today. If you are interested please come on out! Also, please check out the AREA Sponsored Screening of "Chicago10", the new animated feature film about the 1968 DNC Protests in Chicago, on Monday Feb18th (details below). Also, any of the events on this list were taken from New World Resource Center's very impressive events listing, so if you want to know more info see their site. Finally, AREA's monthly events newsletter will now be a bit less irregular and will go out on the last Monday of the month, so please get your events listings for March into us by Feb 25th. Have a great month! Feb 08 Events Summary (Details Below) 01) 01.29 Tue - Politics of Place in the new "We Are Many" Chicago Activism Lectures 02) 02.01 Fri - Exhibit Opening: Art and Resistance in Oaxaca @ Cafe Mestizo 03) 02.01 Fri - Torture in Chicago: Overview of The Burge Case - Panel Discussion 04) 02.01-02 - Academic Freedom Conference @ DePaul 05) 02.02 Sat - Iraq Veterans Against War/IVAW Fundraiser @ Acme Co-Op 06) 02.02 Sat - Come Meet The Freightliner Five - Striking Workers @ UE Hall 07) 02.03 Sun - AREA/Feel Tank Discussion @ Experimental Station 08) 02.05 Tue - Vote if you Vote @ Your Local Polling Place 09) 02.05 Tue - Poetry reading by women incarcerated in Cook County Jail 10) 02.07 Thu - Residents Journal - Public Housing Journalism - Party and Website Launch 11) 02.09 Sat - Shut Down Tamms Prison "Year Ten Campaign" Planning Meeting 12) 02.09 Sat - Networking Party for Local Independent Media Makers 13) 02.09 Sat - TSJ/AFSC Release Event for Counter Recruitment School Curriculum 14) 02.10 Sun - Presentation about Chicago Women's Liberation Union History 15) 02.11 Mon - Iraq Veterans Against War/IVAW Fundraiser @ Danny's Tavern 16) 02.15 Fri - Pedestrian Hell Exhibit and Discussion about Public Space @ Efebos Café 17) 02.15 Fri - HomeGirls: Makers of Words and Worlds, Makers of Culture @ UIC/Hull House 18) 02.16 Sat - History of Lynching @ Chicago Freedom School 19) 02.16 Sat - African American Folk Tales at 57th Street Books 20) 02.18 Mon - SCREENING of Chicago 10 @ Columbia College (co-sponsored by AREA) 21) 02.19 Tue - Iraq Veterans Against War/IVAW Screening 22) 02.23 Sat - Sex Workers Art Show - Performance @ Funky Buddah 23) 02.29 Fri - Crossroads Fund Annual Benefit - Get out and support! 24) 02.29 Fri - Critical Mass Rides to Critical Mass Art Show Closing Party (Secret Location) 25) Every Friday @ Hull House - Stitch and Talk @ Ellen Gates Starr Craftivism Free Lunch! 26) Now till April - "HereThereEverywhere" Exhibit about Politics of Place 27) Now till March 31 @ Youth Hostel - MLK jr. Inspired Mural Exhibit 28) Now till July - "Chupacabras!" Exhibit on Border Myths @ Museum of Mexican Art 29) Job Posting: New Chicago Left Web Magazine Hiring Authors DETAILS 01)========================================== Jan 29, Tue, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western THE POLITICS OF PLACE: A HISTORY OF ZONING IN CHICAGO Author Joseph P. Schwieterman Part of We Are Many: Inquiries Into Chicago Activism series Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/ 02)========================================== Son de las Barricadas: Art and Resistance in Oaxaca Prints by the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca February 1st through the 29th Cafe Mestizo 1646 W. 18th St. Exhibit Opening: Friday, February 1st 7:30pm Featuring the Chicago premiere of the documentary "The Taking of the Media" (in Spanish with English subtitles) Organized by ChicagOtra with support from the Fire This Time Fund 03)========================================== Feb 1, Fri, 5:30 pm, Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn TORTURE IN CHICAGO: THE BURGE CASE Panelists: Flint Taylor & Joey Mogul of Peoples Law Office, representatives from Black People Against Police Torture, victim Darrell Cannon, Sponsors: National Lawyers Guild, American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, 8th Day Center for Justice 04)========================================== Feb 1-2, Fri-Sat, DEPAUL ACADEMIC FREEDOM CONFERENCE Speakers: Sara Roy, Juan Cole, Robert Jensen, Peter Novick, Bill Ayers Info: http://academicfreedomchicago.org 05)========================================== --Feb 2, Sat, 7 pm, ACME Coop, 2418 W Bloomingdale IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST WAR BENEFIT Video screening of Soldiers for Peace Info: chicago@ivaw.org 06)========================================== Come Meer The Freightliner Five, North Carolina UAW workers fired for promoting a strike. UE Hall - 37 S Ashland Ave Sat. Feb 2nd - 7pm With Mike Griffin, War Zone Foundation, UBC. Lee Sustar, Charleston Five Defense Committee, Labor Editor. Music by Bucky Halker, Labor Troubadour Background on the Strike http://www.9898.us/3/f5chi80202.htm 07)========================================== Sunday, February 3 5pm @ Experimental Station 6100 S Blackstone (Near 61st and Dorchester) Dan S. Wang moderates a discussion between Feel Tank and AREA, and the public There has been an enormous amount of activity related to critical art practices in the last year in Chicago making it an international hub for this work. Feel Tank and AREA both mobilized large numbers of practitioners, activists, and folks in other fields working and thinking in parallel to make, talk, act, and learn together. What impact did this have? What are the lasting implications of all this activity? What is next? 08)========================================== 02.05 Tue - Vote if you Vote http://www.chicagoelections.com/ 09)========================================== --Feb 5, Tue, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark STILL POINT THEATER COLLECTIVE: STRONG WOMEN Performance featuring poetry written by women incarcerated in Cook County Jail 10)========================================== Residents' Journal, a quarterly news magazine written for and by Chicago public housing residents and other low-income citizens, is relaunching its Web site. Join public housing journalists, youth reporters, RJ staff and supporters for the site launch, a party and readings by RJ contributors. The event takes place on February 7, starting at 7 p.m. at the Palette and Chisel Gallery, 1012 North Dearborn Avenue, Chicago Contact Anjuli Maniam at (773) 984 7798 or via email anjuli.maniam@gmail.com for more information. 11)========================================== Saturday, Feb 9, 10am-noon Progressive Community Center The People's Church 56 E. 48th St. Chicago, IL 60615 (Plenty of parking.) YOU ARE NEEDED FOR THE YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN!I Former prisoners of Tamms and their families have joined forces with The Tamms Poetry Committee to work on the "Year Ten" campaign, and your help is urgently needed. To mark Tamms' tenth year of operation, the "Year 10" campaign has initiated a program of artistic, educational, cultural and political events to bring public attention to the conditions at Tamms. We ask the people of Illinois to join us in protesting the IDOC's misguided and inhumane policies, and in calling for legislation to end the torture of permanent solitary confinement. These efforts are part of a long-term political strategy to achieve humane treatment for the men at Tamms. We expect to have legislative hearings about Tamms in March. But our legislators can only act in response to significant public outcry. We need you to participate in our upcoming events, and get involved in Year Ten organizing. We need your voice, your contacts, your skills, and we need your action! Come to the next organizing meeting on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 10:00 a.m. 12)========================================== Feb 9, Sat, 3 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western NETWORKING PARTY: BEING OUR OWN MEDIA Sponsor: Metro Chicago Progressive Media Network, Chicago Media Action Chicago area progressive media professionals & activists Info: 708-447-1547, walterb306@cs.com 13)========================================== Saturday, February 9, 5-7PM Decima Musa 1901 W. Loomis in Pilsen TSJ and the American Friends Service Committee present: • A curriculum development workshop on anti-military recruitment using the new Camouflaged curriculum* • A short panel presentation on the new CPS Board policy toward anti-recruitment work (AFSC & TSJ) *The brand new curriculum, Camouflaged: Investigating how the U.S. military affects you and your community, was produced by the NY Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE). We will have presentations of two lessons from Camouflaged, then break into subject-matter groups to plan & work on some concrete curriculum ideas (note-this is mainly middle to high school work). You can preview and download a draft version of the curriculum from NYCoRE's website, http://www.nycore.org/PDF/Camouflageddraft.pdf Due to our resources (lack of!)...can people planning on attending please either download and print a copy (not small!, ~150 pages), OR download the pdf onto a laptop and bring the laptop so that people can work on it in small groups at the workshop. We will have a few copies available as well. And there is food and drink for sale at Decima Musa... No preregistration is necessary, this is a free event (though we pass the hat for Decima Musa), please join us. this email sent to you by: Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) http://teachersforjustice.org/ 14)========================================== Feb 10, Sun, 3 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western CHICAGO WOMEN’S LIBERATION UNION PRESENTATION History of one of the most influential leftist women’s groups of the 1960s-1970s Info: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/ 15)========================================== --Feb 11, Mon, 10 pm, Danny's Bar, 1951 W Dickens IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST WAR BENEFIT DJs, cash bar, more 16)========================================== PEDESTRIAN HELL An Exhibit at Efebos Café 1640 S. Blue Island Ave. January 25 (opening reception 6:30) - March 6 (2008) With: Janina Ciezadlo, Miguel Cortez, Tom Sibley, Rebecca Wolfram SPECIAL EVENT: February 15, 6:30: Come to discuss Pedestrian Topics such as Public Transit, Car-Sharing, Bicycling - you can rant a little bit if it helps you feel better, share information and ideas, and try some of Efebos' delicious food. Call Efebos 312-633-9212 (efeboscafe@sbcglobal.net), or Rebecca 773-523-7275 17)========================================== Jane Addams Hull House Museum Presents: A Dangerous Woman Affair… HomeGirls: Makers of Words and Worlds, Makers of Culture: A Spoken Word Concert Friday Feb. 15, 7pm UIC Campus 1044 W. Harrison W. Harrison L285 Lecture Hall Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrates the legacy of Jane Addams, who was once called "Public Enemy #1" and "The Most Dangerous Woman in America" by the FBI, with a series of events that features and celebrates women who might be considered "dangerous." These artists, scholars, activists and organizers all speak truth to power, share a fierce determination to challenge the status quo and inspire us to imagine a better, more just future. Featuring: Mayda Del Valle (Def Poetry on Broadway, LA via Chicago) Bassey Ikpi ( Def Poet, Washington DC via Nigeria) Marty McConnell ( Def Poet, Brooklyn via Chicago) Kelly Tsai (Def Poet, Brooklyn via Chicago) Lauren Whitehead (YouthSpeaks, Bay Area via Chicago) Angel Nafis (Brave New Voices, Ann Arbor, MI) Anna West (Co-founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival) EARLIER THAT AFTERNOON: HomeGirls: Makers of Words and Worlds, Makers of Culture: 3PM-5PM 800 South Halsted, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum A conversation around spoken word and hip-hop poetics. As part of the first generation of American woman to attend college, Jane Addams understood the importance of breaking boundaries and being a border crosser. She did this in numerous ways: as a white person working in communities of color; as a wealthy person addressing issues of poverty; and as a woman entering into the male dominated and defined public sphere. Join us for an afternoon conversation with a new generation of border crossing female spoken word poets. They are continuing in Jane Addams legacy, blazing across new borders from the subculture to the dominant culture, crossing geographical terrain, from the personal to the political--and back again. How do we unleash our radical imaginations to create a new world with appreciation, acknowledgement, and understanding of difference and boundaries while crossing over to create a common, more just world? Can we do this from the word up? 18)========================================== Saturday Feb 16th - 10am-4pm @ Chicago Freedom School (719 S. State St.) Strange Fruit: The History and Legacy of Lynching Program Includes an interactive presentation by Coya Paz and a screening of "Ida B Wells: A Passion for Justice" contact mhenry@chicagofreedomschool.org for more info 19)========================================== Saturday, February 16th 2:00pm AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLKTALES STORYTIME In celebration of African-American Heritage month, we'll be exploring the legends and lore of the African diaspora. Come share stories, snacks and activities as we visit Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, Anansi and other memorable characters. Always Free. Always Fun. 57th Street Books 1301 E 57th St 20)========================================== Join AREA Chicago and Participant Productions for a special advanced screening of Chicago-10. Monday February 18th 7:30 pm; FREE Columbia College Film Row Cinema 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60605 Written and directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture), Chicago 10 presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of revolution, then and now, Chicago 10 is a parable of hope, courage and ultimate victory, the story of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government. Learn more at: http://takepart.com/chicago10 Distributed by Roadside Attractions, opens in theaters in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston, DC and San Francisco on February 29, 2008 This Event Kicks Off AREA's Year of Programs building up to our fall issue (AREA #7) on the theme "1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and the Politics of Inheritance" http://1968.areachicago.org/ 21)========================================== --Feb 19, Tue, 7pm, 2350 N Kenmore IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST WAR BENEFIT Screening of video ''Winter Soldier'' & speakers from Iraq Veterans Against the War Hosted by the Chicago Progressive Alliance 22)========================================== Nationally Touring Sex Workers Art Show Tour Comes to Chicago WHAT: Last year Sex Workers Art Show performed to sold out crowds of over 300 people! This year’s show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses! Making its debut this year is the release of the anthology entitled Working Sex: Sex Workers write about a Changing Industry, edited by none other than the amazing Annie Oakley. WHEN: Doors 6:30, Show 7pm-9pm, Saturday February 23, 2008 WHERE: Funky Buddha Lounge 728 W Grand Ave COST: 20.00 advance/25.00 door TICKETS: Tickets on Sale starting January 20th www.brownpapertickets.com www.sexworkersartshow.com 23)========================================== Crossroads Fund's annual benefit Seeds of Change takes place Friday, February 29, 2008, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Visit crossroadsfund.org to learn more and purchase tickets, sponsorships, and advertising space. 24)========================================== Friday February 29 Art Show Closing Party Mass Up at Daley Plaza 5:30pm The conclusion of 2 months of Bike Art & Activism will have us departing from the Picasso to end our ride at the Closing Party of the Critical Mass Art Show. We will be moving the show from Mercury Cafe to a special venue, so you have to show up for the Critical Mass ride to get in on the party. Contact: Steven Lane (thestevenlane-at-gmail-dot-com) http://chicagocriticalmass.org/artshow2008 25)========================================== Calling all knitters, crocheters and other makers of culture! It is Time for a Revolution. The quiet thought that once whispered in the minds of a few women has quickly become a collective roar that unifies all of us across the globe, and is impossible to ignore. You may have noticed the revolution taking place in the fervent pleasure of knitters or the blissful content of crocheters on the Blue Line or in cafes throughout the city. This series is devoted to the insistence on the radical importance of making in a world where there is so much destruction and unmaking. The Ellen Gates Starr Craftivism Series - Brown Bag Stitching Salon: All Fridays from 12-1:30PM Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 800 South Halsted. No RSVP necessary. About the Ellen Gates Starr Craftivism Series Ellen Gates Starr was the college friend of Jane Addams and co-founder of Hull-House. The women of the Progressive Era who were tied to the Hull-House Settlement were not only proponents of craft and creativity, they were also fighting on the front lines of important social issues of their day, such as public housing, economic justice, juvenile justice, women’s suffrage, immigrant rights, and much more. She was a dedicated craftswoman who studied the art of bookbinding and set up a bindery at the Hull-House with apprentices from the community. She believed that in order to be free, one must work under conditions of freedom and engage both the mind and the hands in the pursuit of one’s accomplishments. The latter part of her life was dedicated to labor reform and activism. The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum establishes this Craftivism Series as a way of honoring her legacy, bringing together the powerful practices of craft and activism. http:///www.hullhousemuseum.org or http://www.bridgeisover.blogspot.com/ 26)========================================== HereThereEverywhere January 19- April 6, 2008 Exhibit Hall (4th flr) Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St. The exhibit features works by local, national and international artists created in different mediaums, including painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, with diverse artists addressng the concept of boundaries and "place." Participating artists include Jennifer Bartlett, Christopher Cozier, Danica Dakic, Brian Dettmer, Josh Dorman, Gisela Insuaste, Joyce Kozloff, Karen Lebergott, Mark Lombardi, Shona Macdonald, Adelheid Mers, Vik Muniz, David Opdyke, Ellen Rothenberg, Michael x. Ryan, Paula Sher, Draga Susanj, Frances Whitehead + ARTetal, and Ben Whitehouse. Public Conversation: Saturday, January 26, 2pm Gallery Talks: Thursday, February 7, 12:15pm and Thursday, April 3, 12:15pm Co-curatorsGregory Knight and Sofia Zutautas will discuss the exhibition. This exhibit has been organized by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs as part of the Festival of Maps Chicago. www.chicagoculturalcenter.org 27)========================================== Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters Art that commemorates the life and work of Dr. King, and explores the struggle for social justice today Ten student artists created murals commemorating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the large second floor windows of Hostelling International Chicago. The paintings both honor the work of Dr. King and highlight the continuing struggle for social justice today. The artists are Jared Carpenter, Jennifer Casselberry, Allison Havens, Reed Kirst, Kathy Moore, Ricardo Navarro, Mun-Jung Chang Park, Carla Paynter, Kaitlynn Radloff and Jessica Tam. The exhibition also includes pieces from the permanent collection of The Peace Museum. The exhibition is on display January 21 through March 31, 2008, at: Hostelling International Chicago, www.hichicago.org 24 East Congress Parkway, Chicago, Illinois USA Free, open to the public, 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 7 days a week 28)========================================== Chupacabras! Artists Reinterpret the Myth Artists explore a transnational figure that defies real and imaginary borders. The legend of the Chupacabras has penetrated the Latino and American myth/reality landscape for almost two decades. In this exhibition, Chicago artists interpret the lasting impact that Chupacabras sightings have had on the Latin American and North American psyche. Exhibition runs through July 20, 2008 Participating Artists: Patricia Acosta, Cirilo Esquivel, Ricardo Gonzalez, Luis de la Torre, Judithe Hernandez, Salvador Jimenez, Miguel Cortez Juan Compean, Ricardo Compean, Antonio Pazaran National Museum of Mexican Art 1852 W. 19Th Street Chicago IL 60608 312.738.1503 www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org 29)========================================== *Left-leaning political website seeks writers* New political website focused on Illinois politics seeks full-time writers to work from our office in Chicago. The writers will work in a small newsroom setting helping to organize, edit and write daily content, which will include: campaign coverage, progressive commentary, media monitoring, and original reporting. The job involves a mix of traditional journalistic skills and other skills unique to new media sites. Applicants must be conversant with the world of blogs and new media and have a familiarity with and interest in both Illinois and national politics. Salary based on experience. Benefits. Send email to chicagowritingjob@gmail.com. Please include a resume, names of two references, and a letter explaining why you're interested in the position,your background or any other relevant details you think would be helpful.permalink / comments -
#18 January 4-February 3, 2008
by AREA | Published Jan. 11, 2008January AREA Newsletterpermalink / comments
Happy New Year to you all! Below are some upcoming events we're really excited about. Please consider checking them out. Also, thanks so much to nearly 200 people that gave donations to AREA Chicago either by attending our December fundraising party or by donating online or through writing a personal check. Because of your donations we will be able to fully fund the next issue of AREA Chicago #6!
SUMMARY
01) Every Weekend/All Month - Method To Madness Festival and Workshops All Month @ links hall
02) 01.11 Fri - AREA Contributor Nicolas Lampert Exhibition Opening
03) 01.11 Fri - 6th Anniversary of Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo Protest @ Fed Plaza
04) 01.12 Sat - Tamms Poetry Committee plans year long campaign about supermax prisons in IL
05) 01.14 Mon - Kick Boeing to the Curb fundraising dance/drinking @ Danny's Tavern
06) 01.17 Thu - Seminar on Left Wing Communism in the Wake of WWI @ Mess Hall
07) 01.18-20 - 3 Day Critical/Activist Art Seminar @ Mess Hall with Over 20 Speakers and Free Meals
08) 01.23 Wed - Anti-Recruitment Rally @ Chicago Public Schools HQ
09) 01.24 Thu - Angela Davis Lecture @ University of Chicago
10) 01.24 Thu - Fundraising Workshops by the Crossroads Fund (also on 02.21 and 03.20)
11) 02.03 Early Warning - Discussion Between Feel Tank Chicago and AREA Chicago
12) Call For Proposals for Chicago Anarchist Film Festival
13) Call for Workshop Proposals for Finding Our Roots conference
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DETAILS BELOW
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Method to Madness Festival
Curated by Kate Sheehy, Links Hall Artistic Associate
Throughout January, we explore the theme of Method to Madness. This multi-disciplinary festival includes puppetry, performance, film, and sound. Each week, artists investigate the process of their creative practice, offering a behind-the-scenes exploration of the catalogs, regimen, recipes, and obsessions that make them go.
Performances and workshops will be happening each week and weekend so please check the link below for schedules. http://www.linkshall.org/08-pp-jan.shtml
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Nicolas Lampert: Machine Animal Collages: New Work
opening reception: Friday, January 11, 5 - 8:30pm
artist's talk: Saturday, January 12, 1pm
show runs from January 11 - February 16, 2008
gescheidle • contemporary art • 1039 w. lake
street, 2nd floor • chicago, il 60607 • p 312.226.3500
More examples of his artwork can be viewed at: www.machineanimalcollages.com
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Jan 11, Fri, 4:30 pm, Federal Plaza,
SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEFINITE DETENTION
FOR GUANTANAMO PRISONERS
Join us to challenge the use of torture by the United States, to call for
the closure of Guantanamo, and to demand justice for those tortured by the
Chicago Police Department.
Wear orange!
Scheduled Speakers include:
* Marc Falkoff, lawyer and editor of "Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak"
* Larry Kennon, attorney from Black People Against Police Torture
* Darrell Cannon, survivor of torture at the hands of the Chicago Police Department
* Black People Against Police Torture representative
For more information: Voices for Creative Nonviolence
773-878-3815 info@vcnv.org www.vcnv.org
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Organizing Meeting + Prisoners Letters
Jan. 12, 11:00 a.m.
People's Law Office, 1180 N. Milwaukee Ave
At the Division stop on the Blue Line
(parking across the street by the Technical Institute)
** THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE'S LAW OFFICE FOR USE OF THIS SPACE!
Come to learn more about Tamms Poetry Committee's "Year 10" campaign to educate the public about Tamms supermax prison on the anniversary of the 10th year of its opening. Contact nadya.pittendrigh@gmail.com if you have questions.
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Hello Everyone!
We are excited to announce that Kick Boeing to the Curb has an upcoming fundraiser. The bar Danny's hosts a Peace Party once a month, donating half the bar sales to a non-profit group and this month, KBC will be the recipient organization. There will be a DJ playing music all night and all you have to do is come dance, drink and socialize!
Here are the details:
Danny's (1951 W. Dickens)
Monday, January 14th
10:00 pm-2:00 am
No cover
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Left Wing Communism in the Wake of WWI
Jan. 17, 7:30pm,
at the Mess Hall (6932 N. Glenwood)
Hello All,
The 49th St. Underground would like to announce an evening discussion of the Left Communist and Council Communist traditions. This version of Left theory and practice is often appealed to as a way to escape the pitfalls of the Stalinization of Marxist and Left politics. However, we have found that it is rarely closely examined. As always, we will take a critical and historical approach to these movements, attempting to understand them in their moment, understand what was revolutionary about them in that moment, and critically appropriate that which may still be revolutionary and inform our conteporary left politics. We do not arrive at these texts with a dogma and are open to all directions that the discussion might lead us. This is a process of critical exploration.
A note of explanation: I have included a wide array of links to texts and if you find yourself interested and with a great deal of free time, then read them all. However, if you are like most people you don't have the time to read all these articles-- even as short as some of them are--, so please read a variety of articles and come prepared to present and to discuss what you have read. (The historical study by Gerber and the articles by Mattick might be the best place to start.)
Thanks,
Parker Everett
http://www.49underground.org/index.php
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What We Know of Our Past
What We Demand of Our Future
A three-day gathering to talk about socially-engaged, political, and critical artwork, its international iterations, history, and future
January 18-20, 2008
Mess Hall - 6932 N. Glenwood - Chicago
This weekend we come together to look at and talk about the intersections between art and activism. We want to take this time to address a range of concerns, to look at past strategies of creative resistance and build on them, to address our frustrations and anxieties about what we do, to play and laugh together, share food, and discuss the possibilities for going forward.
For a full schedule see http://www.letsremake.info/whatweknow.html
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Jan 23, Wed, 9:30 am, CPS Headquarters, Truth in Recruitment Rally
TRUTH IN RECRUITMENT RALLY
Tell the Chicago Board of Ed to limit access of military recruiters to schools
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2008 KENT LECTURE FEATURING ~MS. ANGELA DAVIS~
FREE EVENT - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Location: Rockefeller Chapel at University of Chicago,
5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue
American social justice activist, community organizer and professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Community Party. Her story takes America down the path of social injustice and through the civil rights battles that enraged America, which victimized those who voiced opposing opinions. She draws upon her own experiences in the early 1970s as a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List." Her story is one of false accusations, incarceration and the ultimate vindication of justice.
You are cordially invited to hear MS. ANGELA DAVIS address the question: "How Does Change Happen?" Ms. Davis will address the issue of unfinished work in the struggle for equality in America, and how to deal with the social challenges that remain in American democracy.
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Care to learn more about increasing financial resources for your organization? Come with your questions and learn from your peers to our workshops on: Creating a Development Calendar (January 24), Individual Donors (February 21) and Special Events (March 20). Learn more about these fundraising trainings. Please RSVP to rashida@crossroadsfund.org by the dates listed on the website. http://www.crossroadsfund.org
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Sunday, February 3
Dan S. Wang moderates a discussion between Feel Tank and AREA, and the public
There has been an enormous amount of activity related to critical art practices in the last year in Chicago making it an international hub for this work. Feel Tank and AREA both mobilized large numbers of practitioners, activists, and folks in other fields working and thinking in parallel to make, talk, act, and learn together. What impact did this have? What are the lasting implications of all this activity? What is next? Times and location TBA.
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2008 Chicago Anarchist Film Festival Call for Entries
http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/2008-chicago-anarchist-film-festival-call-for-entries/
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Finding Our Roots: Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest: Call for workshops
http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/call-for-proposals/
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#17 November 5-December 8, 2007
by AREA | Published Jan. 11, 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~permalink / comments
AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter
Monday, November 5 2007
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:::Please Repost and Spread the Word Widely, We Never Know Who Knows What:::
Hey folks! It is a busy month here in Chicago! Please come out tonight to AREA's Infrastructure lecture with Z-Magazine's Michael Albert. If you miss him tonight, check out the forum on tuesday @ the art Institute with AREA contributors Brian Holmes and Chris Cutrone. Then come meet up with AREA representatives this weekend on Saturday @ the TSJ Curriculum Fair - We will have a table with the latest issue of AREA Chicago#5 available (now also online here). Then please mark your calendar and spread the word about our Dec. 8 party and auction. If you think AREA is a worthwhile project then we really encourage you to come out and support - the auction and entertainment will be very stellar! See details below and Have a great month.
11.5-12.08 Summary
1) 11.5 Michael Albert on Participatory Economics @ the Hull House w/ AREA
2) 11.6 Public Forum: RRR: Reform, Revolution and Resistance @ SAIC
3) 11.9-11.11 Movement for a Democratic Society Conference @ Loyola
4) 11.10 Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair - Come see AREA's Table!
5) 11.10 SNCC Freedom Singers Free Concert
6) 11.12 Peace Party: Drink for Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace & Justice
7) 11.17 Government Accountability Conference - This is Important Stuff!
8) 11.07 The Dill Pickle Food Co-op BENEFIT CONCERT & MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
9) 12.01 Paving New Roads: Chicago Orgs Against Violence Conference
10) 12.08 AREA Chicago announces first WANTS and NEEDS BENEFIT PARTY
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Event Details
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Funding the Revolution?
Participatory Economics and Funding Activist Organizing in Chicago
A discussion with Z-Mag's Michael Albert (Author of Par-Econ: Life After Capitalism)
Monday, November 5 2007
6pm-8pm
at Jane Addams Hull House Museum's Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted St. (On the campus of UIC)
Co-Sponsored by 49th St Underground, AREA Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, and CAPES (Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society).
About the Speaker:
Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is a longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist[1] and favors democratic participatory planning as an alternative. Please check out background on Parecon here.
About Funding Issues:
In recent months Chicago has seen many critical community gatherings and discussions focusing on the challenge of funding important and critical organizing in a climate of privatization, neoliberalism and the rise of the so called "non-profit industrial complex." The Hull House museum hosted a whole workshop series with Incite! Women of Color Against Violence - the authors of "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" and this summer AREA Chicago and Fire This Time Fund held a large discussion "How We Fund" to discuss different alternative funding strategies being employed throughout the city.
At this event, the organizers would like to attempt to connect the critiques and challenges around resource sharing and funding critical organizing in a capitalist society with one of the most potent proposals for en economic system outside of capitialism. This event should be relevant to students of economics and non-profit management, artists and activists and concerned curious people alike! Come on out and join the discussion.
This event is part of AREA Chicago's irregular "Infrastructure" lecture series about self-organized infrastructure, strengthening critical networks and activist organizational structure. www.AREAchicago.org
Contact Mitchell Szczepanczyk, mitchell@chicagomediaaction.org for more details.
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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"
The problematic forms of "anticapitalism" today
Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 7-9PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive main auditorium
"[After the 1960s, the] underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency [. . .] in a historical situation of heightened helplessness..became a self-constitution as outsider, as other [. . .] focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the [Fordist/late 20th Century] world: it echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital [with the neo-liberal turn after 1973, and especially after 1989].
The idea of a fundamental transformation became bracketed and, instead, was replaced by the more ambiguous notion of 'resistance.' The notion of resistance, however, says little about the nature of that which is being resisted or of the politics of the resistance involved - that is, the character of determinate forms of critique, opposition, rebellion, and 'revolution.' The notion of 'resistance' frequently expresses a deeply dualistic worldview that tends to reify both the system of domination and the idea of agency.
'Resistance' is rarely based on a reflexive analysis of possibilities for fundamental change that are both generated and suppressed by [the] dynamic heteronomous order [of capital]. ['Resistance'] is an undialectical category that does not grasp its own conditions of possibility; that is, it fails to grasp the dynamic historical context of which it is a part."
- Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism" (2006)
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today. Panelists: Michael Albert (Z Magazine), Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School of New York University), Brian Holmes (Continental Drift and Universite Tangente), and Marisa Holmes (new Students for a Democratic Society).
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MDS Conference Friday, November 9 - Sunday, November 11
Where: Loyola University (North Shore Campus)
6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
A NATIONWIDE CONVERGENCE OF MOVEMENT FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (MDS)
With Panels/Speakers/and Discussion on: War & Peace/Building a New Movement/Saving the Planet/Abolishing Prisons/Ending Racism/Building Our Own Media/Gay Rights & Human Rights/Women & Work/Comics & Popular Culture/SDS Today!
Featuring: Manning Marable, Kathy Kelly, Carl Davidson, Bill Ayers, Muhammad Ahmad, Peter Linebaugh, Gale Ahrens, David Roediger, Kate Khatib, Paul Buhle, Amanda Klonsky and many others!
At Loyola University's North Shore Campus 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626
For further information write: MDS, 1740 W. Greenleaf Ave, Chicago IL 60626
Or: info (at) movementforademocraticsociety.org
dmoore (at) riseup.net
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Teachers for Social Justice - Saturday, November 10.
Come stop by the AREA Chicago table and pick up our new AREA Chicago #5: How We Learn @ The Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair is like a Science or History Fair, except volunteer educators "present" and share ideas for bringing topics of social justice into the classroom.
The day's schedule also features Education for Liberation-oriented workshops, resource tables, lunch, and an open forum on "Teachers as Activists" (1-2:45).
Saturday, November 10.
11-5PM
Orozco Academy
1940 W. 18th Street
Chicago, IL 60608
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Saturday, November 10 · 1:30 p.m. Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
(The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
and the SNCC History Project present
~ a free public concert ~
The Carter G. Woodson Regional Library
9525 S. Halsted St., Chicago
THE FREEDOM SINGERS LET IT SHINE!
THE MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & WHAT IT MEANS TODAY
This award-winning, five-member vocal group, veterans of the freedom movement in the South in the 1960s and active in struggles for social justice ever since, will be in Chicago to participate in a series of workshops for high school students learning to conduct oral-history interviews in their communities. Music was part of every meeting, protest march, and rally in the 1960s, and the Freedom Singers will share their songs, stories, and insights about the importance of the music to the Movement - then and now.
Please bring with you to the concert any memorabilia you may have of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago - leaflets, buttons, photographs, etc. - especially material relating to the Chicago Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (CAFSNCC), so those items can be archived in the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature at the Woodson Library. The Chicago SNCC History Project is an intergenerational effort to collect oral histories, memorabilia, and family and community archives from the early 1960s.The Project recruits and trains Chicago public high school students to obtain oral-history interviews with community elders, and promotes self-empowerment to change communities and the world.
The Chicago SNCC History Project gratefully acknowledges the generous support of ARIEL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, BLACK UNITED FUND OF ILLINOIS, CROSSROADS FUND, POLK BROS. FOUNDATION and Community Partners & Friends
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Monday, Nov 12 Peace Party at Danny's Tavern
10PM - 2AM
1951 W. Dickens
DJ's: Amy, Jocelyn, Naomi & Tomas
Beneficiary: Your Drinks support: Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace & Justice in the Middle East
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Friday, November 16th, 2007 2007 Government Accountability Conference
Access Living, 115 West Chicago Avenue
Leaders and staff from organizations throughout Chicago will be coming together on Friday, November 16th to spend the day learning about:
-Ways to analyze and work with Chicago's new City Council
-How to use elections to build organizational power
-How to research campaign contributions of an Illinois politician
-How to dissect and impact the Budget of the City of Chicago
Also, attendees will participate in a discussion with Aldermen Munoz, Jackson and Fioretti about potential collaboration opportunities between City Council members and community residents.
For more detailed information on all the panel discussions and workshops please see: http://registration.dgapchicago.org/?page_id=7
If you haven't already done so, please go to www.dgapchicago.org and register, or call 312.698.5024.
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Conference Session
4:00 p.m. Organizers, Leaders & Speakers Networking Reception
(Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.)
Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Reasonable accommodations provided upon request.
Conference Sponsors: DGAP Network, Crossroads Fund, and Access Living
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The Dill Pickle Food Co-op BENEFIT CONCERT & MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
8pm Saturday, November 17th
at AV-aerie
2000 W. Fulton
(formerly Open End)
$15 suggested donation - all ages
With Performances by PIT ER PAT + BOBBY CONN & MONICA BOUBOU + WILLIS P JENKINS
The 125 members of The Dill Pickle Food Co-op are raising funds in order to open a store at 3039 W. Fullerton, across the street from the Logan Square Library. We hope to open the storefront in 2008 with money from members, local loans, and national grants. The money will be used to renovate the space, obtain all necessary permits, and purchase equipment. For more information, join the co-op's free email list at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foodcoop.
For membership info see http://www.dillpicklefoodcoop.org
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December 1 - Paving New Roads: Communities Engaged in Resisting Violence.
This is your opportunity to hear about innovative, creative & grassroots strategies in Chicago to end violence against women & girls!
Groups from around Chicago will be holding hands-on workshops with concrete ideas, tools and strategies to resist violence, including:
Media Justice & How to Deconstruct the Media
Performance as a Means of Activism & Resistance
Engaging Young Men as Allies: Lessons Learned
Using Platica & Storytelling around issues of Violence & Reproductive Justice
Creating Alternative Responses to Violence against Girls & Women of Color in the Sex Trade & Street Economies
Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Anti-violence Work
Violence & the Prison Industrial Complex
Queer Youth Resisting Violence
Educación Popular y Violencia de Género
Participating and presenting groups include: Access Living, AquaMoon, Broadway Youth Center, Casa Segura, Females United for Action, FIRE, Latinas Organizing for Reproductive Equality, the Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team, Take Back the Halls, and the Young Women's Empowerment Project.
The event will take place on Saturday, December 1st, 2007, from 11:30 - 4 pm, at DePaul University SAC - 2320 N. Kenmore
The event is FREE and open to the public, but space is limited, so if you haven't already, RSVP today to pavingnewroads@gmail.com
This event is sponsored by Women & Girls CAN, the Community Accountability Planning Group and DePaul University Program in Women & Gender Studies.
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AREA Chicago announces first WANTS and NEEDS BENEFIT PARTY -
PLEASE Help Us Spread The Word To Your Contacts!
For Immediate Release - Media Contact: Kristen Cox kristengcox@gmail.com
AREA Chicago will host its first annual WANTS and NEEDS Benefit Party on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at Green Lantern Gallery, 1511 N Milwaukee Ave., 2nd Floor. Pease note this is not an ADA accessible venue. 8 pm til late; $10-$20 (sliding scale) before 10 pm. $20 thereafter for Dance Party with DJs Naomi Walker, Kim Soss and Charlie Vinz! Admission includes homemade goods and one free drink.
At 10 pm, the hilarious Micah Maidenberg will emcee a Live "Wants-and-Needs" Auction of Skill and Resource Sharing donated by AREA friends, contributors and advisors. Bids for the Service and Skill Sharing Auction will start as low as $5.
This is a current list of auction services (and their contributors):
Three photoshop/illustrator tutorial workshops (Dave Pabellion); volleyball coaching (Dave Pabellion); Tres Leches Cake plus tea service (Vanessa Roanhorse); Singing Telegram with banjo accompaniment (Charlie Vinz); refurbished Pentium 3 computer (Dave Marques); Blog creatiion plus fancy graphics header (Dave Marques); Oral history collection plus knitting basics and lunch (Cassee Fennell); Self-Guided Tour from Location of Choice to Parking Lot of Choice plus map and instructions (Ryan Giffis); Bicycle Tune-Up and Mechanic Lesson plus special bike beer (Sarah Miller); Hand-sewn Pillow with the embroidered design of your dreams (Rachel Wallis); Audiotape and editing education services (Aaron Sarver); Edition of Hand Set, Letterpress printed event Posters (Dan Wang): Qi Gong Sessions (Ryan Hollon); Typographic Design and Hand Printing on choice "correspondence stock" (Dakota Brown); Editing and Translating services (Leticia Cortez); Swimming lessons courtesy of YMCA membership (Kristen Cox); Starter kit for the Web 2.0 participatory corporate internet (Daniel Tucker); Theraputic body work session (Kate Sheehy); Video documentation, editing and 3 copies of event plus interviews of your choice (Laura Klein); Historical tour of Chicago's Haymarket monuments (Nicolas Lampert).
AREA Chicago is a publication and event series dedicated to networking and researching local art, education and activist work. In its first two years, AREA Chicago has published five magazine issues and organized 40 events. AREA Chicago is dedicated to gathering and sharing information, history and analysis about local social and cultural movements. Through this very practice, it seeks to create an independent network for organizations and individuals committed to radical social transformation within the city.
Proceeds from AREA's WANTS and NEEDS Party will benefit AREA's sixth issue. This issue will document the local economic justice issues and create a "How to easily understand the last 30 years of public policy toolkit for local activists". This issue will be published in Spring 2008.
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#16 Late October 2007 Weekend Action Alert
by AREA | Published Jan. 11, 2008~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~permalink / comments
AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter
Late October 2007 Weekend Action Alert
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Protests/March/Rally this Weekend!
Hey folks, do not forget to mark your calendars for the December 8 AREA Chicago fundraiser dance party and auction @ Green Lantern Gallery in Wicker Park.
Summary (Details Below)
1) Sat: Anti-War March from Union Park to Federal Plaza
2) Sat: Support Harassed Workers @ Food for Less Stores
3) Mon: Important Protest Against CTA - Get CTA back on Track for everyone!
4) Tues: Protest CIA Director Visiting Chicago
5) Capitalism Gives Me the Creeps Halloween Parade
6) Tues-Sun: Imokolee Tomato Workers Protest Chicagoland Burgerkings
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Event Details
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Saturday Oct 27
1:30 pm, Union Park
ALL OUT!! CHICAGO / MIDWEST REGIONAL ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION
March to Federal Plaza for 4 pm rally
Info/posters/flyers/volunteers: www.oct27chicago.org
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Saturday Oct 27
Come out to support harassed workers at the Chicagoland area Food for Less Stores!
Background:
Food for Less grocery stores-a small national chain located in the SW area of the U.S. and IL. Most of the other stores are unionized-but the IL locations are not. The stores are asking workers for their documentation status after they've already been working there-potential No Match situation. This is unnecessary harassment. 1 worker at a store has already been disciplined for circulating a petition against these actions by management (telling him to leave and not come to work unless they call him to come back). There are 3 Food for Less locations in the Chicagoland area. The store is a community institution located in Latino communities. So the goal is to bring out community members to show support for the workers.
Logistics:
Arrive at Chicago Interfaith (1020 W. Bryn Mawr) at 2pm. If you have a car, please bring it to drive down.
Or drive straight to the Workers Collaborative to meet us by 3pm sharp. There will be a detailed briefing at 3pm. Workers Collaborative location: 3047 W. Cermak
Confirm your participation ASAP at 773-771-6057
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Monday October 29
Union Workers & the Riding Public Rally for Transit
We demand our right to work with dignity!
Public transportation for all!
Rally in Federal Plaza
219 S Dearborn
Monday, Oct 29th, 11am
Stop the Service Cuts!
Stop the Fare Hikes, Pass Cuts, and Layoffs!
Open the Books!
Not on our Backs!
On October 29, Congressman Dan Lipinski and Mayor Daley will meet to plan the 2016 Olympics while the Chicago regional transit and paratransit systems collapses in 2007. We will rally in response to this meeting to say that GETTING PEOPLE TO WORK SAFELY, ON TIME & AFFORDABLY is more urgent than the Olympics.
Rally Cosponsors: Rider Driver Alliance, Sustainable Chicago 2016, Chicago Jobs With Justice, Citizens Taking Action, Committee For A Better Chicago, Concerned Citizens of Paratransit, Independent Movement of Paratransit Riders for Unity Vehicles, & Equality (IMPRUVE), Little Village Environmental Justice Organization.
Contact: 773-762-6991, publictransit@lvejo.org Paratransit: 773-416-7366, 773-779-1856
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Tuesday, October 30
5-7 pm, Hotel Intercontinental, 505 N Michigan
CIA DIRECTOR MICHAEL HAYDEN
Protests begin 1 hour before scheduled 6 pm speech
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Wednesday Octobert 31
4 pm, Wicker Park
CAPITALISM GIVES ME THE CREEPS:
ANARCHIST HALLOWEEN PARADE
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Actions in Solidarity with Imokolee Tomato Workers - Protest Chicagoland Burgerkings
See http://www.sfalliance.org/BKfall07list.html for background information
Berwyn: Tuesday, October 30th, 12 noon to 1 p.m. Burger
King at 2147 Oak Park. This is the corner of Cermak and Oak Park in Berwyn,
IL.
Evanston: Thursday, Nov. 1st, 5:00 p.m., Assemble at
the "Rock" - a central location on the Northwestern Campus, near the "arch"
where Sheridan meets Chicago. March to the Burger King at 1740 Orrington
Avenue (Clark and Orrington), Evanston. 5:30 p.m. rally at Burger King.
Berwyn: Saturday, November 3rd, 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Burger King at 6701 Roosevelt Road. This is the corner of Roosevelt and
Wesley in Berwyn, IL.
CHICAGO: Sunday, November 4th, 12.00 at 2100 S. Kedzie (Kedzie Pinkline stop) and
march to 2700 S. Kedzie. -
#15 October 17-November 11, 2007
by AREA | Published Jan. 11, 2008AREA's Another Chicago Newsletterpermalink / comments
Tuesday, October 16 2007
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Early Warning: AREA Chicago is having our first fundraiser party on December 8 @ the Green Lantern Gallery. Check our emails for more updates.
Summary:
1) 10.17 Blocks Together Fundraiser @ Irish Eyes
2) 10.20 Public Square's Festival of Democracy @ Experimental Station
3) 10.20 Chicago Archives Fair @ Newberry Library
4) 10.21 Ferd Egan Memorial (Address Change!) @ Batey Urbano
5) 10.23 Chicago's first professional "diverse-abilities" dance company
6) 10.27-11.11 Chicago Humanities Festival "Climate of Concern"
7) 10.31 Capitalism Gives Me the Creeps Halloween Parade in Wicker Park
8) 11.5 Michael Albert on Participatory Economics @ the Hull House
9) 11.6 Public Forum: RRR: Reform, Revolution and Resistance @ SAIC
10) 11.10 Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair in Pilsen
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Event Details
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Dear Friends,
As many of you know, BT's last fundraiser at T's got seriously rained out. So we're doing it again this time at:
Irish Eyes
2519 N. Lincoln (Lincoln + Altgeld)
Wednesday, October17th
7:00p
BT staff will be making and serving your drinks all night long, all tips earned will go to support BT. We will also be asking a suggested donation of $5 at the door, holding a raffle and selling t-shirts!
We have so many reasons for you to come:
1. Jennifer and Martine will be there!
2. It's Caro and Yusufu's birthday!
3. We're trying to raise $15,000 before we close our books at the end of the year - every dollar helps!
If you have questions or plan on attending contact Amita at 773.276.2194 or alonial@blockstogether.org!
With love,
Carolina, Irene, Amita and Charity
PS: Parking will probably be difficult. Irish Eyes is located by the Fullerton Stop (Brown, Purple and Red Lines.)
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Festival of Democracy:
Unleashing Radical Imagination
Saturday, October 20, 2007
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Experimental Station
6100 South Blackstone Avenue
Join us for this gathering of activists, scholars, artists, and all those who are interested to collectively imagine and grapple with issues of human rights, political power, and struggles for social justice. Speakers include Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), Laura Flanders (Air America), Bill Fletcher (Center for Labor Renewal), Bernadine Dohrn (Northwestern University), and Salim Muwakkil (In These Times).
This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Dinner will be provided. You can make reservations online, via e-mail, or by calling 312.422.5580. http://www.thepublicsquare.org
Schedule here:
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Chicago Archives Fair @ Newberry Library
In order to celebrate American Archives Month, the Chicago Area Archivists (CAA) and the Chicago Metro History Education Center (CMHEC) are teaming up to sponsor the Chicago Archives Fair, an exciting event designed to build awareness and publicize the wealth of archival collections available for research in the Chicago metropolitan area. The event will feature representatives and resources from area repositories, in addition to information sessions designed to "demystify" archival research, and to provide area archivists with tips on how to assist Chicago History Fair students in their repositories.
When: Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Where: Newberry Library, 60 West Walton, Chicago, IL 60610.
Audience: Educators, Archivists, Students of all ages, Scholars, Genealogists, etc.
Free and Open to the Public!
Contact: Laura Carrol (773) 771-9172, laura_carroll99@yahoo.com OR Morgen MacIntosh Hodgetts (773) 325-7896, mmacinto@depaul.edu if you have any questions.
About Chicago Area Archivists:
Since 1982, the Chicago Area Archivists has worked to provide opportunities for local archivists, historians, librarians and others in the Chicago metro area to meet together for discussion, social interaction, and education. Our 175+ members include archivists, librarians, and records managers in academic, corporate, governmental, institutional, library, and museum settings.
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(Please note address correction below - updated since original message.)
Memorial for Ferd Eggan
October 21, 2007
2 - 5 p.m.
Café Teatro Batey Urbano
2620 W. Division Street, Chicago
Ferd was a writer, activist, teacher, and a tireless advocate for people with HIV/AIDS. A veteran of the "new left," civil rights, gay liberation, and student movements of the 1960s-70s, he was a founder of ACT UP/Chicago and longtime supporter of Puerto Rican independence. From 1979 to 1990, he worked at the Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in Chicago. Ferd was a brilliant thinker and rhetorician whose creative output included experimental films, audio CDs, and prolific writing. He was, and remains, the Cranky P.W.A.
Join us as we celebrate Ferd's life, work, and writing, share memories, watch videos, and listen to some of his favorite music.
For more information contact:
(773) 227-7676 or
tricia@crossroadsfund.org
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On Tuesday, October 23rd we invite you to join us at DRC's Project
Embrace's* first event, Dance>Detour.
The Disability Resource Center proudly introduces, Dance>Detour to
campus. Dance>Detour is Chicago's first professional
"diverse-abilities" dance company comprised of multi-talented artists
(with and without disabilities). The focus of their work is solely
dedicated to the art of physically integrated dance and collaborations
that include dancers of all abilities who explore movement
possibilities together as EQUALS.
http://www.dancedetour.org/
Please come join us!
Tuesday, OCTOBER 23, 6:30pm
828 S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago, IL 60612
Student Center West - Room C
Free Entry
Performance featuring, Ms. Wheelchair America, 2008, Alana Yvonne
Wallace, director of Dance>Detour, who will be discussing her passion
for accessibility and universally designed environments.
Video Description, Interpreter Service, and Captioning will be provided.
Please contact Annie Hopkins at amhopkin@uic.edu with any questions.
*ProjectEmbrace, presented by the Disability Resource Center, is an
ongoing effort to bring disability centered cultural events to the UIC
campus. The mission of ProjectEmbrace is to expose the University
body and surrounding community to disability and to celebrate
disability.
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http://www.chfestival.org
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This Halloween, join the 3rd annual-ish Capitalism Gives Me The Creeps! Anarchist Halloween Parade. Dress as your favorite capitalist ghoul! (Greedy businesspeople, money-grubbing politicians, exaggerated pop-culture icons, destructive developers, murderous warmongers, etc...) Let's remind people how scary capitalism can be. Bring treats! Bring music! Bring props: floats, bikes instruments, puppets, signs/banners, and whatever else you can come up with! Bring your friends! We'll gather in Wicker Park (the actual park) at 4:00pm and step off at 5:00pm.
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Funding the Revolution?
Participatory Economics and Funding Activist Organizing in Chicago
A discussion with Z-Mag's Michael Albert (Author of Par-Econ: Life After Capitalism)
Monday, November 5 2007
6pm-8pm
at Jane Addams Hull House Museum's Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted St. (On the campus of UIC)
Co-Sponsored by 49th St Underground, AREA Chicago, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, and CAPES (Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society).
About the Speaker:
Michael Albert (born April 8, 1947) is a longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist[1] and favors democratic participatory planning as an alternative. Please check out background on Parecon here http://www.zmag.org/parecon/indexnew.htm
About Funding Issues:
In recent months Chicago has seen many critical community gatherings and discussions focusing on the challenge of funding important and critical organizing in a climate of privatization, neoliberalism and the rise of the so called "non-profit industrial complex." The Hull House museum hosted a whole workshop series with Incite! Women of Color Against Violence - the authors of "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded" and this summer AREA Chicago and Fire This Time Fund held a large discussion "How We Fund" to discuss different alternative funding strategies being employed throughout the city.
At this event, the organizers would like to attempt to connect the critiques and challenges around resource sharing and funding critical organizing in a capitalist society with one of the most potent proposals for en economic system outside of capitialism. This event should be relevant to students of economics and non-profit management, artists and activists and concerned curious people alike! Come on out and join the discussion.
This event is part of AREA Chicago's irregular "Infrastructure" lecture series about self-organized infrastructure, strengthening critical networks and activist organizational structure. www.AREAchicago.org
Contact Mitchell Szczepanczyk, mitchell@chicagomediaaction.org for more details.
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The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance"
The problematic forms of "anticapitalism" today
Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 7-9PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive main auditorium
"[After the 1960s, the] underlying despair with regard to the real efficacy of political will, of political agency [. . .] in a historical situation of heightened helplessness [. . .] became a self-constitution as outsider, as other [. . .] focused on the bureaucratic stasis of the [Fordist/late 20th Century] world: it echoed the destruction of that world by the dynamics of capital [with the neo-liberal turn after 1973, and especially after 1989].
The idea of a fundamental transformation became bracketed and, instead, was replaced by the more ambiguous notion of 'resistance.' The notion of resistance, however, says little about the nature of that which is being resisted or of the politics of the resistance involved - that is, the character of determinate forms of critique, opposition, rebellion, and 'revolution.' The notion of 'resistance' frequently expresses a deeply dualistic worldview that tends to reify both the system of domination and the idea of agency.
'Resistance' is rarely based on a reflexive analysis of possibilities for fundamental change that are both generated and suppressed by [the] dynamic heteronomous order [of capital]. ['Resistance'] is an undialectical category that does not grasp its own conditions of possibility; that is, it fails to grasp the dynamic historical context of which it is a part."
- Moishe Postone, "History and Helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism" (2006)
A moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A on problems of strategies and tactics on the Left today. Panelists: Michael Albert (Z Magazine), Chris Cutrone (Platypus), Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School of New York University), Brian Holmes (Continental Drift and Universite Tangente), and Marisa Holmes (new Students for a Democratic Society).
http://home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/platypus_resistance110607.html
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Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair
Saturday Nov. 10 11am-5pm
Orozco School 1940 W. 18th Street
www.teachersforjustice.org
teachersforjustice@hotmail.com
1pm-2:45pm Forum "Teachers As Activists"
Come by and pick up a copy of AREA's Issue #5: "How We Learn" -
#14 October 4-25, 2007
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AREA's Another Chicago Newsletter
Saturday, Sept 29 2007
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Hello!
Thanks to everyone who came out to AREA Chicago's "How We Learn' Lecture/Workshop series this summer. For those of you who have just recently joined out mailing li