Hello Chicagoans
We hope you are enjoying the impeachment trial and staying warm. Below are some great events that you should check-out next month. Before this month is over, however, there is one important protest/rally which you are all encouraged to go to: Join City-Wide Education Advocates this Wednesday, January 28th at 3:30pm in front of the Chicago Board of Education, 125 South Clark, to protest the Board's vote to close and privatize more Chicago Public Schools (This is important even if you dont have any direct connection to CPS). For more information, AREA has published extensively on this topic: http://areachicago.org/p/tags/CPS/
And one more thing......The space that has been AREA's office for nearly one year now - 2129 N. Rockwell is now the Orientation Center
We share it with Chicago Underground Library, InCUBATE, and maybe... you? If you have an organization in need of regular meeting space, or are a freelancer looking for cheap shared work space, contact us at orientationcenter@gmail.com or visit www.orientationcenter.wordpress.com.
Happy Tuesday!
SUMMARY of Feb 09 Events throughout Chicago:
01) 1/31 Sat - Wars Real Impact: Testimony from veterans, workers, military families, and students
02) 1/31 Sat - Free Screening of "Slingshot Hip-Hop" @ Gage Park High School
03) 1/31 Sat - Tamms Year 10 City Wide Meeting @ The People's Church
04) 2/1 Sun - Readings from AREA Chicago #7 on the legacy of 1968 @ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
05) 2/1 Sun - Justseeds Prison Poster Project with Tamms Year Ten @ Mess Hall
06) 2/3 Tue - "Rethinking Soup" food and discussion every single tuesday @ Hull House Museum!
07) 2/3 Tue - Republic Windows Workers Speak at Hull House Museum
08) 2/4 Wed - Opening of "Paper Trail" Exhibit about Chicago's Rainbow Coalition @ Gallery 400
09) 2/5 Thu - Opening of "Congo/Women" Exhibit @ Columbia College
10) 2/8 Sun - Sunday Soup with Dan S. Wang @ 2129 N Rockwell
11) 2/9 Mon - Journal of Ordinary Thought release party @ Mabel Manning Branch Library
12) 2/9 Mon - "Peace Party" to benefit South West Youth Collaborative @ Danny's Tavern
13) 2/10 Tue - Screening of "Sex Positive" @ Hull House Museum
14) 2/11 Wed - "Whiff of Anarchy" Movement Workshop with Darrell Jones @ Hull-House Museum
15) 2/13 Fri - Grand Opening of "Rebuilding Exchange" ecological construction center @ 3335 W 47th St.
16) 2/13 Fri - Conversation with documentary photographer Nina Berman @ Roosevelt
17) 2/13-14-15 - A City Wide Screening/Discussion Tour of "San Francisco 8: The Legacy of Torture"
18) 2/14 Sat - "Torture Breaks My Heart" with Anne E Moore and the Unlympic Games @ No Coast Bookstore
19) 2/15 Sun - Mess Hall Celebrates FIVE Years
20) 2/19 Thu - "Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Power and a World Without Rape" with Jaclyn Friedman @ UIC
21) 2/21 Sat - "Gift Art" Exhibition for Howard Brown Health Center @ Mess Hall
22) 2/24 Tue - Polyamory Documentary Screening @ Hull House Museum
23) "Finding Our Roots" Anarchist Conference #3 Call For Proposals on Theme of "Space"
24) Free Store Chicago looking for new venues and collaborators
DETAILS
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WARS REAL IMPACT: OUR VOICES
Testimony from veterans, workers, military families, and students
When: 1:00 p.m. Saturday Jan 31
Where: Teamster City Auditorium, 300 S. Ashland (at Van Buren)
Help Send a Vital Message to the New Administration: End the War!
1. Plan to attend the hearing, bring family, friends, coworkers
2. Call your Congressman and Sen. Durbin (202-224-2152) today and urge them to attend! See below list.
3. Pass this along to people you know. Pass out the attached flier.
The Workers' Rights Board of community leaders, clergy & educators will hear first-hand testimony about the devastating results of the Iraq War on the front lines and at home. We will be giving our elected representatives specific demands.
For more info, 312-738-6161 or www.warsrealimpact.org
Organized by: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Chicago Jobs With Justice, American Friends Service Committee, Chicago Labor for Peace, Prosperity & Justice, Committee for New Priorities, US Labor Against the War
202-225-5880 for more information
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Free Screening of "Slingshot Hip-Hop"
Saturday, January 31, 2009
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Gage Park High School (auditorium)
5600 S. Rockwell st.
This documentary is real. It voices the struggles of young Palestinians through a global hip-hop movement of resistance and solidarity. Just like struggles of inner-city youth in Chicago are connected to communities across the country, this film shows how "the hood" is a global experience
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Tamms Year Ten Campaign Wide Meeting
Tamms Year Ten Campaign Wide Meeting
Saturday, January 31, 2009, 10am to 12:30pm
Progressive Community Center at The People's Church
56 E. 48th St., Chicago IL 60615
(plenty of parking, near 90/94 and Redline)We will provide an update on the campaign and review/create our goals. Together, in a highly structured meeting, we will decide what to do in or with the new legislative session. Come prepared to share your resources and talents--we need them. Be on time, because this is serious, and we have a lot to do!
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Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
Readings and Discussion of AREA #7 with Magazine Contributors
AREA #7: 1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
http://areachicago.org/p/issues/7/ (all publication content is free online)
@ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 North Clark Street
This event is free of charge
Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural movements. Featuring AREA #7 contributors: Ashley Weger, Michael Staudenmaier, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Samuel Barnett, Rebecca Zorach, Frank Edwards, and Daniel Tucker
Part of:
LINKS HALL PRESENTS....
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance, & Video Festival
Curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin,
More Info http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml
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Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
Readings and Discussion of AREA #7 with Magazine Contributors
AREA #7: 1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
http://areachicago.org/p/issues/7/ (all publication content is free online)
@ Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 North Clark Street
This event is free of charge
Readings and discussion with writers in celebration of the latest magazine release of AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting, and networking local social, political, and cultural movements. Featuring AREA #7 contributors: Ashley Weger, Michael Staudenmaier, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Samuel Barnett, Rebecca Zorach, Frank Edwards, and Daniel Tucker
Part of:
LINKS HALL PRESENTS....
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance, & Video Festival
Curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin,
More Info http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml
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Prison Poster Opening on behalf of Tamms Year Ten
Prison Poster Opening on behalf of Tamms Year Ten
by the Just Seeds Collective
Sunday, February 1, 2009, 7pm to 9pm
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Ave, Chicago IL 60626
('Morse' stop on the Redline )
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Re-Thinking Soup @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
Join us for free, delicious soup and community conversation. 2/3: Hear from farmer Linda Cockburn, who will discuss her love of heirloom vegetables. Along with her husband Russ, Linda has operated Sunny Farm since 1997, where they grow a majority of their own food and educate the public.
Rethinking Soup happens every Tuesday at the same time and place! Call 312.413.5353 for more information.
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Victorious Republic Windows Workers Speak at UIC
Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S. Halsted
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009, 6-8pm
Reception to follow.
Chicago Jobs with Justice is proud to join the UIC Graduate Employees Organization in sponsoring this forum, telling the story of the successful occupation at Republic Windows and Doors, and the coalition support that helped win a settlement and led to a plan to reopen the plant. Other coalition sponsors include:UE, SEIU local 73, UIC Center for Urban Economic Development, UIUC Chicago Labor Education Program, Jane Addams Hull House Museum.
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Paper Trail (an archive of Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition)
February 3 - March 7, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 5-8pm
@ Gallery 400/UIC - 400 S Peoria
Paper Trail is an exhibition of historical and contemporary ephemeral material originally produced by disparate communities using remarkably similar forms of rhetoric and graphic styles to visually articulate their collective revolutionary agendas and concerns.
The historical material was created, produced, and distributed in the late 1960s by Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition—an alliance between The Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. This material is presented "in conversation" with what can be considered its contemporary counterpart—visual reproductions of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, language of the newly formed Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and publications from other contemporary initiatives in Chicago and beyond that re-engage with the principal of grassroots political organizing and cross-cultural solidarity. The movements share a common idea that despite our dire collective circumstance a spirit of hope and optimism results and acts as a unifying, mobilizing force.
This exhibition is organized by curators Nancy Zastudil and Julia Hamilton, with the support and participation of Kathleen Cleaver, Michael James, Bill Jennings, Cha Cha Jimenez, Jaqueline Lazu, and countless others.
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/01_exhibit-upcoming.htm
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Congo/Women
Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo
Photographs by: Lynsey Addario, Marcus Bleasdale, Ron Haviv, James Nachtwey
February 5 -14
Columbia College Chicago 1006 S. Michigan Avenue
Hours: Tues-Sat, 12pm-6pm *Reception February 5, 5pm-7pm
Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo is an international photography exhibition and educational campaign that raises awareness of the widespread sexual violence facing women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The exhibition features powerful life-size photographs that convey the strength and courage of Congolese women. Accompanying essays contextualize the impact of the crisis from a range of perspectives. An advocacy partnership with the Enough Project's Raise Hope for Congo campaign provides tools to demand action and involvement from the global citizenry.
For a touring schedule and more information:
congowomen.org | artworksprojects.org | colum.edu/institutewomengender
Tel: 312-369-8829
Produced by: Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, and Art Works Projects. Major funding by:UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund and Humanity United.
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Please join us for the next Sunday Soup Brunch on February 8th (not the first Sunday of the month as usual) with Dan S. Wang. See you soon, soup fans!
Dan S. Wang is an artist and writer who works alone and with groups. In recent years he has exhibited and/or lectured in Portland, San Francisco, Nanjing, Chicago, Baltimore, and Salzburg, Austria. He is the author of the widely disseminated pamphlet Downtime at the Experimental Station. Other writings have appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Art Journal, Art AsiaPacific, WhiteWalls, and many places on-line. He helped to co-found the experimental cultural space Mess Hall, and was educated at Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Sunday, Jan 8
12:00-2:00 PM
at InCUBATE
2129 N. Rockwell St.
12-1 PM: Sunday Soup Brunch is served, made by InCUBATE & Guest Chefs
1-2 PM: Presentation by Dan Wang
All Soup events are open to the public.
http://www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup
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Monday, February 9
Release Reading for the Journal of Ordinary Thought/Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Mabel Manning Branch Library (6 S Hoyne), 5:30-7pm
Come hear Chicago adults read stories they wrote about their own lives and neighborhoods. Plus: snacks and a free copy of the Journal of Ordinary Thought, featuring maps from a People's Atlas of Chicago.
Questions? Contact Mairead at mcase@jot.org.
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Peace Party at Danny's
Monday, February 9, 9pm - 2am
No Cover
Featuring funk/soul by DJs Jeff Parker, Josh Abrams, Naomi Walker, & Joclyn Brown
Drink proceeds to benefit youth media (film, audio, photo, graphics, zine) programs at Southwest Youth Collaborative
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February 10, 7pm
SEX POSITIVE +++ Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
A free documentary film series for people who like sex. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7pm. Snacks and conversation following the film. Contact Ljunkin@uic.edu for details. hullhousemuseum.org
2/10: “Sex Positive” (2008) Starting in the 1970s, unflinchingly tracks the progress of gay activist Richard Berkowitz as he went from cocky S&M hustler, to angry AIDS activist, to broken but proud harbinger of a message too volatile, scary and true to be heard.
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February 11, 12-1:30 pm
Whiff of Anarchy Movement Workshop with Darrell Jones @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum present a free movement workshops as part of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s “Arts and Democracy Series.” Investigating the spark of riot as an energetic improvisation of movement and chaos as a bodily sensation, Darrell Jones’s movement workshop will physically tap into the energy of riot from a multitude of vantage points. Exercises such as reading the crowd, weight sharing/bearing, physical thresholds, and collisions/consensus through movement, will be used as a way to trigger collective and individual chaos and investigate the spark of riot as an energetic improvisation of moment. Reservations recommended: call 312.413.5353.
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Grand Opening!
The mission of the ReBuilding Exchange is to divert building materials from the waste stream and make them accessible to the public for reuse, protecting community health, creating jobs and saving resources. We do this through the promotion of sustainable deconstruction practices, by making used build materials available for purchase at low costs, by providing educational resources and by creating programming that builds community and rebuilds Chicago's neighborhoods.
Save the Date! February 13, 2009
The ReBuilding Exchange celebrates its grand opening on Friday, February 13th! Join us for a first glimpse at our deconstructed building inventory, a live and silent auction, live music, food and drinks!
Friday, February 13th, 6-10pm
3335 West 47th Street, in Chicago
Food, drinks, live music, and a live and silent auction
Tickets must be purchased in advance ($25 suggested donation)
more info @ http://www.delta-institute.org/rebuildingexchange/
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Date: Friday, February 13th at 12:00 Noon
Event Title/Host: A Conversation with Documentary Photographer Nina Berman
Co-Sponsors: Gage Gallery; Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation at Roosevelt University; and The Public Square
Location: Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University 18 S. Michigan, Chicago
Details/Contact: Free. Open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312.422.5580 or by sending an email to events@prairie.org.
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San Francisco 8---Chicago Schedule for February 13-15
Date: Friday, February 13th at 12:00 Noon
Event Title/Host: A Conversation with Documentary Photographer Nina Berman
Co-Sponsors: Gage Gallery; Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation at Roosevelt University; and The Public Square
Location: Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University 18 S. Michigan, Chicago
Details/Contact: Free. Open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312.422.5580 or by sending an email to events@prairie.org.
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San Francisco 8---Chicago Schedule for February 13-15
A weekend of screenings & discussions of the "Legacy of Torture: The War against the Black Liberation Movement" with speakers from the San Francisco 8.
The San Francisco 8 (SF8) is a group of Black men who dedicated themselves to working for the protection and improvement of their community. Most of them were members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the 60s and 70s. In January 2007 they were framed and wrongfully charged with a conspiracy alleged to have existed between 1968 and 1973, and the killing of a police officer that occurred in 1971. In 2003 the case was re-opened and the men were subpoenaed to a series of grand juries. In 2005 they asserted their Constitutional right to refuse to testify and were jailed for civil contempt. Upon their release, they founded the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR) to publicize the human rights abuses perpetrated by government agents.
Friday February 13
* 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S. Halsted (behind the museum)
* 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. DePaul University, Student Center/main building, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave.
Saturday February 14
* 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Center for Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood Blvd., sponsored by Black People Against Police Torture, co-sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists,
with Cliff Kelley as moderator
* 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Que Ondée Sola and Radio Batey interviews
* 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Batey Urbano, 2620 W. Division, sponsored by National Boricua Human Rights Network and Tamms Year Ten: 6:00 to 7:00 SF8 presentation, to be introduced by one brief speaker from each of the two sponsors; 7:00 to 9:00 Crime Against Humanity play followed by Q&A to include SF8 speakers.
Sunday February 15
* 12:00 noon Mess Hall, 6932 N. Glenwood, brunch
* 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 W. 95th St.
* 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S. Halsted (behind the museum)
* 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. DePaul University, Student Center/main building, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave.
Saturday February 14
* 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Center for Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood Blvd., sponsored by Black People Against Police Torture, co-sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists,
with Cliff Kelley as moderator
* 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Que Ondée Sola and Radio Batey interviews
* 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Batey Urbano, 2620 W. Division, sponsored by National Boricua Human Rights Network and Tamms Year Ten: 6:00 to 7:00 SF8 presentation, to be introduced by one brief speaker from each of the two sponsors; 7:00 to 9:00 Crime Against Humanity play followed by Q&A to include SF8 speakers.
Sunday February 15
* 12:00 noon Mess Hall, 6932 N. Glenwood, brunch
* 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 W. 95th St.
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The Chicago Unlympic Games: Emotional Games
The Chicago Unlympic Games: Emotional Games
Saturday, February 14, 7pm
No Coast, 1500 W 17th Street
InCUBATE and person-in-residence Anne Elizabeth Moore, on behalf of the Unlympic Organizing Committee, are pleased to announce a series of competitive events called the Unlympics that will engage Chicago residents in active dialogue about the 2016 Olympic bid. This special event "Torture Breaks My Heart" is sponsored by Tamms Year Ten and will feature games and motivational speeches by members of Tamms Year Ten and the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. Competitors and spectators will be offered the opportunity to send Valentines to prisoners and legislators.
Sunday Feb 15th 7pm
Your favorite experimental cultural center MESS HALL is having its 5th Anniversary party http://messhall.org/
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Ave, Chicago IL 60626
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Date: Thursday, February 19th at 12:00 Noon
Event Title/Host: Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Power and a World Without Rape with Jaclyn Friedman
Co-sponsors: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, The Public Square, and UIC Gender and Women Studies Department
Location: Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 South Halsted, Chicago
Details/Contact: Free. Open to the public. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 312.422.5580. or by sending an email to events@prairie.org.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
3:00p-5:00p
"Connections: Give Art" Opening Reception
Jump-start Art presents
CONNECTIONS: Gifting Art, an exhibit of art donated by the artists to be gifted to recipients from the Howard Area Community Center.
Please join us at a reception , Sunday March 22, 3-5pm.
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Ave, Chicago IL 60626
('Morse' stop on the Redline )Jump-start Art is a not for profit organization that believes in the power of art. JSA facilitates the gifting of art from artists to individuals, who have not been able to own original art.
By working through established community centers, JSA has gifted over 200 works of art during a three year period.We have placed art in the homes of the residents of The Holland Apartments and the Helmut Jahn designed SRO through Mercy- Lakefront Housing, gifted battered women and children through W.I.N.G.S. and Maine Township Family Services and provided art work to families at the Northwestern Settlement House and Casa Centrale.
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February 24, 7pm
SEX POSITIVE +++ Film Series @ Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S Halsted
A free documentary film series for people who like sex. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7pm. Snacks and conversation following the film. Contact Ljunkin@uic.edu for details. hullhousemuseum.org
2/24: “When Two Won’t Do” (2002) Made by a polyamorous filmmaker, this film explores the alternatives — illicit affairs, swinging and polyamory — to a traditional monogamous relationship.
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3rd Annual Finding Our Roots
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
April 24-26 2009, Chicago
The theme of this year’s conference is SPACE.
Why and how is space important to anarchists, and so often central to our struggles? What do we mean when we talk about “anarchist space”? What different spaces have anarchists created and struggled to keep and maintain; how have these spaces functioned and thrived, or failed to do so? What kinds of anarchist spaces exist currently, and how are they serving anarchist community as well as contributing to larger struggles for liberation and against capitalism? Examples could includeinfoshops, multiuse spaces, housing collectives, squats, farms, gardens, parks, free schools, workers’ collectives, or any other space dedicated to radical purpose and used by anarchists as a focal point or staging ground of struggle.
How are anarchists involved in struggles around space, both within and beyond our community? What kinds of spaces exist (or attempt to) within larger radical spaces: Why, for instance, are queer space, women’s space, or space by and for people of color important; how do these and other marginalized/oppressed groups use space as part of their struggles and organizing?
How does space operate within the social landscape and the machinations of capitalism? How can anarchists support and join poor and disenfranchised peoples’ struggles around space, such as fights against gentrification and displacement?
Potential workshop topics include but are not limited to: Gentrification and anti-gentrification struggles, squatting, community, Europe’s autonomous radical communities and their role in popular uprisings (ie, the recent events in Greece), self-sustainability in urban or rural environments, decolonization and resisting the police state, the relationship of anarchists to anti-imperialist/nationalist struggles for autonomy, Queer space, safe space, space as a human right, the use of autonomous spaces by oppressed groups, “spiritual space” - anarchism and non-hierarchical spirituality, the history and practice of anarchist spaces, problems of unity vs. fragmentation within anarchist space,
collective living, workers’ collectives and non-hierarchical workplaces, reclaiming the commons, democratizing/infiltrating media space, the “infoshop movement,” reclaiming corporate and governmental spaces, “anarchist space” and its intersection with other spaces of resistance.
Proposals should be NO MORE THAN ONE PAGE in length and should include:
Proposal deadline: March 15
Submit proposals to: findingourroots@riseup.net
1.Workshop title
2. Your name and contact info (and those of workshop presenter(s) if this isn't you – though please make sure you have confirmed with all presenters BEFORE you volunteer them)
3.Detailed workshop description, including an explanation of how your workshop fits into the conference theme
4. Questions to be posed/answered in the workshop
5. Main workshop goals
6. Workshop format (Will it be an open discussion? Panel/roundtable? Lecture followed by Q&A?)
7. BRIEF reading list [optional]
8. Any special materials or equipment (ex: audiovisual) you will need
Workshops are one hour and fifteen minutes (75 minutes) long. If you feel you need more time for your workshop, please explain why, and we will consider allotting a longer slot.
schedules of past conferences are here http://mayfirst.wordpress.com/
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The FreeStore is looking for locations to hold Free Stores
details here http://www.freestorechicago.org/
