Thursday 3.29 AREA discussion in your calendars and check out all
these great events going on over the next several weeks in Chicago!
Another Chicago #5 March 23-April 29
Summary:
03.23-25 LINKSHALL Dance/Discussion about Dance/Ecology/Global Warming
with AREA folks
3.23-25 Kuumba Lynx Spring Production
03.24 Dan S. Wang and Floyd Atkins Discuss the South Side Art
03.24 Leftist Lounge Presents Intl Womens Day Party: Venus
03.26 Free Screening: Dirty Pretty Things @ Hull House Museum
03.29 AREA Infrastructure Series: "How We Schedule" with local
all-city calendar keepers
03.29-04.03 1st Annual Experimental Station and Material Exchange
Put-Putt Competition
03.31 "No Child Left Behind Bars" Public Forum
04.03 Chicago Planning Meeting about Chicagoans going to US Social Forum
04.04 Boeing Protest Against War
04.05 Anarchist Art Historian to Discuss Canadian Magazine History
(Sponsored by AREA)
04.07 Manning Marable Lecture on Social Movements
04.9-11 Raise a Queer Ruckus at the American Educational Research
Assoc Conference
04.13-14 Imokolee Tomato Workers Need Your Presence at McDonald's Actions
04.14-15 + Latin American Solidarity Conference IV in Chicago April 14-15
04.19 VersionFest Begins and Lasts for 3 weeks
04.26 Empowered Fe Fes Screening about Young Women and Disabilities
04.27-29 Finding Our Roots Anarchist Conference + Film Festival
+ Living Kitchen: New Urban Food Workshops with Nance Klehm
+ Blocks Together is Hiring a Community Organizer in W. Humboldt Park
+ 2nd Annual CityWide Day of Action Against Street Harassment
+ Do you know members of Chicago New Left 60s/70s groups? Help uncover
some history!
+ Pedagogical Factory at Hyde Park Art Center this Summer: Call for
Collaborators!
==================================================
Details:
==================================================
Event Date: Fri & Sat 3/23 & 3/24 @ 8 pm; Sun 3/25 @ 7 pm
Catalyst - dances by Minneapolis choreographer Emily Johnson - Heat and Life
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Ave.
$15 ($10 students/seniors)
Reserve tickets by emailing: info@linkshall.org
Heat and Life depicts a frenetic world fueled by anxiety, paranoia,
and fear - a world Catalyst uses to explore connections between global
warming, overpopulation, degradation of natural and urban
environments, perpetual war, insatiable greed, and how we contribute
and respond to these human-made disasters.
Negotiating rough terrain, each other, and the edginess of having
nothing to lose, seven dancers aim to thrive in an ever-changing
landscape. Using walkie-talkies, electrical cords, 80 pounds of sod,
industrial flashlights, gas masks, helmets, and a bicycle to adapt,
are they emergency workers or disaster survivors? Friends or foes? In
this brutal world, it's hard to pause to take a deep, clean breath.
Post-show Discussions every night Facilitatied by Kristen Cox (Friday)
of Fire This Time Fund and AREA Chicago, Alex Wilson (Saturday) of
West Town Bikes, and Laurie Palmer (Sunday) of the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and AREA Chicago.
==================================================
Event Date: Friday, March 23rd at 6:00 PM (Opening Night) There will
also be shows at 1 :00 & 6:00 PM on Saturday & 1 & 4 :00 PM on Sunday.
The cost for the show will be $12 for adults & $ 8 for children &
students.
Check out WORD, Kuumba Lynx' 2007 Spring production
at Alternatives 4710 N. Sheridan, a block south of Lawrence
This next show has a new cast of Kuumba Lynx members representing
Chicago's North, West & South Side communties. Featuring footworking
choreography from the nation's top footworking crew, Creations
Footworkings. The show will also include skateboarding, graff
artists, Connect Force Break-Dancing crew, a video about black/brown
collaboration. The topics will include, and not be limited, to Katrina
survival stories, immigration, the anti-war movement, and
gentrification.
If you have any questions, you may e-mail Jae Villegas
<julio_jae@yahoo.com> or call me at (773)590-1382.
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday March 24 NOON
The Experimental Station will host the South Side Community Art Center
(SSCAC) to present a live dialogue with artists Floyd Atkins and Dan
S. Wang. Please join us as Atkins and Wang discuss various topics
centered on Atkins' current exhibition at the SSCAC entitled
Reexamining America's Misconception. The event is co-sponsored by the
SSCAC, Experimental Station and produced by Monk Parakeet, an
independent cultural action group.
Event Info: Artist Dialogue @ Experimental Station Floyd Atkins and Dan S.
Wang Saturday, March 24th 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Event Location: Experimental Station 6100 South Blackstone Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
For more info about the institutions please visit:
www.southsidecommunityartcenter.com
www.experimentalstation.org
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday March 24
Leftist Lounge Presents Intl Womens Day Party: Venus BREAD and Roses
8:30pm-2am
2716 W, North Avenue
For More information contact jjuare@artic.edu
==================================================
Event Date: Monday March 26TH 5PM
Free Screening: Dirty Pretty Things @ Hull House Museum
Come see a free screening on Monday, March 26th, 2007 5:00 PM at the
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 South Halsted, Residents' Dining
Hall. Free pizza will be provided but call 312 413 5353- Reservations
are required and seats are limited. The event is co-sponsored by Latin
American Studies and Latino Studies Program at UIC and will include a
discussion after with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers who are
developing a campaign against Oak Brook based McDonald's right now for
better wages for their tomato pickers. Dirty Pretty Things is an Oscar
nominated dark comedy by Stephen Frears about immigration and labor
that is "gripping, suspenseful and romantic".
www.ciw-online.org
==================================================
Event Date: March 29 6pm
How we SCHEDULE
location: Columbia College A + D Gallery 619 S. Wabash Ave.
co-sponsor: Optionalevents.com
speakers: Salem Collo-Julin (optional events)
reps from Gapers Block, New World Resource Center, Polvo and more!
In the age of email, blogs and myspace all of our schedules have
become significantly more plugged in and complicated. These groups
have been trying to provide their communities with a filter for all
those activities and today we will discuss their projects and how we
could better coordinate our efforts as event/action organizers and
calendar keepers.
==================================================
Event Date: March 29th – April 3rd
First Annual Putt-Putt Green Design Competition
Mini-Golf Course Open to the Public
Experimental Station- 6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
Event Details:
http://puttputthogpot.blogspot.com
Media Contact: John Preus- 773-640-6767
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 From 2:00 to 5:00pm
Critical Resistance Chicago "No Child Left Behind Bars" Public Forum
The Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (Northeastern University)
700 East Oakwood Blvd.
Critical Resistance Chicago is currently exploring how to add our
energies to the powerful work already going on in Chicago against the
Juvenile Justice system. We are working to build the No Child Left
behind Bars Coalition that will bring together activists and
organizations, youth and families from across the city who wants to
fight against the practice of locking children in cages.
Our first forum ("Speak-Out") will be held March 31, 2007 will have
three primary goals:
- to provide a space for youth and their families to share their
experiences with the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
(JTDC)
- to build membership in the No Child Left Behind Bars coalition
- to build momentum for the coalition's next meeting, focusing on
alternatives to the detention center.
The second meeting will focus on community based alternatives available now.
The third meeting will focus on creating and implementing campaign strategies.
We are currently signing up coalition partners and have finalized the
date for the March speak-out. We're listening, for your voice.
Critical Resistance Chicago
70 E. Lake St. Suite 1120
Yusufu L. Mosley, Project Coordinator
Email: Yusufu@criticalresistance.org
Office Phone: (312) 281-1463
Cell: 1-773-443-4077
==================================================
Event Date: April 4th
Anti-Boeing/Anti-War Protest/Party at Daley Plaza at 5:00 p.m
Chicagoan's Break-Up with Boeing
As concerned citizens of Chicago we feel it is important to publicly
scrutinize and call to attention the bad behavior of one of our worst
neighbors. In April, join us as we voice our discontent with Boeing's
role in our government and the war. Boeing brings shame to all the
good people of Chicago and we are kicking them to the curb for all
their bad behavior.
KickBoeingtotheCurb@gmail.com
==================================================
Event Date: Thursday, April 5 @ 7pm
ALLAN ANTLIFF: A lecture/discussion on OPEN ROAD
At the Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Avenue
Allan Antliff will present a talk on the Canadian anarchist
journal Open Road (1976-1990). He will discuss the politics of
the journal in the context of the legacy of the 1960s, and the
ways in which the journal advanced the theory and practice of
anarchism through the 1980s. Amongst other controversial
issues, Allan will discuss the involvement of Open Road in a
bombing campaign targeting the production of nuclear weapons.
He will also examine the journal's penchant for pieing
politicians. Open discussion will follow.
Sponsored by Monk Parakeet and AREA Chicago
For more information, email rezorach@uchicago.edu
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday April 7 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Resistance & Social Movements: The Ongoing Fight for Freedom
A City-Wide Café Society on the Art of Dissent
@ The DuSable Museum of African American History - 740 East 56th Place
Join the Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council and The
DuSable Museum of African American History for an insightful journey
through one of our nation's most turbulent, fierce, and inspirational
periods in history. Our program will begin with tours of the
nationally-acclaimed exhibition, 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Story, which chronicles the hardship and courage of thousands of
African-Americans who successfully challenged a segregated bus system
to open its doors to equality.
After touring the exhibit, Dr. Manning Marable, one of America's most
influential and widely-read scholars, will explore the history of the
civil rights era and its lessons for current movements struggling for
equality. Marable is a Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science,
and History at Columbia University in New York City. Most recently, he
wrote Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past
Can Remake America's Racial Future. Marable authors a political
commentary series, Along the Color Line, and is the creator of the
Malcolm X Biography Project. For more information on Marable, view his
biography at manningmarble.net.
Following the presentation, attendees will participate in small,
facilitated discussions to share reflections on the exhibition and
presentation and will explore the history and future of social justice
organizing.
This event is free and open to the public.
Reservations are recommended and can be made via email, or by phone at
312.422.5580. Groups are encouraged and may reserve up to 15 tickets.
We will release reserved seats 10 minutes before the event begins if
registered attendees have not yet arrived.
==================================================
Event Dates: Monday April, 9 and Wednesday April, 11
Raise a Queer Ruckus at the American Educational Research Assoc Conference
CALL TO ACTION: RED CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND QUEER LIVES
NCATE's recent removal of sexual orientation and social justice from
its "professional standards" and AERA's refusal to speak against those
removals has highlighted the importance of being visible and vocal
advocates for social justice and LGBTQ issues at the upcoming AERA.
We propose the RED Campaign! Wear RED for love, anger, passion, blood,
heart, and fire. Wear red at AERA to remind the organization to live
up to its mission to serve the public good.
Wear RED T-shirts, pants, lipstick, jackets, hats, wigs, ballgowns,
masks, arm-bands, wings, socks, and mustaches throughout the
conference.
Plan to attend these events (in RED):
Monday April, 9
7:00pm to 8:00pm, Social Justice in Education Award and Lecture
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Room: Chicago Ballroom, Section X, Level 4
Wednesday April, 11
4:05pm to 6:05pm, AERA Awards Presentation and Presidential Address
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Room: Sheraton Ballroom, Section V, Level 4
Contacts: Therese Quinn, tquinn@saic.edu and Erica Meiners, e-meiners@neiu.edu
==================================================
Event Date(s): Friday, April 13 and Saturday the 14th (details below)
Support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as they take on McDonald's
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers announces major mobilization for
farmworker justice, April 13-14, 2007, in the greater Chicago area.
Make plans to join us for historic actions that will usher in a new
phase in the Campaign for Fair Food.
Mark your calendars and start organizing to bring members of your
community join us in a:
•Major rally outside McDonald's global headquarters in Oak Brook, IL,
Friday, April 13, 2007.
•Carnaval and Parade for Fair Food, Real Rights, and Dignity -
Saturday, April 14, 2007 in downtown Chicago. Confirmed acts for the
Carnaval and Parade include: Tom Morello – Zack de la Rocha – Olmeca
– Son del Centro – Las Krudas – HecOne – Condenada – Los Vicios de
Papa – Spiritchild – Nuestro Tambó – Hot 8 Brass Band – Edley Shine –
Fandanguero – with more to be announced!
We strongly encourage our allies to participate in the colorful
carnaval and parade action. Groups are encouraged to organize floats
and delegations. Contact workers@ciw-online.org for info.
For background, campaign and action updates, and more information,
visit http://www.ciw-online.org and http://www.sfalliance.org/.
==================================================
Event Date(s): Saturday and Sunday April 14-15
Latin American Solidarity Conference IV in Chicago April 14-15
"Alternatives to Empire"
www.lasolidarity.org
info@lasolidarity.org
==================================================
Event Dates: April 19
www.versionfest.org Begins!
==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday April 26, 2007 Where: Access Living
6:00pm – 7:30pm 115 W. Chicago Ave.
Film Screening and Discussion
Both Films are captioned and Sign Language interpreters and audio
description will be provided. The event is wheelchair accessible. Free
and open to the public. For more information, contact Ana Mercado at
these great events going on over the next several weeks in Chicago!
Another Chicago #5 March 23-April 29
Summary:
03.23-25 LINKSHALL Dance/Discussion about Dance/Ecology/Global Warming
with AREA folks
3.23-25 Kuumba Lynx Spring Production
03.24 Dan S. Wang and Floyd Atkins Discuss the South Side Art
03.24 Leftist Lounge Presents Intl Womens Day Party: Venus
03.26 Free Screening: Dirty Pretty Things @ Hull House Museum
03.29 AREA Infrastructure Series: "How We Schedule" with local
all-city calendar keepers
03.29-04.03 1st Annual Experimental Station and Material Exchange
Put-Putt Competition
03.31 "No Child Left Behind Bars" Public Forum
04.03 Chicago Planning Meeting about Chicagoans going to US Social Forum
04.04 Boeing Protest Against War
04.05 Anarchist Art Historian to Discuss Canadian Magazine History
(Sponsored by AREA)
04.07 Manning Marable Lecture on Social Movements
04.9-11 Raise a Queer Ruckus at the American Educational Research
Assoc Conference
04.13-14 Imokolee Tomato Workers Need Your Presence at McDonald's Actions
04.14-15 + Latin American Solidarity Conference IV in Chicago April 14-15
04.19 VersionFest Begins and Lasts for 3 weeks
04.26 Empowered Fe Fes Screening about Young Women and Disabilities
04.27-29 Finding Our Roots Anarchist Conference + Film Festival
+ Living Kitchen: New Urban Food Workshops with Nance Klehm
+ Blocks Together is Hiring a Community Organizer in W. Humboldt Park
+ 2nd Annual CityWide Day of Action Against Street Harassment
+ Do you know members of Chicago New Left 60s/70s groups? Help uncover
some history!
+ Pedagogical Factory at Hyde Park Art Center this Summer: Call for
Collaborators!
==================================================
Details:
==================================================
Event Date: Fri & Sat 3/23 & 3/24 @ 8 pm; Sun 3/25 @ 7 pm
Catalyst - dances by Minneapolis choreographer Emily Johnson - Heat and Life
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Ave.
$15 ($10 students/seniors)
Reserve tickets by emailing: info@linkshall.org
Heat and Life depicts a frenetic world fueled by anxiety, paranoia,
and fear - a world Catalyst uses to explore connections between global
warming, overpopulation, degradation of natural and urban
environments, perpetual war, insatiable greed, and how we contribute
and respond to these human-made disasters.
Negotiating rough terrain, each other, and the edginess of having
nothing to lose, seven dancers aim to thrive in an ever-changing
landscape. Using walkie-talkies, electrical cords, 80 pounds of sod,
industrial flashlights, gas masks, helmets, and a bicycle to adapt,
are they emergency workers or disaster survivors? Friends or foes? In
this brutal world, it's hard to pause to take a deep, clean breath.
Post-show Discussions every night Facilitatied by Kristen Cox (Friday)
of Fire This Time Fund and AREA Chicago, Alex Wilson (Saturday) of
West Town Bikes, and Laurie Palmer (Sunday) of the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and AREA Chicago.
==================================================
Event Date: Friday, March 23rd at 6:00 PM (Opening Night) There will
also be shows at 1 :00 & 6:00 PM on Saturday & 1 & 4 :00 PM on Sunday.
The cost for the show will be $12 for adults & $ 8 for children &
students.
Check out WORD, Kuumba Lynx' 2007 Spring production
at Alternatives 4710 N. Sheridan, a block south of Lawrence
This next show has a new cast of Kuumba Lynx members representing
Chicago's North, West & South Side communties. Featuring footworking
choreography from the nation's top footworking crew, Creations
Footworkings. The show will also include skateboarding, graff
artists, Connect Force Break-Dancing crew, a video about black/brown
collaboration. The topics will include, and not be limited, to Katrina
survival stories, immigration, the anti-war movement, and
gentrification.
If you have any questions, you may e-mail Jae Villegas
<julio_jae@yahoo.com> or call me at (773)590-1382.
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday March 24 NOON
The Experimental Station will host the South Side Community Art Center
(SSCAC) to present a live dialogue with artists Floyd Atkins and Dan
S. Wang. Please join us as Atkins and Wang discuss various topics
centered on Atkins' current exhibition at the SSCAC entitled
Reexamining America's Misconception. The event is co-sponsored by the
SSCAC, Experimental Station and produced by Monk Parakeet, an
independent cultural action group.
Event Info: Artist Dialogue @ Experimental Station Floyd Atkins and Dan S.
Wang Saturday, March 24th 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Event Location: Experimental Station 6100 South Blackstone Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
For more info about the institutions please visit:
www.southsidecommunityartcenter.com
www.experimentalstation.org
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday March 24
Leftist Lounge Presents Intl Womens Day Party: Venus BREAD and Roses
8:30pm-2am
2716 W, North Avenue
For More information contact jjuare@artic.edu
==================================================
Event Date: Monday March 26TH 5PM
Free Screening: Dirty Pretty Things @ Hull House Museum
Come see a free screening on Monday, March 26th, 2007 5:00 PM at the
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 South Halsted, Residents' Dining
Hall. Free pizza will be provided but call 312 413 5353- Reservations
are required and seats are limited. The event is co-sponsored by Latin
American Studies and Latino Studies Program at UIC and will include a
discussion after with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers who are
developing a campaign against Oak Brook based McDonald's right now for
better wages for their tomato pickers. Dirty Pretty Things is an Oscar
nominated dark comedy by Stephen Frears about immigration and labor
that is "gripping, suspenseful and romantic".
www.ciw-online.org
==================================================
Event Date: March 29 6pm
How we SCHEDULE
location: Columbia College A + D Gallery 619 S. Wabash Ave.
co-sponsor: Optionalevents.com
speakers: Salem Collo-Julin (optional events)
reps from Gapers Block, New World Resource Center, Polvo and more!
In the age of email, blogs and myspace all of our schedules have
become significantly more plugged in and complicated. These groups
have been trying to provide their communities with a filter for all
those activities and today we will discuss their projects and how we
could better coordinate our efforts as event/action organizers and
calendar keepers.
==================================================
Event Date: March 29th – April 3rd
First Annual Putt-Putt Green Design Competition
Mini-Golf Course Open to the Public
Experimental Station- 6100 S. Blackstone Ave.
Event Details:
http://puttputthogpot.blogspot.com
Media Contact: John Preus- 773-640-6767
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007 From 2:00 to 5:00pm
Critical Resistance Chicago "No Child Left Behind Bars" Public Forum
The Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (Northeastern University)
700 East Oakwood Blvd.
Critical Resistance Chicago is currently exploring how to add our
energies to the powerful work already going on in Chicago against the
Juvenile Justice system. We are working to build the No Child Left
behind Bars Coalition that will bring together activists and
organizations, youth and families from across the city who wants to
fight against the practice of locking children in cages.
Our first forum ("Speak-Out") will be held March 31, 2007 will have
three primary goals:
- to provide a space for youth and their families to share their
experiences with the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
(JTDC)
- to build membership in the No Child Left Behind Bars coalition
- to build momentum for the coalition's next meeting, focusing on
alternatives to the detention center.
The second meeting will focus on community based alternatives available now.
The third meeting will focus on creating and implementing campaign strategies.
We are currently signing up coalition partners and have finalized the
date for the March speak-out. We're listening, for your voice.
Critical Resistance Chicago
70 E. Lake St. Suite 1120
Yusufu L. Mosley, Project Coordinator
Email: Yusufu@criticalresistance.org
Office Phone: (312) 281-1463
Cell: 1-773-443-4077
==================================================
Event Date: April 4th
Anti-Boeing/Anti-War Protest/Party at Daley Plaza at 5:00 p.m
Chicagoan's Break-Up with Boeing
As concerned citizens of Chicago we feel it is important to publicly
scrutinize and call to attention the bad behavior of one of our worst
neighbors. In April, join us as we voice our discontent with Boeing's
role in our government and the war. Boeing brings shame to all the
good people of Chicago and we are kicking them to the curb for all
their bad behavior.
KickBoeingtotheCurb@gmail.com
==================================================
Event Date: Thursday, April 5 @ 7pm
ALLAN ANTLIFF: A lecture/discussion on OPEN ROAD
At the Experimental Station
6100 S. Blackstone Avenue
Allan Antliff will present a talk on the Canadian anarchist
journal Open Road (1976-1990). He will discuss the politics of
the journal in the context of the legacy of the 1960s, and the
ways in which the journal advanced the theory and practice of
anarchism through the 1980s. Amongst other controversial
issues, Allan will discuss the involvement of Open Road in a
bombing campaign targeting the production of nuclear weapons.
He will also examine the journal's penchant for pieing
politicians. Open discussion will follow.
Sponsored by Monk Parakeet and AREA Chicago
For more information, email rezorach@uchicago.edu
==================================================
Event Date: Saturday April 7 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Resistance & Social Movements: The Ongoing Fight for Freedom
A City-Wide Café Society on the Art of Dissent
@ The DuSable Museum of African American History - 740 East 56th Place
Join the Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council and The
DuSable Museum of African American History for an insightful journey
through one of our nation's most turbulent, fierce, and inspirational
periods in history. Our program will begin with tours of the
nationally-acclaimed exhibition, 381 Days: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Story, which chronicles the hardship and courage of thousands of
African-Americans who successfully challenged a segregated bus system
to open its doors to equality.
After touring the exhibit, Dr. Manning Marable, one of America's most
influential and widely-read scholars, will explore the history of the
civil rights era and its lessons for current movements struggling for
equality. Marable is a Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science,
and History at Columbia University in New York City. Most recently, he
wrote Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past
Can Remake America's Racial Future. Marable authors a political
commentary series, Along the Color Line, and is the creator of the
Malcolm X Biography Project. For more information on Marable, view his
biography at manningmarble.net.
Following the presentation, attendees will participate in small,
facilitated discussions to share reflections on the exhibition and
presentation and will explore the history and future of social justice
organizing.
This event is free and open to the public.
Reservations are recommended and can be made via email, or by phone at
312.422.5580. Groups are encouraged and may reserve up to 15 tickets.
We will release reserved seats 10 minutes before the event begins if
registered attendees have not yet arrived.
==================================================
Event Dates: Monday April, 9 and Wednesday April, 11
Raise a Queer Ruckus at the American Educational Research Assoc Conference
CALL TO ACTION: RED CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND QUEER LIVES
NCATE's recent removal of sexual orientation and social justice from
its "professional standards" and AERA's refusal to speak against those
removals has highlighted the importance of being visible and vocal
advocates for social justice and LGBTQ issues at the upcoming AERA.
We propose the RED Campaign! Wear RED for love, anger, passion, blood,
heart, and fire. Wear red at AERA to remind the organization to live
up to its mission to serve the public good.
Wear RED T-shirts, pants, lipstick, jackets, hats, wigs, ballgowns,
masks, arm-bands, wings, socks, and mustaches throughout the
conference.
Plan to attend these events (in RED):
Monday April, 9
7:00pm to 8:00pm, Social Justice in Education Award and Lecture
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Room: Chicago Ballroom, Section X, Level 4
Wednesday April, 11
4:05pm to 6:05pm, AERA Awards Presentation and Presidential Address
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Room: Sheraton Ballroom, Section V, Level 4
Contacts: Therese Quinn, tquinn@saic.edu and Erica Meiners, e-meiners@neiu.edu
==================================================
Event Date(s): Friday, April 13 and Saturday the 14th (details below)
Support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as they take on McDonald's
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers announces major mobilization for
farmworker justice, April 13-14, 2007, in the greater Chicago area.
Make plans to join us for historic actions that will usher in a new
phase in the Campaign for Fair Food.
Mark your calendars and start organizing to bring members of your
community join us in a:
•Major rally outside McDonald's global headquarters in Oak Brook, IL,
Friday, April 13, 2007.
•Carnaval and Parade for Fair Food, Real Rights, and Dignity -
Saturday, April 14, 2007 in downtown Chicago. Confirmed acts for the
Carnaval and Parade include: Tom Morello – Zack de la Rocha – Olmeca
– Son del Centro – Las Krudas – HecOne – Condenada – Los Vicios de
Papa – Spiritchild – Nuestro Tambó – Hot 8 Brass Band – Edley Shine –
Fandanguero – with more to be announced!
We strongly encourage our allies to participate in the colorful
carnaval and parade action. Groups are encouraged to organize floats
and delegations. Contact workers@ciw-online.org for info.
For background, campaign and action updates, and more information,
visit http://www.ciw-online.org and http://www.sfalliance.org/.
==================================================
Event Date(s): Saturday and Sunday April 14-15
Latin American Solidarity Conference IV in Chicago April 14-15
"Alternatives to Empire"
www.lasolidarity.org
info@lasolidarity.org
==================================================
Event Dates: April 19
www.versionfest.org Begins!
==================================================
Event Dates: Thursday April 26, 2007 Where: Access Living
6:00pm – 7:30pm 115 W. Chicago Ave.
Film Screening and Discussion
Both Films are captioned and Sign Language interpreters and audio
description will be provided. The event is wheelchair accessible. Free
and open to the public. For more information, contact Ana Mercado at
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