NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: MAY 25 – JUN 11

New World Resource Center
A Non-Profit Community-Owned Bookstore & Meeting Center
1300 N Western, Chicago IL USA 60622-2923
(773)-227-4011, Tues-Fri, 3-9 pm; Sat-Sun 12-7 pm
Bookmark: www.newworldresourcecenter.com/index1/events.html

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--May 25, Thu & ongoing, Congress Hotel, 520 S Michigan
24-7 UNION PICKET: SUPPORT CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKERS
Boycott Chicago Intercontinental & Four Seasons Hotels
Sponsor: Unite HERE Local 1
Info: www.congresshotelstrike.info

--May 25 & ongoing, Celanese Corporation, Meredosia IL
SUPPORT LOCKED-OUT CELANESE WORKERS
Boliermakers local 484
Info: www.boilermakers484.org

--May 25, Thu, 7:30-9:30 am, Hamburger University, Jorie Blvd, Oak Brook
MCDONALD'S SHAREHOLDER MEETING PICKET
Support the CIW farmworkers
Info: www.ciw-online.org

--May 25, Thu, noon, Egyptian Consulate, 500 N Michigan, Rm 1900
PICKET: SUPPORT ARRESTED EGYPTIAN PROTESTERS

--May 25, Thu, 5:30-8 pm, 3342 North Halsted, Unit 3
FAIR ILLINOIS OPEN HOUSE
Oppose Illinois’ anti-gay marriage initiative
www.fairillinois.org/

--May 25, Thu, 6:30, Rudy Lozano Library, 1805 S Loomis
FIRST CITY-WIDE COMMUNITY FORUM
ON QUEERS & IMMIGRATION
Food & refreshments
Sponsor: Chicago LGBTQ Immigrants Alliance

--May 25, Thu, Siskel Film Center & St Xavier University
CHICAGO PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL
www.palestinefilmfest.com/

--May 25, Thu, Music Box Theater, 3733 N Southport
FILM: THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU
Cristi Puiu’s scathing feature exams health care in
neo-liberal Eastern Europe
Info: www.musicboxtheatre.com/DeathMrL.html

--May 25, Thu, 7 pm, 3334 W Lawrence, Rm 202
FILM: BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Sponsor: ANSWER
Info: 773-463-0311

--May 25, Thu, 7:30 pm, Hutchinson Courtyard, University of Chicago
5706 S University
SHIELD THE WOMEN OF DARFUR: RALLY & CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
Poetry slam for human rights follows
Sponsors: Amnesty International, CNOW, STAND, ChiLOC for NHHPC,
NU Darfur Action Coalition
Info: www.amnestyusa.org/events/midwestern/05252006chicagoilrally.html

--May 25, Thu, 7:30 pm, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
FILM: WINTER SOLDIER
1971 documentary of Vietnam veterans
Discussion follows with Barry Romo of Vietnam Veterans Against War

--May 25-28, Thu–Sun, Chicago Temple, 77 W Washington
BACK OF THE THROAT
Silk Road Theater’s production of Yussef El Guindi's play
of two US government officials questioning an Arab-American
Info: www.srtp.org

--May 26, Fri, 7:30 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
DOLLAR DAZE: WHO BENEFITS FROM THE BUSH ECONOMY?
Hear Eric Schuster, co-editor of Strike Journal & editor
of the Weekly Chicago Area Events Calendar
Info: www.ChicagoSocialistParty.org , www.StrikeOnline.org

--May 26-Jun 1, Facets Cinémathèque, 1517 W Fullerton
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL
Info: www.facets.org

--May 27, Sat, Highland Falls, NY
WEST POINT ANTI-BUSH RALLY
Info: www.westpointrally.org

--May 27, Sat, 9 am, WNUR 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Interview guests: Greg Palast, David Sirota, Michael Meltsner
Info: www.thisishell.net

--May 27, Sat, 6 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
NOAM CHOMSKY: FAILED STATES:
THE ABUSE OF POWER & THE ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY
Author presentation & discussion at US Military Academy at West Point

--May 27, Sat, 7 pm, 3334 W Lawrence
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS, OIL COMPANY PROFITS
& RESISTING THE WAR MACHINE
Sponsor: Party for Socialism & Liberation
Info: 773-920-7590

--May 28, Sun, 2 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
INEQUALITY MATTERS: THE GROWING ECONOMIC DIVIDE
IN AMERICA & ITS POISONOUS CONSEQUENSES
James Lardner, Paul Krugman, Meizhu Lui, Laura Flanders

--May 28, Sun, 10 am, Third Unitarian Church, 301 N Mayfield
WAR ON THE HOME FRONT: MENTAL DISABILITIES
RESULTING FROM THE IRAQ WAR
Hear Ray Parrish of Vietnam Vets Against the War

--May 28, Sun, 11:45 am, Heartland, 7000 N Glenwood
FORAGING FRIENDS WILDFOOD ECOLOGY OUTING
Info: 312-719-5719

--May 28, Sun, 3 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
HOUSE OF WAR: THE PENTAGON &
THE DISASTROUS RISE OF AMERICAN POWER
Journalist James Carroll

--May 28, Sun, 6 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
WOLE SOYINKA: YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN: A MEMOIR
Hear the activist & Nigerian Nobel Prize winner

--May 29, Mon, 11 am, Veterans Memorial, Wacker & Wabash
VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR:
MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONIES

--May 29, Mon, 9:30 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
NOAM CHOMSKY: FAILED STATES:
THE ABUSE OF POWER & THE ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY
Author presentation & discussion at US Military Academy at West Point

--May 31, Wed, 7 pm, Gallery 400 at UIC, 400 S Peoria at Van Buren
GATHERING IN TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL PIAZZA
Info: www.geocities.com/salemgray/stencil.pdf

--May 31, Wed, 7 pm, Seminary Co-op, Rm 133, 5757 S University
OUTLAWS OF AMERICA: THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
& THE POLITICS OF SOLIDARITY
Author Dan Berger discusses his book

--Jun 1, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
THE MIDDLE EAST
Israeli activist & conscientious objector Yigal Bronner discusses
Mideast & joint Arab-Jewish movements to challenge the occupation
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: 847-677-5474

--Jun 2, Fri
QUARANTINE WAL-MART: NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Sponsors: Jobs With Justice, Ruckus Society, others
Info: www.quarantinewalmart.com/

--Jun 2, Fri, 6:30 pm, Café Teatro Batey Urbano, 2620 W Division
LETTERS FROM YOUNG ACTIVISTS: TODAY’S REBELS SPEAK OUT
With authors Dan Berger, Andy Cornell, spoken word performances by local artists
Sponsor: National Boricua Human Rights Network

--Jun 2, Fri, 6:30 pm, DePaul Student Center Atrium
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Hear radical DePaul alumni activists

--Jun 2, Fri, 7 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood
OPENING: CONTESTED CHICAGO: PILSEN & GENTRIFICATION
Info: www.messhall.org/

--Jun 2-3, Fri-Sat, First Presbyterian Church, 150 S Ashland, La Grange
SAY NO TO TORTURE Chicago-Area Gathering
Speakers, panels, more
Info: www.no2torture.org/come/lagrange06/index.shtml

--Jun 2-4, Fri-Sun, Embassy Suites Hotel O'Hare/Rosemont
9/11 REVEALING THE TRUTH/RECLAIMING THE FUTURE CONFERENCE
Info: 911truth.org/911rtt/events.html

--Jun 3, Sat, 11:30 am, Arlington Heights Sheraton
ALL-DAY BUS LABOR TOUR OF OLD & NEW CHICAGO
Guide: Joe Berry of UIC Chicago Labor Education Program
Sponsor: Illinois Postal Workers Union
Info: 847-533-5661, www.IPWU.org

--Jun 3, Sat, 1 pm, Foster Beach
VEGAN ICE CREAM PARTY/COOKOUT &
ULTIMATE KICK BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Benefit for SHAC 7
Sponsor: Animal Defense League
Info: ADLChicago (at) yahoo.com

--Jun 3, Sat, 6 pm, Mercury Café, 1505 W Chicago
SECOND WAVE ANARCHY & THE LEGACY OF JOHN MOORE
Hear Aragorn! of Anarchy Magazine
Sponsor: Anarchy Magazine, Mercury Cafe,
Evanston Anarchists, Situationists, & Surrealists

--Jun 3, Sat, 7 pm, Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W North
OUTLAWS OF AMERICA: THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
& THE POLITICS OF SOLIDARITY
Author Dan Berger discusses his book

--Jun 3-4, Sat-Sun, Radio Arte-Yollocalli Gallery 1401 W 18th St
EL FESTIVAL DEL INMIGRANTE:
FIRST CHICAGO POLITICAL-SOCIAL FESTIVAL FOR
IMMIGRANT MEXICAN & LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
Art, theater, music, cinema, panels on pro-immigrant agenda
Info: 773-387-3186, tania (at) radioarte.org

--Jun 4, Sun, 10-4 pm, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
CRAFT FAIR BENEFIT FOR SHAC 7
Sponsors: Chicago Soy Dairy, MooShoes
Info: animalrightschicago (at) riseup.net

--Jun 8-10, Thu-Sat, SUNY Stony Brook, New York
HOW CLASS WORKS CONFERENCE
Info: naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/wcm.nsf/pages/conference4

--Jun 8-10, 7:30, Thu-Sat, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
MARX IN SOHO
Jerry Levy portrays the return of Marx in Howard Zinn’s satire
Benefit for Near NorthWest Arts Council
Info: www.nnwac.org

--Jun 9-11, Fri-Sun, Jones College Prep, 606 S State
AMWAJ-ARAB MOVEMENT OF WOMEN ARISING FOR JUSTICE:
GATHERING OF ARAB & ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN AND GIRLS
Info: yas_ahmed (at) hotmail.com

--Jun 9-15, Fri-Thu, Landmark Cinema, 2828 N Clark
FILM: SIR! NO SIR!
David Zeiger’s gripping & inspiring documentary on the role of
active American GIs in the movement against the Vietnam war
Info: www.sirnosir.com, www.landmarktheatres.com

--Jun 10, Sat, 11 am, Newberry Library
DAVID ROEDIGER & MARK M. SMITH ON RACE
Radical historians on race relations in the United State
Info: www.newberry.org/programs/author.html

--Jun 10, Sat, 2 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
FILM: THE OTHER AMERICA
Allen Willis must-see 1967 documentary captures
Martin Luther King's classic White Backlash speech
which foresaw the rise of Reaganism & neo-conservatism
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: 847-677-5474

--Jun 10, Sat, 3 pm, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S Halsted
VOICES EXCHANGE GRAND OPENING
Progressive programming bureau for prominent Chicago-area
speakers & performers; hear singers Kristin Lems & Bucky Halker,
poet Nina Corwin, speaker Michael Terrien
Info: www.Voices-Exchange.org

--Jun 10-15, Sat-Thu, Hyatt Regency O’Hare
35TH ANNUAL RAINBOW-PUSH COALITION CONFERENCE
Info: www.rainbowpush.org/conference/agenda.html

--Jun 11, Sun, 3 pm, Barbara's Books, 1218 S Halstead
GREG PALAST
Info: www.gregpalast.com

FORTHCOMING
-6/14 Caterpillar Annual Meeting Protest, www.stopcat.org
-6/17-18 Africa Diaspora Film Festival, www.facets.org/
-6/19 Chicago Fair Trade Inaugural Meeting, www.chicagofairtrade.org/
-6/22-25 Socialism 2006 Conference NYC, www.socialismconference.org
-6/23 Bonnie Raitt – Benefit for NEIS 25th anniversary, guacfund.org/
-6/23-24 Summer Veterans Stand-down, Armory at North & Kedzie,
auspex (at) earthlink.net, www.vvaw.org/events/
-6/23-28 World Peace Forum, Vancouver BC, www.worldpeaceforum.ca
-6/25 Gay Liberation Network Pride Parade Contingent, www.GayLiberation.org
-6/27-7/1 US Social Forum, Atlanta, www.ussf2007.org/
-7/6-9 Midwest Social Forum, Milwaukee WI, www.mwsocialforum.org
-7/16-21 Midwest School for Women Workers, union education, 312-996-8733
-7/29 Bughouse Square Debates
-8/6 Hiroshima Day Antinuclear Civil Disobedience, Los Alamos
-10/20-22 Conference on Feminism & War, Syracuse University, www.SisterSong.net
-10/26-28 Rethinking Marxism Conference, www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org
-12/12 Greenham Common 25th Anniversary Peace Protests
-1/20-25 World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
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DONATIONS NEEDED
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WEEKLY & BIWEEKLY EVENTS

Thu, 10 am, wluw 88.7 fm
ALTERNATIVE RADIO

Thu, 7 pm, 3334-61/2 W Lawrence, Rm 202
A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION MEETING
Info: 773-920-7545, answerchicago (at) gmail.com

Thu, 7 pm, Valois Restaurant, 1518 E. 53rd
CAFE SOCIETY
Sponsors: The Public Square, Illinois Humanities Council
Info: www.thepublicsquare.org

Thu, 7:30 pm, 806 Ridge Avenue, Evanston
NEIGHBORS FOR PEACE WEEKLY MEETING
Info: www.neighborsforpeace.org/

Thu, 9:30 pm, CAN-TV cable channel 19
LABOR BEAT: CLASS STRUGGLE TV
Repeats Friday 4:30 pm
Info: 312-226-3330 or www.laborbeat.org

Fri, 4:30 pm, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, 820 S Damen
VIGIL FOR PEACE & WITNESS AGAINST WAR
Info: www.vitw.org

Sat, 9 am, wnur 89.3 fm radio
THIS IS HELL
Info: www.thisishell.net

Sat, 9 am, wluw 88.7 fm radio
LIVE FROM THE HEARTLAND
Info: www.heartlandcafe.com

Sat, 2-4 pm, Logan Square, Kedzie & Milwakee Aves
NORTHSIDE PEACE GATHERING

Sat, 3-6 pm, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
WORLD CAN'T WAIT: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
Info: 773-412-8318, chicago (at) worldcantwait.org

Sun, noon, Water Tower Park, 830 N Michigan
END ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE VIGIL
Sponsor: Not In My Name. Info: www.nimn.org/

Sun, 1 pm, WILL radio 580 AM
MEDIA MATTERS WITH BOB MCCHESNEY
Info: www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/default.htm

Sun, 1:30 – 3:30 pm, Art Institute of Chicago front steps
PEACE VIGIL
Sponsor: Code Pink
Info: codepinkchicago (at) yahoo.com

Sun, 7 pm, wluw radio, 88.7 FM
LABOR EXPRESS RADIO
Info: redjerry2 (at) yahoo.com

Mon-Fri
DEMOCRACY NOW
7-8 am, CAN-TV cable TV channel 19
7-9 am, WZRD 88.3 FM
9-10 am, WLUW 88.7 FM
Info: www.DemocracyNow.org

Mon-Fri
FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS
4 pm, WZRD 88.3 FM

Mon, WLUW radio 88.7 FM
10 am, FIRE ON THE PRAIRIE, 2nd Mon/month
10 am THE EIGHTH DAY, 1st & 3rd Mon/month
10 am FROM THE TRENCHES, 4th Mon/month

Mon, 6 pm, 2502 W Division
IRAQ PEACE PLEDGE
Info: peacepledgechicago.org/

Mon, Funky Buddha Lounge, 728 W Grand
LEFTIST LOUNGE
Info: focus (at) apolloproject.org

Tue, 8-9 am, Chicago Federal Building, Jackson & Dearborn
SILENT VIGIL AGAINST WAR & RACISM
Sponsor: 8th Day Center for Justice
Info: 312-641-5151

Tue, 7 pm, Grace Church, 3325 W Wrightwood
LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORS FOR JUSTICE & PEACE
First & third Tuesday
Info: 773-252-9956 or g.henninger (at) comcast.net

Tue, 7 pm, University Church, 5655 S University
HYDE PARK COMMITTEE AGAINST WAR & RACISM
BIWEEKLY MEETING, 2nd & 4th Tue
Info: www.chicagoantiwar.org/hydepark/

Tue, 7 pm, Cafe Mestizo, 2123 S Ashland
CAFE SOCIETY
Sponsor: The Public Square, Illinois Humanities Council
Info: www.thepublicsquare.org/cafe

Tue, 7:30 pm, Beverly Unitarian Church, 103rd & Longwood Dr
SOUTH SIDERS FOR PEACE WEEKLY MEETING
Info: www.southsidersforpeace.com/

Wed, 10 am, WLUW 88.7 FM
COUNTERSPIN

Wed, 6-8pm, Association House, 1116 N Kedzie
POMEGRANATE RADICAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE
Second Wednesday of the month
Info: www.pomegranatecollective.org, 312-924-1820

Wed, 6:30 pm, Gourmand Cafe 728 S Dearborn
PARTICIPATORY ECONOMICS
Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society
Second Wednesday of the month
Info: www.chicagoparecon.org

Wed, 6:30 pm, 1325 S Wasbash, Suite 105
CHICAGOLAND COALITION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES & RIGHTS
1st & 3rd Wed
Info: www.ccclr.org/
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TO HOLD YOUR EVENT AT NWRC: Phone (773) 227 4011or
nwrc_2600 (at) yahoo.com. New World is a centrally located non-
smoking storefront accessible by public transportation, street parking
available, wheelchairs/bikes welcome. Small donation requested.

WHO WE ARE: The New World Resource Center is Chicago’s oldest
independent left & labor bookstore and meeting center. Founded
in 1972, NWRC is a not-for-profit owned and operated by an all-volunteer
collective. Volunteers always welcome; phone 773-227-4011 for info

THANKS to everyone for your support

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