NEW WORLD RESOURCE CENTER’S
CHICAGO AREA EVENTS CALENDAR: SEP 14 – OCT 1

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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--Sep 14, Thu, Congress Hotel, 520 S Michigan
CONGRESS HOTEL STRIKE PICKET
Rally to support workers in Chicago’s longest running strike
Sponsor: Unite HERE Local 1
Info: www.congresshotelstrike.info

--Sep 14, Thu, 4-6 pm, W Lakeshore Hotel, 644 N. Lake Shore Drive,
RALLY & PICKET TO SUPPORT HOTEL WORKER NEGOTIATIONS
Sponsor: UNITE HERE

--Sep 14, Thu, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES OUTREACH PROGRAM

--Sep 14, Thu, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: SALVADOR ALLENDE
US theatrical premier of Patricio Guzmán’s
must-see documentary on the Chilean socialist leader
Info: www.frif.com/new2006/sal.html
Showtimes: www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/september

--Sep 15, Fri, 11 am, Federal Plaza, Dearborn & Jackson
STOP JON BURGE RALLY

--Sep 15, Fri, 7 pm, DePaul University, 25 E Jackson, Rm 805
LEBANON, PALESTINE & IRAQ: US IMPERIALISM IN THE
MIDDLE EAST &THE FORCES RESISTING IT
Hear Richard Becker of ANSWER Coalition, Suzanne Adely of Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice
Sponsor: ANSWER
Info: www.ChicagoANSWER.net

--Sep 15-21, Fri-Thu, Landmark Cinema, Clark & Diversey
FILM: THE GROUND TRUTH
Patricia Foulkrod's searing Iraq war documentary on recruitment,
training, combat & reintegration with families & communities

--Sep 16, Sat, 9-1:30 pm, Roosevelt University, 430 S Michigan
LADY LABOR SLUGGERS: FORUM ON EDUCATION
& DEMOCRACY THEN & NOW
Panelists: Marilyn Stewart, President, Chicago Teachers Union;
Kate Rousmaniere, historian & author of Citizen Teacher-The
Life & Leadership of Margaret Haley; Connie Goddard, historian &
biographer of Ella Flagg Young; Monique Davis, Rep of IL 27th District,
Vice Chairperson of Elementary & Secondary Education Committee;
John Ostenburg, historian of the Chicago Teachers Union
Sponsors: Center for New Deal Studies Roosevelt University,
Chicago Area Women’s History Council, Chicago Teachers Union
Women’s Rights Committee, Working Women’s History Project
Info: www.roosevelt.edu/ladylabor/

--Sep 16, Sat, 7 pm, Barbara's Books, 1218 S Halsted
NATIONAL WRITERS UNION PRESENTS
MYSTERY WRITER TIM SHEARD
Hear the author of the Lenny Moss novels

--Sep 16, Sat, 7:30 pm, Mess Hall, 6932 N Glenwood
PRECARIAS a la DERIVA: RESEARCH & ACTIVISM IN FEMINIST SPAIN
Presentation/discussion with the Madrid-based group
Info: plus.calendars.net/messhall

--Sep 16, Sat, 9 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
LAPDOGS: HOW THE PRESS ROLLED OVER FOR BUSH
Author Eric Boehlert

--Sep 17, Sun, 8 am, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
THE HEARTLESS STONE: A JOURNEY THROUGH
THE WORLD OF DIAMONDS, DECEIT & DESIRE
Journalist Tom Zoellner on the impact of diamonds on African communities
Repeats 9/18 1:30 am

--Sep 17, Sun, 2 pm, Smith Park, 2526 W Grand
MIDDLE EAST SOLIDARITY PICNIC POTLUCK
Sponsor: International Solidarity Movement
Info: www.palsolidarity.org

--Sep 17, Sun, 3 pm, Red Line Tap/Heartland Café, 7006 N Glenwood
CRIME & PUNISHMENT: REVEALING
SOCIAL WRONGS THROUGH FICTION
Hear the mystery writer Tim Sheard

--Sep 17, Sun, 4:15 pm, Book-TV, C-SPAN2 cable TV
JANE ADDAMS
Authors/scholars Louise Knight & Katherine Joslin discuss
the life of the eminent socialist & Nobel Peace Prize winner

--Sep 18, Mon, 6:30 pm, News & Letters, 36 S Wabash
THEORETIC PREPARATION FOR UPROOTING CAPITALISM
Info: www.newsandletters.org

--Sep 20, Wed, 6 pm, Affinty Community Services, 5650 S Woodlawn
FILM: SPEAK OUT: I HAD AN ABORTION
Sponsors: Pomegranate Radical Health Collective
Info: www.speakoutfilms.com

--Sep 20, Wed, 5:30 pm, Northwestern University Leverone Hall
2001 Sheridan Rd, Evanston
AMY GOODMAN
Democracy Now host & co-author of Static: Government Liars,
Media Cheerleaders, & the People Who Fight Back
Sponsors: Chicago Media Action, North Shore Coalition for Peace & Justice
Info: www.chicagomediaaction.org, www.nscpj.org

--Sep 21, Thu, 12-9:30 pm, Grant Park Petrillo Bandshell
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Day of music, dance, leafleting, more
Info: www.internationaldayofpeace.org/, www.declarationofpeace.org/

--Sep 21, Thu, 7 pm, In These Times, 2040 N Milwaukee
LABOR IN THE ERA OF CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION
Hear trade unionist Scott Marshall of Communist Party USA
Sponsor: Open University of the Left
Info: oulchicago (at) yahoo.com

--Sep 21, Thu, 7 pm, Decima Musa, 1901 S Loomis
SLAVERY & THE SLAVE TRADE WERE & ARE
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Hear activist/authorBob Brown
Info: nscchicago (at) igc.org

--Sep 22, Fri, 7 pm, Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N Clark
FILM: HAITI: THE UNTOLD STORY
Kevin Pina’s documentary on the 2004 US-backed coup
Info: nscchicago (at) igc.org

--Sep 22, Fri, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
KATHA POLLITT: VIRGINITY OR DEATH!
& OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES OF OUR TIME
Hear The Nation columnist

--Sep 22-28, Fri-Thu, Siskel Film Center, 164 N State
FILM: DELWENDE
S. Pierre Yameogo’s drama of female determination
in the face of patriarchal injustice in Burkina Faso
Info: www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/september

--Sep 23, Sat, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
NEW ORLEANS WOMEN’S CLINIC BENEFIT FOLK SHOW
Hear folk singers Mojdeh, Carrie Lydon, Nellie Eve
Supports Incite's New Oreleans women's clinic
Sponsor: Pomegranate Radical Health Collective

--Sep 24, Sun, 11:45 am, Heartland Cafe, 7000 N Glenwood
FORAGING FRIENDS WILDFOOD ECOLOGY OUTING
Info: 312-719-5719

--Sep 24, Sun, 7 pm, New World Resource Center, 1300 N Western
SLAVERY & THE SLAVE TRADE WERE & ARE
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Hear activist/authorBob Brown
Info: nscchicago (at) igc.org

--Sep 26, Tue, 7 pm, DePaul University Art Museum, 2350 N. Kenmore
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN & KATHY KELLY:
THE BUSH NEW MIDDLE EAST: PLAN FOR PEACE OR UNENDING WAR?
Hear the activists & authors
Sponsors: Lincoln Park Neighbors United for Peace, DePaul Students Against
the War, Chicago Tikkun, Not In My Name, Chicagoans Against War &
Injustice, Voices for Creative Non-Violence
Info: lpnu (at) netlumina.com

--Sep 26, Tue, 7 pm, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1500 W Elmdale
TOWN HALL MEETING ON THE SENN REFERENDUM
Moderator Dr. Phoebe Helm, former president of Truman College
Sponsor: Senn Referendum Follow-Up Group
Info: 773-250-3225

--Sep 27, Wed, 7 pm, In These Times offices, 2040 N Milwaukee
FROM ROSA PARKS TO ELVIRA ARELLANO:
CIVIL RIGHTS & CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Sponsor: International Socialist Organization
Info: chicagosocialists (at) yahoo.com

--Sep 27, Wed, 7:30 pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N Clark
BITCHFEST: TEN YEARS OF CULTURAL CRITICISM
FROM THE PAGES OF BITCH MAGAZINE
Hear editors Lisa Jervis & Andi Zessler

--Sep 28-Oct 1, Thu-Sun, Madison WI
LOCAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION
Info: www.LocalDemocracy.org

--Sep 30-Oct 1, Sat-Sun
VISIONS OF A POSITIVE FUTURE
Author/activist David C. Korten
9/30 2 pm SGI Cultural Center, 1455 S. Wabash
10/1 10 am Local First Chicago, No Exit Café, 6970 N Glenwood
Info: www.earthcharterchicago.org

FORTHCOMING
-10/7 Matthew Shepard March for LGBT Freedom, www.GayLiberation.org
-10/7 NEIS Anniversary Dinner, www.neis.org
-10/13 Ani DiFranco, Chicago Theatre
-10/14 Dave Rovics, Heartland Cafe
-10/20-22 Conference on Feminism & War, Syracuse University, www.SisterSong.net
-10/26-28 Rethinking Marxism Conference, www.rethinkingmarxism2006.org
-10/27-29 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Conference,
Fairfax VA, www.ncadp.org
-11/2 Paul Krugman, Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium
-11/4-5 Midwest Socialist Conference
-11/7 Joan Baez, Harris Theatre
-11/11 Teaching for Social Justice Curriculum Fair, Orozco School, www.teachersforjustice.org/
-11/11 Rashid Khalidi, Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium
-11/12 Amartya Sen, Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium
-11/11 National Lawyers Guild Chicago Annual Dinner
-11/17-19 School of the Americas Protests, Ft Benning GA, www.soaw.org
-12/12 Greenham Common 25th Anniversary Peace Protests
-1/12-14 National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis TN, www.freepress.net/conference/CFS
-1/20-25 World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
-2/2-3 Building Bridges Labour Studies Conference, University of Windsor-Ontario
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NEW BOOKS AT NEW WORLD
-Support Chicago’s progressive not-for-profit book shop!
-Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty, by Ali Geissari
-Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis, by Betti Apteker
-The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
-Angela Y. Davis Reader
-Children of NAFTA, by David Bacon
-Conversations with Amiri Baraka
-The House That Race Built, by Wahnee Lubiano
-People's History of Iraq, by Ilario Salucci
-Workers’ Movements, & the Left 1924-2004, by Ilario Salucci
-Women, Culture, & Politics, by Angela Y Davis
-Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Y Davis
-Hizbu’llah: Politics & Religion, by Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
-America: The New Imperialism: From White Settlement
to World Hegemony, by V.G. Kiernan
-Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur
-Black Genius: African American Solutions to
African American Problems, edited by Walter Mosely et al
-After Capitalism, by David Scweickart
-Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture
in the Twentieth Century, by Michael Denning
-Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast
-Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis
-Shut Up Shut Down, by Mark Nowak
-Abolition Democracy, by Angela Davis
-Hugo Chavez & the Bolivarian Revolution, by Richard Gott
-Rough Music, by Tariq Ali
-The Prison Industrial Complex, compact disc, by Angela Davis
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by 5 pm Tuesday for events beginning Thursday

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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: 773-463-0311, answer (at) chicagoanswer.net

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

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 & 10 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, 7 pm, Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western
WORLD CAN'T WAIT: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
Fair trade coffee/snacks available from Acme Jazz Cafe
Info: 773.227-2453, chicago (at) worldcantwait.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/

Tue, 8 pm, Baker, 1215-27 W Lunt
NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY WORKERS COOP
FOR BIG CHANGE weekly meetings

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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